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.
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- SAN FRANCIS GAY MEN’S CHOS: PNEERS OF A QUEER CHORAL MOVEMENT
- SF GAY MEN'S CHOS 'HELLO YELLOW BRICK ROAD' 2023: SAN FRANCIS
- ‘WE’RE COMG FOR YOUR CHILDREN’: GAY MEN’S CHOIR DELET ‘TONGUE-IN-CHEEK’ MIC VIO AMID BACKLASH
SAN FRANCIS GAY MEN’S CHOS: PNEERS OF A QUEER CHORAL MOVEMENT
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Creatg Change Through MicThe San Francis Gay Men's Chos (SFGMC) is the world's first openly gay chos. SAN FRANCISCO GAY MEN’S CHORUS PRESENTS 17TH ANNUAL CRESCENDOFebary 16, 2023.
BROADWAY RECORDS ANNOUNCES SONGS OF THE PHOENIX, THE NEW SONG CYCLE FROM SAN FRANCISCO GAY MEN’S CHORUS, CURATED BY ANDREW LIPPA, AVAILABLE DIGITALLY TODAY.June 24, 2022. Our MissnTo lead by creatg extraordary mic and experienc that build muny, spire activism, and foster passn at home and around the world.For 45 years, the San Francis Gay Men’s Chos has served as an ternatnal standard bearer for a powerful mix of mil excellence and missn-driven activism.
Like other gay anizatns San Francis, SFGMC is volunteer-driven, so we always wele muny service volunteers as valued participants. San Francis's gay village is mostly ncentrated the bs district, which ns om Market Street to 19th Street on Castro Street. Jog San Francis gay anizatns like the San Francis Gay Men's Chos as a sger or volunteer is a great way to meet members of the LGBTQIA+ muny.
SF GAY MEN'S CHOS 'HELLO YELLOW BRICK ROAD' 2023: SAN FRANCIS
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The LGBTQIA+ muny San Francis has one of the largt and most proment populatns of rints who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr. Over 2,000 different men, cis and trans, and non-bary people have sung wh the San Francis Gay Men's Chos sce the first 115 members sang on the steps of Cy Hall 1978. Before his tragic untimely ath om AIDS, Jon Reed Sims, who found the San Francis Gay Men's Chos, went on to found a number of gay and lbian choral and stmental ensembl.
The San Francis Gay Men's Chos embarked on a tour of the Amerin Deep South rponse to a wave of discrimatory anti-LGBTQIA+ laws and the divisive 2016 electn. Chan Natnal Queer Arts Center: THE NATION’S FIRST LGBTQ CENTER FOR COMMUNITY, CREATIVITY, AND COLLABORATIONFor over 45 years, the San Francis Gay Men's Chos has created extraordary mic and experienc that build muny, spire activism, and foster passn. Chan Natnal Queer Arts Center will be unterbalanced wh the exuberant external programs: Co-missns and llaboratns wh major San Francis nonprof anizatns, cludg BroadwaySF, Broadway @The Herbst Seri, and the San Francis SymphonyA ntuatn of the sg-out program wh a foc on muny engagement and tone opportuniCollaboratn wh Opera Parallèle for Harvey Milk: The Bullhorn Seri, rponsive muny nversatns and performanc spired by Harvey Milk to still civic activism voters and cizensA natnal tourg program cludg the It Gets Better tour, a life-changg muny rincy and performance program produced by SFGMC llaboratn wh the natnal movement turned LGBTQ anizatn, It Gets Better and civil rights anizatn, Speak Theater ArtsThe expansn of the RHYTHM (Reachg Youth Through Mic) program, the fully immersive workshop seri that brgs SFGMC to Bay Area schools, spir stunts to live their most thentic liv through discsns about muny, the sharg of personal stori, tn, and micRehearsal and meetg rental space for LGBTQ anizatns such as San Francis Lbian/Gay Freedom Band, SF Philharmonic, and Theatre Rhoceros.
‘WE’RE COMG FOR YOUR CHILDREN’: GAY MEN’S CHOIR DELET ‘TONGUE-IN-CHEEK’ MIC VIO AMID BACKLASH
ADVANCING LGBTQ COMMUNITY & PERFORMING ARTSSce s foundg, the San Francis Gay Men’s Chos has been a lear s field. Chan Natnal Queer Arts historic SF LQBTQ Center will foc on six major areas:Collaboratn wh other gay chos, LGBTQ anizatns, and lol queer muny lears to build RHYTHM programs their own muni. Born a spontaneo moment of activism, the SF Gay Men’s Chos has remaed a leadg voice of advocy, muny, and hope for 45 years.
The San Francis Gay Men’s Chos (SFGMC), who performs wh this December, has been a powerful voice of change sce s foundg 45 years ago. Created by Jon Reed Sims who reced members by way of flyerg the cy’s telephone pol, the group was anized wh the simple goal of providg more mic for the lol Gay Freedom Day Para. November 27, 1978, the night of the group’s fifth ever rehearsal, marked the assassatns of Supervisor Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official California, and San Francis Mayor Gee Mosne.
This landmark tour h ne major ci across all regns of the US and is creded as the direct spiratn for many gay men’s chos that spng up immediately followg. Ld affectnately as the “grandfathers” of the gay choral movement, SFGMC sparked a te natnal (and, later, even ternatnal) trend which is still evinced the official histori of lol groups like the Gay Men’s Chos of Washgton, DC as well as the natnal Gay and Lbian Associatn of Chos (GALA), which formed to help anize this plethora of new anizatns.