Our executive director, Rev. Dr. Cindi Love developed Black & LGBTQI Timeline for Metropolitan Community Churches. This project honors the lives and contributions of Black & LGBTQI people who have served as lay and clergy leaders for the movement and ministry of the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches worldwide. The project has two aspects: […]
Racial Justice
Rodney Powell: Thoughts on the Soulforce Equality Ride
[googlevideo=-5505803446502601372] Get Flash Player (required to play) Rodney Powell is a gay, African American, who has lived in Hawaii since 1976 with his partner of 30 years. While a medical student at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee during the years 1957-61, as a student protest leader in the African American Civil Rights Movement, Rodney […]
The Freedom Ride Tradition
Click here to read a letter from Rodney Powell, a gay man who helped lead the Freedom Rides. On Monday, May 4, 1961 brave young men and women boarded a Greyhound bus with a ticket south. The ride was designed to test the Supreme Court’s 1946 decision in the Irene Morgan case, which declared segregated […]
Those Who Lived the Struggle to End Segregation Now Speak Out for Same-Gender Marriage Equality
Coretta Scott King “I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people and I should stick to the issue of racial justice… But I hasten to remind them that Martin Luther King, Jr., said, ‘Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere’ … I appeal […]
Two Spirit Society of Denver
The Two Spirit Society of Denver is a dedicated group of GBLT Native Americans in the Denver area who are united by their struggle to restore Two Spirited people to their rightful place in the sacred circle. The Two Spirit Society of Denver seeks to achieve this goal using the following methods: Provide support for […]
A Letter from Rodney Powell, Gay Man who Helped Lead the Freedom Rides
"History reveals to us that those who oppose the movement for freedom are those who are in privileged positions who very seldom give up their privileges without strong resistance. And they very seldom do it voluntarily." – Martin Luther King Jr. I have long been an advocate for more meaningful involvement and leadership of youth, […]