QLGF Newsletters


QLGF Newsletters The newsletter is published roughly four or five times a year and is free to members. On this page we've included electronic (.pdf files) that you are welcome to download. To read them you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the document. You can get this for free by clicking the button below. Hard copies of each newsletter are available to QLGF members.

In the electronic versions we have included on this site we have removed the (more private) information on the back page as the site is available to non-members as well as to QLGF members. Just to be careful, we've also removed some email addresses, where the nature of these might mean that the contributor's identity might be more than obvious. We're sorry if this means that contact cannot be made, but you can always contact them via the newsletter editors or the national contact. Click each of the newsletter thumbnails to start the download. Note! Because we've used quite a few pictures in each of the issues, the files are relatively large ... between 300K and 900K. They may take a while to download, depending on the speed of your connection. NEW! We are gradually working back through the back issues of the newsletter to provide them in plain-text format that should be readable by braille readers. Your can find these by clicking on the Plain-text links below each of the newsletter images. Please let us know if you have difficulties reading any of these.
	Jun 2008
Plain Text Version	This we can say (so far) ... Editorial Dates for your Diary QLGF gathering report Great Huclow diary One woman’s view ... Sex, Snow and Sharks Anglican bustup looming Prides update Epistles at dawn ... Nigeria news ... ‘Gays cause quakes’ ... Home Office not so homely Sex, grace and truth ...	1 2 2 3-4 4-5 5 6 6 7 8 9 9 10 11	Quakerism and sexuality Towards a Quaker view ... Dear Friends ... Christ’s Manhood God without God ... Patrick Gale interview Committee meets ... And the news this week ... Quakers and Art ... Rowan speaks out ... The Anne Lister story Different strokes Your Letters ... Rolling away the stone ...		12-13 13 14 15 16-17 17 18-19 19 20-21 21 22-26 26 27 27
	Feb 2008
Plain Text Version	Our choices, ourselves ... Editorial Dates for your Diary Your letters ... Committee meets ... Quaker ethics ... Anglican stands up Progress in Nepal ... Progress in Uraguay Secret Worshippers Scribes and Pharisees ... East Africa and more ... Blair goes to Rome Bullied for being straight Ship of Fools ... What members are up to	1 2 2 3-5 5 4-5 6 6 7 7 7 8-9 10-11 11 12 12	Witches galore ... Book review Mild kinkiness ... Man in Tights ... Paying the Piper Quaker Affiliates ... DN strikes back The Divine OFCOMEDY Vox Populi ... More Science news ... Make me a Muslim EHRE and legislation ... Evangelicals clash ... Your Committee Classified Ads		13 14 15 16 17 18 18 19 19 20 21 22 23 24 24
	Dec 2007
Plain Text Version	Gay Wizards ... Editorial Dates for your Diary WI debates prostitution A run on the Church Quaker ethics ... Consenting Adults Yes, I’m reading ... QLGF Gathering reports QLGF Gathering 2008 Trouble in Iran ... Kingdom of the Lord?	1 2 2 3 3 4-5 5 6-7 8-9 10 11 11	Sex and disability New evangelical leader Friends of the rotifer Poly Day ... Seven year itch? Out of the garden shed Subscription time again ... Speaking sex to power ... Bizarre emails of our time ... New LGCM appointment Your Committee Classified Ads		12-13 13 14-17 18-19 19 20-21 21 22 23 23 24 24
	Sept 2007
Plain Text Version	Advance, Australia Fair(er) ... Editorial Dates for your diary LGBT in India and Sri Lanka ... Batty bishop blames floods... Prophetic Witness ... Quaker Life reports ... Your experience needed ... Reflections on qlgf at Stirling QLG Gathering Report News roundup ... Eddington Christmas outing Once upon a time …	1 2 2 3 4 5 6-7 7 8 9 10-11 11 12-13	The Great Commission ... So, how was Pride? Brighton Pride 2007 Where do gays come from Pretty in Pink ... Bishop loses tribunal Prospect of Anglican schism Committee Relationships ... Homophobes? Sodom! Creationists & scientists join Making sense of the Kirk Teletubbies in the dock ...		13 14 15 16-17 17 18 18 19 20-21 21 22-23 23
