Why Come Out if I can Pass as Straight?

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All Out in the Open, Questions from the Closet

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🗓️ 13 December 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Steven Kapp Perry joins us to discuss why people choose to come out, and shares the stories of many others.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Questions in the Closet. I'm Ben Shalatti.
0:09.8	And I'm Charlie Bird. Each episode, we discuss a question we commonly get asked as LGBTQ
0:14.4	plus Latter-day Saints.
0:15.6	We're not trying to answer this question or come to consensus, but simply share in our
0:18.6	perspectives. Today's question is, why come out if I can pass this straight?
0:23.2	Ben and I are not terribly diverse, and we share many opinions in my experiences. For example,
0:27.7	we both often wear neck ties.
0:29.8	However, there are some pretty big differences. For example, Charlie sometimes wears
0:32.5	bow ties, and I never do.
0:34.0	So tell me about your aversion to the bow ties.
0:36.0	I don't have an aversion to bow ties. I just don't have enough proximity. I just never
0:39.9	wear...
0:40.9	proximity.
0:41.9	Yeah.
0:42.9	Okay, so like going to, like whenever I'd wear a tux, which wasn't a lot for like things
0:48.6	at school.
0:49.6	Like prom.
0:50.6	I didn't ever wear a tux to prom, but I was in the...
0:52.2	Did you go to prom?
0:53.2	Yeah.
0:54.2	Who did you go to prom with?
0:55.2	I went with Angela, my junior year, and Shannon, my seat...
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