Gay Latter-day Sats Blog Motivatnal Speaker & Author | Dennis Schleicher

Contents:

• A WALK HIS SHO: A BYU PROFSOR’S LIFE AS A GAY LATTER-DAY SAT
• GAY LATTER-DAY SAINT CROSSROADS: MY JOURNEY, YOUR JOURNEY, AND A SCRIPTURE-BASED PATH FORWARD PAPERBACK – JUNE 3, 2021
• GAY THOR SHAR EXPERIENC, ANGER ABOUT MORMON CHURCH
• IS HE NUTS?: WHY A GAY MAN WOULD BEE A MEMBER OF THE CHURCH OF J CHRIST HARDVER – AUGT 30, 2019
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
• DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
• A GAY MORMON MISSN: A CONVERSATN WH JOHNNY TOWNSEND
• GAY MORMON THOR, BROTHER OF AN APOSTLE, BUILDS BRIDG BETWEEN THE LDS AND LGBTQ MUNI
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
• PROMENT ‘NVERSN THERAPIST’ LEAV MOVEMENT, OUT AS GAY

A WALK HIS SHO: A BYU PROFSOR’S LIFE AS A GAY LATTER-DAY SAT

If Ben is gog to do somethg, he is gog to do 100% to the end, ” Buzz a BYU Honor Co Admistrator, Ben tak this same 100% attu livg his life as a gay, active member of The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats.

”Wrg a Book: ‘A Walk My Sho’Ben shar his story of beg both gay and an active Latter-day Sat his new book, “A Walk In My Sho: Qutns I’m Often Asked as a Gay Latter-day Sat. The policy later was abandoned, but the pa among LGBTQ members and their alli has the excerpts om The Salt Lake Tribune’s “Mormon Land” podst, Tom Christofferson, a proment LGBTQ member and thor of “That We May Be One: A Gay Mormon’s Perspective on Fah and Fay, ” discs the November 2015 policy and subsequent were you when the new November 2015 policy beme public and what did you thk at the time? Onstage and lerature, gay Mormons are experiencg a growg prence pop culture.

Plays about gay Mormons have been big hs both off-Broadway and on, om Tony Khner’s Pulzer Prize-wng “Angels Ameri” to Steven Fal’ one-man play “Confsns of a Mormon Boy” to the Tony Award-wng mil “The Book of Mormon.

GAY LATTER-DAY SAINT CROSSROADS: MY JOURNEY, YOUR JOURNEY, AND A SCRIPTURE-BASED PATH FORWARD PAPERBACK – JUNE 3, 2021

Mormonism’s fluence on ntemporary gay lerature n be seen “Latter-Gay Sats: An Anthology of Gay Mormon Fictn” (Lethe Prs, 2013), eded by Gerald S. It received the 2014 Fawn Brody Award for bt LDS-themed anthology and featur both well-known gay wrers, such as Bernard Cooper, and Mormon wrers, such as Carol Lynn Pearson.

There were gay pulp novels the 1960s, and the late Richard Fullmer, wrg as Dirk Vann, won a belated Lambda Lerary Award for his ’60s cult classic trilogy “All Together, ” which were some of the first gay novels that allowed the gay protagonist a happy endg.

GAY THOR SHAR EXPERIENC, ANGER ABOUT MORMON CHURCH

Vann, who was scribed the leadg Lambda Lerary Review as “the father of gay lerature” was raised Mormon and acknowledged that Mormon them fluenced his work. Bryan is another gay Mormon wrer who re-emerged 2012 after more than two s of silence wh the novel “Companns (Nich’ooni)” (re-released 2014).

Bryan prevly thored two gay classics om the late ’80s: a satire about a transgenred bety queen, “Sacred Cows, ” and the AIDS science-fictn thriller “A Cry the Dert. Rpected gay edor, the late Stan Leventhal, ld “A Cry the Dert” when was first published 1987 as, “The bt novel to date about AIDS and the gay muny.

