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KOMOS CORO LGBT DI BOLOGNA BOLOGNA ITALY Type: SATB Founded: 2008 # Wonderful Supporting members 0 # Wonderful members 32 ABOUT Il coro Komos – primo coro maschile gay d’Italia – diretto da Lorenzo Orlandi è stato fondato nel settembre 2008. Il primo gruppo di coristi, con la comune passione per la musica e il canto, ha svolto la propria attività corale in diverse sedi a partire dal Circolo Arcigay “Matthew Shepard” di Modena, poi a Bologna presso il Cassero, sede dell’Arcigay Nazionale, dove ha debuttato in marzo 2009. Successivamente presso i locali della Parrocchia di San Bartolomeo della Beverara ove gli è stata offerta cortese ospitalità dal parroco Don Nildo Pirani. Dal 2011 presso la Chiesa Evangelica Metodista di Bologna e Modena, in Via Giacomo Venezian, in pieno centro a Bologna a due passi da Piazza Maggiore e dalle Due Torri. Da settembre 2012 il coro Komos ha aderito al progetto musicale dell’omonima Associazione Culturale istituita nel luglio dello stesso anno, diventandone parte. Il Coro ha così intensificato le sue esperienze musicali sia a livello nazionale, sia europeo, molto spesso con la collaborazione di noti artisti e professionisti della scena lirica e musicale italiana ed internazionale. Il repertorio del Coro, in continua evoluzione, spazia dal Rinascimento al Romanticismo, dall’opera al Novecento fino alla contemporaneità, includendo prime esecuzioni italiane ed assolute (Romeu e eu, scritto per Komos da Antonio Giacometti, Divo e mortale di Mattia Culmone), oltre a brani pop in arrangiamenti originali. Tra i tanti eccellenti musicisti che collaborano con il coro: i soprani Jessica Pratt, Tiziana Tramonti, Eleonora Cilli, Caterina Di Tonno, Arianna Donadelli, il mezzo Federica Carnevale, il controtenore Flavio Ferri Benedetti, i tenori Enea Scala e Jason Ferrante, i baritoni Alfonso Antoniozzi e Giorgio Caoduro e i poliedrici ed inclassificabili Michael Aspinall e Drusilla Foer. Komos, first gay men's chorus of Italy, was born in September 2008, the brainchild of director Paul V. Montanari. Through an intensive recruitment activities through print and web, it is the first group of singers who share a passion for music and singing, they actually founded the choir komos choral conducting its business at the Circle Arcigay "Matthew Shepard" of Modena. Soon as a result of increasing participation, this seat has proved cramped and no longer suitable, so the choir moved to Bologna. First at The Keep, home of the National Arcigay, which debuted in March 2009 joined by soprano Tiziana Tramonti, from the tenor Jason Ferrante and pianist Mario Sollazzo . Subsequently, at the premises of the Parish of St. Bartholomew 's Beverara where he was offered gracious hospitality by the parish priest Don Nildo Pirani. By the will of the Curia of Bologna, the chorus is forced yet another transfer, but this has not prevented the "Komosnauti " - as they like to call the choir of komos - to persevere along the route with the aim to play a role in representing within the social network to spread the LGBTQ and western classical music in order to break down the stereotypes that surround these two realities. Thanks to the support of associations, institutions and citizens from all over Italy the komos has received lots of offers for a new space in which to continue the musical activity. The choice then fell on the headquarters of the Evangelical Methodist Church of Bologna, Via Giacomo Venezian 1, a short walk from the Two Towers and Piazza Maggiore. Thanks to the availability and kindness of the pastor and his community, as well as to support the brave Master Shoe Iolando in favor of our music project, this has become the registered office of komos which was formed in 2011 as an Association of Social Promotion. Both the enhancement and respect for differences as the exaltation of the universality of music as a global language, have helped to create within the choral group a distinctly multicultural reality that has emerged over time as a valuable peculiarities of komos. To date, the adventurous and daring journey of Komosnauti offers many musical and cultural experiences at national and European level, often with the collaboration of well-known artists and professionals of the stage musical and lyrical Italian and international. Visit our YouTube channel here Custom cover of classic/rock/pop end original song made for us WEBSITE INSTAGRAM TWITTER FACEBOOK 2011 Manage your Choir information ​ Now you can change, add or remove the information about your choir Want to change your profile picture? ​Change the description of your choir? Your contact information? A new link to a Facebook page, Twitter or Instagram account? ​ Click here to submit your changes SUBMIT CHANGES

