Tomorrow for the first time ever, all the local LGBTQ music groups (and a few of their friends) will be performing together in a concert on World Aids Day at St Mary’s Church in Kemptown, in support of Lunch Positive, the HIV charity and lunch club who provide a healthy lunch for positive people once a week.
The concept of the We All Live Together concert is to emphasise the importance of life and unity within the LGBT community.
Music groups performing include:
• Rainbow Chorus
• Actually Gay Men’s Chorus
• Actually Gay Women’s Chorus
• Brighton Belles (Gay Women’s Chorus)
• Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus
• Resound
• Theatre Workshop
• Qukelele
A spokesperson for the concert organisers said: “If we think about what our community has gone through during the HIV/ AIDS era (and what better time to do this than World Aids Day), it becomes more obvious how important it is that we find and learn new ways of supporting each other. In the early 1980’s (when very little was known about HIV/ AIDS) people were suffering and dying from mystery conditions and illnesses for which appropriate treatment and care was largely unavailable. It was at that time the local community right here in Brighton and Hove recognised the plight of an increasing number of its members and pulled together to successfully set up the Sussex Beacon in 1987 – a centre whose facilities and services are considered to this day to be amongst the best of their kind.”
“And whilst today the treatments available for HIV/ AIDS and related conditions have improved considerably, the stories of all those who have lived or are living with these and other conditions are a testament to how much, when all is said and done, we really do need each other.”
“As musicians, we work within our own diverse music groups to find ways to support our fellow members. Taking that one step further, the “We All Live Together” concert provides an opportunity for us all on this crucial day in our history to publicly work alongside each other as one much larger group of musicians set within a much wider community. In so doing, we hope to offer a conscious reminder to both ourselves and others of what can be achieved when we all pull together…”
WHAT: World Aids Day Concert: We all live together
WHERE: St Mary’s Church, Brighton
WHEN: Sunday, December 1
TIME: 3pm
COST: £5 tickets
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