90 20 2617 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Shower of Stoles Description An account of the resource Items (stoles) for the Shower of Stoles exhibit Stole A stole in the Shower of Stoles exhibit Honoree The person honored by the creation of thestole. Rebecca J. Hostetler Stole Text Second career pastor; small town public librarian prior to entering seminary in 1979. Became Lutheran as an adult in the American Lutheran Church. Ordained November 23, 1986. Resigned from the ELCA clergy roster on Reformation Day, October 31, 1995. To stay in ordained ministry and to live two lives, leaving part of myself outside the church door, became unhealthy for me; I needed to reign to integrate all of me. Most of my ministry was spent as an Intentional Interim Pastor serving congregations in crisis. Denomination Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Contribution Date 2015 Contribution Story Originally a part of the collection of stoles housed by ReconcilingWorks (formerly known as Lutherans Concerned), this stole was donated by them to the Shower of Stoles Project in 2015. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1197 Title A name given to the resource Rebecca J. Hostetler Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Unknown, (USA) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rebecca J. Hostetler Evangelical Lutherans of America (ELCA) Hostetler, Rebecca J. Lutheran Ordination Reconciling Works (formerly Lutherans Concerned) United States Women and Religion https://www.exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/fe4c81d0c9ce9fe9ae37ddbe90c5658f.jpg b7c110e6d4e33458bca47befb0568340 https://www.exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/eba607089d73fbf56ea60d437435f993.jpg 1a59cb993f4cb51ff499a976b2bcbfe4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Shower of Stoles Description An account of the resource Items (stoles) for the Shower of Stoles exhibit Stole A stole in the Shower of Stoles exhibit Honoree The person honored by the creation of thestole. Rebecca Richards Stole Text REBECCA RICHARDS Born in 1948 and baptized at Calvary United Methodist Church in Arlington, VA. Confirmed at Lincolnia UMC in Alexandria, VA. Raised in a loving Christian home, we never missed a Sunday, Church suppers, picnics and activities like VBC and MYF were a must. As a young adult, I joined as a Charter Member of Christ UMC in Columbia, MD. After years of church leadership, including six as a youth group counselor, I knew I must follow the call into full-time ministry. In 1989 I was ordained a Deacon. My first full-time appointment brought me great joy - a two-point, "corn field" charge filled with people who seemed to love me as much as I loved them. But that blessing became an obstacle. My love for these people made it impossible for me to tell the lies necessary to hide my identity and the reality of the life-giving relationship I had with my partner. I made the decision to surrender my credentials, and stood before the Executive Session of AC to say why I must leave. I still love the church of my roots and am a member of St. John's UMC, Baltimore, MD. This church family, affiliated with the Reconciling Congregations Program, has blessed my union with Kathy, tolerated my occasional preaching, and given me hope when I saw none. Thanks be to a gracious God! Denomination United Methodist Church Contribution Date 2000 Contribution Story Of all the denominational subsets of stoles in the collection, United Methodists by far represent the largest percentage of LGBT clergy who were forced out of the ministry, or who left voluntarily because they could no longer tolerate serving in silence. Rebecca's stole also reflects the hypocrisy of a denomination concerned with a significant shortage of rural pastors, while at the same time denying ordination and calls to committed rural pastors simply because of their sexual orientation. Rebecca is a faithful servant of God and committed United Methodist to the very core of her being. The grief and loss she experienced in leaving the ministry is painfully obvious in this brief story. Fortunately, she has found a loving home at St. John's in Baltimore, and her grief has in now way diminished her faith in God's boundless love. This is one of thirteen stoles given to us by Dumbarton UMC in advance of the 2000 General Conference of the United Methodist Church in Cleveland, OH. Dumbarton is a Reconciling congregation, working for the full inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people into the life and leadership of the United Methodist Church. In 1999, the Reconciling Ministries Network (RMN) inquired about the possibility of having a display of the Shower of Stoles at the General Conference the following April. At the time, there were only around twenty United Methodist stoles in the collection. We decided to introduce the Shower of Stoles to the Reconciling community by bringing the twenty UM stoles and about a hundred others to RMN’s Convocation in Denton, TX over the Labor Day weekend. Stoles started to trickle in during the fall, and by February they began coming in droves. In all, we received 220 United Methodist stoles – the vast majority of them arriving within eight weeks of the Conference. Thanks to a monumental effort by a number of volunteers who pitched in to help record, inventory, sew labels and make last-minute repairs, all of the new stoles were present in Cleveland. Twenty more people brought stoles directly to Cleveland, bringing the total number on display to 240. Towards the end of the General Conference, twenty eight lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender United Methodists and allies stood on the Conference floor in silent protest over the Conference’s failure to overturn the ban on LGBT ordination – a profound witness and act of defiance for which they were later arrested. As these twenty eight moved to the front of the room, another 200 supporters stood up around the balcony railing, each wearing one of the new United Methodist stoles. Hundreds more stood in solidarity as well, in the balcony and on the plenary floor, wearing symbolic “stoles” made from colorful bands of cloth. A group of young people from Minneapolis, members of a Communicant’s Class, had purchased bolts of cloth the preceding evening and stayed up all night cutting out close to a thousand of these “stoles." In less than eight months, a handful of stoles had grown to become a powerful, visible witness to the steadfast faith of LGBT United Methodists nationwide. Martha Juillerat Founder, Shower of Stoles Project 2006 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource The Historical Development of BIPOC Trans-spiritual Leadership Website A resource comprising of a web page or web pages and all related assets ( such as images, sound and video files, etc. ). Biographical Text Pauline Park is a long-time transgender activist based in New York City. She has founded and participated in numerous LGBTQ organizations, including Iban/Queer Koreans of New York, NYAGRA, and Queens Pride House, an LGBT community center based in Queens near her home. She also led the campaign for the 2004 New York City transgender rights law. Born in Korea and adopted into an evangelical Christian family, Pauline grew up in Milwaukee. Park views all human rights struggles as distinct yet interconnected. She has dedicated decades of her life to LGBTQ, Asian-American, and Palestinian solidarity activism. Her life and work are the subject of two documentary films by Larry Tung. His film, Envisioning Justice: The Journey of a Transgendered Woman, is a 32-minute documentary about her life and work. It premiered at the New York LGBT Film Festival (NewFest) in 2008. URL https://paulinepark.com/2010/06/26/reclaiming-our-spiritual-legacy-as-transgendered-people/ Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Pauline Park, 2010 https://paulinepark.com/2010/06/26/reclaiming-our-spiritual-legacy-as-transgendered-people/ Title A name given to the resource Reclaiming Our Spiritual Legacy as Transgendered People Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Historical Development of BIPOC Trans-spiritual Leadership Website A resource comprising of a web page or web pages and all related assets ( such as images, sound and video files, etc. ). URL https://paulinepark.com/2010/06/26/reclaiming-our-spiritual-legacy-as-transgendered-people/ Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Reclaiming Our Spiritual Legacy as Transgendered People Subject The topic of the resource I was asked to speak on spirituality and the transgender community. It seems to me that the connection is an intimate one, far closer than we may realize. Description An account of the resource Speech - Metropolitan Community Church of New York (MCC-NY) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived By Pauline Park on Stonewall Sunday, June 18, 2000 https://www.exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/7e0dbbb848bcc54c0aa57b9084d3fb48.jpg 7e982b4847c1cbe1ee8905f26cf721f3 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Recollection of Mervyn Parry from Jane Wheatley, Jesus Lane Meeting, Cambridge: "Mum knew both Mervyn and Dorothy in their youth when they lived in Birmingham. Mervyn taught the piano and Dorothy taught shorthand and typing and they both taught from home, rushing out for a quick kiss and cuddle between students! Dorothy was completely deaf, lip read so well no one realised unless they tried to talk to her without looking at her and founded CAMTAD. Mervyn taught at Impington Village College--learning disabled children and was skilled at Calligraphy, doing all the Quaker Wedding certificates for Cambridgeshire Friends, mine was the last certificate he did as Parkinson's Disease took over and prevented him from continuing. He humbly asked me if it he could do it as his accuracy was no longer perfect, what a wonderful present, of course I said yes! A lovely, lovely man with a wicked sense of humour. He smoked a pipe and used to make us children little dogs made out of pipe cleaners." 20 June 2014 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Text Any textual data included in the document The Reconquista Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource Shower of Stoles Description An account of the resource Items (stoles) for the Shower of Stoles exhibit Stole A stole in the Shower of Stoles exhibit Honoree The person honored by the creation of thestole. Red (One of a group of eighteen Lutheran college students in New York) Stole Text RED ELCA NY Denomination Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Contribution Date 2001 Contribution Story This is one of eighteen stoles made by an group of LGBT Lutheran college students in NY; sixteen are members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and two belong to the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS), a far more conservative branch of American Lutheranism. All eighteen stoles have been patterned identically out of rainbow colored felt; each has a first name in block letters on one panel, and either "ELCA" or "LCMS," and "NY" on the second panel. The eighteen students represented by these stoles came to know each other by meeting at an ecumenical event, and they decided to keep meeting together informally. The students were particularly concerned with providing support for one of their two new LCMS friends. Although this young man was not "out" to anyone outside the group, he had been mercilessly abused by his family and his church on the mere suspicion that he was gay, and he feared for his life. Almost all of the other students are "out," but instead of simply trying to push their friend out of the closet, out of his church or away from his family, they chose instead to "sit with him," to be patient, offer their friendship and support, share in Bible study, and provide a listening ear until the young man's fears subsided and he could "find his own way." These stoles were given to me when I directed a display of stoles at the Tang Museum on the campus of Skidmore College in 2001. One of the ELCA students drove to Saratoga Springs, NY to deliver the stoles and tell me their story. As an act of solidarity with their one friend, all eighteen chose to put only their first names on the stoles. The student who delivered the stoles talked with me for quite awhile, but he, too, chose to tell me only his first name and he left no contact information. Although I don't know these students beyond the bit that they chose to share with me, I am touched by their story and impressed with the bond of faith and friendship they have formed. When I asked how their friend was doing, the student smiled and said, "He's getting his spiritual life back." And, he added, "He has changed our lives, too." Martha Juillerat Founder, Shower of Stoles Project 2006 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Local URL The URL of the local directory containing all assets of the website http://www.redlactrans.org/ YouTube ID Eleven-character ID assigned by YouTube ouElBo6ikGQ Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource REDLACTRANS Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouElBo6ikGQ Description An account of the resource The Latin American and Caribbean network of transgender people ( RedLacTrans) is the first regional transgender network in Latin America and the Caribbean, and was founded in 2004. In 2021 we at RedlacTrans re-launch this campaign with the support of the Alliance for Positive Leadership (ALEP) and key populations, a project funded by the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. https://www.exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/14f38bd9f583fb293f061edb7dc1ecd8.jpg 5b68bd370dd237640aecc9412e38ab2c https://www.exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/a136f68954db7e5835a68fb36797698e.jpg b2b54ca41b4ca0e2e286ad066ae20528 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Shower of Stoles Description An account of the resource Items (stoles) for the Shower of Stoles exhibit Stole A stole in the Shower of Stoles exhibit Honoree The person honored by the creation of thestole. Reen Carter Stole Text Reen Carter Denomination Presbyterian Church (USA) United Church of Christ Contribution Date 2001 Contribution Story This is one of 52 stoles donated to the Shower of Stoles collection by members and staff of Church of the Covenant. Although each of the stoles is unique, all of them are tied together by the inclusion of a piece cloth from a common bolt of blue and ivory material somewhere in the stole. Covenant is both a More Light and Open and Affirming Congregation. Their strong and public advocacy on behalf of LGBT persons in the life and leadership of the church has drawn many LBGT persons to become a part of the Covenant church family. Their 52 stoles represent the largest subset of stoles given to the collection by any one congregation. Church of the Covenant, a federated United Church of Christ and Presbyterian Church, is steeped in history. Located just off the Boston Commons, the Gothic revival building erected in the mid-1800's was one of the first churches built in the Back Bay area. In the 1890's the sanctuary was completely redecorated by Tiffany Glass and Decorating Co., including the creation of an extraordinary set of Tiffany stained-glass windows and a chandelier that is said to be the first electrified light installed in a public building by Thomas Edison. Covenant's history of social justice and human rights work is equally rich. When I visited Covenant, I was intrigued to learn that the church was a designated stop along the "Boston Women's Heritage Trail." One of Covenant's members, Abbie Child, was the head of the Women's Board of Missions of the Congregational Church in the late 1800's. Another member, Dr. Elsa Meder, was one of the first women ordained as an elder in the Presbyterian Church. Elizabeth Rice and Alice Hageman, ordained in 1974 and 1975 respectively, were the first women to serve as pastors at a Back Bay church. When they were joined by Donna Day Lower, the church became the only one in the United States with three women clergy. Since opening the "Women's Lunch Place" in 1982, the church has served as a haven for poor women and their children. It is fitting, then, that one of the Tiffany windows is "Four Women of the Bible," including Miriam, Deborah, Mary of Bethany, and Dorcas. Covenant remains on the forefront of work for equality and justice, and is active in the LGBT Welcoming movement in the Boston area and beyond. Martha Juillerat Founder, Shower of Stoles Project 2006 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource The Upstairs Lounge Fire Person An individual. