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Suicide of 1984
[The following is taken from Taylor, Mark A., "The Love That Dares Not Speak Its Name:
A Day in the Life," Utah Holiday, September 1986, pp. 35-51.]
[Bruce] Harmon says job discrimination can be devastating, but when a person's family turns
away, it's tragic. "A couple of years ago, a young man called our hotline and told us his name.
He said he had just told his parents he was homosexual. There was hollering and an argument
going on in the background. The father said, 'I'd rather see you dead than be gay,' and then the
line suddenly went dead. Someone hung the telephone up. The young man didn't give us a
telephone number, so we had no way of calling back. One week later, we read his obituary."
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© 1996-2008 Affirmation: Gay and Lesbian Mormons
www.affirmation.org
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