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No Rocky III Local gay and lesbian leaders hope for best in next mayor.

Salt Lake City to Host Nat’l Gay Basketball Tournament

Organizers eschew politics, ‘just want to play’

Sex Bust in St. George Park Draws Crackdown Salt Lake Men’s Choir Gets New Director Gay Swimmer Breaks World Record at OutGames Montreal In Search of the Gay Marriage’s Importance

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August 1–15, 2006

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Salt Lake Men’s Choir Gets a New Director, New Direction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 News & Opinion

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World Outgames Montreal Closes and Looks to Copenhagen in ’09

By Anthony Cuesta Montreal — It is “mission accomplished” for the 1st World Outgames Montréal 2006, which wrapped up Aug. 5.

“We are very proud to announce that we have reached our participation and attendance targets with more than half a million people at the sport competitions and cultural activities, 18,599 participants from 111 countries as conference delegates, athletes, volunteers or participants in the cultural programme,” said Mark Tewksbury, Co-President of the 1st World Outgames in media statement issued over the weekend.

For 11 days, Montréal hosted a major international event combining sport, culture and human rights. Saturday night’s closing ceremony featured a performance by music and big screen legend Liza Minnelli.

The International Conference on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Human Rights from July 26 to 29 brought together 1,516 participants from every corner of the globe to discuss the worldwide situation of LGBT people. The thirty-five sport disciplines drew 10,248 athletes, while 835 people came together for the cultural component of the program. Some 5,200 volunteers worked tirelessly at all the events.

“The 1st World Outgames Montréal would not have known the success it has had without the exceptional contribution of its volunteers and partners and the unwavering support of the entire Montréal community.

Thanks to this financial and logistical support, the 1st World Outgames have and will continue to have a significant social and economic impact for Montréal, Québec and the all of Canada,” said Louise Roy, CEO of the organization in a media statement.

The 1st World Outgames were presented by the Government of Canada, the Government of Québec, the City of Montréal, Radio-Canada and Tourisme Montréal. The organization also worked in partnership with Bell Canada, Labatt Breweries, CGI, the STM and Solotech.

Throughout the city, organizers said, the passion for the event was obvious.

“Participants were impressed by the warm welcome they received from Montrealers and the organizers’ top-notch preparations for the games,” said Tewksbury.

Sports disciplines were officially sanctioned by provincial and national sport federations, which meant that any records broken would be officially recorded, as was the case in swimming on August 4 when American Daniel Veatch beat a world record in the 200m backstroke in his age category.

Competitions were held at 41 sites throughout the city.

“Montréal has once again demonstrated its ability to host a major international event in a festive spirit of friendship, celebrating sport, culture and human rights,” said Roy. “The incredible welcome that the Outgames received from the city and its citizens will further enhance Montréal’s reputation as an open and welcoming city.”

According to Tewksbury, hosting the Outgames also allowed Montréal to further establish the city as a prime destination for the LGBT community. “Montréal will enjoy significant social and economic benefits, both in the short and medium term.”

The next World Outgames will be held in Copenhagen in 2009. In recognition of this, the Mayor of Culture and Leisure of Copenhagen, Martin Geerson, was officially handed GLISA’s official flag, by the Mayor of Montréal, Gérald Tremblay at the closing ceremony.

By Anthony Cuesta London — A British gay man charged with infecting his former boyfriend with HIV has been sentenced to four years and three months, despite being on the run.

Mark James, 47, from Burgess Hill, West Sussex, who admitted causing grievous bodily harm, failed to attend Friday’s hearing at Isleworth Crown Court.

Judge Jonathan Lowen issued a warrant for his arrest last month but police have been unable to track him down.

The court heard the victim had believed the relationship was monogamous.

James is thought to be the first homosexual to be convicted for “recklessly” passing on the virus. He continued to have unprotected sex with his partner, who cannot be named, despite testing positive for HIV and secondary syphilis in April 2004.

His partner became aware he was infected when he became seriously ill and was rushed to the hospital. Doctors there discovered he was having a severe reaction to the HIV virus, the court was told.

According to the BBC, Judge Lowen said James had been callous in using deceit and lies to keep his partner unaware of the risk.

James’ defense lawyer Robert Ellison told the court: “There is no evidence that this was an act that was done maliciously and once they both knew they were infected, they did stay together.

“The court is dealing with something that could become a powerful tool in the hands of disenchanted lovers.”

But speaking outside the court, James’ former partner told the BBC he was convinced it was malicious. He claimed the relationship was violent and he had been assaulted by James on a number of occasions.

“It was just another weapon because he had pretty much tried everything else,” he said.

“I knew instantly that he had been lying,” he said. “He was the only person I had slept with so it could only have come from him.”

Gay Swimmer Breaks World Germany Grants Asylum to Record at Outgames

By Troy Espera Montreal — A world record in swimming was broken Thursday at the 1st World Outgames in Montréal’s Olympic Pool, when openly gay American swimmer Daniel Veatch set a new record time in the 200 m backstroke in the 40–44 age category.

Veatch, who lives in San Francisco, logged in a time of 2:14.83, edging out the previous record of 2:15.49 set in 1999 by Daniel Veatch THe Victor Company another American swimmer, William Speicht.

Veatch is an Olympic athlete who competed at the Seoul Games in 1988. The 200 m backstroke is his speciality. In Seoul, Veatch finished 7th.

“I’m really excited to have broken this record and to find myself in the pool with my good friend and former competitor, Mark Tewksbury,” said Veatch of his achievement.

Veatch and Tewksbury competed against one another at the world championships in 1986 — 20 years ago.

“I’m blown away by the quality of the organization of the Montréal Outgames,” said the athlete who just recently participated in the Chicago Gay Games in July, as well as in Sydney in 2002.

Swimming competitions at the Outgames are sanctioned by the Quebec Swimming Federation. The record set by Veatch is in the process of being registered with FINA, the international swimming governing body.

Iranian Lesbian

Berlin — A German court ruled on Monday that an Iranian lesbian cannot be deported because she faces a death sentence if returned to Iran because of her sexuality.

The 27-year-old woman, whose name was not released, traveled to Germany in September 2003 and applied for asylum.

She argued that she would be persecuted if returned to Iran but was turned down by German immigration officials. She appealed, telling the court that she felt excluded from society in the Islamic republic and wanted to “live out her homosexuality openly without having to fear persecution,” the AP reports.

The Stuttgart administrative court ordered the government to grant her request for asylum.

A number of European countries placed a moratorium on deporting gays to Iran following reports two gay teens were hanged after being found “guilty of homosexuality.”

Earlier this year the Dutch parliament rejected a request by the Immigration Minister to end the moratorium.

In a letter to lawmakers, Rita Verdonk said that her ministry had found that while gay sex was punishable by death under Islamic law, an investigation into the hangings had determined that the pair were hanged not because they were gay but because they had robbed, kidnapped and raped a minor.

Although Iran maintained robbery and rape were behind the executions, all along many international human rights organizations believed it to be “a smokescreen.” Other

groups that monitor Iran said the government explanation was most likely correct.

According to Iranian human rights campaigners, over 4,000 lesbians and gay men have been executed since the Ayatollahs came to power in 1979. —AC

India Unites Village Leaders In Major HIV/AIDS Offensive India has launched a major offensive against HIV/AIDS on Aug 10 involving hundreds of village leaders. The focus is on rural areas, as nearly 60 percent of HIV-positive people live in the country’s villages.

India now has some 5.7 million people infected with the HIV virus. Only South Africa has a comparable problem.

Officials say poverty, migration and limited access to health care are the main reasons that make rural India more vulnerable to the disease.

The new initiative was launched in the Indian capital Delhi by the government in partnership with United Nations AIDS agency.

The event, which was attended by some 500 village council leaders, aims to enlist their support in containing the spread of the disease.

“This is a very good idea. If local leaders talk about AIDS or even mention it at public meetings, it helps,” Anjali Gopalan, executive director of Naz Foundation India, a leading anti-HIV group, told Reuters.

“These leaders speak in the language people can understand,” he said.

“AIDS is a disease of intimacy and has a lot to do with things that are personal, such as sex and death,” UNAIDS executive director Denis Broun told the convention.

“The local-level bodies are the closest to the people, hence their cooperation is very important,” he said. —AC

Lesbian Custody Battle to Be Decided in Vermont Burlington, Vt. — The Vermont Supreme Court ruled Aug. 4 that its courts, and not those in Virginia, have exclusive jurisdiction over a case involving two lesbians battling for custody of a child they had while they were in a relationship.

The unanimous ruling conflicts with a series of decisions in Virginia, where courts ruled the state’s anti-gay-marriage laws controlled the case.

Justice John Dooley wrote in the opinion that Vermont civil union laws govern the women’s 2003 separation and subsequent child custody disagreement because they were legally joined in a civil union there in 2000.

“This is a straightforward interstate jurisdictional dispute over custody, and the governing law fully supports the Vermont court’s decision to exercise jurisdiction and refuse to follow the conflicting Virginia visitation order,” Dooley wrote.

Vermont became the first state in the nation to recognize same-sex couples’ relationships in 2000, enacting a civil union law.

Connecticut is the only other state with such a law and whether such relationships would be recognized in other states has been a matter of litigation. Massachusetts is the only state that permits same-sex marriage.

Lisa and Janet Miller-Jenkins were Virginia residents in 2000 when they traveled to Vermont to join in a civil union. In April 2002, Lisa Miller-Jenkins gave birth to a daughter, conceived through artificial insemination, and the family moved to Vermont full time that August.

About a year later, Lisa Miller-Jenkins renounced her homosexuality, returned to Virginia and denied Janet Miller-Jenkins’ demands for visitation rights. They were granted a dissolution of their civil union and Lisa Miller-Jenkins filed for full custody.

Calif. Gay History Bill Gutted Sacramento, Calif. — Legislation that would have required California public school curriculum to include the contributions of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people was gutted Aug. 9 to simply prohibit teaching or textbooks that negatively portray persons based on their sexual orientation.

In May, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said the “Legislature should not micromanage curriculum” and vowed to veto the bill if it reached his desk. Critics said his decision was spawned by re-election jitters over angering conservative Republican voters.

“All that’s left in the bill now is adding sexual orientation to a long-standing law that prohibits the adoption of official teaching materials or the conducting of school activities that reflect adversely on people on the basis of race, religion, gender and so on,” said the bill’s author Sen. Sheila Kuehl, D-Santa Monica.

“We took out the section of the bill the governor said would ‘micromanage’ curriculum because I would like to get his signature on something so we can help students this year,” added Kuehl, the first openly lesbian member of the Legislature.

The textbook measure, SB1437, generated intense debate among lawmakers as it moved through the Senate. It is awaiting action in the Assembly where the amendments to weaken the bill were approved Monday.

Criticism of the measure from groups opposing expansion of gay rights was intense.

Opponents argued including the contributions of gays and lesbians in textbooks would promote homosexuality.

Supporters countered that textbooks should include the contributions of gays and lesbians just as they are required to contain those of other minority groups.

The bill now would prohibit teachers and textbooks to “reflect adversely” on persons based on sexual orientation. For more than 30 years, textbooks and teachers have been prohibited from negative portrayals of persons based on various characteristics such as ethnicity, gender, nationality or religion.

