CAROL LYNN

CAROL LYNN PETERSON

Many blessings,
CLP

Carol Lynn Pearson is a well-known writer and speaker in the LDS community. Her focus on gay issues began when she married Gerald Pearson, a gay man who insisted on publishing her first book of poetry, Beginnings. Years later she would write and publish Goodbye, I Love You, the story of their life together as parents of four children, their struggle with his inability to change his orientation, their divorce, and finally her caring for him as he died of AIDS in her home in 1984. That book was a major part of opening the conversation about gay issues in the LDS Church.
 
She is also the author of No More Goodbyes: circling the wagons around our gay loved ones as well as The Hero’s Journey of the Gay and Lesbian Mormon. Her play, “Facing East,” the story of an upstanding Mormon couple dealing with the suicide of their gay son, premiered at Plan-B Theatre in Salt Lake City and had a subsequent limited Off-Broadway run. It received an award from the Deseret News as the “Best Drama of the Year.”
 
Much of Ms. Pearson’s work is also devoted to women’s issues. She lives and works in Walnut Creek, California.
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