Inside the new LGBTQ-affirming church in New York's Chinatown

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Church leaders Pastor May Lee and Manni Lee don't see it as their role to be strident advocates for LGBTQ equality in Chinatown's churches. Instead, they want to start conversations and break taboos around gender and sexuality.

The core team of Grace Alive Fellowship with the core team of H:AN United Methodist Church, a progressive Korean American church in New York, during the city's Lunar New Year march on Feb. 9, 2020.The fellowship, which is headed by an all-women board, has about 10 regular congregants.

After the church shut down five years ago, May wanted to replicate the intimate, non-hierarchical ethos she had cultivated in JubiKidz. Eventually, Grace Alive Fellowship was born, with the vision of building what she called"relational community," where members can journey through life's challenges together.

May and Manni don't see it as their role to be strident advocates for LGBTQ equality in Chinatown's churches. Instead, they want to start conversations and break taboos around gender and sexuality. That is, after all, how their own minds were changed.

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