QSaltLake Magazine - June 16, 2007

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Pride Breaks Records Three pages of pictures and what organizers had to say

Gay Freedom Day Kicks Off a Year of Pride June 30 event commemorates 38 years since the Stonewall Riots

QUAC Brings Home the Gold from Paris GodHatesFags ‘Church’ Protests Soldier’s Funeral Troy Williams Says ‘Live Dangerously’

Xena Gets Her Butt Shaved Crossword and Sudoku Comics The Gay Agenda

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California Passes Gay Marriage Act World and National

Japan’s First Lesbian Politician Gets Married Tokyo — Kanako Otsuji, the first lesbian politician in Japan to be open about her sexual orientation, was married on June 3 to Maki Kimura, her partner and also her employee. One thousand people came to the couples’ wedding at Ikeda Park in Nagoya, Japan. The couple had been together for four years prior to getting married.

Otsuji was once an Osaka Assembly Member and is now a candidate for the Democratic Party of Japan.

“Gays and lesbians are hiding themselves in society to protect themselves,” Otsuji said in a statement following her wedding. “I want people to know that gays and lesbians exist in society by looking at us.”

Same-sex marriage is still not legal yet in Japan, and neither are civil unions. Otsuji has vowed to increase the rights for gays and lesbians in the country, by living life

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openly, and also by legalizing same-sex civil unions. “By serving as a politician who is openly lesbian, I can make the homosexual population a visible issue,” Otsuji told the AFP news service. She further stated in an interview at a campaign office that “I believe one of my missions in parliament would be to expedite legislation of a system similar to a civil union.”

However, Otsuji has stated that gay civil unions will take a long time to be legalized in Japan, and that there will be a minimum of a decade of discussion on the topic. She noted that as of now Japanese women are not even allowed to have two last names. According to the AFP, gay orientation is not talked about openly in Japanese society, though it is acknowledged as existing: For example, areas catering to gay people have appeared in big Japanese cities.

Les Mis Rocks the Hard Rock

The cast of Pioneer Theatre Company’s production of Les Misérables presents a benefit concert for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Featured performances by The Barricade Boiz and The Revolvers, composed of members of the cast of Les Misérables.

Solo performances by cast members Adinah Alexander, Autumn Hurlbert, Jason Kraack, David F.M. Vaughn and many others.

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7:00 p.m. Sunday, June 24th, 2007 Hard Rock Café, Trolley Square

Sacramento, Calif. — The California State Assembly voted 42-34 on June 6 to pass the Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Protection Act, a bill that would provide same-sex couples with the equal right to marry under state law.

The bill now goes to the state Senate. A similar bill passed the Legislature in 2005, but Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed it. California’s 2005 bill marked the first time a state passed legislation providing for marriage equality under state law.

“We congratulate the California Assembly for passing this important, fair-minded bill. We also congratulate Assemblymember Mark Leno, who authored this bill, and Equality California, which is working hard to achieve equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Californians,” said Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese. “We have seen a steadily building wave of support for equality in more and more states, and we hope California will add to that momentum by recognizing that all loving and committed couples deserve full equality under the law.” Solmonese continued, “California is already one of ten states that provides at least some form of relationship recognition to same-sex couples through domestic partnership. But marriage is the gold standard. This is about basic fairness. It’s time to get rid of the separate systems — one for GLBT families and one for everybody else — and provide marriage equality for all couples in California.”

Earlier this year, several states have taken steps toward equality for same-sex couples and their families. Civil union legislation was signed into law in New Hampshire, and domestic partnership bills were signed into law in Oregon and Washington.

If the Religious Freedom and Civil

Marriage Protection Act is signed into law, California would become the second state to provide marriage equality for same-sex couples under state law, Massachusetts being the first. Ten states (including California), plus Washington, D.C., now have laws providing at least some form of state-level relationship recognition for same-sex couples.

“We have lived with domestic partnerships in California for seven years and we know that they are not a substitute for marriage,” said Geoff Kors, Equality California’s Executive Director. “Yesterday’s vote demonstrates that the Legislature recognizes this unjustifiable inequity, and we applaud their determination to end it. Marriage is one of life’s significant and universally understood progressions that all people should have the ability to experience if they so desire.”

Tel Aviv Gay Pride Draws Thousands

Protestors and Police Clash At Romania Gay Pride Parade

By Anthony Cuesta

Tel Aviv, Israel — An estimated 3,000 gay rights supporters marched through the streets of Tel Aviv Friday, June 8 for Israel’s annual gay pride parade.

Marchers handed out condom-shaped flowers as they headed from Rabin Square to the boardwalk at Gordon Beach.

Mike Hamel, chair of Aguda — The National Association of GLBT in Israel, expressed hope that tens of thousands would attend what he called “sand, sun and lots of fun” twined to a meaningful political rally.

“It’s an empowering experience. It’s uplifting and at the same time it’s meaningful. It’s not just a party. It’s not just music and fun. It’s a political rally talking about human rights,” he said.

The marchers were met by a group of right-wing activists who obtained police approval to hold a small counterdemonstration. Some 500 police officers and volunteers were positioned along the parade route to keep order.

This year’s parade comes amid rising controversy over efforts by gay activists to hold a gay pride parade in Jerusalem.

“They want to spread abomination in Jerusalem,” activist Itamar Ben Gvir said.

Earlier this week, the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, gave preliminary approval to measures preventing a gay pride parade in Jerusalem or any other place in the country.

California Allows Conjugal Visits for Gay and Lesbian Inmates

By Anthony Cuesta

San Francisco — California’s gay and lesbian prison inmates will be allowed conjugal visits with their partners under a new prison policy. It’s the first time a state has allowed same-sex overnight stays.

The policy comes more than two years after a 2003 law provided equal rights for registered domestic partners in California, including those of the same sex and non-married heterosexuals. Gay and civil rights groups had threatened to sue to permit the conjugal visits in prisons, which they say have been slow to enact changes promised by the law.

“It’s a little troubling that a state agency had to be threatened with legal action to obey state law,” said Geoff Kors, the executive director of Equality California. “There was no justifiable excuse for not complying.”

By Anthony Cuesta

Bucharest — Romania’s June 9 gay pride celebration was marred as police used tear gas against protesters who hurled stones at marchers in the capital city Bucharest, officials said.

Approximately 100 people were detained for throwing stones and fireworks at police and about 400 participants in the gay rights march, said Christian Ciocan, a police spokesman. Police responded with tear gas. Nobody was injured.

“We regret that our opponents use violence ... police only did their job to protect an authorized march,” Florin Buhuceanu, one of the organizers of the gay rights march, said. “It is our right to express our beliefs and we will not renounce in the face of violence.”

The attackers were not identified as part of any organized group, though authorities suspect connections to a rightwing religious association Noua Dreapta, or the New Right, which rallied on the morning of June 9 against the gay-rights march later in the day.

Accept, a Romanian gay-rights advocacy group, organized the march. The Romanian Orthodox Church planned special Saturday evening masses nationwide to pray against what it believes are sins the gay-rights rally promotes.

Romania decriminalized homosexuality in 2001.

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Utah Pride Breaks Records In its first year as a multi-day festival, an estimated 35,000 people gathered over three days to celebrate the annual Utah Pride Festival and Parade, according to organizers.

Highlighted by performances from Sheena Easton, En Vogue, and surprise smash Hells Belles, the event was widely acclaimed as a “best of” by festival-goers.

Easton wowed the crowds with an energetic yet laid-back evening that followed the Grand Marshal reception honoring out former Utah Jazz player John Amaechi.

“The big hair only lasts a couple of songs, so take your pictures now,” quipped Easton as she posed booty-tothe-crowd for photographs. “The big hair offsets the big ass.”

The following night, the four divas of En Vogue struck their first note and a wave of people dashed to the stage area.

The enthusiastic crowd danced to the sounds of the 80s and 90s. The group brought several locals to the stage, some in tears and one with moves that belong on So You Think You Can Dance.

Also Saturday night were the Opening Ceremonies following the Dyke March.

The Salt Lake Men’s Choir performed the Star Spangled Banner, the Righteously Outrageous Twirling Corp brought in the colors along with Salt Lake City Mayor

Rocky Anderson and openly-gay legislators Scott McCoy and Chris Johnson.

Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon brought cheers from the crowd in an opening speech.

Sunday morning brought the annual Pride Parade with over 70 entries marching the mile-long route. For the first time, grandstands were placed toward the end of the parade route and judges and emcee Becky Moss judged parade entries. Winning awards in this year’s parade: Best Float: 1. Sacred Light of Christ Metropolitan Community Church; 2. Wells Fargo; 3. PRMI/Cahoots.

Best Walking/Marching Entry: 1. Righteously Outrageous Twirling Corp Salt Lake City; 2. Utah Cyber Sluts; 3. Alternative Gardening Club Best Bar Float: 1. Club Gossip; 2. Club Try-Angles; 3. Trapp Door Best Overall Entry: ROTC-SLC “I’m just really pleased about the footprint this festival left in the community,” said festival director Terry Mitchell Nani. “This year’s festival brought a lot of good will for the Center and for the GLBT community. It’s now on par with other Salt Lake City events like the Living Traditions Festival and the Utah Arts Festival. We’ve had nothing but positive feedback for this year’s event.”

Photos begin on page 15.

Westboro Protests Fallen Utah Soldier’s Funeral

by Michael Aaron

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The new Utah law targeted at the group places time restrictions and restricts protests to outside 200 yards from any funeral service.

This is the first Utah funeral that the church has protested, though they have posted several releases on their site declaring protests. Q

Pride Community Softball League Upcoming Games

State Representative Jackie Biskupski has just been hired as Salt Lake County Sheriff Jim Winder’s administrative assistant.

Biskupski, D-Salt Lake City, began her new job on Monday, June 4. Her duties include handling Winder’s scheduling and being a liaison between the sheriff’s office and other branches of the county government.

“I’ve known Jackie, she’s a friend, and also I know her to be an extremely diligent employee,” Winder told the Deseret Morning News. “She’s very hard-working, just a good mix of personality.”

Biskupski’s salary will be $60,000 a year as one of Winder’s exempt employees. An exempt employee is a staff member an elected official who is politically appointed rather than hired through a competitive process.

She replaces Linda Taylor, who had worked as former Sheriff Aaron Kennard’s executive assistant during his 16-year tenure.

Biskupski, Utah’s first openly gay politician, has served in the state legislature for eight years. Before her political career, she received a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from Arizona State University. She also worked as an auto insurance adjuster.

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Three protesters from the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church were outside funeral services for Sgt. Jesse Blamires, 25, who was killed in a helicopter crash in Iraq. According to South Jordan Police Chief Lindsay Shepherd, the protesters complied with a new Utah law aimed at the church’s protests by staying more than 200 yards from the services.

“God is your enemy. America is doomed,” Jonathan Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church told the media.

“You turn the country over to fags and they’re coming home in body bags.”

Westboro Baptist Church is run by Fred Phelps, who was baptized by the First Baptist Church in Vernal, Utah, in 1947 while proselytizing against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Fred Phelps has not participated in recent protests and is rumored to be ill — though the family denies any illness.

The church has targeted funerals of fallen soldiers for the past several years to get media attention to their anti-gay message.

A motorcycle group called the Patriot Guard Riders was formed to protect the privacy of families during the protests.

Riders surround the protesters to bloack anti-gay and anti-American signs and rev their engines to drown out the protesters’ “preaching.” The Utah branch of the Riders was asked by the family to attend the services.

Days before the funeral, the church posted on their Web site, godhatesfags. com, a press release:

“This is for the funeral of Army Sgt. Jesse A. Blamires, a rebellious brat brought up in Doomed America. There is no peace in this nation: God has taken away Peace from you. And why should you be stricken/chastened more and more? You will not change your ways, your perverse and crooked ways in your dealings with the Servants of the Living God and with each other. It doesn’t matter how many soldiers get blown up. You would sacrifice your children through the fire of Moloch on the altar of your filthy sex practices and unclean worship of False gods? Go, see if your easter bunny or santa claus will save you. They can do nothing; they are the works of your own hands. You have heaped this misery upon yourselves. Only your complete obedience will suffice at this hour, casting off all of your abominations. Otherwise, you are all DOOMED to suffer in Hell for all of ETERNITY. NO REST, DAY NOR NIGHT! See Revelation 14. America is DOOMED!!! Oh, and by the way! His carcass is being worsipped at the Mormon Monster, and you know what that means! Jesus Christ said that from the beginning, God made them male and female, so that a man would leave his father and mother and cleave unto his wife. Note, he says “wife”, not “wives.” God put down the standard. One Man + One Woman = One Lifetime. Matthew 19:4-6.

Deal with it.”

Rep. Jackie Biskupski Takes Sheriff’s Office Job

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QUAC Wins Gold at IGLA Championships QUAC swimmers, divers and water polo team brought home gold medals from the International Gay & Lesbian Aquatics Championships held May 23–28 in Paris, France. The IGLA Championships are considered the world championship games for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community in competitive swimming, water polo, diving and synchronized swimming.

The Championships were held this year in conjunction with the Tournoi International de Paris, a multi-sport tournament which drew more than 2,500 athletes and visitors.

Swimmer Richard Goers returned home with five medals. He took gold medals in the 800-meter Freestyle and 50-meter Breast Stroke, silver in 1500meter Freestyle and 100-meter Breaststroke, and bronze in the 100-meter Medley. Danielle Hawks and Jim Viney took silver medals in 50-meter Freestyle and 100-meter Medley, respectively.

Competing in different age groups, QUAC divers Michael Paap and Paul Reynolds won three gold medals each in one-meter Springboard, three-meter Springboard and five-meter Platform events.

QUAC also took two water polo teams

to Paris. Known in the tournament as QUAC A and QUAC B, the teams played five games each. QUAC B won three of their five games losing only to West Hollywood’s team (who took 2nd overall) and New York (who took 4th overall).

