A Dallas Brunch to Remember: This Black Tie Tradition Has Raised $21 Million and Counting

BY Merrit Stahle // Jun 21, 2017

photography Sheryl Lanzel

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Nate Robbins, Mindy Berkson, Stephen Gilhooly, Phillip Murrell

Arnie Trevino, Dr. Steven Pounders, Jim O’Reilly, Nicholas Landis

Keith James, Steve Deitsch, Sharon Anaston

David Sassano, Tom Bucherie, Don Tapani, John Crawford, Jon Leach

David Chaves, Scott Bates, Bob Harbeson, JR Shoman

Bob Mosser, Jennifer Compton, Robert Calderon

Morgan Cox ,David Gifford-Robinson,Mindy Berkson,Nate Robbins

Nate Robbins, Mindy Berkson, Stephen Gilhooly, Phillip Murrell

What: Black Tie Dinner

Where: Hotel Crescent Court

PC Moment: If anyone knows how to host a brunch, it’s Black Tie Dinner. As the largest fundraiser for the LGBT community, it has distributed more than $21 million to various beneficiaries since 1982. Guests did not leave hungry — Hotel Crescent Court provided an omelette station, crab cakes, and chicken and waffles. Guests probably didn’t leave sober either, with Social Ice‘s wine-infused mimosa orange ice pops, and an extravagant bloody mary cart thanks to Absolut Elyx.

The brunch was topped off with a raffle of bowties designed by Jeremy Michael Calhoun, and gift bags complete with Austen Dor pocket squares and custom shirts, Jack Mason wallets, and Orno & Top Knot gift certificates.

Party People: underwriters Mindy Berkson and Morgan Cox; guitarist Jason Bennett; supporters Keith James, Sharon Anaston, Tom Bucherie, Brad Pritchett, David Chadd.