Perry Ekimae

Tyler Perry When I came out as a broken straight person who likes masculine bodies, the clear and apparent conflict with my Mormon upbringing was brought to the forefront of my conversations with others in the church.   How do I rationalize my faith with my identity?   How do I deal with the apparent lack of hope within the Plan of Salvation?   Where do I turn to for a sense of community?   These were difficult questions with difficult answers.   So, I am going to answer each of them as concisely as possible in order. I don’t.   I wrote an essay on it [1].   Mormons Building Bridges and similar groups. So, when I see the writings [2] of a stunning intellect, such as those by Jacob Z. Hess, PhD and mindfulness extraordinaire, telling me that Mormons Building Bridges is leading people away from the church, I have to wonder how much he actually understands about the issues at hand.   In fact, his entire way too long essay that is going to get a part 2 (because 2020 wasn’t bad enough a

 Tyler Perry I want to preface this essay by saying that the Church has removed this talk from its website, as of August 2019, and the associated pamphlet was discontinued in 2016 [1].   The intent of this essay is not to air the dirty laundry, but to give insight into the influences of how many church members view sex, sexuality, and LGBTQ issues.   The pamphlet was distributed for almost forty years, and it has undoubtedly had an impact on the language, beliefs, and culture of many church members. It was shown to me almost as a joke.   I had never seen the pamphlet before, and when another Elder showed it to me, it seemed silly that this was spoken over the pulpit at General Conference.   The opening of the talk was deliberate and unequivocating, while the body of the speech was filled with corny metaphors and unhelpful, though familiar, advice. “To Young Men Only” was the transcript of a talk by Boyd Packer in the Priesthood Session of the October 1976 General Conference.   Assu

  Tyler Perry Update: After speaking with Hanna Seariac, she has denounced the DezNat movement, and I have apologized for the insinuation that she is a part of the movement. This article has been changed to reflect that. Update: There is a factual historical error that indicated Churchill, not Chamberlain, practiced the policy of appeasement. This error has been corrected. My gut instinct is to classify Deseret Nation, a group that codes itself with the hashtag DezNat (which looks like DeezNutz lol), as a hate group.   It is certainly a fascist bunch of right-wing ideologues wrapped in the vestments of Mormonism and pseudo-intellectualism.   They view LGBT affirmation as a step toward apostasy, and apostates are to be the most hated of all. If I were to compare DezNat to other fascist movements, I would say that they are looking for a solution to the “apostate question”.   This is seen in the memes they share, the comments they make, and the videos they post. I am a little bit co

Tyler Perry The short answer to the question in the title is: no. However, I think that there are some things that are worth looking at and discussing.   Overall, this is some of the most sex positive writings I have seen from the church, but there is still a lot of work to be done in rooting out the harms of purity culture and the lack of queer affirmation. Before getting into that, I want to reference a scripture that is often at the front of my mind when discussing sex and sexuality with members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.   This is a scripture that defined much of my negative attitudes toward sex, masturbation, and my own gay identity for many years. In Alma 39, the prophet Alma, having just given counsel to his two faithful sons, has a longer conversation with his more rebellious son, Corianton.   Corianton had, during his time as a missionary, gone a little too “missionary” on a woman described as “the harlot, Isabel”.   Isabel was apparently a bit