Nathan Kitchen, DMD

Nathan Kitchen (he/him) served as president of Affirmation: LGBTQ Mormons, Families & Friends from 2019 through the end of 2022. Before his term as president, he sat on Affirmation’s board of directors and co-founded Fathers in Affirmation, a peer support group for queer fathers. Nathan is an author with BCC Press. His memoir about his experiences as president of Affirmation and being a queer father, The Boughs of Love: Navigating the Queer Latter-day Saint Experience During an Ongoing Restoration, will be published Fall of 2024.

Nathan served a full-time mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Alabama, graduated with a B.S. in Zoology from BYU Provo, earned his Doctor of Dental Medicine from Southern Illinois University, and completed a general practice residency at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. He is currently in private practice in Mesa, Arizona. He has been a speaker at BYU-Provo, Utah Valley University, and Eastern Illinois University about the queer/Latter-day Saint intersection and how to better support the queer Latter-day Saint experience, He is also a certified QPR suicide prevention trainer.

Nathan is the proud father of five children and four grandchildren. He lives in Gilbert, Arizona, with his husband, Matthew Rivera. In his free time, Nathan likes to travel with his husband, read a wide variety of books, and, of course, hold grandbabies!