With a widely varying repertoire from classical music to folk, jazz, pop, R&B or show tunes, and often including choreography, the Chorus's Vision is ‘Everyone Brought Together Through Song’.
Semitones are non-singing members who help support the chorus, including performing Front of House activities during a concert.
The Chorus has had a number of commercial sponsors, both monetary donors and providers of pro bono professional services, including the former pioneering gay website Queer Company, design firm Marsh and Malone who developed a new corporate identity in 2005–6, and fundraising consultants Brakeley.
The Chorus also enjoyed a commercial relationship with Selfridges, and has sung carols in the Oxford Street store during the Christmas season for five years (between 2004 and 2008).
After humble beginnings in 1991 at Angel Underground station (where the station had to be closed due to the crowd that had gathered), the Chorus has performed around the United Kingdom and toured overseas in the United States, France, Italy, Canada, Spain, Poland, Ireland, the Czech Republic and Australia and sung with the Helsinki Gay Men's Chorus in the summer of 2009.
The chorus has made many TV appearances and radio broadcasts including Top of the Pops, So Graham Norton, Loose Ends, Ruby Wax Christmas special, London Tonight, the Paul Ross weekend breakfast show on LBC, and Comic Relief, and has sung and performed with stars including Sir Elton John, The Human League, Heather Small, Damien Hirst, Simon Callow, Alison Jiear, Jocelyn Brown, Toyah Willcox, k.d.
lang, Rula Lenska, Sandi Toksvig, Dame Cleo Laine, Mark Ronson and The Pet Shop Boys.
Most recently it has once again raised funds for the Terrence Higgins Trust, who it partnered with back in 1991 when it was founded, as part of both their 30th and 40th anniversary celebrations.
The Chorus returned to Alexandra Palace Theatre to showcase a celebration of global pride in its production of Queer Carnival - a show performed in multiple languages and in partnership with the Kaleidoscope Trust Returning to Cadogan Hall, the LGMC presented two concerts - 'Proud' in June followed by 'A Winter's Tale' hosted by Sandi Toksvig in November.
On Saturday 15 June, in a show celebrating the iconic sound of Motown, the Chorus presented Hitsville – a concert penned by some of the all-time greats of popular music.
During this season, the chorus also collaborated with the cast of The Lion King to sing a version of "Circle of Life" to coincide with Pride in London.
In the wake of the Orlando nightclub shooting, the LGMC attended a vigil on London's Old Compton Street, singing Simon and Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water to the waiting crowd.
[2] Due to the public reaction, the Chorus released the song as a single on Friday 24 June,[3] with all profits going to the Orlando victims fund and GALOP UK,[4] a Uk-based charity combating hate crime.
To finish the year, the Chorus performed at Angel and Tottenham Court Road tube stations on 1 December to celebrate the Jubilee and commemorate World AIDS Day.
This year's performances focussed on the theme of Love, for summer at Cadogan Hall; the winter then played host to the Big Gay Swing at the Roundhouse.
In February, the Chorus sang at 10 Downing Street in the presence of Prime Minister David Cameron for an event against homophobia in sport.
The Chorus performed its 21st anniversary show, A Band of Brothers, at the Royal Festival Hall (for the first time) on 6 May 2012 in support of the Kaleidoscope Trust with participation of the Southbank Centre's Voicelab and London school children.
The repertoire for this show includes Madonna, Lady Gaga, Richard Wagner, Lily Allen, The Smiths and a new commission with music by Conor Mitchell and book by Mark Ravenhill entitled Shadow Time.
A short film about the project, introduced by Jon Snow, was produced by the Media Trust and shown on the Community Channel as part of the Untold Stories series.
The show, Dead Boss, is written by Sharon Horgan and features Jennifer Saunders, Caroline Quentin and Susan Calman.
Members of the Chorus appeared on the (originally eponymous) track "Introducing The Business" in Mark Ronson's album Record Collection.
Taking inspiration from gay men's relationship with what's traditionally a family celebration, expect a funny, moving and memorable journey to an eclectic soundtrack including music by Kurt Weill, the Smiths, Handel, Kylie Minogue and Carly Simon.
Later in the month, the Chorus was invited to take part in the second edition of the Trobada Internacional de Cors d'Homes in Catalonia (Spain).
In September, the Chorus was invited to take part in the prestigious international music festival, Settembre Musica in Turin, Italy.
In December the Chorus sold out the Barbican Hall with their Christmas show Make the Yuletide Gay hosted by Simon Callow.
The show, devised by a Chorus member, charted the lives of four gay men in London over the second half of the twentieth century.
Recorded (mostly) live in front of the capacity audiences for the Golden Reign concerts staged in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, July 2002.