Sing-along Café 2025-03-13

This year, I missed the opportunity to serve pie at my singing night. In fact, I brought store-bought cookies because I had been baking "cheese and onion pies"(quiches) for my PIE Day/Affirming Day event happening this evening (honestly, I was a little disorganized/distracted and forgot to bake for this too). We did have a PIE/Affirming theme, a Pride theme, for our songs. It was interesting and inspired quite a lot of good conversation.

We meet in a church, and the Pride theme is clouded by some misconceptions about the Bible, so we talked about that a bit, and I'm encouraged again to try to have a screening of the film 1946: The Mistranslation that shifted culture.

Robin and Thain have started exchanging books, so now it's low-key a book club and singing club. It's such a wonderful thing, to meet and sing and talk in a safe and comfortable setting that we end up sharing so much more. I had a book to recommend too: Fayne by Anne-Marie MacDonald. I love learning about things through fiction, and this book has so much to teach us about gender and gender roles.

Here's a sample of what we sang and listened to:

True Colors by Cyndi Lauper and by Anna Kendrick & Justin Timberlake.
You Will Be Found by Ben Platt et al, from Dear Evan Hansen
Love Who You Love by Roger Rees from A Man of No Importance, and the video by Lea Salonga and Broadway Backwards
The Village by Wrabel (we remembered this video from last PIE Day.
It's a Sin by the Pet Shop Boys
Livin' la Vida Loca by Ricky Martin
Under Pressure by Queen & David Bowie
Constant Craving by k.d. lang
Bennie and the Jets by Elton John
Karma Chameleon by Culture Club
Beloved by Jordan Feliz
You are Loved by Stars Go Dim
Flowers by Miley Cyrus

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