2024 Visibility Ball: Gala & Awards

Join The Dallas LGBT Bar Association for our Third Annual Visibility Ball as we honor our 2024 Justice Award and scholarship recipients. Guests are invited to a cocktail reception, seated dinner and award presentation.

Visibility Ball highlights the progress and success of LGBTQ+ attorneys, judges, law students, and legal professionals. In doing so, we hope to increase awareness and visibility to the growing LGBTQ+ legal community here in Dallas. We aim to expand our influence as we continue to recognize a judge and law firm that have each uplifted the visibility of LGBTQ+ attorneys in the courtroom and community.

Saturday, November 9th

7pm to 10pm

Virgin Hotels Dallas

1445 Turtle Creek Blvd, Dallas, TX 75207

Visibility Ball serves as a fundraiser to support the work of the Dallas LGBT Bar Association on behalf of our members and to allow us to expand our impact in the Dallas LGBTQ+ community through outreach to traditionally underserved communities and new initiatives, such as legal clinics providing assistance to aging LGBTQ+ individuals and the transgender community.

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Beginning at 7pm, guests are invited to join us for a cocktail reception. Enjoy an open bar at the Moroccan garden and rooftop foyer.

Seating for dinner will begin at 8pm, with our awards program starting shortly after. We will be honoring our 2024 Justice Award and scholarship recipients.

Evening wear encouraged. Be you. Be seen. It's Visibility Ball!

Ride share is highly encouraged for guests. Valet is available through the venue. Self-parking is limited in the area.

Founded in 1992, the Dallas LGBT Bar Association is the only group focused on fostering a supportive community and advancing the careers of LGBTQ+ attorneys and allied professionals in North Texas. Our network is comprised of over 220 dues-paying members across the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, an email distribution list of more than 500 subscribers, and a social media following of nearly 2,000. We are from all walks of life: solo practitioners, government attorneys, corporate counsel, “big law” attorneys, academics, judges, non-profit advocates, and paraprofessionals. While the DLGBTBA celebrates the diversity and successes of its membership, we recognize that many barriers remain for LGBTQ+ professionals, who still experience high risks of workplace bias and fears that coming out could damage their careers—particularly in a state that was, and at times still is, hostile to the LGBTQ+ community.

The Dallas LGBT Bar Association seeks to provide a community for LGBTQ+ lawyers across the metroplex by:

• Providing continuing legal education (“CLE”) courses on pressing legal issues for the LGBTQ+ community.
• Hosting regular community networking events that foster fellowship among LGBTQ+ legal professionals and allies.
• Coordinating volunteer opportunities for community service to the greater LGBTQ+ population in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.
• Promoting employment opportunities through a job posting board to LGBTQ+ legal professionals and increase representation in the profession.
• The Justice Award, presented annually at the Visibility Ball, recognizing leaders who advance our local LGBTQ+ community by fighting injustice.

Host or Publisher The Dallas LGBT Bar Association