Posted on 04/07/2024 11:20:54 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Affirmation, the oldest support group for LGBTQ members, assembles for its first in-person international conference in three years. HBO documentary about “Under the Banner of Heaven” creator Dustin Lance Black premieres next week.
Affirmation wins acclamation
When Spencer Cox was 2 years old, a band of gay Latter-day Saints began huddling quietly at Provo’s Brigham Young University with dreams of forming a national organization.
Forty-five years later, Affirmation, with thousands of followers across the country and the world, stands as the oldest support group for LGBTQ Latter-day Saints, and Cox sits as Utah’s governor.
In that capacity, Cox welcomed Affirmation — no longer relegated to private meetings but now publicly celebrated — to Salt Lake City last week for its first in-person international conference in three years.
“We recognize the important work this organization is doing to foster greater understanding and cooperation among residents of our state,” Cox wrote in his formal greeting. “You encourage our communities to have relevant and vital conversations about how to support and understand each other.”
The first-term Republican governor said Utahns “greatly benefit” from diversity, adding that his state seeks to “sustain a culture of hope, love, understanding, service and respect.”
Cox closed his letter, read to conferencegoers by Affirmation Vice President Laurie Lee Hall during the opening session, by reminding the attendees that they are “loved, appreciated and accepted in the state.”
Nathan Kitchen, Affirmation’s outgoing president, deemed the three-day gathering a “great success.”
“So much optimism and joy,” he wrote in an email. “After three years of pandemic restrictions, this reminded us all why in-person connection is vital for the wellness of our community.”
He sure sounded rather light in his loafers to me, even if he is married with 4 children.
Cox is a bit of a woke fraud. I live in UT.
Gaydar ping.
Sounds like a first class jagoff to me.
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