Mike 🌈<p>Time for a bit more about me..<br>I belong to Quaker Rainbow UK, a group of LGBTQ+ Friends &amp; our allies. It’s our 50th anniversary! It started as FHF Friends Homosexual Fellowship after a conference in Manchester 7 Sept 1973, one of the first groups within a religious body to support lesbian &amp; gay folk in the 70s &amp; the first in UK to affirm &amp; celebrate equal marriage. That was one of the reasons I was drawn to quakerism. Another is the openness of UK Quakers to affirm folk of all kinds of religious or non-religious persuasion. Me I’ve since settled into a humanist/non-theist outlook. Another is the centuries (since the 1650s!) of hard learning that quakers have undertaken: how to abandon practises in human societies that have caused much suffering such as slavery, violence, war, the social class hierarchy, alcoholism, &amp; in our day, the plundering &amp; devastation of our planet<br><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/quaker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quaker</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/QuakerRainbow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QuakerRainbow</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/lgbt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lgbt</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/lgbtq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lgbtq</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/humanist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humanist</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/nontheist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nontheist</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/EqualMarriage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EqualMarriage</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/bym" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bym</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/BritainYearlyMeeting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BritainYearlyMeeting</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/BritishQuakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BritishQuakers</span></a></p>