What if my family isn't supportive?

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🗓️ 21 September 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Dr. Lacey Bagley (she/her) joins Ben and Charlie for a discussion on how LGBTQIA+ individuals can cope and improve relationships with unsupportive family members.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Questions from the Closet. I'm Ben Shalatti.
0:05.6	And I'm Charlie Bird. Each episode we discuss a question we commonly get asked as LGBTQ
0:10.8	plus Latter-day Saints. We are not trying to answer this question or
0:14.1	counter consensus, but simply sharing our perspectives. Today's question is,
0:17.7	what if my family isn't supportive? Ben and I are not terribly diverse and we share
0:22.0	many opinions and life experiences. For example, we were both involved in the BYU
0:26.8	Belong event over the weekend. However, there are some pretty big differences.
0:30.5	For example, I helped plan the event and Charlie performed at it.
0:33.9	I feel like Ben's being too modest because this was like his idea.
0:38.0	Okay, so I did 88, is that a word? I didn't come up with the idea.
0:41.9	He idioted the idea.
0:43.5	Ideated? Anyway, he idioted idioted the idea.
0:48.3	It was my vision, but so many people helped. I just had an idea and then people made it happen.
0:54.3	What gave you the idea to do it?
0:55.9	I wished BYU could do something like that to show students that there's a place for
1:00.0	them that they belong. So I thought, well, the best way to do that is to share stories,
1:05.6	have LGBTQ performers, that kind of thing. So that's how it came about?
1:10.0	Yeah, and I think that was back in June, right?
1:12.8	No, it was in April.
1:14.6	No, when you had the idea.
1:15.7	No, April.
1:16.4	Oh, really?
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