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Timeline of LGBTQ Mormon history

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{{See also|Timeline of Brigham Young University LGBT history|Homosexuality and the LDS Church|Gender minorities and the LDS church|Sexuality and Mormonism|LGBT Mormon people and organizations}}

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Below is a series of timelines of LGBT Mormon history consisting of events, publications, and speeches about LGBTQ individuals, topics around sexual orientation and gender minorities, and the community of members of Mormonism's largest denomination, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Although the historical record is often scarce, evidence points to queer individuals having existed in the Mormon community since its beginnings, and to leaders being against same-sex sexual behavior and gender non-conformity. LDS leadership started to more regularly address topics regarding the LGBT community in public in the late 1950s.{{cite book|last1=Quinn|first1=D. Michael|author-link=D. Michael Quinn|title=Same-Sex Dynamics among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example|date=1996|publisher=University of Illinois Press|isbn=978-0252022050|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UXVj398JvnsC |via=Google Books |url-access=limited |pages=375,377}}{{cite book|last1=Winkler|first1=Douglas A.|title=Lavender Sons of Zion: A History of Gay Men in Salt Lake City, 1950--1979|date=May 2008|publisher=University of Utah Department of History|location=Salt Lake City, Utah|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7mMnAQAAIAAJ|access-date=16 November 2016 |via=Google Books |url-access=limited|pages=v,3}}{{cite book|last1=Young|first1=Neil J.|title=Out of Obscurity: Mormonism Since 1945|date=1 July 2016|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0199358229|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jcySDAAAQBAJ|accessdate=26 May 2017 |url-access=limited|via=Google Books|pages=170}} Since 1970, the LDS Church has had at least one official publication or speech from a high-ranking leader referencing LGBT topics every year, and a greater number of LGBT Mormon and former Mormon individuals have received media coverage.

The timeline is divided into the following parts for readability, with each part linked below:

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