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The Church of the Beloved Disciple Archive is an open-access scholarly digital archive documenting the first LGBTQ-affirming sacramental church in New York City. Bringing together photographs, newspapers, liturgical texts, correspondence, audio recordings, and ephemera with researched descriptions and metadata, the archive preserves and critically contextualizes the religious, communal, and cultural life of this pioneering independent Catholic congregation and its distinctive forms of queer spiritual creativity, ca. 1968–1986.

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Time Span

1940s or 1950s to circa late 1970s
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Top Subjects

church of the beloved disciple new york (state) robert clement john darcy noble gay activists

Locations

“gay-in” in central park's sheep meadow, new york, ny new york, ny vista, ca church of the holy apostles, new york, ny

Content

2 AUDIO
1 COMPOUND OBJECT
95 IMAGE
5 ITEM
1 MULTIPLE
10 PDF
4 VIDEO
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