A Message from Dr. G. Penny Nixon
MCF Board President

I want a better world. I want a world where people actually feel like they belong. I want a world where people feel like they belong because they can contribute fully who they are in all aspects of their lives. I want people to bring their whole selves to worship, to work, to their relationships, to each other, to their beloved community, and to the God of many names.

The only way that we are going to have that world is to work together. To create this new world, a fundamental change in people’s hearts and minds is required. We must understand and act as if we all matter, as if we each matter. We must understand and act as if the living earth and all the living beings on it matter. We will manifest that change in attitude through political action, through advocacy, and through social service. All of those changes can and must come from spiritual community.

Metropolitan Community Foundation and MCC San Francisco care about deeply QUEER issues, and that's not enough. What we are here for is to work with everything that we have, our full passions, for sexual orientation rights, for gender identify, to stop the abuse of people who are considered sexually different. And although those things are very important to us, they never can be separated from sexism, from economic injustice, from triumphalism, classism, ageism, and any other “isms” that separate us from each other and from God.

I believe that QUEER people have a special role to play in creating this new world. We say we are about love. We say that’s what matters most to us, what identifies us. Is that love, when placed into action, enough to change the world?

I think that awakening QUEER people to the possibility that they have the power to change the world is part of what our community of spirit is about. If we are about love, than we have to apply that to every area of our lives. And I want to give all my energy to creating that kind of world. That's what I'm calling our people to do, and to do it in every way imaginable.