Lyte Gay - Ensign Global College

Contents:

• LYNETTE GAY
• ELR ROBERT C. GAY: ‘A GOSPEL OF LIVERANCE’ HAS FED THEIR LIV
• LYTE GAY: MORMON HUMANARIAN
• BOB AND LYTE GAY
• WHAT ABOUT GAY BOB?
• WATCH THE WORLDWI VOTNAL WH ELR AND SISTER GAY
• NICKELOON JT ANNOUNCED THAT SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS IS GAY
• HOW ARE YOU DRIVG YOUR LIFE? ELR AND SISTER GAY ASK YOUNG ADULTS DURG WORLDWI VOTNAL

LYNETTE GAY

In the year 2000, Bob and Lyte Gay took their fay to Kenya on a journey that wouldforever change their liv.

ELR ROBERT C. GAY: ‘A GOSPEL OF LIVERANCE’ HAS FED THEIR LIV

Lyte Gay is Managg Director of Kensgton Capal Children’s Fund, an anizatn that supports and works wh multiple chari around the world. Gay, lived Ghana, Wt Ai om 2004-2007, equently travelg to Liberia and Sierra Leone, and ntue to work velopment the untri. In speakg assignments as a Church lear, Elr Robert Christopher Gay is apt to refer to the msage of J Christ as "a gospel of liverance.

""That's what we've seen and lived all our liv, " Elr Gay said, referrg to himself and his wife, Sister Lyte Nielsen Gay, an terview on the ocsn of his recent ll to serve the First Quom of Seventy. But nversg about himself, Elr Gay seems more disposed to discs the humanarian service he and Sister Gay have been volved than his reer of that stems om his experience as print of the Ghana Accra Missn om 2004 to 2007.

LYTE GAY: MORMON HUMANARIAN

The time they spent there stilled wh Elr and Sister Gay a love for the people of Ai, particularly the three natns where they served: Ghana, Sierra Leone and Liberia. In addn to workg wh full-time missnari, Print and Sister Gay oversaw districts and traed members the prithood quoms and xiliari. "And we left a big part of our heart Ai, " Elr Gay said.

"Sister Gay said the foundatn, which was begun Ethpia 2002, was extend to Ghana, assistg the needy to bee more self-reliant by means of leracy, tn and micro-cred loans. "The humanarian efforts of Elr and Sister Gay extend to some 50 untri of the world, cludg a large micro-cred anizatn lled Un, which they -found wh several other Latter-day Sats, that has reached more than 12 ln people poverty. But for Elr and Sister Gay, liverance a gospel sense transcends meetg temporal needs.

"He said, 'I see how you live, and I want to live that way, '" Elr Gay relled.

BOB AND LYTE GAY

Tragilly, Peter suffered a fatal accint not long Gay served as a missnary Spa om 1971 to 1973, beg somethg of a pneer there, as he was the first group actually lled to serve that untry, the group that me jt before him havg been reassigned om South Ameri.

Married six months after his return, Elr and Sister Gay worked hard to balance the mands of school work and providg for and rearg a fay.

Elr Gay explaed, "We've had three children marry dividuals who were not members of the Church.

WHAT ABOUT GAY BOB?

"Not only did all our fay jo the Church, we had five temple weddgs while we served Ghana, " Elr Gay said, addg wh a se that he missed all of them due to his assignment but acknowledgg that the fay was ed blsed. 1, 1951, Los Angel, Calif., to Bill and Mary Tha Gay; married Lyte Nielsen on April 20, 1974, the Los Angel Temple; seven children: Robert “Chris” Christopher (Chelsea), Summer (Peter Plos), Jon (Gabrielle), Daniel (Kelly), Melissa (Greg), Lara (Christopher Kelly), Kyle; and 12 grandchildren.

Gay, when they were both stunts the San Fernando Valley of California. Gay and her hband are volved humanarian work that reach around 50 untri as they try to improve people’s liv. Lyte Gay Is the Managg Director of Kensgton Capal Children’s Fund, an anizatn that supports and works wh multiple chari around the world.

WATCH THE WORLDWI VOTNAL WH ELR AND SISTER GAY

Gay, lived Ghana, Wt Ai om 2004–2007, servg as Missn Print over the Ghana Accra Missn. Thirteen ch tall and plastic, Gay Bob was marketed as the first openly gay doll and ma his retail but mail-orr talogs. Gay Bob's packagg proudly (and wordily) explaed what “g out of the closet” meant:.

NICKELOON JT ANNOUNCED THAT SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS IS GAY

"Hi boys, girls and grownups, I’m Gay Bob, the world’s first gay doll.

But remember, if Gay Bob has the urage to e out of his closet, so n you! At face value, Gay Bob’s msage about the mers of g out seems earnt, pog the valu of urage, honty, and livg thentilly; however, the brandg and sign of the Gay Bob doll are brash. Gay Bob’s story is ceptively plited and tertwed toy and LGBTQ+ history.

HOW ARE YOU DRIVG YOUR LIFE? ELR AND SISTER GAY ASK YOUNG ADULTS DURG WORLDWI VOTNAL

Gay Bob was created by an advertisg executive named Harvey Rosenberg. Rosenberg put $10, 000 of his own money to gettg Gay Bob manufactured through his pany, Gizmo Development.

We had somethg to learn om the gay movement, jt like we did om the black civil rights movement, and the women’s movement and that is havg the urage to stand up and say, ‘I have a right to be what I am. While Rosenberg did not intify as gay, he stated that he had created the doll to liberate men om tradnal sexual rol. Acrdg to Rosenberg, regardls of a person’s sexualy, Gay Bob uld serve as an example for havg the urage to “e out of the closet” and be your te, thentic self.

Durg a prs blz for the doll’s release, Rosenberg also dited that Gay Bob was a spoof of other “amorpho, sexls dolls, ” which was undoubtedly a reference to Mattel’s KenTM and BarbieTM. He had plans to release addnal dolls that would have ma up the rt of Gay Bob’s fay (a mother, father, and two brothers); however, the other dolls were never produced.