#lgbtq+ mormons

[the-rad1o-demon]

So far, chances of KOSA being enacted is 31% according to the site linked below.

Let's get that fucker down to zero, guys!!

Stuff to help us do that is linked here!

The call scripts linked below were originally for Congressional representatives, but now that the bill is in committee consideration by Senate Commerce, you should call your Senators instead and you can use the scripts for them. Also, when calling your Democrat senators, make sure to add that Senator Blackburn explicitly stated in interview that it would be used to "protect children from the transgender." I think it's pretty clear that this is not meant to protect children. It's just going to harm children further, especially trans children.

(Article below with a video of the interview embedded.)

Please help stop this bill in its tracks. Reblog, donate, call your senators, and keep an eye on the bill's chances of being passed. We can't stop now. 31% is still kind of a big number. We need to shrink those chances by a lot more.

[captainjonnitkessler]

Someday the "if you still read Harry Potter fanfic you are LITERALLY funding transphobia" crowd is going to realize that Brandon Sanderson tithes to the Mormon church and that's probably when I'll just delete my account

[the-rockinahard-place]

I hope the people in our little tumblrstake we have on here know just how much their words have helped me. Just seeing queer mormons is such a privilege. You’ve brought me a lot of guidance in this past year and you have strengthened my testimony to great heights. It is so simple what you do on here, yet so powerful. It has changed my life, and probably my future too. If church leadership was as progressive, accepting, and informational as tumblrstake then the church wouldn’t be viewed as it is today.

I told my classmate today that I was going to mormon prom, which led her to ask me if I was mormon. When I told her I was, her jaw literally dropped. It was obvious that she couldn’t imagine someone like me ( queer af ) being in the church. She has a small perspective of who I am, and a small perspective of what the church is. Unfortunately, they were far too different things in her head, to be seen mixed together. It hurt realizing that some people see the church that way, as this bad thing. I’ve been so fortunate to have a mostly accepting ward and a special place in queerstake, that I’ve forgotten our reputation and our dark history and our not very accepting “brothers and sisters” that when I say I’m mormon to someone, they react like I just came out to them.

know that our LDS blogs in our tiny corner of tumblr proves to be more than just a small community. It is a life line keeping me holding on to that iron rod and I’m sure so many others aswell. I thank everyone for all that you’ve done here. You represent the real church of jesus christ of latter day saints.

[ragdolldancer]

why go to therapy when you have the gay light hair x dark hair ship on hand?

[saturnerens]

trying out a new style :)

[silly-goobr]

It is imperative I don’t become poly in the future WAITWAIT DONT LEAVE

it’s not because poly people are weird (they’re awesome and chill) but I was raised mormon so I don’t want multiple wives because then I would be giving into the stereotype

[morgannotlefay]

I swear on the grave I killed and buried God in that my loved ones will never have to question if my love is conditional

[lesbiansandco]

bury me in childhood joy

they say a little girl died in that primary room,

arms folded tightly,

head bowed,

fidgeting silently.

her long natural hair, a testament to her mother's devotion:

brushing out painful knots

shaping tight braids

shoving sharp bobby pins in to keep it all together.

the itchiest dress you could imagine

but it was oh so beautiful

the scratchy fabric hurt more

as dresses increased in modesty-

modest dresses equaled more fabric

to cover up girls' vulnerable bodies.

that girl had the longest dress

she was modest. she felt like a monster.

"the spirit,"

they said,

"is a still small voice."

and for the first time, the girl recognized a lie.

the spirit was not still. was not small.

it was loud, roaring waves of emotion

that overcame her

and taught her that emotions have depth and range

she was happy. she was sad. she was crying, she was glad.

that child died before she learned the word "impulsive."

the promptings of the spirit were many. they were unpredictable.

the child didn't understand.

why would her leaders lie?

the lesson was forgettable. the message, not so much.

"you must be prepared to die for the church"

"you would rather die than deny your faith,

right?"

the child didn't comprehend martyrdom

but in that moment, she knew she would die a martyr.

and she did.

the child used to love wearing her ctr ring

"choose the right"

so she did.

she chose the right path

her ring rests on that primary chair

blackened with a sharpie and bent out of shape

[act-like-an-angel]

IS THAT...ANDREW RANNELLS???

just found out that he is the voice of Veneer. Let's just say, I'm obsessed.

he's a silly man who plays other silly men! ~♡

[garthnadermemestash]

ban mormons

[sherpafrankiefreddiesteviegeorge]

Happy Pride sucker's! I googled something I can't stop thinking about so here it is for you. About 5% of the United States population is lgbtq. We're 5%! The mormons makeup 1.2% of the US! The gays outnumber the mormons! The gays outnumber th mormons!

[the-rad1o-demon]

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GET KOSA TRENDING.

STOP SCROLLING NOW!

