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Affirmation to Hold Fireside & Mission Reunion in Salt Lake City It Will Be Held April 2 at 5:00 PM February 27, 2005 CONTACT: Duane Jennings Wasatch Chapter, Affirmation: Gay & Lesbian Mormons 801-486-6977 UtahSoulforce  aol.comwww.affirmation.org Affirmation: Gay and Lesbian Mormons and Reconciliation announce their annual Fireside and Mission Reunion. The event will take place April 2, 2005, and will be held in Salt Lake City at the Metropolitan Community Church, 823 South 600 East. It will start at 5:00 with a potluck followed by a fireside that will feature writer Loren Jenner. Please bring a favorite casserole, salad or desert for the potluck. Drinks provided by the chapter Our guest speaker has two books currently in print, Spirited Yearling Wounded and Warrior in The Mist. Spirited Yearling Wounded is a true story about a Mormon woman in the Mountain West who tries to take her life when she realizes that she’s attracted to other women. Spirited comes face to face with questions like, do I live my life according to church doctrine and repress my sexuality to become a Goddess in the afterlife? Do I honor my essence and express my sexual orientation with integrity only to be among murderers and adulterers when I die? Can I be rehabilitated, or does the quest for rehabilitation encourage the repression of my spirit? Is it more important who I love, what I am or how I love? Spirited Yearling Wounded brings hope to the suffering soul and clarity to those who seek understanding about their loved one's sexual orientation. Meet Angel Warrior, a brave, young spiritual warrior who sails from her homeland in search of wholeness. She shipwrecks on a mysterious land, bonds with the Dancing Mist of her dreams, fords through treacherous streams and journeys to the core of her soul. Warrior in The Mist depicts a young spiritual warrior who goes on a quest to battle her own internalized homophobia. Angel Warrior struggles with the internalized belief that she is not worthy of life and love because she is a woman-loving-woman. The hero myth illustrates in a Kahlil Gibran-ish, prose poetic voice what some people feel at one time or another during their self-reflective journeys. Loren coordinates the seasons, times of day and healing process all at once in a mythological prose, capturing the cyclical nature of life and death. Not only can it help one who struggles with internalized homophobia, but also anyone who cannot face or accept a part of themselves. Please join us for and evening of celebration and sharing. More about Loren can be found at her website www.lorenjenner.com. * * * Wasatch Affirmation is the Utah chapter of Affirmation, a non-profit fellowship serving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered and Intersexed Latter-day Saints since 1977. The Wasatch Chapter aims to provide a safe, inclusive space for GLBTI people from Mormon backgrounds who live along the Wasatch Front. We affirm that live as a GLBTI person can be positive and is not incompatible with spirituality. At the same time, we are a diverse group who embrace a variety of lifestyles and hold a variety of attitudes towards spirituality, religion, morality and politics. We are united chiefly by our desire to interact with others who share our dual background — Mormon and GLBTI — and who therefore share the unique struggle and blessings which that duality engenders. For more information, visit Affirmation online at www.affirmation.org. |
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