Tag Archives | homosexuality

Friends Ugandan Safe Transport responds to renewed anti‐LGBTQ actions in Uganda

By FJ News Editor on March 2, 2020

Friends Ugandan Safe Transport (FUST) issued a call in December 2019 for increased support to counter renewed anti‐LGBTQ pressures in […]

Erik Hanson and Windy Cooler are the news editors for Friends Journal. They contributed to the reporting of this story. Do you know about any Quaker news stories we should be covering? Send us tips at [email protected].

Posted in: News, The State of Quaker Institutions

Continue Reading · Comments { 0 }

Teaching Equality

By Chloe Arden Allman on May 1, 2018

When I was about three years old, my family hired a babysitter named Chelsea. Chelsea was quite the culture shock […]

Chloe Arden Allman, Grade 9, Westtown School

Posted in: Student Voice Project 2018, Student Voices Project, What Are Quaker Values Anyway?

Continue Reading · Comments { 0 }

Faithful Sexuality

By Reviewed by Gulielma Leonard Fager on November 1, 2017

By the Working Party on Spirituality and Sexual Ethics. New England Yearly Meeting, 2016. 68 pages. $10/pamphlet; free PDF available […]

Gulielma Leonard Fager is a member of Stony Run Meeting in Baltimore, Md., and a Friends Publishing Corporation board member.

Posted in: November 2017 Books, Quaker Libraries

Continue Reading · Comments { 0 }

Interview with Stephen McNeil, author of “Proclaiming Love and Justice”

By Stephen McNeil on May 31, 2016

FJ Podcast: AFSC’s institutional response to LGB concerns began in 1975 when four staff and committee people sent out an […]

Posted in: Audio

Continue Reading · Comments { 0 }

Proclaiming Love and Justice

By Stephen McNeil on May 1, 2016

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

Stephen McNeil, a member of Strawberry Creek Meeting in Berkeley, Calif., serves as AFSC’s San Francisco Wage Peace director. He has served as staff for 32 years and on a program committee for seven years. He has also served in various roles with Friends Committee on National Legislation for 16 years.

Timeline based on the work of AFSC archivist Jack Sutters.

Posted in: Features, May 2016: Gender and Sexuality

Continue Reading · Comments { 0 }

From a Quaker View of Sex

By Mitchell Santine Gould on February 28, 2013

Quick! Name the most influential document published by British Quakers in the twentieth century. It’s probably a 1963 pamphlet entitled […]

Mitchell Santine Gould enables financial advisors to collect client data for use in emergencies. Curator of LeavesOfGrass.Org, he is the leading authority on Walt Whitman's rise among “sailors, lovers, and Quakers.” Together with the LGBT Religious Archive Network, he documents the historical intersections between Quakers and gay people.

Posted in: March 2013: Sexuality

Continue Reading · Comments { 0 }

Thomas Hamm on Division in Indiana

By Staff on February 1, 2013

To someone who is not familiar with the controversy in Indiana Yearly Meeting, what would be your synopsis of the […]

Thomas Hamm is professor of history and director of special collections at Earlham College. A lifelong member of First Friends Meeting in New Castle, Indiana, he has served as recording clerk and a member of the executive committee of Indiana Yearly Meeting, and was co-clerk of the Reconfiguration Task Force of Indiana Yearly Meeting.

He has written or edited a number of works on Quaker history, most recently Quaker Writings, 1650-1920, published by Penguin Classics in 2011.

Posted in: February 2013, Q&A

Continue Reading · Comments { 9 }