Festivals
- 1982 - San Francisco, California (1)
- 1983 - New York, New York (2)
- 1986 - Minneapolis, Minnesota
- 1989 - Seattle, Washington
- 1992 - Denver, Colorado - over 3,400 delegates
- 1996 - Tampa, Florida - over 4,700 delegates
- 2000 - San Jose, California - over 4,700 delegates
- 2004 - Place des Arts, Montreal, Quebec - over 5,700 delegates
- 2008 - Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Miami, Florida
- 2012 - Denver Performing Arts Complex, Denver, Colorado - over 6,000 delegates
(1) The San Francisco event was called the West Coast Choral Festival. It was organized and run by members of the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus as a forerunner event to the larger one planned the following year in New York, New York.
(2) The New York event was called COAST, which stood for Come Out and Sing Together. It was organized and run by members of the New York City Gay Men's Chorus.
Both the San Francisco and New York events were envisioned at the first planning meeting that set the course for the official founding of GALA Choruses. This meeting, in Chicago, Illinois (15-17 May, 1981) was attended by artistic and business directors of the choruses then in existence.
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“Why wont they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, cant they use birth control on time? I want an interregnum. The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping—rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals like New Year’s and Easter and Christmas—But, goodness, why need they do it?”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
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—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)