Welcome to Questions from the Closet. I'm Charlie Bird.

And I'm Ben Shalatti.

Each episode we discuss a question that we commonly get asked is LGBTQ Plus Larity Saints.

We're not trying to answer this question or come to a consensus but simply sharing our perspectives.

Today's question is, does accepting my orientation change who I am?

So, Charlie and I are not terribly diverse and we share many opinions and life experiences.

For example, we both had code words for saying that we were gay.

However, there are some pretty big differences. For example, Ben's was a lot more creative and exciting than mine was.

Mine was Hannah Montana.

Best of both worlds?

Well, that isn't exactly how it happened but it fit in later.

So, I've come up to like eight people, like just eight people, then I went and lived in Mexico for the summer.

And I would sky with my friend Craig and I, when I would get home from work, there was nothing on TV,

except for the Disney Channel. So I'd watch Hannah Montana.

And I loved it. It was so funny. It's way better in Spanish.

And so I was like, tell how much I love Hannah Montana.

I was like, wait, don't tell anyone about Hannah Montana. I was like, oh, that's a great code word.

Because you get the best of both worlds and she's got the secret that we have her close friends and family know about.

Nice.

Yeah. Nice.

You can chill it out, take it slow, then rock out the show.

That's the theme song.

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