	May 2007
Plain Text Version	George Fox backs gay rights Editorial Dates for your diary Committee Relationships QLGF Spring Gathering Newbies start here ... Anglican communion to split Church of Sweden position Quaker Life consultation Civil Partnerships Minutes of interest ... Your letters Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali	1,3 2 2 3 4-6 7-8 8 9 10 10 11 12 13	Religious Homophobia Epistles to BYM 2007 Ecumenici - L.R. Gay Activist resigns ‘Help, I’m a stereotype ... My horoscope made me gay The Emperor’s new clothes My World in my Inbox Lesbian Christian Group You think you have problems What I did on my holidays Church attendance survey		14-15 15 16-17 17 18-19 19 20 21 21 21 22-23 23
	February 2007
Plain Text Version	Love the first motion ... Dates for your diary Editorial LGCM conference report Quakers and discrimination Gay-friendly rankings ... History Boys - encore! Really important news ... Your letters ... News from local groups Red Hat O’Connor Hymns and Hers ... Lesbian deportation Tanzanian bishops’ action	1 2 2 3 3 4 5-6 6 7-8 8 9 9 10 10	Nigerian humanists protest Transsexual landmark case Mapplethorpe review Three Canadian parents ... Life of Brian revisited SF AIDS/Lifecycle ... Shortbus film review Editorial likes and dislikes MCC - 38 not out Respect - a funny word ‘Out of the Closets’ Brokeback Mutton ... Film reviews LGCM conference statement	11 11 12-13 13 14-15 15 16-17 17 18 19 20 21 22-23 23
	December 2006
Plain Text Version	A real Rainbow Nation ... Editorial The Gay Imam David Cameron ... QLGF Autumn Gathering Lesbian marriage appeal Quaker Hat Meditation News from London Group Quaker Life Rep. Council QLG Gathering report QLRC: exploring attitudes QLGF Spring Gathering ... Jerusalem Pride ... Your letters Sublime instincts ... Lesbian Palestine voices ...	1 2 3 3 4-5 6 6 6 7-8 8 9 10 10 11 11 12-13	Ewe and us ... What is History? Dalai Lama backs gay rights Quads, Thrupples etc. Clergy Scandal ... Negotiating everything ... Has anyone here seen Kelly? Bible and Blood ... Mexico City challenge ... Poles Apart ... Carnival Queen ... Rove and the Christians Faith & Homophobia Women Priests ... Centenary ... Membership, News + Ads	13 14-15 15 16 17 17 18 19 19 20 20 21 21 22-23 23 23
	September 2006
Plain Text Version	The right to discriminate? Dates for your diary Editorial QLG Meeting report AFSC Minute Antipathy ... Very true and important news Remember Mrs. Thatcher? Scotland, the not very brave ... Lesbians’ lose marriage bid Civil partnership problems ... Nigeria report ... Editorial ‘likes’ and ‘dislikes’ Reproductive rights ... An uncomfortable fence ... Civil partnerships in Meeting Homophobia in UK prisons	1 2 2 3 3 4 5 6-7 7 8 9 10 11 11 12-13 13 14	Spirituality and sexuality ‘Where does it stop?’ Leader: QLGF response ... ‘Committee relationships’ Stephen Williams’ diary Lucy and the Ants ... Gay Police/Christians clash Pride: we marched ... Different, yes; Special, no Your Letters ... Episode 97734 ... The chosen few ... Big brothers make us gay ... The march of technology ... USA marriage protection ... Unmarried couples’ rights	14-15 15 16 16-17 17 18 18 19 20-21 21 21 22 22 22 23 23
	June 2006
Plain Text Version	What do I want from QLGF? 2006 Gathering Epistle Dates for your diary Editorial New Liaison Officer Europride 2006 in London Pontefract Maximus The Brick Testament ... QLGF Discernment Process Same sex human rights? Lesbian asylum granted Soulforce equality riders Shia death squads in Iraq Benedict ... and beyond Gay men get religion QLGF Gathering Report	1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5-6 6 7 8 9 9 10-11 11	Gathering notes ... News from local groups Your Letters ... i.m. Bonhoeffer ... The Quaker Conscience ... Belief-o-matic ... Episcopalians under pressure ‘Capote’ Review ... Publicity ... Thumbs-up from UCC Readers’ recommendations End to discrimination? Footballers act straight Atheism/Theism My story ... LGBT media bits	12 13 13 14 14 15 16-17 17 17 18 19-20 20 21 22-23 23 24
