Brighton Gay Men'S Chorus

LGBTQ History Month Heroes nominated by members of Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus. #Day18
Peter Burns (5 August 1959 – 23 October 2016) was an English singer, songwriter, and television personality.
In 1979, Burns founded the band Nightmares In Wax; in 1980, changes were made to the band's line-up and the name was changed to Dead or Alive. Burns was the group's vocalist and songwriter. The band rose to mainstream success with their 1984 single "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)". ...Burns rose to further celebrity status in the British media following his appearance on Celebrity Big Brother 4, in which he finished in fifth place.
Burns had a powerful singing voice and was known for his ever-changing (and often androgynous) appearance, which he freely admitted was greatly modified by a plethora of cosmetic surgeries. Boy George described Burns as "one of our great true eccentrics”.
Burns died following a sudden cardiac arrest on 23 October 2016 at the age of 57
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LGBTQ History Month Heroes nominated by members of Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus. #Day17
Sir Ian McKellen CH CBE (born 25 May 1939) is an English actor. He is the recipient of six The Laurence Olivier Awards, a Tony Award, a Golden Globes Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a BIF Award, two Saturn Awards, four Drama Desk Awards, and two Critics' Choice Awards. He has also received two Oscar nominations, four BAFTA nominations and five International Emmy Awards nominations.
McKell...en's career spans genres ranging from Shakespearean and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction films. A recipient of every major theatrical award in the UK, McKellen is regarded as a British cultural icon and the BBC states that his "performances have guaranteed him a place in the canon of English stage and film actors”. He achieved worldwide fame for his film roles, including the titular King in Richard III, James Whale in Gods and Monsters, Magneto in the X-Men films, and Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies.
He has been openly gay since 1988 and the following year he co-founded Stonewall, now the largest LGBT rights organisation in Europe. He was awarded Freedom of the City of London in October 2014 and continues to be a champion for LGBT social movements worldwide.
February is LGBTQ History Month, and everyday members of the Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus will be nominating their personal heroes, past and present, who have made an impact on their lives and/or have advanced the discourse on LGBTQ equal rights.
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LGBTQ History Month Heroes nominated by members of Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus. #Day16
Stephen Sondheim (born 22 March 1930) is an American composer and lyricist known for more than a half-century of contributions to musical theatre. Sondheim has received an Academy Award, eight Tony Awards and eight Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, a Laurence Olivier Award, and a 2015 Presidential Medal of Freedom.
His best-known works as composer and lyricist include A Funny Thing Happened o...n the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Pacific Overtures, Sweeney Todd, Merrily We Roll Along, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, Assassins and Passion. He also wrote the lyrics for West Side Story and Gypsy.
Cameron Mackintosh has called Sondheim "possibly the greatest lyricist ever".
February is LGBTQ History Month, and everyday members of the Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus will be nominating their personal heroes, past and present, who have made an impact on their lives and/or have advanced the discourse on LGBTQ equal rights.
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LGBTQ History Month Heroes nominated by members of Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus. #Day15
Sophie Cook is a British writer, speaker and broadcaster. She became the first transgender woman to work in football’s Premier League as club photographer for AFC Bournemouth following her transition in the summer of 2015.
Europe’s first trans TV newscaster, Sophie has hosted her own TV and radio chat shows and is an experienced broadcaster.
... Sophie recently released her autobiography ‘Not Today: How I Chose Life’ which charts her personal journey from despair to redemption and acts as a self-help book for anyone struggling with their mental health and identity.
February is LGBTQ History Month, and everyday members of the Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus will be nominating their personal heroes, past and present, who have made an impact on their lives and/or have advanced the discourse on LGBTQ equal rights.
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LGBTQ History Month Heroes nominated by members of Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus. #Day14
John Kingsley Orton (1 January 1933 – 9 August 1967), known under the pen name of Joe Orton, was an English playwright, author and diarist. His public career—from 1964 until his death in 1967—was short but highly influential. During this brief period, he shocked, outraged, and amused audiences with his scandalous black comedies. The adjective Ortonesque refers to work characterised by a simil...arly dark yet farcical cynicism.
February is LGBTQ History Month, and everyday members of the Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus will be nominating their personal heroes, past and present, who have made an impact on their lives and/or have advanced the discourse on LGBTQ equal rights.
