What are the stages of coming out?

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🗓️ 10 November 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Ben teaches Cass's 6 Stages of Coming Out. Scott Christofferson joins Ben and Charlie to talk about their experiences in each stage, as well as give advice for how friends and family can support LGBTQ+ loved ones throughout the process.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Questions from the Closet. I'm Charlie Bird and I'm Ben Shalati.
0:09.3	Each episode we discuss a question that we commonly get ask as LGBTQ Latter-day Saints.
0:13.7	We are not trying to answer this question or come to a consensus, but simply sharing our perspectives.
0:18.4	Today's question is, what are the stages of coming out?
0:21.8	Van and I are not terribly diverse, and we share many opinions and life experiences.
0:25.8	For example, we both studied social work at BYU.
0:28.8	However, there are some pretty big differences.
0:30.8	For example, I finished the program a year and a half ago.
0:34.0	And I just barely got admitted.
0:35.3	Yeah.
0:36.3	What led you to do social work at BYU?
0:38.1	I wanted to be back in Utah, especially because I was doing a lot more advocacy work.
0:41.7	And I was working on my book and I knew I needed to be in this region.
0:45.3	And I just wanted to learn more about how to empower people and the program was a really good fit so I came back and I like BYU I really do yeah I did not want to come back to be you or Utah
0:56.2	Neither did I there is winter here and too many latter since I wanted to stay in Arizona, but you're right here I came and here I am still
1:02.3	Well, we would like to provide a variety of voices and perspectives But here I came and here I am still.
1:02.8	Well, we would like to provide a variety of voices and perspectives.
1:05.2	So today we're joined by Scott Christofferson.
1:08.0	Hey guys, thanks for having me.
1:09.5	Well, tell us a little bit about yourself, Scott.
1:11.2	Yeah, so I am a senior product marketing
1:13.4	manager at Adobe I've been there for almost five years. I really enjoy that I also do
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