The Circling the Wagons Coalition is made up of mental health professionals and community leaders and is designed to build understanding between LGBT Mormons and members of the LDS Church, according to a conference brochure. Past speakers have ranged from Josh Weed, a gay Mormon blogger whose post about his happy marriage to a woman went viral in 2012, to Jim Dabakis, the state senator and chairman of the Utah Democratic Party who married his longtime partner during the two weeks that gay marriage was legal in Utah.