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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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14 hours ago

The church has always had a very clear narrative about gay people and gay families.

They preach about how we are broken. That we struggle. That our homes are unstable. That our relationships are “counterfeit”. That our families don’t contribute to society. That something awful is always waiting at the end of our story. That blessings are withheld and heaven is closed.

But I’ve also noticed something more profound—they don’t have a narrative when we defy their expectations.

They can’t explain gay people who are happy. The couples who are steady and strong. The families who are loving. The homes that are structured, safe, faithful, funny, ordinary, and full of life.

Churches built an entire theology around what they said we would become. And then we went and became something else.

Maybe that’s the part they struggle with most. Because it’s not our “attractions” that are the struggle, it’s your fake narrative against us.
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16 hours ago

BOISE, IDAHO—One year ago, Idaho gave us one of Pride Month’s most beautiful accidents: the “Hetero Awesomeness Festival.”

It was supposed to be straight pride. A bold celebration of heterosexual greatness. A cultural reset for the cargo-shorts community and instead, it drew roughly enough people to fill a slow Tuesday night karaoke bar, got mocked across the internet, and then somehow became even more embarrassing when the attendees started punching each other over mistaken identity.

Imagine planning an entire festival to prove straight people are doing fine, then ending it with low attendance, bad vibes, and a fist fight between the very people who showed up to support you?! 😂😂

Meanwhile, Pride gets parades, music, families, drag queens, community, visibility, and joy. Straight Pride got tens of people and a parking lot scuffle.

Happy anniversary to Idaho’s Hetero Awesomeness Festival: overpromised, under-attended, and still the funniest argument against itself.
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People love to yell “biology” when what they really mean is the best they have to argue with is the simplified version they learned before they were old enough to drive—yeah, middle school.

XX and XY are part of the story, but they are not the whole story.

Human development involves chromosomes, hormones, receptors, genes, anatomy, fetal development, puberty, and variations that do not fit neatly into the two boxes people keep trying to force everyone into.

And when people say everything outside of XX or XY, “those are just genetic disorders” or “freakish anomalies,” they are not making the point they think they are. Those “disorders” are more common than people with red hair.

A genetic disorder is still biology. A rare variation is still biology. A body that develops differently is still a human body.

The point is not that most people are XX or XY. The point is that XX and XY do not explain every human body.

So when someone calls LGBTQ people “mentally ill,” “delusional,” or “freaks,” they are not defending science. They are exposing the personal limits of what they understand—and know.

Rare does not mean unreal. Medical classification does not mean moral defect. And “disorder” does not mean someone’s existence can be dismissed.

The real world is more complicated than middle school biology.

That does not make people broken.

It means the your lessons (and knowledge) about biology and the miracles of the human body are wildly incomplete.
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