30 Year
Anniversary Gala
30 Years of Pride in Action
Legacy
of Love
JOIN US FOR OUR 30TH ANNIVERSARY GALA
On October 10, 2026, we’ll gather in the Bay Area to celebrate three decades of progress, and to recommit ourselves to what comes next. As we face new challenges and new possibilities, Our Family Coalition is focused on deepening impact, expanding access, and ensuring that the next generation of LGBTQ+ families can grow up knowing that we all belong.
Gala Honorees
Deborah Wald
Deborah Wald is a Certified Family Law Specialist whose legal work focuses almost entirely on children.
Her practice is divided between family formation – including both assisted reproduction and adoption – and child-centered litigation including parentage disputes, guardianships, and child custody cases. She also serves as a Parenting Coordinator for chronically conflicted Bay Area families. She is the recent past-President of the Academy of California Adoption-ART Lawyers, and is the standing Chair of the National Family Law Advisory Council of the National Center for Lesbian Rights. In 2022, she received the Leading Family Law Practitioner Award from the National LGBT Bar Association. She has been involved for many years in both legislation and litigation that have helped frame California’s approach to protecting the rights of LGBTQ parents and their children. Deborah lives in San Francisco with her partner of 45 years, with whom she proudly shares two amazing sons now 30 and 32.
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M. Zamora
Drumkeeper M. Zamora is a Chicana, Yaqui and Tongva IndigeQueer feminist educator and community organizer.
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Their ancestors come from the Los Angeles Basin and northern Mexico’s Sonora and Chihuahua regions. They have served as ceremonial singer/drumkeeper in their Two Spirit community for over 19 years. Zamora has led several drums, including Turtle Women Rising, and served as song carrier for Bay Area American Indian Two Spirits (BAAITS) Drum. From 2007-2017 Zamora served as ceremonial drumkeeper for the Wakan Wiya Drum, and continued as it was retired and began to serve as a community drum in the Bay Area. In 2024 Wakan Wiya became the drum-in-residence at Xochicalli-House of Flowers: IndigeQueer Medicine & Healing, supporting medicine workshops for Queer and Trans People of Color n the Bay. Zamora has led in educational programming in community-based non-profits and in higher education. Z has taught Ethnic Studies, Chicana/o Latina/o Studies, and Gender Studies and Feminist Theory at Skyline College, De Anza College, California State University East Bay, University of San Francisco and Stanford University. They currently serve on the Board of Directors at Queer Cultural Center. In 2026, Zamora's college instruction continues, with an emphasis on Xicana- Indigena perspectives on cultural and ecological sustainability.
Kate Kendell
Kate Kendell is the CEO of the Gill Foundation.
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She leads the team in executing the vision of Tim Gill and the board by prioritizing, implementing, and measuring the foundation’s work and grant-making toward its mission of securing full equality for LGBTQ Americans. For 22 years, Kate led the National Center for LGBTQ Rights (NCLR), a national legal organization committed to advancing the civil and human rights of LGBTQ people and their families through litigation, public policy advocacy, and public education. She later served as the Interim Chief Legal Officer at the Southern Poverty Law Center from 2019 through 2021. Kate then became the first-ever Chief of Staff at The California Endowment, a role she held until she joined the Gill Foundation in spring 2025.
Emily Doskow
Emily Doskow has dedicated her career to providing legal services to the LGBTQ+ community.
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During the 90s, she litigated civil rights cases, including suits against insurance companies on behalf of people with HIV . For the past 25 years, she has focused her practice on mediation and family formation, especially for queer families, in the areas of adoptions, prenuptial agreements, donor agreements and other assisted reproduction contracts, and surrogacy agreements. She has twice chaired the Board of the National Center for Lesbian Rights. She is the author of The Legal Guide for Lesbian and Gay Couples and Nolo’s Essential Guide to Divorce, both published by Nolo Press. Emily and her wife, Luan Stauss, live in Oakland.
Francisco O. Buchting
Francisco O. Buchting, Ph.D. is a strategist and philanthropic leader dedicated to building a more equitable and just future for all.
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As Vice President of Grants, Programs, and Communications at Horizons Foundation, he draws on over 25 years of experience across scientific research, public health, and clinical work to solve complex social and human rights challenges both in the U.S. and internationally. His career has been defined by his leadership and work across seminal movements—including HIV/AIDS, anti-tobacco, comprehensive sex education, LGBTQ rights, and Knowledge Brokerage.
Roger Doughty
Roger has been an activist and leader in the LGBT movement for more than 40 years, and he has led Horizons Foundation since 2002.
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Prior to joining the foundation, he served as the Executive Director of Horizons Community Services in Chicago, the Midwest’s largest LGBTQ social service and advocacy organization. During Roger’s tenure at Horizons, the foundation dramatically increased its grantmaking, capacity, and overall asset base. He oversaw creation of the LGBTQ Community Endowment Fund for the community’s future, helped bring in millions of dollars in funds from mainstream foundations, and has been a national and local leader in multi-year efforts to increase philanthropic giving to LGBTQ causes.
DJ Rha
“It’s Ra like the Egyptian sun god,” and like the sun, he shines his light unconditionally in the world as an agent of love and light. Rha Bowden is a father, artist, urban alchemist, educator, healer, activist, DJ, and a dope Black man. His professional focus has been centered on restorative justice, early childhood education, wellness and art workshops, racial justice, leadership development, and afterschool operations. Music has always been an integral component of his life. Back in the day, he shared his love of music with others through the hundreds of mix tapes and CDs he created. “DJ EyeManifest” was born during the pandemic when Rha decided to pursue djing as a hobby while sheltering in place. After the audience’s positive response to his first gig, he knew he had found a new outlet to shine and serve the community.
Gala Presenters
Robin Lowey
Robin Lowey is a filmmaker, author, speaker, and queer historian dedicated to preserving and amplifying lesbian history as a vital part of the LGBTQ+ story.
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She is the author of Game Changers: Lesbians You Should Know About. Her essay appears in the anthology Boyhood Reimagined: Stories of Queer Moms Raising Sons, and her writing has been featured in The Advocate, Out, and Lesbian.com. She is currently directing and producing Generation Queerspawn, a documentary about the first generation of children raised by lesbian mothers and how that extraordinary childhood shaped the adults they became.
Honey Mahogany
Honey Mahogany is a performer, small business owner, and activist who grew up in San Francisco and received her MSW from Berkeley.
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Her work has earned her recognition from the City of San Francisco; the State of California; Sainthood from the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence; and awards from the Human Rights Campaign, the GLIDE Center for Social Justice, and the Women’s Foundation of California. She is a co-founder of the Transgender District, a co-owner of the Stud Bar, and Chair-Emerita of the San Francisco Democratic Party. Honey currently works as the Director of the Office of Transgender Initiatives in San Francisco.
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