Episode 577: Amberly Bean, Gay Latter-day Saint

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

My friend Amberly June Bean (gay, active LDS, lo married mother of one; late 20’s) joins us to bravely share her story. Amberly, who grew up in Idaho Falls, talks about knowing she was gay and eventually coming out to her mother (good experience). She talks about the shame and suicidal ideation she felt during this time and not wanting to disappoint her Heavenly Parents by being gay. Amberly talks about the good experience of serving a mission (Nashville, Tennessee) which included coming out to her Mission President. Amberly talks about not participating in the Church for a time and dating women after her mission—but then returning to the church. Amberly, in an unexpected turn, talks about falling in love and marrying her husband, Kendall. Amberly talks about why she decided to come out more broadly via this podcast and her work with Lift and Love to help with support groups for queer youth. Thank you Amberly for being on the podcast. You are brave and awesome. Your story will help so many.

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0:00.0	Welcome listeners to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love, hosted by Richard Osler.
0:08.8	Really grateful for you listeners out there that tune into the podcast.
0:13.8	There may be too many to keep track of, but occasionally perhaps you tune in for one that
0:19.1	interests you and really appreciate you doing that and sharing
0:21.6	the podcast and our listenership keeps going up and the number of people listening to the
0:26.3	podcast keep going up and that's because of my guests and because of you listeners.
0:30.1	So that's just an all of a labor of love between me, you listeners and our guests to try to
0:35.9	create Zion and try to bring more understanding,
0:38.2	love and support as brave people come forward and share their story on the podcast.
0:43.6	So if you're on the treadmill right now, for some reason I think of people on the treadmill
0:47.9	on a morning gym or a class.
0:50.3	So if you're our walk, or wherever you are, just grateful for you're listening.
0:55.5	My guest on today's podcast, a wonderful woman who's in our home is Amberly Bean.
1:01.4	Welcome to the podcast, Amberley.
1:03.3	Thanks.
1:04.1	Happy to be.
1:05.7	Amber Lee is going to share her story as a gay Latter-day Saint.
1:09.3	And so when anybody does this, it takes so much courage.
1:13.9	This is the first time that she has shared publicly her story.
1:17.2	She's been out to family and friends for a period of time,
1:20.9	but she felt it was time to be public,
1:23.6	and this is obviously a good forum.
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