For the last 38 years, the Dallas/Fort Worth Black Tie Dinner has been raising money for local LGBTQ and AIDS/HIV organizations and for the Human Rights Campaign Foundation based in Washington, D.C.
In fact, Black Tie Dinner — known as the largest fundraising event of its kind in the country — has over the course of its history distributed more than $25 million dollars to its beneficiaries.
Black Tie Dinner has evolved over the years from a more low-key formal, sit-down dinner bringing together some of North Texas’ wealthier LGBTQ people and their allies for some checkbook activism into one of the premiere LGBTQ fundraising events in the country, featuring big name entertainers and activists, all committed to raising money and awareness for