Hey it's Pride Month! We all hear about Prop 8 and how the LDS church paid a boatload of money to make it go their way. We thought the actions the church took in the past which led to these actions needed to be brought to light. We also discuss Patriarch Joseph Fielding Smith who was called to the office while known to be gay, then was fired from the job once the bigots spoke out against him. Then, in our Media section, Shannon brings you a large list of books you should look into written by Mary Renault. And finally, we bring you some excellent news out of New York

Show notes:

Links

Memories of Being Gay at BYU by Earl Kofoed

https://web.archive.org/web/20060617213245/http://www.affirmation.org/memorial/memories_of_being_gay.shtml

LGBTQIAP+ history in America

https://www.lgbtqhistory.org/lgbt-rights-timeline-in-american-history/

Chronology of Events Patriarch Joseph Fielding Smith's Homosexuality

https://web.archive.org/web/20100122080551/http://www.affirmation.org/memorial/joseph_fielding_smith.shtml

Queering the LDS Archive by K. Mohrman

https://read.dukeupress.edu/radical-history-review/article-abstract/2015/122/143/22262/Queering-the-LDS-Archive?redirectedFrom=fulltext

History of Sodomy Laws

https://www.glapn.org/sodomylaws/history/history.htm#:~:text=All%20states%20had%20laws%20against,effect%20in%201962%20without%20fanfare.

LDS Officials Seek to Join Hawaii Suit

https://www.deseret.com/1995/4/14/19169785/3-lds-officials-seek-to-join-hawaii-suit

Mormon campaign against gay marriage in Alaska

https://www.lds-mormon.com/gaylds-shtml/

The Mormon Proposition by Doe Daughtrey

https://www3.trincoll.edu/csrpl/RINVol11No3/Mormon%20Proposition.htm

LDS Cash Carries Gay-Marriage Fight

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96367929/lds-cash-carries-gay-marriage-fight/

Improvement Era 113th semiannual conference report

https://archive.org/details/improvementera4511unse/page/n39/mode/2up?view=theater

Prelude to the National "Defense of Marriage" Campaign: Civil Discrimination Against Feared or Despised Minorities by D. Michael Quinn

https://www.jstor.org/stable/45226709?seq=11

Single men a "menace to society"?

https://www.ldsliving.com/are-single-lds-men-really-a-menace-to-society/s/76642

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Mary Renault: A Biography, by Daniel Sweetman

Books and series by Mary Renault:

Purposes of Love

The Friendly Young Ladies

Kind are her Answers

Return to Night

North Face

The Charioteer

The Last of the WIne

The Lion in the Gateway

The Nature of Alexander (Non-fiction)

The Mask of Apollo

The Praise Singer

(Theseus series) The King Must Die and The Bull from the Sea

(Alexander the Great series) Fire from Heaven, The Persian Boy, and Funeral Games

Happy News: "X" Gender Markers Coming to New York State IDs This June: https://www.them.us/story/x-gender-markers-coming-to-new-york-state-ids-this-june

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