Chad Emmett has spent his professional career standing up for the marginalized - but now it is time to stand up for himself. “I felt burdened by being gay at a school that would never accept me.”
Former BYU professor Chad Emmett at Bicentennial Park in Provo on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022.Chad Emmett has spent his professional career standing up for underdogs and victims, the marginalized, those in peril and those seeking peace — Palestinians, religious minorities and women, to name a few — but now it is time to stand up for himself.
Financially, it wasn’t “a smart move,” he acknowledged in an interview, but the accumulated weight of policies and pronouncements from BYU administrators that seemed to discriminate against LGBTQ individuals proved too burdensome to Emmett. Emmett grew up in the 1960s and ‘70s, when the church and much of society believed that being gay was a choice — and the young Latter-day Saint simply “chose” not to be gay.
When he did his graduate work in Chicago, he was called as a Scout leader, and all his troop members were Black youths. Some congregants told him, Emmett said, that it was the first ward where members with tattoos or smelling like tobacco “had ever felt welcome.”A building storm
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