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BYU continues to ban LGBTQ student groups from meeting on campus as of 2022. [78] During an off-campus September 2022 BYU LGBTQ student "Back to School Pride Night", 100 protesters (many also BYU students) gathered and yelled slurs at the 300 LGBTQ BYU students and friends in attendance. [78] [74] [79]
2006 – Soulforce's Equality Ride makes a stop at the BYU campus in April, protesting BYU's policies towards LGBTQ students. [124] 5 riders are arrested on the 10th for giving speeches on campus, while other riders are allowed to remain answering student questions as long as they do not make a demonstration. [125]
BYU–Idaho's engineering programs rank in the top 75 nationally. [25] The academic year is divided into three equal semesters (fall, winter, spring) of fourteen weeks and is known as the "three-track" system. It was instituted in 2001 as part of the transition from Ricks College to BYU-Idaho and the school's "Rethinking Education" campaign. [26]
LGBTQ students and advocates at BYU in Utah slammed the school for requiring all freshmen read a controversial 2021 speech that they say incited violence and hatred against the queer community.
It began meeting on BYU campus in 2010 to discuss issues relating to homosexuality and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). [ 1 ] [ 11 ] However, by December 2012, USGA began meeting off campus at the Provo City Library [ 12 ] [ 13 ] and is still banned from meeting on campus as of 2018.
BYU president Lee had stated that it was "simply not comfortable for the university" for him to continue teaching there. [48] [49]: 162–163 [50] 1997 – A poll of over 400 BYU students found that 42% of students believed that even if a same-sex attracted person kept the honor code they should not be allowed to attend BYU. The poll's stated 5 ...
The student’s family questioned how Lofton was allowed inside the school and able to attack the teenage boy without any intervention. Lofton was arrested and is no longer permitted at the high ...
[280] [281] As of 2017 BYU campus offered no official LGBT-specific resources. [282] Large surveys of over 7,000 BYU students in 2020 and 2017 found that over 13% had marked their sexual orientation as something other than “strictly heterosexual,” while the other survey showed that .2% had reported their gender identity as transgender or ...