{"id":17508,"date":"2025-10-22T09:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/17508\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T09:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:01:07","slug":"an-lgbtq-church-becomes-an-hiv-aids-church-in-1980s-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/17508\/","title":{"rendered":"An LGBTQ+ church becomes an HIV\/AIDS church in 1980s San Francisco."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the late \u201880s, two MCC San Francisco ministers wrote an article called \u201cWe Are the Church Alive, the Church with AIDS.\u201d We wanted to know how a gay\/lesbian church came to call itself \u201ca church with AIDS.\u201d The answers lie in the years before our audio archive begins. So we started asking people. We explore two stories in what\u2019s likely a more complicated shift. One story is about a pair of religion geeks who learned to make queer church in New York during the early years of the AIDS crisis and then came to San Francisco to lead MCCSF. And the other is how an Easter Sunday ritual made the Christian hope of life through death viscerally real.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe Are the Church Alive, the Church with AIDS,\u201d<\/a> by Kittredge Cherry and Jamies Mitulski was published in the Christian Century on January 27, 1988.<\/p>\n

For images and links about this episode visit https:\/\/www.heavenpodcast.org\/episode-3<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Get more Outward with Slate Plus! Join for weekly bonus episodes of Outward and ad-free listening on all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe from the Outward show page on Apple Podcasts<\/a> or Spotify<\/a>, or visit slate.com\/outwardplus<\/a> for access wherever you listen.<\/p>\n

Production credits:\u00a0<\/p>\n

When We All Get to Heaven is produced by Eureka Street Productions. It is co-created by Lynne Gerber, Siri Colom, and Ariana Nedelman. Our story editor is Sayre Quevedo. Our sound designer is David Herman. Our managing producer is Krissy Clark. Tim Dillinger is our consulting producer and Betsy Towner Levine is our fact-checker. We had additional story editing help from Sarah Ventre, Arwen Nicks, Allison Behringer, and Krissy Clark. For a complete list of credits, please visit http:\/\/heavenpodcast.org\/credits<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This project received generous support from individual donors, the Henry Luce Foundation (www.hluce.org<\/a>), the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, and California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the humanities (www.CalHum.org<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Eureka Street Productions has 501c3 status through our fiscal sponsor FJC: A Foundation of Philanthropic Funds<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The music for this episode is from the Metropolitan Community Church of San Francisco\u2019s archive. It was performed by MCC-SF\u2019s musicians and members with Bob Crocker and Jack Hoggatt-St.John as music directors. Additional music is by Tasty Morsels.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe See You God\u201d is a variation on the anonymously written hymn \u201cWe See the Lord.\u201d<\/p>\n

The soloist in \u201cI Lift Mine Eyes Up\u201d is Bob Crocker. It\u2019s by Antonin Dvorak, Biblical Songs, Op. 99, no. 9 on Psalm 121.<\/p>\n

\u201cHush, Hush. Somebody\u2019s Calling My Name\u201d is a traditional African American spiritual.<\/p>\n

Great thanks, as always, to the members and clergy of the Metropolitan Community Church of San Francisco<\/a> who made this project possible.<\/p>\n

Some links to good groups:<\/p>\n

The Metropolitan Community Church of San Francisco<\/a> \u2013 the congregation\u2019s current website.<\/p>\n

Metropolitan Community Churches<\/a> \u2013 the denomination of which MCC San Francisco is a part.<\/p>\n

San Francisco AIDS Foundation<\/a> \u2013 a place to seek information about HIV.<\/p>\n

POZ Magazine<\/a> \u2013 a place to learn everything else about HIV (information included).<\/p>\n

Save AIDS Research<\/a> \u2013 their recent, epic 24 hours to Save Research conference with all the latest HIV research is available on YouTube through this site.<\/p>\n

LGBTQ Religious Archives Network<\/a> \u2013 the place to get lost in LGBTQ+ religious history.<\/p>\n

\"California<\/p>\n

California Humanities<\/p>\n

\"Henry<\/p>\n

Henry Luce Foundation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the late \u201880s, two MCC San Francisco ministers wrote an article called \u201cWe Are the Church Alive,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[682,2434,14947,6163,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-17508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-aids","tag-lgbtq","tag-queer-history","tag-religion","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}