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Affirmation Vice President Featured on CNN

February 20, 2013 |

Affirmation Senior Vice President John Gustav-Wrathall was featured today on CNN’s OutFront show with Erin Burnett in a segment about the “Mormon influence on Boy Scouts as [the] organization reconsiders [its] gay ban.”

Lee Beckstead and Jim Struve to Facilitate LGBTQ Workshop

February 19, 2013 |

Lee Beckstead, a Utah-based psychologist well known for his work on the intersection between sexual orientation and religion, will co-facilitate a workshop on Saturday, March 16.

Straight Mormon Playwright Explores Prop 8, Friendship

February 14, 2013 |

An LDS playwright is having his new script staged in Salt Lake City. Adam & Steve and the Empty Sea is the coming-of-age story of two friends–one of them openly gay and the other openly Mormon.

Gay Scoutmaster Welcomed in Former Ward

February 13, 2013 |

Former bishop Bob Bradley and Eagle Scout Taylor Bradley welcomed their out gay former Scoutmaster and former first counselor to the Mt. Airy ward this Sunday.

Affirmation 2013 Conference: New Frontiers

February 12, 2013 |

We welcome you to return to Salt Lake City for Affirmation’s 2013 Annual General Conference: “New Frontiers,” to be held September 13-15 at the Guesthouse and Conference Center of the University of Utah.

Affinity – February 2013

February 1, 2013 |

Affirmation: Gay & Lesbian Mormons—Serving LGBT Mormons and Their Family and Friends Since 1977 Inside This Issue The Affirmation Leadership Gathering Affirmation Calendar Affirmation 2013 Conference: New Frontiers Affirmation: Gay…

Seattle Affirmation to Hold Potluck

January 31, 2013 |

Members, friends, and allies of Affirmation in Seattle will hold a potluck at Wendy Reynolds’s home in Kenmore.

That Healing Power of Paradox!

January 30, 2013 |

Affirmation provides a forum for listening to stories, suspending all judgment, and challenging assumptions when open to be challenged in return

The Lord Is Extending the Saints’ Understanding

January 29, 2013 |

From Elder Uchtdorf’s recent CES talk to the sacrament meeting I attended today, it seems that I am more frequently reminded that ours is a living church and God still has more to say.