Episode 751: Jashon Fabia, Author: “Swirling in the Eddy: LDS, Filipino, & Gay”

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

My friend Jashon Ray Fabia (Age 33, single, LDS, RM, BYU-H grad in Psychology and Music, finishing Master's in Music Therapy) bravely shares his story as a queer Filipino Latter-day Saint (our first guest from the Philippines) and his new book (see show notes). Jashon shares the shame he felt which continued until he came out to himself in his mid-20’s and others allowing Jashon to feel authentic and reduce/eliminate shame. It is a brave story of working through suicidal ideation to find hope and peace. Jashon talks about his focus on service to help other marginalized group, future projects and hopes for other queer Filipinos. Jashon concludes with reconciliation with his parents including grace with family members along this journey. Thank you, Jashon, for being on the podcast, writing your book, and sharing your story to give hope to others. You are a good man doing much healing in our world. Glad to have you on the podcast. Links: Jashon’s book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1948218917 Facebook Group to Support LGBTQ Latter-day Saints: 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.
0:10.2	My guest on today's podcast, joining me from Manila in the Philippines via Zoom, is my friend Jason Ray Fabia.
0:19.8	Welcome to the podcast, Jashen.
0:21.9	Thank you, Richard. Thank you for having me here.
0:26.3	Jason is, first name is spelled J-A-S-H-O-N.
0:32.1	And that's a Book of Mormon name. How many times does that name appear in the Book of Mormon, J-E-S-O-Morman, J-S-H-N?
0:39.3	Twice. Let's read it twice in a single chapter. I think the first one is verse 13,
0:47.3	and the other one is verse 17. I'm not so sure, like, it was during the war. During the war.
0:52.5	And so there you carry this name with you.
0:57.5	Listeners, Jason's going to share his story as gay Filipino, Latter-day Saint.
1:04.6	And he has written a book that we would like to invite you to check out.
1:10.0	It's at Amazon.
1:11.0	It's called Swirling in the Eddy, Eddy, LDS, Filipino, and Gay.
1:16.8	It has 17, five-star ratings,
1:20.1	and I, along with Becky McIntosh and Ben Shalati,
1:24.3	were honored to give a blurb of support for Jashin's book.
1:28.9	I think he's the first Filipino.
1:31.9	We've had on the podcast, and we've had Gay Latter-Day Saints from all over the world.
1:38.6	But I think you're the first Filipino.
1:41.6	We're recording this at 8 a.m. Utah time, which I'm kind of a morning person, and that's
1:47.0	10 o'clock in the Philippines, and maybe you're a night person.
1:54.2	But anyway, Jason's going to talk about his book, why he wrote it, a little bit of his
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