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1970 The Metropolitan Community Church
1media/Screen Shot 2023-04-01 at 3.46.18 PM_thumb.png2023-04-01T22:47:09+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a4911Ad for the MCC San Francisco, 1970. The Metropolitan Community Church (MCC), also known as the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches (UFMCC), is an international LGBT-affirming mainline Protestant Christian denomination. There are 222 member congregations in 37 countries, and the fellowship has a specific outreach to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender families and communities. The first congregation was founded in Huntington Park, California, by former Pentecostal pastor Troy Perry on October 6, 1968. The first congregation originally met in Perry's Huntington Park home. The church first gained publicity by ads taken out in The Advocate magazine.plain2023-04-01T22:47:09+00:001970Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49