Denver Choruses Preform in GALA Pride 2020

Pride month may be coming to a close, but reasons for celebrating the LGBTQ community are still making way through the Denver Community. As a closure to June, the GALA Pride 2020: Staying in, Singing Out has been shared virtually.

GALA Pride brings together queer chorus groups from all throughout the country to join together to celebrate the LGBTQ community. This year, all the chorus groups split into two sections for the two-part concert, with one concert on June 30 and one concert on July 8. The concert itself will feature songs from more than 27 LGBTQ choruses across North America connected by interviews, conductors, and composers. Denver’s very own Denver Gay Men’s Chorus and Denver Women’s Chorus– took part in the June 30 edition of the concert. 

The event celebrates LGBTQ Pride with themed sets exploring GALA choruses as a place of belonging, standing together in times of crisis, and addressing social justice as a singing community. 

“Though we cannot sing together in person during the COVID-19 pandemic, GALA Choruses stands in solidarity as we change the world through song. The July 8 concert marks what would have been the closing ceremonies for GALA Festival 2020 in Minneapolis. We look forward to the day when we will sing together again,” say the GALA choruses.

To view the concert’s, visit here. The concert itself is completely free, but GALA Choruses is asking for donations in support. All donations for GALA Pride 2020 will be made to support Black-led organizations for trans, black, indigenous people of color. 

“Many voices around the world are preaching hate and violence appealing to people’s basest instincts. We will not allow the progress we have struggled to achieve to be taken away, and we will not stand silently and allow hate to become the new normal,” say the GALA choruses. 

Watch the final concert on July 8 at 6:00 pm Mountain Time.