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‘GodHatesFags’ Clan Charged with Child Abuse Phelps’ daughter charged with flag mutilation, negligent child abuse, disturbing peace at anti-gay rally

Former Married Couple Decries Evergreen Calls on LDS Church to rethink treatment of gays and lesbians

sWerve to Raise Funds for Parents Democratic Presidential Candidates at Gay Debate Gays Bashing Gays

Ruby: ‘This Ain’t the Place’ for Non-Mormons Troy Calls the Gay Rights Movement a Sham The Gay Agenda

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EuroPride Madrid Draws Millions Madrid, Spain — Hundreds of thousands of people from across Europe packed into Madrid on Saturday and joined in a gay pride parade that saluted Spain’s socialist government for introducing legislation that has turned this once deeply conservative nation into a bastion of gender equality.

The parade, which filled the capital’s vast Alcala and Gran Via boulevards from Puerta de Alcala square in the east to Plaza de Espana square in the west, took place in a festive and peaceful atmosphere.

For days, buses and airplanes had arrived in Madrid loaded with people set on taking advantage of a four-day annual gay festival, which started Wednesday in the Spanish capital’s colorful Chueca neighborhood as a prelude to Saturday’s bigger, continentwide EuroPride events.

Around 200 cultural, festive and sporting events were organized around Madrid, where organizers estimated as many as 2.5 million people were taking part.

“They’ve been enjoying the Chueca festival, at which we’ve seen many more people than in previous years,” Antonio Poveda, president of Spain’s lesbian, gay, transsexual and bisexual federation, said earlier.

The parade, with at least 45 festive floats, crisscrossed Madrid under the banner “Now Europe, equality is possible.”

Groups of women carried banners saying, “Families are important. Gay and lesbian families also matter.”

“We have to defend our rights as gays, and from Spain we are going to proclaim loudly that these rights can be achieved,” said Poveda, 39, speaking in a bar which, like much of Chueca, was festooned with gay rights placards and colorful streamers.

“In this country we are in the vanguard of social victories, we had always been behind Europe,” Poveda said.

Spain, predominantly Roman Catholic, for centuries had been under the moral

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guardianship of the church. The 1939-75 military dictatorship of Gen. Francisco Franco ruled with an iron grip, and homosexuality was illegal.

The Socialist government of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero in 2005 approved same gender marriages, began allowing same sex couples to adopt children and brought in legislation that made homosexual rights equal to those of heterosexuals in areas including inheritance and workplace benefits.

Since then, out of an estimated gay population of 4 million, up to 10,000 gay couples have wed, Poveda said.

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1979. Today Spain has some of the most liberal gay rights legislation in the world.

Several groups carried banners saying, “Poland, stop homophobia. For a European Union free of discrimination,” “Next EuroPride in Poland,” and “Watch out for the German shepherd” next to a photograph of Pope Benedict XVI. Gay activists draped in rainbow flags also demonstrated in front of the Polish Embassy in Madrid, calling for greater equality for Poland’s gay community.

Demonstrators called on Poland’s conservative government to back down from a policy against homosexual influences in public life.

Hungarian Politician Comes Out

sponse, with Tibor Navracsics, Parliamentary caucus leader of the main rightof-center opposition party Fidesz, saying his party considered Szetey’s sexuality a private matter.

Szetey has been working as a state secretary at the Prime Minister’s Office since last July. As a leader of the personnel center of the government, his tasks include achievement-based personnel evaluation for increased effectiveness in state administration.

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Budapest, Hungary — Hungarian Human Resources Secretary of State Socialist Gábor Szetey became the first elected political official in his country to publicly come out as being gay when he opened the 12th Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Film and Cultural Festival in the nation’s capital on July 5.

Szetey’s announcement came on the same Gábor Szetey day as junior coalition member, the Alliance of Free Democrats (SZDSZ) announced that it would ask for same-sex unions to be legalized.

All Hungary News reports that Szetey said in his speech: “My name is Gábor Szetey. I am the personnel state secretary of the government of the Republic of Hungary. I believe in God, love, freedom and equality. I am Hungarian and European. I am an economist and a personnel leader.

I am a partner, a friend, sometimes an opponent. And I am gay.”

The 38-year-old politician said it took him 28 years to accept his own identity, which he could never talk about with his now deceased mother. He added that he hoped his public coming out will make it easier for other Hungarians to do the same. He is the second Hungarian politician to come out publicly after Klára Ungár, a member of the liberal party SZDSZ. His admission provoked a muted re-

Anglican Church Elects Plan To Close “Gay Schism”

By Anthony Cuesta

Manchester, U.K. — The ruling body of the Anglican Church elected to back plans aimed at settling internal disputes.

At a meeting of the General Synod in York on July 8, the Church of England’s parliament supported drawing up rules in a possible “covenant” agreement.

Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Rowan Williams has warned that the Anglican Church could split over issues such as the 2003 ordination of a U.S. gay bishop.

The covenant would aim to commit the Anglican Communion’s separate churches to procedures for solving disputes.

Conservatives within the church have been the proposed covenant’s strongest supporters. They are confident that it will enshrine their theology and enforce doctrinal order. Liberals claim the church has never needed a framework before and that the proposal goes against Anglicanism’s traditional national autonomy and diversity of practice. Q

Lutheran Church Fires Gay Pastor

by Anthony Cuesta

Atlanta, Ga. — The Evangelical Lutheran Church of America removed Atlanta Pastor Bradley Schmeling from the church’s pastoral roles on July 5 because he is an out gay man in a relationship with another man.

But Schmeling says he won’t leave the pulpit of St. John’s Lutheran Church, a decision that could open the 350-member congregation to disciplinary action from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

The denomination, the largest Lutheran body in the United States, allows openly-gay clergy as long as they’re celibate.

Last year, when Schmeling announced he had a gay partner, his bishop, Ronald B. Warren, asked him to resign. When Schmeling refused, Warren started disciplinary proceedings. Although a disciplinary committee recommended that Schmeling be removed, no action was taken until this month, when Schmeling was removed from the clergy roster on July 3.

Schmeling, however, said he expects to remain as the church’s minister (individual ELCA congregations hire their pastors). He and other members of St. John’s have said they will travel to the denomination’s national conference in August. Here they will host a forum in hopes that church delegates may re-think their position on the issue of gay clergy.

Additionally, one-third of the ELCA’s 65 synods have asked conference delegates to discuss and act on the issue at the conference, held August 6-11 in Chicago.

“For the church [government] to take this action against him is self-evidently

stupid,” John Ballew, congregation president of St. John’s, told the AtlantaJournal Constitution. He added that the church hopes to work with the Southeastern Synod so they can keep Schmeling and remain in the ELCA. Two other ELCA churches are in the same situation. In both cases, the ministers remained in their churches, but they were removed from the ELCA’s list.

Lutheran leaders and scholars have expressed concern that Schmeling’s case will fuel the already contentious conflict over gays in the Christian church.

“I think gay advocates will see this as further hostility toward gays,” said James Nestingen, professor emeritus of church history at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minn.

Dems Prepare ‘First Ever Gay Debate,’ Richardson Apologizes for Anti-Gay Slur Top Democratic presidential contenders will take part next month in what’s being billed as the first ever debate focused on issues of concern to the gay community.

One of the candidates, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, has issued an apology for using a word more than a year ago that “most gay Latinos” find offensive.

The forum, set for Aug. 9, is being sponsored by the gay TV network LOGO and the Human Rights Campaign.

According to HRC, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards and Dennis Kucinich have confirmed they will participate. Several other Democratic candidates also may join the debate.

Gay News Watch reported that during a March 29, 2006, interview on the TV/radio show Imus in the Morning (which since then was canceled because of racially charged comments made by the host), Richardson and Don Imus used the word maricón that many Latinos consider to be a hateful Spanish term for homosexuals.

This week, Gay News Watch reported, Richardson publicly apologized by issuing a statement saying, in part, that:

“I would never knowingly say or do anything to hurt the (gay) community — a community that I have worked hard for and supported my entire career. In the Spanish I grew up speaking, the term means simply ‘gay,’ not positive or negative. It has been brought to my attention that the word also has a hurtful or derogatory connotation, which was never my intent. If I offended anybody, I’m sorry.”

HRC did host a candidate forum in the 2004 election where seven of the nine Democrats running at the time appeared in succession. This year’s event will be a full “debate” and will be televised live.

HRC also made an effort to have a Republican debate. Their first ground rule was confirmations from at least two of the top three candidates on either side before they would proceed with any forum.

Mitt Romney declined and Rudy Giuliani or John McCain never responded. None of the Republican presidential candidates returned HRC’s questionnaire.

At press time, Richardson had not said he would participate in the Democratic debate.

Man Sues State Bar Over Gay Test Question

By Anthony Cuesta

licensing examination,” Dunne told the Boston Herald. “You don’t see questions about partial-birth abortion or abortion on there.”

Dunne scored a 268.866 on the bar exam, just missing a passing grade of 270.

While officials with the state bar and the court had no comment, Boston attorney Tom Dacey said that he doesn’t believe the case will go very far. Gay marriage is now part of the state’s domestic relation laws, making it a subject on which the Board of Bar Examiners traditionally tests applicants, Dacey said. “Lawyers have to answer questions about legal principles they disagree with all the time, and that doesn’t mean we’re endorsing them,” said Dacey, a director of Goulston & Storrs’ litigation group.

“You might be somebody who is morally opposed to divorce, but have to interpret the divorce laws of the commonwealth to answer a question about who property is passed to.”

