Faith • Group has grown from 300 members to 3,000 since marching in Pride Parade last year.

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Kyle Daniels is part of a new generation of gay Mormons who, instead of leaving their childhood church, look for ways to integrate into congregations as adults.

It's not easy.

"The question is, where's my place in the gospel?" Daniels, 26, asked. "I went on a mission. Now what?"

Daniels joined others in a friendly chat between LDS Church members and gay Utahns in a Salt Lake City Main Library conference room this week. Hosted each month by Mormons Building Bridges(MBB), these "community conversations" invite active Mormons and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Utahns to get to know one another at four public libraries.

It's one of several programs that have grown in the past year since MBB got its start with about 300 straight, churchgoing LDS members marching in the Utah Pride Parade.

The group now has 3,142 members (and rising) on Facebook and is branching out into the community to help make the LDS Church a more welcoming place for LGBT people.

During Tuesday's community conversation, members discussed the possibility of lobbying for a statewide nondiscrimination policy. LGBT Utahns now can be booted from their rental home or their job, except in 17 municipalities with local ordinances, including Salt Lake City.

Eight people joined the discussion in Salt Lake