Our GALA performance - a few photos

Here are a few photos from our GALA performance. (I'll post more later.)

The first one is from Stephanie's introduction to our set. Carolyn Eidson had an intereaction on the Metromover that morning that provided perfect material for our intro. Another GALA delegate asked Carolyn what group she was singing with. When Carolyn told the woman that she was with MCC San Francisco, the woman said something like, "Well, what is your group going to do -- tell us that we're going to hell?!"

Stephanie talked about this in her intro, and told the audience that we believe that God loves queer people, and that God created us just as we are. (As the stickers that MCC New York hands out ever year at Pride say, "God Made Me Queer".) The audience was happy to hear this message... I think they were relieved that we weren't going to preach at them.

In the second photo, do you see the tiny colorful specks in the front? That's us... and that should give you an idea of the scale of the concert hall. It was huge. The bright lights kept us from seeing out into the audience beyond the first row, but based on the applause I heard, I'd say that there were plenty of people out there.

The final photo in this set is a close-up, where you can see our special guests and former MCCSFers Cary Colman and Lisa Heezen, who joined us for this concert.

More later!