Latter Gay Stories

About Latter Gay Stories

What is it like to be gay? Am I alone in this journey? How do I reconcile my faith and my sexuality? Is leaving my religion to find happiness even possible? Welcome to Latter Gay Stories! We're a podcast featuring real people, real stories, and real talk! We discuss life inside and outside of the closet—and living your best and most authentic LGBTQ+ self. You are not alone. You are not broken. And your best days are ahead. Most of our guests have a background in Mormonism and we discuss how a variety of religious traditions influence the queer journey.

Publisher

Latter Gay Stories

Category

health & fitness · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

13 Feb 2019

Latest episode

29 Apr 2026

Latest episodes

6 of 99 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   29 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT

   193: Steve Pynaker: Gay, Evangelist, and Exploring Mormonism

   Host Steve Pynaker shares his journey as a gay evangelist exploring Mormonism and its diverse branches, offering insights into faith and identity.

2. 

   8 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT

   192: Trevon Cutler | From Devotion to Desperation

   Trevon Cutler chose the Church for himself as a teenager and gave it everything—priesthood, leadership, a mission, and years of trying to become the person he believed he was supposed to be. But underneath it all, he was quietly fighting the truth about being gay, hoping faith and obedience would somehow change it. They didn't. The pressure built into anxiety, depression, and a mental health crisis that pushed him further than he ever expected to go. When Trevon finally came out, it wasn't a single moment—it was a risk. One message to a friend. One message to his mom. And instead of losing everything, he found the support that helped pull him through one of the darkest nights of his life. This conversation is honest about what it costs to hide, what it takes to face yourself, and how life can begin to open up on the other side of that truth—even while the struggle is still real.

3. 

   17 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT

   191: David Chappell | He Didn't See A Place for Him at BYU—So He Created One

   Civil engineer David Chappell shares his journey of creating inclusive spaces at BYU and running for office to foster a more compassionate Utah.

Inside a recent episode

193: Steve Pynaker: Gay, Evangelist, and Exploring Mormonism

Published 29 Apr 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] So I really think it's important that we need to acknowledge the indispensable role that gay men in particular have played in Christianity. Now we have to ask ourselves, what about the larger queer community? Look, I understand being a white gay male in America, I did suffer some, obviously, a lot of anguish and pain, but I also realized that I'm... I'm not obviously gay to people, so if I need to not be viewed as gay, I can be. So I have that little area where I come across as, in many ways, just like a heterosexual man. What do we do with people that look different, act different? that are female, that maybe traditionally don't have the advantages of being a part of a power structure, right, that gay men in many ways often did have, that other people within the LGBTQ community didn't have. […]

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

1,069,366

Score snapshot 7 Mar 2026

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.7 / 5

122 ratings

Spotify

4.8 / 5

41 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 18 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

1

Social presence

0

YouTube

63

Engagement

27

Contact Latter Gay Stories

Guest appearances

Books guests

Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.

Questions about Latter Gay Stories