Gay men’s chos do more than spread holiday cheer-- the height of the epimic, and up to today, they have fueled LBGTQ activism.
Contents:
- SOBERG BLACK-AND-WHE IMAGE OF A GAY MEN’S CHOIR REMDS OF LOSS OF LIFE DURG AIDS EPIMIC
- DO A POIGNANT PHOTO OF GAY MEN'S CHOIR SHOW DEVASTATG IMPACT OF HIV/AIDS?
- SAN FRANCIS GAY MEN’S CHOS: PNEERS OF A QUEER CHORAL MOVEMENT
SOBERG BLACK-AND-WHE IMAGE OF A GAY MEN’S CHOIR REMDS OF LOSS OF LIFE DURG AIDS EPIMIC
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San Francis Gay Men's Chos monstratg impact of AIDS on the choir - May 1993. A powerful image of a San Francis men’s chos shows how the 1980s epimic vastated the gay muny.
A rurfaced photo on social media shows the San Francis Gay Men’s Chos, the world’s first openly gay choir and one of the world’s largt male chos, and s harrowg history wh the AIDS the now-viral portra, the majory of the men are drsed black, some sgers whe reprent the remag livg members of the origal choir, while those black reprent those lost to Stan Hill, the choir’s nductor om 1989 to 2000, lls the epimic era “the world of tim”, and says he spent every Wednday and Sunday visg sick members hospal. Read more: 15 great classil posers who also happened to be gay. San Francis Gay Men's Chos photo, recreated 2018.
DO A POIGNANT PHOTO OF GAY MEN'S CHOIR SHOW DEVASTATG IMPACT OF HIV/AIDS?
Sce 1981, more than 300 members of the San Francis Gay Men's Chos have died of HIV/AIDS. * san francisco gay men's chorus aids *
A powerful ptn above the photo of the San Francis Gay Men’s Chos on Facebook, reads: “Remember this when people say the gay muny survived the epimic.
Sce 1981, more than 300 members of the San Francis Gay Men's Chos have died of HIV/AIDS. A wily-shared photograph illtrat the vastatg effect of the HIV/AIDS epimic on the San Francis Gay Men's Chos.
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SAN FRANCIS GAY MEN’S CHOS: PNEERS OF A QUEER CHORAL MOVEMENT
Born a spontaneo moment of activism, the SF Gay Men’s Chos has been a leadg voice of advocy, muny, and hope for 45 years. * san francisco gay men's chorus aids *
That photograph is thentic, and is a heart-breakg illtratn of the ath and stctn that the HIV/AIDS epimic has levied upon the gay muny over the years, pecially the 1980s. Sce then, the number of former members of the San Francis Gay Men's Chos (SFGMC) who have died om HIV/AIDS-related illns has outstripped the number of current performers — an even more poignant reflectn of the vastatg impact of the epimic on the choir self, and the gay muny more broadly.
The San Francis Gay Men's Chos, May 1993 Demonstratg the impact of AIDS to the members of the chos (Photo by Eric Le/San Francis Chronicle via Getty Imag).