The Everest4Equality Kickoff Party will take place Thursday, June 27, at Primitive Gallery, 130 N. Jefferson St., 5:30-8 p.m.
Everest4Equality is the Mount Everest climb that gay Chicagoan Joe Rudy is embarking on in 2014 to support marriage equality and raise awareness and funds for LGBT rights organizations, Equality Illinois Education Project and the Human Rights Campaign Foundation.
Also, see www.everest4equality.org.