COLEGAS - CORO LGBTI+ LISBON PORTUGAL Type: SATB Founded: 2008 # Wonderful Supporting members 0 # Wonderful members 25 ABOUT O CoLeGaS - Coro Lésbico, Gay e Simpatizante ILGA Portugal pretende, através da música, contribuir para uma sociedade mais inclusiva, igualitária.... e divertida! Desde Novembro de 2008 que ensaiamos em encontros abertos a todas as pessoas não completamente desafinadas (independentemente de orientação sexual, identidade de género, idade ou qualquer outra característica que não mesmo a desafinação). Visit our YouTube channel here mostly rock/pop/musicals, some classical WEBSITE INSTAGRAM TWITTER FACEBOOK 2014 Manage your Choir information ​ Now you can change, add or remove the information about your choir Want to change your profile picture? ​Change the description of your choir? Your contact information? A new link to a Facebook page, Twitter or Instagram account? ​ Click here to submit your changes SUBMIT CHANGES

LES GAMME'ELLES PARIS FRANCE Type: SSAA Members: 20 Founded: 2004 ABOUT Chœur de femmes lesbiennes hétéro-friendly ♫ Venez chanter avec nous ♫ un répertoire riche et varié de mélodies françaises et internationales sur des arrangements de Marielle Dellenbach. ​ ♫ Depuis 2004 ♫ une trentaine de Gamme'elles ♫ de Paris et ses alentours ♫ musiciennes ou béotiennes ♫ un répertoire féminin Les répétitions ont lieu : - Tous les mercredis soir pendant deux heures - Un dimanche après-midi par mois pendant trois heures - Un week-end trois fois par an ​ Échauffements, technique vocale, travail polyphonique, travail scénique et apprentissage du répertoire sont au programme des répétitions... ... ainsi qu'un pot de convivialité en fin de répétition un mercredi par mois ! L'association "Telle Qu'elle" qui constitue le chœur est composée : - d'un conseil d'administration, - d'une commission répertoire, - d'une commission chorégraphies, - d'une commission communication. WEBSITE INSTAGRAM TWITTER FACEBOOK EMAIL If for any reason you don't want to be on our website, give us the name of your choir and your email and click SUBMIT . SUBMIT your choir will be removed shortly, thanks

May 9 - 13, 2018 14TH FESTIVAL VARIOUS VOICES 2018 MUNICH 107 Choirs from 19 Countries with 2700 singers LILAMUNDE MELODIVA LESBENCHOR PHILHOMONIKER REGENBOGENCHOR 100 choir concerts in Gasteig, the sing-along concert of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana in Odeonsplatz, the festival gala „München in Space – an interGALActic Concert Night“ at the Philharmonie and a tour to Lake Starnberg including steamboat trips are only a few of the great moments at Various Voices 2018. 7 RENK KORO BARBERFELLAS BRIGHTON GAY MEN’S CHORUS BRISBANE LESBIAN AND GAY PRIDE CHOIR CANBERRA QWIRE CANTA:RE CANTATORI DEL DUOMO CANTUS OBLIQUUS CARMEN CURLERS CHOEUR GAI DE MONTRÉAL CLASSICAL LESBIANS COLEGAS CORO STRANIVARI DA CAPO AL DENTE DACHOR COLONIA DAMES 3 DE HOMOFONE DEEP C DIVAS DIE MAINSIRENEN DIE RHEINTÖCHTER DIE SCHRILLMÄNNER DIE TOLLKIRSCHEN DIE WEIBRATIONS DIETAKTLOSEN DIVERSITY CHOR DOODLES PRAGUE DOROTHY’S FRIENDS DUBLIN GAY MEN’S CHORUS EDINBURGH GAY MEN’S CHORUS EQUIVOX EUROPEAN QUEER CHOIR FIER! GALA NORTH AMERICAN CHORUS GALS GAY ABANDON GEMENGD DAMESKOOR GRONINGEN GLÓRIA DUBLIN GOED GESTEMD GROOVE SISTAZ HERRENMITDAMEN HET HERENAKKOORD HINSEGIN KÓRINN HOMOKOOR ZANGZAAD HOMONICS HOMOPHON INTERNATIONAL PROUD VOICES KESSE BERLINESSEN KLEINE BERLINER CHORVERSUCHUNG KOMOS KRAKOFONIA LILAMUNDE LONDON GAY MEN’S CHORUS LOUD AND PROUD MALLORCA GAY MEN’S CHORUS MANCHESTER LESBIAN AND GAY CHORUS MANNENKOORTS MÄNNER-MINNE MANOEUVRE MÉLO’MEN MELODIVA MENALIVE MIDNIGHT DESCANT MISS KLANG MUSICA LESBIANA NEW YORK CITY GAY MEN'S CHORUS OMPHALOS VOICES ON THAT NOTE! ONE VOICE MIXED CHORUS OURSONG OUT ALOUD OUT’N’LOUD PHILHOMONIKER PINK NOISE PINK SINGERS POTOMAC FEVER QUERCHORALLEN QUIRE QWERTY QUEER RAINBOW CHORUS RAINBOW SOUND ORCHESTRA MUNICH REGENBOGENCHOR ROCK CREEK SINGERS ROSA NOTE ROSACAVALIERE ROZENKOOR SANG&KLANG:LOS! SCHMAZ SCHOLA CANTOROSA SCHRILLERLOCKEN SCHWUBS SCHWULLESBISCHER CHOR SING OUT BRISTOL SING WITH PRIDE SOUTH WALES GAY MEN’S CHORUS SWEET AND POWER TAPALANOTE THE GLAMAPHONES THE UV RAYS UNA VOCE: THE FLORIDA MEN'S CHORALE VIELHOMONIE RHEIN RUHR VOCES GAUDII VOCES LGTB DE MADRID VOICE IS MY LIFE VOX ROSA WALDSCHLÖSSCHEN-CHOR ZAUBERFLÖTEN ZUCKERSCHNITTEN

