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“Gays in the Synagogue,” writer and CBST member Elenore Lester’s article for the American Jewish Committee’s journal, Present Tense, which appeared in the Fall, 1974 issue. Paste-up copy, 2 pages.

New York Times article on CBST, December 23, 1973.

Chairs ready for CBST’s Friday night Kabbalat Shabbat service, Community Room, Church of the Holy Apostles Annex, July, 1975.

The Church of the Holy Apostles in 1975. CBST held its Friday night Kabbalat Shabbat services in the Community Room of the church's annex (not visible here) for 2-1/2 years, from February 1973 through July 1975.

In 1973, the Gay Synagogue was felt to be enough of an oddity to require some explanation, even some justification for its existence.

Advertisement in the Village Voice February 8, 1973, for CBST's first service the following evening, February 9, 1973. 360 West 28th Street is the Annex of the Church of the Holy Apostles, CBST's home for the next 2-1/2 years.