From the LGBTQ Religious Archive Network website:
A new book and conversation on 9/11/2025…
Thursday, September 11, 2025
8 p.m. Eastern
Join Heather White and author Brian Blackmore in discussion of the newly published To Hear and to Respond: The Quakers’ Groundbreaking Push for Gay Liberation, 1946-1973 (Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences, 2025).
In this book, Blackmore tells the story of Quaker support for gay rights in the mid-20th century as demonstrated through experiments in criminal justice reform, challenges to Christian moral codes, advocacy for the decriminalization of homosexuality, and efforts to instigate attitudinal change both within and beyond the Quaker world. Quaker initiatives during this era included the first social service organization for gay people in the U.S., the first public and positive statement on homosexuality from a religious perspective, and the first public statement in support of bisexuality … [CONTINUE READING on the LGBTQ Religious Archive Network website]
[Brian Blackmore in his role as director of Quaker Engagement from American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), was a was a featured speaker at the recent Chesapeake Quarterly Meeting which was hosted at Annapolis Friends Meeting.]