Episode 433: Blake Hogge, Noted Wedding Photographer, RM, Gay Latter-Day Saint,

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

My friend Blake Hogge shares his story as a gay Latter-day Saint. Blake shares knowing his was “different” before his successful mission to Tampa, Florida (Haitian Creole), decided to stop dating women, developing his very successful wedding photographer business (check out @blakehogge on IG), coming out to friends and family, starting to date men, and staying close to his Heavenly Father. Blake has a remarkable story that helps all of us better understand and support each other—and keep us together as the same human family. I was deeply moved by his good spirit, support of all people on their respective paths and wonderful insights. Thank you Blake for being on the podcast. You are helping so many with your profession and sharing your story. You have a great life ahead of you. ** Please Check Out My 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.
0:10.1	I appreciate all of you listening.
0:11.8	I appreciate you sharing the podcast.
0:13.6	As I've mentioned before, you can't donate, but the things you can do is continue to leave reviews.
0:18.8	For the podcast, especially on Apple, for the book I wrote,
0:22.6	Listen, Learn and Love, Embracing LGBTQ Latter-day Saints.
0:25.4	You can buy that book, share that book.
0:27.8	All the proceeds to that book do not go to me.
0:30.3	They go to a memorial scholarship fund for a gay teenager.
0:34.7	You can leave a review for that book on Amazon and Desert Book, and I appreciate
0:38.4	all of you that are doing that. I read the reviews, and I'm really appreciative. So that's the
0:45.6	only housekeeping thing. It's monsoon season is, I never talk about some of my personal interests,
0:51.0	but you should know how much I love monsoon season. Listeners, I thought I would
0:55.1	always be a weatherman, and it's July in Utah, it's monsoon season. So I just watch the radar app
1:02.8	and hope and pray that big thunderstorms come to Salt Lake City area, and it's been a couple
1:06.7	years. So anyway, maybe that'll happen sometime sometime and then I'll get to talk about that.
1:12.6	But we're here to talk with my friend Blake Hogue. Welcome to the podcast, Blake.
1:16.6	Thank you so much for having me. Appreciate it.
1:18.6	Will you share with our listeners how to spell your name?
1:21.6	Yeah, it's H-O-G-G-E.
1:25.6	And Blake reached out to me and he's going to share his story as a gay Latterty Saint.
1:30.6	And as you listeners know, I try to do a little bit of a bio, and I'll do that with Blake.
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