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Liz Nicholls

Join Thames Valley Gay Chorus for a special performance on 5th April at Reading Minster. Peter Anderson tells us more about this supportive LGBTQIA+ choir 

There’s no place like home… Thames Valley Gay Chorus will explore this through song at Reading Minster in St Mary’s Butts on 5th April, conducted by their musical director, Christopher Wray.  

The choir will take the audience through popular songs from recent decades, including Stand By Me, Downtown & Chosen Family. 

Thames Valley Gay Chorus are a dedicated LGBTQIA+ choir who seek to foster a safe space for all members of the LGBTQIA+ community. They have sung for the Reading Trans Day of Remembrance Service on many occasions. In 2023, they were hosted in recording for this by the Minster Church, and for the service in 2024, they finished by backing trans soloist Asifa Lahore, singing Stand by Me. 

When the theme was picked for this concert last autumn, home seemed to be a recurrent theme that ran through many of the songs in their repertoire. They had little idea that a sanctuary and safe place for trans and non-binary people could be so important in the way things have developed on the world stage. 

For the There’s No Place Like Home spring concert, Thames Valley Gay Chorus are supporting with Stonewall Housing whose team have been celebrating 40 years of support for LGBTQIA+ community who are experiencing homelessness.