Affirmation: Gay & Lesbian Mormons

Award-Winning Essays

2001 Affirmation Writing Awards Contest Winners

Oct, 2001

First Place - $1,000 - to Hugo Salinas, Salt Lake City, "A Witness Sealed with Blood: Gay Mormon Suicides and the Politics of Silence"

Second Place - $500 - H. Wayne Schow, Pocatello, ID, "Assessing Committed Same-Sex Unions: Can a Theological Accommodation Be Made?"

Third Place - $250 - Mac Madsen, "Homosexuality and the Church: Perspectives of an LDS Father"

Honorable Mentions:

A. Lee Beckstead, "Where Is God in All This?"
Antony Edmunds, "Part-Member Partners"
Rebecca Joyce Lausch, "How Sula and Nel Kept Their Eyes Closed to Make Their Dreams Come True"
Braulio Ventura (Brazil), for two essays: "Letter to a Brazilian Latter-day Saint Congressman" and "Coming Out to Myself: My Journey of Self-Acceptance."

This year a special award of $1,000 was given for outstanding Scholarly research and writing to D. Michael Quinn for his recent submission: "Prelude to the National Defense of Marriage Campaign: Civil Discrimination against Feared or Despised Minorities" to be published in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought due to be released in the fall of 2001.