By Alex Kapitan People said that going on tour would be transformative, but I don’t know how much I really believed it. That’s the thing about transformation—it’s not something you can truly prepare for or understand until it’s happening. It wasn’t until our third...
By Gerald James SATURDAY, June 16, 2018—This was going to be like just any other day for the BGMC while we are in South Africa but it became so much more. Originally, we were to participate in various workshops with GALA (Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action), Men 4...
Do you know what you’ll be doing on June 22? We’ll be raising money to fight HIV by contributing proceeds from our concert that night at the Hugo Lambrechts Music Centre in Cape Town to the Triangle Project, which advocates for LGBTQ South Africans by focusing on...
In 1962, Igor Stravinsky, one of the most influential and celebrated classical composers of the 20th century, traveled to South Africa from his home in the U.S. to conduct the national South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) Symphony Orchestra in a series of...
The Boston Gay Men’s Chorus is known and beloved for dynamic concerts that blend class and camp, wit and weightiness, classical music and contemporary pop, show tunes and psalms. But what’s the motivation behind the music? Social justice. BGMC was founded at the...
Like the United States, the progress toward LGBT legal and social equality in South Africa has been a long struggle — and it continues to this day, as the country works to combat widespread anti-LGBT discrimination and violence. Here is a timeline of major events...