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Reginald Eugene Adams, Jr. Description An account of the resource Reginald Eugene Adams, Jr., MCC member, former Jesuit scholastic, partner of Ricky Soleto. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Johnny Townsend collection (pic). https://www.exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/c0958000aa12628212fc060e754b8686.pdf 422d5bc1257658ef1ada6d97d1899f84 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Historical Development of BIPOC Trans-spiritual Leadership Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Pierce, Wendi. "Alpha Zeta & A Rose News Vol. 4 No. 11 (October 15, 1988)." Newsletter. 1988. Digital Transgender Archive, https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/bv73c0666 (accessed November 10, 2022). Title A name given to the resource Religion and the Transsexual: Can the Church Change? Subject The topic of the resource An essay dealing with transsexuals and the church. Description An account of the resource Sister Mary Elizabeth argues that the church plays a role in driving transsexuals towards surgical options by refusing them an opportunity to worship unmolested. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived This newsletter, Vol. IV, No. IX, is produced by Alpha Zeta & A Rose, a chapter of Tri-Ess, an organization of heterosexual men, often married with children, who demand the right to express their femininity as freely as they express their masculinity. 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Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Religious Aspects of Transsexualism, 1971 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Queer Religion Boston Description An account of the resource Items for the Boston Queer Religious History exhibit Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Religious Coalition for the Freedom to Marry https://www.exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/6076469e9b8c6c21d271c1a62aa50311.jpg b45cf5c548d4b5d67adea4e182f00e67 Person An individual. Text Any textual data included in the document Rev. Dr. Renee McCoy was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1951. She attended parochial grade and high schools, which served to shape her faith as a devote Roman Catholic. As a child of the Civil Rights Movement, her life had been infused with the certainty of God’s commitment to end oppressions of any kind and trust in God’s promises of abiding and unconditional love and acceptance. She had also learned from her parents and grandparents that actively participating in God’s liberating and healing actions in the world was her responsibility. Her faith has remained grounded in the belief that God calls us to do simple things: feed the hungry, clothe the naked, house the homeless, and work to release those imprisoned by guilt, shame, fear, and despair. This laid the foundation for involvement in activities designed to fight discrimination. As a teenager she was involved with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Black Catholics in Action, programs of her local parish council targeting low income children devastated by the 1967 civil unrest in Detroit, and various university based political and social justice groups. <img src="http://rollingthestoneaway.org/media/profile/renee-mccoy/Pic%20MCC%20Harlem.jpg" />Sent from MCC New York to start MCC Harlem (with Karen Ziegler) Her fidelity to the Catholic Church was eventually shaken by its rejection of homosexuality, its limited sensitivities to racial justice, and its unyielding refusal to empower women. Her faith in the power and love of God, however, has never wavered and she has tried to remain true to God’s demand for continued social justice activism. In her search for community, she attended various churches looking for one that would affirm and empower her to answer God’s call for her life but finding none. One Saturday night in 1976 she met members of the Metropolitan Community Church of Detroit (MCCD) bar ministry team conducting outreach in LGBTQ bars. They invited her to their worship services so she decided to give organized religion one more try. If nothing else, she thought, there was the possibility of meeting a “good Christian woman”! She attended worship the following day and experienced a sense of belonging through the sermon of Rev. Nancy Wilson and the vision of denomination (MCC) that had been missing from her life for many years; she joined the church soon thereafter. When she realized the racism she had experienced in the bars had also seeped into the church, she became chair of the MCC Racism Task Force, which eventually became the current MCC People of African Descent. To continue addressing racism and homophobia, McCoy became a founding member of the National Coalition of Black Lesbians and Gays (NCBLG), an organization started in 1978 to address the needs and concerns of LGBTQ persons of color. She also decided to move to New York City to expand her life experiences and discover more diverse opportunities for ministry. There, she started the New York Third World LGBT Coalition, an NCBLG chapter focused on issues important to African Americans and Latino LGBTQ persons. Upon completing student clergy training and requirements for licensure and ordination at MCC New York, Rev. McCoy was ordained in 1981. In February of that same year she founded Harlem Metropolitan Community Church (Harlem MCC), the first Christian congregation in both MCC and the country openly governed by African American LGBTQ persons. Harlem MCC was also designed to address their concerns, encourage and empower them, and reflect African American worship styles. Regrettably, HIV/AIDS surfaced soon after the church began and by November this new congregation faced the daunting challenge of caring for persons dying from a new and mysterious disease. The disproportionate occurrence of HIV/AIDS among African Americans had a devastating impact and this new pastor found herself ministering to persons few wanted to touch. This challenge was further complicated by her secular job working with homeless mentally ill women at a shelter in midtown Manhattan. As pastor, she led a congregation truly charged with serving the most broken, providing encouragement and support for persons living with HIV/AIDS, substance abuse issues, and homelessness regardless of sexual orientation. Burdened by serious health issues, McCoy resigned from Harlem MCC after six years of service and moved to Washington D.C., where she worked as the Executive Director of NCBLG. <img src="http://rollingthestoneaway.org/media/profile/renee-mccoy/Pic%20Patricia.jpg" />Meeting first love Patricia When McCoy assumed leadership of NCBLG, HIV/AIDS was approaching the height of global devastation and the organization was forced to narrow its focus to this disease. It joined with others serving people of color to ensure equitable care and McCoy continued providing pastoral support through the ministries of MCC Washington D.C. Continual health and financial challenges, however, required her to move back to Detroit to receive support from her family and the local