Expecting strong criticism from some Quakers, Gorman wrote a detailed explanation of the TQVOS publication process to Derek Crosfield, chair of a key committee.
Glide clergy like Rev. Cecil Williams and Rev. Ted McIlvenna combined with a few homosexual leaders to organize the Council on Religion and the Homosexual in 1964. This organization legitimized the effort to build gay community life under the…
(left to right): Herb Donaldson, Lewis Durham, Nancy May, Cecil Williams, Robert Cromey, Fred Bird, Chuck Lewis and Ted McIlvenna. From private papers of Paul Gabriel.
Who is GLAD? Why, you are, of course! GLAD is nothing more, and nothing less!, than a group of members of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) who are called to join in God’s work of transforming the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) into…