PQA: Atlanta Queer Arts Alliance forms to promote LGBTQ film, music and theater
Tom Dempsey
Atlanta Queer Arts Alliance forms to promote LGBTQ film, music and theater
Several longstanding LGBTQ arts organizations finally had enough when an Atlanta City Council member excluded them from a Stonewall Month list of local queer "game changers."
Leaders from Out On Film, Out Front Theatre Company, Atlanta Freedom Bands, Atlanta Philharmonic Orchestra, Our Song and Voices of Note — which is the umbrella for Atlanta Gay Men's Chorus and Atlanta Women's Chorus — met last week, according to a press release on Friday.
When Atlanta's newly elected, and only LGBTQ, city council member Antonio Brown left out queer arts organizations and any queer artists from his Stonewall honors last month, that was the last straw for arts organizations not getting their due, says Out On Film Director Jim Farmer in the press release.
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