The Church of the Holy Apostles in 1975. CBST held its Friday night Kabbalat Shabbat services in the Community Room of the church's annex (not visible here) for 2-1/2 years, from February 1973 through July 1975.
Co-founded in 2014 by Dr. Wilhemina Perry, Circle of Life provides memorial services in honor of the LGBT dead. A wide range of sponsors comprise a consortium of supporters such as: Destination Tomorrow, Gatekeepers Collective, Griot Works Pastoral…
New Orleans officials reportedly are looking at options to deal with a number of lawsuits that have arisen from the Upstairs Lounge fire and three other catastrophes over the span of about a year.
Clarence Joseph McCloskey, Jr. , 48, store manager, partner of Joe William "Bill" Bailey (see above). McCloskey’s sisters and two nieces attended the memorial service.
Before celebrating the first Mass in the congregation's newly renovated church, Father Robert M. Clement blesses the entrance to the Church of the Beloved Disciple with the Eucharist. Surrounded by clergy, parishioners, and the church's distinctive…
On July 19, 1970, Father Robert M. Clement celebrated the first public Mass of the newly founded Church of the Beloved Disciple at the Church of the Holy Apostles in Manhattan. Attended by an estimated 600 to 800 people, the liturgy offered an…
Archbishop Richard Arthur Marchenna consecrates Robert Mary Clement on Sunday, October 6, 1974, at the Metropolitan-Duane United Methodist Church, New York City.
The renovated façade of the Church of the Beloved Disciple at 348 West 14th Street, the congregation's permanent home from 1973 until 1983. Purchased and restored through the labor and generosity of parishioners, the building became one of the first…
This guide is for LGBTQ American Muslims moving toward living fully in their sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and in the traditions of their faith. These pages offer general, overarching insights and suggestions and draw on a wide…
The front of this devotional card features the Church of the Beloved Disciple's image of St. John the Beloved, reproduced from the stained-glass window designed collaboratively by Leo Joseph and John Darcy Noble. Commissioned in England and imported…