Regional Networks

GALA Choruses leads the North American LGBT choral movement. Our more than 190 member choruses and their 10,000 singers look to us for support and leadership. We are dedicated to helping choruses become more effective, both artistically and administratively. We assist emerging choruses and facilitate networking and training for established groups. Currently, GALA Choruses is putting special focus on the implementation of programming that will assess and improve the sustainability of our member choruses. GALA Choruses’ signature event is our quadrennial Festival, which brings together over 130 choruses and 6000 singers for the world’s largest LGBT performing arts event.

More than 128 member choirs from 20 countries with approximately 4120 singers look to us for support and leadership.

​We promote art, culture and understanding between nations, staging choral singing events with participants from many European nations.

We maintain an up to date list of LGBTQ+ Choirs in Europe and publish events being run by these Choirs locally, and encourages people to go and support the events.​

We connect new LGBTQ+ Choirs with more experienced ones so that they can avoid some of the pitfalls of starting a new choir.​

We are actively supporting the development of LGBTQ+ Choirs in Eastern Europe, where in many countries to be LGBTQ+ is considered a crime, and people are persecuted.​

We work for the emancipation of LGBTQ+ individuals in Europe and combat discrimination against these groups.

Out & Loud showcases LGBTIQ+ choirs from across Australia and New Zealand and from Fiji and Timor Leste. Australasian LGBTIQ+ Choral Festivals have had a proud history starting in 2001 in Sydney with ‘Camp Music’ followed by Melbourne hosting the first Out & Loud in 2007. Since then Out & Loud Choral Festivals have been held in Auckland twice (2010 & 2016), Hobart (2013) and most recently in Canberra in 2019.

The 2019 four day Out & Loud Choral Festival in Canberra had over 300 singers from 9 LGBTIQ+ choirs from Melbourne, Brisbane, Darwin, Sydney, Auckland, Fiji, Perth,Timor Leste and Canberra. Guest Conductor Stephen Leek guided us through 3 massed choral pieces: ‘Stronger Together’ (specially commissioned for the Festival from Sally Whitwell), ‘Blue Skies’ and ‘Fall on me’ performed at Llewellyn Hall to a packed house. All choirs performed free public concerts to hundreds of spectators at iconic venues the National Gallery of Australia, National Portrait Gallery and the Museum of Australian Democracy. Social and cultural events formed a core part of the Festival connecting singers with each other and the broader queer community.

Out and Loud is keen to include all LGBTIQ+ choirs across Australia, New Zealand and the broader Pacific region.

Proud Voices is a group of representatives from LGBT choirs across Asia. We've come together to build upon the relationships between us, share information and support each other. We share so much in common, and want to make new friends, learn from each other's experiences and perhaps visit each other too!

Proud Voices began after the Shining Jazzy Chorus from Beijing and the Pink Singers from London got in touch with a fellow choir in Singapore. We agreed that the community spirit which music creates should to be encouraged, and although we face many barriers here - geographical, cultural, political and linguistic - we are determined to overcome them. Proud Voices is a place for greater mutual understanding of our choirs. Since then many other lesbian, gay, bi and trans choirs in Asia have joined us.

LGBT choirs are not always aware of each other's existence, particularly if they are in another country. Even if they are, communication can be hindered by the many languages we speak. Proud Voices seeks to bring the LGBT choirs of Asia together, in a place where our choirs can describe themselves and be translated for better understanding.

Unison Choruses Canada is a national not-for-profit organization that acts as a hub for Canadian 2SLGBTQIA+ choruses. Unison facilitates connections between choruses and provides resources to help choruses with administration, fundraising and programming. Unison’s flagship event is the Unison Festival. This Canadian festival for queer choirs takes place every four years in a different city. In 2022, the festival will be in Halifax, Nova Scotia, from June 30-July 3.

Chœurs Unisson Canada est une organisation nationale à but non lucratif qui offre des services aux chœurs canadiens 2SLGBTQIA+. L’événement-phare du mandat d’Unisson c’est le Festival Unisson. Ce festival, qui se tient tous les quatre ans dans une ville canadienne différente, regroupe des chœurs 2SLGBTQIA+ de tout le Canada. En 2022, le festival se tiendra du 30 juin aud 3 juillet à Halifax, en Nouvelle-Écosse.