This week Mormon Land: A stunng reversal of gay policy; ex-missnari embrace immigrants; and Nelson to sle Evert?

Contents:

• PK EVERT: NEPAL APPEALS FOR GAY TOURISTS
• NEPAL GO FOR GAY TOURISTS
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• TENZG NAY
• TENZG NAY
• ANCHOR: "BUT.. HE'S GAY!" "EXCE ME, HE'S BLD."
• THIS WEEK MORMON LAND: A STUNNG REVERSAL OF GAY POLICY; EX-MISSNARI EMBRACE IMMIGRANTS; AND NELSON TO SLE EVERT?(AP PHOTO/TASHI SHERPA, FILE) IN THIS NOV. 12, 2015, FILE PHOTO, MOUNT EVERT IS SEEN OM THE WAY TO KALAPATTHAR NEPAL.BY DAVID NOYCE  | APRIL 5, 2019, 1:15 P.M. | UPDATED: 2:42 P.M.THE MORMON LAND NEWSLETTER IS A WEEKLY HIGHLIGHT REEL OF VELOPMENTS AND ABOUT THE CHURCH OF J CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SATS, WHETHER HERALD HEADL, PREACHED OM THE PULP OR BUZZED ABOUT ON THE BACK BENCH. WANT THIS NEWSLETTER YOUR BOX? SUBSCRIBE HERE.THIS WEEK’S PODST: MISSNARY REBUILD(ILLTRATN BY CHRISTOPHER CHERRGTON | THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE)AFTER SURVEYG THOANDS OF RETURNED LATTER-DAY SAT MISSNARI, PENNT REARCHER MATT MARTICH TERMED THAT “URGENT REFORM” WAS NEED TO HELP THE CHURCH ACHIEVE REAL GROWTH.HE OFFERED HIS SUGGTNS A RECENT POST ON HIS WEBSE, , AND DISCSED THEM FURTHER A TRIBUNE STORY AND PODST.READ THE STORY HERE. LISTEN TO THE PODST HERE.LGBTQ POLICY IS NO MOREIT TOOK MORE THAN 120 YEARS BEFORE THE CHURCH LIFTED THE BAN ON BLACK MAL HOLDG THE PRITHOOD AND BLACK FEMAL ENTERG THE FAH’S TEMPL.THE CHURCH’S NTROVERSIAL LGBTQ POLICY, ON THE OTHER HAND, LASTED BARELY THREE YEARS.ON THURSDAY, THE ERNG FIRST PRINCY ANNOUNCED AN END TO THAT NOVEMBER 2015 EDICT, WHICH EMED SAME-SEX MEMBER UPL “APOSTAT” AND GENERALLY BARRED THEIR CHILDREN OM RELIG R.“PREVLY, OUR HANDBOOK CHARACTERIZED SAME-GENR MARRIAGE BY A MEMBER AS APOSTASY,” DALL H. OAKS, FIRST UNSELOR THE FIRST PRINCY, SAID A NEWS RELEASE. “WHILE WE STILL NSIR SUCH A MARRIAGE TO BE A SER TRANSGRSN, WILL NOT BE TREATED AS APOSTASY FOR PURPOS OF CHURCH DISCIPLE.”IN ADDN, OAKS SAID, “CHILDREN OF PARENTS WHO INTIFY THEMSELV AS LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL OR TRANSGENR MAY BE BAPTIZED WHOUT FIRST PRINCY APPROVAL IF THE CTODIAL PARENTS GIVE PERMISSN FOR THE BAPTISM.”TOP LATTER-DAY SAT LEARS SAY THIS NEWS, WHICH THEY CHARACTERIZED AS A “POSIVE” VELOPMENT, ME AS A RULT OF “NTUG REVELATN.”“WE NEED THE LORD’S DIRECTN TO MEET CHANGG CIRCUMSTANC,” SEND UNSELOR HENRY B. EYRG SAID, “AND HE HAS GUID CHANG PRACTICE AND POLICY THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH.”CHURCH PRINT RSELL M. NELSON, WHO JANUARY 2016 LLED THE PREV LGBTQ POLICY A REVELATN OM GOD, SAID THE RELEASE THAT THE LORD LEADS THE CHURCH “REVELATN UPON REVELATN.”MISSN: IMMIGRANTS

PK EVERT: NEPAL APPEALS FOR GAY TOURISTS

” Ined, is ttosterone-soaked spher that Vasquez-Lavado reclaims muny and vulnerabily, potent tras too often dismissed as s thor — a former eBay executive, the first openly gay woman to plete the Seven Summs and the first Pevian woman to summ Evert — Vasquez-Lavado’s memoir is many thgs. The Tibetan name for Mount Evert, Vasquez-Lavado remds more than once, is Chomolungma: the Mother of the World.

