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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…

“In Quiet Desperation”: An Open Letter to Marilyn Matis

February 10, 2014 |

by Jason Clark January 2005 Three months ago, Deseret Book published In Quiet Desperation, a new book with two candid accounts revolving around gay Mormon experience. In the following letter, an Affirmation…

Bishop Rees Reviews “In Quiet Desperation”

February 10, 2014 |

He Takes Issue with LDS Family Services, AMCAP by Matt Christensen December 2005 Robert A. Rees, a former bishop who often counseled with gay Mormons, has just published a review of the…

The YMCA, Same-Sex Relationships, and the Gospel: An Interview with John Donald Gustav-Wrathall

February 10, 2014 |

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…

2011 Conference Report

February 10, 2014 |

Prepared by James Kent and Hugo Salinas “Visions and Blessings” Friday With strong interfaith participation, an inspiring choir, and a historic devotional held in the lower court of the Kirtland…