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Bobby Wyant

Bobby Wyant

LGBTQ+ survivor and guest on the "I Choose Happy with Marilyn" podcast, sharing his experience of being sent to a Christian conversion program as a teenager.

Sep 22, 2026

45:25
And what prompted you to go to Hawaii?
45:28
After I turned 18 and I had been, I would say, really institutionalized, because I stayed in places and programs throughout the time after that, after Newport, just because it wasn't realistic for me to go home.
45:41
I, once I turned 18 and kind of had to start doing my own life and creating something for myself, I was all over the country trying to make it work.
45:50
And I ended up visiting a friend in Hawaii.
45:52
I was living in Utah at the time.
45:54
had no intention, you know, to ever move here.
45:57
It was like a very, I barely was able to swing it financially, barely was able to come out.

11 MINS LATER

57:01
Yeah.

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