QUAC B ultimately took 5th place overall in a tough game that went into overtime. QUAC B’s fifth place finish is better than QUAC’s overall placement (ninth) in the 2004 Fort Lauderdale IGLA Championships, the organization’s first IGLA competition.

QUAC A easily beat all teams in the preliminary rounds and beat New York 18 to 6 to get into the Gold Medal game.

QUAC A won the gold against West Hollywood with a score of 14 to 8 forcing West Hollywood to take the silver at IGLA for the first time since 2000 (which also happened to be in Paris).

Directly following the gold medal water polo match, QUAC participated in the Pink Flamingo “pageant.” While other teams entertained with polished choreography (both in and out of the water) and outlandish costumes, the crowd and judges nevertheless received QUAC’s entry with great enthusiasm.

The drag queen who emceed the pageant stated, “we all know about the big

gay cities of the world: San Francisco, Paris, London, New York. But don’t forget there are gays everywhere — even in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Ladies and Gentlemen presenting QUAC!” QUAC would like to thank the individuals and organizations who offered

financial support for their Paris trip.

These are Tom Taylor, Dave Robinson, Anonymous, Jim Viney and the BW Bastian Foundation.

Next year, the IGLA Championships will be held in Washington D.C. from June 18–22.

IGLA RESULTS

24. FURNESS Matt 3:04.23 - Split 39.89 (50m) 50M FREESTYLE 1:25.66 (100m) - 2:14.81 Women (150m) Age Group 25-29 Age Group 55-59 2. HAWKES Danielle 33.40 4. VINEY James 3:11.44 - Split 42.31 (50m) 50M FREESTYLE Men 1:30.90 (100m) - 2:21.30 Age Group 50-54 (150m) 15. MANSFIELD Val 36.92 800M FREESTYLE Men Age Group 55-59 Age Group 40-44 4. MATHER Gary 35.86 16. FURNESS Matt 6. VINEY James 36.49 13:58.50 - Split 1:31.57 100M FREESTYLE Men (100m) - 3:17.26 (200m) Age Group 18-24 5:04.89 (300m) - 6:52.41 5. CHRISTENSEN Trenton (400m) - 8:41.31 (500m) 1:08.30 - Split 30.95 - 10:28.24 (600m) (50m) 12:14.70 (700m) Age Group 40-44 Age Group 65-69 29. FURNESS Matt 1:19.27 1. GOERS Richard 15:39.20 - Split 36.80 (50m) - Split 1:48.10 (100m) Age Group 50-54 3:45.45 (200m) - 5:44.45 16. MANSFIELD Val (300m) - 7:44.88 (400m) 1:22.67 - Split 38.65 9:45.03 (500m) - 11:44.45 (50m) (600m) - 13:42.86 (700m) 200M FREESTYLE 1500M FREESTYLE Men Men Age Group 65-69 2. GOERS Richard 29:34.48 Age Group 40-44

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- Split 1:42.83 (100m) 3:37.69 (200m) - 5:36.71 (300m) - 7:37.52 (400m) 9:37.57 (500m) - 11:39.04 (600m) - 13:39.24 (700m) - 15:39.97 (800m) - 17:40.33 (900m) - 19:40.76 (1000m) - 21:40.78 (1100m) - 23:41.80 (1200m) - 25:40.92 (1300m) 27:40.56 (1400m) 50M BREASTSTROKE Men Age Group 30-34 20. REYNOLDS Paul 43.51 Age Group 35-39 19. WARD Charles 42.17 Age Group 65-69 1. GOERS Richard 40.69 100M BREASTSTROKE Men Age Group 55-59 6. MATHER Gary 1:42.92 Split 48.36 (50m) Age Group 65-69 2. GOERS Richard 1941 1:38.08 - Split 45.26

(50m) 50M BUTTERFLY Men Age Group 18-24 6. CHRISTENSEN Trenton 34.19 759 100M MEDLEY Men Age Group 40-44 27. FURNESS Matt 1:39.13 - Split 46.52 (50m) Age Group 55-59 2. VINEY James 1:37.01 Split 46.44 (50m) Age Group 65-69 3. GOERS Richard 1:48.53 Split 55.89 (50m) 4x50M MEDLEY RELAY Men Combined Age Group 120-159 21. MANSFIELD Val WARD Charles Alden CHRISTENSEN Trenton FURNESS Matt 2:36.20 - Split 44.49 (50m) - 1:26.66 (100m) 2:01.29 (150m)

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Gay Freedom Day in the Park Celebrates 38 Years of Pride on Saturday, June 30 For the second year in a row, Gay Freedom Day will commemorate the 1969 Stonewall Riots on Saturday, June 30 in Harmony Park.

The day-long event will include a volleyball pit, baseball diamond and a barbecue, complete with hot dogs, hamburgers and veggie burgers, run by local massage therapist and co-organizer Kevin Hillman. Members of the community are invited to set up tables and tents at no charge.

QSaltLakeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own Michael Aaron will serve as DJ. Performers are welcome to come and entertain in an open-mike format. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basically the Gay Pride New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s,â&#x20AC;? said co-organizer Chad Keller. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good opportunity to close the month with a remembrance of the Stonewall Riots and have a picnic with friends and family.â&#x20AC;?

According to Keller, approximately 200 people participated in last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s event.

Community Briefs Center Seeks Older Gaysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Help On Tuesday, July 17 at noon, the Utah Pride Center will hold a meeting for members of the gay community age 45 and older to discuss their needs and the direction programming should take for older community members.

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Contact Jennifer Nuttall at 539-8800 x 13 for more information.

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Camp Genesis Comes to Pocatello Camp Genesis, a social event for gay/ bi/curious men ages 18-35, will be held July 21-23 at Camp Taylor outside of Pocatello, Idaho.

The three-day event will feature several events, including Club Genesis, the first and only outdoor gay club in Idaho.

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Although Keller added that older community members might find Gay Freedom Day more peaceful than the larger Utah Pride Festival, he stressed that the day wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t intended to replace the festival. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s intended to complement Pride Day,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just a really fun day to get together and just gay out.â&#x20AC;?

Hillman added that the day was also ideal for various non-profit community groups, such as activist groups and athletic associations, to network. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a very laid back, casual event, reminiscent of an old picnic in a park where individuals and community groups are able to get together and talk,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Hillman organized several Utah Pride days in the 90s and was heavily involved in the Utah Gay Rodeo Association and many other groups.

Gay Freedom Day will be held at Harmony Park (3750 S. Main St. Salt Lake City, one block west of the Paper Moon).

It is a free event open to the public. be a formalized check-in. Upon arriving, participants must go to the A-Frame Lodge to complete registration and get other information, including a group number for Revelations, a schedule of events for the weekend and basic rules.

Camp Genesis is an alcohol-free and drug-free event. Attendees will be asked to sign an agreement stating they will not use such items at camp and outlining disciplinary action.

Downtown Farmers Market Continues The Downtown Farmers Market runs Saturdays through Oct 20 from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at Historic Pioneer Park (Third South & Third West) The Downtown Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market is a local growersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; market, featuring fresh produce from over 70 Utah farmers. The market also offers a variety of fresh baked breads and pastries, cheeses, meat and seafood, jams and honeys, house and garden plants, arranged planters, and numerous handmade arts and crafts. Unique food vendors are also a part of the market, offering prepared foods and beverages.

To receive â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fresh Peaches,â&#x20AC;? the Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market twice monthly newsletter, sign up at downtown slc.org/newsletter.htm.

Center Launches â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Just Qâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Young Adult Group Just Q, a new group geared toward providing 18-30 year-olds with opportunities for community, fun and activism, will hold its first meeting on June 18 from 7:00-9:00 p.m. at Liberty Park. The event will include kickball, volleyball and frisbee, as well as a barbecue with meat, vegetarian and vegan options.

Young adults of all orientations are invited.

For more information, contact Jennifer Nuttall at 539-8800 x13.

Fabulous People Dog Show’s Donald Steward and Dick Dotson

by JoSelle Vanderhooft joselle@qsaltlake.com

also run Horizon House, a summer weekend camp for people with AIDS. The volunteer-driven event is held at a Methodist campsite in Coleville, staffed

by LDS nurses and catered by the First Baptist Church.

“It was a real ecumenical effort before ecumenicism was popular,” Steward says.

But for both men, one of the best things about their work is their clientele, many

of whom are gay and lesbian, and several of whom are local politicians, media personalities and university professors.

“They’re incredibly realistic. They really love their dogs,” says Steward.

The Dog Show is located at 1508 S. 15th East and is open 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. The kennel is located at 4053 S. 72nd West and is open 9–11:00 a.m. and 3–5:00 p.m. and on Sunday from 4:00–5:00 p.m.

Xena Warrior Puppy Gets Coiffed at The Dog Show

Now sleek and with a beautiful sheen, Xena can return to protecting the borders of her domain without fear of stickers and snickers. She’s not so sure about the lavender bows, though. Hardly warrior garb.

Many thanks to Stephen and the crew at The Dog Show. As you can imagine, a Chow Chow isn’t the easiest breed to tame the mane of.

Stephen escaped with all of his fingers, but will probably never come near Xena again with a hair dryer.

Xena’s fur, much to her chagrin, had simply gone wild.

It was coming out in tufts the size of grapefruit. Her shapely ass was more wild than, well, the hair atop a former Salt Lake City drag queen who shall remain nameless for the purpose of this article.

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Chain stores like PETCO and PetSmart may have wiped out a lot of Utah pet shops and groomers in the last decade, but they haven’t touched The Dog Show, a Sugar House groomer who also operates a kennel in West Valley City.

Why? As co-owner Don Steward explains it, “box” stores may be well-stocked, but they lack that personal touch you need to have when dealing with people and their pets.

“We’ve been in business so long that we know people’s dogs,” he says. “We’ve groomed some of them since they were puppies to old age, so we get to watch the whole life process. There’s a nice continuity to it. That’s the advantage you get with a family-owned store.”

Located in the gay-friendly 15th & 15th neighborhood, The Dog Show is the favorite groomer and border of many residents in the Avenues, Olympus Cove and Yale Crest — including several gay and lesbian couples.

“We have more lesbian clients than anything,” Steward says.

But it wasn’t always a Utah business.

Steward’s husband and co-owner Dick Dotson started the original Dog Show in 1970 in California’s sunny, seaside resort Laguna Beach. When his parents died, Dotson, who originally hailed from Utah, moved the business back to the Beehive State. The Dog Show’s second incarnation opened at its current grooming location in 1989 after a brief fight with City Hall over a business permit. At the time, the area’s residents balked at having an animalrelated business in their neighborhood.

The business wasn’t the only thing to change with Dotson’s return to Utah; he also met Steward while organizing the Utah AIDS Foundation’s food bank.

Dotson found a kindred spirit in Steward, who grew up around sheep and cattle dogs in New Zealand. The two have been together since.

In 1994, the couple opened their kennel in West Valley City, where zoning laws (and a lack of neighbors to complain about noise) allowed them to board animals overnight. Unlike corporate pet stores that “warehouse” pets, Steward and Dotson run what they call a traditional kennel: Each dog and cat has its own indoor/outdoor run and access to an exercise yard. For east-side area clients unable to make the long drive, a shuttle runs from the groomer to the kennel.

Along with the kennel, Steward and Dotson also run a rescue for their favorite breed — the basset hound. They receive unadopted dogs from local shelters, pay for their spaying and neutering, and then adopt them out to local families, whom they carefully screen for compatibility. For example, they want to make sure that a family with children get a basset who likes kids, and that a basset will get along with a family’s other dogs. Additionally, the men often keep “unadoptable” dogs — namely those aged six or older or those with special medical needs — in the kennel indefinitely. To date, they have rescued 350 dogs. Thanks to their meticulous screening, only a handful have been returned.

“So much of the basset rescue is based on word-of-mouth,” says Steward.

“People are so happy with their dogs they

refer their family or their neighbors to us when they want a dog. We couldn’t pay for that advertising.”

Along with animal rescue, this family business is also closely involved with local “family.” The Dog Show regularly donates prizes and decorations to the Utah Cyber Sluts’ Bingo Nights (Steward is sometimes better-known as Ruby Ridge).

Since 1990, Dotson and Steward have

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Opinion

Letters Is Pride Worth It? Editor, Well, Pride weekend is now over for another year. The question is, is it really worth all the work that goes into it for the entire year? I had a very interesting discussion with someone who is recently out. He was telling me how surprised he was at the number of people that were there and the many organizations represented in the booths and floats. He was greatly impressed and amazed.

He was telling me that if he’d known about all those resources, etc. available, he probably wouldn’t be where he is today. It reminds me of when I was deciding to come out in the open as to who and what I am. The biggest fear/anxiety I had at the time was felt completely and totally alone, knowing how I’d be ostracized by my family, society and the church I felt so strongly about.

I had no idea of all the people, resources, and activities available. Fortunately, I came out and got involved, and never did have to go through the loneliness and isolation I had so dreaded. You see, when I said he was recently out, that is in two ways. One is out and open as gay, but the other is out of prison. It really bothers me, the number of people in trouble and incarcerated because of how they are treated and ostracized by our society because of who and what they are. What a terrible waste and loss for both the individuals and for society. When are we finally going to wake up?

As to the question of whther Pride weekend is worth all the work. I would have to say most definitely.

Especially until society wakes up and treats us as equals. Even then, we still need to celebrate it as part of our great heritage, and all we’ve gone and are going through.

A great big Thank You to the Pride Committee and all the many workers who made it possible.

Harold E. Jones Salt Lake City

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Mountain Meadows Mascara Pride 2007

BY RUBY RIDGE, RUBY@QSALTLAKE.COM

So, darlings, could the weather for the Pride Festival have possibly been any better? It was absolutely gorgeous! I vividly remember the year that it was freezing cold for the parade. We (the Sluts) were wearing sleeveless polyester dresses and riding in a rusted-out and sun-bleached “classic” Dodge Dart convertible that threatened to stall unless the engine wasn’t revving.

We were convinced we would have to get out and push the damn car along the parade route in our five-inch heels, but somehow the Parade Gods smiled on us.

