FEBRUARY is LGBT+ History Month, an annual celebration of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans & non-binary history. This year’s theme is Body, Mind, Spirit - We’ve asked our Patrons and Trustees to share their thoughts on this theme. Our Co-Chair Alex Clare-Young challenges society and church concepts of what is ‘normal’.

FEBRUARY is LGBT+ History Month, an annual celebration of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans & non-binary history. This year’s theme is Body, Mind, Spirit - We’ve asked our Patrons and Trustees to share their thoughts on this theme. Here is an extract from a sermon for Open Table Manchester by our Patron Cherry Vann.

FEBRUARY is LGBT+ History Month, an annual celebration of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans & non-binary history. This year’s theme is #BodyMindSpirit - We’ve asked our Patrons and Trustees to share their thoughts on this theme. Here is our Trustee Lucy Berry's response in poetry.

FEBRUARY is LGBT+ History Month, an annual celebration of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans & non-binary history. This year’s theme is Body, Mind, Spirit - We’ve asked our Patrons and Trustees to share their thoughts on this theme. Here is our Patron John Bell’s offering.

FEBRUARY is LGBT+ History Month, an annual celebration of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans & non-binary history. This year’s theme is Body, Mind, Spirit - We’ve asked our Patrons and Trustees to share their thoughts on this theme, starting with Barbara Glasson, former President of the Methodist Conference in Britain.

Here is the fifth of five ‘Faces of 2021’ for LGBT+ History Month, to illustrate this year’s theme, Body, Mind, Spirit: Intersex athlete Mark Weston, who represented Britain at the Olympics but had career achievements revoked when his gender identity was revealed.

Here is the fourth of five ‘Faces of 2021’ for LGBT+ History Month, to illustrate this year’s theme, Body, Mind, Spirit: Michael Dillon, the first trans man to transition medically and the first Western European to be ordained as a Buddhist monk.

Here is the third of five ‘Faces of 2021’ for LGBT+ History Month, to illustrate this year’s theme, Body, Mind, Spirit: Bisexual multi-talented actress, writer, public speaker and poet Maya Angelou, a champion of equality and diversity for all.

Here is the second of five ‘Faces of 2021’ for LGBT+ History Month, to illustrate this year’s theme, Body, Mind, Spirit: Gay social justice activist Mark Ashton, who died from an AIDS-related illness in the early days of the HIV pandemic.

This year's LGBT+ History Month theme is Body, Mind, Spirit, spotlighting five people to illustrate this theme. Here is the first: Lesbian football pioneer Lily Parr from St Helens.

On the outside of churches, signs often proclaim ‘All Are Welcome’. Lucy’s poem reflects on what church signs might say if they reflected the reality inside.

ln 1995 - for the first and only time - a group of gay survivors of the Holocaust issued a declaration demanding recognition as part of a project of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. Here is what they wrote.

HOLOCAUST Memorial Day is marked on 27th January each year in the UK, and we’ve chosen to commemorate it in our online service this month. But why? Our Network Coordinator Kieran Bohan explains.

OTN Co-Chair Sarah Hobbs reviews the life story (so far) of Alex Clare-Young, the first out transgender minister in the United Reformed Church, now also a Co-Chair of OTN.

As we approach the 12th day of Christmas, we recall the arrival of the Magi (wise people from the East). The Bible does not say how many there were, or their gender, but traditionally they have become known as the three wise men or kings.

This is a reflection for the Open Table Network online carol service on Sunday 20th December 2020, led by the first Open Table community in Liverpool. The Rector of the parish which hosts Open Table Liverpool, Revd Dr Miranda Threlfall Holmes, offered this reflection on the the Gospel of John chapter 1:, verses 1-5.

Our newest trustee Augustine Tanner-Ihm reflects on his experience of conversion therapy - the attempt to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity - and coming to an Open Table community for the first time.

Sarah Hobbs, Co-Chair of the Open Table Network (OTN), offered this reflection for our vigil for this year’s Trans Day Of Remembrance, which falls on 20th November each year.

THIS MONTH, our Network Co-ordinator Kieran Bohan led the first of a new series of monthly online worship gatherings. We took the theme of ‘coming out’, as 11th October is marked around the world as ‘Coming Out Day’.

OTN Coordinator Kieran Bohan pays tribute to someone who has been a personal inspiration, and is now a Patron of the Open Table Network - Revd Dr Barbara Glasson, outgoing President of the Methodist Conference in Britain