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Utah’s Gay and Lesbian Newspaper September 16–30, 2006

Karl Rove’s Gay Father Utah-native architect of antigay policies has a secret

LDS Church Issues New Statement on ‘Same-Gender Attraction’ Gays compared to physicallyand mentally-handicapped

Ugandan Newspaper Lists Names of Gay Men Homosexuality punishable by life in prison

Schwarzenegger Vetoes Pro-Gay Text Book Bill

Ruby Goes Camping Life Before Stonewall Gay Bar Guide Q Agenda

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In This Issue 1000 Points of Might

Former Mayor of Tempe Arizona and current president of GLAAD Neil Giuliano brings his message to the Equality Utah Allies Dinner at the Salt Palace.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Active or Passive? Seven QSaltLake readers tell of the importance of being politically involved in Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . 17

News & Opinion

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Ban on Gays In Conservative Judaism Expected To Be Lifted By Anthony Cuesta New York City — The ban on ordaining openly gay rabbis and on the sanctioning of same-sex marriage will be lifted in the Conservative movement of Judaism by the year’s end, a key Conservative Jewish leader announced this week. Rabbi Jerome Epstein, executive vice president of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, says a committee of scholars who interpret Jewish law for the movement will likely loosen the prohibition when they vote in December. At the same time, Epstein expects the scholars will endorse a policy aiming to keep more traditional congregations within the fold. Synagogues that believe Jewish law bars same-sex relationships still will be able to hire rabbis who share their view. The vote by the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards will test what Conservative leaders call their “big umbrella” — allowing diverse practices within one movement. It will also signal to the wider community how far the Conservative branch will go to reinterpret Jewish law. “The committee might accept … will accept, I think … two or more” policies, Epstein said at an Aug. 24 meeting of New York Conservative Jewish leaders, the Associated Press reports. “One that actually reaffirms the current position and at least one that will liberalize it.” The effect of the contradictory actions will be that local Jewish communities have more freedom. Conservative seminaries, along with the movement’s estimated 750 synagogues and more than 1,000 North American rabbis, will get to decide which policy to follow. “It could cause confusion, it could cause tremendous angst, it could cause tremendous tension, it could cause tremendous

disagreement,” Epstein told The AP. But the spiritual leader of Akron, Ohio’s conservative synagogue, Beth El Congregation, does not anticipate a rift in his house of worship. “If this becomes official, it is going to be divisive in some areas,” Rabbi Stephen Grundfast told The Akron Beacon Journal. “This is an emotional issue. In some communities, it’s going to cause some waves. In some areas, it will cause some ripples. But I think the vast majority of people would be in favor. While I can’t speak for everyone, I expect (my) congregation would be receptive.” The vote comes as the movement is trying to hold on to a shrinking middle ground between innovation and strict tradition in American Judaism. The Conservative branch follows Jewish law, while allowing limited change for modern circumstances. Rabbi Joel Roth, a leading religious scholar and a member of the Conservative Law Committee, said he questioned whether people with traditional Jewish views on sexuality will stay, even if the panel allows synagogues leeway to accept or reject gay relationships. Roth said he has been “demonized” for saying that he interprets religious law as barring same-gender sex. “I know the law as it stands causes pain,” he said. “But pain is not to be equated with immorality.” Rabbi Elliot Dorff, vice chairman of the Law Committee and also a respected scholar, supports ordaining gays, saying “it is simply not natural” to demand that they remain celibate. “We have to interpret God’s will in our time,” Dorff said. Dorff and Roth are traveling with Epstein, with more stops scheduled for Atlanta, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. The trio also spoke last month in Toronto.

“The Red Pepper,” a Ugandan Newspaper, printed this story about two gay men being sought by police for being homosexual. The following day, the newspaper listed 46 other gay men. Homosexuality can be punishable by life in prison in Uganda.

Ugandan Newspaper Lists Gay Men Kampala, Uganda — A Ugandan newspaper’s decision to publish the names of alleged homosexual men is a “chilling development”, New York-based Human Rights Watch says. Last month the Red Pepper paper printed 45 first names and professions or areas of work of alleged homosexual men. HRW says the move could foreshadow a government crackdown in the country, where homosexuality is illegal. But an editor at the paper told the BBC that it was not a witchhunt and that no man on the list was identifiable. “It’s one of the interesting things for people to read in a tabloid because in African societies homosexuality is still seen as strange,” a Red Pepper editor, who asked not to be named, told the BBC News website. “We’ve also printed a list of cheats — people unfaithful to their partners — also with first names etc, because people like reading about other people’s vices,” the editor said. “We don’t want to expose them (homosexuals) to the government and the police has never contacted us to investigate the

list. This country is very very tolerant.” But HRW says the gay and lesbian community in Uganda has long been stigmatised and harassed by the government. “For years, President Yoweri Museveni’s government routinely threatens and vilifies lesbians and gays, and subjects sexual rights activists to harassment,” said HRW’s Jessica Stern. “At a moment when sensational publicity has spread fear among a whole community, the authorities must exercise their responsibility to protect, not persecute.” The editor dismissed these fears: “People are not going to attack you or arrest you - I don’t remember anybody being prosecuted in courts of law because someone’s gay or lesbian.” However, he admitted that people were paranoid about having their names printed in the paper. “People are calling here (the paper) to make sure their names are not named; others are calling and cursing us.” He said the paper was considering publishing the names of lesbians, but a decision had not yet been taken.

Anglican Bishops Call Truce To Address Divide Over Homosexuality New York City — Bishops from both sides of the turbulent Anglican feud over homosexuality have called a temporary truce and announced this week that discussions to save the church from a schism were to begin. According to the UK’s The Times, the most likely outcome is a “two-church solution” for the US, allowing conservatives and liberals to exist, separate yet side by side, as Anglicans. It would have implications for the worldwide communion, because many other provinces, including England, have similar problems. The plan this week was to draw up a pact giving the appearance of unity, enabling a final deal to be hammered out at the Lambeth Conference in 2008. The meeting in New York will consider a paper from the seven conservative and Catholic dioceses of the Episcopal Church that oppose the leadership of Bishop Katharine Schori and have appealed to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, for alternative oversight. The conservatives argue that there are already, in effect, two churches under one roof in the US and appeal for a special “commissary” to be appointed to look after them and enable a “ceasefire” until a peace treaty is reached at Lambeth. The conflict over homosexuality reached new heights in recent months with a flooding of media attention on Schori’s controversial appointment. In an interview with The Christian Post last month, Williams denied that it was time for the Church to accept gay and lesbian relationships. “We don’t say ‘Come in and we ask no questions’. I do believe conversion means conversion of habits, behaviors, ideas,

emotions, ” said Williams. “Ethics is not a matter of a set of abstract rules, it is a matter of living the mind of Christ. That applies to sexual ethics.” The Very Reverend Dr John Moses, Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral, said in a media statement in July that he “deeply, deeply” disliked the approach of some provinces within the Communion over homosexuality. “The thought that anybody should be shown the door by the Church, I just find deeply offensive. The real tragedy is that Anglicanism at its best represents something which is very precious, it is a model of reformed Catholicism,” he said. —AC

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California Med School Bans Gay/Straight Student Group, Draws Ire of GLMA By Anthony Cuesta Mare Island, Calif. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Gay and Lesbian Medical Association decried the decision of the Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine, a private medical school near Vallejo, Calif., to ban a student group that focuses on the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender patients and students. In 2002, students at the school formed the Touro University Gay-Straight Alliance (TUGSA) with the mission of â&#x20AC;&#x153;promoting equitable health care delivery through awareness and education, and... representing diversity both on campus and in medicine.â&#x20AC;? This month, Touroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s administration, citing the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Orthodox Jewish heritage, revoked the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s charter and rescinded its funding which had already been approved. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This situation is reminiscent of the deci-

sion of New York Medical College to ban its LGBT student group in 2004 based on that schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Roman Catholic heritage,â&#x20AC;? GLMAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s executive director, Joel Ginsberg, stated. â&#x20AC;&#x153;However, after long discussions, the NYMC administration recognized that the LGBT community continues to be marginalized in healthcare and reinstated the group.â&#x20AC;? As a result of this situation, Ginsberg said, the American Medical Association updated its policies to state that the AMA supports the right of medical students and residents to form groups and meet on-site to further their medical education or enhance patient care without regard to their gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, religion, disability, ethnic origin, national origin or age. Bryan Hopping, a second-year medical student at Touro, said he was disturbed by how â&#x20AC;&#x153;out of touchâ&#x20AC;? the Touroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s administra-

tion is because he sees the students and faculty as â&#x20AC;&#x153;overwhelmingly supportive.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been really touched by conservative students who have come up to me and said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;this club has made me aware of my own homophobia â&#x20AC;&#x201D; thank you,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Hopping said. The Healthy People 2010 Companion Document on LGBT Health, commissioned by the US Department of Health and Human Services, documents a number of health disparities experienced by LGBT persons as a result of their sexual orientation or gender identity. According to Ginsberg, many of these disparities are associated with the fear or outright discrimination LGBT persons experience when they reveal their sexual orientation or gender identity to their healthcare providers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The LGBT community has a unique set of health issues that young doctors-to-be need to know about, so that LGBT people get the care theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re entitled to, just like any other group,â&#x20AC;? Hoppingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s statement continued. Ginsberg says that one of the major goals of the 25th anniversary conference to be held in San Francisco October 11-14, entitled â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Bringing LGBT Healthcare into the Mainstream,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; is to counter the false notion that LGBT health is an exotic area of health. He adds that all physicians encounter LGBT patients in their practices and need to know how to care for them as for all their patients. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Modeling discriminatory attitudes in medical education perpetuates fear and

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Gay Minnesota Senator Remains Optimistic About Re-election

By Troy Espera Minneapolis â&#x20AC;&#x201D; When Minnesota State Sen. Paul Koering revealed that he was gay just days after he stepped up last year as the only Republican senator to oppose a constitutional gay marriage ban, his contemporaries feared that he was committing â&#x20AC;&#x153;political suicide.â&#x20AC;? In the Sept. 12 primary, he will find out if that is true. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be a lot of people watching to see if the voters can look at my record and say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s doing a good job,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? the 41-year-old Koering told The Associated Press. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Or, will they look at my personal life and say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t support him because of that.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; If thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to vote, I may be out of a job.â&#x20AC;? Kevin Goedker, a city councilman whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s challenging Koering in Tuesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s GOP primary, said that if he lost it wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be because his opponent is gay, but that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s making an explicit appeal to voters whose values guide them in the voting booth. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People of high moral values and integrity must rally and support candidates who will work to bring ethics, morals and family values back into government,â&#x20AC;? campaign treasurer Gene Goedker, Kevin Goedkerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s father, wrote in a fundraising letter. But Koering rejects the theory that he canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t win re-election, stating his voting record and work for the district has earned him the respect of many new supporters. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of people are not Republican or Democrat,â&#x20AC;? he told The Brainerd Dispatch. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll pick up almost all the independent voters because they regard me as someone who votes for the district and votes for the peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interests before all others.â&#x20AC;? Responding to his opponents assertion that homosexuality is a sin and that a person shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be proud of ones sins, Koering, at first, said he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know how to react to that statement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not proud Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a sinner,â&#x20AC;? Koering said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m no better than anyone else. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just doing the best I can with the life that God gave me.â&#x20AC;? Patrick Sammon, executive vice president of the Log Cabin Republicans, a gay GOP group, said itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important to the future of the Republican Party that politicians like Koering can find support. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If the Republicans want to be a lasting majority party in America, they canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just shut out gays and lesbians,â&#x20AC;? Sammon said. The Victory Fund, which raises campaign funds for gay candidates, said there are currently 325 openly gay elected officials in the country, out of about 511,000 elected offices. The group doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t break that figure down by party, but â&#x20AC;&#x153;the vast majority of them are Democrats,â&#x20AC;? spokesman Denis Dison said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are seeing more instances of openly gay Republicans, but there are still going to be significant parts of the country where thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be difficult to pull off,â&#x20AC;? Dison said. Despite the primary challenge he faces this year and his occasional differences with party leaders, Koering is comfortable with the Republican Party. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My future actually looks very bright with the party,â&#x20AC;? Koering said.

