Carol Lynn Pearson Pt. 1 - My Early Years and Marrying Gerald | Ep. 173

Carol Lynn Pearson is the author of a 1986 memoir, "Goodbye, I Love You," about the death of her gay husband from AIDS. Her musical, "My Turn on Earth," is among the most successful Mormon musicals of all time.

Carol Lynn is an advocate for women and LGBTQ+ Mormons. Her 2007 book, "No More Goodbyes," tells the stories of gay Mormons (and those of other faiths), coping with family, religion, and, occasionally, suicide.

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Show Notes:

Goodbye, I Love You: The True Story of a Wife, her Homosexual Husband, and a Love that Transcended Tragedy by Carol Lynn Pearson

No More Goodbyes: Circling the Wagons Around Our Gay Loved Ones by Carol Lynn Pearson

The text of Rodney Turner's March 6, 1966, fireside at BYU----in which he said women are the doormats that keep their husbands from approaching God with muddy feet----is not available on the Church's website.

Turner's speech is referenced by a number of other sources, including:

"The Historical Relationship of Mormon Women and Priesthood," by Linda King Newell, Dialogue, October 1985

And in Turner's own book, which is still for sale at Deseret Books:

Woman and the Priesthood by Rodney Turner

"The LDS Intellectual Community and Church Leadership," by Lavina Fielding Anderson, Dialogue, 1993

"The Buried Life," by Matthew Arnold, a 19th-century English poet, whom some scholars believe was a gay man married to a woman

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