Sanctuary: created, experienced, offered or received
Channel: Gathering Voices
Date: 2021-10-23

Keynote talk by Gerard Swan at Gathering Voices 2021 - Working together to create sanctuary

Irrespective of identity and orientation we all have an innate need for Sanctuary – to be safe.

In this talk, Gerard asks:
What is the nature of the Sanctuary we need and seek?
Is it a destination or a journey?

For LGBTQIA+ people, working out who they are and then declare it to a world in which the norm is to grow into an assumption of straightness as the gender someone chose for them at birth. 

That journey is often undertaken without the guidance, support, and wisdom of parents and peers who are ‘like us’. 

Gerard Swan in the chair of Quest (questlgbti.uk) - offering pastoral support for LGBT+ Catholics.