“While this is not everything we believe needs to be done to address the problem it is still a very important affirmative step to protect kids,” said Geoff Kors, executive director of Equality California, the bill’s chief backer.

It’s also not clear if the changes will win over the governor. —AC

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Pa. Officials Pull Controversial HIV Advertisements Philadelphia — Health officials in Philadelphia this week yanked public service advertisements urging HIV testing after a gay advocacy group expressed concerns about images depicting young black men in a gun’s cross hairs.

“Putting the face of a black man in the cross hairs of a gun paints a damaging message about violence and black men,” Lee Carson, chairman of the Black Gay Men’s Leadership Council, wrote in a letter to the city’s health commissioner last month.

The $236,000 campaign, which ended abruptly Aug. 9, was geared at gay and bisexual men and featured the tagline, “Have YOU been hit?”

“Given the violence perpetrated against gay men, it is not farfetched to see how this campaign fosters violence,” Carson wrote to interim Health Commissioner Carmen Paris.

Paris told the press that she “inherited” the campaign and only recently saw the ads.

She added, “The right thing to do, of course, is not to promote any message that could be perceived as promoting violence.”

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Colorado Gay Marriage Advocates Devise New Strategy for Same-Sex Recognition National and Regional

San Diego Trio Involved in Hate Crime Behind Bars San Diego, Calif. — Three San Diego men accused of violently attacking a group of men near the Southern California town’s Gay Pride Festival are behind bars.

Police said Aug. 1 that six men were attacked with baseball bats and a knife near the gay pride festival over the previous weekend. Four of the men were attacked while by themselves, according to police.

The victim with the most serious injuries remains in intensive care with a fractured skull. San Diego Police Capt. Chris Ball told reporters that doctors had to give the man a tracheotomy to allow him to breathe.

“People are outraged,” said Sean Wherley, a spokesman for The San Diego Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Community Center. “We’re obviously very concerned by the viciousness of the attacks, but we’re heartened by the swift action” by the police.

James Allen Carroll, a convicted felon, was taken into custody Aug. 1 at a San Diego apartment where he was living, police Capt. Chris Ball said. A 17-year-old was arrested Aug. 2 while walking on Scott Street in Point Loma after picking up his paycheck from a restaurant.

Police have asked prosecutors to charge the 17-year-old as an adult, department spokesman Mónica Muñoz said.

Court records show Carroll pleaded guilty to felony burglary in April and sentenced to three years’ probation. He was convicted of a similar crime last year in Texas.

The three are part of a loose-knit group known as the “Lowlifes,” Ball said. Police don’t know much about the group, which they said has about 50 members.

Police said the victims were taunted with anti-gay insults during the beatings, noting that baseball bats and a knife were used.

“This was a brutal attack,” Ball said.

“These victims were going about their business and this attack was unprovoked”

by Anthony Cuesta Colorado Springs, Colo. — Advocates for gay marriage in Colorado have devised a new approach to winning legal recognition for same-sex couples, creating an alternative model for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender organizations.

At least one constitutional amendment to ban marriage for same-sex couples is expected to be submitted this week for Colorado’s November ballot. But some gay rights organizations in the state are not fighting it.

Instead, the organizations are supporting an initiative to define the rights of people in domestic partnerships, rights that largely parallel those of married couples under Colorado law. Nowhere has such a measure been put to a statewide vote.

“We feel really strongly that people need something positive to vote for rather than just being against the marriage ban,” said Sean Duffy, executive director of Coloradans for Fairness and Equality.

The controversial tactic could become a model for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights organizations nationwide after two major legal defeats in state courts this year and passage of same-sex marriage bans in 19 states since 2004.

Marriage bans will be on ballots in at least seven more states this November.

“When gay marriage has gone 0-19 at the polls, including in Oregon, which is not a bastion of Reaganism, it’s time for something different,” said Duffy, who describes himself as a conservative Christian Republican.

Support for the partnership measure has come from both sides in the same-sex marriage debate. In the state Legislature, which swung Democratic in 2004 and put the referendum on the ballot two years later, four Republicans voted for it and one Democrat voted against it.

Evan Wolfson, a civil rights attorney and executive director of Freedom to Marry, told The Associated Press that Colorado is the only state where voters could be given an

alternative to an amendment barring gay marriage—and he doesn’t think it’s a good idea. He also fears voters will be confused.

“The public should not be asked to vote on the basic rights of a minority, particularly in a confusing bombardment of campaign ads and political agendas,” he said.

“What’s wrong here is a minority is being asked to see its rights put up to a vote.”

Colorado has played host to significant events in the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender civil rights movement. In 1992, Colorado voters passed Amendment 2 to the state Constitution, which would have prohibited any legal recognition of homosexuality. It was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in a fundamental decision in gay rights law.

And a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution limiting marriage to oppositesex couples that failed this summer was authored by Rep. Marilyn Musgrave and sponsored in the Senate by Wayne Allard, both Colorado Republicans.

But Jim Pfaff, who represents Focus on the Family on the Coloradans for Marriage coalition, said Focus on the Family objects to domestic partnerships partially because they are a stepping-stone to marriage and also because they are “discriminatory.”

“We believe holding out benefits only to same-sex couples discriminates against other relationships where there might be a need” for those rights, Pfaff said, adding that he thinks same-sex couples don’t need to be specifically granted those rights because many are available through contract law.

Pat Steadman, a veteran gay rights lobbyist in Colorado who helped the legal effort to overturn Amendment 2, said the domestic partnership push is — for now — the smart move.

“With the recent court decisions, what we’re doing here makes more and more sense,” Steadman said. “We’re moving the ball down the field. We’re getting over the hurdles of how people feel about the ‘M’ word.” Q

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Nat’l Gay Basketball Tournament Set for Salt Lake City The National Gay Basketball Association is coming to play a tournament in one of the nation’s most conservative states this fall.

Participants say they’re not concerned that Utah’s conservative religious and political climate will impact the games.

Doug Fadel, captain of Queer Utah Aquatic Club and co-chairman of Team Salt Lake, said such sporting events help to Local basketball organizers Stewart dispel myths Ralphs and Jeffrey Sanchez. about Utah.

About 100 members of Team Salt Lake competed in the Gay Games VII in Chicago. The international tournament, modeled after the Olympics, is held every four years.

“People were really surprised there was such a big team from Salt Lake City,” he said. “I’m sure that will be the impression of the basketball teams when they come.”

Local organizer Jeff Sanchez agreed. Anti-

gay measures such as Utah’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, he said, are “not an issue for us. We’re just here to play.”

Some 16 teams from across the country will compete in the NGBA tournament Oct. 28-29 at the University of Utah. Participant Mark Chambers said the league chose Utah as part of efforts to expand tournament locations.

“If we can have a positive experience and get people excited about basketball, that’s the key,” Chambers said.

Local organizer Jeff Sanchez, part of a bronze-medal-winning basketball team, said such sporting events provide a sense of camaraderie and openness that regular events can lack for gays and lesbians.

“I think gay athletes, in general, feel excluded from sports,” he said. “There’s always some part of you that holds back. It’s fun to be able to compete in sports you’re good at without having to worry about your orientation.”

The NGBA formed about two and a half years ago and has since helped organize leagues in Salt Lake and some other cities.

It also hosts about six national tournaments each year.

Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson at a Sept. 2005 press conference where he signed an executive order extending domestic partner benefits.

No ‘Rocky III’ for Anderson Gay and lesbian leaders praise the mayor for his tenure.

by Michael Aaron

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Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson, the man declared by the Human Rights Campaign as one of the National Coming Out Day Top 10 Straight Supporters nationally and the man whose first executive order was to protect gay and lesbian city employees from discrimination, has declared that he will not run for reelection in 2007.

Anderson then proceeded to endorse former city councilman Keith Christensen, who twice voted against a nondiscrimination policy protecting city gay employees, as his chosen replacement.

Anderson’s departure has been speculated for over a year. Many politicos questioned whether he would even finish out his term, possibly leaving for a post at an international peace organization or similar position.

That speculation was fueled when last year Anderson called for a meeting with select gay leaders to introduce them to Christensen.

“The group’s overall reception to Christensen was pretty cool,” said one of those in attendance.

Anderson set the tone for his tenure as mayor early when he issued an executive order barring discrimination against gay and lesbian city employees on April 5, 2000.

In 1998, an incoming more conservative Salt Lake City Council made it the first order of business to repeal an anti-discrimination ordinance passed by outgoing councilmembers months prior. The council put a generic policy in place that included no list of protected categories.

Anderson went on to speak at many gay and lesbian events, rode in all pride parades and served as grand marshal of the parade in 2001.

Anderson used an annual state of the city address in June, 2004, to call on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to consider that “Acceptance of diversity ... and of gays in particular is a sign that non-conforming people are welcome here,” when planning a revitalized downtown after the church purchased the Crossroads Mall. Anderson often quoted Richard Florida, author of “The Rise of the Creative Class,” that stressed the importance of artists and gays and lesbians as a vital element in any successful city.

Anderson’s peak achievement for gay and lesbian rights was Sept. 21, 2005, when he signed an executive order providing domestic partner benefits for gay and lesbian Salt Lake City employees. The ordinance was trumped by the city council shortly after when it passed a policy expanding coverage to any “adult designee.”

Salt Lake’s gay and lesbian leaders are quick to spread praise on Anderson’s legacy.

“I think Mayor Rocky Anderson has been one of the LGBT community’s greatest friends. His support for our community has been unwavering and uncompromising. He will be missed,” said openly gay State Sen. Scott McCoy. “Salt Lake is a better place to live because of Rocky’s steadfast and demonstrated commitment to GLBT equality, human rights and our environment,” said Valerie Larabee, executive director of the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Community Center of Utah.

“Mayor Anderson has been a true champion of LGBT equality. His actions have consistently demonstrated his conviction that LGBT Utahns deserve fair and equal treated under the law,” said Mike Thompson, executive director of Equality Utah. “As Utahns living in such a conservative state, we have benefited tremendously from Mayor Anderson’s leadership on LGBT issues. I’m not sure that a better and more dedicated ally could be found.”

Joe Redburn waxes poetic about Anderson’s mayoral reign: “We will never forget when he flew the Rainbow flag over the city-county building during Pride Day a few years ago. He was the first, and probably only, mayor to ride a horse into the Utah Fairpark for the first Gay Rodeo during the Grand Entry parade. Whatever Rocky does it will be to improve life for the human race.”

While only two candidates have officially announced their candidacy for the position, many names are being floated to replace Anderson in next year’s election.

“With [Anderson’s] departure, I think we’ll all need to sort out the mayoral candidate who best represents us as individuals and specifically those things we find important for our lives and our families,” said Larabee.

“I’ll look for a candidate whose history and platforms include support of those ideals and initiatives which have lead to Salt Lake being recognized as a progressive and affirming city — a city which continues to welcome and find ways to stand behind everyone at the “community table.”

Redburn points out that Salt Lake City has not had a Republican mayor since 1975, when Ted Wilson won election against Conrad Harrison, who was selected to replace Jake Garn after his election to the U.S. House of Representatives.

