Leadership Award recipient U.S. Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.)

Leadership Award recipient U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.)

Leadership Award recipient and Brokeback Mountain author Annie Proulx

Public Policy & Government Affairs Director Eldie Acheson presents the Leadership Award to Rep. John Conyers Jr.

Emcee Karen Williams (right) enjoys the raffle drawing with Task Force staffer Whitley Tucker.

Craig Shniderman, executive director of Food & Friends (at podium), along with Food & Friends staff

Task Force Executive Director Matt Foreman

Feingold and Conyers (photo by Inga Sarda-Sorensen)

Hans Johnson, event co-chair

Sheila Alexander-Reid, event co-chair, and her partner Lois Alexander-Reid

Lee Rubin, event co-chair

Crowd gathers for cocktails (photo by Inga Sarda-Sorensen)

Cuc Vu, event co-chair

Zion Hill Gospel Singers (photo by Inga Sarda-Sorensen)

Donald Hitchcock, former gay outreach adviser to the Democratic National Committee; Brian Bond, newly installed in the position; and Paul Yandura, Hitchcock’s partner (photo by Inga Sarda-Sorensen)