Category: Coming out

The Safe Way

LDS Living recently had an article with excerpts from Tom Christofferson’s book “That We May Be One, A Gay Mormon’s Perspective on Faith and Family.”1  Within LGBTQ+ Mormon circles, Tom’s book is controversial in that he tells his story of…

Sacred Spaces

Recently, I attended my fifth Affirmation Conference.  Affirmation is a support group for LGBTQIA Mormons.  It is a remarkably diverse space that includes not just inactive/ex-Mormons but active queer Mormons and active allies.  It bridges a wide span of both…

Rejection and the Family

Five years ago, my son was a 13-year-old deacon in our church.  He came out on Super Bowl Sunday, 2012.  For the year previous to that, my wife and I were very concerned as he was notably going downhill and…

Why Pride?

The day after the news of the new LDS Church policies on gay families hit social media, I prayed. Yes, the news was devastating to me and to so, so many in the LGBT Mormon community. In the weeks following,…

God Helps a Gay Mormon Come Out

By Taylor James Averett I am an honest person. What I mean by that is multi-layered, as all aspects of my personality are multi-layered. I am a direct person. I am a forthright person. I speak my mind, and I…

An LDS Family Unites In Love For Their Gay Son, Brother, Nephew, Cousin

By Liisa Lowe Frei, Jordan Frei and the Frei Family My husband, Nick, and I have six children: four boys and two girls.  This is the story of our fourth child, Jordan. Almost two years ago I was in my…

Just Breathe

by Thomas Memmott You may not know me, but I’d wager that we have something in common. I bet there has been a time in your life when you have had to fight to discover something about yourself. Maybe the…

Know Thyself

by Jake Taylor Some may say that to be an artist, one must also be a troubled soul; he must be anguished and tormented, for in this struggle does he produce his finest art. Even if my opinion held any…

Complicating Factors in the LGBT Mormon Spiritual Path

I am contacted fairly frequently by parents or other family members of gay or lesbian Latter-day Saints. They are anxious for their gay or lesbian loved ones to somehow find a way to stay active in the LDS church. Even…

Reconciling My Faith (Journey of a Gay Mormon Young Adult)

By Bryan Clark (also published at his blog http://livingwholeheartedly8.blogspot.com/) A mission friend of mine recently asked me if I had written a post yet on my reconciliation of faith as he’d be interested to read it. I thought it would be…