Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt
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“Greenbelt Made Me Gay.”
John Bell has been coming to the festival since time began. Then, in 2017, he came out in a talk entitled “Rampant Heterosexualism” (https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/talks/rampant-heterosexualism) given on our Glade mainstage.
So, in some senses, John’s typically playful headline is dead right. It was in returning to the welcome of Greenbelt over many, many years that he journeyed to the point of coming out publicly.
The deeper truth is that John knew himself to be gay a good decade before ever he arrived at Greenbelt. But he felt comfortable enough in the space we make together to let the world know too.
John Bell is a much-loved Greenbelt speaker, itinerant member of the Iona Community, founding member of The Wild Goose Resource Group, liturgist, hymn-writer, worship leader and broadcaster.
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📷 John Bell at Greenbelt Festival, 1993 & 1997
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