Quakers mark Pride Month
The Meeting house was open and included a display recalling ‘key moments in British Quakers’ continuing journey and involvement in working towards LGBQT+ equality’.
Friends across the UK celebrated Pride Month this year by joining marches and holding talks. Helen Carter-Shaw, from Canterbury Meeting, told the Friend that people from the LGBTQ+ community, as well as ‘straight allies’, took part in the city’s Pride celebrations, where they ‘proudly marched with two specially-designed and homemade Quaker banners’. The youngest participant, Pippa, is ‘an enthusiastic member of [Canterbury’s] Children’s Meeting’, she said.
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