26 | OutBoise Magazine | 2015 Pride Guide
outboise.com | Issue 8.2 | June 2015
The Boise Gay Men’s Chorus Kicks Off Pride Week
“LIGHTS OF THE RAINBOW” Concert
Dates: Saturday June 13th @ 8PM & Sunday
June 14th @ 4PM
Location: Boise State Special Events Center (located in the Student Union Building—1700 University Dr.)
Tickets: $15 general admission seating online at
www.boisegaymenschorus.com or at the door.
Hear ye, Hear ye! Come one, come all! At The
Lights of the Rainbow concert you’ll have a ball!
Call family, text friends, and Facebook the rest.
We’ll be singing out proudly and looking our best!
So go grab your tickets, we’ll hold you a chair. It’s
our end of season concert. Can’t wait to see you
there!
The Boise Gay Men’s Chorus has done it again!
The Lights of the Rainbow will have audiences
laughing, crying, and cheering for more! We’ve
packed in hits that will have entire audiences tapping their toes, while touching on serious topics in
Idaho like anti-bullying and coming out. It’s time
we raise our gay voices to let Idaho youth know
its right to celebrate diversity! Therefore, the BSU
Special Events Center is about to get a lot gayer
when the members of the BGMC kick off Boise
Pride Week June 13th and 14th.
The Lights of the Rainbow concert pairs prideful
and popular songs with a program called “When I
Knew.” This program was premiered in 2012 by the
Heartland Gay Men’s Chorus of Kansas City. “This
is a new and exciting type of programming we
like to call a musical documentary,” says artistic
director Adam Wade Duncan. “It combines music,
narration, choreography, staging, and often new
technologies with different types of projection or
video.” In “When I Knew,” the chorus looks at mo-
ments in members’ lives when they realized they
were gay or different. For many, these experiences were accompanied by being teased, made
fun of, or bullied. The coming-out stories related in
the program originate directly from BGMC members. This concert is meant to combat bullying
and gay-teen suicide and deliver the message
“It Gets Better.” All parents, youth, and allies are
urged to bring any friends and family that can
benefit from hearing this message of love and
understanding in Idaho.
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