LGBT

FGC joins people of faith across the country in honoring the trans, intersex, and nonbinary lives lost to violence.

It’s Pride Month! I am grateful to be a member of a meeting that has wrestled with how to become more welcoming to the LGBTQIA+ community over the years. As a result of years of discernment, my meeting is now a place where I have never doubted whether my sexual orientation would be counted against…

Many of you know by now that I have written a novel called A Peculiar Legacy. It is available at QuakerBooks, which I hope you are already in the habit of supporting. Part of the novel depicts a fictionalized version of Jennie Mustapha, a very real, and very fascinating Black Quaker woman. She spent over 40 years in…

Friends General Conference and Pendle Hill cosponsor an intergenerational LGBTQ+ retreat space.

Sean Bye is the FLGBTQC (Friends for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Trans and Queer Concerns) Liaison for the Gathering High School Program.

For Human Rights Month, we created a digital toolkit inspired by the work of celebrated human rights activist Bayard Rustin. 

Our experience has been that spiritual gifts are not distributed with regard to sexual orientation or gender identity.