Jillian Orr hopes other students at Brigham Young University who are hiding their sexual orientation feel less alone.
Brigham Young University graduate reveals a rainbow flag under her graduation cape while walking across the commencement stage Friday.When Jillian Orr walked across the graduation stage at Brigham Young University Friday, she wasn’t just there to get her diploma. She was there to send a message.The psychology major, who is bisexual, spread out her graduation gown to reveal a rainbow flag underneath.
“I started to realize my actions and beliefs were not lining up and there was a lot of preconditioned shame and guilt around it,” she told TODAY. “But I came to the realization that this is who I was and it was beautiful.” “It said ‘One who truly loves LGBTQ people will ‘blank,’’ and it goes through options. The answer I chose was to ‘Love them unconditionally and accept whatever they want as what's best for them’ and I got it wrong."BYU did not respond to TODAY's request for comment on the quiz or Orr's graduation gown.
Her graduation comes seven months after church leader Jeffrey R. Holland visited the Utah campus and recalledto students and faculty how one of the school’s former valedictorians, Matt Easton, came out as gay in his graduation speech in 2019.
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