San Francisco

Paul Mortensen

Remembering Paul Mortensen

January 11, 2022 |

He felt firmly that you could be a Mormon without letting church leaders tell you how to do it or that you were on the wrong path. He was the original guru of understanding and accepting your own identity as a gay Mormon. He always understood the purpose of Affirmation wasn’t to shape anyone’s beliefs but to help them find their own faith- wherever that took them.

Ryan Proctor

The Pure Love of Christ is Not in Words but Actions

August 25, 2019 |

I am a gay, pioneer veteran that respects my Mormon beliefs but I take it from the pure love of Christ, not from what someone says from a pulpit. It is our actions that state who we are, not our words.

Bay Area Group Holds First Meeting

June 22, 2013 |

On June 2nd we had an LDS LGBT fireside/social at our house in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Homeless Man on Bench

One Night in San Francisco: Affirmation’s Two Senior Officers Homeless and on the Street

October 25, 2010 |

Neither of us will ever again be able to look through a homeless person as if he or she were invisible; we will never see a person curled up in a doorway late at night or early in the morning and not have a flashback to the night that that was us.

Man on Train

With All Thy Getting, Get Understanding

March 16, 2006 |

As I related to him my entire story, my bishop was dumfounded. He couldn’t believe what he was hearing, nor could he believe that the person who sat before him was homosexual. I fit none of his stereotypes or preconceptions.