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Volume 10, No. 2

Fall 1976

  • Topics
  • family, sexuality, Mormon culture

Contents

Articles/Essays

Birth Control Among the Mormons: Introduction to an Insistent Question



Dialogue 10.2 (Summer 1977): 12–46
The extensive national attention had a demonstrable impact in Utah. In 1876 the territory’s first anti-abortion law was enacted, carrying a penalty of two to ten years for performing an abortion; a woman convicted of having an abortion received one to five years “unless the same is necessary to preserve her life.” It was also during this period that one finds the first real discussion of fertility control by leading Mormons.



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Classic Articles

Solus



Dialogue 10.2 (Fall 1976, Reprinted Spring/Summer 2001): 67–74
An active church member shares his struggles of being in the church while being gay.“Solus,” S-O-L-US-, latin for alone, by an anonymous gay may in the Fall 1976 issue is the first entry on this topic in Dialogue. This is likely the first instance of an LGBTQ voice in any LDS publication. It marks the beginning of the modern LDS LGBTQ movement.



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Fiction

Poetry

Reviews