Hundreds Of Mormons March In The Salt Lake City Gay Pride Parade

Over 300 active Mormons, part of a “Mormons Building Bridges” initiative, marched in the gay parade as part of the Utah Pride Festival. Now this is what progress looks like. *Chills*

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Practicing mormon Chad Smith and his daughters Kathryn and Olivia.

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Sharon Griffiths waits to march in a gay pride parade. Griffiths came out as a lesbian in 1976 and has four children. She recently lost a gay mormon nephew to suicide.

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Gay active Mormon and film maker Kendall Wilcox talks before marching in a gay pride parade.

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Practicing Mormons march on.

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Olivia Smith, 4, watches the parade.

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Mormons Building Bridges cheers on.

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Grand Marshal Dustin Lance Black applauds as he leads the annual Gay Pride Parade through downtown Salt Lake City.

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Hanah Kim watches on.

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Emilie Starr dances with a Mitt Romney cutout.

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Lauren Noll and Emilie Starr kiss a Mitt Romney cutout.

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    • nemimi 11 months ago

      Stop hatin’ on Mormons, people. Chances are most of you don’t actually know any. If you did, you’d probably be less judgmental. The Christian bible has weird stuff in it too, but there are plenty of nice, normal Christians, right? Also, John J.- Yeah- totally weird that they’d try to stick to something despite the fact that they may not be welcome. Kinda like gay Catholics. Or impoverished republicans. Or black people in the south 40 years ago.

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      pffttt.. homosexual are soo overated.. i’ll take another year or two and people would just find it tacky.. same goes to every viral shit on the net.

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      Love this. Don’t judge!

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    • jogales 11 months ago

      As a Christian, seeing these pictures brought a (happy) tear to my eye. It’s great to see other people of faith who “get it” and aren’t afraid to stand up for what’s right.

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      support for lgbt and they stole that mercedes - there may be hope for the lds yet.

    • John J. 11 months ago

      I really have to wonder why anyone would associate themselves with a faith that demonizes them, but good on ‘em for trying.

    • Obienator 11 months ago

      Well, its a start. ;)

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