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TIME magazine published a major story on the 40th anniversary (July 1, 2013 issue).

Henry Kubicki, an early member of MCC New Orleans, has recorded his recollections and impressions of this affair, along with an account of the subsequent history of the MCC congregation.

Cecil Heath and Mary Holden from the Friends Temperance and Moral Welfare Union discussed strategies for addressing homosexuality at the Yearly Meeting. Committee agreed to hold a one-day conference in June with selected guests and to publish a…

Committee agreed to produce a lengthy informative pamphlet, a first draft to be reviewed at the June conference. Group reviewed agenda for the conference as well as whom to invite. Draft of letter to The Friend circulated for comments.

Only five members at this meeting. Discussed feedback from some participants in the 10 June Conference. Received letter from Eric Baker of the Study-in-Fellowship Committee suggesting cooperation in developing study materials. Discussed draft of…

Group spent most of the meeting reviewing and revising the draft of the pamphlet. Responded to request for speaker from the Essex and Suffolk Quarterly Meeting. Anna Bidder urged group to be strong in its resolve as she departed for extended time…

Group spent most of this meeting reviewing amended sections of the draft report. Kenneth Barnes brought an invitation for a television appearance which the group decided to postpone until after the report is published.

Most of meeting devoted to amending sections of the report and assigning members to revise sections for the next meeting. Keith Wedmore reported on financial underwriting for the group's work.

Keith Wedmore sent letter to the Joseph Rowntree Trust outlining the nature and composition of the Quaker Committee on Homosexuality and requesting £100 funding to help cover the group's expenses for one year.

Letters between Keith Wedmore, Lotte Rosenberg and Eric Cleaver of the Trust (March-May 1960) confirming £100 in funding and arranging for the Friends Temperance & Moral Welfare Union to serve as the fiscal agent.

Street entrance to Hampstead Meeting House where the committee held their conference on 11 June 1960.

Meeting room at the Hampstead Meeting House as it likely looked in the 1960s. Location of the 11 June 1960 Conference on Some Problems of Homosexuality.

Published agenda for the Conference on Some Problems of Homosexuality held on 11 June 1960.

Early draft of Towards a Quaker View of Sex report (7 pages) used for discussion at the 11 June 1960 Conference on Some Problems of Homosexuality.

Outline and notes for Keith Wedmore's presentation, "A Young Friend's View," at the 11 June 1960 Conference on Some Problems of Homosexuality.

Hand-written page on which Keith Wedmore appears to have noted some of the participants in the 11 June 1960 Conference on Some Problems of Homosexuality.

The December 1960 issue of Young Quaker magazine published a 3-page article, "Towards a Quaker View of Sex," by Keith Wedmore that described the Quaker Group on Homosexuality and Other Problems of Sex and the study they are developing.

Letters between Michael Tolley of the Young Friends Central Committee and Keith Wedmore (August-November 1960) that arranged for an article on TQVOS to be published in Young Quaker magazine.

The annual Swarthmore Lecture to the Religious Society of Friends was established by the Woodrooke Study Centre in 1907. Ken Barnes' 1960 lecture was entitled "The Creative Imagination."

A colleague of George Gorman, of the Friends Home Service Committee, sent an anonymous letter with comments on draft copy he had seen.