A few weeks back, I had a visit with an old friend. Margot is 82 now, and over the years she’s garnered a depth of understanding that I’ve come to greatly admire. In her words I’ve often found pearls of…
Keeping the Focus on Ourselves
Category: Changing attitudes
Homosexuality, Mormonism, and Me
Micah Nickolaisen is a photographer and active, faithful Latter-Day Saint living in Chandler, Arizona. You can read more of his thoughts and story at FaithfulHeretic.com. Micah also manages and hosts the new Open Stories Foundation podcast A Thoughtful Faith I’m…
So You Want to be an Ally…
This past Saturday, I met with a local group of LGBT Mormons and Allies. As I and another facilitator of the group used that term, “ally,” one (heterosexual*) member of the group spoke up and said he wasn’t sure if…
Transgender Children: An Easy Way for the LDS Church to Get it Right
While shadowing Dr. Norm Spack in his work with the GeMS clinic at Children’s hospital Boston, I couldn’t help but wonder what my Mormon pioneer ancestors would think if they could see me now. Dr. Spack is one of…
The Tipping Point and the Penny
Last night–just after I wrote down a few thoughts for this blog–I watched the second in a three-part series on PBS called “The Abolitionists.” It ended on a challenging note: a bill had been passed that promised to secure…
Born of Goodly Parents
Most Mormon LGBT are traumatized by their Mormon experience; I was not. My narrative begins with the question “Why, as a gay youth, was my Mormon experience so positive?
Why I Support Marriage Equality
By Scott H. This past November 5, 2012, I shared this story on my Facebook page*. On November 6, 2012, the State of Washington joined Maryland and Maine as the first states to uphold marriage equality by popular vote. I…
No More Strangers: A Forum for LGBT Mormons and Allies
Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God. (Ephesians 2:19) Paul, in this chapter of Ephesians, begins by reminding the Saints of the state of brokenness in which…