Unfortunately not, besides to be there for him. This is a personal choice he has to make on his own.

He doesn't need help. He can feel gay as much as he wants and stay within the teachings of the Church. He gets into trouble when he starts acting out on it. Mormons are used to celibacy, and that includes restriction from any kind of sex until marriage. If he has unnatural cravings, he is best to deal with them himself or seek help from his bishop. You should not get involved if you are not Mormon because there are forces at work that you cannot understand. Be his friend and let him trust you. He will seek your counsel as he sees fit.

Just be his friend and let him do things for himself , if you try to push him , he may go deeper in a shell

I think you should just back off and leave him alone. You could be wrong, even if you are right, a friend is a friend. Just be there when and if he needs you. That's all any friend can do.

Be there as a friend, let him know what it is about him you like. Any homosexual who is also a believing mormon or has mormon parents will likely go through a very rough time, and might appreciate your support. Support means being there for him through all of his decisions, be it to come out to his family and friends or try to repress his sexuality. Don't try to sway him to come out before he is ready, and don't try to sway him to live a life he is not comfortable with.

You need to be there with him, and be a sounding board for him. Let him express all of his fears and doubts openly, and figure out what is causing them, and help him decide for himself how he wants to live his life. Does he want to live his life as a lie, believing that he is somehow defective or inherently sinful? Or does he want to live his life openly and honestly, as God made him, without the guilt and judgment of a community of imperfect human beings? Some websites he should read: http://www.ldsreconciliation.org/ http://www.rickross.com/reference/mormon/mormon23.html http://www.affirmation.org/ http://www.gaymormonstories.com/Index.html He might also want to see the movie "Latter Days". It's a gay romance film about a shallow superficial gay man who falls for a deeply closeted gay mormon. Together they reach a better middle road. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0345551/#comment http://www.latterdaysmovie.com/

You can be friendly. You can also encourage him to seek help. Particularly, he ought to speak with his bishop about the difficulties he is having. You and other are right in suggesting that he will only hurt himself and possibly others by keeping everything bottled up. However, there are healthy ways to open up and unhealthy ways to open up. A healthy step forward for your friend would be to speak with his Bishop. This is not necessarily in the spirit of confession, but is rather for the purpose of gaining what help, understanding, and support the church has to offer. By himself, such a burden can be immense and perhaps unbearable, but he was not placed on earth by himself. He has friends, family, and his Bishop. Only by being more personally connected would I possibly be able to know how his friends and family would react to him, but regardless, he does need to speak with his bishop, who we believe to be a man called by God to give counsel to the members of his ward. Speaking to his bishop would be the only way your friend has any chance of reconciling himself with the religion he believes in, which I think is not only possible, highly recommendable. However, this would be an important step no matter what he decides in the end.