Hi r/Quakers. I have some questions for you related to your faith and its corresponding community.

For starters, I made a Quaker friend a few years ago in high school who definitely changed the way that I view life as a whole; I still remain in contact with him until this day. He liked climbing trees and seeing nature and acted in a way that was a bit more childish yet a lot more thoughtful and philosophical than most other people. As a result, I looked up to him not as a role model or guiding figure, but as an almost fantastical or mythological figure. I saw him as a human with almost nonhuman characteristics and qualities just because of how much he differed from everyone else I had met until that point. He was almost like a larger-than-life figure to me and his way of life just struck me as brilliant because it was intelligent and thoughtful, yet simultaneously laidback and passionate.

I subsequently asked him about the origin of his philosophy of life that I strongly agree with and he told me that some of it stems from his Quaker religious beliefs (which he was raised in and a member of since birth). He told me a bit more about the Quaker faith and many of its aspects strongly resonate with me. I admire its devotion to independently developing a worldview (outside of a formalized creed, which is shared with Unitarian Universalism); I prefer this emphasis over the beliefs of many other religious denominations (I am currently agnostic theist, meaning that I believe in one or more supernatural deities but am unaffiliated with any religion).

As a result, I would like to ask some questions about your denomination and its beliefs. I am not here to critique your faith (or any other) nor demand that it change; I simply wish to understand its teachings a bit more because I think that I might convert to a certain religion if I find one that perfectly matches my beliefs (which I am still developing).

1. Is it true that the Quaker faith strongly deviates from other, more "stereotypical" (I don't really like that word, but I will use it because it's the best one that I can think of) branches of Christianity by focusing more on silent worship and lack of a creed? Please describe this as best as you can; try to give me as much description of your worship services as possible. I would strongly prefer to join a faith community that does not seem excessively "preachy" and focuses a lot more on connecting with God on a more personal basis.
2. How exactly does the Quaker faith address George Fox's racist past and reconcile it with modern values? I am aware that all Quaker denominations in the modern day strongly oppose all forms of racism and support granting equal treatment to people from every ethnicity and creed. However, I am aware that many critics of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (I am not trying to blast or attack this faith) highlight its history of deeply entrenched racism as a way to discredit their religious teachings. Please give me as much information as possible about what George Fox exactly believed about people of different skin colors and how the modern day movement tries to distance itself from his beliefs. Did he, for example, believed that people of African descent were supposedly cursed and inferior to white people by God? Or was he largely focused more around tolerating slavery while not directly espousing any belief in inherent white superiority?
3. How open are Quakers, as a whole, towards members of the LGBTQIA community? I personally identify as pansexual (attracted to people of all genders) and my friend's church is open towards members of minority gender and sexuality demographics. However, are members of the broader Quaker community likely to share these attitudes, or are they more traditional in regards to these topics?
4. Is it possible or likely that I will face any obstacles to becoming an active member of a Quaker community as a person of color from a minority ethnic group? All of the people I know from my friend's church are white and most are descended from a long line of white Quakers who arrived in the country as the early American pioneers. I also know another friend who was also raised in a different Quaker church; he and most of the congregation are white and from similar demographics. I am part of a minority ethnic group in my area of the US (I would not like to reveal which one I am part of) and people within my ethnicity tend to hold rather different cultural values (they generally are less focused on independent thinking, which appears to be a key aspect of Quakerism) and sometimes stigmatize Christianity as foreign and wrong. While I understand that Quakerism and virtually all other modern religious denominations condemn racism as wrong and sinful, I have faced racial microaggressions at a non-Quaker place of worship beforehand that made me a bit uncomfortable (they treated my family as foreign and asked if we needed services in a foreign language). How much emphasis do Quakers generally place on recruiting people from minority ethnic groups? Are there likely to be any significant groups of nonwhite Quakers who share the same basic values as my friend?
5. Do Quakers generally believe (I know that Quakerism, as a whole, has no inherent creed) that their form of Christianity is the only way to salvation or the best way of worshiping God? Do they tend to hold similar values to each other, or is there generally widespread dissent within the same church? I understand, from reading a pretty long book on different Protestant denominations which discussed Quakerism (I don't remember the name of it), that a key aspect of the faith is the lack of a creed. However, I am trying to understand how much this plays out in reality and if there is typically an "unwritten creed" within particular churches that most members follow.

I am sorry if this post doesn't appear to be concise, well-formatted, or well-thought out. I personally wrote this late at night (and didn't want to save it for the next day out of fear that I would forget some of my key points) and didn't take that much time to proofread it.