Gather Conference Live Q&A

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All Out in the Open, Questions from the Closet

Latter-day Saint, Christ, Society & Culture, Mormon, Gay, Religion & Spirituality, Faith, Lgbtq, Transgender, Church Of Jesus Christ, Christianity, Lgbt, Lds

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🗓️ 22 July 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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How can I be a good ally? How do you stay hopeful in a difficult world? Who is Ben’s celebrity crush? Learn the answers (and more) in this THE Exclusive episode: a live Q&A from the 2025 Gather Conference featuring Ben Schilaty, Charlie Bird and Liz Macdonald.

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0:00.0	Thank you. Wow, what a crowd. Y'all look good. Do you know that?
0:14.5	Thank you so much for coming for showing up tonight. This is like a full room and it always,
0:20.3	like it never ceases to amaze me how alone
0:23.5	so many of us felt growing up and how you come to a place like this and it's like, oh, there's
0:29.5	resources, there's community, there's people like me and it's just so inspiring.
0:33.3	And it's like, I don't know, I feel humbled to be on the stage.
0:36.7	And you get to find your people and then suddenly you're wearing matching polos.
0:39.8	Here we are.
0:41.4	We're super excited for tonight.
0:44.1	As some of you know, this box was out.
0:46.7	Oh, yes.
0:47.5	Show the box.
0:48.9	Very nice.
0:49.9	That's been out in the lobby all day and people have been so many questions.
0:53.1	And so Liz McDonald is here. Everyone knows Liz, right? She's, woo! Let's hear it for Liz.
1:03.2	So a little bit of backstory, if you weren't quite aware, Ben and I started questions from
1:07.7	the closet about four or five years ago. Five years ago, March 2020. It was a good time to do something in your house. A good time to start something.
1:14.6	Gave us a little summer project. But last year we were talking and we kind of expanded and
1:20.4	questions from the closet became all out in the open. With that, four new host, co-host came on and Liz is one of
1:26.0	those. So she does the All Together episode
1:27.8	with Michael Soto once a month, and we are so blessed to have you, and thanks for being here
1:31.9	tonight. Along with that, just like a couple announcements, the ward business. Sorry.
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