Far-Right News Sites Spread False Claims About SF Gay Men's Choir

A satirical video produced by the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus recently created controversy within conservative media. The message of this video is aimed at homophobic people. It begins by playing on a homophobic stereotype that gay people will corrupt children, then goes on to sarcastically inform the people that believe this that they are correct, but that the message that they are corrupting children with is that they will become tolerant of LGBTQ people. Amidst the controversy, a number of sources are spreading the claim that the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus contains convicted child sexual abusers.

On social media, users have shared this claim as factual and have gained hundreds of interactions in the process. Sources that state that the chorus could contain child sexual abusers have also gained hundreds of interactions.