Photo Coverage: Point Honors New York 2012 Gala

On Monday night, April 16, 2012, The Point Foundation honored Edward Albee and Focus Features at their fifth annual New York Gala. BroadwayWorld.com was on hand at Pier Sixty to capture the event honoring current and future champions of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community.

Point Honors New York, an event honoring current and future champions of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community. Playwright Edward Albee will receive the Point Legend Award, and worldwide film company Focus Features will receive the Point Inspiration Award. Presenting sponsors are Audi and Wells Fargo. Premier sponsors are PricewaterhouseCoopers and Motorola Mobility Foundation. Principal sponsors are Estée Lauder Companies, Bumble and bumble, Bud Light, HBO, Mitch Draizin & Philippee Brugere-Trelat, Time Warner Inc., Goldman Sachs and 42Below Vodka. Media sponsors are Gay City News, The Advocate, theMenEvent.com. Benefit Co-Chairs: James Cummings, Shelley Fischel, Jonah Trout and Richard Ziegelasch. For more information about this event, visitwww.pointfoundation.org/newyork/

Point Foundation (Point) is the nation's largest scholarship-granting organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students of merit. Point provides financial support, leadership training, mentoring and hope to LGBT individuals who are marginalized because of their sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. Point provides its scholars with the financial ability to attend the nation's foremost higher educational institutions and its donors and mentors with the rare satisfaction of directly investing their resources and time in future generations of leaders.

Photos by Linda Lenzi