Golden Gate Performing Arts

Golden Gate Performing Arts, better known as the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, is a choir comprising more than 300 active volunteer singers. The group performs at major concert halls and community events an average of 20 times each year. It frequently commissions new work, serves Bay Area youth through its music program for grades 6 through 12, and tours nationally. The chorus and its subset ensembles perform for more than 25,000 people each year. In addition, it operates the National LGBTQ Center for the Arts, a historic four-story facility in San Francisco for LGBTQ arts and related advocacy activity. Support for Golden Gate Performing Arts advances the Performing Arts Program’s Communities strategy.

Golden Gate Performing Arts, better known as the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, comprises 300 volunteer singers who appear at major concert halls and community events an average of 30 times each year. The chorus and its four ensembles, each with its own conductor, perform for more than 25,000 people each year. With renewed general operating support, the organization will continue to incrementally grow its staff, pilot an education program, and mark its 40th anniversary in 2017, as it undertakes a tour of six southern states that have major discriminatory laws aimed at the LGBTQ community.