The Rainbow Affair

Friday, October 17, 2025
5pm
Halo at the Point
4 THompson’s Point, Portland, ME

Let’s paint the town rainbow!

Please join us to support the Equality Community Center, Maine’s first and only LGBTQ+ community center and social justice non-profit community hub providing a safe haven and support for marginalized communities across southern Maine.

The Rainbow Affair, our annual fundraiser, promises to be a fabulous night out for our community while we celebrate how far we’ve come since our founding in 2015. Great food, drinks, entertainment, and dancing with a live band!

All funds raised will help ensure a sustainable future of programming and operations for the Center as well as making sure that we have the resources needed to open Equality Commons, Maine’s first LGBTQ+ affirming affordable senior living community, next summer!

More details coming soon!

Business and Organization Sponsorship Opportunities

Would your business or organization like to support the Equality Community Center as a sponsor of The Rainbow Affair? It’s a great way to engage with our community and feel great about doing something that is making a difference in the state! Packages include tickets to the events and broad range of brand exposure opportunities leading up and during the event. Please contact Chris O’Connor at chris@eccmaine.org for more details.

Ticket Options
*Note:A limited # of pay-what-you-can and free community tickets available. Please email events@eccmaine.org.

• Individual tickets: $100 (include access to After Party)
  
  TICKETS ON SALE SEPTEMBER 8th!

Host Committee Opportunities
Please consider supporting the ECC by making an additional contribution to serve on the host committee!
*Note: The groundbreaking ceremony and reception for our affordable senior housing project will be held on Friday, October 4 at 4pm at the ECC.

• Community Friend: $150
  includes admission for 1, host reception w/ open bar, and access to host lounge

• Community Advocate: $300
  includes admission for 2, host reception w/ open bar, and access to host lounge

• Community Partner: $500
  includes admission for 2, host reception w/ open bar, reserved parking, host lounge access

• Community Defender: $1,000
  includes admission for 4, host reception w/ open bar, reserved parking, host lounge access

• Community Champion: $2,500
  includes admission for 8 host reception w/ open bar, reserved parking, host lounge access

  
  Click HERE to join the host committee!

The Equality Community Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and all contributions are tax-deductible as allowed by law.
Our EIN # is 82-3939533.

If you prefer to donate by check, please email your RSVP to Chris O’Connor at chris@eccmaine.org, make check payable to Equality Community Center and mail to 15 Casco Street, Portland, ME 04101. 

If you cannot attend, please consider making a regrets donation to support the event and help us realize our vision for a safe and welcoming community center and affordable housing for LGBTQ+ older adults.

Your support of The Rainbow Affair will help us to:

• open Maine’s first affordable housing complex for LGBTQ+ older adults next summer

• finish renovations at our new home in downtown Portland

• develop new, dynamic, and impactful programs to support the most marginalized in our community, including but not limited to LGBTQ+ youth and elders, trans and non-binary folks, immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers, and BIPOC Mainers.

• sustain the operations of the Center which provides quality office, meeting and event space for 16 LGBTQ+ and allied social justice-focused non-profit organizations and community programs.

Need more information?

Please email events@eccmaine.org or call 207-613-9633.