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Senate Kills Anti-Gay Amendment Republicans vow to bring it up in the House

Gay Freedom Day Kicks Off Pride365 Day in the park harkens back to earlier pride celebrations

Utah County Demos Against Gay Marriage Colorado Governor Vetoes Gay Rights Ben: Was AIDS Manufactured by the Government?

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In This Issue AIDS Turns 25 It was the summer of 1991 that the Centers for Disease Control thrust AIDS into the headlines. Twenty five years later, it is still here, but things have dramatically changed. We talked to many of the early pioneers that shaped Utah’s response to AIDS. 25 Years of AIDS, A History. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Dr. Kristen Reis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Dick Dotson and Donald Steward. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Richard Starley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Ben Barr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Stan Penfold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Face Up and Speak Out, Stuart Merrill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 AIDS and the 80s Hep Vaccine Trials, Ben Williams. . . . . . . . . 14

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U.S. Senate Rejects Gay Marriage Constitutional Ban

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Washington — The Senate June 7 rejected a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, dealing an embarrassing defeat to President Bush and Republicans who hoped to use the measure to energize conservative voters Election Day. Supporters knew they wouldn’t achieve the two-thirds vote needed to approve a constitutional amendment, but they had predicted a gain in votes over the last time the issue came up in 2004. Instead, they lost one vote for the amendment in a procedural test tally that ended up 49-48. “We were hoping to get over 50 percent, but that didn’t happen today,” said Sen. David Vitter, R-La., one of the amendment’s supporters. “Eventually, Congress is going to have to catch up to the wisdom of the American people or the American people will change Congress for the better.” “We’re not going to stop until marriage between a man and a woman is protected,” said Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan. The vote fell 11 short of the 60 required to send the matter for an up-or-down tally in the Senate. The 2004 vote was 50-48. Supporters lost two key “yes” votes — Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., who has changed his mind since 2004, and Sen. Chuck Hagel, RNeb., who did not vote this time because he was traveling with Bush. Gregg said that in 2004, he believed the Massachusetts Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage in that state would undermine the prerogatives of other states, like his, to prohibit such unions. “Fortunately, such legal pandemonium has not ensued,” Gregg said in a statement. “The past two years have shown that federalism, not more federal laws, is a viable and preferable approach.” A majority of Americans define marriage as a union of a man and a woman, as the proposed amendment does, according to

a poll out this week by ABC News. But an equal majority opposes amending the Constitution on this issue, the poll found. “Most Americans are not yet convinced that their elected representatives or the judiciary are likely to expand decisively the definition of marriage to include same-sex couples,” said Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., a possible presidential candidate in 2008. He told the Senate on June 6 he does not support the amendment. The tally during the vote put the ban 18 votes short of the 67 needed for the Senate to approve a constitutional amendment. But the defeat is by no means the amendment’s last stand, said its supporters. “I do not believe the sponsors are going to fall back and cry about it,” said Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah. “I think they are going to keep bringing it up.” The House plans a redux next month, said Majority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio. “This is an issue that is of significant importance to many Americans,” Boehner told reporters. “We have significant numbers of our members who want a vote on this, so we are going to have a vote.” The defeat came despite daily appeals for passage from Bush, whose standing is troubled by sagging poll numbers and a dissatisfied conservative base. The Vatican also added muscle to the argument, naming gay marriage as one of the factors threatening the traditional family as never before. Democrats said the debate was a divisive political ploy. “The Republican leadership is asking us to spend time writing bigotry into the Constitution,” said Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, which legalized gay marriage in 2003. “A vote for it is a vote against civil unions, against domestic partnership, against all other efforts for states to treat gays and lesbians fairly under the law.” In response, Hatch fumed: “Does he really want to suggest that over half of the United States Senate is a crew of bigots?” Forty-five of the 50 states have acted to define traditional marriage in ways that would ban same-sex marriage — 19 with constitutional amendments and 26 with statutes. The amendment would prohibit states from recognizing same-sex marriages. To become ratified, it would need two-thirds support in the Senate and House, and then would have to be ratified by at least 38 state legislatures. Seven Republicans, many from New England, voted to kill the amendment. They were Sens. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, Susan Collins of Maine, Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, John McCain of Arizona, Olympia Snowe of Maine, Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania and John Sununu of New Hampshire. Ben Nelson of Nebraska was the only Democratic senator who supports the amendment. The only other Democrat to vote in favor of moving forward with an upor-down vote, Robert Byrd of West Virginia, opposes the amendment itself.

Anti-gay protestors outside the Kremlin wall.

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Russian Gay Pride March Attacked Moscow — Russian authorities must launch a full investigation into the violent attacks on peaceful gay pride activists in Moscow on May 27 and prosecute those responsible, Human Rights Watch said today. The investigation must also encompass the police response to the attacks. Human Rights Watch called on the authorities to drop charges against participants in pride events for taking Pierre Serne shows facial injuries part in “an unsanctioned demonstration.” Human Rights Watch documented the violence in a briefing paper released June 2 and called on Russian officials to fulfill their obligation to protect human rights by refraining from homophobic rhetoric and ensuring that freedoms of expression and assembly are upheld. “Victims of prejudice and violence deserve full justice,” said Scott Long, director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program at Human Rights Watch, who witnessed the events in Moscow first-hand. “The authorities in Moscow have endorsed discrimination and fostered an environment that allowed hatred to rise. Now they must investigate these attacks, and ensure that civil liberties and personal security are not hostage to homophobia.” On May 27, several dozen Russian lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, accompanied by Russian and foreign supporters, sought to hold two successive protest rallies, one to lay flowers on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier near the Kremlin Wall, and the second a vigil at City Hall in support of freedoms of assembly and expression. Organizers of Moscow’s lesbian and gay pride festival decided to hold these events after a court upheld Mayor Yuri Luzkhov’s ban on a pride march planned for that day. At the sites of both events, hundreds of anti-gay protesters, including skinheads, nationalists, and Orthodox followers, attacked the participants, beating and kicking many, while throwing projectiles and chanting, “Russia free of faggots! Death to sodomites!” Skinheads punched Volker Beck, a gay member of the German parliament, and struck him with a rock, injuring his eye. Police briefly detained Beck. Others de-

tained included parade organizers Nikolai Alexeyev and Yevgenia Debrianskaia. “At both sites police at first seemed to allow the skinheads and others free rein to assault lesbians and gays,” said Long. “When police finally intervened, they forced the two groups closer together, aggravating the violence. They failed totally to protect people peacefully trying to exercise their rights.” On May 18, Luzhkov formally banned a proposed pride parade. Days before the planned event, he stated: “If any one has any deviations from normal principles in organizing one’s sexual life, those deviations should not be exhibited for all to see.” “Instead of leading Muscovites to embrace equality, Mayor Luzhkov supported and promoted homophobia,” said Long. “Given this failure of leadership, the violent ending should surprise no one.” Internal documents from the mayor’s office seen by Human Rights Watch indicate the office sponsored a sustained campaign against measures in support of lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender persons. In one document, dated March 2006, Luzhkov advised subordinates that: “It is necessary to take concrete measures to prevent holding public and mass gay events in the capital.” He instructed them to: “Organize an active campaign in the mass media... using appeals from citizens and religious and public organizations.” In another March memorandum, deputy mayor Liudmila Shvetsova told the mayor, “A law can be promulgated to limit the rights or freedoms of [gay or lesbian] people.” She urged that “the competent executive bodies... identify concrete measures for banning any actions, including public ones, involving propaganda and holding gay festivals or gay parades.” Several people in addition to Volker Beck were brutally beaten by anti-gay extremists on May 27. Pierre Serne, a French activist, was physically attacked twice and suffered injuries to his eye, shoulders, back, arm, and leg. Kurt Krickler, an Austrian activist, was beaten by skinheads on the street. At least six lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender activists and their supporters were arrested and charged with organizing or participating in an “unsanctioned demonstration.” All are believed to have been freed the same evening and may face fines for their alleged offenses. Several dozen antigay protestors were also detained and later released, most also facing similar charges relating to participation in unsanctioned demonstrations.

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Canada Sends a ‘Wedding Invitation’ to Gay Couples Vancouver, British Columbia — The Canadian Tourism Commission has launched a new gay and lesbian advertising campaign on with a destination wedding invitation for U.S. same-sex couples. The country is one of few in the world to extend full marriage equality to all people. The ad first appeared in the May issue of Passport magazine, as part of a gay and lesbian integrated marketing program that will also include sponsorship of gay film festivals, the Human Rights Campaign and special events in select markets across the U.S. Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver are among the favorite destinations for gay and lesbian travelers. The provinces of Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia all legalized same-sex marriage prior to federal extension of marriage equality, with a significant percentage of all marriage licenses issued to same-sex couples going to Americans. In fact, in some cases Americans have outnumbered Canadians seeking licenses. The latest campaign recognizes that marriage is just one more reason to visit Canada, whether travelers plan to wed or not. “There are so many reasons to visit Canada. All travelers are welcome and any traveler can tailor a travel experience that is just right for them,” said Susan Iris, Vice President, U.S. for the Canadian Tourism Commission. “We have great cities that offer everything from European charm to a modern fusion of culture, and all that is reflected in our food, shopping and atmosphere. We believe that is why so many people are choosing to come see Canada.” Canada has established a reputation as one of the most gay-friendly countries in the world. Marriage is a significant indicator of the hospitality in store for gay and lesbian visitors whether they are drawn to the country by wedding bells, fine dining, some of the biggest parties and festivals in the world, or world-class skiing and outdoor experiences. For more information, visit keepexploring.ca.

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Silence=Meth Campaign Targets New Epidemic New York — As the discovery of AIDS reaches its 25th anniversary, the gay community is grappling with a new epidemic — a dramatic increase in the use of what many consider to be the most dangerous drug in the United States — Crystal Meth. In an effort to combat abuse of this highly addictive drug, New York City’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center (the Center) has announced the launch of a new ad campaign with the message: “Silence=Meth.” The phrase “Silence=Meth” is a slightly modified but equally haunting reinterpretation of ACT UP’s famous “Silence=Death” campaign during the 1980s AIDS crisis, when posters bearing the words “Silence=Death” were plastered throughout New York City. The posters became a wakeup call to action for those most vulnerable to AIDS — gay and bisexual men. “Twenty-five years ago our community refused to be silent about AIDS,” said Richard Burns, Executive Director of the Center. “Just as the ACT UP campaign alerted the gay community to AIDS in the 1980s and

90s, the Center’s ‘Silence=Meth’ campaign will focus attention on the danger of Crystal Meth and what the entire community must do to help prevent abuse and addiction to this drug.” Affecting all races, ages and sexual orientations, Crystal Meth is a powerful moodaltering stimulant that has been sweeping through communities across the United States. In March 2006, Congress passed the Combat Methamphetamine Act, which restricts the sale of over-the-counter cold and allergy remedies containing the decongestant pseudoephedrine, an ingredient used to illegally manufacture Crystal Meth. Although seizures of “Moonshine Meth” labs have slowed slightly under the new law, the drug still holds a tight grip on many communities across the country — including New York’s community of gay and bisexual men. “The ACT UP ads put our government on notice that the gay and lesbian community would no longer tolerate its silence on the devastation of AIDS. Today, we need to keep talking within our community about how to address the impact of meth use and we also

need to hold government accountable for giving us the necessary resources to effectively implement meth prevention and treatment,” said Barbara Warren, the Center’s Director for Organizational Development, Planning and Research. “Crystal Meth not only affects the user, but everyone in the user’s life — friends, family, coworkers, community and society. No one can afford to be silent about Meth.” The Center’s new ads will be posted throughout the Chelsea neighborhood urging action by friends and loved ones of Crystal Meth users. On the posters, below a pink triangle and the words “Silence=Meth,” is the sobering statement, “25 years ago, our community refused to be silent about AIDS. Today, we must not be silent about Crystal Meth.” The Center’s “Silence=Meth” ads are part of a larger campaign to focus anti-Crystal Meth messaging not only on the gay and bisexual men who use the drug, but on the friends and loved ones of the users, as well. “The 25-year separation of the two campaigns is particularly relevant because the epidemics are so closely connected,” Burns said. “The relationship between Crystal Meth and HIV/AIDS has become clearer over the past few years with studies showing that Crystal Meth users are more likely to engage in unsafe sex and that HIV-positive men are more likely to use Crystal Meth.” In a 2006 survey of gay and bisexual men in New York City, approximately one in four indicated the use of Crystal Meth in the period of six months prior to the assessment.

In a previous study this figure was estimated to be 14 percent — making New York second only to San Francisco as the United States city with the greatest number of gay and bisexual men who use Crystal Meth. In addition to its counseling services, the Center has addressed the Crystal Meth crisis through its community forums, education campaigns, public policy advocacy efforts, and independent research. Congress demonstrated in 2005 its support of the Center by allocating federal funds for the expansion and enhancement of the Center’s Crystal Meth prevention and counseling programs. The announcement of the “Silence=Meth” campaign coincides with June’s National Gay Pride Month — an event marked by the annual parade through New York City on the last Sunday of the month.

Million Marble March Launched to Protest Marriage Amendment Washington — In response to President George Bush’s push for a Constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, ActForLove.org, a dating site for liberal activists, has announced the “Million Marble March,” a campaign to send marbles to the White House to replace the ones Bush ‘has lost’. “The President has clearly lost his marbles, and we want to help him find them,” said John Hlinko, founder of ActForLove.org. “With Americans concerned about the war in Iraq, the continued threat of Al Qaeda, soaring gas prices, and immigration, George Bush has chosen to focus on gay marriage. The question must be asked — has he gone nuts? Has he lost his marbles?” For the rest of June, ActForLove. org will send one marble to the White House for each new member who signs up (for free) for the service — and two marbles for each one who signs up to search for a same sex partner. “Captain Queeg was obsessed with strawberries, Captain Ahab was obsessed with Moby Dick, and our commander in chief is obsessed with... gay marriage,” said Hlinko. “Well, we look forward to helping him find his marbles — and hopefully to helping match up as many same sex couples as possible in the process.” ActForLove.org is an online dating service that lets activists “take action” and “get action” at the same time. Launched in the spring of 2003, ActForLove.org is the largest dating service specifically geared towards liberal activists. ActForLove.org is led by John Hlinko, a long-time Internet activist and founder of DraftWesleyClark.com, and Leigh Stringer, an architect and activist. John has helped lead a range of cause- oriented efforts over the last decade, including MoveOn.org and the satirical “Students for a Drug-Free White House.” John and Leigh were married in October 2004. And yes... they met online. For more information, visit www.ActForLove. org and www.MillionMarbleMarch.com.

DC Comics’ Outing of Batwoman Draws Mixed Response

By Angela D’Amboise Hollywood — When DC Comics announced last week socialite-turned-caped-crusader Kathy Kane would slip back into her cape and reprise her role as Batwoman, thousands of fans were ecstatic. But it was another little announcement that drew a mixed reaction from scores of Batwoman fanatics. Batwoman, it would seem, is a lesbian, announced DC Comics to CNN last week. The comic book giant said it arrived at the

decision in an attempt to diversify its roster. It’s a secret Kane has been carrying around with her since 1956, when Batwoman was originally introduced as a comic love interest for Batman. In the reintroduced series, Kane is open about her sexuality to friends but remains closeted to her family. The announcement certainly got a reaction. According to a report by CNN, a Google search for lesbian Batwoman drew more than half a million hits. But the overall response was far from unanimous support. Robert Knight, an anti-gay rights activist who heads the conservative Culture and Family Institute, said he is livid DC Comics would deliberately expose young children to the homosexual lifestyle. “Most comics readers are boys, though some girls read comics, and I can’t imagine this will be a good influence on girls, some of whom might be sexually confused, or not quiet sure who they are,” he said in a statement reported by the Agape Press. Knight says the reintroduction of Batwoman as a lesbian is just the latest in a string of profane changes to the DC line of comic heroes. He said it all started a few years ago when a new executive took over the company and made it a point to use “more profanity” and “sexual situations.” While neither the Culture and Family Institute or the American Family Association, which also posted a complaint on its web site, have indicated they intend to boycott the comic book giant, Knight says he predicts the idea will backfire and “ought to be shoved far, far back into the Batcave.” But a spokesperson for the comic giant says he is surprised by how much attention the announcement has garnered – most of it excited. Though the newly out Batwoman wont launch in stores until July, DC’s Executive Editor Don Didio told the Associated Press he has been bombarded by phone calls from people, all “intrigued” with the idea. With Kathy Kane’s announcement also comes a new image – she’s now a 5’10” red head, according to reports from the Associated Press, dressed in a skin tight suit and big leather boots – a look some say in and of itself is inappropriate for young readers. But longtime comic book collector Joe Palmer, who oversees the Gay League Web site for gay and lesbian comic book fans, dismisses the concern, saying Kane’s seductive image is par for the course in comic book land. “Honestly, comic book characters are already going to be handsome or over-the-top gorgeous anyway,” he told the Associated Press. “They’re definitely going to be very physically fit, they’re going to be gym bunnies basically, only they don’t go to the gym.” But perhaps the most generally heard reaction is much like the one expressed by Presbyterian deacon John Schroeder, an environmental consultant who blogs about the comic book industry and religion and says Batwoman’s sexual preference is of no concern to him. “Am I excited that there’s going to be a homosexual superhero? Not really,” he told the Associated Press. “But it’s not like I’m going to jump up and down and scream and say it’s the end of the world.”