According to his suit, Dunne said the question was used as a “screening device” to identify and penalize him for “refusing to subscribe to a liberal ideology based on ‘secular humanism,’ ”according to his lawsuit.

“I respect people with alternative lifestyles, and we must do that in a civil society,” said Dunne. “I just have a different opinion that millions of people share with me, and I believe that my opinion should be respected just as much as (progay) opinions. I have no intent in spreading hatred or discrimination.”

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Boston­— A man who flunked Massachusetts’ bar exam is claiming in federal court that he failed test because he refused to answer a question related to gay marriage.

The question came up concerning the rights of two married lesbians, their children and their property. Stephen Dunne, the plaintiff, says the question itself was “morally repugnant,” because it legitimizes same-sex marriage and parenting, which he opposes.

Massachusetts legalized same-sex marriage in 2003.

Dunne, who filed the suit on July 6, is asking a federal court to back his argument that the test violates his first amendment rights and targets his religious beliefs. The suit also challenges the constitutionality of same-sex marriage.

Dunne is seeking $9.75 million in damages and wants a jury to prohibit the Board of Bar Examiners from considering the question in his passage of the exam and to order it removed from all future exams.

The question read: “Yesterday, Jane got drunk and hit [her spouse] Mary with a baseball bat, breaking Mary’s leg, when she learned that Mary was having an affair with Lisa. As a result, Mary decided to end her marriage with Jane in order to live in her house with Philip, Charles and Lisa.

What are the rights of Mary and Jane?”

“There’s a different forum for that contemporary issue to be discussed, and it’s inappropriate to be on a professional

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News Kroger Puts Gay Newspaper Back on the Shelves

BY JOSHUA WHEELER

NASHVILLE, TENN. — In June, Kroger Co. quietly removed the Out & About monthly newspaper from the free publications racks inside 34 of its Nashvillearea grocery stores.

As a result, members of the city’s gay and lesbian community organized a weeklong boycott against the Cincinnatibased grocer as well as Harris Teeter, another grocery store chain that removed the newspapers from its publication racks. Organizers of the boycott said it cost the two stores more than $15,000.

The tactic seems to have worked, as late last week Kroger announced the newspapers once again would be made available in its stores.

Kroger Co. said that it has a process for distributing free publications at its stores, and the company that manages that process did not follow that process with Out & About.

“As we have done elsewhere, Kroger suspended distribution until the agreedupon steps were followed. In this case, it resulted in the return of the paper to some stores in the Nashville area,” the release stated.

The newspaper still is not available at the Harris-Teeter stores where the same distributor removed it. The company said

Gay Pride Event Draws Heat From Nat’l Law Firm

BY ANTHONY CUESTA

National & Regional it is still reviewing the issue and expects a decision when its executive team meets sometime in mid-July.

Bill Gates Helps Bail Out Gay.com SAN FRANCISCO — In early July, San Francisco’s PlanetOut Inc. announced it had raised $26.6 million from private investors — a sum the struggling gay media company hopes will be enough to help it out of financial crisis.

Microsoft owner Bill Gates seems to be one of those “private investors.” His Cascade Investment arm was named alongside Special Situations Funds, SF Capital Partners, PAR Investment Partners LP and Allen & Co. LLC as purchasers of 22.8 million shares of PlanetOut stock.

Cascade Investments previously has invested in Six Flags, Four Seasons Hotels and Pacific Ethanol.

PlanetOut, owner of Gay.com and two magazines, The Advocate and Out, went public at $9 per share in October 2004.

Since that time, the stock has dropped dramatically, at one point falling as low as $0.86 per share. It currently sits at $1.59.

The company’s expansion away from its media roots (including its involvement in RSVP Cruises) has received some of the blame for its recent woes. Outdated technology and declining advertising sales have been cited as well.

SAN DIEGO, CALIF. — The San Diego Padres are getting heat from a conservative national law firm for supporting the city’s gay community on July 8 with their “Out at the Park — San Diego Pride Night at Petco Park” event.

The Michigan-based Thomas More Law Center said the baseball team is encouraging homosexuality by allowing a gay group to attend the game at Petco Park that Ron deHarte featured the Padres against the Atlanta Braves. At the game, the Padres distributed free floppy hats featuring the team’s mascot, the Swingin’ Friar, to children 14 or younger.

“The Padres are playing the part of the Pied Piper leading unsuspecting children into the homosexual lifestyle as normal,” said Richard Thompson, the group’s president and chief counsel.

Ron deHarte, executive director of San Diego LGBT Pride, told the Los Angeles Times that the law center’s concern for children “is just a shield for the homophobic, anti-gay message they’re trying to get out.”

“Gays and children attend games all season and there is no problem,” DeHarte said. “We hear this rhetoric every June and July during pride season.”

During the ballgame, supporters and volunteers known in the LGBT community were recognized. The Gay Men’s Chorus of San Diego sang the National Anthem.

Discount tickets are also available

through the Padres website for “everyone who wants to show their support of equality, freedom and diversity.”

“This action by the San Diego Padres management has greatly tarnished their record as being a family-friendly organization,” explained Phil Magnan, director for Biblical Family Advocates, a Christian pro-family organization, in a media statement. “They have truly offended the moral and religious sensibilities of literally thousands of fans. I will never look at the Padres the same way that I have over the past 40 plus years here in San Diego, enjoying its image as being pro-family. It is really sad.”

A Padres spokesman said the team sold a block of tickets to San Diego LGBT Pride, one of about 100 business, community and family groups buying tickets for the Sunday game. With block sales, the group’s name is often shown momentarily on the electronic scoreboard.

San Diego’s 33rd annual Pride Festival is set for July 21-22.

The game controversy sparked when an El Cajon-based ministry said its followers would refuse to work the food concession stands during the game as a way to show disapproval of homosexuality.

Set-Free Ministries has a contract with the team to staff such stands. The Padres plan to have other workers at the game to prevent any interruption of services.

Based in Ann Arbor, Mich., the Thomas More Law Center is active in issues in which it believes “the religious freedom of Christians is threatened.”

The group filed a lawsuit against the Poway school district for allegedly ordering a teacher to remove a sign in his classroom that mentioned God.

Phelps Kin Charged With Child Abuse U of U Appoints LGBT Center Director Over Anti-Gay Military Funeral Demo

Omaha, Neb. — The daughter of homophobic preacher Fred Phelps has been formally charged with negligent child abuse, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, flag mutilation and disturbing the peace over an anti-gay protest at the funeral of a soldier last month.

The indictment was filed Thursday.

Shirley Phelps-Roper, 49, was arrested last month in Bellevue, Nebraska, after her 10-year-old son stomped on an American flag during a protest at the funeral of a National Guardsman killed in Iraq.

Phelps-Roper and about a dozen other members of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas carried signs denouncing homosexuality and stating that military deaths in Iraq were God’s retribution for America being permissive of gays. A 1977 Nebraska law prohibits trampling a flag. The protestors brought their own flags to the demonstration.

At the time of her arrest a police officer said that Phelps-Roper put one flag around her waist.

“The second one was given to a 10-yearold, who put it on the ground and started kicking it in the area they were protesting,” Officer Joe Gray said.

“It appears the adults weren’t stepping on the flag because they knew it was a violation of the law. But they allowed the children to go ahead and do that.”

If convicted Phelps-Roper could be sent to jail for three months and fined $500.

Phelps-Roper says the action is protected by the US Constitution and she intends to fight the Nebraska law and she has asked the Nebraska chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union to represent her.

The ACLU said Friday it had not made a decision.

“I have not failed to do my duty to my children, to my God or to my fellow countrymen, and I take my job dead serious,” Phelps-Roper told the Associated Press.

She said county prosecutor Lee Polikov “has pointed the big guns of government at my liberty and at my children.”

Westboro Baptist has 70 members, made up mostly of Phelps’ relatives. Although it professes to be Baptist it is not affiliated with any national Baptist group.

Westboro operates Web sites including GodHatesFags and GodHatesAmerica and has been described as a cult.

Phelps and the church first came to national attention when he organized a protest by his followers outside the 1998 funeral for Matthew Shepherd, the gay college student who was beaten to death in Wyoming. The killing, Phelps’ protest, and the reaction of townsfolk led to the play “The Laramie Project.”

Church members routinely demonstrate at the funerals of AIDS victims and most recently at the funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq.

Westboro Baptist’s picketing of soldiers’ funerals led Congress and 34 states, including Kansas, to enact laws attempting to restrict such protests. It regularly protests at gay and HIV/AIDS events.

In May, members of the church protested at the funeral of evangelist Jerry Falwell.

About a dozen members of the church carried placards accusing Falwell of being in league with gays and of cozying up to Israel.

In attacking Falwell, the church says he “warmly praised Christ-rejecting Jews, pedophile-condoning Catholics, money-grubbing compromisers, practicing fags like Mel White (of Souflorce), and backsliders like Billy Graham and Robert Schuler, etc.”

Last month a panel of 30 University of Utah students and faculty members appointed Cathy Martinez as the new director of the LGBT Resource Center.

She replaces Charles Milne, who resigned last November after five years at the U to seek a new career in management in Portland, Ore. Martinez is one of a handful of therapists in Utah who specialize in treating transgender clients and is nationally known for her work. She has a master’s degree in social work and said she wants to spread awareness about the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender community throughout campus.

“My interest in the position is based on my passion for working with the LGBT community and my desire to educate the public about the needs facing young LGBT people,” Martinez said.

