Yesterday a member of one of my choirs, an old white cis-het man, asked me if he could join the #Queermonics - he‘d read about my queer choir in the newspaper. He asked about the repertoire, rehearsal times and then the average age, assuming there are more young people in the Queermonics than in his #choir.
I told him that yes, while we have a handful of members in their fifties, it‘s a mostly young group. He chuckled bc in his choir the members in their 50s are considered the young ones.
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He was like „funny that“ and I said „well actually…“ and told him the reason: that we lost 90% of the generation that would be 50+ by now to the aids pandemic and many of the surviving 10% never came out.
You should have seen his face.
He just gave a soft „oh“ and there was SO MUCH compassion in his face.
So I fully expect a septuagenarian ally among my very queer bass group in the next weeks. 🥰
Also: today I saw this post on Instagram and that is what I‘m talking about:
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