LenaBeeDec 9, 2022
There’s nothing more cowardly to me than changing the pronouns in a song so you don’t sound gay.
Show threadLizzy Miller

@lenabee One of our #choir songs this season is a Duke Ellington medley that includes "Satin Doll." The arrangers "helpfully" re-pronouned everything for a treble chorus, because *obviously* everybody who sings it is going to be a heterosexual woman, right?

(Spoiler: my choir is Very Gay and also very much not only made up of women. We changed it back.)

Dec 9, 2022 at 10:44pmWeb
Show threadLenaBeeDec 9, 2022
@elmiller0330 Yayyy for not being cowardly. I love when they help…so lovely.
Show threadLizzy MillerDec 10, 2022

@lenabee We're an LGBT choir (the sibling chorus of Denver Gay Men's Chorus) so the odds are pretty good we'd have changed the pronouns anyway, but it still feels good.

We've come a long way from "we don't publish member lists in programs because our members can legally be fired for being part of the organization."