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White shirt.
Woman with purple hair in a red dress conducting and text, "Under Northern Lights, Grand Rapids, Michigan, May 24th-May 27th, 2001"
Likely a musical concert.
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Blue shirt.
White circle with six singing figures and text, "Calliope: a Women's Chorus"
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White long sleeved shirt.
One green figure and one blue figure, both with music notes for heads. Text reads, "Calliope Women's Chorus, Minneapolis, MN, 1976-2001, Twenty-Five" with the "V" large and in red.
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Cerulean blue shirt. Star, singing face, subway car, space needle, "GALA 3" "Festival of GALA Choruses III Seattle July, 1989" Duplicate copy found in the Tretter Collection
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Grey shirt.
Banner with text, "The Voice of Rhythm." Below is the text, "Concerts: Calliope Women's Chorus, Womyn's DrumHeart, with a Young Women's Musical Ensemble. April 8th & 9th 1994, South High School, Minneapolis"

3131 S 19th Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55407
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Grey shirt.
Five singing face silhouettes with text, "Calliope: a Women's Chorus"
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Maroon shirt.
White circle with six singing figures and text, "Calliope: a Women's Chorus"
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Black shirt.
Stylized music staffs with square blue notes and text, "We Make The Music, October 10, 1987 Minneapolis, MN"

Origin Unknown. Please contact Wearing Gay History if you have any information regarding this shirt.
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Red shirt.
White circle with six singing figures and text, "Calliope, a Women's Chorus"
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Black shirt.
Comic with five women, one saying, "I could have sworn we decided on the traditional Ukrainian peasant garb." There is a banner saying "Calliope 15th Anniversary, Oct. 26, 1991, Concert Tonight." Text below the comic reads, "Although consensus had been reached regarding concert dress, there seems to be some confusion among the chorus."
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Purple shirt.
"Calliope" with the "c" as a woman singing with hair flowing over the rest of the word, "Women's Chorus, Minneapolis-St. Paul"
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Purple shirt.
Silver circle with six figures singing. Text: "Calliope: a Women's Chorus"
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Lime green hat.
White square with white pin attached with text, "Calliope Women's Chorus, Minneapolis-St. Paul"
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Grey shirt.
Blue man whose shirt is falling off.
Text: "Männer-Minne. Schwuler Männerchor, Berlin e.V." Back: Männer Minne US Tour 1992, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Denver" (Berlin's Gay Men's Choir)
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White shirt.
Front: "We Sing in the Shower. Not in the Closet." in a blue box.
Back: "Twin Cities Gay Men's Choir" in a brown box with "Gala 92, Denver" beneath it.
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Grey shirt.
Denver skyline, music staff. "GALA Festival IV" "1992 Denver"
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Cerulean blue shirt.
Star, singing face, subway car, space needle, "GALA 3" "Festival of GALA Choruses III Seattle July, 1989"
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White shirt.
Quarter note, rainbow colors/flag, "We Shall be Heard"
Origins unknown. Contact Wearing Gay History if you have any information on this shirt or design.

Likely from a gay chorus.
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Black shirt.
Gold wheat stalk, treble clef shape, "Heartland Men's Chorus Kansas City, Missouri"
4509 Walnut St, Kansas City, MO 64111
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Black shirt.
Pink text: "Twin Cities Gay Men's" Sea foam green figures spelling out "Chorus" purple pink music notes, triangle.
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Blue shirt.
Two men in tuxedos. "New York City Gay Men's Chorus" "Europe 1991"
London. Amsterdam. Cologne. Berlin. Munich. Paris.
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cerulean blue shirt.
Black text: "San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus-SFGMC"
398 11th Street, Suite 300
San Francisco, CA 94103
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Grey shirt.
Music notes, Capitol building. "Let Freedom Ring" "Denver Women's Chorus, Lesbian and Gay Bands of America, and Gay Men's Chorus of Washington D.C." DAR Constitutional Hall October 10, 1987
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Tan Polo.
Over pocket: (music notes) Friends of the TCMC
Twin Cities Men's Chorus
528 Hennepin Ave # 307, Minneapolis, MN 55403

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White Shirt.
TC Men's Chorus. GALA 3 Seattle 1989.
Twin Cities Men's Chorus
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White Shirt.
TC Gay Men's Chorus
Twin Cities Gay Men's Chorus

528 Hennepin Ave # 307, Minneapolis, MN 55403
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Blue Shirt
White stripes around around sleeves. Twin Cities Men's Chorus
528 Hennepin Ave # 307, Minneapolis, MN 55403
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Black Shirt.
Bechdel illustration. 15th anniversary of Calliope October 26, 1991
"I could've sworn we decided on traditional Ukrainian peasant garb. Although the consensus had been reached regarding concert dress, there seems to be some confusion among the chorus. Concert Tonight"

Calliope Women’s Chorus, founded in 1976, is the second oldest feminist chorus in the United States.
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"Utah's Other Choir"
Salt Lake Men's Choir
"one of the state’s oldest member-supported arts organizations."

825 N. 300 West #NE111
Salt Lake City, UT 84103
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1984 Louisiana World Exposition
New Orleans Gay Men's Chorus
Chicago Gay Men's Chorus
Concert June 2, 1984
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Green t-shirt
Band, Chorus, Color Guard
Chicago 2006 Gay Games GGVII
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