Photo gallery | Miami Gay Men's Chorus opens GALA Choruses Festival 2008

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Thousands of gay men, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people are in downtown Miami this week to perform during the GALA Choruses 2008 Festival at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. The Miami Gay Men's Chorus performed Sunday, opening the first public concert block (click here for tickets to future concerts, which run through Saturday). Here are pictures:

Photos by STEVE ROTHAUS / Miami Herald Staff

GALA members walk from the Miami Hilton to the Arsht center.

Miami locals: Seth and Liebe Gadinsky, Steve Rothaus and Eric Hankin. (Photo by Richard Milstein.)

Seth Gadinsky, Steve Rothaus, Richard Milstein and partner Eric Hankin. (Photo by Liebe Gadinsky.)

Composer Chris Lobdell of the Miami Gay Men's Chorus, who wrote the music for the group's opening song, My Own Creation.

Mark Kirby and partner Jerry Chasen, a Miami chorus member who wrote the lyrics to My Own Creation.

Snacking before the first concert.

Catherine Roma, artistic director of MUSE, Cincinnati's Women's Choir, leads a warm-up sing-along. Roma is "one of the founding mothers of the women's choral movement, an international network of over 70 women's choruses, when she started Anna Crusis Women's Choir in her native Philadelphia in 1975," according to the MUSE website.

Logan Brown of Tampa conducts.

Sonelius Kendrick-Smith, president of the New York City Gay Men's Chorus.

The Miami Gay Men's Chorus opens the festival.

Cesar Taboda and Luis Font dance The Masochism Tango.

Dressed in rainbow colors: the New Orleans Gay Men's Chorus.         

Comments

[Tom Cruise]

Where are the chicks? I don't see any hot women.

[Les]

yeah...where are the women? do you guys have something against women?

[Tim]

We love women! how could you miss her? she's got the french horn and she's wonderful!