New church policy removes call for harmful reparative therapy, but is a far cry from LGBT acceptance WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest civil rights organization dedicated to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality, and Affirmation: Gay and Lesbian Mormons, the largest and oldest Mormon LGBT advocacy group in the [...]
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Statement on President Boyd K. Packer’s Talk in General Conference
Affirmation: Gay and Lesbian Mormons joined The Human Rights Campaign, the Utah Pride Center, and Equality Utah in delivering the signatures of 150,000 individuals to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints headquarters, protesting recent comments made by President Boyd K. Packer of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. This took place on October 12th at 11:00 a.m. MDT in front of LDS Church Headquarters in Salt Lake City.
Dan Savage “Almost Sorry” to Christians
Dan Savage is an internationally syndicated advice columnist, author, blogger, and queer activist. He’s a frequent commentator on major news networks and on talk shows. He is an expert on LGBTQ issues. Beth McDonald of 99.9 KEZ Phoenix recently interviewed Dan about his It Gets Better Project, a response to the recent rash of teen [...]
50 Cent, you’ve one too far. Again.
Rapper 50 Cent tweeted (about 17 hours ago as of this writing): “If you a man and your over 25 and you don’t eat pu**y just kill your self damn it. The world will be a better place. Lol” I have low expectations about the appropriateness of what rappers say, but with the recent number [...]
New Website Exposes NOM’s Ties to Mormons
From Matthew S. Holland to Orson Scott Card and from Lynn D. Wardle to Joseph “Robb” and Robbie Wirthlin.
Messenger 21-Sep-10 Follow-up
A response to a reader’s comments of the last edition of the Messenger.
John Dehlin to Interview Cary Crall, Discuss Prop 8
Mormon blogger John Dehlin has just announced a live-streamed Mormon Stories interview with BYU student Cary Crall, whose recent editorial about Mormons and Proposition 8 was yanked from the BYU website only hours after being posted.
BYU Student Tells the Truth about Prop 8, Gets Censored
Cary Crall: “It’s not about adoption rights, or the first amendment or tradition. These arguments were not found worthy of the standards for finding facts set up by our judicial system.”
Ina Mae Murri
With deep sadness we announce that we have received word that Ina Mae Murri passed away this weekend in Ogden, Utah, following an automobile accident. Her partner, Stella, remains hospitalized in Ogden. Ina Mae led Affirmation in 1986, and was a great inspiration to many of us in Affirmation. She was recipient of the Mortensen [...]
Happy Pride Month!
14 June 2010 Sometime this month, in many major cities around the United States and world, there will be a Pride celebration – a festival, music, dancing, parade or rally. Pride is celebrated as recognition of what happened in June 1969 at the Stonewall Inn in New York City – a protest to bring awareness [...]