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Utah’s Gay and Lesbian Newspaper September 1–15, 2006

New Gay Directory Draws Suspicion

Former business partners and clients warn caution

Film Honors Gay Chaplain Killed on 9/11 First identified World Trade Center casualty

Equality Utah Announces 2006 Endorsements Alabama Lesbian Disqualified, Reinstated in House Race

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September 1–15, 2006

In This Issue Fall Arts Preview

Utah has a wealth of arts organizations of all sizes and shapes.

Take a look at what’s on their roster through the end of the year. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

News & Opinion

World and National News. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Local News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Editorial Cartoon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Letters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

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Q Agenda. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Q Buzz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

On The Cover

Our annual Fall Arts Preview helps you plan your season. Page 14

Columnists

From the Editor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Ben Williams. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Ruby Ridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Laurie Mecham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 In Search Of. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

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Canadian Researchers Announce Breakthrough In Fighting HIV

Lesbian Candidate Disqualified, Reinstated in Alabama House Race Birmingham, Ala. — Patricia Todd found herself in a political see-saw in August, first being disqualified from running for office, then reinstated Aug. 26 as the Democratic nominee for a seat on the Alabama legislature in a vote that turned more on the race of the candidates than on sexual orientation.

The Alabama Democratic Party’s executive committee voted 95-87 to reject the ruling of a subcommittee that had voted to disqualify Todd, who is white, as well as her black opponent, Gaynell Hendricks, in the race for the house seat from Birmingham’s District 54.

Todd defeated Hendricks by 59 votes in the July 18 Democratic primary runoff.

There is no Republican candidate in the District 54 race, meaning Todd is poised to become the state’s first openly gay legislator.

But one Hendricks supporter, Birmingham activist Frank Matthews, said he expects there will be a write-in candidate for the seat Nov. 7.

The subcommittee had voted 5-0 that both candidates should be disqualified because each violated a party rule requiring candidates to file a campaign finance disclosure report with the party chairman.

Party chairman Joe Turnham said Saturday that no candidate has filed a disclosure report with the party since 1988.

“I am relieved this is over so I can get to work helping the people of my district,” Todd said after the meeting. She said she was not discouraged by the opposition to

her nomination. “This was a healthy democratic vote,” Todd said.

“Finally, the voters have prevailed,” said Chuck Wolfe, president of the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund, which backed Todd in her primary race and gave more than $25,000 to her campaign.

“We are enormously proud of the courage and tenacity Patricia showed throughout this ordeal and equally proud of her supporters in Alabama and beyond who stood by her unfailingly,” Wolfe said.

“The Victory Fund and its network of donors have worked to ensure Patricia had a level playing field and a fair chance to show that a qualified, committed public servant can win the trust of the voters regardless of her sexual orientation. We have no doubt her career in the legislature will reflect the same determination and skill she showed in her campaign.”

The committee vote pitted state party chairman Joe Reed, a powerful black political leader, against other party officials. Reed had written a letter to black leaders in Jefferson County before the runoff asking them to support Hendricks so that a black person would be elected from the majority black district.

The vote fell mostly along racial lines.

Committee members were asked to stand to show their vote, and no whites were seen standing to vote to uphold the subcommittee report, while a small number of black members stood in support of Todd.

Toronto, Ont. — A team of Canadian researchers announced this week that they identified a flaw in the human immunodeficiency virus and found a way to correct it, opening the newest prospect in fighting HIV infections. According to Medical News Today, the researchers, working from the Universite de Montreal and the Centre hospitalier de l’Universite de Montreal confirmed the identification of a new therapeutic target (the PD-1 protein) that restores the function of the T-cells whose role is to eliminate cells infected with the virus.

Research lead Dr. Rafick-Pierre Sekaly explained that “immune system cells made non-functional by HIV can be identified by the presence of a protein that is significantly over-expressed when infected by the virus.”

“The most important discovery made in this study arises from the fact that by stimulating this protein, we succeeded in preventing the virus from making immune system cells dysfunctional,” he added.

MedPage Today reports that the findings were simultaneously reproduced by another laboratory headed by Dr. Bruce Walker at Harvard.

“Up until now, the virus has been more or less invincible,” Sekaly told Medical News Today. “By combining our efforts, we found the missing link that may enable us to defeat the virus. Discussions with partners are also underway to translate these research findings into clinical trials, which could start during the coming year.”

Dr. Eliot Phillipson, President and CEO of the Canada Foundation for Innovation told Medical News Today that Sekaly’s and Walker’s work is a powerful example of what can be achieved through partnership.

The findings are not limited to HIV, both groups noted, because such viruses as hepatitis C and Epstein-Barr virus also appear to have the ability to turn off attacking T-cells.

In a media statement released this week, Dr. Mark Wainberg, co-director of the FRSQAIDS and Infectious Diseases Network and co-chair of the 16th World AIDS Conference held in Toronto last week, congratulated Dr. Sekaly and his team, saying, “This scientific breakthrough is a giant step in the fight against AIDS. It is particularly interesting to see that some of the best research teams are working together to stop this terrible curse.”

‘Out in Scripture’ Launched for Gay People of Faith Washington, D.C. — The Human Rights Campaign has announced the launch of Out In Scripture (www.hrc.org/scripture), a free weekly online resource for clergy and lay people of faith. The website will provide distinct insights into the Bible, week after week, from a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and straight-supportive perspective. The debut of the site marks the first and only major online preaching resource devoted to assisting clergy in planning their sermons and spiritual discussion groups.

“Ministers around the country have been asking for a resource just like this to help them prepare sermons that are faithful to the authentic lives of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people and their families while also true to the biblical text. This resource will offer them the tools to do just that. It will also be an empowering resource for people in isolated situations or for those who belong to unsupportive congregations,” said HRC president Joe Solmonese.

The resources on the site are developed, written, and reviewed by teams of skilled and reflective scholars from leading

theological schools around the country and across a variety of Christian congregations.

Each weekly entry is conceived as a dialogue between GLBT and straight-supportive scholars who represent a rich cultural, racial and theological diversity.

“The Bible should not be used to beat up our community, but as a tool to lift us all up. Inside the Hebrew and Christian texts there are messages of liberation and justice.

We hope Out In Scripture provides inspiration and insight to a broad array of people and will help change the conversation we’ve been having in our churches on Sunday morning about GLBT people,” said Harry Knox, HRC’s Director of the Religion and Faith Program.

Out In Scripture is part of the Human Rights Campaign’s larger Religion and Faith Program. The program seeks to assist religious leaders in speaking out for equality and inclusion, and to examine how religion can be a positive resource for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people of faith.

Fourth Man Pleads Guilty in Gwen Araujo Murder Case

By Anthony Cuesta San Francisco — The 2002 murder case of transgender teen Gwen Araujo finally came to a close Friday in a Hayward, Calif. courtroom when the last of the four implicated men pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter.

Jaron Nabors, 23, was sentenced to 11 years in prison as part of his plea bargain, court officials said. He testified against three of his friends for the prosecution about the night 17-year-old Araujo was beaten, strangled and buried in a shallow grave by four men after they learned she was biologically male.

“It’s the end of the court process, but there’s still a lot of healing to be done,” said Gloria Allred, an attorney for victim’s family, told the San Jose Mercury News. “It’s been heartbreaking. It continues to be very painful for them.”

Nabors stood in a Hayward courtroom and told Araujo’s relatives that he was sorry for his role in the slaying.

“I had the misfortune to be around people with the character—or lack thereof—that I have,” Nabors said as Araujo’s relatives wept, reports The San Francisco Chronicle.

“I know that my words offer nowhere near a sense of consolation. I do not forgive myself. I do not see how I ever can,” said Nabors.

According to prosecutor Chris Lamiero, Araujo’s family members understand and appreciate that Nabors was instrumental in the prosecution of the case.

Lamiero also told the Mercury News that Nabors received “a significant benefit for his cooperation” because the other defendants were prosecuted on murder charges and he was allowed to plead guilty to the lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter.

At a hearing at the Hayward Hall of Justice Friday, Superior Court Judge Harry Sheppard agreed to delay by four weeks Nabors’ entry into prison because one of his codefendants is still being processed at San Quentin State Prison, where inmates are taken before entering the state system.

In January, two men convicted last year of second-degree murder in the Newark teen’s death, Michael Magidson and Jose Merel, were sentenced to 15 years to life in prison.

The fourth man, Jason Cazares, who pleaded no contest to manslaughter in a plea bargain reached after two juries deadlocked on his fate, was sentenced to six years in prison.

Magidson and Merel had sexual encounters with Araujo in the summer of 2002 and killed her after discovering that she was not biologically a woman.

Womyn’s Fest Tells Transgender Broadcast TV Networks Fall Short in Gay Characters Women to Ban Themselves Washington, D.C. — After an openly transgender woman was allowed to purchase a ticket at this summer’s Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, Camp Trans organizers released a statement Aug. 21 celebrating the end of a 15-year-old, anachronistic, divisive policy that served to police women’s bodies and exclude transwomen from attending the festival. Camp Trans is an annual gathering of people dedicated to promoting inclusion of all women at women-only events. However, the celebration of this news was short-lived as management of We Want the Music Company, a for-profit corporation that runs the festival, issued a press release the next day reaffirming their belief that transgender women should police themselves and not attend the festival.

While the festival box office will now sell tickets to transwomen, according to ­WWTMC’s Lisa Vogel, the only people welcome are “womyn who were born as and have lived their entire life experience as womyn.”

Vogel’s statement continues, “If a transwoman purchased a ticket, it represents nothing more than that woman choosing to disrespect the stated intention of this Festival.”

“All women should feel welcomed in women-only space,” said Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality. “It’s just sad to see this company continuing to police the validity of women’s identities and experiences.

WWTMC’s rhetoric echoes the language of other oppressors. We expect better of those who should know the pain of oppression.

We’d like to see Vogel’s company get up to speed with the attitudes of the feminist community and with the vast majority of festival workers and attendees.”

By T. Espera San Francisco — After a landmark year of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender representation in films such as Brokeback Mountain, Capote and Transamerica, the broadcast television networks continue to under-represent their queer audience, according to an analysis conducted by a national media advocacy group.

Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation reports that gay or lesbian characters will comprise only 1.3 percent of all series regular characters on the six major broadcast networks’ 2006–07 schedule.

“In the last year, we’ve seen a tremendous amount of visibility on the big screen, reaching a large audience anxious to see our stories,” says GLAAD President Neil G. Giuliano. “The networks, though, are not tapping into this audience and are failing to represent the reality and diversity of their viewers and the world around them.”

GLAAD analyzed the 95 announced primetime comedies and dramas on the broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, The CW and MyNetworkTV. Out of a total 679 series regular lead- or supportingcharacters, GLAAD counts only nine gay or lesbian characters appearing on eight different scripted network programs. There are an additional five semi-regular recurring characters announced for this year. There are currently no bisexual or transgender representations on the broadcast networks.

“When you look at primetime’s dismal lack of LGBT characters — combined with the continuing under-representation of people of color, gay and straight alike — it’s clear that the broadcast networks have a long way to go before they accurately reflect the diversity of their audience and our society,” Giuliano statement added.

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Colorado GOP In Damage Control After ‘Gay Marriage Like Bestiality’ Remark a man to marry a sheep?’’ She claimed in the interview not to be homophobic. “I have friends who are gay, I’ve worked with people who are gay, I have utmost respect for them,’’ she said.

