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Fred Bowers is the only candidate to file a statement to run for President of Affirmation in a special election called after the resignation of Melissa-Malcolm King. He has nominated Joel McDonald and David Doyle as his vice presidents.
Candidates for Affirmation President must declare their candidacy by February 2nd. More information, including a timeline for the election and how to declare your candidacy, can be found on the Affirmation Presidential Election page.
On December 31st, 2023, Melissa Malcolm King resigned as president of Affirmation: LGBTQ Mormons, Families & Friends. The Board of Affirmation expresses deep gratitude for the passion, commitment, and care with which Melissa Malcolm served. We need her voice and perspectives in Affirmation. We are sad about their departure but respect her sense of how…
Serving and protecting is a sublime manifestation of the love and warmth of the human heart; virtues that, when given to the world, return to us in a torrent of expansion of the being whose happiness and joy cannot be compared and of which, great teachers such as Jesus Christ, Buddha, Gandhi or Rumi, among…
Hundreds of hours; miles of lived lessons that 2023 leaves us in Affirmation Venezuela. It was impossible to let so many experiences pass without honoring those special affections that were by our side to help us move forward victoriously, making this organization a safe space of acceptance, spirituality, love and transformation, and what better way…
Every December 1st, humanity remembers and commemorates the lives of millions of people, whose dreams, smiles and hopes were extinguished by one of the cruelest pandemics the world has ever seen. It seems only like it was yesterday, when at the dawn of the 80s of the last century, the planet was shocked by the…
Affirmation Venezuela participated on December 9 in a youth forum against corruption titled “1st Youth Meeting for an Integrity Venezuela” and organized by Transparencia Venezuela. The forum was held at the Zulia María Calcaño Public Library, and brought together young people from different civil society organizations and young councilors and other representatives of the Public…
Last Thursday, December 14, 2023, together with the Municipal Institute for Sexodiversity of Maracaibo (@mcbodiversidad), Affirmation Venezuela together with other LGBTQI+ NGOs in Maracaibo, we held the first of a series of gatherings organized by IMSEMA. On this occasion, the topic to be addressed was “What was the year 2023 like in terms of LGBTQI+…
As is tradition, the members of Affirmation Mexico held a posaba; It was last Saturday, December 18, that they met in Mexico City to participate in the last in-person activity of this year. During this activity, board games and dancing were held, some of the participants shared with others the typical foods of this Christmas…