Held at the iconic Central Park Zoo, ROAR draws nearly 1,000 supporters each year for an evening filled with activities for adults & families: live entertainment and music by NYC DJ Collaborative Occupy The Disco; open bar and special adults-only martini bar; delicious picnic buffet; private access to animal exhibits; children’s area with face painting, activities , and drag queen story time with Merrie Cherry, Special performance by Yuhua Hamasaki from season 10 of Rupaul’s Drag Race! More special guests to be announced soon! Children under the age of 18 are free!
*ASL Interpreter Available Upon Request
Special Guests
Occupy The Disco
Yuhua Hamasaki
Merrie Cherry
Untitled Queen
credit: Lucas Blair
2018 Sponsors
Diamond Sponsor
Gold Sponsor
Bronze Sponsors
Patron Sponsors
Benefactor Sponsors
Advanced Sports Medicine & Rehabilitation
Cushman & Wakefield, Inc.
The Dowling Family
The New York Women’s Foundation
NYC Pride – Heritage of Pride
Root Tree Foundation
Wells Fargo Advisors/Judith M. Kasen-Windsor
Host Sponsors
Rob Caldwell, MD & James Jaxxa
Matthew Cohen
Etain Health
Folsom Street East
Housing Works
Jackson Lewis P.C.
Casey McNamara
Neway Fertility
NextGen
OSIS
Primary Care Development Corporation
Jeremy Schwartz, LCSW
ScribeAmerica
Susan & Leigh Somerville
Supporter Sponsors
Salman Azhar
Chris Coad, MD/Chelsea Eye Ophthalmology
Timothy Eisemann, RN & Nicholas Astone, RN
James T. Evans, Ph.D., Esq.
The Gottlock Family
Laura A. Jacobs, LCSW-R
Ryan Karben
Irwin Kroot & Anthony Catanzaro
Daniel McGee
Nolan-Cardow Family
Donnie Roberts & Geoff Allman
Brian & Toby Rubin-Sowers
Beth Schneider
Maggi Sedlis Goldstein
Kimberleigh Joy Smith & Betsy Crenshaw
Wendy Stark & Katie Douglass
Timothy Stevens & David Czekaj
Doug Wingo and Tim Legg
Beverage Sponsors
Media Sponsor
lists in formation as of 5/23/18