LGBT youth suicide

Anti-trans laws hurt children. Jesus had plenty to say about that.

By Candice Marie Benbow — April 18, 2023
(RNS) — We cannot call ourselves followers of the one who so boldly said ‘let the children come,’ when we pass laws that push them away.

Conservatives are sexualizing kids and robbing LGBTQ youth of role models

By Eliel Cruz — April 14, 2022
(RNS) — Conservative Christians have long only seen LGBTQ people as sex acts.

Making religious communities safe for LGBTQ kids

By Jane Clementi — September 19, 2018
(RNS) — My church taught that being LGBTQ was a sin. Like so many other LGBTQ youth, Tyler must have felt rejected, unwanted and shamed. My son did not believe he could be both Christian and gay.

LGBT Mormons are out and proud in Provo art exhibit

By Jana Riess — September 21, 2016
Mitch Mayne is one of about two dozen LGBT Mormons whose faces grace a new art exhibit -- telling the world, and particularly LGBT Mormon youth, that it's possible to be gay and fully integrated into Mormon life.

The Mormon fallout of legalized same-sex marriage

By Jana Riess — July 1, 2016
One year after the Obergefell decision, many are still suffering the aftershocks of the LDS Church's resistance to LGBT equality.
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