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

And I'm Ben Shalatti. Each episode, we discuss a question that we commonly get asked

as LGBTQ plus larity states.

We're not trying to answer this question or come into a consensus, but simply sharing

our perspectives. Today's question is, how do I find community?

It's how do I build community? How do I build community?

That was pretty close though. So Charlie and I are not terribly diverse. We should have

many opinions, a lot of experiences. For example, we both have vivid dreams.

There are some pretty big differences, however, in that I often have vivid nightmares.

Yeah. I don't really have nightmares. I'm like jealous. I'm using

not jealous of people because I try not to be because I think jealousy is never a good

look. Attention people, jealousy is not a good look. But I would like nightmares. Like

as a kid, I would always get scared and I wouldn't want to go to sleep because I'd be terrified.

That is terrifying. I'm very sorry. Sometimes when I wake up, I'm like, oh, thank goodness

that was a dream, but not usually like what? Like a murderer is chasing me. No, everyone

is. That's technically a nightmare. Yeah. Well, I actually had a dream that I was like

in a ton of debt not too long ago. And I woke up. I was like, oh, did you check your

bank account when you woke up? No, I knew the dream. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, that's something about me for the people to know. Sorry, do you have nightmares

Charlie? I actually don't usually remember my dream. Sometimes, but not a ton. Yeah. I

actually like when I have a good dream, it's like the best when I have a bad dream. It's

a nightmare. Great. Anyway, this wasn't the most engaging of conversations. So we're going

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