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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.

Posted 6 years ago Tagged

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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I’m just out here doing the Lord’s work. 😂😂

Thank you for following along. Thank you for commenting. Thanks to those who share our content. Thank you to those who push back, and thank you for adding your own perspective.

My goal has always been to share stories and experiences that are not always mainstream, not always comfortable, and not always easy to understand. Sometimes our stories are overlooked. Sometimes they are controversial. The point is not that you will agree with every story. The point is that you may finally understand someone else’s.

That is why we talk.

I welcome the bigots, the phobes, the newly out, the curious, the questioning, the seasoned, and everyone still figuring out where they stand. We can have hard conversations. We can disagree. We can share lived experience. We can be civil.

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I’ve heard it again and again: “You can leave the church, but you just can’t leave it alone.”

Familiar? Yup.

The assumption behind that line is that speaking about the church—especially critically—means you’re bitter, stuck, or unable to move on.

That’s not what’s happening.

When you criticize a system, a lot of people hear it as a direct criticism of them. Not because that’s what you said, but because they’ve tied their identity so closely to the church that the two feel inseparable.

So instead of engaging the issue, they defend the system—because it feels like defending themselves.

That’s why deconstruction matters. It’s a tool.

It creates space to separate your identity from the institution. To ask what you actually believe, and what you’ve simply been taught to accept without question.

Because institutions—churches, governments, communities—can get things wrong. Sometimes in ways that cause real harm.

And people are often taught to overlook that. Not because they can’t see it, but because they’ve been told that calling it out signals disloyalty.

It doesn’t.

Calling something out isn’t about “not leaving it alone.” It’s about refusing to pretend something is fine when it isn’t.

Accountability isn’t betrayal. It’s what keeps systems honest. It’s what allows people inside them to have a fair, honest experience.

And for some of us, speaking up isn’t about staying stuck in the past.

It’s about making sure others don’t have to go through the same things we did.

And for the people who still say it—who think speaking up means I “can’t leave it alone”—here’s something to sit with:

Can you hear criticism of a system without taking it as criticism of yourself?

If the same issue showed up in another church, would you call it out there?

If someone inside the church is being harmed, is staying quiet really the better option?

If you didn’t know this was your church—if you were hearing it from the outside—how would it sound to you?

Is loyalty protecting the institution, or making sure it’s honest?

Because talking about something isn’t the same as being stuck in it.

And silence has never made anything better for the people living inside it.
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