SING WITH PRIDE NORWICH UNITED KINGDOM Type: SATB Founded: 2009 # Wonderful Supporting members 5 # Wonderful members 15 ABOUT Welcome to Sing with Pride from Norwich. We are the choir from the LGBT+ community for everyone. We sing in harmony to celebrate diversity and challenge inequality. Our members include people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, as well as friends, family members and straight allies. ​ Our aim is to create a safe, friendly, inclusive space where people can relax and be themselves and sing with confidence. only rock/pop/musicals WEBSITE INSTAGRAM TWITTER FACEBOOK 2014 Manage your Choir information ​ Now you can change, add or remove the information about your choir Want to change your profile picture? ​Change the description of your choir? Your contact information? A new link to a Facebook page, Twitter or Instagram account? ​ Click here to submit your changes SUBMIT CHANGES

BRISTOL GAY MEN'S CHORUS BRISTOL UNITED KINGDOM Type: TTBB Founded: 2020 # Wonderful Supporting members 0 # Wonderful members 40 ABOUT WE'RE PASSIONATE ABOUT MUSIC Bristol Gay Men's Chorus is a performance choir. This means there's an expectation that all members will take part in public and private performances, and there will be a requirement regarding commitment for participation in our performances. mostly rock/pop/musicals, some classical WEBSITE INSTAGRAM TWITTER FACEBOOK 2021 Manage your Choir information ​ Now you can change, add or remove the information about your choir Want to change your profile picture? ​Change the description of your choir? Your contact information? A new link to a Facebook page, Twitter or Instagram account? ​ Click here to submit your changes SUBMIT CHANGES

This page includes links to some sites of interest to choral musicians and choir leaders. Please feel free to recommend any sites which you think would be relevant to other visitors, and We'll be very happy to include them. ​ Education Festivals and Competitions General Choral Resources Organisations Sheet Music Resources & Notation Software Education https://www.musicmark.org.uk Music Mark is a membership organisation, subject association and charity. Our membership consists of Music Education Services and Hubs, their teaching and support teams; schools; individuals; NYMOS; HE/FE bodies; Hub and Corporate Partners. Education https://nafme.org National Association for Music Education. Education https://www.nats.org National Association of Teachers of Singing. Education https://www.singing-teachers.co.uk Singing Teachers Worldwide Directory. Education https://www.soundsense.org The UK professional association for community musicians. Festivals and Competitions https://www.federationoffestivals.org.uk The British and International Federation of Festivals. Festivals and Competitions http://www.egpchoral.com/ The European Grand Prix for Choral Singing (in French, Grand Prix Européen de Chant Choral, commonly abbreviated as European Choral Grand Prix or EGP) is an annual choral competition between the winners of six European choral competitions. It was inaugurated in 1989. General Choral Resources http://www.choirs.org.uk A listing of 4,143 British Choirs. General Choral Resources https://www.concert-diary.com Concert Diary. General Choral Resources https://www.gerontius.net Gerontius, the dream site for choirs and lovers of choral music. General Choral Resources https://www.choirschools.org.uk The Choir Schools’ Association. General Choral Resources https://www.rscm.org.uk The Royal School of Church Music. Organisations https://www.ilga-europe.org ILGA-Europe are a driving force for political, legal and social change in Europe and Central Asia. Organisations https://www.choralies.org/ 1ère association française de chant choral. Organisations https://choralnet.org American Choral Directors Association. Organisations http://www.artscouncil.org.uk Arts Council England. Organisations http://www.abcd.org.uk Association of British Choral Directors. Organisations https://ansoblog.wordpress.com Association of Nordic and Pol-Balt LGBTQ Student Organizations. Organisations http://www.britishvoiceassociation.com British Voice