By Scott H. “Mom! Hey it’s Steve, how are you?” “Steve! I’m doing well son, how are you? How is college? “Pretty good, pretty good. How is work? How is your calling?” “Oh my calling is fine, I love the…
Down To The Foundation–Reframing My Mormon Faith from a Perspective of Love
By Tabitha Hanson (originally published at Feminist Mormon Housewives July 2012 under the title “The Tipping Point”) Every Sunday, I attend worship services at the LDS church building where Stuart Matis took his own life 12 years ago. He was…
Marriage Matters
By Ben Jarvis My husband Pat and I have many anniversaries in our relationship: the night we met, the day we moved in together, our domestic partnership registration. But the most important anniversary, and indeed the only anniversary that we…
The Year Of The Caterpillar
In 1977 (1 A.D. Star Wars) my father worked two jobs to pay for a trip for our family to go to his home country of the Netherlands (Holland), the land of tulips and windmills, to visit my grandmother and…
Three Identities, One Person, and One Soul: An African‐American Gay Mormon Perspective on the 1978 Priesthood Revelation
By Frederick Bowers (Admin note) No More Strangers is a new forum seeking to advance the dialogue regarding LGBT people and Mormonism. As such, it has the good fortune of having bloggers who have made significant contributions to Latter-day Saint…
Black-White, Gay-Straight: A Perspective on Perspectives
(Admin note) No More Strangers is a new forum seeking to advance the dialogue regarding LGBT people and Mormonism. As such, it has the good fortune of having bloggers who have made significant contributions to Latter-day Saint LGBT people, their…