Aaahh … good times.

It was a bittersweet Pride parade for moi this year, kittens, because for the first time in four years I wasn’t the parade coordinator. After last year’s battles with the city over moving the parade

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demanded an end to segregation.

The nation was alive with a passion for justice.

In 1969 queers at the Stonewall Inn yelled, “Gay is Good,” and started a riot that ignited the modern gay liberation movement.

We stand on the shoulders of dangerous men and women who rejected the status quo. These ill-behaved activists knew how to agitate; they knew how to disrupt. Their goal was not to acquiesce to power, but rather to dismantle systems of domination.

And we still have work to do. Sexism, racism and classism still hold a tight grip on the American psyche. We are still struggling against powers that believe subjugation through domination is the natural order. Dominator ideology works to divide society between the rulers and the ruled. This is the old way of thinking.

We are here to create new ideas and new alternatives to domination.

Our intent is to build a cooperative, sustainable, global community that protects and provides the freedom and liberty of all people. Our intent is to live in harmony with the earth, to cultivate balanced gender equality and above all, to demand that women, queers and people of color share in political, social and economic power.

This is why they fear and hate us: We refuse to perpetuate their exclusive right to rule.

Through patriarchy, dominators have abused women the world over. In the name of manifest destiny, dominators justified the theft of this land from native populations. In the name of “free market capitalism,” dominators have ravaged our planet’s natural resources for corporate profit. In the form of Imperialism, dominators invaded and continue to occupy a sovereign nation. And under the banner of “family values,” dominators skillfully demonized queer citizens for political gain.

This is the dominator model of patriarchy. This is the prevailing world-view of Mormons, right-wing Christians, neoconservatives, and, sadly still, many Americans. The soul of our great nation is dying.

But we are here to offer another path.

First, we must see beyond our own issues. I strongly believe queers will never obtain equality in a world that subjugates

and devalues women. Today, reproductive choice is under assault. The “prolife” movement works to ban abortions, while at the same time they scheme to eliminate access to contraception and comprehensive sex education: the two things that are proven to reduce unwanted pregnancies. Gayle Ruzicka and pro-lifers lie when they say they want to save the unborn. What they really want is the continued subordination of women under patriarchal rule.

Women’s issues are queer issues!

Today, our planet is facing a severe climate crisis. What good is it if we finally gain equality if we don’t have clean air, fresh water and a healthy planet to live on?

Environmental justice is a queer issue!

Today, politicians and pundits vilify an entire population of undocumented laborers comprised of men and women who are desperate to feed their families.

Our nation grows fat and wealthy from their hard work.

Immigration is a queer issue!

Today, a rogue president has lied us into a war that has butchered hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians, and displaced over two million Iraqis who have fled their homeland. The poorest of our nation are recruited to fight and die so that America can control the oil that belongs to another people.

The Iraq War is a queer issue!

We must fight not just for our own cause, but for the universal liberty of all humankind. We must stop asking other people to be our allies and we must become allies ourselves.

This is the work that is before us.

These are the gifts that we have to offer.

We are a dynamic life force here to help usher in the next phase of our social evolution.

Be rowdy upstart revolutionaries and live dangerous lives. Rise up and never rest until all people are free to enjoy prosperity, freedom and happiness.

We are here to liberate and empower humanity. To paraphrase wise Hopi elders: We are the queers we’ve been waiting for.

I am honored to be numbered among you. Thank you.

Troy Williams produces RadioActive and Now Queer This on KRCL 90.9 FM. Visit him online at queergnosis.com.

and it’s a tradition but, let’s face it, it’s a logistical nightmare to carry. It’s grimy and falling apart. It’s time for the flag to go live with Jesus.

On a brighter note, the Salt Lake City Police Department did a great job setting up barricades and clearing the street of parked vehicles. They seemed waaayyyy more relaxed this year. When I was coordinating the parade we were not allowed a gap bigger than four car lengths between groups, or if QUAC stopped to perform choreography the sergeant in charge of the motor squad would have a coronary on the spot.

If I can brag about one thing during my tenure, I always got the last float across Fourth South by 11:15 a.m. every year. I was quite proud of that.

Anyway, pumpkins, a big congrats to everyone who worked on the parade.

Hopefully its success will prompt the folks at Pride to allocate a few more resources into making it the highlight of the festival, and our flashy, boisterous and colorful valentine to the broader Utah community.

Ciao, kittens!

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The following is an excerpt from a speech at the Equality Utah political rally on June 2, 2007.

We stand together in solidarity to show all of Utah that we are a vibrant, passionate, powerful part of this state. We are the Queer Children of Zion, and we are here to change the world.

We are part of a global grassroots movement sweeping across the planet. All over the world, a wave of change is transforming entire nations.

Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, France, Germany, Canada, Hungary, United Kingdom — all have modified their laws to protect queer civil liberties.

Spain, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and many others are embracing their queer children.

The wave is moving and it cannot be stopped.

The energy of our collective lives is radically moving our planet toward greater freedom, greater liberty and greater justice.

In 1776, a group of white male property owners declared that all men were created equal, and that they had the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Not all Americans enjoyed these rights, but the words reverberated in the soul of every American. They rang and sang and danced in the hearts of our people until the contradiction was too great and we finally said NO! Black people will not be slaves in America. After the Civil War, social justice movements emerged everywhere. The labor movement fought for the eight-hour workday. The Suffragettes demanded that women have the right to vote.

In the 60s, we experienced another surge in social consciousness. The women’s movement ignited a nation. The Vietnam War saw the emergence of peace activists.

Civil rights leaders took to the streets and

route and the amount of work it takes to coordinate the event, I had decided that enough was enough. As the parade grows every year and the city places more demands on it, the task of coordinating the parade has become far too big for just one volunteer. To do it well, the Pride parade needs an entire committee with its own volunteers and, at the very least, a parttime coordinator to recruit entries and organize the logistics months in advance.

The way I see it, anyone who profits from our community needs to be in the parade, be it cell phone companies, gyms, car dealerships and especially our friends in the performing arts community. Where the hell are the Salt Lake Acting Company and Utah Opera Company, I think ever so quietly to myself. Hhmmm?

My one complaint with the parade was the media coverage. The local television stations never seemed to synch up their narration with their footage. On one hand they were talking about the thousands of spectators and then they show

the section of Second South where there were no people.

It got really odd when the news kept increasing the number of attendees at the festival each time they broadcast.

The early news had ten thousand, then it grew to twenty thousand, and by 9 o’clock the festival multitudes apparently had reached biblical proportions. By the ten o’clock news Valerie Larabee had apparently recreated the miracle of the Loaves and Fishes using half a power bar and a bottle of Bacardi Limon. Oh, I kid, I kid!

Ironically, many of the problems that plagued the parade in the past disappeared with the advent of the new multiday festival. Namely, the bane of my existence, the opening ceremony that was always scheduled for about three minutes after the parade started. I love her dearly, but my favorite Fran Pruyn comment of all time was, “Ruby, I don’t want to dictate the order of the parade in any way, BUT … I need the Salt Lake Men’s Choir, the color guard, the dignitaries and the board members in the first few entries.” I kid you not! Oh, and don’t get me started about that damn giant rainbow flag. Yes I know it has huge sentimental value

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BY RUTH HACKFORD-PEER RUTH@QSALTLAKE.COM

I took a couple of friends with me to the Dyke March at Pride this year. Neither of them had ever gone to a gay or lesbian event before. Neither publicly acknowledges their sexual orientation, but privately, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been able to gather that both are sweet little baby dykes starting to get claustrophobic within the confines of the closet. We walked up the sidewalk at City Creek Park and passed the protesters wielding signs and spouting hate. As we continued past the Jesus freaks and into the gathering women, my friends became typical kids in a candy store. There were hundreds of women at the march, and my friends got busy checking out the hotties, commenting on their clothes and hairdos, and bathing in the joy of loving women. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe there are this many lesbians in Salt Lake City,â&#x20AC;? one stated. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe there are protesters,â&#x20AC;? the other responded.

I have a friend whom you will one day see at Pride peddling â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jesus wants you to get a hobbyâ&#x20AC;? T-shirts to the protesters. I mean, what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing makes no sense, really. If I could actually engage in an â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m-really-seeking-tounderstandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; conversation with one of these protesters, I would ask something like this: â&#x20AC;&#x153;So you read the bible and THIS is what you got from it?

That you should protest Pride?â&#x20AC;?

I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really care that Jesus is going to send me to burn in Hell. Quite frankly, I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really been that close to Jesus since my sixth-grade spelling bee. I had studied for the spelling bee for four solid months, and I was determined to make my parents proud.

It went down like this: The words were beautiful, and I was a part of the words: Isotope. Lethargic. Lieutenant. Eventually, the words got longer, more difficult to pronounce. Less frequently used. Trick words with double meanings. But I had devoured (that was one of the words) the practice lists. I thought I was ready.

But I was not ready. No amount of practicing could have prepared me for this lesson: God and Jesus played favorites, and I was not one of them; I did not have a chance from the beginning.

At first, I thought I would prevail. One by one, the other kids misspelled a word and took their place in the audience. One by one, I got closer to glory. Until there were just two of us: me and her. She smiled at me and proclaimed that she was going to be victorious because she had prayed to God for victory.

Shit. Damn. Why didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t I pray for assistance?

Maybe it wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be too late. Maybe I could make it up to HIM by offering up some spontaneous, heartfelt plea for triumph. Dear God. Please donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let her win

the spelling bee. Please let me win. Thank you. Amen.

That was all that I had time for, because then it was my turn to approach the microphone and spell Onomatopoeia ... Onomatopoeia. I knew the word. I had practiced it a dozen times.

O â&#x20AC;&#x201C; I began slowly â&#x20AC;&#x201C; N â&#x20AC;&#x201C; O â&#x20AC;&#x201C; M â&#x20AC;&#x201C; A â&#x20AC;&#x201C; T â&#x20AC;&#x201C; O â&#x20AC;&#x201C; P â&#x20AC;&#x201C; E â&#x20AC;&#x201C; I â&#x20AC;&#x201C; A. Something was wrong.

It didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sound right. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Click. Bang.â&#x20AC;? Just like that, I had missed one of my favorites, the sound-imitating word. But she remembered the final O. She took the glory. I was second best. God told her she would win. Jesus said heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be there for her. My mother took the entire day off work to watch me, but it meant nothing compared to Jesus being there. As I stepped off the stage to take my seat, my eyes scanned the crowd, glancing at mother, searching for Jesus.

It was not long afterward that my uncle gave his car to Jesus. He was traveling home after a week of working out of state on a drilling rig. He picked up a hitchhiker on the condition that the hitchhiker would drive so that my uncle could get loaded in the passenger seat. Several beers later, the hitchhiker convinced my drunk uncle that he was, in fact, Jesus, back for a second run at spreading the word of truth across the land. By the time they arrived in Vernal, my uncle was so committed to earning a spot in the Kingdom of Heaven that he donated his only means of transportation to Jesus. His wife didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t appreciate his religious faith nearly as much.

The divorce took about six months.

Jesus certainly wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t earning points in my book. First HE made me lose the spelling bee. Then HE made me lose my favorite aunt.

I suppose I shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be too surprised that HEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s now sending folks to follow me around at my favorite holiday of the year, trying to put a damper on my spirits.

I imagine Jesus showing up at the Dyke March at the last second. I imagine him as the hitchhiker who made off with my uncleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s car. I imagine that he was just too busy driving around in his new digs to come in years past. I can see it vividly: Jesus hopping out of my uncleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s old Honda and pronouncing, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nothing personal, lesbo. But if this wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a fornication rally, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be here, too.â&#x20AC;?

In a really messed up way, the protesters and their view of Jesus validate my existence. They also remind me why we still need Pride. Not just the weekend each year, but the actual deadly sin itself.

Indeed, the chasm is wide between me and Jesus. What I consider self-respect and a refusal to be shameful, Jesus considers one of the top seven ways to meet with eternal damnation.

Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to Pride. There may always be protesters, but there will also be firsttime Dyke marchers who will leave remembering the solidarity with the women in the march, and not the lack of respect of the handful of protesters and their Jesus. More importantly, hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to love. The kind that I imagine Jesus really preaches. Not the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d better win the spelling beeâ&#x20AC;? Jesus. Not the â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want your Hondaâ&#x20AC;? Jesus. Not the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nothing personal, lesboâ&#x20AC;? Jesus. Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to the real thing. Q

I have a friend whom you will one day see at Pride peddling â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jesus wants you to get a hobbyâ&#x20AC;?

T-shirts to the protesters.

Lambda History The Empire Strikes Back

by Ben Williams ben@qsaltlake.com

facilities were denied. Period.

Once the coalition learned Hotel Utah had reneged on its contract, they heroically scrambled to find a new location. The intrepid Kline proclaimed the convention would go on “even if it’s in the streets!” The conference was finally shifted to the International Dune Hotel after “every other hotel turned us down.”

On June 9, the coalition held a press conference at the Salt Lake International Airport “under a tight security cloak” to keep out “undesirable elements.” At the press conference, Matlovich said he was in town “to continue the battle of Dade County ... No longer will we be your slaves of silence. We will be free Americans just like everyone else.” His remarks were cheered by 30 supporters wearing Matlovich t-shirts. Then, Shirley Peddler, director of Utah Chapter of the ACLU issued a statement, condemning Hotel Utah’s actions. No one wore Peddler t-shirts, but they did cheer. Then when Kline said the coalition filed a suit against the bastards in the 3rd District Court, even the reporters cheered.

Although it was not a grand five-star hotel, the International Dune Hotel at 206 South West Temple was nice and accommodating to the convention. Sadly, the following year Rachel David would toss her seven children off the hotel’s 11th Floor balcony because her polygamous husband Emanuel David had committed suicide. I swear, we had nothing to do with it.

