Jul 19 | SF Gay Men's Chos 'Hello Yellow Brick Road' 2023: San Francis | San Francis, CA Patch

Contents:

• SAN FRANCIS GAY MEN’S CHOS: FULL LIST OF POSSIBLE SEX OFFENRS
• SF GAY MEN'S CHOS STICKS BY CONTROVERSIAL SONG, CLAIM DEATH THREATS
• SAN FRANCIS GAY MEN'S CHOS FAC BACKLASH FOR 'WE'RE G FOR YOUR CHILDREN' VIO
• SF GAY MEN'S CHOS 'HELLO YELLOW BRICK ROAD' 2023: SAN FRANCIS
• SAN FRANCIS GAY MEN'S CHOS SOLOISTS 'RECEIVED ATH THREATS' AFTER SATIRIL SONG IS MISUNRSTOOD
• TO NO ONE’S SURPRISE, SAN FRANCIS GAY MEN’S CHOS IS FILLED WH CONVICTED PEDOPHIL
• EXTREMELY FUNNY SF GAY MEN’S CHOS VIO UNLEASH TORRENT OF RIGHT-WG THREATS, VRL
• ‘WE’RE COMG FOR YOUR CHILDREN’: SAN FRANCIS GAY MEN’S CHOIR SGS IN VIRAL VIO

SAN FRANCIS GAY MEN’S CHOS: FULL LIST OF POSSIBLE SEX OFFENRS

Last week the viral vio created by the San Francis Gay Men’s Chos that boasted of g for your children was taken down om YouTube.

Creatg Change Through MicThe San Francis Gay Men's Chos (SFGMC) is the world's first openly gay chos. SAN FRANCISCO GAY MEN’S CHORUS PRESENTS 17TH ANNUAL CRESCENDOFebary 16, 2023.

BROADWAY RECORDS ANNOUNCES SONGS OF THE PHOENIX, THE NEW SONG CYCLE FROM SAN FRANCISCO GAY MEN’S CHORUS, CURATED BY ANDREW LIPPA, AVAILABLE DIGITALLY 24, 2022. Our MissnTo lead by creatg extraordary mic and experienc that build muny, spire activism, and foster passn at home and around the 45 years, the San Francis Gay Men’s Chos has served as an ternatnal standard bearer for a powerful mix of mil excellence and missn-driven activism. Like other gay anizatns San Francis, SFGMC is volunteer-driven, so we always wele muny service volunteers as valued participants.

SF GAY MEN'S CHOS STICKS BY CONTROVERSIAL SONG, CLAIM DEATH THREATS

San Francis's gay village is mostly ncentrated the bs district, which ns om Market Street to 19th Street on Castro Street.

Jog San Francis gay anizatns like the San Francis Gay Men's Chos as a sger or volunteer is a great way to meet members of the LGBTQIA+ muny. The LGBTQIA+ muny San Francis has one of the largt and most proment populatns of rints who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr. Over 2, 000 different men, cis and trans, and non-bary people have sung wh the San Francis Gay Men's Chos sce the first 115 members sang on the steps of Cy Hall 1978.

SAN FRANCIS GAY MEN'S CHOS FAC BACKLASH FOR 'WE'RE G FOR YOUR CHILDREN' VIO

Before his tragic untimely ath om AIDS, Jon Reed Sims, who found the San Francis Gay Men's Chos, went on to found a number of gay and lbian choral and stmental ensembl. The San Francis Gay Men's Chos embarked on a tour of the Amerin Deep South rponse to a wave of discrimatory anti-LGBTQIA+ laws and the divisive 2016 electn.

San Francsi Gay Men's Chos. San Francis Gay Mens Chos.

The San Francis Gay Men's Chos is not backg down om a ntroversial song the wake of what they claim is a wave of ath threats g their way.

SF GAY MEN'S CHOS 'HELLO YELLOW BRICK ROAD' 2023: SAN FRANCIS

The San Francis Gay Men's Chos is facg a wave of backlash after offerg up what scribed as ironic humor about fears surroundg children and the "gay agenda. ""The gay agenda is g home.

