Gilbert Baker News

Houston Grand Opera is launching a new initiative featuring special themed experiences this spring at three performances of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music.

South Street Seaport Museum has announced unique programming in June, curated in honor of Pride Month. Learn more about the lineup here!

South Street Seaport Museum announces its Pride Month festivities, including Vinyasa on a Vessel on June 19, 2022 at 9am and Rainbows on the Hudson, a sailing pride parade with LGBTQ+ sailing club Knickerbocker Sailing Association, on June 25, 2022 at 3pm at Pier 16, and pride postcards from the newly-reopened Bowne & Co.

Austin Rivers, founder of Knit the Rainbow, Inc., a nonprofit organization keeping homeless LGBTQ+ youth warm, will make his NYC debut in benefit concert, Austin Rivers: Chase the Rainbow.

Breaking Glass Pictures will release A Wake, a riveting family drama from Director Scott Boswell (The Stranger in Us) centered around secrets, lies, and true love.

As Seattle's annual Pride celebrations get underway, the Museum of Pop Culture will open the touring exhibition Rise Up: Stonewall and the LGBTQ Rights Movement beginning June 26. Rise Up explores the cultural transformation that propelled an underground movement into an intrinsic element of who we are as a nation.

As Pride month comes to a close, the Board of Directors of San Francisco Pride shared today that more than 50,000 viewers tuned in for the official Pride 50 online celebration this past weekend, June 27-28, 2020.

Happy Gay Pride! BWW Reviewer Peter Nason chooses the 101 greatest LGBTQ songs and anthems from 1920-2020. See if your favorite songs or artists made the grade!

Today, the Board of Directors of San Francisco Pride announced the official program for Pride 50, bringing the nation's largest gathering of the LGBTQ+ community and allies completely online for its historic 50th anniversary. 

The Hollywood Reporter has ranked the School of Drama at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) at No. 5 in the world.

Gilbert Baker, creator of the Rainbow Flag (known affectionately as "The Gay Betsy Ross"), which became the international symbol for the LGBT community, died on March 31, 2017 in NYC.

Gilbert Baker, the creator of the iconic rainbow flag has passed away at age 65. According to The New York Times, a friend says Baker suffered a stroke a few years ago but had been fairly well since. 

amfAR's tenth annual Honoring with Pride celebration was held during Lesbian and Gay Pride Month in New York on Thursday, June 11, 2009 at the Edison Ballroom, 240 West 47th Street, New York City. This event pays tribute to those individuals who have played a significant role in the gay and lesbian community's historic response to the AIDS crisis. Alan Cumming will host the evening of honoree tributes, fabulous food, a luxury live auction, and a special performance by the legendary Debbie Harry.