GMCW Spring Affair: The Color Ball

On behalf of our Board of Directors, GMCW is thrilled to invite you to our annual fundraiser, Spring Affair on May 17, 2025, at the glamorous Ritz-Carlton, Washington, DC. This year's event, The Color Ball, embraces the vibrancy, boldness, and rich diversity of the LBGTQ+ community at a time when some would rather see us dull our true colors!

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 Nina West! 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

Let us see your true colors shining through!

Spring Affair Chairs: Zachary Barger & Tomeika Bowden

Special Guest Star

Nina West

Nina West is an American actor, singer, songwriter, author, and LGBTQ+ activist played by Andrew Levitt. 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!