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