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After a Post-Heterosexual Mormon Theology: A Ten-Year Retrospective
Taylor G. PetreyTen years ago, my article “Toward a Post-Heterosexual Mormon Theology” was published in Dialogue.[1] I did not know what to expect when it made its way into the world, but it ended up being a…
Queer Bodies, Queer Technologies, and Queer Policies
Blaire OstlerThough there is a well-established conversation on how reproductive technologies and policies influence cisgender, heterosexual women’s bodies within Mormonism, there is a less established conversation on how reproductive technologies and policies are affecting LGBTQ+ Saints.[1]…
Hug a Queer Latter-day Saint
Blaire OstlerBlaire Ostler has written a number of pieces, from personal essays, poetry, to articles, that are worth noting. Her article, “Queer Polygamy,” is an innovating mashup that looks beyond monogamy as the only authorizing type…
Review: A Private Revelation William Victor Smith. Textual Studies of the Doctrine and Covenants: The Plural Marriage Revelation
Gary James BergeraReview: Revealing the Holy in Deja Earley’s To the Mormon Newlyweds Who Thought the Bellybutton was Somehow Involved.
Terresa Wellborn“The Perfect Union of Man and Woman”: Reclamation and Collaboration in Joseph Smith’s Theology Making
Fiona GivensGivens argues that one of the things that Joseph Smith was trying to restore was teachings taught to Adam and Eve, in particular men and women working together. Givens also highlighted the existence of Heavenly…
After a Post-Heterosexual Mormon Theology: A Ten-Year Retrospective
Taylor G. PetreyTen years ago, my article “Toward a Post-Heterosexual Mormon Theology” was published in Dialogue.[1] I did not know what to expect when it made its way into the world, but it ended up being a…
Queer Bodies, Queer Technologies, and Queer Policies
Blaire OstlerThough there is a well-established conversation on how reproductive technologies and policies influence cisgender, heterosexual women’s bodies within Mormonism, there is a less established conversation on how reproductive technologies and policies are affecting LGBTQ+ Saints.[1]…
Hug a Queer Latter-day Saint
Blaire OstlerBlaire Ostler has written a number of pieces, from personal essays, poetry, to articles, that are worth noting. Her article, “Queer Polygamy,” is an innovating mashup that looks beyond monogamy as the only authorizing type…
Review: A Private Revelation William Victor Smith. Textual Studies of the Doctrine and Covenants: The Plural Marriage Revelation
Gary James BergeraReview: Revealing the Holy in Deja Earley’s To the Mormon Newlyweds Who Thought the Bellybutton was Somehow Involved.
Terresa Wellborn“The Perfect Union of Man and Woman”: Reclamation and Collaboration in Joseph Smith’s Theology Making
Fiona GivensGivens argues that one of the things that Joseph Smith was trying to restore was teachings taught to Adam and Eve, in particular men and women working together. Givens also highlighted the existence of Heavenly…
This-Worldly and Other-Worldly Sex: A Response
(author)Three Philosophies of Sex, Plus One
(author)Sacred or Secret? A Parent’s Handbook for Sexuality Guidance of their Children by Ernest Eberhard, Jr.
Bruce G. RogersSacred or Secret? A Parent’s Handbook for Sexuality Guidance of their Children by Ernest Eberhard, Jr.
Stanton L. HoveyOn Sexuality
Marvin RyttingSex Education Materials for Latter-day Saints
Shirley PaxmanMormon Elders’ Wafers: Images on Mormon Virility in Patent Medicine Ads
Lester E. Bush Jr.Shall the Youth of Zion Falter? Mormon Youth and Sex: A Two-City Comparison
Armand L. MaussMormon Sex Standards on College Campuses, or Deal Us Out of the Sexual Revolution!
