How can I be happy with who I am?

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All Out in the Open, Questions from the Closet

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🗓️ 31 August 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Ben and Charlie are joined by Tyler McFarland and Ryan Clifford to talk about how they came to accept and love who they are.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Questions from the Closet.
0:04.2	I'm Ben Shalatti.
0:05.4	And I'm Charlie Bird.
0:06.8	Each episode, we discuss a question we commonly get asked as LGBTQ+, Latter-day Saints.
0:11.3	We're not trying to answer this question, or a kind of consensus, but simply share
0:14.6	in our perspectives.
0:15.6	Today's question is, how can I be happy with who I am?
0:19.4	Ben and I are not terribly diverse, and we share many opinions and life experiences.
0:23.7	For example, we both tend to like people that are not age-appropriate.
0:28.5	However, there are some pretty big differences.
0:30.2	For example, I tend to like younger guys and Charlie, like older guys.
0:33.7	And I hate this.
0:34.7	I'm very embarrassed by this.
0:35.9	It's so awkward.
0:38.4	But I feel like every time there's a guy who's like, like bearded and lumberjacky and like,
0:45.2	I'm like, hey, and then Ben will be like, isn't this person so cute?
0:51.1	I'm like, Ben, they look like third world.
0:53.2	No, no, no, no, no, that is not true.
0:55.2	I said, look like.
0:56.2	No, still, that's really gross.
0:59.0	We're both uncomfortable with it.
1:00.8	But like, I like, I don't know, I like a lumberjack and he likes a return missionary,
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