Members of an unofficial Brigham Young
University (BYU) group have recorded a video for the It Gets Better
campaign.
The It Gets Better Project encourages
bullied LGBT teens considering suicide to hang in there, because life
eventually gets better.
BYU is owned and operated by The Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons), which does not
condone gay relationships.
In the nearly 10-minute video, members
of Understanding Same-Gender Attraction (USGA), which includes BYU
students, faculty and friends, discuss their experiences coming out
gay.
“It wasn't until I started dating
that I really started to realize that I was not that into guys,” a
female student says. “And I felt like, 'Oh most girls like kissing
their boyfriends and don't dial it on the inside every time they have
to kiss them.'”
“It absolutely terrified me,
naturally,” a second young woman says of her sexuality, “because
I truly believed in this church and these feelings did not coincide
with that church.”
Near the end of the video, a male
student says: “I decided to come out to some of my friends. And
they've been supportive, even here at BYU.” (The video is embedded
in the right panel of this page. Visit
our video library for more videos.)