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Youth, Parents and Church Leaders Especially Invited to Conference

August 23, 2014 |

This year’s conference will provide activities for LGBT Youth and teenage children of LGBT parents. It will also include sessions specifically for Church leaders and parents. We will also hold two free screenings of the “Families Are Forever” documentary on Friday, September 12 at 3-4:30 and 4:30-6:00 p.m. including a discussion and opportunity for sharing.

Pillars of my Faith

August 16, 2014 |

The great temptation in my life has been to prematurely resolve the great problems quickly and easily in one direction or another. But there have been profound moments in my life when I have been forced to acknowledge, like Moses, “Now, for this cause I know that man is nothing, which thing I never had supposed.”

Shame and Affirmation

June 14, 2014 |

My son said, “If anyone knew who I really was, they would hate me.” These were the same thoughts he had regarding us before he had come out to us. So Wendy and I took on the task of liberating him of that shame.

The Smithsons’ Christmas Present

June 7, 2014 |

“Your coming out has become a wonderful journey for us. So, thanks.”

Transcription of April 2014 Affirmation Post General Conference Discussion

April 27, 2014 |

Speakers: Berta Marquez, Bob Rees, Erika Munson, Greg Prince, John Gustav-Wrathall, Randall Thacker, Samy Galvez

Love! Testimony! Service!

February 10, 2014 |

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…

Two More Weeks to Support Film ‘Facing East’

February 10, 2014 |

https://d2pq0u4uni88oo.cloudfront.net/projects/380390/video-180803-h264_high.mp4 In this video clip, author Carol Lynn Pearson and director Will Swenson describe the project   Donations, Starting at $5, Accepted through December 14 by Hugo Salinas December 2012…

A Gay Mormon Mission: A Conversation with Johnny Townsend

February 10, 2014 |

by Hugo Salinas June 2007 With some 60 published stories and essays, Johnny Townsend is a prolific writer. And with a dozen of his short stories touching on the gay…

Paperdolls: Healing from Sexual Abuse in Mormon Neighborhoods

February 10, 2014 |

» Resources about sexual abuse Writing under the pseudonyms of April Daniels and Carol Scott, two women a generation apart recorded their devastating discovery of the havoc abuse had wreaked in…