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Contents:
- 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
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LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
‘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. ‘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.