Colo. Governor Vetoes Gay Rights, Again Boise Holds Annual Denver, Colo. — For the second time in two years, Colorado’s Republican governor, Bill Owens, has vetoed a bill to add sexual orientation and gender identity to the state’s workplace anti-discrimination code. His rebuke to the Democratic-controlled Legislature is one of 32 vetoes so far this session, a tally that some speculate could eventually top last year’s record 47 vetoes. Colo. Gov. Bill Owens In his May 26 veto letter, Owens said the bill “had the potential to be costly for Colorado businesses due to an expansion of their tort liability.” The average employment discrimination lawsuit “takes years to resolve,” he said, and “can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in attorney fees and court costs.” Owens claimed a 1990 law called the “off-duty conduct statute” already protects employees from being fired for their behavior outside the workplace. The thumbs-down was no surprise to the bill’s author, state Sen. Jennifer Veiga of Denver. Veiga told the Denver Post last month that she anticipated another veto “unless the governor is out of town on vacation, or out of the country.” After the fact, she told the paper that although she expected Owens’ decision, she was “really irritated” nonetheless. In a written statement, Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese called Owens “out of step with the voters and businesses in Colorado” and making excuses “that don’t hold water.” This year’s legislative debate was a walk in the park compared to last year’s mud-slinging. Owens’ 2005 veto message for a virtually identical bill chastised lawmakers for the “coarseness and insensitivity” that marked the debate over gay rights. “It was unfortunate,” he wrote last May, “to hear some lawmakers liken homosexuality to the serious crime of pedophilia, or to hear others refer to our fellow citizens as ‘abominations.’ “

In vetoing last year’s bill, Owens noted that the legislation “has the potential to be interpreted as requiring employers to offer benefits to same-sex couples. ... We should maintain the flexibility that exists in current law rather than allowing the possibility that such benefits could be mandated on all employers.” There was no such admonition in this year’s veto, which was signed in a very different context. In November, Colorado voters will weigh in on a referendum that would offer many of the benefits of marriage to same-sex partners. The referendum was sent to voters by the Legislature and did not require approval from the governor. Three rival voter initiatives are seeking to share the November ballot with the domestic partner plan. One would outlaw same-sex marriage. Another would ban civil unions. A third, drafted by gay rights groups, would make sure that the domestic partner plan could take effect regardless of the outcome of the other two votes. The three proposals are in the petitioning stages.

JUNE 10

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Gay Pride Festival

Boise, Idaho — About 700 people turned out for Boise Idaho’s gay pride festival on the grounds of the rainbow balloon-bedecked Idaho Statehouse. Speakers included Amy Herzfeld of the Idaho Human Rights Education Center, Hewlett-Packard Senior Vice President George Mulhern, and area gays and lesbians and parents. Mulhern urged business and political leaders to, “Stop focusing on single labels and start looking at the whole person. Stop worrying about who they are going to marry,” reported the Idaho Statesman. Hewlett-Packard was one of the first Fortune 500 businesses to adopt progressive policies for its gay and lesbian employees. The company’s Diversity Project

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is currently hunting for a replacement term for LGBT, which they’ve redefined as, “let’s get beyond titles.” Julianne Russell joined her husband and four children on the steps of the Statehouse, saying, “No one is responsible for the sanctity of my marriage save for my husband and myself. It has nothing to do with gender. It has nothing to do with a marriage license. Do not let the lack of a marriage license become a roadblock to a sacred union.” “This is the beginning of one of the biggest movements of the twenty-first century, which is the gay rights movement,” said Andrea Shipley, board member of Your Family, Friends and Neighbors. “We will not stand for people to trivialize our lives … and use us as political pawns.” Participants then took to the streets in a make-shift parade to The Grove, a park and business center in downtown Boise.

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Las Vegas — In an attempt to revitalize the once innovative “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,” the show has moved to Las Vegas for its upcoming fourth season. The show, based around five stylish gay men reorienting a straight man’s overall appearance, was once groundbreaking but now seems to retread the same territory each episode, the New York Daily News reports. The fourth season premiere this week has the series’ Fab Five offering their makeover talents to a fire-eating Vegas magician and his G-string designing wife. The Daily News calls the show’s relocation as a promising attempt to add life into the show, but reviews the premiere as representing a show that has lost its way. Producers are wrapping up the 100th episode this week as well. “The 100th episode means that 100 straight guys have been tszujed and kicked around by the Fab Five,” said David Collins, creator of the show. “And we’re planning to make it a very special episode.” The boys will be bringing back some of their most helpless victims for the special to see if the straight guys managed to keep up their grooming, manscaping and gourmet cooking.

Utah County Democratic Platform Comes Out Against Gay Marriage by Michael Aaron

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Utah AIDS Foundation Offers Hepatitis Vaccination Coupons The Utah AIDS Foundation now has vouchers for Hepatitis A & B Vaccinations for $10.00 per set (a series of three is needed for full vaccination). This is a savings of $53.00 for the full course of the vaccinations. Vaccinations are available at the Salt Lake Valley Health Department, located at 610 S. 200 East. Those interested can stop by the Utah AIDS Foundation, 1408 S. 1100 East for the vouchers. Business hours are 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Mondays and 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. Vaccinations are limited to adults over 20 years old, though 19-year-olds may take the Hep A vaccine. Vouchers are reserved for men who have sex with men (gay, bisexual

or non-identifying) and adults who demonstrate high risk for Hepatitis A and/or B infection. To learn more about Hepatitis A & B visit www.cdc.gov or www.hbvadvocate. org. “Only a limited number of vouchers are available and it is anticipated that they will go quickly,” said Tyler Fisher, HIV Prevention Specialist at the Utah AIDS Foundation. “This is an amazine opportunity. Hep A & B is prevalent in our community and the shots are expensive without these vouchers. Come in right away.” If you have questions, please contact Tyler Fisher at Tyler@UtahAIDS.org or by calling 801-487-2323.

Pride365 Now Accepting Events in Gay Community Calendar

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Utah’s new online gay community calendar will be available at pride365.org beginning June 26. Organizations and businesses of Utah’s gay community are invited to log on register to submit postings. The Pride365 calendar is a free service geared to promote and market events in the Utah gay and lesbian community. “We see Pride365 and all of our local gay organizations as partners with QSaltLake,” stated Michael Aaron, editor and publisher of QSaltLake. “This is one more way we can help build the community by promoting the many events that organizations produce each year.”

“Pride365 will be for the Utah’s Gay Community what the Downtown Alliance is to Salt Lake,” stated Chad Keller, coordinating partner. “In addition to the calendar, Pride365 will host a variety of events with QSaltLake geared specifically for the gay community and their allies. In the months to come additional services will be added to help new and existing organizations.” Community members will be able to access the calendar online, though email, or in the at-a-glance listings in each edition of QSaltLake. Monthly printed calendars are available with a subscription to QSaltLake. Registration and access to the web site is free.

Provo — The Utah County Democratic Party ratified their biannual platform June 10 and already it is being criticized as being “Republican Lite.” The platform also defines marriage as between “one man and one woman.” In a section labeled “Families,” the party declares, “As Utah County Democrats we believe the family is the basic unit of society. It is through the family that we support and care for each other, and share values from one generation to the next.” “We call for supporting families with high standards of morality,” it continues. “We recognize that many of today’s families include single parents, stepparents, blended families, multi-generational families, and many other variations. For many, families are a group of individuals related by blood, marriage, or choice who are committed to supporting and caring for each other. Like most Utahns, we define marriage as the union of one man and one woman. However, we also acknowledge that some have deeply held and sometimes differing views on this issue. We seek to understand those differences in a spirit of civility, hope, and mutual respect.” “It’s embarrassing,” said Mike Picardi, Chair of the Utah Stonewall Democrats. “I’m extremely disappointed in what they’ve done, to say the least.” “It simply shows that we still have some educational work to be done,” Picardi continued. “Some of the most conservative Democratic candidates, when told that the gay marriage issue is about survivorship

and property rights, they get it. Republican candidates never do. Then they go back home and are slammed with the religious ‘marriage’ issue … that gay men will invade the temple grounds in gowns, and of course they have to oppose that.” The Utah County Republican Party platform, on the other hand, invokes the name of God four times and is much more definitive on marriage: “We believe that marriage consists only of the legal union between a man and a woman and that no other domestic union should be recognized as a marriage or given the same or substantially equal legal effect.” It goes on to say, “We encourage all efforts to strengthen the moral character of our children and oppose policies, practices, and public expressions that degrade humanity and the sanctity of family relationships. We oppose efforts to include sexual orientation as a protected minority.” The Republican platform, unlike its Democratic counterpart, demands that “All Republican elected officials, candidates and party officers are expected to endorse these principles and agree to be held accountable to the people and to the party.” Utah County Democratic Chair Vaughn Cook said there is a big difference between the two platforms. “The difference is in the overall attitude of the people involved. Democrats tend to be more liberal in their acceptance and tolerance of differences,” he said. “I liken it to ecology. Differences are beneficial to the environment. We should appreciate the differences among ourselves. That tends to be more of a Democratic characteristic than a Republican characteristic.”

Gay Freedom Day Celebrates the Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots Pride365 gets a grand kick-off Sunday, June 25 as the first Gay Freedom Day celebration takes over Harmony Park in South Salt Lake. “We expect this first event to draw only a few hundred people,” said Chad Keller, coordinator of the event. “That will make it seem like some of the earliest Pride Days in Salt Lake City.” The celebration honors what many call the beginning of the gay rights movement — the Stonewall Riots of 1969 in New York City. After years of bar raids, patrons of a small bar in Greenwich Village fought back. The event is largely legend by this point, as many people living today claim to have been there — and all have a different memory of the events. The riots, however, kick-started the modern gay rights movement and the first gay pride days were held the following year in New York City. Other large cities followed suit and today Gay Pride Days are celebrated across the globe. “I think this will be more of a nice day to spend having a picnic in the park, listen to some speakers and watch some performers,” said Michael Aaron, editor of sponsor QSaltLake. “There will be plenty other events to do as well — an open softball game, volleyball, horseshoes. There’s also a great new playground at the park for those with kids.” The Utah Gay Rodeo Association will be barbecuing for those who want to get their food there rather than packing a lunch. An open mike and stage will be available for those who wish to speak or perform. Organizations are free to set up tables or booths. Those wishing to sell are being directed to the City of South Salt Lake for any required licensing. “This is not an overly-organized event,” said Aaron. “We are leaving all of that up to the good sense of those coming. If something is legal to do in the park, it’s allowed at Gay Freedom Day.” Harmony Park was chosen because the permit covered the entire park. It is also within a few blocks of the 3900 South Trax station and one block from the Paper Moon. It is located at 3700 South Main Street and offers a lot of shady areas, a

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pavilion, and two softball diamonds. “I see this as kind of a family reunion of sorts,” Aaron continued. “I hope to see some of the ‘old’ activists and others that stay away from the larger events.” The goal of Pride365 is to offer many of the events that have been popularized over the years and to help smaller organizations promote their events to the gay community. Other events that will be under the Pride365 umbrella include the annual Lagoon Day on August 13, Raging Waters Day on August 20 and Gay Wendover Weekend in September. “There is so much going on in Utah’s gay community,” said Keller. “So much of it gets lost, though, because people just don’t hear about them. Pride365 will be a great place for anyone just looking for something to do, something to support.” Any proceeds from Pride365-sponsored events will go towards creating even larger events and offerings to the community. The nonprofit project will culminate with an event at Utah Pride each year. “Pride should be celebrated 365 days a year,” said Keller. “We’re just offering up ways to help that happen.”

Free Testing in Salt Lake City During National HIV Testing Day The Salt Lake Valley Health Department will celebrate National HIV Testing Day, Wednesday, June 28, by offering free HIV testing at the Salt Lake City Public Health Center, 610 S. 200 East. The tests use blood taken from a finger-prick and results are available the same day. According to the Centers for Disease Control, an estimated 850,000 Americans are infected with HIV and between 180,000 and 280,000 do not even know they are infected. The HIV test is the only way a person can tell if they are infected to receive proper care. By not knowing your HIV status, you may continue to engage in behavior that could jeopardize your health, and the health of others. For more information on free testing at SLVHD, visit www.slvhealth.org or call 5344666. For other testing locations and times, visit http://www.aidsinfoutah.org/

Pride365 Seeks Artists for Seasonal Exhibitions

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Artists of various media are being sought to participate in seasonal ‘pop-up’ art exhibitions. Portfolios are currently being accepted for the first exhibition in September. There is no fee to participate, however artists who participate are asked to limit the number of not-for-sale pieces. Artists will be asked to donate a small portion of any sales at the exhibition to further the mission of the Pride365 art exhibitions. Each seasonal exhibition will be held on a gallery stroll evening in a downtown location. To be considered for the exhibition or for more information please log on to Pride365. org and click on ‘Popup Gallery.’

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Krystyna Did Not Act Alone

Gay Freedom Day by Michael Aaron

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Why a Gay Freedom Day? Are you trying to take over Pride? Is this the ‘alternative to Pride?’ I’m often asked questions about this whole Pride365 thing as I go out and about. It seems that the project is shrouded in some kind of mystery, that it’s some kind of evil plan. We made a decision when launching the project to wait until Utah Pride was over before going into full-scale promotion mode. That may have helped feed the rumors and speculation around what we are doing. If we’d been looking for a great way to promote something, we’d be called marketing geniuses. The truth of the matter is, we were watching delicate toes that have an aversion to being stepped on, as most do. I’m excited about the Gay Freedom Day launch of Pride365. The project has great potential to bring bigger and better things to this community. We will be calling on volunteers to help create things that simply don’t yet exist in Utah. It’s part of this paper’s efforts to help build this community. We will be gathering some of our other projects that we like to produce annually – like the days at Lagoon and Raging Waters. We are hoping to help promote local gay and lesbian artists with what we are calling “pop-up galleries” that will appear in some fun locations, including some of the unused retail space on Main Street.

Utah Pride A hearty pat on the back to the Pride organizers this year. Though I spent the whole day in my booth this year, I found it to be a wellorganized and fun event. I actually have not heard one bitch/gripe/well-worded complaint about the event. Can you imagine such a thing? Preliminary numbers are showing a crowd of about 20,000 people attended. Not one of those 20,000 have called or written here to complain. Quite a difference from previous years. We also had a great time driving in the parade with our Brokeback Mountain-themed

float where we promised “We Won’t Quit You.” Yeah, it was just a trailer with hay bails and some of our smiling staff waving at the crowd, but it was great fun. When we are big and successful we’ll steal a float from the Macy’s parade and drive it all the way here. I’m sure it will be lovely after a 2,300 mile drive. Thank you to all of those who gave us such great encouragement along the route. We can’t hear “We love the Q!” enough.

