PRIDE & JOY w/ Elena Joy Thurston [Founder of the nonprofit, Pride and Joy Foundation]

Explicit content warning

06/16/21 • 85 min

EPISODE 85
PRIDE & JOY

✨🏳️‍🌈ELENA JOY THURSTON [Founder of the nonprofit, Pride and Joy Foundation] joins talk her coming out journey while being in the Mormon Church, how “couples therapy” turned into gay conversion “therapy,” coming out to her husband and kids, and more!

We play THE INTERROGATION and 2 TRUTHS AND A LIE w/ beer!
WATCH: https://youtu.be/SVkKXsYjj_8
BLOG: https://www.jampackedshow.com/post/pride-and-joy
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ABOUT:
✨🏳️‍🌈 Elena Joy Thurston is an inspirational LGBTQ speaker, trainer, and founder of the nonprofit Pride and Joy Foundation. A Mormon mom of four who lost her marriage, her church, and her community when she came out as a lesbian, Elena’s viral TEDx talk on surviving conversion therapy has been viewed 40,000+ times and landed her media and speaking opportunities with ABC, CBS, FOX, Boston’s First Event, and Seacoast Wellness Series. Elena Joy recently joined the publishing world with Pride and Joy Publishing, the only LGBTQ+ publisher of solely LGBTQ+ empowerment and business books.

@pridejoyfoundation
bit.ly/2NzjhLoSHOW NOTES:
0:00 Show Intro
1:30 Elena Joy Thurston Intro
3:27 Meet Elena Joy Thurston
5:00 Pride Night / Dyke Beer

Los Angeles Dodgers Pride Night
Arizona Diamondbacks Pride Night
Phoenix Mercury Pride Night

6:30 Diana Taurasi - Phoenix Mercury
8:07 Drink of Choice: “Sangria” & Beer
8:30 Drinking Game: THE INTERROGATION

Do you believe in God?
Would you eat a decomposing rodent if it saved a loved ones life?
Would you chew food and feed your significant other if they needed it?

10:00 Religion for many people
14:09 Auditory gross out
15:10 Being a Mormon mom that started having unsettling thoughts and what happened next
19:13 Mormon undergarments
21:20 How she started fly fishing
22:20 Falling in love with her best friend
23:50 When her husband found the text messages between she and her best friend
24:34 Couples Counseling / Couples Therapy
28:45 First time she thought about suicide after talking to counselor
29:50 Elena was about that Mormon Life
33:40 Learning about “the guy in town” that ended up being Gay Conversion Therapy
35:58 Different types of Gay Conversion Therapy sessions
38:20 Her sessions of conversion therapy
43:00 Feeling suicidal after conversion therapy
45:30 How it felt to finally go to a licensed professional therapist

47:00 New Chapter of life

47:30 Raising kids in the mormon church

49:00 Coming out to the kids

50:50 How her kids responded to coming out to them

52:06 What else held her back from wanting to come out (other than her marriage)

55:00 DRINKING GAME: 2 Truths & a Lie

1:03:12 Gay Conversion Therapists - Dave Matheson and many others that have come out as gay

1:07:05 Realized tides were going to conversion therapy. Religion Loopholes for conversion therapy

1.17:00 Trying to ban conversion therapy will be hard to get on the ballot.

72:00 Germany has banned conversion therapy, but other countries

73:22 Googling and finding conversion therapy place walking distance from an interviewers house that said it was mainly a problem in the US. She was in London.

75:40 Pride & Joy Foundation

78:17 What the Elena now would say to the 15-16 year old Elena

79:39 Words of Wisdom

82:35 Contact Elena

EPISODE 85
PRIDE & JOY

@pridejoyfoundation
bit.ly/2NzjhLoSHOW NOTES:
0:00 Show Intro
1:30 Elena Joy Thurston Intro
3:27 Meet Elena Joy Thurston
5:00 Pride Night / Dyke Beer

Los Angeles Dodgers Pride Night
Arizona Diamondbacks Pride Night
Phoenix Mercury Pride Night

6:30 Diana Taurasi - Phoenix Mercury
8:07 Drink of Choice: “Sangria” & Beer
8:30 Drinking Game: THE INTERROGATION

Do you believe in God?
Would you eat a decomposing rodent if it saved a loved ones life?
Would you chew food and feed your significant other if they needed it?

