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  • ElChapoDeChapo [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Mormonism has for a long time had a seedy underbelly that took some of the lost boys to Las Vegas to pimp them out as gay prostitutes against their will in a form of sexual slavery

    The only reason they publicly accepted gay people was to formalize this shit they were already doing while getting a PR win with the neoliberals

      • ElChapoDeChapo [he/him, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Like other teenagers who leave fundamentalist Mormon communities, Stephen was not prepared to enter the world at large. To cope with the disorientation and loneliness of leaving one world for another, many turn to drugs. Another group of kids called the Lost Boys, who were kicked out of the polygamist cult the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, ended up on the streets of Las Vegas and Phoenix, some turning tricks for drugs like meth and heroin.

        https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/inside-the-order-one-mormon-cults-secret-empire-244969/

        • AbbysMuscles [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          Oh good. I'll have to read that when I'm in a more emotionally stable spot