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Appearing March 17 Janet Rowland on the PBS program “Colorado State of Mind,� Rowland said homosexuality is an alternative lifestyle. ‘’For some people, the alternative lifestyle is bestiality,� she went on to say. “Do we allow

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Kolomitz called Rowland’s remarks ‘’insensitive, close-minded, derogatory and crude’’ and demanded an apology.

Over at the Beauprez camp, campaign manager John Marshall said Rowland had informed the GOP candidate about the interview before she was selected as his running mate. “We all say things we don’t mean sometimes,’’ Marshall said. “That’s what happened.’’ It is not the first time the issue of bestiality has been brought up by Colorado Republicans. Last year at a press conference promoting a proposed amendment to ban same-sex marriage state Rep. Jim Welker (RLoveland) also raised the comparison, calling the marriage issue “a line in the sand�. “A year and a half ago a lady in India married her dog,� Welker said, referring to the marriage of a 9-year-old girl who married a stray dog in 2003 as part of a ritual to ward off an evil spell.

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Reno Pride Draws Hundreds Reno, Nev. — Around 400 people marched through downtown Reno on Aug. 20 to cap the two-day Gay Pride Celebration.

More than 25 groups took part in the 40-minute parade. Its floats and colorfully garbed participants stretched from Wingfield Park down Arlington Avenue to Fourth Street.

Parade participants danced to music and led cheers along the route. The crowd — three to four deep in spots along the sidewalks — celebrated with them.

Displaying signs like “Believe in Fairies,� “Help Us to Give Back to Your Community,� and “Come Together,� participants tossed candy to the crowd.

Featuring music, food, gift items, clothing and jewelry, the event promoted causes from pet adoption to voter registration.

Kevin Ray, an organizer of Reno’s 10th annual Gay Pride Celebration, said he hopes this year’s event will generate about $500,000 for the Reno-Lake Tahoe economy through spending on rooms, restaurants and gasoline.

Gay Foes Outspending Gays In Colorado Marriage Fight Denver, Colo. — Two conservative Christian groups with ties to the Colorado Springsbased Focus on the Family have taken in more than three-quarters of a million dollars to promote a proposed amendment to the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage.

Coloradans for Marriage and the Colorado Family Action Issue Committee have received a total of $750,720 according to filings made with the Colorado secretary of state’s office.

FOF has given the groups $500,000 of that — $250,000 directly from FOF and another $250,000 through its lobbying arm Focus on the Family Action.

By contrast, Coloradans for Fairness, the LGBT rights group has received donations totaling $613,000–$250,000 from a single donation, by Michigan gay-rights advocate Jon Stryker.

In addition to fighting against the marriage amendment the group is also promoting a legislature-backed referendum that would create civil unions in Colorado. The pro-amendment groups are not actively fighting that measure.

Voters will decide both issues when they go to the polls in November.

Earlier this week Coloradans for Fairness withdrew a third ballot measure — one that declared civil unions were not akin to marriage — fearing the issue would confuse voters and possibly take votes away from the civil unions question.

Coloradans for Marriage submitted an estimated 131,000 signatures to Dennis’ office this month and the question was certified to go on the ballot. It would define marriage as between one man and one woman.

The proposal to create a domestic partner registry and provide some benefits to samesex couples was approved by the legislature and did not need a signature drive to be certified.

PWACU Summer-End BBQ Set The People With AIDS Coalition of Utah is holding its annual “Super-Duper End of Summer BBQ Bash� Sunday, Sept. 17 at 4:00 p.m. at Fairmont Park. Those interested are asked to RSVP by Sept. 11 at 484-2205. Food and drink will be provided by the group.

This event is for their clients, supporters and volunteers.

Fairmont Park is located at 900 E. 2400 South in Salt Lake City.

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New Utah Gay and Lesbian Directory Draws Suspicion

by JoSelle Vanderhooft joselle@qsaltlake.com

A new gay and lesbian directory is being sold in the Salt Lake Valley, but some potential advertisers are concerned that claims being made by the company’s owner and leading salesperson may be misleading.

Sean Wright began selling advertising space and listings for The Gay Pages this August, saying that he had been instrumental in the production of books by the same name in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Phoenix and Las Vegas.

“He told me that he had sold like 90 percent of all the advertising in The Gay Pages in several larger cities,” said Troy Hunter, owner of the landscape service Water Crest Design.

“I became skeptical about the book because those are much larger cities with much larger gay populations. I doubted he could get something like this off the ground to the scale he was talking about here in Salt Lake.”

After setting up a meeting with Wright to discuss an advertising trade, QSaltLake publisher Michael Aaron said he began to have doubts about the book and, more importantly, Wright himself.

[In the spirit of full disclosure, Salt Lick Publishing, the company that publishes QSaltLake, will begin selling its own gay directory, The Q Pages this coming month.]

“First off, I went to the suite listed on his

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business card, and it ended up being a post office box at a UPS Store,” said Aaron.

“When I finally got a hold of [Wright], he began talking about the size and scale of his organization, saying he was using the Bookman Publishing System and printing out of Canada using Quebecor, one of the largest printing companies in the world,” Aaron continued. “I’ve been in the publishing business since the 80s. I know that Bookman, for example, is horrendously expensive for any small- or medium-sized company.” He then decided to check into other things Wright had said and called The Gay Pages in Atlanta, where Wright said he had worked previously.

“Sean Wright worked for me for a total of three months,” said Marci Alt, who started the Atlanta-based Gay Pages, Inc. 17 years ago with partner Donica Callucci. “We had to let go of him because he was lying to our clients. He is a compulsive liar.” Previously, Wright had told Aaron that their meeting needed to be set back because he was flying to Las Vegas to meet with Alt and the publishers of the other city-based Gay Pages directories to create a national Gay Pages directory. Aaron said Alt had no knowledge of this meeting.

“The only reason I would fly to Las Vegas to meet with Sean Wright would be to spit at him,” said Alt. “I would never do any business with him and I would suggest to [QSaltLake] readers to never touch anything he is doing.”

Regarding Wright’s claim of using the Bookman Publishing System, Alt said that her company does use the system, but added that the initial cost of $78,000 and $1,700 monthly fees were likely out of Wright’s reach.

“And as far as using Quebecor, they have basically dropped all of their smaller U.S.based companies because of the dollar,” said Alt. “They are certainly not bringing on new U.S. clients.”

None of the other publishers in the other cities covered by The Gay Pages would go on record for this story.

Las Vegas advertiser Shelli Lange, who coowns Lange Plumbing, also said potential advertisers should be wary of Wright.

“I had worked with Sean through Sierra West [Publishing, based in St. George, Utah] on a yellow pages directory here in Las Vegas and then with the Vegas Gay Pages,” she said. “He came to me with a different publication — a coupon book. He said I was the first person he called, but he said he needed full payment up front to help him get the book off the ground. I told him I couldn’t do that, but offered half up front and half after the book was printed.”

Lange then wrote a check to the company Wright had set up to publish the book.

“My bank called me and told me he was trying to cash the check personally,” said Lange. “They told me that they couldn’t cash a check made out to a business for an individual. They immediately stopped payment on the check.”

“Then the MGM [Grand Hotel] called me saying that one of their cashiers had cashed the check for [Wright],” Lange continued.

“I understand that his girlfriend worked at MGM.” The bank wouldn’t honor the check because of the stop payment.

Representatives at MGM would not comment on the incident.

According to Lange, Wright “disappeared into thin air” and the coupon book never materialized.

Wright had also asked Hunter to pay up front for advertising in his Gay Pages. “I didn’t know this guy,” Hunter said. “Here this straight guy comes from Arizona or Las Vegas or somewhere and says he’s going to do this huge gay book and wants money up front. I definitely didn’t feel comfortable with that.”

On finding that QSaltLake was researching and interviewing for this article, Wright called Aaron and cancelled their meeting.

Wright approached Valerie Larrabee, executive director of the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Community Center of Utah, asking for the Center’s support of his project.

“He told me he hadn’t moved here yet, but was coming to Salt Lake City to start a gay and lesbian directory,” Larrabee said. “I told him we already have the Little Lavender Book that serves that purpose for the community. I encouraged him to talk with them and maybe form a partnership.”

“Last week, he called again asking to see me. I asked if he’d spoken with Steve Peterson and he said no,” she continued.

Peterson did not respond to a request to be interviewed for this article.

Wright had told Aaron that he had done market research showing a need for a yel-

low page-type book in Utah. He told Aaron that the first he’d seen the book, which he mistakenly called the “Velvet Pages,” when calling on a potential advertiser. Aaron said Wright told him “The Velvet Pages is a completely different thing than we are going to publish. Ninety percent of it is gay advertising. Ninety percent of my book is straight advertisers. It will be supported by straight people who want to appeal to the gay market — where they believe it is okay to be gay … The Velvet Pages isn’t even a yellow pages.

Their pages are white. They don’t conform to any kind of yellow page standard. They are a directory, we are a yellow pages. We’re not trying to produce a book that is all about the gay agenda.”

Aaron said he asked about the Lavender Book’s loyal customer base, to which Wright stated simply, “If it [The Little Lavender Book] gets in my way, I’ll consume it.”

Finally, Aaron asked about the community’s response to an out-of-state nongay man stepping in to displace a gay-owned business. Wright replied, “I have stood up as a straight man for this community for many years. I sold 98 percent of the Las Vegas Gay Pages. People will be just fine with it.”

Aaron said he welcomes competition from reputable people and companies. “I believe advertisers will gravitate toward the product that is of higher quality, represents their marketing needs and is the most cost-effective vehicle. They’ll also want to work with someone who has a track record in this area. We will be simply offering that product.”

Equality Utah Announces Endorsements Equality Utah has announced the group’s candidate endorsements and positive ratings for the November General Election.

According to Mike Thompson, EU’s executive director, endorsed candidates have either demonstrated or expressed a general support for the goals, principals and commitments of Equality Utah and the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

Equality Utah recommends a vote in favor of these candidates.

Candidates who received a positive rating expressed support for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community during the endorsement process.

In the coming weeks and through the November elections, Equality Utah will provide contact information for endorsed candidates and encourage supporters to volunteer on their campaigns. In addition, many of these candidates will be attending the group’s Allies Dinner Sept. 19. A dessert reception following the formal program, will be an opportunity for attendees to meet the candidates.

The group conducted a campaign volunteer training session at the University of Utah’s Aug. 26. After a one-hour overview of campaign volunteer activities, attendees were provided with the opportunity to meet the group’s endorsed candidates and to sign-up as volunteers on their campaigns.

One thousand guests are expected at the Sept. 19 Allies Dinner at the Salt Palace Grand Ballroom. This year’s guest speaker will be Neil Giuliano, president of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and former mayor of Tempe, Ariz.

Equality Awards will be presented to Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff and Salt Lake Acting Company’s Lauren Barros & Tom Moyer.

Tickets are $100 per person or $1000 per table and are available at equalityutah.org or by calling the group’s offices at 355-3479.

