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The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus temporarily closed its office and sent all staff home on Thursday after receiving a bevy of death threats and doxxing attempts from members of various alt-right communities, including followers of Alex Jones and QAnon.
Death threats and baseless accusations of pedophilia appeared shortly after the video of the performance was uploaded to YouTube
The wave of hate spawned from the release earlier this week of a performance titled “A Message From the Gay Community.” The clearly tongue-in-cheek bit of musical satire and empowerment from the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus speaks to the changing societal attitudes toward the LGBTQ communities, highlighting the acceptance of queer identities at all ages, salted with just a little turning of terms used frequently to demonize LGBTQ people.
The office of the San Francisco Gay Men s Chorus is closed out of an abundance of caution after members started receiving a barrage of negative messages, including death threats, in response to a mischaracterization of a song the group posted to YouTube, its executive director said Thursday.
Chris Verdugo, a gay man who is the executive director of the chorus, told the Bay Area Reporter July 8 that the website InfoWars run by far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones called the song A Message from the Gay Community pedophilic in an online article July 7. That apparently unleashed the vitriol. The threat that stuck in my head, Verdugo said of the harassing messages he fielded, was, We re gonna put lead in your head. That was quite frightening.
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