Episode 83: Ryan Wooten

Coming Out Pod

Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Comedy, Mental Health

4.9 • 584 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

In a departure from our usual format, fellow LGBT Center facilitator Ryan Wooten tells his story about coming out as HIV+. Ryan was in a monogamous relationship when he was diagnosed in his early twenties, and talks about moving from despair, to acceptance, to confidence. He explains how learning to live "proud and positive" made him the strongest version of himself, and we discuss how honestly disclosing any number of things to a partner can actually be sexy.

Follow Ryan on Instagram at @fittedkid89!

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0:00.0	Hey everybody. Hey y'all. Welcome. This is Coming Out with Lauren and Nicole. We are a weekly
0:12.6	podcast where we have on queer folks from all walks of life. They tell us the tales of how they came
0:17.9	out to friends, family, and the world at large. Because who doesn't love a coming out story?
0:22.6	Today we are here with Ryan Wooten.
0:25.6	Yeah, Ryan is one of our fellow facilitators at the center, but he is a longtime
0:32.6	LA LGBT Center volunteer.
0:35.6	Really like sort of an icon volunteer.
0:39.3	Yeah, you won the award that I just won.
0:42.3	Oh, you just won?
0:43.3	I just wanted.
0:44.3	But when I first started, it was right when you had won it.
0:48.3	Uh-huh.
0:49.3	I was like, someday I want to be like, right.
0:51.3	Yeah, it's so, so exciting.
0:53.3	But we wanted to have you on forever because you have such a rich and storied history with the center and with volunteering and advocacy.
1:03.1	So we're so excited to.
1:05.1	Yeah, well, thank you guys for inviting me.
1:06.7	I'm really excited to be here.
1:08.1	I'm really excited to, you know, chat a little bit.
1:10.6	Yeah. Talk about some coming out stuff. Yes. Well, and on that note, listeners, we want to let you know this is going to be a little bit of a different episode, but in a way that we think is super awesome because we are going to concentrate yes on Ryan's coming out story as we typically do, right? That is our podcast. Coming out as however he identifies, stay tuned.
1:29.9	And then we're actually going to spend a little bit more time talking about his coming
1:34.8	out as HIV positive publicly, which he did much more recently.
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