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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

Posted 6 years ago Tagged

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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20 hours ago

Howard Ashman wrote “Part of Your World” in 1989. He was a gay man living in New York at the height of the AIDS crisis.

After having lost the love of his life and dealing with his own diagnosis, Howard wrote a song about a girl at the bottom of the ocean watching the world above the water. Longing to belong. Wondering if she’d ever get to be part of it.

It wasn’t a fictional story, it was a song about his life.
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22 hours ago

Real talk. This DM is exactly what swirls in the minds of gay Latter-day Saints [or insert the name of your religion here] when they’re told their only faithful future is celibacy. Never dating. Never marrying. Never building a life with someone they love. Never an option.

This is what you’re promoting when you raise your hand to the square and sustain church leaders who teach this “doctrine”. When you cower instead of speak up. When you choose their uncertainty about eternity over the certainty of what these teachings are doing to people right now.

Imagine being okay with your son or daughter lying awake hoping that God could just break them enough that they would stop wanting to love.

And when you hang The Family: A Proclamation to the World on your wall, they know what it says about the family you hope they’ll have. They can see themselves outside that picture, even if you’ve convinced yourself otherwise.

This is the real currency of religion when doctrine and policy matter more than the people forced to live beneath it: men and women praying for God to take away their ability to love.

Sit with that.
Tell me where you see Jesus in this?
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2 days ago

I mean, dang it all to heck, Becky!

The first rule of Mormonism—lace everything with passive aggression—and do it the nicest way possible.

The field is white, all ready to harvest.

For all of our non-Mormon friends…after a Latter-day Saint “applies” to become a missionary, the church will mail or email a letter informing the missionary where in the world they will be sent to serve. For many Mormons the “opening” and reading aloud that letter to all your family and friends is a rite of passage. Becky jumped the gun.

And for the record: I need to meet Big Mouth Becky.
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