#the first unitarian church

[hate5sixofficial]

Taqbir 2024-02-24 The First Unitarian Church Philadelphia, PA

[zonecassette]

Orchid First Unitarian Church, Philadelphia PA 5/7/2024

[jgthirlwell]

04.19.24 Kirin McElwain at the Ambient Church concert at the First Unitarian Church in Brooklyn Heights

[boag]

I can’t even begin to describe how formative this album was for 12 year old me…….

[lsdunesarchive]

lsdunes: Our show at First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia was on another level.

📸: Skylar Watkins

(Twitter | December 5, 2022)

[aspenicus-is-learning]

lowkey thinking of becoming a Catholic. just to see what it's like.

[jawn-hextall]

A book release party in the First Unitarian basement. Complete with a house band playing walk-up music for each reader.

More pictures later, but editing them all is tedious.

[encar-murogue]

just in case you faggots think im the same as you

[timmurleyart]

Kris Kringle at First Parish.🎄🎄❄️🎅🏼❄️🎄

[hate5sixofficial]

Jivebomb 2023-10-29 The First Unitarian Church Philadelphia, PA

[attheshowwithmc]

SRSQ / The First Unitarian Church, Philadelphia, 2022

[fandomsandfeminism]

Yall wanna hear a kinda funny, kinda sad story about my grandmother and hetero-normativity?

Ok, so... when my grandmother was in her 50s (I was an infant), she met a woman at the Unitarian Church. And, as can happen when you meet your soul mate, this event made it impossible for her to deny parts of herself that she had fiercely hidden her whole life.

All the drama- their affair being found out, the divorce with my grandfather, the court battle over who got the house, happened while I was a baby. Even in my earliest memories, it's just Mama Jo and Oma, and my grandfather lived elsewhere (first his own apartment, then a nursing home, then with us.)

But here's the thing- no one ever explained any of this to me. No one ever sat down and was like "hey, Rosie, so do you know what a lesbian is?" It was the 90s. It was Texas. I think my mom was still kinda processing all this, and just assumed that like... I was gonna figure it out. Don't mention it, let it just be normal. Like I think my mom thought that if she explained the situation, she would be making it weird? I dunno.

But like. In the 90s, in all the movies I had seen and books I had read, do you know how many same sex couples I had seen? Like. 0. Do you know how many "platonic best friend/roommates" I had seen? A lot. I had no context, is what I'm saying.

I literally thought this was a Golden Girls, roommates, besties situation until I was like...I dunno, 11? 12?

It was actually their parrot, an African Grey named Spike, imitating my grandmothers voice saying "Johanna, honey, it's getting late", that triggered the MIND BLOWN moment as I realized that *there's only one master bedroom and it only has 1 waterbed* when all the pieces finally clicked.

Anyway. I think it's a real important thing for kids to know queer people exist, for a lot of reasons, but also because kids can be clueless and it's embarrassing to have your grandmother be outted by a parrot because everyone just thought you'd figure it out on your own.

Anyway, here is my grandma and her wife, my Oma, after they moved to Albuquerque to be artsy gay cowboys and live their best life. They helped run a "Lesbian Dude Ranch" out there (basically just with funding and financial support. As Oma has explained "traditionally, most lesbians don't have a lot of money" so they wrote the checks and let the younger ladies actually run the ranch.)

[runaway90s]

The latest First Unitarian Church in Madison's Sermon. I adored it. They even mention "The Beatles" and stars painted on the ceiling.

Thank you, Minister Kelly!

[lsdunesarchive]

L.S. Dunes at the First Unitarian Church (Philadelphia, PA) on November 26, 2022 | 📸 Skylar Watkins

[ohrenoir]

Julie Byrne Moonless Live First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia 9-20-2023

[onryou-onryou]

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