GSBA Impact Awards Honor LGBTQ+ Business Leaders

February 23, 2024• byMichael Strangeways

On Wednesday, February 21, the Greater Seattle Business Association aka the GSBA, honored local LGBTQ+ leaders, businesses and non-profits for excellence with the GSBA Impact Awards. The event was held at McCaw Hall and was hosted by Deaunte Damper and Besa Gordon from Converge Media.

Among the winners was Mosé Auto for Small Business of the Year and Ray Corona of SOMOS Seattle for Leadership of the year.

Via press release:

Last night was another magical GSBA event, celebrating our outstanding community. We honored businesses, non-profits and community leaders who exemplify the highest standards of their profession, promote diversity and inclusion in the workplace, demonstrate leadership and invest time and resources into their community and had an amazing time doing it!

In addition to honoring Greg Scheaffer from Union with a Special Recognition Award in the category of Neighborhood Leadership for his contributions to both the LGBTQ+ community and the Capitol Hill neighborhood, the recipients of this year’s awards are:

Capitol Hill Business Alliance Business of the Year

The SweatBox Yoga
Olmstead Restaurant (winner)
Coping Cookies
Sergius and Bacchus

GSBA Corporate Leader of the Year

Rocky Fong JP Morgan Chase
Jen Moran Carter Subaru (winner)
Kadin Nazkani Amazon
Vince Larkin Service Corp International

GSBA Leadership Award

Ray Corona Somos Seattle (winner)
Assistant Attorney General Dana Savage
Ivan Harrell Phd. Tacoma Community College
Alison Scott World Trade Center Seattle

GSBA Micro Business of the Year

Victoria Odell -Windermere Real Estate
Word Picture Ink
Adra boo LLC.
LinkXLou – Jordan Ross (winner)

GSBA Non-Profit of the Year

Entre Hermanos (winner)
Horizon House
Lavender Rights Project
ADL Seattle

GSBA Small Business of the Year

Imperia Lake Union
Mosé Auto (winner)
Bite Society
Basic Jane
Leavenworth Adventure Park

Congratulations to all the winners and nominees!

About the Author: Michael Strangeways

As the Editorial Director/Co-Owner, Michael Strangeways writes, edits and does about a million other jobs for Seattle Gay Scene, Puget Sound's most visited LGBTQ news, arts and entertainment website now celebrating its 14th year as a media outlet. A semi-proud Midwesterner by birth, he's lived in Seattle since 2000. He's also a film producer who would like you to check out the Jinkx Monsoon documentary, "Drag Becomes Him" now available on Amazon.com. In his spare time, he gets slightly obsessive about his love for old movies, challenging theater, "otters", vodka, chocolate, "I,Claudius", Lizzie Borden, real books made out of paper, disaster films, show tunes, Weimar era Germany, flea markets, pop surrealistic art, the sex lives of Hollywood actors both living and dead, kitties, chicken fried steak, haute couture and David Bowie. But, not necessarily in that order.