Rob Smith

We had the opportunity to see our friend, Cheyenne Jackson perform in Oh Mary! last week. Cheyenne, Maya and the rest of the cast are brilliant. Cheyenne is beginning to enter his last month on Broadway before heading back to LA to be with his family. Get your tickets now!!
Thank you Cheyenne, your talent and humor is limitless and you’ve owned the stage from the moment we saw you in Xanadu. Shine on ✨

London delivers! 🇬🇧 A weekend of family, fun & adventure.
We got a chance to see the city through Alice’s eyes as she starts her new chapter as a Londoner.
And, what a special moment celebrating Rod’s bday as he kicks off his journey before into India.
Truly a magical time filled with love, laughs and celebration.

Our annual Mother and Son trip brought us to Vegas, centered around The Wizard of Oz 💚🩷 We had a spectacular time, once again. These are magical moments and I feel blessed and grateful for the opportunity to spoil Mom rotten.

Christmas Chronicles ❄️
Recapping the holiday season with a few photos.
We managed to pack in as much family and fun as we possibly could, finding magic in every moment.
This really is the most magical time of the year filled with love, gratitude and abundance.

It’s an incredible honor to be recognized by the NEW Pride Agenda with the Community Impact Award. Alongside fellow awardees, Daniel Franzese and Terence Pleasant, it was a moving and inspiring event.

Throughout my career in business, I’ve worked to ensure visibility, acceptance, and opportunity for the q***r community. This award is a reminder of how important it is that LGBTQ+ people are able to thrive, lead, and shape the future in every space.

New York is the birthplace of our movement and continues to stand as a global beacon for equality, possibility and opportunity.

I’m especially grateful that my husband, and community leader, presented me with this award. It was so sweet and moments like this remind me why we do the work is so important and why I love him so deeply.

Congratulations to Kei Williams on becoming the new Executive Director of the NEW Pride Agenda, succeeding the incredible leadership of Elisa Crespo.

And a heartfelt thank you to our generous sponsors, including Centric Brands and The Phluid Phoundation, for supporting this mission and investing in our community.

As September comes to a close, so does a month of birthday celebrations and magical moments.
Over the month, I chose small intimate gatherings as opposed to one big party.
With each opportunity to make a wish blowing out a candle, I realized that there’s nothing I could ask for that I don’t already have. I’m filled with love, abundance and gratitude. Life is good.

One more magical week on the playa.
Highlights: Old friends and new friends, dancing, biking, art, grieving, celebrating, surprise bday complete with homemade cupcakes, unexpected moments, wind, rain, resilience, games, haircuts, sunrises, sunsets, laughing, crying, singing …
After each burn I leave feeling recharged and reconnected to myself and humanity.
Huge thanks to the staff and volunteers who pull together to bring this week to life.
And, to Rod, Otho, Joshua, Alejandra, Hani and the rest of our crew for helping to make each day perfection.

Gimme Gimme Disco 🪩 And nothing better than celebrating with a whole new generation with nieces and nephew 💃🕺

48 hours in So Cal.
Diana Ross, hiking. birthday celebrations and great time with friends. Feeling grateful

The American experiment was built on the necessity of virtue and honor. A people freed from the tyranny of government, they understood, still needed to be checked by their own morality, philosophy, and religion.

The Founders were delegating a whole hell of a lot of responsibility to the people when they freed us from the yoke of the king. They were giving us a gift, sure, but also an immense obligation—to be good citizens, good people, good leaders of ourselves and stewards of our collective resources. This responsibility falls on each of us today, no matter where we live or what form of government we’re under.

Today, while you’re grilling out and celebrating the holiday with friends and family, take a moment to reflect on this tension between freedom and virtue. What does it mean to approach your life with the courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom that guided the Founding Fathers? In what ways have we as a nation perhaps fallen short of the responsibilities that come with freedom?

Let today be more than a celebration—let today be a recommitment to the virtues that make freedom possible. A recommitment to truth, to self-mastery, to taking responsibility, to work. The work of choosing virtue when it would be easier not to, of living up to the responsibilities that this nation demands, of proving worthy of the liberty we’ve inherited. For only through this work can this great experiment in freedom, begun 249 years ago, continue.🇺🇸