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- THE LONDON GAY MEN'S CHOS:
- THE LONDON GAY MEN’S CHOS HAS SOUNDTRACKED 30 YEARS OF QUEER HISTORY – THIS IS S STORY
THE LONDON GAY MEN'S CHOS:
Below are the people that make up the current Board, Executive Commtee and Staff members for the London Gay Men’s Chos. Amerin-born and a naturalised dual cizen, John is the youngt member to have been elected Chairman of the London Gay Men’s Chos. This landmark event as an openly gay group was a bold statement llaboratn wh and support om the Cathedral.
In 2015, a group om Openg Doors London me to the matee performance of The Big Gay Swg followed by a talkback wh John and Artistic Director Simon Sharp.
The Chos has formed a strong bond wh the New York Cy Gay Men’s Chos, the Doodl of Prague, the Amsterdam Gay Men’s Chos, and the Chigo Gay Men’s Chos. The programme would eventually velop to allow the Chos to nduct mil workshops schools around London to help bat homophobia.
THE LONDON GAY MEN’S CHOS HAS SOUNDTRACKED 30 YEARS OF QUEER HISTORY – THIS IS S STORY
Embassy London, the Tate Morn, the Hackney Empire, the Clore Ballroom, the Royal Automobile Club, Alexandra Palace for Channel 4’s Our Gay Weddg: The Mil, St. John served as Chairman for the followg productns: Hero, The Halloween Ball, Hotel Noel, You Say Tomato, We Are London, Calendar Boys, The Love Show, Screamers, The Big Gay Swg, History, UGotMale?, Homo Alone and Ag-Pop. Alisdair joed the London Gay Men’s Choir as was lled back then, 1994.
Pl wanted to know what sort of clothg gay men wanted to have signed, and dragged Alisdair along as moral support to ‘survey’ this choir. There was a name change to The London Gay Men’s Chos. When the Chos turned up at the ma, possibly the only, gay club, a smoke bomb had been thrown by protters.
Warsaw didn’t then have a gay choir for fear of persecutn and the long lens meras that photographed the Chos arrivg to perform were not paparazzi. The ensemble’s regular trips to the Edburgh Frge wh No Place like Homo and Oklahoma furthered the Chos’ aims of reachg out to other ci and ensurg that the Chos were visible at major arts events the UK. An unexpected highlight 2011 was when 10 Downg Street asked a small reprentatn om the Chos to attend an event lled “Kickg Homophobia out of Sport.