The Gay Choirs They Tried to Silence
There is something almost alchemical about a chorus. Hundreds of individual voices, each shaped by a different life, a different body, a different story -- and then, at the conductor's cue, they become one sound.
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5 Questions to Reflect On
- 1. During the AIDS crisis, these… During the AIDS crisis, these choruses kept showing up -- to funerals, to vigils, to memorial concerts -- even as their own members were dying.
- 2. The Anna Crusis Women's Choir… The Anna Crusis Women's Choir was founded three years before the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus, yet the men's organization tends to get credit for "starting" the movement. What do you make of that historical erasure? Does it feel familiar? What do we lose when women's contributions get written out of the stories we tell?
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