“I can only hope that the next mayor of Salt Lake City will fight for equal rights for the LGBT community with the same energy, conviction and compassion as Rocky,” said McCoy. Q

Univ. of Utah Ranked in the Top 100 for Gay Friendly Schools A new guidebook for gay and lesbian college students names the University of Utah as one of the best 100 campuses in the nation for gay students.

The Advocate College Guide for LGBT Students was released in August. Other campuses listed in the guide include Cornell University, University of Arizona, University of Oregon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ohio State, University of Colorado-Boulder, Colorado State University, Northwestern University and Princeton University.

Published by Alyson Books in partnership with The Advocate magazine, guide profiles 100 colleges and universities from across the country that offer resources and create a positive living and learning environment for LGBT students.

Author Shane L. Windmeyer, M.S., Ed., in conjunction with a team of professionals that includes the National Consortium of Directors of LGBT Resources in Higher Education, developed criteria and a questionnaire for nominations to gather feedback from current LGBT students, faculty and staff regarding personal experiences and opinions about their campus.

After receiving nominations from 680 campuses and conducting more than 5,500 online interviews, 100 campuses were selected for profiles based on policies, institutional commitment and support, academic life, housing, student life, counseling and health efforts, campus safety, and recruitment and retention efforts.

Charles Milne, director of the U’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Resource Center says he believes the U.’s inclusion on the list is based on over 35 years of students, faculty and staff working for inclusion, equality and safe places for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals. “While we still have much to accomplish, the LGBT and ally communities have made

many strides forward,� he said.

Windmeyer is also the executive director of Campus PrideNet, a national organization for LGBT student leaders. He said the U’s LGBT Center, programs, services and student coalition were instrumental in landing the university on his list. “We are pleased the university community is being recognized as a productive and safe learning environment for individuals from diverse cultures and backgrounds,�

Stayner Landward, the University of Utah’s dean of students said in a statement.

The guide includes information about individual campuses, number of students, tuition, admissions procedures and deadlines, gay-affirmative policies, events and other resources.

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PWACU’s Purpose

Standing By

by Michael Aaron

michael@qsaltlake.com

About a year ago, I received a text message from a young man who, from time to time, was involved in helping with events for our paper. He was beside himself because he and two friends were doing meth and one of them overdosed. He and the other guy just sat and watched the kid die and did nothing. They didn’t call 911. They didn’t call anyone. They didn’t do anything but freak out. There was no hope for this kid — who might have been saved if he’d gotten help quickly enough.

Last Friday night, yet another overdose claimed longtime activist Mell Bailey. She was found dead lying next to another person who had turned off all the phones, closed the window blinds and just sat there next to her body.

Could she have done more? Of course.

Would it have made a difference? We’ll never know — she didn’t try.

Rep. Carol Spackman Moss, D-Salt Lake City sponsored a bill in this year’s legislative session that would have criminalized failing to render aid to those who overdose.

The problem gained a lot of press when Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson launched a billboard campaign, calling for people to call 911 when their friends overdose rather than do nothing.

The bill died in committee.

But doing nothing when someone near you overdoses is just one of the problems our society, and to a larger degree our community, faces.

The larger problem is the drugs themselves.

I understand addiction. I concern myself with personal addictions every day. Perhaps that is why I have steered such a wide path around drugs in my personal life. Perhaps that is why I get so worked up when I find that friends around me are doing them — or are all-too-often consumed by them.

Perhaps that is why I have, for years, been calling for any … ANY … of our local organizations to do something about them. I can run all the anti-meth, pro-health ads I can afford, but it takes one-on-one intervention and targeting at-risk populations — both of which are simply outside my resources.

More importantly, though, it takes people in this community — all of us, yeah, you too — to care that this is happening to so many in our community. It takes all of our leaders to recognize the problem and stop sweeping it under the rug.

It takes our bar owners to seriously work to keep dealers out of their bars working their patrons.

It takes our health organizations to stop putting people in charge of their anti-meth message who may well be on the drug themselves.

It takes the GLBT Public Safety Liaison Committee to actually do something and help us figure this out.

It takes the Utah Health Department to recognize our community’s specific needs and help us deal with them.

It takes our harm reduction organizations to recognize that “just say yes” is as harmful as “just say no.”

But you, it takes you too. You can help deglamorize drugs by telling your friends to get off or stay off of them because you are concerned for them. You can help by calling the police when a dealer approaches you in the bar or on the street. You can help by telling those online that gleefully advertise their addictions (“let’s party,” “tina’s gonna be there,” “pnp power bottom…”) to take it elsewhere, to stop bringing more people into their self-destruction.

I knew Mell was headed toward disaster.

I told her. Once. Perhaps if I kept telling her, she’d still be alive today. Perhaps if I threw the mirror at her in a way she could recognize what others around her saw, she would have stepped back and realized she was spiraling out of control.

Could I have done more? Of course.

Would it have made a difference? Perhaps.

I’ll never know. I didn’t try.

Editor, Regarding Ruby Ridges’ comments about the PWACU; I’ve long been aware of a virus much more prevalent than HIV in Utah’s GLBT community. The apparently uninformed turn to talking (or writing) with an acid tongue about issues/groups, thus taking a short cut to “The Laugh.” How does this serve our community?

Her comments started in the right direction, noting the lack of participation by the community for such causes. She then asks, “Can anyone tell me what the People With AIDS Coalition actually does? The old HIV/ AIDS agencies almost seem antiquated and out of touch…” She goes on to make disparaging remarks about the UGRA & RCGSE, and finally implies that lesbian leadership is inappropriate at the GLBT Center.

Hopefully, she’s truly misinformed about these organizations and isn’t trying to be funny. Because, the fact is, regardless of any such organizations imperfections, they provide an enormous service to the disenfranchised of our community, which cannot easily be measured by a non-participating critic. Just ask our clients. Just ask me. Oh, that’s right… She did ask! “Can anyone tell me what the PWACU actually does?” I’m thrilled to answer: For brevity sake, here’s the short list: Education: Living With AIDS Conference, Positive Press, Resource Library—including free Internet access, seminars. Recreation, support groups, thrift room and wellness programs.

There you have the basic overview. 8,500 die from HIV/AIDS daily. The implication that such organizations serve no purpose in today’s climate of apathy towards HIV is truly ignorant. The fact that advances in treatment for HIV/AIDS have greatly improved the lives of those of us affected by this debilitating illness does not negate the necessity for organizations to provide their invaluable resources of providers and support in areas psychological and financial to the stigmatized HIV+ in our community.

I do not disagree that those of us who volunteer our time for these causes face several challenges from the ignorant right for funding and support, and yes, we do get tired. However, when criticism and ignorance comes from within the community it is harder to swallow. I would challenge any such person to first and foremost inform yourself about what an organization does before such casual disrespect is leveled, because nobody likes their work pissed on. At least offer constructive criticism if you feel you have the right to offer any at all.

Jason Murphy

morial Service at First Presbyterian Church.

I organized the first PWACU camp for people with AIDS at Camp Rogers 16 years ago, which morphed into our Camp Pinecliff Weekend (an all-volunteer organized retreat for people with HIV/AIDS celebrating its 15th year this September 22nd).

My partner and I dragged old shelving from the American Red Cross to create the Utah AIDS Foundation food bank, and got its USDA certification. My partner also served on the board of the PWACU, etc., etc.

So yes, I think I am qualified to speak about PWACU’s status and make the statement, “In an age where meth addictions and chronic drug abuse problems are ravaging our gay men’s community, the old HIV/AIDS agencies almost seem antiquated and out of touch.” If the shoe fits...

Love. Ruby.

P.S.. I also host a fund-raiser for the Gay & Lesbian Community Center every 2nd Friday of the month. The day my last column was printed Valerie Larabee (executive director of the GLBTCCU and a good friend of mine) emailed laughing about my “hers”bollah statement. She and her staff get the humor.

A Mother’s Hope

Editor, I wanted to thank you for writing the article about my son Joshua Shuck in the QSaltLake newspaper [“Gay Bashing at the Jazz Festival,” Aug. 1, 2006]. I hope this creates some public issues about gay bashing.

Rhonda Shuck Salt Lake City

What Does It Take?

Editor, I was saddened to see the story about Josh Shuck being bashed at the Salt Lake City Jazz Festival [“Gay Bashing at the Jazz Festival,” Aug. 1, 2006]. But I was infuriated at the comments by Salt Lake City Police Det. Joe Cyr that “if it turns out to be an assault, it will be treated as an assault. If it turns out to be a hate crime, it will be treated as a hate crime.”

The bashers used such foul language, calling Shuck and his friends “cocksuckers” and “fucking faggots” while beating him to the point he shattered two vertebrae, repeatedly slamming him to the ground. What does it take for the SLCPD to decide to treat an assault as a hate crime? Did the perpetrators forget to say “I hate cocksuckers” and “I hate fucking faggots?”

If this isn’t a test of the lame new hate crime law, what will be?

Eric Maier Salt Lake City

Salt Lake City

Bashed Back

Ruby responds: Jason, darling. Thanks for the manifesto.

Loved your description of moi as a non-participating critic. Good one! For your information, I worked with the late David Sharpton, the original director of the People With AIDS Coalition of Utah to incorporate the coalition in the late 1980s and get its state and federal non-profit status.

Look through the PWACU archives and see who wrote the first editions of “Positive Press.”

Surprise! We co-sponsored the very first Utah exhibit of the Names Project Quilt.

I solicited the first tickets from the Utah Arts Festival to launch the PWACU Recreation Program, and dragged 60 boxed lunches to the very first Living With AIDS Conference held by PWACU. I coordinated the first Interfaith AIDS Me-

Editor, Yaay for the crowd that beat the gay bashers to the pulp at the Salt Lake City Jazz Festival! [“Gay Bashing at the Jazz Festival,” Aug. 1, 2006.] Perhaps this city isn’t so bad after all if total strangers will come to the aid of someone when a friend yells “gay bashers!”

And where was this story in any other newspaper? I’m so glad we have QSaltLake.

Where else would we have heard about this?

Julian Salas Salt Lake City QSaltLake welcomes letters from its readers.

Please email letters no longer than 400 words to editor@qsaltlake.com. Include your name, address and a phone number where we can verify your identity. Letters, if published, may be edited for length and libel.

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Court History Part II

by Ben Williams

ben@qsaltlake.com

2006 NEEDS ASSESSMENT SURVEY Dear Friend of The Center: Thank you in advance for taking your valuable time to complete the following needs assessment survey for the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Community Center of Utah. Your participation will help us identify and document the demographics, characteristics, and needs of the community we serve. Your thoughtful responses will help us shape the future programming and services to be offered by The GLBT Community Center of Utah.

At the end of the survey, you’ll be given an opportunity to identify yourself and enter into a prize drawing for some great prizes including two IPOD Shuffles, gift certificates and more. Special thanks to Harry’s At Sugarhouse and Cahoots for their support. When you have completed the survey, please: 1. Fold it so that The Center address is showing. 2. Staple or tape it shut 3. Put it in the mail or drop it off at The Center!

In addition, please help us distribute this survey far and wide by sending it to your friends, family, neighbors and coworkers. You do not have to be familiar with the programs and services of The Center to complete the survey. You can also complete and submit your survey online by visiting our website at www.glbtccu.org Again, we appreciate your participation and look forward to sharing the results with you! If you have any questions about the survey, please contact Nathan Measom at 801.539.8800 ext. 20, or via email at nathan@glbtccu.org.

