Try to enumerate the number of Things Wrong With This Picture.
Posted on 06/22/2005 10:20:57 AM PDT by lizol
Boston Gay Men's Chorus will champion rights in Europe By T.J. Medrek Wednesday, June 22, 2005
The Boston Gay Men's Chorus has taken its act - and its message of gay rights - on the road for a 10-day, three-city tour of Europe that includes the first performance ever by an openly gay group in Poland.
Because of a recent incident in Warsaw, the chorus's visit, five years in the planning, has, according to executive director Steven Smith, ``really become a minor sensation.''
Last week, gay pride marchers defied a ban by Warsaw's mayor and took to the streets of the country's capital, resulting in several arrests. That's quite different from Massachusetts gays' recent proud and public celebrations of the first anniversary of legal gay marriage in the commonwealth.
``We're told that a lot of people from Warsaw are taking the train to Wroclaw (where the chorus will perform at Philharmonic Hall on Monday),'' Smith said. ``They've even changed the time of the concert to meet the train schedule.'' Poland's first lady, Jolanta Kwasniewska, is expected to attend the event.
The chorus is scheduled to arrive today in Berlin, where it'll perform throughout the weekend's gay pride festivities - including an outdoor concert near Berlin's Brandenburg Gate to be telecast live. It will also meet with Berlin's openly gay mayor, Klaus Wowereit, and deliver a letter of greeting from Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino.
From Berlin the chorus travels to Poland before wrapping up the tour in Prague with a July 1 concert to benefit a campaign in the Czech Republic for gay civil unions. So it's no accident that the chorus is bringing a work it premiered in March: ``A More Perfect Union,'' a suite of songs celebrating gay marriage in Massachusetts.
I think I'm gonna be ill!!!!
I hear their auditions suck.
"Why are there so many, songs about rainbows........"
Try to enumerate the number of Things Wrong With This Picture.
Back when I had a show on the local college radio station, we had a CD from the New York Gay Men's Chorus come in. I couldn't resist playing their version of "Taking a Chance on Love"!
just wish they would choose to remove their vile lifestyle
choice to Europe where God has been rejected to a greater
degree than He has been in America.
They're just going there to check the size of the locally-grown kielbasa.
later pingout.
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