Miss Gay Pride Not all of the weekend’s events came up roses this year, however. At this year’s Mr./Miss Gay Pride pageant, held by the Royal Court of the Golden Spike Empire, my partner ran as Raven Debonair for the Miss title up against Porsche. All was going well, I thought, as the contestants went up several times for different rounds of judging, just like a Miss America pageant. Right before Porsche was supposed to go on for a talent number, she shrieked that she was missing the back of an earring. So here I am, partner of the competition, feeling around in the dark on my hands and knees on the bar floor (now stop that … yes it WAS my first time doing such a thing) frantically searching for the missing BBsized object. And, eureka, I found it. I rushed over and thrust it into her hand. She said, “Oh.” That’s it. “Oh” I wasn’t expecting an “oh my god you saved my life” or a “wow isn’t it cool that the partner of my competition was big enough to help me in this mini-crisis.” I was thinking, however, that a “thank you” would be in order. Even a “thanks.” I’d heard that Porsche also holds the title of Bitch of the Year. I find those two titles to be a bit incompatible. Frankly, I’m not proud of our Miss Gay Pride. Mr. Gay Pride, however … yum!

Salt Lake Men’s Choir Let’s end on a happy note, though. I heartily encourage you to get your tickets early to the Salt Lake Men’s Choir’s campy summer concert. It will sell out. Those of you who waited to buy your tickets at the door of last year’s summer concert know that. Titled “Unexpected Songs,” the concert will offer up, well, many … unexpected things. Rehearsals are going well and I think that all will have a great time. This is Lane Cheney’s final concert after twelve years with the choir and he will be greatly missed. Q

Dear Editor, I am writing in response to the anonymous letter, regarding the Royal Court of the Golden Spike Empire, which was printed in your last edition of QSaltLake [Letters: Court Drama, June 1, 2006]. First and foremost, I am concerned that your paper printed a letter without ascertaining complete facts. It is my understanding that the president of the board of directors was not contacted to clarify facts before the letter was printed. I have been asked to set the record straight. Yes, a portion of Emperor 30 Peter Savas’ step-down letter was removed. But this act was not done by any one person or taken lightly. A majority of the College of Monarchs attending Coronation 31 met concerning what they deemed inappropriate content. A decision was made and an action was taken supported by a majority present. Though this may not have been the best solution, it was nonetheless a group decision. The author of letter leaves the impression that Empress 30 Krystyna acted alone. This is not the case. The RCGSE, like most organizations, has its trials and tribulations. Like a family, we agree and we disagree with each other. We do try to keep our disputes within our own organization. Not always an easy task when we have open board meetings. But the Court is strong. We learn from our mistakes and we evolve. Perhaps that is why we are Utah’s longest running Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Transgender organization. We are proud of what we have given to our community. We started the predecessor to the Utah Gay Rodeo Association and pride days were first presented and hosted by the RCGSE. In the early days of AIDS, it was the RCGSE that first went to the community to spread awareness. It was the RCGSE that first started raising money for people living with HIV/AIDS and we have continuously raised hundreds of thousands of dollars. We raise money for people living with cancer. We help those in need, financially and emotionally. We believe in our community and we need our community to believe in us. The true statement was that, in the end, Peter and Krystyna brought it together, like true monarchs. Through it all, we stand together, unified in our beliefs that what we do brings good to others. I, for one, am proud to have run for office as I am sure my fellow monarchs and title holders are as well. I am proud of Peter and Krystyna. Most importantly, I am proud of the Royal Court of the Golden Spike Empire

Bobby Childers, Emperor 27 President, Board of Directors Royal Court of the Golden Spike Empire

Humanistic Court Dear Editor: In your Pride issue for QSaltLake, I read the anonymous letter concerning the Royal Court. In response to this, I must express that I was saddened with the misinformation that was presented. Perhaps, getting the facts from the Board President of the RCGSE, concerning this situation would have been beneficial and pro-active in approach. I believe that both Empress Krystyna Shaylee XXX and Emperor Peter Savas XXX, contributed greatly towards outreaching to others in need and with assistance. Perhaps this is why I was dismayed to see Empress Shaylee having to bear the brunt of an accusation such as the one I read in the letter. The facts from both sides should have been researched, especially when the letter came from an anonymous source. The hurtful accusations need to stop within our

community if we are to grow as a family and as a strong social unit. If taken the time to get to know her, Empress XXX Shaylee, one would find her to be a kind and gracious individual. During her Reign, Krystyna Shaylee represented the Royal Court in a positive manner that was dedicated to outreaching to community members. My concern at this point is that I, along with the current reigning Empress, and our Prince and Princess, will be striving for unity within the community. We can only achieve this by understanding that we must be humanistic to others, understand one another’s differences, settle our disputes quietly and peacefully, respect persons and applaud our efforts as community members. The 31st Reign will also focus on peaceful encounters with community so that we might build a solid family. Also, please understand that the 31st reign will follow in the solid leadership that has been provided to the Royal Court by the past Monarchs. Each reign has added their own measure of compassion and service towards Court members and the community. We wish to follow that positive trend. Yet, we need the help of the community to assist us in attaining that goal. This can only be done if the community understands that the Royal Court is an organization that is in service to the community. Our many charitable funds have been established because the Royal Court is committed towards assisting others and providing compassion, respect and support. The Royal Court is humanistic and kind in approach and wishes to serve so that the community might be empowered to have lives that contain some amount of confidence and joy.

Kim M. Russo Emperor XXXI Royal Court of the Golden Spike Empire Editor’s Note: Though we used the term “anonymous” as the author of the letter, it would have been more correct to have signed it as “Name Withheld by Request.” QSaltLake will not publish letters from anonymous sources.

Enjoyable Pride Editor, I would like to commend the Utah Pride committee on a highly-successful and enjoyable Pride event. The parade appeared to run extremely smoothly, even starting on time! I appreciate the organizations that spent the time and money to present floats in the parade. The lines this year were no worse than any other event of its scale. It was quite an improvement from last year. Thank you for listening to the community and coming up with a new idea to help address our concerns. I loved the opening ceremonies. The Salt Lake Men’s Choir sounded fabulous in their Evita-like setting up on the balcony of the City-County Building. “Rainbow Connection” brought me to tears. By all appearances, Pride has grown from last year and other previous years. Something must be happening right. Keep up the good work. Continue to listen to the community for praise and concerns and continue to find new ways to build on an already-strong event.

Brenda Christensen Murray QSaltLake welcomes letters from our readers. Please email your letters to letters@qsaltlake. com. Letters, if published, may be edited for length and libel.

Face Up and Speak Out by Stuart Merrill,

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Starting before my best friend Stevie died of AIDS, through to those who have died recently here in Utah, remembering 25 years of the AIDS pandemic has been surprisingly emotional for me. How can we honor each and every life with mere words? I guess they would want me to thank the silent heroes, and to make a plea to help those of us who are still fighting. Funding for the medication we need is in danger. We still need your help. Please contact me and get on our email list. Twenty years ago I was visiting my friend Stevie in a hospital in New York. By that time far too many of my friends had died, but Stevie was my best friend. He was dying of pneumonia, literally drowning in his own lungs. He was struggling so hard to breathe that he couldn’t talk. I asked a nurse to get him an oxygen mask, she refused. I threw a fit and insisted they help him immediately. They threatened to have me arrested if I didn’t leave. I said “go ahead�. I didn’t care about anything but helping Stevie. As I watched the security guards walking

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off!), I kept wondering about REAL Salt Lake’s biggest problem‌. How do they get their Latino soccer fans out of Sandy by the time the sun goes down? Yes, I said it and I meant it. Do you think the lily white suburbanites in their Sandy McMansions are going to tolerate any type of ethnic west side spill over into Beigeland? Oh, I don’t think so, peaches. Maybe our exotic Central American friends can venture as

I kept wondering about REAL Salt Lake’s biggest problem‌. How do they get their Latino soccer fans out of Sandy by the time the sun goes down? far east as Jordan Commons for a lunchtime bite of authentic Mexican cuisine at the Mayan, or maybe a matinee screening of Nacho Libre at the Larry-Plex, but I’m thinking that’s about it. Don’t cringe ‌ you know deep in your heart I’m right! White and delightsome soccer moms can only fill so many stadium seats, so marketing to Central American soccer fanatics is inevitable. But how do they get in and out of Sandy without being seen? It’s a planning dilemma, people! Unfortunately, Sandy wants all of the tax base advantages that a stadium will bring, but

at the end of the day, they want it at everyone else’s expense with no input from the little people who actually struggle and sacrifice to pay for it. Corroon was absolutely right to call ‘bullshit’ on the deal. So anyway, cherubs, now that that’s out of my system ‌ After Pride I bit the bullet and sat down to write personalized thankyous to all of the parade participants, and even the SLCPD. The good news for next year is that the police department is willing to work with us to secure another block (probably the northbound lanes of State Street between 3rd & 4th South) to assemble our pedestrian groups on, while the floats, trucks and car entries will assemble on our usual Broadway block between State and Main. It will help speed things up big time. I guess I can also divulge to you that we may be able to get a purple paint stripe down the route so spectators can come off the side walk and get closer to the parade. My inner screaming queen wanted a pink stripe, but after some careful thought, I realized that would be too clichĂŠ and tasteless (even for me!). Let’s face it ‌ we are getting bigger and bigger every year, so anything that helps with crowd control and traffic flow is bound to be a good thing! Oh and one more thing, muffins, one of our community’s more interesting characters, Rhett Barney (yes‌she’s a train wreck but we LOVE her!) will be writing a new column for our neighbor The Pillar. Give it a read. It should be a hoot. Ciao Babies! Ruby Ridge is one of the more opinionated members of the Utah Cyber Sluts, a Camp Drag group of performers who raise funds and support local charities. Her opinions are her own and fluctuate wildly depending on lithium and vodka levels.

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So, darlings, ask me what my favorite part of the Pride parade was this year. Alright, alright, stop pestering me; I’ll tell you. It was Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon walking with his family and being genuinely happy to be there. I mean it’s lovely to have all of the liberal candidates in next years election show up, but our county mayor has been there for us every year. I just adore him! I was so proud of those little kids pedaling away furiously on those tiny bike wheels the entire seven city blocks. I just grinned from ear to ear. You know what cracks me up about Peter Corroon, petals? Here he is, supposedly one of those evil tax and spend liberals, yet he shows more fiscal restraint than any ten Republicans in city, county, state or federal government. Although, can I say how much I really miss former County Auditor Craig Sorenson? I don’t think many people realize how protective and careful he was with our county bond ratings ‌. sigh ‌ but I digress. It showed some serious nads for Corroon to say no to REAL Salt Lake, Tom Dolan and the Sandy Mafia, and all of their Republican cronies in the state legislature. As Dave Checketts and REAL Salt Lake went into damage control mode trying to make their dubious projections and budgets seem feasible (honey not even David Copperfield could pull that one

towards me with handcuffs, I felt a gentle hand on my shoulder. I turned around and saw an angel, a large black nurse, with tears streaming down her face. She said, in a thick Bronx accent, “honey don’t you get what its like for us? We’re nurses. We devoted our lives to helping people, but we don’t have enough masks to go around. They only let us give oxygen to people we can save. I’m sorry, but your friend is gonna die. They won’t let us do more, but I promise to stay with him. I promise to hold his hand.� I lost it. I just sobbed. Five years of endless, needless, hideously lonely deaths had finally caught up to me. Once I finally regained control of myself I went back to kiss Stevie goodbye and to thank the nurse who, as promised, was there holding Stevie’s hand. On behalf of all of those who have passed and all of us who are still fighting, I want to say “thank you� to those who held our hands to the end and to those who are helping us yet today. A dozen years after Stevie died I went to lunch with a former boyfriend of mine, David Seidner. Combination therapy wasn’t working for David. The words were never spoken, but we were there to say “goodbye�. We went to a restaurant where the gay host tried to seat us in the farthest darkest corner, away from all the other guests. I was shocked, but David, God bless him,

said, “No, we’ll take the seat by the window, thank you.� I admired his consistent strength, especially at such a vulnerable time in his life. I think he was courageous. However, it amazed me how soon after the peak of the AIDS crisis this gay host had forgotten the lessons we had learned, and then I thought, “perhaps we all have, perhaps its not intentional, perhaps its just instinctual for gay men to hide AIDS in a dark corner�. The problem is you see, we live with this disease and we are tired of being hidden away. Last week at Pride, the Campaign to End AIDS-Utah had a booth. We were signing up people for our email list. As always, our straight friends sign up, the lesbians always stopped, but most gay men ignored our requests and simply walked by. After two years of AIDS activism in Utah, I can’t say this behavior surprised me. There are three groups of silent heroes in our community, they were the first to help us and we can still count on them today; health care professionals, lesbians, and drag queens. Who’s conspicuously absent from this list? Gay men! There are some exceptions of course, especially in Utah’s excellent gay leadership, and to you I give my heartfelt gratitude. However, the truth needs to be said. Sadly for the most part gay men in Utah have excluded anyone with HIV/AIDS from their lives. This behavior may not be intentional, but I for one think its time to ask our gay men to face up to what they’re doing.

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by Ed Firmage Just what does the Bible teach us about love, sex, and family? Well, over thousands of years, about anything one could conceivably (no pun intended) want to know. A pretty graphic book, the Bible. Daughters getting dad drunk and themselves pregnant, for starters. But the very continuation of the species, I believe, was in their mind at least; at issue was issue. So lest we get lost in all this tangle, perhaps, at least for starters, let’s stick to the New Testament. A more slender book, and quite meaningless without the Bible, but let’s start here. Dear bishops of Roman Catholic persuasion. Dear brothers and sisters of my Mormon roots. And Protestants (aren’t we all?) Chapter and verse, please. Bring your bibles. Mine is worn to a frazzle. But I’ve memorized most of it. Choose your venue: Rome, Salt Lake City, Geneva. Teach me, I pray you, just what did Jesus say about the family? With one stupendous exception, just about everything Jesus had to say about the family can be subsumed in his challenge that we rise above, way above the politics and pettiness of family, tribe, and blood. In fact, hugely the statements on family values, made by Jesus Christ, the last time I checked still the founder of the faith, are negative. If loving one’s brother and sister are all we are about, then forget it, he says, over and over and over again. He was about a much higher vision. Not resisting this pun, he did have other fish to fry. Mary and Joseph notice a bit late (by a day or two‌. where is Family Home Evening when you need it?), that the young Jesus is not in the camel caravan leaving the holy city. Like god-fearing parents in Salt Lake City, or Rome, in Geneva, or the Mafia, they go in search of him. They find him in the temple, conversing with the priests, about the Law and the Prophets. Jesus is not quite yet a teen-ager when he tells his worried parents that he must be about his Father’s business. [Luke 2:41-51] His time was approaching. God help Mary when this young man reaches his teens. Joseph, an older man, likely in his fifties or sixties, is not mentioned again in Jesus’ life. Perhaps Joseph, seeing Jesus at twelve, has premonitions of Jesus’ teen-age years, and died. Mary, a young girl in her teens when Joseph, a man twice or thrice her age, asks for her hand, lives on in the scriptural record, to the end of the gospels’ account. Then through the histories, scriptural and otherwise, of the infant church, clearly as one of its central leaders. When Mary and Jesus’ siblings want to talk to him, and send in their note into a room crowded with Jesus’ disciples, Jesus exclaims: “who is my mother? My brothers and sisters? Those who do the will of my Father who is in heaven.â€? [Matthew 12:46-50] When a devout young man wants to follow Jesus, but piously asks first to be allowed to bury his father, who has just died, Jesus responds: â€? Let the dead bury the dead.â€? [Matthew 8:20-22] Now, there’s a Jeremiad when you need one. Jesus says that a man’s enemies would be those of his own household. [Matthew 10:34-37] Indeed. He does not marry, as far as we know. Clearly, it is not his priority even though, of course, it was the standard social custom for the Rabbi, or teacher to marry, just as

