45 years later, queer choruses still help LGBTQ+ youth find hope
On a rehearsal night in 1981, a group of singers in Washington, D.C., gathered to do something that sounds simple now, but was anything but simple then — they stood together and sang, publicly and proudly, as gay men. Some of their names could appear in a concert program. Some could not. Being associated publicly with a gay organization in the nation’s capital carried real risk. In a time when being known as queer could cost someone a job, a family, a home, or a future, they came together anyway. Stay up to date with the latest in LGBTQ+ news […]