Stonewall supporters have awarded the Quaker Lesbian & Gay Fellowship (QLGF) the title of community group of the year for their long-standing commitment to equality. At the Stonewall awards ceremony the group was presented with a cheque for £5,000. Paul Campion, a long-standing campaigner who received the award on behalf of QLGF, said “this generous…
The Declining Significance of Homophobia: How Teenage Boys are Redefining Masculinity and Heterosexuality by Mark McCormack, a review By Stephen Cox An old gay campaigning slogan was “Gay Liberation is Everyone’s Liberationâ€. The theory went that in a society that was not hostile to male homosexuality, and which did not use fear of homosexuality and…
by Stephen Cox A review of Pushing at the frontiers of change: A memoir of Quaker involvement with homosexuality by David Blamires and published by Quaker Books David writes that “it is a little odd being a historian of your own life…â€Â This book sets out how Quakers moved from having little particularly interesting to…
 An interview by Jay Clark This June, Symon Hill will undertake a walk of repentance for homophobia, walking from Birmingham to London and arriving on Friday 01/07/2011, the day before London Pride. He will be speaking at churches on the way, and passing through every town and city in which he has lived for…
Two Quakers, Kristin Skarsholt and Ian Goggin, are part of the Equal Love campaign, which seeks equality in the law for the marriage of same-sex and different-sex couples.