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A large volume of letters--supporting and decrying TQVOS--were received by The Friend. Several letters were published in each biweekly issue over two months.

On the 50th anniversary of TQVOS, Mitchell Gould wrote a probing analysis on its legacy and how we can build on it today.

As the 50th anniversary of TQVOS approaches, The Friend invited Stephen Cox to write some reflections on Quakers and sex today.

The first chapter of Blamire's 2012 historical account of "British Friends' involvement in various processes leading to homosexual equality" was devoted to TQVOS. This is most comprehensive narrative available on the TQVOS process.

Also on the 25 anniversary, Blamires invites Douglas Galbraith to write about the significance and role of TQVOS in the development of the larger church and society's understanding of human sexuality and homosexuality.

On the 25th anniversary of TQVOS, David Blamires, now editor of The Friends Quarterly, invited Anna Bidder to write her account of the process of writing TQVOS.

Within a decade after TQVOS, another ground-breaking publication, Homosexuality from the Inside, was released by British Quakers. Author David Blamires honored the tremendous importance of TQVOS, yet goes beyond it to present a first-person account.

As reported in The Friend, dissension and unrest over TQVOS appeared to be heightened in the next Meeting for Sufferings. Still the body could not reach consensus to adopt either proposal from the previous meeting--to publish a statement or to hold a…

The Meeting for Sufferings (executive committee of the London Yearly Meeting) heard expressions of distress about the TQVOS study during its bimonthly meeting on May 3. Proposals to issue an official statement with more moral certitude and to hold a…

In the weeks that follow the group's May 20 article in The Friend, a number of letters to the editors are published which reflect a great diversity of perspective on the group's concern.

The Friend published an account of the June 11 conference at Hampstead Meeting House in its June 24 issue.

Alastair Heron writes a lengthy response on behalf of the working group to the criticisms that have been voiced by Friends and other commentators. This is published in The Friend on April 12th.