Author Meets Critics: Brian Blackmore's To Hear and to Respond: The Quakers' Groundbreaking Push for Gay Liberation, 1946-1973

This roundtable will discuss Brian Blackmore's new monograph To Hear and to Respond: The Quakers' Groundbreaking Push for Gay Liberation, 1946-1973, which examines the contributions of Quakers, specifically from the liberal tradition of the Religious Society of Friends, to the advancement of lesbian, gay, and bisexual rights in the United States between 1946-1973. Scholars of American sexual politics, sexuality, and Quaker history will situate Blackmore’s interdisciplinary study across their respective disciplines. The conversation among the panelists will prove stimulating not only to historians of gay rights, but to anyone seeking to imagine a relationship of mutual flourishing between religious and LGBT+ communities.