Connell O'Donovan's Home Page

This is the web site of Connell O'Donovan. Born in 1961 in Syracuse, Utah, I have lived in Santa Cruz, California since 1994, and consider Santa Cruz as my home. I am an administrator at UC Santa Cruz, and am currently working on a biography of William Smith, the youngest brother of Mormon prophet, Joseph Smith.

Here is my Curriculum Vitae

Below are most of my research/writing projects:

GLBT Mormon History (1840-1980)

"I would confine them to their own species": LDS Historical Rhetoric & Praxis Regarding Marriage Between Whites and Blacks - (on interracial marriage as a precedent for same-sex marriage)

My essays on being Gay, being Mormon, and/or Gay spirituality (and misc.)

The Etiology of Homosexuality from Authoritative Latter-day Saint Perspectives, 1879-2006

Affirmation: Singing the Songs of Our Redemption, 1977-2007 - (my keynote speech in honor of Affirmation's 30th birthday celebration in Salt Lake)

Queer Nation Utah Archives (1990-1992) - under construction

Recent musing apropos of Proposition 8 in California:

For Gordon Ray Church on the 30th anniversary of his murder

Labyrinths, Lipstick and Angels

Milk and Twinkies

Save Our (Gay) Children

Mormons in the Lowell, Mass. Branch (1835-1860)

Mormons of the Boston, Mass. Branch (1835-1860)

William Smith's Elders' Pocket Companion of November 1844 (Boston) - PDF

Michael Hull Barton's 192 page Something new: comprising a new and perfect alphabet containing forty distinct characters, etc. (origin of the Mormon phonetic "Deseret Alphabet"?) 192-page PDF

JPEG Images of Barton's Phonetic Alphabet: Page One, Page Two

Research on Elder Q. Walker Lewis (1798-1856) & the Extensive Genealogy of His Family (1700-1920)

The Life and Murder of Thomas Coleman in Theocratic Utah (1831-1866) - PDF

"I would confine them to their own species": LDS Historical Rhetoric & Praxis Regarding Marriage Between Whites and Blacks

Two Black Mormon Revolutionary War veterans in the Nauvoo area:

Cato Treadwell of Wilton, CT & Nauvoo, IL

Cato Mead of Norwich, CT & Montrose, IA

Transcriptions of Isaac Sheen and William Smith's Melchisedek & Aaronic Herald newspaper (Feb 1849 - April 1850), including biographies of the two men

William Smith's Elders' Pocket Companion of November 1844 (Boston) - PDF

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This is the web site of Connell O'Donovan. Born in 1961 in Syracuse, Utah, I have lived in Santa Cruz, California since 1994, and consider Santa Cruz as my home. I am an administrator at UC Santa Cruz, and am currently working on a biography of William Smith, the youngest brother of Mormon prophet, Joseph Smith. Here is my Curriculum Vitae Below are most of my research/writing projects:
	GLBT Mormon History (1840-1980) "I would confine them to their own species": LDS Historical Rhetoric & Praxis Regarding Marriage Between Whites and Blacks - (on interracial marriage as a precedent for same-sex marriage) My essays on being Gay, being Mormon, and/or Gay spirituality (and misc.) The Etiology of Homosexuality from Authoritative Latter-day Saint Perspectives, 1879-2006 Affirmation: Singing the Songs of Our Redemption, 1977-2007 - (my keynote speech in honor of Affirmation's 30th birthday celebration in Salt Lake) Queer Nation Utah Archives (1990-1992) - under construction Recent musing apropos of Proposition 8 in California: For Gordon Ray Church on the 30th anniversary of his murder Labyrinths, Lipstick and Angels Milk and Twinkies Save Our (Gay) Children
	Mormons in the Lowell, Mass. Branch (1835-1860) Mormons of the Boston, Mass. Branch (1835-1860) *William Smith's Elders' Pocket Companion* of November 1844 (Boston) - PDF Michael Hull Barton's 192 page Something new: comprising a new and perfect alphabet containing forty distinct characters, etc. (origin of the Mormon phonetic "Deseret Alphabet"?) 192-page PDF JPEG Images of Barton's Phonetic Alphabet: Page One, Page Two**
	Research on Elder Q. Walker Lewis (1798-1856) & the Extensive Genealogy of His Family (1700-1920) The Life and Murder of Thomas Coleman in Theocratic Utah (1831-1866) - PDF "I would confine them to their own species": LDS Historical Rhetoric & Praxis Regarding Marriage Between Whites and Blacks Two Black Mormon Revolutionary War veterans in the Nauvoo area: Cato Treadwell of Wilton, CT & Nauvoo, IL Cato Mead of Norwich, CT & Montrose, IA
	*Transcriptions of Isaac Sheen and William Smith's Melchisedek & Aaronic Herald* newspaper (Feb 1849 - April 1850), including biographies of the two men William Smith's Elders' Pocket Companion of November 1844 (Boston) - PDF**
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