Hal Mondt sits at a pool party for members of the Voices community singing group in Las Vegas, Nevada: photographic slide, 1983

First proposed by a member of the Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) congregation in December 1982, Voices was founded in February 1983 by Ron Guthrie. The choral group was open to men and women, gay or straight, and they performed their first concert at the March 12, 1983 general membership meeting of Nevadans for Human Rights.