NCBLG chapter. NCBLG agreed to relocate the national office to Detroit and she remained the Executive Director until 1988. In 1988, she left NCBLG to work for the Detroit Department of Health AIDS Program, which had just begun providing care and support for persons living with HIV/AIDS. There, she worked as liaison to the LGBTQ community and provided HIV testing services and prevention education throughout the metropolitan area. <img src="http://rollingthestoneaway.org/media/profile/renee-mccoy/Pic%20Wedding.jpg" />Wedding with Patricia in Detroit in 2009 That same year (1988) a group of African American LGBTQ persons requested that she start a church that addressed their particular needs and concerns. In response, Rev. McCoy founded Full Truth Fellowship of Christ Church, which will celebrate 29 years of life in September 2017. In order to address the needs of African American LGBTQ persons living with HIV/AIDS, she also founded a secular organization, Healing Ourselves through Prevention Education and Services (HOPES) governed by church and community members. HOPES provided an avenue for federal and state funding, which was denied religious organizations at that time. Full Truth Fellowship Church and HOPES were then together able to provide both spiritual and non-spiritual care and services for persons affected by and t risk for HIV/AIDS. Under McCoy’s leadership HOPES and Full Truth Fellowship gained great respect throughout the Detroit metropolitan area for the tremendous and powerful care their members provided. Eventually, Full Truth Fellowship purchased a building to expand its ministries and HOPES’ HIV/AIDS services, making the church the first LGBTQ organization in Michigan to own land. While she was pastor, McCoy continued working for the Health Department and returned to Wayne State University to complete an undergraduate degree. After receiving a BA in anthropology, she decided it was time to address her own personal needs. She felt conflicted telling her congregation to follow their dreams when she was not doing the same. After leaving parish ministry she went on to earn an MA in anthropology with a specialization in medical anthropology in 1995 and a PhD in medical anthropology in 2005. Her dissertation was titled “African American Men who have Sex with Men: Meaning, Identity, and Risk”.  Since leaving parish ministry, Rev. McCoy  has continued to work in HIV/AIDS related projects including the following: Consultant for the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resource Emergency (CARE) Act Title I; Research Project manager for the Positive Care Project: Care Giving among African Americans with HIV/AIDS; Instructor – Women’s Studies Department at Eastern Michigan University; Qualitative Research Consultant – Wayne State University; Lecturer/Adjunct Faculty teaching Business and Organizational Anthropology – Wayne State University; Program Coordinator and Evaluator at the AIDS Consortium of SE Michigan; HIV Behavioral Surveillance Coordinator for the Michigan Department of Community Health; Director of HIV/AIDS Programs at the Detroit Department of Health and Wellness Promotion; Lecturer at the University of Washington Department of Anthropology; Director of Prevention Education at Lifelong AIDS Alliance; and Director of Public and Private Grants at Lifelong AIDS Alliance. <img src="http://rollingthestoneaway.org/media/profile/renee-mccoy/Pic%20Family.jpg" />Family with Renee & Patricia at the wedding In 2015, Rev. McCoy served as interim pastor of Eastgate Congregational United Church of Christ for a year while the congregation searched for a permanent pastor. She continues to be an active member there and serves as a member of the MCC Public Policy Team. She has also been a potter for over 30 years and continues to make and market functional and ornamental pottery in her home studio. She recently joined the board directors at the Seward Park Clay Studio in Seattle. After being diagnosed with and surviving pancreatic cancer in 2016, Rev. Dr. McCoy decided to retire from fulltime employment and limit her energies to those with less stress and more joy. She looks forward to increased pottery making and other art projects, writing, and fishing. She has been married to the Rev. Dr. Patricia Hunter for eight years and lives in Seattle, WA with their dog, Baxter. Dr. McCoy has also published a number of articles and studies including the following: McCoy, Renee. Ain’t I a Man: Gender Meanings among Black Men who have Sex with Men. In: S. McGlotten and D. Davis, (ed.)Black Genders and Sexualities, Palgrave McMillian, 2012. McCoy, Renee. African American Elders and Cultural Traditions. Generations, Fall, 2011; Rituals and Later Life issue. McCoy, Renee. The Failure of the Black Church to Care for Black Lesbians and Gays. In:Brinkley, S (ed.), Where My Girls AT?, Blacklight Press, San Francisco, 2010. McCoy, Renee (2009) Ain't I a Man: Gender Meanings among Black Men who have Sex with Men. Souls: a Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and SocietyVol. 11 No.3, pp. 337-346   McCoy, Renee (2008) HIV/AIDS and Substance Abuse Prevention Training Manual for Providers and Community Groups. Detroit Department of Health and Wellness Promotions McCoy, Renee. Ujima Substance Abuse Prevention Curriculum for High Risk African American Youth; AIDS Consortium of Southeastern Michigan; October 2001. McCoy, Renee. Volunteer Training Manual; Men of Color Motivational Group; June 2000. Rapid Assessment, Response, and Evaluation (RARE) Report: Assessing the HIV/AIDS Intervention and Service needs of African Americans in Detroit, MI.  US Department of Health and Human Resources and Detroit Health Department, Jan. 2000. Gleason, JA, Fletcher, C, and McCoy, R.  Assessing Needs for Women with HIV/AIDS in Greater Detroit.  National HIV Infection in Women Conference.  U. S. National             Institute of Health, Washing ton D.C., 1995. Sankar, A., and McCoy, R. "Ethnographic Methods in Public Health Research,” Human Organization Gleason, J., McCoy, R., Fletcher, C.  (1995).  Planning Greater Detroit HIV/AIDS Continuum of care:  consumer perception of health & service needs.  American Public Health Association 123rd Annual Meeting.  San Diego, CA. Detroit Eligible Metropolitan Area 1994 Needs Assessment - Southeastern Michigan HIV/AIDS Council.  Co-investigator in charge of recruitment and outreach AIDS Link, Vol.4, No.2, December 1991, AIDS in the African American Community, with Michelle Rowser and Dr. Ali Naqvi, Ph.D. McCoy, R. The Failure of the Black Church to Care for Black Gays and Lesbians. 1989. Blacklight Magazine. http://www,blacklightonline.com (This biographical statement provided by Rev. Dr. Renee McCoy.) Biographical Text Rev. Dr. Renee McCoy was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1951. She attended parochial grade and high schools, which served to shape her faith as a devoted Roman Catholic. As a child of the Civil Rights Movement, her life had been infused with the certainty of God’s commitment to end oppressions of any kind and trust in God’s promises of abiding and unconditional love and acceptance. She had also learned from her parents and grandparents that actively participating in God’s liberating and healing actions in the world was her responsibility. Her faith has remained grounded in the belief that God calls us to do simple things: feed the hungry, clothe the naked, house the homeless, and work to release those imprisoned by guilt, shame, fear, and despair. This laid the foundation for involvement in activities designed to fight discrimination. As a teenager she was involved with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Black Catholics in Action, programs of her local parish council targeting low income children devastated by the 1967 civil unrest in Detroit, and various university based political and social justice groups. Her fidelity to the Catholic Church was eventually shaken by its rejection of