1. Are you a current 2006 member of The Center:  Yes  No

20. Does your family know about your sexual orientation?:  Yes  No  Somewhat

2. Where did you obtain this survey:  QSaltLake

21. Do your friends know about your sexual orientation?:  Yes  No  Somewhat

3. Home Zip Code: _ ________________________ 4. Age:  18 or under  19-25  26-34  35‑40  41-50  51-55  55+

22. Do your co-workers know about your sexual orientation?:  Yes  No  Somewhat

23. On a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being “completely disagree” and 5 being “completley agree”, please indicate how much you agree with the following statements:

1 2 3 4 5  Other: _____________________________ A community center belongs to everyone      in the GLBT community.

6. Language:  English is my first language  Spanish is my first language  I’m bilingual Community centers only serve people in      their immediate surrounding area.  Other: _____________________________ 5. Ethnicity/Race:  African American  Latino/Hispanic  Caucasian/White  Native American  Asian/Pacific Islander

7. Education:  Grade School  Some High School  High School Diploma  Some College/Vocational School  College Degree  Vocational Graduate  Some Graduate School  Advanced Degree  Other: _____________________________ 8. Household Income:  Under $10,000  $10,000–19,000  $20,000–29,000  $30,000–49,000  $50,000–69,000  $70,000+  Unknown/decline 9. Living Arrangements:  Rent  Own  Living temporarily w/ friends  Living temporarily w/ family  Have no fixed place of residence  Homeless  Other: _____________________________ 10. Partnership/Marital Status:  Single  Partnered  Married  Widowed  Separated  Divorced  Other: _____________________ 11. My preferred relationship is:  Single  Monogamous  Polyamorous  Open  Other: _______________________ 12. Children:  Want children someday  Currently planning a family

 Yes, living with me full time  Yes, living with me part time  Yes, living with others full time 13. Please indicate the religion that most influenced your childhood: _____________________________ 14. Please indicate your current chosen religion or spiritual practice: ______________________________ 15. Do you have health insurance?:  Yes  No 16. Have you served in the military?:  Yes, currently  Yes, previously  No 17. Are you a registered voter?:  Yes  No 18. My gender identity is:  Female  Male  Transgender MTF  Transgender FTM  Gender Queer  Intersex  Androgynous  Prefer no gender category  Other: _____________________________ 19. My sexual orientation is:  Lesbian  Gay  Bisexual  Pansexual  Heterosexual  Queer  Asexual  Other: ____________________

A community center is a good place to      find services that I might need.

It is important for community centers to      offer support programs.

It is important for community centers to      offer social programs.

It is important for community centers to      offer recreational programs.

A community center should be the      information hub/epi-center of the GLBT community.

Every member of the GLBT community      should be a member their GLBT community center.

24. If our GLBT Community Center were to offer any of the following programs and services, which would you be the most likely to participate in or use?:  Art Gallery  Brown Bag Lunch Series  Chamber of Commerce for GLBT Community  Child Care  Coffee Shop  Continuing Education  Crisis Outreach  Couples and Family Counseling  Domestic Violence Information/Counseling  Drug & Alcohol Counseling  Film/Discussion Events  Employment/Career Counseling  Gay BINGO  Hate Crimes Reporting  HIV/STD Testing  Library  Mental Health Counseling  Meeting Facilities  Performance Space  Recreational Programming  Resource & Referral Info  Social Justice Education  Support Groups  Special Events (Pride, Winterfest, etc)  Fitness Facility  Voter Registration  Workshops & Seminars for Personal Growth  Youth Activity Center Programs (ages 13-20)  Gay and Gray Programs (for older GLBT people)  Workshops & Seminars To Foster Grassroots Community Involvement/Activism  Workshops & Seminars on Capacity Building for GLBT Community Groups  Other (please specify):_ __________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ________________ (more questions on other side)

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It was in 1976 that Reno, Nevada’s Silver Dollar Court was created and our own Royal Court of the Golden Spike Empire was formed.

Originally organized as the Imperial Court of Utah, it received its charter from the Royal Court of Denver and is the oldest gay fundraising organization in Utah. Over its 30 years of public service, the RCGSE has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Utah charities, most notably to the U.S. Marine’s Toys for Tots campaign and to AIDS charities.

The persons who were initially responsible for the creation of the first Court system in Utah were Bruce Allred, Earl Ashley, Henry Bender, Jim Beverage, Jay Bradley, Rose Carrier, Paul Douglas, Thelma Ensign, Dennis Felix, Chad Herinborg, Mack Hunt, Terry Jones, Larry Kasper, Bob Mandrake, Carole Martindale, Len Matheson, Marty Pollock, Pepper Prespente, Gordon Winklekotter, and one unpublished name, possibly a Ron who served as Grand Duke to the first court.

During the rest of the decade seven additional courts were created: Honolulu, Hawaii’s 24-Karat Gold Twist of Fate Empire, Calgary, Alberta’s Imperial Sovereign Court of the Chinook Arch, Social Association; and Salem, Oregon’s Imperial Sovereign Court of the Willamette Empire; all founded in 1977.

An anomaly occurred when no courts were created in 1978, however in 1979 Alameda, California’s The Imperial Star Empire; Dallas, Texas’s The United Court of the Lone Star Empire; Fort Worth, Texas’s The Imperial Court de Fort Worth/Arlington; Orange County, California’s Orange County Imperial Court; and Tacoma, Washington’s Imperial Sovereign Court of Tacoma, Diamond Empire of the Cascades were all organized.

At the beginning of the 1980’s there were 27 functioning court systems in the United States and Canada. However, due to the decimation of the gay men’s communities

by AIDS, only eight new court systems were establish in the 1980s: Boise, Idaho’s Imperial Sovereign Gem Court of Idaho founded in 1980; Omaha, Nebraska’s Imperial Court of Nebraska in 1981; Lexington, Kentucky’s Imperial Court of Kentucky established in 1982; Houston, Texas’ Empire of the Royal Sovereign and Imperial Court of the Single Star, Inc. created in 1984, New York City’s, Imperial Court of New York organized in 1986, Toronto, Ontario’s Imperial Court of Toronto started in 1987 and Corpus Christi, Texas’ Royal Sovereign Imperial Court of the Texas Riviera Empire set up in 1988.

The court system rebounded in the 1990’s with the formation of 13 new chapters of the charitable organization. Buffalo, New York’s Imperial Court of Buffalo; Cincinnati, Ohio’s Imperial Sovereign Queen City Court of the Buckeye Empire; and Regina, Saskatchewan’s Regal Social Association of Regina were all initiated in 1991. The following year in 1992 Chico, California created The Imperial Sovereign Court of the Czaristic Dynasty and San Antonio, Texas formed The Royal Sovereign and Imperial Court of the Alamo Empire.

Albuquerque, New Mexico organized the United Court of the Sandias and Providence, Rhode Island’s Imperial Court of the Rhode Island became the first court in New England; both in 1993.

Two additional Texas courts were added in

1994: The United Court of Austin and Waco’s Royal Sovereign and Imperial Court of the Central Texas Empire.

Three courts were established in 1995, Missoula, Montana’s The Imperial Sovereign Court of the State of Montana; Redding, California’s Imperial Heart of the Golden Circle Empire; Hamilton, Ontario’s The Imperial Court of Hamilton-Wentworth and 1998 witnessed the formation of Las Vegas, Nevada’s Imperial Royal Sovereign Court of the Desert Empire.

Lest anyone thinks that the court system is an anachronism of bygone days, the 21st Century has ushered in thirteen new courts in the past six years in such cities as Boston and Chicago. Ogden, Utah’s The Imperial Rainbow Court of Northern Utah; Halifax, Nova Scotia’s Sovereign Court of Atlantic Nova Society; and Winnipeg, Manitoba’s The Snowy Owl Monarchist Society, Inc. were all formed at the beginning of the new millennium in 2000.

Boston, Massachusetts’s The Imperial Court of Massachusetts and Des Moines, Iowa’s Imperial Court of Iowa were organized the next year. St. Catharines, Ontario’s The Imperial Sovereign Court of St. Catharines and the Greater Niagara Region was established in 2003. Chicago, Illinois’s Imperial Windy City Court of the Prairie State Empire, Inc. and Surrey, British Columbia’s Imperial Sovereign Court of Surrey —Empire of the Peace Arch were formed in 2004. Last year Anchorage, Alaska’s Imperial Court of All Alaska. Bellingham, Washington’s The Imperial Sovereign Court of the Evergreen Empire and Minneapolis, Minnesota’s The Imperial Court of Minnesota joined the imperial court system in 2005. This year Hartford, Connecticut Imperial Sovereign Court of All Connecticut, Inc and Santa Monica’s, California Royal Court de Santa Monica are being organized.

Now, there are over 70 chapters of the Imperial Court System around the United States and Canada with queries coming from Mexcio, England, New Zealand, and Australia. Today the Imperial Court System is the second largest gay and lesbian organization in the country, second only to the Metropolitan Community Church. Still, the collective goal of all these courts is to raise money for charitable organizations and their combined efforts do raise over $1.5 million annually for non-profit organizations.

The Courts operate much like any other charitable organizations, such as the Masons and Elks, however the format of imperial titles and the resulting protocol is unique to the court system. Titles vary according to the nobility system adopted by a court. Thus, some Courts follow the titled hierarchy of British nobility while others use the titles used by Czarist Russia or other aristocracies. The British system, however, is the most common. The court system is also similar to a theater group, providing a creative outlet to its members. Talented individuals have the opportunity to design elaborate costumes, sets and musical numbers and then have a place to present them.

A lot of networking and traveling takes place throughout the system, not only locally, but also from one city to another.

The leader of the international Court system is still today Her Most Imperial Majesty Jose I, the Widow Norton. Sarria the head of the International Imperial Council, is also the Spiritual Mentor to the Court system, and Queen Mother of San Francisco. The ceremonial title of Spiritual Mentor of the Court system as well as Queen Mother of San Francisco, however, will eventually go to the next Empress of San Francisco after Sarria.

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28. If you are someone who doesn’t attend programs or events held at The Center, what is the primary reason?:  Not Applicable/I do join in Center activities  Nothing I need  Not interested  I don’t have time  I don’t like the location  I don’t have transportation

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Guilty Pleasures

by Ruby Ridge,

ruby@qsaltlake.com

For those of you who have been following my column over the last few years, you know I simply adore two things in this world above all else. The first is my one true and all-consuming love, Randy Harmon, who despite the restraining order and pepper spray is still the cuddliest hunka-hunkaburning-love alive! Second, is the series Project Runway on the Bravo Channel. Oh my God, cherubs, have you been watching this season!?!

It’s stupendous.

For those of you living in a coma getting nourishment from a feeding tube, Project Runway has fifteen fashion designers who compete to show a runway collection at Fashion Week in New York City. I just love it. Love it. Love it.

The genius of the show is its casting. Like many formulaic reality series, the producers stock the show with people you are either rooting for, or you just love to hate.

