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.