Family members and religious leaders often invoke ‘love’ as their justification for making the lives of LGBTQ folks difficult. But we’ve learned how to nurture one another.
In these tales from the author of Mormon Underwear and Gayrabian Nights, a gay man invites two young Mormon missionaries to watch movies on their day off, offering R-rated and eventually X-rated films for their edification. A man receives a substantial inheritance…on the condition he leave his husband. A customer service rep at a Suicide Center established under a new theocracy ‘assists’ those condemned of homosexuality kill themselves.
A bishop is murdered by one of his congregants for being too ‘liberal.’ A lonely wife discovers that her husband of twenty-six years is gay. Two missionaries try to interest men at an adult video store in the LDS Church. Parents tell their son he’s ugly from the time they first suspect he’s gay, hoping he’ll be afraid to date once he becomes an adult.
As the fight to remain free of theocracy intensifies, it’s important to understand what we’re up against and prepare for the political-and emotional-battles ahead. One way is by telling stories oppressors don’t want us to hear.
Table of Content
In the Mouth of the Beholder
Where There’s a Will
A Plague on Both Your Cheeks
Smoking Beer and Drinking Marijuana
Suicide Center #212
Lending a Hand…and Other Body Parts
The Coroner’s Coronary
Twenty-Six Years
Counting Nozzles
Tilly the Barbarian
The Mission President’s Son
Bi the Wayside
Entering at the Rear of the Temple
P-Day Porn
About the author
A climate crisis immigrant who relocated from New Orleans to Seattle in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Johnny Townsend wrote the first account of the Up Stairs Lounge fire, an attack on a French Quarter gay bar which killed 32 people in 1973. He was an associate producer for the documentary Upstairs Inferno, for the sci-fi film Time Helmet, and for the deaf gay short Flirting, with Possibilities. His books include Please Evacuate, Racism by Proxy, and Wake Up and Smell the Missionaries. His novel, Orgy at the STD Clinic, set entirely on public transit, details political extremism, climate upheaval, and anti-maskers in the midst of a pandemic.
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