Association Organisations https://www.equalityfederation.org Equality Federation is the movement builder and strategic partner to state-based organizations advocating for LGBTQ people. Organisations http://www.euroforumlgbtchristians.eu European Forum of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Christian Groups. Organisations https://www.eglsf.info European Gay & Lesbian Sport Federation. Organisations https://www.thetrevorproject.org Founded in 1998 by the creators of the Academy Award®-winning short film TREVOR, The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer & questioning (LGBTQ) young people under 25. Organisations https://www.glsen.org GLSEN (pronounced "glisten") was founded in 1990 by a small, but dedicated group of teachers in Massachusetts who came together to improve an education system that too frequently allows its lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning (LGBTQ) students to be bullied, discriminated against, or fall through the cracks. Organisations https://www.iglyo.com IGLYO is a youth development and leadership organisation building LGBTQI youth activists, ensuring LGBTQI young people are present and heard and making schools safe, inclusive and supportive of LGBTQI learners. Organisations http://www.ifcm.net International Federation for Choral Music. Organisations https://ilga.org International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association. Organisations https://www.lgbti-era.org LGBTI Equal Rights Association for Western Balkans and Turkey. Organisations http://www.makingmusic.org.uk Making Music (formerly NFMS). Organisations http://www.musicinoffices.com Music In Offices. Organisations http://www.nationalassociationofchoirs.co.uk National Association of Choirs. Organisations https://transequality.org National Center for Transgender Equality. Organisations https://www.nycgb.org.uk National Youth Choirs of Great Britain. Organisations http://asia.proudvoices.org Proud Voices is a network of LGBT choirs in Asia. Organisations http://uk-ireland.proudvoices.org/ Proud Voices is a network of LGBT choirs in the UK and Ireland. Organisations http://www.singforpleasure.org.uk Sing For Pleasure. Organisations https://tgeu.org TGEU (Transgender Europe) envisions Europe, Central Asia and the rest of the world free from discrimination, where each person can live according to their gender identity and gender expression without interference and where trans people are respected and valued. Organisations https://europeanchoralassociation.org/ The European Choral Association – Europa Cantat. Organisations https://galachoruses.org The Gay and Lesbian Association of Choruses. Organisations https://ifcm.net/ The International Federation for Choral Music (IFCM) was founded in 1982 for the purpose of facilitating communication and exchange between choral musicians throughout the world. Organisations https://itgetsbetter.org The It Gets Better Project is a nonprofit organization with a mission to uplift, empower, and connect lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer youth around the globe. Organisations https://www.ncco-usa.org/ The National Collegiate Choral Organization. Organisations https://www.nqttcn.com The National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network (NQTTCN). Organisations https://www.worldyouthchoir.org/ The World Youth Choir (WYC) is a remarkable educational and social experience at the highest artistic level, aimed at talented young singers between the ages of 17 and 26, from all over the world. Organisations https://transgenderlawcenter.org Transgender Law Center (TLC) is the largest national trans-led organization advocating self-determination for all people. Organisations http://www.voices.org.uk Voices Foundation. Organisations http://www.youthmusic.org.uk Youth Music. Organisations https://www.musikrat.de das Deutsche Musikinformationszentrum (MIZ). Organisations https://gay.org.ua/en/ “Nash Mir” (Our World) Gay and Lesbian Centre was established in Luhansk in Southeastern Ukraine in 1997 as a grassroots group. By our initiative we took upon ourselves the responsibility for educating Ukrainian society about homosexuality, toppling recurrent stereotypes and prejudices against gays and lesbians, consolidating lesbian and gay community, and for advocating our rights. Sheet Music Resources & Notation Software http://www2.cpdl.org Choral Public Domain Library.

