Contents:
- A WALK HIS SHO: A BYU PROFSOR’S LIFE AS A GAY LATTER-DAY SAT
- 'TRMATIC WHIPLASH': BYU'S U-TURN ON HOMOSEXUALY A BLOW TO GAY STUNTS
- WHEN IT NO LONGER FEELS SAFE TO BE GAY ON BYU CAMP
A WALK HIS SHO: A BYU PROFSOR’S LIFE AS A GAY LATTER-DAY SAT
If Ben is gog to do somethg, he is gog to do 100% to the end, ” Buzz a BYU Honor Co Admistrator, Ben tak this same 100% attu livg his life as a gay, active member of The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats. ”Wrg a Book: ‘A Walk My Sho’Ben shar his story of beg both gay and an active Latter-day Sat his new book, “A Walk In My Sho: Qutns I’m Often Asked as a Gay Latter-day Sat. 19 to remove a clse prohibg "all forms of physil timacy that give exprsn to homosexual feelgs.
'TRMATIC WHIPLASH': BYU'S U-TURN ON HOMOSEXUALY A BLOW TO GAY STUNTS
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.
"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.
WHEN IT NO LONGER FEELS SAFE TO BE GAY ON BYU CAMP
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. In a survey sent to BYU stunts Sprg 2021, about 8% of the 13, 451 stunts who pleted the survey intified themselv as beg gay or lbian, bisexual or of another sexual orientatn.
Tenney said faculty and staff members advote for queer stunts and stand up for them if someone says somethg homophobic class. Siar angel wgs have been ed a number of tim sce 1999 when Romae Patterson created them as a peaceful sign to ph back agast hate and to honor Matthew Shepard, a gay llege stunt who was beaten to ath Wyomg an attack that sent wav throughout the natn.