At the symposium’s opening ceremony, many activists wore “Gay and Proud” buttons; many others wished they could have worn a sack over their heads. Imperial spies were everywhere. Organizers rigidly controlled access to the three day symposium because many attendees were gay Mormons who wished to “keep their anonymity.” Steven Zakharias, for example, didn’t want Imperial Storm Troopers or bounty hunters coming after him, so he used the pseudonym Matthew Price.

At the opening session, Rev. James Sandmire, a former LDS stake president from Utah County and now a pastor in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Community Church, called for equal rights under the law. He also said the gay rights movement was following the tradition of all civil rights activities marked by “nonviolent” actions: “Violence is something gay people live with all the time. It is something directed at us, not from us,” he told the 300 attendees, adding that gays would still “demand our rights, but in a non-violent way.”

At the Saturday, June 11 session, Zakharias created what is probably the most enduring legacy of the 1977 Gay Pride Symposium: an underground support group by and for gay Mormons.

Then called Gay Mormons United, it later morphed into Affirmation International of today.

On the third day of the symposium, a Gay Pride beer kegger was held up in Mill Creek Canyon. Here the Alliance patted each other on the back for a job well done; the Empire had tried in vain to destroy the force of Gay Pride 1977.

Oh, just so you know, the lawsuit brought by the coalition against the Hotel Utah was reconciled out of court with a settlement of $1,600 divided between Ken Kline, Ron Hunt, Bob Waldrop and D. Kendall Perkins, Attorney at Law on December 21, 1977.

May the Force be with you. Q

Memorable Moment Great to Be Useful

by Carol Lynn Pearson

Walking from my apartment to catch the subway to the theater, I passed an elementary school surrounded by a tall wall of brick and wrought iron. At the corner, a short, white, female police officer tossed a basketball to a tall black kid, maybe 20-years-old. Clearly she had asked if he would shoot the basketball over the fence to get it back where it belonged on the playground. I watched as he skillfully aimed the ball and shot it right over the 25-foot wall. Seconds later I stood beside the young man as we waited for the light to turn green. I looked up at him and smiled and said, “Isn’t it great to be useful?” He smiled back at me and I saw that all four of his front upper teeth were missing (many young black men these days, I thought, have lots of cards stacked against them). “Yeah!” he said with a fervor that surprised and delighted me, “Oh, yeah!”

Walking on, I thought, Useful. Useful. I slipped into my “synchronicity space.” I had been thinking about the word “useful” earlier that morning.

What was it? Yes. I had been reading an article about the plays and musicals up for Broadway’s Tony Awards. Reading through all those impressive names of productions and of people, I had smiled self-consciously at the very idea that my Facing East is appearing Off-Broadway, right in the neighborhood of all those great shows – Inherit the Wind, Translations, The Coast of Utopia.

Well, I thought to myself, Facing East may never get a Tony, and it may never go down in the annals of great plays. But Facing East sure is – useful. Really useful. I was thinking of the email I had received that morning: “I want you to know that you saved another life. My partner and I attended your play in Utah.

She had been struggling so much with our religion and being a lesbian and was close to taking her life over it. Your play, hug and kind words brought a new light and hope into her life. I just wanted to thank you... for saving the person I love!”

I would not mind this being my epitaph: SHE WAS USEFUL.

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The original Star Wars had its Utah debut on May 25, 1977 at the old Art Nouveau Centre Theater on the corner of Broadway and State. The movie at the time seemed to parallel the struggle between the Utah Gay Rebellion and the Evil Empire. So humor me as we do Part IV of the Thirty Year Homosexual Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.

In the previous year, the Empire sent its Death Star to destroy a network of sexually active gays on planet BYU. The infamous “Purge of ‘76” was so successful that a BYU professor blew his brains out, students attempted suicides and several informants narked out homosexuals cells. It was good times for the Imperial Storm Troop — err, I mean BYU security — with “mass interrogations, off-campus monitoring and entrapment” driving the remaining gays underground or into exile. Surviving gay BYU students Steven Zakharias, Bruce Barton and Ben Williams (all of whom knew friends who committed or attempted suicide), were some of the lucky few who were able to jettison to various outposts. Wounded but not defeated, all made their way back to the heart of the Empire — Salt Lake City — eventually.

In the Imperial capital, Jedi Knight Ken Kline, a former BYU student who had been involved with organizing gays at the school, was active in the Resistance.

He had secured a position as chair of the Gay Rights Committee on the board the Gay Community Service Center. After the Center closed, Kline and other Jedi Knights formed the Gay Service Committee to keep the Resistance alive.

While the Empire was in the last stages of the war with the Sons of Cain, two events serendipitously occurred in the Spring of 1977. In March, Salt Lake Metropolitan Community Church, still pissed at Utah’s Lt. Gov. David Monson for denying them use of the Sacred Rotunda, sponsored a war council in their church’s gymnasium at 870 West 400 South. Here, the Salt Lake Coalition for Human Rights was organized to kick some Imperial ass.

Bob Waldrop, Thor Upwall, Kay Kellerman, Rev. James Sandmire, Dorothy Makins, Joe Redburn, Larry Pacheco, Kenneth Kline, Paul Larson, Camille Tartagila, Carole Martindale and Tony Adams all represented a consortium of fledgling Gay groups in Utah, may their names always be blessed.

About the same time, a closeted gay BYU student Cloy Jenkins became royally pissed off after sitting through a malicious, flagellating lecture spewed

by BYU professor Reed Payne. Aided by a Ricks College faculty member Howard Salisbury, Jenkins penned the Payne Papers in response to the Empire’s incendiary anti-gay attacks. Eventually, Ken Kline obtained a copy of Jenkins’ comeback to Dr. Payne-in-the-ass and cried, “Eureka!” (It’s a Greek word, look it up). After approaching Donald Attridge, another gay BYU scholar who he convinced to do the cover artwork, Kline published the common sense pamphlet.

He mailed it right out under the nose of the LDS Church Office Building to “all

Mormon General Authorities, TV and radio stations and many BYU professors.”

The church was agog, aghast and totally pissy because Kline made the pamphlet appear to be a BYU publication, approved by the church. This daring feat was a shot down the Death Star’s reactor core.

More on that later.

Ken “Skywalker” Kline, when not surreptitiously freaking out 50 E. North Temple, also managed to become the first president of the University of Utah’s Gay Student Union while pulling off a major coup. He orchestrated a three-day symposium on gay rights featuring Air Force Sergeant, Bronze Star and Purple Heart recipient Leonard Matlovich “whose court martial because of his sexuality had been one of the very few high-profile gay-centered news stories of recent years.” Did I mention Matlovich was also an ex-Mormon? But the nabbing of Matlovich as a keynote speaker at the Salt Lake Coalition for Human Rights’ Gay Pride Symposium was overshadowed by Kline’s penchant for poking the Empire with a light saber-sized stick whenever he could.

What’s a conference without a hotel?

Kline had a maniacal scheme to book the Hotel Utah for the convention. Yes, we are talking five-star, LDS Church-owned, Hotel Utah, which was within spitting distant of the horny, golden Moroni. Now, some who knew the rapscallion Kline claimed he deliberately made the arrangements with the hotel under the name Salt Lake Coalition of Human Rights to obscure the nature of the organization.

Not so, said he, and Bob Waldrop agreed. Waldrop stated the conference contracts had been signed without any attempts to “disguise the nature of the event nor its participants.” And just so they would know the score, Waldrop added, “We told them there would be “same-sex” dancing at the dance, and they said fine.” Perhaps the hotel booking manager thought Waldrop meant some type of same-sex folk dancing. Hoospah!

Well, here it was the second week of June and all was set! Matlovich was scheduled to arrive on June 9 after speaking in Florida where the Dade County referendum was attempting to strike down hard-earned rights because of the Orange Juice “Save Our Children” Bitch’s hateful rhetoric. Yes, Dade County repealed its gay rights ordinance, and the giggles from 50 E. North Temple could be heard all the way to Radio City Lounge. No, they weren’t giggling solely because the ex-Miss America runner-up had dashed the dreams of tens of thousands of Miami Beach queens, but because they had thwarted the Hotel Utah’s invasion of dykes, punks, and queers.

At the last minute, hotel manager Stuart Cross finally figured out that samesex dancing did not mean Greek line dancing. Muttering, “Oh my!” the entire time, Cross used the General Authority hotline to page Victor L. Brown, the presiding bishop of the LDS Church who was in charge of church business dealings. Not wanting to be caught with its proverbial pants down, Brown woke the other GAs from their afternoon naps with the news that a convention sponsored by homosexuals was about to transpire just across the street. A smile briefly crossed Emperor Spencer Kimball’s face before he ordered the hotel’s board of directors to slam the door on the Sodomites.

A letter signed by the hotel president notified Kline of the cancellation, just two days before the convention was to begin.

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by Ryan Shattuck ryan@qsaltlake.com

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hello. My name is Ryan Shattuck. And Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m an

alcoholic.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hi, Ryan.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I also lack successful interpersonal skills, make up for my deficiency of ambition with an unhealthy dose of procrastination, always mispronounce the word mispronounce, think that Margaritaville is a really great restaurant, and still insist to this day that it was Kurt Vonnegut who wrote the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The Sunscreen Song.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yeah, um, Ryan, is it? This is Alcoholics Anonymous. Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just stick to alcohol.â&#x20AC;?

So, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve decided to take the plunge and become a homosexual. Congratulations! Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in for a great time. Be warned though â&#x20AC;&#x201D; being a modern homosexual isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t easy, and is not what everyone makes it. For starters, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll need to maintain a witty sense of humor, develop a keen taste in style and fashion, nourish a voracious appetite for sex, and learn to appreciate the oh-so-subtle music stylings of Madonna.

Oh, and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a 30 percent chance you may need to become an alcoholic.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no surprise â&#x20AC;&#x201D; no more surprising than the news that Paris Hilton was released from jail early for â&#x20AC;&#x153;medical reasonsâ&#x20AC;? (i.e. sick of being in jail) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that

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gay men and alcohol go together like gin and tonic, rum and Coke and tequila and more tequila. Anywhere gay men may be present â&#x20AC;&#x201D; whether Gay Pride, a gay bar, a gay party or gay Alcoholics Anonymous â&#x20AC;&#x201D; alcohol will be, too. Drunk at church?

Wasted at a bar mitzvah? Plastered at a wedding? Smashed at Gymboree? What would normally be a social taboo is completely plausible when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re gay. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Social eventâ&#x20AC;? really means â&#x20AC;&#x153;drink alcoholâ&#x20AC;? to many gay men and women â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the same way Promises, Promises really means â&#x20AC;&#x153;two weeksâ&#x20AC;? to Lindsay Lohan.

How did it become this way, and why do we drink so much? While we are certainly to be held responsible for our drinking habits, it shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come as a surprise that people who were told since childhood that we werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t normal enough, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t deserve the same rights as everyone else and that those pants make our ass look huge, would eventually resort to drinking as adults. Regardless of our reasons for drinking, do we sometimes take it too far? Are we promising ourselves weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll only drink during the week in days that end in d-a-y? Are we hypnotized by justification? Yes, justification is a beautiful mistress â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but unfortunately sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also riddled with STDs. While there isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a current consensus in the medical community on what percent of the gay population has a drinking problem, gay men and women, according to Alcohol Health & Research World, are 30 percent more likely to experience â&#x20AC;&#x153;excessive and/or problematic drinkingâ&#x20AC;? than are straight men and women.

If one considers that 180,000 people live in Salt Lake City, that gay men and women make up about 10 percent of the population, and that 30 percent of all gay men and women are likely to have a problem with alcoholism â&#x20AC;&#x201C; that means three million gay men and women in Salt Lake City are alcoholics. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s at least half the number of people who died in the Holocaust. And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot.

So what? Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the big deal? Doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the fact that gay men and women drink

Should They Date?

Do you want to date someone, have a crush on someone, or are simply tired of paying for â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;loveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; by the hour?

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more than straight men and women simply prove more that we have more to deal with â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that the formation of our gay identity may be linked to this increased prevalence to drink? Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t depressed people take more Prozac than non-depressed people? Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t pregnant women give birth more than non-pregnant women? While admittedly we have trouble (right here in River City), some of us are allowing these reasons and excuses for drinking to become a driving force â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and even a medication. Hoping alcohol will erase our problems and wipe away our tears is like replacing Botox with Elmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Glue and hoping for the same effect.

Regardless of whether our insistence on drinking is justified, we should remember gay men and women who drink are three times less likely to engage in safe sex (perhaps), seven times more likely to quarrel with a significant other (maybe), and one hundred times more likely to tell their ex they miss them via text message (totally true). Gay men and women also need to be more careful with self-monitoring than others; not only are gay men and women less likely to enter treatment centers than the general public, but most treatment centers do not specifically address the special needs of the gay and lesbian community.

The fact the gay community drinks more than the straight community isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t necessarily immoral â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something we need to be aware of. The next time you decide, however, that you want to imbibe, remember what William Faulkner said of drinking: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Civilization begins with distillation.â&#x20AC;? Or what Ernest Hemingway said of drinking: â&#x20AC;&#x153;A man does not exist until he is drunk.â&#x20AC;? Or what Jack Kerouac said of drinking: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t drink to get drunk.

Drink to enjoy life.â&#x20AC;? Or what Ryan Shattuck said of drinking: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Where am I? What year is this? Can someone give me a ride home?â&#x20AC;?

Ryan Shattuck is a freelance writer, University of Utah student, and would really appreciate it if you would stop yelling and making the room spin.

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You need relationship advice from the QSaltLake â&#x20AC;&#x201C; you need a brand new STD! In this issue of SHOULD THEY DATE, Marty H. wants to know if he and Jeremiah K. are compatible.

NAME: Marty H. AGE: 33 RESIDENCE: West Valley, Utah OCCUPATION: Independent Tupperware Dealer / Stripper FAVORITE GAY PORN STAR: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oh, like thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s even a fair question. You wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ask a polygamist which is his favorite wife, would you?â&#x20AC;?

NAME: Jeremiah K. AGE: 27 RESIDENCE: Salt Lake City, Utah OCCUPATION: Telecommunications Project Coordinator FAVORITE GAY PORN STAR: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dustin Diamondâ&#x20AC;?