Understanding Gender Understandings of gender continually evolve. In the course of a person’s life, the interests, activities, clothing, and professions that are considered the domain of one gender or another evolve in ways both small and large. This has perhaps never been truer than it is now. The data show that today’s young people have significantly different understandings of gender than previous generations, with consequences for all children, families, organizations, and institutions. For example: A 2015 Fusion Millennial poll of adults ages 18-34 in the USA found that the majority see gender as a spectrum, rather than a man/woman binary. A 2017 Harris Poll of millennials found that 12% identify as Transgender or gender non-conforming. ​ ​​ Research by J. Walter Thompson Intelligence (the research arm of the global marketing communications company) found that 56% of those aged 13-20 know someone who uses gender-neutral pronouns (such as they/them). ​​ Leading businesses are beginning to change traditional gender-based marketing of products, such as removing “pink and blue” clothing and toy aisles. ​ All of us are inundated with gender messages from the time we are born, yet we offer children a few opportunities to more deeply consider or understand this fundamentally important aspect of life. Basic gender literacy is essential for children to understand their own gender, engage in healthy relationships, identify and place media and social messages in context, and have agency in determining aspects of their gender now and in the future. Societal ideas about gender will affect every critical aspect of their lives, from education to career, finances, relationships and more. Dimensions of Gender ​ ​​ People tend to use the terms “sex” and “gender” interchangeably. But, while connected, the two terms are not equivalent. Generally, we assign a newborn’s sex as either male or female (some US states and other countries offer a third option) based on the baby’s genitals. Once sex is assigned, we presume the child’s gender. For some people, this is cause for little, if any, concern or further thought because their gender aligns with gender-related ideas and assumptions associated with their sex. ​ ​ Nevertheless, while gender may begin with the assignment of our sex, it doesn’t end there. A person’s gender is the complex interrelationship between three dimensions: ​ ​​ Body: our body, our experience of our own body, how society genders bodies, and how others interact with us based on our body. ​ ​​ Identity: the name we use to convey our gender based on our deeply held, internal sense of self. Identities typically fall into binary (e.g. man, woman), Non-binary (e.g. Genderqueer, genderfluid) and ungendered (e.g. Agender, genderless) categories; the meaning associated with a particular identity can vary among individuals using the same term. A person’s Gender identity can correspond to or differ from the sex they were assigned at birth. ​ ​​ Social: how we present our gender in the world and how individuals, society, culture, and community perceive, interact with, and try to shape our gender. Social gender includes gender roles and expectations and how society uses those to try to enforce conformity to current gender norms. ​ ​ Each of these dimensions can vary greatly across a range of possibilities and is distinct from, but interrelated with the others. A person’s comfort in their gender is related to the degree to which these three dimensions feel in harmony. Let’s explore each of these dimensions in a little more detail. ​ ​​ Body ​ ​ Most societies view sex as a binary concept, with two rigidly fixed options: male or female, based on a person’s reproductive anatomy and functions. But a binary view of sex fails to capture even the biological aspect of gender. While we are often taught that bodies have one of two forms of genitalia, which are classified as “female” or “male,” there are Intersex traits that demonstrate that sex exists across a continuum of possibilities. This biological spectrum by itself should be enough to dispel the simplistic notion that there are just two sexes. The relationship between a person’s gender and their body goes beyond one’s reproductive functions. Research in neurology, endocrinology, and cellular biology points to a broader biological basis for an individual’s experience of gender. In fact, research increasingly points to our brains as playing a key role in how we each experience our gender. ​ ​ Bodies themselves are also gendered in the context of cultural expectations. Masculinity and femininity are equated with certain physical attributes, labeling us as more or less a man/woman based on the degree to which those attributes are present. This gendering of our bodies affects how we feel about ourselves and how others perceive and interact with us. ​ ​ Identity ​ ​​ Gender identity is our internal experience and naming of our gender. It can correspond to or differ from the sex we were assigned at birth. ​ ​​ Understanding of our gender comes to most of us fairly early in life. