Welcome to the NYCGMC 2018 Membership Fundraising Drive!
I joined the NYCGMC in Jan. 2016. I love this chorus. It's not without its flaws, but I love what we do, what we believe, the feeling of community, and that I learn from it—new people with new pespectives—and that I am compelled to self-reflect and be a better person :)
Please consider supporting us this year! For more on GMC, see below!
Founded in 1979, NYCGMC is comprised of more than 275 talented singers of various ages, backgrounds, and experiences, across a spectrum of gender identity and sexual orientation. We present 3 mainstage shows and over 40 outreach activities across all five boroughs and beyond annually. Last year’s outreach performances included appearances at LGBTQ teen homeless shelters, at SAGE for LGBTQ elders, and at corporate and public pride celebrations. In 2017-18, NYCGMC performed at the Apollo Theater, in public parks, at Madison Square Garden and Yankee Stadium, at gala fundraisers for the Research Foundation to Cure AIDS, Hope Lodge, and the Ackerman Institute, and at the Brooklyn Museum, the Gilbert Baker Rally, and the NYC Council Pride Celebration, among many others. Television appearances including Good Morning America, The Tonight Show, and Last Week Tonight have provided a national platform for our mission. Through technical assistance and joint concerts, we support development of LGBTQ choruses in the US and internationally. Our school program reaches over 2,000 NYC public middle-school students, and we are currently expanding the program to new schools, including high schools.
Our 2018-19 season is well underway with rehearsals for our beautiful holiday show, Comfort and Joy (December 14-16, 2018), and plans for Big Gay Sing Bootylicious in March 2019. We cap off our season in June by commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising with a joint concert with Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles at Carnegie Hall, during World Pride 2019 in NYC. For more information about us, and to purchase tickets to our upcoming concert season, please visit www.nycgmc.org.
As a non-profit organization, we rely on the generosity of friends like you to support this important work and to keep our song alive!
