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Title: The Unthinkable Brink (working title)\nElisabeth Dee & Tyler Brooks\n \nKim: I would say keep your head down. I would say be careful. I would say that self-preservation is your upmost responsibility because until you can come out in a safe and open and caring environment, the system that you\u2019re growing up in is designed to destroy you. So you may have to keep your head down. And it may be the thing that drives you to the brink. The unthinkable brink. \n \nElisabeth #1: I\u2019ve known Kimberly for eight years. She taught photography at my high school, right outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. There was something about her I was drawn to. I felt like she saw things in me I didn\u2019t know where there. When she came out as intersex and transgender, I realized why we had been pulled into each other\u2019s orbits: we were both outsiders. We were both Mormon and queer and struggling.\n \nAnchor #1: We regard same sex marriage as a particularly grievous or significant serious kind of sin that requires church discipline.\n \nAnchor #2: Well the number one killer of Utah\u2019s kids is suicide according to new numbers from the state health department. And there\u2019s no definitive reason for this abrupt rise in suicide among Utah youth but there are many pointing to Utah\u2019s religious culture.\n \nTyler Glenn: Please don\u2019t let this be a summer of more gay suicides, please make a space for your gay members, please tell them they are okay and they are made in the image of god.