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, “By age four, most children have a stable sense of their gender identity.” This core aspect of one’s identity comes from within each of us. Gender identity is an inherent aspect of a person’s make-up. Individuals do not choose their gender, nor can they be made to change it. However, the words someone uses to communicate their gender identity may change over time; naming one’s gender can be a complex and evolving matter. Because we are provided with limited language for gender, it may take a person quite some time to discover, or create, the language that best communicates their internal experience. Likewise, as language evolves, a person’s name for their gender may also evolve. This does not mean their gender has changed, but rather that the words for it are shifting. ​ ​ The two gender identities most people are familiar with are boy and girl (or man and woman), and often people think that these are the only two gender identities. This idea that there are only two genders–and that each individual must be either one or the other–is called the “Gender binary.” However, throughout human history, we know that many societies have seen, and continue to see, gender as a spectrum, and not limited to just two possibilities. In addition to these two identities, other identities are now commonplace. ​ ​ Youth and young adults today no longer feel bound by the gender binary, instead of establishing a growing vocabulary for gender. More than just a series of new words, however, this shift in language represents a far more nuanced understanding of the experience of gender itself. Terms that communicate the broad range of experiences of non-binary people are particularly growing in number. Genderqueer, a term that is used both as an identity and as an umbrella term for non-binary identities, is one example of a term for those who do not identify as exclusively masculine or feminine. This evolution of language is exciting, but can also be confusing as new terms are created regularly, and since what a term means can vary from person to person. ​ ​​ Social ​ ​​ Social gender is the third dimension. This includes Gender expression, which is the way we communicate our gender to others through such things as clothing, hairstyles, and mannerisms. It also includes how individuals, communities and society perceive, interact with, and try to shape our gender. Social gender includes gender roles and expectations and how society uses those to try to enforce conformity to current gender norms. ​​ Practically everything is assigned a gender—toys, colors, and clothes are some of the more obvious examples. We begin to teach children about gender from the moment they are born; given the prevalence of the gender binary, children face great pressure to express their gender within narrow, stereotypical definitions of “boy” or “girl.” Expectations regarding gender are communicated through every aspect of our lives, including family, culture, peers, schools, community, media, and religion. Gender roles and expectations are so entrenched in our culture that it’s difficult to imagine things any other way. ​ ​ Children who express gender outside of these social norms often have a difficult experience. Girls thought to be too masculine and boys are seen as feminine face a variety of challenges. Kids who don’t express themselves along binary gender lines are often rendered invisible or steered into a more binary gender presentation. Pressures to conform at home, mistreatment by peers in school, and condemnation by the broader society are just some of the struggles facing a child whose expression does not fall in line with the binary gender system. ​ Because expectations around gender are so rigid, we frequently assume that what someone wears, or how they move, talk, or express themselves, tells us something about their gender identity. But the expression is distinct from identity–we can’t assume a person’s gender identity based on their gender expression. For example, a boy may like to wear skirts or dresses. His choice in clothing doesn’t define his gender identity; it simply means that he prefers (at least some of the time) to wear clothes that society has typically associated with girls. In fact, how we interpret a person’s gender and the assumptions we make about them is related to our personal understanding of gender and the norms and stereotypes we have integrated—it isn’t about them. ​ Finally, norms around gender change across societies and over time. One need only consider men wearing earrings or women having tattoos to see the flexibility of social expectations about gender. Even the seemingly intractable notion that “pink is for girls, blue is for boys” is relatively new. Prior to the mid-twentieth century, pink was associated with boys’ clothing and blue with girls’ clothing (still due to the gendering of colors, but with a different rationale associating each color with particular gendered characteristics). ​ ​​ Congruence ​ ​ Gender congruence is the feeling of harmony in our gender: ​ ​​ experiencing comfort in our body as it relates to our gender; naming of our gender that adequately corresponds with our internal sense of who we are; expressing ourselves through clothing, mannerisms, interests and activities; being seen consistently by others as we see ourselves.