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IN the seventh of a series of reflections for Pride Month, Jen from Open Table Sefton reflects on concerning homophobic incidents in the city where the first Open Table community began, and a march against hate crime which reflects the spirit of Pride as a protest.

IN A SPECIAL Q&A webinar for Pride Month, It’s A Sin actor and HIV activist Nathaniel Hall was in conversation with Steven Hilton from Manchester Cathedral who wrote his MTh thesis on the lived experiences of gay men living with HIV.

IN the sixth of a series of reflections for Pride Month, our trustee Neil Rees reflects on his journey from feeling threatened by the movement for LGBTQIA+ equality to standing in solidarity and celebrating diversity.

CHURCHES, which should be loving communities, are often responsible for pain, trauma and dangerously low self-esteem for LGBTQIA+ people. But new research shows that LGBTQIA+ people reported hugely improved well-being after joining an Open Table community.

THIS WEEK it was the 13th birthday of the first Open Table community in Liverpool, and the sixth anniversary of Open Table becoming a network. Our whole team met in person for the first time at St Werburgh's, Spondon, the church which hosts Open Table Derby.

IN the fifth of a series of reflections for Pride Month, Suzanne from Open Table Chester shares a poem which ‘describes my struggle with finding identity’

OTN CO-CHAIR Alex Clare-Young has created a resource to help churches and Christian organisations to consider trans and non-binary identities in their safeguarding policy and practice.

IN the fourth of a series of reflections for Pride Month, our Co-Chair Sarah Hobbs reflects on her changing relationship with the annual festival, and with herself as a trans woman.

For LGBT+ Methodists and our allies this month’s Methodist Conference is especially significant. Revd Mark Rowland from Dignity and Worth, the LGBT+ advocacy charity within the Methodist Church, explains.

IN the second of a series of reflections for Pride Month, our Patron Paul Bayes, Bishop of Liverpool, shares how his support for LCR Pride Foundation, the Liverpool City Region’s LGBT+ organisation, has been a gift to him.