Quote:San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus slams San Diego Padres Over National Anthem Incident
Last night, before the Dodgers-Padres game at Petco Park, 100 singers from the San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus were assembled on the field in order to sing the National Anthem. They never got the chance, however, because as they prepared to sing the song, a recorded voice of a woman singing the anthem came over the loudspeakers and that version of the song was played instead.
According to the San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus Facebook post on the incident, no effort was made to stop the recording or to start over and no announcement or apology was made explaining what happened. Rather, the singers stood in center field for the song and then were escorted off the field. The post says that the singers were heckled by some fans in the stands who said things like “you sing like a girl.”
The Gay Men’s Chorus characterizes the incident as one which raises “serious questions about homophobia” and followed “several days of troubling comments and behavior within the San Diego Padres organization” leading up to the game. Specifically, they say that “Padres representatives aggressively sought to prevent singers from performing the National Anthem” unless members of the chorus purchased tickets to the game even if they performed and even if they weren’t staying for the game. That demand was rescinded. It’s worth noting that the Gay Men’s Chorus has performed at Petco before Padres games in the past with no incident. The Gay Men’s Chorus has asked for an investigation into what occurred last night.
For their part, the Padres issued a statement on its Twitter account last night:
Statement from the #Padres regarding tonight's National Anthem: pic.twitter.com/KAKUAjlg6W
— San Diego Padres (@Padres) May 22, 2016
The Gay Men’s Chorus acknowledges that Mike Dee, President of the Padres, reached out afterward, apologized and offered to meet with the Chorus, which they welcome. It’s clear, however, that the Chorus is still displeased about the incident.
The most likely explanation here is a mixup in the control room, as the statement said, and someone playing an automated Anthem, unaware that a chorus was assembled. Still, it was an unfortunate incident and the optics of it were poor. Here’s hoping some more formal overtures than a Twitter apology take place and that the Chorus is given more respectful treatment at another game at a later date.
LGBT Supporters and Chorus basically claimed they heard slurs...from the outfield near 2nd base.
The first article posted was by San Diego Gay & Lesbian News
With of course - a sensetional headline:
Quote:Breaking: San Diego Gay Men's Chorus heckled off stage, not allowed to sing at Padres game
On their Facebook page and article comments they were being called out by people who were at the game (see some comments below):
Quote:Not true. Was at the game and my friend is in the choir and said there was a snafu with the pre recorded cd. And there wasn't any booing of the choir that I heard. I only heard cheers for them. Especially from the left field area where they exited.
Quote:If you weren't at the game don't comment. I'm a season ticket holder and I went to this event as I have the past 4 years...there was no booing at any point during the National Anthem of when they exited! This article is inaccurate, people nowadays are so quick to jump to conclusion when they don't have the facts. It's so easy to say HOMOPHOBIA HOMOPHOBIA! Get over it not everyone is out to get you!
Quote:Uuumm. I was there to support my friends dad who was singing. I heard no booing during the national anthem. They were booing before when they were calling the starting lineups and I was told they were playing the wrong music and thats why they didnt sing. The few people we were sitting with in the choir did not seem to think it was anything done on purpose. We were also provided free tickets from the Padres as friends and family.
Someone calls them out on using a video from 2005:
Quote:UPDATE: There seems to be some question over the validity of Executive Director of San Diego Gay Men's Chorus, Bob Lehman's accusations concerning the use of homophobic slurs at the ballpark. In order to clarify exactly what the choirmembers heard as they walked off stage, SDGLN contacted Lehman and he said the following:
"The area we were walking by was around the Western Metal Building as that's where we lined up. I'm not sure which fans were seated in that area. But I can assure you, based on many emails and personal conversations, that our guys heard the comments and it was devastating. Maybe the people who didn't hear the comments were too far away...also I know some of our guys were a bit in shock at the time. I know I was. As for being attacked on a homophobic level, yes, definitely hearing people say we, a group of gay men, sang like girls is a homophobic statement."
They also added another link for the game in question:
Basically it sounds like they think they might of hear someone booing, of course it could've been Padres fan booing the Dodger fans or Dodger fans booing the dodgers and suddenly it's homophobic.
I've yet to find any video of what they're accusing baseball fans of doing.
The chorus was never heckled off stage.
It looks like an audio error - where the person in charge of it, didn't know there were people on stage and played a recorded national anthem.
Then the chorus realizes they aren't going to be singing and get pissed and cry homophobia.
Once again it's a race to the victim Olympics.
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I've been to many games between the Dodgers, Padres and Giants. I got money on this being one guy in the San Diego crowd booing a guy walking by in a Dodgers hat or that this is just "they didn't applaud loud enough, so homophobia".
Seriously, you get two of those three teams together and everyone wearing the visiting team's colors gets booed. It's just how things work.
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05-23-2016 03:22 PM
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Another progressive tribe attempts to invade a traditional American pastime while demanding respect rather than earning it. When their demands are scoffed at they scream oppression and persecution. Nothing new here.
If I were in the crowd I would have yelled "Cum Guzzling Faggots!" over and over at the top of my lungs while laughing myself silly.
Wipe that stuff off ur face and do something with your life rather than demanding special treatment and maybe, just maybe, people will take you seriously.
... I got the bang.
05-23-2016 04:38 PM
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God, this kind of shit drives me nuts. I'm sure no one actually booed them. But even if they did, how can they be sure homophobia was to blame? This just sounds like a bunch of drama queens looking to make something out of nothing.
The problem is our society has made victimhood a virtue so any excuse is a good excuse to those looking to lay claim to being victims.
This is like that old lifting question, where the answer to everything was squats and milk.
"I wanna get swole"
Squats and milk.
"I wanna up my bench numbers"
Squats and milk
"I wanna have a threesome with your mum"
Squats and milk.
Except now, every damn incident is construed to be homophobia.
05-23-2016 09:53 PM
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(05-23-2016 04:59 PM)Kona Wrote: Why do they gotta have a gay only choir?
If I wanted to join would I have to blow someone?
If I started the straight mans choir would I be a bigot?
Whenever this stuff comes up I think of this norm MacDonald quote here:
Aloha!
Fuckin' Norm MacDonald. Such a legendary comedian. This shit was funny.
Also, you're only allowed to be proud of your skin color/sexuality/gender if you are considered a "marginalized" demographic. If you're a heterosexual white male, then you should be ashamed of yourself. How dare you. Being all white, having a dick, and be attracted to women.
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