This site was started as a way to share my experiences as:

b) a returned missionary

c) a BYU graduate

d) a happily-partnered gay man

The reason for sharing is to help others understand that being gay is not the choice; being Mormon is.

The LDS Church has been a very strong and powerful influence for good in my life.

My early years as a young convert, my family's conversion to the Church, my mission to Brazil and my educational opportunities at BYU were life-changing.

My subsequent life as an openly-gay man--with a partner of almost twenty years--has been an equally liberating and enlightening experience. It is that journey that I lived "through a glass darkly" into the "greater light" that I share here.