Daniel Parkinson

DANIEL PARKINSON, MD {[email protected]} is a psychiatrist in St. Paul, Minnesota. He has been involved with the intersection of LDS and LGBT issues for several years. His primary projects have been the blog No More Strangers, the podcast Gay Mormon Stories, and the I’ll Walk With You video project, which focuses on LDS parents of LGBTQ people (ldswalkwithyou.org).

The LGBTQ Mormon Crisis: Responding to the Empirical Research on Suicide

Articles/Essays – Volume 49, No. 2

Dialogue 49.2 (Summer 2016): 1–24
The November 2015 LDS handbook policy change that identified mem- bers who participate in same-sex marriages as “apostates” and forbade children in their households from receiving baby blessings or baptisms sparked ongoing attention to the topic of LGBTQ Mormon well-being, mental health, and suicides.