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One says, “I joined this lawsuit because I didn’t want anyone else to feel how I felt.”

Despite howling wind, more than 150 people gathered at Utah State University as advocates shone flashlights in a rainbow pattern on Old Main to support LGBTQ+ students at BYU. “This is in response to the rainbow Y that was put up, and we’re just trying to send our signal back down there,” said Cameron Moellendorf, LGBTQ+ intern for USU’s Inclusion Center. The event, organized by the USU Queer Student Alliance, was in response to BYU students hiking up to the hillside Y above Provo and using multicolored flashlights to shine a rainbow pattern on it. The BYU demonstration wa...

PROVO — Allies and members of the LGBTQ community at Brigham Young University will wear rainbow colors on campus Thursday, marking the one-year anniversary of confusion surrounding the school's Honor Code. The effort, called Rainbow Day, was created by Color the Campus, a student-led initiative dedicated to supporting LGBTQ students and faculty at any schools in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' educational system. BYU student Bradley Talbot created the group and has since held several Rainbow Days to, well, color the campus. "Even within the community, we're still learning h...

SALT LAKE CITY — State lawmakers are considering ways to limit the governor's power in an emergency like the COVID-19 pandemic and strengthening their own hand in declaring when an emergency is over. The Utah Legislature is also in a brewing firestorm over transgender rights as it wraps up its fifth week of meetings that included the House passing a ban on transgender athletes competing in girls sports in the K-12 public school system. Vickers' bill would limit the duration of a public health order to 30 days. It would also only allow the Legislature to extend or terminate an order and woul...

The Daily Universe BYU psychology professor Niwako Yamawaki shared hers and others’ experiences as immigrants and minorities at the annual Hickman Diversity and Inclusion Lecture on Feb. 19. Yamawaki spoke as this year’s recipient of the Hickman Diversity, Collaboration and Inclusion Award. In addition to sharing experiences, she called the audience to be Christian and compassionate. Yamawaki clarified that this billboard from her native country Japan is welcoming visitors to a town pronounced “Usa” and is not to be confused with the United States of America. She shared her experi...