How do I start a support group?

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🗓️ 16 February 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Charlie and Ben go through the logistics of starting a local LDS/LGBTQ+ support group with Michelle Sherwin and Byron Korth, who recently started a successful group in their home Stake.

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0:00.0	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 is LGBTQ
0:07.6	larity scenes. We're not trying to answer this question or come to a consensus, but simply sharing our perspectives. Today's question is, how do I start a support group?
0:16.0	Charlie and I are not terribly diverse and we share many opinions of life experiences. For example, neither of us have had any piercings.
0:22.0	However, there are some pretty big differences. For example, Ben has this scar on his upper lip and it looks exactly like he had a pierce.
0:29.0	I swear, everyone thinks I've had it. I had it in my lip pierced, which is not true at all.
0:34.0	Well, the first time I met Ben, he was giving me advice and talking about churchy things. I'm like, oh my gosh, this guy must have...
0:41.0	By the way, this is like judgy five years ago, and I was like, he must have a really wild past, and he took out his piercing when he came back to church.
0:50.0	I was just like making assumptions, and then I was like, why would he get a piercing there? It's like the weirdest spot.
0:56.0	So this has happened literally dozens of times. Someone will talk to me and they'll be like, I'm so sorry if this is rude, but...
1:02.0	Did you put your shirt lip a while ago? It's happened dozens of times.
1:06.0	I kind of want you to get a pierce just to see what it would look like.
1:08.0	No, I have a scarf when I was like 15. I had this really terrible black head and I left a divot in my lip.
1:14.0	It's from a zit?
1:16.0	Oh my gosh.
1:18.0	It's much worse.
1:20.0	And when I was in Mexico on my mission, these teenage girls that we were teaching thought that it was funny that I had had a piercing.
1:27.0	That's what they thought, and they gave me like a fake one to put on there, so we like put it on and see what it looked like, and it did not look good.
1:32.0	If you did get a piercing, what would you get?
1:34.0	I don't think I would get a piercing.
1:36.0	I guess it was like a tattoo question.
1:38.0	No, I know what I'd get if I got a tattoo, but I wouldn't get a piercing.
1:40.0	Should we say that for another episode?
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