North Star

North Star is an organization for believing LGBT Mormons.Its stated mission is to "provide a place of community for Latter-day Saints who experience homosexual attraction or gender identity incongruence, as well as their family, friends, and ecclesiastical leaders."It supports the teaching of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, including the law of chastity, which prohibits sexual relationships outside of a legal marriage between one man and one woman.The organization takes "no official position on the origin or mutability of homosexual attractions or gender identity incongruence", and does not "endorse political causes or join political coalitions, including those officially sanctioned by the [LDS] Church." North Star was founded in 2007.The organization holds four yearly evening meetings in Utah similar to LDS firesides.It also sponsors several email discussion groups for different sexual identities and demographics. The organization does not take a position on political issues, but has spoken out against using suicide of gay Mormons to promote personal political agendas.Evergreen International, a similar organization, was absorbed into North Star in early 2014.