Today is the 6-year anniversary of my first date with my husband, Michael. Back then I couldn’t imagine the life I live now. This photo was taken in my apartment at Brigham Young University during our first week together. It was just three months after I finished my mission in California. You can see my…
After the article in the Daily Universe outed me as a “gay student” at BYU, I received a friend request on facebook from someone I didn’t recognize and with whom I shared no mutual friends. One look at his profile and I knew he was “family.” I wrote back asking why he had added me…
I would like to thank the awesome lady that sat in front of me at the concert I went to the other day. My “friend” and I were obviously gay at this concert. In front of us was a lady with her little daughter and a husband that she had dragged along. I don’t know…
“Hear me when I speak, and just listen and try not to be some kind of self righteous high being, or the opposite and mislead me . . . And I’m not saying that I’m any better than you. Sometimes I have motives that are just so stupid and I play the fool. But man,…
In Tuesday’s New York Times there was an article about the “Fatosphere“- a blogging community of fat people whose motto is “love your fat self.” It made me think about the Mormon queerosphere we have going on. There certainly are a lot of similarities between the emerging “fat and proud” soap boxes and our moho…
I ran into Sister French today, surprisingly late in the semester. The encounter was inevitable because we share a major, and, let’s face it; the HFAC isn’t that big of a world. It was exciting to run into her, and I’ll confess to thinking about her nonstop ever since. What makes me think of a…
I love being gay. I love the fact that I love being gay. I love the fact that others love the fact that I love being gay. Tonight I felt so happy being who I am. This is huge. Gone are the days when homosexuality was a disgusting affliction. Gone are the days when I…
Early this morning while walking to class, some girls were handing out hot chocolate. It was so cold today, so I really appreciated the hot chocolate. As I was balancing things in my hands, one of the girls said that it was Karl G. Maeser’s birthday today and then stuffed a giant honor code magnet…
A few mohos seem to be slipping further from the Church. Others, including mohos, want to reclaim these lost souls and convince them to come back to a complete LDS lifestyle. Might I make a suggestion to those well-intended people? If you try to reclaim gay Latter-day Saints, you will likely not do it by…
While talking to Potentate about the word celibacy, I remarked that it made me think of monks and nuns. Then, when I thought about nuns, I thought about the Sound of Music. For the nuns in that musical, celibacy is a chosen lifestyle that brings fulfillment and happiness. There is a very strong sense of…
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