#fqe

We have a statement about the happenings of these last few days (posted 24 August 2021).

Queer people are children of God and I have a testimony that He Loves Us and has Made Us exactly how we are Intended to be. Our queer lives and experiences are part of His Plan for us.

There is a place in His heart and His Plan for us. We will have our justice and our mercy one day, all wrongs will be righted and all hurt will be healed.

One day it will all be clear. Now it is time to put your faith in God and to use your agency and your faith to recognize your Divine worth and the plan that our Father has for you.

Hello!

I don't think it's silly to ask for advice! Gathering information is necessary to confidently proceeding in your life.

So I'll answer for myself and then the other two can answer as they please.

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I am a lesbian and I date women! I've been on a few dates with some lovely women (and some with some really wonderful men too but I decided that men were not who I was interested in dating) and I will date women again once this pandemic is over :) one day I may marry one, we'll see.

I also have two women life partners who I am not dating but with whom I am in a queer relationship and planning to spend my whole life. It is what we want and we are happy and that's what matters.

As far as what this means for my relationship with my Heavenly Father? Well, one day I asked Him when I was at my lowest, "Father, if I am not meant to love women why did you give me this love, and this certainly that love is a holy thing?" And He responded and said, "My daughter, I have given you this love and set you on this path to walk because it is my plan for you. You have always been meant for this love and this life. It is my gift to you my precious daughter go forth and do my work." And I've never looked back.

It is my firm testimony that Heavenly Father knows that I love women and that it has been part of who I have been ever since my spirit was organized from intelligence. He put me on this earth at this time and place when I could freely love and speak about my love and I will take these immeasurable gifts with gratitude and faith. I live my life knowing that it is a gift from my Father and that every moment where my heart and soul sing are moments where I have pleased Him. Such as when I went on my firat date with a woman.

My advice to You is to begin building a trusting relationship with our Father in Heaven. Notice His hand in your daily life. His touch that keeps you safe and in the ways that the universe is looking after you. Thank Him for those moments you notice and all of the times that you did not notice. And once you have a testimony of the personal love and attention that our Father has for you than follow the words of Matthew that Joseph Smith followed

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. (Matthew 7:7)

Ask. You will receive your answer but only if you ask with joy in your heart and the knowledge that whatever the answer is it is yours to do with what you will. But I personally have faith that that answer will be, go forth and love my child for I have gifted you with the ability to love in abundance.

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As always these are my personal views. You have to come up with your own but when you do I hope that that are filled with love for yourself.

Thank you for the ask. Please keep in touch ❤

We need help. We have been working on bringing you this podcast but we are struggling.

We need an editor, every podcast has one, and one of us has been doing that job but they have been having personal and health issues and it is unfair for us to ask for them to keep having this responsibility of getting the editing done, so we can have a podcast on top of everything else in their life at the moment. The rest of us are learning how to edit but if we wait until we can edit this ourselves, to the degree that we would feel comfortable releasing it, we will be slowing ourselves down even further.

We would ideally love to hire an editor but none of us have the money to pay for those services. So we are asking for help.

If you are able and willing to edit as a service to us, to the message that we want to put out into the world for a better way of life for queer members of our faith, and for being able to tell our own stories. Please reach out to us. We cannot pay you right now. We want to, but that's just not possible at this time. If you are able to help us you would be providing us with a massive service that we would be forever thankful for.

Something I am very grateful for today is my marvellous family! My family is a massive source of love and support for me, they have been with me through thick and thin for my whole life. If humans can love unconditionally then my family loves me unconditionally.

Hi this is Désirée Williams aka Mod Amulek,

We will be addressing this in one if our upcoming episodes which will be drooping very soon! More details to come. But we wanted to say this today.

The three of us who make up Family Queer Evening are all white. Because of this we feel that it is our moral duty to stand with our siblings of colour, especially our Black and Indigenous siblings, against police brutality and all other forms of racism and oppression in our personal lives but also as a group.

We condemn racism as what it is: violence. Not rudeness. Not a character flaw. Not something to be ignored. Racism is always a dangerous and violent tool of oppression even when all it looks like are words spoken casually. We also recognize that as white people in euro-centric societies we are also, at best, complicit in this violence. We are learning to be allies. We are learning to listen and to act according to what we have learned.

Our podcast is about our experinces as queer members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Our voices do not carry far yet. But, we feel that regardless of how small or large our audience is it is our responsibility to use the voices and influence that we have to uplift Black and Indigenous voices, and to listen and learn from them.

Therefore we, as of today, are officially looking for Black members who are interested in being a guest on our podcast. We are looking not only for people who want to speak about the history of the Church and anti-Black racism for our planned episode on the topic, but also for people who want to share personal stories of their experiences with the church and its members.

We are also officially looking for indigenous members who want to discuss their experiences with the church and its members.

We are looking for both stories of positivity and allyship and also stories of racism and oppression. We want to uplift your voices and your experiences. If you're a member of any minority, but particularly if you're Black and/or Indigenous, we want to hear from you!

As I said, we will address this again in an episode but we wanted to share this with you today.

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Thank you for your questions @dragonsspire and @maximuslyqueer! These will be very fun to explore!

If you two, or anyone else have any other questions or topics they would like to see a Queer Mormon podcast to address please send us a direct message or ask either here on Tumblr or an email at [email protected]