Episode 441: Kim Siever, Age 48, Married Father of Six, Active LDS, Queer

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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My friend Kim Siever zooms us from Lethbridge, Alberta, to share his story. Kim, who is Canadian, served a mission in Utah and is now an independent journalist. He tells us his lifelong journey to understand his sexual orientation after being convinced for over 40 years that he was straight. He also shares how the Spirt helped him understand this part of him, and he came out as queer to his wife, family, and friends only last year. Kim came out to his Latter-day Saint congregation during a Fast and Testimony Meeting in early August and explains why he felt impressed to do that and the reaction of ward members. Kim feels no shame in being both queer and a Latter-day Saint and sees them as two parts of the same identity. Kim’s podcast is very insightful, and I hope it will help us understand there are LGBTQ Latter-day Saints of all ages and how we can better support them as we try to create a feeling of belonging within the church. Thank you for being on the podcast, Kim. Respect for sharing your story that helps all of us better come together as the Body of Christ. Great job! ** 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.
0:09.6	Appreciate all of you that leave reviews.
0:11.8	The best place to leave a review is at iTunes.
0:15.8	Really appreciate those.
0:17.3	There's reviews there.
0:19.8	But with that, I don't have a lot of housekeeping. I'd just like to get right to our guests. My guest today, joining us from Zoom in Canada is my friend Kim Seaver. Welcome to the podcast, Kim.
0:31.5	Thank you for having you, Richard. I'm looking forward to the discussion. Will you spell your name for our listeners? I think most would get it, but just in case.
0:39.2	Sure. K-I-M and then Siever, S-I-E-V-E-R. I think that's important because in Utah, that's probably, the I would
0:47.2	probably come after the V. Well, that is different. I actually wrote it down on my paper wrong. So now,
0:53.3	S-I-E-V-E-R.
0:55.0	Is that right?
0:55.7	That is correct.
0:56.9	Well, I'm glad we got that right from the beginning.
0:58.9	I didn't wait until the end.
1:01.0	Listeners, Kim is going to share his story as a queer Latter-day Saint.
1:05.1	He is a married father of six children.
1:08.3	He has three kids in the church and three kids that are queer out of the
1:13.1	church. He's in his 40s. He served a mission in Provo, Utah. You currently live where, Kim?
1:21.4	Lethbridge, Alberta. And you grew up, tell our listeners a little bit about where you grew up. You've
1:26.3	been in a couple spots in Canada. I have, yeah. So I grew up in Saskatchewan. I was born and raised there
1:33.2	until I was 16. Most of that time I spent in the capital city, Regina. And then just before I turned
1:40.4	16, my parents moved to Vancouver in British Columbia.
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