An Evening with LGBTQ+ Heroes: November

Capital Pride Alliance in partnership with Team Rayceen Production and the 50th Anniversary subcommittee of World Pride 2025 presents “An Evening with LGBTQ + Heroes”.   

The Capital Pride Alliance is celebrating 50 years of pride in our nation’s capital.  As part of that celebration, we want to highlight some of the organizers in our community who have received an honor from our organization.  Please join us for a virtual live event featuring some of these honorees who will share their history and thoughts on what pride means.   

Visit https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/241fdfb4-5071-4c83-a69d-f5753109f4a4@2acd1490-e92e-43a4-ad7a-c1ab3c4af871 to register for this event. 

More Information: https://www.capitalpride.org/events/an-evening-with-lgbtq-heroes/

Date: November 7, 2024 

Time: 7:00 pm  

Panelists:  

Kimberley Bush is the Executive Director of The DC LGBTQ+ Community Center. Prior to this role she served as the Interim Executive Director and is currently also the Director of Arts and Cultural Programs. Kimberley is currently and successfully leading efforts to create the next chapter in our LGBTQ+ Siblings lives with the creation of and move to a new LGBTQ+ Community Center in the future. 

Jeri Hughes is an outspoken advocate for all human rights. Although the focus of her fight has centered around the struggles faced by the transgender community, she has extended her efforts to embrace the LGBT community and basic human rights in entirety. 

Vince Micone is a longtime community activist who has served in leadership roles for a variety of LGBTQ+ organizations, as an elected Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner in DC, and as a public servant for the Federal Government. 

José Alberto Uclés  works at the U.S. Department of Transportation as the Hispanic Outreach Spokesperson, and Public Affairs Specialist for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). He is a former Commissioner for the DC Commission on Arts and Humanities, a judge for the Helen Hayes Award and the first Latino Director of Capital Pride.