On Wednesday, March 11th YouTube sensation Steve Grand stopped by PKT as part of the agency’s ongoing music series. As an openly gay singer, songwriter and musician Steve successfully launched the number one most funded music Kickstarter campaign by a musician never affiliated with a label. His campaign raised over $300,000 with the support from almost 5,000 backers. Steve’s music videos including “All-American Boy” (tinyurl.com/pgr3wxf) and “Stay With Me” (tinyurl.com/plsqyr

For a the third year in a row, Publicis Groupe has signed up to serve as an Advocate level sponsor of the Out & Equal Summit for Workplace Equality which that this year will be taking place in San Francisco. This year Publicis Groupe will be sending 17 ambassadors from Digitas, MSL, Performics, Publicis Kaplan Thaler, Publicis Life Brands Medicus, Razorfish, Re:Sources, Rosetta, Starcom MediaVest Group, and ZenithOptimedia. #OutEqual #MSL #Performics #PublicisKaplanThaler #Ra

In honor of pride Pride month Publicis Kaplan Thaler displayed a twelve by eight foot rainbow flag outside of its Herald Square office in New York City. Chief Talent Officer of Publicis Worldwide in the USA, Patty Enright, commented: "With our Herald Square office being based in such a high traffichigh-traffic area of the city, raising the rainbow flag in front of our building was a great opportunity for our agency to publicly show its support for all members of the LGBT comm

Égalité New York broke another record this year by raising over $40,000 in support of AIDS Walk NY. Special thanks go to Digitas, Optimedia, Publicis Healthcare Communications Group, Publicis Kaplan Thaler, Razorfish and Saatchi & Saatchi for sponsoring Égalité's team of 146 walkers. The walk helped raise significant funds which will allow the Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC) to provide service to 9,000 men, women and families living with, or affected by, HIV/AIDS in new York C