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Professional associations
- Chamber Music America
- National service organization for ensemble music professionals
- Created the Composers Equity Project, a database of ALAANA composers who have been historically under-represented in their commissioning program. The acronym ALAANA indicates composers who identify as African/Black, Latinx, Asian/South Asian, Arab/Middle Eastern, and Native American. The list also includes women and gender non-conforming composers.
- ClassicalQueer
- GALA Choruses
- The LGBTQ Study Group of the American Musicological Society
- A recognized special interest group of the American Musicological Society
- Objectives include increasing awareness of sexuality and music in the academy, promoting contact among music scholars working in LGBTQ studies, and establishing a forum for the presentation of such research
- Pride Bands Alliance
- Musical organization comprised of concert and marching bands from cities across the United States, Canada, England, and Australia
- Provides seminars on topics such as musicianship, programming, and organizational skills
- SMT Queer Resource Group (SMT-LGTB)
- Explores issues of gender and sexuality as they pertain to music theory scholarship and to the professional lives of music theorists
