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Benson, B. (2001). Perceived family relationships associated with coming out of Mormon male homosexuals. Utah State University.
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Brandley, B. (2020). “This is how you navigate the world”: Impacts of Mormon rhetoric on White queer members’ identity performances (Unpublished masters thesis). University of New Mexico.
Bridges, J. G., Lefevor, G. T., & Schow, R. L. (2019). Sexual satisfaction and mental health in mixed-orientation relationships: A Mormon sample of sexual minority partners. Journal of Bisexuality, 19 (4), 515-538.
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Dahl, A. L., Galliher, R.V. (2012a). LGBTQ adolescents and young adults raised within a Christian religious context: Positive and negative outcomes. Journal of Adolescence, 35, 1611-1618.
Dahl, A., Galliher, R. V. (2012b). The interplay of sexual and religious identity development in LGBTQ adolescents and young adults: a qualitative inquiry. Identity: An International Journal of Theory and Research, 12 , 217-246.
Dehlin, A. J., Galliher, R. V., Legerski, E., Harker, A., & Dehlin, J. P. (2019). Same- and other-sex aversion and attraction as important correlates of quality and outcomes of Mormon mixed-orientation marriages. Journal of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Family Studies, 15 , 22-41.
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Goodman, M. N. (1997). Searching for self: Identity formation in the Mormon women’s community of the Salt Lake City. The University of Utah.
Goodwill, K. A. (2000). Religion and the spiritual needs of gay Mormon men. Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services, 11 (4), 23-27.
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Johns, R. D., & Hanna, F. J. (2012). Peculiar and queer: Spiritual and emotional salvation for the LGBTQ Mormon. Journal of LGBT Issues in Counseling, 5 , 197–219.
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Kelley, C. L. (2002). Understanding the experiences of Latter-day Saint women with same sex attractions . Alliant International University.
Klundt, J. S., Erekson, D. M., Lynn, A. M., & Brown, H. E. (2021). Sexual minorities, mental health, and religiosity at a religiously conservative university. Personality and Individual Differences, 171 .
Lefevor, G. T., Beckstead, A. L., Schow, R. L., Raynes, M., Mansfield, T. R., & Rosik, C. H. (2019). Satisfaction and health within four sexual identity relationship options. The Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy, 45 (5), 355–369.
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Lefevor, G. T., McGraw, J. S., & Skidmore, S. J. (2021). Suicidal ideation among active and nonactive/former Latter-day Saint sexual minorities. Journal of Community Psychology.
Lefevor, G. T., Sorrell, S. A., Kappers, G., Plunk, A., Schow, R. L., Rosik, C. H., & Beckstead, A. L. (2019). Same-sex attracted, not LGBQ: The implications of sexual identity labelling on religiosity, sexuality, and health among Mormons. The Journal of Homosexuality .
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Legerski, E., & Harker, A. (2017). The intersection of gender, sexuality, and religion in Mormon mixed-sexuality marriages. Sex Roles , 78, 482-500.
Legerski, E., Harker, A., Jeppsen, C., Armstrong, A., Dehlin, J. P., Troutman, K., & Galliher, R. V. (2017). Mormon mixed-orientation marriages: Variations in attitudes and experiences by sexual orientation and current relationship status. Journal of GLBT Family Studies, 13, 186-209.
Mansfield, T. R. (2017). A phenomenological study of identity and relationship negotiation within latter-day saint (Mormon) couples with a MtF gender variant partner (Doctoral dissertation).
Mattingly, M. S., Galliher, R. V., Dehlin, J. P., Crowell, K. A., & Bradshaw, W. S. (2016). A mixed methods analysis of the family support experiences of GLBQ latter day saints. Journal of GLBT Family Studies, 12 (4), 386–409
McGraw, J. S. (2020). Religious/spiritual struggles, one-upmanship, internalized homophobia and suicide risk among lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer/questioning and same-sex attracted Latter-day Saint (Unpublished masters thesis). Bowling Green State University.
McGraw, J. S., Chinn, J., & Mahoney, A. (2020). Historical, doctrinal, and empirical insights into Latter-day Saints sexual minorities’ psychological and interpersonal functioning. Journal of LGBT Family Studies, 17 (2), 168-195.
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Nielson, E. (2016). Inclusivity in the latter-days: Gay Mormons. Mental Health, Religion, and Culture, 9 , 752–768.
Nielson, E. (2017). When a child comes out in the latter-days: An exploratory case study of Mormon parents. Mental Health, Religion & Culture , 20 , 260–276,
Ogden, B. (2004). A qualitative study of disparate identities: A homosexual Mormon example. San Francisco Bay : Alliant International University.
Robinson, J. W. (1999). Understanding the meaning of change for married Latter-day Saint men with histories of homosexual activity (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Brigham Young University.
Simmons, B. W. (2017). Coming out Mormon: An examination of religious orientation, spiritual trauma and PTSD among Mormon and ex-Mormon LGBTQQA adults (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). University of Georgia, Athens, GA.
Sumerau, J. E., & Cragun, R. T. (2014). “Why would our Heavenly Father do that to anyone:” Oppressive othering through sexual classification schemes in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Symbolic Interaction, 37, 331–352.
Toronto, A. K. (2019). LGBQQPA Latter-day Saint experience (Unpublished masters thesis). Teacher’s College, Columbia University.
Tragakis, M. W., & Smith, J. L. (2010). The relation between social identity integration and psychological adjustment: A focus on mainstream and marginalized cultural identities. Identity: An International Journal of Theory and Research , 10 , 201–221.
Wolff, J. R., Himes, H. L., Soares, S. D., & Miller Kwon, E. (2016). Sexual minority students in non-affirming religious higher education: Mental health, outness, and identity. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, 3 (2), 201–212.
Note : This list was last updated in summer 2021
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