LGBTQ students at BYU march for progress — but say they still have a lot to fight, including ‘musket fire’ speech requirement
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Provo • When Steven Kapp Perry attended Brigham Young University, he would hear the words of former school President Ernest Wilkinson replay in his head each time he walked into the student union building named for the leader. The university, Wilkinson famously said, does not “intend to admit to our campus any homosexuals. … We do not want others on this campus to be contaminated by your presence.” Perry kept quiet about his identity then. But now, 40 years later, he works at BYU as an openly gay man and...
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