How can my child be just like you?

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All Out in the Open, Questions from the Closet

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🗓️ 24 November 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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We (Charlie and Ben) both get a lot of messages from parents asking how they can help their kids stay In the Church and be just like us. This week we sat down with Jessyca Fulmer, who became one of the first "poster children" of the LDS/LGBTQ+ space when her coming out was featured in a Mormon Message. Jessyca talks about her experience coming out publicly, feeling social pressure from Church membership, and what it was like having her video taken down after she got engaged to her wife Savann...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Questions from the Closet. I'm Ben Shalattie. And I'm Charlie Bird. Each episode we discuss a question that we commonly get asked as LGBTQ Latter-day Saints.
0:13.7	We are not trying to answer this question or come to a consensus, but simply sharing our perspectives.
0:18.1	Today's question is, how can my child be just like you?
0:21.6	Ben and I are not terribly diverse and we share many
0:23.8	opinions and life experiences. For example, we both really don't want to be viewed
0:28.5	as poster boys for being gay and staying in the church. However, there are some pretty
0:32.1	big differences.
0:32.9	For example, Charlie is literally on a poster
0:35.4	because he's gay and staying in the church.
0:38.4	I like to be on posters.
0:40.3	I don't want to be a poster boy,
0:41.4	but I want to be a boy on a poster.
0:43.0	Yes, I mean you literally have a poster of you.
0:45.0	Kaviat, it's the cover of my book.
0:47.0	It's a very good picture too.
0:49.0	They're actually like all over the country in Deseret books.
0:51.0	Well, that's awesome.
0:52.0	So you're a literal poster boy.
0:54.0	That makes me happy.
0:55.0	A boy on a poster.
0:56.0	But don't make me a poster child.
0:59.0	We like to provide a variety of voices and perspectives. So today we're joined by Jessica
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