LGBTQ Issues
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I Am a Child of Gods
2022: Blaire Ostler, “I Am a Child of Gods” Dialogue 55.1 (Spring 2022): 99–119. The doctrine of Heavenly Mother is cherished among Latter-day Saints. She is birthed from necessity in a physicalist theology. Though she has feminist…
A Queer Heavenly Family: Expanding Godhood Beyond a Heterosexual, Cisgender Couple
2022: Charlotte Scholl Shurtz, “A Queer Heavenly Family: Expanding Godhood Beyond a Heterosexual, Cisgender Couple” Dialogue 55.1 (Spring 2022): 69–98. Although the concept of Heavenly Mother is empowering for many women, the focus on God as a…
After a Post-Heterosexual Mormon Theology: A Ten-Year Retrospective
Ten 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
Though 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. …
Excommunication and Finding Wholeness
John Gustav-Wrathall writes a really powerful piece: “Excommunication and Finding Wholeness.” He tells his own story of excommunication in 1986 and his journey since then. “There have been times when my excommunicated status has felt…
Variety of Perceptions of God Among Latter-day Saints
Includes fascinating analysis of LDS LGBTQ perceptions of God.
The Theological Trajectory of “The Family: A Proclamation to the World”
Huston argues that we should interpret that text in its historical context and glean from it new possibilities. Drawing on feminist interpretive strategies, Huston reads for the “theological trajectory,” rather than the plain meaning, to…
Queer Mormon Histories and the Politics of a Usable Past
This is about vernacular history or popular historical tales, rather than professional histories. It looks at all kinds of fun material from instagram accounts to brand advertisements to see how these stories retell the past…
Hug a Queer Latter-day Saint
Blaire 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…
Queer Polygamy
Ostler addresses the problems with what she terms the “Standard Model of Polygamy.” She discusses how these problems might be resolved if it is put into a new type of model that she terms “Queer…