Although Martinez’s background revolves around therapy, the role of LGBT director is not as a therapist or counselor, but as an advocate for the resource center and a mentor to the students. If in the future Martinez sees that a student is in need of counseling, she will direct that student to the university’s counseling center.

Martinez, however, believes her background as a therapist will be helpful to students who are facing prejudice and bias because of their gender identifica-

tions and sexual orientations. Among the concerns they wrestle with, she said, is coming out and potentially losing their parents’ support.

Since LGBT students also face issues in the classroom, Martinez will try to visit classes on campus to educate students and faculty members about diversity and sexual orientation. She will also work with departments to help ensure that LGBT students succeed academically.

“I believe I have great professional and personal experience to share,” Martinez said. “I am excited to work with the students and the overall campus.”

Keri Ellingson, assistant vice president of student development and research, said the panel of judges chose Martinez because she was willing to take action not just with the center, but also in classrooms and throughout campus.

“We needed someone with good interpersonal skills who understands LGBT issues and can work well with students,” Ellington said.

The LGBT Resource Center was created in 2002 to provide a sense of community for LGBT students and allies.

“This is a safe space for students to come where there are others who reflect their social values and way of life,” said Bonnie Owens, a senior in gender studies and an intern at the center. Q

The Love Affair’s Over for NLGCC and Wal-Mart

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Last August, the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce announced it had formed a partnership with Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., as part of the monolithic company’s “ongoing commitment to advancing diversity among all of its associate, supplier and customer bases.”

The partnership was to include executive representation on the NGLCC’s Corporate Advisory Council and sponsorship of the organization’s 2006 events and initiatives.

According to a release posted to the organization’s website earlier this month, the partnership will not continue into 2008.

“The NGLCC entered into a one-year membership with Wal-Mart that will not be renewed,” the statement said.

“However, the NGLCC is proud that it has doubled corporate participation over last year and will continue to work with corporations that understand the importance of a diverse and inclusive pool of employees, customers and suppliers.

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Former Married Couple Calls on LDS Church, Evergreen to Change Ways A formerly-married couple has called upon Evergreen International and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to change how they treat gay and lesbian people who come to them for help in their struggle with their sexuality.

Lester and Barbara Leavitt spoke to the media in front of the Crane Building, where LDS Church-sponsored Evergreen has an office. Evergreen’s purpose is to help “people who want to diminish samesex attractions and overcome homosexual behavior.” Run by David Pruden, who will also act as executive director of the National Association of Research & Therapy of Homosexuality, the group is used by the LDS Church to handle gay and lesbian members seeking counseling.

The Leavitts were married in 1981 in an LDS temple, though Lester was struggling with his sexuality.

“Advice from leaders of the Mormon Church was that, if you would just marry a woman, the natural love would blossom and you would experience all the joys of marriage,” Lester said. “The message that I trusted was incorrect.”

Finally, in October 2004, Lester told his wife he is gay. The two tried to continue their marriage, with Lester promising to uphold his vows, but after falling in love with one of his best friends, the couple realized that was unlikely.

“When Lester came out as gay two and a half years ago, I became aware of the need for me to become self-sufficient, self reliant, and to accept that I alone am responsible for my own destiny,” Barbara told the crowd. “I was told to divorce him and to keep the children away from him.

I was told to pray and read the scriptures to find the truth.”

Barbara did read the scriptures and pray, and only became confused. “The members of the church were telling me to break up my family unit and to stop lov-

ing my husband,” she said. “That he was evil and of the devil because he is gay.”

“I could not do it,” she continued. “I will not stop loving Lester. Love does not judge ... it just is.”

The couple knows that their story is not unusual.

“We are now at a critical mass when hundreds of these men and women from the 70s and 80s have been married for 20, 25, 30 and 35 years,” said Lester. “Most are lonely and miserable in their marriages, and their wives and husbands are trying to figure out what they did wrong.”

“Some of these closeted men and women have affairs on the side, endangering the lives of their unsuspecting spouses,” he explained.

The couple called upon Evergreen and other “ex-gay” ministries to admit their failures and change their focus.

“We have already seen more than 30 of our gay peers commit suicide,” Lester said, “because the culture within the Mormon Church has made it impossible for families to reconcile their religion with the fact that they have had a gay son or a gay brother or who, like my kids, have a gay father.”

“Without changing its current mission statement, Evergreen cannot remain blameless,” he continued. “They have to already be aware that their program has a huge failure rate.”

“The silence of good people is worse than the actions of bad people,” Barbara quoted from Zoya, an Afghan woman. “I feel that the time has come for all people to stop being silent. We need the strength to speak out and voice an opinion that must be voiced. Only this way can good come in this world.”

“By showing love, tolerance and acceptance we can bridge the gap between gay and straight and be role models for our children and others.”

Utah AIDS Foundation Announces Summit Gay menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s health will be the focus of The Village Summit, a weekend retreat to be held at the Jewish Community Center Aug. 24â&#x20AC;&#x201C;26. Formerly known as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Invenioâ&#x20AC;? and now in its sixth year, the revamped event is back with a new name, location and format.

Organizers plan to â&#x20AC;&#x153;enGAYgeâ&#x20AC;? participantsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; minds, bodies and souls with compelling workshops addressing a full range of topics. Discussions on love and relationships, sexuality, political activism, spirituality and nutrition will accompany good food and social events, all designed to enhance participantsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; knowledge and ability to make healthy life choices.

For more than 25 years, gay men have measured their health with an HIVcentric frame of mind. Today, however, HIV is no longer necessarily considered a terminal illness. While HIV remains a primary concern for many gay men, the Village Summit will broaden the notion

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The Village Summit is a program of the Utah AIDS Foundation.

Camp Genesis Comes to Pocatello Camp Genesis, a social event for gay, bisexual and curious men ages 18â&#x20AC;&#x201C;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.

Although the event is free, there will 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.

For more information, including a list of supplies to bring, visit genesisproj.com.

The Village to Hold Gay Movie Night at the Tower Theatre On Aug. 9, the Tower Theatre will screen two gay interest films as part of Gay Movie Night, an event sponsored by The Village, part of the Utah AIDS Foundation.

The main film will be the award-winning 2000 camp white trash comedy Sordid Lives, starring Olivia Newton-John as a small-town lesbian. The local short Reflections of Clay, which follows two gay parents trying to raise a daughter who thinks sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Satan, will also be shown.

The screening will start at 7:00 p.m.

There will also be an after party.

For more information about The Village or Gay Movie Night, contact Jeremiah Hansen at 487-2323 or jeremiah. hansen@utahaids.org.

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Admission is $5. All proceeds from the night fund the Utah Pride Center.

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Sunstone To Hold Gay Panels The annual Salt Lake Sunstone Symposium, a gathering of Latter-day Saints, scholars and others interested in the diversity and richness of Mormon thought and experience will be held at The Sheraton City Center Hotel from Aug. 8-11.

The symposium hosts discussions and presentations from all disciplines and ideologies, and is based on the principles of free and frank exploration and discussion. As it has in past years, the 2007 symposium will feature several panels, discussions and presentations of interest to gays and lesbians. These include the following:

• AUTHOR MEETS CRITICS: A PANEL ON HOMOSEXUAL SAINTS: THE COMMUNITY OF CHRIST EXPERIENCE, EDITED BY WILLIAM D. RUSSEL The status of homosexuals is a major issue in the Community of Christ, with strong polar opinions among its members. The two major issues are ordination and whether committed couples should be allowed to marry with the blessing of the church. John Whitmer Books will soon issue the book, a collection of 26 stories by gays, lesbians, and family and friends of GLBT persons.

The editor supplies a 40-page historical account of how the church has handled the issue since it first surfaced in an official way in 1954, as well as a concluding essay. Four official documents are included as appendixes.

Moderator: John Hamer Panelists: Hugo Olaiz, M.A., OLAIZ, M.A., linguistics; webmaster for several LDS organizations; Sunstone news editor Gary M. Watts, M.D., leader, with his wife, Millie, of Family Fellowship, an organization of Mormon families engaged in the cause of strengthening families with homosexual members.

Additional panelists to be announced.

Respondent: William D. Russell, professor, American history and government, Graceland University; editor, Homosexual Saints: The Community of Christ Experience.

• STIGMATIZED NO MORE: QUEER-POSITIVE DISCOURSE IN THE HEART OF ZION Much has been explored about the conflicts that arise from being gay and Mormon. The stigma of shame has led many gay-oriented men to experience their sexuality in shadow — cheating on wives, meeting on the “down-low” and abusing drugs. However, years of hardfought activism have reduced the stigma of homosexuality. The result is a new generation of self-actualized, productive queer men and women. This panel will feature men and women with a Mormon upbringing who have thoughtfully embraced authentic gay lives. It will show how lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people live lives of value, leadership and creativity, and demonstrate how crafting a queer-positive discourse can empower those struggling with depression, anxiety and conflict with both church and family.

Moderator: Troy Williams, producer of the radio series Now Queer This and the film, Natural Family Values; Kim Lynn, BYU graduate, yoga instructor, mother of two; Josh Moon, senior, gender studies, University of Utah; “out” at 14; Levi Foster, co-founder, president, Cottonwood High School Gay-Straight Alliance; “out” at 15.

• WHAT WOULD HENRY JAMES SAY? READINGS FROM A NOVEL IN PROGRESS Bruce Jensen, poet; shaman; employee with the Salt Lake City Public Library System. This session answers the burning question on everyone’s mind: who exactly is the prophet Enoch, and how, if at all, would the face of Mormonism be changed if he were caught cruising the parks and gay haunts of Washington, D.C., circa 1914? Join us for a reading of excerpts from Bruce Jensen’s “scripture written in homage to the style of ‘the master’,” Henry James.