AS OF FEBRUARY 21ST, 2024, WE GOT FIVE DAYS UNTIL THE DAY OF DECISION OF THE KOSA BILL, WHICH WILL CAUSE MASS CENSORSHIP ROUND THE INTERNET IF PASSED. OR DOOMSDAY. WE NEED EVERYONE TO KNOW ABOUT THIS AND CONTRIBUTE. I'M NOT GIVING UP ON YOU ALL.

WE'RE DOWN TO THE WIRE BUT WE CAN'T GIVE UP YET. IF WE GIVE UP, EVERYTHING IS OVER. IF WE DON'T, AT LEAST WE HAVE A CHANCE.

I'M THE ONE WHO SOUNDED THE ALARM, AND I'M NOT GOING TO CURL UP AND DIE YET.

Reblog this post in every LEGAL way you can under the Tumblr guidelines with the appropriate tags. TELL AND TAG EVERYONE YOU KNOW, then add the tags to see below... and more if you can think of any complying.

Visit badinternetbills.com if you want to find a way to defeat KOSA. It WILL NOT take much of your time. Reblog with any other information or sources, too-- but make sure to reblog if you can.

Reblog if you support lgbtq+ content.

Reblog if you support questioning queer youth and/or abused youth getting the information they need.

Reblog if you support Ao3 and/or other sites that wholeheartedly preserve talentedly made media.

Reblog if you're going to repost this on other sites than Tumblr and spread the word across Twitter, Tik Tok, Pinterest, or elsewhere, alongside the link to badinternetbills.com.

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Hey, everyone. So yeah, this is happening. We're still fighting this battle. And we can't give up now. We can't. We can't stand idly by while one of the most important resources that helped us all wake up, or at least start to question things, is being threatened by the government.

We can't stand idly by when kids, teens, and adults just like us still trapped inside might lose access to the resource that could help them wake up. We can't stand idly by when they might lose access to their non JW friends and family. We CAN'T stand idly by when we can do something to stop this bill from passing.

I am sick and tired of this same old song, where conservative fuckers higher up think they can oppress everyone. I am FUCKING SICK of it.

Please, reblog both this post and the original post linked above what I've written, and do what you can to stop KOSA, please. We are running out of time.

I suggest that if it is within your power to do so, that you do more than simply reblog and assume someone else will do something. DON'T assume that. Please do more than just reblogging if you are able to, because that's not really enough at this point.

Call/email representatives in the House and tell them to oppose KOSA (you may want to list different reasons depending on who you're calling, some House representatives are anti-LGBTQ+, so it may be best to tell them to oppose because it violates people's privacy, safety, and anonymity online). Print posters and put them up where legal if you can.

Sharing all this information to other social media sites (Instagram, Reddit, TikTok, the bird app) to reach more people can really help too. The wider the reach, the better.

Thank you. Now let's fucking rip that bill apart like we rip apart Watchtower magazines and eat it for fucking breakfast. (In a "we're eating it and the politicians who are sponsoring it are looking on in horror" kind of way)

[whatisfreedombutdeath]

You don't understand the lengths I will go to to understand what dean pelton meant when he said:

Gay doesn't even begin to describe what I am

I'm not openly anything and gay doesn't even begin to cover it

Get ready America, Dean pelton is coming out as approximately 2/7th of what he is

I make gayness look like mormonism

This better not awaken something in me(as he looks at people in Dalmatian costumes)

In community

[catre33]

Being a gay witch who's also Mormon is really weird

[your-blorbos-are-queer]

elder mckinley from the book of mormon is gay (canon)

submitted by @richie-shitlips

[saxophonecathedral7]

for my entire life in the mormon church all I've heard in regards to the LGBTQ+ community are things like "it's not wrong to feel it but it is wrong to act on those feelings" and "I'm tempted to drink coffee sometimes but I resist it; why can't you?" and I've probably spent way too much time and energy trying to figure out what makes people think this, but it was and still is just so utterly baffling to me. it's not just a "temptation," it's who I am. you couldn't stop being straight by just remaining celibate, why do you expect me to?

I think that a huge part of it is that they think of being queer solely through the lens of sex and sexual attraction. they don't understand that it's a part of our identities, they don't understand that we love each other and have silly romantic crushes like they do. they think of it only as sexual preference, the "parts" you prefer, or sometimes just some weird kink. once someone from church asked me when I "started having these feelings." I told them that I put the pieces together when I was 15 but that I'd been a lesbian for long before that, and I specifically remember having a crush on a girl when I was in 3rd grade. they responded that they don't believe that, because "children don't think about sex."

And this is such a wildly warped way of seeing queerness. if this is how you view it, you will never, ever fully understand us. because it makes it sound so simple, doesn't it? oh, so you just want to have sex with women? then just don't have sex with women, easy. everyone has to do that at some point. every straight person has to abstain, why shouldn't you have to? and that's what drives me nuts. we literally have emotions and feelings and attractions that are just as complex as yours.

we don't "struggle with same-sex attraction." we are queer.

(for the record I understand that for a lot of queer people, sexual attraction makes up most or all of their experience, and that is 100% valid. it's just incredibly unfair and ignorant to label every queer person in the history of the world that way)