homosexuality, its limited sensitivities to racial justice, and its unyielding refusal to empower women. Her faith in the power and love of God, however, has never wavered and she has tried to remain true to God’s demand for continued social justice activism. In her search for community, she attended various churches looking for one that would affirm and empower her to answer God’s call for her life but finding none. One Saturday night in 1976 she met members of the Metropolitan Community Church of Detroit (MCCD) bar ministry team conducting outreach in LGBTQ bars. They invited her to their worship services so she decided to give organized religion one more try. If nothing else, she thought, there was the possibility of meeting a “good Christian woman”! She attended worship the following day and experienced a sense of belonging through the sermon of Rev. Nancy Wilson and the vision of denomination (MCC) that had been missing from her life for many years; she joined the church soon thereafter. When she realized the racism she had experienced in the bars had also seeped into the church, she became chair of the MCC Racism Task Force, which eventually became the current MCC People of African Descent. To continue addressing racism and homophobia, McCoy became a founding member of the National Coalition of Black Lesbians and Gays (NCBLG), an organization started in 1978 to address the needs and concerns of LGBTQ persons of color. She also decided to move to New York City to expand her life experiences and discover more diverse opportunities for ministry. There, she started the New York Third World LGBT Coalition, an NCBLG chapter focused on issues important to African Americans and Latino LGBTQ persons. Upon completing student clergy training and requirements for licensure and ordination at MCC New York, Rev. McCoy was ordained in 1981. In February of that same year she founded Harlem Metropolitan Community Church (Harlem MCC), the first Christian congregation in both MCC and the country openly governed by African American LGBTQ persons. Harlem MCC was also designed to address their concerns, encourage and empower them, and reflect African American worship styles. Regrettably, HIV/AIDS surfaced soon after the church began and by November this new congregation faced the daunting challenge of caring for persons dying from a new and mysterious disease. The disproportionate occurrence of HIV/AIDS among African Americans had a devastating impact and this new pastor found herself ministering to persons few wanted to touch. This challenge was further complicated by her secular job working with homeless mentally ill women at a shelter in midtown Manhattan. As pastor, she led a congregation truly charged with serving the most broken, providing encouragement and support for persons living with HIV/AIDS, substance abuse issues, and homelessness regardless of sexual orientation. Burdened by serious health issues, McCoy resigned from Harlem MCC after six years of service and moved to Washington D.C., where she worked as the Executive Director of NCBLG. When McCoy assumed leadership of NCBLG, HIV/AIDS was approaching the height of global devastation and the organization was forced to narrow its focus to this disease. It joined with others serving people of color to ensure equitable care and McCoy continued providing pastoral support through the ministries of MCC Washington D.C. Continual health and financial challenges, however, required her to move back to Detroit to receive support from her family and the local NCBLG chapter. NCBLG agreed to relocate the national office to Detroit and she remained the Executive Director until 1988. In 1988, she left NCBLG to work for the Detroit Department of Health AIDS Program, which had just begun providing care and support for persons living with HIV/AIDS. There, she worked as liaison to the LGBTQ community and provided HIV testing services and prevention education throughout the metropolitan area. That same year (1988) a group of African American LGBTQ persons requested that she start a church that addressed their particular needs and concerns. In response, Rev. McCoy founded Full Truth Fellowship of Christ Church, which will celebrate 29 years of life in September 2017. In order to address the needs of African American LGBTQ persons living with HIV/AIDS, she also founded a secular organization, Healing Ourselves through Prevention Education and Services (HOPES) governed by church and community members. HOPES provided an avenue for federal and state funding, which was denied religious organizations at that time. Full Truth Fellowship Church and HOPES were then together able to provide both spiritual and non-spiritual care and services for persons affected by and t risk for HIV/AIDS. Under McCoy’s leadership HOPES and Full Truth Fellowship gained great respect throughout the Detroit metropolitan area for the tremendous and powerful care their members provided. Eventually, Full Truth Fellowship purchased a building to expand its ministries and HOPES’ HIV/AIDS services, making the church the first LGBTQ organization in Michigan to own land. While she was pastor, McCoy continued working for the Health Department and returned to Wayne State University to complete an undergraduate degree. After receiving a BA in anthropology, she decided it was time to address her own personal needs. She felt conflicted telling her congregation to follow their dreams when she was not doing the same. After leaving parish ministry she went on to earn an MA in anthropology with a specialization in medical anthropology in 1995 and a PhD in medical anthropology in 2005. Her dissertation was titled “African American Men who have Sex with Men: Meaning, Identity, and Risk”.  Since leaving parish ministry, Rev. McCoy  has continued to work in HIV/AIDS related projects including the following: Consultant for the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resource Emergency (CARE) Act Title I; Research Project manager for the Positive Care Project: Care Giving among African Americans with HIV/AIDS; Instructor – Women’s Studies Department at Eastern Michigan University; Qualitative Research Consultant – Wayne State University; Lecturer/Adjunct Faculty teaching Business and Organizational Anthropology – Wayne State University; Program Coordinator and Evaluator at the AIDS Consortium of SE Michigan; HIV Behavioral Surveillance Coordinator for the Michigan Department of Community Health; Director of HIV/AIDS Programs at the Detroit Department of Health and Wellness Promotion; Lecturer at the University of Washington Department of Anthropology; Director of Prevention Education at Lifelong AIDS Alliance; and Director of Public and Private Grants at Lifelong AIDS Alliance. In 2015, Rev. McCoy served as interim pastor of Eastgate Congregational United Church of Christ for a year while the congregation searched for a permanent pastor. She continues to be an active member there and serves as a member of the MCC Public Policy Team. She has also been a potter for over 30 years and continues to make and market functional and ornamental pottery in her home studio. She recently joined the board directors at the Seward Park Clay Studio in Seattle. After being diagnosed with and surviving pancreatic cancer in 2016, Rev. Dr. McCoy decided to retire from fulltime employment and limit her energies to those with less stress and more joy. She looks forward to increased pottery making and other art projects, writing, and fishing. She has been married to the Rev. Dr. Patricia Hunter for eight years and lives in Seattle, WA with their dog, Baxter. Dr. McCoy has also published a number of articles and studies including the following: McCoy, Renee. Ain’t I a Man: Gender Meanings among Black Men who have Sex with Men. In: S. McGlotten and D. Davis, (ed.)Black Genders and Sexualities, Palgrave McMillian, 2012. McCoy, Renee. African American Elders and Cultural Traditions. Generations, Fall, 2011; Rituals and Later Life issue. McCoy, Renee. The Failure of the Black Church to Care for Black Lesbians and Gays. In:Brinkley, S (ed.), Where My Girls AT?, Blacklight Press, San Francisco, 2010. McCoy, Renee (2009) Ain't I a Man: Gender Meanings among Black Men who have Sex with Men. Souls: a Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and SocietyVol. 