Queer Quakers at Pride 2018

Friends took part in Pride 2018 on 7 July

by Rebecca Hardy 13th July 2018

A group of Quakers joined one million people who took to the streets for the London Pride parade 2018.

Around twenty-five Friends from Westminster Meeting, the Young Quaker London Link Group, and the Quaker Gender and Sexual Diversity Community (QGSDC) marched under the ‘Queer Quaker’ banner, created more than twenty years ago. The event, this year held on 7 July, celebrates and promotes the rights of the LGBT community. Approximately 30,000 people from 472 organisations took part in the march, which was filled with balloons, glitter and sequins.

Lucy Cox-Dodgson, a sixteen-year-old Young Quaker, told the Friend: ‘Pride is always so much fun. There’s music, dancing and a great sense of community.  One of the main Quaker testimonies is equality and there’s always been this strong acceptance of the LGBT community by Quakers.’

Westminster Friends opened their Meeting house on St Martin’s Lane in London for hospitality. There was also a Meeting for Worship in Paddington Street Gardens.

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