ENDORSED CANDIDATES Utah Senate District 2, Scott McCoy District 3, Gene Davis District 7, Ross Romero Utah House of Representatives District 9, Neil Hansen District 24, Ralph Becker District 25, Christine Johnson District 26, David Litvack District 28, Roz McGee District 30, Jackie Biskupski District 31, Larry Wiley District 35, Mark Wheatley District 36, Phil Riesen District 37, Carol Moss District 40, Lynn Hemingway District 53, Laura Bonham District 74, Mike Small District 75, Don Miller State Board of Education District 6, Tim Beagley

Salt Lake County Attorney Sim Gill Salt Lake County Auditor Jeff Hatch Salt Lake County Recorder Leslie Reberg Salt Lake County Sheriff Jim Winder Salt Lake County Treasurer Billie Larson Murray School Board Xander Gordon Davis County Commissioner Chris Martinez Rob Miller Weber County Commissioner A Bill Hansen Weber County Clerk / Auditor Teresa Yorgason

Salt Lake County Council District 3, Diane Turner At-large, Jim Bradley

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Salt Lake County Assessor Josie Valdez

Salt Lake County Sheriff Sheriff Kennard

Salt Lake County Recorder Gary Ott - incumbent

Buttars: ‘Brown v. School Board’ Ruling ‘Was Wrong’ A state senator responsible for some of Utah’s most anti-gay legislation is under fire for saying that the landmark court case that ended state-sanctioned segregation is wrong.

During an interview on KVNU radio this week Chris Buttars (R-West Jordan) was asked about a bill he has authored that would give the Senate the right to overturn the election of judges Sen. Chris Buttars and to remove judges from office if senators disagreed with their rulings.

Buttars, who authored Utah’s constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, prepared the bill after a ruling this spring that the city of Salt Lake did not violate the state’s constitutional ban on samesex marriage by offering benefits to the same-sex partners of municipal workers.

During the radio interview host Tom Grover noted that courts historically have been used by minority groups “to ensure [their] rights are protected.� “I don’t know of an example where the minority is being jeopardized by legislative action,� Buttars replied.

Grover then brought up the Kansas desegregation case that resulted in the busing of black students to white schools and vice versa.

“I think Brown v. Board of Education is wrong to begin with,� Buttars shot back.

When Grover attempted to press him on the reply Buttars refused to be more specific, saying only “one day call me again and we’ll take a half hour on that one.�

Buttars refused to returns calls from the media for an explanation but in a subsequent interview on another station he denied he is a racist. He said he meant to say that there was a downside to the Supreme Court ruling.

Speaking slowly and deliberately he said the court decision “was a great step for integration in many ways. But in other areas, I think it hurt a lot of minority kids.�

In the last session of the legislature Buttars supported a bill that would have barred cities and the state government from offering the benefits and then proposed a bill to ban gay-straight alliances in schools. (story) On the Senate floor he said GSAs are a recruiting tool for gays and are “tearing down the moral pillars of society.�

Both measures died in the legislature.

Buttars also supported a bill that would prevent a court from awarding parental rights against the wishes of the biological or adoptive parent.

The legislation stemmed from a case that made international headlines in 2004 when a judge awarded visitation rights to the former lesbian partner of the child’s birth mother who claims to have turned straight after “getting religion�.

Gov. Jon Huntsman, Jr. vetoed the bill.

The Permanent Record

By David Nelson

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A 43-year-old Utah man was charged on Aug. 21 with second-degree-felony aggravated assault for allegedly shooting another man in the genitals with a nail gun, according to published news reports. The two men argued verbally on Aug. 17 at a construction site near 4800 West and 7000 South.

The suspect allegedly grabbed a nail gun, unlocked its safety and shot the other man

MethWatch A harsh reality-styled advertising campaign favored by Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. would begin this fall in the state to expose the ugly world of methamphetamine use. The governor’s meth task force approved the television, radio and billboard ads that feature testimonials about how innocent use turns quickly to crime, prostitution, disease and homelessness. The campaign was confirmed on Aug. 17 and 18 at the third annual Drug Endangered Children Conference at Westminster College hosted by staffers of Pediatric Education Services, Salt Lake City Police Department, U.S. Office of the Attorney for the District of Utah and Utah Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health.

Tip: Call me any, anytime Watch who gets and gives your telephone numbers, cellular or otherwise. Whether or not your bills are delivered to your home address, anyone with access to your numbers — even for text messaging — can Google for your real name and address in about three seconds. That cute dancer you just texted might now have all the information needed to do more to you than just reply.

David Nelson knows crime. In a life of politics, he was victimized by several crimes, convicted of another and his name’s even part of the U.S. Terrorist Screening Records System. But, he’s still a self-avowed big-phat, gay, gun-owning Democrat. Ignominy isn’t what it used to be.

Melissa Larsen has resigned from her position as Equality Utah’s program coordinator after accepting a position as the Vice President of Planned Parenthood Action Council.

She will stay with Equality Utah through Sept. 22, after the group’s Allies Dinner.

The group is currently taking applications for the position of office manager. For details, see the job announcement in the QSaltLake classified section.

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Walk for Life The 18th Annual 10K Walk for Life will take place Sat. Sept. 16 to raise money and awareness for people affected by HIV/AIDS in Utah.

The Walk, held by the Utah AIDS Foundation, has returned to the morning and will start at Liberty Park. Participants can walk on their own, walk with friends and family, walk with co-workers, request a Walk Buddy, or bring their dog.

The Walk will begin at the northwest corner of Liberty Park and finish at the 9th & 9th Street Festival just in time to enjoy live music festival booths and other treats.

The foundation is asking for walkers to bring toilet paper to the Walk, as it is one of the most important items in their food bank.

Those interested in volunteering, sponsoring, or participating, may call 487-2323 or toll free at (800) 865-5004.

Camp Pinecliff Weekend Camp Pinecliff Weekend, a retreat for people with HIV/AIDS, their care providers, and family members will be held on September 22nd - 25th. Cost for the camp is $35 with need based scholarships available for people with HIV/AIDS (Special thanks to the Utah Cyber Sluts and Utah Bear Alliance for their support). The retreat is celebrating its fifteenth consecutive year and boasts an all volunteer staff and organizing committee of nurses, massage therapists, and faith based volunteers. Registration forms are available at the Utah AIDS Foundation Food Bank, Clinic 1-A at the University of Utah Medical Center, and the GLBT Community Center.

For more information call Dick Dotson at 250-2553.

Sen. Scott McCoy Lawn Signs The McCoy for Senate campaign is looking for lawn sign locations as the campaign begins the field operations of Scott’s re-election campaign.

If you would like a lawn sign, sign up through McCoy’s campaign website at ­senatormccoy.com Visibility is an important part of Scott’s re-election campaign. Lawn signs may be posted in your yard or business.

INVENIO Health Summit Set for October INVENIO—Utah’s Gay Men’s Health Summit is a gathering of gay men and their allies in the Intermountain West who care about their health. The summit features provocative workshops that are designed to encourage participation by attendees.

In 2000, the Utah AIDS Foundation hosted the first local Utah Gay Men’s Health Summit in Park City, Utah. Last year, the group hosted the National Summit, drawing hundreds from across the United States. Organizers are seeking to reframe the discussion of health and offer positive, grassroots responsiveness and responsibility.

This year’s event will take place Oct. 6–8 at the Salt Lake City Radisson Hotel. Registration is $25. Check out www.ugmh.com for more information or you can call David Ferguson at 801-487-2323.

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The names of at least 26 gay victims of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11 will be included in the almost 3,000 names that are planned to be read aloud on the fifth anniversary of the attacks at various memorial events worldwide. The largest such event is expected to be one planned for the World Trade Center site in New York. The names of the gay victims are Renee Barrett-Arjune, Graham Andrew Berkeley, Mark K. Bingham, Pamela J. Boyce, Daniel Brandhorst, David Reed Brandhorst-Gamboa, David M. Charlebois, Eugene Clark, Jeffrey Dwayne Collman, Larry Courtney, Luke A. Dudek, James Joe Ferguson, Carol Ann Flyzik, Ronald Gamboa, Sheila M.S. Hein, The Rev. Mychal “Father Mike� Judge, William Anthony “Tony� Karnes, John Richard “Jack� Keohane, Eddie Last Name Unknown (Firefighter), Michael A. Lepore, Waleska Martinez-Rivera, Patricia Ann McAneney, Wesley Mercer, Seamus L. O’Neal, Philip Paul “Roxy Eddie� Ognibene, Catherine T. “Cathy� Smith.

in the penis with a nail. The suspect is being held in the Salt Lake County Jail on $25,000 bail. He was also wanted on an outstanding theft warrant.

Larson Resigns from Equality Utah for Planned Parenthood Job

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Meeting a Saint

Nutjobs in the News

by Michael Aaron

michael@qsaltlake.com

This seems to be the week that the nutjobs have made the news in droves.

Jon Mark Karr suddenly decides to step up and say he killed JonBenet Ramsey nearly ten years ago, Warren Jeffs is in FBI custody because of a license plate infraction, and Sen. Chris Buttars slipped up and showed his true colors … um … pardon the unintentional pun … lambasting the celebrated Brown v. Board of Education ruling of over fifty years ago.

As I type this, it appears yet another wacko will grace Utah’s television screens as Fred Phelps announced that he and his klan … I mean, clan … will protest the funeral of American soldier Corporal Adam Galvez, who was slain in the Iraq War. Phelps’ press release goes as far as to call God a terrorist. I guess that’s just as blasphemous as calling his group a church.

But, even with all that, I find myself focusing in my mind on our own local fossil, Sen. Buttars. Wasn’t it Sen. Scott McCoy that called him out as a bigot during the last legislative session? Paint me surprised that in a candid on-air moment he lets it slip that gays aren’t the only people listed on his menu of hate.

The fact of the matter is, Buttars was on the air peddling his latest grand scheme to bring Utah even further back into the Ice Age with him. Apparently one of his great grand-children helped him look on the World-Wide Web to find what the other extremists are doing to thwart any kind of human rights progress gay and lesbian people might make. (You don’t think HE can figure out a computer, do you? I mean, come on, he’s still revisiting 52-year-old court decisions.)

Touted by those who coined the phrases “activist judges” and “special rights,” the newest ploy is to kick the judicial system “in line” by threatening that the ultra-conservatives on Capitol Hill will get a say in whether they keep their jobs.

That’s right, Buttars is pushing a bill to require judges to go through another senate confirmation at the end of their terms.

That way, they can be more easily ousted for what the right wing would call “activist decisions.”

Never mind that judges undergo a vote of the people at the end of each term.

Buttars and Gayle Ruzicka don’t have enough control over the Utah electorate.

It just seems to me that every thought, every action and every utterance that Buttars makes is mean-spirited in nature.

It makes me wonder how anyone can live like that. And how anyone can live with anyone like that.

And maybe more importantly, how can anyone vote for a person like that?

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By Andrew Sullivan The finished version of the documentary about Mychal Judge, the FDNY chaplain, Saint of 9/11, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in April to a packed house. I truly hope that it will get wide distribution and that many will see it. I say this not simply because this saintly man was gay, because he would be barred from the priesthood under the current Pope, or because, in the mysterious way God works, Judge’s sexual orientation actually became a way for him to minister more effectively to the marginalized, sick, poor and forgotten. I say it simply because we Catholics need to hear the stories of the good priests every now and again. We have absorbed so many tales of abuse and arrogance that our faith may be dented. But the good work of good priests continues, out of the headlines, in the pews and streets and living rooms of America. Mychal served everyone in the spirit of St Francis: carefree, open-eyed, laughing, humble. Some of his greatest friends were alcoholics saved from street corners, a mother who lost her daughter on TWA Flight 800, a disabled former cop whom he wheeled across Ireland in an attempt to persuade the people there of God’s healing power of forgiveness.

