Gay Chorus Deep South

Gay Chorus Deep South is a 2019 documentary about the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus and the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir's October 2017 tour in Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama and the Carolinas. It aired on MTV in the United States in December 2019.[1]

Gay Chorus Deep South
Directed byDavid Charles Rodrigues
Produced byBud Johnston, Jesse Moss
Written byJeff Seymann Gilbert, David Charles Rodrigues
StarringSan Francisco Gay Men's Chorus, Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir
Music byBryan Senti
Edited byJeff Gilbert
Release date
  • April 29, 2019 (2019-04-29) (Tribeca Film Festival)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Critical reception

Gay Chorus Deep South has received very positive reviews from critics. As of August 2020, 100% of the 22 reviews compiled on Rotten Tomatoes are positive, with an average rating of 8/10.[2]

Reviewing it for The Los Angeles Times, Gary Goldstein wrote, "it's heartening to see greater openness to LGBTQ+ folks than outsiders might expect", but he suggested the film should have "dug more deeply and aggressively into the virulent religious and political forces that have enabled Southern inhospitality toward LGBTQ+ and other diverse groups to persist."[3]

In Variety, Peter Debrudge opined, "There's a lesson here that applies to more than just LGBT political causes: To heal the country and move on, we must reach across the divide and listen to one another. And what better way to do that than with a concert?"[4]

For Dan Callahan of TheWrap, "There are the expected clichés voiced here about how music can transform hearts and minds, but Gay Chorus Deep South is most useful as a way of seeing how intolerance hides behind evasive Southern hospitality and how it might be vanquished with what that hospitality seeks to avoid: direct confrontation."[5]

References
  1. "Movies on TV this week: Sunday, Dec. 22, 2019". Los Angeles Times. 2019-12-20. Retrieved 2021-01-17.
  2. "Gay Chorus Deep South (2019)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
  3. Goldstein, Gary (October 29, 2019). "Review: 'Gay Chorus Deep South' discovers surprising hospitality in the Bible Belt". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved February 1, 2020.
  4. Debrudge, Peter (May 5, 2019). "Tribeca Film Review: 'Gay Chorus Deep South'". Variety. Retrieved February 1, 2020.
  5. Callahan, Dan (October 30, 2019). "'Gay Chorus Deep South' Film Review: Traveling Choirs Shake Up Southern Gentility With Direct Confrontation". The Wrap. Retrieved February 1, 2020.


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