Gerald S. Argetsinger

GERALD S. ARGETSINGER {[email protected]} (Professor of Cultural and Creative Studies, Rochester Institute of Technology, retired) is the founder of the Gay Mormon Literature Project and lead editor of Latter Gay Saints: An Anthology of Gay Mormon Fiction (2014). He has published extensively on Scandinavian literature and scores of theatre topics. His plays are represented by Leicester Bay Theatricals. He served in the Presidency of the Hill Cumorah Pageant and was its Artistic Director 1990–97. Other callings include ward and stake Young Men’s Presidencies, Stake High Council, and currently as ward Sunday School President. B.A. Brigham Young University, Ph.D. Bowling Green State University, Ohio. He is married to Gail Bishop Argetsinger and they have two children.

That We May Be One: A Personal Journey | Tom Christofferson, That We May Be One: A Gay Mormon’s Perspective on Faith and Family

Articles/Essays – Volume 50, No. 4

Tom Christofferson’s That We May Be One exploded onto the LDS book market with a series of news releases, interviews, and appearances.It represents a gigantic leap in the Deseret Book LDS conversation on LGBTQ+ (hereafter: gay) members since the publication of Ty Mansfield’s In Quiet Desperation: Understanding the Challenge of Same-gender Attraction.Even the use of the descriptor “gay” in place of “same-gender attraction” still raises the hackles of many in the faith.In contrast to Mansfield’s desperate struggle, Tom Christofferson declares “There is nothing intrinsically about who I am that is offensive to God.”