Alan Michael Williams

ALAN MICHAEL WILLIAMS {[email protected]} has an M.A. in cultural studies from the University of Washington Bothell. He is the author of a self-published gay Mormon novel titled Ockham’s Razor (2009). He expresses thanks to Bruce Burgett, Kristine Haglund, Susan Harewood, Melissa Wilcox, and others along the way for their readings and thoughts on earlier drafts of this essay.

Mormon and Queer at the Crossroads

Articles/Essays – Volume 44, No. 1

Dialogue 44.1 (Spring 2011): 53–84
This essay explores conflicting messages within LDS teaching on LGBT rights, when it both opposed same-sex marriage and in the wake of Prop 8 also came out in support of other LGBT rights that display both wrath and mercy. It explores a theory of LDS teachings on homosexuality along these lines, as well as the context of shifting norms around sexual identity.