At the 2024 commencement ceremony on Thursday, April 25, more than 7,100 students were honored for completing higher degrees at Brigham Young University. Elder Gong Elder Gerrit W. Gong, a member of ...

The 2025 BYU graduates will join an alumni association of nearly 460,000 individuals. That group is statistically twice as likely as the average person to donate to charity and four times more ...

A Brigham Young University student quoted the Book of Mormon before he came out as a "gay son of God" during his commencement speech. The audience cheered on Matt Easton, a political science ...

BYU Graduate Shows Her 'True Colors' by Sewing Rainbow Flag into Graduation Gown: 'I Will Not Hide' "At BYU it's against the honor code to be in a homosexual relationship," graduate Jillian Orr ...

On Thursday, 6,876 Brigham Young University students filled the lower half of the Marriott Center for the school’s first live commencement ceremony in two years. The energy in the arena was ...

BYU graduate Jillian Orr entered the national spotlight when she “flashed” a rainbow LGBTQ+ flag sewn into her graduation regalia at BYU commencement. She did so in protest of Brigham Young ...

"It's hard being gay at BYU. I didn't know I identified as bisexual until half way through and it's scary to live with the fear that any moment they could take away your degree.

BYU is holding an in-person commencement ceremony this spring for the first time in two years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The program will be in the Marriott Center on April 21 for ...

A member of the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and of the Brigham Young University Board of Trustees is scheduled to preside at BYU’s April 2007 Commencement ...

A recent graduate of Brigham Young University protested the Mormon school’s anti-LGBTQ policies by wearing a rainbow gown to her graduation ceremony. Jillian Orr, a bisexual psychology student ...

BYU graduate Lauren Cressman holds a diploma cover and poses for a photo with her father, Joel Campbell, a BYU journalism professor, during their mock graduation ceremony. (Emma Campbell) ...