Risg numbers of young adult Mormons the US are gay, lbian or bisexual

Contents:

• GAY THOR SHAR EXPERIENC, ANGER ABOUT MORMON CHURCH
• MORMON MISSNARI UGHT ON VIO NNG AWAY OM A VERY GAY DOORMAT
• A MISSN PRINT'S BETIFUL RPONSE WHEN A MISSNARY CAME OUT TO HIM AS GAY
• LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
• POSTS TAGGED ‘GAY MORMON MISSNARY STORI’
• RISG NUMBERS OF YOUNG ADULT MORMONS THE US ARE GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL

GAY THOR SHAR EXPERIENC, ANGER ABOUT MORMON CHURCH

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.

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.

MORMON MISSNARI UGHT ON VIO NNG AWAY OM A VERY GAY DOORMAT

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.

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. 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.

A MISSN PRINT'S BETIFUL RPONSE WHEN A MISSNARY CAME OUT TO HIM AS GAY

“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.

Acrdg to their doormat, the Indiana home of Jamie Fot and her wife Melissa’s hoe is the “Gayt Place Town. Apparently, was too gay for a pair of proselytizg Mormon missnari who were ught on the uple’s doorbell mera, leavg after they saw the msage unrfoot. The Mormons had arrived at the “Gayt Place Town.

LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?

“Gayt? Whether the “nope” dited the addrs wasn’t ripe for preachg, or whether the missnari believed the home was not, fact, the Gayt Place Town, was unclear.

It says “gayt place town” and has the add benef of keepg relig zealots om knockg on our door to tell about their god. It says ‘gayt place town’ and has the add benef of keepg relig zealots om knockg on our door to tell about their god.

After Cal Burke wrote his heartbreakgly hont story about the moment he first told someone he was gay on Twter, immediately began makg an impact. " He ntued, "I want anyone who is a member of the Church who is gay or lbian to know I believe you have a place the kgdom and I regnize that sometim may be difficult for you to see where you f the Lord’s Church, but you do.

POSTS TAGGED ‘GAY MORMON MISSNARY STORI’

Hckley, “People quire about our posn on those who nsir themselv so-lled gays and lbians. Print, I'm gay. Jamie Fot, 28, and her wife Melissa, 32, ially purchased a rabow-trimmed doormat readg “Gayt Place Town” om Target June bee they thought was funny.

In the brief clip, the clean-cut young men n be seen reachg the thrhold, until one looks down and reads the word “gayt” out loud. "Mr Harker is om a sixth-generatn Mormon fay and was an arnt follower of the fah, but after s of beg "tght to live a lie", he me out as gay is one of about 12 former and current Mormons who will march as part of the "Peack Mormons" float at the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras Para on Saturday. "Historilly, they would produce anti-gay lerature, they would have books on how not to be gay, they'd teach you not to be gay, that was a s, " he says.

You were tght, if you were gay, to have shame and to lie.

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

"I now jt want to advote that beg gay is OK, " he says. "The Peack MormonsThe Mormon church, headquartered the US state of Utah, says has about 150, 000 members has strict l around sexualy and "sexual pury, " wh church material sayg, "sexual relatns between a man and woman who are not married, or between people of the same sex, vlate one of our Father Heaven's most important laws and get the way of our eternal progrs" regard to homosexualy, church material says, "the experience of same-sex attractn is a plex realy for many people. "You n be sentenced to ath Iran for beg homosexual...

Image source, Getty ImagIn the latt sign of risg homophobia different Ain untri, a Kenyan opposn MP is leadg a mpaign for parliament to further crimalise the untry's small LGBTQ muny. Gee Peter Kaluma's move after neighbourg Uganda adopted a tough new anti-gay law, rejectg threats by US Print Joe Bin to impose sanctns and travel rtrictns on "anyone volved ser human rights ab".

"We want to prohib everythg to do wh homosexualy, " Mr Kaluma tells me, addg that his bill will be much broar than the legislatn passed by Uganda's parliament and approved by Print Yoweri Meveni May.