News on your favorite shows, specials & more!

Photo Coverage: Cheyenne Jackson Hosts Live Out Loud Gala

By: Apr. 30, 2008
Enter Your Email to Unlock This Article

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe.




Existing user? Just click login.

Actor Cheyenne Jackson, star of the hit Broadway musical Xanadu, hosted Live Out Loud's Seventh Annual Young Trailblazers Benefit Gala on Monday, April 28th. at the Chelsea Museum.  Fashion designers John Bartlett, Thom Browne, and Chado Ralph Rucci served as Gala Chairs for this year's benefit.

Dedicated to empowering, mentoring, and celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth, Live out Loud is a non-profit organization that produces panel discussions, lectures, and workshops that connect LGBT youth with role models and leaders in the LGBT community.

More than 400 community leaders attended Live Out Loud's Seventh Annual Young Trailblazers Benefit, which which took place at the Chelsea Art Museum (556 W. 22nd Street at 11th Avenue) and culminated with the awarding of $2500 scholarships to four high school seniors who have demonstrated outstanding leadership skills. 

Sponsors of this year's gala include: Chado Ralph Rucci, Fund in the Sun Foundation, M A C VIVA GLAM, SHOWTIME, Daryl Roth Productions, Neiman Marcus, Barry K. Schwartz Family Foundation, Charlotte Moss New York, Elle Décor Magazine, Brett Hofer, HSBC, Il Cantinori, InStyle Magazine, Marjorie M. Fisher Fund, Thom Browne New York, Janice Calloway, TJX Companies, and The Chinese Porcelain Company

National Media Sponsors: OUT Magazine and Passport Travel Magazine . Media sponsors include: HX Magazine, GO New York, New York Blade, Next Magazine, GoodAsYou.org and TheMenEvent. Promoters: Eric Andrew, Patrick Duffy & Nicky Balestrieri,Mark Nelson, Chris Ryan, Chip Stevenson and Matt Tratner. For more information please visit www.liveoutloud.info

Photos By Linda Lenzi


Host Cheyenne Jackson


Angelo Fraboni (Co-Producer "Celebrity Autobiography; In Their Own Words", Cheyenne Jackson and Hal Rubenstein (InStyle Magazine)


Hal Rubenstein and Cheyenne Jackson


Cheyenne Jackson, Hal Rubenstein and Leo Preziosi Jr. (LIVE OUT LOUD Founder/Executive Director)


Cheyenne Jackson with the 2008 LIVE OUT LOUD Scholarship Recipients Tiffamy Studer (Bristol Central High School, Bristol CT), Raymond Martinez (The Urban Assembly School for Law and Justice, Brooklyn, NY), Luis Garay (Brooklyn School for Global Studies, Brooklyn, NY) and Nelson Rodriguz (Union High School, Uniondale, NY)


Hal Rubenstein, Tiffany Studer, Raymond Martinez, Cheyenne Jackson, Luis Garay, Nelson Rodriguz and Leo Preziosi Jr.


Cheyenne Jackson, Julie Halston (Hairspray) and Playwright Charles Busch


Julie Halston, Luis Garay and Charles Busch


Tiffany Studer and Cheyenne Jackson


Cheyenne Jackson and Luis Garay


Tiffany Studer, Leo Preziosi Jr. and Luis Garay


Cheyenne Jackson and Broadway Producer Daryl Roth


Daryl Roth, Chado Ralph Rucci and Leo Preziosi




Videos