About OGMC, About the Ottawa Gay Men's Chos, OGMC
Contents:
- CHOR GAI D'OTTAWA GAY MEN'S CHOS
- GAY CHOS DEEP SOUTH – SCREENG & CHORAL PERFORMANCE
- OTTAWA GAY MEN'S CHOS/LE CHOR GAI D'OTTAWA
CHOR GAI D'OTTAWA GAY MEN'S CHOS
Chor gai d'Ottawa Gay Men's Chos is a lol, pennt, charable anizatn, the missn of which is to perform qualy choral mic and to ntribute to the LGBTQ muny.
GAY CHOS DEEP SOUTH – SCREENG & CHORAL PERFORMANCE
providg an opportuny for gay men to affirm their inty. Chor gai d'Ottawa Gay Men's Chos is a non-dned TTBB (Tenor 1, Tenor 2, Barone, Bass) muny chos. Chor gai d’Ottawa Gay Men’s Chos is a lol, pennt, charable anizatn, the missn of which is to perform qualy choral mic and to ntribute to the LGBTQ muny.
The chos achiev s missn by: providg an opportuny for gay men to affirm their inty providg mutual support for members promotg LGBTQ artists and their works broang mil tast velopg mil skills buildg a bilgual repertoire -operatg wh other elements of the LGBTQ muny to foster a posive imageHistoryPrepared by John Foster wh the llaboratn of Cl Dune and (trans. ) Marcel THE INITIATIVEIn the summer of 1986 Gordon Johnston, spired by the example of the Vanuver Men’s Chos, nceived of a gay men’s choral group for Ottawa. Through ntacts the gay muny, cludg the Metropolan Communy Church, active at the time, he brought together a small anisg group late Augt, cludg Barry Deeprose, Tom Gallagher, Mark Krayenhoff, Glen Lewis and Ralph Whke.
OTTAWA GAY MEN'S CHOS/LE CHOR GAI D'OTTAWA
Gordon creds his origal strong Mormon inty wh shapg his approach to beg gay.
“Beg gay and beg rejected by my own system was my salvatn. ” Wh his mother, he worked wh the Parents of Lbians and Gays Salt Lake Cy, mentg “You know, that’s like foundg the Orange Lodge at the Vatin. ” And ed, the social and polil ntext of the 1980’s was very OTTAWA, IN THE CANADA OF THE 1980s Although Jtice Mister Pierre T clared that the state was gettg out of the bedrooms of the natn wh reforms to the crimal 1969, did not “legalize” homosexualy, and life for homosexuals was hardly simple the 1970s and 1980s.
Neverthels Ontar police ntued what historian Gary Ksman terms a “war on gays” across southern Ontar bars, washrooms and parks. Prott and advocy by gay men and women ntued, public support for human rights protectn amplified, and 1986 the Peterson mory provcial ernment passed Bill 7, which clud addg sexual orientatn to the Ontar Human Rights Co.