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PRIDE MARCHES in cities across the world, including New York and London, are taking place this weekend to commemorate the struggle for equality that began in New York’s Stonewall Inn in the early hours of June 28th 1969. Forty-five years after the first Pride marches, why do we still need them?

A NEW Open Table community is coming to Warrington next month, thanks to Pam Gold, former Co-Convenor of the Evangelical Fellowship for Lesbian and Gay Christians (EFLGC), who has supported the first Open Table community in Liverpool since it began in 2008. Pam explains why she plans to start a new community

THIS WAS THE AIM of last week’s two-day conference Open Church: The church, sexuality, mission and the future hosted by Steve Chalke, Baptist minister and founder of international charity the Oasis Trust. Kieran Bohan from Open Table Liverpool reports.

BY POPULAR REQUEST, members of the Open Table LGBT community that meets monthly at St Bride’s Church, Liverpool spent a day away again this month, six months after our first away-day last October.

AT A carol service last Sunday, hosted by the first Open Table community in Liverpool, we heard this reading, which was moving, inspiring and too good not to share.

OPEN TABLE, the monthly service for Liverpool’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) community at St Bride’s Liverpool, held its first Retreat Day last weekend for a time of reflection on where we have come from as individuals and what it mean to be an LGBT Christian.

AS THE GOVERNMENT has announced the date when the first marriages for same sex couples in England and Wales can take place, churches which remain challenged by this social change would do well to follow the lead of Steve Chalke, a high-profile evangelical church leader, who earlier this year called for a radical rethink of Christian views on sexuality and marriage, writes Kieran Bohan from Open Table Liverpool.

AN UNEXPECTED outcome from a request to host a Christian service as part of Liverpool’s Pride festival - an annual LGBT-affirming interfaith event! Kieran reflects on the story so far.

I BEGAN to find my voice and share my story in 2009 when an author friend approached me to talk about 'coming out' - she wanted to get an understanding of this extraordinary process of identity-claiming to see what it might reveal to those people of faith who struggle to accept diversity of sexual orientation and gender identity in their communities. A bold aim - she had my attention.