Should I label myself?

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🗓️ 27 March 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Ben and Charlie are joined by Creed Orme, an BYU student and active member of the Church. They have a conversation on labels and describe how each of them labels their orientation and why.

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0:00.0	Welcome to questions from the closet. I'm Charlie Bird and I'm Ben Shalati.
0:09.0	Each episode we discuss a question that we calmly 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.
0:19.0	The question we're discussing today is, should I label myself?
0:22.0	So Ben and I are not terribly diverse. We share a lot of the
0:25.3	same opinions and life experiences. So for example, Charlie and I are both tall. We're both roughly
0:29.9	six three, which means that we have a great vantage point at parades and we're easy to
0:33.7	spot in a crowd. Right we know what it's like to be cramped in the back seat of a car but
0:38.8	we also have some pretty big differences. For example, Charlie is an amazing dancer.
0:43.7	He can dance like no one's watching in front of millions of people.
0:46.5	Yeah, and when band dances, nobody really wants to watch.
0:49.6	Which is true.
0:50.5	Yeah.
0:50.9	So because of that, because we're so similar, we want to provide a variety of voices and
0:56.4	perspectives on this show.
0:58.2	So today we are joined by Creed.
1:00.1	Hello.
1:01.1	How are you doing it? Yeah, Creed, tell us a little bit about yourself. Hello. at BYU I served a mission in Argentina, studying family life, I plan to be a therapist at some point, so grad school, but for now I'll be taking a year or years of break to make more money, get some more work experience, and figure
1:26.6	out for sure exactly what I want to do.
1:28.6	So taking a gap year or gap years.
1:30.9	Correct.
1:31.9	Great. We might be quarantined because of coronavirus. So
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