Led by conductor Dr. Tim Seelig and joined by The Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir, GAY CHORUS DEEP SOUTH is Airbnb’s first ever feature film that tells the timely story of 300 singers who traveled from Mississippi to Tennessee through the Carolinas, bringing a message of love and acceptance to those fighting intolerance. They travelled to places where you can be denied services, evicted from your home, and fired because of your sexual orientation, and still summoned the bravery to sing in churches, schools, town squares, and even across the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma. The ensuing conversations and connections offer a glimpse of a less polarized America, where the issues that divide us — faith, politics, sexual identity — are set aside by the soaring power of music, humanity and a little drag.

The music featured throughout GAY CHORUS DEEP SOUTH is predominantly sung by The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus and The Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir. The musical selection was created by the Chorus; it ranged from straight activist songs like “Singing for our Lives” and “I Ain't Afraid” (written by folk activist hero Holly Neir), to more playful songs that would resonate with a broader audience like a Drag performance of Patsy Cline's I got you.