Schwarzenegger Vetoes Pro-Gay Text Book Bill

Christian Leaders Announce Anti-Homophobia Gathering

Sacramento, Calif — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a bill Sept. 6 that would have prohibited public schools from negatively portraying gays, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. “I am vetoing Senate Bill 1437 because this bill attempts to offer vague protection when current law already provides clear protection against discrimination in our schools based on sexual orientation,” the governor wrote in his veto letter to the Senate Wednesday. The bill, a watered-down version of Sen. Sheila Kuehl’s original measure seeking to include the contributions of gays and lesbians in California’s social science curriculum, drew heavy criticism from conservatives. Randy Thomasson, president of The Campaign for Children and Families said last month that the bill “micromanages public schools by forcing them to promote a gaggle of sexual lifestyles that disturb parents and confuse kids.” “If Schwarzenegger abandons children by signing any of these school indoctrination bills, pro-family voters will abandon him,” Thomasson told CNSNews.com. Kuehl, the Democratic legislator from Santa Monica made changes to her bill after the governor announced he planned to veto it. Schwarzenegger argued in his veto message that the changes were “potentially confusing” because the education code already protects against discrimination. “I and this administration are firmly committed to the vigorous enforcement of these protections,” he said. Kuehl expressed frustration over the veto and said she had explicitly changed the legislation to address the governor’s opposition. “I an extremely disappointed that the governor chose to respond to a small, shrill group of right-wing extremists rather than a fair-minded majority of Californians who support this reasonable measure,” she said in a statement issued Wednesday. — TE

Dallas, Texas — A council of bishops, elders and Christian leaders committed to equal rights and inclusion for all met in Dallas Sept. 9–11 to address religious discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons, and how to counter it. Over 30 faith leaders from across the United States will assemble as part of the three-day event to worship, pray and strategize on how to remove homophobia and hate from our churches, and replace them with hospitality, justice and equality for all. A press conference will conclude the gathering at Thanks-Giving Square Chapel in Dallas. The gathering of faith leaders comes at a time when religious right groups are working to ban lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender and people from houses of worship, and exclude them from the rights to marry, raise children and adopt. “Certain religious groups have aggressively sought to define their agenda in the public’s mind, through publicity and lobbying, as the Christian agenda,” said Rev. Rebecca Voelkel, one of the lead organizers of the Council, in a media statement issued Friday. “On the contrary, there is a growing movement of Christian clergy who reject this agenda, for whom bigotry and exclusion have no place in the Church.”

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Brangelina Won’t Tie the Knot Until Gay Couples Can

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By Ross von Metzke Los Angeles — Fielding the latest in a string of queries from journalists wanting to know when Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie plan to tie the knot, Pitt, long an advocate for social change, announced he and Jolie won’t be marrying until restrictions on who can tie the knot are dropped. “Angie and I will consider tying the knot when everyone else in the country who wants to be married is legally able,” the 42year-old actor and new father reveals tells Esquire Magazine in the October issue, on newsstands this week. In the article, which centers around the theme “fifteen things I think everyone should know,” Pitt also waxes poetic on themes including parenthood, life in the public eye and adopting Angelina’s kids Maddox, 5, and Zahara, 1, who he says he “cannot imagine life” without. “They’re as much of my blood as any natural born, and I’m theirs,” says Pitt. “That’s all I can say about it. I can’t live without them. So: Anyone considering [adoption], that’s my vote.” Pitt’s support for the legalization of samesex marriage comes less than a year after Academy Award Winner Charlize Theron told reporters she would not marry boyfriend Stuart Townsend until gay and lesbian marriage was legalized. Pitt has long been a supporter of the gay community and actively involved in liberal politics. It was long rumored that Pitt was the biological father of close friend Melissa Etheridge’s baby with Julie Cypher.

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New Book Reveals the Architect of the Anti-Gay Constitutional Amendments Had a Gay Father President Bush’s chief political strategist, Utah native Karl Rove, has cunningly used homophobia to score victories for the Republican Party. But Rove is said to have been far from fearful of the gay man he called “Dad.” According to the new book, “The Architect: Karl Rove and the Master Plan for Absolute Power,” Rove “loved and adored” Louis Rove, even though he left the family to move to Palm Springs, Calif. to live as an openly gay man and even though he found out late in life that Louis was not his biological father. In fact, Karl Rove was burying his father in Palm Springs right before leaving to meet with George Bush to reveal his plan to use gay marriage as a wedge issue to win him the election in 2004. “In July of 2004, Karl Rove was concluding a trip to Palm Springs, California and heading off to manage the reelection campaign

of George W. Bush. The president’s senior political advisor had settled on a strategy that he was convinced would increase turnout of the conservative Republican base as well as appeal to fundamentalist Christians in the African-American community. “Rove and his lieutenant Ken Mehlman, who ran the Republican National Committee, had targeted eleven swing states as locales to play out the wedge issue of gay marriage. Although they would work closely with the GOP state operations, Rove and Mehlman denied any coordination or involvement. They were, as they often are, lying. “Rove had left a secret behind in the Southern California desert that made bizarrely cynical his decision to use gay issues to motivate GOP voters. His father, who had just died, was gay. Louis Rove had been a prolific smoker and died of lung diseases but

Conservative political strategist Karl Rove at a Republican fundraiser

he had loved his son and was very proud of his achievements. Although he was not Karl’s biological father, Louis was the only father he had ever known because Karl’s mother Reba had divorced very early in her son’s life. In an interview with Wayne Slater and myself after he had guided the first Bush victory, Rove emphasized that he did not consider Louis his stepfather. ‘I don’t call him Louis,’ he explained. ‘He’s my father, my adopted father.’”

This revelation has many calling Rove a hypocrite. “If this account is true, it further demonstrates how LGBT individuals are found throughout the American family. We are parents, partners, children and citizens who deserve equal protection under the law,” National Stonewall Democrats spokesperson John Marble said. “Unfortunately, the Bush Administration has done little to address the unique legal and social challenges LGBT families face every day. Imagine how the families of our nation would be strengthened if individuals like Karl Rove and Vice President Cheney used their positions to proactively argue the case of individual liberty each time LGBT Americans are scapegoated by this administration.” Co-author Wayne Slater told The Raw Story that Rove, who obtained an early galley of the Crown book, had an intermediary press the authors to leave out the section about his father. “We told him we have a couple of sources on that,” said Slater. “We haven’t heard anything since.” Slater says Rove himself called daily— “one day, six times” — to lobby against a chapter about his connection with indicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff. The book quotes Marc Schwartz, an operative for Texas’ Tigua Indian tribe, as witnessing a scene where Rove walked up to Abramoff’s limo a few blocks from the White House. Schwartz says Abramoff explained that Rove arranged the sidewalk pow-wow to avoid entering a visit or phone calls in White House logs, and besides, “he’s a fat fuck, and he can use the exercise.” Schwartz claims Rove enlisted Abramoff to get “the fireman,” Tom DeLay, to “clamp down” on a House member “who was not cooperating on a piece of legislation.” “Karl is very upset,” Slater told The Raw Story. “He says [that meeting] was an accidental encounter. That’s a bunch of junk.” Abramoff recently pleaded guilty to tax fraud and conspiring to bribe members of Congress. “Many people on the extremist side of the right wing — Phyllis Schlafly and her gay son, (State Sen.) Pete Knight and his gay son, Alan (Keyes) and his gay daughter — this seems to be a pattern in extremist politics where you have people bashing the rights of gay people, and yet in their own families, we’re there,” said Thom Lynch, executive director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Community Center in San Francisco. There has been no response or reaction from Karl Rove on the claims. Louis’ boyfriend, retired real estate agent Joseph Koons, said that although Louis “was never the effeminate type,” he “didn’t hide the fact that he was gay.” Louis Rove left his family during the 1969 Christmas holidays and moved to Los Angeles where he eventually came out. According Koons, “Louie didn’t hide the fact that he was gay. But he didn’t play it up either.” To encourage Rove to socialize, Joseph Koons, invited him to join a retired gay men’s group called the “Old Farts Club,” jokingly referred to among the men as the “Rainbow Casket.” Karl Rove frequently visited his father in the 1980s and Koons said he didn’t sense “any great tension” between Karl and his father. In fact, Rove keeps a photograph of his father on his White House desk and has remarked to reporters that his father “lived life exactly the way he wanted to live it.” “Rove [is] driving an issues agenda that is making life even more difficult for millions of Americans dealing with their sexuality,” says James Moore in the book. “They are being discriminated against for the way they were born in the same manner as were AfricanAmericans when their rights were also disputed by conservatives. And that’s what turns the personal [life] of Karl Rove … into [a] public affair. [He] promulgates policies that invade the privacy of gay and lesbian Americans while covering up [his] own background. “And it is time for their hypocrisy to come out of the closet.”

Equality Utah Announces Endorsements Utah Rebellion Classes Starting

Southern Utah Pride in Zion

The recently formed Utah Rebellion, the only local BDSM/fetish group in Utah will begin offering classes for those interested in learning safe kinky sex play, and which will provide a welcoming environment for the burgeoning community. The first class topic is Play Piercing, in which participants pierce each other with thin needles. The needle penetration releases and stimulates endorphins causing a sexual ruckus in the body. Participants are required to bring to the class the following supplies: 1 box of 25 gauge needles, 1 box of latex or nitrile gloves and several packets of sterile lubricant. The class will be held Saturday, September 30, 4-6:30pm; the cost of the class is $5. Visit utahrebellion.com/yahoo groups to RSVP and gather additional information including where the class will be held.