Wilford E. SmithMormon Sexuality in Cross-cultural Perspective
Harold T. ChristensenNeeded: An LDS Philosophy of Sex
Kenneth L. Cannon IIMormon Sexuality and American Culture
Klaus J. HansenBirth Control Among the Mormons: Introduction to an Insistent Question
Lester E. Bush Jr.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…
Polygamous Eyes: A Note on Mormon Physiognomy
Davis BittonPolygamous Eyes: A Note on Mormon Physiognomy
Gary L. BunkerIntersexes in Humans: An Unexplored Issue in LDS Traditional Beliefs
Duane E. JefferyDuane laid out the problem clearly—we can’t say that sex is binary by divine design when it is not binary in nature.
Mormon Medical Ethical Guidelines
Lester E. Bush Jr.Of all medical ethical guidelines published by the Church, those relating to abortion are the most emphatically stated. Offenders, be they doctor, patient, or abettor, are subject to excommunication.
An Ordered Love: Sex Roles and Sexuality in Victorian Utopias—the Shakers, the Mormons, and the Oneida Community
Lawrence FosterThree Communities — Two Views: Religion and Sexuality: Three American Communal Experiments of the Nineteenth Century
(author)Sin and Sexuality: Psychobiology and the Development of Homosexuality
R. Jan StoutStout’s article is a reminder just how important psychology and psychologists were for mediating these early debates. It really was groundbreaking in LDS print media.
Bearing Out Crosses Gracefully: Sex and the Single Mormon
Robert A. Rees“And They Shall Be One Flesh”: Sexuality and Contemporary Mormonism
Romel W. MackelprangSexual Hegemony and Mormon Women: Seeing Ourselves in the Bambara Mirror
Kathryn LindquistFinding Our Voices: Paperdolls: Healing from Sexual Abuse in Mormon Neighborhoods by April Daniels and Carol Scott
Carla S. WesternA New Kind of Abuse: The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse
J. Frederic Voros Jr.You Are Not Alone: A Plea for Understanding the Homosexual Condition
T. J. OBrienHe points to Jan Stout’s article among other influential pieces that were beginning to soften LDS attitudes and change practices in the early 90s.
The Burden of Proof: Peculiar People: Mormons and Same-sex Orientation
Gary M. WattsCan You Change?: Born That Way? A True Story of Overcoming Same-Sex Attraction
Marybeth RaynesNear-Sex Experiences (Confessions of a Mormon Girl)
Karin Anderson EnglandYouth, Sex, and Coercion: The Neglect of Sexual Abuse Factors in LDS Data and Policy on Premarital Sex
Dynette ReynoldsThe Logical Next Step: Affirming Same-Sex Relationships
Gary M. WattsHe notes the inner conflict that gay LDS members faced, having to choose between their desires to have a relaitonship and their desires to be in the church.
Northing by Musket and Sextant
John Farrell LinesSex and Prophetic Power: A Comparison of John Humphrey Noyes with Joseph Smith, Jr.
Lawrence Foster“One Flesh”: A Historical Overview of Latter-day Saint Sexuality and Psychology
Eric G. SwedinGay and Lesbian Mormons: Interviews.
Hugo N. OlaizHugo Oliaz intervews two important figures in LDS LGBTQ organzing, a former diretor of Affirmation and the founder of Gay LDS Youth, a group that briefly flourished in the early 2000s. A great resource for…
Preaching the Gospel of Church and Sex: Mormon Women’s Fiction in the Young Woman’s Journal, 1889-1910
Rebecca De SchweinitzSexual Morality Revisited
Wayne Schow“Who Shall Sing If Not the Children?” Primary Songbook 1880-1989
Kristine HaglundEcclesiastical Polity and the Challenge of Homosexuality: Two Cases of Divergence within the Mormon Tradition
Daryl WhiteThis article compares the Community of Christ to the LDS church. In the early 2000s, the Community of Christ began to publicly reassess its policies on ordination and acceptance of homosexuality and opened the issue…
Embodied Mormonism: Performance, Vodou, and the LDS Faith in Haiti
Jennifer Huss BasquiatGetting Out/Staying In: One Mormon/Gay Marriage: Staying In
Ben ChristensenIn Fall 2005, there is a roundtable on mix-orientation marriages from some who were in them and from therapist Marybeth Raynes and long-time activist Ron Schow.