Mychal never had a checking account; he never had a mortgage. He spoke of how “fantastic” it was to understand that an omnipotent God has not yet invented tomorrow, and so we can set about our lives each day in the wonder of not-knowing. Whom shall God send us? How will we be asked to serve?

Which person we ignored yesterday will God

Stand Up to Intolerance Editor, Today (Wednesday, Aug. 30) in the Salt Lake City area an American soldier who died in Iraq, Corporal Adam Galvez, will have his funeral.

The Westboro Baptist Church will be picketing Corporal Galvez’s funeral.

The Westboro Baptist Church, headed by Fred Phelps, originally gained notoriety by picketing at the funeral of Matthew Shepard, the 21-year-old student who was brutally beaten, tied to a fence and murdered simply for being gay in Laramie, WY in 1998.

The Westboro Baptist Church travels the country and protests at military funerals because as they say, “[Cpl. Galvez] died in shame, not honor – for a fag nation cursed

by God. Thence to Hell with his Marine pals.

They turned America over to fags; They’re coming home in body bags.” The Westboro Baptist Church believes that American military personnel over seas are being killed by the hand of God because American society is too accepting of gay and lesbian people.

I am asking all of my friends to send a message of acceptance and love today.

When Matthew Shepard was murdered and the Westboro Baptist Church was picketing, Matthew’s mom and dad created the Matthew Shepard Foundation. From their website: “OUR VISION: To educate and enlighten others on the importance of diversity, understanding, compassion, acceptance and

be asking us to minister to today? He had such a great sense of mystery and a resolute astonishing faith in the power of God’s love to redeem everything - and not in some distant eschatological future but now. He was also a big, brusque Irishman, a recovering alcoholic, and a priest of the old school who loved and knew and cared for the great American Catholic family. That’s why he stayed closeted among his beloved firefighters. He knew, sadly, that it would place a barrier between him and some of them. His service came first, and he died doing it.

For me, his ministry to people with AIDS in the very early days means the most. We forget how terrifying HIV was in the early and mid 1980s, how patients would be quarantined in dark rooms, abandoned by their families, with their meals rolled into their rooms on trolleys. From the beginning, Mychal did as Jesus did and walked right in and kissed these frightened souls on the lips. If they recoiled from the sight of a priest — gay men at that time saw the church as an alien, hostile entity — he would persist in silence. He would simply bring holy oils, take a chair to the bottom of their hospital beds, and massage their bony, cold, pain-racked feet. He seemed to express no anger, just a kind of suspended joy in the moment, a joy he found resuscitated by the fact of the resurrection and the intercession of Our Lady. I wish I had met him. What a role model. But through this film, we do meet him, and see the face of God again, and laugh, and sigh.

A screening of Saint of 9/11 will be shown on the Westminster College campus Sept. 11. For information see page 19. Andrew Sullivan was born in England and educated at Oxford and Harvard. At 27, he became editor of “The New Republic,” a position he held for five years. As a writer, commentator and blogger, Sullivan addresses political and social issues, and advocates for gay rights.

respect. Everyone must participate in developing solutions to problems that are rooted in ignorance and hatred.

OUR MISSION STATEMENT: To support diversity programs in education and to help youth organizations establish environments where young people can feel safe and be themselves.

OUR GOAL: To replace hate with understanding, compassion and acceptance.”

Because the Westboro Baptist Church gained notoriety at Matthew Shepard’s funeral and in honor of Corporal Adam Galvez, I’m asking you to consider making a charitable contribution to The Matthew Shepard Foundation in whatever amount you can afford. Whether that’s $5 or $50, I hope you’ll consider donating whatever you can. Contributions to The Matthew Shepard Foundation are tax deductible.

Donating today in the memory of Corporal Adam Galvez will help ensure that Westboro Baptist Church’s protest will have exactly the opposite effect that they desire.

You can donate to the Matthew Shepard Foundation at their website, ­matthewshepard. org, clicking on “Support Us.” Thank you for your consideration.

Let’s make sure Westboro Baptist Church understands that we support tolerance, acceptance and that we honor the memory of fallen soldiers.

Adam G. Bass Salt Lake City

Gay Paree, Ooh La La

by Ben Williams

ben@qsaltlake.com

PET & FRIEND STUDY!!

Health Psychology Study Investigating How Pet & Friend Social Support Affect Your Cardiovascular Responses to Stress We are seeking: • Dog owners who have had a dog & a same-sex close friend (not romantic partner please) for at least 2 years.

Participation involves: • The study will be conducted in your home • Performing psychological challenges in the presence of either your dog, friend, or alone while cardiovascular measures are taken.

Compensation: •Participants will be compensated for their time $ For info & prescreening questions, please visit www.psych.utah.edu/petstudy Or e-mail rebecca.campo@psych.utah.edu

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As I stare at an empty bottle of French Syrah, I am thinking what ungrateful bastards we Americans are towards the French! Freedom fries, my ass. I wager that when most gay folks think of the French Revolution, if they consider it all, they either recall Dickens’ immortal lines — “It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done” from A Tale of Two Cities, or that Miss Marie Antoinette retorted, when told that the poor had no bread, “Let them eat cake.”

Spoken like a true queen, I might add. The French, after securing victory for us — the unappreciative, Bush-electing imbeciles — in the American Revolutionary War, went on to implement the noble ideals of the Age of Enlightenment eventually in a most ignoble way. Indeed.

In 1789, a young idealistic closet case named Robespierre became the leading figure in the French Revolution, but eventually became a ruthless fanatical tyrant; eliminating almost all his friends and colleagues, kind of like some former monarchs of the Utah Cyber Sluts I heard tale of; but I digress. When the French National Assembly was formed by French revolutionaries, Robespierre, largely through his association with the Jacobin Club, not to be confused with Club Try-Angles, initiated the famous Reign of Terror and began executing his political opponents. This, oddly enough, only served to increase the number of his enemies and Robespierre himself was eventually arrested and sent to the Guillotine in 1794 at the age of 36. Poor misunderstood Robespierre.

Okay, here comes the part they skipped in World History 101. Robespierre was a flamer, although historians claim that he may have never acted on his homosexual feelings. “That would be too icky,” I can just hear some Poindexter saying.

But it would go a long way in explaining why Robespierre was such a bitch. Never the less, his so called “strong attraction towards members of his own sex” is well documented and his special attachment to the French drop-dead gorgeous Louis Saint-Just, was the source of frequent rumors in a country which invented and perfected court gossip.

Louis Saint-Just, known as the “arch angel of death” (don’t ask), looked great in silk stockings and was said to have believed fanatically in the “perfect state”, based on rigorous “Spartan” virtue. Of course we all know what those Greek virtues were.

Although we will never know whether Saint-Just was “Greek Active” or my favorite “Greek Passive”, we know he “brooked no opposition to his political philosophy”.

Butch, definitely a top. Upon hearing of the coup which overthrew Robespierre and other members of the Committee of Public Safety, Saint-Just flew to General Assembly but was prevented from delivering a topnotch speech in defense of his lover, err, I mean, Robespierre. Not only did they not allow Saint-Just to do his best “My Man I Love Him So” solo, they arrested his hairy

ass and he was guillotined with Robespierre. I guess you could literally say he was head over heals in love — but I won’t.

During this tumultuous time, which was especially hard on French wig makers, a minor French lawmaker named JeanJacques-Regis de Cambaceres threaded his way through the political land mines of his era, steering clear of the chopping block just in the nick of time to change the French legal code in a gay way that is still felt or felt up in much of Western Europe.

Cambaceres was born 1753 into a family of minor nobility, and was trained for the law. Why this “aristocrat,” (spit after saying aristocrat in a true Madam de Farge manner. It’s fun!), was able to keep his powder wig and the head upon which it sat, quite jauntily I might add, is nobody’s business.

Let’s just say that while there is no record of when or how he recognized that he was a homosexual, it is evident that for much of his life he was open about his orientation. Some might say he was a bon vivant and quite openly homosexual. Or some might say “it’s not who you know but who you blow” that gets you a head in this world. Speaking of head, I could have said that Cambaceres gave a lot of head to keep his. But that’s even too low for me. Nonetheless, to keep up appearances (things never really change that much), Cambraceres was expected to have a mistress, and for this “role” he chose the actress Henriette Guizot. Madam Guizot had a floor show at the Théâtre des Variétés where she sang couplets in boy drag. She had the Salt Lake Kings beat by 200 years! But again, I digress.

Back to Cambaceres, his legal training proved helpful to the revolutionaries once the Revolution broke out. Even though an aristocrat (patooey), he sided against the regime of King Louis XVI. Good call. In 1795, he even survived a term as president of the infamous Committee of Public Safety. Four years later, when Napoleon screwed the whole sorry freakazoid lot by taking dictatorial power, the little General proposed the creation of a complete new legal code, reflecting the enlightenment of the Revolution. He decided to call it the Napoleonic Code because it was the first thing that popped into his head. To draw up the new code, Napoleon sought someone with a superb legal background, someone with excellent diplomatic skills and someone who dressed well. After all, this is the French who gave us powder blue helmets for U.N. Peacekeepers. So for this momentous task, Napoleon selected “gay as a goose” Cambaceres who became, I mean really became, the chief architect of the new, never before seen on television, Napoleonic Code.

Historians say that Cambaceres was not cagey about his homosexuality, so in other words he was a real mincer, and it was through his fabulousity that the Napoleonic Code legalized private consenting homosexual acts between adults in the nations of Europe, after Napoleon invaded and plundered them in the name of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity. Cambaceres died 1824 at the age of 71 and should be remembered as the first man to decriminalize homosexual acts, not as the sodomite that he was.

The end.

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Camilla Belle and Elisha Cuthbert give two of the year’s best performances.

IT’S A KNOCK-OUT!” -Bill Bregoli, WESTWOOD ONE

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Darlings, by the time this issue reaches your hot sweaty little hands, our city will have been graced by the fleeting presence of our beloved president. Hopefully, the city is still intact. The reason for W’s flyby? The Veterans of Foreign Wars convention makes an awesome photo-op for a struggling president who desperately wants to take attention away from his failed domestic policies, and provides a super patriotic background for him to promote the occupation of Iraq and imply that, somewhere in the middle east carnage, there is a link to the “war on terror” (don’t get me started). Let’s face it, the Bush administration’s reasons for invading Iraq are about as thin as Burger King bacon. The idea of George Bush using real veterans from real wars as a backdrop to promote his cosmetic war in Iraq is about as shameless as Jerry Bruckheimer dragging out the last of the WWII Pacific Vets to shill for his movie “Pearl Harbor.” It makes me sick.

Now, pumpkins, don’t think I am just some anti-war pacifist opposed to all conflict, because I’m not. I firmly believe that if the cause is right then you need to kick ass, take names, and bomb people back into the Stone Age. But when the “war” is just an ideologically-driven grudge match or the goal is just to put a Wal-Mart in every mosque, then I’m not going to be really invested in the whole idea. I say strap an Improvised Explosive Device to Toby Keith and let him make the world a better place.

It may surprise you, kittens, but I come from a really pro-military family. My grandfather fought in World War II, my

father served in Korea, and loads of other family members have all been active military. Even my vegetarian, card-carrying member of Green Peace sister!

