Ally Nights: Creating Community in Your Own Home

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🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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This week on ALL Together, Liz Macdonald and Michael Soto sit down with Clare Dalton, host of IN the Scriptures and curator of the Gatherings curriculum, and Jen Dille, project manager at the Center for Action and Contemplation. Together Jen and Clare started monthly Ally Nights—safe spaces for learning, connection and support for LGBTQ+ individuals and those who love them. The episode explores what it means to be an ally and how our small, collective efforts can make a big difference. They...

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0:00.0	Welcome to All Out in the Open. I'm Charlie Bird here with Vincialatti.
0:03.5	This week we have an awesome All Together episode and these episodes are totally focused on community building at the intersection of LGBTQ and religion.
0:11.3	And we have a grid of a crossover episode today because Liz and Michael are interviewing Claire, who's another host, and our friend Jen Dilley.
0:19.2	And they talk about the work they're doing to build community in Arizona.
0:23.6	And I love it.
0:24.9	I am so proud of them.
0:26.7	Jen is actually one of those people who became a random friend like five years ago.
0:31.1	She reached out to the podcast email.
0:32.5	I was like, hey, I'd love to help.
0:33.5	How can I help?
0:34.1	And I was like, let's talk because I had time back then and we did. Luckily, she's really organizationally structured, which the two of us are not so much.
0:41.4	Yeah. And so Jen has saved our butts so many times and she is just awesome. But I just love the
0:48.0	work they're doing to share stories and build community where they are. And what they're doing
0:53.1	is something that anyone in their community can do.
0:55.6	It can be replicated.
0:56.3	And that's what we hope people get from this episode.
0:57.9	Yeah.
0:58.1	We hope you enjoy it.
1:10.3	Well, welcome to our edition of All Out in the Open this week. We are so happy Michael and I are to have Jen Dilley and Claire Dalton with us today. We just, this has been on our mind since we started. We've interviewed just a variety of amazing,
1:30.9	whether they're people who work in politics or people who work in the LGBTQ space or we've
1:37.8	had some really amazing spiritual leaders. And we've had on our mind that that because Michael and I are focusing on bridge
1:47.7	building and building community for people who are listening and who are interested in this
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