BehYnd Closed Doors: Recent Episodes
Kim Anderson
BYU is ranked among the least LGBT-friendly campuses in the country. At a privately owned, religious institution with a strict honor code system, the podcast series gets an undercover look at the riveting stories of queer BYU students. Religious pressures, suppression, and secrecy, Kim and Zack uncover what really happens BehYnd Closed Doors.
The series fuels a wide variety of topics with personal, social, and political implications. Laugh at some of the darndest things straight people say, hear a mother’s love for her trans-daughter, and get heated in a debate on Donald Trump.
The controversial dialogue pays no respect to extreme ends of the political spectrum. The hosts throw political correctness out the window while addressing the confusion and misunderstandings that often surround LGBT people in the Mormon community.
The real-life experiences tell a narrative of ostracism, prejudice, and judgment. The tear-jerking stories will open your heart. The political and philosophical discourse will challenge your paradigms. And the progressive sentiment will give you hope.
Listeners are calling BehYnd Closed Doors a “critical conversation” that is “laugh-out-loud hilarious,” and “emotionally charged.” Kim and Zack are unashamed and unafraid to speak their minds. They hold back nothing in the hilarious, emotional, thought-provoking conversations that happen behind closed doors.
From appearance, family, to even sex, we sit down with the leaders of USGA to address the silly and more serious LGBT stereotypes.
When we think of coming-out-stories, we often think of the person who is coming out. Sometimes we forget that parents often go through a real change, too. Kim and Zack speak with a mother and daughter about the realities and importance of coming out.
Stereotypes are harmful. But ever wonder why they're often accurate? Kim and Zack speak to one of the leading researchers in homosexuality.
Zack and Kim discuss the nature vs. nurture debate on the latest episode of BehYnd Closed Doors.
Is a Trump administration bad for gay Americans? We ask a political junkie his opinion on the fifth installment of BehYnd Closed Doors.
Before October of 2016, students at BYU who were victims of sexual assault risked their academic future, if they spoke. Get a glimpse of what one rape victim went through, as a result.
Kim and Zack talk to two transgender men that attend BYU. Transgenderism is a common topic in the country at the moment, with a heated ongoing debate over bathroom rights for trans-gendered individuals.
Find out what it is like to be a trans-gender student at Brigham Young University, with the third installment in the Behynd Closed Doors Series.
We get an LGBT student's perspective on the BYU Honor code, how it's shifted, and where it could go.