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Coming Out | Our Magical Unicorn

Posted 6 years ago Tagged coming out family Gay kids Parents

My coming out, probably like many of yours, did not go too well. My parents, specifically my mother, were not at all accepting of the idea. And for 6+ years afterwards, things were said to me that no child should … Read the rest here

Coming Out | It Was The Best For All of Us

Posted 6 years ago Tagged coming out family LDS Church Lesbian

We all have our story that has brought us here. Social community groups like Latter Gay Stories are so valuable to those who are looking for help, suggestions, friends and maybe more importantly a community where we don’t feel so … Read the rest here

Coming Out | Tomorrow You’ll Be Older Than Today

Posted 6 years ago Tagged Authenticity coming out Late Bloomer Temple Marriage

My coming out story is somewhat unique. After a little over 20 years of marriage and two children, I decided to be true to myself and come out to my friends and family. Admitting to my wife that I was … Read the rest here

Coming Out | Enough For Me

Posted 6 years ago Tagged coming out Happy Place LDS Church

From the time I could dress myself, I was always less interested in feminine clothes. At church I would complain about having to wear dresses, and asking my parents why I couldn’t wear pants like my brothers. I just chalked … Read the rest here

Coming Out | The Do-Over

Posted 6 years ago Tagged coming out Gay God LDS Church Mixed Orientation Marriage Sexuality Temple

How many times have we looked back into our past and wanted a do-over? For me, one big event that I want to do-over is the coming out process. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to un-do my coming … Read the rest here

Hi, I’m Kurt

Posted 6 years ago Tagged Active Latter-day Saint coming out Mormon

I started wearing this rainbow heart pin to church before Covid-19 shut the doors to my church. It’s a reminder to me of never going back into the lonely dark closet I lived in most of my life. It’s also … Read the rest here

Coming Out | My Shameful Stain

Posted 6 years ago Tagged coming out Gay Mormon Guilt LDS Missionary Shame

I am fortunate to have the opportunity to come out in today’s social environment. I cannot imagine how much more difficult it would have been to come out 40, 50 or even 10 years ago. Society has become so much … Read the rest here

Coming Out | “Cool, because I am asexual!”

Posted 6 years ago Tagged asexual coming out family

Thinking back to the time in life when I was closeted now seems so weird! Who was I back then? The only person people knew me as was the image I had created for them. That person wasn’t me though. … 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

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"It's okay to be gay, just don't act on it."

They say it soft, like Sunday School teachers breaking bad news gently, like they're doing you a favor by letting you exist. But it's never kindness—it's control with a smile.

They want you half-alive, present but not touching, visible but not loving. “It’s okay to be gay, as long as you don’t do gay things.” Be who we need, they say, not who you are.

Tell a straight person they can be straight but never act on it and watch them laugh—then wait until they realize that's exactly what they asked of you. And in those few moments of clarity they realize how foolish they sound.

They call it love.
You know it’s a cage.
Now they know too.
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I’m gay, but even I know 80085 usually come in a two-pack. Get it together, Costco. 😂

All of us who spelled BOOBS on a calculator in middle school feel seen. Seriously though, I’m more of a stem guy, but I respect your work.

And yes, this is real. 🎃
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Kiyoshi Kuromiya (1943–2000) was born at Heart Mountain, Wyoming, the camp where the U.S. government had imprisoned his Japanese American family during World War II. In 1961, he moved from California to Philadelphia to attend the University of Pennsylvania, where he became involved in the civil rights movement.

In 1965, sheriff’s posse members beat him in Montgomery, Alabama, while he supported Black high school students who were protesting for voting rights. He knew Martin Luther King Jr. through the movement and helped care for King’s sons during the week of King’s funeral in 1968.

Alongside his civil rights work, Kuromiya advocated as an openly gay man. He joined the 1965 pickets at Independence Hall and helped found Philadelphia’s Gay Liberation Front in 1969. When AIDS devastated the community in the 1980’s, he organized with ACT UP Philadelphia and created the Critical Path AIDS Project. He believed knowledge was crucial to understanding HIV infections.

Living with HIV himself, he used Critical Path to put research about medications and clinical trials into patients’ hands through a newsletter and a 24-hour hotline. As the project expanded online, it provided free internet access to people with HIV who otherwise might have been unable to use it.

That work put him in conflict with the 1996 Communications Decency Act, whose restrictions on “indecent” online speech threatened access to safer-sex information. The government wanted to stop him from providing life saving information. Critical Path joined the ACLU’s lawsuit, and Kuromiya testified about the consequences of censorship. In 1997, the Supreme Court struck down the government’s challenged restrictions against his efforts.

Philadelphia FIGHT’s Critical Path Learning Center grew from his project and the AIDS Library. It continues to offer free health information, technology access and adult education. His original papers are preserved at the William Way LGBT Community Center.

October is LGBTQ+ History Month, a time to recognize the people who fought for our rights, shaped our culture and made life better for queer communities—including those whose stories are rarely told.
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