anyone else would do. Jesus says he has no place to lay his head. He lives the life of the penniless teacher, mendicant, itinerant, on the go. So too, his disciples. He says, “If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.â€? [Luke 14:2627] We soften these stern pitiless words at peril of our own souls. It would seem that the disciples leave their families to fend for themselves as they follow Jesus. They are fishers of men and women everywhere, through two thousand years and hundreds of thousands of miles, in time and space. Prophets and apostles in deed. Yes, Peter had a mother-in-law and I assume, a wife. [Matt. 8:14-15] I had both, once. God help Peter, if he inherited a mother-in-law without ever having a wife. Did he abandon his wife? St. Paul, burned once, suggests that such might be a very good idea. [1 Corinthians 7] Just like Joseph, Brigham, and me. I was called as a young Mormon missionary while on my honeymoon, which I spent, strangely, reading the “standard works,â€? all, for the first time, ever. The Bible, the New Testament, the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price. Cover to cover. My eight children’s births remain a mystery. After the honeymoon (I was one of the last virgins on earth at my marriage), within weeks I was in Bradford, England. Then Aberdeen, Scotland, for the coldest winter of my life. What the Scots consider a roaring fire, in place of central heating, would not warm sushi. Then Glasgow, Edinburgh, Manchester, and London. From London, throughout every little village and city in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Dublin and the Republic of Ireland as well. There to make Mormons of perfectly decent Episcopalians, Catholics, Presbyterians, and‌.well, the Welsh. For these hardy folk, they simply said, “no, I’m Welsh.â€? Somehow, we Mormons still obtained the Tabernacle Choir, almost exclusively of Welsh stock. But from Dan Jones, not Ed Firmage. I spent the first lonely month of newly-minted celibacy pondering just how I might throw myself under one of the very few automobiles in England in those days, just so as to be injured sufficient to be sent home, with honor intact, but not so badly wounded such that other portions of myself were still intact, allowing me once again to enjoy my wife’s favors. Not figuring a foolproof way, I remained. I’m a Libra. By my reading, and I claim no infallibility, the only time the founder of the faith spoke positively of “family values,â€? was from the cross. To John the Beloved, and to Jesus’ mother, Mary: “woman, behold your son,â€? looking toward John. And to John, Jesus’ Beloved: “son, behold your mother.â€? [John 19:26-27] Church history and tradition join in informing us that Mary lived for the remainder of her yet long life with John. It might enlighten and intrigue us all to take a long hard look, with a magnifying glass, at the great artist’s rendition of the Last Supper. Notice Jesus and John. What great love. My dear sisters and brothers of all faiths. I beseech you. Reconsider. Lest the present path lead us all to questions and precipices we may be well advised to avoid. While we still can. If we still can. The joker, in all this, is that we will only be sure, really sure, just how close to the precipice we are, after the

fact, that is, in retrospect. Or are we indeed now plunging pell-mell over and down, into the abyss? A sobering thought. Sisters and brothers, of the Book; and of all the holy books of all faiths. Truly we are all one. Whether we use the metaphor of DNA and a double helix, or the stories of all the mystics since time began and beyond the speed of light and looking back as it again overwhelms us. We are one. The one and the many. In all directions. Among all faith traditions. And among all those who think, not without a lot of evidence, that God, the very idea of God, is as very bad joke. NEVERTHELESS! We, like mountain-climbers roped together on the high Himalayas, or the Rockies, either make it to the top together, or together we go over the precipice. This life is not a zero-sum game. Whether or not any religion, anytime, saves anyone else, it just may be that those we seek to save, if we are very, very lucky, or blessed, may just save us. We of the First World, so-called, may just be saved by our sisters and brothers in Chad. Or on Chicago’s South Side. Or in Salt Lake City. Our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters. Our divorced and remarried or never-married neighbors. Our friends from south or north or east or west of the border, whatever “border� means in this time. If we act now, in this Kairos moment. This moment in time, as Jesus says in St. Mark’s gospel, the first story of Jesus Christ: “The Kairos is among you.� That means now. If we now act, in charity, in love–shalom, salaam–without judgment. They may just save us. Thus, we may be able yet to avoid such questions, as: just why do we need all you old men anyway? Personally, I was just made emeritus. That means I now teach free. I got fired. Though nicely done. The English, with their famous sensitivity, tell those in retirement that they have “been rendered redundant.� Just why, good bishops and priests and high priests, just why do we need any of you? To allow our speaking to God? And just why do we pay you tithes and offerings, when all scriptural support says “freely have you received, freely give?� [Matthew 10:8] Just how, and when, and why, did we invent a priesthood, anyway? With nary a woman, or a gay man, in sight? By my count, that’s about 58% of the human race, not represented. Didn’t our forebears have some words with Mother Church and Mother Country about this? Taxation without representation? And a Tea Party in Boston’s harbor? Didn’t the Protestant Reformation, birthed in part in Geneva, Switzerland, deal with some of these things? Is it time for another Reformation? Or Restoration, if you will? Perhaps, just perhaps, we might begin to meet this ideal by considering, always considering, a Reformation, or a Restoration, a once and future thing, never quite finished, or perhaps yet begun, always just ahead and a’birthing. A once and future Restoration, always, elusively always, just out of sight, around the corner, on another star. So, with Milton, Merton, and Dante, take me out among the stars. Pace ’e Bene. Ed Firmage is a Samuel D. Thurman Professor of Law, Emeritus, University of Utah College of Law. He is also the author of several books on Constitutional Law, International Law, Law and Religion, and the law of presidential impeachment. He has also authored several thousand articles and lives peacefully, most of the time, with his Australian Shepherds, Frances and Clare.

EduGaytion by Laurie Mecham laurie@qsaltlake.com

I finally saw the short film, Billy’s Dad is a Fudge Packer. It was an entry at Sundance a couple of years ago, but I couldn’t go because I was up to my elbows in queers. Don’t you hate it when that happens? I was working at the Queer Lounge and I had no time or energy for actual films. Fudge Packer is online now, and you can view it on the Logo network’s website. Its humor is broad, with obvious jokes and puns. Most of the jokes were so apprehensible; they went right under my head. There were a couple of terms, however, with which I was unfamiliar. I had to go to the Urban Dictionary because I didn’t know the meaning of “toss the salad” or “dirty Sanchez.” I am not a stupid person, and I have used many double-entendres to amuse others, but when it comes to the Facts of Queer Life, I have a lot to learn. For example, did you know that there are gay cheerleading squads? Fine, you knew that, but I didn’t. Of course it should have been obvious, but I can’t think of everything! I only learned about it last week. We should know this! Why don’t they have Queer School to teach us these things? Why do we have to learn everything at someone’s knee, or close to it? I’m thinking about writing letters to Chris Buttars and Gayle Ruzicka to let them know that not only are those gay clubs no threat, they are clearly not passing on sexual secrets or cultural enlightenment. (Of course I never went to one — they didn’t

exist back then. The closest I ever came was Gay Missionary Prep School, also known as Seminary, and I usually sluffed that to go out for coffee.) I met my first lesbians before I came out. Ironically, or something, we were all hanging out together as Mormon feminists. From them I learned some great concepts and one of my favorite terms, “patriarchal pederasty.” Interesting stuff, and useful too, but nothing that would help make me hip to the gay subculture. After I came out, I went to all the lesbian meetings — worked on the boards and everything — but they were all so polite and business-oriented that the phrase “dirty Sanchez” just never came up. Of course, that’s more of a guy thing. In an attempt to further the cause of edugaytion, I have attempted the beginnings of a curriculum that is simple and repetitive enough for your last boyfriend to memorize.

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I had to go to the Urban Dictionary because I didn’t know the meaning of “toss the salad” or “dirty Sanchez.”

A is for Anal and Asses that itch, B is for Botox, for Bimboy and Bitch. C Cunnilingus and Cock-ring and Cum, D is for Drag Queen and Drama that’s Dumb. God, this is exhausting. Let me try a different approach: Q is for Queens with their quick, catty quips. U is for Underwear, hugging her hips. E is an Enema. Like water sports? E is the Earring you found in your shorts. R is for Rimming with Mr. Right Now That’s all for today, dykes and faggots. Meow! L is for Laurie, who’ll dance in your lap; M is for Mecham who writes all this crap.

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Did AIDS Come from 80s Hep Trials? If you paid attention in school at all, you’ve heard of Edward Jenner, Louis Pasteur, and Jonas Salk; the eradicators of Smallpox, Rabies, and Polio. Scourges of mankind. However I bet you have never heard of another man, one who created a vaccine for the deadly virus HBV or Hepatitis B. His name is Dr. Wolf Szmuness. Never heard of him? Well that’s the rub. Maybe you aren’t suppose to. Dr. Szmuness was a epidemiologist who used the gay men communities of Manhattan and San Francisco to develop a vaccination for hepatitus B. Are you surprised to learn that one of the greatest boons to health professionals was discovered with the blood of gay men but not surprised that gay men have never been recognized for their contribution to humanity? Me neither. We all read in school books about Jenner and his “milk maids” but have you ever read about Dr. Szmuness and his “homos”? Well there is a very good reason for this because several AIDS researchers believe that Dr. Szmuness’s experiments released the HIV /AIDS virus among gay men in America. Dr. Szmuness life is shrouded in mystery. He was a defector from Communist Poland and yet with no American credentials, he was employed as a lab technician at The New York City Blood Center where he received major governmental grants. Within a few years he was given his own lab and a separate department of epidemiology was created for him at the blood bank. In six years Dr. Szmuness became a full professor of Epidemiology at Columbia Medical School. Impressive. Dr. Szmuness was born 12 March 1919 in Warsaw, after World War I, to Jewish parents although his obituary does not state that he was Jewish. His given name of Wolf however suggests a German heritage as well. But an extensive search of genealogical resources did not reveal his ancestry even though the Mormon Church has done Temple ordinances for the man. Some sources state that Dr. Szmuness was a medical student in Lublin, Poland when the Nazis invaded in 1939. Another source claimed that after studying medicine in Italy, he returned to Warsaw, Poland to join his family at the outset of World War II. Prior to the German invasion Lublin was known as Poland’s intellectual center and a “Jewish Oxford”. However during the Nazi occupation of Poland, Lublin became the Headquarters of the Race and Resettlement Office which operated Hitler’s “Final Solution to the Jewish Question”. The Majdanek

Concentration Camp was prominently located outside the city. According to his New York Times’ obituary, during the war Dr. Szmuness was trapped in the Warsaw, while he was with friends, when his family was taken and sent to a German concentration camp. He never saw his family again. Thereafter he fled moving eastward, keeping just a step ahead of the Nazis on the German-Russian Polish frontier. He managed to cross the Russian border into eastern Poland to Lublin where he was said to have asked the Soviets to fight the Nazis, but instead he was sent to a labor camp in Siberia. This is where it gets really murky. After the liberation of Lublin in 1944, Majdanek was taken over by the Soviet Army. German POWs were sent to slave labor camps deep inside the Soviet Union for a period of captivity lasting as long as 10 years. Anti-Communist Polish citizens were also dispatched to Siberia from Lublin after the war. One has to ask why was a Jewish–Polish medical student sent to Siberia at “hard physical labor”? If he was an anti-communist why would he keep this fact a secret? Szmuness was always reluctant to discuss “those dark years in Siberia.” Speculation suggests that Dr. Szmuness was either a Nazi collaborator or had special knowledge that the Soviets wanted or needed. In Siberia he was put in charge of sanitary conditions in the labor camp and later of epidemiology in the area. Biographer June Goodfield claims Szmuness, as a political prisoner in Siberia during the end of World War II, was repeatedly interrogated and beaten by the Russian KGB for refusing to cooperate in spy activities. Although he had been imprisoned as a political prisoner by Josef Stalin, in 1946 Dr. Szmuness was sent to medical school in Tomsk, in Central Russia, where he married a woman named Maya. This was hardly typical treatment of an enemy of the Soviet state under Stalin’s ruthless dictatorship. In 1950 Dr. Szmuness at the age of 31 received a medical degree from the University of Tomsk and in 1955, he received an advanced scientific degree from the University of Kharkov. Nine years later Dr. Szmuness received another advanced scientific degree from the University of Lublin. Dr. Szmuness’ interest in finding a prevention for hepatitis, a potentially fatal liver infection, was said to have risen when his wife, Maya, had a near-fatal attack in the Soviet Union in the early 1950’s. She developed hepatitis as a complication of blood transfusions given during gall bladder surgery. In 1959, the Soviets allowed Dr. Szmuness and his family to return to his native Poland where he worked as an epidemiologist in municipal and regional health departments near Lublin. During this time he applied to the authorities for a vacation at a rest home. Dr. Szmuness, without

Three months after the [hepatitis vaccine] experiment began, the first cases of AIDS reported to the CDC appeared in young gay men in Manhattan.

homosexual men. Of these groups, a population of HBV-susceptible homosexual healthy young men appeared to be the most suitable. Their risk of HBV infection is unusually high, they are readily accessible through numerous gay organizations, and their cooperation in previous studies has been excellent.” Ads like the following were soon plastered although Greenwich Village in NYC: “LAST CHANCE For gay men to Join the HEPATITIS B* VACCINE PROGRAM. *A Sexually Transmitted Disease. Enrollment closes in June, after which the vaccine may not be available for several years. Take the FREE blood test to determine your HEPATITIS B status and eligibility for the program. For hours and information call: New York Blood Center 570-3047”. Three months after the experiment began, the first cases of AIDS reported to the CDC appeared in young gay men in Manhattan in 1979. The first San Francisco AIDS case appeared in that city in September 1980, six months after the Hepatitis-B experiment started there. In June 1981 the AIDS epidemic became “official.” June Goodfield, recalls that Dr. Szmuness, in the months before the official November 1978 start date, had made some preliminary and unreported inoculations into two hundred people, presumably gays. Thus, even before the experiment officially began, some volunteers were already injected with the experimental vaccine. The vaccine study was completed in October 1979 and within 10 years, most of the young men vaccinated would be dead or dying from AIDS. Epidemiologist Dr. Cladd Stevens, who in 1975 joined Dr. Szmuness at the New York Blood Center, helped monitor efficacy trials of the hepatitis B vaccine. Stevens and her team later traced the first and earliest known ‘positive’ AIDS virus antibody test back to young Manhattan gays who were injected with the hepatitis experimental vaccine at the Blood Center beginning in November 1978. In 1986 Dr. Cladd Stevens reported that the many of the homosexuals in the experimental program were infected with the AIDS virus. She assembled 212 men out of the 1083 who had taken part in the Hepatitis B. vaccine trials and found 85 of them with AIDS. Through these and other retrospective testing of blood specimens of the 1083 men in the original hepatitis B experiment, as well as the blood of over 10,000 gays screened by Dr. Szmuness, it was definitely determined that the AIDS virus was introduced into the gay community sometime around 1978, the same year the gay experiment began. The experimental Hepatitis-B vaccine was primarily manufactured by the pharmaceutical company Merck. During the experiment Dr. Szmuness was concerned about possible vaccine contamination. June Goodfield wrote, “This was no theoretical fear, contamination having been suspected in one vaccine batch made by the National Institutes of Health, though never in Merck’s.” Within a year of the official recognition of gay Cancer, as AIDS was first called, Dr. Wolf Szmuness died himself at the age of 62 of cancer on June 8, 1982 in Queens, New York City. He was survived by his wife and his daughter, Helena who became a BBC journalist in London. He is buried in Forest Hills, Queens. In all the 76,997,567 Records of the Social Security Index there is but one person known as Szmuness. Q

Obituaries David LeRoy Frodsham 1963–2006

David, 42, passed away May 25, 2006 in arms of his loving family. He was born Dec. 21, 1963 in Denver, Colo., the son of Merle LeRoy and Diane Andrus Frodsham. David graduated from Davis High School, class of 1982 where he was a student body officer. He received his associates’ degree from Weber State University. As a vital member of the community, David gave of himself in many ways, using his god-given talents; working selfless long hours he helped raise fund for other in need. As a member of the Utah Gay Rodeo Association, he was a past president, member of the fundraising royalty team, a rodeo contestant, grand entry coordinator and trustee liaison to the International Gay Rodeo Association for six years. Other passions in his life were computers, dancing, (he could do a mean two-step) volleyball and travel, both local and abroad. David was a fighter when he felt a cause was just; he would not back down using his intelligence and charm to most times win. He also displayed a deep loyalty to friends, but in too many rare instances would allow those friends to share his deepest thoughts, desires and wishes. For those of us that knew him, his presence will be greatly missed along with his scars tic and cutting edge humor......David, you left us way too soon; we will miss you. David is survived by his mother and two sisters. Funeral services were held on May 30, 2006 in Kaysville with interment in the Kaysville cemetery.

