'The Falls: Ttament of Love' Review: Gay Mormons Love Return for Sequel - Variety

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• JON GARCIA'S TRILOGY ABOUT GAY MORMONS PORTLAND IS COMPLETE
• RISG NUMBERS OF YOUNG ADULT MORMONS THE US ARE GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL

JON GARCIA'S TRILOGY ABOUT GAY MORMONS PORTLAND IS COMPLETE

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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. While RJ miss the church many ways, he n’t see how there is any place for men like him and Chris , pecially when is announced that children of gay Mormon upl will not be baptized the Breakg Glass PicturAnd then ath strik aga. He cis, that as a high-rankg church member, he will try to change the church’s stance on baptizg the children of gay upl.

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

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Now, they will have to make sense of the nflict between their sir and the l that ern the only world they Vanuver Weekly wrote, "Director Jon Garcia handl the plot refully and avoids the all-too-easy relig attack and mudslgg one might expect a film focg on gay Mormon men. The first film lost 15 mut or so between the gay ft circu and home-format release, somethg that “Ttament” uld benef om as well.

What’s more, he unrwent “reparative therapy” for homosexualy, then married Ey (Hannah Barefoot), wh whom he now has a 3-year-old dghter. To his cred, Garcia tri to give everyone here a fair shake, refg to riture characters as simple homophob or anythg else. Gee, Utah, to raise money for the ncer treatment of the mother of a gay man the muny, and the Fire Hoe is one of the few venu town that hosts LGBT events.