Growing up in Utah, Ross Owen watched the Mormon Tabernacle Choir on television every Sunday with his family.
“It was almost like watching a rock concert, and I thought, ‘Oh, I’d love to do that,’ ” he says.
But by the time Owen was old enough to join the choir, he was no longer a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; he had been excommunicated after he came out as gay.
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