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Atlanta queer-friendly Black church is source of solace for LGBTQ youths: 'I see over and observe my people'
“I was at my lowest point, like, I was absolutely suicidal when I walked into” Vision, she said. “The internalized negativity had just taken over. I didn’t want to be alive anymore. I didn’t comprehend a way out, because I hated myself, because that’s what I was taught, to abhor a person who was gay.”
The South Georgia native described her upbringing in a “very Christian” Black evangelical house, where family members like her mother, her uncle and a grandfather often stepped up to the pulpit as pastors.
“My mother was in labor with me on a pew at church. She had to leave church to go have me,” she said, adding that from the ages of 18 to 24, she ventured outside her family’s church to attend six to eight other churches.
At each church, McKinney became skilled at code-switching. She swapped her slacks for skirts and left no questions unseal when it came to her sexuality. But at Vision, McKinney said, she no longer feels compelled to pretzel herself into a category to acquire favor.
“I can actually be myself,” she said. “I can go to church and sit next to my wife and no one
Grace Midtown Church said I'd "Never Hit a glass Ceiling." That wasn't true.
Kevin Garcia is was attending a popular Atlanta area church known for organism welcoming of everyone. But after investing years of his existence into the life of this church, it turned out there was limit to how he was allowed to participate, despite his pastors assurances otherwise.
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I started going to Grace Midtown Church in Atlanta before I had even come out. I was just working my way through my own coming out process, and I wanted to find a church that looked and felt similar to the tradition I’d come from. Grace Midtown fit the bill to a tee. Pretty hipster, a splash of pentecostal expressiveness, a stellar band, and preaching that actually made me excited to be a follower of Jesus.
I felt welcome by everyone I met. I never felt like I had to mask any part of who I was. Plus I knew other queer people who already went to this church. I mind, for sure, this church was a safe place for someone like me. They never said anything about gay people or anything related to LGBTQ+ issues, so why would I even think to ask? Don’t deeds speak louder than words?
After attending the ch
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Bishop Oliver Clyde Allen, III, is a religious trailblazer, storyteller, human rights advocate, an international and community leader and entrepreneur. Bishop O.C. Allen is the Senior Pastor and Founder of The Vision Cathedral of Atlanta known as “The Vision Church”. The Vision Church has 3 campuses, The Vision Church of Atlanta, Vision Church of Raleigh, Vision Church of Los Angeles and Vision Church of Nashville. He is the founder and Presiding Bishop of the United Linear Pentecostal Fellowship of Churches (UPPC), a progressive Christian and inclusive religious company which oversees senior pastors, ministers, churches and faith-based organizations throughout the Combined States and abroad. He also is a Commissioner on the Atlanta Human Rights Commission.
In 2015, Bishop Allen was appointed by President Barak Obama to the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA). In 2016, he was appointed the Southeastern Chair of the DNC-LGBT Advisory Board and a co-chair of the DNC LGBTQ Policy Group. He has served as the National Envoy and consultant for the NAACP – Black Church/HIV Initiative. Bishop