Southern Utah Pride offers up a multitude of entertainment this year including a karaoke contest, amateur drag lip-sync contest, a dance party with DJ Pop n’ Fresh, raffles, a benefit breakfast and, most importantly, camping at the celebration site of Springdale Community Park located just outside Zion National Park. A pre-party will be held at Jack’s Club in Springdale on Friday night. Join in the fun and sleep under the stars the weekend of September 29. For more information visit groups.yahoo.com/group/SouthernUtahPrideatZion or call 435-668-3396.

Softball League Hosts the First Dan Montoya Tournament Previously known as the Stonewall Classic, Pride Community Softball League presents the inaugural k.a.o.s. Klassic softball tournament fund raiser memorializing the GLBTCUU’s very own Dan Montoya who passed away earlier this year. The tournament takes place Saturday, September 23, 10am at Harmony Park, 3750 S. Main Street. Join the fun as a player or spectator. Individuals and teams of any skill level are encouraged to register for this single elimination tournament. The fee is $10 per player. Team captains may call Adah Maycock at 364-4120 or email to edahmay@ yahoo.com or call Ryan Lassalle at 440-8264. Additional information available to registered teams and or individual players via pride community’s softball league’s hotline at 539-8800, Ext. 21.

SLC Avalanche Players Need Your Junk Thirteen players of the Salt Lake City Avalanche flag football team need your support to get their tight ends to Dallas, Texas for the Gay Super Bowl. A yard sale of all the donations received will be held Saturday, September 23 at 560 E. 700 South. The proceeds will go to the players’ airfare. Donations of all kinds of junk are welcome by dropping them off at 560 E. 700 South or contact David at 884-6751 or by email at schmauch@hotmail.com and someone will come to you and pick it up. The players would be more than happy to receive frequent flyer miles in lieu of crap. If you can’t bring yourself to part with anything, come by the yard sale and buy some more, more, more.

The Fifth Invenio-Utah Gay Men’s Health Summit is an in depth three-day seminar celebrating the community and providing unique alternatives to a healthier—emotional, physical, spiritual and social—lifestyle. The aim of the summit is to forward the gay men’s health movement with a spirit of cooperation, relaxation and fun. Distilled into several provocative workshops over the three days, the seminar will also include nightly entertainment and Senator Scott McCoy as a guest speaker. The summit will be held October 6-8 at the Radisson Hotel. Registration fee is $25. For more information and to register, visit www. ugmh.com.

Featured artists include Daisy Johnson, Sandee Parsons and Sally Neilson among others. Opening at the Gallery Stroll, the show includes a silent auction, a party open to the public, and the spin of DJ Boots. Proceeds go to sWerve and the local artists presented. The show opens September 15, 6-10pm at Static Salon on Pierpont Avenue and is free to the public. A $10 donation is recommended for the party, which begins at 7:30 pm upstairs. An after-party party will be held at Modiggity’s, a private club for members.

Downtown Arts District in Planning Stage The Downtown Alliance and Envision Utah have a strategic plan that utilizes an arts and entertainment district to put people on the street, diners in the restaurants, and patrons in the theaters. But the real question at hand is how it will effect the small, local arts organizations already in existence. Your voice is requested to be heard Tuesday, September 19 at a special panel discussion at the Salt Lake Arts Center from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm.

Walk for Life

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

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.

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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.

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LDS Church Issues New Statement on “Same-Gender Attraction” by Michael Aaron

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints quietly posted a new statement on “same-gender attraction” in the media section of their website just weeks before this weekend’s annual Evergreen International conference. While Evergreen claims not to be affiliated with the church, most of those working within the group are members “called” into service and nearly all clients of the organization are referred by LDS clergy. The 8,500-word statement is a mockinterview between two members of the church’s public relations staff and Dallin H. Oaks, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church, and Lance B. Wickman, a member of the Seventy. In the statement, the church seems to change tact on the issues of the origin of sexual orientation and the potential of changing sexual orientation. On the nature vs. nurture issue, Oaks compares a homosexual orientation to other “disfigurements, or mental or physical incapacities.” When asked if the church has an official position on the causes of homosexuality, Oaks explains, “That’s where our doctrine comes into play. The Church does not have a position on the causes of any of these susceptibilities or inclinations, including those related to same-gender attraction. Those are scientific questions — whether nature or nurture — those are things the Church doesn’t have a position on.” “Why somebody has a same-gender attraction… who can say? But what matters is the fact that we know we can control how we behave, and it is behavior which is important,” Wicks continues. It is widely known that the LDS Church, through referred psychologists and on the Brigham Young Campus, used electroshock therapy and other aversive therapies in attempts to “cure” homosexuality. Oaks, though not admitting any church involvement, called such actions “abusive.” “The aversive therapies that have been used in connection with same-sex attraction have contained some serious abuses that have been recognized over time within the professions,” Oaks said. “Even though [therapies] are addressed at helping people we would like to see helped, we can’t endorse every kind of technique that’s been used.” The church also seems to be backing away from counseling members to marry members of the opposite gender to “solve” their homosexuality. “President Hinckley, faced with the fact that apparently some had believed [heterosexual marriage] to be a remedy, and perhaps that some Church leaders had even counseled marriage as the remedy for these feelings, made this statement: ‘Marriage should not be viewed as a therapeutic step to solve problems such as homosexual inclinations or practices,’” explained Oaks, “To me that means that we are not going to stand still to put at risk daughters of God who would enter into such marriages under false pretenses or under a cloud unknown to them. Persons who have this kind of challenge that they cannot control could not enter marriage in good faith.” The statement does say, however, that “persons who have cleansed themselves of any transgression” may be eligible for marriage.

The statement makes it clear that, while people may be born with homosexual tendencies, the church’s position is that acting on such tendencies is contrary to its gospel. It further states that, like Oaks’ daughter who will likely not marry because of a handicap, gay people are served with a challenge in this life that they, too, cannot marry. But, the member should be heartened by the fact that homosexuality doesn’t exist in the afterlife. The statement also talks about the church’s role in forwarding the idea of a Constitutional amendment. Public Affairs: “On the issue of a Constitutional amendment prohibiting samegender marriage, there are some Latter-day Saints who are opposed to same-gender marriage, but who are not in favor of addressing this through a Constitutional amendment. Why did the Church feel that it had to step in that direction?” Oaks: “Law has at least two roles: one is to define and regulate the limits of acceptable behavior. The other is to teach principles for individuals to make individual choices. The law declares unacceptable some things that are simply not enforceable, and there’s no prosecutor who tries to enforce them. We refer to that as the teaching function of the law. The time has come in our society when I see great wisdom and purpose in a United States Constitutional amendment declaring that marriage is between a man and a woman. There is nothing in that proposed amendment that requires a criminal prosecution or that directs the attorneys general to go out and round people up, but it declares a principle and it also creates a defensive barrier against those who would alter that traditional definition of marriage.” Wickman: “It’s not the Church that has made the issue of marriage a matter of federal law. Those who are vigorously advocating for something called samegender marriage have essentially put that potato on the fork. They’re the ones who have created a situation whereby the law of the land, one way or the other, is going to address this issue of marriage.” Affirmation associate director Hugo Salinas calls the church to task on its assertion that it is not homophobic. “The LDS Church’s record over the last two decades speaks for itself: Gay and lesbian Mormons are routinely excommunicated from the church, cast out from their families, and cast as a satanic threat to family life,” he said. “Spencer W. Kimball once called gays perverts; Elder Boyd K. Packer once dubbed them selfish; now elders Oaks and Wickman compare them to ‘the handicapped.’ Placing gays and lesbians in the same category as those who are ‘born with … disfigurements, or mental or physical incapacities,’ Elders Oaks and Wickman ignore overwhelming scientific evidence that homosexuality is not a disorder but a normal variation of human sexuality.” Buckley Jeppson, who married his partner in Canada and remains a member of the church, though he has been threatened with excommunication, calls the statement “objectionable, insulting, untrue, and manipulative.” “I feel like this statement makes clear that my marriage should never be viewed as lawful, valid, or genuine,” he said.

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Fugitive Fundies Found Bail for captured Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints leader Warren Steed Jeffs is planned to be decided at a Sept. 19 hearing where Washington County prosecutors will likely argue to keep Jeffs at Purgatory Jail. Jeffs, 50, was charged on Sept. 6 with two counts of first-degree felony rape as an accomplice which could earn him a lifetime prison sentence. While the charges against him involve assisting other men to commit sexual offenses against minor girls, Jeffsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; own past is allegedly more metropolitan. Brent Jeffs, 23, filed a lawsuit in 2004 against the church and three of his uncles, including Warren Jeffs, and accused them of raping him when he was five years old. In the suit, Brent Jeffs claimed that his uncles called the abuse â&#x20AC;&#x153;Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s willâ&#x20AC;? to make him a man, that â&#x20AC;&#x153;he never disclose the abuses to anyone, and if he did, it would be upon pain of eternal damnation.â&#x20AC;?

Skinheads: Prison Aryans Arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Us Joe Rakes, 50, was sentenced on Aug. 31 to federal prison for 63 months for conspiring in 2004 to mail a threatening communication and impede a federal officer. Rakes was convicted in March of telling April Dowding to write and send the threat to a prosecutor who charged about a dozen members of the Utah Prison-based white-supremacist Soldiers of Aryan Culture with racketeering. Dowding wrote â&#x20AC;&#x153;You stupid (expletive)! It is because of you that my brothers are in jail for the Rico Ĺ we will get you.â&#x20AC;? She referred to the street on which the prosecutor lived, and signed â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x2122;til the casket drops.â&#x20AC;? Bloggers at the white-pride group Stormfront.org described SAC members as â&#x20AC;&#x153;drug users,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;not Aryanâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;not part of the Skinhead Army.â&#x20AC;?

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Tip: Thanks for Bashing, Please Hold Planning BEFORE violence happens might save your life. The average Salt Lake City Police Department response time for Priority 1 emergencies is five minutes, 45 seconds. The average Salt Lake County Office of the Sheriff response time for such emergencies is 10 minutes, 41 seconds. U.S. Supreme Court justices even ruled that law-enforcement officers arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t obligated to protect people from crime. Knowing how you can avoid, escape or fight an attacker or home invader decreases your chance of injury far more than just calling 9-1-1. David Nelson knows crime. In a life of politics, he was victimized by several crimes, convicted of another and his nameâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s even part of the U.S. Terrorist Screening Records System. But, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still a self-avowed big-phat, gay, gun-owning Democrat. Ignominy isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t what it used to be.

