1968 founding of the Metropolitan Community Church (MCC, for short) in Los Angeles by an activist minister named Troy Perry. Stonewall 50 & World Pride: March With Joy, Anger, and Power OUT LOUD ...

LGBTQ-inclusive Metropolitan Community Church in 1968 after recovering from an attempt to end his own life, meeting his husband Phillip Ray De Blieck in a leather bar—and suing the Los Angeles ...

The Rev. Keith Mozingo is struggling to keep up his yuletide spirits after the baby Jesus that topped his politically charged Nativity scene in Los ... Metropolitan Community Church on Prospect ...

But on Saturday evening members of Metropolitan Community Church celebrated ... Perry started the church in his home in the Los Angeles area in 1968. Twelve people attended the first church ...

The Rev. Troy Perry, a founder of the Metropolitan Community Church, was also one of three founders of Christopher Street West, sponsor of Los Angeles’ first Pride parade in 1971. His CSW co ...

Reverend Troy Perry, 75, was the founder of L.A.’s LGBT-friendly Metropolitan Community ... “We’re the homosexual community of Los Angeles.” The tenure of the conversation quickly ...

Perry performed the first public same-sex marriage at the Metropolitan Community Church The second ... the director of USC’s ONE National Gay and Lesbian Library and Archives, Los Angeles is rife with ...