Golden Gate Performing Arts

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.

Golden Gate Performing Arts, better known as the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus (SFGMC), comprises 250 volunteer singers aged eighteen to eighty who perform at major concert halls and community events ranging from Davies Symphony Hall to the Pride Celebration’s Mainstage. During the proposed grant period, SFGMC will engage more young people and more people of color in the group’s work, increase earned revenue, grow its endowment, and deepen its music education programming in San Francisco public schools.