How should I come out to my family?

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🗓️ 4 August 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Ben and Charlie are joined by Twitter legend Eli McCann to discuss how they came out to their loved ones.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Questions in the Closet, I'm Den Shalati. And I'm Charlie Bird.
0:09.0	Each episode we discuss the question that we commonly get asked as LGBT Q Latter-day Saints.
0:14.0	We are not trying to answer this question or come to a consensus, but simply sharing our perspectives.
0:18.0	Today's question is, how should I come out to my family?
0:21.0	So Charlie and I are not terribly diverse, and we share many opinions of life experiences. For example, we both have dads.
0:27.0	It's true. However, there are some pretty big differences. For example, one time Ben and I were speaking at like an event and somebody thought that Ben was my dad.
0:35.0	Yeah, when I put on the suit at ages me at least 15 years, it was very embarrassing.
0:40.0	Actually, it was more embarrassing for the woman who thought I was your dad.
0:43.2	Oh, I felt so bad for her.
0:45.1	And then to get back at her, I asked her if she was pregnant.
0:48.5	Just as a joke, she obviously wasn't.
0:50.5	It was very funny.
0:51.2	She thought it was funny. Anyway, we would like to write a variety of voices and perspective.
0:57.0	So today we're joined by Eli McCann.
0:59.0	Welcome, Eli.
1:00.0	Hi!
1:01.0	Yeah.
1:02.0	So tell us a little bit about yourself. Okay, well, first of all, thank you for having me.
1:04.5	This is very exciting for me.
1:05.5	I've never met anyone before.
1:07.8	So I was, I grew up in Utah in the Salt Lake area.
1:13.6	I've lived kind of in and out of Utah throughout my life,
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