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| Papal Visit demonstrators
... Editorial Dates for your Diary Lords vote for equality ... Gays in the Military etc. Blasphemy, begorrah ... Changing the Law ... Gay, Kenyan Quaker speaks ... Quaker History Project Country updates ... Mississippi Shame ... Argentina Success ... Let’s be offensive |
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Great Hucklow report Committee Report The Future of QLGF ... Local Round-ups ... A right to bigotry? PRIDE solidarity tour 1009 Sense of liberation Christian Paranoia news ... ... ‘to stop being gay ...’ Spong Manifesto ... Street preacher fined ... Renato Lings article ... Gay Spirit 2010 ... |
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| Dec 2009 | |||||||
| Bad news from Uganda
... Dates for your Diary Editorial UA Fanthorpe tribute ... Shoot straight ... Bisexuals work troubles ... Don’t ask, don’t tell ... Committee business ... Another good day ... The Turing Test ... Faith and the Equality Bill ... |
1,3 2 3 4-5 6 7 7 8 -10 10 11 11 |
Your letters ... QLGF Midlands Group ... QLG 25 year anniversary ... Gay Penguins book ban ... Jan Moir and the Daily Mail South African lesbian murder Iraq anti-gay activities ... Irish player comes out ... Russian Lesbians to marry ... A truce of some sort? |
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Aug 2009 |
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| Trailblazing! Editorial Dates for your Diary Reflections on York ... Putting yourself out there On attending YMG ... Equality Reservations Landmark Scots! Live Free or Die ... News from India ... Russian Lesbians ... Jersey Dreams ... Heterosexual Icons The issue of ‘Outing’ One perspective Prides-a-Plenty! We’re indebted ... Local QLGF Group news |
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Ten reasons why ... Your letters ... Act of Contrition ... Birds do it, bees do it ... Tyger ... Kirk fudges ‘2 men in manse’ Atlantean Affairs ... The Inclusive Taxman Climate Change ... Faith Exemptions ... Evangelical Conscience Musee de Friends House A Book of Silence The Boy in a Dress Committee meets ... Catholic Institutions ... What men want in Church |
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Apr 2009 |
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| YES ... Iceland
can! Editorial Dates for your Diary This one made me angry ... QLGF at YMG Committee meeting report Sermon on the Mount Simplicity of purpose ... Homecoming activism ... Being active ... Someone once told me ... World round-up ... George Fox and same-sex ... Mad Bad and Sad ... |
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Philiadelphia MM ... The Eye of the Storm Harvey Milk review ... Dark Material ... When will they learn? Lesbian Vampire Killers ... Little red pill ... My choice in a past life? Hollywood Richard Dawkins? Getting in touch ... Cancer screening concern Gay men HIV risk Alastair Heron remembered |
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Dec 2008 |
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| A Gay Obama? Dates for Your Diary Editorial: Time for Love ... Quaker Lesbians react ... Gays out of US Cabinet Gloucs Area meeting ... Any Theory Will Do ... The ‘m’ Word ... The Muesli State ... Ten Things ... Manchester Pride report The Limits of Humour ... |
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Your Letters ... Committee Meets ... Sufferings tries to move ... In a Nutshell Congratulations ... Gay Spirit Retreat What Sufferings ‘decided’ Review: ‘Love thy Neighbour’ Well-Honed Satire ... What have the Romans ... What did the Romans do ... |
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Sep 2008 |
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| Riga Pride ... Editorial Dates for your Diary Sappho says ... Committed relationships Woodbrooke diary ... Quakers get real ... QLGF Edinburgh A warming weekend ... Meet the FOCAS QLGF at Glasgow Unitarians suspend weddings Your letters ... Lesbian health problems ... Four cases ... overkill? What issue? |
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California backs marriage News roundup Pew, Pew, Barney McGrew In the eye of the storm The Third Thai Way ... Alison Watt review Black gay Quaker hero Gay brain differences I admire Mrs Whitehouse ... Committee reports ... Some thoughts gathered ... Telegraph moans Call for contributions ... EA-YM epistle response Progressive US Christians |
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Jun 2008 |
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| 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 ... |
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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 ... |
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Feb 2008 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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Dec 2007 |
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| 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? |
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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 |
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Sept 2007 |
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| 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 … |
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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 ... |
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May 2007 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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February 2007 |
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| 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 |
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Nigerian humanists protest
Transsexual 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 |
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December 2006 |
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A real Rainbow Nation ... |
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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 |
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September 2006 |
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The right to discriminate? |
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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 |
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June 2006 |
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What do I want from QLGF? |
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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 |
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March 2006 |
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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 ... |
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December 2005 |
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Liberal Judaism ... |
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‘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 |
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September 2005 |
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Pride in Ourselves ... |
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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? |
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June 2005 |
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New Supreme Dalek |
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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? |
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February 2005 |
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Living with Integrity? |
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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 |
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December 2004 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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September 2004 |
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Borg on the starboard bow |
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Your letters ... Desmond Tutu ... Steven Pinker review Why march for Pride? ‘Virtual’ QLGF Group QLGF Autumn Gathering The three-legged stool Quotes ‘n stuff |
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June 2004 |
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To Friends Everywhere ...
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National Trust ‘Weddings’ |
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March 2004 |
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| 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 ... |
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Same sex commitments NZ Interest Groups Local Group News Mass Homosexuality QUEST report Your letters Yorkshire Link Group AFSC LGBT issues |
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December 2003 |
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Gender recognition bill |
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Osmotherley Weekend ‘Within the Storm’ Committee News Local Group News Littlehampton Gathering Canada Yearly Meeting Queer Quaker Weekend Woodbrooke works ... |
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October 2003 |
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| 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 |
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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 ... |
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June 2003 |
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Blair swings both ways |
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Speaking Our Truth Oxford Pride Carnival Marriage Hypocrisy Living without rules From Woodbrooke Unveiling ... Local Groups + Contacts Ship of Fools ... |
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February 2003 |
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| Happy Birthday
QLGF! Conference Poem Dates for Your Diary Your Letters Churches Together Legal Issues Living Wills Soulforce Revisited Women’s Lip |
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Committee News Local Group News Gold Star Girl Hengrave 2003 Update Quaker Coffee Analysis Marriage or What? Share my Shower Blisskrieg Inner Peace |
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November 2002 |
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Monkey Business! |
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July 2002 |
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| Homophobia +
GLAD Quaker Lesbian Group US LGBT Quaker group ‘Flawed or Failure’ Popcorn Ministry ‘Aquatic Outreach’ Gay Arab at Pride QLGF Autumn Meeting |
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News from the Groups ‘Religious goings-on’ Committee Reports Pacifism vs. Passivism Recent Quotes QLGF Vacancies Yearly Meeting ‘Spiritual Benefits’ Your letters |
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May 2002 |
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| Your letters
News from the groups UK Membership map Spring Gathering Warwick QLGF report Denver Police actions |
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Coming out to Ffriends Interest group-itis Bible language |
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February 2002 |
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| Quaker Lesbian
Group Lancet National Survey QLGF Charney Report Fear and Trembling The Handmaid’s Tale News from local groups Closet confinement? |
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