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A Time to Celebrate, a Time to Remember

Fifty years of Quaker concern for gay eqality. In 2013 Quakers in Britain had good reason to celebrate. Their 50-year involvement in the movement for sexual equality culminated in the legal recognition of same sex marriage in England and Wales.
£6.00
ISBN: 9780953230556
Author Judy Kirby
Pub Date 04/07/2014
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Fifty years of Quaker concern for gay eqality. In 2013 Quakers in Britain had good reason to celebrate. Their 50-year involvement in the movement for sexual equality culminated in the legal recognition of same sex marriage in England and Wales. And a joyful celebration indeed took place in Manchester that summer as part of the Quaker Manchester Pride events. But as well as celebrating, it was an opportunity for Quakers to look back and learn from the struggle. What had life been like for gay people in the 1950s - 'the fugitive years'? Who was Anna Bidder, who initiated the idea of the groundbreaking book "Towards a Quaker view of sex", and then nurtured it into being? How did Quakers, as varied in their views on homosexuality as the general population, come to a place of understanding, acceptance and then promotion of same sex marriage?