MCC Portland

Metropolitan Community Church

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MCC states that they started in 1976 per “Welcome to the page celebrating the 45th Anniversary of MCC Portland. Founded in 1976 MCC Portland has been through many different chapters and has touched countless lives over the past decades — as we aim to do well into the future. Check here again for more memories, videos, and information added to celebrate our anniversary. Scroll down the page to add your memories and blessings.” Celebrate Our 45th Anniversary! - Metropolitan Community Church of Portland (mccportland.com)

However, through research as cited in an ad [see BELOW LEFT] in the April 1972 issue of The Fountain, the Metropolitan Community Church of Portland was holding services at the YMCA Parker Chapel located at 831 SW 6th Avenue. An ad BELOW RIGHT is from the Northwest Gay Review newspaper, November 1976.

As stated on Amazon’s website: A history of the Metropolitan Community Church in Portland and the sexual minority communities of Northwest Oregon. Spiritual men and women started meeting in an inner city hippie hangout to worship the Christian God they knew they could not reject. Beginning in 1976, the group grew into a thriving congregation of 200+ members in the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches. They became a central force in the gay and lesbian subculture of Portland, Oregon, fending off political threats, nurturing the community through the AIDS epidemic. celebrating PRIDE, and working with government to advance the cause of gay rights.