How a Gay Brit Learned to "Come As You Are"

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All Out in the Open, Questions from the Closet

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🗓️ 10 June 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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On this week’s OUT and About episode, Iese Wilson talks with James Grant, a gay, neurodivergent Latter-day Saint from England currently serving on his stake high council. James shares his journey of coming out after years of denial and the role community and connection played in that process. A former missionary leader introduced James to the Questions from the Closet podcast and Gather Conference, which he later attended with his mom and had a deeply spiritual experience. He found hope and ...

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0:00.0	Hey, y'all, Charlie and Ben here, and we really want to meet you in person.
0:04.2	And you have the opportunity to do that on Friday, June 27th in Provo, Utah at the Utah Valley Convention Center.
0:10.3	We're hosting a podcast live event as part of the Gather Conference.
0:12.9	This part of the conference is free, and we're going to be taking questions.
0:16.3	We've got a few special guests, and it's going to be a hoot and a half.
0:18.9	We really hope you're there and also
0:20.9	totally consider coming to the gather conference itself it's going to be an amazing lineup and the last
0:25.9	two years has been so transformative for so many people yeah you can register at gather dash
0:30.4	conference dot com see you soon Hello and welcome back to All Out in the Open. This week we have another out and about
0:45.7	episode and these are so fun because our co-host, YSA. Wilson, takes us on this global tour of the
0:50.8	LGBTQ experience, what it's like to be gay in the church.
0:56.7	And today, Yes, he takes us to England to visit with his friend James.
0:57.8	I love this episode.
0:58.9	I loved his experiences.
1:00.2	And I think you'll enjoy it.
1:02.1	And Ben also loves the south of England.
1:04.1	He's been talking about it very emphatically.
1:05.6	Brighton is beautiful.
1:06.6	And that's where James lives now.
1:07.4	Everyone should go.
1:07.9	It's amazing.
1:18.0	We hope you love the episode. Hi, everybody. Welcome to Out and About, where we're going to go on a journey around the world to hear the different stories of members of the church.
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