BLACK TIE DINNER DISTRIBUTES $1.15 Million

Dallas, Texas (December 9, 2010) – Twenty beneficiaries share in a $1.15 million distribution from the 29th Black Tie Dinner. The distributions were announced during a celebration at the Sheraton Hotel on December 9.

Checks were presented by Black Tie Dinner board members to community leaders of

19 North Texas GLBT-supportive beneficiaries and Black Tie’s national beneficiary, the

Human Rights Campaign Foundation. The distribution funds were a result of generous corporate and individual sponsors, table captains and their guests, and through the purchase of live luxury and silent auction items, raffle tickets and general ticket sales.

Black Tie Dinner is the largest formal seated dinner of its kind in the country in terms of both attendance and charitable contributions. This year, 3,000 guests were treated to an evening of education, empowerment and entertainment featuring keynote speaker Tammy

Baldwin, U.S. Congresswoman from Wisconsin; Media Award recipient Chely Wright;

Elizabeth Birch Equality Award recipient American Airlines; and Kuchling Humanitarian

Award recipient Reverend Carol West.

Ron Guillard, Black Tie Dinner co-chair, saluted the sponsors, table captains, dinner guests and volunteers who ‘stood strong’ and proved their commitment to the beneficiaries and the North Texas community. “I want to personally thank everyone for their time, their input and, most of all, their commitment to moving our community and country forward.”

Nan Faith Arnold, co-chair, said, “It’s a thrill and an honor for Black Tie Dinner to be able to distribute these funds. The common thread that runs through all of these wonderful

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beneficiaries is that they each represent our theme: ‘Stand Strong.’ Indeed, each of our beneficiaries stands strong for the people they serve.”

The 2010 Black Tie Dinner distributed the following funds to this year’s beneficiaries:

AIDS Arms $38,029 AIDS Interfaith Network $24,464 AIDS Outreach Center $28,245 AIDS Resources of Rural Texas $25,622 AIDS Services of Dallas $34,896 Celebration Community Church $40,043 Congregation Beth El Binah $26,157 Foundation $25,219 Health Services of North Texas $23,600 Home for the Holidays $24,375 Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund $38,764 Legacy Counseling Center $24,449 Legal Hospice of Texas $25,844 Northaven United Methodist Church $38,559 Resource Center of Dallas $48,504 $32,494 White Rock Friends $21,055 The Women's Chorus of Dallas $22,532 Youth First Texas $34,649

Human Rights Campaign Foundation $577,500

The Black Tie Dinner Board of Directors is already working on the 30th Anniversary dinner, scheduled for Saturday, November 12, 2011, at the Sheraton Dallas Hotel. The 2011 beneficiary application will be available online in February at www.blacktie.org.

Black Tie Dinner Inc. is a nonprofit organization that raises funds for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender supportive organizations through a premier event of empowerment, education and entertainment in partnership with the community. The event has headlined local and national celebrities and leaders such as Maya Angelou,

Alan Cumming, Geena Davis, Goldie Hawn, Gov. Ann Richards, Sharon Stone, Lily

Tomlin, Martin Sheen, Kenneth Cole, Brian Graden and Logo Networks, and Bishop V.

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Gene Robinson. Black Tie Dinner began in Dallas in 1982 to help support the Human

Rights Campaign with 140 guests in attendance at the first dinner, which raised $6,000.

To date, Black Tie Dinner has distributed $15 million.

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