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Honoring Salt Lake's Metropolitan Community Church and its role in Utah's LGBTQ+ history
Editor's Note: The following article was published as part of City Weekly's 2023 Pride Issue . Within the walls of a modest 1913 structure just north of Liberty Park on 600 East, Berry Payne prepares the chapel of Sacred Light of Christ Church. As music director, Payne is dutifully carrying out responsibilities that he has held for 13 years.
"This has been my home for a long time," he says. "They're another extension of my family." Acknowledging that he was gay when he was 12, the church has been a "sanctuary" for Payne—on and off—since he first became acquainted with it in the 1970s.
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