…The ‘gay church folk’ project began back in 2001 when Canadian singer-songwriter Joel Gibb wrote Ecce Homo, The Hidden Cameras’ first album. He gathered up a group of musicians, singers and go go dancers to perform his lush queer pop live. Sometimes two dozen bodies – wearing only tight white pants and balaclavas or gold sequin bikinis, playing harps, plinking xylophones, strumming guitars – would sway and writhe around Gibb. Backed by a choir, soaked in soft string music, the Hidden Cameras became legendary for their eccentric, transcendent shows in churches, parks, art galleries, porn cinemas. Members of the audience – their congregation – would be wrapped in ribbons, invited into the loosey-goosey, loved-up throng. The fluid troupe of…

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