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Coming Out | The Caterpillar Can Now Fly

Posted 6 years ago Tagged

Wow! I haven’t really thought about sharing my coming out story until now. Thank you for the nudge! I am not ashamed of the process, or of my story but thinking back to my life before I came out and … Read the rest here

Coming Out | Would I Wreck the Celestial Plan of Salvation for Our Family?

Posted 6 years ago Tagged coming out Gay Gay Child Mormon Plan of Salvation Son

Growing up I was very fortunate to have a family that was really gay friendly. We were not the typical Latter-day Saint family. My dad’s job allowed us to travel around the country, giving us the opportunity to live in … Read the rest here

Coming Out | The Love I Never Had

Posted 6 years ago Tagged coming out Lesbian Lesbian Mormon Mixed Orientation Marriage

Four years ago, I sat in St. James Cathedral in downtown Seattle and begged God to show me what to do. Here I was a gay woman, married to a man for the past 20 years, with four kids who … Read the rest here

Coming Out | Starting to Act Gay

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I think family acceptance is one of the hardest parts of coming out. I came out to a dozen friends months before I said anything to my parents, and most of my extended family still haven’t been officially clued in … Read the rest here

Coming Out | Yes, Mormons Can Be Bisexual

Posted 6 years ago Tagged

Coming out to my parents was difficult. They both accepted me and told me they loved me, reassured me this changed nothing and even admitted they always knew. It wasn’t their view of me that complicated the situation, but rather … Read the rest here

Coming Out | The Letter

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I will never forget the feeling of standing by that mailbox. It was 10pm in a dimly lit USPS lobby. I stood there staring at the slit in the wall, trembling with anxiety. It had to have been for at … Read the rest here

Coming Out | Finding My Place

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I have been born into the church, and have grown up with it. I am bisexual and married to a cis straight man. I lived in a small town where 90% of the population was LDS. I always told myself … Read the rest here

Coming Out | Son, Don’t Act Too Gay

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I came out as gay a few years ago and everyone, even extended family and friends took it exceptionally well. However, my parents seem to have put up a wall and don’t know what to do about it. They knew … Read the rest here

Coming Out | The Windshield Note

Posted 6 years ago Tagged

I have read these coming out stories each Sunday and I have enjoyed so many of them. It is remarkable how often our individual stories become so relatable to so many people. I came out in high school and never … Read the rest here

Coming Out | A Few Lessons Learned

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I have watched many of our friends and family members share a very intimate piece of personal truth with their loved ones, many for the very first time ever! From my past experience, I want to share information that may … Read the rest here

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IN or OUT of Mormonism.

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"It's okay to be gay, just don't act on it."

They say it soft, like Sunday School teachers breaking bad news gently, like they're doing you a favor by letting you exist. But it's never kindness—it's control with a smile.

They want you half-alive, present but not touching, visible but not loving. “It’s okay to be gay, as long as you don’t do gay things.” Be who we need, they say, not who you are.

Tell a straight person they can be straight but never act on it and watch them laugh—then wait until they realize that's exactly what they asked of you. And in those few moments of clarity they realize how foolish they sound.

They call it love.
You know it’s a cage.
Now they know too.
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I’m gay, but even I know 80085 usually come in a two-pack. Get it together, Costco. 😂

All of us who spelled BOOBS on a calculator in middle school feel seen. Seriously though, I’m more of a stem guy, but I respect your work.

And yes, this is real. 🎃
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Kiyoshi Kuromiya (1943–2000) was born at Heart Mountain, Wyoming, the camp where the U.S. government had imprisoned his Japanese American family during World War II. In 1961, he moved from California to Philadelphia to attend the University of Pennsylvania, where he became involved in the civil rights movement.

In 1965, sheriff’s posse members beat him in Montgomery, Alabama, while he supported Black high school students who were protesting for voting rights. He knew Martin Luther King Jr. through the movement and helped care for King’s sons during the week of King’s funeral in 1968.

Alongside his civil rights work, Kuromiya advocated as an openly gay man. He joined the 1965 pickets at Independence Hall and helped found Philadelphia’s Gay Liberation Front in 1969. When AIDS devastated the community in the 1980’s, he organized with ACT UP Philadelphia and created the Critical Path AIDS Project. He believed knowledge was crucial to understanding HIV infections.

Living with HIV himself, he used Critical Path to put research about medications and clinical trials into patients’ hands through a newsletter and a 24-hour hotline. As the project expanded online, it provided free internet access to people with HIV who otherwise might have been unable to use it.

That work put him in conflict with the 1996 Communications Decency Act, whose restrictions on “indecent” online speech threatened access to safer-sex information. The government wanted to stop him from providing life saving information. Critical Path joined the ACLU’s lawsuit, and Kuromiya testified about the consequences of censorship. In 1997, the Supreme Court struck down the government’s challenged restrictions against his efforts.

Philadelphia FIGHT’s Critical Path Learning Center grew from his project and the AIDS Library. It continues to offer free health information, technology access and adult education. His original papers are preserved at the William Way LGBT Community Center.

October is LGBTQ+ History Month, a time to recognize the people who fought for our rights, shaped our culture and made life better for queer communities—including those whose stories are rarely told.
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