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There are no official numbers for how many members of the LDS Church identify as gay or lesbian. LDS Family Services estimates that there are, on average, four or five members per church ward who experience same-sex attraction.[1] The most recent external study, conducted in 1972, shows that between 10–13 percent of college-aged Mormon men reported past experimentation with homosexual behavior, which was similar to the percentage of non-Mormon men who similarly reported. The study did not tabulate the number of homosexuals who had never had a homosexual experience.[2] Gary Watts, former president of Family Fellowship, estimates that only 10 percent of homosexual Mormons remain in the church.[3] Others dispute that estimate, saying numbers in support groups for active Latter-day Saints and for self-identified gay Mormons are comparable. Many of these individuals have come forward through different support groups or websites stating their homosexual attractions and concurrent church membership. A number of personal accounts were published in A Place in the Kingdom: Spiritual Insights from Latter-day Saints about Same-Sex Attraction.[4] Other personal experiences are documented on the LDS SSA Resources and People Can Change websites. Others have shared their stories through the Ensign,[5] through the Evergreen International website[6] and blogs.[7] There is a variety of terminology used, including "Moho", to refer to a Mormon homosexual.[8]
Prominent LGBT Mormon people
Practising Mormons
- Tom Christofferson is the brother of Apostle D. Todd Christofferson and has returned to activity in the church after leaving decades ago. He serves in Affirmation leadership.[9]
- Ty Mansfield served as a missionary in the New Hampshire Manchester Mission, graduated from BYU, and taught two religion classes in the summer of 2013 at BYU as an adjunct faculty member.[10] He chronicled his coming to terms with his sexuality in a co-authored book with Fred and Marilyn Matis, In Quiet Desperation: Understanding the Challenge of Same-gender Attraction, published by Deseret Book in 2004.[11] Mansfield later married and recently published another book on homosexuality, also by Deseret Book, in 2011, titled Voices of Hope: Latter-day Saint Perspectives on Same-gender Attraction—An Anthology of Gospel Teachings and Personal Essays.
- David Matheson admitted to himself that he was attracted to men when he was 22 and married to a woman. Following seven years of therapy, he said he had changed his sexual orientation.[12] He has since become a licensed professional counselor and has made his clinical focus to be "helping men who want to diminish unwanted homosexuality and feel whole as men."[13] He is the clinical director of the Center for Gender Wholeness, co-creator of the Journey into Manhood weekend,[14] and a director of People Can Change.[15] He has written the Evergreen International Workbook for Men, Four Principles of Growth,[16] and has made several media appearances talking about overcoming homosexual attractions.
- H. Stuart Matis, a celibate homosexual, stated that "straight members have absolutely no idea what it is like to grow up gay in this church. It is a life of constant torment, self-hatred and internalized homophobia."[17] Matis committed suicide at an LDS Church meetinghouse in Los Altos, California.[18] After two of his gay friends also committed suicide, Affirmation members began to hold suicide vigils around the country to raise awareness about suicide prevention and the destructive consequences of what they considered to be homophobic treatment by other church members. Suicide victims are posted on its website.[19] Matis's story is described in the book In Quiet Desperation: Understanding the Challenge of Same-Gender Attraction[20] and was later inspired and created into the play "Missa Solemnis; or, The Play About Henry"[21] written by non-Mormon playwright Roman Feeser.[22][23] Matis's death was described in the 2010 documentary 8: The Mormon Proposition.[24]
- Mitch Mayne, a celibate homosexual member in San Francisco, served as of 2011 as executive secretary to the bishop in the local Bay Ward.[8][25] Mayne has promoted family acceptance of LGBT youth and hopes to serve as a bridge to the gay community. He has also promoted the idea that all people with homosexual feelings, including those who are involved in homosexual behavior, should be welcomed into the church with no consequences for their sexual choices. He has said that he is not committed to church teachings about homosexuality and could well enter a gay relationship in the future. He believes that church leaders are mistaken in their teachings about homosexuality.
