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From the time he was young, Nicolle Huang knew he wanted to be a pilot. He also knew he was gay, but he kept that to himself.
Let’s all work to build bridges instead of walls with our fellow man by Richard Keys » See also: Sodom and Gomorrah: Arrogant, Overfed and Unconcerned INTRODUCTION Does anybody here have young kids? (show of hands) In your zeal to be a good parent, did you ever try to “make them” do the right thing? What happened?…
My favorite and most challenging calling is teaching Gospel Doctrine. Our class is a fascinating mix: single, married, straight and gay, fully to marginally active, people of several races in their twenties through their nineties.
April 3, 1996 By Mark Evans (name changed at request of author) Last week in marriage counseling I came out to my wife. This is something that I have wanted to do for a long time. There is a sense of relief that it is for the first time out in the open. I was…
May, 1999 By Scott Singer There is no greater woe than to recall past bliss in misery. —David Leavitt, The Page Turner The first time I read Terrence McNally’s 1994 Tony Award winning play, Love! Valour! Compassion!, I made a simple, descriptive entry in my journal: “Eight gays and a lake.” Up until that time I had…
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…