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• GAY MEN'S CHOS OF LOS ANGEL
• GAY MEN'S CHOS OF LOS ANGEL
• I'M WITH HERGMCLA CELEBRAT THE MIC OF BOUNDARY BREAKG WOMEN -- ARETHA, MADONNA, BEYONCE, GAGA, LIZZO, DEMI LOVATO, DUA LIPA, BILLIE ELLISH, GLORIA ESTEFAN, GLORIA GAYNOR, BIG MAMA THORNTON, CHRISTA AGUILERA, SARAH BAREILL AND LLEY GORE.  EXTRAORDARY TONY AWARD NOMEE, MARY BRIDGET DAVI OF BROADWAY AND PASANA PLAYHOE’S A NIGHT WH JANIS JOPL, RETURNS TO SOCAL TO PERFORM INIC SONGS BY THE FIRST QUEEN OF ROCK ‘N’ ROLL JANIS JOPL. THE EXQUISE, VOX FEMA, JOS THE CHOS FOR A WORLD PREMIERE BY GRAMMY AWARD WNER SHARON FARBER. GMCLA PAYS TRIBUTE TO LEGENDARY SONGWRER DIANE WARREN. DANCE NUMBERS ROUND OUT THIS SPECTACULAR HOMAGE TO WOMEN WE LOVE!MARCH 25TH & 26TH 2023ALEX THEATRE
• GAY MEN’S CHOS OF LOS ANGEL PERFORMS PRICELS O TO LRA DERN AT THE SPIR AWARDS: WATCH
• HOORAY FOR HOLIDAYS!SPEND A FTIVE EVENG WH THE GAY MEN’S CHOS OF LOS ANGEL AND REMISCE WH SELECTNS OM HOLLYWOOD’S FAVORE CHRISTMAS SOUNDTRACKS, CLUDG CLASSIC HS OM SUCH BELOVED FILMS AS NATNAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VATN AND THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, PL ALL-TIME HOLIDAY FAVOR AS PERFORMED BY BCE SPRGSTEEN, JOSH GROBAN, THE BEACH BOYS, AND WHAM!DECEMBER 16 & 17, 2023SABAN THEATRE
• WHY THE GAY MEN’S CHOS OF L.A. IS SGG FOR SURVIVAL

GAY MEN'S CHOS OF LOS ANGEL

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Gay Men's Chos of Los Angel.

GAY MEN'S CHOS OF LOS ANGEL

Addrs issu of prejudice, bullyg, discrimatn, and homophobia. GMCLA celebrat the mic of boundary breakg women -- Aretha, Madonna, Beyonce, Gaga, Lizzo, Demi Lovato, Dua Lipa, Billie Ellish, Gloria Estefan, Gloria Gaynor, Big Mama Thornton, Christa Aguilera, Sarah Bareill and Lley Gore.

The Gay Men's Chos released their send official dance remix of the track, urty of producers The Perry Tws, Qun Coleman and Greg O'Connor, tled "Gay Spir (Lra…. Jt last month, the Gay Men’s Chos of Los Angel and Alex Newell ma headl by payg homage to a te gay in: Lra Dern.

Durg the Film Inpennt Spir Awards early Febary, the choir sang a song dited to “the gayt moments other films that you may not have realized were gay, ” which end a hilar o to the Marriage Story actrs. On Friday, the Gay Men’s Chos released their send official dance remix of the track, urty of producers The Perry Tws, Qun Coleman and Greg O’Connor. Tled “Gay Spir (Lra Dern), ” the ial “Club Mix” of the song only featur the choir chantg Dern’s name, as the backg beat picks up steam, wh heavy bass and loud synths permeatg the track as Alex Newell riffs his heart out to Lra Dern’s name.

I'M WITH HERGMCLA CELEBRAT THE MIC OF BOUNDARY BREAKG WOMEN -- ARETHA, MADONNA, BEYONCE, GAGA, LIZZO, DEMI LOVATO, DUA LIPA, BILLIE ELLISH, GLORIA ESTEFAN, GLORIA GAYNOR, BIG MAMA THORNTON, CHRISTA AGUILERA, SARAH BAREILL AND LLEY GORE.  EXTRAORDARY TONY AWARD NOMEE, MARY BRIDGET DAVI OF BROADWAY AND PASANA PLAYHOE’S A NIGHT WH JANIS JOPL, RETURNS TO SOCAL TO PERFORM INIC SONGS BY THE FIRST QUEEN OF ROCK ‘N’ ROLL JANIS JOPL. THE EXQUISE, VOX FEMA, JOS THE CHOS FOR A WORLD PREMIERE BY GRAMMY AWARD WNER SHARON FARBER. GMCLA PAYS TRIBUTE TO LEGENDARY SONGWRER DIANE WARREN. DANCE NUMBERS ROUND OUT THIS SPECTACULAR HOMAGE TO WOMEN WE LOVE!MARCH 25TH & 26TH 2023ALEX THEATRE

Check out both hilar remix to “Gay Spir (Lra Dern)” below:. More By Gay Men's Chos of Los Angel. Andrew Ahn’s father once told him that there were “no gay people Korea.