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DJ Pete â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jesterâ&#x20AC;? Savas has been chosen to deejay â&#x20AC;&#x153;Real Bad XVIIIâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the unofficial closing dance event for Folsom Street Fair weekend in San Francisco set for Sunday, Sept. 24. REAL BAD is a steamy nine-hour leather celebration held since 1999 at the south of Market club 1015 Folsom. Now in its 18th year, it is the longest running, most successful fundraising event of its kind in San Francisco, and has raised over $550,000 that has been donated to 34 organizations over the years. Savas is a native â&#x20AC;&#x153;New York City Boyâ&#x20AC;? living in Salt Lake City, who started DJing in 1984. The nickname came as a result of his style, and more aptly, his personality: Between mixes, a glance at the booth is just as likely to find this DJ dancing with as much energy and enthusiasm as his crowds do. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is the culmination of a 10-year dream that began at The Sun, and, I hope, the start of bigger things for me as a DJ; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s such an honor to have been selected,â&#x20AC;? said Savas. Pete has played most of the gay clubs in Salt Lake City at one time or another, and has been featured out-of-state at Bacchus House in San Diego, Faces in Sacramento, and The Cuff Complex in Seattle. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s headlined Utahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, and Southern Utahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gay Pride celebrations since 1999, and earned the prestigious 2001 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Golden Spike Favorite DJâ&#x20AC;? award. Savas was chosen among many applicants because of his ability to read the crowd and go beyond just what they want to what they need, which has earned him past residencies at Cuff at Club Sound (2005), Club Axis (1999-2002) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; where heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opened for DJs Don Bishop, Brett Henrichsen, Phil B, Neil Lewis, Joe Bermudez, DJ Jeremy, Brian Pfeifer, Julian Marsh, and Frank Abraham; at Zipperz (19992003); and at Club Blue (2003-2004), a local leather/Levi nightspot. Before that, Pete shared the Friday and Saturday night residency at The Sun from 1996-99, when it was blown away by a tornado. Pete says that DJing is about more than just a packed dance floor; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about sharing the music he loves. That passion is evident in every set.

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New LDS Message is More Homophobia

Camp History by Ruby Ridge,

ruby@qsaltlake.com

So, darlings, I have a pop quiz for you! What does the LDS Church and our gay bar Try-Angles have in common? If you answered that Gordon B. Hinckley (current “prophet” of the church) and Gene (owner of Try-Angles) are about the same age, then I just love the appalling and twisted way that you think, but no, that’s not it. The answer, cherubs, is that they both support Camp Pinecliff Weekend, the annual retreat for people with HIV/ AIDS, their family members, and supportgivers. Surprised? Well considering how few people know the whole story behind the camp’s 15-year history and the astonishingly diverse coalition of volunteers, businesses, and community groups that make it possible, then you probably would be. So let me fill you in on some of the details. Camp Pinecliff Weekend actually started 16 years ago when David Sharpton, who created the People With AIDS Coalition of Utah, put together a camp for people with AIDS at the YMCA’s Camp Rogers above Kamas. In those early and rather depressing days, the camp was restricted solely to people with AIDS for confidentiality reasons. I have to tell you as a naive volunteer, I remember waking up at 4am in the morning wondering what the hell was going on, because the entire camp was wide awake and up and about. I’m not talking about one or two people sitting around the camp fire, I mean the entire camp! It turned out that in those days folks had to take AZT pills the size of elephant tranquilizers every four hours around the clock. So, suddenly, it was fiesta time in the camp kitchen in the middle of the night. It was surprising things like that, and the overwhelming sense of community that the camp created, that pushed us into making it an annual event. Sadly all of those friends from the early years have passed away, and now a new, very different generation has taken their place, but the camp still endures.

As treatments changed and longevity increased, Camp Pinecliff was expanded to include HIV positive folks, their care providers, and family members. It has successfully operated for the last ten years on a simple “don’t ask, don’t tell” approach, where HIV status is just not an issue. It is simply a chance to get away in the peace and beauty of the mountains, with campers coming from Vernal, Southern Utah, the Wasatch Front, and even Southern Idaho. Now here’s the amazing part about Camp Pinecliff. It is completely staffed and operated by volunteers with no financial assistance from local, state, or federal governments, or AIDS agencies. Registered nurses, massage therapists, hair dressers, and artists donate their time and talents year after year, as does the Men’s Group of First Baptist Church in Salt Lake City (and their wives) who come up and cook all of the meals for our 70 plus campers. On a personal note, Camp Pinecliff was where I first met the Utah Cyber Sluts who host bingo there every year…and the rest as they say … is glamour history! But here are the other heroes of the Pinecliff story. Most of the food is donated by local businesses and community groups, which keeps costs down, and the camp affordable to folks on disability incomes. Since day one, the LDS Church has graciously provided all of the eggs, bread, milk, cheese, pasta, and fruit, while Gastronomy, Collosimos, and Granato’s Deli provide all of the meat. Condies provides salads and hash browns, and Try-Angles supplies bottled water and soda. The Cyber Sluts and members of the Utah Bear Alliance raised $1,500 this year so that any PWA needing a scholarship can attend at no charge. Proudly I can say that no one has ever been turned away in the camp’s history due to inability to pay! So next time you see Gene or President Hinckley at the bar, or any of the other people who make Pinecliff possible, give them a big heartfelt thanks, because their generosity makes the lives of people with HIV/AIDS a little better each September. Ciao, kittens! Q 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.

By Hugo Salinas On August 14 the Public Relations Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints posted on its website an interview with Apostle Dallin H. Oaks and Lance B. Wickman of the Seventy, addressing the status of gays and lesbians. The 8,500-word document reaffirms some important facts, including President Gordon B. Hinckley’s admonition that marriage should not been seen as a therapeutic step to “cure” homosexuality. It also includes, perhaps for the first time ever, a timid condemnation of aversion therapy. Despite these positive points, a careful reading of this document reveals that the real purpose of this interview is not to “help” gay and lesbian people and their families, but to spin and deny the accusation of being “homophobic.” In this interview, Elders Oaks and Wickman further insult gays and lesbians by comparing them to people with mental retardation and demonstrating ignorance about the science of human sexuality. Regarding the accusation that the church is homophobic, the LDS Church’s record over the last two decades speaks for itself: Gay and lesbian Mormons are routinely excommunicated from the church, cast out from their families, and cast as a satanic threat to family life; Brigham Young University has an embarrassing history of spying on gay and lesbian students, submitting them to socalled “electroshock therapy,” and summarily expelling them. The prophet of the LDS Church recently railed against homosexuality in the context of a reference to Sodom and Gomorrah, and a high-ranking leader suggested a comparison between the gay rights movement and the rise to power of Hitler. The LDS Church has mounted aggressive political campaigns in Alaska, California, Utah, and many other states to fight against marriage equality, with the ultimate goal of amending the US Constitution to ensure that gay and lesbian couples will never have the right to marry. It is hard to know how to characterize these aggressive actions and the extreme language used by Church representatives except as homophobic. Elder Spencer W. Kimball once called gays perverts; Elder Boyd K. Packer once dubbed them selfish; now elders Oaks and Wickman compare them to “the handicapped.” Placing gays and lesbians in the same category as those who are “born with… disfigurements, or mental or physical incapacities,” Elders Oaks and Wickman ignore overwhelming scientific evidence that homosexuality is not a disorder but a normal variation of human sexuality. Their analogy suggests that they feel pity for gays and lesbians. However, gay and lesbian Mormons are not interested in their religious leaders’ pity but in their respect— something Elders Oaks and Wickman are apparently unwilling to give. Elders Oaks and Wickman refuse to even acknowledge the existence of gay and lesbian people, employing instead euphemisms and misnomers such as “somebody who is struggling with same-sex attraction” and making offensive references to “the homosexual lifestyle.” It is ironic that a church, which is so preoccupied with the names by which it is called in the media, would refuse to extend to gays and lesbians the courtesy or referring to them by the names by which they refer to themselves. One wonders how Elder Oaks would feel if an anti-Mormon website were to call Mormons “those who struggle with heretical tendencies” or make reference to their “apostate lifestyle.” Elders Oaks and Wickman insult gays and lesbians by denying their identity and by refusing to acknowledge that

homosexuality is not a matter of “lifestyle” but of sexual orientation. Elder Oaks claims that “in at least one country” a church pastor was “threatened with prison for preaching from the pulpit that homosexual behavior is sinful.” This isolated anecdote, for which Elder Oaks cites no specific laws nor resulting convictions, stands over against the laws and customs of many Islamic countries where women are second-class citizens and homosexuals are regularly jailed, tortured, and executed. In Saudi Arabia, for example, homosexuals are routinely imprisoned, flogged, and executed under existing anti-gay laws. Perhaps the reason that Elder Oaks and other LDS leaders chose to ignore these atrocities, in favor of vague protests that their freedom of speech is being curtailed, is found in the anti-gay and anti-feminist alliances Latter-day Saints are proudly forging with Muslim leaders around the world. In 1996, the LDS Church began to forge international coalitions to fight against marriage equality, equal rights for women, and women’s reproductive rights. Saudi Arabia is one of the LDS Church’s key partners in this alliance against humans rights. Elder Oaks summarily discards same-sex marriage by invoking “thousands of years of human experience” and by claiming that homosexuality “has been disapproved for millennia.” However, he fails to give any anthropological, sociological, or historical foundation for these claims. How can someone with Elder Oak’s knowledge and education not be aware of the well-documented realities that homosexuality has manifested itself in cultures and nations across history, and that same-sex partnerships have never been the object of universal condemnation? In their aggressive campaign against samesex marriage, Elder Oaks and other LDS leaders are simply out of step with contemporary science. As recently stated by the American Anthropological Association, “the results of more than a century of anthropological research on households, kinship relationships, and families, across cultures and through time, provide no support whatsoever for the view that either civilization or viable social orders depend upon marriage as an exclusively heterosexual institution. Rather, anthropological research supports the conclusion that a vast array of family types, including families built upon same-sex partnerships, can contribute to stable and humane societies.” Straining at the gnat of a handful of decontextualized biblical passages presented as evidence of God’s condemnation of homosexuality, Elders Oaks and Wickman overlook the message of tolerance and acceptance taught by the Savior. By embracing the values and rhetoric of the Religious Right, elders Oaks and Wickman show how far the LDS Chruch has moved from the days when Mormon leaders proudly defended their right to practice an alternative family model by marrying more than one wife. By repeating the abstract claim that same-sex marriage will destroy the institution of marriage, they divert attention from the intensity with which they, the leaders of the LDS Church, are pursuing concrete measures that weaken and destroy families, including families with children, as they globally oppose and lobby against same-sex families. In their interview, Elders Oaks and Wickman seem to be more concerned about protecting the church’s public image than in helping homosexuals. Apostle Oaks seems more lawyerly than prophetic. Instead of condemning those who have been created with homosexual orientation, I would invite Elders Oaks and Wickman to contemplate God’s unconditional love for all people, Jesus’s all-encompassing embrace, and the awesome diversity of God’s creation. Q Hugo Salinas is an associate director for Affirmation: Gay & Lesbian Mormons, affirmation.org.