If it weren’t for the camouflage uniforms adding about 15 pounds to my hips and making my ass look huge, I probably would be in the armed forces, too. I seriously considered signing up when I was in high school, and even went as far as doing the whole aptitude test thing. I tell you, sweeties, I don’t know what was more disturbing, the fact that I landed in the upper percentile (which automatically had recruiters bugging my disbelieving and shocked parents about my leadership potential), or the fact that I was psychologically best suited to be a submarine officer. I’m not sure what that says about my mental make up but I’m sure it can’t be good.

Thankfully my parents recognized that I had a slight problem with authority and shuffled me off to University of Hawaii before I could get hauled to a military jail and shot for insubordination. Although I must tell you, petals, after my father died, his buddies from his unit in Korea told me all sorts of stories about the pranks he pulled in the military, and how many times he got hauled up on disciplinary charges. I had no idea he was such a hooligan! I always wondered how I turned out to be the rowdy one in my deceptively traditional family, and even suspected for a while that I might have been adopted. Turns out I was genetically hard-wired by nature and nurture to be UNRULY, and cherubs … I wouldn’t have it any other way!

Ciao Muffins!

Let’s face it, the Bush administration’s reasons for invading Iraq are about as thin as Burger King bacon.

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 bloating and watching reservists families subsist from paycheck to paycheck while war contractors are raking in obscene profits.

Camp Pinecliff Weekend A retreat for people with HIV/AIDS, their care providers, and family members.

September 22–25 Cost for the camp is $35 with need based scholarships available for people with HIV/AIDS (Special thanks to the Utah Cyber Sluts and Utah Bear Alliance for their support).

The retreat is celebrating its fifteenth consecutive year and boasts an all-volunteer staff and organizing committee of nurses, massage therapists, and faith based volunteers.

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Dress Your Family Like Siegfried and Roy

by Laurie Mecham laurie@qsaltlake.com

give your old clothes to the D.I. Bring them with you and sell them for money.

Hey, since it was my idea, I’d like first pick.

I feel certain that somewhere out there is a cape or a beret or a flak jacket that will make me feel confident and secure. Come to think of it, I wonder how I’d look with braces?

At least Laurie Mecham is wearing pants.

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When my daughter was three years old, she found a pale blue polyester doubleknit skirt with an elastic waist. She poked her head through the waist and then pulled it back around her hairline so that the skirt framed her face, with the shiny double-knit fabric flowing over her shoulders and down her back. The pale blue disco skirt instantly became her long blue hair. She wanted to wear her long blue hair every hour of the day. Apparently, she found it the perfect look to go with the adult-sized white satin and tulle ballet tutu that she donned each morning, just before applying her makeup. I had long since stopped retrieving my lipstick and let her keep her favorite shade. She needed it every day, and it was too pink for me anyway. (Some of you boys are nodding as you remember your own forays into Mom’s purse.)

Now that my daughter and I have both had plenty of time for therapy, I can confess to you that, although I usually was very laid back about what she wore, the long blue hair stretched the limits of my double-knit tolerance. One reason I didn’t want her to wear it around the clock was that it made her ears stick out, and she was already somewhat Dumbo-esque.

Intellectually, I knew that having a skirt push her ears forward was unlikely to have a permanent physical effect. I had personally experimented with this in the second grade, sitting at my desk for hours with a finger pressing into the flesh of my right cheek, trying in vain to create a matching dimple on that side. The other thing to which I objected was that her headdress made her look like she was in some kind of cult, and we were hearing a lot about cults in those days. Who wants their kid to be deprogrammed? Other than your dad, I mean?

Here is my confession: sometimes I hid my daughter’s long blue hair. She would search the house for it tirelessly, asking me if I knew where it was. And I lied to her. I’d just tell her to keep looking, even though I knew that it was stuffed in the top of the closet. When she went to her grandparents’ house, Grandma Mary would find a half slip so that Emily could have long white hair. That helped, but there was really no substitute for the genuine article.

One day my sister Kathy was visiting and Em was decked out in full costume: lipstick, tutu, and long blue hair. Kathy said to me, “I think it’s great that you let her wear her long blue hair, because you can see that when she has it on she feels beautiful and confident.” I felt like such a heel. It was just as we had all suspected—I was a Bad Mother! I stole my daughter’s self-esteem and hid it in the closet. How ironic is that?

When my son was about three years old, we got him a He-Man shirt. It was made of stretchy whitish-manila colored fabric and it was kind of quilted and stuffed to form big muscles—biceps and man-boobs and

a six-pack. Jack wore it practically every day. I washed it frequently, but I never made him take it off. He wore it until he had grown enough that it fit him like a midriff top. It was OK, because I wanted my children to feel good about themselves and to feel confident and powerful.

Recently, a colleague and I were commiserating about hair trouble, and I told her about my daughter’s long blue hair.

She told me about her own ideal beauty ideal as a little girl. She thought that braces were the coolest, most grown-up accessory imaginable. She used to take aluminum foil and shape it and fold it around her teeth as pretend braces. Once the braces were in place, she would complete the look with her dad’s huge 80s eyeglasses. As our webmaster and computer guru at work, she said, “I guess I always wanted to be a nerd.”

I’m thinking about this because I don’t know how to dress any more. I am displaced, a bit lost, and the people who used to be around who knew me and who confirmed and affirmed my identity are all in Salt Lake. I’m not sure what to wear that accurately represents me. I’ve tried

thrift store chic and more professional accouterment. Lately I’ve been rocking the matronly look pretty hard. Next week I’m going to borrow a page from Ruby’s style book and come to work in a loud sleeveless shift and platform boots. I’m keeping an eye open, because there are a lot of clothing resale stores in Portland that do quite well. In fact, if you move here, don’t

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By Tony Hobday, JoSelle Vanderhooft, Matthew Gerber

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hile fast approaching yet another Summer’s end, we gay—and bi JoSe— martyrs at QSaltLake have vigorously sold our souls to the demon of Time to bring you this comprehensive preview of Utah’s upcoming Arts & Entertainment fall and early winter schedule. We vigilantly surfed the World Wide Web (so you wouldn’t have to … at least the sites which you rarely need tissue); we emailed and phoned top execs of the theatre and dance companies and played to their emotions to provide us with the most in-depth information to share with you … our beloved and dedicated readers.

So please refrain from using this issue to line the litter box after you’ve read it; keep it within arms’ reach, like on the coffee table or under the bed with the rest of your gay reading paraphernalia; it will be your “in” to Utah’s culture during the next few months.

THEATRE

Babcock Theatre is home to innovative, daring productions directed by university faculty and acted, crewed and designed by students. The 2006–2007 season kicks off on with the 36th Annual Classical Greek Theatre Festival’s production of Euripides’ tragedy Elektra directed by Hugh Hanson in a new translation by Kenneth McLeish, Sept. 16–24.

Sandra Shotwell directs Tennessee Williams’ sizzling A Streetcar Named Desire from Oct. 11–22.

In Nov., L.L. West directs Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis’ Urinetown, a rollicking musical comedy about public amenities gone horribly wrong, Nov. 8–19.

The annual Actor Training Program’s senior show will be Bertolt Brecht’s epic The Caucasian Chalk Circle, guest directed by Rich Cole and running from Jan. 17–28.

Broadway Across America has been a spectacular dimension in the universe of unforgettable and awardwinning stage-theatre productions. This season’s lineup kicks off with The Beatles Experience Rain, which has simply garnered the finest Beatles anthology to date.

Rain distinguishes themselves in their attention to detail with the ultimate goal of a perfect performance. The special one-night performance rolls in Sept. 29.

Up next, Sweet Charity, a laugh-out-loud musical starring Molly Ringwald, the sassy red-head who has finally outgrown that awkward teenage stage. Charity Hope Valentine (ok, sappy) is a sweet, romantic and optimistic New Yorker (ok, oxymoron) whose love life is on the fritz.

“Hey Big Spender” and “If My Friends Could See Me Now” are two great songs from the sensational score. The show runs Nov. 14–19.

Two holiday concerts hit the stages in early Dec.; A Kurt Bestor Christmas at Abravanel Hall and A Mariachi Christmas at Kingsbury Hall.

The New Year bangs in with a crotchety old man, a pond, and family dysfunction. Ah, the same as last year.

On Golden Pond, starring Tony award-winner Tom Bosley (aka Mr. Cunningham) and Emmy-award winner Michael Learned, comes to Salt Lake Jan. 16–21, 2007.

Legendary writers Andrew Lloyd Weber and Tim Rice bring to stage yet another offbeat, cynical sensation called Jesus Christ Superstar. The show runs Feb. 6–11, 2007.

Desert Star Playhouse is a quaint venue with an Old West motif and offers both Dinner and Cabaret theatre. This fall, the semi sci-fi comedy musical, Little Shop of Horrors unveils oddly one day before Audrey II lands in Seymour’s floral shop. If your stomach can take a man-eating plant, then it’s sure to be great dinner entertainment Sept. 22–Nov. 4. Following is The Spirit of the Holidays, which runs Nov. 17–Dec. 31.

The Cabaret theatre offers offbeat comedy spoofs this season including Mission: Incredibles. Two mild-mannered reporters by day, secret superheroes by night— Captain Cricket and Emotional Girl. The dynamic duo

saves the world in this zany parody with wacky villains and over-the-top obstacles. The superheroes save the days of August 31–Nov. 11.

Jack Frosty: He’s Snowman to Mess With follows a mysterious mission that the beloved holiday snowman is bound and determined to feat. The performance melts Nov. 16–Jan. 6, 2007.

Butch Cassidy and the Sunburnt Kid takes some creative liberties on the historical fact of the infamous duo. Butch and his red-faced sidekick team up with Dr. Quack, Medicine Woman and feisty saloon owner Floozy du Jour to battle Deadeye Dawson, a rich tycoon who is trying to take over Murray, Utah. The show gallops through Jan. 11–Mar. 24, 2007.

Egyptian Theatre Company for decades has produced some first-rate live theatrical performances. This season begins with Wiley and the Hairy Man, a spooky tale about a boy and his dog. Fff-reak-yyy. Based on the children’s book by Suzan Zeder, it’s a coming-of-age story with magic, enchanting music and a lesson in fear. The show haunts us Sept. 29–Oct. 28.

Take a leafless twig and whip some humor into Charles Dickens. That’s exactly what Kathy Feininger has done with A Broadway Christmas Carol, an uproarious cross between the classic Dickens tale and Broadway show tune parodies. The performance runs Nov. 24–Dec. 31.

Grand Theater at Salt Lake Community College’s South City campus will enter another delightful season with Pump Boys and Dinettes playing from Sept. 18–23.

Don’t miss the Tony award-winning musical The Secret Garden running Oct. 27–Nov. 11.

The Grand rings in the holidays with Messiah: A Community Celebration from Dec. 7–11.

A Thousand Clowns will do its best to cheer up those post-holiday blahs from Jan. 26–Feb. 10, 2007.

Hale Centre Theatre in West Valley City begins the season with the classic tale of Don Quixote and his adventures in The Man of La Mancha with show dates from Oct. 9–Nov. 25.

The ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future will entertain the masses in the Christmas staple, A Christmas Carol, running Dec. 2 –23.

The Hale will also cheer up any winter blues felt by its audience with the comedy See How They Run playing Dec. 30–Feb. 10, 2007.

The musical Little Women, fresh off its Broadway run, will entertain in the early spring Feb. 20–April 7, 2007.