This season has some absolutely classic characters. Vincent who is this neurotic nutcase (whom I predict will go postal and shoot up the entire workroom in a profanity-laced Tarantino-style slow mo); Laura, who is an uptight 45-year-old architect in New York (with some major aging issues); Bradley, a leftover hippie; Jeffrey, the tattooed rock-and-roll designer from Los Angeles; and the biggest psycho of them all named is Malan Breton. This guy is completely off his medication. He speaks with this bizarro quasi-British accent that sounds like some geek from the high school drama club channeling “My Fair Lady”. It is repulsive, kittens!

Supposedly his accent is so over-thetop because he was born in Taiwan and then he quote unquote “lived all over” (sort of like bird flu) including, according to his biography, … a stint in Utah.

It was almost a pity when he got thrown off in the second episode because he was such a mess to watch. I could definitely see myself wearing the ball gown he designed for Miss USA, although it might have to be let out in the seams a little here or there. Stop snickering you hateful bitches … I have a thyroid condition and a note from my mother!

Anyway, another surprising Utah connection is super fruity Robert Best who grew up here (funny…he doesn’t look emotionally ravaged or visibly scarred) and graduated with honors from the Parsons School of Design in New York, then going on to work for Isaac Mizrahi, Anne Klein and Donna Karan.

He lives in SURPRISE! ... West Hollywood and the best part is … he designs Barbie clothes for Mattel! Is that almost too gay to live or what! He’s my favorite and unless he completely melts down and has a dramatic Nora Desmond moment, he should make it to the finals.

But speaking of DRAMA, cherubs … in this week’s major plot-twist the show’s villain (Keith from New York) was kicked off for using fashion books and cheating. Bastard! While it was cathartic to see this guy crash and burn, it was also very sad, because, despite his arrogance, he was very skilled and had a really good chance of winning.

Well, petals, it’s not too late to start watching Project Runway (Wednesday nights on Bravo) and get inspired to create your own fashion. I’ve been so motivated I’m making matching edible thongs for Randy and me out of blueberry fruit jerky. So if you see me with a purple tongue grinning from ear to ear, don’t ask, darlings, and I certainly won’t tell.

Ciao, muffins!

I could definitely see myself wearing the ball gown he designed for Miss USA, although it might have to be let out in the seams a little here or there.

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 barometric pressure. Come see the Sluts live at Bingo August 11th or September 8th at the GLCCU at 7PM.

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by Laurie Mecham laurie@qsaltlake.com

Laurie Mecham remembers a time when she got to choose when, how —and whether — she got hot and sticky.

7:30pm Saturday, Aug. 26 at MoDiggity’s, a private club for members, with comedian Bobaloo.

4:00pm Sunday, Aug. 27 at Club Try-Angles, a private club for members, with a BBQ

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HOT! It has been hot everywhere. Hot in Salt Lake City, like it always gets in the summer. But Wholly Global Warming, Bushman! It’s been 100° in Portland, Oregon. The normal temperature for this time of year is a balmy and beautiful 80°. The record is — was — 100°.

A couple of weeks ago it hit 105° in this Northwestern temperate zone. Thank all of the gods and clouds and unicorns that the wife and I did not move anywhere below the latitude of the southern Idaho border, or I’d be crankier than Rocky Anderson at an anger management intervention.

Not only is excessive heat miserable and oppressive, it is outright un-American. For one thing, being overheated suppresses the appetite, and how are we supposed to maintain our country’s standard of obesity and high cholesterol if we’re just too sluggish to pound down some Quarter Pounders? At least it’s too hot to exercise. Americans love comfort, a value that I am proud to embrace. I like sheets that are soft, blankets that are warm, shoes that don’t pinch, and underwear that doesn’t cleave the goods. And I like to be able to sleep at night without having to pack ice bags around the perimeter of my body. Approximately 72 percent of Americans have air conditioning in their homes. In Portland, only about 30 percent have it. OH MY GOD, HOW WE SUFFER! Actually, it makes me feel good to know that even many high rollers in PDX were sizzling just as I was. It makes my pain more tolerable, in that shadenfreude way, hearing that some of the bosses where I work have been hotter than a Dykes on Bikes tailpipe.

I recently read that some folks on the left have pointed to a new culprit in the frightening rise of the Republican Party’s power over the last couple of decades — air conditioning. I read an article on Alternet.org titled “America’s Air Conditioned Nightmare.” It says that the increased utilization of air conditioning in our country’s sweaty nether parts has caused (or at least allowed) people who might have remained cool-headed in the liberal north to migrate to the conservative south, where they are exposed to all manner of overheated and delirious redneck, um, “culture.”

Now, you may wonder, as I did, why a person immigrating from a blue state would turn red just by dipping below a certain latitude. I figure that the answer lies in the sudden and extreme temperature changes. In the house, you’ve got air conditioning. Walk to the mailbox and it’s brain fry. In the car, A/C. Take ten steps to the office, heat exhaustion. This constant, rapid heating and cooling actually weakens the microscopic mesh of fibers that hold the brain up high, in the neighborhood of the cerebral cortex. With this weakened brain net, the whole organ slips lower in the skull, closer to the brain stem—the territory of base fears and instinctive reaction.

This causes a dog-eat-dog, big-country-

invades-oil-rich-country kind of mentality, the kind that can only occur when it’s hotter than Gayle Ruzicka’s armpits during a televised marriage equality debate with Scott McCoy. Speaking of red states, there are a million things I miss about my old hometown, but the summer heat is not one of them. While it has returned to the normal 80s here in Stumptown, I hear from the folks back home that Salt Lake is still hotter than President LaMar Jenkins’ collected transcripts of gay returned missionary confessions. If you didn’t remember last May to get your butch lesbian neighbor to go up on the roof and prep the swamp cooler, it’s not too late, in spite of the temperature of the shingles. Tell her that if you can get the house cool enough, you’re going to throw a party to raise money for homeless pets by selling organic tequila body shots off of the sWerve board members. She’ll be there in a heartbeat.

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fect change, and things aren’t all bad, and they can get better. That was a basic tenant that we were brought up to believe. I’ve still held on to that, sometimes tooth and nail when things get dark.

AR: I think mine came from my family too, though my parents are very conservative. But they had this real strong belief in the work ethic and being independent.

If you wanted something to happen, you had to do it yourself. At some point I polarized from them due to my political views. And the real spark, secondarily, was Honor the Earth, and meeting Winona Laduke, building this bridge and learning from the Indian activists. That has really cemented and helped me learn to articulate activism. And at times when I feel tired or weak, I turn back to that. They are real fighters and they win a lot of battles.

ES: With very little resources.

TW: Amy, has your family moved at all with your activism, in terms of their political — AR: My siblings are very liberal. But I don’t think my parents will ever be left wing like me, but they are very pro-gay rights now. Extremely. And it’s really the polar opposite from where they were. We’ve gone from being perverts to being god’s children!

TW: That’s huge!

AR: Well, it had to happen, [otherwise] you can’t keep a family together. So they could choose to keep the family together or stick with their fundamentalism.

TW: Let’s jump into queer identity. Do you remember when you first loved your own gayness?

AR: It’s an evolution, isn’t it? For me it was a couple of steps. First it was falling in love with another woman in high school, and feeling just ecstatic about how much I could feel for somebody. Because I hadn’t experienced that with my boyfriends. You know, I loved my boyfriends, but it didn’t have the same spark sexually. The next big step for me was having a community of people that had a little bit of gender dysphoria like I have — the trans movement — and realizing I had a way to articulate the male side of me that is so strong. I never had a language for it, and I felt so at odds with my body most of the time. But it’s funny, because after I embraced that, I started loving the woman side of my body, too. I realized that I’m not trans, I’m very much split — maybe more on the male side. I definitely think the trans community gave me a second wind in the gay movement.

ES: The first step for me was when I realized I was gay, I finally got to put a word to it (after all of those close friendships in high school and not knowing what it was!), but the first thing I believed in my heart was that there was nothing wrong with it. Right away, I had no issues.

From the very beginning, I can honestly say, I never had a doubt in my mind that there was nothing wrong with being gay. And that felt really good from the outset.

TW: What does a “queer spirituality” for you look like?

by Troy Williams

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he Indigo Girls have long been known for their outspoken music and unapologetic activism.

The folk-rock duo, comprised of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, have been friends since grade school. In high school they performed together as “The B-Band” and in 1985, after college, they reunited as The Indigo Girls. Troy Williams, the producer of KRCL’s, NOW QUEER THIS, recently sat down with the Girls at Red Butte Gardens to talk about activism, music and queer identity. The entire interview can be heard on the NQT archives at nowqueerthis.com.

Troy Williams: I want to talk about creative imagination — specifically, the creative imagination that envisions new ways of living on our planet together. How do you channel your vision and imagination into your music?

Emily Saliers: In some of the songs, the content is blatantly subject-specific. If I’m writing a song like “All That We Let In,” obviously my vision of the world doesn’t include what’s happening with this current administration,

so it ends up being in a song like that. There are things that are less blatant lyrically, that are harder to articulate, but are more of a spirit of how you live in the world, without being specifically political.

Amy Ray: I like to write songs from people’s stories and what they are going through, because it can capture what’s happening during a time. On our new record I have a couple of songs about the demoralization people are going through with our drive to turn everything into suburbia and what that does to people. I like to take a story of someone I know and write a song. Maybe somebody can hear a song with a story in it and they can start thinking about things and start curing and healing and breaking down barriers.

TW: Do you remember where you realized that the world could be different?

ES: In my family, particularly with my dad, who is a minister, he comes from a place of eternal optimism based on his faith. The environment in my household was that being members of the world community, you could af-

ES: The first thing that comes to mind is that’s it’s radical.

In the context of Christianity, a queer spirituality is radical in the way that Jesus was radical. When I think of a queer spirituality I think of one that is completely loving and encompassing all. I always believed that’s what Jesus was all about. That’s as close to the true Christianity as you can get — a radical queer spirituality.

AR: Yeah, it’s so tied together, queer spirituality and sexuality and the Earth and how everything is growing and being fertile and creating — it’s all one big mish mosh of stuff to me. I find the institution of religion to be a work in progress, I think ... although I did hear that there was an online Christian sex-toy catalogue now! Only straight married couples can order these different sex-toys online, and they come complete with Bible verses. I know, it’s wild, but I read about it in Mother Jones, you should look it up!

TW: I’m on it! In my radical vision, I believe that queers are here to save the world from patriarchy. And that’s why the Christian fundamentalists and the GOP all hate us. If we undermine patriarchy we undermine funda-

mentalism, rogue capitalism, etc. What do you see as the role of queer people on the planet?

tive place in the Universe!

ES: I agree with what you said.

AR: Always.

AR: A lot of indigenous communities consider that to be the role of the twospirited person. To be a conduit for a different way. For me, if something is so ancient of a belief system, there has to be something to it! There is a point and a purpose to having this kind of life. I agree too. Shake things up a bit.

We need to look at gender differently or we canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get out of the patriarchy! If a gay man still sees gender as a black and white issue, then it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t change the patriarchy, it just means more gay white men can be in power. What we need to do is get rid of sexism, and get rid of misogyny. We need to accept the female side and accept the male side of us too, and go from there. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what I think the transgender community is helping us do.

TW: Tell me about the song â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cordovaâ&#x20AC;?.

TW: Where do you find optimism and hope in our current global situation?

