"When the Metropolitan Community Church was founded in the late sixties, it was one of the first gay positive churches in America. When AIDS hit, it became a refuge for people who were sick and those who were mourning them. In this episode, Anna talks to researcher Lynne Gerber, about finding boxes of cassettes under the church floor in an MCC church in San Francisco, and how those recordings of sermons and songs became a podcast about finding community and comfort during a crisis."
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Metropolitan Community Church was founded in the late sixties as one of the first gay-positive churches in America. During the AIDS crisis the church served as a refuge for people who were sick and for those mourning loved ones. Boxes of cassette tapes were discovered under the floor of an MCC church in San Francisco containing recordings of sermons and songs. Those archival recordings were used to create a 10-episode podcast series that centers on how community, ritual, and music offered comfort during a public-health and social crisis. Lynne Gerber hosts When We All Get to Heaven; the series is associated with Death, Sex & Money and Slate Plus membership benefits.
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