By: Dan Scolaro

Dan Scolaro — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 07:47:21 +0000

Even though death threats are totally unacceptable ………the back question is WHY?
Who in their right mind thought ” a message from the gay community” was a good idea? A good subject matter to include kids as a focal point? The SF gay men’s chorus has just taken ALL the LGBT+ movement back 20 years. All those accusations and stereotypes of pedophobia! This will be used and twisted by every anti- LGBT+ rat bag organisation forever since the internet is forever. This will be global. It’s not just confined to LGBT+ living in the “gay men bubbles” like SF. This will affect LGBT+ living in communities which are not as accepting or safe like SF. This will be used against LGBT+ in places like Russia, Poland, Uganda, Iran and Nigeria. …etc. Or even against LGBT+ with children.
This “song” is so arrogant, smug and totally cringe worthy. No, ‘this message’ doesn’t speak for all the gay community. Did they really think there wouldn’t be a negative reaction or backlash? Never get between a parent and a child, a dog and its puppies….etc. Any PR consultant would advised to leave the kids out of it. Even the narrative that it’s satirical, singing with glorious music that it’s about tolerance, love, rainbows, anti-hate…blah blah blah unicorns doesn’t really work in this PR disaster. The theme of the message got lost when SF gay chorus, a community – our community – whose whole identity is based on sexual orientation, produced an all men video signing “we’re coming for your children”. What a disaster.
And to make matters worse, the brains behind “this message”, Tim Rosser and Charlie Sohne, wrote a controversial musical “The boy who danced on air” which romanticized story of the Afghani practice of Bacha bazi , the custom of child (boys as young as 8) sold into sexual slavery and child prostitution. Afghan community were furious. As a gay man with twin daughters, I cannot understand the focus on kids. Plus the song IS directed to parents. Ironically, the majority of gays don’t want kids, are not interested in kids and can’t stand kids. Leave the kids out of it. The SF gay chorus needs to accept the criticism and to acknowledge they got it so wrong. Instead it goes on the defensive. Stop digging that hole. A lot LGBT+ are pissed off of how short sighted they are. SF gay chorus got it wrong in the messaging and needs to consign “a message from the gay community” to the bin.

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By: Dan Scolaro