Episode 311: Alexander Baxter, Gay Elders Quorum President

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2020

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

My friend Alexander Baxter, RM, BYU Graduate and Grad Student at UC Davis, joins us to share his journey as a gay Latter-day Saint. I became aware of Alexander via his Twitter profile (@pionqueer47) with the words “Gay and Elder Quorum President – I guess its possible”. Alexander’s Bishop and Stake President knew he was gay before extending the call to serve as the Elders Quorum President. Alexander shares his journey, including how he realized he way probably gay during his mission (Tacoma, Washington) and how he came to accept this part of himself at BYU. Alexander has a unique family situation (which he talks about on the podcast) and reports supportive parents. I encourage everyone to listen to Alexander’s story on the podcast and his blog at alexanderbaxterblog.blogspot.com. Thanks for being on the podcast Alexander. You are a great man with a wonderful future

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love hosted by Richard Osler.
0:10.2	A couple housekeeping things.
0:11.8	We're still working on the volume.
0:13.3	Some of you have left reviews on places you're listening to the podcast.
0:18.9	Recognize we have some challenges in the volume.
0:20.8	We're doing our best to in the volume we're doing
0:21.1	our best to improve the volume hopefully this will be better um second housekeeping thing is we're
0:27.0	recording this in late august just thank you all that are engaging in my upcoming book
0:32.0	it's available on amazon you can just search my name richard os. The Kindle version is out now. The paperback
0:39.5	version will be out on the 21st of September. So as you may know, all the proceeds are being
0:45.8	donated to a charity of a young man who died by suicide of gay teenagers. So thank you for all
0:52.0	you're doing for the book and to get the word of the book out.
0:56.0	The book isn't really much about me. It's about LGBTQ people. So it's like the podcast.
1:01.0	I'm just bringing hundreds of stories against the various issues related to this space.
1:08.0	My guest on today's podcast is my friend Alexander Baxter, who's living
1:13.9	in California, but is in Utah today and has stopped by my home to do this podcast. And as by way
1:21.1	of introduction, Twitter is an interesting place, and I am very active on Twitter. I'm the oldest person on Twitter, I think sometimes.
1:31.3	But one day I came across a Twitter profile that said gay and an elders corn president, I guess it's possible.
1:38.3	And I've never seen that on someone's Twitter profile before.
1:43.3	And I just thought it would be great to reach out to Alexander and have him on the podcast.
1:48.6	He's got a great story for you, our listeners.
1:50.7	He is a BYU graduate in psychology.
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