Below is a series of timelines of LGBT Mormon history consisting of events, publications, and speeches about LGBTQ+ individuals, topics around sexual orientation and gender minorities, and the community of members of Mormonism's largest denomination, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Although the historical record is often scarce, evidence points to queer individuals having existed in the Mormon community since its beginnings, and to leaders being against same-sex sexual behavior and gender non-conformity. LDS leadership started to more regularly address topics regarding the LGBT community in public in the late 1950s.[1][2][3] Since 1970, the LDS Church has had at least one official publication or speech from a high-ranking leader referencing LGBT topics every year, and a greater number of LGBT Mormon and former Mormon individuals have received media coverage.
The timeline is divided into the following parts for readability, with each part linked below:
- LGBT Mormon history in the 1800s
- LGBT Mormon history from 1900 to the 1940s
- LGBT Mormon history in the 1950s
- LGBT Mormon history in the 1960s
- LGBT Mormon history in the 1970s
- LGBT Mormon history in the 1980s
- LGBT Mormon history in the 1990s
- LGBT Mormon history in the 2000s
- LGBT Mormon history in the 2010s
- LGBT Mormon history in the 2020s
See also
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- Homosexuality and the LDS Church
- Law of adoption (Mormonism)
- LGBT rights in Utah
- LGBT Mormon suicides
- List of Christian denominational positions on homosexuality
- Mormonism in the 19th century
- Mormonism in the 20th century
- Mormonism in the 21st century
- Sexuality and Mormonism
- Utah Constitutional Amendment 3
References
edit- ^ Quinn, D. Michael (1996). Same-Sex Dynamics among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example. University of Illinois Press. pp. 375, 377. ISBN 978-0252022050 – via Google Books.
- ^ Winkler, Douglas A. (May 2008). Lavender Sons of Zion: A History of Gay Men in Salt Lake City, 1950--1979. Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah Department of History. pp. v, 3. Retrieved November 16, 2016 – via Google Books.
- ^ Young, Neil J. (July 1, 2016). Out of Obscurity: Mormonism Since 1945. Oxford University Press. p. 170. ISBN 978-0199358229. Retrieved May 26, 2017 – via Google Books.