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Metropolitan Community Church historical collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Coll2009-006
Abstract
This collection consists of materials relating to the origins, history, and ministry of the Metropolitan Community Church, including both its governing body, the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches, and the individual congregations that make up the Fellowship. The materials include brochures, bylaws, calendars, circulars, congregation meeting minutes, correspondence, financial papers, flyers, handbills, installations of pastors, invitations, news releases, newspapers...
Dates:
1969-2004; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1985
Reverend Troy D. Perry papers
Collection
Identifier: Coll2021-002
Abstract
Reverend Troy Deroy Perry is an American religious leader, gay rights and human rights activist, and founder of the Metropolitan Community Churches (MCC), the first church specifically aimed at ministering to the LGBTQ community. His collection (1906-2015) includes documents, correspondence, photographs, ephemera, realia, audiovisual materials, and books related to his personal life, his work with the MCC, and his activism.
Dates:
1906-2015
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- Kepner, Jim (James Lynn Kepner, Jr.) 1
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