Richard ‘Papa' Ostler is the host of the Listen, Learn and Love podcast (https://listenlearnandlove.org/podcasts) which provides a platform for LGBTQ Latter-day Saints to share their stories. The podcast library, which contains over 400 stories from those working through complicated issues (repentance, early-release missionaries, emotional illness, faith-crisis).
Richard Ostler is a former YSA bishop who speaks at firesides and conferences about how to more fully embrace LGBTQ Latter-day Saints, see their gifts and contributions, and better understand their unique road. He is deeply committed to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and to creating more understanding and support for LGBTQ members--a goal started during his service as a YSA bishop where he learned to set aside past assumptions to better fulfill his stewardship responsibility to meet the spiritual needs of LGBTQ ward members.