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081: Meg & Jake Abhau | Part 1: Our Son is Gay

Posted 8 years ago Tagged Jon Abhau Meg and Jake Abhau

Thank you to John Dehlin and the Mormon Stories Podcast for providing this interview of Meg and Jake Abhau. This three part series discusses the Abhau family and their journey in understanding their son, Jon’s sexuality. This is an abbreviated … Read the rest here

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5 hours ago

Dolly Parton, one of the greatest songwriters in American music and a beloved LGBTQ icon, has died at 80.

Dolly wrote thousands of songs, including “Jolene,” “Coat of Many Colors,” “9 to 5” and “I Will Always Love You,” sold more than 100 million records, became a movie star and built Dollywood in the mountains where she grew up. Her Imagination Library, created in honor of a father who could not read, grew from one Tennessee county into an international program putting millions of free books into the hands of children.

And through all of it, Dolly remained openly and unapologetically Christian.

She also became one of country music’s earliest and most consistent friends to LGBTQ+ people. Brandi Carlile recalled being 15, queer and growing up in a small town when she read Dolly speaking in support of gay people. Carlile later described receiving that love from Dolly as “second only to God.”

Dolly supported marriage equality as early as 2009. She opposed efforts to restrict transgender people and wrote “Travelin’ Thru” for the transgender-themed film Transamerica. Gay people filled her audiences, worked for her and became part of the culture surrounding her.

But Dolly’s clearest explanation came when she was asked about Tennessee legislation targeting transgender people. She talked about the gay, lesbian and transgender people in her own family and among her employees, and about seeing how deeply rejection hurt them.

“I know and love them all, and I do not judge.”

And then: “If there’s something to be judged, that is God’s business.”

She believed in God—and she believed LGBTQ+ people when they told her who they were. And she loved them without requiring anything in return.

The hair, rhinestones and larger-than-life image made Dolly a natural gay icon. Her character made the relationship last.

Country music lost a giant today and many of us lost a friend.

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11 hours ago

It’s a modern miracle how often an “unchanging” word of God has needed changing whenever the people holding power needed it to say something different.

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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. ... See MoreSee Less

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081: Meg & Jake Abhau | Part 1: Our Son is Gay

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