Daniel Montoya 1952 ~ 2006

Daniel Montoya, 53, left this earth on May 28, 2006 after fighting a courageous battle with cancer. Born August 3, 1952 to Viola and Juan Montoya. He worked at Tape Head Co. for many years then went on Bonneville News, Golden Hearth, Peak Distributing finally The News Group. He loved anything to do with Hockey. He attended almost every game since 1972. He loved softball. Was involved with S.L. County and City Softball for many years. Was organizer and scorekeeper extraordinaire for the Pride Softball League. His immediate family would like to thank the doctors, nurses, aides from Pioneer Valley Hospital, LDS Hospital, University of Utah Hospital, Cottonwood Hospital Radiation Department, Moran Eye Institute, Dermatology Department at the U of U Hospital for their loving care of Dan. Special thanks to Dr. Ali Choucair, Dr. John Thomson. Special thanks to The Palliative Care people for all their help and compassion, 5th floor nurses, aides and Dr. Call and his associates. Survived by his wife, two sons, one daughter, three granddaughters (Haley, Britton, Olivia), one grandson (Rusle), they loved their Pappa, brothers, sisters, cousins, aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews. His greatest love was his grandchildren. He will be greatly missed by all who knew him. Memorial services will be held Saturday, June 10, 2006 at 2:00 p.m. at Memorial Mortuary, 5850 South 900 East, Murray. In lieu of flowers, donations will be greatly appreciated. They can be sent to Becky Montoya, P.O. Box 26241, SLC, UT 84126-0241. Funeral Directors: Deseret Mortuary. Condolences may be sent to the family at www.celebratinglifeut.com

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his family, shared a room with a Catholic priest, named Karol Wojtyla who taught at the Catholic University of Lublin. Dr. Szmuness began a longtime correspondence with Wojtyla who later became Pope John Paul II. Wojtyla and Dr. Szmuness were about the same age, in their late thirties, both had suffered under the hands of the Nazis and Communists and it is very possible that Wojtyla shared his views about the sinfulness of homosexuality, and his anti-communism with Szmunness over the course of their friendship. Who knows for sure? It is certain they didn’t just discuss the weather. Dr. Szmuness spent much of the early 1960’s working on an advance scientific degree at the University of Lublin and had traveled out of the country on several occasions to attended conferences. It was standard policy in all communist countries, during the Cold War, to never allow all members of a family to travel out of the country to the West at the same time. But in 1968, Dr. Szmuness family was allowed by communist officials to go to a scientific medical meeting in Italy. Upon arriving, Dr. Szmuness defected and moved to New York City with his wife Maya, his daughter Helena, and $700. Other sources say he only arrived with $15. Dr. Szmuness divided his time in NYC between visits to employment agencies and medical libraries. While Dr. Dr. Szmuness was sitting in the library at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, in 1969, he was paged by Dr. Walsh McDermott, Professor of Public Health at New York Hospital — Cornell Medical Center. Through the intervention of McDermott, Dr. Szmuness became a medical technician at the New York City Blood Center. Within a few a few months Dr. Szmuness was designing his own experiments. Within two years, he had his own laboratory. Within five, he was an international figure in epidemiology and the field of hepatitis. By the mid-1970s, Dr. Szmuness was a world authority on hepatitis, and was even invited back to Moscow in 1975 to give a scientific presentation. As a defector he was terrified to set foot back in the Soviet Union, but his colleagues assured him he would have the full protection of the U.S. State Department. In the late 1970s, Wolf Szmuness was awarded millions of dollars to undertake the most important mission of his life: the hepatitis-B vaccine experiment. Dr. Szmuness, having headed the New York Blood Center’s laboratory of epidemiology since 1973, now was in charge of the hepatitis B vaccine field trials sponsored by the U.S. government which had inadvertently caused the largest outbreak of Hepatitis B in 1942. U.S. military personnel were given vaccine to protect them from tropical yellow fever. It was unknown at the time that this vaccine contained a human blood component which was contaminated with HBV. The outbreak caused 28,585 cases of hepatitis B with jaundice. In 1978 1,083 male homosexuals were selected, out of thousands who had their blood tested, for the experimental hepatitis B vaccine trials. Dr. Szmuness insisted that only young, promiscuous homosexuals be allowed to participate in the experiment. Szmuness wrote: “Several populations in the United States with a high risk of HBV infection were considered for such a trial: patients institutionalized for mental retardation, patients undergoing hemodialysis, members of the medical staff of dialysis centers, American Indians, and

A History of AIDS Services in Utah by Ben Williams,

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Twenty-five years ago this month, the first report of AIDS was announced by the CDC. It took two years to get to Utah, and shortly after, the local gay community took action. We have interviewed those who were in the trenches two decades ago about what it was like then, and how it is different today.

On June 5, 1981, after five gay men were diagnosed with a rare cancer that was previously unknown in people with healthy immune systems, the Centers for Disease Control publicly announced a disease that was first called gay cancer or Gay Related Immune Deficiency, or GRID. This was the first official warning of what would become the AIDS pandemic. A month later, on July 3, The New York Times printed a small article, entitled “Rare Cancer seen in 41 Homosexuals,” regarding the disease affecting normally healthy young gay men. The piece was the first article on AIDS in any newspaper. Fortunately, Dr. Kristen Ries, an infectious disease specialist, moved to Salt Lake City that very same week. Later, in 1982, Dr. Ries believed she saw a man who may have been her first AIDS patient. There was no test available then to confirm it, but she later learned the man had tested HIV positive. For much of the 1980s, Dr. Ries was single-handedly dealing with all the AIDS cases in Utah. The first full-blown case of AIDS in Utah, as documented by the Bureau of Communicable Disease, was in July 1983. On July 21, the Bureau acknowledged that AIDS was in Utah, but only to assure residents that as deadly as AIDS was, “it’s nothing for the general public to worry about.” The first known HIV-related death in Utah occurred on September 19, 1983. According to his friends, Michael Painter, a 34-year-old gay man, was the first Utahn attributed to have died as a result of AIDS. By the end of 1983, the state health department confirmed there had been two AIDS cases in Utah, with one fatality. At the beginning, few people knew anyone personally who had AIDS or had died from it. It was only a matter of time, however. Four years into the epidemic, there were no AIDS health clinics, no safe-sex guidelines, nor anything like it from the state heath department to inform gay people, or anyone else, how to protect themselves. It was the gay community alone — not the state Health Department — that, in 1984, began to disseminate AIDS information in Utah. In February 1985, state epidemiologist Craig Nichols made the first public statement about AIDS by a Utah state official. He reported that an unidentified woman had died of AIDS. On March 25, 1985, Dr. Kristen Ries presented the state’s first safe-sex workshop at the University of Utah as part of the Lesbian and Gay Student Union’s second Lesbian and Gay Conference. Dr. Ries made the first public mention of the use of condoms to help prevent the spread of the disease at this conference. While the state continued to do nothing but compile statistics, the gay community rallied against the plague, which was spreading at an alarming rate through the community. In 1984, Scott Stites, copresident of the Royal Court of the Golden Spike Empire, made AIDS relief a project of the court’s fundraising system. Under his administration, the Royal Court vigorously began to raise money for people with AIDS, formed a food bank, and printed and distributed safe-sex guidelines. All while the state of Utah continued to do nothing. Four people, independent and unaware of each other’s activities, began the process of creating AIDS organization in late 1985. Sheldon Spears, Duane Dawson, Rev. Donald Bramble, and Dr. Patty Reagan were all instrumental in forming grass root

organizations to educate the gay community about AIDS. Sheldon Spears became an AIDS activist immediately after his diagnosis and began campaigning for an AIDS “outreach” project that would provide information on the disease and counseling for its “victims.” Duane Dawson, a registered nurse, was attracted to Spear’s vision. Together, they formed the first AIDS service organization. It eventually became AIDS Project Utah. Spears said, “We just have to help ourselves. We just can’t wait for the help to come to us.” In September 1985, Father Don Bramble, a priest/chaplain for Dignity, Salt Lake’s gay Catholic organization, formed a support group for AIDS patients. Father Bramble stated that the purpose of his group was not to ease people with AIDS out of life, but “to enhance the present process of living.” Dr. Patty Reagan, associate professor at the University of Utah, created an AIDS information line that originated out of the Wasatch Women’s Center. Dr. Reagan called her organization the Salt Lake AIDS Foundation (SLAF) because, as she said, “it sounded important.” The Salt Lake AIDS Foundation differed from AIDS Project Utah in that it did not offer AIDS support facilities or peer counseling. Dr. Reagan spoke to as many gay and non-gay community organizations as she could to educate Utahns on the nature of the AIDS virus. While AIDS Project Utah and the Salt Lake AIDS Foundation were making inroads into the gay and healthcare communities, a dying gay man burst onto the national scene after he told his story of rejection by the LDS Church to the Ogden Standard Examiner in January 1986. Clair Harward was a 26-year-old Ogden resident who had been diagnosed with AIDS in August 1984. The dying Harward became an AIDS activist inadvertently, and also made Utah history by being the first person to have pictures of the purple kaposi’s sarcoma lesions published in a mainstream newspaper. In 1986, Ben Barr, assistant director of AIDS Project Utah succeeded director Rick Cochran. Cochran was the first director of any AIDS organization in America who actually had AIDS. He, however, caused an uproar when he expressed that APU had sponsored “the first AIDS Awareness Week,” offending attending members of the Royal Court, which had held a very successful AIDS Awareness Week in 1985. A rift developed as APU began to distance itself from the very community that helped create it, and the gay community felt slighted by Cochran and APU. Cochran apologized, but the damage was done and he resigned. Cochran died some 8 months later, in 1987. It was Ben Barr who would later merge the two struggling AIDS organizations into today’s Utah AIDS Foundation and mend the riff between the AIDS health community and the gay community. Barr finally left the organization he had shaped to pursue a degree in social work in Berkeley, California. Acerbic David Sharpton, after being diagnosed with HIV in Dallas, Texas, blew into Salt Lake City on a mission to educate Utah Mormons about the AIDS epidemic. He was loud, brash, sometimes a bully, but always relentless about putting a public face on AIDS in Utah. He co-founded the People with AIDS Coalition of Utah in 1988 and succumbed to the disease in 1994. KUED did a documentary on the life of David Sharpton for a PBS special.  Q

‘It Takes a Team’ —Dr. Kristen Ries by JoSelle Vanderhooft joselle@qsaltlake.com

Though the medical community first described AIDS in June of 1981 it wasn’t until the following year that Dr. Kristen Ries saw her first Salt Lake Valley AIDS patient. A specialist in infectious diseases like tuberculosis, sexually transmitted infections and hospital-acquired infections she was one of the first medical professionals in the state who would treat HIV and AIDS patients. “Nobody wanted anything to do with it and they didn’t think it was going to be an important disease,” remembered Ries, now the director of University of Utah Hospital’s HIV/AIDS Clinic and president of the medical staff for University of Utah Hospitals & Clinics. According to her, most doctors at the time thought the disease would be fairly rare, just something contacted by “those people” – sexually promiscuous gay men. But when Ries looked at the 1981 reports, she knew she was facing down a killer. “When I moved here in June of ‘81 and saw that report, it just smacked of sexuallytransmitted disease to me,” she remem-

‘AIDS Galvanized Us’ —Dick Dotson and Donald Steward by Kim Burgess

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The result was Camp Pinecliff. Now in its 15th year, the camp is held near Coalville during the third weekend in September. Recently, the camp has expanded to included HIV negative individuals from groups like Affirmation and the Utah Gay Rodeo. “You don’t have to disclose your HIV status,” Steward said. “It’s all confidential.” Many campers so enjoy the weekend that they attend every year, finding a unique sense of camaraderie. “This camp really makes a difference,” Steward said. “The best conversations we get are people sitting around the campfire and one person will say, ‘You know, my AZT is making me nauseated.’ Then someone else will say, ‘Yeah, that’s happened to me. I eat about an hour before and I’m fine.’ I hear these and I think, they can’t get this anywhere else…. We even find some people who are really sick, but they hang on until the camp. It’s like they want to go to the camp one more time. There was one little guy, Kevin, who was so sick he was in bed the whole weekend hooked up to an IV, but he still wanted to come.” The camp also builds bridges between the gay community and several local churches. The Rocky Mountain Methodist Conference provides the campsite, the LDS Church donates food and the Baptist Church supplies volunteers who cook and drive campers to the site. “These are white, heterosexual men coming up there with their families,” Dotson said. “We’ve gotten to see their kids grow up. Many of them go to the funerals when someone dies.” Thinking back on their years of volunteering, Dotson and Steward still mourn the many people who’ve died, but also celebrate the sense of community they found. “AIDS galvanized us,” Steward said. “We had our Come to Jesus. Lesbians were working with gay men. Everyone came together.” Dotson agreed. “It took something this acute to show that gays are everywhere. The gay community became visible. The churches had kept us under cover, and now they have to confront the fact that we are in every town across the country.”  Q

the most effective ways to stamping it out. “Most people that are poor or disadvantaged are more apt to have infectious diseases. It’s true of tuberculosis, too. People with HIV/AIDS are also for the most part underserved.” And while drug cocktails created in the mid-1990s have helped slow the disease’s progress, Ries says AIDS is spreading the fastest among people who often cannot afford these drugs. “Our major epidemic right now is substance abuse and methamphetamines. Eighty percent of our patients now have a major mental diagnosis [such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder], substance abuse, homelessness, or all of them. I would hope that we could come up with some plan for what to do about the substance abuse and mental health in patients. You can’t treat just part of the patients. All of [these issues] stir the epidemic, I think.” Along with supporting a health care system that seeks to treat the whole patient, Ries also said she would like to see the creation of some national form of health care “so everyone would get the basics.” “There’s no difference between HIV/ AIDS and everything else. The health care system is a patchwork quilt which is put together and doesn’t make sense. The haves

and have nots are getting to have a wider chasm between them.” Though Ries believes the health care industry has a long way to go before it more effectively combats AIDS, she is the first to point out that things have changed drastically. Today, the University Hospital not only admits HIV/AIDS patients, it has created two clinics for them, one at the hospital and one in St. George, Utah. And instead of fighting the disease alone, Ries is now assisted by a multi-disciplinary team of doctors, nurses, psychiatrists and social workers who care for over 1,250 patients. Add to this number the nursing, doctor and pharmaceutical students Ries and other educators train every day, many of whom have an interest in fighting the huge AIDS epidemics in Africa, India, China and Russia. “I think the most important thing is it takes a team,” Ries said. “Very fortunately even though a lot of people didn’t want to be involved, there’ve always been people you can find to be involved. It’s been things like the Utah AIDS Foundation and the Sisters of the Holy Cross and now the University of Utah hospitals and clinics. You can’t do it without a whole team. There are just too many [patients] and too many social issues.”  Q

