GMCW Spring Affair 2025

On behalf of our Board of Directors, GMCW is thrilled to invite you to our annual fundraiser, Spring Affair 2025: The Color Ball, to be held on May 17, 2025. We will return once again to the glamorous Ritz-Carlton, Washington, DC for an evening of fun, art, music, and fabulous outfits. Join us for dinner, entertainment, special presentations, an open-bar reception, the Harmony Award recipients, live and silent auctions, plus our special celebrity guest performer to be announced soon. We look forward to seeing you there!

Spring Affair 2025: The Color Ball
May 17, 2025
The Ritz-Carlton, Washington, DC
1150 22nd Street NW, Washington, DC 20037

6:30pm Cocktails and Silent Auction
8:00pm Dinner, Entertainment, Harmony Awards presentation, and Live Auction

Attire: Creative Black Tie

Spring Affair Chairs: Zachary Barger & Tomeika Bowden

Special Guest Star

Nina West from RuPaul's Drag Race Season 11

Nina West is an American drag queen, actor, singer, songwriter, author, and LGBTQ+ activist played by Andrew Levitt. She rose to national prominence in 2019 with her appearance on Season 11 of VH1's Emmy-winning show RuPaul's Drag Race, where she placed sixth and won Miss Congeniality. In 2021, she returned to the show as a guest and was anointed "America's Sweetheart" by RuPaul herself. In 2020, Nina released a charity partnership with country music legend Dolly Parton - the "Dolly X Nina: Kindness is Queen" collection, with all proceeds going to the Dolly Parton Imagination Library and The Nina West Foundation to benefit LGBTQ+ youth and literacy. Nina headlined the 20th anniversary national tour of Hairspray in the lead role of Edna Turnblad, for which she received rave reviews. In 2022, Nina made her big screen debut as legendary queen Divine in the award-winning Weird: The Al Yankovic Story starring Daniel Radcliffe. We are so thrilled to have Nina join us for Spring Affair!