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Salt Lake City Chapter to hold Affirmation Fireside
Sunday, October 7, 2012, at 5:00 PM

by Duane Jennings
October 2012

Join us for Affirmation: Gay & Lesbian Mormons’ semi-annual After Conference Sunday Fireside on Sunday, October 7, 2011 at 5:0 pm followed by refreshments (please bring an hors d’oeuvres or dessert - drinks provided)

Our guest speakers will include Professor David Knowlton, Utah Valley State University.

Venue: Community of Christ: 2747 East Craig Dr. (3640 South - from 3900 south turn north onto 2700 east. Take the third right onto Craig Dr. The Church is on the north side)

Why Mission Reunions?

Since 1993, on the Sunday evening of LDS General Conference weekend, the Salt Lake chapter of Affirmation: Gay & Lesbian Mormons has hosted an After Conference Sunday Fireside. "Why," some might ask, "would gay and lesbian Mormons possibly want to attend such an event -- especially when they have traditionally been cast as pariahs by their own faith community?"

A simple answer is that regardless of one’s present relationship with the LDS Church, the two years spent as missionaries in a foreign country, or within the United States, had an indelible impact on who one is. Some of the best missionaries of the LDS Church are now advocates of equal rights for the LGBTI community here in Utah and elsewhere!

Affirmation's Fireside celebrates that missionary experience and the courage it takes to be true to ones self and to ones God. It allows us to acknowledge the important place our Mormon heritage has had in framing who we are in the present.