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Please join us and support the establishment of the Brooklyn Community Pride Center an LGBT community center in Brooklyn - the only borough in NYC that does not have one. Purchase tickets here.
Please join us and support the establishment of an LGBT community center in Brooklyn - the only borough in NYC that does not have one. Purchase tickets here: http://lgbtbrooklyn.givezooks.com/events/2nd-annual-founder-s-ball
Host Committee:
Joan Zimmerman
Mindi Wernick
...Marianne Nicolosi
Chris Tepper
Matt McMorrow
Carlos Menchaca
Tom Smith
Norma Jennings
Earl Brown
Michael Burk
Marc Fliedner
Mickey Heller
Andrew Miller
Richard Allman
Alfred Chiodo
Dennis Sughrue
Michelle LaGuerre
Susanne Lyn
David Kooy
Thomas Krever
Chris Nadeu
Cheryl Hall
Paul Travis
James Whittey
Bek Allen
Adam Riff
Jeremy Polk
Catherine Bordeau
Damal Edmond
Mark Thompson
Doug Hecklinger
Jenny DeBower
Elizabeth Levine
The Founder’s Ball is an engaging event that has the potential to raise tens of thousands of dollars to get the Pride Center off the ground, into its own space and delivering much needed programming and services to our community. There will be a silent auction, performances, an open bar and opportunities to meet and interact with a variety of interesting people who share your commitment to LGBT issues and the Pride Center.
All of us are familiar with Manhattan’s LGBT Center. We are trying to replicate that model right here in Brooklyn – to tackle the unique needs of Brooklyn's LGBT community.
The Pride Center will be a place for all of us, but it will be an especially vital resource to those in our community most in need of assistance and support, including LGBT people who are navigating the bureaucratic hurdles to adoption and surrogacy, raising children without the protections and benefits of marriage, struggling with addiction or living with HIV and AIDS. Moreover, it will be a lifeline for those LGBT teenagers who have no one in their lives to tell them that it gets better.