Gay Life Before Stonewall by Ben Williams

ben@qsaltlake.com

places we felt we were not alone; were not an aberration. There were simply too many of us to be merely freaks of nature. To many people, our bars were truly a home when unwanted else where. Gay activist and hell-raiser Kevin Hillman said it best, “Until we acknowledge all of our history and the part that gay bars played in that history, as well as those who provided a path for our freedoms that we have today, we will always be fighting amongst ourselves.” Cheers. Q

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. 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.

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As hard as it might be to imagine, in pre-Stonewall Utah, homosexuals were not simply arrested for engaging in public sexual behavior, but they were also spied on, pursued to hotels and motels, sneak-peaked on in parked cars, and even arrested in their own homes. If you were a Utah pansy, life seemed bleak and desperate because it was! Being a homosexual was considered Un-American, one degree worse then being a Communist, even. As this societal pariah, at best, you were considered by the good people of the state as either mentally ill, sexually maladjusted, a criminal or all of the above. Usually all of the above. What to do? Of course there were no gay and lesbian support groups in the state back then. Not one Gay Straight Alliance Club. Can you believe it? All homosexual intercourse, social as well as sexual, fell under the perusal of the vice squads of your neighborhood police departments. Only the thin blue line stood between the Citizens for Decency and sodomy on Temple Square. So it would appear. The only true social outlets for pre-Stonewall queers were softball leagues for the ladies and private house parties for the gents. While a friendly game of softball was egalitarian enough, not so were the elite affairs of the homosexual men. Having visited with several seniors who were “practicing homosexuals” prior to Stonewall, I was told that much of the “gay” scene was conducted at private residences, much like what is still happening today in Utah County. A fortunate few homosexuals were invited to these small secret homosexual cabals but unless initiated into such a group, you were simply out of luck. These cliques jealously guarded their privacy knowing that exposure could destroy lives. However invitees often brought acquaintances or “initiates” to these curtains drawn, shades pulled, topsecret middle-class soirees. Attendees were expected to dress up, coats and ties for men, dresses and makeup for fag hags. Drag was bête noire. However, cocktails were served, and small talk made, and all eyes cruised all the baskets in the room. We are not talking wicker. These chic parties tried to imitate the cosmopolitan air of similar avant-garde parties on the east and west coasts. I doubt if they succeeded. Yes, lesbians had their softball leagues and thus could be more “tom-boyish,” okay butch. But at these residential parties, when they were “mixed,” a more formal attire was required. Lipstick. However the butchies were allowed to wear sporty men’s clothing, with slicked back or short cropped hair, to distinguish themselves from the “fems” who were in party dresses, panties, and “come fuck me” shoes. So if one did not have the connections, or a tie, where could one meet other homos? Where they always met: the parks, discreet toilets, and the few friendly bars. These were the cruising places for the queer riffraff and the anxious closeted homosexual community prior to Stonewall. Quick, anonymous (and hot) sex can be as addicting as any adrenaline rush, so I have been told, and throw in the fear factor of being

caught, who the hell needed crystal meth? Additionally, anonymous sex afforded the luxury of the illusion of returning to whatever “normal” life one was leading. That is until lily law busted your lily white ass. Apologies to James “You called me a slave” Evans in advance. Go directly to jail. Do not pass go. In Utah there were no get out of jail free cards. So if you didn’t know anyone, and the idea of going to jail for crawling around in a public toilet, was less then appealing, where did one go then? Sing with me, “There is a tavern in the town (in the town). There my true love can be found (can be found).” Gay friendly bars — the haven of the downtrodden, the thirsty and the horny, not necessarily all in that order. To the modern LGBT Carrie Nations of the PC world police, gay bars never were and never have been about getting simply an alcoholic beverage. The saloons, taverns, bars, private clubs were then the only semi-secure place homosexuals could safely meet, even if everso-discreetly. Gay-friendly bars were also the only safe places where Utah trannies could cross dress. (There — I’ve included transgender so “piss off” all those who say I ain’t inclusive enough.)

Those who are upset that gay culture is so identified with tavern life have no concept of history, and often are the same individuals who are the first to say being “homosexual” is only a part of me. It’s “what I do” as opposed to “what I Am.” Get over yourself, Margaret Dumont. You’re a frigging fairy. While gay bars were never safe due to police raids, blackmail, or assault by guilt-ridden closet cases, they were the wellsprings, where the beginnings of “homosexual consciousness” bubbled up. It was in these

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Open Letter to Elders Oaks and Wickman

by Mike Kessler Dear Elder Oaks and Elder Wickman, I am writing in regard to the mock interview about “same-gender attraction” which is posted on the LDS.org Web site’s area for the news media. Your article contains more than 8,500 words, and, when I printed it out, was thirteen pages long. I already knew that homosexuality was of concern to you, but I never realized how much you dwelled upon it until I saw this interview. ELDER OAKS: “This is much bigger than just a question of whether or not society should be more tolerant of the homosexual lifestyle. Over past years we have seen unrelenting pressure from advocates of that lifestyle to accept as normal what is not normal, and to characterize those who disagree as narrow-minded, bigoted and unreasonable.” Much scientific research has been published in the last twenty years, which indicates that homosexuality is a normal human condition for a small percentage of the population. In fact, homosexuality is a normal condition for a small percentage of many of the earth’s species. You seem unable or unwilling to grasp some fundamental aspects of the basic human rights, basic American rights, which many gays and lesbians are seeking. That is somewhat understandable, since you are not gay. Still, many people who are not gay or lesbian understand that, as humans,

probably our most dire need is not for sex, but for love. I assume you married your wife because you love her, not merely because she had the body parts you required. If people, straight or gay, only desired sex and not love from a partner, then there would either be many fewer unmarried people or no married people at all. When there is a lack of love and intimacy in a person’s life, it almost always leads to depression, social disorders, and sometimes death. (Before recommending that other people live alone and celibate, I would suggest you attempt this yourself for five years, and see how you fare. Now think of living that way for your entire life.) It is irresponsible to ask that others put their lives on the line in a way that you would not consider for yourselves. Personally, I married my husband because I love him; I value his intelligence, his wit and his commitment to his family and now to our combined family. I could have “settled” for someone else if I wanted something lower than love, but I waited many years until I received what I believe to be Divine confirmation that my husband and I had been destined for each other. We have been legally married for two years now. We had to fly to another country to get married, but we said the same vows that most people say when they are married, and we made those vows in the presence of my parents, several of our friends, and a legally appointed official of the City of Toronto, in a wedding chapel at Toronto City Hall. One point of confusion you apparently have is that there is only one type of marriage. It is true that in the United States a couple can receive a simultaneous religious and civil wedding. There are many countries throughout the world where this is not the

case. In those countries, a couple must first obtain a civil wedding in a legally designated location (such as a courthouse or city hall) by a civil official, and then, if they wish, they travel to another location for a religious wedding. I know several couples who live or have lived outside the United States, and it is not uncommon for the religious wedding to follow weeks or even months after the civil wedding. A civil marriage confers a large set of civil rights on the couple, and a religious marriage confers blessings, which no government could ever bestow on a couple. Let me make it clear that I do not seek to compel any religion to perform a religious wedding against their will. To quote your own Doctrine and Covenants 134:4:9, “We do not believe it just to mingle religious influence with civil government, whereby one religious society is fostered and another proscribed in its spiritual privileges, and the individual rights of its members, as citizens, denied.” Also, Joseph F. Smith further emphasized this when he said, “...We favor: The absolute separation of church and state; No domination of the state by the church; No church interference with the functions of the state; No state interference with the functions of the church, or with the free exercise of religion; The absolute freedom of the individual from the domination of ecclesiastical authority in political affairs; The equality of all churches before the law.” In other parts of your interview, you say things such as “Everyone has some challenges they have to struggle with,” “[L]ife is full of physical infirmities that some might see as discriminations — total paralysis or serious mental impairment being two that are relevant to marriage.” You often refer to homosexuality as an affliction which some must bear and suffer. I assure you, the only suffering I have done as a gay man is at the hands and through the words of those who

choose to treat me unkindly and unjustly rather than with love and compassion. Gays and lesbians are about as healthy as the general population. While some do have a disability, it is separate from that part which is gay or lesbian. Frankly, I am utterly appalled at Elder Wickman’s exploitative use of his disabled daughter in order to make a case against same-sex marriage. I pray that, in private, she is afforded more dignity than he has shown her in public, and not unknowingly trotted out in the future as a sacrificial lamb. I ask you to please remove this mock interview from the LDS.org Web site. Not only is it highly offensive, it is also riddled with untruths and circular reasoning which shows that you are unable to support your stand. You already know that people have died because of these unrealistic expectations, and thousands of others have been abandoned by their families. Do not expect of others what you would not expect of yourself. Do not expect others to live a life of loneliness, deprived of love and affection, merely because their love is different from yours. Please show that you value compassion, thought and love, not blind unquestioning obedience to impossible and cruel expectations. Mike Kessler and husband Buckley Jeppson were featured in the April 1 issue of QSaltLake in the cover story “LDS. Gay. Legally Married. Excommunicated?”

Dept. of Corrections In the Fall Arts Preview of the Sept. 1 issue, we mentioned that Plan B Theatre Company would be showing an encore production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. As much as we would go again and again to see the show, they are not bringing it back this season. QSaltLake regrets the error.

