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Coming Out | It Is Okay To Be Gay

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I am excited to share my Coming Out story. The people in my life always seem to say that I’m “too mature” for my age. That might be true, so I just give them a smile, but in my head, … Read the rest here

Coming Out | I Am Not Coming Out As Gay

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This is my story about coming out. I am coming out, not as gay, not as a lover of Swiss chocolate, but as trans. Five months before my 17th birthday I finally understood what was different about me. Growing up … Read the rest here

Coming Out | Six Years Ago

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It’s not for the faint of heart. It needs to happen only when one is totally ready and has thought it through.

No one should ever out another person. Ever.

Six years ago I had the spiritual experience that led … Read the rest here

Coming Out | Maybe It Was My “Sheltered” Upbringing.

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I grew up in the Church. My dad was Bishop when I was 8. I’m second of nine of a typically-large LDS family, the eldest son. For years, I was the “perfect child,” in the fact that I was obedient … Read the rest here

Coming Out | My journey into recovery and self love.

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I am a 30 year old native Utahn and a member of the LGBTQ community. I was raised in an active LDS family and from a very young age I felt “different”. I recall from a young age being told … Read the rest here

Coming Out | Forget Being Gay And Focus On Other Things

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I am gay and I am currently serving a full time mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I’ve been out in the field for a little over a year and I really struggled a few months … Read the rest here

Coming Out | To feel nothing so as not to feel anything — what a waste!

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“I still worry about what the closet might have stolen from me. I worry that I’m learning things far too late for the stakes to be negligible (they’re higher and higher all the time). I worry that I missed the … Read the rest here

Coming Out | ‘Tis the Season

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It is usually around this time of the year that we focus on giving gifts and running door to door giving out homemade treats to our neighbors. I remember this month for something equally special to me. In addition to … Read the rest here

Coming Out | I needed to prove to God that I wasn’t gay.

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My coming out story should have started around the time I realized I was gay. From my memory that would have been early in my college years, likely when I was around 21 years old. I distinctly recall finally recognizing … Read the rest here

Coming Out | I think I am seeing some light at the end of the tunnel.

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I am gay and I come from an extremely strict, LDS family based in South East-Asia. I was planning to go to London for University after secondary graduation, but unfortunately things didn’t go as planned when my family found out … 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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