Singing for African Lives

Pride 2025 Special Event

Final production:

Concert for Liberation
June 2025 World Pride

You Are Invited

VIRTUAL CHOIR

Please join us with YOUR VOICE, instruments and talents in this Virtual Choir.

MUSICAL ARTIVISTS
Would you like to be a featured musical artivist in Singing for African Lives?Join us from wherever you are in the world.

PRODUCTION TEAM

Be a part of the global production team creating the Virtual Choir and Livestream Broadcast to be scheduled during World Pride 2025.

ORGANIZATIONS
Music groups, churches, temples, spiritual groups and other organizations are encouraged to participate.

Angel Maxine, Ghana’s first openly transgender musician, has brought her fight for LGBTQIA+ rights to Berlin, Germany, as an oppressive bill threatens to intensify the criminalization of LGBTQIA+ people and endanger their families and allies.

Joined by musicians in Ghana and Europe, Angel is using her music to fight against legislation and homophobia sweeping across the African continent.

With a vision for creating a virtual chorus of voices, Angel’s songs Be You and Speak Out are to be interlaced with a new African version of composer/songwriter Holly Near’s historic “gay anthem” Singing for Our Lives to raise awareness of legislation and empower LGBTQIA+ African lives.

VIRTUAL CHOIR
A video production featuring voices from throughout Africa and around the world singing Angel Maxine's lyrics and the uniquely African version of the historic LGBTQIA+ anthem "Singing for Our Lives."

ARTIVISTS & ORGANIZERS

Angel Maxine and Ugandan music artivist Shivanah lead this virtual choir.

We are inviting everyone to participate. Joining us are members of the GALA Choruses, the LGBTQ+ choral movement of 12,000 singers from more than 190 choruses throughout North America, who collectively leverage the liberating power of singing to create harmony and equity for all.

Singing for Our Lives: Historic LGBTQIA+ Anthem

Immediately following the November 27, 1978 assasination of San Francisco City Supervisor Harvey Milk, songwriter / singer / activist Holly Near created a song that would become the anthem of the LGBTQIA+ Movement.