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Contents:

• HOW A GAY MORMON MAN FOUND HIS SEXUALY ITALY
• GAY MORMON SHAR HEARTBREAKG STORY OF FALLG LOVE WH HIS ‘BT IEND’ – BUT NEVER ACTG ON
• PHOTOS OF GAY MORMON MISSNARI STIR NTROVERSY
• THIS GAY MORMON LOVE STORY WILL BREAK YOUR HEART: WATCH
• JON GARCIA'S TRILOGY ABOUT GAY MORMONS PORTLAND IS COMPLETE
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

HOW A GAY MORMON MAN FOUND HIS SEXUALY ITALY

Opn|‘Elr: A Mormon Love Story’ ADVERTISEMENTOp-DocsJune 25, 2015ViotranscripttranscriptElr: A Mormon Love StoryThis short documentary tells the story of a gay Mormon’s love affair while he served on a missn Italy. TITLE: DEATH IN VENICE (1971) And he said, “Well, that’s the theme song for Death Venice - Morte aVenezia - which is, of urse, a very famo classic about an olr gay man who falls love wh a young boy Venice durg a cholera of Gianni 1973-74.

” And, of urse, as soon as we got outsi the ont door we stopped short documentary tells the story of a gay Mormon’s love affair while he served on a missn Italy. That moment is ptured this Op-Doc vio about Tom Clark, who chronicl his love affair as a young, gay Mormon missnary he had not yet even heard the word “gay, ” Clark was told throughout his childhood that homosexuals were sted for hell.

A gay Mormon man who works as an honor admistrator at Brigham Young Universy Utah scribed his heartbreakg story of fallg love wh another man, but breakg off their relatnship entirely bee actg on his sexual attractn would have been a vlatn of his relig beliefs.

GAY MORMON SHAR HEARTBREAKG STORY OF FALLG LOVE WH HIS ‘BT IEND’ – BUT NEVER ACTG ON

Ben Schilaty, 37, recently opened up about his experienc growg up as a gay Mormon at the tersectn of fah and sexualy his recent memoir and on the podst Mormon heartbreakg story had s genis a closeted childhood wh the Church of J Christ of Latter Day Sats (LDS), better known as the Mormon fah. Schilaty revealed on Mormon Land he knew he was gay as a young teen middle school, but did not fd "super distrsg" ially bee he believed " was jt a phase and was gog to go away. " He never spoke about his awakeng sexualy wh anyone, though, and "would have nied beg gay" if anyone had bothered to the sir and nial ntued to high school and then on his relig missn Mexi.

He sperately clung to the belief the gay would go away eventually, but two years after returng om his missn he knew was not a phase. " In his memoir, A Walk My Sho: Qutns I'm Often Asked as a Gay Latter-day Sat, he wr of fallg love wh a gay male iend at the age of 30, but later sistg the pair rema "bt iends" rather than actg on their sir. He's never been "angry at God" but is tacklg the difficulti of beg both gay and a practicg good Mormon.

RELATED | Gay Doctor Strips Away Mormon Church and Unrwear Heartfelt Post. Tom Clark grew up a Mormon fay, and om a young age, he was tght that homosexuals were "sted for hell. " Although he didn't know what the term "gay" meant yet, his mother tght him that homosexuals were "next to the lowt ng on the ladr (after murrers).

PHOTOS OF GAY MORMON MISSNARI STIR NTROVERSY

He poted out that the song that had been played was the theme song om 'Death Venice', a movie about an olr gay man who falls love wh a young boy Venice durg a cholera and Tom were very different om one another, but perhaps that's what ma their love so electric.

THIS GAY MORMON LOVE STORY WILL BREAK YOUR HEART: WATCH

Gay Mormon and BYU employee Ben Schilaty. A gay Mormon who works at the homophobic, church-operated Brigham Young Universy (BYU) has scribed how he fell love wh a man, but they had to rema “bt iends”. The universy has e unr fire repeatedly for s vicly anti-LGBT+ polici, cludg a ban on “homosexual behavur”.

JON GARCIA'S TRILOGY ABOUT GAY MORMONS PORTLAND IS COMPLETE

Schilaty told the podst Mormon Land that he realised he was gay middle school. He ntued: “I didn’t talk to anyone about beg gay, I would have nied beg gay… would go away when I was on my missn. However, after Schilaty returned om his missn Mexi, he realised that he was, fact, still gay.

He said he was always sure of his fah, and never felt “angry at God”, but wonred how he uld rencile beg gay wh beg a Mormon.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

Schilaty recently wrote a book, tled A Walk My Sho: Qutns I’m Often Asked As a Gay Latter-Day Sat,  which he scribed the experience of beg love wh a man even though he had forbidn himself to act on his feelgs. He wrote the book: “It’s OK to be gay, I’m often told, as long as you don’t act on … It’s fe to be gay, as long as you don’t do gay thgs. In Febary 2020, BYU’s Honor Co, which stunts n be expelled for breakg, was amend to remove the sectn that bans beg gay “behavur”.