Pioneer Memorial Theatre is the University of Utah’s resident professional theatre company. Its 2006–2007 Season opens with John Kander, Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse’s 1997 Tony Award-winning musical Chicago, which runs Sept.

29–Oct. 14.

An adaptation of Jane Austin’s classic novel Pride and Prejudice adapted by James Maxwell and Alan Stanford follows Nov. 3–18.

Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman’s 1931 Pulitzer Prize-winning play You Can’t Take It with You closes out 2006 with shows running Dec. 8–23.

The new year opens with an adaptation of Georges Feydeau’s French farce The Ladies Man by PMT artistic director Charles Morey. The performances ring in the New Year Jan. 12–27, 2007.

Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello follows Feb. 16–Mar. 7, 2007.

Plan-B Theatre Company has produced gay-themed provocative, edgy plays, farces, puppet dramas

and works of political theatre since 1991.

They will close their 2006 season in Sept. with the world premiere of Utah playwright Eric Samuelsen’s Miasma, a play (featuring Jorge, a gay Mexican illegal immigrant ranch hand) about immigration, family politics and the American beef packing industry which he developed from a shorter piece that appeared in SLAM ‘04. Miasma runs Sept. 8–24.

Two LDS parents grapple with the suicide of their gay son in a production of Facing East, a Plan-B world premiere parable for our place and time.

The show runs Nov. 15–26.

An encore production of the hit rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch will also run from Nov. 17–27.

Pygmalion Productions Theatre Company began in 1998 when Nancy Roth and Reb Fleming conceived (see, two women can conceive something together) an idea for provocative nonmusical theatre with a “feminist perspective.� Over the years the company has produced numerous unique and stylish plays that volley women’s liberation. The season opens with Fat Pig, a story of love in large proportion. It runs Sept. 28–Oct. 14.

The Salt Lake Acting Company, the longtime home of Saturday’s Voyeur, starts its 2006–2007 season with the Broadway hit Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire with a run of Sept. 13–Oct. 8.

The theater explores the power of nature and art in the dramedy Ice Glen playing Nov. 8– Dec. 3.

SLAC rings in the New Year with the world premiere of Sex Sting, a drama about an internet predator and the FBI agent who must stop him. It runs Jan. 31–Feb. 25, 2007.

StageRight Theater Company incorporated in 1987, and since that time has been under noticed. The company produces some quality shows, albeit new productions are few and far between. This family-run theatre group proudly presents Tom Stoppard’s Tony-award winning Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead.

Stoppard’s work about existential life and the human condition, which weaves the styles of Beckett and Shakespeare, is chaotic and comic. The show runs Oct. 14–Nov. 18.

Upcoming productions include Laura and The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940;

dates unannounced at press time.

Studio 115 is a branch of the University of Utah Theatre Department, which offers great opportunities for students of theatre including new play development, experimental works and a comprehensive youth arts training program. Studio 115’s season starts with Prelude to a Kiss. It’s a story about two polar opposites on the attitude spectrum who fall for each other and whose love is tested by a supernatural event. The performance magnetizes Oct. 12–15.

Nobel Prize winner Harold Pinter explores and challenges distinction between reality and fiction in The Dumbwaiter, The Lover, Sketches, a series of one-act plays directed by students of the U of U Theatre Department. The series runs Oct. 26–29.

Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer prize-winning first play, Wit chronicles the last months of Professor Vivian Bearings’ battle with ovarian cancer. The play runs Nov. 16–19.

Experiments in Ink VIII is an annual showcase of short plays written and directed by students of the U of U Theatre Department. These premiere plays run Feb. 8–11, 2007.

Wasatch Theatre Company has come a long way since its inception in 1997 and its rollercoaster success the following two years. Performances were held in a deli, which drew acclaim for the small outfit.

In fact, Wasatch received the coveted Salt Lake City’s Best of Utah award in 2000.

Going strong, the company’s season this fall includes Taming of the Shrew, which runs Sept. 15–30.

The story of a pre-teen boy and his Mr.Micawber-like Dickensian uncle adjusting to societal demands curbs A Thousand Clowns, playing Nov. 3–18.

The “threesome� conundrum overwhelms a cabaret dancer/singer when she meets a German playboy and a young Jewish bisexual man in 1930s Berlin in Cabaret. The play runs Jan. 18–27, 2007.

SALT LAKE ART CENTER Fall 2006 Exhibitions: Robert Taplin: The Five Outer Planets David Baddley: Peace Garden Unseen Shores: The Post-Vietnam Era from the U.S. Navy Art Collection Opening Oct 20, 2006 @ 6 - 9 pm Art Talk by Robert Taplin at 7 pm 20 South West Temple Salt Lake City

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Odyssey Dance Theatre recently celebrated its 10th anniversary, which included their first European tour. The company specializes in all styles of dance and consistently creates astonishing mixed programs that leave any audience entertained and awe-struck. The annual Halloween Spectacular, Thriller, showcasing your favorite boogies, performs Oct. 19–28.

Odyssey takes on It’s a Wonderful Life with an original score by Sam Cardon and a creative storytelling approach. It’s

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Ballet West, one of the highest-ranked professional ballet companies in the United States continues its overwhelming popular presence in Salt Lake with the annual holiday classic Swan Lake, running Dec. 8–30.

The 35 eloquent artists of the renowned company interpret the classic story of The Sleeping Beauty; performances run Feb. 9, 10, 14–17, 2007.

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bound to be more widely accepted than the movie version’s initial release.

The show runs Dec. 14–23.

Repertory Dance Theatre is one of the longest running contemporary dance companies in Utah. RDT is both a museum and a contemporary gallery representing the scope and diversity of modern dance past and present. It has also been a long standing supporter of the arts-in-education program, creating educational activities for students of all ages. This season explores the concept of Myths & Heroes. From Icarus and his brush with the sun, to the serenity of a Japanese sand garden, Moving Heaven & Earth will transport you from the red earth of the Colorado Plateau, upward through the heavens and back down to Earth. The dance concert moves us Oct. 5–7.

RDT presents an encore concert of Time Capsule: A Century of Dance celebrating the inventive spirit of modern dance. Honed through an insightful multi-media retrospective, this one-night only performance, Nov. 18, highlights the evolution of dance.

Charette is the French term loosely meaning brainstorming a creative design in a limited timeframe. RDT’s annual search for Utah’s “Iron Choreographer” uses the concept to draw out one of five choreographers with the most ingenuity and spark. The outrageous contest is Feb. 10, 2007.

Ririe Woodbury Dance Company is an internationallyacclaimed touring dance company with strong ties to the late Alwin Nikolais. The Nikolais/Louis Foundation for Dance recently selected the company to house the famous choreographer’s works. Ririe-Woodbury pays tribute to Nikolais with a reconstructed work of Tent. A large tent is manipulated to created different sceneries all the while magical lighting and an electronic score

guides the dancers through the transforming spaces created by the tent.

In a limited-seating performance, Ririe-Woodbury delves the audience into an intimate collaboration of works by Charlotte Boye-Christensen entitled Jump Cut. The show runs Dec. 14–16.

The dancers will be in constant motion during On the Move, an entertaining and delightful montage of surprising illusions. The program features Sean Curran, an original New York cast member of Stomp.

VISUAL ARTS The Pickle Company is a multidisciplinary arts organization homed in a restored pickle factory in the Granary District of Salt Lake. The company focuses on contemporary sociopolitical and cultural issues while still allowing artists to explore unconventional opportunities, collaboration and risk. Bill Daniel’s documentary film Who Is Bozo Texino? is an up-close and personal (Daniel changed his lifestyle to a train-hopping hobo for the making) depiction of a heavy-hearted and relentless American subculture. The film plays Sept. 25.

Aerial is an object and sound installation examining the connection across barriers of physical separation and death; it seeks to reveal the voices spoken intuitively by individuals and the objects around them. The show opens in limited engagement Nov. 16 and to the public during Gallery Stroll, Nov. 17.

Salt Lake Arts Center is currently celebrating its 75th anniversary. Through the fall and winter months, the center hosts an inspirational magnitude of past and present artists. Art Talk with Judy Singer, a leading Canadian female painter whose range varies from abstract to mixed media. Sept. 6.

Art Talk with Wendy Huhn offers insight to the stylish idiosyncratic mixed media textile art (quilts) of this packrat artist. “It is my wish that the viewer be drawn into my work, puzzle over and be amused by what they see.” Sept. 13.

Art Talk with Lia Cook uses a unique approach to deep and sensitive “family” photos by using a digital loom to weave images embedded in the structure of cloth. “The woven image brings with it many of the sensual experiences we associate with cloth.” Sept. 20.

The Salt Lake Arts Center also hosts the 3-in-30 Lecture Series on the seventh of each month through Dec..

MUSIC/OPERA

Salt Lake Men’s Choir, under a new Artistic Director, is thrilled for the rejuvenation of its popularity, both within its membership and the community at large. The choir is one of the oldest member-supported arts organizations in Utah, and they are ready for your help.

This season marks its 24th year and what better way to kick it right than The Rhythm of Life?

The Men’s Choir is a tradition for many gay and lesbian people during the holiday season. This year’s show is titled The Most Wonderful Time of the Year and will be performed two nights — Friday and Saturday, Dec. 8–9 — at the beautiful First Baptist Church sanctuary.

Utah Symphony & Utah Opera merged in 2002 and have successfully combined their individual visions to enhance each art form with the elements of the other.

US&O performs year round and continues an active involvement in educational programs across the intermountain west. This fall/winter brings the following

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CONCERTS/ SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS David Sedaris, the hilarious gay humorist and author of best-selling books such as Me Talk Pretty One Day and Naked swoops into Salt Lake for an evening of engaging recollections and readings. Mr. Sedaris will do a 60-minute reading followed by a 20-minute Q&A and a book signing.

Oct. 24 at Capitol Theatre.

Sir Elton John, Head of the Gay Mafia, sashays on stage at the E Center for a fantabulous evening of tickling the ivory, diamondstudded glasses, and gay-tastic songs.

Sept. 19 at the E Center.

Evanescence, the two-time Grammy winner hits Salt Lake promoting the release of their latest work, The Open Door. Oct. 25 at In The Venue.

Lily Tomlin has more aliases than Jennifer

Garner. Remember Madame Lupe, the world’s oldest living beauty expert ‌ the bratty Edith Ann‌the lollipop-sucking, chemically-induced Tina, just to name a few. The multi-award winning comedienne/actress sneaks to Salt Lake for one uproarious night. Oct. 7 at Kingsbury Hall.

Pet Shop Boys are one of the greatest 80’s pop-rock (disco) groups around the globe.

Don’t miss Chris and Neil relive some their most popular hits like “It’s a Sin,� “What Have I Done to Deserve This,� and “Suburbia.� Nov. 3 at E Center.

Share the Beat is a charity fundraiser event to help bring awareness and support for heart transplants. Special guest appearances by James & Robert Redford, James Denton, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Ryan Merriman and Nathaniel Parker. Special performances by Rivers Rutherford, Alana Grace and Bobby Joyner. Sept. 23 at Sundance Resort.

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Winterfest 2007, a week long event sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,Transgender Community Center of Utah, breaks down into three core events, the Winterfest Conference, the Valentine’s Gala and the Flurries. Many volunteers are still needed, so sign up today. The event runs Feb. 9–18, 2007 at different venues.

