Episode 314: Leland Wilson, Mid 50’s, Gay, Returned to Church after 38 years

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

My friend Leland Wilson shares his journey as a gay Latter-day Saint. Leland left the Church (and Southern Utah) around 1983 (in his late teens). Leland lived a successful life as a floral designer and had a same-sex partner for 15+ years. Leland returned to Southern Utah in 2017 and ultimately returned to full activity in the Church. Thank you my friend Leland for being on podcast. Glad you are alive. Thank you for sharing your journey. Your story will help others. You are a good man

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love, hosted by Richard Osler.
0:09.9	My guest on today's podcast is my friend Leland Wilson, who's calling in over the phone from St. George, Utah.
0:18.9	Welcome, Leland to the podcast.
0:23.3	Thank you for having me.
0:30.4	Just some housekeeping things. I've been kind of plugging the book I wrote at the beginning of the podcast. It's called Listen, Learn, and Love, Embracing LGBTQ Latter-day Saints. And it looks like we're
0:37.4	going to call September 21st the official
0:40.0	release date of the book. It's available at pre-order at Amazon right now. And the Kindle version
0:47.7	is already available. If you want to read it right now, you can order the Kindle version.
0:53.6	I'm grateful for a couple of reviews we've
0:57.1	gotten from people that have bought the book on Amazon. I'll read a review for you right now.
1:03.8	It's from the 28th of August. The book was an answer to prayers on helping me better understand
1:09.4	how to love and support all of those
1:12.0	brothers and sisters who are walking a different path than I am. We can truly love and support one
1:17.4	another. So thank you for those of you that are buying the book, sharing it with others. It helps to
1:24.3	leave reviews on Amazon. I think you have to buy the book or the Kindle version on Amazon to do that.
1:31.0	But the book, like this podcast, is really to amplify LGBTQ voices.
1:36.9	And we're doing that today with Leland.
1:39.5	Let me just give you a little bit of a bio on Leland.
1:42.7	Leland is 56. He has been out of the church for 38 years.
1:50.0	Growing up in Southern Utah and knowing he was gay, he left the church and really left
1:55.9	Southern Utah in his teens and spent the next 30 years mostly in Las Vegas,
2:03.9	with a long-term same-sex partner.
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