	March 2006
Plain Text Version	What do I want from QLGF? Dates for your diary Editorial The Friendly Young Ladies Brokeback Mountain Talking tosh about films ... God is kinder than that ... Ideas for the Future ... News from the Committee Your letters ... Gathering reminder Non-violent resistance ... Galilee ‘JesusWorld’ NHS and Civil Partnership The Male Sex Bomb	1-3 2 2 3 4-5 5 6 7-8 8-9 9 10 11 12 12	Skirts in the Schoolroom ... Membership changes ... Book burning etc. That Political Question ... GALHA magazine furore God - ‘the root of all evil’ Cashman and Homophobia Benefits & Households Prisons in the 21st Century Notes for a Skit Twilight of Atheism ... Atheism, bisexuality ... A Friend in our thoughts Soulforce news ...	13 14 14 15 15 16-17 17 17 18-19 19 19 20-22 22 23
	December 2005
Plain Text Version	Liberal Judaism ... Dates for your diary Editorial UK’s first female imam? The need for a father ... Bishop defends TS curate QLG Meeting report News from local groups TV/TS in the SouthWest Department of the Absurd Sex in the 1960s ... News from across the pond Howls Moving Castle ... Book reviews	1 2 2 3 4 5 5 6 7 8-9 9 9 10 11	‘I love you all’ ... Journal of Bisexuality St Cecilia’s Day meditiation Joburg LGBT statement Banish Blasphemy? The Future of Gatherings Here we go a’Gathering Southern Gathering report A Quaker view of Socks ... Committee Minutes Another view Positive Methodists LGBT in Zambia Pulpit and Pew Survey	12 12 13 14-15 15 16-17 17 18 19 19 20 21 22-23 23
	September 2005
Plain Text Version	Pride in Ourselves ... Dates for your diary Editorial London Pride contd. London Group news News from Canada News from Spain Iran hangs gay teenagers News from South Africa News from India Anger meets Humour Committment Celebration And 10 years on ...	1 2 2 3 3 4 4-5 5 6 6 7 8 9-10	Alternative to Mockery Hall Carpenter Archive Methodists hokey-cokey Masks in May IVF Discrimination Religious jokes News from St Marys ... Your Letters Women Bishops QLGF at BYM 2005 The Polari Bible PSA ... what is it?	10 11 12 13 13 14 15 15 16 17 18 19
	June 2005
Plain Text Version	New Supreme Dalek Dates for Your Diary Editorial Quaker Special Interests I remember, I remember Healing - a perspective Should men wear earrings? Grayson Perry Sonnet to being Quaker-Gay Shipping Forecast Your letters	1 2 2 3 4-5 5-6 7 8-9 9 9 10-11	Late breaking news ... Marriage Registration Liaison officer appeal Scottish Bishops’ support Spring Gathering Minutes Spring Gathering Report International Homophobia The Invitation ... Reply to Oriah News from Local Groups Sexual Aberration?	11 12 12 13 14-15 16 16 17 17 18-19 19
	February 2005
Plain Text Version	Living with Integrity? Dates for Your Diary Editorial Harrogate Christmas FannyAnn Eddy tribute The Plot against America The Calling of a Cuckoo A new low for South Africa Lesbians make good parents Friends General Conference Who are Christian Voice? Your letters	1 2 2 3 4-5 5 6-7 7 8 9 9 10	Indian Lesbians marry ... Wandering membership? More joy in Heaven? Bush’s thoughts ... Civil Partnerships In a packed programme 100% Straight? News from local groups ‘Open & honest’ response Albert Kennedy Trust Committee News	10 11 11 11 12 13 15-15 16 17 17 18-19
	December 2004
Plain Text Version	Dates for Your Diary Editorial Civil Partnerships comment QLGF Autumn Gathering QLG Gathering report Bartlett, please1 News Roundup A plea from Noms Comm Alexander’s sexuality Rooted in Christianity	1 2 2 3 3 4 5 6 7 7	Faith schools again Young in The Sun ... Poem on Queerbashing Your letters NZ legislation update Coptic Bookbinding Anglican Ghastly Polygamy gone ... An open and honest gay? Midlands Group news	8-10 10-11 11 11 12-13 13 14-15 16-17 17 18
	September 2004
Plain Text Version	Borg on the starboard bow Dates for Your Diary Editorial Yorks QLGF Christmas Woodbrooke Epilogue Civil Partnership Bill ... Unitarian Universalists QLGF Committee Minutes News from local groups	1,3 2 2 3 3 4-5 5 6-7 7	Your letters ... Desmond Tutu ... Steven Pinker review Why march for Pride? ‘Virtual’ QLGF Group QLGF Autumn Gathering The three-legged stool Quotes ‘n stuff	8-9 9-10 11 12 13 13 14-15 15
