SLTrib.com – By Rosemary Winters – The Salt Lake Tribune
Cottonwood Heights: The Rev. Sean Parker Dennison knows how it feels to struggle to fit, to blend, to belong.
Now, Dennison greets a variety of people — young and old, gay and straight, Anglo and non-Anglo — to Sunday services at the South Valley Unitarian Universalist Society, a religious community that bills itself as “intentionally diverse.”
On the chapel’s exterior hangs a giant rainbow flag with the label “hate-free zone,” a welcome mat for at least one sometimes-marginalized community that has found refuge at the church: lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people.
Dennison himself is transgender. As a young woman in Iowa, he “tried on every single