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Benjamin Schilaty
Jul 27, 20164 min read
Coast to Coast: The Endless End
Getting home after being gone for seven weeks proved to be much more difficult than I had anticipated. I got to LaGuardia airport...
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Benjamin Schilaty
Jul 26, 20163 min read
Coast to Coast: Maine to New York
My mom, Lindsay, and I said farewell to Laura in a Chipotle parking lot in Bangor, Maine. We parted ways in a restaurant parking lot...
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Benjamin Schilaty
Jul 23, 20163 min read
Coast to Coast: Nova Scotia to Maine
After Prince Edward Island we hopped back into Laura’s CR-V and drove to Nova Scotia. We weren’t particularly pumped for Nova Scotia like...
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Benjamin Schilaty
Jul 21, 20163 min read
Coast to Coast: Prince Edward Island
After seeing Quebec City Laura, Lindsay, my mom, and I piled into Laura’s CR-V and we drove to Prince Edward Island. The drive was quite...
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Benjamin Schilaty
Jul 20, 20163 min read
Coast to Coast: Vermont and Quebec City
After our visit to the birthplace of Mormonism Laura and I drove to Montpelier, Vermont to visit her brother and sister-in-law. This was...
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Benjamin Schilaty
Jul 17, 20162 min read
Coast to Coast: Iowa to Palmyra, NY
When I got to Chicago I learned that my friends Kyle and Mary were just about to leave Chicago by train and we overlapped by 40 minutes....
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Benjamin Schilaty
Jul 11, 20163 min read
Coast to Coast: Seattle to Iowa City
On June 30th my brother Jessen, his wife Laura (not to be confused with my friend fun Laura who will appear in later posts), their three...
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Benjamin Schilaty
Jun 28, 20165 min read
What It Was Like in the Closet
Recently a straight friend of mine told me that he didn’t understand why coming out is such a struggle for people nowadays since being...
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Benjamin Schilaty
Jun 19, 20164 min read
A Mystery, a Ghost, and a Foiled Plan
One of the super bummers of living in Arizona is that my friends don’t have the chance to get to know my parents. It’s a real shame. So...
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Benjamin Schilaty
May 5, 20169 min read
Goldilocks and the Gay Mormon Paradox
I occasionally get messages from well-meaning people explaining to me what’s wrong with my life and how to fix it. “Marry a man,” they...
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Benjamin Schilaty
Mar 15, 20169 min read
Thank you, Elder Holland, But I Wish You Had Said More
Last Tuesday was a super-stressful day. I'm winding down my grad school experience so I have a lot of "self-directed time" so work is...
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Benjamin Schilaty
Feb 8, 201610 min read
How to Be a Gay Mormon's Hero
After a blog post I wrote back in June an anonymous commenter wrote: "Thank you for a well written post. Your impassioned writing had...
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Benjamin Schilaty
Jan 19, 20165 min read
Is Being Gay a Weakness? A Gay Mormon's Perspective
Is being gay a weakness? This is a question that I have pondered many times. If you had asked 21 year old me this question I would have...
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Benjamin Schilaty
Nov 24, 20159 min read
A Line in the Sand
On Thursday, November 5th I drove to California to visit my friends Ian and Amy. It had been more than a year since I'd seen them so...
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Benjamin Schilaty
Nov 13, 20151 min read
Institute Devotional
Today I spoke at the Tucson LDS Institute about my experiences as a gay Mormon. A number of people who weren't able to attend asked me...
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Benjamin Schilaty
Oct 8, 201511 min read
The Time I Almost Left the Church
A few people have asked me what I thought about Elder Holland’s talk during the October General Conference. Here are my thoughts on that...
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Benjamin Schilaty
Sep 30, 20155 min read
I Know General Conference Is True
We Mormons like to use the word know a lot. We know the Book of Mormon is true. We know the church is true. We know that loads of...
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Benjamin Schilaty
Aug 17, 20151 min read
LeAnne in the Land of Lincoln
I just got back from quite an adventure helping LeAnne move to Chicago from Salt Lake. The plan was to leave her house at 4:00 am last...
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Benjamin Schilaty
Jul 9, 20154 min read
$21 of Forgetting
I apologize to anyone who is here looking for discussion on being gay and Mormon. My last blog post spread much more than I ever...
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Benjamin Schilaty
Jun 30, 20157 min read
A Walk in My Shoes
Dianna and I at Costco buying food for a church activity. At this moment neither of us was aware that I would be coming out to her in a...
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