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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 immersed myself in dedicated service to the ward members and had many rewarding and faith-promoting experiences which are now indelibly imprinted in my mind. In…
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 sit and watch it together after the kids were in bed. This week I had brought home In and Out. From what I had seen of…
“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 is an Idaho State University professor in Pocatello, Idaho, who has studied gay LDS Church members and their marriages. This is an editorial Dr. Schow…
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 or who were homosexuals. The 19th century did not know the homophobia we witness today. Men or women could embrace, kiss in public, and develop…
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 the Young Stranger by the Hand: Same-Sex Relations and the YMCA (Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 1998). Recently John has decided to start…
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).
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.
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.
To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don’t wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now. –Alan Cohen