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fromSlate Magazine
6 days ago

How Should Queer Christians Respond to Anti-Gay Violence, its Victims, and the People Who Perpetrate It?

MCC San Francisco's AIDS minister was attacked in 1989 amid anti-gay violence; city, police, and LGBTQ community rallied, and the perpetrator's identity shocked the church.
fromSlate Magazine
3 weeks ago

How Did a Gay Church Embrace the Identity of "a Church with AIDS"?

In the late '80s, two MCC San Francisco ministers wrote an article called "We Are the Church Alive, the Church with AIDS." We wanted to know how a gay/lesbian church came to call itself "a church with AIDS." The answers lie in the years before our audio archive begins. So we started asking people. We explore two stories in what's likely a more complicated shift.
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