The girl steps up to the lectern and begins, simply, “Hi, my name is Savannah.”
In reality, Savannah, then 12, wasn’t allowed to finish her testimony, which she tried to deliver in May 2017 to her Eagle Mountain congregation of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — to declare that she is a lesbian.
In virtual reality, Savannah, now 15, delivers the whole speech without having her mic turned off — and the viewer, wearing a pair of goggles in a VR art installation featured in this year’s Damn These Heels LGBTQ Film Festival, is sitting in a pew listening.