More Glamorous Than The Oscars…It’s The Big Annual GSBA Business & Humanitarian Awards Gala

February 24, 2015• byMichael Strangeways

Congrats to Urban Animal for winning New Business of the Year at tonight’s GSBA Business & Humanitarian Awards. We’re hoping this little guy is dressed up to attend!

The glamor will make you gasp.

Tonight, the stars of Seattle’s business community (LGBTQ friendly edition) will gather at the Marriott Seattle Waterfront for the 34th annual GSBA Business & Humanitarian Awards Dinner honoring local movers & shakers. The event is sold out, so if you didn’t grab your tickets already it sucks to be you, but we can still recognize and honor the fine folks who won. Unless you have problems with one recipient’s questionable history of labor practices and their weird on again/off again relationship with the Pride Flag.

(cough <The Space Needle> cough)

From the fabulous press release:

Celebrate some of our community’s most inspiring leaders and organizations at our annual awards banquet. Governor Jay Inslee will open the evening and Supreme Court Justice Mary Yu will be the keynote speaker on the night’s theme “Walking the Talk for Equality.”

The 2014 recipients include:

New Business of the Year – Urban Animal
Nonprofit of the Year – Ingersoll Gender Center
Business of the Year – Holland America Line
Business Leader of the Year – Linda Derschang (Derschang Group)
Corporate Leader of the Year – Space Needle
Community Leader of the Year – Rev. David Strong (AIDS Housing Association of Tacoma)
Special Recognition – Voice for Social Justice – Q Center at the University of Washington

Presenting sponsor: Vulcan Inc.
Dinner Sponsors: Seattle Goodwill, Wells Fargo, Safeco Insurance, RBC Wealth Management
Awards Sponsors: BECU and Pride Foundation- LGBTQ Community Foundation

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.