Dates: Benefiting Care Resource - Florida's One Source for HIV/AIDS services - the eighteenth annual White Party and the eighth year of events leading up to it will take place

November 23 - December 2, 2002 with the main events beginning on Wednesday, November 27.

When do tickets go on sale?: Tickets for residents of Miami-Dade and Broward counties go on sale August 1, 2002 online and by phone. Tickets go on sale nationally and internationally online and by phone on September 1, 2002. All ticket sales are first-come, first-serve and events sell out.

When will you publish the official schedule of events and DJ roster?: We expect to announce our plans on this website beginning in June.

About the White Party at Vizcaya:
Born from fashion, entertainment and a desire to end AIDS...

Altruistic, visionary, compassionate, innovative, intelligent Frank Wager, co-founder and guiding light of the White Party represented Miami at its best. Born in El Salvador and educated in Boston, Frank headed for Paris in the mid-seventies where a group of expatriates from four continents were in the process of altering how gay people perceived themselves forever.

An integral member of the mythic Club Sept crowd - which included Antonio Lopez, Keno, Donna Jargon, Jerry Hall, Pat Cleveland, Jessica Lange, Grace Jones, St. Laurent, Tina Chow, Lagerfeld, Tom Cashing, and Palma Picasso - Frank's first business venture was in the world of fashion where, in partnership with the inimitable Guy Cuevas, their first collection caused a furor and inspired St.Laurent's look.

The growing political unrest back home in Central America, where, in the eighties kidnappings and political murders had become everyday occurrences, forced Frank back home to the New World. Looking for a place to re-settle his family, he chose Miami for the obvious reasons.

Once here, he opened and operated the highly successful Club Clue Non-Stop Boutique in Coconut Grove and South Miami, where he and his staff created and popularized what became the dance club uniform of the 90's - jeans, cut-offs, Doc Marten boots with white socks, sleeveless shirts, neck chains, etc.

Moving on to South Beach, his boutique/restaurant/salon Tutti Plein was part of that first wave of trend-setting businesses that helped popularize South Beach as the Ultimate Destination.

In 1985, the founders of the newly formed Health Crisis Network asked Frank to head their fund raising efforts and so the White Party was born, netting that first year $16,000. Over the years, it has become an internationally recognized event and helped define the gay party circuit worldwide. The White Party is Care Resource's - the agency born in 1998 out of the merger between Health Crisis Network and Community Research Initiative - largest funding source and has netted over 150 times its original amount.

Through the generous help of its volunteers and sponsors, Care Resource is able to keep overhead expenses low and turn 86% of White Party revenues into HIV/AIDS services in Miami and Ft. Lauderdale.

While for many, the White Party is just another date on the circuit party calendar, for those who work on it year round as volunteers and staff, it is still a time of reflection and remembering, of compassion and caring, of love and hope, of joy and of courage, as Frank had originally intended.

Why white?: As Frank said, "White stands for purity. White is elegant, non-political, non-combative and makes people look just plain beautiful." The sight of thousands of people dancing or strolling the gardens of the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens all costumed in white is truly breathtaking.