Episode 499: Iese Wilson, Gay Latter-Day Saint, Groundbreaking Work at BYU-Hawaii

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Richard Ostler

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🗓️ 25 January 2022

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

My friend Iese Wilson (RM, Age 28, Graduating BYU-H) bravely shares his story. Iese starts with reaching out to the President of BYU-Hawaii to share his story as a gay student and the resulting positive meeting (along with others from BYU-H administration) that occurred. Iese also talks about the many closeted BYU-H students who have reached out to him and shares about the complexity of coming another country/culture and being LGBTQ in The Church. Iese also talks about his supportive Bishop and Stake President which led to a packed Stake Fireside about supporting LGBTQ Latter-day Saints (where Becky, Scott, and their son Xian Mackintosh spoke). This led to Iese’s story being shared in the official BYU-Hawaii magazine (https://issuu.com/kealakai/docs/whole.nobleeds/48). Iese then shares his story of coming out to himself, friends, family and in a Church talk; the things he is learning; the personal revelation he is receiving, and thoughts about his future. Thank you Iese for being on the podcast and all your great work to build harmony, create Zion and bring us together as the same human family. ** 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.
0:09.7	I am in Salt Lake City via Zoom with my friend Yesei Wilson, who is calling in, zooming in from Hawaii.
0:19.0	Welcome to the podcast.
0:21.6	Aloha, glad to be here.
0:23.4	Will you share with our listeners how to spell and say your name so we get it right?
0:28.1	Yeah, it's three vowels in one continent.
0:31.0	It's I-E-S-E, and it's pronounced Y-S-E-S-E.
0:35.5	And I think we can all get Wilson right. Yeah, yeah, just like the, just like the ball.
0:41.7	So I'm going to call you yese for the podcast and I'm hopeful that's pretty close.
0:47.7	Listeners, this is a man that I have met a couple times with or we've strange a lot of messages.
0:53.7	He's a gay Latter-day Saint at
0:55.7	BYU Hawaii and is going to share his story not only as a gay Latter-day Saint, but also what
1:02.1	work he's done at BYU, Hawaii.
1:04.3	It's really the first time at BYU, Hawaii is they are talking about this topic there and having firesides and more understanding.
1:13.8	And the essay has been really the lead on this and I would call him very much of a trailblazer.
1:20.9	And I think we'll look back in 10 or 20 or 30 years at BYU Hawaii and say, where did this all start?
1:25.6	Where did support for LGBTQ Latter-day Saints? And we'll probably
1:29.3	point back to the year 20 and 21 and the work you and others have done. So our hope is this
1:36.2	podcast will be helpful for you if you're trying to also do anything to support LGBTQ Latter-day
1:43.3	Saints in your area of influence. And also if you're LGBTQ, Latter-day Saints in your area of influence.
1:45.8	And also if you're LGBTQ, closet or unclosered, the things that YesA says will be helpful for you
1:54.0	as he's been following personal revelation not only to come out, but then to do the things that he's doing.
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