Allison Dayton started the Lift and Love Foundation to support LGBTQ individuals and their families in the Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Allison lost her brother, who was gay, to suicide at the same time her 17-year-old son was coming out. Looking for resources to help her family, she couldn’t find anything that embraced her religious beliefs and the reality of her son’s identity. Lift and Love fills that much-needed space supporting thousands of individuals and family members as they navigate their unique journeys of protecting their identity or that of their precious children and integrating their new reality into their devotion to Jesus Christ. Allison is a frequent writer and speaker and was honored to speak at this year’s BYU Women’s Conference. In 2022 she moderated an LGBTQ Conversation Circle at the UN Women’s Conference. Allison and her husband, Kenn, live in the foothills of Salt Lake City, Utah. They have three grown children, a son-in-law and a granddaughter, Georgia, who rules their world.