Episode 412: Tom Fairholm, Gay Latter-day Saint, Gifted Musician, BYU Grad, RM

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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My friend Tom Fairholm (who recently graduated from BYU with degrees in music composition and Russian) shares his story as a gay Latter-day Saint. Tom, who has deep testimony of loving Heavenly Parents, the Savior, the Book of Mormon, talks about coming out to his parents in his teens (good experience), serving a mission, trying to make dating women work, and coming out more broadly earlier this year. ** Please Check Out My New Book At: ** Deseret Book: www.deseretbook.com/p/listen-learn-and-love-embracing-lgbtq-latter-day-saints Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/1462135773 Tom wrote a very thoughtful medium article (https://humanparts.medium.com/of-power-and-of-love-and-of-a-sound-mind-150289b5b41f) which has great insights and thoughtful suggestions going forward. Tom discusses the article on the podcast. Tom concludes with a piano musical number that he composed for the podcast. You can hear more of his music at https://soundcloud.com/tom-fairholm. Thank you Tom for being on the podcast and sharing some of your journey. You are a very gifted man contributing to our church and community in wonderful ways. You are bringing hope, healing and better understanding to many. This world is a better place with you in it.

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0:00.0	Welcome listeners to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love. My name is Richard Ossel, the host of this podcast.
0:11.4	As you may know, this podcast is a labor of love. You can't donate. There's no money stream. It's just a
0:16.4	platform for generally LGBTQ Latter-day Saints come forward and share their stories.
0:21.6	And it's not a correlated platform where we're just sharing one type of story.
0:25.6	We're trying to share as many stories as we can.
0:28.6	It's helpful for me and hopefully helpful for you listeners to hear a variety of stories
0:33.6	to better meet the needs of this group of Latter-day Saints and if you're LGBTQ, that different stories will help you in different ways.
0:41.7	So you listeners really make this podcast go,
0:44.5	but the real heroes of the podcast are the people that bravely step forward
0:48.5	and share their stories.
0:49.6	And I have one of those people in my home now.
0:57.3	His name is Tom Fairholme. Welcome to the podcast, Tom.
1:03.2	Thanks. Happy to be here. As we usually do, we set a prayer and our hope is that this podcast will be helpful. You'll fill a spirit if you're LGBTQ, that Tom will have some thoughts that will be
1:08.2	helpful for you, help you have hope, help you feel closer to
1:12.4	Christ, help you to have better perspective and principles to make your way forward.
1:16.5	If you're a parent or a local leader, just anybody listening, wanting to better support LGBT
1:22.5	Lattery Saints or hope that things Tom share will be helpful for you.
1:27.6	I kind of like to do a little bio,
1:29.8	and then I usually turn over, I guess,
1:31.2	to make sure I didn't mess it up too much.
1:32.9	But Tom is 24.
1:35.4	He grew up in the state of, in Virginia, near Washington, D.C.
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