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The Honorable Ritchie Torres, New
York City Council, accepts the Courage
in Government Award on behalf of: The
Honorable Eric Garcetti, Mayor of Los
Angeles; The Honorable Lori Lightfoot,
Mayor of Chicago; and The Honorable
Jane Castor, Mayor of Tampa .

NGLCC National Dinner

honors courage in government

By BEQ Pride Staff NGLCC: The National LGBT Government Award. The Courage and existing best practices for global
Photos by Robert Dodge Chamber of Commerce honored in Government Award has been LGBTI economic empowerment,
Photography corporations, suppliers and indi- given a mere four times in NGL- entrepreneurship and development.
viduals at the 17th annual National CC’s history, honoring those who Hundreds of LGBT business
Dinner awards gala in Washington, champion the LGBT business com- owners, corporate diversity leaders,
D.C. This year’s theme was “Fired munity in the public sector. elected officials and representatives
Up”, celebrating the year’s many The National Dinner served as from NGLCC Global international
accomplishments and encouraging the culmination of the fourth an- affiliates attended the National Din-
the LGBT community, allies and nual NGLCC Global LGBTI Busi- ner where honoree Debbie Gibson
advocates to continue to reach high- ness Week, presented by Accenture. performed.
er in pursuit of equality. This multi-day series of meetings, “2019 has been a year of tre-
Of special note was the pre- workshops and networking focused mendous growth and success in
sentation of NGLCC’s Courage in on sharing new thought leadership the LGBT business community. It

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