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LDS Resources for Parents & Supporters
Keep Them and Love Them Keep Them and Love Them
A call to accept and embrace your gay loved one

Family Fellowship
Family Fellowship is a Mormon organization engaged in the cause of strengthening families with homosexual members.

LDS Resources.info
Resources for Latter-day Saints Dealing with Homosexual Attraction. Includes perspectives by professionals, church leaders, and families.



Proposition Healing
Breaking bread and building understanding for Mormons and gays, gay Mormons, families and friends. A initiative launched by Carol Lynn Pearson.

Understanding LDS Homosexuality
Using personal stories and video to build understanding about homosexuality within the LDS Church

Resources beyond the LDS Faith
Pink Dot Utah encourages Utahns to speak up for their lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) family members, co-workers, neighbors and friends.

Family Aceptance Project
This project is directed by Dr. Caitlin Ryan at the Marian Wright Edelman Institute at San Francisco State University.

Family Aceptance
How our family was torn apart by our son's revelation that he's gay--and how we put it back together again.

COLAGE, Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere, is a support and advocacy organization for daughters and sons of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender parents.

GLSEN: The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network is the largest national organization that brings together teachers, parents, students, and concerned citizens to work together to end homophobia in our schools.

PFLAG: Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays


A Note to My Kid A Note to My Kid provides parents of LGBT and questioning youth, or any parent for that matter, with a plataform for expressing unconditional love

News

Elder Holland: We Do Not Shun Family Members    April 2012

LGBT Mormons, Allies Gather in Salt Lake City     December 2011

Circling the Wagons Conference: A Conversation with Anne Peffer     October 2011

Carol Lynn Pearson to Speak in Danville     October 2011

Circling the Wagons: A Conference for LGBTQ Mormons and Their Friends, Families, and Allies    September 2011

Documentary Explores the Lives of Three Gay Men of LDS Background    August 2011

Claudia Bradshaw to Be Honored     May 2011

Dr. James Madsen's Testimony before the Maryland House of Delegates     March 2011

Father of Affirmation Member Testifies in Favor of Marriage Equality     March 2011

BYU Student Creates YouTube Series    March 2011

BYU Student Takes a Look at Homosexuality, Same-sex Marriage   January 2011

Carol Lynn Pearson Launches "Proposition Healing"   Febrruary 2010

Lani and Robert Graves Receive "Faith in Action" Award

Family Fellowship Responds to the Oaks-Wickman Statement

Documentary Features Gay-Supportive Mormon Family

Millie and Gary Watts Receive Award, Tribute

Carol Lynn Pearson Releases "No More Goodbyes"

Rob and Kathryn Steffensen featured (PDF)

Affirmation Supporters Receive National Award


Further Readings

When Your Child Is Gay (Salon.com)


Unconditional Love: Andrea Carver, a Mormon, has a gay brother and a gay son.


Always My Son: produced by the Family Aceptance Project


A straight Mormon couple tells young Mormons, "It gets better."


Coming Out Mormon: Cody Derrick shares his story coming out to family and friends shortly after returning home from serving a mission for the LDS Church.


Valentine Marriage


Why I Support Marriage Equality: Dr. James Madsen, a Mormon, a U.S. Army Colonel, and the father of a gay son, testifies for marriage equality in Maryland


LDS Homosexuality Part 3: Embracing our Homosexual Children


Carol Lynn Pearson: No More US and THEM (starts at 15:40)

Mormon Stories #173: Carol Lynn Pearson Pt. 1 - My Early Years and Marrying Gerald


Mormon Stories #174: Carol Lynn Pearson Pt. 2 - Early Career and Gerald's Final Coming Out


Mormon Stories #175: Carol Lynn Pearson Pt. 3 - Goodbye, I Love You: Loving Gerald Until the End


Mormon Stories #176: Carol Lynn Pearson Pt. 4 - No More Goodbyes: Supporting Gays in the LDS Church