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Catholic Diocese refuses to host concert over act by Gay Men’s Chorus
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo withdrew as the host of an upcoming music festival after learning that the Buffalo Gay Men’s Chorus was scheduled to perform, the choral group announced Sunday.
The Choral Festival, organized by the Greater Buffalo Friends of Music, was scheduled to take place at St. Joseph Cathedral in downtown Buffalo on June 9 and includes the Buffalo Gay Men’s Chorus in its lineup. Divine Trinity Lutheran Church, located in Allentown, agreed to host the concert instead, the chorus said.
“The Buffalo Gay Men’s Chorus is angered and deeply unhappy to learn the Choral Festival… [was] cancelled by the Catholic Diocese, in part due to the inclusion of the Buffalo Gay Men’s Chorus,” the choral group wrote in a Facebook post. “This news [was] announced less than three weeks before an event that many groups have been preparing for nearly a year.”
Diocesan spokesperson Joe Martone told WBFO that the diocese didn’t “receive all details on the choirs expected to perform” until weeks before the concert.
“When all participants had been confirmed, the Diocese chose to not host the
Catholic cathedral won't host concert after learning gay men's chorus is slated to perform
By Ryan Foley, Christian Post Reporter
A Catholic cathedral will no longer host a melody festival after the Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo learned that a community of LGBT singers was scheduled to participate in the event.
Greater Buffalo Friends of Music, which describes itself as an company that "promotes and supports choral music throughout Western New York," is the "primary sponsor of a choral festival in collaboration with six area choirs which was to own taken place on June 9, , at St. Joseph's Cathedral."
The group stated in a Facebook announce Wednesday that the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo "announced that the Cathedral will no longer host because one of the choirs, namely the Buffalo Queer Men's Chorus (BGMC), 'is a group whose standards are inconsistent with Catholic teaching.'"
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Instead, the event will take place at 4 p.m. on the same day at Sacred Trinity Lutheran Church in Buffalo, a congregation affiliated with the LGB
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The contemporary American teLevision industry may give the mistaken impression of having invented the gay sensibility with Queer as Folk and Six Feet Under. It might come as a surprise to a contemporary-driven media that American and European film narratives about gays before the nineties do have a history and include such classics as Suddenly Last Summer, Midnight Cowboy, Cruising, Death in Venice, Prick Up Your Ears, Taxi zum Klo, and many others. And gay art films from other cultures possess far outpaced the American mainstream's need not to be shocked by nontraditional sexual behavior with the more recent portrayals of a sometimes raw contemporary gay sensibility in the South American films, Our Lady of the Assassins, Burnt Money and the box-office hit, Y Tu Mama Tambien. Many of the less contemporary films and those from South America seem to portray gay life as highly closeted, predatory, self-destructive, and street-driven; they are also more apt to advance into the more dramatic side of art, which has generally meant the more tragic, naturalistic, or Darwinian. In spite of portraying intense bouts of realism, these films don't seem to have suffered from the restra
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