Love with Ruth Hunt

This week on the podcast Katherine and Paul welcome *takes deep breath* openly-Catholic gay rights campaigner, life-long advocate for inclusion and equality, ex-CEO of Stonewall and recently appointed Baroness of Bethnal Green, Ruth Hunt.With inclusion, love and acceptance in our minds, we discuss the complex relationship between religion and sexuality and ask each other why the church is STILL so obsessed with who we love? Ruth talks about her own journey in connecting her faith with her advocacy.Plus, Katherine and Paul talk more about our plans for our #GBWildAtHome festival weekend and respond to critics who accuse Greenbelt of being an echo-chamber of lovey-dovey ideals.Links, resources and episode timestamps (for all you skippers out there) below.____ABOUT RUTH HUNTRuth Hunt is a co-founder and director of organisational change consultancy, Deeds & Words, which she runs with her partner Caroline Ellis. Prior to this she was CEO of LGBT human rights charity Stonewall, where she worked her way up through the policy and campaigning team over fourteen years. In this time the UK took huge steps towards equality for LGBT people, including equal marriage and equal adoption rights for same-sex couples. During her tenure as CEO, Stonewall also became trans inclusive. In 2019 Ruth became Baroness Hunt of Bethnal Green and continues to fight for societal change and a kinder type of politics from the cross-benches. Ruth is a practising Christian and lives in London with her partner Caroline.Insta: ruthiehuntTwitter: @ruth_hunt____LINKS AND RESOURCESStonewall https://www.stonewall.org.uk/Deeds & Words https://www.deedsandwords.co.uk/ OUT at Greenbelt https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/out-at-greenbelt/https://www.facebook.com/OutatGreenbelt/https://twitter.com/outatgreenbeltCaroline Criado Perez https://www.carolinecriadoperez.com/Stonewall’s glossary of LGBT+ terms https://www.stonewall.org.uk/help-advice/faqs-and-glossary/glossary-terms ____TAKE ACTIONYou can find a list of open UK petitions around LGBT+ issues here: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions?state=open&q=lgbt ____00:00 - Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In00:30 - Katherine and Paul catch up01:39 - Katherine and Paul on the upcoming festival weekend03:20 - Listener questions and comments05:40 - Introducing Ruth Hunt and her work06:06 - Ruth joins the conversation06:20 - Ruth on lockdown08:00 - Ruth on being a Baroness10:08 - Ruth on Deeds & Words 12:34 - Ruth on gender and racial bias in tech13:55 - Ruth on Stonewall16:40 - Ruth on trans inclusion17:50 - Ruth on making effective change20:00 - Ruth on Greenbelt Festival and faith21:38 - Talk Snippet from #GB15 ‘Thou Shalt Not Be Overcome: LGBT People, Our Allies, and the Christian Church’30:39 - Ruth on The Book of Queer Prophets33:57 - Ruth on why the church still cares about who we love36:30 - Ruth on human compassion37:48 - Ruth on hope for the future and Black Lives Matter42:18 - Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Ruth51:00 - LGBT+ communities and Greenbelt Festival54:25 - OUT at Greenbelt1:01:51 - Thank you’s1:02:39 - Hidden Track - Ruth’s guide to LGBT+ terminology ____A huge thanks to the Greenbelt Volunteer Talks Team for all their hard work on editing this episode. Our podcast music is ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires.____https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/#SomewhereToBelieveIn Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.