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GLAAD President Neil Giuliano to Address 1000 Allies Dinner Guests Former Tempe, Ariz. Mayor ‘Inspired’ by the Work of Equality Utah by Michael Aaron

michael@qsaltlake.com

Neil Giuliano is inspired by what is happening in Utah and looks forward to congratulating Equality Utah for their successes at the group’s annual Allies Dinner. Giuliano was named president of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation last August after deciding not to seek a fifth term as Tempe, Arizona’s mayor. “The successes being seen in Utah are very inspiring,” Giuliano said. “When Mike Thompson called to invite me, I said, ‘absolutely.’” “Neil Giuliano is not only a leader in the national LGBT rights movement, he is also a proven political leader with experience in building relationships to advance equality issues,” said Mike Thompson, executive director of Equality Utah. “Neil will be able to provide us with the insight and inspiration to better develop and utilize ally relationships to reach our mutual goal of a fair and just Utah.” Giuliano has been a leader at least since 1982 when he was elected student body officer at Arizona State University, where he earned a M.Ed. degree in Higher Education Administration and served for 25 years as a university administrator and faculty associate. He was elected to the Tempe City Council in 1990 and then as mayor from 1994 through 2004. Religious conservatives successfully drew enough signatures to put him up for a recall election in 2001 after he supported removing the Boy Scouts of America from the city’s United Way contribution forms. He triumphed in that election with 68 percent of the vote in the largest voter-turnout election in the city’s history, even though it was held on the infamous September 11, 2001. “It was interesting to me [during the recall election campaign] that to the overwhelming majority of voters, my sexual orientation had nothing to do with my job of being mayor,” Giuliano told QSaltLake. “The voices of extremism on both sides would be better served if they would acknowledge that the majority of Americans are in the middle. We should govern to the middle, not the extremes.” It is to that “middle” that Giuliano focuses his efforts with GLAAD. He said his new role with the organization has “been so energizing and exciting as I travel the country representing GLAAD, making a cultural impact working for fair accurate representation in media.” “It is important that the middle majority understand that we [gay and lesbian people] want the same as all Americans,” he said. GLAAD is a media advocacy group that says it is “in the business of changing people’s hearts and minds through what they see in the media.” “We know that what people watch on TV or read in their newspaper shapes how they view and treat the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people around them. And we have a responsibility to make sure those images foster awareness, understanding and respect,” says GLAAD’s website. Giuliano was named president of GLAAD after an exhaustive search of candidates. “After leaving the mayor’s office in the summer of 2004,” Giuliano said, “I went into real estate and leadership development consulting. [GLAAD’s] search firm called me and at first I said ‘No, thanks.’ At that time I wasn’t looking for a leadership role in full-time LGBT advocacy.” He gave them several names of people to contact, but those people pointed back at Giuliano as the right candidate for the job. He ultimately agreed to head the group and has found it extremely rewarding and exciting since. “I think of my own experience in Tempe,” Giuliano said. “I understand firsthand how important it is to ensure that our stories are being told through the media in every corner of this country. I believe that for the future of our movement, we must seek to reach people

with diverse backgrounds, experiences and beliefs and connect them to a common pursuit of liberty and justice. I feel enormously fortunate to lead GLAAD’s effort to do just that.” Giuliano looks back on the positive outcomes of the recall election effort against him. “We wouldn’t have city policies against discrimination based on sexual orientation and being transgender if we didn’t have that conversation,” he explains. “That’s where it all starts. In a broad sense, that’s what GLAAD is all about. Conversations are able to take place with visibility in the media. From Brokeback Mountain to [Logo Network’s] Noah’s Arc to a series of stories in Ladies Home Journal. And openly gay characters in General Hospital and As the World Turns. Impressions matter a great deal. They change hearts and minds.” Giuliano encourages everyone to be part of the solution in whatever role most suits them. “We all need to be visible. We need to tell our stories and find ways to support the broader movement for equality,” he says. “Some of us are going to do that in high-profile positions on a national level. Others will on a state-wide basis. Some will fill that role by being out and open to friends and coworkers. These are all valuable roles. They are all important roles.” “Research shows that people are more supportive of our equality when they actually know someone who is gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender,” he continued. “That compels all of us to accept the responsibility to be open and honest and seek to have those conversations with people, even when they are uncomfortable.” “Policy will change when attitudes change.” Q

Equality Utah Dinner Raises Funds for Candidates Tuesday, Sept. 18, Utah’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community will have an opportunity unlike ever before — to come together and lend support to over 30 candidates who have taken a stand for our equality. Equality Utah asks you to imagine the possibilities if each of these candidates were elected. Allies Dinner 2006 ‘Together We Can’ is a fund-raiser for Equality Utah PAC, not for the operating expenses of the lobby organization or the educational foundation. Equality Utah PAC provides financial and volunteer Equality Utah Executive Director support the campaigns of LGBT Mike Thompson and LGBT friendly candidates. The group is expecting an attendance of 1,000 people. “As we identify, endorse, support and elect more and more fair-minded candidates, we are able to increase the opportunity of securing rights and protections for LGBT Utahns and our families,” said Equality Utah Executive Director Mike Thompson. “Having four endorsed LGBT candidates and 33 endorsed ally candidates, we are well on our way! This year’s Allies Dinner is significant to our community and we must support this event and these candidates.” Last year’s dinner drew about 800 guests and 300 attended it 2004. The phenomenal growth has fueled the organization’s ability to support pro-gay candidates. Last year, Gov. Jon Huntsman, Jr., Rocky Anderson and many other elected leaders attended the dinner. This year, the dinner will once again be held at the Salt Palace Grand Ballroom. It will begin at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 18, with a cocktail hour. Tickets are available for $100 at 355-3479. “The Allies Dinner celebrates the relationships the Utah LGBT community has with our allies,” said Thompson.

The Importance of Being Politically-Active as Queers in Utah We asked our readers to send us a 400-word essay on the importance of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people being politically active in Utah. We promised the best essay two tickets to the Allies Dinner worth $100 each. Congratulations to Ruth Hackford-Peer! Utah, fair-minded candidates they endorse, or the Human Rights Campaign. Become a delegate to the political party of your choice to ensure that fair-minded individuals make it to the ballot. If so inclined, run for public office yourself. Being politically involved can also be as simple as being out and proud, living a life of integrity, visible to those who may not have had much exposure to the GLBT community. Everyday conversations with friends and co-workers can help our cause. Case in point: some Mormon co-workers and I began discussing Amendment 3 during the late summer of 2004 when they discovered I was donating some paintings to Art Against Amendment 3. To my surprise, two of them indicated that they were in favor of marriage equality and that they viewed it as a civil rights issue. One later indicated to me that his support of marriage equality was due to his association with me, his first gay friend. It was a humbling experience to say the least. Be out and proud and talk to people; you never know who your allies may be.

Not the Faceless “Them”

that most of my co-workers had ever met. There were some initial bumps in the road concerning what was appropriate to ask and not ask. Luckily, I never had to field the “so which one of you is the woman” question. But I realized that being politically active in Utah is much more than signing a petition or registering to vote. People that don’t believe in equal rights need to know who they are talking about, not as some faceless “them” but as human beings, as their neighbors and co-workers, as their friends. While there are definite adversaries to the cause of equality in Utah, I believe that most of the people here would change their tune if they really got to know us. I can’t help but think back to the Amendment 3 campaign in 2004. We saw a clear departure from party-line voting on the issue of banning gay marriage. Why? Because people knew who they were voting against. When the people around us see how much dedication and effort we are putting into just being a part of the greater community, we will start to see real change. To put a spin on a classic gay adage, “We’re here, we care, get used to it.”

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other because they have not been given the opportunity to understand one another. We deny our family members, friends, neighbors, co-workers, and community members the opportunity to understand us and stand with us in our fight for equality when we don’t attempt to bridge our differences through basic one-on-one communication, as well as political and community involvement. We each must put our own face on the LGBT equal rights movement. I believe that true progress will come to LGBT rights when the majority of the people in this country realize that they know and love someone that belongs to our community. The issue of equality affects everyone, not just those who are being treated as second-class citizens, and any individual that believes that his/her rights are safe when another’s are in jeopardy is most definitely living with a false sense of security. As human beings we are all truly equal and no more free than the most oppressed among us.

Matthew Gerber During these days when social conservatives make the GLBT community a scapegoat for everything from 9/11 to the deterioration of the family, it is not only important that members of our community be politically involved, it is imperative. Without this political involvement, things truly can only get worse; however, we can change minds and hearts to see that our community wants and deserves nothing more than equality under the law. Registering to vote, and then doing so on election day, is essential. Excuses that “my vote doesn’t count here” are absurd. If each person who has that attitude voted, it would make a difference overall. While exercising our right to vote is an excellent start to being politically active, there are a number of other ways to make a difference in our political climate. Display a lawn sign or bumper sticker. Volunteer for the campaign of fair-minded candidates or for Equality Utah, our GLBT political action committee. Donate generously to Equality

Alan Walker I was registered as an Independent before moving to Utah. I never saw the necessity of aligning myself with a political party before. In my previous hometowns, Manhattan and San Francisco, I felt like the fight for equal rights was over years before I came out of the closet. When I moved to Utah in 2001, I found my home. The scenery, the people, the liquor laws, they all felt right ... well, the scenery and the people. I started to recognize what an amazing place this was ... if you are straight. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve never been assaulted physically or verbally, but everyday tasks like finding a job, renting a house with my partner at the time, even signing up for a family plan at the gym were all things that resulted in frustration and anxiety because I was gay. Living in cities where I had those “everyday” privileges let me know how it could and should be for everyone, regardless of class, religion, race or sexual orientation. I was the first openly gay individual

Ryan Shattuck Many “out” members of the LGBT community are still living in the political closet. Attending the annual fundraising dinners for the HRC and Equality Utah does not make you a political activist any more than attending a sports game makes you an athlete. The fight for equality needs each member of the LGBT community actively involved every single day of the year, not just on one or two elaborate evenings. Fear is something that far too many members of the LGBT community are familiar with today. Whether it was the fear of how your family would react when they found out you were gay, or the fear that comes to any community that is the victim of hate crime, it has the same destabilizing effect. Far too often this fear is justified by the ignorance that is allowed to prevail throughout much of our society. This ignorance exists simply because people do not understand one an-

Ryan Shattuck Several months ago, I had a straight acquaintance from work ask me if I was gay. To which I replied, “if you had to ask, you most likely already know the answer.” And he did. Life is full of redundant questions. Questions that we already know the answer, and regardless still feel the need to ask. Has anyone actually been disappointed by Madonna’s recent announcement that she will no longer act in film? Is it ever permissible to wear black socks with Birkenstocks in public? Why is it important for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people to be politically involved in Utah? This isn’t a question that we should be asking. The fact that we ask ourselves why this is important is troubling. Rather, we should be asking ourselves HOW gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people can become politically involved. To still be asking why clearly demonstrates a questionability of our motivation. Like asking why whites and colors should be washed separately—this is something that should be inherent. It is not important for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people to be politically involved in Utah. It is essential.

Utah is the most perfectly red state in the nation. A state so conservative, that its official state colors are red, caucasian and blue. Utah is well known for fighting any variation of tradition at all costs. The existence of gay men and women isn’t a variation. What defies tradition is our demand to be recognized and respected. We’ve always been here. It is true that gay rights in Utah often feel like a constant uphill battle, in the snow, with no legs. With jaundice. It would be very easy for us to live somewhere else. We are welcome in many other states, but aren’t welcome in Utah. Why stay? For many, leaving isn’t an option. We’re here for jobs, school or family. We actually choose to live here. Ironically, I moved from gay-loving Boston to gay-hating Salt Lake City to finish school and be closer to family. For many, Utah is home. Perhaps gay rights don’t matter. Until we try adopting … or donating blood to the Red Cross … or mentioning our life partner at work. Why is it important for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people to be politically involved in Utah? We shouldn’t be asking ourselves this question. We already know the answer.

