Gerry Kirby | TARC Volunteer, Ambassador hotel resident

Originally from Portland but moving to New York City in 1968, Gerry Kirby performed on Broadway with Pearl Bailey and Cab Calloway in the all-black production of Hello Dolly!, opened for Bette Middler wearing nothing but a towel at the legendary gay bathhouse The Continental Baths (with Barry Manilow on piano), toured Europe with Donna Summers, and then moved to San Francisco where he was Sylvester’s back-up singer and dancer. He volunteered at the Tenderloin AIDS Resource Center for many years and continues to live in the Ambassador Hotel to the present day.