- Jason Park admitted his homosexual feelings at the age of 31 after being married for four years. After founding and participating in the original Evergreen International support group and going through therapy, he has since ceased his homosexual behavior and found peace with his feelings and happiness in his family life.[26] He has since written 3 books concerning homosexuality (Resolving Homosexual Problems: A Guide for LDS Men;[27] Understanding Male Homosexual Problems: An Introduction for Latter-day Saints;[28] Helping LDS Men Resolve their Homosexual Problems: A Guide for Family, Friends, and Church Leaders[29]) and a scholarly paper Overcoming Male Homosexual Problems.[30] He is a popular speaker at Evergreen International conferences.[31]
- Rich Wyler was excommunicated from the church due to his homosexual behavior, but has since rejoined the church.[32] He was married and then widowed. He is the founder and executive director of People Can Change and co-creator and leader of Journey into Manhood. He established Higher Path Life Coaching and began coaching professionally in 2005.[33] He leads telephone-based coaching group called "A Wife's Journey: Caring for Yourself and Your Family When Your Husband Struggles With Homosexuality or Addiction."[34]
- Josh Weed is a licensed therapist from Seattle who is married to a woman.[35] He came out as gay in a 2012 blog post that was widely publicized.[36][37][38][39][40][41] He and his wife came out in support of same-sex marriage in 2015 when quotes from them were used without permission in an amicus brief opposing it ahead of the oral arguments in the Supreme Court Obergefell v. Hodges case.[42][43]
- Savanna (12 years old), came out as a lesbian to a ward during fast and testimony while reading her testimony it was cut short when the Stake President turned off the mic and told her to sit down, then he did some quick PR . The event was recorded and posted on YouTube but was taken down when the LDS reported it being a violation of policy but hit over 5 million view before it was removed. But Now the video has spread from social media to news source like CNN[44] and other new outlets even to the UK. Showing another discrimination of LGBT in the LDS Church. FairMormon [45] came out to rip apart why the leaders where ok to do that they did. I like to look for rainbows post cast[46] did an interview about what happen
- Jimmy Hales gained media attention as a BYU student with his live coming out video.[47][48][49][50]
Former Mormons
Dustin Lance Black
- Dustin Lance Black is an American screenwriter, director, film and television producer and LGBT rights activist. He who wrote for the HBO Series Big Love on a polygamous Utah family, created the LGBT history ABC docudrama miniseries "When We Rise", and narrated the documentary "8: The Mormon Proposition". In 2008, he won an Academy Award for writing the screenplay for Milk, a movie about the 1978 assassination of gay civil rights leader and San Francisco City Supervisor Harvey Milk.[51][52]
- Bruce Bastian served as a church missionary to Italy, graduated from BYU, and married in a church temple before coming out. He and a BYU professor developed and co-founded WordPerfect software for word processing. He currently serves on the Board of the Human Rights Campaign, America's largest lesbian and gay rights political action committee. In 2008, Bastian donated $1 million to fight California Proposition 8, which defined marriage as between a man and a woman.
- Martha Nibley Beck, daughter of Mormon apologist Hugh Nibley and author of bestseller Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith.
- Sargeant Leonard Matlovich was featured on the 8 September 1975 cover of Time magazine with the caption "I Am a Homosexual" for his challenging of the U.S. military ban against gay men and lesbian women.[53] He was subsequently discharged from the military for openly stating his sexual orientation[54] and excommunicated from the Church two months after the article was released.[55][56]
- John Cameron is a former BYU student who participated in electro-shock aversion therapy sessions on campus in 1976 with the goal of changing his sexual orientation. The controversial therapy was conducted by PhD student Max Ford McBride under the direction of Dr. D. Eugene Thorne of the Psychology Department. While hooked to electrodes, the subjects were shown pornographic images of men while simultaneously being shocked. The experience was so traumatic for Cameron that he left Mormonism. In 2006, he finished writing a play about his experience, titled 14, in reference to the number of men who were the subjects of this particular experiment. The play was first staged at the University of Iowa in 2007.[57]
- Michael Glatze is a former gay rights activist and publisher of Young Gay America's YGA Magazine.[58] Glatze renounced his homosexual relationships and was baptized into the LDS Church. He stated that "Jesus, however, is what, ultimately, changed me."[59] Glatze left the church within two years of his conversion and now considers himself a conservative Christian and serves as a pastor of a small church in Wyoming.[60][61][62] His story is told in the independent film "I Am Michael" starring James Franco and Zachary Quinto.[63]
Tyler Glenn
- Tyler Glenn is the lead vocalist of the American rock band Neon Trees and came out as a gay Mormon in Rolling Stones magazine in March 2014,[64] but has since stopped identifying as Mormon since at least April 2016.[65]
- Sonia Johnson, prominent radical feminist and supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment.
- Kate Kendell is a lesbian lawyer from Utah who currently serves as the Executive Director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights. She graduated from the University of Utah in 1988 and became the first staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah. Kate and her partner, Sandy Holmes, live in San Francisco with their two children, as well as Kendall's daughter from a previous marriage.[66]
- D. Michael Quinn is a well-known historian of Mormonism and former professor of history at BYU. He was excommunicated in September 1993 for publishing historical accounts he says revised traditional Mormon history. He then came out of the closet as gay and published Same Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example in 1996. He currently resides in Los Angeles.
- Benji Schwimmer, the winner of the 2006 So You Think You Can Dance show.
LGBT Mormon organizations
The LDS church does not sponsor any LGBT organizations.
