LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa hosts Pride Garden Party with Molly Ringwald, Chaz Bono & Kamala Harris among guests

The 3rd Annual Mayor’s LA Pride Garden Party took place Sunday at Getty House and it was a sunny good time.

Good music, excellent appetizers and plenty of drinks to keep guests cool in the afternoon sun.

Longtime LGBT ally Antonio Villaraigosa welcomed California Attorney General Kamala Harris who was attending her first LA Pride event.

“Welcome to Getty House, I like to say this is public housing at its finest,” Villraigosa said of the mayor’s official residence. “Everybody should have one of these. I won’t have it for very long but I’m enjoying it while I can. I couldn’t be prouder to have all of you.”

Among the well-known guests on hand were  California State Attorney General Kamala Harris, actress Molly Ringwald, activist and author Chaz Bono, singer Lance Bass, attorney Gloria Allred, actor Darryl Stephens (Noah’s Arc), comedienne and author Heather McDonald (Chelsea Lately), actor Sean Kanan (The Young and the Restless), actress Kate Linder (The Young and the Restless), actor Doug Spearman (Noah’s Arc), actor Drew Droege, President of Christopher Street LA Pride Rodney Scott,  US Congressman Adam Schiff, Los Angeles City Councilman Bill Rosenthal Los Angeles City Councilman Dennis Zine, Los Angeles City Councilman Paul Coretz, West Hollywood Mayor Dennis Prang, West Hollywood Mayor Pro Tem Abbe Land, and Los Angeles City Controller Wendy Greuel, among others.

Villaraigosa paid tribute to Rodney Scott, pointed out State Assembly candidate Torie Osbourne in the crowd, and he talked about equality: “I would say that it’s incumbent on all of us, every one of us, to stand for the proposition that thou shall not discriminate. We, early on in this town, stood for the notion that in LA, we’re going to embrace all of us. We’re going to celebrate our diversity. We’re going to celebrate the notion that every one of us have a right to love, to marry, to have a family, to get a job, to buy a house and to be a part of this great city, this great state and this great nation.”

Attorney General Harris, recipient of this year’s George Moscone Ally Award, also addressed the crowd: “I am very proud to be here today. … I am a daughter of parents who met when they fought for civil rights in the 60s. I would not be standing here if people did not live and die in courageous fight to defend everyone’s civil rights.”

She said she is celebrating Pride this year “with full awareness of the need to continue to fight until we do everything that is necessary not only in the state of California but in these United States to ensure and guarantee that all people will be treated with dignity as equals.”

Pictured, in order: 1. Antonio Villaraigosa, 2. Molly Ringwald, 3. Chaz Bono, 4. Partygoers 5. Kamala Harris 6. Lance Bass 7. Rainbow flag 8. Judy Garland and Bea Arthur (aka Peter Mac and DJ Schaefer) 9. Darryl Stephens 10. The scene at Getty House 11. Heather McDonald 12. Drew Droege 13. Rodney Scott 14. Gin! 15. Sean Kanan