MAKING GAY HISTORY — LIVE!
FALL 2025
Join us for 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-podcast episodes. We recommend purchasing early, as events will sell out.
Co-Producers: Making Gay History + Life Jacket Theatre Co.
BAKE SHOW NIGHT
OCTOBER 27, 2025 | 6:30PM-8:00PM | STONEWALL INN (NYC)
Join our live studio audience for the 2025 BAKING GAY HISTORY CHAMPIONSHIP featuring NYC’s best amateur bakers, each vying for the grand prize by dreaming up an array of unique treats celebrating key chapters and icons of LGBTQ+ history. This year’s champion will be crowned by an esteemed panel of celebrity judges: HUASCAR AQUINO (Winner - Food Network’s Cupcake Wars | Owner - Huascar & Company Bakeshop), ANN NORTHROP (Legendary Journalist & Activist | Co-Host - Gay USA), ERIC KING (Social Media Influencer - @EasyGayOven), PATRICK HINDS (Award-Winning Podcast Host - True Crime Obsessed & The Golden Girls Deep Dive). Think you have the skills to become NYC’s next Gay Baking Champion? CLICK HERE to enter this friendly yet fierce competition.
Co-Sponsors: Huascar & Company Bakeshop + Stonewall Inn
GAME NIGHT
NOVEMBER 20, 2025 | 7:00PM-8:30PM | 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 mini-podcast 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-8:30PM | 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 mini-podcast recording for MGH’s upcoming 2026 season. Broadway cast and other surprise guests to be announced!
Co-Sponsor: Baryshnikov Arts