333: Circling the Wagons 01: 1st General Session with Lee Beckstead, David Zabriskie and Carol Lynn Pearson

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 18 April 2012

⏱️ 68 minutes

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The goal of the Mormon Stories"Circling the Wagons" conference was to create a space where LGBTQ or SSA individuals and their families and allies could gather to acknowledge, explore and honor shared experiences. In this first general session Joseph Broom conducted, psychologist Lee Beckstead discussed his perspective on the Mormon LGBT journey, David Zabriskie shared his original composition called"Pioneers" based on a Carol Lynn Pearson poem of the same name, and Carol Lynn Pearson spoke on the Gay and Lesbian Mormon's"Hero's Journey."

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0:00.0	The 2011 Circling the Wagon's Conference was a production of Mormon Stories
0:04.9	Podcasts and the Open Stories Foundation. For additional Circling the Wagon's
0:09.6	audio and video and for additional content regarding LGBT issues within
0:14.5	Mormonism, please check out gaymormonstories.org. Also, please know that the
0:20.1	video for this conference is available at youtube.com slash Mormon Stories and
0:25.2	thank you for listening.
0:39.2	It's a pleasure to welcome you to this historic conference on behalf of Mormon
0:43.3	Stories and the Open Stories Foundation. My name is Joseph Brum and I've been
0:48.2	asked to conduct this first general session of this conference. One year ago I
0:54.8	could not have imagined me standing before you as an openly gay man. Many of you
1:01.2	know that I began the process of coming out a little over a year ago and began
1:05.5	blogging as Invictus Pilgrim. At that time I was absolutely paranoid about
1:11.4	anyone finding out my true identity. Today however, I'm proud to stand before you as
1:17.0	a man who after 27 years of membership in the church and 24 years of
1:22.4	marriage came to a point in my life when as Bill Bradshaw so eloquently described
1:28.2	yesterday. I was dramatically unexpectedly confronted with my truth and knew that
1:35.8	I could no longer live a lie. This past year has been full of many twists and
1:41.4	turns, ups and downs and new and varied experiences. It has also been a year in
1:47.3	which I've made more friends and met more new and interesting people than at any
1:51.5	time in my life. One of those interesting people who became a good friend is
1:57.5	John DeLynn, the founder of Mormon Stories. This conference had its inception
2:03.3	last July in a restaurant in Brigham City where a friend and I were having
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