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Coming Out | All the pieces fit together

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My coming out story is a long one. It doesn’t end until I met the love of my life, and all the pieces started to fit together.  

Ever since I can remember I had been fascinated by girls. All … Read the rest here

Coming Out | My friend, Closet.

Posted 7 years ago Tagged

I wanted to share my relationship with Closet, my best friend and enemy for the last 36 years. I asked Closet and he said it would be okay if I talked about us (as long as it meant I … Read the rest here

Coming Out | “We’ve taken a big step today, and it’s enough for one day…”

Posted 7 years ago Tagged

I’m an asexual/biromantic cisgender woman with a heavy preference for other women (did you catch all that!?). My partner is gender fluid and is trans masculine. We’ve been together for almost seven years now and living together for the past … Read the rest here

Coming Out | I started to fall more and more

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Many really cool things happened to me this year. I think of the best friends I have made, the whole PRIDE month experience, spending holidays with family and trying to live my best life, I couldn’t be happier with the … Read the rest here

Coming Out | And I said it again: lesbian. And again, lesbian. And again.

Posted 7 years ago Tagged

Whew, if you’re reading this, then I found the courage to hit the send button.

I have known I’ve liked girls ever since I was around 15 years old. In that time I have only become comfortable calling myself a … Read the rest here

Coming Out | I am currently a Stake President

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How is it that after months and months of planning out this letter, the moment I feel ready, I sit down to write my own words and the feelings of comfort evade me? Why now do I feel consumed with … Read the rest here

Coming Out | Those who really cared about me didn’t let my coming out stand in the way…

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Very short version of very long story. Graduated BYU totally closeted, married a woman because I felt forced to and was taught God would “fix” me if I did. It ended for other reasons. Prop 8 happened, I saw top … Read the rest here

Coming Out | They told me I will be happier in a straight relationship

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This is a first time experience for me. For some reason I had never considered sharing my story like this, but after reading so many of them, they have helped me in ways I couldn’t have realized. I guess I … Read the rest here

Coming Out | They asked me if I was a “homosexual”?

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I have been following your blog and podcast–AND THANK YOU!!!  In the 70’s I went to a psychologist and explained to him that I was unsure of coming out to my parents, especially as I was an only child.  The … Read the rest here

Coming Out | I didn’t break off our engagement. We got married.

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I’ve been gay my whole life. I’ve known it my whole life. I remember being attracted to men and boys my age way back into elementary years. I had no idea what gay was until junior high. I thought it … 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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