Family Equality’s annual Night at the Pier brings together LGBTQ+ families, allies, and advocates to honor the changemakers who have fought for equality and shaped a more inclusive world. The gala on Thursday night at New York City’s Chelsea Piers raised $1.5 million to support Family Equality’s work to advance legal and lived equality for LGBTQ+ families nationwide.
Untitled Entertainment founding partner Jason Weinberg and his screenwriter husband Merritt Johnson received the Luigi Caiola Luminary Award. “We feel so strongly about Family Equality and the work that they do,” Johnson said.
“We think it’s very important, especially these times that we’re in.” Weinberg added, “We don’t want out family to be pulled apart. We need to actually speak up and not be quiet.”
Moore said, “Family comes in many different forms and at the root of that, it is based in love.”
The event also celebrated a decade of marriage equality with Jim Obergefell, the lead plaintiff in the historic 2015 U.S. Supreme Court case that secured the right to marry for millions of Americans.
Check out the gallery below for all the celebs who turned out for Night at the Pier.
Reporting by Antonio Ferme
