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Joined by the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir, some singers packed three vans and six buses — often filled with pink wigs — to stage a series of concerts in red states in response to anti-LGBT sentiment after the election. The tour was named after the pen used to sign a San Francisco gay rights bill in , which was a gift from Harvey Milk, a member of the Board of Supervisors who was assassinated in At that time, the states visited by the chorus had just enacted, or were in the process of passing, some of the most discriminatory laws in the nation. We had people speak to us who had been at the march in and everyone was profoundly moved. It changed people in a way that they were able to see themselves effect change.

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Following a year of venue closures and corporate buyouts, Mezzanine is the latest San Francisco nightclub to take a hit in The popular venue, which has operated in SoMa since and hosted high-caliber acts like Snoop Dogg and Lady Gaga, announced on Tuesday that it will shutter in October Mezzanine is the largest woman-owned club in San Francisco. Quoted in the press release, owner Deborah Jackman said that the building's owners turned down a request for the venue to stay open through the end of to finish out its year of programming. They're not making what this site should be.

The documentary director David Charles Rodrigues wanted to trace a historic movement under the Trump administration. Rodrigues followed the group on a seven-day tour in the South, where they performed 25 concerts in Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama and the Carolinas as part of their Lavender Pen Tour. The point was to capture the divided country and its anti-LGBT laws. The chorus wanted to raise their voices and fight back.