• S.O.S.: STORIES OF SERVICE—OF SAVING LIVES AND GIVING HOPE. LOOKING BACK OVER THIRTY YEARS OF AFFIRMATION: GAY AND LESBIAN MORMONS, AND TO THE NEXT 30 YEARS “Affirmation/Gay Mormons United (G.M.U.)” began with a closely-knit group of gay and lesbian students from

• HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE MORMON ETHIC OF BODY-SPIRIT INTEGRITY John D. Gustav-Wrathall, activist, writer, public speaker; author, “A Gay Mormon’s Testimony” (SUNSTONE, April 2006). Latter-day revelation invites us to understand ourselves as spirit children of God, learning to master our physical bodies to prepare for an eternal life as glorified beings with bodies of “flesh and bone.” Mormonism em-

braces belief in Heavenly Parents who are spirit and flesh, and it emphatically rejects the asceticism of Nicene Christianity. Mormonism also rejects the sexual libertarianism that has shaped modern American culture, viewing sexuality and relationship in sacramental terms, in the context of “eternal family.” How does this Mormon ethic of integrating body and spirit work itself out for those of us who are gay and lesbian and faithful?

• THE RELIGIOUS-HOMOSEXUAL IDENTITY DIALECTIC: A DEVELOPMENTAL APPROACH During the winter of 2002–03, 165 participants filled out an extensive survey entitled “Homosexuality among Highly Religious Mormons.” This panel will present the theoretical models being applied to this data and discuss preliminary results.

Moderator: Ron Schow Panelists: Marrybeth Raynes, M.S.W., clinical social worker and marriage and family therapist in private practice in Salt Lake City; co-editor, Peculiar People: Mormons and Same-Sex Orientation; Lee Beckstead, Mark Malan, Gary Horlacher, Ph.D., family sciences; genealogist and web designer; featured in the film Go Forward. Q

sWerve To Host Benefit for Non-Biological Parents Event to raise money for parents hurt by the Utah Supreme Court’s ‘Jones v. Barlow’ ruling.

On July 21, sWerve, a local civic organization for lesbians and bisexual women, will hold the Ex Wives Lounge and Benefit, a dinner and concert to give financial and emotional support for nonbiological parents who have lost custody of their children in the wake of the Utah Supreme Court’s ruling in the Jones vs.

Barlow case.

In February, the high court reversed a lower court’s decision in the matter of a Keri Jones, a non-biological lesbian parent suing for visitation rights to her daughter, after her former partner (the girl’s biological mother) became an evangelical Christian and said she no longer wanted Jones to have access to the child. They ruled that Utah law did not give a non-biological parent such rights. Previously, a Third district judge had ruled that Jones had visitation rights and a responsibility to pay child support under the common-law statute of “in loco parentis,” Latin for “in place of a parent.”

Although the supreme court’s decision has only been in effect since February, several non-biological parents — including heterosexual step-parents and grandparents — have not seen the children they have raised.

Gina Herrera is one such parent, and one of the parents for whom Swerve organized the benefit. The day after the supreme court’s ruling, she said her former partner, Holli Whiting, refused to let her see their five-year-old daughter.

Although Herrera’s case is currently pending in Utah court, she hasn’t seen her daughter in over six months.

Herrera said she and some of her friends approached sWerve about holding an event to help families in her situation after they realized how common such situations are becoming.

“We want to raise awareness that no law protects non-biological parents in the commmunity who have lost visitation rights,” she said.

Trista Emmer, another non-biological parent, agreed with Herrera. Although her relationship with her partner is currently good, she said she lives in fear of what might happen if that ever changes.

“Any time there’s a fight, a part of my brain is going, ‘Is this where it goes downhill?’ It’s a huge burden to place on a relationship,” she said. “Who creates a child in a relationship thinking in two years it’ll go bad?”

Emmer has blogged about the rights of non-biological parents at anaccidentofhope.wordpress.com since she first heard about Keri Jones’ case. She said that she wants to help educate Utahns — especially straight voters who may have voted for anti-gay laws — by putting “a human face” on the issue of non-biological parents’ rights.

“Some straight people see me and my daughter and assume that I’m able to adopt her, and that everything is safe,” she said. “It shocks me to see the depth of their ignorance on the issue. It’s these people who may have voted on these laws [like Amendment 3, which outlawed gay marriage in Utah] not knowing the harm they’ll do.”

Herrera said she wants to educate people about another harmful result of the Jones vs. Barlow decision: gays and lesbians who use the supreme court ruling and other anti-gay laws to hurt other gays and lesbians.

“There are gay people who know that they’re doing this, and still want to be involved with them personally and professionally, and that is not okay,” she said.

“You can’t be part of the gay community and work against it.”

The sWerve benefit will be held at Static Salon, 380 W Pierpont Ave. It feature music by Swan Juice, Trace Wiren and Mary Tebbs, a performance by the Salt City Kings, a silent auction and a raffle. Suggested donation is $15 per person or $40 for three people. It will begin at 7:00 p.m.

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• BYU, SPIRITUAL VIOLENCE, AND LGBT ACTIVISM Matt, Emil, Mike and 23 other collegeage activists visited Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, and Rexburg, Idaho, as part of the 2007 Soulforce Equality Ride to end religion-based discrimination and spiritual violence against God’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender children. These three young gay men, who all grew up LDS, brought a uniquely Mormon perspective to the Equality Ride. Both as BYU students and as advocates for the full inclusion of LGBT individuals within the BYU communities, they have experienced spiritual violence directed at these members of the human family. They will share their experiences during the 2007 Equality Ride visits to BYU and what they have learned about faith, love, service and community through activism.

Matt Kulich, former BYU student who was arrested for trespassing during the 2006 Soulforce visit to campus and disciplined by the school; now attending the University of Utah; “came out” to his family at 19.

Emil Pohlig, former BYU student who was disciplined by the school for his involvement with the 2006 Soulforce visit; now working as a waiter in Salt Lake City with plans to go back to college in the fall; “came out” to his family in his early 20s.

Mike Cramer, high school teacher who works with youth and on social justice issues; life goals include falling deeply in love, raising children with the love of his life, traveling the world and every day making life a little bit better for everyone.

BYU, exasperated at the number of Mormon suicides perceived to be a direct outcome of Church policies. Affirmation was founded June 11, 1977, during the Salt Lake Conference on Human Rights.

Soon after, Affirmation saw chapters created in a dozen U.S. cities, as well as in England, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. In the past eight years, a dozen new chapters have sprung up in Central and South America. This presentation offers a brief history and features recorded messages from national leaders.

It will also look at hopes and goals for the organization’s next 30 years.

Presenters — Duane Jennings and Brian G. Bennington, co-chairs, Salt Lake Chapter of Affirmation: Gay & Lesbian Mormons.

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Opinion

Letters The Loss of a Visionary Editor, I doubt the gay community in Utah will every fully realize what they lost when Chad Keller died. He was likely their most talented visionary, but an underappreciated one.

When Chad “burst onto the scene,” [“Gay Visionary Chad Keller Dies,” QSaltLake, June 1, 2007] he made a world of difference to many, many people. I sincerely doubt that, until he died, he had any idea of how many lives he touched.

The QSaltLake article touched on many of his titles and projects that he busied himself with, and there was so much more. The little things that went unnoticed, like his adoption of three flower planters on Main Street; like his bringing food to “discarded” gay people now living on the streets; like the little gifts he would give friends to pick them up for a moment during stressful times.

Yes, Chad Keller had a mouth on him and he used it.

And Salt Lake City’s gay community is all the better for it. To push and prod and pull and poke is the way to get people moving in the right direction. To ask the questions aloud and demand answers is the way to keep ups honest and forthright.

Who will step into Chad’s sequinned shoes? Who will ask the big questions, fight the big fight and take the time to remember the little things?

Trent Dujmovic Las Vegas, Nev.

QSaltLake welcomes letters from its readers.

Please email letters of less than 300 words to letters@qsaltlake.com.

Queer Gnosis Why the Gay Rights Movement is a Sham

By Troy Williams troy@qsaltlake.com

One of the most provocative contemporary queer authors has to be Mattilda, aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore.

She describes herself as a “genderqueer faggot queen, somewhere in the genderblur trans continuum.” Her books are subversive, thought provoking and fantastically hazardous to the heterosexist status quo. Hur new anthology, Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender Conformity confronts the messy crossroads of identity and ill-fitting social categories. In part one of this interview, we discuss the dangers of gay assimilation. In part two we’ll discuss Nobody Passes.

TW: My first exposure to your writing was when my boss handed me your article, “Sweatshop Produced Rainbow Flags.”

And it was one of those moments that fundamentally shifted how I would approach my own activism. I’d like to start with why you feel the gay rights movement is a sham.

M: Basically, the gay rights movement has become a screen behind which to hide and oppress everyone else and get away with it. Instead of building community for people on the margins (queers of color, disabled queers, queer activists, transqueers, sex workers, homeless queers), the mainstream gay rights movement is more about policing the borders and deciding who belongs inside

and who belongs outside. If we take a look at the priorities of the mainstream gay rights movement, we see things like marriage, military service, adoption and ordination into the priesthood. All the dominant signs of straight conformity have suddenly become the ultimate signs of gay success. And so, in that sense, it’s become more about assimilation into the dominant culture and taking on all the most violent signs of straight privilege, instead of challenging power.

