What does it mean to be queer?

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All Out in the Open, Questions from the Closet

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🗓️ 6 October 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Ben and Charlie are joined by Tyler LeFevor to talk about the "Q" in LGBTQ+. They discuss origins of the label, common assumptions about those who identify as queer, and how they view "queer" in relation to their own and identities.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Questions from the Closet. I'm Ben Shalati. And I'm Charlie Bird. Each episode we discuss a 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, what does it mean to be queer?
0:21.0	Charlie and I are not terribly diverse, and we share many opinions and life experiences.
0:25.7	For example, we both like eating old people cereals for breakfast.
0:29.2	However, there are some pretty big differences.
0:31.1	I like raisin bran, but Ben just likes regular bran.
0:34.4	I just have the bran. They're delicious. You're so boring. They're really good and I never
0:39.0	like the raisins. They're like the worst part for you because they're covered in
0:42.0	sugar. So I was like this isn't good for me and I don't like it. So I just bought the brand flakes. You got to spice it up somehow. No, well you can like cut up a banana and put it in there. I don't, but you could. Anyway, we would like to provide a variety of voices and perspective. So today we're joined by Tyler Lefever.
0:57.0	Hello, hello. Well, Tyler, tell us a little bit about yourself.
1:00.0	Yeah, yeah, happy to be here. So I just started as an assistant professor at Utah State. I'm in their combined clinical and counseling psychology program.
1:08.0	In part to promote some research that I've been doing with the four options survey, trying to understand the different voices of LGBT key
1:14.0	Latter-day Saints, especially people who are still in the closet.
1:17.7	So if you're listening to this and interested, you can find us at www.4 Options Survey.com. It's the number four options with an S and then survey
1:26.0	dot com. The thing that I'm really driven by is understanding the different ways that people find
1:29.9	meaning and are satisfied in different single and relationship statuses as LGBTQ Latter-day Saints.
1:37.0	And this one we're trying to follow people for 10 years to see how they change, to see ways that they resolve conflict, because you can't just get that from a
1:43.7	single survey right when it came out I remember taking it when I was in Tucson
1:48.7	like sitting on my bed so it was at least three years ago. Well, thank you man.
1:53.0	Yeah.
1:54.0	So today we're talking about the Q in LGBTQ, which means queer.
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