143: Love: From Our Perspective | Fathers of Gay Sons

143: Love: From Our Perspective | Fathers of Gay Sons

Let's face it, no parent expects (or can adequately prepare) for their child to come out. With few social and religious resources available to help parents navigate this journey, where do you turn when your child needs you the most?

Three fathers, all with different backgrounds, share their candid experiences raising sons who identify as gay. They talk about the coming out process, where they made mistakes, what they learned, navigating religious issues, telling friends and family—and so much more.

The dads discuss some difficult topics and share how they reacted to some comments like:

"If I knew my tithing dollars were going to BYU to help gay kids graduate, I'd call and complain!"

"How can you choose between your church and your child?"

"As LGBT people we are pretty easy to love, because we don't get it very often, so we can easily recognize it when it happens."

"Part of our process was to grieve what we were losing. That was real."

#LatterGayStories #ComingOut #ParentsOfGayKids #DadsOfGayKids

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159: Kris and Kay Packer | Loving, Learning, and Living

159: Kris and Kay Packer | Loving, Learning, and Living

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158: Kris Packer | From Wife to Husband: A Story of My Journey

158: Kris Packer | From Wife to Husband: A Story of My Journey

Kris Packer has a long Mormon history. His father, Lynn is a Mormon historian, and Kris' great-uncle is apostle Boyd K. Packer. What happens when you come out to your family as a lesbian, but as li...

30 Mar 20221h 27min

157: Kay Packer | My Lesbian Mormon Love Story

157: Kay Packer | My Lesbian Mormon Love Story

Kaylene Packer was a very normal Mormon girl. She went to church, she prayed, and she tried to hide an important part of her identity...she was really, really into girls. Growing up Latter-day Saint, ...

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156: Ashley Ryan | My Story of Transition and Hope

156: Ashley Ryan | My Story of Transition and Hope

Ashley was born male into a Lutheran home in Texas. At a young age, Ashley knew she was different. Not having language for what that "difference" was, she navigated her journey the best she could. It ...

8 Mar 20221h 10min

155: Kray Casper| BYU Changed My Life: My Gay Coming Out

155: Kray Casper| BYU Changed My Life: My Gay Coming Out

Kray was a remarkably normal Mormon. He knew he was gay, but did everything in his power to deny and hide it. If you bury it, it doesn't exist, right? He gave everything to the church, served a full-t...

24 Feb 20221h 33min

154: BYU ADMINS to BYU HEALTH CLINIC: Terminate Health Services to Transgender Patients

154: BYU ADMINS to BYU HEALTH CLINIC: Terminate Health Services to Transgender Patients

In a surprising move, BYU-Provo administrators dismissed three transgender clients from the BYU Clinic on 2/7/2022, and informed their student/faculty clinicians that transgender patients needed to be...

10 Feb 20221h 24min

153: Duane Jennings | Balancing Science and Spirituality

153: Duane Jennings | Balancing Science and Spirituality

From an early age, Duane felt drawn to better understanding life from two perspectives: science and spirituality. His desire for knowledge and the human understanding led him to better understand empa...

27 Jan 20221h 42min

152: Page Petrucka | Happiness Exists In Authenticity

152: Page Petrucka | Happiness Exists In Authenticity

Page knew she was different, but Mormonism has a way of convincing you to keep those "different" feelings buried deep inside. Those feelings and natural connections can only stay hidden for so long—an...

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