While there, GMCW was received by Sweden’s Princess Christina to thank members for singing in support of Noah’s Ark, a Swedish AIDS services organization.

The chorus makes appearances at local community events, including programs for PFLAG, Whitman-Walker Clinic and the Human Rights Campaign.

The records of the GMCW are cared for by the Special Collections Research Center in the Estelle and Melvin Gelman Library of the George Washington University.

Sept. 23, 1981: At the invitation of D.C. Mayor Marion Barry, GMCW’s debut performance occurred at a reception at the District Building, to mark the opening of the National Gay Task Force’s Washington office (later the NGLTF).

March 17, 1982: GMCW’s debut concert – under direction of its first permanent music director, Nick Armstrong – was performed at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church on Capitol Hill.

Selections were also performed by GMCW’s two smaller ensembles — the Sine Nomine Singers, a 16-member chamber group and A Few Good Men, a 20-member song-and-dance troupe.

Sept. 9, 1983: The COAST (Come Out And Sing Together) Festival not only marked the first "road trip" for the Chorus outside the Washington-Baltimore area, but also provided the experience of performing in a real concert venue – the Alice Tully Hall at the Lincoln Center.

July 2, 1988: GMCW sang at the funeral of Leonard Matlovich, a decorated Vietnam veteran who was discharged from the Air Force in 1975 for declaring his homosexuality.

Jan. 19, 1997: The chorus performed an 11-number set at the Smithsonian Institution’s American History Museum on the eve of the 53rd Presidential Inaugural – the first time a gay choral group was invited to participate in such a national event.

In Stockholm, GMCW was received by Sweden’s Princess Christina, and in Copenhagen, they became the first gay chorus to sing in the Tivoli Gardens concert hall.

January 18, 2009: The chorus performed in We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial as back-up vocals for a duet of "My Country ’Tis of Thee" with Josh Groban and Heather Headley.

October 11, 2009: The chorus performed in the pre-concert rally for the National Equality March at the West Front of the United States Capitol Building.

The season ended with a concert featuring a special guest, Tony Award winner Jennifer Holliday, and premiering Alexander’s House, a one-act work by composer Michael Shaieb telling the story of disparate parts of a gay man’s family — including his lover and friends and a young-adult son he had left behind — coming together as they cope with his death.

In March, the Chorus performed an elaborately-staged production of Richard O’Brien’s countercultural classic The Rocky Horror Show, which included audience call-outs from the film.

GMCW’s small ensembles Rock Creek Singers and Potomac Fever united for the first time in many years for a single concert, Together Again, in April.

A month later, along with the small ensembles’ own appearances, the Chorus performed Alexander’s House as the first of a special series of morning "Coffee Concerts" at GALA Festival 2012 in Denver.

June 1, 2013: The Chorus’s 32nd season performances began in December 2012 with Winter Nights, which featured special guest the Virginia Bronze handbell ensemble.

On this day, in the performance of A Gay Man’s Guide to Broadway, he closed his 14th and final season, which had begun with a festive holiday show, Sparkle, Jingle, Joy, with guest Matt Alber, and continued with Passion, Von Trapped (a gay interpolation of The Sound of Music) and the small ensembles’ concert Forte, performed at the Mead Center for American Theater, home to Arena Stage.