Better known online as “Professor Pride® '', Matt Haslam is the founder and host of the accredited TV show, Powered By Rainbows®. He is an Amazon Best-Selling author and illustrator with 36 books to his credit. His YouTube show has been highlighted by YouTube as an LGBTQ Creator of the Year. It has also been highlighted by the Gilbert Baker Awards and featured on CBS, Fox, and USA Today.

His LGBTQ lessons have been implemented in over 49,000 schools and used in over 40 leading univerities worldwide. His show has 12.7 Million viewers and 161,000 subscribers in 202 countries who watch the show in 103 languages.

In 2001, when he was just 9-Years old, Matt legally started a small business, originally only offering his country music singer/songwriter performances to local venues. Then, the lighting and audio production aspects grew thanks to his performances. Then, other bands started hiring him for their concerts and festivals too. Soon enough, Matt had recorded albums of his original music. He needed a cover photo and a music video so he learned photography and video production.

In 2006, Matt co-founded a non-profit, bringing music and entertainment to elderly care facilities across Pennsylvania. While Matt stepped away from this organization in 2011 to attend college, that non-profit still lives on through its other co-founder and brings joy to hundreds of elderly people every year. 

In 2010, Matt went to college for audio and video production and earned an Associates' Degree in Audio Production with a minor in Video and Marketing in 2012. From here, Matt went on to be a general manager at a regional audio / video production company and shortly after, went on to be a video director, specialized camera operator, and news video editor for a regional news station. 

Meanwhile, his own company - Matt Haslam Productions has designed and engineered video, photography, lighting, audio, graphic design, projection, consulting, and performances for over 4,500 live events. This includes working for clients like the Pennsylvania Department of Education, then Vice-President Joe Biden, and more.

He later came out of the closet in 2018 as a gay demi-sexual and immediately began working to help LGBTQ people live better lives and come out easier than he did. Matt even served as the Vice President of an LGBTQ charity where he worked with several LGBTQ non-profits to bring equal protections under the law to our community. 

He started the Powered By Rainbows YouTube channel in 2018 when he uploaded his coming out video. By June 2020, that channel started to get shared among LGBTQ communities and Matt was invited to be the keynote speaker at the 2020 Schuylkill County Pride. 

In 2021, Matt was the keynote author for the 2021 National Day of Silence event for Reading Pride and by 2022, he was interviewed by USA Today for their article on Roe v. Wade’s effect on the LGBTQ community, was the keynote speaker at the 2022 Art in the Park Event, and was a guest of the Caring Communities Podcast.

Today, Matt has gained over 12 Million viewers, averaging over 279,000 views per month. He likes to bring a high-quality show with exhaustively researched details to his audience. He enjoys covering LGBTQ history the most but is proud of every episode he is involved with producing.