TW: Yeah. I don’t have any patience for the military agenda of the LGBT political movement.

M: Even now, we can see articles that say, “President Carter doesn’t support Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” — and this is like an exciting mark of progress. The fascinating thing to me is that the whole notion of gays in the military is able to exist separately from U.S. colonial wars like Iraq and Afghanistan. You can even hear people say, “Oh I’m against that war, but I think gay people should be able to serve in the military just like straight people!”

And it’s that fundamental contradiction.

If you are against the war, then no one should serve! It’s pretty simple.

TW: My slogan is: “Don’t Ask, Don’t Kill.”

M: (laughs) That sounds perfect.

TW: But I’ve got my own set of internal contradictions. I see the problem with marriage as a dominator template that reinforces patriarchy — but when my conservative uncle, or George Bush or the Mormon Church start working against gay marriage, I come rushing to its defense. So I find myself wearing different masks when I’m with different audiences.

M: (laughs) Well, obviously the Christian Right exists. They have a lot of power, in-

cluding the presidency. And it is crucial to fight the Christian Right. But we need to fight them on our terms and not theirs.

So much of the gay marriage movement is, “oh please, accept us on your terms!”

So much of it becomes, “how do we convince raging homophobes that we are just like them?”

— groups like that have more in common with the NRA then any left agenda.

So what are we going to get next — gun rights?

TW: We join the army!

M: (laughs)

M: Exactly. Actually, we like to join the army more than you do. We actually enjoy killing Iraqis more than you do.

We actually have long-term monogamous relationships that imitate your relationships to such an extent that you can’t even tell the difference.

TW: Right.

M: But guess what? The Christian Right is always going to be able to tell the difference. And they don’t care if you are a nice smiling gay person like Rosie O’Donnell — or if you’re a transgender hooker. To them we are all the same. So much of the gay establishment media is about the ‘we’re just like you’ message, and I think that is always going to fail.

That is what’s so sad about the ‘normalcy at any cost’ model. No one fits into that.

We shouldn’t be trying to have our place inside imperialism or inside marriage or any of these horrifying institutions.

TW: Could it be argued that the marriage movement is working incrementally?

We’ll take care of the respectable gays first and then...

M: That’s the argument. First we’ll get marriage, first we’ll get military service, first we’ll get adoption and then everything else comes after. And I don’t think there is a single historical example of when that actually happened. But I also think that if we look at organizations like HRC or the Log Cabin Republicans

TW: Oh we’ve got those here in Utah!

We’ve got a man who is insisting that the young kids can take weapons into the queer prom.

TW: How do you personally negotiate your own activism between being heard and not being so fringe that people completely dismiss your message?

M: I don’t feel like what I am saying is actually fringe. It’s been made fringe.

Especially the really basic arguments.

Instead of having access to marriage, people should have universal access to all the services that marriage can procure.

Things like housing and healthcare and the benefits now procured through citizenship. Those should be things that we all have access to. People get that.

And that is the tragedy of gay marriage, because it replaces the struggle for larger things. The most dramatic for me is universal healthcare. In the early 90s, universal healthcare was a mainstream gay issue, because people had seen their entire circles of friends die of AIDS. And to see the dramatic shift to gays in the military and from there to marriage — it’s so obvious how these issues have replaced universal healthcare and AIDS services or domestic violence prevention. That’s just basic reformist agenda — that’s not dismantling the system and creating something else (which I’d also be in favor of!).

To be continued…

You can podcast the entire interview at queergnosis.com. Mattilda can be found at mattbernsteinsycamore.com

Guest Editorial On Gays Bashing Gays

By Jake Rosquist

I remember a time when the walls around me were closing in ever so fast and each breath I took felt like my last. I was 20 years old and had just come home prematurely from a LDS Mission (why I came home is another story). The point I want to make regards how I felt when I finally realized that I was a triangular peg trying to fit into a square hole. No matter how I shaped and reshaped myself I always felt the pressure of the LDS Church to conform even more. I had quit dating men, masturbation, drinking and continued to give 10 percent of my earnings in earnest, feeling that my contribution would soon be noted.

My contribution was never noted, all I ever got was an earful of how homosexuality and the like was an abomination and how anyone who wasn’t LDS and didn’t convert here in this life or in the after life would not be able to reach the highest kingdom of heaven.

I can remember how members of this church were so quick to point out the weakness of others and yet proclaim their unconditional love in the next breath.

It all seemed poetic at the time but now it is my experience of judgment disguised as acceptance with an obligation and the expectation to give up self and assimilate to the thinking of a “peculiar people.”

I finally came to a point in my life were I chose to live my life with honesty and integrity to “thine own self” and gave up the hopes of satisfying those around me.

I remember how freeing it felt to finally step off the wooden plank and into the waters of life. I had left the ship of conditional love and dove into the sea of life. I can remember looking back at those who were still on the ship of condition looking down upon me with sadness; it was as if they were watching me drown in the sea of despair. How strange it is that the perceptions of life can be so different when the scenery is the same. This look of judgment and the criticism I received as a result of my leaving such a conditional institution is what I want to bring to the table and compare to what I am now experiencing in the GLBT community.

This past June, I experienced one of the best Gay Prides I have yet to participate in and I really began to see how much the gay community in Salt Lake City has grown and matured. I remember my first Gay Pride that was held in Murray at some park off of State Street. It seemed to me at the time to be nothing more than a small gathering of disgruntled misfits. In my ignorance, I resisted to see the courage and commitment those pride-goers had to create a better, safer and freeing environment for the GLBT community.

I was a young 20-something and still had

the mindset and programming of a religious fanatic. Things had to look a certain way or others would speculate, and what would my mother think if she saw a drag queen parading around in vintage couture with half his ass hanging out. I’m sure my mother would have thought she had just entered hell, and God forbid that anyone look at gays as anything more than life’s leftovers.

Thank God I came to my senses and realized how lucky I am to live in a country where I can have demonstrations without the fear of being beaten to death or caged like an animal. Thank God that I woke up to the harmony of life where the idea of harmony is the opportunity for all of God’s children to live as their heart’s desire with accountability being to one’s self and not having to worry about the rest of the world’s thoughts or beliefs. Thank God for the drag queens, dykes on bikes, bears, leather men, and all of the other warriors out there who had the courage to stand when I was hiding from my own inability to accept who I am. Thank God again for the many warriors who made a stand for what their hearts desired and took the beatings that they did without succumbing to the dictates of religious and right-winged fanatics. If it wasn’t for these courageous people, who knows where the fight for equality would be, and yet in our own papers and amongst my own friends I still hear gays bashing on other gays because they feel that their counterparts are making them look bad, or that our Pride events are nothing more than a carnival of freaks for the rest of the world to laugh at and criticize.

I left a conditional environment to be free of judgment, control, and programming. I do not want to recreate an arena of self-loathing passion stunting naysayers where our own family of freedom seekers begins to feel the need to suppress their own beautiful Godgiven talents to satisfy the expectations of others. I, for one, am very grateful for those courageous individuals out there who have proven to the world that the GLBT community is a force to be reckoned with, and how nice it is to walk the streets of Salt Lake City and not be in the same fear of loving the same sex as I feared 20 years ago.

Yes there are activities that go on in our community that I do not engage in because it doesn’t work for me, but I’m proud to say that I’m wise enough to know that the boundaries I set for myself are of my own and are not an expectation of others. I proudly support the growth of each individual in their on way and in their own time knowing that my accountability is “to thine own self be true,” and I wouldn’t be true if I didn’t recognize the beauty in all things working or not working for the highest good of all involved knowing that I don’t have to control the world but to only take control of my life. Q

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A priest, a rabbi, a gay man and Donna Summers all walk into a bar. The priest orders a gin and tonic, the rabbi orders a vodka on the rocks, the gay man orders a lemon drop and Donna Summers orders a manhattan. The bartender asks the four how they intend on paying. The priest pays with several one dollar bills, the rabbi pays with his American Express, the gay man comments that his lack of allies in the political hemisphere have alienated him from other minorities also struggling for societal acceptance, and Donna Summers replies that while she has no cash, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll work hard for the money.

I have to be honest â&#x20AC;&#x201D; I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t understand that joke when Bruce Vilanch first told it to me, and I still donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t understand it today.

If the Iraq War has taught us anything (aside from the fact that one can use imaginary yellowcake as justification for war), itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quite difficult to take on large projects alone. Take for example, cutting down a tree with a giant saw. Or riding a bicycle built for two. Or participating in mutual masturbation. Or folding a really large beach towel. Or preventing the Sunni and Shiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;a factions from splitting Baghdad into sectarian enclaves. I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t imagine taking on such a project by oneself.

I mean, folding a really large beach towel, alone?

Despite the very real human desire for people to need people, too often many in the gay community end up doing just that â&#x20AC;&#x201D; alienating allies and solely attempting to take on incredibly large projects such as, oh I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know, the Gay Rights Movement. Some gay men and women â&#x20AC;&#x201D; including some in Salt Lake City â&#x20AC;&#x201D; have a particular tendency to forget that people exist outside of gay people, that community exists outside of the gay community, and that .com exists outside of gay.com.

True, many of our straight counterparts may not understand why â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dollyâ&#x20AC;? always follows â&#x20AC;&#x153;Well hello,â&#x20AC;? why â&#x20AC;&#x153;Argentinaâ&#x20AC;? always follows â&#x20AC;&#x153;Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t cry for me,â&#x20AC;? or why â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yesâ&#x20AC;? always follows â&#x20AC;&#x153;Care to have anonymous sex?â&#x20AC;? Although many in the straight community have not fostered an interest in showtunes or an unfettered sexual proclivity, does this automatically lead us to assume the straight community isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t worth an investment of our time?

