The Quorum : a magazine of friendship : a facsimile edition

Facsimile edition of The Quorum, the shortlived "magazine of friendship" published in London in 1920. This ill-fated journal was the first endeavour 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 and establish a less puritanical social system that "friends" could join. Among the contributors were Kenneth Ingram, Rev. E.E. Bradford, Leonard Green, John Gambril Nicholson, Rev. Arthur Gardner, Dorothy Sayers, Charles Kains Jackson and George Ives. Many of these activists shared more than their views on social reform, and were also involved in the British Society for the Study of Sex Psychology, a group devoted to the radical agenda of sexual reform articulated by Edward Carpenter and Havelock Ellis.