Welcome


The LGBT Forum started in 2005 with the support of GALOP to improve the lives of LGBT people in Wandsworth.  It is open to all lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people, who live, work, study, or socialise within Wandsworth. 

The Forum would like more people to join and participate in its meetings and activities. In the last three years these included a float at EuroPride, LGBT History Month, World Aids Day, information on civil partnerships, homophobic bullying in schools, community safety, the contribution of the Metropolitan Police to make Commons and Communities safer for LGBT people.

Prayer by Paul Bailey Lay Minister Christian Fellowship on Idaho 17th May 2009

Loving God, who through love sent your Son Jesus Christ as a gift of love; teach us how to love each other. God of Love, you are love; teach us what it means to move beyond mere tolerance into loving appreciation and celebration of difference.
God of love, who is the friend of the outcast and the godforsaken, a champion of the oppressed and friend to the friendless, please forgive us who have taken your name in vain and used your story to preach hatred, oppression and violence.  Forgive your Church who have not been a safe place for the broken, the hated, the discriminated against, the ostracised, and the hated other.  We are sorry that we have used your word and your name as weapons instead of a balm to heal, and to care for the hurting and the wounded
Lord Jesus, you who were one of a hated race, who sought out deep, meaningful and loving friendships with those who were considered outcasts, those who were hated and discriminated against help us to be where.  Help us as a society to appreciate and celebrate our diversity as a common humanity.  Teach us love compassion and to pursue justice, knowing that which we for “the least of these” we do it for you.
We pray for the families and the survivors of these brutal homophobic attacks, we pray that they will emerge from their pain with a passion to speak out against oppression and fight for justice for all.  Today we join with them knowing that this is where you are.  We join with them.  We join with them as gay and straight, black, white, Asian and African, male and female, Christian and Buddhist, Jew and Muslim, agnostic and atheist to say yes to love, and yes to life, yes to freedom and yes to equality.  We join them to say no to hatred and no to violence and discrimination. 
We join them to say
Our Father in heaven,
Hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come.
Your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
Lead us not into temptation,
but rescue us from the evil one.
Amen