'It was necessary to become activists': LGBTQ-affirming Iowa religious groups find church in quiet rooms, loud rallies - Little Village

'It was necessary to become activists': LGBTQ-affirming Iowa religious groups find church in quiet rooms, loud rallies - Little Village

Achilles Seastrom/Little Village Sunday services of the Ames Friends Meeting are held at their meetinghouse on S Maple Avenue, marked by a sign in the front yard declaring “All are welcome.” I visited on a sunny spring morning. Beams of sunlight seemed to make the houseplants against the walls glow. Occasional birdsong seeped through a barely open window. Someone had arranged sturdy but simple wooden chairs, the kind often found in public meetin…