Welcome to Questions from the Closet.

The Closet, I'm Ben Shalati.

And I'm Charlie Bird.

Each episode we discuss a question where commonly asked asked as LGBTQ plus Latter-day Saints.

We're not trying to answer this question or come into consensus, but simply sharing our perspectives.

Today's question is, how do I share my story?

Ben and I are not terribly diverse.

We share many opinions in life experiences. For example, both of us had bedtime stories told to us by our parents.

That's true.

Could have worded that better, but there we are. However, there are some pretty big differences for example we both

had different favorite bedtime stories. Charlie what was yours? So typically it was my dad telling me

badtime stories and he would always tell me stories from his life or like about his parents or his siblings.

So they were never like classic bad time stories. They were mostly like retellings of like family stuff.

He like I had to castrate this cow one day exactly like funny incidents on the farm

where he grew up on a marina so there's a lot of like boat and fish stories things

getting stuck yeah so fun yeah, good family lore. My favorite, so we also had those kinds of stories and my dad would just make up stories as well and my mom would read to me a lot. But my favorite story was the little engine that could. I actually just

referenced it yesterday in a conversation. I think I can. Yeah. What did you like about it?

I don't know. It's probably just like the pictures.

What do you think you can do? I can do anything. It's pretty bold.

Well, I'm trying to sound like a train.

I can do many things, but I can't do everything.

So that's interesting because as far as like stories go, my mom read to me all the time growing up like so much.

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