David Brown

Founder of one of the largest community choirs in the world, David Brown shares the perspective-defining moments that shaped him into the community leader and artist audiences know him to be. As a gay child growing up in the fundamentalist South, he faced conversion therapy and social rejection. However, his self-perception was redefined in one conversation with a therapist, eventually leading him to escape his unsupportive environment. Much later, as a single man in his fifties, David wanted a family of his own. He ended up finding one when he redefined what family could mean and accepted the opportunities in front of him— even if they were different from what he’d been told family might look like. Ultimately, David encourages all of us to step outside of the perspective we’ve been accepted as true in order to find the version of ourselves that is more whole and more true.