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Title: Prayer service at First Unitarian Church
Contributor: Ted Sahl (photographer) (Creator)
Contributing Institution: San José State University, Special Collections and Archives
Collection: Ted Sahl Collection
Rights Information: For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact San Jose State University Special Collections & Archives Department. http://library.sjsu.edu/sjsu-special-collections/sjsu-special-collections-and-archives
Description: Photograph shows Reverend Troy D. Perry leading a prayer service at the First Unitarian Church in San Jose, 1979. The people there are standing with their hands clasped and raised. They appear to the singing.
"Reverend Troy Perry leads a prayer service at the First Unitarian Church in San Jose, 1979." From Ted Sahl, "From closet to community: a quest for gay & lesbian liberation in San Jose & Santa Clara County," (2002), p.103. "...Reverend Troy D. Perry founded the United Fellowship Metropolitan Community Church (UFMCC) in 1968." From Ted Sahl, "From closet to community: a quest for gay & lesbian liberation in San Jose & Santa Clara County," (2002), p.103.
Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS3.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
7.4 x 9.4 in.
Identifier: islandora:80_934
filename: sahl_religion_017
islandora: 80_934
Language: English
Subject: Gays
Religious services
Singing
Gay clergy
Gays--Religious life
Perry, Troy D
Place: San Jose
California
Relation: Ted Sahl Collection

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