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Neca Allgood, Jen Blair, Beth Ellsworth, Ron Raynes and Sara Jade Woodhouse were voted on as new Board members in February and have now joined the Board of Directors. We are grateful for their willingness to serve and volunteer their time and resources to the important work we do to support LGBT Mormons, Families & Friends worldwide.
There was a force in my life… one that I couldn’t measure, or quantify, or explain. OR explain away. And once that was revealed to me, there would be no turning back.
My role was to strategize an approach, to implement activities that operationalized LGBT outreach in the stake. Our efforts were not without precedent – I spoke with one former Bishop who had fellowshipped gay members locally two decades earlier, and I knew a stake leadership training on the topic of homosexuality had occurred here in more recent years. I got wind of the recent Beaverton, Oregon firesides and I was an online acquaintance of Mitch Mayne, who I figured would be a source of good ideas (given his highly-publicized role in LGBT outreach as the executive secretary in his ward in San Francisco). So I solicited advice from various sources.
For those of us who are lesbian, gay, bi or transgender and LDS, it is reassuring that our Church has gone on record to stand with us against those who would bully us or discriminate against us.
This past Sunday and Monday, March 1 and 2nd, LGBT Mormons, Families & Friends gathered in the San Diego and Denver Area for what will become an opportunity for continued support to this community. One attendee stated on Facebook afterwards, “Felt the Spirit so strong at the LGBT Mormon Affirmation gathering tonight…”
Affirmation and Northstar leaders participating in the meeting committed to setting a tone of personal respect for each other, acknowledging that people of good will have personal experiences leading them to see different solutions to similar challenges. We do not have to agree with specific aspects of each other’s mission or practices in order to acknowledge the goodwill with which we each approach our purposes.
I feel God near when I sing. I know that He exists through this higher talent I’ve been given through voice. You, my friends, are where I see God’s light. For like you, God comes with no judgment of me. He loves me unconditionally and loves me for being the beautiful imperfect GAY that I am.
Preguntas frecuentes que se hacen los padres de familia cuando un hijo dice: “Mamá, papá, soy gay”. ¿Qué hacer? ¿Qué decir? ¿Qué esperar?
Love had begun to change her, to empower her. Suddenly she was fearlessly living her life. She was accomplishing amazing things, because someone loved her for who she truly was, and believed in her, she believed in herself and dared not only to dream, but to strive to make those dreams a reality.