By J. Nielsen While spending the majority of my life, silently agonizing over the decision to leave the darkness of the LGTBQ closet and risk the consequences of coming out into the light, I have feverishly read and studied everything I…
Category: Self-acceptance
Flipping The Switch: Letting God Light The Path
By Kathy Carlston 2011 was a big year for me. In July, after years of going to therapy and working with various bishops in the hopes of finding some way, some cure to rid myself of being attracted to women, I…
Journey To Gay (And God Gives An Answer)
By Ellen Koester (also published at her blog http://the-noncommittal-philanthropist.blogspot.com/ ) In December 2011, I was at the Oquirrh Mountain Temple doing baptisms. It’s one of my favorite temples in the valley, and it was here, during its open house before its dedication, that…
Moroni’s Promise and James 1:5-6 (Asking God Directly about Being LGBT)
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like…
It Was Not You that Sent Me Hither, But God
Since I was a kid, the story of Joseph in Egypt has always been one of my favorite in all of scripture. Even now as an adult, I find it intriguing, powerful and multi-layered. One layer that I became aware…
Dying for Some Touch
By Esteban Cencerrado Lee-O’Neal One week before I married Rex in San Francisco in August 2011, I received a call from Tony. He said that his second suicide attempt had failed. I sat motionless on the outside, but exploding on…
Choices (difficulties facing a gay Mormon as he tries to move forward authentically)
By Chris Christensen (also posted gayfathers.org) Have you ever been in a situation where the choices that were made in a given situation were totally wrong, these decisions were made without your input, they made you uneasy (maybe even angry),…
Coming Out to a Compassionate Mission President (and Congressman)
Loved long since, and lost awhile By Scott L. Keever (Originally written for his blog February 2012) Some birthday musings I shared yesterday with an online interfaith community. Tomorrow is my birthday. I mention the fact not because I seek attention…
Easter Reflections of a Gay Man
By Aaron Tabacco (cross posted from his blog Quorum of the Outcasts) You know, the entire Passover and Easter season used to be my very favorite time of the year for spiritual renewal. Not in a social connect-with-family-and-friends-and-food sort of way…but…
Heavenly Mother Intervenes for a Gay Man
By Edward J. (originally from his blog gailymormon) I delivered this talk in sacrament meeting at the Washington DC Third Ward on Sunday, January 20, 2013. The first counselor in the bishopric asked me to speak on how the gospel has…