Metropolitan Community Church

Metropolitan Community Church
Metropolitan Community Church
Classification	Protestant
Orientation	Mainline
Polity	Congregationalist
Moderator	Cecilia Eggleston
Region	Worldwide (divided into regions with congregations in 37 countries)
Founder	Troy Perry
Origin	1968 ; Los Angeles, California, US
Congregations	222
Official website	www.mccchurch.org

The Metropolitan Community Church (MCC), also known as the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches (UFMCC), is an international LGBT-affirming mainline Protestant Christian denomination. There are 222 member congregations in 37 countries, and the fellowship has a specific outreach to members of the LGBT community.^[1]

The fellowship has Official Observer status with the World Council of Churches. The MCC has been denied membership in the US National Council of Churches,^[2] but many local MCC congregations are members of local ecumenical partnerships around the world and MCC currently belongs to several statewide councils of churches in the United States.^[3]^[4] The MCC has also been considered to be non-denominational.^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]

^ "Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches". UFMCC Official Web Site. UFMCC. Archived from the original on 2005-08-15. Retrieved 2005-08-15.
^ Dennis Hevesi, Gay Church Again Rejected By National Council Group Archived 2018-01-15 at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, 15 November 1992
^ Metropolitan Community Church Archived 2013-10-20 at the Wayback Machine glbtq article
^ "Eccumenical Ministries". UFMCC Official Website. UFMCC. Archived from the original on 2012-03-15. Retrieved 2011-12-29.
^ Religion, Flesh, and Blood: The Convergence of HIV/AIDS, Black Sexual Expression, and Therapeutic Religion. Lexington Books. 6 May 2015. ISBN 9780739194430.
^ The Rise of Chicago's Black Metropolis, 1920-1929. University of Illinois Press. 15 April 2011. ISBN 9780252093173.
^ Sexuality, Citizenship and Belonging: Trans-National and Intersectional Perspectives. Routledge. 23 October 2015. ISBN 9781317618522.
^ Coming Out of the Magnolia Closet: Same-Sex Couples in Mississippi. Univ. Press of Mississippi. 15 May 2020. ISBN 9781496829146.
^ Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality. University of Chicago Press. 22 March 2022. ISBN 9780226824789.

[1] "Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches". UFMCC Official Web Site. UFMCC. Archived from the original on 2005-08-15. Retrieved 2005-08-15.

[2] Dennis Hevesi, Gay Church Again Rejected By National Council Group Archived 2018-01-15 at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, 15 November 1992

[3] Metropolitan Community Church Archived 2013-10-20 at the Wayback Machine glbtq article

[4] "Eccumenical Ministries". UFMCC Official Website. UFMCC. Archived from the original on 2012-03-15. Retrieved 2011-12-29.

[5] Religion, Flesh, and Blood: The Convergence of HIV/AIDS, Black Sexual Expression, and Therapeutic Religion. Lexington Books. 6 May 2015. ISBN 9780739194430.

[6] The Rise of Chicago's Black Metropolis, 1920-1929. University of Illinois Press. 15 April 2011. ISBN 9780252093173.

[7] Sexuality, Citizenship and Belonging: Trans-National and Intersectional Perspectives. Routledge. 23 October 2015. ISBN 9781317618522.

[8] Coming Out of the Magnolia Closet: Same-Sex Couples in Mississippi. Univ. Press of Mississippi. 15 May 2020. ISBN 9781496829146.

[9] Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality. University of Chicago Press. 22 March 2022. ISBN 9780226824789.

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