An Open Letter to Prop 8 Supporters

  (Also posted at mormonsformarriage.com) Dear Prop 8 supporters, I remember this feeling you may be feeling today, now that Prop 8 appeals have been exhausted and same-sex marriages are about to resume in California. I remember this feeling that your…

Fembryology Part 4: A Feminist Critique of the Proclamation on the Family – “Gender”

By Elisothel (Also posted at feministmormonhousewives.org ) (Admin note: The Proclamation on the Family has been used as a tool in the church’s fight against legalizing gay-marriage, and thus stands as a sad reminder to many LGBT people of their exclusion…

Fembryology Part 3: A Feminist Critique of the Proclamation On The Family – “Sex”

By Elisothel (Also posted at feministmormonhousewives.org ) (Admin note: The Proclamation on the Family has been used as a tool in the church’s fight against legalizing gay-marriage, and thus stands as a sad reminder to many LGBT people of their exclusion…

Despair in Central Utah

By Anonymous   (Admin note:  The church no longer suggests heterosexual marriage as a cure for homosexuality, but it is still being held up in the Mormon community as the ideal endeavor for people with ‘SSA’.  The church’s website mormonsandgays.org…

History, Part 3 of 8: Repairing the past:

 By Scot, (a father, husband and gay Utahn)   Slowly I began to notice something was wrong with the youth group; I had been phenomenally fortunate. Many were there secretly. Their parents had no idea, and, when some found out, the…

History, Part 2 of 8: Finding birds of a feather

 By Scot, (a father, husband and gay Utahn) I knew I was gay at 14. I’d told most everyone I cared about at the age of 16. Now, I was 17 and hadn’t yet even met another gay kid (knowingly). I…