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A FAIR Analysis of: Same-Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example A work by author: D. Michael Quinn

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Reviews of this work

• Klaus J. Hansen, "Quinnspeak (Review of Same-Sex Dynamics among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example by D. Michael Quinn)," FARMS Review of Books 10/1 (1998): 132–140. off-site PDF link
• George L. Mitton and Rhett S. James, "A Response to D. Michael Quinn's Homosexual Distortion of Latter-day Saint History (Review of Same-Sex Dynamics among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example by D. Michael Quinn)," FARMS Review of Books 10/1 (1998): 141–263. off-site PDF link

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• Behind the Mask of Mormonism
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