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Contents:

• JON GARCIA'S TRILOGY ABOUT GAY MORMONS PORTLAND IS COMPLETE
• THE CONCLN OF THE GAY MORMON COMIC TRILOGY
• RISG NUMBERS OF YOUNG ADULT MORMONS THE US ARE GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL
• GAY MORMONS
• MORMON AND GAY: CHURCH SAYS YOU N BE BOTH

JON GARCIA'S TRILOGY ABOUT GAY MORMONS PORTLAND IS COMPLETE

" Ltle did Garcia know the experience would later be echoed his Falls trilogy, which lv to the years-spanng romance of RJ (Nick Fercci) and Chris (Benjam Farmer), two gay Mormon missnari whose love for each other clash wh the strict parameters of their fah.

THE CONCLN OF THE GAY MORMON COMIC TRILOGY

He's proud of Covenant of Grace, which he characteriz as a story about RJ and Chris provg that 's possible to exist as both a gay man and a man of God. Cast & crewUser reviewsTrivia2012Not Rated1h 31mThe Falls is a feature film about two missnari that fall love while on their Falls is a feature film about two missnari that fall love while on their Falls is a feature film about two missnari that fall love while on their productn, box office & pany Vios2More like thisReview A tly wonrful love story for all to Falls explor the Mormon Fah and 's relatnship to gay love when two male missnari velop feelgs for one pth of rearch and the excellent actg by everyone volved mak this movie a "mt buy" dialog was real for what is a very sensive topic. Recently, a proment lear om the Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats, Elr David Bednar, addrsed a ngregatn South Ameri statg that his relign, also known as Mormonism, do not discrimate agast gays bee homosexual people the church do not Anrsen would disagree.

The partnered dad is very much gay and Mormon, and ed his nflicted feelgs about his relign to make a ic book showg the two are not mutually exclive. The ic book at an tense time for gay Mormons: Bednar's ments follow the church's 2015 policy that clar Mormons same-sex marriag are apostat and that their children will not be weled to the relign unls they disavow their parents' Advote recently sat down wh Anrsen to discs the current state of the Mormon Church and why his ic book uldn't e at a better time.

RISG NUMBERS OF YOUNG ADULT MORMONS THE US ARE GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL

While I'm happy and at peace wh my realy as a homosexual Mormon, I will say that I am sick and tired of beg told by my fah that I'm not worthy of heaven bee of whom I sleep wh. As a nvert to the relign, a former missnary, a graduate of Brigham Young Universy, and former active member of the Mormon fah, my Mormon iends -- both homosexual and heterosexual -- and I have been personally impacted by our relign's hurtful remarks towards I me out 15 years ago, I ma peace wh who I was a gay man.

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GAY MORMONS

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. 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.

MORMON AND GAY: CHURCH SAYS YOU N BE BOTH

" 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.

So, 23% of Gen Zers who intify as LDS say they are lbian, gay, bisexual or other [see update above].