Getting Out/Staying In: One Mormon/Gay Marriage: Thoughts of a Therapist
Marybeth RaynesIn Fall 2005, there is a roundtable on mix-orientation marriages from some who were in them and from therapist Marybeth Raynes and long-time activist Ron Schow.
Getting Out/Staying In: One Mormon/Gay Marriage: Homosexual Attraction and LDS Marriage Decisions
Ron SchowIn Fall 2005, there is a roundtable on mix-orientation marriages from some who were in them and from therapist Marybeth Raynes and long-time activist Ron Schow.
Getting Out/Staying In: One Mormon/Gay Marriage: Getting Out
Ben ChristensenIn Fall 2005, there is a roundtable on mix-orientation marriages from some who were in them and from therapist Marybeth Raynes and long-time activist Ron Schow.
Between Suicide and Celibacy: In Quiet Desperation: Understanding the Challenge of Same-Gender Attraction by Fred and Marilyn Matis and Ty Mansfield
Robert A. ReesA Case for Same-Sex Marriage: Reply to Randolph Muhlestein
Wayne SchowThese articles were about legal arguments. The case against argued that marriage was already tenuous and allowing same-sex marriage would doom it, suggesting that people would become homosexuals if same-sex marriage were an option.
The Case Against Same-Sex Marriage
Randolph G. MuhlesteinThese articles were about legal arguments. The case against argued that marriage was already tenuous and allowing same-sex marriage would doom it, suggesting that people would become homosexuals if same-sex marriage were an option.
Wives and Other Women: Love, Sex, and Marriage in the Lives of John Q. Cannon, Frank J. Cannon, and Abraham H. Cannon
Kenneth L. Cannon IIReview: Encouraging Heterosexuality: Helping Children Develop a Traditional Sexual Orientation
William S. BradshawSex Talk Sunday
Deja EarleyToward a Post-Heterosexual Mormon Theology
Taylor G. PetreyFrom Editor Taylor Petrey: “Toward a Post-heterosexual Mormon Theology” was actually the first major article I ever published. I did not know what to expect, but it ended up being a widely discussed piece, accessed…
Same-Sex Attraction
Clifton Holt Jolley“As Our Two Faiths Have Worked Together”—Catholicism and Mormonism on Human Life Ethics and Same-Sex Marriage
Wilfried DecooWilfred Decoo writes in 2013 ““As Our Two Faiths Have Worked Together”— Catholicism and Mormonism on Human Life Ethics and Same-Sex Marriage.” He expains, “I analyze a number of factors that could ease the way…
After a Post-Heterosexual Mormon Theology: A Ten-Year Retrospective
Taylor G. PetreyTen years ago, my article “Toward a Post-Heterosexual Mormon Theology” was published in Dialogue.[1] I did not know what to expect when it made its way into the world, but it ended up being a…
Queer Bodies, Queer Technologies, and Queer Policies
Blaire OstlerThough there is a well-established conversation on how reproductive technologies and policies influence cisgender, heterosexual women’s bodies within Mormonism, there is a less established conversation on how reproductive technologies and policies are affecting LGBTQ+ Saints.[1]…
Hug a Queer Latter-day Saint
Blaire OstlerBlaire Ostler has written a number of pieces, from personal essays, poetry, to articles, that are worth noting. Her article, “Queer Polygamy,” is an innovating mashup that looks beyond monogamy as the only authorizing type…
Review: A Private Revelation William Victor Smith. Textual Studies of the Doctrine and Covenants: The Plural Marriage Revelation
Gary James BergeraReview: Revealing the Holy in Deja Earley’s To the Mormon Newlyweds Who Thought the Bellybutton was Somehow Involved.
