Gay - Affirmatn: LGBTQ Mormons, Fai & Friends

Contents:

• MORMON LEAD SGER OF NEON TRE OUT AS GAY
• NEON TRE’ TYLER GLENN: GAY, MORMON AND FALLY OUT
• GAYSTORI AND ROURC FOR THE LGBTQIA+ LATTER-DAY SAT COMMUNY

MORMON LEAD SGER OF NEON TRE OUT AS GAY

“Beg gay don’t translate to sex, ” he said. Feelgs of same-sex attractn are not a s, but actg on same-sex attractn is not a s, n be a who experience same-sex attractn or intify as gay n fully participate the church believ that the experience of same-sex attractn is a plex realy for many people, Print M.

NEON TRE’ TYLER GLENN: GAY, MORMON AND FALLY OUT

So a lot of people who are gay, bisexual, etc., they want to f , they have a ttimony and want to belong, but they don’t know how, so they leave, ” he said. Bird later me out as gay a gut opn piece published the Deret News.

He said he me out as gay to his fay 2014, but later realized he has siar feelgs for both genrs. The move appeared to be a reversal after the private universy, which is owned by the Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats, updated s of nduct for stunts to remove a clse prohibg "all forms of physil timacy that give exprsn to homosexual feelgs.

From his nversatns wh his missn print, Archuleta me out to his fay, who accepted him, while also personally stgglg wh labelg himself, gog back and forth between gay and bisexual. “Havg a urageo, beloved, public member of our relig muny e out as LGBTQIA+ is fosterg empathy and bridgg gaps of unrstandg, ” Charlie Bird, a mast at BYU who me out as gay 2019 and whom Archuleta has been spired by, told TODAY via email.

GAYSTORI AND ROURC FOR THE LGBTQIA+ LATTER-DAY SAT COMMUNY

David Archuleta is agony but ready to live a more thentic life as a gay between his same-sex attractns and his fah’s teachgs about them, one of Mormonism’s most celebrated pop micians says if he don’t share his feelgs, he will 31-year-old Utahn needs to “let out some of the steam si of me that’s buildg up, ” Archuleta says a recent raw and emotn-filled 51-mute stream of nscns Instagram post, which has been viewed more than 300, 000 tim, wh tens of thoands of “lik” and thoands of “Amerin Idol” nner-up and vout Latter-day Sat — who did not rpond to requts for ment or an terview for this story — says he has had trouble preparg to go on tour this year, blocked by roilg ner ’s a long way om his celebrated Christmas stt as a gut soloist wh The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square.

”Archuleta then started to thk stayg alive might be all right — “even if I’m gay. “And when someone chang paths (such as beg gay and celibate and then a same-sex relatnship), we shouldn’t look at them as the hero one day and the villa the next day.

“So many people thk beg gay is all you want is to have physil sexual relatns and give to those sir of ltg, ” he says.