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The Mormon state is seen as deeply homophobic. Yet, from polygamy to pride, Mormons themselves are a distinctly queer lot ...

is a retired professor of anthropology at the University of Alberta, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and the author of Between Ape and Human: An Anthropologist on the Trail of a Hidden ...

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