EDGE Los Angeles

The hot young crowd flocked to the Bowery Hotel on Feb. 2 for for the Young Leaders Council of the LGBT Community Center.

Lesbians are heading nonprofits, winning high public office and getting national media. Here are some outstanding examples of those who have succeeded in a (straight) man’s world.

Supporters gathered in Tribeca for the 15th Annual Center Women’s Event, honoring reps from MAC Cosmetics, JPMorgan Chase and the New York Liberty, and raising critical funds for programs and services at the LGBT Center on West 13th Street.

From their Heritage Awards to a lunch for seniors, a film festival to a ’Latex Ball,’ men of color will come together during the week of Aug. 15 for a New York City Black Pride bigger & badder than ever.

Riders from New York and surrounding areas have begun fundraising efforts to raise at least $3,500 each for their September 21-23 trek from Boston to New York in Cycle for the Cause, a fundraiser for the New York LGBT Community Center’s HIV/AIDS programs.