{"id":118667,"date":"2023-05-22T22:53:44","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T02:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=118667"},"modified":"2023-05-22T22:53:44","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T02:53:44","slug":"lgbtq-business-council-annual-awards-gala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=118667","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQ Business Council Annual Awards Gala"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">CELEBRATING THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lehigh Valley, PA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The LGBTQ Business Council of the Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce is excited to host their 8th Annual Awards Gala on\u00a0<strong>Friday, June 2<sup>nd<\/sup>, 2023, at Brookside Country Club from 6:00 p.m. \u2013 10:00 p.m.<\/strong>\u00a0This event brings awareness and celebrates the achievements of our community in the greater Lehigh Valley while\u00a0raising funds for the LGBTQ Business Council\u2019s Community Grant Fund.<\/p>\n<p>The Gala will be attended by approximately 100 of the area\u2019s most supportive community and business members. The event will feature music by DJ Brad Scott, desserts by Sweet Girlz Bakery, special drag queen performance by Kitty-Mame Dietrich and much more!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Award Acknowledgments:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Community Grant Recipient &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Lehigh Valley Girls Rock<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ally of the Year \u2013\u00a0<strong>Jonathan Huerta, King, Spry, Herman, Freund &amp; Faul LLC\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ground Breaker Award\u00a0<strong>\u2013 Mary Lisicky, Chair of the Chamber Board of Governors<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Who:<\/u><\/strong><strong>\u00a0The LGBTQ Business Council of the Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>What<\/u><\/strong><strong>: LGBTQ Annual Awards Gala<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>When<\/u><\/strong><strong>: Friday, June 2, 2023 &#8211; 6:00 PM &#8211; 10:00 PM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Where<\/u><\/strong><strong>: Brookside County Club\u00a0<\/strong>(901 Willow Ln, Macungie, PA 18062)<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Pricing Info:<\/u><\/strong><strong>\u00a0$100 Individual Ticket, $190 Couples Ticket<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sponsored by:\u00a0<\/strong>Air Products, Amazon, Capital Blue Cross, Crayola, Diakon Adoption and Foster Care, EBC Printing, Fulton Bank, King, Spry, Herman, Freund &amp; Faul, LLC, LANta, Lehigh Carbon Community College, Lehigh Valley Restaurant Group, LehighValleyNews.com, Manpower, Members 1st Federal Credit Union, Morgan Stanley, Olympus Corporation of the Americas, Rich Mar Florist, Sweet Girlz Bakery, Turning Point of Lehigh Valley, and Wind Creek Bethlehem.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>About The Chamber<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Chamber\u2019s mission is to improve the economy and quality of life in the Lehigh Valley.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><em>Serving more than 5,000 businesses and members<\/em><em>\u00a0with more than than 280,000, the Chamber is the largest in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and in the top six nationwide. Our thirty-plus affiliated chambers, councils and committees are On Every Main Street with more than 1,500 community focused volunteers who actively contribute, at the grass roots, to develop and achieve their respective and collective goals.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CELEBRATING THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY &nbsp; Lehigh Valley, PA\u00a0\u2013 The LGBTQ Business Council of the Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce is excited to host their 8th Annual Awards Gala on\u00a0Friday, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=118667\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LGBTQ Business Council Annual Awards Gala<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/LGBTQ-council.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/118668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}