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LGBTQ History Month Heroes nominated by members of Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus. #Day13
Harvey Fierstein (born 6 June 1954) is an American actor, playwright, and voice actor. Fierstein has won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his own play Torch Song Trilogy (about a gay drag-performer and his quest for true love and family) and the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for playing Edna Turnblad in Hairspray. He also wrote the book for the musical La Cage aux Folles, ...for which he won the Tony Awards for Best Book of a Musical, and wrote the book for the Tony Award-winning Kinky Boots The Musical. He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2007.
February is LGBTQ History Month, and everyday members of the Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus will be nominating their personal heroes, past and present, who have made an impact on their lives and/or have advanced the discourse on LGBTQ equal rights.
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LGBTQ History Month Heroes nominated by members of Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus. #Day12
Peter Tatchell (born 25 January 1952) is a British human rights campaigner, originally from Australia, best known for his work with LGBT social movements. In the 1990s he campaigned for LGBT rights through the direct action group OutRage!, which he co-founded. He has worked on various campaigns, such as Stop Murder Music against music lyrics allegedly inciting violence against LGBT people and... writes and broadcasts on various human rights and social justice issues. He attempted twice a citizen's arrest of Zimbabwean ex-president Robert Mugabe.
February is LGBTQ History Month, and everyday members of the Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus will be nominating their personal heroes, past and present, who have made an impact on their lives and/or have advanced the discourse on LGBTQ equal rights.
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LGBTQ History Month Heroes nominated by members of Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus. #Day11
Jimmy Somerville (born 22 June 1961) is a Scottish pop singer and songwriter. He sang in the 1980s with the pop groups Bronski Beat and The Communards and has also had a solo career. He is known in particular for his powerful and soulful countertenor/falsetto singing voice. He is openly gay and many of his songs, such as "Smalltown Boy", contain political commentary on gay-related issues.
Feb...ruary is LGBTQ History Month, and everyday members of the Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus will be nominating their personal heroes, past and present, who have made an impact on their lives and/or have advanced the discourse on LGBTQ equal rights.
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LGBTQ History Month Heroes nominated by members of Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus. #Day10
Russel T. Davies OBE (born 27 April 1963) is a Welsh screenwriter and television producer whose works include Queer as Folk, Bob & Rose, The Second Coming, Casanova, the 2005 revival of the classic British science fiction series Doctor Who, and the trilogy Cucumber, Tofu, and Banana. And more recently wrote and directed A Very English Scandal.
The New Statesman’s editor has recently described... Davies as the man who brought politics into the kitchen, wrapped it in a laugh and a gasp, and made gay characters seem like family.
February is LGBTQ History Month, and everyday members of the Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus will be nominating their personal heroes, past and present, who have made an impact on their lives and/or have advanced the discourse on LGBTQ equal rights.
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We had such a good time at our End of Year Party. Too busy to have it in December but it didn't stop us having lots of fun. Thank you to Jonathan Taylor, Kevin Westgate and Steven Coulman and all the other volunteers for organising 😘

LGBTQ History Month Heroes nominated by members of Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus. #Day9
Tom Daley (born 21 May 1994) is a World champion and gold Olympic medalist. He is very active through social media, including creating videos for his YouTube channel. He used this platform to announce his relationship with American film screenwriter, director and producer Dustin Lance Black. He has subsequently posted a number of other videos with Black, as well as regular vlogs and fitness vi...deos. In 2015 he became a patron of LGBTQ charity Switchboard (UK) and collaborated with YouTuber and LGBTQ advocate Calum McSwiggan to relaunch the charity under their new name.
February is LGBTQ History Month, and everyday members of the Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus will be nominating their personal heroes, past and present, who have made an impact on their lives and/or have advanced the discourse on LGBTQ equal rights.
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LGBTQ History Month Heroes nominated by members of Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus. #Day8
Leopold Abse (22 April 1917 – 19 August 2008) was a Welsh lawyer and politician. He was a Welsh Labour Member of Parliament for nearly 30 years and was noted for promoting private member's bills to decriminalise male homosexual relations and liberalise the divorce laws. During his parliamentary career, Abse introduced more private member's bills than any other parliamentarian in the twentieth ...century. Following his retirement from Parliament, he wrote several books about politics, based on his interest in psychoanalysis.
February is LGBTQ History Month, and everyday members of the Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus will be nominating their personal heroes, past and present, who have made an impact on their lives and/or have advanced the discourse on LGBTQ equal rights.