Terresa Wellborn“The Perfect Union of Man and Woman”: Reclamation and Collaboration in Joseph Smith’s Theology Making
Fiona GivensGivens argues that one of the things that Joseph Smith was trying to restore was teachings taught to Adam and Eve, in particular men and women working together. Givens also highlighted the existence of Heavenly…
This-Worldly and Other-Worldly Sex: A Response
(author)Three Philosophies of Sex, Plus One
(author)Sacred or Secret? A Parent’s Handbook for Sexuality Guidance of their Children by Ernest Eberhard, Jr.
Bruce G. RogersSacred or Secret? A Parent’s Handbook for Sexuality Guidance of their Children by Ernest Eberhard, Jr.
Stanton L. HoveyOn Sexuality
Marvin RyttingSex Education Materials for Latter-day Saints
Shirley PaxmanMormon Elders’ Wafers: Images on Mormon Virility in Patent Medicine Ads
Lester E. Bush Jr.Shall the Youth of Zion Falter? Mormon Youth and Sex: A Two-City Comparison
Armand L. MaussMormon Sex Standards on College Campuses, or Deal Us Out of the Sexual Revolution!
Wilford E. SmithMormon Sexuality in Cross-cultural Perspective
Harold T. ChristensenNeeded: An LDS Philosophy of Sex
Kenneth L. Cannon IIMormon Sexuality and American Culture
Klaus J. HansenBirth Control Among the Mormons: Introduction to an Insistent Question
Lester E. Bush Jr.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…
Polygamous Eyes: A Note on Mormon Physiognomy
Davis BittonPolygamous Eyes: A Note on Mormon Physiognomy
Gary L. BunkerIntersexes in Humans: An Unexplored Issue in LDS Traditional Beliefs
Duane E. JefferyDuane laid out the problem clearly—we can’t say that sex is binary by divine design when it is not binary in nature.
Mormon Medical Ethical Guidelines
Lester E. Bush Jr.Of all medical ethical guidelines published by the Church, those relating to abortion are the most emphatically stated. Offenders, be they doctor, patient, or abettor, are subject to excommunication.
An Ordered Love: Sex Roles and Sexuality in Victorian Utopias—the Shakers, the Mormons, and the Oneida Community
Lawrence FosterThree Communities — Two Views: Religion and Sexuality: Three American Communal Experiments of the Nineteenth Century
(author)Sin and Sexuality: Psychobiology and the Development of Homosexuality
R. Jan StoutStout’s article is a reminder just how important psychology and psychologists were for mediating these early debates. It really was groundbreaking in LDS print media.
Bearing Out Crosses Gracefully: Sex and the Single Mormon
Robert A. Rees“And They Shall Be One Flesh”: Sexuality and Contemporary Mormonism
Romel W. MackelprangSexual Hegemony and Mormon Women: Seeing Ourselves in the Bambara Mirror
Kathryn LindquistFinding Our Voices: Paperdolls: Healing from Sexual Abuse in Mormon Neighborhoods by April Daniels and Carol Scott
Carla S. WesternA New Kind of Abuse: The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse
J. Frederic Voros Jr.You Are Not Alone: A Plea for Understanding the Homosexual Condition
T. J. OBrienHe points to Jan Stout’s article among other influential pieces that were beginning to soften LDS attitudes and change practices in the early 90s.
The Burden of Proof: Peculiar People: Mormons and Same-sex Orientation
Gary M. WattsCan You Change?: Born That Way? A True Story of Overcoming Same-Sex Attraction
Marybeth RaynesNear-Sex Experiences (Confessions of a Mormon Girl)
Karin Anderson EnglandYouth, Sex, and Coercion: The Neglect of Sexual Abuse Factors in LDS Data and Policy on Premarital Sex
Dynette ReynoldsThe Logical Next Step: Affirming Same-Sex Relationships
Gary M. WattsHe notes the inner conflict that gay LDS members faced, having to choose between their desires to have a relaitonship and their desires to be in the church.
Northing by Musket and Sextant
John Farrell LinesSex and Prophetic Power: A Comparison of John Humphrey Noyes with Joseph Smith, Jr.
