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183: Richard and Josh | A Love Story

Posted 3 years ago Tagged Gay Marriage Gay Mormon Bishop LDS Church LGBT Mormon Bishop

In the final episode of our three-part story, Josh and Richard share the couch as a couple! They talk about dating, separating religion from their reality, family, navigating a vulnerable part of their lives, and MARRIAGE!

They reflect on what … Read the rest here

https://lattergaystories.org/episode-player/7292/richardjosh.mp3?dest-id=1047998

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

158: Kris Packer | From Wife to Husband: A Story of My Journey

Posted 4 years ago Tagged coming out LDS Church

Kris Packer has a long Mormon history. His father, Lynn is a Mormon historian, and Kris’ great-uncle is apostle Boyd K. Packer.

What happens when you come out to your family as a lesbian, but as life progresses, your journey … Read the rest here

https://lattergaystories.org/episode-player/6411/krispacker.mp3?dest-id=1047998

Hi, I’m Jake

Posted 4 years ago Tagged family LDS Church Mixed Orientation Marriage

My name is Jake, and I grew up in Mapleton/Springville Utah, where it seemed most of the population were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I was raised in the LDS church and believed in it … Read the rest here

155: Kray Casper | BYU Changed My Life: My Gay Coming Out

Posted 4 years ago Tagged BYU LDS Church LGBT

Kray was a remarkably normal Mormon. He knew he was gay, but did everything in his power to deny and hide it. If you bury it, it doesn’t exist, right? He gave everything to the church, served a full-time mission, … Read the rest here

https://lattergaystories.org/episode-player/6233/kray.mp3?dest-id=1047998

Hi, I’m Meghan

Posted 4 years ago Tagged family LDS Church Mixed Orientation Marriage

Hi, I’m Meghan. I am a wife, a mother, a serial DIY-er, and a chronic over-thinker. I am a child of Heavenly Parents and a disciple of Christ, and I am bisexual.

I had zero awareness of my orientation until … 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 | 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

Posted 6 years ago Tagged Allen Bergin Apology BYU Dr. Bergin Gay Mormon History LDS Church

In an effort to highlight the LDS Church’s chronology of LGBTQ messaging, the LatterGayStories podcast released a document called: On the Record. The document shares the policies and doctrines of the Church on the topics of sexual orientation and … 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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