What. A. Night. From a surprise performance by a three-time Grammy award winner to 37 Tony nominated Broadway performances, BIG thanks to the 900+ families, celebrities, advocates, Broadway performers, honorees, and changemakers who showed up and showed out for LGBTQ+ families nationwide at our annual spring gala, #NightAtThePier!
Thanks to your support and generosity, we raised $1.1M for LGBTQ+ families who need us now more than ever. And there’s still time to give! Any amount, from $5 to $1,000 will help us protect and support LGBTQ+ families across the country. Donate at the 🔗 in bio!
Just a few highlights from last night:
🌈 Neil Patrick Harris & David Burtka honored with the Luminary Award presented by Elton John & David Furnish.
🌈 Rev. Jasmine Beach-Ferrara honored with the Hostetter-Habib Family Award by Night at the Pier co-chairs April Barton and Adrienne Ellman !
🌈 Family Equality CEO, Darra Gordon takes center stage with her moving remarks in front of 900+ guests at Pier Sixty
🌈 Surprise performance by three-time Grammy award winner, Pink with an acoustic version of Perfect
🌈 Performance by the cast of 9-time Tony-nominated musical revival CATS: The Jellicle Ball
🌈 Performance by Nicholas Christopher from 5-time Tony-nominated musical revival Chess
🌈 Performance by the cast of the 12-time Tony-nominated musical The Lost Boys
🌈 Joshua Henry from the 11-time Tony-nominated musical revival Ragtime
🌈 Special appearances by Colton Underwood, Jordan C. Brown, Dan Bucatinsky, Uma Thurman, Alina Cho, Patrick Wilson, Julie Chen Moonves, Karine Jean-Pierre, Peppermint, Julianne Hough, Beth Ostrosky-Stern, Marcia Gay Harden, Judy Gold and MORE!
Special thanks to our sponsors to showing up — Platinum Sponsors: CARE WITH PRIDE®, McGill Caiola Charitable Foundation, Nederlander, and Warner Bros. Discovery; Gold Sponsors: John Gore Organization, Nick Scandalios, The Schubert Organization, and Jeffrey Kaplan, Amanda Green, & Brackets Kaplan; and Silver Sponsors: Alex Habib & Mark Hostetter, BOND Theatrical, Brooks & Lila Preston, Macquarie, and Sam Rosenblatt & Mario D’Andrea Olmstead Properties, Inc.
Help shape our work! We want to hear from you: What are the biggest challenges you’re facing as an LGBTQ+ family, and what can Family Equality do to help? By taking 10 minutes to complete our 2026 audience needs assessment, you can inform our work! Click the link in our bio to get started.
☀️ Family Week 2026 Registration is Now Open! Check out the schedule and start mapping your game plan! The full schedule will be available on March 30 so register today so you don’t miss it!
📅 July 25 - August 1
🔗 Register at familyequality.org/family-week-in-provincetown or at the link in bio
#PTownFamilyWeek
Spokesperson and former White House Press Secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre opened up about growing up as the daughter of Haitian immigrants — carrying a truth she didn’t know how to bring home. Her words remind us that belonging shouldn’t have to be earned in silence.
This is why we show up. For every person who has ever felt unseen in the spaces meant to hold them. LGBTQ+ people deserve to feel safe and supported.
Watch Karine’s full remarks from #NightAtThePier on YouTube with the — link in bio! 🔗
Night at the Pier 🤍
What a night celebrating our community alongside two organizations that have shown up for me and for so many families…for years. @familyequality has spent decades fighting for LGBTQ+ families to be built, recognized, and protected. And @cryobank shows up for this community in a real way — not just sponsoring nights like this, but helping families get started in the first place.
Grateful to host, grateful to partner, grateful to keep doing this work with both of you.
What can I say? A night of magic, purpose, and joy at @familyequality Night at The Pier! Massive congrats to everyone who showed up and showed out including @nph and @dbelicious on receiving the Luminary Award ✨ and Thank you, @thepiersixtycollection for always being our gracious host!0
🦄✨ Year Two. Joy. Solidarity. Unstoppable. ✨🦄
Help us reach more of our community and allies by liking, saving, reposting, commenting, or sharing this directly to a friend. Then head on over to register at the QR code or link in bio to join us on June 30th!
🌈 Visible and Unstoppable is back: This year as a 6-hour national Pride Zoomathon built for LGBTQIA2S+ youth, families, and every person who cares for, loves, and advocates alongside them. 🏳️⚧️
🗓️ Tuesday, June 30th, 2026
🕙 8AM–2PM PT / 11AM–5PM ET
💻 Online via Zoom | Free & Open to All | Captioning Provided
💬 Stories. Resources. Love. Resistance. Community. We are looking forward to bringing this together an proud to see the circle keeps growing.
🦄 Hosted by Unicorn Solutions, with incredible collaborating partners including @pointofprideorg , @ncylnews , and more, this national event is a living reminder: queer joy is vital. Visibility is resistance. And we are not going anywhere.
🔊 Register to attend the live stream
🖱️ and learn more at:
unicornsolutions.org/visible-and-unstoppable
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#VisibleAndUnstoppable #PrideZoomathon #Pride2026 #LGBTQIA2S
@k_jeanpierre on navigating 2026 with joy, and the one question she wishes she’d been asked as press secretary, on the @familyequality red carpet with @lanajarae and #Queerty.
“Family is everything, we have two fifteen year old kids, they’re high schoolers and when we wanted to have kids we didn’t want to have kids as accessories, we wanted to have kids as family.”
@nph & @dbelicious , recipients of The Luminary Award presented by @eltonjohn & David Furnish, at the @familyequality gala, to @lanajarae with #Queerty.
Can’t be in the room with us this evening for Night at the Pier? You can still show up — from the comfort of your home. Bid on exclusive packages all while supporting LGBTQ+ families wherever you are. Don’t miss your chance to win!
🌟 Sonoma Wine Country Getaway
🌟 A Day at Nordstrom NYC
🌟 Tickets to Every Brilliant Thing
🌟 Tickets to Joe Turner's Come and Go
Our silent auction is open to ALL! Bidding ends tonight at 9:30PM ET. 🔗 in bio!
