Gay Mormon students at Brigham Young University come out in ‘It Gets Better’ YouTube video (Video)

Gay Mormon students at a conservative university that prohibits “homosexual behavior” are coming out in web videos intended to prevent suicide.

Sponsored by a gay-straight student group at Brigham Young University, the video series is part of the “It Gets Better” project by syndicated columnist Dan Savage, according to The Associated Press.

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Several BYU students discuss their feelings and experiences in this video:

In the video, two students discuss contemplating suicide and a third describes being treated in the psychiatric ward of a hospital.

"I just felt that I needed to just kill myself because the heartbreak of me dying would be less than the heartbreak my parents would experience if I came out to them,” says one female student identified in another video as Erikka.

According to the video, there are over 1,800 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students at the university and it claims that 74 percent have thought about suicide and that a staggering 24 percent, or more than 430, have actually tried to kill themselves.

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The Mormon Church opposes homosexuality. In 2007, BYU revised its honor code to allow students to state the fact that they are gay but it still bans gays from dating or physical intimacy, according to Wikipedia, and all premarital sex is likewise prohibited.

The video encourages students who may be contemplating suicide to call 1 (866) 488-7386 or visit The Trevor Project.