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

Each episode we discuss a question that we commonly get asked as LGBT Q Latter-day Saints.

We are not trying to answer this question or come to a consensus, but simply sharing our

perspectives.

Today's question is, how can I help?

Ben and I are not terribly diverse and we share many opinions and life experiences.

For example, we both get quite a few messages on social media.

However, there are some pretty big differences.

For example, I respond to my messages and Charlie doesn't.

I'm really, really, really bad at responding to messages. Well I mean you get a lot more messages than I do but I just respond to them all so. Yeah I actually have been I gave him like the log in to my

Instagram and he like combs through and helps me answer messages a lot so if you get a

generic message from Charlie it's probably for that's like thank you so much I appreciate you reading

my book it was probably I'm that person who has like two to three hundred

notifications and it just like stresses me out so I just don't do anything about it

it just keeps like racking up.

Well one thing my dad taught me and he's just like showing us that I was life is that people

like deserve time and acknowledgement so I just feel like it's really important

just like acknowledge that I saw somebody.

Well then, drag me.

And I also remember when Princess Diana died, you probably don't remember because you're too young.

I was also very young.

But there were like all these specials about her and they

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