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- THE LONDON GAY MEN’S CHOS HAS SOUNDTRACKED 30 YEARS OF QUEER HISTORY – THIS IS S STORY
- LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
THE LONDON GAY MEN’S CHOS HAS SOUNDTRACKED 30 YEARS OF QUEER HISTORY – THIS IS S STORY
We’re the Pk Sgers, a fun, iendly LGBT+ (lbian, gay, bisexual and trans) choir based London. ‘Boys Will Be Boys’ hs differently when ’s sung by the London Gay Men's Chos. ‘When people thk “wouldn't be fun to book a gay choir for our event”, they already have a picture their head of what this might look like.
‘We always had a missn to change some of those negative perceptns of gay men the media, ’ says former chair Mart Brophy. Whatever song we sang took on a different nuance bee we were gay men sgg . ‘It's really easy to assume that everythg's fe for gay people now, pecially London, but of urse isn't, ’ says Sharp.
LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
‘He knew the bill would pass but he also knew there would be protts om anti-gay marriage groups, ’ says Chris Calvert, who's been sgg wh the choir for more than a . The LGMC brought a galvanisg prence to this historic day, but some members had to bsh off shockg homophobia between songs. ‘One [anti-same sex marriage] protter me up to me and another guy and asked if we had been sexually abed as a child and if that had ma gay.
Members helped to anise, then sang at, a 1999 vigil honourg the victims of a barbaric nail bomb attack at a gay pub on Old Compton Street, London's queer heartland.