11 No.3, pp. 337-346   McCoy, Renee (2008) HIV/AIDS and Substance Abuse Prevention Training Manual for Providers and Community Groups. Detroit Department of Health and Wellness Promotions McCoy, Renee. Ujima Substance Abuse Prevention Curriculum for High Risk African American Youth; AIDS Consortium of Southeastern Michigan; October 2001. McCoy, Renee. Volunteer Training Manual; Men of Color Motivational Group; June 2000. Rapid Assessment, Response, and Evaluation (RARE) Report: Assessing the HIV/AIDS Intervention and Service needs of African Americans in Detroit, MI.  US Department of Health and Human Resources and Detroit Health Department, Jan. 2000. Gleason, JA, Fletcher, C, and McCoy, R.  Assessing Needs for Women with HIV/AIDS in Greater Detroit.  National HIV Infection in Women Conference.  U. S. National             Institute of Health, Washing ton D.C., 1995. Sankar, A., and McCoy, R. "Ethnographic Methods in Public Health Research,” Human Organization Gleason, J., McCoy, R., Fletcher, C.  (1995).  Planning Greater Detroit HIV/AIDS Continuum of care:  consumer perception of health & service needs.  American Public Health Association 123rd Annual Meeting.  San Diego, CA. Detroit Eligible Metropolitan Area 1994 Needs Assessment - Southeastern Michigan HIV/AIDS Council.  Co-investigator in charge of recruitment and outreach AIDS Link, Vol.4, No.2, December 1991, AIDS in the African American Community, with Michelle Rowser and Dr. Ali Naqvi, Ph.D. McCoy, R. The Failure of the Black Church to Care for Black Gays and Lesbians. 1989. Blacklight Magazine. http://www,blacklightonline.com (This biographical statement provided by Rev. Dr. Renee McCoy.) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Renee McCoy Catholic MCC Metropolitan Community Church Renee McCoy Roman Catholic https://www.exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/afbc0b5698f80b6f841ba8d11809f957.pdf 45d78a50c77dc9809b7f48b7c4ea0c15 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Upstairs Lounge Fire Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Text Any textual data included in the document THE UPSTAIRS LOUNGE FIRE New Orleans, Louisiana A. ELWOOD WILLEY Manager, NFPA Fire Record Department ON JUNE 24, 1973, a fire in a second-floor cocktail lounge in the French Quarter of New Orleans killed 32 patrons and injured 12 others. The fire was deliberately .set on the stairway of the main entrance; blocking the normal exit route from the lounge. Combustible wood paneling and carpet in the stairway provided fuel for the fire. In the confusion that followed, 20 people escaped through a rear door, 15 others escaped through windows, and 28 bodies were recovered from the lounge after the fire. Of those who escaped, one died before reaching the hospital, three died later of burn injuries, and seven others were critically burned. The Upstairs Lounge was located at the intersection of Iberville and Chartres Streets in the French Quarter. On the second floor of a three-story, brick, wood-joisted building, it had been operated as a cocktail lounge since the early 1960's. Two other bars were on the first floor of the building, and there were apartments on the third floor. The second floor was divided into three areas: the bar, a lounge, and a small theater used for plays (see Figure 1). The lounge and theater areas measured approximately 20 feet by 46 feet; the bar was 20 feet by 58 feet. The building was separated from a three-story building on the west and from a one story building on the north by 12-inch-thick brick walls. The second-story landing of the only stairway was in a 12 foot-by-20-foot area that was separated from the bar by a plaster-and-Iathe-on-wood stud partition. Rest rooms were also in this partitioned-off area. A fire door and frame assembly, approved for a Class B opening, and equipped with a door closer, was installed in this partition at the stair landing. There was a large, unprotected opening in the brick wall between the bar and the lounge. A brick wall separated the theater from the lounge; a swinging fire door, approved for the protection of a Class A firewall opening, was installed in the doorway. Interior finishes in the bar and lounge included a rayon fiber-flocked wallpaper on plaster-and-wood lath walls, glass fiber ceiling tiles suspended below a plaster-and-wire-Iathe ceiling, and carpet cemented to a wood floor. Wood paneling on wood studs separated a storage room from the lounge. Interior finishes in the theater included wood-paneled walls, a wood floor, and a wood tongue-and-groove ceiling. In the entrance stairway, carpeting was on the wood stairs, three-sixteenth-inch wood paneling was attached to 1-inch-by-4-inch wood nailers on the plaster north wall, and a burlap fabric was glued over the plaster south wall. Undetermined amounts of fabric and paper decorations were used in the stairway entrance and in the bar. There were two ways out of the second story: the main entrance stairway, which opened to the outside to Iberville Street; and a rear door behind the stage in the theater, which discharged to the roof of the one story building to the north. Illuminated exit signs were installed in the second story over the main entrance, above the doorway leading to the theater from the lounge, and above the rear door behind the stage. The word "EXIT' had been removed from the frame of the exit sign over the rear door. The path to this door was not obvious, and was obstructed by the stage and scenery. To open it, one had to remove a wire from a hasp. The operating condition of the other exit signs could not be determined. An exterior metal fire escape was located on the east side of the building and ran from the second to the third floor. Access to the second floor fire escape balcony was through a window at the north end of the bar. Exterior windows in the bar and lounge areas were 42 inches wide and over nine feet high. Since the window sills were only a few inches above the floor, three horizontal metal rods had been installed across each window to prevent people from falling through the openings. The rods were installed ten inches apart, with maximum clearance of 14 inches between the sill and the first rod. A pair of wooden shutters was also installed in the lower section of each window, and the windows in the lounge were sealed over with plywood. Total seating capacity in the bar, lounge, and theater was 110 people; at the time of the fire, approximately 65 persons were present. No one was in the third story apartments. On Sunday evening, June 24, one of the Upstairs Lounge patrons was annoyed by the constant ringing of the door bell. He went to the entrance door at the head of the stairs and opened it. Fire immediately came into the lounge from the stairway and exposed those sitting at the bar. A group of patrons standing around the piano near the south end of the bar turned when they heard a noise, and saw flames coming into the bar from the entrance doorway. People ran around in confusion. Those who were near the windows unfastened the wooden shutters, opened the windows and squeezed out between the metal bars. Some of those who reached the windows first were able to crawl out and slide down drain pipes to the sidewalk below. As more people became aware of the fire, many of them rushed to the windows, but only a few were able to escape. Meanwhile, the bartender left the bar when he first saw the fire, and shouted for everyone to stay calm and follow him to the rear door. He led several people through the fire door at the entrance to the theater and. directed them through the rear door behind the stage scenery. It is