X96 Maverick Big Ass Show, the annual kick-em-in-the-crotch rock festival, hosts a loud and mosh pit lineup this year, including Yellowcard, Hawthorne Heights, Soul Asylum, Hoobastank, Alien Ant Farm, just to name a few. Sept. 23 at Utah State Fairpark.

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incredible pieces from US&O: Heroic Opening Sept. 15–16; Rockapella Sept. 22–23; Salute to Youth Oct. 3; British Masters Oct. 6–7; Awadagin Pratt Oct. 27–28; Halloween High Jinks Oct. 30; Eileen Ivers Nov. 3–4; Sarah Chang Nov. 10–11; Rach 3 with Garrick Ohlsson Nov. 17–18; Messiah Nov. 25–26; From the New World Dec. 1–2; Elijah Dec. 15–16; Debby Boone Dec. 22–23.

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Raven Symone See Sept. 8.

By Tony Hobday

tony@qsaltlake.com

Growing up in majestic El Paso, Texas favored me with the ability to withstand ferocious heatwaves in the summertime.

However, this summer has continually provoked me to peel off my own skin. I don’t think I’m going through menopause, but who really knows when it starts in gay men. I’m just damn thrilled that Autumn is around the corner and hopefully will rejuvenate the growth of several layers of epidermis.

2SATURDAY

Q Although Fall doesn’t officially start until three weeks from this date, the powers that be at MoDiggity’s are throwing a Goodbye Summer Luau (and see, I thought only boys were premature). But I suppose it makes sense since coconut bras and bikinis are strongly encouraged and we wouldn’t want rock solid nipples now would we…or would we? Oh, the trials and tribulations we face.

Call for time, MoDiggity’s, a private club for members, 3424 S. State. $5 for nonmembers.

4MONDAY

Q Aright chi-chi mons, Reggae Sunsplash is bad like yaz. Jamaicans think the battyman ah sey one, too. So be trash an ready, bag a spliff, drink some bare and drop legs to the tunes of UB40, Third World, Maxi Priest and Rik Rok. Tuss me, mon you’ll zeen the ragga is sup’m. Lickle more mi keys.

6pm, USANA Amphitheatre, 5150 S. 6055 West, West Valley City. Tickets $26-50, call 955-6620 or visit usana-amp.com.

7THURSDAY

Q Some of the highlights at the ten-day Utah State Fair include a sausage-eating contest (Back, Michael! Back!), a rotten sneaker contest (Back, Michael! Back!), a rodeo, farm animals (Back, Michael!

Back!) and plenty of rides, games and live entertainment.

Hours: 3-10pm today; 10am-10pm Sundays-Thursdays; 10am-11pm FridaysSaturdays through September 17. Utah State Fairpark, 155 N. 1000 West. Entrance fee $6-8. $5 tickets available at Smith’s Tix outlets.

Q According to its website, the 9th Annual Zoo Rendezvous at Hogle Zoo recommends “dress for adventure…animal prints are always encouraged”. Now, it could get out of hand if this information is dropped in the wrong hands. I mean who knows how many GoGo boys may show up in leopard thongs thinking they can dance in the cages. Perhaps I should remove this snippet from the agenda…

Ah, what the hell, the animals need some entertainment, too. The fund raiser pro-

ceeds are dedicated to animal care and exhibit improvements.

6-11pm, Hogle Zoo, 2600 E. Sunnyside Avenue. Tickets $125, ages 21+ only cause there’s be booze. Call 584-1730 or visit zoorendezvous.com for more information.

Q Repertory Dance Theatre proudly presents, and I’m so proud, too, Perspectives: Men, Motion & Media. Spend an evening with digitally-enhanced hot men shaking their groove thang to Brent Schneider’s innovative choreography, which blurs the distinctions between theater and dance while integrating layers of video projections with the live hotties.

8pm, Tonight thru Saturday, September 9, Black Box Theatre, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. Broadway. Tickets, $15, call 355ARTS or visit arttix.org.

8FRIDAY

Q Developed from The Butcher, The Beggar and The Bedtime Buddy of SLAM ’04, Plan-B Theatre Company presents Miasma, a premiere glimpse inside the corruption of the beef industry (duh, Mad Cow disease!), family (duh, my parents!), and sexuality (duh, I ain’t got no man snatch since…) by Eric Samuelson. I wonder if Jorge, the gay ranch hand will give it up to me.

8pm, Tonight thru Sunday, September 24, Studio Theatre, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. Braodway. Tickets $15, call 355-ARTS or visit arttix.org.

Q It’s one of the largest ethnic festivals in Salt Lake and is pushing 30. But boy does it still look and taste good for its age.

That’s right boys and girls, I’m referring to the annual Greek Festival presented by the Greek Orthodox Church. Join the swaree this weekend with kosher food, not-so-kosher cocktails and plenty of dancing. Unfortunately, the dishes are paper and plastic, so they may be a bit difficult to shatter. Opa! Noon-10pm, Friday and 10am-11pm Saturday-Sunday, Holy Trinity Church, 279 S. 300 West. Tickets $3 at the gate. Call 328-9681 for more information.

Q Ok, I’m going to just put it all on the line and embarrass the hell out of myself by admitting that on the rare occasions that I actually pull myself out of bed early on Saturday morning, I enjoy watching That’s So Raven on ABCKids. Now wait, don’t judge too quickly, Raven Symone, the cute little firecracker from The Cosby Show is actually quite funny and she’ll be performing at the Utah State Fair today with guest Lil’ J. 7:30pm, Utah State Fairpark Grandstand, 155 N. 1000 West. Free show. Entrance fee to the fair, $6-8. $5 tickets available at Smith’s Tix outlets.

9SATURDAY

Q Sponsored by the Greater Avenues Community Council, the annual Avenues

Street Fair is a great event that supports local artists of the historic Avenues, which just so happens is my hood. But, I’m not about to give all you stalkers my exact address…unless you ask nicely. So please come support my peeps; there will be a children’s parade, artists’ booths, and live entertainment.

9am-6pm, 11th Avenue between D and I Streets. Free, call 363-2515 or visit slc-avenues.org for more information.

Q Do we all really need to be saved for our sins? Personally, I have yet had the opportunity to sin, much like Ennis Delmar. But for those of you that have a suitcase full of sins, join Reverend John E. Longwind and C.C. Churchand as they battle to rip the devil outta ya’ all. While being cleansed, you’ll not only be lavished with food, singing, dancing and laughing, but you’ll help solve a murder during Hunt Mysteries’ comedy murder mystery dinner theater, Forever, Amen.

7pm, Doug’s Spaghetti House, 373 31st Street, Ogden. Tickets $40/adult, $35/kids 12 and under. Call 801-569-1482 or visit huntmysteries.com for more information.

By the way, if Ogden’s too far, the healing will take place in Salt Lake City Sept. 16.

11MONDAY

Q The Salt Lake Film Center and Westminster College present a free screening of The Saint of 9-11, an inspiring documentary sponsored by Human Rights activist, Bruce Bastian. This compelling and heroic film follows the turbulent life of Father Mychal Judge, a gay New York Fire Department chaplain whose profound life abruptly ended five years ago during the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.

7pm, Vive Core Auditorium, Westminster College 1840 S. 1300 East. Free.

13WEDNESDAY

Q This one’s for all you “cowpokes” out there. Aaagh…I hate when I give myself such disturbing visuals. The talented Kenny Rogers—Oooo, I wouldn’t mind

running my fingers through that thick snowy-haired beard…oops, sorry I digress—brings some great ol’ country boy hits along with The Oak Ridge Boys.

7:30pm, Utah State Fairpark, 155 N. 1000 West. Tickets $28/advance $33/day of show, call 888-TIXX or visit smithstix.com.

14THURSDAY

Q The idea of cats in the desert totally freaks me out since the time my friend’s mother told us this frightening “tail” about some wild cat she encountered at the exact site where we happened to be camping at the time. Of course, it may just have been the Canadian Host having a tizzy through my bloodstream. Anyhoo, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats hits the redrock stage during this year’s Broadway in the Desert 2006.

8pm, Tuacahn Amphitheatre, 1100 Tuacahn Drive, Ivins (near St. George).

Tickets $20-44, call 1-800-746-9882 or visit tuacahn.org.

15FRIDAY

Q Well it was bound to happen, I’ve gone hetero. Wait…back to being gay. I wonder if Pulitzer offers a nomination for the fourteen seconds it took me to come up with that line. Eat your heart out, Ms. Burstyn. All this digressing is giving me an aneurysm. Check out the Artspace City Center Ribbon Cutting today and lease your very own space for homeless shelter prices of anywhere from $850-1300.

4pm, Artspace Ciy Center, 230 S. 500 West.

Free. Call 364-1109 or visit artspaceutah. org for preview.

Upcoming Events

Gay Wendover Weekend to be announced.

PWACU End of Summer BBQ Bash, Sept.

19. RSVP by Sept. 11 at 484-2205 RCGSE Closet Ball 2006, Sept. 30 Lily Tomlin, Oct. 7, Kingsbury Hall David Sedaris, Oct. 24, Capitol Theatre

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When two planes ripped through the an elegy and celebration of one life that World Trade Center on September 11, touched many. It does what it sets out to 2001, the first official casualty was fire do stylishly, affectionately and convincdepartment Chaplain Mychal Judge, ingly,� wrote Variety’s John Anderson. who had just given last rites to a fallen On the fifth anniversary of 9-11, philanfirefighter. Father Mike was an anomaly: thropist and human rights activist Bruce a gregarious Franciscan who traversed Bastian will sponsor a free screening of great distances in New York dressed in his Saint of 9-11 on the Westminster Colrobe and sandals (he thought nothing of lege campus as part of a series of films walking from his friary on West 31st Street being presented by the Salt Lake City Film to Coney Island), an alcoholic in recovCenter. ery, and a gay man who became a priest Saint of 9-11 presents the turbulent, before the Vatican had any objections. restless, spiritual and remarkable journey Although Father Mike remained closof Father Mike. A compassionate champieted among the firefighters, he played a on of the needy and forgotten, a beloved vibrant part in the gay community, and fire department chaplain, a rousing Irishwhen patients diagnosed with a mysteriAmerican balladeer and iconoclast, Judge ous immune deficiency were given trays wrestled with his own private demons of food shoved at them from hospital while touching others in powerful and room doors, he ministered to them withmiraculous ways. Judge knew the pain out rubber gloves. of loss and suffering. He struggled with Through interviews with friends and alcoholism and was an outspoken Alcocolleagues, including former fire departholics Anonymous advocate. Judge was ment commissioner Thomas Von Essen a gay man who loved his priestly work. and writer Malachy McCourt, Saint of Saint of 9-11 portrays his life as a spiritual 9-11 traces Father Mike’s path: from his adventure and an honest embrace of life, Brooklyn boyhood as the child of Irish im- while acknowledging his alcoholism and migrants; to Canterbury, where the nuns sexuality. It is the story of a life’s journey cast him in a play as the Fairy Godmother; interrupted. Inspired by his life, the docuto the shrine at Lourdes, where he prayed mentary embraces Judge’s full humanity. for people with AIDS; and finally to Fire “In supporting this film, it was imporIsland, where he administered too many tant to us that we remember that the ones last rites. that lost their lives in this Whether comforting the tragedy were from every families of victims of TWA walk of America’s vast and Monday September 11 Flight 800 or giving his coat diverse tapestry,� Bastian 7:00 p.m. to a homeless man, Father said. Judge was the first Westminster College Campus Mike touched countless identified victim lost in the Bill and Vieve Gore School of lives. wreckage of 9-11. “His photo Business, Auditorium Glenn Holsten’s beautibecame an icon of the day.