â&#x20AC;˘ Whoever said that the website gay. com is not a decent place to meet anyone has clearly never used the site between the hours of 2 and 3am â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which is how Marty and Jeremiah first met. Marty was â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;just looking for conversationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; with â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;straight acting bros,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; while Jeremiah replied that he was â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;just hanging outâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and was â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;boredâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;whats up.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; I know what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re thinking â&#x20AC;&#x201C; was this conversation scripted by Nora Ephron? â&#x20AC;˘ Sure, anyone can hold their ankles while wearing a leather hood and yelling â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;mea culpa,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; but true romance is watching a marathon of The Amaz-

ing Race with your significant other.

No, seriously â&#x20AC;&#x201C; I barely survived one episode watching the team of Charla & Mirna whine about everything. So the fact that Jeremiah will watch The Amazing Race with Marty clearly means that something special is there. â&#x20AC;˘ IN SUMMARY: Like Adam & Steve, David Beckham & That One Spice Girl, Britney Spears & Jason Alexander, Crazy Nuts & Katie Holmes, Woody Allen & Mia Farrow, Woody Allen & Soon-Yi Previn, and Paris & Jail Time, there are some things that are just meant to be together. Marty & Jeremiah, take note.

Should They Date? YES

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Ryan Shattuck

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2007 Utah Arts Festival Enlivens Library Square The Utah Arts Festival — Utah’s largest arts celebration — will be held Thursday through Sunday, June 21–24, at Library Square in Salt Lake City. The 31st annual Utah Arts Festival will showcase varied visual arts, vibrant musical performances, delicious food, and delightful activities for children.

“This year’s festival will be a blast,” says UAF executive director Lisa Sewell.

“We have amazing things planned. Everyone is invited. Come groove to the music, watch a demonstrating artist, try out the great food, beer, and wine; and maybe even pick up a piece of art to take home.

Don’t miss it — the Utah Arts Festival is

the unofficial kickoff of summer!”

The festival, which typically draws 80,000 people over its four-day run, features 130 visual artists at the Artist Marketplace, more than 500 artists of every music genre, modern dance, story telling and poetry on seven stages, street theater, literary arts, demonstrating arts program, interactive urban art projects for teens, the Target Art Yard for kids, Fear No Film Festival inside the library auditorium screening more than 50 independently made films, a fine arts exhibition at the gallery on the fourth floor of the library and two world premieres of classical music.

The Mayor’s Artist Awards will be presented for excellence in visual arts, performing arts, literary arts, and service to the arts. The festival will also honor a jazz master and award commissions to an orchestra and a chamber music ensemble. The 14th annual Sports Medicine Center of Utah Art Attack 5K, is expected to raise $15,000 to support the artistic programs of the festival.

Festival hours are daily from noon to 11 p.m. Adult admission is $8, children 12 and under are free, and seniors 65 and above are $5. A reduced adult admission price of $5 is available from noon to 3 p.m. Thursday and Friday as well as for college students on Thursday’s College Night with student identification. Four-day passes are $25. For more information, visit uaf.org or call 322-2428.

Headliners

Thursday, June 21, Amphitheater Stage, 9:45 p.m.

Angelique Kidjo is a four-time Grammy-nominated African singer-songwriter who is noted for her diverse musical influences and creative music videos.

She sings in French, English, Yoruba, Fon and Swahili.

Friday, June 22, Festival Stage, 9:30 p.m.

Jazz Band – venerable New Orleans Jazz. No one beats their chops.

Sunday, June 24, Festival Stage, 9:45 p.m.

Kan’Nal’s primal rhythm, swirling dancers, ancient instruments and futuristic technologies blend with mythic archetypes and alternative rock to create a musical, visual, sensual experience.

Sunday, June 24, Amphitheater Stage, 9:45 p.m.

Phillips, Grier & Flinner with special

guest Herb Pedersen – fine acoustic instrumental music from the world of bluegrass and beyond. Matt Flinner has been a local favorite since, at 11 years of age, he hosted the Bluegrass Express on KRCL Radio with his dad.

Saturday, June 23, Festival Stage, 9:45 p.m.

Remedy Motel – part country, part pop, part party. Saturday, June 23, Park Stage, 9 p.m.

Crescent Super Band with special guest Brian Bromberg – a group of 50 young Utah jazz superstars. Downbeat Magazine says these young Utah cats are the number one student band in the world. This is a rare opportunity for them to play with Brian Bromberg, often called the best bass player in the world (just ask Lionel Hampton).

Saturday, June 23, Festival Stage, 7:30 p.m.

Kimberly Dark is a rare non-musical headliner for UAF. She’s a poet whose frequent themes are gender, sexuality, poverty, privilege, parenting and education. Her work blends humor, poetry, storytelling, education and social research in order to stimulate both social analysis and action.

Sunday, June 24, Big Mouth Café, 9 p.m.

Fear No Film is a festival within a festival. This program presents more than 60 short films from local, national and international filmmakers.

Featuring a wide mix of work in the short film format, including narrative, experimental, animation, dance and documentary works, Fear No Film promises something for everyone. This year’s collection brings forth a diverse collection of clever narratives, inspiring documentaries, mind-blowing animation, brilliant experimental films and really, really cool music videos.

Topher Horman, Fear No Film coordinator, says, “As we screened the nearly 200 submissions from over a dozen countries one thing became clear: Not only is film for everyone, but brilliant filmmakers are everywhere.

This year’s submissions reflect the power of placing inexpensive computers and improved digital cameras into the hands of… well, just about everyone… Filmmaking is no longer an elitist, hoity-toity club, film is for everyone!”

Daily screenings will be held in the City Library auditorium. The complete list of films and the screening schedule can be found at the Festival’s Web site, http://www.uaf.org/fnf.htm, and at the Fear No Film desk in the library.

The Fear No Film Awards will be announced on Saturday, June 23 following the 7 p.m. screening. Leigh von der Esch, managing director of the Utah Office of Tourism and former director of the Utah Film Commission, is the juror for the competition. Categories include Best of Show, Best Student Short Film, Best Youth Short Film, and Best Locally Produced Short Film.

Mayor’s Artist Awards Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson will present the Mayor’s Artist Awards in a ceremony Friday evening, June 22 at the Festival Stage at 7:30 p.m. The five winners span four categories:

Visual Arts Award – Ruby Chacon Ruby Chacon often does paintings of people, richly yet informally portraying their humanity. Her beautiful, evocative canvases are thick with paint, boldly articulated, and vibrantly colorful.

Literary Arts Award – Alex Caldiero Alex Caldiero writes books, poems, artist books, sound recordings, video productions and live readings. His interest in proverbs, folk tales and art of all kinds informs his broad body of work.

Service to the Arts/Individual – Darryl Drage Darryl Drage owns Brushworks Gallery where his eye for color and form – and his legendary generosity toward artists – contribute to his reputation as a gifted advocate for the arts.

Service to the Arts/Organization – Salt Lake Arts Center The Salt Lake Arts Center displays the work of contemporary visual artists in a beautiful setting and provides handson opportunities for students to enrich themselves through the creative process.

Performing Arts – Ririe Woodbury Dance Company Ririe Woodbury Dance Company’s artistic excellence is recognized worldwide.

Locally, the company strives to ignite a passion for dance in young people through their school outreach program.

These recipients were nominated by their arts community peers in Salt Lake City. They were chosen not just because they excel in their work, but because they also make a contribution to the arts and the community, all of them by providing their services to disadvantaged people.

Since 1992, the Mayor’s Artists Awards have recognized 57 individuals and organizations that excel in their own right in the arts and have reached beyond their medium to better the arts community and the community at large.

For a complete list of past recipients, go to the Festival’s website: uaf.org/mayor.htm

Online

Festival-goers can check schedules, read about performers and artists and food vendors, and view a map that shows locations of all the sights online at uaf.org.

In addition to information on admission prices, locations, dates and times of the Festival, patrons this year may access the Festival’s Web site for more information than ever before.

“We know that a lot of people hop onto their computer before they head out to the Festival. They want to see who’s performing at what time, on what stage, and they might want to read a list of the food vendors so while they’re biking to the Festival they can imagine what they’re going to eat when they get here,” says Lisa Sewell, executive director of the Utah Arts Festival.

For more information, visit uaf.org.

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Preservation Hall

Handcrafted furniture, decorative pottery, perplexing gadgets, elegant jewelry, evocative paintings and whimsical toys created by 130 different artists will be on display at the Artists Marketplace at the 2007 Utah Arts Festival. Artists will be showing and selling their creations each day from noon to 10 p.m.

“The Artists Marketplace is incredibly varied this year,” says Chase Leslie, artist marketplace coordinator.

“I think people will be pleased with the broad range of styles and the quality of works presented. In addition to artists from Utah, we have artists attending this year’s Festival from as far away as Canada.”

This year’s palette of art features the beautiful still life paintings by invited artist Brian Blackham and the amazing ceramicist Marvin Blackmore whose pottery is layered with colored clay slips and etched with intricate symbols to reveal layers beneath.

These are must-see artists.

Returning, award-winning artists include Rick and Linda Bachman, 3-D mixed media; Erin Westenskow Berrett, painting; Jerry Fuhriman, painting; Wendy Newman, jewelry; Scott Roach, wood; Robb Siverson, photography; and Heidi Moller Somsen, sculpture.

Fear No Film

The Utah Arts Festival’s 2007 musical headliners span the genres of blues, African, New Orleans jazz, funky rhythm, bluegrass, pop and rock & roll.

Tommy Castro explores the boundaries of American blues guitar music with a mesmerizing blend of soul-shaking rock, blues and Memphis soul.

130 Visual Artists

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Demonstrations

It’s one thing to marvel at the finished works of 130 incredibly gifted visual artists. It’s another to be able to watch some of them in the act of creating beauty. The Festival is very excited to bring back its Demonstrating Arts Program. You’ll have ample opportunity over the four days to watch “artists at work” in drawing, painting, caricature, and basketry. The Demonstrating Artist booths are located on the lawn just north of the Leonardo Building.

Figure Drawing – Rick Graham Thurs. at 4, Friday at 2, Saturday at 6, Sunday at 4

Rick is an instructor of drawing and painting at Salt Lake Community College. He specializes in teaching life drawing. Rick’s work can be found at Southam Gallery in Salt Lake City. He says, “As far as I’m concerned, nothing in the known universe can compete with the human form in its beauty and magnificent complexity. I never tire of drawing and painting the figure.”

Painting – Utah Watercolor Society Thurs. at 6, Friday at 4, Saturday at 2, Sunday at 6

Jazz Master

Bob Bailey will be honored with the 2007 Jazz Masters Award in a special concert at the Utah Arts Festival. Bailey is a legendary jazz pianist, composer and arranger.

The award recognizes a Utahn for outstanding achievement and significant contributions to jazz performance, composition and education. The Jazz Master is an individual who has excelled during a life-long contribution to the creation, understanding and teaching of jazz and the award honors an individual who leaves an indelible stamp on the history of jazz in Utah.

Bob was born in Salt Lake City in 1921, started playing piano at age 2½ and took his first lesson at age six.

The first jazz recording he remembers hearing was Yellow Dog Blues and since then he has committed his life to playing, writing and teaching jazz. Bob performs with the Great Basin Street Band, Salt Lake City Jazz Orchestra and his own groups. He has performed with Dean Martin, Pearl Bailey, Nat Cole, Vic Damone and the King Family.

“I met Bob when he moved back to Utah in ’81,” says Utah Arts Festival Jazz Masters and Jazz Commission Coordinator Henry Wolking. “I started playing with his seven-piece band and I was always knocked out by his consistent and solid musicianship. Plus, he’s a lovely guy. He always wears a big grin on his face.”

When called to let him know he was going to be honored at this year’s Festival, they reached Bailey in the hospital the night before he was to undergo open heart surgery. He replied that he’d like to compose something special for the awards concert. If he feels well enough, he’ll sit in with the band.

Bailey will be honored with the award and concert Friday, June 22 at 8pm on the Festival Stage.

Commissions

Composer Christopher Dietz from Ann Arbor, Mich. received the 2007 Utah Arts Festival’s Composer Commission for Orchestra.

His work was selected from a field of 138 applicants.

Christopher Dietz is a doctoral candidate in the Composition/Theory program at the Univ. of Michigan. He holds degrees from the Manhattan School of Music and Univ. of Wisconsin.

His latest orchestral work, Caldera, was premiered at the Society of Composers National Student Conference in the fall of 2005 and will be included in the Toledo Symphony’s 2006-2007 season.

The orchestral composition by Christopher Dietz, titled “Gharra” will be performed Thursday, June 21 at 8:00 p.m. on the Festival Stage.

Chamber Ensemble Commission The 2007 Commission for Chamber Ensemble was awarded to Philippe Bodin from Brooklyn, NY. A citizen of France and resident of Brooklyn, Bodin is a composer of unusually lyrical contemporary classical music which has garnered notice for its formal clarity and driving rhythmic energy.

Philippe studied voice at Oberlin College and composition at Yale University. He has taught composition at Yale University, Illinois Wesleyan, and Lawrence University. Prior to his incarnation as a composer, he studied mathematics, architecture, organ and piano in his native France, and had a career in opera. He was also music director of two small opera companies in France and is still active as stage director and coach for opera.

The chamber composition by Philippe Bodin will be premiered Saturday, June 23 at 4:00 p.m. in the Main Library Auditorium.

The Utah Watercolor Society, headquartered in Salt Lake City, is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to advance the art of painting in watercolors. (Watercolors here are defined as paintings in transparent and/or opaque water media or unvarnished water soluble media on paper.) The Society’s goals are to further activity and interest in water media and to reaffirm the permanence and the importance of watercolor as a medium in its own right.

Basketry – Connie Denton Thurs. at 2, Friday at 6, Saturday at 4, Sunday at 2

Connie has been making and teaching people how to make baskets for more than 15 years. She uses traditional basket making techniques with a variety of fibers and metals to make both functional and purely artistic objects for the home.

