TED Outline Format

Oral Content

Topic: Growing up as a member of the LGBTQ+ community in the Catholic church

Purpose: Demonstrate the effects religion can have on LGBTQ youth

Thesis Statement: I hope to demonstrate how religion and being LGBTQ+ aren’t mutually exclusive

 

Introduction

Attention Strategy/Orienting Material:

Question: “How do you perceive the LGBTQ community and organized religion?” “Do you picture a divide? Or something unified?”

 

Body

1. Growing up in the Catholic church
   1. Allyship(felt protective of LGBTQ community and disliked how church handles those issues
   2. Identify as LGB(felt attacked by church teachings & not welcome in community I’d grown up in
2. Attending Catholic school
   1. Middle school(theology class story and how that affected me
   2. High school(fear of coming out in homophobic environment)Learning new things about faith in college

1. Learning new things about faith in college
   1. Found Christian community on accident
   2. Encouraged to research
   3. Found other denominations

Conclusion

Faith can be hard but it doesn’t have to be one or the other

Visual Content

In this column, offer brief slide description and its function alongside the idea it is intended to support.

 

Slide One

Try to find an image symbolizing perceived divide between LGBTQ and church

 

Slide Two
Black slide

Slide Three 

Young photo of self (confirmation or first communion)

 

Slide Four

Black slide

 

Slide Five

Middle school softball photo

 

Slide Six

High school founders’ day image

 

Slide Seven

Black Slide

 

Slide Eight

Fall Conference photo

 

Slide Nine

Navs group photo (kastle?)