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Love! Testimony! Service!

February 10, 2014 |

May, 1999 By Scott Singer There is no greater woe than to recall past bliss in misery. —David Leavitt, The Page Turner The first time I read Terrence McNally’s 1994 Tony…

A Former Bishop Comes Out

February 10, 2014 |

By Anonymous Affinity, 16:12 [December 1992] When I was in my late twenties, I was called to serve as Bishop of a large, culturally diverse ward. For several years, I fully…

Coming Out: My Journey

February 10, 2014 |

November, 2000 By Sean My wife and I sat in bed watching a video. It was movie night. One night a week I’d bring a home a video and we’d…

There’s More to the Story on Gay/Straight Marriages

February 10, 2014 |

“The experience of bisexuals should not be generalized to homosexuals. The latter may have no sexual attraction whatever to the opposite gender.” By Ron Schow 3 September 2006 Ron Schow…

Queer Mormons of the 19th Century

February 10, 2014 |

by Hugo Salinas In 1996 D. Michael Quinn published Same-Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example. This book includes the remarkable stories of some 19th-century Mormons who developed intense same-sex friendships…

The YMCA, Same-Sex Relationships, and the Gospel: An Interview with John Donald Gustav-Wrathall

February 10, 2014 |

By Hugo Salinas April 2007 At the Portland conference I had the pleasure of meeting John Donald Gustav-Wrathall, a gay Mormon man from Minneapolis who almost ten years ago wrote Take…

Memorial Service to Honor President Howard B. Anderson

January 26, 2014 |

We regret to announce the passing of Howard B. Anderson (May 24,1928 – January 21, 2014). As president of the Los Angeles Stake, Pres. Anderson sponsored in the mid-1990s the “Third Friday Group” which gathered once a month at the Westwood Ward (behind the Los Angeles Temple).

LGBT Mormons and Allies Gather in the Bay Area

January 25, 2014 |

We had a beautiful evening Sunday night with around 25 souls, gay Mormons, gay non-Mormons, and many straight allies. We watched John Dehlin’s amazing Ted Talk, and shared stories of our personal journeys and hopes and ideas for opening hearts and minds. We laughed, cried and ate.

Coming Out as Families in Utah

January 24, 2014 |

Alongside dropping temperatures across much of the country, on Monday morning we also felt the U.S. Supreme Court’s stay of same-sex marriages in Utah blow a chill across the jubilation of the last two and a half weeks.