AR: Really, from a native perspective, seeing through their eyes, things have been fucked up for a long time. It ainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Bush. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Clinton and Bush and every president thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s come before in the last fucking 200 years! Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s genocide from the beginning. God, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been feeling this way ever since I met Winona! If I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going to lose hope after that initial onslaught of information, after that, if I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just shrivel up and become paralyzed, I knew I never was going to.

ES: Right! Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so cool. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what gives you hope.

AR: Cordova is a place in Alaska. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about my falling in love with the Native American movement and revolution â&#x20AC;&#x201D; all wrapped up in the symbol of Winona, and her as a revolutionary figure. And itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about me as a white person, feeling like I was an imposter. So itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about that, and then seeing over the years a multitude of activists die, and losing that life. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of different levels that one.

TW: I love you guys.

ES: We love you too, Troy! Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re glad your station is here! In Utah!

AR: Yeah! Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m always saying, I want to spend my day off in Salt Lake cause thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a cool radio station there that gives me hope! There are a lot of great things in this town! Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great city.

The Indigo Girls new CD, Despite Our Differences, will be available Sept. 19.

NOW QUEER THIS airs every Wednesday at 1pm on KRCL, 90.9 FM

ES: Working with different Native groups, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen these small grassroots groups win huge battles against corporations and diabolical forces. And when you see those victories then you believe they can happen.

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Melanie â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mellâ&#x20AC;? Kay Bailey passed away unexpectedly Friday, August 4, 2006 in Murray, UT. A true â&#x20AC;&#x153;free spirit,â&#x20AC;? born Feb. 1, 1962 in Murray to Fred and Loni Prince Bailey.

Mell accomplished many things in her short life. She was a gifted writer and entrepreneur, excelled in sports and was a true lover and protector of animals.

Graduated from Murray High School in 1980 having been given many awards including the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hope of Americaâ&#x20AC;?.

She received several scholarships in tennis using one at University of Illinois and then graduating from the University of Utah in 1984.

She loved the TV broadcasting field, which she worked in for several years. She went on to work at Eastern and Continental Airlines, which helped fulfill her passion for travel. She was always on the go, traveling to all corners of the world.

She lived in Seoul Korea teaching English and started a photography business at the US army base providing many loving pictures of our soldiers to be sent home.

After returning from Korea she opened a coffee bar, Brews & Blues, at Trolley Square Mall with her partner, Angela Mettler.

Using strong determination and a lot of work she owned and operated four Spirit of the Games Olympic merchandise outlets in Salt Lake, Provo and Layton.

Many people knew her as the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pin Ladyâ&#x20AC;?. After 9-11 she designed and produced Olympic pins to help many causes including Engine Co. 235 in Brooklyn, NY. All proceeds of the sales benefited the families of the firemen that had lost their lives at the World Trade Center.

Her diligent work and devotion to help people in need earned her the award of Women Making a Difference in 2002 by the Salt Lake Junior Miss Association.

Her compassion for homeless animals was overwhelming. Many animals benefited from her tireless work to find homes. Most recently she adopted a horse that was to be destroyed. She felt he deserved to live and enjoy a grassy field near her home. She recently started a fund to help provide food and other supplies to needy families so that they could enjoy adopting a pet and afford to care for the animal.

She always looked forward to U of U home games and meeting all her friends at the tailgate parties.

She is survived by her parents, Fred and Loni Bailey, Tucson, AZ; a sister, Marnie (John) Ajamie, Knoxville, TN; two sweet nieces that she adored, Malia and Kaili; her partner, Angie Mettler; aunts and uncles, Bob (Lee) Prince, Bob (Toni Fox) Paquette, Patti Reed, Kay Soffe, Terry (Ruth) Bailey; many cousins and their extended families, and numerous people from everywhere whose lives Mell has touched. She was preceded in death by her grandparents; and a dear uncle, Randy Fox. A celebration of Mellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life was held Wednesday, August 9th, at Jenkins-Soffe Mortuary South Valley.

In accordance to Mellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wishes, she was cremated and her ashes along with the ashes of her beloved â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sugarâ&#x20AC;? scattered.

In lieu of flowers please make a donation to the fund Mell established, Q Cares for Canines, c/o Washington Mutual, 5664 S. 900 East, Murray, UT 84121.

We all loved her so much and will miss her always.

God speed our â&#x20AC;&#x153;Free Spiritâ&#x20AC;? we will be seeing you again!

Fast Food manager, assistant manager and shift leaders needed immediately in West Valley.

Call 759-2104.

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Dave Matthews Band See Aug. 30.

By Tony Hobday

tony@qsaltlake.com

I don’t consider myself a flirt. I don’t even consider myself bold, which in a way is key to being a flirt. I do however, consider myself a teaser. That is, I enjoy ‘poking fun at’ or ‘messing with’ others whom I like as people. This quality is sometimes lost on people; and to those folks, I sincerely do apologize. Now, kiss my grits!

16WEDNESDAY

Q I think we can all relate, at least at some level, to the subject matter of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. But in our world, it’s not as frilly, hopeful, romantic and rarely has a happy ending. So in retrospect, it is all too becoming for us to revel in the realms of fantasy whenever possible.

7:30pm, Tonight through September 30, Hale Centre Theatre, 3333 S. Decker Lake Drive. Tickets $14-23, call 984-9000 or visit halecentretheatre.org.

18FRIDAY

Q Ok, I surmise what many of you will think when I bring up Pridaho. Probably something along the lines of Po’ dunk drag-hillbillies sashaying across the horse n’ buggy-drawn dirt road from Charley’s door to a 10-space parking lot with a couple of booths and a shoebox stage. Well, no more. Ok, maybe a few drag-hillbillies, but this year’s event is held at Pocatello’s historic Ross Park where the annual potato sack races and baked potato-eating contest are held.

Today & Saturday, Pocatello, Idaho. Visit pridaho.org for more information.

Sing with the Salt Lake Men’s Choir!

It’s that time of year again — time to dust off the old vocal chords and start singing with Utah’s OTHER Choir.

Join us Thursday, Aug. 17 and 24 at All Saints Episcopal Church, 1700 South Foothill Blvd.

See saltlakemenschoir.org

19SATURDAY

Q The Northern Utah Coalition HIV/ AIDS Projects hosts the 6th Annual AIDS Walk/Run-Steppin’ for Life fund raiser.

Now get out there and walk/run your little buns off for an important and unfortunately dwindling cause. It still exists, dammit! Let’s not forget.

8am, Lorin Farr Park, 1691 Gramercy Ave., Ogden. Registration $15/advance or $20/day of. Call 801-393-4153 or email smclel621@aol.com to register.

Q The best butt love is when its Italian butt love. And there will be a chute full of Italian butt at the Italian Street Fair & Precious Cheese “Ferragosto” Festival. If nothing else, which I’m sure isn’t true, it will be a great chance to do some cruising. The event offers traditional Italian arts and crafts, a bocce ball tournament, a Mr./Miss Precious Cheese contest, live music and much, much more.

11am-10pm, Pioneer Park, 300 S. 400 West.

Free, visit italianinutah.com for more information.

Q The Utah Symphony closes the third annual Deer Valley Music Festival with Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture commemorating the Napoleonic Wars. The beautifully aligned orchestral work will leave you breathless…well, that is until you screech your head off during the cannon procession. Napoleon was a mean ol’ bitch, but I bet the little twerp screamed like a banshee, too.

7:30pm, Deer Valley Resort, 2250 Deer Valley Drive South, Park City. Tickets $30-50, 355-2787 or deervalleymusicfestival.org.

20SUNDAY

Q Pride365, the lovely organization that brought you Freedom Day several weeks ago has outdone itself again—with the help of the super lovely and talented folks here at QSaltLake—by bringing you OUTrageous Raging Waters Day. What better way to spend a warm Sunday afternoon than enticing an electrifying lip lock with bronzed, tight, sweaty lifeguards by pretending to drown in the wave pool.

12pm, Raging Waters, 1200 W. 1700 South. Tickets 2 for $20 at the gates. Visit pride365.org for more information.

Q Pygmalion Productions Theatre Company is proud to present the Best o’ the Breast—a unique performance showcasing highlights of Swerve’s Breast Dialogues from the past three years. Now, if you’ve neglected to attend the show in the past, it’s imperative you stay “abreast” of it because these local women share personal accounts involving their ta-tas, and many of you may relate.

5pm, Black Box Theatre, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. Broadway. Tickets $10 or 3/$25 at the door or visit swerveutah.com.

Proceeds benefit lesbians, bisexual women and transgender individuals and breast cancer education, support and prevention.

22TUESDAY

Q If you missed the $10 special on tickets to the Ben Harper concert a couple of weeks ago, there are still…actually more expensive tickets available. It may be worth it, too. This sexy, soulful master stylist writes and produces music with such reckless abandon, the shear force of it leaves you awe-stricken if not a little bit confused. Damien Marley (the son of Reggae icon Bob Marley) opens.

7pm, gates open at 5:30pm, USANA Amphitheatre, 5400 S. 6200 West. Tickets $2035, call 888-TIXX or visit smithstix.com.

Q Who would guessed Jon Voight was rather yummy looking in his younger days? His platinum blond hair, cleft chin and bodacious bod…oooh, I’m getting goose pimples. Sorry, I digress. The GLBT Community Center of Utah is screening Midnight Cowboy (Best Picture 1969). It’s a heartbreaking story of what lengths we take to escape our past, what inconceivable steps we take to fend for our future and what unlikely bonds we find along the way. Dustin Hoffman co-stars in one of his finest performances.

6:30pm, The Center, 361 N. 300 West. Free.

23WEDNESDAY

Q Please don’t get your panties in a twist, I am not inferring I have the slightest respect for George Double-Duh Bush, but this year he did pass legislation granting protection of 1,000 acres of wildnerness in the Cedar Mountains of Utah. And just think, the area is less than an hour away from Salt Lake, which means it’ll be perfect for nekkid camping. Join SUWA in celebrating this feat with the premiere of Wild Utah! America’s Red Rock Wilderness, a film narrated by Robert Redford.

6:30pm, Brewvies, 677 S. 200 West. Free, visit suwa.org for more information.

24THURSDAY

Q Now, I’m not too keen on girl-on-girl novels (basically because…well, I’m sure you know why) and I’m too ancient for coming-of-age stories, but I don’t write this crap for me, now do I. With that said, the GLBT Community Center’s ‘Queer Reader’ this month will be discussing Michelle Tea’s contemporary fiction work Rose in No Man’s Land. Quick synopsis: two teen gal pals, meet, squeak and tweak. The book is only 306 pages, so get

it down to Sam Weller’s and receive a 20 percent discount.

7pm, The Center, 361 N. 300 West. Free.

25FRIDAY

Q Don’t get the wrong impression about jazz festivals after that debauchery at the Salt Lake Jazz Festival. They really are fun, relaxing and safe. Plus, the Park City Jazz Festival is…well, in Park City. Now, those folks have some scruples. The entertainment line-up includes Chris Botti, Caribbean Jazz Project and Eight Track Mind, among others.

Hours vary, Today through Sunday, Deer Valley Resort, 2250 Deer Valley Drive South, Park City. Tickets $48 per day, or visit parkcityjazz.com for special packages.

