Mormon missnari flee lbian uple's gay-iendly doormat

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

POSTS TAGGED ‘GAY MORMON MISSNARY STORI’

The Mormons had arrived at the “Gayt Place Town. “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.

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

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.