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FJ Podcast: AFSC’s institutional response to LGB concerns began in 1975 when four staff and committee people sent out an open letter in which they acknowledged their homosexuality or bisexuality and invited others to discuss issues of concern, both within AFSC and in the larger community. Eventually over 200 signed the “statement of support and solidarity

FJ Podcast: As a peace and justice organization, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) places its work for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights and recognition within an international human rights framework and draws on the historic Quaker witness for peace.

A history of American Friends Service Committee's work for LGBTQ rights and recognition.