Lavender Hill: Finally Out with Dr Olson

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On Sunday 26 May 2013, both Corwin and Phil were out of town at a festival. Kate baby sat the boards while a previously recorded interview was aired. A big thanks to Kate for making sure everything played smoothly at the station.

On 23  April 2013, Phil interviewed author and psychiatrist Dr. Loren A. Olson regarding his book Finally Out: Letting Go of Living Straight, a psychiatrists own story. You can read Phil’s review of the book here.

From the back cover: Loren A. Olson, M.D. is a gay psychiatrist who came out at forty. A Finally Outfather and grandfather, he is also a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a recipient of the “Exemplary Psychiatrist Award” from the National Alliance of Mental Illness. He has presented findings from his research on mature gay men at the World Congress of Psychiatry in Prague. In 2009, Dr. Olson legally married Doug Mortimer, his partner of twenty-four years. They live on a farm in Iowa where they produce grass-fed beef from their herd of Belted Galloway cattle. Dr. olson blogs at www.MagneticFire.com.

Music from this Episode of Lavender Hill

  1. Matt Gold – Oh Joe – Drown Before You Swim 
  2. Jamie Anderson – No Closet – Center of Balance 

Lavender Hill airs live every Sunday at 11am Central on Lincoln, NE’s KZUM-HD 89.3FM and on the web at http://www.kzum.org. The hosts of Lavender Hill can be reached via email at lavenderhill89.3@gmail.com. Like Lavender Hill on Facebook.