Alma 36-38, July 26: Nathan Kitchen. Lesson transcript here.
Nathan Kitchen is the president of Affirmation: LGBTQ Mormons, Family and Friends. Affirmation is a forty three year old organization that creates worldwide communities of safety, love, and hope, supporting LGBTQIA+ individuals and their families as they define their individual spirituality and intersection with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He served his mission in Alabama, graduated with a B.S. in Zoology from BYU, earned his Doctor of Dental Medicine from Southern Illinois University, and completed a general practice residency at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. He is currently in private practice in Mesa, Arizona. His work within the Latter-day Saint LGBTQIA+ community most recently took him back to Brigham Young University where Affirmation began in 1977. He is the proud father of five amazing children and lives in Gilbert, Arizona with his husband Matthew Rivera.