About This Event
Step into an enchanting evening at the 2024 Annual Gala and experience a dazzling Winter Wonderland. This exclusive fundraising event will highlight our 2024 successes, our amazing community of supporters, and the future of The Source's mission. Indulge in gourmet dining, live entertainment, and silent auctions, all in support of The Source LGBT+ Center's mission to make a lasting impact.
We cordially invite you to join us for this prestigious fundraising event by purchasing tables, tickets, or becoming a sponsor. Your participation supports The Source continue our vital work uplifting and empowering the LGBTQ+ community in the Central Valley.
Our keynote speaker for the evening is Marta Miranda-Straub (she/her/ella), an Afro-Caribbean Latinx Queer woman who has dedicated her life to working towards building equity, inclusion, and creating sustainable systems change. Her leadership, scholarship, and activism have focused on advancing social and economic justice for marginalized individuals, families and communities.
Thank you Marta for your history of empowering communities with the tools they need to thrive, and we look forward to your participation at our 2024 Annual Gala.
We’d also like to congratulate and honor Robin McGehee (she/her) as our 2024 Rainbow Awardee.
Robin McGehee is a transplant from Jackson, Mississippi, who received her M.A. in human communication, with an emphasis on public speaking, interpersonal, group and intercultural communication, from California State University, Fresno. She has been a full-time instructor at College of the Sequoias for over twenty five years, and believes that “when we speak, we shape the world!” She was recently appointed by Mayor Jerry Dyer to be the first LGBTQ+ Liaison for the City of Fresno.
McGehee helped organize Meet in the Middle for Equality, a statewide reaction to the passage of Prop. 8 in California, and co-directed the successful National Equality March in Washington, D.C. in 2009. She helped co-found GetEQUAL – a direct action organization. She was arrested twice, after being handcuffed to the White House fence, as a way to draw attention to the needed repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell.” After the repeal, she was invited by the White House to witness the signing, by President Obama, in December of 2010. She was later invited by the White House, in 2022, to attend the signing of the Respect for Marriage Act, by the Biden Administration. For the past two years, she has organized nationally, with major focus on youth organizing in the state of Florida, and pride efforts in the state of Mississippi.
Her efforts to speak truth to power have been recognized with the "Sheila J. Kuehl Trailblazer Award" by the Stonewall Democratic Club of Los Angeles, the "Top Dog Alumna Award" by the Fresno State, the "Democratic Trailblazer Award" by the Fresno County Democratic Women’s Club and has been the two time recipient of the "Martin Luther King, Jr. Leadership Award,” by the city of Fresno.
Her greatest accomplishments are her two children and being able to marry her wife on the first day it was legally possible after the Supreme Court of the United States made marriage equality a reality for everyone in 2015.
This event is Sponsored in part by:
About This Event
Step into an enchanting evening at the 2024 Annual Gala and experience a dazzling Winter Wonderland. This exclusive fundraising event will highlight our 2024 successes, our amazing community of supporters, and the future of The Source's mission. Indulge in gourmet dining, live entertainment, and silent auctions, all in support of The Source LGBT+ Center's mission to make a lasting impact.
We cordially invite you to join us for this prestigious fundraising event by purchasing tables, tickets, or becoming a sponsor. Your participation supports The Source continue our vital work uplifting and empowering the LGBTQ+ community in the Central Valley.
Our keynote speaker for the evening is Marta Miranda-Straub (she/her/ella), an Afro-Caribbean Latinx Queer woman who has dedicated her life to working towards building equity, inclusion, and creating sustainable systems change. Her leadership, scholarship, and activism have focused on advancing social and economic justice for marginalized individuals, families and communities.
Thank you Marta for your history of empowering communities with the tools they need to thrive, and we look forward to your participation at our 2024 Annual Gala.
We’d also like to congratulate and honor Robin McGehee (she/her) as our 2024 Rainbow Awardee.
Robin McGehee is a transplant from Jackson, Mississippi, who received her M.A. in human communication, with an emphasis on public speaking, interpersonal, group and intercultural communication, from California State University, Fresno. She has been a full-time instructor at College of the Sequoias for over twenty five years, and believes that “when we speak, we shape the world!” She was recently appointed by Mayor Jerry Dyer to be the first LGBTQ+ Liaison for the City of Fresno.
McGehee helped organize Meet in the Middle for Equality, a statewide reaction to the passage of Prop. 8 in California, and co-directed the successful National Equality March in Washington, D.C. in 2009. She helped co-found GetEQUAL – a direct action organization. She was arrested twice, after being handcuffed to the White House fence, as a way to draw attention to the needed repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell.” After the repeal, she was invited by the White House to witness the signing, by President Obama, in December of 2010. She was later invited by the White House, in 2022, to attend the signing of the Respect for Marriage Act, by the Biden Administration. For the past two years, she has organized nationally, with major focus on youth organizing in the state of Florida, and pride efforts in the state of Mississippi.
Her efforts to speak truth to power have been recognized with the "Sheila J. Kuehl Trailblazer Award" by the Stonewall Democratic Club of Los Angeles, the "Top Dog Alumna Award" by the Fresno State, the "Democratic Trailblazer Award" by the Fresno County Democratic Women’s Club and has been the two time recipient of the "Martin Luther King, Jr. Leadership Award,” by the city of Fresno.
Her greatest accomplishments are her two children and being able to marry her wife on the first day it was legally possible after the Supreme Court of the United States made marriage equality a reality for everyone in 2015.
This event is Sponsored in part by: