When I was a senior at BYU-Idaho I was my ward’s Relief Society president. I had also begun to dip my toe into the coming out pool. At...

I have been wondering how my 2018 was going to pan out. Especially since I have been spending a few months contemplating an essay I...

Sometimes, when I look at Heather, I remember another life. They are fleeting memories, strange in their specificity. She will be...

True Love is no great thing  It's more the wordless gift of a Diet Coke on your bedstand ("Because I just thought you would want it...

Earlier this year a show titled ‘Thirteen Reasons Why’ aired on Netflix. I watched the entire series. I am working in suicide awareness...

I often wonder… is there a place for me in the world… (Ash, a short-haired person wearing a hoodie, looks uncertain as they weigh two...

Being an LGBTQ/SSA member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is anything but easy. It is a constant barrage of negative...

Coming out is scary. Coming out is hard and you don’t know how everyone will react. Depending on the nature of how you came out it can...

I remember shutting half of my body down once to tell a gay friend, “Having same sex attraction is comparable to mental illness in the...

November 14, 2015 “I have something I need to say. I like girls. I don't know what I’m going to do. I know I love the gospel, though. I’m...

November 5th, 2015, I was in Denver, Colorado preparing to give a presentation at the Auraria Campus downtown. A presentation that I had...

God sits in my kitchen sometimes. Well, not in mykitchen – in the kitchen of my childhood home, a ‘90s bungalow with white appliances,...

My husband and I named my wife In the corner of a Wendy’s parking lot. Me, scrolling through baby names — Him, eating a cheeseburger....

When I was twenty-two I almost killed myself because better dead than gay, right? I was eleven when I first wanted to kiss a girl. I...

I said, “I’m bisexual.” You said, “I still love you.” I said, “I want to take the children to meet my friends.” You said, “No. I don’t...

My name is Frank Pellett. I'm a 44 year old software developer for the LDS Church. I've sired 5 children and have been blissfully...

When I was in 8th grade I knew I was going to kill myself. It felt inevitable really. I was miserable. My heart hurt so much. I felt like...

“And by the time I identified as being gay, it was too late. I was already homophobic, and you do not get to just flick a switch on that....

When I see her in my head, as I saw her that first time, she is slightly back-lit, slightly bow-legged, with her slightly masculine round...