William Silver papers 1947-2007

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William Silver papers 1947-2007

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1897

The papers document William Silver's personal life, seminary thesis, his application for ordination into the United Presbyterian Church, and his later life in the Cherry Grove community on Fire Island, New York. Particularly well documented is Silver's coming out process and the Presbyterian Church's debate on the ordination of homosexuals in the 1970s. The papers consist of journals, writings, sermons, correspondence, photographs, newsletters, news clippings, and printed material.

8.25 linear feet (14 boxes) and 986 megabytes

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Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6351743

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Silver, William, 1947-2007.

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William Silver was born September 8, 1947, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He received a Bachelor of Arts (1969) from Ohio Wesleyan University, majoring in Fine Arts and Pre-theology. He received a Masters of Divinity from the Union Theological Seminary in 1973. In his final year at Seminary, Silver came out as a gay man and based his thesis project on his coming out process. In 1975 Silver requested ordination in the Presbytery of New York. His request sparked a two year, church-wide debate on the...