Gay mormon documentary

Enjoying TLC's "My Husband's Not Gay" Doesn't Make You a Monster, It Makes You Tolerant

On Sunday night, TLC aired My Husband's Not Gay, a special "reality documentary" featuring a group of Mormon men (and their wives) who encounter SSA, or "same sex attraction," but choose not to act on their gay urges. Even before the exhibit premiered, more than , people signed a petition advocating for its cancelation, while the president of GLAAD, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, told The Hollywood Reporter that the show "is downright irresponsible" and "putting countless new LGBT people in harm's way." The common concern here was that the show would shame gay men and reinforce the notion that sexuality can be changed or repressed, and that a man who is gay or bisexual could be happily married to a woman in a solely heterosexual relationship if he only tried hard enough. That concern was legitimate, because the implicit judgment on gay folks, and especially those struggling to reconcile their sexuality with societal/re

“Latter Day Jew” is a witty, breezy, but also serious documentary produced by out Philly native Todd Shotz about H. Alan Scott, a year-old queer Mormon who converts to Judaism and prepares for his Bar Mitzvah. The film will screen Nov. 16 at the Suzanne Roberts Theater as part of the Jewish Movie Festival.

In the documentary, Scott takes a road trip in search of collective and belonging to absorb to be “the leading Jew possible.” From conference out comedienne Judy Gold in New York Urban area to attending Tel Aviv Pride in Israel, Scott learns what it means to be a Jew and become a man.

Scott recently chatted with Philadelphia Gay News about his experiences and “Latter Daytime Jew.”

You recount your experiences being a Mormon, surviving cancer, being gay and finding your Judaism in a stand-up routine in the film. How did you find the right balance to tell your story with both irreverence and solemnity?

I do everything through comedy. I believe everything — even drama — is comedy, in some way. That’s how I communicate. I perform think it’s delicate when you talk about canc

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I love the podcast, can’t get enough of it. One (hopefully) constructive criticism that I’d like to give: show notes often do not include items John specifically says will be included in the show notes. As someone who listens while driving, I receive excited when it’s stated links will be in the demonstrate notes and then I am often disappointed to find them missing. This episode in particular would have benefitted from present notes including the books referenced. The books that were not recommended to be read were all listed, but the other half were not listed and finding that slide in the video presentation would be complex without knowing the time logo. Again, love the podcast and hope this is a cooperative note.
1. Same here exactly. I am a donor and love the podcast as well, but this happened in a recent episode I watched. It was mentioned that something in particular would be in the show notes and I was planning on following up on it, but it ended up not existence there. Unfortunately I don&#;t think of which episode, I just retain
  
  A Kalamazoo College professor has a featured role in a documentary, premiering Sunday, about the improbable toppling of Utah’s gay marriage ban.
  Taylor Petrey, associate professor of religion, says he gave an extensive interview to the makers of “Church and State” about the role of the Salt Lake City-based Church of Latter-day Saints in the fight against legalizing gay marriage.
  The movie, premiering at the American Documentary Film Festival in Palm Springs, California, documents how a gay-rights activist teamed with a small Salt Lake City law solid to win an unexpected court ruling that overturned the conservative state’s statute against same-sex marriage. When the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of the bar the next October, queer marriage became legal in Utah. With a Supreme Court ruling in , it became the commandment nationwide.
  Utah is more than 60 percent Mormon, and “the conflict between Mormons and gay-rights activists became the defining issue of modern Mormonism,” Petrey says in a clip from the movie trailer.
  In the interview for the film, Petrey, who was raised in