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Twilight on the Terrace Benefiting The Pride Center of Maryland & Maryland LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce
June 14, 2024
7–11 p.m.
Gertrude’s Chesapeake Kitchen at the Baltimore Museum of Art
Mother Nature and Gertrude’s Chesapeake Kitchen were to the perfect hosts for this year’s “Twilight on the Terrace,” the annual evening garden party benefiting The Pride Center of Maryland and Maryland LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce. Scores of guests enjoyed idyllic summer breezes in the Baltimore Museum of Art Sculpture Garden while indulging in Gertrude’s food and drink. A live DJ provided the sunset soundtrack for attendees to start off Pride Weekend as they should—on the dance floor.
Don’t bug Curt Decker about his style. He’s already beaten you to it. The retired lawyer, former national disability rights lobbyist, and gay rights activitist is known not only for his “elegant flamboyant” style, but for the array of bug brooches he’s usually sporting on his jackets.
Those he wore to Twilight on the Terrace are just three of the some 50 he owns—all Southwest Native American Zuni jewelry he’s picked up in Santa Fe on his annual jaunts there—showing his passion for indigenous art.
“I’ve been buying Zuni bug brooches for 20 years,” he said. “I started wearing them on tuxedos about 15 years ago to dress up the all-black formal wear and they became conversation starters. Now, if I’m not wearing them, I get asked ‘Why aren’t you wearing any bugs?’”
As for the rest of his picture-perfect garden party attire: that’s an Italian linen shirt with a hibiscus pattern he bought at Gian Marco Menswear downtown. He paired it with Paul Fredrick cream linen pants and a salmon linen jacket.
Left to right: Gina Ramsey, Pink Dog Digital president; Brian Pickett, retired chemical industry commercial leader
Left to right: John Shields, Gertrude’s Chesapeake Kitchen chef/owner; Bill McLennan, community volunteer; Robin Graham, community volunteer
Left to right: Matt Davis, retired Netflix Animation Studio director of production; David Pierson, retired National Geographic global digital marekting manager
Left to right: Aaron Tomarchio, Tradepoint Atlantic executive vice president of corporate affairs; Lee Johnson-Lowe, Lord Baltimore Hotel director of sales and marketing; Matthew Verghese, Office of the Governor Wes Moore director of federal relatons and senior advisor
Left to right: Shayna Robinson, ICANN grant program director; Michelle Ohnona, Georgetown University faculty director; Amy Finkelstein, artist
Left to right: Gigi Ajavon, HPS Counseling clinical director/psychotherapist; Api Ajavon, Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport airport duty manager
Left to right: Conor Jensen, musician; Jeff Arnold, software testing engineer; Rich Sienicki, global account executive; Andrew Lowrey, Precise Home Management president
Left to right: Richard Finger, human resources director/Baltimore Pride Parade chair; Nicholas Fuhr, Maryland Department of Health architect; Frank McNeil, PNC Bank community development officer; Rev. Mark Phillips, First and Franklin Presbyterian Church pastor; Larry Cereso, facilities manager; Dr. Paul Fowler, MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital radiation oncologist
Left to right: Ricky Stinson, Baltimore City Public Schools speech language pathologist; Steve Mann, National Gallery of Art director of exhibitions; Mark Miazga, Baltimore City Public Schools teacher