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because here, life is hard for GLBTQ people and if changes can be made and minds can be changed here, there is hope for everywhere else out there. Utah is the stage where great changes can and will be made, but the only way to do this is through political action. There is no better time to change the world than now and no better, more permanent and effective way to do it than through political action. Utah can be the segue to a new and better, equal way of life if all of us would step forward and be so bold as to act and achieve it. We must all become politically active in a united effort for change, or those who would try may fall for insufficient support. The fight for equality is the duty of all GLBTQ people who want it. There are innumerable reasons why it is so important for the GLBTQ community to be politically active in Utah. What is yours? Are you politically active? As Albert Einstein said, “the world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.” Get out there, be politically active, and do something. Together, we can make a difference and win equality for all.

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powers in the world: the power of love and the power of imagination. He continues to amaze me with his internal sense of fairness, his understanding of abstract concepts, and his empathy for others. I am proud to take part in the coming-of-age of this politicallyand socially-conscious, feminist, anti-racist little boy. The single most political act of my life was the decision to have children amid the homophobia among us. He is at the age that he realizes not everybody approves of his family. This year’s dyke march was revealing with its protesters and one man in particular who chose to bestow Riley with his prejudice and hate. Riley asked afterward, “Why does that man think you can’t have two moms?” I’m still learning how to explain bigotry in an age-appropriate way. It is a conversation we have almost daily. But, it was Riley who explained it best to us while driving home from the dyke march that day. “Moms,” he said. “It was important that we came.” Then he spread his arms up and in front of him like Superman. “That man just needs more power of love!” We are lesbians raising sons in Utah. It is indeed important that we came.

Anastasia Utah is nicknamed the “Beehive State”, but when it comes to the GLBTQ community living here, Utah really ought to be called the “Bigoted State”. Perhaps here, more than anywhere else, GLBTQ people have to fight vehemently for their rights on a daily basis. Non-GLBTQ persons are granted these rights simply by being born, but GLBTQ people have to fight for them, and have not yet achieved them on a group-wide level. In Utah, GLBTQ people are enveloped in bigotry, prejudice and discrimination. Hatred and ignorance run rampant here. GLBTQ people should act for equality, and the time is now. Like never before, the war for equal rights wages on—GLBTQ versus all who oppose equality. It is more important now, more than ever before, that the GLBTQ community should unite and fight for equal rights. Through politics—changing the laws and minds of those bigots, each one by one—the GLBTQ community can and will find equality and get the results that it has fought so long and hard to attain. It is so important to be politically active in Utah

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CONTEST WINNER My son Riley has curly red hair. My partner has spiky blond hair and I tower over them both, a few pounds overweight, nondescript looking, typically carrying our three-monthold Casey. My partner is a student at the University of Utah. I work full-time. I shuttle the boys between doctor appointments and birthday parties. I nurse Casey in the night and pace with him when his reflux gets unbearable. I comfort Riley when he has a bad dream or a “pee pee potty accident.” My life feels so domestic and routine—the opposite of what one would assume a political activist would feel like. I grew up in Utah, but moved to Massachusetts after coming out. I loved the progressive, liberal, queer-friendly Pioneer Valley, but eventually felt compelled to return home to Utah. I decided that Utah — and my place in it — was worth the fight. Riley wears his hair in piggy tails and loves Dora the Explorer, but is a typical boy when it comes to his obsession with superheroes. He’s created his own persona — that of Rilex — a superhero with the two most important

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Jamie Johnston Politics … it really is a dirty word for many of us. Over the years we have seen many corrupt, power-hungry individuals push their own agenda or the agenda of special interest groups. So it is often a difficult pill for most GLBT people to swallow that we need to use that same process to help us be successful. But we must. Our lives, families, futures depend on us becoming politically active. We must help the few, dedicated individuals to continue the fight. Even though it seems that the religious right has just exploded on to the scene, it has been years of this type of groundwork and local participation in politics that has catapulted them into the position they are in today. We can do the same but we need to act now. Well, I know what you are thinking, ‘ah…this is just too much, with all the other stuff I have to do and it really depresses me to think about this on a daily basis’. Yes, it is hard but we can make it easier. First sign up with a political activist group like Equality Utah. Equality Utah can make

it easy. Next, spend some time personally engaging in the process to elect our local officials, whether it is our Senator, our Representative or the local Sheriff. These are the people that affect our daily lives. Learn about the candidates, check their websites, join in the local town meetings, understand their positions on critical issues. Finally, encourage your family and friends to be active in the process, invite them, engage them, send emails to them. You talk with your friends and family every day. You talk about politics too, just add a little more information to those conversations. Do whatever it takes to raise the visibility about injustices to you as an individual. Talk about what it means to not be treated like a person of worth. Talk about your friends who have served in defense of our country, died for our country, but were not allowed to talk about the person they loved. After you have done this, sit back, relax, have a drink, and think of new ways to become more visible. Maybe a rally, or a letter to the editor. Perseverance and time are our allies. What is right is on our side. We can succeed.

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So it finally happened. America finally saw pictures of baby Suri. Five months after Katie Holmes silently squeezed that little munchkin out of her taut loins; after paparazzi (who can manage to catch stars drinking while theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re preggers, Jennifer Aniston topless in her backyard and any other number of things theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not supposed to see) came up empty handed; after Jada Pinkett Smith, Leah Remini and Penelope Cruz all vouched for the existence of the babyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;five months later, proof she exists. One problem. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not their baby. Cute kidâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;not their kid, but cute. OK, I know, I know. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a pessimist. There they are, on the cover of Vanity Fair, looking like a happy enough family, both parents staring lovingly into little Suriâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eyes. If it walks like a family and it talks like a family, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a family, right? Should be. My only problem is after months of wondering what the kid looked like, the end result (and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m likely to offend some people here, so donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t warn you) does not look like it came out of those two people. In fact, baby Suri looks more closely related to Maddox Jolie-Pitt than any woman from Toledo, Ohio meets a man from Syracuse, New York Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever seen. Some gossips are even suggesting the baby really belongs to Katie and former fiancĂŠ Chris Klein and, when she jumped off that ship, Tom stepped in and said â&#x20AC;&#x153;weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll tell the world the babyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mine.â&#x20AC;? Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not gonna be the gossip who begs Tom to take a paternity test (or tracks down Ken ÂWatanabe and suggests maybe he was involved). Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m merely saying no matter how cute and happy that baby looks, I have a sneaking suspicion thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more going on there than meets the eye. Moving on (but not from Tom), guess who presented Rosie Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Donnell with a big bouquet of flowers to celebrate her first day

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Although I’ll be stylish in a spiffy hand-marbled tie that makes my eyes pop, my nerves are still doing the Jitter Bug over the upcoming Equality Utah Allies Dinner. Michael, his “Teri Hatcher” boyfriend, his “Joan Rivers” ex-boyfriend, me and two of my vodka-shellacked friends, all of whom have the table manners of gremlins, will be attending the year’s most posh event. Now, if we can only minimize our shameful dinner conversation and keep our hands above the tablecloth at all times, we may get through the night with at least an ounce of dignity.

Q The QAgenda does its utmost best not to discriminate against anyone, and with that said, another Salt Lake community is celebrating its “pride day”. The Pagan Pride Day festival is a free event for all ages, featuring several Pagan religious ceremonies and offers information on Pagan spiritual practices, workshops, crafts, art displays, children’s activities, and vendors. Non-perishable food donations accepted. Come “explore, question, experience, search, examine, live…” 10am–6pm, Murray City Park, 5300 S. 495 East. Free, visit paganprideslc.org for more information.

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Q I hope you saved the Fall Arts Preview issue as I suggested, but on the off chance that you “pshaw”-ed me with a wisp of your hand, then let me remind you Ririe-Woodbury Dance company unveils Tent, a uniquely reconstructed favorite by Alwin Nikolais. Accompanied by a sea of magical lighting and a hypnotic electronic score, the dancers manipulate stages of metamorphoses in the tent. 7:30pm, Tonight through Saturday, September 23, Jeanne Wagner Theatre, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. Broadway. Tickets $30, call 355-ARTS or visit arttix.org.

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Q Even if you’re not a University of Utah student or alumni, the invitation stands to the annual Redfest festival presented by the ASUU. As we all know, the eye candy is delicious, legal and filled to the hilt. Plus, the music, booths, artists and food aren’t so bad, either. Flogging Molly and The Ataris perform.

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Q Famed choreographer Bebe Miller established the Bebe Miller Company in 1985, and since then has earned several prestigious awards. Miller’s artistic vision encompasses choreography, writing, film, video and digital media. Landing/Place, the company’s first production since 2001’s award-winning Verge employs digitalized motion, live music, video projection and sensual dancing to explore spatial and cultural dislocation. 7:30pm, Tonight and Saturday, Browning Center for Performing Arts, Weber State University, 3850 University Circle, Ogden. Tickets $10-12, call 800-WSU-TIKS or weberstatetickets.com.

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Q Ok, I missed this snippet in the Fall Arts Preview of the last issue and with only two weekends left, I figured I should try to redeem myself as much as possible. StageRight Theatre’s production of Beth Henley’s Pulitzer Prizeand Tony-winning Crimes of the Heart is a touching and funny story about three crisis-ridden southern sisters who come together in the depths of despair; it’s one that should not be missed. 7:30pm, Fridays and Saturdays through September 23, StageRight Theatre, 5001 S. Highland Drive. Tickets $9-12. Season passes and group discounts are available, call 272-3445.

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Q It’s now that time of season when the wildlife is overflowing with Bears at Jordanelle. Pack your binoculars to get the best birds-eye view of Utah’s own fuzzy, frolicking and friendly Bears as they splash about the reservoir. But, don’t be keen on seeing too many of the Birthday Suit and Speedo species, as they are threatened by extinction. 11am-3pm, Jordanelle State Park, S.R. 319, Heber City. Meeting point at Shopko in Sugarhouse at 11am. Q Did you know…or even care…that 10 kilometers is the equivalent of approximately 1,987 rods? Now, I think it would be totally worthwhile to say, “I’ve done 1,987 rods today…and I did it safely”. So let’s all say it together at the 18th annual Utah AIDS Foundation Walk for Life fund raiser to help raise awareness and funds for people affected with HIV/AIDS. Toilet paper donations suggested. The walk ends at the 9th & 9th Street Fair. 8am, Northwest Corner of Liberty Park, 900 S. 500 East. Registration fees vary, visit utahaids.org or call 487-2323 to register.

attraction of Pirates of the Scare-ibbean at the Rocky Point Haunted House. 7:30pm, Thursday-Saturday through September 30, Tuesday-Saturday beginning October 3, Rocky Point Haunted House, 3400 S. State Street. Tickets $8-18, visit rockypointhauntedhouse.com for discount and group rates or call 463-7701 for more information.

