Equality California, the statewide LGBTQ rights group, will hold its virtual Evening for Equality Wednesday, April 28, beginning at 6 p.m. Pacific Time.
Headlining the show will be Grammy Award-winning R&B, hip-hop, and soul singer-songwriter Estelle. Other entertainers include Peppermint, Justin Tranter, and Jake Wesley Rogers.
Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-Oakland) will be a special guest. Lee, vice chair and founding member of Congress LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus, is a longtime ally of the queer community and has authored many bills around HIV/AIDS and other progressive issues.
Also appearing at the fundraiser will be lesbian state Senator Susan Talamantes Eggman (D-Stockton), vice chair of the California Legislative LGBTQ Caucus, and Honey Mahogany, a queer nonbinary trans person who is a legislative aide to San Francisco District 6 Supervisor Matt Haney.
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