La Foret Conference Center
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History
The La Foret Conference Center has a long history of allyship with the LGBTQ+ community. It hosted the Excel event in the 80's, and a Queer Caregiver retreat in 2023, hosted by then UCC minister Rev. Mallory Everhart.
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- September 5, 1969 - UU minister James Stoll comes out at the annual Continental Conference of Student Religious Liberals, making him the first ordained minister in the US or Canada to publicly come out. He later led the effort to convince the UU Association to pass the first-ever gay rights resolution in 1970, and he founded the first counseling center for gays and lesbians in San Francisco.
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Sanlo, Ronni. THIS DAY IN LGBTQ HISTORY – SEPTEMBER | Ronni Sanlo. February 9, 2024. https://ronnisanlo.com/this-day-in-lgbtq-history-september-2/. ↩︎