IS HE NUTS?: WHY A GAY MAN WOULD BEE A MEMBER OF THE CHURCH OF J CHRIST HARDVER – AUGT 30, 2019

Bryan’s novel “Companns, ” or the Navajo language, “Nich’ooni, ” tells the often humoro story of closeted gay Mormon missnary Johnny McKay and his love-hate relatnship wh his missnary pann, Amerin Indian Jeff Rama, as the two proselytize the Navajo Natn of northern Arizona. “Mormonism and s views on homosexualy” is an important subject for both the gay muny and The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats, Mangubat said. After a long separatn and a divorce, Bryan met his partner, Doug, 1974 a gay bar Salt Lake Cy.

“The church is guilty of a host of ss, crim really, that liberately stroy the liv and futur of people, ” both gay and straight, he said.

Jt before the Church’s recent announcement that children of same-sex upl would be refed baptism (after turng 18 they n be baptized if they disavow gay relatnships and marriage), Bryan, now a grandfather, said, “I believe that fai should not be based on or stroyed by doctre. Major profsnal sports to publicly e out as gay. Last Febary, Maxen nnected wh lebacker Carl Nassib, who beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay 2021, as he navigated a path forward.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY

Christiane Northup, a matriarch of women’s alternative health, who rose to fame on the strength of several “Oprah” appearanc and btsellg books, published by the New Age self-help platform Hay Hoe, whose founr, Louise Hay, was famo for tellg gay men dyg of AIDS that they jt didn’t love themselv enough. Lol NewsMIAMI – The diplomatic ti between the Uned Stat and Jamai uld soon be are reports that Jamai is refg to accred the spoe of a gay Amerin diplomat.

Sure-Fire Ways to intify a Member the Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats – Gaydar is that the abily of LGBT’s to tuively regnize each other. Mormons seem to posss the same stct (of tectg other Mormons, not homosexuals.

DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT

Although gay members may have both powers.

Unlike Gaydar, Mo-Dar n not be purchased wh money. Did you thk I was the only gay nvert? Hundreds of gay nverts and thoands of LGBTQ full temple remend holrs do exist.

You n be gay like me and be an active member of our Church.

A GAY MORMON MISSN: A CONVERSATN WH JOHNNY TOWNSEND

He joed our Church as an openly gay member one week after the November 2015 announcement. : Why a Gay Man Would Bee a Member of the Church of J Christ.

Peter Moosman – Dennis – Hug a Gay Latter-day Sat. Meet my iend Peter, who’s gay and LDS.

He started an awarens project of gog to general nference and holdg lorful signs out si the Conference Center sayg, “Hug a Gay Latter-day Sat! First This Gay Man Wanted to Prott the Church-Now He’s a Member. I am an openly gay man who feels nothg but love om members of The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats.

GAY MORMON THOR, BROTHER OF AN APOSTLE, BUILDS BRIDG BETWEEN THE LDS AND LGBTQ MUNI

Why a Gay Man Would Bee a Member of The Church Of J Christ. So I was grateful for the chance to have lunch wh Tom a uple of weeks ago to discs his new book, That We May Be One: A Gay Mormon’s Perspective on Fah and Fay (Deret Book, Sept. As a preteen, maybe 12 years old, a kid lled me a homo.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

I am a homo. RNS: So that’s how you learned the language about beg gay?

And I never experienced the turmoil over beg gay on my missn. Then I got home and wh a week I was stunned to disver I was still gay.

I lled my parents and told them my wife and I were separatg, and why: “I gus bee I’m gay. I had a strong belief J Christ and the Book of Mormon, but I uldn’t see a place for myself as a gay man the LDS Church.

PROMENT ‘NVERSN THERAPIST’ LEAV MOVEMENT, OUT AS GAY

So I need to beg the journey of fdg out what meant to be gay. Would I be wele to worship your ward as a gay man who is a mted relatnship? California still has an anti-gay marriage law on the books.