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David Charl Rodrigu’s documentary, Gay Chos Deep South, follows the group through a regn that is a hotbed of Tmpism * san antonio gay chorus *

The San Francis Gay Men’s Chos has always been profoundly polil. Found 1978, the 300-strong group, wily regard as lnchg the gay choral movement, had s first public performance at cy hall after the assassatns of Mayor Gee Mosne and supervisor Harvey Milk.

Sgg for Our Liv was the song they performed after the ath of Ameri’s first openly gay public official, and s lyrics seemed alarmgly pertent once aga, so the chos teamed up wh the Oakland Interfah Gospel Choir on a 2017 Lavenr Pen tour through the regn that had embraced Tmpism most Charl Rodrigu’s documentary Gay Chos Deep South follows the two groups through stat such as Mississippi, Tennsee and North Carola. A remptive tale that bridg cultural divis the wake of the 2016 electn, the film follows several narrative arcs to tablish that misunrstandgs existed on both s cred, Gay Chos Deep South don’t recycle tired trop om Gee W Bh-era cultural liberalism.

This is a project search of rapprochement, om wng over homophobic hearts one by one to marchg over the Edmund Pett Bridge Selma, Alabama, a gture of tersectnal solidary.

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Conductor Tim Seelig performs wh the San Francis Gay Men’s Chos. An active Southern Baptist and megachurch chos director Hoton, he eventually me out as a gay man his 30s.

” Gay Chos Deep South quietly sists that social progrs requir dividual actn as well as stctural change, and the film is no small part Seelig’s attempt at both. Durg one performance, a chos member’s stnchly antigay father n’t help but se at a drag queen sgg Patsy Cle’s She’s Got You and pullg var relatnship memento out of her cleavage – then a flask, then a handsaw. ”Gay Chos Deep South is full of It Gets Better-que enuragement, pecially as many of the venu were chosen bee they are stat wh brazenly anti-LGBTQ laws, Mississippi and North Carola particular.

And protters, some of them so lled ex-gays, show up om time to time. And Gay Chos Deep South don’t shy away om terrogatg the chos’s own assumptns, a particularly tense scene, Josh Burford, a historian who works on LGBTQ experienc the Amerin south, lls the ia of a proment natnal anizatn dog a goodwill tour “whe paternalist and nscendg”.