The Human Rights Campaign sure knows how to pick a month to throw a party, it was generally agreed by everyone attending the org’s annual L.A. dinner Saturday night, where the evening’s most invoked topics were veritably ripped out of the most topical mainstream media headlines. Honoree Brandi Carlile, featured speaker Brian Michael Smith and nearly everyone who came to the dais spoke to the current rush of individual states to beat each other to the gate in enacting legislation that would roll back LGBTQ+ rights.
Celebration and solemnity were the twin moods of the night — and not for the first time in gay rights history, pointed out Carlile.
“I do believe that queer people come from a long line of celebration,” the singer-songwriter said on the red carpet at the JW Marriott Hotel at LA Live. “We have to find ways to celebrate during turmoil, because we’ve had a…
