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Coming Out | All the pieces fit together

Posted 7 years ago Tagged

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

Posted 7 years ago Tagged

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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IN or OUT of Mormonism.

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21 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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24 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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