Ticket sales to this year’s Real Bad XIX, a nine-hour long leather dance and celebration, exceeded all expectations, allowing Grassroots Gay Rights West (GRGR/West) to award the beneficiaries $150,000! Thanks to volunteers and event sponsors like Hot House, the Lavender Youth Recreation and Information Center (LYRIC) and the STOP AIDS Project each received $75,000 to continue their important work in our community.

Among the proud event volunteers and producers is GRGR/West Marketing Chair and Hot House Operations Manager Leif Wauters (back row, 4th from left)