Caricature – Karen DeBirk Daily from noon to 11

Karen DeBirk will draw hilarious caricatures. Watch as she draws Festivalgoers, using personality and wit to make the drawings become vibrant and alive.

Street Performers

You never know where you’ll encounter a street performer at the Utah Arts Festival, but if you’re seeking them out, try The Round on Library Plaza and the area east of the City and County Building.

Bien Flamenco — Flamenco dancers and musicians perform this passionate art form from old southern Spain.

Blue Lotus Dance Collaborative — Modern Egyptian style belly dancers take to the streets to artfully shake it.

Intermountain Children Strings — The ICS have played to enthusiastic audiences locally and throughout Europe.

Marcus, Funny Man Who Does Tricks — He catches a bowling ball with his face and juggles knives. This act is hilarious and amazing.

Moosebutter — Saturday Night Live meets the Mormon Tabernacle Choir … an exhilarating comedy quartet.

Culinary Arts

Food is always a big part of the Utah Arts Festival.

The Festival showcases an eclectic array of cuisine, concentrating on local businesses first. To round out our search for great food and unique cuisine, we also offer a few out-of-town Culinary Artists that you can only find at the Utah Arts Festival.

Remember to take advantage of the many beverage stands serving beer, wine, and soft drinks. Bon appétit!

Argentina’s Best – new in 2007 A local entrepreneur serving traditional Argentinean cuisine.

Coffee Garden The best coffee in Utah.

Crepe Thyme A local favorite at the ski resorts crepes with sweet or savory fillings.

Dionysos Greek Foods Traditional recipes passed down from generation to generation.

Dippin’ Dots A local culinary artists serving the future of cold desserts.

Maui Wowi Cold fruit smoothies Outback Jack’s Road Kill Grill Traditional grilled foods of Australia The Pie Pizzeria Handmade pizza Sawadee Thai Food – new in 2007 Traditional food of Thailand Scandinavian Desserts Locally made ice cream Scrumptious Fried pickles Shishkaberrys Fruit and chocolate on a stick Snowie Flavored ice treats Teriyaki Grill Teriyaki grilled meats and veggies Tommy’s Tacos – new in 2007 Delicious fish and beef tacos season with south of the border love.

Totally Nutz Freshly roasted nuts Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwich PB & J and milk for $2 Benefits the Visual Arts Institute

Pizzicato Strings & Company — Fifty kids from ages five to 17 playing violin in four-part harmony.

Salt City Saints — Authentic New Orleans jazz from the early 1900s with French vocals and vintage instruments.

Salt Lake Capoeira — Afro-Brazilian acrobatic movement, culture, music, philosophy and ritual dance.

Samba Fogo — They paint the night sky with swirling fire while dancers perform. Music by Samba Gringa.

Shakin’ Up Shakespeare — Charming, VERY brief versions of Othello, Taming of the Shrew, A Winter’s Tale, and The Tempest.

Bob Culbertson — Culbertson is the master of an obscure craft, the playing of the Chapman stick, a stringed instrument which is hammered with the fingertips, creating a gorgeous acoustic string sound.

Kismet — Utah’s legendary Middle Eastern dance troupe will mesmerize you.

The complete list of street performances can be found at uaf.comstreettheatre.htm

Utah Arts Festival Schedule Thursday June 21

Friday June 22

Saturday June 23

Sunday June 24

Amphitheatre Stage Amphitheatre Stage Amphitheatre Stage Amphitheatre Stage Salsa Brava CDT One Voice Children’s Choir Ririe Woodbury 8:00–9:00

8:15–9:15

7:00–7:30

8:15–9:15

Tommy Castro

Soul Survivors

RDT

Kan’Nal

9:45–11:00

10:00–11:00

Park Stage Paul Green School of Rock

Park Stage Shaky Trade

Andrew Goldring & the Rosedale Power Station

9:00–9:45

7:30–8:30

9:00–9:45

The Summer Obsession 10:15–11:00

7:30–8:15

8:15–9:15

The Diamond Experience 10:00–11:00

Park Stage Brad Rasmussen

7:30–8:15

Super So Far

Remedy Motel

The Sensations

10:15–11:00

Festival Stage Gabriel 5:30–6:15

7:30–8:15 9:00–9:45

2 1/2 White Guys 10:15–11:00

Festival Stage Idlewild

Lake Effect

Salt Lake Jazz Orchestra

1:15–2:00

8:00–9:00

John Flanders & Double Helix

Melodramus

Angelique Kidjo

Hills of Home

Outdoor Cafe Bob Moss

Crescent Super Band with special guest Brian Bromberg

noon–12:45

2:30–3:15

Sinthesis

3:45–4:30

Mountain Jubilee Chorus 6:00–6:45

Chamber Orchestra Commission 8:00–9:30

Saliva Sisters 10:00–11:00

7:30–8:00

9:30–11:00

4:30–5:00

Outdoor Cafe Eddy Zenn

S.U.S (C&C steps)

Filthy Gorgeous (C&C bldg)

7:30–8:00

Filthy Gorgeous (C&C bldg) 9:30–10:00

7:30–8:30

The Hoot Owls 7:00–8:30

Blue Lotus (C&C)

5:30–6:15

9:45–11:00

5:00–5:30

6:45–7:15

3:15–4:15

5:30–6:00 6:15–6:45

Stella By Starlight

1:15–2:00

Intmtn. Child. Strings (C&C Phillips, Grier & Flinner steps) with special guest 5:00–5:30 Herb Pedersen S.U.S (C&C steps)

Outdoor Cafe Pioneer Playboys 5:30–6:00

Kismet (C&C)

9:30–10:00

Big Mouth Cafe Ben Johnson noon–12:45

12:15–12:45

Sotto Voce 2:00–2:45

Pizzicato (C&C) 2:45–3:15

Jeremiah Maxey 4:15–5:00

Pizzicato (C&C)

Jinga Boa

5:00–5:30

Ghostowne

5:30–6:00

1:15–2:00

S.U.S(C&C steps) Placental Armaggedon

Big Mouth Cafe Buyin’ Time

2:30–3:15

Brass Tacks Quintet

6:15–7:00

5:00–6:00

3:45–4:30

Gross National Product

The Sam Payne Project

7:00–8:30

6:30–7:30

Poetry Slam 8:00–9:00

Spork

10:00–11:00

Park Stage Kairo By Night

Cave Doll

Mayor’s Artists Awards

Festival Stage Slim Chance & His Psychobilly Playboys

9:45–11:00

5:00–6:00

Kismet (C&C) Charley Simmons 8:30–9:15

Zion Tribe 9:00–9:45

9:45–11:00

Festival Stage Zivio Ethnic Arts Ensemble 1:15–2:00

Sister Wives 3:15–4:15

Great Basin Street Band Salt Lake Alternative Jazz Orchestra 7:30–8:30

Preservation Hall Jazz Band 9:45–11:00

Outdoor Cafe Ashlee K. 12:15–12:45

Buddha Pie 2:00–2:45

BC Grooves Acoustic 4:15–5:00

Bien Flamenco (C&C steps) 5:00–5:30

S.U.S (C&C steps) 5:30–6:00

Gigi Love

6:15–7:00

Blue Lotus (C&C) 7:00–7:30

Zentherstick 8:30–9:00

Filthy Gorgeous (C&C bldg) 9:15–9:45

Marv Hamilton Band Poetry Slam

Big Mouth Cafe AJ

Salty Frogs

Cori Connors

2:30–3:15

Transperformance 9:00–10:00 p.m.

Cotard’s Asylum 10:00–11:00

noon–12:45 1:15–2:00

Scherzando Winds 2:30–3:15

Four Corners 3:45–4:30

Kate MacLeod & the Pancakes 5:00–6:00

Big Mouth Cafe The Stoddard Brothers 1:15–2:00

Shanahy

The Klez Bros 3:45–4:30

Andy Monaco Band 5:00–6:00

Sons-in-law of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers 6:30–7:30

Literary Triathlon

Poetry Slam

9:00–9:30

8:00–9:00

Transperformance 9:00–10:00 p.m.

Afro-Omega

10:00–11:00

Jeffrey D. Winkler - A Failure of Imagination – mixed media June 2, 2007-July 7, 2007 at the Gallery at Library Square, Main Library, Level 4

The artist says, “I work at night, always at night, and usually fairly late. Mostly out of necessity, but also because of the nervous energy that seems to go handin-hand with the darkness and silence.

It focuses my imagination and hones my intuition making the work at hand possible and sometimes even pleasurable.

Still, I could probably stand to get more sleep.”

About the work itself, Winkler says he slowly builds up a “landscape” or “portrait,” “body” or “site” (using a variety of materials and substances), then purges the image of “the beauti\ futile systems of quantification, value and control.”

June 2, 2007-July 7, 2007 at the Gallery at Library Square, Main Library, Level 4

Luther says, “We all experience the world through our senses. Our perception of the world is determined by a very specific and limited frame of reference.

Everything we perceive takes place in our own minds, and is, in fact, only a product of electronic impulses in our brain. This begs the question: at what level do we actually experience the objects and concepts we encapsulate into specific labeled categories of language?

Our reality and the meaning extracted from reality are a visual construct, and open for subversion and artistic play.”

Sacred Images: A Vision of North American Rock Art June 21-June 25 at the Main Library, Main Floor

The Center for Documentary Arts presents an exhibition of photographs of ancient Native American rock art in the Urban Room on the main floor of the Main Library during the 2007 Utah Arts Festival. The show, called “Sacred Images: A Vision of North American Rock Art” is a beautiful exhibit with museum quality photographs honoring the first artists of Utah.

Hip & Hip Hop

Rhythm Riders Hip Hop Thurs. & Sat. 10:30 Fri. & Sun. at 9PM The Round, Library Pl

Come experience true hip hop culture through the fusion of classic break dancing and D.J. Abstrak. Ride the beats with the Boogie Men during the Rhythm Riders Hip Hop performance. This culturally-based performance will excite an adrenaline rush that will bring out the dancer in anyone.

UsTube Daily, noon to 9, City and County Building, East Side

Bring your digital camera to the Festival (we’ll also have some cameras for you to use) and we’ll introduce you to the art of clip culture communication.

We’ll teach you how to make a video, edit it, upload it to the big screen on site, and post it on the web so your friends and family can see how you experience the Utah Arts Festival.

Higher Ground Learning Project Daily noon to 8 near the Leonardo

Higher Ground Learning and the U of U will teach teens 13-19 the elements of design. The interactive take-away project will combine recycled records and stencils.

Mad Hatter Daily noon to 8 near the Leonardo

Decorate and then show off your own fabulous work of art in the form of a hat. Each paper bag “hat” is uniquely hand-painted and then folded into a oneof-a-kind wearable creation. Customize yours by adding beads, flowers, sequins – whatever else you can think of from the bling we’ll have on hand.

Filthy Gorgeous Clothing Daily, City and County Building, East Side

Choose a T-shirt, bag, or hat to buy and use as your own canvas. Trained artists will guide you through the creation of your very own piece of art. Use paints, markers and all kinds of embellishments, even some stencils made by Filthy Gorgeous artists. Try your hand at airbrushing with assistance.

Filthy Gorgeous Clothing Artist Network Fashion Show Thursday and Friday at 9:30 Saturday and Sunday at 9:15 City and County Building, East Side

Each night Filthy Gorgeous will put on a high-end 20-piece fashion show. “Rock & Roll Wonderland” is sure to dazzle Festival-goers of all ages. Theatrical characters, props and entertaining original music will enhance this amazing show.

noon–12:45

The Legendary Porch Pounders 6:30–7:30

The City Library at 210 East 400 South in Salt Lake City will be the site of three art exhibitions in conjunction with the 2007 Utah Arts Festival. The first two exhibitions will be shown in the Gallery at Library Square, Main Library, Level 4. The third will be shown on Library Square’s main floor.

Joshua Luther – Obstructions – text and images

8:00–9:00

Kimberly Dark The Vile Blue Shades 10:00–11:00

Race

The 14th annual Sports Medicine Center of Utah Art Attack 5K Fun Run will take place on June 23 at 8:00 a.m. at Library Square. This yearly run is held the Saturday of the Festival and raises $12,000 annually to support the Utah Arts Festival’s artistic programs.

The run features a fast and flat out and back course from the Library to Liberty Park and back. Along with the 5K, those 12 and under can participate in a 1K at 7:45 a.m.

The Festival’s new executive director, Lisa Sewell, who will join the runners this year as a participant instead of an organizer, says, “This run is a great opportunity for us to reach out to the running community and bring them together with the arts. We always have

prizes donated from local arts organizations to give away. Festival supporters always turn out, the weather’s always great, and everyone has a good time.

The funds we raise on race day benefit everyone who attends the Utah Arts Festival.”

Participants may register in the following categories: 5K Open, 5K Clydesdale/Athena, 5K Walk, 5K Wheelchair, 1K Open (12 and under)

Early registration

By May 28, 5K $20, 1K (12 and under) $12 Pre-Registration May 29 - June 15, 5K $25, 1K $15 Day of Race Saturday June 23, 6- 8 a.m., 5K $30, 1K $20

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8:00–9:00

9:15–9:45

Saturday, June 2, 2007 4-5:30 p.m.

5:30–6:15

Filthy Gorgeous (C&C bldg)

6:30–7:30

Exhibitions

Public Reception

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The Gay Agenda YOUR CALENDAR OF ARTS, ENTERTAINMENT & IMPORTANT EVENTS

My top three moments at Utah Pride 2007: 1) The unbelievable showmanship of En Vogue, which ignited appreciation; 2) the two preteen girls who jumped on stage and rocked out with Hell’s Belles and; 3)Rocky Anderson sporting a ‘This is what a dyke looks like’ T-shirt at the parade.

16SATURDAY Q “All the world’s a stage” is not only a well-known Shakespearean metaphor, it’s true. Take for instance The Flying Ace All-Stars Saturday Freestyle Show, an exciting freestyle ski and snowboard aerial show in June — who would’a thunk? Take in this 30-minute choreographed show featuring top competitors as they “catapult” themselves into a 750,000-gallon pool.

