[Homosexuality] President Brigham Young introduces the "sealing of men to men" in the Nauvoo Temple, in which rank-and-file men in the Church are sealed to Church leaders (especially Apostles), who become the spiritual "fathers" of the adopted men and their families. It should be noted that this ordinance was not considered equivalent to the sealing of man to wife (i.e. there was no same-sex temple marriage in the Nauvoo Temple) but I've included it here because it's an interesting fact that many aren't aware of, and it does deal with same-gender relations, though not of the type that the bulk of this post focuses on.
[source: LDS Gay History Timeline [Unabridged], http://mormoninthecloset.blogspot.com/2008/11/lds-gay-history-timeline-unabridged.html]
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