Episode 483: Barry Donakey, Gay Latter-day Saint

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

My friend Barry Donakey (BYU Senior, BYU English/Spanish Studies Major) shares his story. Barry (who graduated from Timpanogos High School in 2016) talks about “when did you know,” managing expectations for a heteronormative marriage, and coming out to family and friends (great support). Barry talks about the need to improve Church culture to talk about supporting LGBTQ members and hearing their stories in church-supported settings. Barry shares his experience with the LGBTQ+ & Allies workshop series at the Utah Valley University (UVU) LDS Institute and how this can be scaled into our local areas of influence. Barry shares insights and principles from the scriptures that give him direction and hope for his future and also how he manages the frustrations he feels at times as a gay Latter-day Saint who is also fully active in the Church. Thank you Barry for being you and for your insights to help us better create Zion. You are a good man and your voice and perspective is so needed and helpful. Thank you for being on the podcast. ** 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 ** Want to develop church-supported LGBTQ activities in your local area? Please join our FB group below ** https://www.facebook.com/groups/1433556613672143

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0:00.0	Welcome listeners to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love, hosted by Richard Osler.
0:09.6	Before I introduce our guests on today's podcast, just some housekeeping things that sometimes plug a few things.
0:17.0	I want to plug a Facebook group we have.
0:20.0	It's called LGBTQ and Allies in ward, stakes, and missions.
0:25.1	Facebook group has about 2,400 Latter-day Saints, and they're just people that are trying to put together church-sponsored content.
0:33.6	And their ward, stakes, institute missions, and people are brainstorming ensuring what they're doing
0:37.8	and what's working and content a lot of people are trying to start from scratch in their ward and
0:42.6	stake it's just a way to have a community of people that are trying to um put together this kind of
0:49.0	content so that once again is called LGBTQ and allies and ward stakes and missions. I'll link to it in the show
0:55.3	notes of this podcast, or you can just type that in and search it on Facebook. Also, I've written a
1:01.8	book called Listen, Learn, and Love, Embracing LGBTQ Latter-day Saints. That's a way to learn more
1:06.8	about this subject. And if you have time, I encourage you to leave a review for that book
1:11.4	at Desert Book and at Amazon. That would help just more people connect to the book.
1:17.7	You can't donate to the podcast. There's no way to donate, but those things that you can support.
1:23.8	But the reason this podcast works is because of the people that step forward and
1:27.7	share their stories. And one of those is here today, Barry Donicki, who's going to share
1:32.5	his story as a gay Latter-day Saint. By way of introduction, Gary, Barry, sorry, went to
1:39.5	Timpanooga's High School in Salt Lake in, sorry, Utah County, graduated in 2016, served admission in Washington.
1:49.9	Washington, yeah, come. I knew I was going to get that wrong, Barry. He's speaking Spanish.
1:54.5	He's an English and Spanish major. Is that right? Correct. He's a senior. He's looking possibly
2:00.7	for, or to MBA school at some point.
2:04.4	He's acting the church.
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