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A longtime BYU profsor out as gay and retir early om the Provo school owned by The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats.

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'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.

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.

WHEN IT NO LONGER FEELS SAFE TO BE GAY ON BYU CAMP

"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. Some openly rried handguns and others were rryg “God hat gays” signs and yellg, “There are no gays heaven.

IT WAS 'HARD BEG GAY' AT BYU. BUT AT GRADUATN A STUNT SHOWED HER 'TE LORS' BY FLASHG A LGBTQ FLAG.

It was this way to physilly embody and refute the claims that God hat gay people, ” said Maddison Tenney, a 23-year-old BYU stunt and one of the anizers of the event.

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'Trmatic whiplash': BYU's U-turn on homosexualy a blow to gay stunts .

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