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🗓️ 27 June 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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In this episode Ben and Charlie discuss future plans for the podcast, the gather conference, and get an update on how dating has gone for Ben

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0:00.0	Welcome to Questions from the Closet. I'm Charlie Bird and I'm Ben Shilatty, but before we get started we have something important to talk about.
0:12.0	What is it been?
0:13.4	The Gather conference is happening again this year in Provo, Utah.
0:16.7	It is going to be September 13th through 14th.
0:19.0	With an optional event on the 12th, which is a Thursday night night a meet and greet and a dinner.
0:23.9	I feel like we sound like a commercial right now and I'm not like I don't have the
0:27.2	script. Does that make sense? Yes it does make sense. What's going to be great
0:31.8	about the conference?
0:32.5	Okay, well, last year, 1,300 people came,
0:35.0	and we're hoping for a similar number, or even more people.
0:38.6	But a lot of people in the LGBTQ lawyer-state space,
0:41.3	whether they'd be LGBT-, or allies, or parents
0:48.0	often feel alone and feel like they're on an island. And this is an opportunity to gather with people
0:50.0	who have similar life experiences
0:52.0	and also build your faith in Christ together.
0:54.1	So it's fun, it's inspiring, and it's an opportunity to meet new people and make friends.
0:58.6	And if you came before, get reacquainted with old ones.
1:01.7	Yeah, and so we are both on the planning committee for this conference.
1:03.9	I'd say Ben is like spearheading it.
1:06.4	I, you and Allison, yeah.
1:08.7	And Allison Dayton from Lift and Love.
1:11.3	And we actually recently went on a retreat. We were in St George and we put together
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