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When Dick Dotson thinks about the early days of the AIDS epidemic, his blue eyes fill with tears. “There was one friend who was in the county hospital in LA where I lived. He had lost everything—his friends, his home, everything. Nurses were putting food outside the door, they were so scared. He died a few days later.” Dotson was so moved by the suffering that he became a regular volunteer at the Los Angeles County Hospital, eventually becoming Volunteer of the Year. “I would go into the rooms without a mask or gloves because it was too shielding. We didn’t know how it was spread in those days.” His generosity extended to spending his hundred dollar lottery winnings on 20 teddy bears for AIDS patients. “I ran that teddy bear project for a while. It was the only kindness many of them had.” After moving to Utah in the late 80s, Dotson met his partner, Donald Steward, while the two were volunteering at the People with AIDS Coalition. At the time, volunteers were providing fewer and fewer services for HIV and AIDS patients as social workers and nurses took over. That change reduced the feeling of community and responsibility among gay men, Dotson and Steward say. To revive some community spirit, the pair founded Horizon House in 1989. The house served as a gathering place and drop-in center for people with AIDS. “It was a great place for events,” Steward said. “It’s amazing how many people have come up to me and said, ‘I was 15 years old and I went to something at Horizon House and that’s when I first came out.’ People really appreciated it because it was a social, non-clinical place. You could open the fridge and raid it. It was that kind of place.” Horizon House closed in 1992, and Dotson and Steward switched their attention to founding a weekend camping trip for people with AIDS and their caretakers.

bered. “I was immediately attracted to the possibility that it could be a big epidemic. I don’t know why, it was intuitive. It was so interesting that all of a sudden out of nowhere people were coming down with these horrible diseases we’d never seen before. So it was such an intellectual interest. And then when I found out nobody wanted to see [AIDS patients], I got myself geared up. I knew somebody had to do this. It was a moral absolute that we needed to take care of people.” Ries’ instincts proved correct; by 1985 the number of AIDS patients she’d seen had grown from one to fifty. Though Ries started out treating HIV/AIDS patients on her own, she soon received help from the Sisters of the Holy Cross, the nuns who then administered and staffed Holy Cross Hospital where Ries then worked. “The sisters and that whole organization were very supportive, because they were always into taking care of the poor and less advantaged, so we started seeing HIV/AIDS patients and eventually got known for doing that and saw a large number of them over time.” Ries has always taken a special interest in helping poor and disadvantaged HIV/AIDS patients. She sees stopping the disease among this population as one of

‘People Would Die Within a Few Months’ —Richard Starley by Nicholas Rupp

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As former director of AIDS Project Utah, Richard Starley was one of Utah’s first leaders in the organized fight against HIV. A Salt Lake native who also lived in San Francisco, Starley is one of just a few local community members with personal knowledge of the epidemic’s beginnings in Salt Lake City. “I was in San Francisco when AIDS became an issue,” he says. “I was living in one of the epicenters of what was happening in the gay community and a couple of my friends died while I was still there.” Already fully aware of the devastation wreaked by AIDS, Starley came back to Utah in late 1984, surprised to find that Salt Lake already had an AIDS service organization—two, in fact: the Salt Lake AIDS Foundation (SLAF) and AIDS Project Utah (APU). “For some reason I didn’t think there would be AIDS in Salt Lake,” he says, “or at least that anybody would be doing anything about it.” AIDS Project Utah was a client-service organization, modeled after San Francisco’s Shanti Project, while the slightly older Salt Lake AIDS Foundation was created for blood collection and community education. “[The Salt Lake AIDS Foundation] had actually been set up by [University of Utah health professor] Patty Reagan as a way for lesbians to help with the whole AIDS movement,” Starley says. “There was no staffing there, but it was a way to collect blood because at the time blood was a big issue in terms of transfusions and . . . there was a lot of fear around blood.” Raising awareness about HIV that early in the epidemic was exceptionally difficult because of the relative rarity of a positive

diagnosis and the shame associated with one. “When I got involved there had been 32 cases diagnosed in Utah, and some of the folks who had been diagnosed early were people from blood transfusions and hemophiliacs, so some of them were very quiet back when it was called GRID [gay-related immune deficiency].” Because most people died within 12 –18 months of diagnosis, Starley estimates that about 25 of those 32 diagnosed had already died when he became active in the movement. “Most people found out they were HIV positive when they became symptomatic, so you got the diagnosis that not only are you HIV positive, but you also have AIDS. And then, people would die within a few months. 18 months was good.” The Shanti model used by APU centered on a theme of emotional support, sometimes now called the “buddy system,” where every APU client received personal, one-on-one assistance. “That was a big, important piece of providing direct support, volunteer-to-client,” Starley says. “They had to go through a pretty intensive, full-weekend training – about 40 hours – to become a buddy.” In addition to one-on-one support, APU offered support groups, an education hotline, and a speakers program for community groups. Like most people working in the AIDS movement in the mid-80s, Starley’s reasons for getting involved were personal: “We were in it without any choice because it just hit us. It was all about our friends dying and there was such an emotional involvement to the work; all of a sudden, I found several of my close friends diagnosed with AIDS. I felt like I really needed to do this.” One of the first friends to become a casualty was Paul, another Salt Lake native still living in San Francisco after Starley had come home. “Paul, I guess, didn’t know he was sick. One day he just disappeared and nobody knew where he was. Turns out he had gotten on a plane in San Francisco and flew to Salt

Lake and ended up here at the airport totally incoherent, no idea who he was, where he was, why he was here. Something in him, I guess, was trying to take him home. They finally identified him, but he had a form of meningitis that immediately put him in the hospital. He died two days later. It was really difficult to just be told your friend is dead. I didn’t even know he was sick; there was no time to even visit him. And so I still visit his grave. He’s buried up in Eden, Utah, of all places. After living in San Francisco for the last 10 or 15 years of his life, to be buried up in that little cemetery is really kind of weird, but . . . that’s where the rest of him is.” Throughout high school, Starley had a group of friends who ended up coming out to each other when they were all 21. “We were late bloomers,” Starley laughs. “We didn’t even know there was such a thing as gay people, but we all sort of gravitated toward each other in school and then as we realized we were gay, we started going into Liberty Park, which was a big meeting place at the time, and to the bars, and found other folks.” By the time AIDS arrived, there was “a good group of 8 or 10 really close friends that had been friends already for 10 or 15 years.” Of that group, only one person besides Starley is still alive. Everybody else has died from AIDS. “We always used to joke that we were all going to grow older together,” he says. “Well, we didn’t. I’m growing old and they all died before they were 40.” Despite his time in the sexually liberated San Francisco culture of the ’70s and early ’80s, Starley remained something of an outsider. “I didn’t sleep around a lot, even though it was a way of life in San Francisco in the ‘80s.” Stonewall was recent enough that the Castro area of San Francisco was booming. “There were lots and lots of gay people and lots and lots of sex,” he says, “and somehow I just never got into that scene. Maybe that’s why I’m still alive.” In a ten-year period from 1984-94, Starley

not only lost many of his longtime friends, but also friends he made through his work at APU. “There were probably another 15 or 20 people who died that I used to go visit in the nursing homes and the hospitals. It was a very intense period for me because in retrospect, 20 years later, it seems like I thought if I could work harder, and if I did more, then my friends wouldn’t die. This was my response to people literally dropping dead around me. There was a huge survivor’s syndrome that I had for a long time. Maybe I still have it.” In the mid-80s, there was a huge stigma attached to AIDS and HIV. “I remember a lot of speaking engagements we would go on where the audiences were very hostile and didn’t want to hear from us, didn’t want to know anything,” he says. “Tom and I—my friend Tom was diagnosed at the time—we did some speaking engagements out in Tooele, of all places, and in Wendover and Dugway and Grantsville, and people in the audience would actually say to him ‘You should be quarantined. You should be put on Antelope Island and no one should come near you and there should be no services.’ They had never seen or met someone with HIV and that’s what we were talking about, reducing the fear, reducing the prejudice. That was, for a lot of people, their first face of AIDS.” Community education was a major focus of APU’s speaking engagements. Part of the HIV stigma came from ignorance about transmission; people were afraid of becoming HIV-positive from social contact. “The fear was rampant at the time that you could get it from a drinking fountain, from a cup... stupid,” he says. “I would take this dog-and-pony show across the state and talk to welfare workers because people who were coming in and identifying themselves as having AIDS were being very mistreated. [Workers] would say, ‘Here’s a pen, sign the document,’ and then they wouldn’t touch

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‘Blowing Up the World’ —Ben Barr

by JoSelle Vanderhooft joselle@qsaltlake.com

Though many people criticize the state of sexual education in Utah’s public schools today, Ben Barr remembers a time when things were much worse. In the late 1980s, the Utah Board of Education hired him to teach health teachers how to talk about AIDS and sexuality in the classroom. “I told them if they wanted to [do that] they had to be comfortable saying five words: penis, vagina, intercourse, oral sex and anal sex,â€? Barr, the former director of AIDS Project Utah, which eventually merged with the Salt Lake AIDS Foundation into the Utah AIDS Foundation. “That was just like‌you would have thought I was blowing up the world or something. I had them all practice saying those words. I had teachers literally run out crying.â€? Ultimately, the Utah Eagle Forum got wind of the sessions. Eventually went to the Board and convinced them to dismiss Barr. “They decided it was a terrible thing, because I was an openly gay man and therefore shouldn’t be allowed into the schools.â€? The attitude towards gay men puzzled Barr at the time. “I really didn’t see myself as that radical of a person; I think I was just very direct,â€? he said. “I wasn’t ashamed of who I was, and at the time that just seemed to be such a radical concept. It seemed to freak people out, you know what I mean? At that time in Utah if you were gay you were supposed to be ashamed of it, and I just

‘Give People Permission to Talk About It’ —Stan Penfold by Matthew Gerber

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some of the big foundations in town, there were men who were involved in those organizations who weren’t out, but who called and said “this is what you need to do to get support and moneyâ€?. There were people who worked in politics who did the same kind of thing. It was very interesting to see sometimes the closet helped and sometimes it was a major barrier too.â€? Barr also helped bring attention to the disease by getting his sister Roseanne, who had her own HBO comedy show at the time, to perform two benefit shows at Symphony Hall. Organizing her shows was one of the things he credits with moving him from “being a volunteer, to raising money, and then to director of the first agencyâ€?, a position he resigned in 1992 to get his BS in social work from Westminster University. After obtaining a Masters Degree in social work, he worked on AIDS prevention programs in Seattle and returned to Utah to manage the Salt Lake County Health Department’s AIDS Program. Eventually he moved to California to pursue a PhD in Social Welfare at UC Berkley. He is writing his dissertation on gay men and fatherhood while working part time as a hospice social worker. Though Barr still sees some HIV/AIDS patients in the hospice, he says he has become more interested in gay and lesbian issues. “Actually I decided I’m more of a professional homosexual than specifically interested in HIV/AIDS,â€? he said. “What motivated my interest in aids was my connection to the gay community‌For me my AIDS involvement was just one part of my interest as a gay man and what it means to emancipate ourselves and take care of ourselves.â€?  Q

lives, but they have created real challenges with prevention. In an era when risky behavior, such as barebacking and methamphetamine use, has been eroticized, Stan feels that the gay community needs to be upfront in talking about human behavior. “We need to give people permission to talk about it.� Not talking about taboo subjects has certainly not done any good from a prevention level. With 45,000 infections annually in the United States, it is readily apparent that people continue to engage in risky behavior. The Utah AIDS Foundation has responded, stepping up efforts to increase dialogue. The Invenio Utah Gay Men’s Health Summit, held each year in October, has provided a forum for hundreds of men

to meet and talk about gay men’s health on a holistic level, not just an HIV-centric approach. The Summit has been a hit and Salt Lake City hosted the National Gay Men’s Health Summit in October, 2005. Another challenge that has presented itself with the new medical treatments is the great financial cost at which they are obtained. AIDS truly has become an illness of poverty. Stan notes that those without insurance must descend into poverty before qualifying to receive assistance for life-saving medications. What is his greatest dream regarding AIDS? “To be out of business,� he says with a chuckle. On a more short-term level, however, Stan indicates, “We need political leaders who have the courage to talk about prevention in a real way.�  Q

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After seeing the impact AIDS had on people who were dear to him, Stan Penfold had to get involved. In the early 90s, Stan began volunteering at the Utah AIDS Foundation, answering incoming calls, eventually delivering packages for the food bank because he had a truck. After four years as a volunteer, Stan became a staff member, the past seven of which have been spent in his current position as executive director. Things have changed since he became an employee of the Foundation. In 1994, when he began, he remembers attending staff meeting and learning which clients had died since the previous meeting, often four or five people each week. “As soon as you got to know someone they got sick or died or were in the hospital. There were no medical options,� he recalls. Because of the overwhelming loss of life in the early years of the pandemic, burnout was not uncommon. While Penfold has felt like giving up at times, he kept going. Friends have come to him and told him that they have tested positive for HIV. While it is difficult to hear such news, Stan feels the need to be supportive. “I want to be the person that they feel comfortable enough to sit in my office and tell me they have HIV.� When protease inhibitors became the new standard of treatment in 1995, clients were no longer dying in droves. As a result, Stan sees the threat now as one of complacency. “There’s a misconception that it [AIDS] is not a big deal,� he said. He describes the advent of the protease inhibitor as a “mixed blessing�: they save people’s

never understood that.� Barr’s brush with the Eagle Forum over anatomically correct language is just one of many stories in his decades-long fight against HIV/AIDS. In 1985, when most Utah hospitals would not treat AIDS patients, local governments weren’t addressing the crisis and local media coverage of the disease was lacking, Barr began volunteering at AIDS Project Utah. Modeled off the Shanti Program in San Francisco, this was a grass roots effort at fighting the disease – a “buddy program� that sent volunteers to care for patients in their homes. As a young gay man just coming to terms with his orientation, Barr felt drawn to the fledgling program. “I think as a member of the gay community, it was very clear that it was going to be very frightening and very devastating, and would have a major impact on gay men,� Barr remembers. “My parents and my grandparents – I was raised as a Jew in Utah – were very involved with Holocaust survivors. My grandparents were in the United Jewish Appeal and brought Jews from concentration camps to the US. It was clear to me that had been the big issue to impact their lifetimes, and I knew that HIV/AIDS would be the one to impact mine.� When Barr began volunteering, the situation was frightening indeed. Few drugs existed to treat AIDS and secondary infections like thrush and PCP (a type of deadly pneumonia) were common in patients, and many of them died. Yet, for all the horror the epidemic also brought out the best in many, particularly, and perhaps surprisingly, closeted gay men. “When we first tried to get money from

William Munk catches the Mr./Miss Gay Pride pageant.