NEPAL GO FOR GAY TOURISTS

It wants gay honeymooners trekkg through the wants to host the world's hight same-sex weddg at Evert base maly, the nservative Hdu natn wants a chunk of the multibilln dollar gay tourist market to help pull out of qut — bshg asi historil bias pursu of enomic opportuny — is symbolic of one of the gay rights movement's most stunng five years ago, police were beatg gays and transsexuals the, the issue of gay rights is almost passe has an openly gay parliamentarian, is issug "third genr" inty rds and appears set to enshre gay rights — and possibly even same-sex marriage — a new nstutn. Tourism is one of the ma drivers of Nepal's enomy, worth about $350 ln last year, and ernment officials are termed to double tourism to 1 ln visors next hope gay tourists will be far more lucrative than the backpackers who stay cheap hotels here and travel on shotrg budgets. "The drivg force is Sunil Pant, a member of parliament, the natn's most proment gay activist and founr of the new Pk Mounta tour natn's mountas, food and culture are a natural tourist mag, he said.

Addnally, gay tourists uld get married at Evert base mp and honeymoon on an elephant safari — though sce Nepal don't marry foreigners, such weddgs would have no legal stat, he said. A growg segment of the gay tourism market — worth $63 billn the U. Alone — crav adventure travel and exotic lotns, pecially if they are seen as hospable to gay travelers, said John Tanzella, print of the Internatnal Gay and Lbian Travel for an Evert weddg, "I thk there would certaly be a niche wh our muny that would be very exced for this type of memorable experience, " he says Nepal also has a huge advantage appealg to this niche bee s neighbors South Asia — some of them wh laws outlawg homosexual sex — are not seen as gay-iendly statns.

"There is virtually no petn, " he 's own journey to gay acceptance has been a near-revolutn, born out of chaos and nflict that cimated the natn's tradnal polil and social systems. Transgenr men, known as metis or nuchs, were often robbed, beaten and sometim raped at Maoist checkpots, and aga at ernment checkpots, said Pant, head of the Blue Diamond Society, a gay rights group.

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

Other than the metis, homosexualy was almost never discsed the ral areas, where tradn phed people to arranged marriag at a young age, he, 2006, the ernment signed a peace acrd wh the Maoists. Street protts forced the kg to end his brief grab for absolute power and the centuri old monarchy was 2007, the Supreme Court orred the ernment to draw up new laws to protect gay, the gay muny stands to w big as the untry wr a new nstutn aimed at remakg the entire ernment, turng the natn to a republic and cementg ernment has issued a handful of third genr inty rds. Parliament is workg on a same-sex marriage law even as the nstutn drafters are rporatg gay rights to the document expected to be ratified later this year, said Pant.

"In a sign of how much the natn of 30 ln has changed, the gay muny fac no real opposn s fight for expand rights, said Ameet Dhakal, edor chief of the Republi major parti, battlg for vot, see no benef to alienatg a muny that Pant says numbers at least 200, 000, and relig lears here generally stay out of Gung, a senr Maoist party lear who was once viewed as a strong opponent of gay rights, now publicly supports legal protectns for the muny. Homosexualy has now entered the cultural lexin.

TENZG NAY

There is a weekly TV show lled "Third Genr" and wrers and filmmakers have begun explorg society's treatment of Usha Sherchan published a short story last year a lerary magaze about a closeted gay man stgglg wh the prsure to get married.

Dpe the rapid gas, Pant regniz the natn's sensivi, and wants to ensure that an flux of gay tourists don't turn Nepal to a sex tourism statn. Yep, He's Gay — er, Bld.

Homosexualy and visn loss are, apparently, easily nfed. It's hard to fathom what was gog on anchor Cynthia Izaguirre's md when she announced that a man had sled Evert spe the fact that he was gay, then rrected herself to note, "He's bld.

TENZG NAY

From Evert same-sex marriag to gay-iendly polici, Nepal go for the gay tourist market to help pull the Hdu natn out of poverty. It wants gay honeymooners trekkg through the Himalayas. But maly, the nservative Hdu natn wants a chunk of the multibilln dollar gay tourist market to help pull out of poverty.

That qut — bshg asi historil bias pursu of enomic opportuny — is symbolic of one of the gay rights movement’s most stunng succs. Jt five years ago, police were beatg gays and transsexuals the streets of Nepal. Now, the issue of gay rights is almost passe here.

Nepal has an openly gay parliamentarian, is issug “third genr” inty rds and appears set to enshre gay rights — and possibly even same-sex marriage — a new nstutn.

ANCHOR: "BUT.. HE'S GAY!" "EXCE ME, HE'S BLD."

