"The superb new Slate podcast When We All Get to Heaven tells the story of the pivotal role the San Francisco MCC (Metropolitan Community Church) played as a queer church and an indispensable part of the broader LGBTIQ+ community during the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s and early 1990s. But the podcast is not just a look at the past; it is extremely relevant today. We cannot recommend it highly enough."
"As religious historian Lynne Gerber, who created the podcast with her colleagues Siri Colom and Ariana Nedelman at Eureka Street Productions, describes it, the podcast provides us a first-hand look at "a community that knew how to face loss and make hope in hard times ... something all of us are going to need to learn how to do if we're going to get through the existential crises in front of us" today."
"The podcast recounts how, in the 1980s, the SF MCC served as a place of refuge without exception for all those who needed comfort, care, hope, and camaraderie, regardless of whether or not they were Christian. It tells "stories of people, of relationships, of crises, of fear and fury, and faith," of laughter, and the myriad ways people "channeled their grief.""
San Francisco Metropolitan Community Church served as an unconditional refuge during the 1980s HIV/AIDS crisis, offering comfort, care, hope, and camaraderie to queer people and the wider LGBTIQ+ community regardless of faith. Congregants and volunteers supported those affected through caregiving, companionship, shared rituals, storytelling, laughter, and mutual aid. The church's blending of queer identity and Christian practice created surprising belonging and disrupted expectations about religion and sexuality. The community modeled ways of channeling grief and sustaining hope that provide practical lessons for confronting contemporary existential crises and building collective resilience.
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