« Reluctant Revolutionaries: Benjamin Franklin and Me | Main | I Love Vasco de Gama. Viva Portugal! »
“According to Mormon mythology . . . ”
By Steven Fales | June 29, 2010
From Introduction to Confessions of a Mormon Boy: Behind the Scenes of the Off-Broadway Hit
According to Mormon mythology, God has smiling, becoming children populating other worlds He has created all over the universe. Mormon founder Joseph Smith once taught that the Moon was populated by Mormons. (Not to be confused with the Moonies.) I’ve made it my personal mission to simply meet every gay Mormon on this planet. So far I’m making good progress. (And that doesn’t mean I’ve slept with them all.) Whenever I perform Confessions of a Mormon Boy — from San Francisco to new York, Chicago to Miami — Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Mormons seem to find me, sometimes flying thousands of miles. As long as good, upstanding, comely Mormon couples across the galaxy continue having babies, and the Church continues to condemn and reject its homosexual members throughout the universe, there will always be queer Mormons to shake hands with after the show.
Latter-day Q-Saints are everywhere. We’ve been around since the Church was founded in 1830. There are thousands upon thousands of us gay Mormons. Statistically, we are approaching a million throughout the world. Our stories are unique and yet the same — we are bonded by our colorful Mormon heritage and our diverse sexual orientations and circumstances. And I promise we are much more dimensional than anything you’ll see in the recent gay films Latter Days or Angels in America, we give an entirely different spin to HBO’s Big Love, and mainstream Mormons aren’t all fundamentalist freaks you read about in the non-fiction bestseller Under the Banner of Heaven.
I think I speak for most when I say Mormons are hot! it is the consensus in the gay community that there are a disproportionate number of gay Mormons among us. All I have to do is wear a BYU T-shirt into a gay bar, LGBT Center, or Gay Pride event and I’ll leave with three or four (or more!) new Mormon best friends for life. I’ve done it many times. Gays make great Mormons. Mormons make great gays. “Oh, the Mormons and the Homos should be friends!” (Just call me a Momo-sexual!”
Topics: Steven Fales | No Comments »