5th ANNUAL WOMEN'S AWARDS Benefits Holla Back 3/2

Each year New York LGBTQ political activist Yetta Kurland teams up with different organizations including Broadway Speaks OUT, The Jim Owels Liberal Democratic Club, The Women's Democratic Club, and the Stonewall Inn to present the Annual Women's Awards.
This event is aimed at honoring women who are making a difference in the greater LGBTQ communities. This year our event will be benefiting the incredible group Holla!Back.

This years event will be held on March 2nd at the historic Stonewall Inn from 7pm-10pm with tickets ranging from $25-$100.

Last years event boasted celebs like Alan Cumming, Nick Adams, and Kate Bornstein, this years will sure to please in talent and glam as well.

INFORMATION ON HOLLA!BACKHollaback! is a movement dedicated to ending street harassment using mobile technology. Street harassment is one of the most pervasive forms of gender-based violence and one of the least legislated against. Comments from "You'd look good on me" to groping, flashing and assault are a daily, global reality for women and LGBTQ individuals. But it is rarely reported, and it's culturally accepted as ‘the price you pay' for being a woman or for being gay. At Hollaback!, we don't buy it.

We believe that everyone has a right to feel safe and confident without being objectified. Sexual harassment is a gateway crime that creates a cultural environment that makes gender-based violence OK. There exists a clear legal framework to reproach sexual harassment and abuse in the home and at work, but when it comes to the streets-all bets are off. This gap isn't because street harassment hurts any less, it's because there hasn't been a solution. Until now. The explosion of mobile technology has given us an unprecedented opportunity to end street harassment-and with it, the opportunity to take on one of the final new frontiers for women's rights around the word.

By collecting women and LGBTQ folks' stories and pictures in a safe and share-able way with our very own mobile phone applications, Hollaback! is creating a crowd-sourced initiative to end street harassment. Hollaback! breaks the silence that has perpetuated sexual violence internationally, asserts that any and all gender-based violence is unacceptable, and creates a world where we have an option-and, more importantly-a response.