Brigham Young University
Private university in Provo
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| 2025 | Jamieson Greer began serving as United States Trade Representative for President Donald Trump. |
| February 2025 | BYU Office of Belonging hosts the first official university-wide LGBTQ event called 'A Christlike Community of Covenant Belonging Event', signaling a significant milestone in LGBTQ recognition at the university. |
| March 2024 | The documentary 'A Long Way From Heaven' about LGBTQ BYU students premiered, highlighting the experiences of LGBTQ students at Brigham Young University. |
| 2023 | C. Shane Reese becomes president of Brigham Young University, continuing to serve as of 2025. |
| 2023 | BYU started participating in the Big 12 Conference for the 2023–24 school year. |
| August 2023 | During the annual 'Chalk the Walk' tradition, supportive messages for the LGBTQ community are chalked on sidewalks near the campus. These messages are repeatedly erased and re-chalked, demonstrating ongoing tension and activism around LGBTQ visibility and support. |
| August 2023 | BYU leadership reinstates the explicit text of the ban on 'same sex romantic behavior' in the institution's Honor Code, reinforcing the university's restrictive policy towards LGBTQ relationships. |
| August 2023 | Cougar Pride Center establishes the 'Rainbow Chorus', a queer-inclusive choir aimed at creating a supportive and inclusive musical space for LGBTQ students. |
| March 2023 | BYU holds PEN talks, providing a platform for LGBTQ students to share their personal experiences and perspectives within the university community. |
| 2022 | BYU-Idaho fired two employees, Lindsay Call and Ben Buswell, for allegedly expressing concerns over church teachings around LGBTQ people. |
| 2022 | Jeff Flake becomes the Ambassador of the United States to Turkey. |
| December 12 2022 | Mike Leach passes away. |
| November 2022 | Stanford University marching band performs a satirical skit during a football game mocking BYU's anti-LGBTQ policies with a mock Mormon wedding between two women. |
| October 2022 | Over 150 students participate in the nationwide 'Strike Out Queerphobia' protest, blocking off 800 N to demonstrate against anti-LGBTQ policies. |
| September 2022 | During an off-campus BYU LGBTQ student 'Back to School Pride Night', 100 protesters yelled slurs at 300 LGBTQ BYU students and their friends. |
| August 2022 | BYU leaders remove pamphlets about local LGBTQ events and off-campus resources from incoming student information packets at the last minute. |
| June 2022 | Students organize the first BYU-approved on-campus demonstration in support of LGBTQ students. |
| April 2022 | A BYU student displays rainbow colors inside her graduation gown during the ceremony as a form of protest, gaining national media attention. |
| March 2022 | BYU preemptively fences off the Y mountain and posts signs prohibiting demonstrations in anticipation of Rainbow Day celebrations, subsequently asking students celebrating Rainbow Day to leave campus. |
| March 2022 | The LDS Church introduces new hiring questions for the Church Educational System, including inquiries about a candidate's testimony and teachings on marriage, family, and gender. |
| February 2022 | Sue Bergin, a BYU adjunct instructor, is notified her contract will not be renewed, which she speculates is due to her LGBTQ advocacy. |
| February 2022 | BYU cancels care for transgender clients receiving voice therapy at its speech clinic, contradicting professional accreditation standards according to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. |
| February 2022 | The U.S. Department of Education dismisses the civil rights investigation into BYU's discipline of LGBTQ students, determining the university was acting within its Title IX exemptions. |
| January 2022 | The Salt Lake Tribune reports a non-binary BYU graduate did not report a sexual assault due to fear of Honor Code office surveillance and distrust towards non-cisgender students. |
| January 2022 | BYU releases a new demonstration policy banning all demonstrations on Y mountain, reportedly in response to previous rainbow Y lightings in October and March 2021. |
| 2021 | Co-wrote 'Heart of Africa 2: Companions', another feature film produced in the DR-Congo by a Congolese film team and released in US theaters. |
| 2021 | Dallin Oaks claims electroshock aversion therapy 'never went on under my administration' at BYU, despite a student's master's thesis documenting the program in 1976. |
