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Racism & Homophobia in the Church

LGBT Mormon People of Color and Allies (Facebook Group)

State Sen. Buttars' racial slur brings rebuke and apology

Community of Christ Adopts Anti-discrimination Doctrine

Desmond Tutu Likens Antigay Discrimination to Apartheid

Inverted Triangles

Prelude to the National 'Defense of Marriage' Campaign

Do You Have a Dream?

Two First Presidency Statements

Jane Elizabeth Manning James

Mormon Senator Calls Brown v. Board of Education "Wrong”

Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where "Black” Meets "Queer”: Troy Williams in interview with Queer theorist Kathryn Stockton


Suggested Readings

Lester E. Bush, Jr., and Armand L. Mauss (eds.), Neither White nor Black: Mormon Scholars Confront the Race Issue in a Universal Church. Midvale, Utah: Signature Books, 1984.

Connell O'Donovan, "The Mormon Priesthood Ban & Elder Q. Walker Lewis: ‘An example for his more whiter brethren to follow.’” Originally published in the 2006 issue of the John Whitmer Historical Association Journal.

Lester E. Bush, Jr., "Mormonism's Negro Doctrine: An Historical Overview,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 8 (Spring 1973): 11-68.

Mauss, Armand L. All Abraham's Children: Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage. Urabana & Chicago: Univ. of Illinois Press, 2003.

Newell G. Bringhurst, Saints, Slaves, and Blacks: The Changing Place of Black People within Mormonism (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1981).

Embry, Jessie L., Black Saints in a White Church: Contemporary African American Mormons. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1993.