Quaker presence at LGBT+ service

'The purpose of the event was to raise awareness among faith leaders of LGBT+ loss of life to suicide and wider experience of harm, following exclusion and mistreatment in church environments.'

by Rebecca Hardy 5th May 2023

Paul Parker, recording clerk of Britain Yearly Meeting, said that he was ‘moved to tears’ at a memorial service last week, held to remember LGBT+ people who’ve been harmed or died as a result of the trauma induced by rejection by their Christian communities.