#keith burns

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Babs: The Black Road South #3 (Ahoy Comics, March 2026) variant cover by Keith Burns

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Iron Cross No. 8 (2021) . Quarterly magazine focussing on German Military History from 1914-1945. Red Baron cover by Keith Burns, depicting Manfred von Richthofen's Fokker Dr.l triplane.

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The Tank Museum in Bovington has partnered with Commando Comics to produce a selection of tank themed merchandise, including a new comic collection, Commando Presents The Tank Collection

Tank Museum and Commando team up, offering new collection and collectibles

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2000AD Prog 2411 - 4 December 2024, cover by Keith Burns.

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For the nearly 200 years that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been in existence, it has held to a view that marriage between a man and woman is ordained of God and, therefore, crucial to one’s happiness in this life and one’s final status in the afterlife. Inextricably linked to this […]

Keith Burns wrote an op-ed in which he points out that the rise of lesbian and gay liberation groups in the in the 1950′s and 1960′s resulted in harsh rhetoric by the LDS Church. This opposition to the gay rights movement spurred the LDS Church to widely recommend conversion therapy to gay members for decades, even though it wasn’t effective and often was torturous. BYU officials also conducted regular “purges,” which were large-scale interrogations of students suspected of homosexual activity.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, in response to criticisms of conversion therapy by mental health professionals, the Church took a more ambiguous line. As LDS spokesperson Elder Lance Wickman said in a 2006 interview, they “can’t endorse the aversive therapies recommended in the past to fix this affliction,” but the Church “does not counsel against it.” Elder Oaks also said, it “may be appropriate for an individual to use clinical therapy to seek to diminish or eliminate homosexual feelings.”

A decade later in 2016, the Church began collaborating with suicide prevention and LGBTQ+ civil rights organizations, and called for an end to “any therapy that subjects an individual to abusive practices.” LDS Social Services stopped recommending or offering conversion therapy. 

Although the LDS Church officially disavows conversion therapy, current teachings from LDS leaders maintains the viewpoint that homosexuality is an affliction and a potential sin if “acted upon”. It is still assumed, and sometimes said directly, that people with same-sex desire will be “cured” or “fixed” by God in the next life. 

The LDS Church teaches that all faithful people who miss out on blessings in this life will receive them in the next life, including a heterosexual marriage and children, and for that to happen God will remove same-sex desires from people in heaven. While the Church officially condemns conversion therapy on earth, it continues to perpetuate the idea that conversion of queer people takes place in heaven (as Blair Ostler puts it, a queer genocide will take place).

If conversion therapy exists in heaven, there’s no reason to think it wouldn’t generate the same depression, anxiety and self-hatred the practice causes on earth. It’s time to end this belief. 

The Church has said there’s room for LGBTQ people in church, this can only be true if it embraces queer individuals and identities, rather than see us as struggling with a temporary condition. If they embraced queer members, the LDS authorities would have to condemn the idea of conversion therapy in heaven. Queer people need theological space for our existence and validation, not our eventual erasure.

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The Boys: Herogasm 2 #

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The Chess Mind by Gerald Abrahams with a cover by Keith Burns.