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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 4 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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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IN or OUT of Mormonism.

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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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