In a culturally nservative muny, where gog to church and buildg a fay were heavily emphasized, Ahn felt his gay inty kept him “om beg able to participate Korean culture. ” Then, he started equentg GAMeBoi, a weekly Asian Amerin gay party at Wt Hollywood’s Rage Nightclub. He learned to embrace beg both Korean and gay, so much so that he directed “Fire Island, ” a groundbreakg queer Asian Amerin rom- released last year.

Beg Asian Amerin and LGBTQ+ n feel lonely, wh stutns such as ethnic church often disavowg non-heterosexual relatnships while tradnal LGBTQ+ spac such as gay bars n be unwelg to people of lor. “Fdg plac like GAMeBoi, where beg queer and Asian do -exist … It’s not like a 1, 000-year-old Korean cultural rual, but I uld create a new rual, ” said Ahn, a recent Friday, hundreds packed QT Nightlife’s monthly K-Pop Night at Micky’s, a Wt Hollywood gay club a block or so east om the old GAMeBoi posed for selfi a pk Barbie box wh dis balls hangg overhead.

GAY MEN’S CHOS OF LOS ANGEL PERFORMS PRICELS O TO LRA DERN AT THE SPIR AWARDS: WATCH

” (Michael Owen Baker / For The Tim) Even historilly gay neighborhoods like Wt Hollywood or San Francis’s Castro district, Asian Amerins have long been ignored or fetishized, seen as feme and weak. In 2019, then-Wt Hollywood Mayor John Duran argued that he did not appropriately touch a member of the Gay Men’s Chos of Los Angel bee “he’s a skny Korean kid wh pimpl on his cheek. ” Asian Amerin advocy groups cricized Duran’s remark, wh API Equaly-LA potg to the long history of discrimatn agast Asian men gay muni such as Wt Hollywood, whose clubs “ed to require three forms of photo intifitn om anyone they perceived as Asian.

HOORAY FOR HOLIDAYS!SPEND A FTIVE EVENG WH THE GAY MEN’S CHOS OF LOS ANGEL AND REMISCE WH SELECTNS OM HOLLYWOOD’S FAVORE CHRISTMAS SOUNDTRACKS, CLUDG CLASSIC HS OM SUCH BELOVED FILMS AS NATNAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VATN AND THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, PL ALL-TIME HOLIDAY FAVOR AS PERFORMED BY BCE SPRGSTEEN, JOSH GROBAN, THE BEACH BOYS, AND WHAM!DECEMBER 16 & 17, 2023SABAN THEATRE

” said Crisman, a 36-year-old gay Korean Amerin rearcher and artist. On this night, he had brought some female high school iends who wanted to experience the gay clubbg scene. Durg the ceremony, host Aubrey Plaza spoke of the importance of LGBTQ reprentatn film, which led to brgg the Gay Men’s Chos of Los Angel onstage to highlight the “gayt moments films that you may not have realized were gay.

WHY THE GAY MEN’S CHOS OF L.A. IS SGG FOR SURVIVAL

To set gay people straight.

He was, adrift and shunned by his former iends, Hayashi found his way to the Gay Men’s Chos of Los Angel, the olst LGBTQ arts anizatn the cy. ”For 40 years GMCLA has been that safe space for hundreds of gay men. — Steve Holzer, board chairman Duran, 59, asserted that he was part of a generatn of gay men who fed self through a hard-fought sense of eedom as well as a mararie which bawdy, sexual humor was not only accepted, was celebrated.

Whereas the first GMCLA members uned agast homophobia the outsi world, current members found themselv divid wh their own wounds are still h, and triage is ongog, Holzer said. — Kev Jon Sce then, GMCLA has provid ccial visibily for gay men, Jon said.

The day the Supreme Court ma gay marriage the law of the land, GMCLA was onstage leadg the celebratn Wt Hollywood 49 people were killed at Pulse nightclub Orlando, GMCLA sang wh Lady Gaga on the steps of Cy Hall. He is grateful for the good tn but lled the experience of beg gay and Catholic “tumultuo.

”Or as Holzer, 52, is fond of sayg: “I n’t tell you what my life would have been like if 40 gay men had e to my high school Yuma, Arizona, when I was 16 years old.

“The work they do is so important bee really giv young people the opportuny to see what ’s like to be out and proud, ” said Johnson, who me out as a sophomore high school.

”“It wouldn’t be the Gay Men’s Chos whout a Madonna medley, ” Holzer joked as members passed by, pattg him on the back and dippg for the ocsnal mood is light, upbeat and nvivial as artistic director Gav Thrasher enthiastilly leads the men through the set list, stoppg to adjt their pch here and there, to morate their timg, to have them pay attentn to the livery of certa words.

The Gay Men’s Chos of Los Angel rehears at First Congregatnal Church of Los Angel.