Q Only in Utah would dancing be illegal—seriously, no bumping, no grinding, no rapid pelvic thrusting—what is a boy supposed to do? Well, if the boy were Kevin Bacon, he’d dance anyway. Let’s hear it for the boy in Hale Centre Theatre’s Production of Footloose. I’m fairly certain Kevin’s not playing the lead because he’s filming a movie with James Franco who’s starred with Neve Campbell who’s starred with Lori Singer who just so happens starred in Footloose opposite Kevin.

7:30pm, Hale Centre Theatre, 225 W. 400 North, Orem. Tickets $12.50-16.50, call 801-226-8600 or visit haletheatre.com.

Q The GLBT Community is pulling out all the punches this month. Tonight’s fund raiser event benefits adult programs of The Center. So if you feel our community center needs a facelift or if you just want to have a little fun, then go Party on the Patio at Paper Moon. There will be an all-you-can-eat seafood buffet provided by the New Yorker and the live music entertainment is Ginger Tivey. Plus, there’s raffle—what homosexual doesn’t like free shit, am I right?

7pm-11pm, Paper Moon, a private club for members, 3737 S. State Street. Tickets $10 at the door. Call 539-8800 ext. 13 or visit glbtccu.org for more information.

26SATURDAY

Q A brief history of Oktoberfest: Queen Hedwig of Munich finally decided to stop her incessant bitching and bitterness over her botched sex change op. She started a festival dedicated to the fall harvesting of her manhood…and, of course beer.

Medical doctors, johns, and all the riff-raff

27SUNDAY

Q This may be the only day this summer that you’ll see dozens of fags dressed in golf rags—pastel plaid golf pants, Bermuda shorts (although they are back in style) pink Lacoste golf shirts (collars up, of course) and Kangol caps. The 7th Annual Center Golf Classic-Drive for Diversity is one time that you can smack around balls in public without being arrested. Visit glbtccu.org for more information and online registration.

8am, Stonebridge Golf Club, 2400 S. Bangerter Highway. Tickets $85 includes 18 holes, cart, breakfast, lunch and prize bag. Visit glbtccu.org for more information and online registration.

29TUESDAY

Q Come on you know the songs: Pushit, Jerk-Off, Disgustipated, Stinkfist. Or maybe you don’t, but everyone likes a Tool, right? The dark brooding alterna-

tive heavy rock band is in concert tonight.

This fire-n-brimstone foursome will leave you damned if you do and damned if you don’t.

8pm, E Center, 3200 S. Decker Lake Drive.

Tickets $30-55, call 888-TIXX or visit smithstix.com.

30WEDNESDAY

Q Who doesn’t love the Dave Matthews Band? I mean that sexy sultry voice and their timeless pop-rock music, you gotta love it, baby. If ever I get the chance to meet Dave, this is what I’d say, “You’re sweet like candy to my soul, sweet you rock, sweet you roll. Lost for you, I’m so lost for you. You come crash into me and I come into you. That’s right, it’s this boy’s dream.

7:30pm, USANA AMphitheatre, 5400 S. 6200 West. Tickets $38-59.50, call 888-TIXX or visit smithstix.com.

Q Her folk/country/rock style of music, brilliant songwriting and graceful guitar playing has garnered her nine Grammy Awards. She will give generations of fans around the globe “something to talk about”. She’s that red-headed firecracker we all know as Bonnie Raitt. Keb’ Mo’, another Grammy award winner kicks off the concert with fascinating contemporary blues music.

6pm, Deer Valley Resort, 2250 Deer Valley Drive South, Park City. Tickets $43, call 355-ARTS or visit arttix.org.

31THURSDAY

Q I just don’t think I can do this next event justice because there is so much incredible things happening during its three week run. The Moab Music Festival kicks off its 14th season with a “pre-season” benefit concert where patrons must first take a pristine boat trip on the Colorado River to a natural grotto venue. Ok, that’s just the beginning, baby.

Today through Saturday, September 16, Moab, Utah. Call 435-259-7003 or visit moabmusicfest.org for ticket prices and all the excitement that will be had by all.

Upcoming Events

Elton John, September 19, E Center Closet Ball 2006, Sept. 30, an RCGSE event David Sedaris, October 24, Capitol Theatre

Win Two Tickets to Equality Utah’s Write a 400 word maximum essay on why it is important for gay, lesbian, bisexual and/or transgender people to be politically involved in Utah. The top essay, as chosen by QSaltLake editor Michael Aaron, will win two tickets, valued at $200, to the dinner.

Email entries to allies@qsaltlake.com

by Aug. 21.

Dennis McCracken was named the new artistic director of the Salt Lake Men’s Choir

Salt Lake Men’s Choir Facing 25 with New, Positive Direction, New Director

By Tony Hobday

tony@qsaltlake.com

“You don’t have to be a trained singer. You must have a desire to be there,” says Dennis McCracken, the new artistic director of the Salt Lake Men’s Choir. The charismatic music aficionado joins the choir this season with big expectations, loads of enthusiasm and a hankering for fun, fun and more fun.

With an impressive background and pleasant disposition, McCracken swayed a majority of choir members in his favor to become the newly-appointed artistic director. McCracken holds a Master Director Certificate from Harmony College in St. Joseph, Missouri and a degree in Liturgical Planning. He has served as a director and music director for over 40 shows, was on the staff of the Gina Bachauer Foundation and has written and produced several variety shows. He is currently the organist and administrator at First Baptist Church, a highly sought-after vocal coach and a certified competition judge.

The choir formed in 1982 when thirteen men envisioned camaraderie and friendship through song. Over the years, the choir has built bridges of understanding and tolerance among diverse communities, as well as provided positive social and spiritual support for its members. It has performed numerous benefit concerts for such organizations as the Utah AIDS Foundation, Utah Gay Rodeo Association, Utah Arts Festival and Utah Pride. The choir celebrated its 20th anniversary at the Sydney Gay Games performing at the sold-out Gay Games Cultural Festival.

Now, on the brink of its 25th anniversary and under new direction after twelve

years, the choir faces such challenges as a dwindling membership and a lack of “real presence in the gay community”. McCracken is determined and hopeful to see these challenges overcome.

“In the next two years, I’d like to see the choir grow to 120, 150 members,” says McCracken. “Anyone is welcome. There is no audition, just come and sing. We will place you in a section that fits your voice.”

Gay, straight, transgender, young and old. “That’s how we bill ourselves [a gay choir],” he admits. “But the choir is open to everyone.”

Not only is McCracken wanting to build the numbers within the choir, but he also is diligently striving to excite the Salt Lake communities at large about it. Concert venues will change more frequently for accessibility. New and creative works will be added to the season line-ups including this season’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. The annual Spring Fling concert will be a more casual affair.

A new marketing plan will include business/corporate events and holiday parties.

“Whatever it takes to be recognized,” states McCracken.

But McCracken also says the choir members can be a big help by spreading the word and bringing the community with them. “It takes baby steps, little by little,” says the boundless visionary who foresees a women’s choir formed within the next few years, as well.

McCracken strongly encourages one and all who have a desire to sing to come join choir rehearsals every Thursday night beginning Aug. 17, 7 p.m. at All Saints Episcopal Church.

More information can be found at ­saltlakemenschoir.org

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came out and joined her attitude adjustment. They sang, did the chicken dance and consumed steins of beer. The festival became an instant success and now held annually.

Noon-6pm, Snowbird Resort, Little Cottonwood Canyon. Free, visit snowbird.com for more information.

Q This one’s for all you who like a little meat on the bones (not your sexual appetite, but the other appetite). It’s time for the Rock & Rib Festival where you can wrap your lips around hundreds of bones and taste a different flavor from each one. Also, boogie down to music from the School of Rock.

2pm-10pm, Gallivan Center, 239 S. Main Street. Tickets $10 at the gates. Call 5356110 for more information.

Q This next event sounds eerily Mormon, but I had to add it because finally after all the brow-sweating years of legislation efforts, Utah will have its very own ice cream flavor. Guess what it’s called?

Bumbleberry. Doesn’t that just make you want to cut out your tongue and slap someone with it? If it sounds appealing, check out its debut at the Ellisbeetle Ice Cream Festival, but also consider mental help.

Noon-5pm, Trolley Square, 602 S. 500 East.

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And so, my friends, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve come to the end of our journey. For all of you Jewish folk out there (half of me was deeply offended â&#x20AC;Ś OK, all of me was, I just half took it personally), weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to host a cyber lynching of Mel about six seconds after you stop reading this.

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Other highlights from the letter? Calling out her late night drinking as the real reason production frequently has to be halted. Saying if she screws up the production, the company will pursue full monetary damages, alleging that Lins is a spoiled, ungrateful mess of a girl.

As I live and breathe.

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for a short ten days back in 1998 (Britney Spears broke that record when she had her Vegas fly-by night annulled after two).

Yes, the man who wore a wedding dress out on the town for ha-haâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s claims he knows what ails their three-year-old marriage, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the fact that Carmen canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get over him. He says she called him, said he was the one who got away and wished that they were still married. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Carmen called me six months ago. She told me I was the love of her life and she wished weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d stuck together. We had great sex! We used to just throw down in the bedroom. We had a real good connection when it came to sex.â&#x20AC;?

Now I ainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t saying sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a gold digger, but Dennis Rodmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 15 minutes were up five Jean Claude Van Damme direct-to-videos ago and I find it very convenient that he drops back into the spotlight when the one tie heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still got to Tinseltown throws him a bone. Maybe Carmen still loves him? Maybe this is all bullshit.

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by Ross von Metzke Oh lawd, have I been waiting for this. I just knew one of these days the other shoe would drop and America would see Mel Gibson for the bigot he really is. Not that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been standing by counting the days, but after years of rumors that he hates the gays, hates the jews, hits his wife and all sorts of other deplorable stuff, he comes out and confirms at least one of the theories â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t care if he apologized or not.

OK, so hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the background for those of you who need to play catch up: In the wee hours of the morning a few Fridays ago, a certain $20 million-plus actor/ director, responsible for Lethal Weapon, 2004â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s controversial but money-making The Passion of the Christ, got tanked.

He not only got tanked, he got belligerent, schmoozing with customers at a Malibu restaurant at the beginning of the night and then making a beeline for his Lexus to take the party home â&#x20AC;&#x201D; despite the fact that several patrons tried to get him to take a cab.

Did we mention that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s supposedly sober?

So Mel gets behind the wheel, guns the car to 87 mph and peels out toward Pacific Coast Highway â&#x20AC;&#x201D; speed limit: 50. Midway through his weaving joyride a copper pulls him over and all hell breaks loose.

Now this is not to suggest that many of the folks I keep company with donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a DUI on their record. In fact, just thumbing through my mental rolodex, I can think of three people right now whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done time for mixing the drink and driving. But all three of them took their punishment in stride (OK, one was so drunk he was downtown before he realized what was happening), never once aggravating the cops or making anti-Semitic remarks.

Not Mel. No, Mel launched into a tirade about Jews being evil and causing every war in history and blah, blah, blah â&#x20AC;Ś on, on, on.

He alleged that he owned Malibu and would get even with the arresting cop. Jew this, fuck

that. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not getting into your car,â&#x20AC;? as he bolted back for his. A whole lot of high and mighty behavior, if you ask me.

