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25th September: Find the latest version of the QLGF newsletter (PDF and plain-text versions) here...

QLGF Autumn One-Day Gathering: QLGF and the wider Christian Community
Saturday 29th October 2010 11am - 3.30pm at Ridgeway Community Centre, Milton Keynes, MK4 1NA.
We are inviting someone from the Lesbian & Gay Christian Movement to have a dialogue with one of our members on current issues in the spiritual field, approaches to campaigning, working within a faith network, working with other LGBT groups and other areas they may choose. This is intended to be a discussion, and others present will be invited to contribute as it develops. Other LGCM members may be attending. There will also be an input from Roger Sawkins, a QLGF member living in Australia. He will tell us about his work with Queensland Regional Meeting and Australia Yearly Meeting on same-sex marriage and other areas.
Download the Gatheing Flier here ...

QLGF and Quaker Publications dealing with Same-Sex relationships:

In 1993, the Quaker Lesbian and Gay Fellowship published Speaking our Truth. It sought to explain the reality of lesbian, gay and bisexual lives to those in the Society of Friends who wanted, or needed, to be better informed. Much happened since 1993 in society at large, within the Society of Friends, and in other religious groups. So in the spirit of Advices and Queries 22, in 2004 QLGF expanded, revised and renamed that booklet, to celebrate progress, to expose prejudice and to spread understanding - to form 'Part of the Rainbow', which can be downloaded here.

Part of the Rainbow (or POTR as it has become known) has been revised and updated several times since 2004, but visitors to this site might also like to read 'We are but Witnesses' which was produced in 2009 following the decision of Britain Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends to recognise same sex marriages. WE are but Witnesses can be downloaded here.

From the Quakers in Britain website:

This paper is offered to our partner churches in England, Scotland and Wales who are in membership of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland and to our partner faith groups in the Inter Faith Network UK. We also hope that our Quaker Meetings in Britain will share it with their local Churches Together Groups and Inter Faith Forums.

During our Yearly Meeting in the University of York in July 2009, we British Quakers reached new clarity about same sex marriage and we wish to share with you the spiritual processes by which we were led to such an important development in our life together. Our decision was to make the same arrangements for same sex couples in our Meetings as are already in place for opposite sex couples, and that we shall also be seeking to change the law. British Quakers have been learning that our Christian community should now celebrate and give full recognition to the committed gay and lesbian relationships that are so clearly visible among us in our local Meetings.