As Pride Month kicked into high gear, Billboard teamed up with TBA Agency to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community with their 2024 Pride Party.
Taking place on Wednesday (June 26) at the Wythe Hotel’s Bar Blondeau in Brooklyn, N.Y., the cocktail party hosted artists, executives and music industry professionals to toast the end of Pride Month and celebrate the start of summer. Artists including Ethel Cain, VINCINT, Peach PRC and Allison Ponthier appeared throughout the evening, along with executives such as Avery McTaggart from TBA, Andie Fanno from BMI, Annie Brinn from Warner Music Group, Jason Ve from 88rising and Andrew Ludwick from Warner Chappell Music, all of whom were among the 30 executives honored on Billboard‘s 2024 Pride List.
For our annual Pride List, Billboard sought to honor 30 high-achieving LGBTQ+ executives in the music industry who dedicate themselves to fostering a more diverse, more equitable future for music’s LGBTQ+ community. The list honored David Furnish as the executive of the year, thanks to his continued work in revitalizing the career of his partner and husband Sir Elton John. The iconic singer toasted his husband in the pages of Billboard, saying that Furnish helped raise John’s profile alongside some of music’s greatest performers. “Looking at this from a completely egotistical point of view, I’ve always been a big artist,” he said. “But what David has done lifted me into the echelon of artists like The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Paul McCartney. That’s how good he is.”
Take a look below for a selection of photos from TBA Agency & Billboard’s 2024 Pride Party.