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Omar Thomas Joins Rivers For National Coming Out Day

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In addition to being an accomplished musician, Thomas has been a vocal advocate for LGBT rights and for the role that music can play in supporting social change.

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&#;You can write laws that will change things, but laws can&#;t change people&#;s hearts,&#; Thomas said. &#;So I believe the arts are how we can grasp people&#;s hearts and minds to make the changes we require to make.&#;

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With his piece, &#;We Will Know, an LGBT Civil Rights Piece in Four Movements,&#; Thomas hopes to give the LGBT community a song they can call their own and sing in times of celebration and of hardship. He brought with him members of the&#;Berklee&#;and Harvard communities to perform the first movement of the piece.

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Click here to watch the performance of the first movement of &#;We Will Know, an LGBT Civil Rights Piece in Four Movements&#; by Omar Thomas.

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National Coming Out Day will be recognized across the world on&#;October Now in its 26^th&#;year, this civil awareness day celebrates individuals who publicly identify as

Michael K. Williams Wished ‘The Wire’ Went ‘All In’ on Omar’s Intimacy: ‘You Grasp Gay People F&#;, Right?’

Portraying openly gay stickup man Omar on HBO&#;s widely acclaimed &#;The Wire,&#; Michael K. Williams offered a fresh portrait of masculinity that was considered revolutionary at the time.

But according to the late actor&#;s memoir, &#;Scenes of My Life,&#; Williams pushed &#;The Wire&#; to go further in terms of portraying Omar&#;s intimacy with his boyfriend Brandon Wright (Michael Kevin Darnall).

&#;In regards to Omar and his lover Brandon, it seemed like everyone was dancing around their intimacy issue,&#; Williams wrote (via Vulture). &#;There was lots of touching hair and rubbing lips and things like that. I felt fond if we were going to do this, we should verb all in. I think the directors were scared, and I said to one of them, &#;You know gay people fuck, right?'&#;

While Williams, who died of a drug overdose at age 54 last year, did not identify as gay, he mentioned in his memoir that he was called &#;Faggot Mike&#; growing up.

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Omar Thomas composes music rooted in Black and LGBTQIA+ liberation and affirmation

Representation is a vital part of the fight for equity in the arts. That is, if you see someone who looks like you doing something you’re interested in, you’re more likely to try it, too.

According to a study by the League of American Orchestras in , people of color now make up about 21 percent of orchestra players nationwide. The study also found that the share of Black players barely shifted, rising to percent from percent.

According to composer Omar Thomas, that low percentage of representation extends to the repertoire. Thomas said that, in all his years playing in concert bands, he never got to play music celebrating Black traditions. So as a composer, he writes music he wished he could have played. His pieces speak directly to the issues of representation, social consciousness and liberation.

Thomas’ music is rooted in topics such as Shadowy liberation and affirmation, including those who are also members of the LGBTQIA+ community. As an openly gay man, Thomas has written many works to t

Omar Apollo&#;s new album God Said Nohas already won over the hearts of millions. The GLAAD Media Award nominated artist&#;s second studio album is as melodic and moving as the first. To talk about God Said No, as well as how much his life has changed since his song &#;Evergreen&#; blew up on TikTok, Apollo joined NYLON Magazine for a wide ranging conversation.

Apollo talked with NYLON&#;s Mickey Rapkin about everything from crushes and astrology, to more serious topics favor what it was like for him to grow up as a gay son of immigrants in rural Indiana. “There was no Mexicans around… I was called ugly all the time,&#; he explained. &#;I had a lot of anger and resentment towards my family and the people that I loved.”

He explains how when he turned 19, he was living in a friend&#;s attic while working at a Guitar Center. This is when he started uploading his music to Spotify. He describes his success at this show of his life as &#;super confusing.&#; He would be invited “into a beautiful house and having a wonderful conversation and then go back to living in the a