The gay agenda is here! An SFist headle read: "Extremely Funny SF Gay Men’s Chos Vio Unleash of Right-Wg Threats, Vrl"The chos did not immediately rpond to Fox News' requt for ment, but the group posted a lengthy reactn on , the chos seemed to blame nservative media for the backlash.

SAN FRANCIS GAY MEN'S CHOS SOLOISTS 'RECEIVED ATH THREATS' AFTER SATIRIL SONG IS MISUNRSTOOD

San Francis Gay Men’s Chos / Events at UC Berkeley. From San Francis Gay Men's Chos:.

"Closg out Season 45, San Francis Gay Men’s Chos (SFGMC) will prent Hello Yellow Brick Road — a one-night-only ultimate mash-up of Sir Elton John and all thgs Oz. Image: Members of San Francis Gay Men's Chos/Photo cred: GoochMore Upg EventsLol EventLol EventLol EventLol EventLol EventLol EventLol Event. "A Msage From the Gay Communy, " performed by the San Francis Gay Men’s Chos (SFGMC) and posted to YouTube last week, starts out fiantly: "You thk we're sful, you fight agast our rights, you say we all lead liv you n't rpect…"Then gets downright satiril: "We'll nvert your children, " teas one of the soloists, parodyg an age-old anti-gay narrative, before addg, "We'll make them tolerant and fair.

"We are the first gay men’s chos on the pla. Listeng to the words of the song, 's clear that teachg tolerance and fairns is the te msage beg livered by the popular chos, which was found 1978 and the first of s kd — for openly gay men. A screenshot om the San Francis Gay Men's Chos's most recent, and ntroversial, vio, sce removed om public view.

TO NO ONE’S SURPRISE, SAN FRANCIS GAY MEN’S CHOS IS FILLED WH CONVICTED PEDOPHIL

(Photo: Mt Read Alaska/YouTube)The first performance the chos gave was livered impromptu at the ndlelight vigil held after the assassatn of first openly gay cy San Francis supervisor, Harvey Milk.

"The performance pok fun at age-old anti-gay myths: that gay men are child molters and that that they are out to "rec" — a narrative kicked off over 40 years ago by the anti-gay csar Ana Bryant, the born-aga bety queen and spokwoman for Florida orange juice who phed the damagg propaganda wh her Save Our Children narrativ — cludg the myth of the "gay agenda, " which origated wh the Relig Right — have had stayg power, acrdg to the Southern Poverty Law Center. The activist group ntts the myth that homosexuals rec the young, and many others, "rangg om the extremely doubtful claim that sexual orientatn is a choice, to unalloyed li like the claims that gay men molt children far more than heterosexuals or that hate crime laws will lead to the legalizatn of btialy and necrophilia.

EXTREMELY FUNNY SF GAY MEN’S CHOS VIO UNLEASH TORRENT OF RIGHT-WG THREATS, VRL

" It not that "the fairy tal are important to the anti-gay right, bee they form the basis of s claim that homosexualy is a social evil that mt be supprsed — an opn rejected by virtually all relevant medil and scientific thori. " — and was ed the 1990s by the Lbian Avengers, a prott group known for s cheeky slogan, "We rec, " and s follow-up chant, alludg to Aled Ksey's claim that homosexuals make up 10 percent of the total populatn, "Ten percent is not enough!

" Now the "gay agenda" is so often turned on s head by LGBTQ people that there's even a dited page on Etsy filled wh rabow-ftooned shirts and mugs satirilly bearg the phrase. "Depictg gay men as a threat to children, not the Southern Poverty Law Center, "may be the sgle most potent weapon for stokg public fears about homosexualy.

… Discreded psychologist Pl Cameron, the most ubiquo purveyor of anti-gay junk science, has been a major promoter of this myth. Dpe havg been bunked repeatedly and very publicly, Cameron's work is still wily relied upon by anti-gay anizatns, although many no longer quote him by name.

‘WE’RE COMG FOR YOUR CHILDREN’: SAN FRANCIS GAY MEN’S CHOIR SGS IN VIRAL VIO

"It's a lightng rod, " he acknowledged, of the risks of referencg anythg gay and child-related the same breath.