“This has all happened in the last 24 hours and it continues to pick up steam. “The far-right conservative media found our ‘Message…’ video and have taken it as their cause,” the statement says. The chorus posted a statement early Thursday.
❤️ /XBpSY6r4j7- SF Gay Men's Chorus July 8, 2021 "The leadership team met yesterday evening and we decided to close the office and out of an abundance of caution, send eveyone home," Verdugo said.īottom-feeding websites you’re better off not clicking on are having a field day with this Pajamas Media fumed that “the people who want to convert your children to their lifestyle and way of thinking don’t even bother to hide it anymore.” Breitbart notes in their complaint that “In June, the choir similarly went viral for creepy political propaganda - a brief clip barking commands to receive a coronavirus vaccine, simply titled ‘Vaccinate!’” ( That song is set to the tune of Three Dog Night’s “Celebrate,” and would only be “creepy political propaganda” to someone who’s amped up on too much hydroxychloroquine.)Īn Important Message to the Chorus Family. Singers on their social media have been getting threats. "Some of our members' jobs were contacted saying, 'Do you know you have a pedophile working for you?' or things of that nature. "Someone on Twitter took a screenshot of the singing members of the chorus and created a speadsheet and was starting to identify them," he added. "The comment that continues to stick out in my head is the one that said 'We're going to put lead in your head.'" "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," SF Gay Men's Chorus executive director Chris Verdugo told SFist Thursday. And because we live in the QAnon era, the chorus' leadership tells SFist they've gotten death threats in the last 36 hours. Yet in the mind of a frothing Trumper, the word “convert” can only mean “have sex with” if spoken by a gay man. (Split into two parts due to Twitter's video limit) /1XpUG0fEja- Jack Hadfield ??? July 8, 2021 The San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus have now made this sick video private, where they boast about "converting" the children of conservatives.
#GAY TWITTER FUNNY FULL#
But a full listen to the track ( lyrics here) makes it clear to any reasonable listener that the choir is talking about winning hearts and minds by being funnier, more likable, and better dressed (“Your children will care about / Fairness and justice for others / Your children will work to convert / All their sisters and brothers”). The wingnut furor has focused entirely on two lyrics - “We'll convert your children” and “We're coming for your children” - which the QAnon set assumes is an open declaration of sexually exploitating minors. The ditty is called “A Message From the Gay Community,” and it’s a clever victory anthem about the gradual normalization of gay culture among the youth of America (“even grandma likes Rupaul / And the world's getting kinder / Gen Z's gayer than Grindr”).
We’re not even sure if the version below is authorized, but goddammit, this a very funny satirical video that deserves to be watched umpteen times. And amidst a 36-hour onslaught of threats, doxxing, and online right-wing mob harassment, the chorus is removing unauthorized versions of the video as quickly as they can. It may or may not still appear below, as the Youtube version has been set to private.
We’d like to show you an extremely amusing, uplifting, and clever video recently posted by the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus. The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus released a magnificently funny video last week, but a barrage of threats and doxxing has forced them to change their key.