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The San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus: Nearly 50 years of music, activism, and community

By Kellie Hanna of Broke-ass Stuart

“SFGMC was created in 1978 by Jon Reed Sims, inspired by Harvey Milk’s call for gay people to live openly and unapologetically. Its first performance—singing in the Gay Freedom Day Parade—celebrated a community that had long been repressed. Days later, in a profound moment of activism, the chorus sang at the candlelight vigil for Milk and George Moscone on the steps of City Hall, becoming a collective voice of resistance.

“We continue to keep that legacy alive by never minimizing ourselves, never treating the deep moments of our lives with shallowness,” says Jacob Stensberg, SFGMC’s artistic director.”