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Crossing Paths

Posted 8 years ago Tagged

by Roger Leishman
I’m making a list of things that remind me of the gay old days, way back in the mid-1990s, before the internet and cellphones ruined everything. For example, did you ever meet someone and have an amazing
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The Safe Way

Posted 8 years ago Tagged

by Thomas Montgomery

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 … Read the rest here

Hi, I’m Laura

Posted 8 years ago Tagged

Hi! My name is Laura Root. I am 47 years old. I grew up in an active LDS family and loved going to church. I developed a strong testimony of the gospel at a young age and always enjoyed praying … Read the rest here

Hi, we’re the Cooks

Posted 8 years ago Tagged

“Mom and Dad, I know this will come as a shock to you, but I am same-sex attracted.” Those were the words in a long letter Trevor had written to us when he was 18 and a freshman at BYU. … Read the rest here

Hi, I’m Taylor

Posted 8 years ago Tagged

My name is Taylor Weatherston. I suppose the first time I knew I was a little different from the other boys was when I was seven. Truthfully, I don’t remember his name or what he looked like, but I remember … Read the rest here

Sacred Spaces

Posted 9 years ago Tagged

by Thomas Montgomery

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

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Grace

Posted 9 years ago Tagged

by Thomas Montgomery

Recently we held a fireside at our home.  There was no specific topic, speaker or agenda.  We simply sent out the invitation and 20-30 people came.  Many were our LGBT+ friends who live in the area and

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Rejection and the Family

Posted 9 years ago Tagged

by Thomas Montgomery

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

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Anger

Posted 10 years ago Tagged

by Thomas Montgomery

I have a visceral memory from last year.  I remember stumbling out of Sacrament meeting with Wendy shaking and heaving with pain and despair.  Half way to our car, we just turned to each other and held

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A Tale of Two Weddings

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by Thomas Montgomery

Sunlight diffused through the trees over the wedding.  A light breeze cooled the summer day to a perfect temperature.  The wedding arch was decorated in lace and beautiful white lilies.  The groom stood to the left of

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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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