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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