Finding Self Acceptance as a Gay Saint in Jamaica (with Marcel Robinson)

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🗓️ 14 October 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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This week’s OUT and About episode features Marcel Robinson, a gay Latter-day Saint from Jamaica. He opens up about losing his father, coming to terms with his sexuality, facing health challenges, serving a mission, and now attending Brigham Young University–Idaho. Marcel’s story is one of faith, hope and perseverance.

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0:00.0	Aloha. Hi, everybody. Welcome to this episode of Out and About. I'm your host, Yesa Wilson.
0:16.8	And we're going to, as we go on our tour, as usual, throughout the world to hear stories of LGBTQ Latter-day Saints.
0:23.3	Today, we're going to check out a place that we don't often think of in the church.
0:29.5	As in membership, it's often overlooked.
0:32.6	And I'm really, really grateful to have one of my dear friends with us today.
0:39.3	His name is Marcel.
0:42.6	And Marcel, I wanted you tell everybody, where are you at now, but then where it was home for you?
0:50.9	Okay, I am currently in Rexburg, Idaho.
0:58.6	I'm a student at BYU. I'm majoring in political science with an emphasis in foreign affairs and a minor photography. So that's where I'm at
1:04.8	right now. Um, but I am originally from Jamaica. I was born in a racing, Jamaica.
1:14.1	So I just came here to Rexburg for school.
1:19.0	But Jamaica is home for me.
1:20.3	Yeah.
1:24.3	And you've had quite the journey in the U.S. since coming here.
1:29.4	I'm sure you'll go into details as we go forward. One of the things that I remember when I first connected with Marcel,
1:33.4	I learned that just not everybody from Jamaica loves reggae.
1:41.3	What are your thoughts on that, Marcel?
1:46.4	To each his own. To each his own to each his own yeah that's to judge
1:48.5	yeah and then and then and then
1:50.4	we started like talking about like anime and stuff and like
1:53.4	i was just like dude like marcel
1:56.0	he gets me he totally gets me and so
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