Singing in an LGBT choir

An artistic and social practice

Choral singing is an artistic and social practice at the same time: two inseparable aspects. Sharing choral singing is able to enrich interpersonal relationships as well as being politically and socially impactful in the communities of reference. The people of a choir mix their different voices to create something beautiful and suggestive, the singers and singers of an LGBT choir come together in a safe and open context and make themselves heard outside by joining their voices.

Giving voice to the differences

The use over the decades of group singing within civil rights movements and trade union movements is extraordinary: group singing has proven to be one of the strategic forms of resistance against different forms of oppression. social. The safe and common space represented by an LGBT choir has the potential to mobilize social action to sensitize civil society to the demands of the LGBT community and its values of equality, full citizenship, and appreciation of differences.

Activism

Le persone componenti di un coro LGBT sentono forte l’esperienza di vulnerabilità, la forza collettiva dell’aggregazione e non da ultimo la condivisione dei momenti di entusiasmo durante le esibizioni. Il canto inoltre è una pratica musicale immediata e diretta sia per chi canta che per il pubblico, attraverso di esso è possibile veicolare valori e messaggi grazie all’empatia della musica. Il successo dei cori LGBT sparsi per il mondo segnala il potere espressivo e sociale di una pratica artistica condivisa, e testimonia come la partecipazione a un coro LGBTQI sia più di un passatempo, ma rappresenta una forma significativa di protesta e attivismo attraverso la celebrazione della musica condivisa.