| 2021 | New LGBTQ student groups Raynbow Collective and Cougar Pride Center were established to provide additional resources and events for queer students at BYU. |
| 2021 | BYU fired Sue Bergin for allegedly expressing concerns over church teachings around LGBTQ people. |
| 2021 | BYU established the Office of Student Success and Inclusion, its first LGBTQ-specific campus resource. |
| 2021 | BYU formally accepted an invitation to join the Big 12 Conference. |
| 2021 | Mikayla Cluff and Cameron Tucker graduated and began professional soccer careers with the Utah Royals in the National Women's Soccer League. |
| 2021 | Deidre Henderson receives her B.A. degree from Brigham Young University and becomes Lieutenant Governor of Utah. |
| October 2021 | The U.S. Department of Education initiates a civil rights investigation into BYU to examine potential Title IX violations regarding the discipline of LGBTQ students. |
| September 2021 | Students light the Y in rainbow colors in anticipation of Rainbow Day and LGBTQ history month, with BYU administration reportedly informally supportive and BYU police protecting students from potential counter-protesters. |
| August 2021 | After Holland's speech, BYU students create pro-LGBTQ chalk art, which is vandalized by another student using a homophobic slur. The vandal is subsequently expelled or drops out. |
| August 2021 | Church apostle Jeffrey Holland delivers a controversial speech at BYU calling for more 'musket fire' from faculty against same-sex marriage. In response, students gather to chalk supportive messages on campus sidewalks, initiating the 'Chalk the Walk' tradition. |
| August 2021 | BYU announces the opening of the Office of Belonging under President Kevin Worthen, aimed at combating prejudice including that based on sexual orientation. This leads to the dissolution of the Office of Student Success and Inclusion (OSSI), causing concern among queer students about the new office's support capabilities. |
| June 2021 | BYU Pride organizes the first pride march at BYU, with more than 1,000 people marching from Joaquin Park to Kiwanis Park in support of queer BYU students. |
| May 2021 | A BYU religion professor publicly calls a gay BYU student a derogatory Book of Mormon term, leading to media criticism and death threats against the student. |
| March 4 2021 | Color the Campus, an LGBTQ awareness group at BYU, holds a Rainbow Day. Students light the Y in rainbow colors for about an hour to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the same-sex dating policy clarification and show support for LGBTQ+ students and faculty. |
| 2020 | John S. K. Kauwe III takes over as president of Brigham Young University–Hawaii, serving from 2020 to the present. |
| 2020 | Co-wrote 'Heart of Africa', the first feature film produced in the DR-Congo by a Congolese film team to be released in US theaters. |
| July 2020 | The documentary 'Same-Sex Attracted', created by queer BYU students about queer BYU students, premieres at the Salt Lake City LGBTQ film festival. |
| March 2020 | A comprehensive poll of 7,625 BYU students reveals that over 13% (996 students) identify their sexual orientation as something other than 'strictly heterosexual', providing significant insight into the university's LGBTQ student population. |
| February 2020 | BYU finance professor Jim Brau receives death threats from the alt-right LDS group DezNat after supporting the Honor Code changes as a 'blessing'. |
| February 2020 | BYU removes the ban on 'homosexual behavior' from its Honor Code, which initially appears to allow LGBTQ students more freedom. However, BYU leadership later clarifies that this does not permit public displays of romantic affection or same-sex dating, leading to protests from the LGBTQ community and allies. |
| January 2020 | The BYU Office of Student Success and Inclusion hosts a panel focused on LGBTQ+ topics, marking a significant moment of institutional acknowledgment and discussion of LGBTQ issues at the university. |
| 2019 | Mitt Romney begins serving as a Republican senator from Utah. Orrin Hatch concludes his 42-year tenure as a senator. |
| November 2019 | BYU establishes its first LGBTQ-specific on-campus center, the Office of Student Success and Inclusion, providing dedicated support and resources for LGBTQ students. |
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