The man who played BYU’s mast revealed he’s gay and how he stggled growg up as a Mormon.
Contents:
- 'TRMATIC WHIPLASH': BYU'S U-TURN ON HOMOSEXUALY A BLOW TO GAY STUNTS
- A WALK HIS SHO: A BYU PROFSOR’S LIFE AS A GAY LATTER-DAY SAT
- BYU’S COSMO THE COUGAR OUT AS GAY
'TRMATIC WHIPLASH': BYU'S U-TURN ON HOMOSEXUALY A BLOW TO GAY STUNTS
19 to remove a clse prohibg "all forms of physil timacy that give exprsn to homosexual feelgs.
A WALK HIS SHO: A BYU PROFSOR’S LIFE AS A GAY LATTER-DAY SAT
While stunts have been allowed to openly intify as gay sce 2007, they have long been banned om beg same-sex relatnships. Current and former BYU stunts told NBC News that they had spoken to universy admistrators after the was updated and nfirmed that as long as gay upl also followed the le of chasty and didn't have sex outsi a heterosexual marriage, they uld openly date and show a Q&A wh the director of the Honor Co Office, Kev Utt, which was published Wednday on the school's webse, Utt emphasized that "any same-sex romantic behavr is a vlatn of the prcipl of the Honor Co" and was still prohibed.
BYU’S COSMO THE COUGAR OUT AS GAY
If I had stayed at BYU, I would have been one of those statistics, " she still attends church to serve as a role mol for other young gay Mormons. "The handbook allows gay men to serve senr church rol, but ultimately asks LGBTQ members to rema chaste, emphasizg that sex mt be rerved for heterosexual BYU still asks stunts to "enurage" others to ply wh the school's Honor Co, "enurage is not synonymo wh 'turn someone , '" Utt said his Q&A on the school's webse. From the 13, 451 stunts surveyed, 8% intified as beg gay or lbian, bisexual or of another sexual orientatn this sample don’t speak for the entire stunt populatn of more than 36, 000, may provi a better ia of the size of the LGBTQ muny at ’s current Honor Co policy regardg LGBTQ stunts stat “any same-sex romantic behavr is a vlatn of the prcipl of the Honor Co.
“It’s like you have this weird distctn rather than jt beg a human who happens to be gay.