Advocacy is for Everyone (with Landon Phillips)

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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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🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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On this month’s ALL Together episode, hosts Liz Macdonald and Michael Soto sit down with Landon Phillips. Landon shares his journey of coming out, transitioning, and stepping into the world of LGBTQ+ advocacy. From focusing on faith-based spaces to working with Equality Arizona, Landon has used his voice as a trans person to foster change at both local and national levels. He also talk about building queer joy and community—including the queer Dungeons & Dragons group he helped launch. Th...

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0:00.0	Hey, y'all, Charlie and Ben here, and we really want to meet you in person.
0:04.2	And you have the opportunity to do that on Friday, June 27th in Provo, Utah at the Utah Valley Convention Center.
0:10.3	We're hosting a podcast live event as part of the Gather Conference.
0:12.9	This part of the conference is free, and we're going to be taking questions.
0:16.4	We've got a few special guests, and it's going to be a hoot and a half.
0:18.7	We really hope you're there and also
0:20.9	totally consider coming to the gather conference itself it's going to be an amazing lineup
0:24.8	and the last two years has been so transformative for so many people yeah you can register
0:29.6	at gather dash conference dot com see you soon Well, welcome to another episode of all out in the open.
0:47.1	Michael and I host this, the first Tuesday of every month, and we talk about bridge building and community building and we are so
0:57.2	excited today to have Landon Phillips with us. Yes. Yay. Thank you for making time. I'm so excited to be here. This is so
1:03.7	fun. Awesome. So I met Landon first. Well, I knew Landon's parents first from our parent nights that we have at our
1:14.0	house. And so I got to know them. And then just through different activities and different things
1:22.5	that we've been doing, I got to meet Landon. And so I've kind of heard your story first from your mom, and then I've gotten to know you,
1:29.4	and it's been really a delight.
1:31.3	Yeah, same.
1:32.3	I think I met your mom first.
1:33.7	And we did some advocacy stuff together, and I just got to know both your mom and your dad.
1:39.9	And they were just like, you have to meet Landon.
1:42.3	Landon is awesome.
1:43.1	I was like, I can't wait.
1:51.2	And then we've gotten to know each other and become friends and gotten to work with each other too, which is really awesome.
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