Join us as scholar Bob Rees explores the question “What do you do when you fall in love?"  It’s a question we all ask at some point, but how is the question and the feeling different for members of the queer community? How is it the same?

The question is particularly poignant (“evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret”) for Latter-day Saints who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender when these individuals are told that they are forbidden from manifesting romantic love with any sexual or erotic expression. They may also be told that the romantic  love they experience is not only forbidden in this life and the next, but that it is unnatural, or worse. Please join with us for a discussion about the reality of romantic love for our brothers and sisters who identify as non-heterosexual or non-binary. How does the Gospel inform our understanding of romantic love for all of God’s children, and what does it ask of each of us on this journey?

Bob Rees is an independent scholar and humanitarian who has spent half a century ministering to LGBTQ Latter-day Saints and thinking, writing, and speaking about their experience in relation to Christ’s gospel and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His most recent book, Imagining and Reimagining the Restoration (Kofford Books,2025). Includes the chapter, “All In the Family: Opening Our Hearts, Homes, and Chapels to our LGBTQ Members”