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David Matheson, complicity, and walking away

Posted 8 years ago Tagged Affirmation conversion therapy David Matheson Evergreen LDS Church North Star

by: SBagley

Today I read in the newspaper that David Matheson came out as gay. You don’t know who David Matheson is, unless you know exactly who David Matheson is, and in that case you know a whole lot more. … Read the rest here

I might be completely wrong, but can I ask you a question?

Posted 8 years ago Tagged daughters family text messaging

So I did it, I came out!!!  I’m 54 with two daughters and married to a woman. Here is how it all happened…my daughter sent this text exchange:

Daughter: I might be completely wrong about this but can I ask … Read the rest here

Idaho Schools Deemed “Unsafe” for LGBT Students

Posted 8 years ago Tagged

By: Riley Bunch | Idaho State Journal

A new report by a national organization that advocates for LGBTQ student safety in schools shows that Idaho schools are unequipped and “unsafe” for non-gender-conforming students.

The organization GLSEN recently released state-level data … Read the rest here

My parents had pretty much formed an intervention–and my old church leaders were playing along.

Posted 8 years ago Tagged coming out Intervention Parents

As I have been reading these coming out stories I have hesitated sharing mine because it wasn’t positive. Basically, I sat my parents down and told them I had something to tell them. The tension in the room could have … Read the rest here

I was attracted girls, but only emotionally.

Posted 8 years ago Tagged

This is going to be long, so bear with me…

I guess my story starts in 5th grade, although I didn’t know I was gay at the time. There was this guy in my group of friends that I had … Read the rest here

Salt Lake Gay Couple Behind Viral Wedding Proposal Become Foster Dads

Posted 8 years ago Tagged Dustin Reeser-Stout Fatherhood Gay Dads GaysWithKids Home Depot Proposal Spencer Stout

By: GaysWithKids | Gay Dad Family Stories

They’ve gone viral, appeared on Ellen, and were married by Queen Latifa. What can top all that? Fatherhood.

Over 5 years ago, you might remember seeing an amazing proposal that took place in … Read the rest here

Coming Out to His Wife Was Painful, but it Started Him on a Path of Authenticity

Posted 8 years ago Tagged family GaysWithKids MixedOrientationMarriage Moving On Salt Lake single dad

By: GaysWithKids | New York City

After Kyle Ashworth came out to his wife, with whom he has four children, “she listened, she mourned and she loved,” he said.
Kyle has four kids from a previous straight relationship. After ten … Read the rest here

The Ball Cap

Posted 8 years ago Tagged LGBT Hat Stan Mitchell

by Pastor Stan Mitchell

I wear a couple of ball caps with states stitched on them in the colors of the Pride flag. This afternoon, as I was sitting waiting to board a flight, a young man who looked to … Read the rest here

I finally did it.

Posted 8 years ago Tagged

“This is my pseudo coming out story, sorry it’s a long story and does it count if I have only said it to one of my cousins?…

This is how events developed, last September on a trip to Brazil, I … Read the rest here

An Open Letter To Latter-Day Saints: When A Gay Person Shows Up At Church

Posted 8 years ago Tagged Laura Dulin Mormons

by: Laura Skaggs Dulin

Being gay/same sex attracted in the LDS church just got real…and that is saying a lot because it has been incredibly real for a long time…so what I’m really trying to say is that it just … Read the rest here

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Before you get offended: remember, God gives his toughest battles to his most persecuted Facebook commenters.

Be well. 😘🏳️‍⚧️
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“JUST DON’T GO.” That was the advice from an 87-year-old federal judge appointed by Ronald Reagan as he struck down Texas’ drag law this week.

Judge David Hittner ruled that Senate Bill 12, passed in 2023 to restrict drag performances, was so broad and vague that it clearly violated the First Amendment.

The law allowed businesses to be fined up to $10,000 and performers to face as much as a year in jail, but the language Texas used, according to the ruling, could reach far beyond drag. Hittner pointed to cheerleading, dancing and live theater as examples.

He also pointed to Dolly Parton.

Hittner cited the way Dolly had been criticized as a “voluptuous sex symbol” because of her big hair, flamboyant clothes and cleavage. The same language Texas used to decide whether a drag performance was too sexual or “prurient” could just as easily apply to a mainstream performer—and to Dolly who had spent more than half a century doing exactly what the law wanted to regulate.

The ruling against Texas was issued the same day Dolly Parton died.

Brigitte Bandit, an Austin based drag performer and one of the plaintiffs who challenged the law, had testified against it at the Texas Capitol in 2023 while carrying a children’s book about Dolly Parton.

A photo from Bandit’s testimony from court eventually reached Dolly, who later sent Bandit a rhinestone-covered guitar inscribed, “To Brigitte. Love, Dolly Parton.”

Bandit performs as Dolly, and this Saturday she’ll do it again at an Austin bar in a tribute to her—and to the lawsuit, carrying the rhinestone guitar Dolly gave her.

It’s a remarkable collision of events. Dolly spent her career exaggerating femininity so completely that she turned big hair, rhinestones, cleavage and a larger-than-life persona into something unmistakably her own. And now, Texas law written to police those same kinds of expressions became broad enough that a federal judge could use Dolly to demonstrate a constitutional problem.

It was a loss for identity politics and a win for free speech.

In the ruling, Hittner had a simpler answer for anyone who finds drag offensive. They don’t need the government to ban it.

“Just don’t go.”
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2 days ago

So, Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness?

In 1992, Iowa voters were considering a constitutional amendment prohibiting discrimination based on sex.

Pat Robertson—the televangelist behind The 700 Club, former Republican presidential candidate and founder of the Christian Coalition—wanted the amendment defeated.

His organization sent out a fundraising letter warning that the “feminist agenda” encouraged women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

Yes. All of that because Iowa was considering equal rights for women.

Robertson meant it as a warning about what feminism would do to marriage, Christianity and the traditional family.

Instead, feminists reclaimed the quote. The shortened version—“leave their husbands, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians”—ended up on shirts, posters and merch.

Women turned it into a slogan.

The campaign worked—at least temporarily. Iowa voters rejected the amendment 52% to 48% in 1992. Six years later, voters approved an equal-rights amendment by an overwhelming margin (84%), adding protections against discrimination based on sex to the Iowa Constitution.
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