MAKING GAY HISTORY — LIVE!
FALL 2025
Join us for four exclusive behind-the-scenes experiences with the award-winning MAKING GAY HISTORY (MGH) PODCAST. Meet MGH host Eric Marcus and inspiring special guests, connect with fellow LGBTQ+ history fans, and take part in the live recording of brand-new MGH mini-episodes. We recommend purchasing early, as events will sell out.
Co-Producers: Making Gay History + Life Jacket Theatre Co.
MOVIE NIGHT
SEPTEMBER 30, 2025 | 7:30PM | LGBTQ COMMUNITY CENTER (NYC)
Travel back nearly six decades in time for an exclusive screening of THE QUEEN, a rare pre-Stonewall documentary featuring drag icons from across the country in competition for a national title, filmed 40+ years before RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE and 20+ years before PARIS IS BURNING. Stay for a live recorded interview with Elyssa Maxx Goodman, author of Glitter and Concrete: A Cultural History of Drag in New York City, plus more surprise guests!
Co-Sponsors: Kino Lorber Films + LGBTQ Community Center
BAKE SHOW NIGHT
OCTOBER 27, 2025 | 6:30PM | STONEWALL INN (NYC)
Bring your appetite for this live BAKING GAY HISTORY show featuring unique treats that celebrate key chapters and icons of LGBTQ+ history. Sample delicious goodies and meet the Baking Champion, who will be crowned by a panel of soon-to-be-announced celebrity judges. Think you have the skills to become the next Gay Baking Champion? CLICK HERE to enter this friendly yet fierce competition. *Competitors do not need to purchase tickets as they get complimentary entry to the event.
Co-Sponsors: Huascar & Company Bakeshop + Stonewall Inn
GAME NIGHT
NOVEMBER 20, 2025 | 7:00PM | STONEWALL INN (NYC)
Get ready to meet new friends, compete in small teams (formed on the spot), and earn the chance to win fabulous MGH merch during this fun, high-energy, and interactive QUEER QUIZ SHOW testing your knowledge of LGBTQ+ history. The game show will be followed by a live recorded interview with an iconic history-maker sharing their memory of a key moment in our movement’s history, plus more surprise guests to be announced!
Co-Sponsors: NYC LGBTQ Historic Sites Project + Stonewall Inn
BROADWAY NIGHT
DECEMBER 15, 2025 | 7:30PM | BARYSHNIKOV ARTS (NYC)
Get a sneak peek at a new musical, THE GORGEOUS NOTHINGS, which tells the long-buried story of the “Fag Ward”—a hidden wing of the men’s penitentiary on Welfare (now Roosevelt) Island, NYC, where inmates were imprisoned in the 1930s for homosexuality. Watch select musical numbers and meet the cast and creative team during a live podcast recording for MGH’s upcoming 2026 season. Broadway cast and other surprise guests to be announced!
Co-Sponsor: Baryshnikov Arts