The Quorum: A Magazine of Friendship

by Timothy D'Arch Smith

A facsimile edition of the short lived "magazine of friendship" originally published in London in 1920. This ill-fated journal was the first endeavor at floating a homosexual magazine since the publication of the Chameleon in 1894, which was quickly suppressed in the aftermath of Oscar Wilde's conviction. The stated purpose of The Quorum was to do away with dilapidated social conventions, stereotypes of class-distinction and establish a less puritanical social system. Among the contributors were Kenneth Ingram, Rev. E.E. Bradford, Leonard Green, John Gambril Nicholson, Dorothy Sayers, Charles Kains Jackson and George Ives. Many of these activists also belonged to the British Society for the Study of Sex Psychology, a group dedicated to the radical agenda of sexual reform articulated by Edward Carpenter and Havelock Ellis.

56 pages, Hardcover

Published September 20, 2001