And then, after the cops finally got him in the back of the squad car and downtown, into a cell where he sat for eight hours and then back on the street, Gibson started damage control, which is something any Hollywood celebrity with as much fame and fortune as he knows how to do in his sleep. He called the press and issued an apology to the Jewish community. He checked himself into rehab (which weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get to later). He reached out for help from the Jewish community, saying that with their strength, he could get better.

And it worked, sort of. Flory van Beek, a Holocaust survivor and the subject of a proposed documentary on the subject, accepted the apology and said in the Jewish faith, â&#x20AC;&#x153;we believe in atonement.â&#x20AC;? Plus one! Oh, but then ABC yanked Gibson from a project. Minus one! A Beverly Hills rabbi invited Gibson to atone and speak at his temple on Yom Kippur.

Another point. Oh, but the head of the AntiDefamation league says it took a half bottle of tequila and a run in with the Po Po to reveal what was really in Gibsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heart. Strike.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not above giving celebrities a second chance. They are people too and they fall and, as with anyone, we should be there to help them back up. But Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve gotten this eerie vibe from Gibson for years that this happygo-lucky, nice guy demeanor was all bullshit.

You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hear rumors about someone hating gays, beating his wife, hating black people, being anti Jewish for going on 20 years if there isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t some sort of truth to it.

And as one man said, the words that come out of your mouth when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re drunk as a skunk are usually closest to how you really feel than the words you craft later to make amends.

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Importance of Marriage

by Chad Keller and Mark Thrash

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Did you miss us? For those of you who thought it was once again safe to read the pages of QSaltLake, well, we’re back. And during our absence, a section of “Q” was dedicated to gay weddings. Now that you’ve had an opportunity to review the ten excerpts highlighted in the last issue, we’ve decided to propose a deeper question that goes beyond planning a wedding. Do we even need “marriage” or is there something better? In Search Of ... the importance of legalized gay marriage.

MARK: The entire topic of marriage brings several questions to my mind. Most importantly I find myself contemplating if the argument for legalized gay marriage is about equality, or is it based on wanting more approval from mainstream society in order for us to feel that our relationships are valid?

CHAD: First off, when did we decide this was going to be the big equal rights issue for our community? There are far many other battles for equality that we could focus on and out and out win. I believe we need something to legalize our commitment to one another, but I would rather see our community blaze new trails in this area rather than latch onto the already broken concept of marriage.

MARK: Taking the time to even contemplate what other label to use as a definition for our committed relationships is still a waste

of time and energy. I was recently reading a Canadian publication that discussed the ignorance of gays in America. The author commented how if gays in America were granted legalized marriage, we’d lose our passion for equality all-together.

CHAD: Well, duh! We lost our passion for the quest of equality long ago. Our paid gays have allowed us to settle for assimilation. I believe we’re so stuck on this because we believe it is going to give us approval in “God’s eyes.” True to the path of assimilation we’ve allowed ourselves to be placed on, we now have the first publicized lesbian divorce. Wow, I feel so equal to straight people.

does it have to be defined in the public arena at all? Would it not have been better for us to push for a national movement to create a civil union across the board for any two consenting adults and allow marriage to be within the walls of chapels, cathedrals, synagogues and temples.

MARK: So, why are civil unions important?

Isn’t that just another way of asking for approval from others and possibly even a more cowardly approach? I say, let them have their labels.

Too much time and energy has been wasted on our plight to seek acceptance of our unions within sacred walls.

MARK: Thanks for that candor, but what is your point? That because we have marriage, we’re also going to have divorce?

Well, duh! You speak as if marriage should be the lockdown — finality — no way out of its union between two adults.

Hmmm, maybe that is also why some people call it wedlock. Ultimately, I still think we’re too concerned with labels and acceptance. Does it matter if others approve whom we love?

CHAD: Obviously we are concerned with it, or we would not be having this on-going, national discourse. We miss the opportunity in creating something better for our community than what mainstream has made a mess of. If marriage is so sacred, then why

CHAD: Currently, marriage saves a rainforest in legal documents and attorneys fees to give to one’s partner certain legal rights and obligations. It also forces insurance providers to recognize and fork over the benefits for that special someone. Good God, do we want to put people like Marquardt & Fadel out of business, or will they be expanding their practice to include divorce?

MARK: Expansion doesn’t have to hurt … just take a deep breath. So, I guess you’re saying a broadly-defined civil union would be viewed the same in legal terms as marriage. Several of your friends have learned the fine craft of translating Kellerese, I’m glad to NOW provide this translation to our readers.

CHAD: Okay, the term ‘marriage’ is fuckedup. The issue of gay marriage would’ve been over with the first squawk of the religious right if we would’ve just said, “You keep the religious rights to marriage. Everybody will have a civil union from the government.” It would have been ten times easier on us and

other enlightened people of America who need some piece of paper to validate their relationship — no matter what it is.

MARK: Now we’re getting somewhere, and only three-fourths of the way into the column … WHEW! Finally we’re establishing a resolution to the search. Yes, a legal union is important to ensure fair treatment and equal rights that should be granted to one’s partner.

CHAD: RRRIIIIGGGGHHHHHTTTTTT, we just started cramming the marriage issue down our religious foes’ throats and pissing them off with long-term ramifications in other areas. Now they’re looking for other ways to keep us viewed as second-class citizens. In the quest for equality and equal rights, the gay marriage issue doesn’t come close to taking a seat on the bus.

MARK: Was it crammed down their throats, or was it still about assimilation? I still don’t think the main focus for legalized gay marriage was solely based on equality, and that is why it has failed repeatedly. I think the discussion of equality goes beyond how others view us and should be more specifically directed at how we view ourselves.

The debate over gay marriage has opened up old chapters of American and Utah history regarding acceptable views of relationships. It has also shown a broader variance into the types of commitments consenting adults make to one another. We both conclude that the term marriage should remain a wholly owned religious institution. Let marriage become a contract between you and your faith. Too much time and energy has been wasted on our plight to seek acceptance of our unions within sacred walls.

Going forward in America, every pair of consenting adults should be entitled to a legalized union by the government.

We want your feedback and thoughts, please email us at searching@qsaltlake.com

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The Rox Box

by Mikey Rox

With so many gay singer/songwriters continuously rising on Sirius’ OutQ chart, who can keep ’em straight?

Rimshot, please.

Josh Zuckerman – the man behind the music on Out From Under, the artist’s sophomore release – hails from St. Louis, Mo., where he honed his harmonic chops.

His upbringing is evident on this latest effort, which is comprised of more than a dozen songs that journey through selfacceptance and that suffocating fear of loneliness that we all endure at times. In fact, on a few tracks you can nearly hear the average albeit engaging Zuckerman crying out between the choruses. “Save me,” he seems to say. (The Midwest can do that to a boi.) But while the record is an easy listen, Zuckerman never truly lets it live up to its title. With lyrics like “On the streets of guilt and shame/You won’t find, you won’t find my name/I took my life and the ball and chain,” he seems more down and out than out from under.

In 2004, former New York Dolls fan club president Morrissey made a request that reunited his boyhood idols. The result? An eagerly anticipated album from the seminal R&B-infused rock group, One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This. Featuring 13 new songs, including first single “Dance Like a Monkey,” the Dolls’ latest release includes contributions from founding members David Johansen and Sylvain Sylvain, as well guitarist Steve Conte, bass player Sami Yaffa, keyboardist Brian Koonin and drummer Brian Delaney.

Other tracks include the confident “Take a Good Look at My Good Looks” and the crunchy “Maimed Happiness,” and several songs boast guest artists, such as Michael Stipe on “Dancing on the Lip of a Volcano,” Iggy Pop on “Gimme Love and Turn on the Light” and Bo Diddley on “Seventeen.”

Legendary producer Jack Douglas, who had a hand in the Dolls’ debut way back when, adds his touch to “Runnin Around.”

“This is the band that gave the world ‘Personality Crisis,’ ‘Jet Boy,’ ‘Looking for a Kiss,’ ‘Puss ‘n’ Boots’ and ‘Trash,’” Douglas explains. “Maybe we can’t forgive them for that, but they swing harder than anyone around, and this album is a fuckin’ masterpiece.” Enough said.

Tell your mother, your brother, your sister and your friends – Baby Jane’s back and better than ever!

On her third studio release, Back To Basics, pop icon Christina Aguilera pays tribute to the sounds of the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s, spawning a gritty, raw and wildly inventive fulllength album. “Ain’t No Other Man,” the record’s sexy first single, blew up the charts in early June, and that’s just the beginning.

“I Got Trouble” invokes the scratchy blues

spirits of legends like Billie Holiday and Etta James, while “Candy Man” recalls the tight harmonies of all-girl groups from the pre-World War II era. But it’s not all sugar and spice — oh no, homo! Just because she’s got a ring doesn’t mean she can’t still bling. Sure to appeal to hardcore Xtina fans is the risqué “Nasty Naughty Boy” and impish club ditty “Still Dirrty.” Try to hide it all you please, but Back to Basics is what a girl wants.

Who hasn’t had sex in their parents’ bed? It’s a rite of passage … right?

OK, so it might be frowned upon in some circles, but rest assured you’re not the only one dirtying up daddy’s duvet. Under the Influence of Giants turns heads with its eponymous debut and the toe-tapping, falsetto-filled single “Mama’s Room,” which talks of seduction on a matriarch’s mattress. It’s “about the feeling you get when you do something you’re not supposed to be doing,” says Aaron Bruno, the band’s lead vocalist. And that could well be a description of the madness behind the musical methodology of UTIOG. The group’s album, a funk-inflected, popsoaked, hook-heavy premier, is poised to be a prime pick for 20-somethings who aren’t afraid to cite Olivia Newton-John’s Let’s Get Physical and Bob James’ Heads as albums of influence. Defying conventions, UTIOG’s tracks include the polyrhythmic “Ah-ha”; the horn-driven, noirish funk of “Against All Odds”; and the throbbing post-hip-hop-by-way-of-Madonna “Meaningless Love,” a song perfect for that midmorning quickie with the pool boy.

Just don’t forget to dispose of the evidence before ma and pa clock out; always flush twice.

Throughout its 14 tracks, newcomer Chantal Chamandy’s Love Needs You ensconces an exoticness that serves as a brilliant reflection of the artist’s enchanting personal story. Her creativity, like her spirit, knows no boundaries, which is evident in the Egyptian beauty’s intriguing multicultural magic.

Fluent in five languages, Chamandy is well-versed in the language of love, and her lyrics run the full emotional spectrum of the time-honored tradition. Love Needs You’s lead single, “You Want Me” – a tantalizing fusion of Indian tablahs and Middle Eastern influences – became a Top 5 fixture on the U.K dance charts by the end of last year; the track is one of seven on the disc that Chamandy composed with Bangladesh-born music master Subir Dev. Other tracks include the hot-blooded “Crazy,” which opens with a sultry kiss of French lyrics, and “Music of the Moon,” about love that blossoms when inhibitions evaporate. With a distinctive blend of global influences and tender sincerity, Love Needs You to run a hot bath and Calgon your cares away.

Who is Mikey Rox? Who gives a fuck! But he can be reached at whoismikeyrox@aim.com.

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