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184: Cameron Call | Breaking Out of Mormon Expectation

Posted 3 years ago Tagged coming out Gay Mormon Mixed Orientation Marriage

Cameron Call grew up in Queen Creek, Arizona. He served a mission in Nashville, Tennessee—the same mission as his father. He married a woman in a Mesa Temple and has three children. He came out to his wife in 2018 … Read the rest here

https://lattergaystories.org/episode-player/7300/cameroncall.mp3?dest-id=1047998

From Islam to Mormonism: Does It Matter?

Posted 3 years ago Tagged coming out Gay Mormon LGBTQ Islam

I was born in 1996, in the Moroccan city of Temara. My story isn’t about being Mormon or having any Mormon connections. But our cultures, in many ways are more common than you think. I had a difficult childhood growing … Read the rest here

174: Nate Gardner | Mission, BYU & (gay) Marriage

Posted 3 years ago Tagged BYU Gay Gay Mormon LDS Church LGBT

Born and raised in Utah, Nate Gardner did everything he was supposed to do to be a good Mormon boy. After serving a mission and going to BYU Nate came out of the closet—fearing he would lose his family.

Because … Read the rest here

https://lattergaystories.org/episode-player/7152/nategardner.mp3?dest-id=1047998

171: David Doyle | @NerdyGayMormon

Posted 4 years ago Tagged @NerdyGayMormon Gay Mormon LGBT

David Doyle is a Latter-day Saint from Florida. He is humble, reliable, lovable, nerdy, and gay. He is an active Latter-day Saint with stake leadership callings—and it is through those callings that he is able to fulfill some of his … Read the rest here

https://lattergaystories.org/episode-player/7103/daviddoyle.mp3?dest-id=1047998

Hi, I’m Scott

Posted 4 years ago Tagged family Friends Gay Mormon LGBTQ ally transgender

Hi, I’m Scott. I’m originally from upstate New York (Saugerties). I was raised Catholic until age 8, when my parents joined the Mormon church. At age 10, we moved to the Austin, Texas area and moved every 2-3 years after that. Growing … Read the rest here

165: Paul Bird | Finding My Balance As a Gay Mormon

Posted 4 years ago Tagged Gay Latter-day Saint Gay Mormon

For orthodox Christians, especially Latter-day Saints, Paul Bird’s life doesn’t fit the mold. He admittedly loves the Word of Wisdom, but loathes the Law of Chastity. And that is where his story blossoms.

Paul is from Tucson, Arizona. He grew … Read the rest here

https://lattergaystories.org/episode-player/6979/165-paul-bird-finding-my-balance-as-a-gay-mormon.mp3?dest-id=1047998

163: Melinda Hannah | Painting The Faces of Love

Posted 4 years ago Tagged Gay Latter Day Saints Gay Mormon LGBT Painter LGBTQ Portraits Melinda Hannah

Melinda Hannah is no stranger to pain or trauma. She battled her own traumas while simultaneously watching other’s experience their own.

Melinda is an artist. She used her talent and brush to paint to tell the stories of the marginalized … Read the rest here

https://lattergaystories.org/episode-player/6949/melindahannah.mp3?dest-id=1047998

(re)Building and Fortifying

Posted 5 years ago Tagged Gay Mormon Leaving Mormonism LGBTQ Matt Easton Mormon

This week has been an absolute whirlwind of emotions. On Monday, August 23, my husband and I headed to Mount Lemmon to do a photoshoot with some local photographers. We had so much fun in the tall pine trees that … 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

An Invitation to Learn

Posted 6 years ago Tagged Boyd K. Packer Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Gay BYU Gay Mormon Gay Mormon History LDS History LGBT LDS History LGBT Timeline Mormon History Oaks LGBT On The Record Spencer W. Kimball

If you are reading this, it is likely that you fit into at least one of two categories: you or someone you know is LGBTQ; or you or someone you know is a Latter-day Saint.

In the spring of 2017 … Read the rest here

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Hegseth announces “The High-T Department of War.”

Under a new policy announced by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, all active-duty service members age 30 and older—including women—will receive annual screenings for low testosterone. Hegseth said his new initiative is designed to help troops “optimize your performance” and maintain the military’s “leading edge of lethality.”

Pete Hegseth has made his opposition to gender-affirming care an integral part of his public rhetoric. And to his base, it’s been a reliable issue that rallies his base. They have been consistent in saying that hormones are dangerous. Gender-affirming care is reckless. The government shouldn’t be involved.

Hegseth says he now wants the military to begin testing service members for low testosterone. His plan is simple: identify who needs treatment, prescribe testosterone when appropriate, and make America’s fighting force stronger.

That’s hormone therapy. It’s also gender-affirming care.

This treatment is intended to help someone better align with the physical characteristics associated with their gender.

Testosterone is testosterone. The difference isn’t the medicine or the science behind it. The only thing that changed was who the patient is.

When a cisgender soldier receives testosterone to restore strength, energy, muscle mass, and the traits we associate with masculinity, Hegseth calls it readiness, but when a transgender person receives hormone therapy to better align their body with who they are, suddenly the same category of care becomes evidence that society is collapsing.

There’s no question, “gender-affirming care” has been turned into a political weapon. Most people hear it and picture one very specific patient. They don’t picture the middle-aged veteran whose doctor prescribes testosterone because his levels are clinically low. They don’t picture the man whose treatment is intended to affirm his male physiology.

Nobody calls his care controversial because it shouldn’t be—for any patient.

Deep down, the latest move by Pete Hegseth is another example of a conversation had never really been about the medicine or the care. It was always about deciding who deserves it.
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If you grew up Mormon and realized you were gay in the early 2000’s, there’s a good chance someone told you to watch Latter Days.

The movie was released in 2003, at a time when there were very few films about LGBTQ people of faith—and even fewer that centered on Mormonism.

The story follows Aaron, a young LDS missionary serving in Los Angeles, and Christian, the openly gay man who lived in the apartment across the courtyard. What starts as an unlikely friendship slowly becomes something neither of them expected. As Aaron begins confronting feelings he has spent his entire life trying to ignore, the consequences reach every part of his world.

For many LGBTQ Latter-day Saints, that storyline was way too familiar.

It wasn’t just about falling in love. It was about wondering whether there was a place for you in your family, your church, or your future if you were honest about who and what you are.

The movie also introduced a lot of people outside Mormonism to experiences they had never considered. Many viewers walked away with a better understanding of the pressure LGBTQ Mormons often face, the emotional cost of rejection, and why acceptance from even one person can change someone’s life.

Is it a perfect movie? Ha, no. It’s absolutely a film from the early 2000’s, and some parts haven’t aged well. But more than twenty years later, people are still recommending it because there still aren’t many movies that tell this story from a Mormon perspective.

If you’ve never seen it, Latter Days is currently streaming free on YouTube, Tubi and Pluto TV. It’s also available through Kanopy at participating libraries, and you can rent or purchase it on Apple TV and Prime Video.

I’m curious how many people here have seen it.

Did it mean anything to you, or are you adding it to your watch list now?
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