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Palmyra Redemption: July 18, 2015
October 24, 2018
Kid Kirby
October 24, 2018His name was Reeves Kirby and he was eighteen that summer. He was small of stature and unlikely to grow bigger. Moreover, he had a mild temperament, blond hair, bland blue eyes, and a downy…
A Laurel’s First-Night Fantasies
October 24, 2018Possibility one, extrapolated from what Betty, second clarinet, said about what Tabitha, first clarinet, did last Saturday: They enter the hotel room, both of them shaking as only virgins can shake. Somehow he manages to…
Ordinary and Profane Poems
October 24, 2018
Tropical Butterfly House
October 24, 2018
The Mama Dragon Story Project
October 24, 2018Dialogue 49.2 (Summer 2016): 61–80
The photographs and essays featured in this issue of Dialogue come from Kimberly Anderson’s Mama Dragon Story Project: A Collection of Portraits and Essays from Mothers Who Love Their LGBT+ Children
In Our Lovely Oubliette: The Un/Intended Consequences of Boundary Making & Keeping from a Gay Mormon Perspective
October 24, 2018Dialogue 49.2 (Summer 2016): 51–60
“Of course, I didn’t really want to be a wife. But I was eight years old, and in my mind, if all I really wanted from the future was a husband, then that must mean that I wanted to be a wife.”
The Art of Queering Boundaries in LDS Communities
October 24, 2018Dialogue 49.2 (Summer 2016): 45–50
“I am the mother of a queer son. I am also an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as well as a professor at Brigham Young University, where I teach courses in literacy education, educational research methods, and multicultural education.”
Youth Suicide Rates and Mormon Religious Context: An Additional Empirical Analysis
October 24, 2018Dialogue 49.2 (Summer 2016): 25–44
Much has been discussed and written regarding whether or not the rate of LGBT youth suicides in the Mormon community has risen in the wake of the November 2015 handbook policy change that categorizes same-sex married couples as “apostates” and forbids baptism to children in same-sex married households.