When We All Get to Heaven: Inside a Queer SF Church During the AIDS Crisis
About this episode
This episode explores the role of the Metropolitan Community Church of San Francisco during the AIDS crisis as a supportive space for LGBTQ Christians.
The Metropolitan Community Church of San Francisco (MCC-SF) was one of the first gay-positive Christian churches. During the height of the AIDS crisis, it was a place where hundreds of LGBTQ Christians found community, sustenance, and healing as they grappled with the illness and death of the epidemic. When We All Get to Heaven, a 10-episode audio documentary series produced by Eureka Street Productions and distributed by Slate, follows queer Christians caught between two communities: a religious world that said gays had no place, and a gay rights movement that said God had no place. Links: Listen: When We All Get to Heaven Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Topics covered
- queer community
- AIDS crisis
- Christianity
- LGBTQ rights
- faith and identity
Keywords
- AIDS crisis
- queer church
- LGBTQ community
- Christianity
- support
- healing
- faith
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Metropolitan Community Church of San Francisco, Eureka Street Productions, Slate
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