In addition to excluding straight men and women from the Big Gay Picnic we call life, how often do our gay politics associate with the politics of other minority groups? Other potential allies whom we have a tendency of shunning also happen to be other minority groups â&#x20AC;&#x201D; whether they be non-white, non-men, non-Christian or non-living-in-a-house. Most of us already agree on protecting the environment, fighting for womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rights, aiding the homeless, getting out of Iraq and protecting children from predators. So why not embrace these various ideolo-

gies and combine our resources in a national movement for equal rights for all?

While it is easy to become consumed with only the rights of gay men and women, wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t it be more efficient to work with other groups as well? It seems to me that with NOW forming the left arm, PETA forming the right arm, the NAACP forming the left leg and GLADD forming the right leg, all that remains for us to join together and become a formidable foe against civil rights abuses worldwide is a hearty â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mega thrusters are go!â&#x20AC;?

We may, however, wish to replace PETA with a different organization, like the AARP. I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t imagine that Voltron would choose to have its right arm formed by an organization which employs Pamela Anderson as its spokesperson.

Do some of us truly believe that it is not necessary to branch out to other communities? Communities exist because of the integrations of different ideas â&#x20AC;&#x201D; not for lack of them.

Where would the human race be without its allies? Would there be a France without an England? Would Lewis have been as successful without Clark? Is anything more dismal than a Proctor without a Gamble? How would there be a Boyz without a II Men? Can Will exist without Grace? Is anything more iconic than Pfizer and Pharmacia Corporation? Does it even make sense to have a Rob Schneider without Poor Career Choices?

Consider the fact that, if within the U.S. population, Asian men and women make up approximately 4 percent, gay men and women make up approximately 10 percent, non-Christian men and women make up approximately 11 percent, black men and women make up approximately 12 percent, Hispanic men and women make up approximately 15 percent, elderly men and women make up approximately 21 percent and Paula Abdul makes up approximately 63 percent (according to her), then perhaps it may be in our best interest to align ourselves with other groups that find themselves in the minority. The awkward kid in school becomes friends with students much more popular than he and thus flourishes due to his symbiotic friendship. Did we not learn anything from growing up gay in high school? Or from Alan Colmes?

Gay men and women should always continue to fight for gay rights. All the same, it would also be advantageous to become friends with straight men and women, and invest time and money in the causes of other minority groups.

The gay community needs its allies, and while our combined powers may not necessarily make us Captain Planet, it will at the very least make us stronger.

Supporting our allies does not dilute our personal fight for gay rights; on the contrary, it makes our fight more potent.

After all, what good is it fighting a battle if one does it alone? What good is it talking out loud if there is no one to listen?

What good is having a dumb joke if you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t share it with others?

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Ryan Shattuck is a freelance writer, a University of Utah student, and recently joined the Coalition of the Willing for their great health and dental plan.

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I am a perfectly content full-time wage earner.

On some days, I will even go so far as to say that I “like my job.” Sure, I’d prefer the luxury of staying home with my beautiful boys, scrap-booking their every accomplishment and enjoying an hour of personal time each afternoon during their nap. Since staying home isn’t a possibility, I have to admit I have a pretty good set up. I work closely with four colleagues, whom I like to call: Mormon Pervert, Swim Rager, DC Transplant and Greek Goddess. They all bring their own unique personality to our team.

Mormon Pervert was a typical LDS man in his 50s, a former bishop, repressed and respectable before he met the Swim Rager. This young woman unleashed the Mormon’s internal pervert.

Once unleashed, there was no stopping him. Decades of trying to achieve eternal salvation in the Celestial Kingdom meant nothing to us. We feel we know him more than his own family does. After all, we’ve heard him tell PG-rated jokes and have seen him drink caffeinated beverages.

Each day, Swim Rager shares her stories of belittling other swimmers who have the audacity to ask her to share the lane, or worse, swimmers who help themselves to the lane without first getting her attention. She actually carries this much rage about everything in her life — including drivers and neighbors. But her stories are particularly funny when they involve the swimming pool. There are actually dozens of ways that she can access her swim rage. Swimming suits are made of inferior material, cost a fortune or must be sized incorrectly (“There’s no way I’m a large.”). Some swimmers spit during their workouts. The water is usually too warm. Or too cold. Allow me to share a word of caution: If you are ever in a situation where you must share a lane with Swim Rager, I encourage you to get her attention before starting your swim.

Even if, by all appearances, Swim Rager is ignoring you and you’ve waited — first patiently, then with flailing arms — while she’s swum several laps. Her wrath will be less if you have to wait to get her attention than if you just begin your swim. If you just start swimming, she will most certainly run into you, “unintentionally” bruise you with her powerful stroke and then berate you for not knowing that you owe the primary swimmer the decency of announcing your arrival. If you have the misfortune of swimming with her in the morning, you’ll know that her disposition is actually worse at 7:00 a.m. She does, of course, swim for stress relief and other health benefits.

Greek Goddess, as she is lovingly referred to by teenagers with crushes, is not even Greek, but she is most certainly a goddess. Have you heard of the concept “wishdar?” Let me introduce the subtle differences between it and gaydar.

Gaydar is a proven indicator of sexuality; those with the updated version can actually predict homosexuality before puberty. I don’t have gaydar. I have wishdar, the radar skewed by my own attraction to a person, to women who, if I had my wish, would like other women — preferably me. Greek Goddess is the puppy love of the department, the object

of wishdar — and not just mine. She’s the first BYU graduate to ever turn my head.

Of course, she likes boys. And it’s a good thing. I’m — in all ways but the legal sense — a married woman, after all.

Then there’s DC transplant. Like most Utahns, we here at work make sure he knows he’s not really one of us. I had a friend move to town in the fifth grade.

She was still being referred to as “the new girl” in high school. DC transplant is “the new guy.” We like him, but we don’t really know him. After months of working in the office next to mine, I still only knew a few things about him. He’s not typically one to share much other than office chitchat. Which is why I was particularly taken aback when he shared that he had problems with his credit that related to an unpaid medical bill. I was floored when he offhandedly mentioned that his unpaid medical bill had to do with an injury he incurred during sex. Head, meet headboard. Emergency personnel, meet DC Transplant. DC Transplant, meet a thousand dollars in a medical bill that you can’t just ask Mommy to pay.

Like I said, we like him, but we just don’t know him. For all we know, he could be a total sex fiend. He’s probably not trustworthy, anyway. After all, he smiles even when he doesn’t know anybody’s looking.

That’s just odd; nobody’s that happy.

We’re a motley group of folks. So strange are we, that I would never think we’d make a good team. But we are. The best team of folks I could ever ask to work with. Sure, they make getting work done difficult, but only because I’d rather be chatting, getting coffee or convincing my supervisor that it takes five people to run errands.

I wonder who I am in the team. The gossip? The whiner? The never satisfied, always complaining mom who feels guilty for working full-time, who, in reality, would probably be bored out of her gourd being a stay-at-home mom?

As sad as it is, all good things end.

Growth and transitions in the organization have led to DC Transplant transplanting back to DC and hiring a more “strapping young lad” to replace him.

Mormon Pervert got a promotion and hired his own replacement, who is Mormon definitely, but Pervert not. Farewell, team. The Red Light District of South Jordan will never be the same. Q

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So, kittens, did you spend your Fourth of July holiday at â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is the Placeâ&#x20AC;? (TITP) park?

Yeah, me neither. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know about you all, but the idea of spending a day at Temple Square Lite is about as appealing as a Tabasco enema. Despite their advertising blitz on billboards, gigantic newspaper ads, gimmicky promotional rates and personal pleas from â&#x20AC;&#x153;Moâ&#x20AC;?lebrities such as John Huntsman, Ellis Ivory and a live national broadcast by conservative Glenn Beck, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clear that TITP Park is designed for Mos, by Mos and screw everyone else.

Unless, of course, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a missionary prospect.

Mark my words, pumpkins: Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only a matter of time before they block the exit gate with a baptismal font. Although, in keeping with the parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disingenuous nature, it will probably be called Brother Brighamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Wild and Wacky Water Ride (must be a non-member or deceased Orthodox Jew to ride, keep your hands in the font at all times and, please, no flash photography!). Oh, I kid, I kid. But, darlings, perceptions in Utah do have an odd way of becoming reality. Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s face it, the Mos have latched onto pioneer history and iconography and are milking them for all theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re worth. Although, to be fair, a Disney-fied version of the Western Migration is waayyyy easier to sell than the whole â&#x20AC;&#x153;Christ visits Guatemalaâ&#x20AC;? thing, if you know what I mean.

Yes, darlings, there are important historical sites, trails and events that absolutely should be preserved and honored. But why, why, why does every legitimate historical component have to be revised, repackaged and marketed as a missionary outreach tool for the LDS Church? And why does it have to be so underhanded? With all of its billions in

assets, why doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the church just come out and pay for the dang place and stop pretending that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an independent foundation with an independent mission?

A quick look at the parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s board and financial sponsors tells you everything you need to know. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s who of Mo money, back room deal makers and political influence. Which could explain the annual â&#x20AC;&#x153;one-time-only, just-to keep-thepark-alive, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll-never-ask-for-anymoremoney-ever-ever-ever!â&#x20AC;? appropriations of tax dollars for the TITP Park that sail effortlessly through Capitol Hill.