1840 S 1300 East, fully photographed and His life, although interruptSalt Lake City dramatically edited docued tragically, is a testimony Q&A immediately following mentary reveals that, in to his faith and love of God.� with filmmaker TBA conventional terms, Judge “This is a fitting docuwasn’t a saint. But testimentary of an important mony from dozens of Judge’s part of history and the story friends, NYFD flock and clerical colof a wonderful man,� said Kathryn Toll of leagues, confirms his unorthodox manner the Salt Lake Arts Center. “We’re thrilled to and no-nonsense sense of ministry was be able to present it to a Utah audience.� perfectly in keeping with priestly purMore information on Saint of 9-11 is pose. Set in New York and Ireland, the available at saintof9-11.com. film “doesn’t pretend to be anything but

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Apparently couch hopping can’t get you everywhere in Hollywood.

After 14 years and more than $1 billion dollars in revenue generated by their countless hits together, Paramount Pictures and Tom Cruise are going their separate ways. But it’s not because Tom is venturing off on yet another mid-life crisis. No, this parting of ways was decided by the movie studio chiefs, who claim they’re unhappy with Tom’s behavior in recent months.

Of course, something tells me they might not have been so quick to say sayonara if Mission Impossible III had raked in another $100 mil or so.

Still, crazy as Tom’s been the past year and a half (though some of us more attentive folk have been calling his game for years), you have to question the real motives behind a major studio’s decision to kiss goodbye a 14year relationship that has proven obscenely lucrative to all parties involved over one flop (which isn’t even really a flop when you consider that with worldwide gross included, it more than doubled its budget).

Despite Paramount chief Sumner Redstone’s explanation that “his recent conduct has not been acceptable to Paramount,� something tells me this decision was purely financial. Either Tom was trying to milk the cows in accounting for more moolah, or someone doing the books at Paramount realized they haven’t been having such a profitable year. Yes, the studio that once made Titanic the highest grossing film in history has suffered the plight of titles like Larry the Cable Guy, Barnyard and Last Holiday all in one year. True, Failure to Launch proved an ironic title in April when it inexplicably coughed up $90 million, and World Trade Center is doing decent business now, but Mission Impossible was certainly the year’s tent pole.

So unless someone high up on the food chain takes a personal offense to Cruise’s Scientology spewing ways and his sham of a marriage to Katie “prove the baby’s yours�

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And there you have it folks. Another day, another dollar (for me‌ the rest of these folks probably pulled down $20K in the time it took me to crank out this bad boy—except George, he turned it over as state’s evidence). So until next time, remember to stop and smell the gossip.

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OK, so Justin rolls the occasional doobie to get in touch with his spiritual side and Kate does monster mounts of coke so she can fit into whatever dress Vogue, Harper’s, Donatella (the list goes on) want her in this week.

Incidentally, the so called coke “scandalâ€? doesn’t seem to have had much effect on Kate. I mean, sure, a whole shit load of companies dropped her. Most have welcomed her back, and this month, she lands on Vogue‌ and that’s more than we can say for Naomi “I’m just going to tap youâ€? Campbell.

And so, my friends, it’s come to that point in my column where I tell you I’ve stumbled upon photos of some up and coming hottie you all must meet immediately. And believe me—I had some fine candidates this week.

But as I was looking at the trailers for the upcoming film The Guardian, bad as it looks, I couldn’t get over how smoking hot Ashton Kutcher continues to be even though he spends days raising Demi and Bruce’s brood.

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What is it, BYO-Dime Bags?

Now for all I know, instead of a coat check, George is going to plant some twink at the door to collect party favors and tag them for people to pick up on the way out. I have yet to be invited—I don’t know. But it seems to me he might want to take his celebration to a restaurant; let someone else worry about what people are bringing in and out of the joint.

On the upside—and yes, there is one— George claims the party is a benefit to raise money for the city’s workers, who he says were wonderful to him during his five days of service.

Light bulb. Sell the crack people turn in at the door and give that money to the workers.

You see—I’m a wise one, I am. Yes indeed.

Not to dwell on drugs or anything, but this next bit of info just really caught my eye.

Justin Timberlake says he has a new found respect for Kate Moss since it was revealed she does coke.

OK, the first flaw of that statement is the fact that people out there are actually still pretending this was some big bombshell. Much like nobody said boo when Lance said “I’m Gay,� when Kate was caught salivating over a big ole mount of coke, most people just figured she was out to lunch with friends.

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And now, his producing partner Paula Wagner is fuming, insisting the pair had already made the decision to strike out on their own before Redstone decided to make this a “personal attack.�

I guess the only way to see who is truly the big loser in all of this is to wait and see how Tom’s next film fares at the box office—and gauging the fact that the only role he has on the books is a co-starring role opposite Jessica Alba in a remake of the Japanese horror flick The Eye, well I’ll just say it. Sumner, why don’t you see what Matt McConaughey’s up to these days?

In news ever so slightly more‌ nausea inducing ‌ pics of Britney Spears naked and pregnant have been deemed too provocative for subways in Tokyo because young people might see them.

You’ve all seen the pic—Brit with black hair on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar. Now I’m not saying I was exactly thrilled by the photo, but it certainly didn’t make me wanna run around subway tunnels and rip every last one down. And what kills me most is the “official� explanation—that some of the Metro’s customers might find it “overly stimulating.�

Um, yeah, if you have a whole bunch of Asian men running around with a thing for pregnant women.

The photo will apparently still be allowed to run on the cover of Harper’s October edition in Japan.

In other news surrounding Britney’s belly, reports are suggesting Jessica Simpson got the ultimate brush off from Britney after she asked to kiss the music star’s belly for good luck. “Hell no,� is allegedly what Brit said before running off in the other direction.

The exchange happened at the Teen Music Awards, where Spears introduced her husband’s “performing� debut on the show.

To be fair, KFed wasn’t as bad as I’d predicted, but he was still less interesting than watching shelf paper settle.

Supposedly, Jessica was all insulted and spent the rest of the night whining about it.

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by Chad Keller and Mark Thrash,

insearchof@qsaltlake.com We thought our last installment may raise a few eyebrows and prompt a response from some of our readers. Even the editor was hesitant about the letters, comments, emails and bomb threats he might receive, but we guess you didn’t care about what we said or were too lackadaisical to respond. Maybe the Canadians are right? If you don’t understand the reference, read the August 15 issue…

On to more entertaining topics, have you been downtown lately? Well, in conjunction with the focus of this issue, we’ve decided to take a gander at a project spearheaded by the Redevelopment Agency of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Downtown Alliance and Salt Lake Chamber. The aforementioned are working to implement a Downtown Arts and Cultural District that they believe will enhance Salt Lake’s “exceptional cultural assets.” So, we’ve decided to turn the champagne colored spotlight In Search of the viability of a new “Broadway” theatre…

CHAD: I’ve always been an avid supporter of doing great things downtown, but have you seen it lately? With the LDS Church dragging their feet on the redevelopment of the retail anchors to downtown and all the shops boarded up, it’s about time we started to look at what to do with the bits and pieces.

MARK: Bits and pieces? Are you talking about cleaning up what they’ve left in shambles or actually establishing some continuity to the downtown area into a district that actually flows for walking traffic and usage? As usual, I’m just trying to understand you.

CHAD: Well since you put it that way, we’ve been given a lot of lip service about the resurrection of downtown Salt Lake City.

Do you expect me to believe that a Cultural District will rise up as the savior and save the last liberal city in Utah? I’m not in the habit of buying bridges.

MARK: I don’t place expectations on what YOU should believe. However, I do consider you reasonable enough to evaluate all aspects of a topic before forming a preconceived conclusion. Now, let’s take a look at what is left of the Second Century Plan from the ‘80’s to determine an informed opinion regarding that “bridge” you so despise.

CHAD: Well, look at it like this… the focal point of the Cultural District is the Utah Theatre, and it is now up for sale. So, either it means the owner has determined it is best to sell it in order for the project to move forward, or it is going to get ripped down. Does it mean that due to all of the soccer stadium hoopla, that we lost the cadence for this much needed development?

MARK: We talked to Bob Farrington of the Downtown Alliance about this last Saturday, and he wouldn’t give a definite answer as to what the “FOR SALE” sign meant to the project. So, at this point all we can focus on is the need for a new theater. On average, the current performance art options available leave much to be desired. Healthy competition may ignite a new surge for creativity and daring productions.

CHAD: Daring productions? You obviously

forgot about the actress who refused to use the “F” word at the Babcock. That’s university theatre, semi-professional, and it dumped Utah’s performance art world on its ear on what is good and what is bad. The last real daring theater in Utah was Theatre 138 on 100 South and vice shut them down for full frontal nudity on several occasions.

MARK: All I’m saying is that competition is healthy, and without it I believe our current performance art companies will seldom resuscitate their line-up to draw an audience that extends beyond the standard narrow minded attendee. Until they change the line-up, who else do you expect to be the season ticket holders?

CHAD: Maybe if these performance art companies struggle a bit more and the patrons at performances grow even thinner, they’ll find their soul and again produce something cutting edge and truly of artistic merit.

MARK: Or the new Utah Theatre could expedite their struggle and open their minds to other options? Something tells me finding their soul will not be the deciding factor, but the loss of additional money in ticket sales may light a fire under their artsy-craftsy derrières.

CHAD: A theatre of dreams… build it and they will come. Does just building a theater mean that it will be successful? Thus far only a few good touring productions have ventured behind the Zion curtain.

MARK: All the more reason for competition from a centrally located theatre to offer more options downtown. According to the findings from the study conducted by HVS International, there is a potential growth of seventy percent increased audience attendance. How else will the city fill this demand?

CHAD: It’s potential growth. Where is the guarantee they’ll put anything on-stage to get people off the couch and into the theater? It is said Americans spend more on cleaning their toilet bowl than attending live performance art. That said, I don’t see people flocking to downtown Salt Lake to see another redo of Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor anything (unless done by our own Salt Lake Men’s Choir) or Le Miserable… yes, MISERABLE. MARK: We’re discussing the need for a new theater, and you’re debating over what will be on the stage. Let the audience response and ticket sales determine what people will pay to see. We only have a thousand words.

Stay on task!

It seems even we can’t come to an agreement on this search…

CHAD: An additional theater can’t damage downtown anymore than it already is. Why build a new theater if the audience demand can’t fill the seats? You’re right, it will shake up Utah’s theater world, but I think in a less than positive way. Dollars drive the art world. In Utah, those dollars are conservative and bland. A lot of changes need to happen in Utah’s art world before we build a new theater.

MARK: Conservative and bland still spends the same as liberal and flavorful. With an anticipated growth of seventy percent audience attendance, it is apparent that the discussion for an additional theater is valid.

I don’t claim to know the exact impact that competition will have on the current companies. I do however believe that competition is healthy.

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As tedious or as stressful as relationships can be, all the pieces will fall into place as Pluto redirects. Twins see more clearly, accept even the most egregious faults and help to create a partnership that is stronger and more stable. And if you are on the prowl, use your considerable charms to snag a real charmer. Oh if it were only that easy!

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