The Lesbian & Gay Big Apple Corps kicks off its 2012 marching season: The Sound of Summer!

Here is your opportunity to come hear us play at an event near to you this summer. Or far from you this summer -- follow us around the Northeast as we celebrate summer, Gay Pride, and music.

First up: Come to New Hope Celebrates in Bucks County, PA on May 19. Or stay closer to home and hear us play at the AIDS Walk in New York City on May 20.

Here's a complete list of where you can find us this season:

• Saturday, May 19, 2012: New Hope Celebrates
• Sunday, May 20, 2012: AIDS Walk New York
• Sunday, June 3, 2012: Queens Pride
• Saturday, June 9, 2012: Capital Pride, Washington, DC
• Saturday, June 16, 2012: Rhode Island Pride (Providence, RI)
• Saturday June 23, 2012: NYC Dyke March
• Sunday, June 24, 2012: Heritage of Pride March, NYC
• Wednesday, July 4, 2012: Asbury Park Independence Day Parade
• Sunday, July 22, 2012: AIDS March on Washington
• Saturday, August 4, 2012: The Hambletonian (Meadowlands Racetrack, Secaucus, NJ)
• Saturday September 8, 2012: Big Apple Ranch
• Sunday, October 28. 2012: Washington Market Children's Halloween Parade
• Sunday, November 11, 2012: New York City Veteran's Day Parade

Want to join us?

If you would like to join us for a great season of music and pride, contact us! Whether you want to play with us, carry a flag, or help us with logistics, the LGBAC needs you!

Bruce-Michael Gelbert reviews our latest concert for [Q]onStage.com:

“On the Town! A Musical Tour of New York City” was the title of the Lesbian & Gay Big Apple Corps (LGBAC) Symphonic Band’s exhilarating spring concert, on April 28, at Symphony Space. Comic Poppi Kramer was the MC, offering memories of her high school band and of New Jersey, and dancing a bit to “Tea for Two.”

The Corps, under Artistic Director Brian P. Worsdale’s baton, brassily conjured up dives and honkytonks and bustling streets in Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller’s “On Broadway,” as arranged by New York Pops Music Director Steven Reineke and transcribed by David Snyder.
Read the entire review

As a fitting conclusion to an awesome Pride Season, the LGBAC performed in our first-ever Toronto Pride Parade and came home with the prestigious "Best Marching Group" award from North America's largest Pride Celebration!

The Lesbian & Gay Big Apple Corps Marching Band performs Sway at the New York City LGBT Pride March, June 24, 2011.

Our own photographer, Marek Marcinkowski, has been selected as the winner of the second annual NEXT Magazine Pride Photo contest. The winning submission was his photo of the LGBAC Marching Band collapsed as zombies on the ground after the children's Halloween parade in Washington Square Park (pictured above). Marek competed against thousands of photos, many of which were submitted by professional photographers.

We are so proud of Marek, a skilled artist, who truly exemplifies the "Many Arts, One Heart" culture of the LGBAC. It means so much to us that a photo of our band, participating in a New York City based children's event without an LGBT agenda, exemplifies "the definition of Pride" as deemed by the esteemed judges. This truly captures our mission as an organization.

For information about the NEXT Magazine Pride photo contest, click "read more".