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LGBTQ History Month Heroes nominated by members of Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus. #Day7
Harvey Milk (22 May 1930 – 27 November 1978) was an American politician and the first openly gay elected official in the history of California,
Milk served almost eleven months in office, during which he sponsored a bill banning discrimination in public accommodations, housing, and employment on the basis of sexual orientation. The bill was signed into law by Mayor Moscone. On November 27, 19...78, Milk and Moscone were assassinated. Despite his short career in politics, Milk became an icon in San Francisco and a martyr in the gay community. In 2002, Milk was called "the most famous and most significantly open LGBT official ever elected in the United States". He was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009.
Harvey Milk inspired the formation of the very first openly gay choir, San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus.
February is LGBTQ History Month, and everyday members of the Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus will be nominating their personal heroes, past and present, who have made an impact on their lives and/or have advanced the discourse on LGBTQ equal rights.
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LGBTQ History Month Heroes nominated by members of Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus. #Day6
Barbara Jordan (21 February 1936 – 17 January 1996) was an American lawyer, educator[1] and politician who was a leader of the Civil Rights Movement. She was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction, the first Southern African-American woman elected to the United States House of Representatives. She was best known for her eloquent opening statement at the Hou...se Judiciary Committee hearings during the impeachment process against Richard Nixon, and as the first African-American as well as the first woman to deliver a keynote address at a Democratic National Convention. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among numerous other honours. She was the first African-American woman to be buried in the Texas State Cemetery.
February is LGBTQ History Month, and everyday members of the Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus will be nominating their personal heroes, past and present, who have made an impact on their lives and/or have advanced the discourse on LGBTQ equal rights.
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LGBTQ History Month Heroes nominated by members of Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus. #Day5
Gareth Thomas (born 25 July 1974) is a Welsh former professional rugby footballer, who represented Wales in both rugby union and rugby league. With 100 test match appearances, he was the most capped Welsh rugby union player until September 2011. He is currently ranked 13th among international try scorers and is the second highest Wales try scorer.
In December 2009, Thomas announced publicly th...at he is gay making him the first openly gay professional rugby union player. On 17 November 2018, Thomas was assaulted for his sexuality in Cardiff. He requested that South Wales Police dealt with the 16-year-old assailant by way of restorative justice. February is LGBTQ History Month, and everyday members of the Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus will be nominating their personal heroes, past and present, who have made an impact on their lives and/or have advanced the discourse on LGBTQ equal rights.
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LGBTQ History Month Heroes nominated by members of Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus. #Day4
Alan Bennett (born 9 May 1934) is an English playwright, screenwriter, actor, and author. His collaboration as writer and performer with Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller and Peter Cook in the satirical revue Beyond the Fringe at the 1960 Edinburgh Festival brought him instant fame. He gave up academia, and turned to writing full-time, his first stage play Forty Years On being produced in 1968. Hi...s work includes The Madness of George III and its film adaptation, the series of monologues Talking Heads, play and subsequent film of The History Boys, and popular audio books, including his readings of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Winnie-the-Pooh.
February is LGBTQ History Month, and everyday members of the Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus will be nominating their personal heroes, past and present, who have made an impact on their lives and/or have advanced the discourse on LGBTQ equal rights.
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LGBTQ History Month Heroes nominated by members of Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus. #Day3
Martina Navratilova (born 18 October 1956) was world No. 1 for a total of 332 weeks in singles, and a record 237 weeks in doubles, making her the only player in history to have held the top spot in both singles and doubles for over 200 weeks.
When not playing tennis, Navratilova is involved with various charities that benefit animal rights, underprivileged children, and gay rights. She partici...pated in a lawsuit against Amendment 2, a successful 1992 ballot proposition in Colorado designed to prevent sexual orientation from being a protected class.
February is LGBTQ History Month, and everyday members of the Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus will be nominating their personal heroes, past and present, who have made an impact on their lives and/or have advanced the discourse on LGBTQ equal rights.
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LGBTQ History Month Heroes nominated by members of Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus. #Day2
Oscar Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for homosexuality, imprisonment, and early death a...t age 46.
February is LGBTQ History Month, and everyday members of the Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus will be nominating their personal heroes, past and present, who have made an impact on their lives and/or have advanced the discourse on LGBTQ equal rights.
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Our annual End of Year Dinner Party was a hoot! Food, songs, awards and lots of laughter.

Love love love the chorus, v happy to be back in it, for the great shows, and the sense of community, and most of all, current and new friends. And this show was a belter. A joy! X