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It Will Be Held April 3 in Salt Lake City February 25, 2005 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Duane Jennings Wasatch Chapter, Affirmation: Gay & Lesbian Mormons 801-486-6977 UtahSoulforce  aol.com www.affirmation.org Affirmation: Gay and Lesbian Mormons and Reconciliation announce their annual Fireside and Mission Reunion. The event will take place April 3, 2005, in Salt Lake City at the Metropolitan Community Church, 823 South 600 East. The mission reunion will start at 5:30 with a potluck followed by a fireside that will feature actor and writer Steven Fales. Please bring a favorite casserole, salad, or desert for the potluck. Drinks provided by the chapter. Steven Fales is best known for his one-man play Confessions of a Mormon Boy, which has garnered critical and popular acclaim across the country. He most recently played a sold-out run in Chicago, where the Chicago Tribune called the play "an uncommonly powerful, gripping, and very moving piece of theatre." He will be playing San Francisco this spring and San Diego this summer before opening Off Broadway in the fall. (See www.mormonboy.com for more information.) Told with humor, song and the Book of Mormon, the play details his failed attempt to overcome his same-sex attraction which resulted in his excommunication from the Mormon Church and his divorce from Carol Lynn Pearson's oldest daughter. Fales has two children who he takes weekly to "Music and the Spoken Word" at Temple Square. "When I got excommunicated I threw god out with religion. I've now taken god back on my terms and it has made such a difference in my life. I know it sounds crazy, but I still feel God in the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Despite the institutionalized bigotry of the Church, I want my kids to be exposed to the many good things in our Mormon pioneer heritage. The choir is one of those things." Fales quips, "God has seen me through excommunication, divorce, prostitution and drugs. Now we're working on narcissism." He is currently working on many projects including a new solo show called Mormon American Princess.  Report of last year's missionary reunionWasatch Affirmation is the Utah chapter of Affirmation, a non-profit fellowship serving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered and Intersexed Latter-day Saints since 1977. The Wasatch Chapter aims to provide a safe, inclusive space for GLBTI people from Mormon backgrounds who live along the Wasatch Front. We affirm that life as a GLBTI person can be positive and is not incompatible with spirituality. At the same time, we are a diverse group who embrace a variety of lifestyles and hold a variety of attitudes towards spirituality, religion, morality and politics. We are united chiefly by our desire to interact with others who share our dual background -- Mormon and GLBTI -- and who therefore share the unique struggle and blessings which that duality engenders. For more information, visit Affirmation on-line at www.affirmation.org. Also, you can check out press photos on Steven's web site: www.mormonboy.com, that he says can be used in any article/announcement regarding the reunion.
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