Awards To Honor ABC Television Series “When We Rise” and Dr. David Baker-Hargrove For Outstanding Support for LGBTQ Families
Family Equality Council will host the annual “Night at the Pier,” recognizing individuals and companies that have made outstanding contributions to supporting the wellbeing of LGBTQ families on Monday, May 8 at Pier Sixty at Chelsea Piers. This year, Family Equality Council will honor ABC’s groundbreaking miniseries When We Rise and Dr. David Baker-Hargrove, the Orlando, FL mental health practitioner who coordinated the LGBTQ health services’ response to the Pulse Nightclub shooting in June 2016.
At the event, the cast of “When We Rise” will open the show and Rosie O’Donnell will accept the award on their behalf, which will be presented by Edie Windsor and Dr. Baker-Hargrove will be presented with the Hostetter-Habib Family Award, an award that is given annually in honor of Alex Habib, Mark Hostetter and their entire family. Guests and honorees will also be treated to performances by Eva Noblezada, who will sing “I’d Give My Life For You” from Miss Saigon and Rachel Bay Jones and Jennifer Lawrence Thompson who will sing “Anybody Have A Map?” from Dear Evan Hansen.
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WHO:
Rosie O’Donnell, When We Rise
Denis O’Hare, When We Rise
Emily Skeggs, When We Rise
Ivory Aquino, When We Rise
Maddie Corman, When We Rise
Justin Sams, When We Rise
Bruce Cohen, Executive Producer, When We Rise
Edie Windsor, LGBTQ rights activist
Judith M. Kasen-Windsor
Isabel Rose, Producer, Writer
Pamela Drucker Mann, Chief Marketing Officer at Condé Nast
Daryl Roth, Producer, Honorary Chair
Jordan Roth, Theater Producer
Richie Jackson, Theatrical Producer
Nick Scandalios, Executive V.P. of the Nederlander Organization and Honorary Chair
WHERE:
Pier Sixty at Chelsea Piers
23rd Street and West Side Highway
New York, NY 10011
WHEN:
PRESS CHECK-IN 5:30PM
6:00PM – 7:00PM RED CARPET / 7PM DINNER & PROGRAM
About Family Equality Council
Family Equality Council connects, supports, and represents the three million parents who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer in this country today and their six million children of all ages. We are changing attitudes and policies to ensure that all families are respected, loved, and celebrated—including families with parents who are LGBTQ. We are a community of parents, children, grandparents, grandchildren and unattached youth that reaches across this country. For almost forty years we have raised our children and raised our voices toward fairness for all families. As we look to the next chapter of our work, we are also focused on LGBTQ youth needing families and the two million LGBTQ adults waiting to foster or adopt in our country. To learn more, visit: http://www.familyequality.org
