Joshua Johanson is an outspoken advocate for Mormons with same-gender attraction (SGA). His life experiences have been featured in the Mercury Times and were published in the book Gay Mormons?: Latter-day Saint Experiences of Same-Gender Attraction. He has been involved in several groups dealing with SGA, including Evergreen, Exodus, People Can Change, and most heavily in North Star, where he has contributed a significant amount of website content. He got his start in apologetics through writing and editing Wikipedia articles and became involved with FAIR in 2009. He has written extensively on the FAIR wiki about homosexuality and has recently finished working on an eight-segment podcast series dealing with issues surrounding Mormonism and homosexuality. He was actively involved with Proposition 8 while living in the Bay Area. He received his MA from the University of Washington in Computational Linguistics.
FairMormon Conference Presentations
Navigating the Labyrinth Surrounding Homosexual Desire (2012)