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Q The recently revamped Wasatch chapter support group of Affirmation: Gay and Lesbian Mormons hails under new leadership and a new chapter name, Salt Lake Chapter. The strides homosexual Mormons have made are boundless. All I can say is “You go girls!” Tonight’s workshop, Gay(GLBTI) and Mormon: An OxyMoron? tackles the many conflicts LDS homosexuals face within their religion. 5pm, Metropolitan Community Church, 823 S. 600 East. Free.

6pm, Tonight and Friday, University of Utah Union Plaza, 200 S. Central Campus Drive. Tickets $13/day or $19/2-day if purchased at a Smith’s Tix location, call 888-TIXX or visit smithstix.com. Q The strangled whirring of a chainsaw completely freaks the Charmin right off of my ass hair. But, I do love subjecting myself to it this time of year. The heightened adrenaline allows me to knock small children aside with abandon, claw at the shirts of any cute guy near me and occasionally bury my face in the bosom of a girl friend, scream so intensely that I spittle down her cleavage. This is the final season for ghosts, goblins, psycho clowns, mummies, bats, zombies, serial killers, and the one-time

Q Lesbians, bring out your hogs today. Gays, bring out your dogs today. Once we all get together, we’ll breed the Hogs & Dogs and birth a fabulous dyke bike named Fifi. We’ll show her off in the charity bike ride, enter her in the hot dog eating contest and pet parade and then maybe auction her off for some beer and bratwurst. 2-10pm, Gallivan Center, 239 S. Main Street. Tickets $5 at the gate. Call 535-6110 for more information. Q The James Redford Institute for Transplant Awareness hosts Share the Beat, an evening of music, inspiration and awareness. Joined by celebrities including Robert Redford, James Dean Morgan and James Denton, JRI hopes to educate the world at large, especially the youth, about the miracle of transplantation and the importance of organ donation. Musical performances by Bobby Joyner, Rivers Rutherford and Alana Grace. 5pm VIP dinner, 6:30pm event, Sundance Resort, Provo Canyon. Tickets $25-65, $250 VIP pass includes BBQ dinner and after party. Call 888-TIXX or visit smithstix.com. Q The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Community Center of Utah’s new Center Stage Live Series, which started earlier this month, hosts local musicians in an intimate setting at the Center. Joey Richards takes the stage tonight and has been dubbed “The Wayne Newton of the burgeoning melodramatic indie-pop scene”. 7-8:30pm, The Center, 361 N. 300 West. Free with donations encouraged. Q If people actually read my articles, which obviously I hope, then they may remember my interview with Kyrbir Is-pof the local indie-punk band Purr Bats; my

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Q The 1984 Grammy winner for Best New Artist was none other than the unforgettable Cyndi Lauper. Twenty-two years later, with 12 phenomenal albums, platinum hair, a current performance on Broadway and the sold out show at the Gay Games 2006 in Chicago, the eccentric and talented artist graces Park City with an evening of songs from the new release The Body Acoustic, as well as some old favorites. 7:30pm, Eccles Center, 1750 Kearns Blvd, Park City. Tickets $18-65, 435-655-3114.

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Q Bill Daniel’s documentary film Who Is Bozo Texino? is an up-close and personal (Daniel changed his lifestyle to a trainhopping hobo for the making) depiction of a heavy-hearted and relentless American subculture. The film is presented by The Pickle Company, a non-profit arts organization dedicated to contemporary socio-political and cultural issues. 8pm, The Pickle Company, 741 S. 400 West. Tickets $5-10 at the door.

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Q Since this issue is election focused, I thought it would be fitting to add SLC Film Center’s Democracy Film Series at the downtown City Library. Tonight’s screening of By the People is an unprecedented and intimate look at who and what it takes to put on an American election. The behind-the-scenes documentary of the 2004 Presidential election follows elected county clerk, Doris Anne Sadler of Indianapolis as she and her small crew of government employees scramble through political obstacles to pull off the election. 7pm, City Library, 210 E. 400 South. Free. Call 524-8200 for more information.

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Q Join Closet Ball King and Queen, Esteban Suave and Kalia as they relinquish their titles at RCGSE’s Closet Ball 2006: Dawning of the Age of Aquarius. I really wanted to have some fun with this at the expense of the Court, but as many bitch slaps as the Court has received lately (and some were totally unnecessary), I figured some niceties were in order because they are a necessary ev…organization to the benefit of our community. 8pm, Paper Moon, a private club for members, 3737 S. State Street. $6 donation at the door.

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Pygmalion Productions Theatre Company presents Neil LaBute’s new play, Fat Pig, a story about image, prejudice, peer pressure and love in all its grandeur. Times vary, Tonight through Saturday, October 14, Leona Wagner Theatre, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. Broadway. Tickets $12-18, call 355-ARTS or visit arttix.org. Q In the spirit of an earlier excerpt from this calendar, I have included the following event: Milton Glaser, known as one of America’s most distinguished and influential graphic designers, will visit the BYU Museum of Art Lied Gallery for a guest lecture. Glaser is known world-wide for his work, which includes the ‘I love New York’ logo, a tourism-campaign symbol created for the New York State Department of Commerce that became the most frequently imitated logo design in human history. 7pm, BYU Lied Gallery, Brigham Young University, North Campus Dr., Provo. Free.

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are a ton of good and bad to be rooted out and discussed about society and culture. MARK: Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always had the ability to juggle multiple tasks while completing them both simultaneously and successfully, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m starting to realize that has been when I work alone. Although Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a great team player, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m more productive when working on individual tasks. So, writing this shared column has been more cumbersome than I ever anticipated. CHAD: Are you saying Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m like a pair of cement shoes? Great things come with work and commitment. Independent and creative minded people are the most brilliant when working alone. How many times have any of us been forced into moving forward with a dream only to have it all shattered because of all the extra baggage that has to be brought along. If we could just have a scheduling meld by a Vulcan it would be a ton easier. MARK: Of course my beloved co-columnist increases the level of difficulty, but weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re both individuals whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve worked extremely well together in the past. So, it baffles me that we canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t balance something as simple as scheduling. Who wouldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve thought the ability to compromise would be our biggest obstacle? However, the banter wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be entertaining if we agreed on everything. CHAD: Well at least I know I am a cement shoe by Gucci. I think it is that we both have a huge stubborn streak. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a Gemini which means in the world of Day Planners you have a split personality schedule. Me being the Taurus, it is crammed full with no room for flexibility. According to the new gay rules, we have passed our prime and are now considered active senior citizens. MARK: Yet a difference of opinions shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t prevent us from coordinating schedules. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve both had things we found important.

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In June 2006, the FDA announced its approval of GardasilÂŽ, a Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, manufactured by Merck. HPV is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States. This virus can cause genital warts and abnormal changes on the cervix, vulva, vagina, penis, and anus that can lead to cancer if it is not treated. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that about 6.2 million Americans become infected with genital HPV each year and that over half of all sexually active men and women become infected at some time in their lives. Cervical cancer is the second largest killer of women among cancers worldwide and is much more common than anal or penile cancer in men. The cervix is the lower, narrow part of the uterus that connects to the vagina. In the United States, approximately 14,000 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer every year. Globally, there are more than 240,000 deaths each year due to cervical cancer. Cervical cancers do not form suddenly. There is a slow, gradual change from a normal cervix to precancer to cancer. Although, in most cases, the bodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s immune system clears HPV before a person knows he or she has it, some infections may remain and lead to cancer. Most women with HPV are not aware they are infected until they have had a Pap test. The Pap smear (also called Pap test) is an effective method of detecting abnormal cells on the cervix that can lead to cancer. Medical experts believe that girls or women should begin receiving Pap tests by age 21; sooner if the woman is sexually active. Routine Pap screening remains critically important to detect precancerous changes in the cervix to allow treatment before cervical cancer develops. HPV is contracted by engaging in oral sex, vaginal sex, anal sex, through intimate genital skin-to-skin contact or by sharing sex toys with a person who already has the virus. The virus can remain in the body for weeks, years, or even a lifetime, giving no sign of its presence. Your partner may not have visible warts or symptoms but can still spread the virus. Gardasil represents a significant advance in womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s health. This vaccine is effective against HPV types 16 and 18, which cause 70% of cervical cancer and also blocks types 6 and 11, which cause 90% of genital warts. Gardasil is not effective against existing HPV infections and will not provide protection against HPV types not included in the vaccine. Also, it â&#x20AC;&#x153;will not replace other prevention strategies, such as cervical cancer screening for women or protective sexual behaviors.â&#x20AC;? The CDCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted to recommend that Gardasil be routinely given to girls and young women between the ages of 13 and 26 years. The idea is to begin vaccinations before the onset of sexual activity. Lesbian women are at risk for many of the same STDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as heterosexual women and should also have yearly pap screenings. These recommendations apply equally to lesbians even if they have never had sex with men. The University of Washingtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Department of Medicine conducted a study with women who acknowledged having had sex with women. Of the 248 participating women, 31 were found to have HPV from their Pap smear. Currently, there are no approved tests to detect HPV or HPV-associated cancers in men. The CDC states, â&#x20AC;&#x153;since anal cancer is more common in gay, bisexual, and HIVpositive men, some experts recommend routine anal Pap tests for those populations.â&#x20AC;? Gardasil is not approved for use in men. Merck plans to seek approval to use Gardasil in boys and young men and is currently searching for, â&#x20AC;&#x153;sexually active, healthy young men who has sex with men willing to make a three-year commitment to the study.â&#x20AC;? Q

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Last Saturday I went to the birthday party of one of those ubiquitous heteros. Out of the whole crowd there were only two gay men and a handful of lesbians (and I’m counting myself in both categories). I didn’t know what to do. I had my heart set on fooling around with someone but hadn’t been in a room with that many straight people since the last family party. As I continued drinking I became determined to get action. After two drinks I hit on the only other gay man there, which didn’t work. After four drinks I tried persuading a couple of straight men to make out with me, which definitely didn’t work. And after six drinks I tried getting my groove on with a pseudo lesbian, which also didn’t work (thank god). Defeated and more than slightly tipsy it was time to go home. As I passed a seductive lipstick lesbian on my way out, I felt a little aroused and mischievous and decided to pat her pussy through her skirt. It was my first time purposely touching one and apparently I didn’t do it right as she slapped me. Anyway, the next day, over brunch, she told me the other gay man at the party had done the same thing only he didn’t giggle when he copped a feel nor did he cry when

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