We’ve always known that one of the many qualities we in the LGBTQ+ community are well endowed in that the religious right totally lacks, is any sense of humor. The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus knows this better than most of us as they are now the target of right-wing trolls following the release of a new comedy video.
Earlier this month they debuted an extremely funny video on YouTube entitled “A Message From the Gay Community.” It’s a hilarious obvious tongue-in-cheek satirical ditty that makes fun of the longtime right-wing charge that we would recruit children to be gay!
Naturally, the extreme Right-wing conspiracy site InfoWars not only attacked the chorus in an article, but they actually accused it of promoting pedophilia. The hate campaign has gathered such momentum that members of the chorus have also received death threats as a result.
“We have received emails, phone messages, threats across all of our social media platforms — not just the chorus, but the staff, as well as the soloists who were featured in the song,” Chris Verdugo, executive director of the Gay Men’s Chorus, told the website SFist. “The [Youtube] comment that continues to stick out in my head is the one that said ‘We’re going to put lead in your head.’
Here’s the link that will lead you to the You Tube video so you can hear/see it for yourself. Thank goodness at least for our combined good sense of humor that we should always celebrate and enjoy if nothing else for the fact for many of us it was a struggle getting it in the first place
Labels: 2021, music video, SF Gay Mens Chorus
