This year SPECTRUM will be a virtual event, with great LGBTQ films to screen in your home.
GAY CHORUS DEEP SOUTH will be available to stream online for all 3 days of the festival, at the time of your choice, but please do not start the film until you are ready to watch the whole thing, as we have only a limited number of streams available.
In response to a wave of discriminatory anti-LGBTQ laws in Southern states and the divisive 2016 election, the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus embarks on a tour of the American Deep South.
Led by Gay Chorus Conductor Dr. Tim Seelig and joined by The Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir; the tour brings a message of music, love and acceptance, to communities and individuals confronting intolerance. Over 300 singers travelled from Mississippi to Tennessee through the Carolinas and over the bridge in Selma. They performed in churches, community centers and concert halls in hopes of uniting us in a time of difference. The journey also challenges Tim and other Chorus members who fled the South to confront their own fears, pain and prejudices on a journey towards reconciliation. The conversations and connections that emerge offer a glimpse of a less divided America, where the things that divide us; faith, politics, sexual identity are set aside by the soaring power of music, humanity and a little drag.
“What makes the film emotionally satisfying, beyond the stirring music, is that we witness the healing and enlightenment of chorus members, some of them bearing scars from their oppressive red-state upbringings.” – San Francisco Chronicle
“Gay Chorus Deep South challenges us to accept its hopeful message at a time where our paranoia and cynicism is defensibly at an all-time high.” – RogerEbert.com
