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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
Found in: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, University of Southern California

Metropolitan Community Church Long Beach collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Coll2008-039
Abstract

Video and audio tapes and CD-ROMs of conference proceedings of the Universal Fellowship of the Metropolitan Community Church (UFMCC) and its congregation in Long Beach (MCCLB), along with recordings of events, lectures, sermons, and services related to religion and homosexuality, 1984-2002.

Dates: 1984-2002
Found in: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, University of Southern California

North American Lesbian and Gay and Religious Congress Records

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: Coll2011-080
Abstract Meeting minutes, correspondence, press releases, resolutions, agendas, scheduling lists, clippings, financial documents, song sheets, delegate forms, delegate lists, and other material documenting planning and implementation of the North American Lesbian and Gay Religious Congress (NALGRC), 1979-1982. Held in Atlanta, Georgia in November of 1982, the event was a constitutional convention for the NALGRC, an organization representing the lesbian and gay caucuses of over 20 religious...
Dates: 1979-1982; Majority of material found in 1982 - 1982
Found in: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, University of Southern California

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
Found in: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, University of Southern California

Reverend Daniel E. Smith Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll2023-002
Abstract

Reverend Dan Smith is a pastor and LGBTQ+ activist. The collection is comprised largely of materials related to Smith's 35+ years as the pastor of the West Hollywood Presbyterian Church (later the West Hollywood United Church of Christ) and his advocacy and activism both within and without the church. The collection includes administrative records, sermons, programs, correspondence, publications, and ephemera.

Dates: 1970-2018
Found in: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, University of Southern California

Southern California Council on Religion and the Homophile records

 Collection — Box: 1-2
Identifier: Coll2008-057
Abstract Official records for the Southern California Council on Religion and the Homophile for the years 1965-1969, including copies of the articles of incorporation and by-laws; minutes of the pre-foundation planning committee and of the Board of Trustees and general membership meetings from June 1965 to August 1968; and several contemporary membership lists. The collection also contains a notebook of the Rev. Ken Wahrenbrock, Secretary of the organization, and manuscript materials from the papers...
Dates: 1964-1984; Majority of material found within 1965-1972
Found in: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, University of Southern California

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Gays -- Religious life 9
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Homosexuality -- Religious aspects -- Christianity 6
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Gay men's writings 3
Homosexuality -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church 3
Churches -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- Archival resources 2
Gay liberation movement -- Religious aspects 2
Lesbians -- Religious life 2
AIDS (Disease) -- Patients, Counseling of 1
AIDS activists -- California -- Los Angeles 1
Audiotapes 1
Catholic gays -- Canada 1
Censorship 1
Christian gay men 1
Christian gays 1
Christian lesbians 1
Church and social problems -- Long Beach, Calif. 1
Church work with gays -- Long Beach, Calif. 1
Clergy 1
Clergy -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Archival resources 1
Clippings (information artifacts) 1
Gay activists -- United States -- California 1
Gay liberation movement -- California -- Los Angeles 1
Gay liberation movement -- United States -- History 1
Gay rights -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church 1
Gays -- California -- San Francisco 1
Gays -- Canada -- History -- 20th Century 1
Gays -- Correspondence 1
Gays -- Religious life -- Long Beach, California 1
Gays -- United States -- History -- 20th Century 1
Homosexuality -- History -- 20th century 1
Homosexuality -- Political aspects 1
Homosexuality -- Psychological aspects 1
Homosexuality -- Research 1
Homosexuality -- Social aspects 1
Homosexuality -- Societies, etc. 1
Homosexuality in the Bible 1
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Mimes -- United States 1
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Presbyterian Church -- Clergy -- Archival resources 1
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Language
English 15
Undetermined 1
 
Names
Kepner, Jim (James Lynn Kepner, Jr.) 3
Council on Religion and the Homosexual (San Francisco, Calif.) 2
Dignity/Los Angeles 2
Dignity/USA 2
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives 2
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Southern California Council on Religion and the Homophile 2
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches 2
Barta, F. Kenneth, Rev. 1
Bartron, Harry 1
Beach Cities Metropolitan Community Church (Santa Monica, Calif.) 1
Bulot, Blaise 1
Dignity, Inc 1
First Church of One Brotherhoood 1
Gilgamesh, Joe 1
Hooker, Evelyn Caldwell 1
Humphreys, Laud 1
Itkin, Mikhail (Michael Francis Itkin) 1
Johnson, Paul R. (Paul Robert) 1
Killian, Joe (Joseph Leon, Junior) 1
McNaught, Brian 1
Metropolitan Community Church (Los Angeles, Calif.) 1
Metropolitan Community Church (Santa Monica, Calif.) 1
Metropolitan Community Church Long Beach 1
Metropolitan Community Church in the Valley (North Hollywood, Calif.) 1
Metropolitan Community Church of New York 1
Miller, Brian James 1
North American Conference of Homophile Organizations (4th : 1968 : Chicago) 1
North American Lesbian and Gay Religious Congress 1
Rowland, Chuck (Charles D. Rowland) 1
Wahrenbrock, Kenneth A. 1
West Bay Metropolitan Community Church (Santa Monica, Calif.) 1
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