Respect

I created this image last year using Paint Shop Pro This phrase just popped into my head and I felt it fitting with regards to LGBT rights as people. Mickie Newton-Carline Doncaster

Pride & Community

Went to my first World Pride event in London recently – not so much a sense of a community but rather lots of interconnected communities.

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I walked with pride on the road I shared with you, You gave me those glances that broke my backbone. I wonder how will I ever be able to take that road, The road that doesn’t exist for me anymore.

Questionnaire

I like the website. I think communities sounds better than community, which suggests a homogenous whole rather than recognising and valuing the diversity within. At the same time the idea of a community/ies sounds appealing – a place to have a home. It is hard to feel the community – it feels nebulous at times and yet when one goes to events which are designed for LGBT like Pride or...

Blessings and Marriages

It has been quite a rough couple of months for me at church as there have been one or two occasions when I have wished the ground would swallow me up. The faith in God that I was so certain about a year ago and the sexual identity that was so preciously defined by myself over the past forty odd years (lesbian at last) have been brought into question. Of course as a liberal politically I would go...