Scope and Contents The Don Benscheider Collection contains the diaries and writings of Don Benscheider startingwith his diary for the mission he served for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in1966 and his subsequent diaries and writings up to his death in 2007. The diaries give an intimatelook into the life of a gay man and his struggles with his family and church, and later with HIV,AIDS, and the agony of losing friends to the disease while being a...