Oh, speaking of siphoning off taxpayer money to subsidize the LDS Churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s public relations projects, remember the Brigham Young Academy in Provo? It sat empty and derelict for years until taxpayers paid for its renovation. Then after all of the work was done, it was suddenly hailed as a historically important religious site of the LDS Church.

Yes, the same church that removed the original pews from the Salt Lake Tabernacle and replaced them with â&#x20AC;&#x153;comfierâ&#x20AC;? seating.

Spare me the irony!

Anyway, petals, I had better let it all go, or my nose will start to bleed.

Turning to happier thoughts ... In contrast to TITPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s carefully-edited Fourth of July, my Independence Day was spent with real people. It started unglamorously at 5:00 a.m. unloading enormous propane grills for a chuckwagon breakfast sponsored by the Magna Lions Club (no, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not joking). I had an absolute blast. How many people did you cook for, Ruby, and what did you serve? Well, thanks for asking, petals! We served hundreds of folks a hefty helping of pancakes, hash browns, ham steak and scrambled eggs. Everyone was wearing red, white and blue, and it was just pure Americana on a plate! I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been so covered in pancake batter, sun block and vegetable oil since my dating days.

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ready provide benefits to employee’s spouses will also be required to extend benefits to domestic partners. • Changing the city retirement policy to allow employees to name domestic partners as beneficiaries.

• Working with the school district to develop antibullying and equal access policies that include protection for students of all sexual orientations and gender identities.

• A hate-crimes ordinance that will enhance penalties for crimes related to race, color, familial status, veterans status, national origin, disability, religion, sexual orientation and gender identity.

I look forward to building on Mayor Anderson’s leadership on human rights. Now is the time for Salt Lake City to take the next step towards true equality for all in our community with a bold human rights agenda. As your mayor, I will work every day [to] make Salt Lake City a great American City that is known for its policies of equality and respect.

Ralph Becker 22 D Street, #3, Salt Lake City, UT 84103 801-550-2812 ralphbecker.com | ralph@ralphbecker.com

Dave Buhler

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Since Utah voters passed Amendment 3 in 2004, gay rights has been an increasingly hot-button issue in this state. For this reason, it is even more important for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender voters to turn out at the polls, especially with Salt Lake City’s mayoral election less than four months away. Educating voters has always been one of QSaltLake’s top priorities. We asked the candidates to give their best pitch for your support. Here are their responses:

Ralph Becker

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Discrimination has no place in a great American city. While Salt Lake City’s human rights policies are the most progressive in Utah, more can be done to ensure that all residents and visitors are treated with equality and respect. Making our city welcoming to all — including those who identify themselves as GLBT — will be at the forefront of my work as mayor.

Throughout my eleven years of service in the Utah House of Representatives, I have consistently been an advocate for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community: I stood as a strong opponent of Amendment 3; I fought the passage of restrictions on school clubs; I supported hate crimes legislation and played a lead role in securing funding for HIV-AIDS treatment.

As a result of these efforts, I received perfect scores on Equality Utah’s legislative scorecard.

In the mayor’s race, I am honored to receive enthusiastic endorsements from the three GLBT legislators I deeply respect — Senator McCoy, Representative

Biskupski and Representative Johnson.

In my campaign to become the next mayor of Salt Lake City, I have outlined a specific set of human rights initiatives (posted on my website www.ralphbecker.com) to make this a city known as a place where all people feel welcome and secure. Those initiatives include: • An ordinance to protect everyone regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity from discrimination in housing and realty, employment, public accommodation and city activities.

• Requiring that companies doing business with the city to implement nondiscrimination policies. Companies which al-

I am not a crusader — I am a doer. My record demonstrates that I am a reasonable person who is a good listener and works across party lines to get things done. Here are a few examples from my two terms on the Salt Lake City Council: • With my colleague Jill Remington Love, I crafted Salt Lake City’s innovative partner benefits ordinance — the first government in Utah to do so. This ordinance is practical, stands the test of time, is inclusive and provides health insurance to as many people as possible.

It is the law of Salt Lake City as enacted in January 2006. When the state legislature was poised to derail our efforts, I personally lobbied members of the state senate and convinced the Senate Majority Leader to offer an amendment that would remove the offending language from the bill.

• I supported Salt Lake City joining hundreds of major cities in creating a Human Rights Commission to foster greater understanding and uncover discrimination including those discriminated against because of sexual orientation.

• I was proud to support amending Salt Lake City’s anti-discrimination ordinance to make it absolutely clear that it includes protection for gays and lesbians.

Every major candidate in this race says they are supportive of these issues, but I am the only candidate with a track record of actually getting things done to advance fair and equal treatment of all our citizens.

Beyond these specific issues, I believe that every person deserves to be treated with respect. And every resident of Salt Lake City deserves a city government that is even handed and fair, and works for the good of the entire community without regard to party labels or petty partisan politics. My campaign is focused on four major goals and priorities: education, downtown revitalization, neighborhood revitalization, and stewardship of the environment and our tax dollars.

Dave Buhler P.O. Box 58233, Salt Lake City, UT 84158 801-328-3283 daveformayor.org | dave@daveformayor.org

Keith Christensen

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My father taught me so much over the years.

Growing up on a farm in Delta, Utah, my youth was full of opportunities to learn about hard work and character. The two most important things I learned from my father were simple, but powerful: First, I

learned that without your integrity, you are nothing.

Second, your integrity depends upon giving a fair shake to every person you meet.

He was unyielding in teaching these principles, constantly showing me by example what those values truly meant. Thanks to him, I have never forgotten those lessons. Though he has passed away, his principles live on with me, and with my family.

Incumbent with those values comes a responsibility to treat everyone equally. It is an ethic I have always attempted to live, both in my private life, and in my public service.

Members of the LGBT community have a right to know where I stand on the issues affecting their families and their community. My opponents have often brought up that I voted against an antidiscrimination ordinance in 1998. I have been unfairly mischaracterized. The record is clear: I voted against the ordinance on two occasions, not because I believed in discrimination, but because I believed the ordinance did not go far enough to prevent discrimination.

As a member and strong supporter of Equality Utah, I am an advocate for equal rights. I currently employ over 500 individuals, and my standard company policy is to ban discrimination based upon any factor, specifically including sexual orientation and gender expression in those policies. At the recent National Council on Community and Justice forum, I stated my firm support for an ordinance banning employment discrimination in Salt Lake City on the basis of sexual orientation and gender expression. I also encouraged City Council Members to act immediately upon the proposal, instead of waiting until after the election.

Though no action followed from the City Council, I can assure you that upon election, action will happen.

I believe that in Salt Lake City, there is truly a place for everyone who will contribute to our community.

If elected mayor, I will make certain that belief is reflected in every policy I approve. Our city deserves nothing less. I sincerely request your support and your vote on September 11, and again on November 6.

Keith S Christensen 2600 E. Maywood Drive, Salt Lake City, UT 84109 801-466-3334 keithformayor.com | keith@keithformayor.com

Rainer Huck

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One of the most memorable and impactful experiences in my life came while I was in college. My co-worker’s partner was dying from AIDS. I watched my friend and his partner cope not only with the disease, but also with fear and homophobia in the world around them.

I was horrified by the prejudice, ignorance and mean-spiritedness often displayed during these days.

In a modern society such as ours nobody — nobody — should ever feel outcast, ostracized or discriminated against for who they are or what they believe. We are all created equal, and society’s laws and practices should reflect that commitment. By working together we can make progress towards true equality for all citizens in our community and nation. In the political arena, there is much to be done to secure equal rights — and as your mayor, I intend to pursue progress in this respect with the utmost intensity.

As a representative on the Salt Lake County Council, my record speaks for itself, and on LGBT issues, is unparalleled among the other candidates in the mayoral field. In my first term on the council, I spearheaded efforts to extend health and retirement benefits to the domestic partners of county employees.

I felt strongly that it was the right thing to do. This began the dialogue in Utah that resulted in Salt Lake City adopting a similar ordinance. I am proud to have played a role in this, and a version of Salt Lake City’s health benefits plan is currently being considered by the Salt Lake County Council.

As mayor, I will continue to be a friend, advocate and ally to the LGBT community. I will advance LGBT issues at Salt Lake City. I will establish an LGBT coordinator in City Hall, and will continue to support our fabulous Pride Festival held each June. I will examine ways to ensure that companies doing business with the city do not discriminate based on sexual orientation and extend their employees’ benefits to domestic partners. I want to make sure the city does everything it can to recognize LGBT partnerships and extend to them equal status under the law. And above all, I will listen to, consider and develop any and all proposals that could help make Salt Lake City and our world a more just and equal place. Please join me!

Jenny Wilson PO Box 58081, Salt Lake City, UT 84158 801-828-8253 votejennywilson.com | jenny@votejennywilson.com

J.P. Hughes

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The political power of the gay and lesbian community in Salt Lake is strong and will determine the outcome of the election for mayor of the city. I would like the support of this group of voters in the city.

The other candidates will need this support and vote if they are to be elected.

There are many ways to determine the sincerity of the candidates.

The one area of my appeal to the group is my medical service to the gay community for 33 years. I have treated these patients as any of my other patients. I have been kind, listening, supportive and helpful in many treatment and surgical options. I have not charged if they had no insurance. I have provided care with no judgment or suggestion that was not the standard of care for treating anyone else. If my patients will be supportive and vote on Sept. 11 I have

a great chance of getting into the general election.

Another area of my appeal to any of the people of the city is to check my Web site, jphughesformayor.com.

