UC Santa Cruz (one quarter of Latin), 2003 |
Defense Language Institute (U. S. Army), Presidio of Monterey, California, 1983-1985 |
Arabic (Egyptian Dialect) - High Honors & Top of Class |
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Senior, University
of Utah (History), 1979-1988 (intermittently due to missionary and military service), no degree
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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender (LGBT) Mormon History |
Black Mormon History |
William Smith (youngest brother of Mormon founder Joseph Smith) |
LGBT Anthropology & Archaeology
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LANGUAGES |
Portuguese (near-native fluency)
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French (reading proficiency) |
Spanish (reading proficiency) |
Latin (reading proficiency) |
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1st Place, Affirmation: Gay and Lesbian Mormons Writing Awards, (for "Losing My Religion"), 2005 |
2nd Place, Affirmation: Gay and Lesbian Mormons Writing Awards, (for "Stumbling Towards Zion"), 2003 |
1st Place, Lucille C. Reading Writing Award (for Utah Youth), (for "Quaker"), 1978 |
Affirmation: Gay and Lesbian Mormons, 1986-1991 and 2007 to present; served on Board of Directors for the Wasatch Affirmation Chapter (Salt Lake City), 1988-1990 |
Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists, 1996-present |
Mormon History Association, 2006-present |
“’The Abominable and Detestable Crime Against Nature’: A Brief History of Homosexuality and Mormonism, 1840- 1980." In Multiply and Replenish, Essays on Mormon Sex and Family, Brent Corcoran (ed.), (Signature Books: Salt Lake City, 1994) - revised and expanded version online |
“Ecce Homo: Ruminations on a Theology of My Queer Body." In ReCreations: Religion and Spirituality in the Lives of Queer People, Catherine Lake (ed.), (Q-Press: Toronto, 1994) |
“My Journey into Faerie and What I Found There." In ReCreations: Religion and Spirituality in the Lives of Queer People, Catherine Lake (ed.), (Q-Press: Toronto, 1994) |
“Reclaiming Sodom." In Reclaiming Sodom, Dr. Jonathan Goldberg (ed.), (Routledge Press: London, 1994) |
Twelve articles on homosexuality in pre-Christian Europe, in manifesto: (newspaper published in Santa Cruz, CA) 1996
- The Cro-Magnon Burial Tableau of Dolni Vestonice
- Phaborinos, the Hermaphrodite Sophist of Arles
- The Golden Prince(ss) of the Ukraine
- A Lesbian Runic Inscription in Norway?
- Pirates, Marauders, and Homos, Oh My! Homosexuality amongst the Ancient Heruli (two part)
- Ancient Spartan Choral Rituals Express Love Between Women
- The Body from the Bog Comes Out (two part)
- Early Greek Men and Women Record Homosex and Love in Rock and Poetry
- Homosexuality of the Weerdinge Bog Bodies (two part)
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“‘I Would Confine them to their own Species’: Utah Mormon Historical Rhetoric and Practice Regarding Marriage between Whites and Blacks,” John Whitmer Historical Association Annual Conference, Independence MO, September 2009 |
“Joseph T. Ball, the first African American High Priest in the LDS Church,” John Whitmer Historical Association Annual Conference, Independence MO, September 2009 |
“The Life and Murder of Thomas Coleman, a Mormon Slave,” Mormon History Association Annual Conference, Sacramento, California, May 2008 |
“The Mormon Priesthood Ban and Elder Q. Walker Lewis”, John Whitmer Historical Association Annual Conference, Independence MO, September 2006 |
“Entertaining Angels,” address for the benefit concert for Utah's Homeless Youth Resource Center (LGBT Homeless Youth Services), LDSApology.org Foundation for Reconciliation, Holladay United Church of Christ, Salt Lake City, September 2009 |
“Three Boston African American Elders: Joseph T. Ball, Q. Walker Lewis, and Enoch L. Lewis,” Sunstone Theological Symposium, Salt Lake City, August 2008 |
“African Americans of Boston,” Sunstone Theological Symposium East, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 2007 |
“A History of Gay Mormon History”, Affirmation Annual Conference, San Francisco, October 2004 |
“Gay Mormon Suicides”, panelist, Sunstone Theological Symposium West, San Francisco, August 2004 |
“Homosexuality in Pre-Christian Europe”, LGBT Pride Week Conference, UC Santa Cruz, October 2000 |
“A History of Dragging the Queen: European Gender Transformation & Honoring the Divine Feminine”, LGBT Pride Week Conference, UC Santa Cruz, April 1999
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“Private Pain, Public Purges: A History of Homosexuality at Brigham Young University, 1940-1980”, LGBT Pride Week Conference, UC Santa Cruz, April 1997 |
“Female Desire in Zion: A History of Mormon Lesbianism, 1850-1950”, Lesbian & Gay Student Union Annual Conference, University of Utah, January 1992 |
“Gay Mormon History”, Affirmation Annual Conference, Los Angeles, October 1988 |
"Homosexualities Among Ancient Indo-European Cultures" – Five week non-credit course, Harvey Milk Institute, San Francisco, November 2000 |
"A Queer History of Mormonism, 1840-1950" - Six week non-credit course, Harvey Milk Institute, San Francisco, June to July 1999 |
Updated February 12, 2010 |