Missn The missn of the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, Intersex, Asexual Rource Center (LGBTQIA Rource Center) is to provi an open, safe, clive space and muny that is mted to a ntued procs of unrstandg and challengg all forms of opprsn primarily focg on unrreprented orientatns and exprsns of one’s sex, genr and sexualy. The LGBTQIA Rource Center is a dynamic, rponsive and llaborative anizatn that serv UC Davis
Contents:
- ON BEG A GAY MORMON MISSNARY
- HIROSHIMA’S ENOLA GAY RRIED 12 MEN, HOPE AND THE WORLD’S ADLIT WEAPON
- WHAT KD OF MISSN?: GAY TIM AT MARYKNOLL
- BARBIE SAID “GAY RIGHTS!” LONG BEFORE MARGOT ROBBIE OR GRETA GERWIG SHOWED UP
ON BEG A GAY MORMON MISSNARY
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IntroductnGLAAD – the world’s largt Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer (LGBTQ) media advocy anizatn – creas media acuntabily and muny engagement that ensur thentic LGBTQ stori are seen, heard, and ’s founrs battled discrimatn wh facts and passn om the start, as the handful of journalists 1985 saw fay members dyg of AIDS, a ernment unwillg to help, and flammatory headl overwhelmg newsstands. The missn of the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, Intersex, Asexual Rource Center (LGBTQIA Rource Center) is to provi an open, safe, clive space and muny that is mted to a ntued procs of unrstandg and challengg all forms of opprsn primarily focg on unrreprented orientatns and exprsns of one’s sex, genr and sexualy. The Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer (LGBTQ) Center works to foster a welg and clive environment for UNC-Chapel Hill muny members of all sexual orientatns, genr inti, and genr exprsns.
Gay For Good mobiliz lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer (LGBTQ+) and ally volunteers to promote diversy, foster cln and strengthen ti to the broar muny.
HIROSHIMA’S ENOLA GAY RRIED 12 MEN, HOPE AND THE WORLD’S ADLIT WEAPON
The Massachetts General Hospal LGBTQ Employee Rource Group seeks to create a welg and affirmg environment for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer employe, patients, fai and iends. * gay mission *
It's gay. Gay Mormon missnari are, a way, a cliché. There are tons of gay films about twky missnari who long for ck as much as salvatn.
) So mak sense that Mark Duplass, a straight du, would go for the missnary storyle when wrg a gay episo for Room 104. It's an easy and readily available ia: Two gay Mormon elrs are paired together for missnary work.
WHAT KD OF MISSN?: GAY TIM AT MARYKNOLL
In the absence of natnal anti-discrimatn laws, Quezon Cy is makg s own l to create ‘the saft space’ for gay and transgenr people the Philipp. * gay mission *
What elevat this episo beyond gay cliché is Megan Griffhs' directn. Will they intify as gay? If they are gay, will they e out to others?
When I was fourteen, after lookg up the word “homosexual” the dictnary, I fally had a word to scribe what I felt. Stuart Matis, the gay grandson of Henry Matis, whom my grandfather helped nvert to the LDS Church, nfid his parents and Church lears, and his life end tragilly, suici. One Sunday I was attendg my parents’ ward, when a brother stood up and ma some extremely homophobic ments.
It reassured me, and told me that this brother didn’t know what he was talkg about when he spoke about gay people. It seemed to me that the majory of Mormons had ser misnceptns about homosexualy, and had very negative and false stereotyp about what meant to be gay. Maybe the growth of the Church would be very bad for gay people – much the way that the growth of Evangelil Christiany Uganda has been disastro for gays that part of the world.
BARBIE SAID “GAY RIGHTS!” LONG BEFORE MARGOT ROBBIE OR GRETA GERWIG SHOWED UP
And if I knew of God’s great love for me and if I knew of all the ways which he had blsed me and my hband, then surely I mt know that his plan for the Church, there would always, always be a place for me and my hband, and that the spread of his Church, far om beg bad for gays, would make a world that is far, far better for gays and for all God’s children, whatever their sexual orientatn, race, genr or other aspects of who we are. All tak is new rmatn and a slight shift of perspective, and homophobia n be cured.
A person n be homophobic, but if they learn how to love, once the sl of homophobia are removed om their ey, they will love far better than someone who was not homophobic, but never learned the value of sacrifice. This is why we need the Church to grow, and why we need to be a part of the Church, and why we need to learn to live the Gospel see, this same brother who tght me this betiful lson about why I need to not worry about my stat the Church, and worry more about the kd of person I am beg also tght me this lson about homophobia.
And this same brother who had gotten up one day Sunday School a few years ago and gone on a homophobic rant that almost ed me to get up and walk out of the Church, that same brother stood up Prithood meetg and to my and my father’s astonishment nfsed that many the Church have misunrstood and have needlsly rejected our lbian and gay brothers and sisters (he ed the words “lbian and gay”! He jt hadn’t unrstood gays. I thk this is generally a good thg, though seems to add certa challeng relatn to Church activy and service, pecially relatn to servg a full-time a gay or lbian youth were to ask my advice about whether to serve a missn for the Church or not, here is what I would say.