estimated that about 20 people were able to escape through this theater exit. The bartender then went back through the theater to the fire door, opened it and called out again for people to follow him. There was no response, since by that time the fire was spreading through the bar area. He went back into the theater, closed the fire door, latched it and left the theater area through the rear door. Shortly before 8:00 pm, a woman who was walking past the entrance and stairway to The Upstairs Lounge saw a fire burning on the second and third steps. She went into an adjacent bar and shouted for someone to call the Fire Department. A barmaid telephoned the alarm. Four men left the bar and went to the Lounge entrance to see what was causing all the excitement. The woman then went back to the Lounge entrance. By that time, the fire had progressed to the top of the stairs. The alarm was received by the Fire Department, and two engine companies and a ladder company were dispatched at 7:56 pm. Four additional alarms brought a total of 13 engine companies and 4 ladder companies to the scene. At 7:58 pm, first-arriving fire fighters found the entrance stairway and the bar fully involved. Several occupants who had jumped from windows were lying injured in the street, and one woman was waiting for rescue on the exterior fire escape which led from the second to the third floor of-the building. Other Lounge patrons were trapped in the second-story bar; since the fire had spread through that area, they were at the time beyond the reach of help. Fire fighters gave immediate assistance to the injured lying in the street and rescued the woman from the fire escape. They used three 2 1/2--inch hand lines and a 500 gpm ladder pipe for a short time to knock down the fire in the second story, while a special fire-fighting unit known as the Flying Squad advanced up the stairs and into the bar with a 1 ½-inch line. The fire was brought under control within 15 minutes of the initial alarm. After the fire was knocked down, fire fighters found 28 bodies in the bar section (see Figure 1). One pile of bodies was located at the southeast corner of the bar. In all, 23 bodies were located at that end of the bar, next to exterior windows. One of those who had escaped through a window was pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital. Fifteen others who had jumped or fallen from windows were also transported to hospitals. Five were treated and released and three died, having suffered massive burns over 50 percent of their bodies. Principal fire damage was limited to the entrance stairway, the bar, and the lounge. The theater received moderate smoke damage. In the stairway, the carpet had been consumed except for carpet on the tread near the top of the stairs. The stair treads and risers were heavily charred. The wood paneling on the north wall had been consumed, and plaster was spalled on the walls and ceiling near the top of the stairs. In the bar area, carpeting was charred, the flocked wallpaper was consumed, and the ceiling tile system had dropped to the floor. The wood cocktail bar, window frames and other combustible furnishings were heavily charred. Fire damage in the lounge was nearly as severe. The char line on the flocked wallpaper on the west (theater) wall stopped two feet from the floor. Some carpet was intact, where it had been protected by furniture, and a portion of the ceiling tile system remained in place at the south end of the room. The wood paneling on the storage room partition was charred down to approximately one foot from the floor. The plywood that covered the windows was charred from the top down to approximately the midpoint. The theater suffered only moderate smoke damage, since the fire door stayed closed during the most severe fire exposure. The speed of the initial fire development is of interest. The woman who had seen the fire burning in the stairway discovered it at approximately 7:53 pm. The alarm was received at 7:55 and the fire apparatus dispatched at 7:56. When the first units arrived at 7:58 the bar was fully involved, and those who survived had already escaped the inferno. The exposure to the bar and lounge patrons was immediate when the entrance door was opened. It is believed that the door remained open or at least partially open after the patron opened it and discovered the fire. Nearly all of the heat, fire, and combustion gases from the stairway vented into the second story, since the only other opening from the stairway was a small window near the top measuring approximately 18 inches by 36 inches. The time that the occupants had to react to the fire threat was very brief, and, the bartender's immediate and positive action in directing patrons through the rear door is credited with saving approximately 20 lives. Five people who initially escaped through windows and slid to the ground over drain pipes and sign appurtenances received relatively minor cuts and bruises. Nine others who squeezed between the window bars and either jumped or fell to the ground received massive burns and other injuries; One of them died before reaching the hospital, and three others died several days later. The woman who climbed out onto the fire escape also received severe burns. Survivors described the frustration of trying to persuade more people to move toward the rear door, instead of sitting or standing where they were. Whether this lack of action was because initial shock created an inability to react to the threat is not known. Panic resulted when those who had stayed behind ran for the windows. Their bodies were found stacked in front of the only visible means of escape. Investigations conducted by the Louisiana State Fire Marshal's Office and the New Orleans Fire Department indicate that the fire was intentionally set on the first few steps of the entrance stairway. However, details as to how the fire was set were not available. When discovered, the fire was burning on the carpet on the first two wood steps. Flames spread up the stairs on the carpet and then involved the wood paneling. The National Bureau of Standards conducted flame spread tests of carpet material that had been removed from the second-story floor. The 5/32-inch-thick carpet was constructed of polyvinyl chloride and cellulose fibers, felted together in four layers with the top layer consisting of 100 percent polyvinyl chloride fibers. Two carpet samples were tested using the method described in E-162-72, Test for Surface Flammability of Material, Using a Radiant Heat Energy Source. Test results indicated an average flame spread index of 535, which placed these carpet samples within the Class E flame spread classification. The Upstairs Lounge management indicated that the carpet material on the stairs was the same as that in the Lounge. However, positive identification of the stair material could not be made due to fire damage. The stairway carpet contributed to the initial spread of fire up the stairs, and the carpet in the second floor bar and lounge contributed additional fuel in those areas. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Report from the National Fire Protection Association Description An account of the resource The official NFPA report, published in January 1974, provides a detailed account of the fire, how it started and spread. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Night Club Fire (The Upstairs Lounge) New Orleans, LA June 24, 1973; from the National Fire Protection Association; published in Fire Journal January 1974, pp., 16-20 with drawings and fire test data. https://www.exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/a0f6a94a12a676f558fccf6a3d555e86.pdf 1e6b1e98ceaa2d1b95293c1b610eb1e7 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document When Sex Becomes Impersonal By Donovan Bess The Rev. John V. Moore used his downtown Methodist pulpit yesterday to make a case against "the automation of sex" in America. He charged that sexual union frequently amounts to "IBM computers passing in the dark"—and is "as superficial as buying a sandwich at an automat." "The teachings of Jesus", he told his crowded church, "are against any such misuse of sexuality." The Rev. Mr. Moore's outspoken sermon was the first in a series of three he will give at the Glide Memorial Church in the Tenderloin. "The greatest sexual problem of our day," he said, "is the alienation of sex from See Page 14. Col 3" Page 2: "Sermon: The Worst Sex Danger From Page 1 persons" — as evidenced in talk about "having sex." Those two words, the pastor declared, imply that "the persons involved are so unimportant as to be not worth mentioning." "Men can 'have sex' in the dilapidated ward of a mental hospital, or with a beast. Incest is 'having sex'." He said the populat way of viewing sexuality today is in terms of the Kinsey studies, which tabulated and analyzed "sexual outlets." Personal He said there was evidence that sex in America is becoming less and less personal. "It is possible to intimate, while at the same time being almost wholly impersonal," he said. "For example, partners in some sexual acts never even see each other." "I'm not being entirely facetious when I suggest that it may not be long before prostitution is automated." The Rev. Mr. Moore challenged statements by Simone de Beauvoir, a French intellectual, that Lesbianism is a rejection by women of their being used as sexual objects by men. Marriage In marriage, he said, "I cannot agree that this must invariably be the relationship. "Furthermore, I'm sure that in every man-woman relationship, the man is sometimes the object; nor are Lesbians free from the danger of relating to other Lesbians as though they were objects." In citing misuses of sexuality, he said, "the boy or man who is most promiscuous very likely is driven by the fear that he is not really a man" and "must prove his masculinity to himself." Lives In conclusion, the clergyman declared: "Jesus said that He came that we might live rich, full lives. Denial of our sexuality, alienation of our sexuality, repression of our sexuality all stand in the way of the full life. "We will experience the kind of life which Jesus helped man find only when our sexuality, as every dimension of our lives, is fused with love — the kind of love we see in His life.... "Persons, societies and atoms depend for their existence upon power greater than the forces which would pull them apart. Love, being loved and loving is the power which binds persons together, making them and their relationships whole." Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Report of First Sermon of 3-Part Series by Rev. John Moore Description An account of the resource San Francisco Chronicle, January 11, 1965, pages 1 & 14. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Repository: <a href="http://sfpl.org/librarylocations/sfhistory/sfhistory.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco Public Library</a> https://www.exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/dffc518ce12266f3fe6f2485be5ea62b.pdf 88221073b648695343c6cb510f6168be Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document A Spirited Seminar on Homosexual Integration PAGE 3 Monday, Jan. 18, 1965 San Francisco Chronicle By Donovan Bess A prominent Methodist pastor, the Rev. John V. More, made an appeal to heterosexual men and women yesterday to devote some of their spare time to "a dialogue" with overt homosexuals and lesbians. The appeal was made during a spirited seminar in the Glide Memorial Church following a sermon by the Rev. Mr. Moore on the need to integrate homosexuals into the community. Nearly 150 men and women remained after the service and spent an hour wrestling with such questions as (1) What is normal in bed? and (2) When is a seduction antisocial? The pioneering pastor won an ovation from the group—many of whom are homosexuals. Furor One woman created a furor when she declared: "I'm heterosexual, but I have many homosexual friends. Why do they defend an act that is not considered normal?" Evander Smith, an attorney, leapt to his feet and told the woman he was going to buy her a copy of "A Quaker View on Sex." "This will be an education," he told her. "...You will find that homosexuality exists in every form of animal life. It just so happens that whales have the highest form of homosexual conduct of any." Chided The Rev. Mr. Moore was chided by some men present for depicting homosexual seduction as a special danger because some young persons "might go one way or the other"—and could be railroaded out of heterosexuality. "Sometimes," said one man, "the younger person does the seducing." Smith said "gay" people were particularly averse to child-molesting of any kind. The pastor received another ovation for his initiative in opening his church to such discussions. He expressed hopes that those present would participate in the Council on Religion and the Homosexual, which was established recently by ministers of four Protestant denominations. Homosexuals, he said, "have got to fight to be a human being," in the same way women fought for the vote, and Negroes now seek equal opportunity. "I want to encourage you," he declared, "to move into larger community matters where you will be absorbed by issues other than 'the homosexual in society.'" To help carry this out, he proposed projects that would involve heterosexual "laymen who are comfortable enough in their own sexuality to do this." Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Report of Second Sermon in Series by Rev. John Moore Description An account of the resource San Francisco Chronicle, January 19, 1965, page 3. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Repository: <a href="http://sfpl.org/librarylocations/sfhistory/sfhistory.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco Public Library</a> https://www.exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/5c46f499cbf199edc69fb8e375a47681.pdf 3a44201c3961211e4e70183a3c901349 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document "Guidelines For 'New Morality' A prominent Methodist minister outlined three new "commandments" here yesterday as a basis for a "new order" for the "new morality." The Rev. John V. Moore used T.S. Eliot's "The Cocktail Party" and Robert Gover's "One-Hundred-Dollar Misunderstanding" — as well as the Bible — to illustrate his sermon on "Chastity and The Pill" at the Glide Memorial Methodist Church. "All talk of the 'new morality' leaves me cold," the Rev. Moore said. Order Any "new freedom" is useless, he contended, unless it operates under a "new order" to preserve the stability of relationships. "Pleasure is no solution. It is a principle of disorder... For a new morality, we must have positive principles. "Some believe The Pill (birth control pills_ will solve the problem, but it is no substitute for responsibility. "Sex is a gift of God. It can beautify, but unless there is power, power to shape this gift, it can destroy. Question He posted this question: "The college girl who goes all the way" thinks she is free, but is she really free? "Our task is to create a new order to shape the new freedom—or else it is chaos. "Yet what sex ethic can be devised to include the single woman, the homosexual, the divorced man?" The Rev. Mr. Moore suggested these three imperatives: "Thou shalt be growing in fidelity. "Thou shalt be growing in responsibility. "Thou shalt grow in loving. These imperatives, he said, can shape the values of the "new freedom," and "for those unwilling to shape the values, the future is bleak." Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Report of Third Sermon in Series by Rev. John Moore Description An account of the resource San Francisco Chronicle, January 25, 1965, page 4. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Repository: <a href="http://sfpl.org/librarylocations/sfhistory/sfhistory.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco Public Library</a>