Why I, a Gay Latter-day Saint, Married a Woman

One morning in May 2020, I woke up, picked up my phone and realized it was a little warmer than usual. It wasn't because of the temperature in my house. It was because notifications had been pinging my phone throughout the night. A tweet of mine had gone viral. It was about my mixed-orientation marriage: I'm a devout Latter-day Saint gay man married to a woman. Putting that out on Twitter garnered an obscene amount of attention, which ultimately propelled me in directions I never thought I'd go. The experience has been not unlike riding on a float promoting traditional morality in a San Francisco pride parade -- if the float had a sign that read "throw tomatoes at me," and the float directly in front of me happened to be handing out free tomatoes.