 Miss Gay Pride Contestant Raven Debonair  Miss Gay Pride 2006 Porsche

 Mr. Gay Pride 2006, Jimmy

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Kim Russo clicks pix on the Trapp Patio

Kim Russo catches the plays at the Pride Softball League

Richard Starley

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Continued from page 18 the pen again or they’d say, ‘Oh, you can keep the pen.’” While the population at-large was skittish when it came to AIDS, the gay community was supportive from the very beginning. “People understood what was going on, and they were fearful of it,” Starley says. “This was the time of sort of a clone look, so you knew if somebody became sick because they started to look sick. There weren’t a lot of treatments out there—AZT was about it.” Starley also fought for support from an unlikely source: the Catholic Church. “Nobody knew because it was such a closeted issue, but one of the very first people to die of AIDS in Utah was a Catholic priest. I was really appalled that the Catholic Church wasn’t really doing anything, [but] there were some very good nuns and priests helping with chaplaincy, and Holy Cross had really stepped up and was the only hospital where people with AIDS were welcome.” But according to Starley, who was born Catholic, the leader of the Salt Lake Diocese, Bishop Weigand, wasn’t doing anything, so Starley wrote the Bishop a letter. To Starley’s surprise, Weigand wrote back. “He sort of said ‘Put your money where your mouth is; come talk with us and tell us what we should be doing.’” Weigand ended up asking Starley to chair the first AIDS task force for the Roman Catholic Church in Utah. “I really appreciated his willingness to at least start a dialogue and to allow me, as an openly gay person, to challenge him on some issues,” Starley says. “He was stuck in his own stuff in terms of being a Bishop and having to be Catholic. He couldn’t talk about condoms and all that, but I have to credit him: I think he did a lot of good to open the doors for Catholics to understand what was going on with AIDS.” In 1987 there were still two collaborating AIDS agencies in Utah. Ben Barr, who helped start APU, had become that organization’s first director while SLAF was still without a permanent staff. “We were raising a little bit of money, not very much, but there was enough to pay Ben a very small, part-time salary,” Starley says. “He was sort of controversial in his approach to a lot of things and the board, at some point, decided he had … done something they didn’t want to deal with and fired him. He became really angry and wanted to do AIDS work and couldn’t fathom himself not being involved, so he went to Patty and said ‘I’ll run your Salt Lake AIDS Foundation’ and from that point on the two organizations started to compete rather than to collaborate, which is what they had always done before.” Starley says the Salt Lake AIDS Foundation still was not directly providing client services, so Barr had the time to “run around town and really gather more support. He did a lot of service in terms of raising awareness, [but] they didn’t have clients.” Until that year, SLAF and APU had collaborated in AIDS education, support, and a hotline: three things that brought money into the organizations from the government. “Money was just starting to come into the state [from the Centers for Disease Control], but a lot of places started saying they were working with the Salt Lake AIDS Foundation and therefore didn’t feel any need to work with AIDS Project Utah. More and more people were having to choose which organization they wanted to be involved with.” The final straw came when the Robert

Wood Johnson Foundation announced they were going to fund an AIDS project in Salt Lake City. “At the time, only a little bit of CDC money was coming through the State Department of Health, and this was a big pot of money.” In 1988 there were “maybe 8 or 10” organizations doing something related to HIV, from the American Red Cross and the hemophiliac association to Holy Cross Hospital. “We all decided we would pull together and come up with a proposal that would fund different pieces of each of us, so we would all get some. [But] Robert Wood Johnson only funded pieces of it; they totally did not fund AIDS Project Utah, but they did fund some pieces of the Salt Lake AIDS Foundation. That was a death knell to us because we didn’t have any more money to run.” Starley was APU’s director by then, so at the end of 1988 he dis-incorporated the organization. “We took our last $7,000 in the bank and gave it to the Salt Lake AIDS Foundation. I remember bringing a check to Ben for that amount of money.” APU encouraged their volunteers to move over to SLAF as well, so some of the programs would continue. “The two never merged; that’s a misconception. I think early on people were putting that out to make it seem a lot better than it actually was. But in fact it was very competitive and Robert Wood Johnson, even though they said they wouldn’t, sort of tore apart the proposal. That was too bad because the state really needed two organizations.” The Salt Lake AIDS Foundations soon changed its name to the Utah AIDS Foundation. “I guess at some point somebody there decided they should be the UAF since now they were the only AIDS group in the state.” With his twenty years experience fighting HIV and AIDS, Starley isn’t surprised at the recent increase in HIV infection. “I think people get tired of precautions; it’s the same old thing,” he says. “And it’s amazing to me that most people don’t know anybody who’s died from AIDS. I mean it just blows me away. There are a lot of young kids that are coming out who don’t have any of this knowledge. They don’t know, they’ve never experienced anybody dying from AIDS. And people who die from AIDS today don’t really die in the same way. The end result is the same, but it’s not here-oneday, gone-the-next, or a very rapid 30 or 60 day decline that’s very visible and painful.” “There’s a part of me that still mourns the loss of all my friends, and there’s a part of me that feels like this is still a crisis for the gay community. I’m surprised how much it is not seen that way anymore; so much of the news is not about AIDS, as if it’s just a given now - we have to live with AIDS, it’s just part of our community, but we don’t really have to talk about it.” Even though it can be difficult, Starley says it’s nice to see people remembered. “There are not a lot of gay men my age left in the community and I really feel very alone a lot of times when I go out, if I venture into a meeting or a community gathering. There are lots of young people and some older guys in their 60s and 70s, but this whole 40-55 age group, a good chunk of us died.” Starley also says that everybody—particularly every gay man—should know somebody who has AIDS. “It’s really an identity issue; people lose connection to their history and all the suffering that went on. AIDS was a big issue that sort of died away, but it was growing in other places when it didn’t have all that media attention. It’s going to come back, another wave that’s going to hit us. It’s not over.”  Q

Utah Arts Festival. See June 22.

by Tony Hobday

tony@qsaltlake.com

Pride was seriously like Christmas morning—there were so many big “packages” just waiting for me to tear open. I must have been an exceptionally good boy this year.

15THURSDAY Q  Holy jalapenos, a mariachi dinner reception and Luchador costume contest with the debonair actor Jack Black. Makes me want to do the Cha Cha. The Salt Lake City Film Center presents a fundraiser screening of Nacho Libre, the new film starring Jack Black. Nacho, a young man raised in a Mexican monastery, now works there as a cook (Jack always takes on ambitious lead roles). He joins a Lucha Libre tournament as a ‘Luchador’ to help the financially struggling monastery.

5:30pm, Plaza at the Gateway, 165 S. Rio Grande Street. Tickets $30, includes music and food. Call 746-7000.

16FRIDAY Q  One of the most prestigious competitions returns to Salt Lake City. The 2006 Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition peddles off today for a fourteen-day heartpounding, finger-wrenching, tails-in-the-air engagement hailing profound talent from over seventeen countries. This ain’t no drag contest, there will be no bitch slapping, literally or figuratively.

Noon, Today through June 27, Jeanne Wagner Theatre, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. Broadway. Finals held June 28-30 at

Abravanel Hall. Tickets $150 and up, call 888-451-ARTS or visit bachauer.com. Q  SB Dance, a local arts group, presents a wicked and sassy art performance Dry Spell—in contrast with the wicked and sassy Utah summer weather pattern. The show is part dance, part theater and part circus set to brassy jazz of the 50s and 60s. Any one of the three shows will pull you indoors from saran-wrapped humidity or sweltering dry heat or a 30-degree temperature drop with a flash flood valley downpour and mountain/ bench snowfall that’s sure to occur during the weekend.

8pm, Tonight and Saturday; 4pm, Sunday, Leona Wagner Black Box Theatre, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. Broadway. Tickets $15, call 355-ARTS or visit arttix.org.

17SATURDAY Q  The Lambda Hiking Club is at it again. I mean, really, if they want to crawl up something, I can think of at least one better place. You know what I’m sayin’. But since they already have it scheduled, congregate at the mouth of Neffs Canyon today ready to scale 2500 feet of Mt. Olympus. Apparently the trail is rather rocky so no open-toed stilettos or flip flops. It’s a five-hour hike including lunch, which actually means it’s a one-hour hike with a four-hour lunch.

10:30am, Neffs Canyon. Call 532-8447 or email info@gayhike.org. Q  The GLBT Community Center of Utah’s Youth Activity Center hosts Queers in Action, a workshop aimed at helping our queer youth hone in on their leadership, organizational and planning skills. Come on you young’ns, us old trolls and holes need your enthusiasm and ingenuity to keep our community prosperous and recognized.

2-4pm, The Center, 350 N. 300 West. Free.

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Salt Lake Men’s Choir is seeking an Artistic Director. The Artistic Director will work with the Board of Directors to provide overall artistic leadership to the Chorus, including long-range program planning. He or she will also program, prepare and conduct four to five full-length concerts per year, and preside over weekly Thursdsay night rehearsals. Interested parties are asked to send a resume to Wesley Brady at

Q  Two brothers in love with the same man … I mean woman. That’s the cliff notes synopsis of Matthew Ivan Bennett’s play, Cold. She’s a cold-hearted snake, look into her eyes … Oh god I digress to Paula, somebody smack me. Yet another revolutionary production by Plan-B Theatre Company, the show is dubbed “a script-in-hand workshop performance.”

8pm, Tonight; 2pm & 7pm Sunday, Studio Theatre, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. Broadway. Tickets $10, call 355-ARTS or visit arttix.org. Q  Who is Chris McArdle? Why does he love disco? What would inspire him to send out a mass email invitation to his “1st Annual Saturday Night Fever Disco”? Whatever his intentions, I will leave it to your discretion as to whether you should attend. However much I enjoy dressing in a blue polyester suit and white platform boots, I may just have to RSVP, Mr. McArdle. But thanks for thinking of all us city folk.

9pm-Midnight, the home of Chris McArdle, somewhere in St. George. Tickets $5 for glitter and glam, $10 for wet blankets. Call 435-668-3396 or 435-669-0760 for more groovy information.

18SUNDAY Q  Even if he calls you ‘pansy’ or ‘twinkle toes’ or ‘fruit loop’, he’s still your dad and it’s Father’s Day. You should at least call him

and grunt at each other. I’m sure he put a lot of effort into creating your beautiful soul. Ooooo…bad visual, sorry.

Theatre for a day-long dance class. Learn how to do Hip Hop, Ballroom, African, Modern, and Flamenco dancing among others.

Anytime today.

9am-2:30pm, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South. Tickets $5 at the door. Call 5341000 or email rdt@rdtutah.org for more information.

Q  TRASA urban arts collective presents a contemporary performance showcase focusing on sociopolitical and cultural issues through different art mediums. Solestitia: A Celebration of Elemental Beauty and Urban Mythology is an eclectic Midsummer Night event and fundraiser for The Pickle Company, a non-traditional setting for artists to develop, exhibit, and perform their new works. Local and international music and dance artists will perform including Merryl Martensen, co-owner of Mechanized Records.

8pm-2am, The Pickle Company, 741 S. 400 West. Tickets $15 at the door. Hors d’ouvres and cash bar included. Visit thepicklecompany.org for more information.

19MONDAY Q  There’s nothing like an intensive writing workshop to get your creative juices flowing like a back-arching orgasm. The annual Writers at Work, a grueling 4-day event, offers several different classes, and awards scholarships to high school students to attend this expensive but honorable writing conference.

Today through June 23, Westminster College, 1840 S. 1300 East. $275-395 enrollment fee. Call 230-4449 or visit writersatwork.org.

20TUESDAY Q  Just imagine a ballet set to the music of Billy Joel. Sounds a bit chaotic and unpolished, yes? Well, somehow the production of Movin’ Out is quite entertaining if nothing else. It isn’t truly a ballet, however, the story is told mainly through dance. This makes the plot somewhat difficult to understand, but if you’re a big fan of Billy Joel, the plot won’t matter much cause dammit, “It’s still rock n roll to me.”

25SUNDAY Q  Gay community events year round may leave some of us floating in a fish bowl, but what the heck. Pride 365, in collaboration with QSaltLake and Mixed Media kicks off its very first event, Gay Freedom Day. This inaugural event commemorates the historic weekend of the Stonewall Riots. Yes, it’s similar to Pride, but nothing or nobody can out-do the ostentatious crew of Utah Pride. Just think of it this way— it’s free to attend, but then again there’s no booze for sale.

11am-4pm, Harmony Park, 3700 S. Main Street. Free. Q  Salt Lake Men’s Choir presents Unexpected Songs, a spirited and campy compilation of some of the choir’s favorite songs bidding good riddance (hehe!) to Lane Cheney, the 12-year artistic director of the choir. There are so many songs about rainbows, you’ll expect a pot of gold at the end. The highlights will include a duet of Little Shop of Horror’s ‘Suddenly Seymour” where you are subjected to the beauty of Michael Aaron’s “horror”-endous voice; and his glass-shattering soprano-at-pitch part in ‘You are the New Day’. Go, BooBoo!

7:30pm, Leona Wagner Black Box Theatre, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. Broadway. Tickets $10-15, call 355-ARTS or visit arttix.org.

27TUESDAY Q  The GLBT Community Center of Utah would like to invite the community members to a Stonewall Riots Anniversary event. This is a great opportunity to reflect on our struggles, failures and many successes over the years. Be there or be Cher.

Show times vary, Tonight through June 25, Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South. Tickets $30-60, call 355-ARTS or visit arttix.org.

Noon, The Center, 350 N. 300 West. Free.

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Q  Since his death in 1946, painter Maynard Dixon’s (the “master of American West modernism”) artwork has continuously gained popularity. Now, his son Daniel Dixon will share his unique childhood—growing up with parents Maynard and photographer, Dorothea Lange in Child of Giants.

Q  Although not quite as voyeuristic as Pride Day with men in nothing more than a pink bikini or a loosely wrapped sarong, the Utah Arts Festival returns to celebrate its 30th anniversary. This year’s event hosts over 130 artists; and much like Pride, the beer will be overpriced and not easily accessible.

Noon-11pm, Today through Sunday, Library Square, 200 E. 400 South. Tickets $5-8 at the gates.

24SATURDAY Q  So you think you can dance? Can you pelvic thrust so fast your ass looks like jell-o on a moving train? Well, if you can’t but would like to learn, then join the Repertory Dance

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7pm, Jeanne Wagner Theatre, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. Broadway. Tickets $15, call 355-ARTS or visit arttix.org.

Upcoming Events The Fixx, July 18, The Depot Rusted Root, July 19, The Depot Pete Yorn, July 26, In the Venue Ween, July 27, In the Venue

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In Search of... Weiners by Mark Thrash & Chad Keller

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Well... we promised wieners, and there are many, many wieners in this community we can talk about, but really folks… this one’s not about you. Our draft concept for this column, began as a food review for the common HUman. When serving up a good column, there are many ways to dish. We only hope food will be once in awhile.

CHAD: Was the Publisher’s office high when they were passing out assignments last week? Revenge is sweet, but it came with indigestion. Michael got beat-up over my words. Now he beat-up my gut with this search. Let’s whip it out. We’ve been asked to review wieners. I would’ve preferred the one in that officer’s basket at the Parade or to root out the shriveled wieners in our community, but instead this is about bits and pieces processed into a “plumpwhen-you-cook-it” hot dog review.

MARK: It’d be fun to carry-

MARK: I need more than meat alone, and enter the new Pastrami Dog. An all beef hot dog, with sliced pastrami, swiss cheese, pickle and mustard on a pretzel bun.

CHAD: What? Has Der Weinerschnitzel been taken over by Crown Burger? Now there is pastrami on everything. Too bad there wasn’t something Greek behind the counter that I could top with pastrami and chow down on for a couple of hours. All-in-all, I give them nine inches. They exceed in fast food.

MARK: Yes, they exceed, but I wish they’d gone the extra length. It was far too late when I noticed on the menu that “ALL BEEF, 84% LARGER” was only an additional forty cents. I give them eight inches. Love their motto, “You crave it. You eat it. It’s that simple.”

CHAD: Well, I guess they’re right: “No guilt, No cravings, No costly foods to buy.”

MARK: Onto Sonic… CHAD: If you enjoy exhaust

Anytime it’s not a mouthful, it’s not magical. It was just nice to get back to my WhiteTrashed roots.

on about Michael, but I’m more task oriented and will bring us closer to the topic at-hand. We began our search at Weinerschnitzel, the world’s largest hot dog chain. Their website says it all. “If you’ve made it here, chances are you love hot dogs almost as much as we do. You’re in hot dog heaven” They’ve been dedicated to the art of hot-doggery for over 40 years. The menu variety caught my eye, but I knew we had many more wieners to sample elsewhere too.

CHAD: This is about food by-products, not your sex life. Wieners can be the sustaining food for the active gay man. Plus we’ve all been in a budget pinch or two the day before payday and have choked down a few.

MARK: When we walked through the door, I wanted to order the Corn Dog, a batter wrapped chicken frank on a stick, but Chad preferred the three wieners that weren’t on the menu instead. Looks who’s passing judgment on my sex life. Bitter, party of one… your table is ready. I suggested that he get the “six-pack mini corn dogs” since it has clearly been awhile.

CHAD: Six-pack? You weren’t really paying attention at Weinerschnitzel were you? There was a twelve-pack that would’ve satisfied both of us, but you made me order off the menu. Men aside, two items really flipped my switch. The Big BBQ Bacon Dawg and the Corn Dog.

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piece of meat itself.

MARK: Well yes, how can you go wrong with 1/3 lb pieces of meat?

CHAD: Oh, there are ways… MARK: Yes, but not at Der Weinerschnitzel. They began with a regular bun slathered in BBQ sauce with one slab of bacon on each side, add a hot dog split down the middle, grilled to perfection and topped with deep fried onion ring bits. I know it sounds simple, but what a taste explosion in your mouth!

CHAD: Eating that third pound piece of meat got me thinking of AJ, the German bartender who works at TryAngles. I wouldn’t need AJ slathered with anything to satisfy me. I would be happy with the big, juicy, raw

fumes with your food, then Sonic’s your place. Thank God we ordered the onion rings. Oh, I love their onion rings. It’s like a deep fried ice cream cone in your mouth. To quote the great Homer, “UUUUMMMM… DEEP FRIED ICE CREAM CONE!”

