Episode 417: Dallas Campbell, RM, Age 21, Gay Latter-day Saint

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2021

⏱️ 85 minutes

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My friend Dallas Campbell shares his story as a gay Latter-day Saint. I became aware of Dallas from his moving Instagram coming out post www.instagram.com/tv/CNTnG5thfbW Dallas talks about knowing he is gay from a young age, some difficult times in high school, serving a wonderful mission in Guatemala, testimony of the Gospel, trying to date women, and receiving personal revelation he needed to come out. Dallas talks about what helped him to finally come out; the great support he is receiving from family, friends and Ward members; advice for those who are closeted; and his feelings about his future. Dallas also talks about his strong relationship with his Heavenly Father and the Savior to bring hope and healing. Thank you for being on the podcast Dallas. Your story is needed and moving. Thank you for being a light and bringing hope to others. You are a great man with a bright future. You can reach Dallas on IG @dallasmcampbell ** 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

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0:00.0	Welcome listeners to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love hosted by Richard Osler.
0:09.1	For those of you that are listening to our podcast for the first time, this is a podcast where mostly we're providing a platform for LGBTQ Latter-day Saints to share their stories.
0:22.0	I connected with this space,
0:23.7	why serving as a bishop of a singles ward and had a couple of gay men.
0:28.0	And it was the first time I had priested responsibility for a gay Latter-day Saint,
0:31.8	and I just felt impressed to do a lot of listening.
0:34.7	And as that assignment was ending,
0:35.9	I felt impressed a step in this space to just provide more understanding for LGBTQ Ladder Saints and provide a way for their
0:46.5	stories to be shared. And the goal in doing this is just to help us come together as the same
0:52.2	human family. But the heroes to the podcast
0:54.5	are really the LGBTQ Latter-day Saints that bravely step forward and are willing to share
0:59.7	their stories. And one of those is in my home tonight. My friend Dallas Campbell, welcome to the
1:05.2	podcast, Dallas. Thank you for having me. Just to give you a background, Dallas is age 21. He served a two-year mission in
1:13.1	Guatemala. He grew up and lives in Arizona, and he shared an Instagram post that I became
1:20.6	familiar with. We'll link in to the podcast description on April 5th, where he came out as gay.
1:26.2	And it's one of the finest coming out
1:27.7	stories I've heard and I'm grateful to provide a platform for Dallas to share now a longer
1:34.0	version of his story. We said a prayer before this podcast started that this podcast will help
1:39.7	you especially if you're LGBT and feel like you can't come out and you can't talk to anybody about this and you feel no hope.
1:48.1	Dallas will have some wonderful insights for you and for parents and local leaders that are trying to have better tools to meet the needs of LGBTQ Latter-day Saints.
2:00.6	And so we're really grateful for Dallas to be on the podcast.
2:04.1	How's that for an introduction, Dallas?
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