Episode 820: Lyric Kinard, Creating LGBTQ Support Groups, Allyship, Gather Southeast

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

My friend Lyric Kinard (lives in Raleigh, married mother of 5 including queer kids, active Latter-day Saint) joins us to share her story around creating support groups and an invitation to attend Gather Southeast (in Raleigh, NC) on Sept 20, 2025). Lyric talks about: Principles for starting a support group Engaging local leaders Importance of speaking up and having a second witness Creating safe spaces at church Gather Southeast Why she wears her transgender scarf to Church Being like Jesus Thank you, Lyric, for being on the podcast and all your work (along with many others in your area) to help LGBTQ Latter-day Saints feel more welcome, loved and needed. It is people like you that give me hope. You are making a huge difference for good. Links: Gather Southeast: www.gathersoutheast.com/ Gather Southeast Newsletter: www.gathersoutheast.com/f/gather-se-newsletter Gather Southeast Instagram: www.instagram.com/gather_southeast/ Gather Southeast Facebook: www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61563441041765 Lyric’s e-mail: [email protected] Resource Files at “Supporting LGBTQ Latter-day Saints”: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1433556613672143

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome listeners to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love, hosted by Richard Osler.
0:10.1	I have a terrific ally on the podcast. I'm also a mother. She knows the space having queer children.
0:18.6	And welcome to the podcast, Lyric, Kinnard.
0:23.6	It's my pleasure. Thank you so much for having me, Richard.
0:26.6	Lyric has one of the coolest first names I've ever known. It's just this name that once
0:31.6	I heard it, just stuck. L-Y-R-I-C.
0:34.6	Right? I thank my mother all the time because it is an awesome name.
0:41.2	Let me introduce lyric to you.
0:44.5	And one of the things, well, let me just introduce her to you.
0:48.5	And then I'll talk a little bit about what she's going to do.
0:50.7	She's married mother of five.
0:57.3	And she's an artist, an author, an educator.
1:02.7	She lives in the Raleigh area. She's a Latter-day Saint, has been in that area for 30 years,
1:09.3	and is part of a co-founder support of a support group called Gather Southeast.
1:12.3	We'll link to their website in the show notes.
1:18.6	And they put together their very first kind of big support effort in last September.
1:20.8	And I was able to be there.
1:26.2	And it was just an incredible group of people with an incredible spirit, about 80 attended.
1:29.8	They're doing another one this September of 2025 on September 20th, and that's one of the things lyrics going to be talking about is just
1:35.3	how their support group started. And she's also an active Latter-day Saint and is helping with other
1:43.6	local wards, Bishop R Rick, State Presidencies,
1:46.8	young men's, young women's to put together support groups. She's going to talk about what's going on
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