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The apostle Dallin Oaks has been an influential figure in church interactions with homosexual people, instituting a system of surveillance to identify and expel or attempt to "cure" homosexual students as president of BYU in the 1970s, and doing numerous video interviews and articles on the topic in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s.
BYU LGBTQ students and allies gather at a 2017 Thursday meeting. In 2016 the Provo newspaper Daily Herald published a series of six in-depth articles on the experiences of USGA members, centered around the topics of why they attend BYU, [ 26 ] the USGA group, [ 3 ] mental health, [ 27 ] the Honor Code, [ 28 ] and why some leave BYU. [ 26 ]
The Honor Code received national attention in March 2011 when the university dismissed BYU basketball player Brandon Davies from the team for violating the code, [129] [130] reportedly by having premarital sex, [131] the same day the college basketball rankings came out listing BYU as the #3 team in the nation.
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[294] [295] [296] In 2007, BYU changed the honor code to read that stating one's sexual orientation was not an honor code issue. [297] In February 2020, BYU removed "homosexual behavior" from its Honor Code, [ 298 ] [ 299 ] [ 300 ] but a ban on same-sex romantic behavior such as dating, holding hands, and kissing remains in place as of 2023.
2007 – Shortly after the Soul Force demonstration, [140] the BYU Board of Trustees, under the direction of First Presidency member Thomas S. Monson, revises the BYU Honor Code in April to clarify that "one's stated same-gender attraction is not an Honor Code issue" while continuing to ban "all forms of physical intimacy that give expression ...
April – The church's BYU Board of Trustees, under the direction of First Presidency member Monson, revised the BYU Honor Code in April to clarify that "one's stated same-gender attraction is not an Honor Code issue" while continuing to ban "all forms of physical intimacy that give expression to homosexual feelings". [95] [96] [6]
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