A Gay Brazilian's Take on Rainbows, Raindrops, and Divine Identity

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All Out in the Open, Questions from the Closet

Latter-day Saint, Christ, Society & Culture, Mormon, Gay, Religion & Spirituality, Faith, Lgbtq, Transgender, Church Of Jesus Christ, Christianity, Lgbt, Lds

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🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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This month on OUT and About, Iese Wilson sits down with Icaro Paraguassú, who shares his experiences as a gay Latter-Day Saint from Brazil. They discuss faith, identity, diversity, and the need for resources that reach every language and culture. Icaro reflects on the rainbow as both a symbol of LGBTQ+ pride and a covenant with God, and how we each reflect the light of Christ in our own way. His rainbow pin opens conversations and offers quiet reassurance to those seeking belonging. From a ...

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0:00.0	Welcome back to All Out in the Open. We have an out and about episode this week. YesA. Wilson takes us on this amazing tour of the LGBTQ LDS experience all over the world. And this week, we are just outside of Salvador, Brazil. Yeah. And Ike Roo talks about how he goes to church as an openly gay person. And I love what he says about the rainbow pin he wears
0:22.0	because it means something different
0:23.0	than it might mean to everybody.
0:24.2	And I just love his insight.
0:25.4	And also he wears a pin that says,
0:26.8	be excellent to each other.
0:28.6	I'm not sure he knows that that's a line from
0:30.6	Bill and Ted's excellent adventure.
0:31.3	It's not like your favorite movie.
0:32.6	It is not my favorite movie.
0:33.6	You talk about, You quote it enough. It's a full name. It's a classic movie that the young people today don't know
0:39.3	about. So it's great. Yeah.
0:41.5	You're going to revive it? I don't
0:43.3	think it should be revived because the more you say about
0:45.3	the plot to someone who's never heard about, the dumber you sound.
0:48.0	Don't watch it, you do it.
0:50.5	But I just loved his insights and his faith and
0:53.2	loved learning about the experience of being a gay member in Brazil.
1:05.1	Hello, how everybody.
1:06.1	Welcome to Out and About, our segment on All Out in the Open, where we go on a tour of members of the
1:12.2	church, where LGBTQ from all around the world. And for getting sorry today, I just wanted to take
1:17.1	the time to just say, thank you. Thank you so much for taking the time to hear these stories
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