Editor’s Note: To do something a little different, we would like to present the research of Gary Horlacher, Ph.D. His study, Homosexuality Among Highly Religious Mormons (or HAHRM) will be presented here in serialized format, once a week, initially covering seven blog posts. We encourage our readers to comment and discuss this highly interesting research. [...]
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Journey of An Ex-Mormon: With Faith, All Things Are Possible
I knew I was different from a very young age. I remember, around 7 years old, when other boys in my neighborhood would want to go out and play baseball on Sundays, I wanted to go to church, to worship God. When I was 10 years old, some Mormon missionaries came through our neighborhood. They [...]
Pioneer Day at the Hotel Utah Saloon
On a Sunday evening in July, a couple dozen former Mormons and guests packed the upstairs alcove in San Francisco’s Hotel Utah Saloon. Some had driven more than two hours for the yearly Pioneer Day gathering, a chance to regain some of the community for which the Church is known. The draw endures for decades: [...]
Waiting Outside the Gate
It’s a cold December day on Temple Square in Salt Lake City. My family and I approach the Salt Lake LDS Temple for my brother’s wedding. I love to see the temple, I’m going there someday, the words I sang as a young eager primary boy echo in my mind. From the beginning of my [...]
An Unconventional Testimony
I grew up in Alabama, where one of the few beliefs the many Baptists and the not-so-many Mormons held in common was that being gay meant being pathologically oversexed, so much so that gender didn’t matter. When I left for college up north, I wasn’t concerned about challenges to my faith. I’d been a [...]
None That Could Speak to My Condition
Joshua Behn LGBT Mormons Asked to Participate in Survey Anniversaries generally mark memorable events, and for me, the period between the end of Pride season and Independence Day mark two very different anniversaries. The first is of my coming out and fully embracing my identity as a gay man. As a man who had [...]
Bigotry and Stereotypes
UPDATE: I should have spent a little more time on this one. It appears to be either (1) a humor site, or less likely (2) much farther off the deep end than originally thought. I apologize for the inconvenience. Over at ChristWire Stephenson Billings asks Is My Husband GAY? Right now in America there are [...]