​ ​ Finding congruence is an ongoing process throughout each of our lives as we continue to grow and gain insight into ourselves. It is most often found through exploration. For some, finding congruence is fairly simple; for others, it is a much more complex process. But the fundamental need to find gender congruence is true for us all, and any degree to which we don’t experience it can be distressing. ​ ​ “Transitioning” is a term commonly used to refer to the steps a transgender, agender, or non-binary person takes in order to find congruence in their gender. But this term can be misleading as it implies that the person’s gender identity is changing and that there is a moment in time when this takes place. More typically, it is others’ understanding of the person’s gender that shifts. What people see as a “Transition” is actually an alignment in one or more dimensions of the individual’s gender as they seek congruence across those dimensions. A transition is taking place, but it is often other people (parents and other family members, support professionals, employers, etc.) who are transitioning in how they see the individual’s gender, and not the person themselves. For the person, these changes are often less of a transition and more of an evolution. ​ Instead of “transitioning,” a more apt phrase is “pursuing congruence measures.” A person can seek harmony in many ways: ​ ​​ Social congruence measures: changes of social identifiers such as clothing, hairstyle, gender identity, name and/or pronouns; Hormonal congruence measures: the use of medical approaches such as hormone “blockers” or hormone therapy to promote physical, mental, and/or emotional alignment; Surgical congruence measures: the addition, removal, or modification of gender-related physical traits; and Legal congruence measures: changing identification documents such as one’s birth certificate, driver’s license, or passport.​ ​ ​ It’s important to note, though, that a transition experience can be a very significant event in a person’s life. A public declaration of some kind where an individual communicates to others that aspects of themselves are different than others have assumed and that they are now living consistently with whom they know themselves to be can be an empowering and liberating experience (and moving to those who get to share that moment with them). Oftentimes during a transition experience, a person will announce a change in the name and pronouns that they use and ask that others use their new name and pronouns going forward. Honoring this request is a sign of respect and a critically important way to demonstrate support. ​​ Personal Gender ​ ​ While the Dimensions of gender and the desire for congruence are common to us all, ultimately gender is personal. Each dimension of gender is informed by our unique intersection of identities, experiences, and personal characteristics. We are more than our body, gender identity, and gender expression: we are also our race, ethnicity, class, faith, sense of geographic place, family history, and more. Our gender is personal because, while we share some of these aspects of self with others, the way that all of these identities, influences, and characteristics come together is unique to each of us. ​​ Gender Is Different Than Sexual Orientation ​ ​ One final distinction to make is the difference between gender and Sexual orientation, which are often incorrectly conflated. In actuality, gender and sexual orientation are two distinct, but related, aspects of self. Gender is personal (how we see ourselves), while sexual orientation is interpersonal (whom we are physically, emotionally and/or romantically attracted to). ​ ​ Why is it so critical to distinguish between these two concepts? When we confuse gender with sexual orientation, we are likely to make assumptions about a young person that has nothing to do with who they are. For example, when someone’s gender expression is inconsistent with others’ expectations, assumptions are frequently made about that person’s sexual orientation. The boy who loves to play princess is assumed to be gay, and the girl who buys clothes in the “boys’” section and favors a short haircut may be assumed to be a lesbian. These could be faulty conclusions. What someone wears and how they act is about gender expression. You cannot tell what a person’s sexual orientation is by what they have on (for that matter, you can’t know what their gender identity is, either … unless they tell you). ​ ​ Our society’s conflation of gender and sexual orientation can also interfere with a young person’s ability to understand and articulate aspects of their own gender. For example, it’s not uncommon for a transgender or non-binary youth to wonder if they are gay or lesbian (or any sexual orientation other than heterosexual) before coming to a fuller realization of their gender identity. How we come to understand our gender and our sexual orientation – and the choices we make to disclose and express these parts of ourselves – are distinct paths. Thinking of these two aspects of self as interchangeable may, instead of helping us know ourselves and one another better, actually get in the way of understanding and communication.

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May 21 - 22, 1988 4TH FESTIVAL 1988 "EUROPÄISCHES SCHWULES CHORFESTIVAL" BERLIN ​ MÄNNER-MINNE SCHWULER MÄNNERCHOR BERLIN E.V. The peculiarity of the "4th European Gay Choir Festival" 1988 in Berlin was that two lesbian choirs participated here: "Sappho and the Heartbreakers" and the "Neue Berliner Damenchor" as the absolute audience favorites. Berlin's cultural senator had taken over the patronage, and the very beautiful festival took place in the Congress Hall in the Tiergarten Berlin. MÄNNER-MINNE SCHWULER MÄNNERCHOR BERLIN E.V. NEUE BERLINER DAMENCHOR SAPPHO AND THE HEARTBREAKERS

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