The church neither encourages nor discourages support groups for those with same gender attractions. However, it does discourage members from participating in groups that foster homosexual conduct.[67] Even though no support organization is officially sponsored by the church, several organizations have begun who have adopted theories and philosophies they believe are in line with church policy. Several church members have also joined ex-gay organizations. Some church members who identify as LGBT have also joined other support groups that seek changes in church doctrine, and greater church tolerance and awareness regarding LGBT issues. Several support groups are listed below:
Current organizations
- Affirmation: Gay & Lesbian Mormons is a support group originally organized in 1977 which aims to support "all affected by the nexus of homosexuality and Mormonism" by "becom[ing] a place of healing" and "avoid[ing] taking positions on how people choose to act on their sexuality or not."[68] The group has expanded its mission to include bisexuals, transgender persons,[69] and intersex persons, and "avoid[s] taking positions on church doctrine."
- ALL Arizona LDS LGBT & Friends & Family is an Arizona-based group unaffiliated with North Star or Affirmation. ALL is a supportive middle ground for anyone with an LDS background. They have a yearly conference around April and monthly get togethers along with scripture study for those who feel that church is unwelcoming. They also have a young adult get together and a parent support meeting. Their "hope is to build and strengthen a community of Latter-day saints where LGBT/SSA Mormons feel loved and supported through what can be a challenging experience—being gay and being Mormon." They do not limit support to just gay members but all members that fall into the LGBT+ spectrum. They have a secret Facebook group that anyone can join by contacting them.[70][71]
North Star's Logo
- North Star is an organization whose mission is to "provide a place of community for Latter-day Saints who experience homosexual attraction or gender identity incongruence, as well as their family, friends, and ecclesiastical leaders."[72] The group supports the church’s position that sexual relations are to be reserved for marriage between a man and woman, and aims to provide spiritual and social support for individuals and families who desire to live in harmony with church teachings. The organization takes "no official position on the origin or mutability of homosexual attractions or gender identity incongruence",[72] and does not "endorse political causes or join political coalitions, including those officially sanctioned by the institutional Church."[73]
- MoHo Directory is a global listing of over 100 gay Mormons and their blogs. For many, the MoHo Directory functions as a family of choice—a committed relationship network bound by friendship rather than blood.[74][75]
- Mormons Building Bridges is a decentralized grassroots Facebook group, composed primarily of members of the LDS Church, who seek to improve the attitudes between members of the church and the LGBT community. The group's largest events are annual pride parade marches.[76]
- USGA (Understanding Same-Gender Attraction) is an organization for LGBT Brigham Young University students and allies.[77][78][79][80][81][82][83][84][85] The unofficial BYU group acts as the only group of its kind since there are no official LGBT-specific resources at BYU.[86]
- Mama Dragons is a group for Mormon mothers and women supportive of LGBTQ persons.[87]
- Family Fellowship is for family members of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and/or transgender members and does not generally support church teachings about homosexuality.[88][89]
Past Organizations
- Disciples2 was a confidential online email support group from 1994 to about 2013[90] for what were termed male and female "strugglers" striving to follow church teachings.[91][92][93]
- LDS Reconciliation was a group that held independent weekly meetings[94] until 2012[95] in "home evening" type settings which "affired the spirituality of Gays and Lesbians and [sought] to provide a safe haven for individuals with a Latter-day Saint background to discuss the gospel of Jesus Christ. ... Reconciliation members [avoided] contention and criticism of any person or organization."[96] It currently meets in combined Family Home Evenings with Affirmation.[97]
- Evergreen International was an organization founded in 1989 for "people who want to diminish same-sex attractions and overcome homosexual behavior."[98] It "sustains the doctrines and standards of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints without reservation or exception." In January 2014, Evergreen announced it would close and refer its clients to North Star.[99]
- Gay LDS Young Adults (GLYA) was founded in March 2001 by Aaron Cloward and organized activities in the Intermountain West for gay Mormon young adults.[100][101] They had over 400 people on their mailing list[102] but seemed to be absorbed by Affirmation by about 2003.[103]
References
- ↑ "Resources for Individuals", EvergreenInternational.org, Evergreen International, archived from the original on 20 November 2012
- ↑ Smith, Wilford E. (Autumn 1976), "Morman Sex Standards on College campusus, or Deal Us Out of the Sexual Revolution!", Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 10 (2): 76–81
- ↑ Lum, Rebecca Rosen (August 20, 2007), Mormon church changes stance on homosexuality; New teachings say lifelong celibacy to be rewarded with heterosexuality in heaven, The Oakland Tribune, retrieved 19 August 2011
- ↑ Hyde & Hyde 1997
- ↑ E.g.: Name Withheld (January 1997), "Becoming Whole Again", Ensign; Name Withheld (September 2004), "Compassion for Those Who Struggle", Ensign; Name Withheld (September 2004), "My Battle with Same-Sex Attraction", Ensign
- ↑ "Testimionies", EvergreenInternational.org, Evergreen International, archived from the original on 24 July 2012
- ↑ See, for example, Northern Lights, The Wood Between the Worlds, Dichotomy, Shades of Grey, Original Mohomie, Are You One Too?, and Mormon Enigma
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