Award-Winning Essays
Affirmation Writing Awards Transforming

2005 Awards

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Losing My Religion: How I Baked a Custard Pudding and Lost My Belief in Mormonism

Tumbling Down

A Queer Pioneer's Perilous Journey

My Experience, Strength and Hope


2004 Awards

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Beyond Disappointment and Duplicity: Finding My Identity as a Post-Modern Mormon Lesbian

Living Outside the Lines: A Story of Personal Discovery and Self-Acceptance

Good Night Sweet Prince: A Story of Renegades and Role Models

For the Strength of Gay Youth

Name Withheld


2003 Awards

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The Odyssey

Stumbling Towards Zion

Social Constructions of the Homosexual Phenomenon: The Politics of Homosexuality in the United States

Aurelia

Deep Dark Sin, But Whose?

Kaddish for a Gay Mormon


2002 Awards

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Winning and Losing: One Kid's Best Shot at BYU

My Story

There Is Sunshine in My Soul Today: Open Letter to a Friend

Dear Jane

Tin Ears and Hard Love: A Personal Response to Elder Boyd K. Packer's "Ye Are the Temple of God"

'To Dance My Own Dance': Remembering Karl Keller, A Man I Never Met

The Temple: An Everlasting Farewell


2001 Awards

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A Witness Sealed with Blood: Gay Mormon Suicides and the Politics of Silence

Assessing Committed Same-Sex Unions: Can a Theological Accommodation Be Made?

Homosexuality and the Church: Perspectives of an LDS Father

Part-Member Partners

How Sula and Nel Kept Their Eyes Closed to Make Their Dreams Come True


2000 Awards

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This Is All Your Fault, Henry David Thoreau (And You Didn't Help Much Either, Robert Frost)

The Thrice-Tied Knot: The story of a late bloomer

An Open Letter to the LDS Public Affairs Department in Hawaii

Wendy and the Lost Girls

Dear Church Family... Love, Your Lesbian Sister

In the Meantime

The Gifts of Being Gay: Letting Go of Fear
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