Last post was about the basic law of chastity, as it's (from my perspective) applied doctrinally and culturally towards the opposite gender.This is about the Law of Chastity as it applies to the same gender: guys/guys... or girls/girls.Bef…

Is kissing OK? Cuddling? Making out? Being gay and Mormon is honestly confusing at times. This is the first in a two-part series on the Law of Chastity - specifically, what is okay and what is not within both official Mormon doctrine and u…

I've wondered what pushes men to drink themselves numb. What feeds conquered addictions to pornography and slashes carefully set boundaries of morality. What makes people do things they would never do otherwise... decisions made in a momen…

I realized today that I have almost no specific memory of the people in my life. I remember little bits of many people - sometimes I can wrack my brain and if they were influential I can remember their names and a few things about them. Bu…

This is going to be controversial.But hey. (Gay) Mormon Guy already addresses the most volatile topic in modern culture - being Mormon and gay. What's some tangential controversy?I was on Twitter during Conference this year, participating …

Conference this year was most of what I asked for. President Uchtdorf gave a passionate talk about reaching out to others. Elder Holland spoke about depression, mental illness, and learning empathy for those with major trials and pain in l…

At the time, I had never heard of either being cured or spontaneously disappearing - especially autism. And yet, in the year since, life has seemed to push me into places where they are disappearing. Or at least seem to be.The bipolar is r…

I Part of the reason is that I don't know how to approach dating anymore. Girls have told me that hearing "I'm really not attracted to you" is a painful, undesirable thing... and I guess I understand their perspective somewhat. Some people…

So I realized this week that this may be the last time I live-tweet all the sessions of General Conference as If I pass round 2 and 3 of auditions for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, any session where I'm singing will be silent. You're not al…

I am so glad it's Sunday. And so glad that I've been commanded to not work today.Life has been chaotic for the last few weeks. My house flooding, massive remodeling, a nonexistent dating life, work projects that are always pressing and on …

I got a letter today addressed from the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. I was bracing myself for rejection... since the last time I opened a letter like this was for Stanford.No rejection. Just a congratulations and invitation to move on to round…

One of the hardest things for me to see is others developing friendships. When I can see people connecting and developing relationships, slowly or quickly, it highlights in my mind the lack of connection I have with the people I love.And i…

Today's a rough day.This morning I had a dream I wanted to come true. I could see the pieces falling into place, leverage the resources I had at my disposal, and push myself beyond my comfort zone to make it happen. I made phone calls, dre…

I was in German class.We weren't in our normal classroom that day - we had gone to a computer lab for some type of interactive learning software - but I don't remember much of what we learned. I don't remember much German at all, even thou…

Some days life is just good.Today was one of those days.Stressful beyond measure - cleaning up the flooded basement, realizing my car windows were open during the deluge yesterday (and the seats are still dripping), scrambling to create pr…