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The Metropolan Communy Church San Francis was one of four gay church burned arsons between 1973 and 1974, the same year of the adly UpStairs Lounge fire new Orleans, which was also ...

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REMEMBERG THE GAY SAN FRANCIS CHURCH THAT WAS TORCHED OUT OF HATE IN 1973

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We, of the Metropolan Communy Church of San Francis, are a beloved muny jog together om diverse spirual backgrounds and misterg primarily wh the Lbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgenred Communy as a hoe of prayer of all people and a home for queer spirualy. The parish offers a spirual home to all: senr cizens and youth; sgle people and fai; those who are straight, gay, lbian, and transgenr; the healthy and the sick, particularly persons wh HIV/AIDS. Followg the attack on Pulse nightclub Orlando Sunday that took the liv of 49 victims, most of them Lato gay men, the New York Tim remds of earlier attacks on the gay muny, among them an famo arson se at a gay-iendly church San Francis the summer of 1973.

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The bar was known as a place equented by parishners of the Metropolan Communy Church (MCC) — a gay-found relig anizatn that began wh a "mother church" Los Angel, which self fell victim to an arson attack January of that same year.

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The fire at the UpStairs Lounge June, which a person or group of people who were never found doed lighter fluid all over the stairs leadg up to the send-story bar, was a horrific nflagratn that claimed the liv of 32 people, many of them gay parishners at the nearby MCC.

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