When Kevin Randall set out to reboot the “Mormon and Gay” website for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he and his team had papered the walls of their office with 140 photos of LGBTQ+ Mormons: candidates for video stories about their experiences.
“These ranged from people who were in same-sex relationships, who had left the church, to people who were temple-worthy, living in celibacy,” Randall said. “I felt it was necessary to find stories from one end of the spectrum to the other.”
“Immediately we got the instruction that we could not include the stories of anyone who was not living (according to) doctrine.