Lawrence Foster“One Flesh”: A Historical Overview of Latter-day Saint Sexuality and Psychology
Eric G. SwedinGay and Lesbian Mormons: Interviews.
Hugo N. OlaizHugo Oliaz intervews two important figures in LDS LGBTQ organzing, a former diretor of Affirmation and the founder of Gay LDS Youth, a group that briefly flourished in the early 2000s. A great resource for…
Preaching the Gospel of Church and Sex: Mormon Women’s Fiction in the Young Woman’s Journal, 1889-1910
Rebecca De SchweinitzSexual Morality Revisited
Wayne Schow“Who Shall Sing If Not the Children?” Primary Songbook 1880-1989
Kristine HaglundEcclesiastical Polity and the Challenge of Homosexuality: Two Cases of Divergence within the Mormon Tradition
Daryl WhiteThis article compares the Community of Christ to the LDS church. In the early 2000s, the Community of Christ began to publicly reassess its policies on ordination and acceptance of homosexuality and opened the issue…
Embodied Mormonism: Performance, Vodou, and the LDS Faith in Haiti
Jennifer Huss BasquiatGetting Out/Staying In: One Mormon/Gay Marriage: Staying In
Ben ChristensenIn Fall 2005, there is a roundtable on mix-orientation marriages from some who were in them and from therapist Marybeth Raynes and long-time activist Ron Schow.
Getting Out/Staying In: One Mormon/Gay Marriage: Thoughts of a Therapist
Marybeth RaynesIn Fall 2005, there is a roundtable on mix-orientation marriages from some who were in them and from therapist Marybeth Raynes and long-time activist Ron Schow.
Getting Out/Staying In: One Mormon/Gay Marriage: Homosexual Attraction and LDS Marriage Decisions
Ron SchowIn Fall 2005, there is a roundtable on mix-orientation marriages from some who were in them and from therapist Marybeth Raynes and long-time activist Ron Schow.
Getting Out/Staying In: One Mormon/Gay Marriage: Getting Out
Ben ChristensenIn Fall 2005, there is a roundtable on mix-orientation marriages from some who were in them and from therapist Marybeth Raynes and long-time activist Ron Schow.
Between Suicide and Celibacy: In Quiet Desperation: Understanding the Challenge of Same-Gender Attraction by Fred and Marilyn Matis and Ty Mansfield
Robert A. ReesA Case for Same-Sex Marriage: Reply to Randolph Muhlestein
Wayne SchowThese articles were about legal arguments. The case against argued that marriage was already tenuous and allowing same-sex marriage would doom it, suggesting that people would become homosexuals if same-sex marriage were an option.
The Case Against Same-Sex Marriage
Randolph G. MuhlesteinThese articles were about legal arguments. The case against argued that marriage was already tenuous and allowing same-sex marriage would doom it, suggesting that people would become homosexuals if same-sex marriage were an option.
Wives and Other Women: Love, Sex, and Marriage in the Lives of John Q. Cannon, Frank J. Cannon, and Abraham H. Cannon
Kenneth L. Cannon IIReview: Encouraging Heterosexuality: Helping Children Develop a Traditional Sexual Orientation
William S. BradshawSex Talk Sunday
Deja EarleyToward a Post-Heterosexual Mormon Theology
Taylor G. PetreyFrom Editor Taylor Petrey: “Toward a Post-heterosexual Mormon Theology” was actually the first major article I ever published. I did not know what to expect, but it ended up being a widely discussed piece, accessed…
Same-Sex Attraction
Clifton Holt Jolley“As Our Two Faiths Have Worked Together”—Catholicism and Mormonism on Human Life Ethics and Same-Sex Marriage
Wilfried DecooWilfred Decoo writes in 2013 ““As Our Two Faiths Have Worked Together”— Catholicism and Mormonism on Human Life Ethics and Same-Sex Marriage.” He expains, “I analyze a number of factors that could ease the way…