Theatrical plays about/by Gay Mormons
By Ellen Fagg The Salt Lake Tribune Two new dramas about gay members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - one that played to sold-out houses last month at the University of Iowa and another produced in a well-attended workshop in New York City - suggest there's still artful vigor left in mining the painful collision of faith and homosexuality. "I'm glad to see attention brought to this issue from whatever quarter," Carol Lynn Pearson says of the mini-national boomlet of gay Mormon-themed plays. "People of every religion need to take a really strong look at how we are treating our gay brothers and sisters - and what we tell them in the name of God." The experience of the two playwrights John Cameron, 56, head of the University of Iowa's acting program, and Roman Feeser, 33, of New York City, are separated by more than a two-decade age range. Cameron served an LDS mission in Guatamala and El Salvador, and performed as a Young Ambassador whi...