They hope gay tourists will be far more lucrative than the backpackers who stay cheap hotels here and travel on shotrg budgets. The drivg force is Sunil Pant, a member of parliament, the natn’s most proment gay activist and founr of the new Pk Mounta tour pany. Addnally, gay tourists uld get married at Evert base mp and honeymoon on an elephant safari — though sce Nepal don’t marry foreigners, such weddgs would have no legal stat, he said.

THIS WEEK MORMON LAND: A STUNNG REVERSAL OF GAY POLICY; EX-MISSNARI EMBRACE IMMIGRANTS; AND NELSON TO SLE EVERT?(AP PHOTO/TASHI SHERPA, FILE) IN THIS NOV. 12, 2015, FILE PHOTO, MOUNT EVERT IS SEEN OM THE WAY TO KALAPATTHAR NEPAL.BY DAVID NOYCE  | APRIL 5, 2019, 1:15 P.M. | UPDATED: 2:42 P.M.THE MORMON LAND NEWSLETTER IS A WEEKLY HIGHLIGHT REEL OF VELOPMENTS AND ABOUT THE CHURCH OF J CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SATS, WHETHER HERALD HEADL, PREACHED OM THE PULP OR BUZZED ABOUT ON THE BACK BENCH. WANT THIS NEWSLETTER YOUR BOX? SUBSCRIBE HERE.THIS WEEK’S PODST: MISSNARY REBUILD(ILLTRATN BY CHRISTOPHER CHERRGTON | THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE)AFTER SURVEYG THOANDS OF RETURNED LATTER-DAY SAT MISSNARI, PENNT REARCHER MATT MARTICH TERMED THAT “URGENT REFORM” WAS NEED TO HELP THE CHURCH ACHIEVE REAL GROWTH.HE OFFERED HIS SUGGTNS A RECENT POST ON HIS WEBSE, , AND DISCSED THEM FURTHER A TRIBUNE STORY AND PODST.READ THE STORY HERE. LISTEN TO THE PODST HERE.LGBTQ POLICY IS NO MOREIT TOOK MORE THAN 120 YEARS BEFORE THE CHURCH LIFTED THE BAN ON BLACK MAL HOLDG THE PRITHOOD AND BLACK FEMAL ENTERG THE FAH’S TEMPL.THE CHURCH’S NTROVERSIAL LGBTQ POLICY, ON THE OTHER HAND, LASTED BARELY THREE YEARS.ON THURSDAY, THE ERNG FIRST PRINCY ANNOUNCED AN END TO THAT NOVEMBER 2015 EDICT, WHICH EMED SAME-SEX MEMBER UPL “APOSTAT” AND GENERALLY BARRED THEIR CHILDREN OM RELIG R.“PREVLY, OUR HANDBOOK CHARACTERIZED SAME-GENR MARRIAGE BY A MEMBER AS APOSTASY,” DALL H. OAKS, FIRST UNSELOR THE FIRST PRINCY, SAID A NEWS RELEASE. “WHILE WE STILL NSIR SUCH A MARRIAGE TO BE A SER TRANSGRSN, WILL NOT BE TREATED AS APOSTASY FOR PURPOS OF CHURCH DISCIPLE.”IN ADDN, OAKS SAID, “CHILDREN OF PARENTS WHO INTIFY THEMSELV AS LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL OR TRANSGENR MAY BE BAPTIZED WHOUT FIRST PRINCY APPROVAL IF THE CTODIAL PARENTS GIVE PERMISSN FOR THE BAPTISM.”TOP LATTER-DAY SAT LEARS SAY THIS NEWS, WHICH THEY CHARACTERIZED AS A “POSIVE” VELOPMENT, ME AS A RULT OF “NTUG REVELATN.”“WE NEED THE LORD’S DIRECTN TO MEET CHANGG CIRCUMSTANC,” SEND UNSELOR HENRY B. EYRG SAID, “AND HE HAS GUID CHANG PRACTICE AND POLICY THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH.”CHURCH PRINT RSELL M. NELSON, WHO JANUARY 2016 LLED THE PREV LGBTQ POLICY A REVELATN OM GOD, SAID THE RELEASE THAT THE LORD LEADS THE CHURCH “REVELATN UPON REVELATN.”MISSN: IMMIGRANTS

Alone — crav adventure travel and exotic lotns, pecially if they are seen as hospable to gay travelers, said John Tanzella, print of the Internatnal Gay and Lbian Travel Associatn. Pant says Nepal also has a huge advantage appealg to this niche bee s neighbors South Asia — some of them wh laws outlawg homosexual sex — are not seen as gay-iendly statns. Nepal’s own journey to gay acceptance has been a near-revolutn, born out of chaos and nflict that cimated the natn’s tradnal polil and social systems.