"On a blistering Saturday night, in weaponized New York coldthe kind that cuts through wool, diamonds, and denial alikedemocracy stepped out in black tie and refused to bow. The annual Greater New York Dinner hosted by the Human Rights Campaign was not a gala. It was a triumph. A velvet-draped revolt. A revolution in gowns and tuxedos. This was not escapism for the well-dressed. This was resistance, civilized and incandescent."
"Jane Krakowski received the Ally for Equality Award and delivered remarks that cut through ceremony and landed squarely in truth. Emmy-nominated, Tony Awardwinning, and gloriously unafraid, she named the attacks, the legislative cruelty, the cultural erasures, and the rising hostility toward vulnerable communities. Then she named the counterforce: defiance, solidarity, art, and unapologetic visibility. Her message burned bright and cleanbe seen, be loud, refuse disappearance."
On February 7, 2026, the Human Rights Campaign Greater New York Dinner at the Marriott Marquis Times Square convened advocates, artists, activists, designers, and journalists in formal attire. The event combined celebration with political resistance, transforming a gala into a forceful assertion that human dignity is nonnegotiable. Attendees projected solidarity and visible defiance against legislative cruelty and cultural erasure. Jane Krakowski accepted the Ally for Equality Award and urged unapologetic visibility, naming attacks and calling for defiance, solidarity, art, and loudness. The evening juxtaposed sub-zero weather outside with intense, electric energy inside.
Read at www.amny.com
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