Predominantly LGBT church on Madison Avenue shuttering after 19 years of ministry.
After 19 years of serving the LGBT community, the Liberation United Church of Christ is closing its doors on Madison Avenue. The church will host its last service on Christmas Eve. The building at 13714 Madison Avenue has been home to the church for the past 14 years. When the church began in a community center at Case Western University in 1993, churches weren’t too accepting of the gay community. However, as society became more inclusive, so did churches. “Twenty years ago there were very few churches welcoming the LGBT Community into full membership, either as clergy or as members,” said the church’s pastor Rev. Kurt Wieser. “(Liberation) was established by the United Church of Christ to be just that, a worshiping community for and by …
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Michael Schiavi shares about his biography on gay rights activist Vito Russo to crowd at Liberation United Church of Christ.
Before RENT was a musical and Ellen was Oprah, there were gay men and women who were left no choice but to fight the same fight all minorities have fought – for equality. Vito Russo was one of those men. Then there are men and women who write about the Vito Russo’s of the world, who document their struggles and replay in scenes instances that have flashed before their eyes and in dialogue, words that have passed through opening and closing lips, words that, in Russo’s case, have changed the world, forever. Michael Schiavi is one of those men. Having never met Russo, who died of AIDS during Schiavi’s senior year of college, he claims the two have a spiritual connection. Friday night, at the Liberation United Church of Christ, he stood at a …
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Val Mechenbier
3:00 pm on Saturday, January 19, 2013
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