Eight years ago, some students at Mormon church-owned Brigham Young University started an informal LGBTQ club. They didn’t expect the faith to approve of it. They knew the church taught that acting on same-sex attraction is a sin.
But they called their group Understanding Same-Gender Attraction, using the terminology that church leaders preferred on the topic at the time and hoping that it might “give them more legitimacy” to start a conversation about sexual orientation within the conservative religion.
Now, the club’s leaders say the name has served that initial purpose, and it’s time to change it — to language that better reflects the group’s goals and its members.