Noon, Saturdays through Sept. 1, Utah Olympic Park, 3419 Olympic Parkway, Park City. Tickets $11–13 (sold days of show only), 435-658-4200 or olyparks.com.

Q I dare say gay boys know the story of The Little Mermaid ... or at least, they’ve dreamnt their own version. Like I’ve dreamed of being young Ariel, but instead of a young whole-human prince, I search for a muscular merman who’ll spank me with his tail. Anyhoo, check out the Academy of Performing Arts’ production of this popular fairy tale.

7:30pm, Fri.–Mon. through July 7, Academy of Performing Arts, 3188 S. 400 East. Tickets $10–12, 486-2728 or academyofpa.org.

17SUNDAY Q I know very little about painter Suzanne Barton except for the fact her subject matter reflects the American Southwest, which I adore ... at least decoratively-speaking. My shoebox apartment is similar to a sweatlodge, complete with a large steer skull and peoti. Anyhoo, Barton’s work A Sense of the Southwest is currently on display, and may be worth the stroll.

Times vary, through July 14, Art at the Main, City Library, 210 E. 400 South.

Free, 363-4088.

Q We here at the Q Towers are working diligently to be more eco-friendly. In fact, we’ve started recycling toilet paper and taking showers only once a month, hence the swarm of fruit flies. Now Park City has joined the cause (though less repugnant) with the Park Silly Sunday Market. Through October, market-goers will find organic and gourmet foods, artisans, performance artists, live music and more in an eco-friendly environment.

9am–3pm, Sundays through Oct. 14, outdoors on Main Street, Park City. Free, 435-655-0994.

18MONDAY Q The annual Writers at Work Conference returns for its 22nd year with yet another excruiatingly painful and creative five days for those who believe the pen is mightier than the sword.

Times vary, through Friday, Westminster College, 1840 S. 1300 East. Registration $495, 292-9285 or writers@work.org.

20WEDNESDAY Q The Gina Bachauer International Piano Foundation presents Piano ’Round the Clock, a four-day concert featuring a stellar lineup including Steven Graff, Thomas Hecht and Sara Davis Buechner. Don’t miss out on some beautiful solo, duet and foursome performances.

Up to six performances per day.

1–11pm, through Friday & 11am–10pm Saturday, Jeanne Wagner Theatre, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. Broadway. Tickets $10/performance or $35/day pass or $100/ full pass, 355-ARTS or arttix.org.

21THURSDAY Q I realize there’s a full spread on the Utah Arts Festival, let alone a fabulous photo of last year’s event splayed on the cover, but for those of you who only pick up the paper to read my delicious agenda and see how much skin we’ve exposed in it, I’m adding the festival here as a directive to check out the full details on pages 18–21.

Noon-11pm, through Sunday, Library Square, 200 E. 400 South. Ticket prices vary, 322-2428 or uaf.org.

23SATURDAY Q The Grammy-winning “experimental” alt-metal rock band The Deftones takes Salt Lake by storm. Since 1995, the five-member band has eclipsed a centurial metal movement and taken along hundreds of thousands of young fans with them.

6:30pm, In The Venue, 219 S. 600 West.

Tickets $29.50, 467-8499 or smithstix.com.

Q Bruce Bastian, whose charitable organization is one of the biggest sponsors of Utah Pride, hosts a superfantabulicous party each year, the HRC Utah Gala. This year’s phenomenal evening, anticipated by hundreds, awards Judy Shepard, Dr. Kristen Ries and Equality Utah for their tireless efforts to better the country at large. Also, Chaka Kahn makes a special appearance.

7:30pm, The Gardens of the Home of Bruce Bastian, 1384 N 450 East, Orem. Tickets $175–300, 800-494-8497 or hrc.org.

24SUNDAY Q Plan-B Theatre Company’s Script-inHand Series selects two of the previous year’s SLAM entrants and turns them into full-length productions. First up is Mesa Verde, a story written by Mat-

FALL OUT BOYS See June 25.

thew Ivan Bennett (Cold) about sisterhood and survival.

2pm & 5:30pm, Studio Theatre, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. Braodway. Tickets $10, 355-ARTS or arttix.org.

Q Members of the cast of Pioneer Theatre Company’s production of Les Misérables will present Les Mis Rocks the Hard Rock, a benefit concert for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Featured performances by The Barricade Boiz and The Revolvers, both rock groups composed of members of the cast of Les Misérables. Solo performances by cast members such as Adinah Alexander, Autumn Hurlbert, Jason Kraack, David F.M. Vaughn and many others will be presented throughout the evening. There will be personalized and autographed items, including cast photos and other memorabilia, up for auction.

7pm, Hard Rock Cafe, 505 S. Sixth East.

Suggested donation $10 at the door, 581‑7222.

25MONDAY Q Fall Out Boys’ sexy, straight and gay-friendly lyricist/guitarist Pete Wentz certainly brings a queer note to the band’s personality — his mascaraed eyes and sporting women’s size five jeans — but, the real charm of this sensational band is their unforgettable alternative rock music.

6pm, E Center, 3200 S. Decker Lake Drive.

Tickets $22–35, 467-8499 or smithstix.com.

28THURSDAY Q For those of you who are more of the bar-brawling, tractor-chasing, barnyard-bedding types, then you may consider Kenny Chesney. Is he still barnyard-bedding that tractor of a woman Renee Zellweger?

7pm, USANA Amphitheatre, 5400 S. 6200 West. Tickets $41.50–79.50, 467-8499 or smithstix.com.

30SATURDAY Q Co-sponsored by QSaltLake, the 2nd annual Gay Freedom Day celebrates the Pride Days of “old”, the Stonewall Riots and the birth of queer rights. Join in the festivities including, softball, volleyball, barbecue, open-mic performances and more.

11am–4pm, Harmony Park, 3700 S, Main Street. Free, pride365.org.

Q After a sun-fun-filled day at the park, check out Tara Jo Oliver, whose celebrating and marketing the release of her debut self-titled CD. It’s racked full of contemporary country and blues sounds.

9pm, MoDiggity’s, a private club for members, 3424 S. State Street. Tickets $5 at the door, 832-9000 or modiggitys.com.

Upcoming Events

July 15 — Lyle Lovett/k.d. Lang, Deer Valley July 21 — Jewel, Deer Valley Resort July 28 — Fergie, Las Vegas Aug. 25 — Ub40, Las Vegas Aug. 25 — Beyonce, Las Vegas Aug. 28 — Josh Groban, Energy Solutions Arena

The Voyeur & Rocky: Less Italian Stallion, More Million Dollar Baby Snooks

By Tony Hobday

tony@qsaltlake.com

Saturday’s Voyeur 2007 runs through Aug. 12 at the Salt Lake Acting Company, 168 West 500 North. Tickets $39-54 plus free/optional brownbagging, call 363-7522 or www.saltlakeactingcompany.org.

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Regardless of the critiques on Salt Lake Acting Company’s annual production of Saturday’s Voyeur, stellar or dismal, or anything in between, the show will remain — until finally Utah gains some perspective — one of the most popular stage productions among intelligent left-wing nondiscrimintory humanitarians in the state; and blessedly there are many. For clarification, I’m not inferring that any of the past 28 Voyeur productions had ever garnered one “dismal” critique; to the best of my knowledge they had not.

Saturday’s Voyeur 2007: Goodbye Rocky Comedy Special gets an 80-degree thumbs up. Allen Nevins’ and Nancy Borgenicht’s — in their 17th season — ingenuity pays a superbly comic testament to a “rock” within Utah’s stubborn unenlightened socio-political infrastructure.

Set via radio musical-comedy variety shows, and hosted by “take-a-nailgun-tothe-head” bore Doug Capezzio (Christopher Glade) and the ultra-presumptuous Mary Vixen (Brenda Sue Cowley), the show becomes a mock political-boxing arena complete with a few low blows such as the Globe Dome Singers doing a number in radioactive suits, several overly self-indulgent attempts to push season subscriptions and a mockery of Celtic music.

Rocky Anderson (Kevin Doyle) is perceived to be the ideal hero; however, the “lame duck” as he is also referred to, doesn’t walk away unscathed. He takes a few quick jabs and left hooks from some of the more absurd and notorious Dick Dastardly animations such as presidential nominee Mitt Romney (Cragun Foulger), Senator Chris Buttars (Foulger) and Gayle Ruzicka (Jeanette Puhich) — who should be embarrassed by her ridiculous rants, which have beseeched her a 2nd year recipient of SLAC’s “whack-a-mole” humor — perhaps a real 40-lb mallot would better do the trick, hehe! An undoubtedly entertaining — and the

silliest — round is between Rocky and the effeminate Larry H. Miller (Michael Todd Behrens) – in a flashy leotard as they belt out “My Big Butt” and “I Think You’re Gay.” Director John Caywood’s formidable sense of pace works well with this year’s production; riddled with so many characters, it could easily have become botched or stagnant or worse, overbearing. In addition, the musical numbers are smartly short, witty and well choreographed: From the opening number where Rocky’s flamboyant-feathered friend, Cardozo (Alexis Baigue) steals the scene with whimsy, a sharp profile and all too realistic squawking ... to the opening scene of Act II with a near stitch-causing Enid Green (Arika Schockmel) caroling “I’m Not Wearing Underwear” ... to yet another classic finale from Nevins and Borgenicht — whose abilities to close a show with such crowd-pleasing fortitude are par none. It will pull you to your feet and holler, “Yo, Adrian, we did it. We did it!”

To break between bouts, strategicallyplaced “commercials” keep the energy humming — albeit there are more ‘choose the right wipes’ ads in the production than Robert J. Debry ads on KJZZ. Though I found the entire cast entertaining and talented in each of their multi-role performances, which is no easy feat when trying not to overlap the characters’ personalities, the outstanding performance goes to Alexis Baigue (who was also named runner-up for QSaltLake’s 2007 Most Fabulous Local Actor Award). From his richly animated performance as Rocky’s parrot to his sexy portrayal of an internet “rent-acop” to his hilarious Borat impersonation, Baigue has once again proven his ability to transform himself with ease, and which has taken him to nether heights of audience adoration.

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Gay Geeks The Spectrum Awards

by JoSelle Vanderhooft joselle@qsaltlake.com

One of my little books, Sleeping Beauty, Indeed, an anthology of lesbian fairy tales I edited in 2006, has been nominated for an award — The Gaylactic Spectrum Award, no less.

This is a very big deal for a gay writer and sometimes editor of speculative fiction featuring gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and all-around queer characters, themes and issues. Such a big deal, in fact, I thought now would be an ideal time to write about the award itself. It’s definitely something about which all gay geeks should know.

A bit of history first. The Gaylactic Network, the largest and most recognized association for queer fandom in the United States, created the Spectrum Award in 1998 to fill a literal vacuum: At that time, no award existed to recognize gay-positive works of science fiction, fantasy or horror.

A truly startling fact, considering just how many awards there are for speculative literature of all stripes (it’s not just the Hugo, the Nebulae and the Stoker any more, folks. It hasn’t been for a long time).

In 2002, the Gaylactic Awards Foundation took over administrative duties for the award. Each year, the awards recognize winners in three categories: best novel, best short fiction and best other work, the latter being open to nominations of things like TV shows and episodes, film, gaming software or materials, artwork and, yep,

anthologies like Sleeping Beauty, Indeed.

In 2005, for example, the HBO mini-series of Angels in America and the comic Gotham Central #6 - 10 (Half a Life) tied.

Award nominations are open to anyone, and a panel of incredibly dedicated volunteer judges picks the winner.

So, why is this important, especially if you’re a gay geek who doesn’t like or doesn’t pay attention to awards? Whatever your opinion on the validity of trophies, cash prizes and the “street cred” that come with them, the long list for the Spectrum Awards is probably one of the more complete guides out there to queer-themed speculative anything produced in the last nine years. Thanks probably to the Spectrum’s democratic nomination process, you get a combination of established and new authors, large and small presses, print, e-book, film and games and just about anything in between on any year’s ballot.

Most likely, you’ll see names and titles familiar to you like Ellen Kushner, Steve Berman, Neil Gaiman, V for Vendetta and Drawn Together (all up for the award this year). You’ll also see names that may be new to you like Leigh Ellwood, Joy Parks, Lynne Jamneck and R. Holsen (a lovely new author who appears in my anthology, in the interest of full disclosure). And if you’ve read titles from all of these presses, pat yourself on the back: Aqueduct, Torquere, Loose ID, Bella and Bold Strokes. Take yourself out for dinner if you’ve ever heard of the e-zine JACK, by the way, because I sure don’t know what it is.

The Spectrum Awards aren’t just a good “must see/watch/read/play” list for gay geeks and gay-friendly straight geeks; they’re also a fantastic way to encourage more creators of the media we love to think about queer themes. I think the Gaylactic Network explains it best on the

Spectrum’s Web site: “Because speculative fiction offers an opportunity to explore complex and sometimes unpopular issues through the distance of other worlds, times and cultures, we hope the award will encourage professionals working in science fiction, fantasy and horror to use the genre to explore characters and issues of importance to the gay community.”

Indeed, check out spectrumawards.org and consider supporting this important award. At the very least, support the creators by buying one of the nominated novels, collections or other pieces of media. Q

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Q Fitness Make it a Habit

BY KENT TAGGE

Editorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s note: In our effort to build and better our community, QSaltLake believes it is important to help build and better individuals within it as well. Our search for a wellness and fitness advisor for the magazine brought us to Kent Tagge, owner of KoolerTrek Personal Fitness Studio for over 11 years. Kent is a registered nurse who worked in critical care for many years before turning to fitness and wellness training. He is certified by the American Council on Exercise, the American College of Sports Medicine and the National Strength & Conditioning Association. He intends to present a â&#x20AC;&#x153;whole personâ&#x20AC;? approach to fitness and health in this monthly column.

