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English
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'I Don't Like Going To Gay Pride' : Experiences of Negotiating LGBTQIA Mormon Identity in Utah
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Sexuality & Culture
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25
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235-254
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"This article explores experiences of existing at the intersection of gender/sexuality and religion/religiosity and examines the ways in which people negotiate their identities in order to ft in, to belong in communities, and lead authentic lives. Based on eighteen semi-structured interviews and deploying frameworks of feminist interviewing and phenomenology, this study seeks to explain experiences of belonging in multiple, crucial communities including religious families and being marginalized as well as supported by those communities. We argue that LGBTQIA Mormon persons often create their own spiritual script of identity negotiation even as they follow their religion’s heteronormative sexual script. Believers acknowledge the profound impact their religion has on their lives even as they are struggling to understand their own selves and their religious community’s reactions to LGBTQIA identities and associated rights. Coming to terms with a Mormon LGBTQIA identity involves renegotiating relationships with the religion and within the religious community, as well as crafting a spiritual script in the process of that renegotiation that facilitates belonging and visibility." [Article Abstract]