	June 2004
Plain Text Version	To Friends Everywhere ... Dates for Your Diary Editorial Supporting Meetings Martha Moody review Ditchling Update Equality Stings ... Milton Keynes recipes Gender Recognition Bill US LGBT Epistle Brad Pitt and Troy Town Web Confidentiality Employment update	1 2 2 3 4 4 5 5 5 6-7 7 8 9	National Trust ‘Weddings’ Bagels galore! Women as Survivors RE ‘Hatemongering’ GALHA 25th Birthday An answer to Sodom Letter to President Bush Young Gay Men Talking ‘Hairy POTR’ Woodbrooke Report AFSC News Your letters	9 10 10 11 11 12 13 14-15 15 16-17 17 18-19
	March 2004
Plain Text Version	Part of the Rainbow Dates for Your Diary A Westminster Confession Civil Partnership Letter The year the locusts ate Lana S’s travels Committee News Let’s Celebrant ... Making babies ...	1-2 2 3 4 5 6 7 8-9 10-11	Same sex commitments NZ Interest Groups Local Group News Mass Homosexuality QUEST report Your letters Yorkshire Link Group AFSC LGBT issues	11 12-13 14 15 16 16-17 18 19
	December 2003
Plain Text Version	Gender recognition bill Dates for Your Diary Naught for your comfort Gene therapy QLG Gathering ‘Leaping’ John Shelby Spong Sunday Morning Blast Your letters	1 2 2 3 4-5 5 6 6-7 7	Osmotherley Weekend ‘Within the Storm’ Committee News Local Group News Littlehampton Gathering Canada Yearly Meeting Queer Quaker Weekend Woodbrooke works ...	8 9 10 11 12-13 13 14 15
	October 2003
Plain Text Version	Make it legal! Same-sex relationships Dates for Your Diary Maypoles and Bonfires Georgina Beyer QLGF take a stand Jeffrey John Quiz Soulforce report Loughborough Gathering	1 2 2 3 4-5 6 7 8 8	Littlehampton Gathering Catholics + Partnerships Queer Quakers at Pride Unfair to Blair Your letters ... ‘I’m a Tranny ...’ Sufferings + Transsexuals News from Local Groups Northern Gathering Being a survivor ...	9 9 10 11 11 12 12 13 13 14-15
	June 2003
Plain Text Version	Blair swings both ways Appeal for a co-clerk Dates for Your Diary Celebration in Sheffield Committed Relationships Transsexual Law Debate Hengrave Minutes Hengrave Report	1 2 2 3 4 5 6-7 8-9	Speaking Our Truth Oxford Pride Carnival Marriage Hypocrisy Living without rules From Woodbrooke Unveiling ... Local Groups + Contacts Ship of Fools ...	9 10 11 12 12-13 13 14-15 15
	February 2003
Plain Text Version	Happy Birthday QLGF! Conference Poem Dates for Your Diary Your Letters Churches Together Legal Issues Living Wills Soulforce Revisited Women’s Lip	1 2 2 3 4-5 6-7 7 8-9 9	Committee News Local Group News Gold Star Girl Hengrave 2003 Update Quaker Coffee Analysis Marriage or What? Share my Shower Blisskrieg Inner Peace	10 10-11 12-13 13 13 14 14 15 15
	November 2002
Plain Text Version	Monkey Business! Rabbi Rousing Conference Report Quaker Lesbian Group All in Our Genes? Your Letters QLGF Website Recent Quotes etc.	1 2 3 3 3 4 -5 5 5	News from the Groups Baroness Young Speaking Lives Bashing the Bishop Al-Fatiha Comment Elisabeth Stuart Review Committee Reports	6 6-7 7 8 9 10 11 12
	July 2002
Plain Text Version	Homophobia + GLAD Quaker Lesbian Group US LGBT Quaker group ‘Flawed or Failure’ Popcorn Ministry ‘Aquatic Outreach’ Gay Arab at Pride QLGF Autumn Meeting	1 2 3 4-5 5 5 6-7 7-8	News from the Groups ‘Religious goings-on’ Committee Reports Pacifism vs. Passivism Recent Quotes QLGF Vacancies Yearly Meeting ‘Spiritual Benefits’ Your letters	8-9 10-11 11-12 12-13 13 13 14 14 15
	May 2002
Plain Text Version	Your letters News from the groups UK Membership map Spring Gathering Warwick QLGF report Denver Police actions	3 4 5 6-7 7-8 8	Coming out to Ffriends Interest group-itis Bible language	9 10 11
	February 2002
Plain Text Version	Quaker Lesbian Group Lancet National Survey QLGF Charney Report Fear and Trembling The Handmaid’s Tale News from local groups Closet confinement?	3 3 4 5 5-6 6- 7 7
We plan to work our way back through the newsletters from previous years and once they are in an electronic format, we can include them on this page. Watch this space!