This Video Highlights the Best Part of Coming Out

Forget your troubles, come on get happy...

By Allison Tate

 

October 11 2016 

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Have you ever received an invitation to be all that you are?

The simple and powerful song "No Shame" by S.R. Johnstone is that and more.

In a recent article, the self-described "queer, gender-creative, kinky" songwriter said the song is "not a mandate that everyone should come out, regardless of their circumstances. Rather, it is a love letter to the power of queer community. You are not alone. You are not broken."

"No Shame" lives on the album Love Songs for the Rest of Us, a love letter to the queer community that refreshingly offers "songs that speak to the widespread, lived experiences of so many people who haven’t found that their romantic and sexual lives mirror the paradigms of pop music or romantic comedies."

The music video is just as refreshing, and features queer, transgender, and nonbinary folks of color, in a way that resonates with the entire LGBT community.

Watch the music video for "No Shame" below and prepare for chills.

Love Songs for the Rest of Us- NO SHAME 

Published on Jan 9, 2016

Listen to the full album at lovesongsfortherestofus.bandcamp.com
Read more about the heart behind it at http://tinyurl.com/jbjwhw3

FEATURING

Neo Cihi

with

Alexa Adderley
Mo Beasley
Alexa Bradley
Grenetta Briggs
Salty Brine
Sanaz Ghajarrahimi
Em Grosland
Morgan Jenness
Jake Margolin
Liz Maxwell
Lam Nguyen
Diana Oh
Jarrett Pelton
Kiara Rivas
Nick Vaughan
Zhana Vrangalova

and

Adriane Moreno
Adrienne Schmoeker
Alexander Borinsky
Amandine Thomas
Amy Morton
Annie McShiras
Ariel Beach-Westmoreland
Dania Robley-Lehi
Danny Mullanaphy
Dorna Lange
Elly Arnoff
Erika Kapin
Francia Lainbllert
Giada Milazzo
Hidenori J. Nakajo
Ian Axness
Ilona Padgett
Jenni Lawton
John Kropa
Leslie Erin Roth
Liala Layther
Mariah McCarthy
Martin Urbach
Maureen Kilroy
Mike Axelrod
Nazareth Hagood
Nicole Weiss
Patrick Shearer
Paul Falzone
Rishauna Zumberg
Sarah Jordan Stout
Sophie Walker
Vanessa Bretas
Nicole Suazo




PRODUCTION TEAM

Music and Lyrics Stephanie Ryan Johnstone & Jillian Buckley
Director Rachel Chavkin
Director of Photography Andrew Schneider
Editor Andrew Schneider
Associate Editor Sean Buckley
Album Producer Jeremy Mage
Art Director Christopher Bowser
Choreography nicHi Douglas & Dan Safer
Camera Operation Cheyenne Picardo
Production Manager Tegan Ritz McDuffie
Associate Production Manager Courtney Ulrich
Associate Producer Dave Ratzlow
Assistant to the Director Lauren Z. Adleman
Assistant to the Choreographer Annie Hoeg
Dance Captain Ilona Padgett
Community Outreach Organizer Lily Padilla
Production Assistants Vincent Gagliardi, Jana Fredricks, Emily Lerer, Charles
Quittner
Crowd Manager Candis Jones
Crowd Assistants Alexa Adderly, Liz Maxwell
Photographer Lila Yomtoob
Additional Vocals Alexa Adderley, Andrew Butler, Brian DeCaluwe, Leah
Goldstein, Katie Marie Frank, Jenni Lawton, Chris Nolan

Special Thanks Hope Seery & The Brooklyn Free School
Brooklyn Ascend Charter School
Materials for the Arts
Manda Martin & The TEAM
Not Ray’s Pizza

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