Three-part series explores the PC(USA)’s journey to LGBTQIA+ inclusion
Pride Month video series with corresponding resource pages are rolling out
LOUISVILLE — On June 28, 1969, an uprising at New York’s Stonewall Inn brought the LGBTQIA+ community together and lit the spark for the Gay Liberation Movement in the United States.
Just five years later, David Sindt held up a sign at the 186th General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. in Louisville, Kentucky, that simply asked: “Is anyone else out there gay?”
Watch the first video in a three-part series to learn how Sindt and other LGBTQIA+ Presbyterians' calls to ministry during the 1970s led the General Assembly to question and take action on its stance on gay ordination.
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Journey to Inclusion part 1
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Journey to Inclusion part 1
The video series will investigate the decades-long fight for LGBTQIA+ inclusion in the denomination through the actions of the General Assembly, and through stories of brave queer Presbyterian advocates and their allies.
Over the next three weeks, each short video will be released along with a corresponding resource page that includes links to the historic voices, moments and actions featured in each video. The resource page can be distributed through church and mid council newsletters and can also be found on the LGBTQIA+ ministries page on pcusa.org.
Next week, part two of the series will be released. That video will explore how, in the decades that followed the Stonewall Uprising and Sindt’s question to the General Assembly, gay and straight Presbyterians worked tirelessly for the rights of LGBTQIA+ people.
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