Episode 520: Ciera Clayton, Age 26, Gay Latter-day Saint

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

My friend Ciera Clayton bravely shares her story. Ciera talks about her love of and testimony of the Church, coming out, and trying to navigate her sexuality. Ciera talks about dating women and getting married and having a son. Ciera talks about that marriage ending but being on good terms with her former wife. Ciera talks about trying to date men and why that doesn’t work for her and why she returned to the Church. Thank you, Ciera for being on the podcast and your courage to share your story. Every queer LDS story is unique and different, and it helps us to hear a variety of stories to help better support our LGBTQ members. ** Please Check Out My LGBTQ 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	My guest on today's podcast, joining me via Zoom from Las Vegas is my friend Sierra Clayton.
0:17.8	Welcome to the podcast, Sierra.
0:20.3	Hi, thank you for having me.
0:22.8	Sierra spells her first name really cool.
0:25.8	Will you share with our listeners how you spell your first name?
0:29.2	Yeah, it's something I got for my birthday.
0:31.5	So it's C-I-E-R-A.
0:34.7	It's a great name.
0:35.7	And Clayton, listeners, is spelled like I've always known, Clayton spelled C-L-A-Y-T-O-N.
0:43.1	I'll give you little bios.
0:44.6	We usually do in these podcasts, just enough to kind of give you an overview and then let
0:49.0	my guests tell their full story.
0:51.7	Sierra is 26, I believe. She's the mother of a son, and she has been married twice to a woman.
1:03.7	She will talk about her journey being married to Kara. They're still good friends. They're jointly
1:10.4	raising their son.
1:13.1	She'll talk about why she got married, why she broke up, why she got married, why she broke up,
1:17.7	and just share her story. She is active in the church, grew up in the church, and active in the church,
1:25.5	and is trying to just do her best to go forward.
1:29.2	Do you identify as gay or lesbian or bisexual?
1:33.6	I identify as gay.
1:35.8	Okay.
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