What's it like to go to conversion therapy?

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🗓️ 26 April 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Dustin Liechty recounts his experiences going to conversion therapy before his mission as a teenager, then again after his mission as an adult.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Questions from the Closet, I'm Ben Shalatti.
0:08.8	And I'm Charlie Bird.
0:10.0	Each episode we discuss a question we commonly get asked as LGBTQ plus Latter-day Saints.
0:14.7	We're not trying to answer this question or come to consensus, but simply sharing our
0:17.8	perspectives.
0:18.8	Today's question is, what's it like to go to conversion therapy?
0:22.4	Ben and I are not terribly diverse, and we share many opinions and life experiences.
0:26.1	For example, we both had pets growing up.
0:28.3	However, there are some pretty big differences.
0:30.0	I, for example, I just had a cat and Charlie's family had a whole farm.
0:33.4	Tell me about your cat.
0:34.8	We had a number of cats growing up.
0:35.9	My dad didn't like dogs, but he would allow cats.
0:38.7	So I like cats.
0:40.2	And one time my mom stole a cat because she has Alzheimer's.
0:42.6	She stole a cat.
0:44.0	Yeah, there was a neighborhood cat that was like an outdoor cat, and she started feeding it.
0:47.4	And like letting into the house and then just started living with us, because the cat didn't know any better.
0:50.8	But it was like, it wasn't a strain.
0:52.1	It was like literally so much.
0:52.9	Yeah, it was so much of the cat.
0:53.8	And I had to like tell the neighbors, I was like, I'm so sorry.
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