47:00 New Chapter of life

47:30 Raising kids in the mormon church

49:00 Coming out to the kids

50:50 How her kids responded to coming out to them

52:06 What else held her back from wanting to come out (other than her marriage)

55:00 DRINKING GAME: 2 Truths & a Lie

1:03:12 Gay Conversion Therapists - Dave Matheson and many others that have come out as gay

1:07:05 Realized tides were going to conversion therapy. Religion Loopholes for conversion therapy

1.17:00 Trying to ban conversion therapy will be hard to get on the ballot.

72:00 Germany has banned conversion therapy, but other countries

73:22 Googling and finding conversion therapy place walking distance from an interviewers house that said it was mainly a problem in the US. She was in London.

75:40 Pride & Joy Foundation

78:17 What the Elena now would say to the 15-16 year old Elena

79:39 Words of Wisdom

82:35 Contact Elena

Previous Episode

DYKE BEER w/ Sarah Hallonquist [ Co-Founder of Dyke Beer & Co-Founder of The Dyke Bar Takeover]

EPISODE 84
DYKE BEER
✨🏳️‍🌈🍻 SARAH HALLONQUIST [Co-Founder of DYKE BEER & Co-Founder of The Dyke Bar Takeover ] joins via Zoom to talk the word Dyke, Dyke Bars, Dyke Bar Takeovers of predominantly straight-leaning bars, and more!

We play STORYTIME Remix of Dyke Bar Names with 🏳️‍🌈🍻 DYKE BEER!

WATCH: https://youtu.be/sykl9DycAeE
BLOG: https://www.jampackedshow.com/post/dyke-beer
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ABOUT:✨🏳️‍🌈 🍻 Loretta Andro Chung and Sarah Hallonquist are the brains and grassroots activists behind Dyke Beer, both a product that honors and celebrates LGBTQIA+ spaces and history and are event producers that host events throughout New York City, like Queeraoke, Dyke Cookouts and Self Defense classes.

@dykebeer
@dykebartakeover

https://lovedykebeer.com/
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SHOW NOTES:

0:00 Show Intro

1:00 Sarah Hallonquist Intro

3:10 Meet Sarah

3:47 What happened when Jameela cracked open a Dyke Beer and what happened after that...

Jameela’s Beer Review

7:30 Importance of Dyke Beer

12:36 Dyke Bar Takeover turning into Dyke Beer

17:00 lost queer spaces and bars

19:10 Dyke Bar Takeover community

20:02 Dyke Bar statistics

21:53 Drinking Game: THE INTERROGATION

23:45 Being in New York during the pandemic

26:45 Drinking Game: STORYTIME

Dyke Bar Names Remix

41:00 Dyke Beer at Dinah Shore?

42:20 How they came up with the name Dyke Beer

53:00 Creating a Dyke Bar Takeover Chapter in your town

56:20 the definition and history of the word Dyke

58:50 the response they’ve gotten from using Dyke

1:02:25 the term terf

1:19:13 recap of Dyke Bar Names we came up with

1:21:00 Sarah’s coming out journey

1:22:36 what would Dyke Beer Sarah say to 14 year old Sarah

1:23:46 Words of Wisdom

“Think about where your energy is placed. Try to place it in a positive place instead of in a negative place”

1:26:19 outro

Next Episode

QUEER CONFIDENCE w/ Coach Alex Ray [Queer Confidence Coach]

EPISODE 86
QUEER CONFIDENCE
🏳️‍🌈🦄COACH ALEX RAY joins to talk mental health, coming out journey, his attempted suicide to becoming the Queer Confidence Coach, Queer Confidence Coaching Steps, and more!

We play MENTALLY STIMULATE ME with Grapefruit Soda & Beer!
WATCH: https://youtu.be/6tlxSWYeBPo
BLOG: https://www.jampackedshow.com/post/queer-confidence

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ABOUT:

✨🏳️‍🌈 Coach Alex Ray use to be extremely insecure. After hitting rock bottom with his depression in 2017, he went on a search to find out what made people confident. After taking several year to work on his own confidence, he now helps others in the LGBTQIA+ community become confident through his proven process.
@coachalexray
about.me/coachalexray