Queer Power Hour: When We All Get To Heaven

Join KALW's for a live spotlight on When We All Get to Heaven, a 10-episode series that tells the story of one of the first gay-positive churches, the Metropolitan Community Church of San Francisco, and how it faced the personal, social, and political trials of the AIDS epidemic, including the deaths of hundreds of its members.

Produced and co-created by Eureka Street Productions, a collective of Lynne Gerber, Siri Colom, and Ariana Nedelman.
Bios:

Lynne Gerber is an independent scholar in San Francisco. Her research and writing is focused on religion, morality, and the body in the United States. She is the author of Seeking the Straight and Narrow: Weight Loss and Sexual Reorientation in Evangelical America (Chicago, 2012). Her work has also appeared in American Quarterly, Nova Religio, Gender & Society, Salon, The Revealer, and Religion Dispatches. She has held research positions and taught at Harvard Divinity School and the University of California at Berkeley. Lynne’s article on MCCSF minister Rev. Jim Mitulski in The Revealer won the 2022 Association of LGBTQ Journalists Award in Profile Writing. She’s been a friend of MCCSF since she first attended a Sunday evening service in December of 2001. 

Your RSVP includes admission to Mission Grafica: The Public's Voice, a collaborative art exhibition produced with the Mission Cultual Center for Latino Arts. tracing the evolution of social justice movements in the Bay Area. Through posters and prints — many produced in MCCLA’s community print studio — the show is a living timeline of how Bay Area artists have responded to power, injustice, and change for generations.

There is a $10 - $20 sliding scale suggested donation for this event. Nobody will be turned away for lack of funds.

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📍 220 Montgomery St., San Francisco, 2 blocks from BART/MUNI

🚪 Reception doors open at 5:00

🗣️ Program begins at 6:00

🆓 The event is free with an RSVP — and you are welcome to donate what you want

Please note:

• The event space is just to the left of the main entrance to the Mills Building at 220 Montgomery Street
• We recommend taking BART/MUNI, exiting at Montgomery, and walking two blocks north
• Ride-shares can drop off and pick up directly in front of the venue
• If you drive, there are several garages within two blocks of the event location; free street parking is available across from the venue at 7:00 pm

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