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SAN FRANCIS GAY MEN’S CHOS: WE’RE G FOR YOUR CHILDRENAPPEARG AT ST. IGNATI CHURCH JULY 24

Stt, who is gay, has been the Mic Director sce 2015. The chos has a batn of gay and straight members among s ensemble of 12, four of whom have been wh Chanticleer 15 years.

Created and led by the gay founr Louis Botto, the ensemble has never intified as gay, but most of s members through the s were gay men. Although they're not officially nsired a gay group they certaly send out a gay vibe.

PALM SPRGS GAY MEN’S CHOS HOSTS SCHOOL SUPPLI DRIVE

) The group was formed 1978, which happens to be the same year the first gay choral group, San Francis's Gay Men's Chos, was formed. Composer Joseph Twish sets a eply movg homophonic work wh 'Wanrg, ' explorg the text "God has mercy on me. The prcipal attractn Wednday was a new work wrten for the group by San Francis-based poser Jake Heggie, a set of ternnected songs wh a text by the popular gay novelist Armistead Mp.

This seems a ltle silly, unls you have a high tolerance for the emergent cult of gay middlebrow entertament. Unls the real goal of the sgers is to be jt a very well rehearsed gay men's choir, the kd of choir that sgs some sultory Schubert before movg on to the show tun and two-steppg AIDS requiems. Amarrd's hallmarks clu a unique tone, breathtakg homogeney, mil thenticy, and a good dose of charm and humour.

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