43rd Black Tie Dinner is Saturday
Carter Brown with his wife, Espy The nation’s largest LGBTQ seated dinner raises money for local and national beneficiaries DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff WriterTaffet@DallasVoice.com Last December, Black Tie Dinner distributed a record $1.7 million raised at its 2023 event, topping $1 million in total distributions to local beneficiaries in one year for the first time.
This year’s co-chairs, Dustin Vyers and Liliana Villareal, hope to beat last year’s totals. Speakers at this year’s dinner include Human Rights Campaign President Kelley Robinson and Pulse nightclub mass shooting survivor Brandon Wolf.
Carter Brown, Black Trans Advocacy founder and CEO, will receive the Raymond Kuchling Award. When Brown founded a local organization to support Black trans men, he quickly learned there was nothing quite like it anywhere else in the country.
His annual conference draws attendees from around the U.S. Also speaking and receiving awards are Dallas Mavericks CEO Cynt Marshall, trans social media personality Dylan Mulvaney and trans activist Landon Richie.
