Season 11: Episode 2: Rev. Carolyn Mobley-Bowie

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🗓️ 10 November 2022

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Growing up in the segregated South, Rev. Carolyn Mobley-Bowie knew the challenge of finding an accepting place in the world—a challenge that only grew when her attraction to women came into conflict with her devotion to God. The predominantly gay Metropolitan Community Church offered refuge. Visit our episode webpage for background information, archival photos, and other resources, as well as a transcript of the episode. For exclusive Making Gay History bonus content, join our Patreon community. ——— To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:36.9	And thank you so much.
0:41.4	I'm Eric Marcus, and this is Making Gay History.
0:51.6	It was late December 1990, and I'd just finished reading through the first draft of my
0:56.1	Making Gay History book. I promised to have the manuscript on my editor's desk the
1:00.2	following month. At a hefty 800 pages, you'd think it was plenty comprehensive. But then
1:06.7	it hit me. I'd meant to include the oral history of someone who had been involved with the
1:11.5	Metropolitan Community Church. Men 2, then forgot. The Metropolitan Community Church, or MCC,
1:18.9	was a church by and for gay people founded in Los Angeles in 1968 by Reverend Troy Perry.
1:25.7	It had played an enormously positive and important role in the lives of Christian lesbians
1:29.8	and gays, and it had been a high profile fixture in the movement during the 1970s and 80s.
1:35.9	The oversight left me scrambling to find someone on my list of potential interviewees who fit the
1:40.5	bill. A search for MCC led me to Reverend Carolyn Mobley, who recently joined MCC of the
1:47.8	Resurrection in Houston as assistant pastor. And lucky for me, she was up for a chat.
1:53.5	Reverend Carolyn, it turned out, was as comfortable explaining the Apostle Paul's letter to the
1:59.0	Romans as she was leading protesters in Chants and Song. In the 1980s, she'd become a prominent LGBTQ
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