Although this topic is usually seen during the New Year, starting a series of articles in the fitness and wellness area for QSaltLake is also good time to address making good habits. I would assume that everyone reading this has areas in their lives in which they are trying to create good habits and make positive changes.

Making good consistent behavioral patterns is difficult, especially if we first need to break bad habits. Since my expertise is in the health and fitness profession, I will focus on habits I have assisted clients in changing.

I use the example of obtaining a medical degree to help my clients see and hopefully relate to the importance of hav-

ing a plan of attack. Think about what it must take to start out as a freshman in college and having an ultimate goal of becoming a medical doctor. The â&#x20AC;&#x153;stepsâ&#x20AC;? or short-term goals are all important in reaching this ultimate goal. Likewise, establishing a plan of attack can help as you set out to develop the new habits that will help you reach whatever it is you want to achieve.

When finally deciding to change a bad habit into a good habit, remember that it usually takes many months, if not longer â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and that is if you do not stumble along the way â&#x20AC;&#x201D; of practicing specific behaviors, before it becomes a good habit. During the early period, you are at risk of lapsing into your old patterns. It is very rare when working with a client, to not have them stumble once or even several times along the way to making a positive change. It makes no difference that you stumble. But it is vital that you realize what happened, get back up, and continue with your plan of attack. It is very hard to not give up, but remain vigilant and purposeful in your efforts to change.

The kinds of habits that people try to develop are endless. Regardless of the habit, there are some basic strategies that my clients and I have used that are extremely helpful. The hard part is getting ourselves to the point where we

will put in the effort to use these strategies. I like the basic stuff: Interestingly, I find that something basic is missing when I evaluate a clientâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s program in order to identify some areas where they might need help. Here are a few of the techniques that can be used when you are trying to make positive changes in the following areas: a new or existing fitness program; your general wellness or health; or other parts of your life that fall outside the areas in which I specialize.

As you carefully step on each â&#x20AC;&#x153;stepping stone,â&#x20AC;? think frequently about your long-term goal. â&#x20AC;˘ Strategically place cues or prompts to support your efforts. If this sounds like a great idea, but not really worth the effort, you are totally incorrect. An experienced trainer and wellness coach can be very helpful in this area. Let me give you one example. I worked with a young lady whose only time to exercise was early in the morning. We had worked through all the excuses she could think of, and we were ready to start working on the new habit. Her problem was that her alarm clock was in easy reach; almost unconsciously, when it went off, she would turn the clock off. She agreed to place the clock across the room on her dresser, right next to her gym bag, so she would have to get up to turn off the

It makes no difference that you stumble. But it is vital that you realize what happened, get back up, and continue with your plan of attack.

alarm. In doing so, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d see her gym bag there, ready to go. She worked on this for two months and finally developed the proper habit. Today, she has no idea how she ever lived without exercising. â&#x20AC;˘ Set both short-term and long-term goals related to the good habit you want to develop. If you keep a clear mental image of the whole picture (your ultimate situation, whatever it may be), realize that there are paths you can take to get to this (a good trainer/coach can be invaluable in helping you find these).

Paths are made up of short-term goals, or a group of them can be called a long-term goal. Goal-setting is another tip altogether, however, so letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leave goals for now. â&#x20AC;˘ Provide yourself some incentive by using a powerful reward. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to think about this one to really identify meaningful rewards for yourself, while keeping close to your path. The farther away you get from the path you have set out on, the harder it will be to get back on track. Remember, you have got to decide what you need to accomplish to receive the reward. â&#x20AC;˘ Finally, enlist support from others, like family, friends or a loved one.

Remember, breaking bad habits and making good habits can be very tough.

But these strategies and many others, can be very helpful if implemented daily. Q Kent Tagge has a Masters in Nursing degree and is certified by the American Council on Exercise, the American College of Sports Medicine and the National Strength & Conditioning Association. He has owned the KoolerTrek Personal Fitness Studio for over 11 years and can be reached at 974-9000.

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Hollywood Buzz

By Ross von Metzke ross@qsaltlake.com

From reality show star to actor to tabloid target to author, Reichen Lehmkuhl has more lives than a cat. Now, he’s adding jewelry designer to his lengthy resumé.

Currently in Hawaii shooting the third season of Dante’s Cove, Reichen’s parlaying his renewed, post-Lance Bass celebrity into a worthy cause: designing and modeling a new jewelry line for high end (and very gay) designer Love & Pride.

His Fly Naked campaign for the company boasts designs inspired by Reichen’s time in the Air

LAST MINUTE CRUISE PRO sive — but in a much different way than your typical (closeted) creative pop star.

People like Clay Aiken just ignore the rumors. Ricky Martin turns around and supports other gay pop stars, but never confirms whether he is or not.

Mika? Mika issues this quote: “Anyone can label me, but I’m not willing to label myself. Anybody who says that I don’t talk about sexuality or that I don’t politically sexualize my music because of taboos, because of being afraid of [not] selling records, is completely wrong. I’ve made a record that doesn’t compromise in any way what I’m allowed or not allowed to say in my lyrics. Why pigeonhole myself like that? Will it change?

Possibly.”

I’m not quite sure what the hell he means by that, but I’m going to take it to mean that he isn’t ready to say he’s gay now, but check back once he’s sold 20 million albums and his mortgage is paid off.

And there you have it, folks. Until next time, remember, take some time to stop and smell the gossip. Q

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Force, and a portion of the proceeds will go toward lifting the ban on gays serving in our country’s military. As with any good campaign, the photos have to represent the slogan: So if Love & Pride’s going to fly naked, Reichen’s gonna get naked. Check out this photo and more at LoveandPride.com, and look for much more of Reichen on Dante’s Cove, airing in September on here! TV. People fib on resumes all the time: saying you’re the store manager when you’re really just an assistant; telling a future employer you pulled down $60K per year when it was really just $55K. But Dina Lohan has taken the idea of talking yourself up to a whole new level. While Lindsay wanders the halls of Malibu’s Promises Rehabilitation Center, her mother is fending off some nasty allegations of her own: that her claims she was once a New York City Rockette are bullshit.

Apparently, someone from the New York Post got a little bit cheeky and called the Rockettes’ main office to see if they had any record of Dina Lohan’s dancing days. According to the Post, a spokeswoman called back to say that after an exhaustive search, they found no record of Dina Lohan or Donata Sullivan (her given name). In fact, the source with the Rockettes said it was appalling someone would lie about being in the fold: “It’s like claiming to have a degree from

Harvard when you don’t,” the source said. “It’s a big deal to be a Rockette.”

OK, fair enough. But like lying about a degree from Harvard? Really, now.

Someone on trial for murder hires a summa cum laude grad from Harvard Law to represent him, only to find out the so-called lawyer barely made it through ITT Tech. Now that’s a really shitty situation. But I doubt anyone’s going to suffer too terribly if they find that the closest the lady downing shots in the Roosevelt Hotel has been to Radio City Music Hall is the top deck of an Apple Tours bus.

Still, it’s kind of funny to find out LiLo’s mom is a liar. And it doesn’t stop there, either. Apparently, Dina claims to have been a Broadway dancer. Not so, claims a family member, urging the Post to look at SAG and AFTRA records.

Dina’s not a member of either, and she’d likely have joined if she’d ever been on Broadway.

Oh, and just to bring the lying thing full circle, that wasn’t Lindsay who effortlessly captured Katherine Hepburn in The Aviator … just in case the family tries to lay claim to that accolade, too.

By now most of you have heard that after five days (which, really, if you do the math, was more like 74 and a half hours, but I guess the Los Angeles Police Department is feeling generous these days), Paris Hilton has turned in her jumpers for some PJ’s and slippers —in the comfort of her own home.

Yes, apparently Miss Hilton was having some trouble adjusting to prison.

She wasn’t eating, she wasn’t sleeping … sounds like your typical cracked-out weekend in Hollywood. But this is prison, and in prison they take these things very seriously.

So seriously, Paris traded another 18 days behind bars for 40 days under house arrest, which for someone like her might pose a problem: If she doesn’t go out, nobody talks about her, and then she’s sad and underexposed. For anyone else, it’d be considered a vacation — particularly when you consider how chill her digs must be. Obviously, Paris is allowed visitors, so between Pinkdot, Netflix, her personal trainer and Heidi Fleiss’ new dude ranch in the Nevada desert, she’s set for a month.

I know that’s all I’d need.

By now, many of you have seen the OJ-style pursuit in which helicopters followed Miss Hilton back to court, where they ordered her back into jail. Um, hello? Copters for an heiress with a DUI? Excessive, but interesting, nonetheless.

We’ll keep you posted!

For those of you who are big fans of the Freddie Mercury-style Brit-import Mika, we’ve got some big news. For those of you who think it’s a major announcement that he’s out, ding, ding, ding — sort of.

He’s out, all right — on the cover of Out Magazine, that is. But when talks turned to his sexuality, he got really elu-

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To Your Health Drug-Resistant TB in the Gay Community

by Lynn Beltran, lynn@qsaltlake.com

If you’ve been watching or reading the news lately, you’ve probably noticed the dramatic coverage of a man with tuberculosis.

This guy traveled abroad despite being recently diagnosed with active TB, and then returned to the United States against the alleged advisement of public health officials. What I found interesting about the timing of this story is that we are dealing with a separate somewhat complicated case of “active” TB right here within Salt Lake’s gay community. As someone who works in public health, I knew this was the perfect opportunity to tell the gay community that their health could be impacted by a case of TB in our own backyard.

The basics: TB is a bacterial disease that most commonly attacks the lungs and can manifest as a very serious case of pneumonia. It can also attack any part of the body, including the kidneys, spine and brain, and manifest into other forms of illness. If active tuberculosis goes untreated, it will eventually lead to death.

So, what’s the difference between active and latent TB? Latent TB simply means that you have the bacteria present, but you are not sick. Although the bacteria are considered to be inactive at this stage, they could become active at anytime. Latent TB most commonly graduates to active TB in people who are immune compromised or people who become seriously ill. To find out if you test positive for latent TB, you may call your doctor or the health department and request a test. Active TB is much more serious. This is the stage where you are contagious, and the bacteria may be transmitted through droplets spread by coughing or sneezing. Active TB usually presents itself as pneumonia, because the bacteria are actually attacking and destroying lung tissue. People with TB pneumonia may develop holes in their lungs. Other symptoms of active TB include fatigue, weight loss, anorexia (loss of appetite), chills and night sweats.

But is it treatable?

Most cases of active TB are treatable; the success of the treatment depends on the stage at which the treatment began, the individual’s overall health and the bacteria’s susceptibility to antibiotic therapy. Unfortunately, we have been seeing cases where the bacteria has become resistant to the first line of drugs. Some cases are even showing resistance to the second and third line of drugs. The case diagnosed in Salt Lake has shown resistance to at least the first line of drugs that are commonly used to treat active TB. Treatment also gets complicated when someone is co-infected with HIV. This is because many HIV medications interact with anti-tuberculosis therapies. Also, people who are HIV infected are more at risk for developing active TB if they have been exposed to a person with the disease.

Why is this important to the gay community?

Well, this is what we know: A TB case that has proven resistant to some antibiotics has been diagnosed within the gay community of Salt Lake; the infected individual was present during many large scale-events within the gay community during the time that they were most infectious.

What should you do?

If you are HIV infected and if you attended any indoor events within the gay community during the past fall and winter — including any of Salt Lake City’s gay bars — notify your physician that you may have had an exposure. Your doctor will most likely monitor you closely for signs of active disease. If you are not HIV infected and you had any potential exposure, the Salt Lake Valley Health Department simply recommends that you be screened for TB; you may contact your private physician or call the Salt Lake Valley Health Department at 534-4600 to set up an appointment.

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Dear Overworked — I find this one of the more difficult questions to answer. Personally, the only time I’ve ever found myself uninterested in sex off set is after a one or two week-long marathon shoot.

Sex is an appetite-related urge, kind of like eating: If you’re not hungry, you’re not going to stuff your face with cream pie. Or maybe more appropriately, cannoli.

Why not take a break, anyway? You don’t have to screw all the time just to feel like a man. Stop thinking about it, stop internalizing it and stop putting pressure on yourself. Few people perform well under pressure, and odds are you’re no different. Ease up a little and chances are your natural urges will return to you.

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amaze me how much Americans are so keen and quick to label each other. Especially in the gay community, which is one of the biggest groups of social (and sexual) chameleons I have ever encountered.

We’ve all grown up in a society that pushes and encourages these labels. I’m not advocating a labelfree America because I think labels allow us to define ourselves, even if in the most superficial of instances.

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Bi men all across America have been persecuted time and time again as they stand by their choice of bi status. Why is this? Is this because most of today’s gay population choose to use the term ‘bisexual’ as a training wheel tool until they’re ready to declare they are ‘Gay and Proud’? I’m not sure, but I know in my case, I was bi briefly before I could admit I was just plain gay. And I know most of my friends went through a similar experience.

Do they declare themselves bi because they’re clinging to that last bit of “normalcy,” or at least what society calls normal? Today, I’m gay and I have absolutely no problem admitting it to anyone. However, my label hasn’t stopped me from having occasional heterosexual and bisexual fantasies. Am I still just gay, or am I gay with bisexual tendencies? This is complicated stuff!

Even if your guy isn’t actually bi, you need to understand a little bit about why he might prefer to use the term. Homosexual males everywhere come out, embrace themselves and come to terms with their sexuality and true sexual identity all at different rates and times in their lives. It’s about being developmentally ready!

If you really love this man, and you see a definite future with him, be patient! Try to understand that everyone blooms at different stages. And in the end, you might just realize he is actually bisexual. If he is, that little fact might open the door to a whole new world of experiences for you, too. Bisexuality isn’t a myth; it’s just not as common in America because we’re constantly forced to define ourselves this way or that way. One or the other. Our sexual minds don’t develop to society’s standards and labels. If you can keep that in mind, whether or not your man decides to call himself bisexual or gay shouldn’t matter as much to you.

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