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.

Airbnb’s core values are acceptance and belonging, and since its inception it has been a proud supporter of the LGBTQ community. So in 2019, on the 50th Anniversary of StoneWall, it partnered with The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus and the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir’s in creating and documenting one of the greatest travel stories of acceptance in our divisive times. They set out to create a piece of work that would inspire people to embrace their differences in order to create a more accepting world.