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Trevor Southey to Be Featured in PBS Documentary “Being gay in that culture is beyond hell” April 2007 The upcoming PBS documentary “The Mormons” will include quotes by renowned LDS artist Trevor Southey, who will talk about homosexuality and the LDS Church. The two-part documentary will air April 30 - May 1. Homosexuality, the Mormon opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment, and other contemporary issues will be explored on May 1. “Being gay in that culture is beyond hell ... I wanted to be cured so badly,” says Trevor Southey, artist. “The family is the center of Mormonism - it is the sacred, potent unit. ... It is a great failure that family can only be the family almost by the Ozzie and Harriet definition, and anything outside that is not family at all.” “The only marriage sanctioned by God is of a man to a woman,” says Marlin Jensen, official LDS historian. “In the case of a gay person, they really have no hope. ... And to live life without hope on such a core issue I think is a very difficult thing.” The documentary will also explore the involvement of LDS leaders into politics. “The Equal Rights Amendment was threatening because it changed the role of women ... from a nurturing housewife staying at home, taking care of the children, to someone who could now make decisions for herself,” says James Clayton, professor of political science. Author and feminist Gloria Steinem says Mormon involvement in campaigning against ERA during the 1970s was pivotal: “If the Mormons had supported the Amendment, it would have passed. They were enormously powerful in opposing it because there are certain key state legislatures which they control.” For more information about the documentary, visit www.pbs.org/previews/themormons.
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