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Polygamy, Sorority, and Lesbian Desire

• David & Jonathan of the Primary
• The "Gay Mask" of Kate Thomas
• Lesbian Imagery in Anti-Polygamy Cartoons
• Edith Chapman's "Casa Lesbiana"

Queer Event in the Tabernacle

Buggery, Faggotry & Heterosexual Panic in Early Mormonism

• "Buggery" in the Nauvoo Legion
• Bishop Thomas Taylor
• Hunsakers of Honeyville and Homosexuality
• Murder of Pvt. Frederick Jones
• Lovers in the Martin Handcart Company?
• "The Last Flower" - Evan Stephens & the Tabernacle Choir
• Anti-Polygamy and Anti-Gay Rhetoric
• A Wilde Time in Utah

Later Development of Mormon Homophobic Discourse

• The "Illness" of Patriarch Joseph Fielding Smith
• The "Boys of Boise" and Salt Lake "Commi-Pinko-Queer" Scandals
• Dr. Joel Dorius - Mormon "Porn Professor" and Accidental Activist
• The Lord's Program - Kimball and Petersen Attack
• "Hope for Transgressors"
• "New Horizons for Homosexuals" (aka "A Letter to a Friend")
• Desmond's "Homosexual Church of Jesus Christ"
• Leonard Matlovich Makes Time
• Packer Floors Gay Missionaries
• The Rise of the "Mormon Mafia" at The Advocate
• 1977: The Summer of Our Discontent
• Affirmation Founded
• Politics in Utah...and Beyond
• The ERA & Utah's International Women's Year Conference of 1977
• "Accidents of Nature"? - Mormon Doctrine & Transgenderism

Anti-Homosexual Policies at BYU

• Suicides of 1965
• Witch Hunts of 1968
• Witch Hunts of 1975
• The Values Institute
• Shocking Events at BYU
• The Payne Papers & Prologue
• To the One...Thousand
• The David Chipman Case

Mormonism & Homosexuality Today (2005)

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