What if I don't fit in either community?

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🗓️ 22 February 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Dr. Greg Petersen joins Ben and Charlie for a conversation about how he finds fit as a gay member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Questions from the Closet. I'm Charlie Bird, and I'm Ben Shalatti.
0:09.2	Each episode we discuss a question that we commonly get asked is LGBTQ Plus Liarity Saints.
0:13.6	We're not trying to answer this question, or come to a consensus, but simply sharing our perspectives.
0:18.3	Today's question is, what if I don't fit in either community?
0:21.8	So, Charlie and I are not terribly diverse, and we share many opinions and life experiences.
0:25.7	For example, we both have credits from community colleges.
0:28.2	However, there are some pretty big differences. For example, I never actually went to a community college, but Ben did.
0:33.9	I went to a brick and mortar community college in person.
0:37.2	This is such a big difference.
0:39.5	No, but I was while I was in high school, so I did a program called Running Start.
0:44.4	Okay.
0:44.9	And I would go to high school for like two classes, then I would do a full load of community colleges.
0:49.4	Nice community college classes in my senior year.
0:51.0	I did something really similar, like it was dual enrollment, but I never actually had to go to this school.
0:55.1	I just got the credits.
0:56.4	I went, it was like half of my class was like college-age students, like normal college-age,
1:01.5	and then a fourth were like people from high school, then the other fourth were like moms going back to school.
1:06.0	We like to write a variety of voices in perspective, so today we're joined by Greg Peterson.
1:10.5	Hello, Greg.
1:11.2	Hi there.
1:11.7	Hey, Greg, so tell us a little bit about you.
1:13.8	I'm Greg.
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