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A conversation between three young LGBTQ scholars about recent scholarly books, memoirs, and fiction on Mormonism and LGBTQ issues. Featuring Jaclyn Foster (University of Utah), Conor Hilton (University of Iowa), and Adam McLain (Harvard University).
Books discussed:
Scholarship:
Greg Prince. Gay Rights and the Mormon Church
Taylor G. Petrey. Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism
Brenda R. Weber Latter-day Screens: Gender, Sexuality, and Mediated Mormonism
Memoirs:
Tom Christofferson. That We May Be One: A Gay Mormon’s Perspective on Faith and Family
Dennis Schleicher. Is He Nuts? Why a Gay Man Would Become a Member of the Church of Jesus Christ
Alex Cooper. Saving Alex
Fiction
Mette Harrison. The Women’s Book of Mormon
Christina Lauren. Autoboyography
Mellissa Leilani Larson. Little Happy Secrets (in Third Wheel: Peculiar Stories of Mormon Women)
Gerald Argetsinger. Latter-Gay Saints: An Anthology of Gay Mormon Fiction
Brian Andersen and James Neish. Stripling Warrior
Reviews of two of these books, Greg Prince’s Gay Rights and the Mormon Church (reviewed by Ben Park) and Brenda Weber’s Latter-day Screens (reviewed by Conor Hilton), will appear in the Summer 2020 issue of Dialogue. Adam McClain’s review of Mette Harrison’s The Women’s Book of Mormon will appear in the Winter 2020 issue.