The event will raise more than $50,000 to support PGMC's work in the community, especially its free student ticket program and in-school engagement activities and performances - sharing a message of hope and acceptance with area youth. Alan Cumming took over the former Eastern Bloc bar in 2017 and reimagined it as a.
New York, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Dallas, and many other cities have local dives bearing the. As the Philadelphia area's premier LGBTQ+ 'cultural ambassador,' the event will be hosted by NBC10 and Telemundo62 reporter Miguel Martinez-Valle and will include a VIP reception, cocktail hour, seated buffet dinner, silent auction, dancing, and live entertainment by John Jarboe and the Bearded Ladies Cabaret and PGMC's own select ensemble, Brotherly Love.įOR TICKETS OR MORE INFORMATION, CLICK HERE. In cities around the world, bars bearing the name Eagle are gay and usually gay leather bars. The Philadelphia Gay Men's Chorus (PGMC) will mark it's 40th anniversary with its annual fundraising event, "Celebrate!" on Saturday, April 23, at the National Museum of American Jewish History. The streets are still smoldering from the Stonewall Riots, gay rights has become a movement, and an old longshoremans tavern named Eagle Open Kitchen has.