When church was over a young woman came over to me and thanked me for my testimony. She told me that she has a friend who’s a lesbian who...

Getting home after being gone for seven weeks proved to be much more difficult than I had anticipated. I got to LaGuardia airport...

My mom, Lindsay, and I said farewell to Laura in a Chipotle parking lot in Bangor, Maine. We parted  ways in a restaurant parking lot...

After Prince Edward Island we hopped back into Laura’s CR-V and drove to Nova Scotia. We weren’t particularly pumped for Nova Scotia like...

After seeing Quebec City Laura, Lindsay, my mom, and I piled into Laura’s CR-V and we drove to Prince Edward Island. The drive was quite...

After our visit to the birthplace of Mormonism Laura and I drove to Montpelier, Vermont to visit her brother and sister-in-law. This was...

When I got to Chicago I learned that my friends Kyle and Mary were just about to leave Chicago by train and we overlapped by 40 minutes....

On June 30th my brother Jessen, his wife Laura (not to be confused with my friend fun Laura who will appear in later posts), their three...

Recently a straight friend of mine told me that he didn’t understand why coming out is such a struggle for people nowadays since being...

One of the super bummers of living in Arizona is that my friends don’t have the chance to get to know my parents. It’s a real shame. So...

I occasionally get messages from well-meaning people explaining to me what’s wrong with my life and how to fix it. “Marry a man,” they...

Last Tuesday was a super-stressful day. I'm winding down my grad school experience so I have a lot of "self-directed time" so work is...

After a blog post I wrote back in June an anonymous commenter wrote: "Thank you for a well written post. Your impassioned writing had...

Is being gay a weakness? This is a question that I have pondered many times.  If you had asked 21 year old me this question I would have...

On Thursday, November 5th I drove to California to visit my friends Ian and Amy.  It had been more than a year since I'd seen them so...

Today I spoke at the Tucson LDS Institute about my experiences as a gay Mormon.  A number of people who weren't able to attend asked me...

A few people have asked me what I thought about Elder Holland’s talk during the October General Conference.  Here are my thoughts on that...

We Mormons like to use the word know a lot.  We know the Book of Mormon is true.  We know the church is true.  We know that loads of...

I just got back from quite an adventure helping LeAnne move to Chicago from Salt Lake.  The plan was to leave her house at 4:00 am last...

I apologize to anyone who is here looking for discussion on being gay and Mormon.  My last blog post spread much more than I ever...