Should I go to BYU?

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🗓️ 1 September 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Ben and Charlie are joined by Michael Griffin, an openly gay BYU professor, to talk about their experiences at Brigham Young University. We talk dating culture, honor code, and past and present environment for LGBTQ+ students.

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0:00.0	Welcome to questions from the closet. I'm Charlie Byrd and I'm Ben Shalati. Each episode we discuss a question that we commonly get asked as LGBTQ clarity saints.
0:14.0	We are not trying to answer this question or come to a consensus but simply sharing our
0:18.7	perspectives. Today's question is should I go to BYU? Ben and I are not terribly diverse, and we should have many opinions and life experiences.
0:26.4	For example, both of us will be attending classes at BYU this fall.
0:30.0	However, there are some pretty big differences.
0:32.0	For example, Charlie will be taking classes,
0:34.0	and I'll be teaching classes.
0:35.0	Very nice.
0:36.0	Ben, what classes do you teach?
0:38.0	So I'll be teaching as an adjunct professor two classes.
0:40.0	I'll be teaching a class that I designed
0:42.0	called Understanding Self and Others, colon, diversity and
0:45.6	intersectionality.
0:46.6	And I'll be teaching a Spanish class 2, Spanish 3.21.
0:50.0	That's so cool.
0:51.0	What will your diversity glass cover?
0:53.2	We're going to talk about first of all how to like...
0:55.0	By the way, this isn't scripted, I just actually want to know.
0:57.2	Okay.
0:58.2	So the first half of the class is going to deal with like how do we have effective dialogues,
1:02.1	how do we deal with disagreements, how do we talk about issues
1:04.3	that can be charged, and then we're going to get close to or approximate to a bunch of
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