Affirmation: Gay & Lesbian Mormons

Carol Lynn Pearson

Carol Lynn Pearson Releases “No More Goodbyes”
LDS Author Urges Families to “Circle the Wagons around Our Gay Loved Ones”

by Hugo Salinas
November 2006

Author, poet, and playwright Carol Lynn Pearson has just released No More Goodbyes: Circling the Wagons around Our Gay Loved Ones, a remarkable new book encouraging LDS families to understand, love, and communicate with their gay family members. After discussing the wrenching realities of family rejection, divorce, and suicide in the lives of many gay Mormons, the author focuses on inspiring stories of families and individuals who are loving, supporting, and standing by their gay loved ones.

Pearson is also raising awareness on the crisis of gay Mormon suicides through her play Facing East, which will be staged in Salt Lake City, November 16-26.

“If Good Bye I Love You was a wake up call to understand homosexuality, No More Goodbyes is a clarion call to action,” writes Bishop Robert A. Rees in the foreword. “Its central message is clear: we can't allow what is happening to homosexuals in our church or in other churches to continue. We can't accept one more disowned child, one more failed homosexual-heterosexual marriage, one more suicide…. We can't accept one more Goodbye.”

Carol Lynn Pearson will be reading from No More Goodbyes at Sam Weller's (254 South Main St., SLC) on November 17, 6:00-7:30 PM; and at Borders (132 East Winchester, just south of Fashion Place Mall, SLC) on November 18, Noon-1:30 PM.

To learn more and to purchase the book, visit www.NoMoreGoodbyes.com