MARK: The onion rings

were definitely the highlight. In comparison to the Schnitzel, their corn dogs left much to be desired. Maybe it was the lack of chicken? Either way, they weren’t comparable to the deep fried magic of the onion rings. In the world of hot dogs, I give Sonic two inches.

CHAD: Anytime it’s not a mouthful, it’s not magical. It was just nice to get back to my White-Trashed roots. I’ve taken Gastronomy for granted for too long. Even smothering the dog in ketchup couldn’t help. I only give them one inch.

MARK: At least you can have the last onion ring…

CHAD: No, I can’t leave here with a good taste in my mouth. Where do we go from here? Searching for the Best Wiener is more difficult than we thought. Oh, there is one more place. A&W - All American Food. There were two dogs offered: Hot Dog and Coney Dog - which came with your choice of chili, cheese and/ or onions.

MARK: I wasn’t impressed by either menu option, but the boy behind the counter was a fine sampling of chicken than offered elsewhere. I thought he was going to blush when we asked his age, or when Chad kept looking for excuses to return to the front counter. At least he wasn’t overdone like the hot dog. A&W gets one inch in my book.

CHAD: How did we go In Search of Wieners and end-up dirty old men? A&W deceives your taste buds successfully by sharing the restaurant with KFC, and the chili here and everywhere is truly a petroleum based product. A&W gets half an inch. Does that make it a vagina? Editor: Oh, but boys ... you missed my favorite: Gene’s award-winning beer-soaked weenies at Club Try-Angles. And from what I hear, Gene gets at least an eight inch rating. Well, that’s what his Gay.com profile says anyway. Q

by Ross von Metzke If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my years dishing celebrity gossip, its that there comes a point when the rumors have progressed so far, there has to be some element of truth. Think about when every last tabloid in the world insisted Jessica and Nick were no more. It took a while, but we were correct. Angelina preggers. Correct again!

make his life as a free man a living hell. And now that I’m all worked up and mad, what better way to get out my frustration than with a hot, sweaty man. Muscles, I’m, afraid, are a dime a dozen in the West Hollywood scene ‌ every man either has them, wants them, or paid a doctor $5000 to suck out his fat and implant them. So when you see a guy who appears naturally ripped, with the face of an angel to go along with it, needless to say, it’s a blessing. Which is why it was a no brainer to kick off summer (yes folks, it’s 82-degrees today in Hollywood – I’d say it’s summer) with Justin Seitz, one of the hot men setting the lens on fire over at Mega Model Productions. When you head to Justin’s Web site, you’re warned that some photos may present the male physique in an erotic and provocative way. Which means we get damn close to full nudes, folks. Justin’s simply gorgeous, and he’s got a multitude of photo galleries to prove it. Enjoy what you see here, then stop by for seconds. Yummmmmm! OK, sorry to pick you all the way up just to bring you back down, but we have come to the end of another fabulous week in gossip. Don’t go too far ‌ I’m sure somebody’s shit will hit the fan between now and next time. Until then, remember to stop and smell the gossip!   Q

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So it is with great sorrow I must report, proving once again you can take the girl out of the trailer but you can’t take the trailer out of the girl, that four months pregnant mama Britney Spears has signed preliminary divorce papers, according to initial reports from the British press. The tabloids have been going round and round for months that Britney is planning to leave Kevin ‌ there have been public feuds, at one point during her first pregnancy, Britney moved out and into a hotel on the Sunset Strip for a week ‌ and now, tabloids are reporting the two have not been seen together for something like 45 days, further evidence all is not well in Malibu. But the rumors exploded when Britney posted a stream-of-consciousness poem on her Web site, titled “Remembrance of Who I Am,â€? a fairly evident, scathing attack at someone in her life who has let her down, with lines about feeling “manipulatedâ€? by “the sins of the father.â€? I suppose she could be talking about Papa Spears, but accompanied by a photo of her flipping off the camera a word that KFed hasn’t slept at home in a while, and it pretty universally spells out – so long Federline. I mean, is anyone really surprised? This is, after all, a woman who had a marriage that lasted less than 48 hours, the result of a drunken stumble down the aisle, then followed it by stealing another woman’s man mid-pregnancy. Playing by the rules ain’t exactly her style! And now, Britney’s even been seen around town with a new man in her life – her “manny,â€? 28-year-old former lacrosse player Perry Taylor, who Brit hired to replace her former nanny. That bitch got the ax when young Sean Preston was rushed to the emergency room after falling out of his hi-chair. Yeah, but nobody gives Brit the boot for balancing a cocktail and a kid – the cocktail won out – or teaching an 8-month old to drive through the windy roads of Malibu? This world is so unfair. But I do have to hand it to Britney. If this Perry fella is half as hot as some of the Lacrosse players I’ve seen throughout the years, she may just be stepping up in the world. Now just get rid of that god awful yellow dye job you’re sporting, mama. Take a cue from Jessica

Simpson and snatch up some strands from her new line of hair extensions, rumored to be called – are you ready for this – GorJESS. Now you know Jessica didn’t think up that one on her own. And how do we know this? Well, continuing with her “I’m not dumb, I’m just ditzyâ€? act, Jessica proved over the weekend that she may, indeed, just be dumb. The singer/“actressâ€? was seen gabbing with another buxom blonde – Pamela Anderson – about life, love, film, tits ‌ you know, the usual. Pam, who is definitely just playing dumb for the cameras, was curious to know more about rumors that Jessica will take over her role in a movie version of Baywatch. Pam offered trade secrets on how to wear the swimsuit and keep sand out of your crack, while Jessica asked the all important question – “How were you able to move so slowly in those shots where you were running along the beach and bouncing up and down.â€? This according to the New York Post. After taking a moment (and perhaps a Quaalude) so as not to completely ruin Jessica’s imagine, Miss Anderson leaned in and said, very matter of factly, “Oh, honey, it was slow motion camera work.â€? Maybe Mtv really didn’t manipulate EVERYTHING we saw on Newlyweds. Regardless, Jessica’s looking lovely ‌ her fake lips finally went down, and she’s about to head into grueling promotional schedule to promote her latest CD, which hits stores in August. Her ex-hubby’s new disc sold more copies its first week of release than his last CD has to date, so the dueling ex’s may just be battling it out for top record sales. I pick Jess to win ‌ but not because she’s any better ‌ just because I expect her father will snap up 100,000 copies all on his own. And, moving on to one of the few female pop-stars to come out of the late ’90s who isn’t a complete and utter idiot – Pink, who despite being married to bad boy motorcross stud Carey Hart, has revealed she considers herself “trisexualâ€? ‌ because she’ll try anything at least once. Pink, who says she had a girlfriend when she was just 13 years old, admits to Britain’s Observer the experience left her traumatized ‌ because the girl dumped her for her brother. “I had a girlfriend when I was 13 and she left me for my brother! That kind of fucked me up,â€? she explained. “We held hands and we kissed and that was my girlfriend, that’s what you do when you’re 13! And she left me for my fucking brother! It was bizarre and twisted and fucked up and gross.â€? But, the singer says the experience left her open minded to experimenting with her sexuality, and the fact that she doesn’t put

any limitation or labels on what she will and won’t do is what keeps her happy. Early in her career, Pink says people didn’t know if she was gay or straight, black or white, and she enjoys that sort of ambiguity. Pink’s latest CD, I’m Not Dead, is doing better than its predecessor, but still not up to par with her first two releases. Too bad – it’s one of the best things out there right now, her skewer on stupidity in Hollywood “Stupid Girlâ€? just the icing on a truly delicious and fulfilling cake. If you haven’t heard it yet, pick it up. And, in even stranger sex news, that guilty as sin murderer (I don’t care what the courts say, damnit) OJ Simpson is back in the headlines for something I wouldn’t watch even if they live streamed it on my laptop without my knowledge ‌ an alleged sex tape, featuring a man who looks an awful lot like OJ and two women. But the former football star (and murder suspect) claims the tape is a fake, his lawyer insisting that while OJ appears fully clothed in the tape, when the camera flashed to a man having sex, it is an impostor. OK ‌ so if DNA, blood, a glove, a barking dog, two dead bodies and witnesses placing him at the scene weren’t enough to convict him on two counts of murder, what’s it going to take to make sure the world at large knows its him doing the nasty with a couple of hoez on tape. Some DNA swabs? Maybe a dirty sex toy with ur paws all over it? How about one of these chicks winding up pregnant? Not that much could taint the all mighty OJ’s image at this point ‌ I think it’s probably as low as it gets. But I for one sure wouldn’t mind trying. If the bastard won’t rot behind bars, at least we can

The Rox Box

Dark Arts Festival Shines a New Light on Summer Festivals by Tony Hobday

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The Dark Arts Foundation of Utah hosted the Dark Arts Festival this last weekend at club Area 51. Since its inception in 2000, the DAF, a nonprofit organization, has sponsored the arts festival annually although such events have occasionally risen from the grave since 1993. This year’s three-day event harvested several musicians, Kismet belly dancers, a fashion show, a fire performance troupe, film screenings, and local vendors panning their merchandise. At the low end of the scale of almost any other arts festival in the state, there were only about a half dozen booths (all but one of which were cramped on the club’s patio) and were mainly pre-manufactured merchandise hauled out of the inventory rooms of local shops and put on display. In retrospect, What Designs, a customized sign/banner sole proprietorship owned by Heron Hanson and Salt Lake Tightlacer, a custom design studio owned by Jennifer McGrew shared a booth displaying creative airbrushed corsets, vulva prints, and the photography of Robert Hirschi. The humble line-up of nightly performances included the methodic sound of From the Ashes that left you billowing in delightful nothingness; belly dancers in representative dress highlighted with rich ornamentation, and hair and makeup to fit the event, dancing to seductively and gracefully choreographed pieces amid sultry industrial music; and an awe-striking fire troupe performance. Four local designers displayed their designs amid a mosaic fashion show. Models strutted onto the stage in anything from tutus, patent leather ‘bat’ dresses, corset bandeaus, dominatrix schoolgirl uniforms, black wedding veils, and sequined masquerade masks. The show’s strong point was with Salt Lake Tightlacer’s unique approach.

The “fashion zombies” as they were referred by Jennifer McGrew, decked in combat corsets, tutus and fishnet stockings, poked fun at our societal nature to “cannibalize cultures” while performing a “bombastic number” by the Aquabats. The crowd was minimal early on in the festival, which made the entertainment more intimate and relaxing, plus it made for easy maneuvering on the patio. As the witching hour drew nearer, the real essence of darkness swept over the festival as more and more “freaks” (as termed within the community) appeared, which was a bit disconcerting at first. But in the end, the people of this seemingly frightful underground scene are friendly, respectful, misunderstood, and deserve the support of other diverse communities.

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by Mikey Rox

If you think the spiritpop duo Jason & deMarco are trying to get to you, well, they are. The couple’s new CD, Till the End of Time, journeys through the peaks and valleys of relationships with 12 songs that slide the scale of love: discovering it, losing it, rediscovering it, holding onto it, and trusting that it will last forever. A lot to accomplish in less than hour, but it’s all in a day for most of us. The album’s first single, “Trying to Get to You,” is shaky in spots, but the Tracy Young remix version is worth a listen. Unfortunately, while Jason & deMarco have obviously tried to train their chops for this LP, they vocally miss the mark. Their affection for one another, however, can’t be denied – these kids are stuck on each other like white on rice. That in itself constitutes at least an iTunes download. Ultra Records, America’s biggestselling dance label, will release its first queer compilation – just in time for Pride season! Featuring 14 of the world’s hottest dance hits, Out. Anthems promises to give a boost to both gay boys and girls. Among the tracks are three #1 dance radio songs: the Freemasons’ “Watchin’,” David Morales’ “How Would U Feel” and “All This Time” by Jonathan Peters feat. Sylver. This groundbreaking disc also includes other popular artists such as Tom Novy; Chocolate Puma; and Roger Sanchez, whose single, “Lost,” from his forthcoming album, Come With Me, starts off the experience with evocative vocals, lingering piano, and a sensuality that’ll give you flashbacks of sweaty summers with Smirnoff and a closeted frat boy named Ferris – who, by now, probably owns a pub in P-Town. Also featured on Out.Anthems, presented by DJ Ricardo!, is diva Amuka with her club staple, “Craving.” You better work! Fifteen years after the release of the internationally successful Supermodel, RuPaul revists the #1 dance sensation on an album of all-new remixes, RuPaul. ReWorked. Not a single beat short of fabulous, Ru’s latest record features more than a dozen diverse remixes – including a fresh cut of

“The Lonely” and classic tracks like “Free to Be” and “People are People” – transformed from outdated pop into booming electro funk, trance, crunk, luscious house and retro disco. The artists behind the metamorphoses include Junior Vasquez, Patrick Benoit, Gomi, Craig C., Giuseppe D., Jens Bergmark and DJ BunJoe, among other club-scene stars. RuPaul rose to fame in 1991 when she was voted “Queen of Manhattan” by New York City club owners, promoters and DJs. Shortly after, she signed with Tommy Boy Records to record Supermodel of the World. Believe it or not, Michael Bolton is still singing. And swinging! On a stunning new album, Bolton Swings Sinatra, the eternal balladeer belts out big-band classics in the spirit of Ol’ Blue Eyes, the late Frank Sinatra. This superbly arranged and orchestrated collection finds Bolton crooning to yesteryear classics like “New York, New York,” “Night and Day,” “My Funny Valentine” and “Fly Me to the Moon.” A dazzling pairing of singer and material, Bolton Swings Sinatra is well crafted to the very last note, creating an affectionate, dynamic tribute to some of the 20th century’s greatest recordings. Adding to the excitement of the release is a special guest, Bolton’s fiancée and Desperate Housewives star Nicollette Sheridan, who surprisingly adds a tender touch to the duet “The Second Time Around.” There’s no other name more widely associated with electronic music than Paul Oakenfold. And this summer his star will get a spit-shine with the Maverick Records release of A Lively Mind. Sly, hedonistic and celebratory, this follow-up to 2002’s Bunkka features 12 songs completely composed and created by Oakenfold. Guest stars litter the Lively playlist, including the oh-so-smooth Pharrell Williams on “Sex ‘N Money” and Grandmaster Flash on “Set It Off.” The album also features the vocal debut of actress Brittany Murphy (“Sin City,” “8 Mile,” “Girl Interrupted”) on the propulsive dance/ electro/rock hybrid “Faster Kill Pussycat.” An early attention-grabber, the song was used for the E! network’s pre-Oscar show earlier this year. “Faster Kill Pussycat” features remixes by Roman Hunter, Nat Monday, Liam Shachar and Eddie Baez. If nothing else, it provides a prime chance to take off your pants and dance. Like you need a reason. Who is Mikey Rox? Who gives a fuck! But he can be reached at whoismikeyrox@aim.com.

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Hello again friends and family, I want to start off with a poem I wrote a while ago. At present, I am about to marry the man of my dreams. I’ve changed a lot of my ways. I’ve given up my party lifestyle to be with him and I feel so much better in my life. I do believe that many of you will identify with this poem, so with no further adieu. Here goes. I meet this guy I meet that guy We fool around Have some fun

I wake up Pursuing a cause I want sex I want love

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Signed, Pissed at my scars.

Dear Pissed, First of all, you are who you are. Deal with it. God made you the way you are. However, there are some alternatives. You can start by seeking out a dermatologist. Dermatology has come a long way, such as laser peels, dermabrasion and many more procedures to help you with your acne scarring. You can spend a lot or spend a little, depending on what you can afford. Good luck in the search. Please share your concerns, questions and stories with Dr. Pheel. We, as a gay community, can help one another through our daily lives. Thank you in advance for writing to Dr. Pheel.

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American Civil Liberties Union. Fighting for individual freedoms since 1958. 521-9862 acluutah.org Code Pink, a ­women-initiated peace, social justice movement. codepinkalert.com

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