Hugo N. Olaiz
HUGO OLAIZ {[email protected]} grew up in Argentina. After his LDS mission, he moved to the United States to study linguistics. He has published in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought and Sunstone magazine. He lives in Oxford, Ohio with his husband John-Charles Duffy and a Russell Terrier named Percy.
Articles
Addendum to Jacob Sorensen’s Patriarchal Blessing
Podcast version of this piece. I don’t know, Jake,why Dad asked me to drive you there,but I did hear every word Brother Allen said,and here’s a few he skipped: Our Heavenly Fatheris pleased with your…
Read morePoema de Halloween, 2001
Read moreLike the Rose
For Baldomero and Adeena My real name is Carlos, but ever since I turned eight everyone calls me Charlie. That’s the name I received from Allen and Johnson, the first two Mormons who ever set…
Read moreGay and Lesbian Mormons: Interviews with James Kent, Former Executive Director of Affirmation, and with Aaron Cloward, Founder and Coordinator of Gay LDS Youth
Dialogue 33.3 (Fall 2000): 123–136
Hugo Oliaz intervews two important figures in LDS LGBTQ organzing, a former diretor of Affirmation and the founder of Gay LDS Youth, a group that briefly flourished in the early 2000s. A great resource for learning more about LDS LGBTQ organizing in this period.
Correlated Praise: The Development of the Spanish Hymnal
Statisticians predict that by 2012 native Spanish speakers will surpass native English speakers as the LDS church’s largest language group.[1] Clearly, the church is about to reach a dramatic turning point in its international growth.…
Read moreThe Siege of Troy
Do not expect, Hera, to know all my thoughts, even though you are my wife. What I find fitting to reveal, no god or man will know before you. But beware of finding out what…
Read moreThe Birth of Tragedy
For Neal Chandler, il miglior fabbro “Is Mormonism still part of your Weltanschauung?” Aunt Doris asks me every time she sees me. She knows that at 2:15 on Sunday afternoons I’m blessing the sacrament like…
Read moreThe Kirtland Temple as a Shared Space: A Conversation with David J. Howlett
Dialogue 47.1 (Spring 2014): 104–123
An oral interview between an LDS Member and a Community of Christ member regarding the history of the Kirtland Temple. They explain that despite differences in religious beliefs, people can still form friendships and cooperate.