Summer 2016
The Summer 2016 issue begins with Michael Parker, Daniel Parkinson, and Benjamin Knoll exploring suicide within the Mormon LGBTQ community, followed by Benjamin Knoll giving additional context regarding youth suicides within the Mormon community. These are followed by several personal stories regarding the gay and queer perspectives in the LDS church. Also contained in this issue is artwork by Kimberly Anderson titled The Mama Dragon Story Project as well as several beautiful works poetry, two pieces of fiction by Theric Jepson and Levi Peterson. The issue is rounded out by several book reviews, a sermon, and a roundtable on the history of the Exponent II.
The November 2015 LDS handbook policy change that identified mem- bers who participate in same-sex marriages as “apostates” and forbade children in their households from receiving baby blessings or baptisms sparked ongoing attention to the…
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…
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 Youg University, where I teach…
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…
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