We have had over 130,000 hits. I have a blog, and we have tried to give the fairest and persuasive Web site for the voters to learn about me.

The third area of appealing to this and all other minority groups is my gratitude for the yard signs, suggestions, and help in this campaign. I have learned and am grateful for the help, encouragement and support. Unless you have run for office in the political world, you can never really appreciate the kind word, and helping hand of a friend or stranger.

Equality Utah has asked a question for the rainbowcolored pride flag to be flown during the SLC Gay Pride weekend. I would favor a suggestion from my youngest daughter that we have a third flag pole on the City County Complex and fly all the minority flags of this city during the different celebrations and festivals during the entire year.

I am running for mayor of this great city to serve the citizens. The Rotarian motto is “Service above Self.”

I want to serve the gay community in fairness, kindness, and consideration of how we all see the world we live. I will commit to the voters and all who live in the city to be available, affable and able.

J.P. Hughes 137 N. West Temple, Salt Lake City, UT 84103 801-266-0685 jphughesformayor.com | jphughesMD@gmail.com

Candidates John Renteria and Robert Muscheck were also invited to participate in this forum. Renteria wished to respond, but at press time we had not received his submission. Muscheck never responded to our request. Q

Queers are Key in the Salt Lake Mayoral Race

by Will Carlson Manager of Public Policy, Equality Utah

In 1999, Rocky actively sought LGBT support when he ran for mayor. In response, his opponents started labeling him as immoral and anonymous fliers falsely accused Rocky of owning two gay bars and being gay himself.

Eight years later, most of the mayoral candidates would love to have exclusive support of the influential LGBT community. Ralph Becker, Keith Christensen, and Jenny Wilson have each sponsored tables at Equality Utah’s Allies Dinners in years past. And by December, almost every mayoral candidate had contacted Equality Utah to ask about endorsements.

Some of the candidates already have a history of LGBT advocacy. Jenny Wilson has called for domestic partner benefits for county employees. In the last legislative session, Ralph Becker was one of only three state representatives to vote against regulating Gay Straight Alliances every time.

Other candidates have expressed support for LGBT issues. Dave Buhler voted for adult designee benefits for the city. John Renteria compares LGBT equality with civil rights for any other minority group. J.P. Hughes states he’s against discrimination in any form.

Since leaving the city council, Keith Christensen has shown increased understanding of the need for LGBT equality. For example, he has added sexual orientation as a protected class in his company’s nondiscrimination policy.

LGBT issues are important in this race for two reasons: first, equal is right; second, the candidates can count. In 2003, Rocky won the election with just over 22,000 votes. According to the American Community Survey, there are over 26,000 openly gay, lesbian, and bisexual voters in the Salt Lake metro area. The queers and our allies hold the key to this city. Q

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Thanks for your invitation for comment in your magazine. I don’t have very much to say on the subject but you can go to my Web site huckformayor. com and select gay rights. I feel that a person’s sexuality is a private matter and is not relevant to political discussion. I doubt many people in the gay community will be voting for me.

From Huck’s Web site: [Gay rights] has been all the rage lately, with the candidates falling all over themselves to provide special rights and services to this minority. Providing special treatment to persons based on their sexual habits is discriminatory and offensive. There should be no discussion in government at all about this issue. I don’t want to know about a person’s sexual orientation, and I don’t care. All that matters about any person is the quality of their character and whether or not they can do the job.

Rainer Huck 1680 E. Atkin Ave., Salt Lake City, UT 84106 801-467-3795 hucjfirmayor.com | rhuck@usa-all.com

Jenny Wilson

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Lambda History Viva La (Gay) RĂŠsistance

by Ben Williams ben@qsaltlake.com

Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recap the saga of the Thirty Year Homosexual War so far: The Powers That Be enlisted the aid of Sweet Anita Bryant to smite the Sodomites on the Plains of Utah. Okay, maybe not exactly smite, but to really annoy and piss us off. It was premeditated aggravation on the part of the PTB. Anita Bryant was making her one and only appearance at a state fair â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the Utah State Fair. Perhaps we were being a tad bit selfish, but at the time the gay community felt that due to the hateful rhetoric spewing from the lovely lips of Miss Oklahoma 1958, the Utah State Fair director should have cancelled her appearance, just like many other state fairs around the country had done. So, when the proclamation came forth that the famous Orange Juice advocate and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother for Americaâ&#x20AC;? was on the march towards Deseret, Utahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gay community, exhausted from hosting a three-day Gay Pride Conference, battling the enemies of the Equal Rights Amendment and getting drunk at City Creek Canyon keggers, put

on full battle gear and Maybelline.

It was not enough that â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mother F-erâ&#x20AC;? had voided a Miami anti-discrimination ordinance, but Ms. Bryant continued to fan the flames of fanaticism by going on speaking tours as a national spokesperson against â&#x20AC;&#x153;homosexual rights.â&#x20AC;? Here she said gays were â&#x20AC;&#x153;unnatural, seducers of children,â&#x20AC;? and other equally vile things. We simply called her a bitch.

On Bastille Day 1977, the Metropolitan Community Churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pastor Bob Waldrop, chair of the weary Salt Lake Coalition for Human Rights, called for resistance. He held the first public meeting to coordinate battle plans for Anita Bryantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s September appearance. The Metropolitan Community Church of Salt Lake, the Gay Services Coalition, the Gay Student Union, Affirmation, Women Aware and the Socialist Workers Party all sent representatives to the war council which was held at the MCC church. Integrity/Dignity, a group of gay Catholics and Episcopalians, however, turned down the invitation to join. They said they had â&#x20AC;&#x153;reservationsâ&#x20AC;? over joining forces with a group that included Marxists, a dig at the Socialist Workers Party.

Whenever funds dried up, she took a cue from gay activist and bar owner Joe Redburn and held â&#x20AC;&#x153;human rights keggersâ&#x20AC;? in City Creek Canyon.

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At this assemblage of pissed off fags and dykes, Camille Tartagila of Women Aware, a radicalesbian organization, was elected chair of the State Fair Committee. She warned that only a moderate response by straight feminist groups in Salt Lake City could be expected, so the purpose of any demonstration around Anitaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s appearance had to be about bringing solidarity to the gay community and to getting good media coverage. All but Integrity/ Dignity, which was still sputtering something about Karl Marx, agreed that media coverage would be good, because so far only a local head shop called The Village Idiot agreed to buck the Powers That Be. Immediately, Camille Tartagila came up with a catchy slogan: â&#x20AC;&#x153;This Is Not The Place for Human Rights.â&#x20AC;? She also kind of â&#x20AC;&#x153;borrowedâ&#x20AC;? money from Women Awareâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s war chest, which had been set up for the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Boise Sevenâ&#x20AC;? battle, to fund her anti-Anita campaign. Whenever funds dried up, she took a cue from gay activist and bar owner Joe Redburn and held â&#x20AC;&#x153;human rights keggersâ&#x20AC;? in City Creek Canyon.

Accordingly, Tartagila went to town purchasing t-shirts, buttons and bumper stickers with such sassy slogans as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Anita Bryant Sucks Orangesâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Let He Who is Without Sin Cast the First Orange.â&#x20AC;? Besides advertising poppers in the gay community as â&#x20AC;&#x153;something for your head,â&#x20AC;? the alternative lifestyle proprietor of The Village Idiot agreed to sell Tartagilaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s anti-Anita t-shirts and the in-your-face bumper sticker that read, simply, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hurricane Anita.â&#x20AC;? We were so ready to rock and roll!

Finally, it was the second week of September, and the State Fair opened its gates. The denizens of Zion came to marvel at prize winning gourds, pigs and Anita Bryant. However, Ms. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Day without Orange Juiceâ&#x20AC;? was to be kept under wraps until Sept. 18. So in the meantime, the State Fair committee organized a series of swell activities for the gay community as alternatives to going to the Utah State Fair. Many gays made incredible sacrifices. Having to give up cotton candy and the Tilt-A-Whirl was particularly devastating.

Alternative events to Anne Murray and Crystal Gayle were the MCC-hosted â&#x20AC;&#x153;Elvis Memorial Danceâ&#x20AC;? in honor of the recently deceased King, a spicy Mexican brunch and a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gong Showâ&#x20AC;? sans Chuck Barris. The Imperial Court (now Royal) took charge of a kegger in, you guessed it, City Creek Canyon. And all three, count them three, local gay bars sponsored their own fair-themed events, mostly having to do with drinking large quantities of beer.

On the fateful Sept. 18, the MCC, which had managed to finance and finagle a booth at the fair, sent in crack troop of fairie and dyke warriors to infiltrate Anitaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performance. As she began to serenade 3,000 fans in the grandstand with renditions of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Battle Hymn of the Republicâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;God Bless America,â&#x20AC;? Bob Waldrop, defiant as old John Brown, led forty â&#x20AC;&#x153;outside agitatorsâ&#x20AC;? in stomping up and down the promenade. They carried homemade signs and American flags and chanted slogans like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Save Us from Anitaâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bigotry is Un-American.â&#x20AC;?

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This brave modern day Sacred Band of Thebes, however, was met by a similar number of Anita Bryant supporters. They booed and hissed and called the plucky souls a lot of bad names, which brought out nearly 100 of Salt Lakeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s finest to keep the peace.

While this was going, a swat team of lesbians and a few nellies had clandestinely positioned themselves in the grandstand. As the songstress took to the stage, the few protestors stood up and walked out of the venue in unison. Take that, Ms. Bryant!

Later, a participant writing about the jubilee, said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thousands of foot stomping, Bible toting zealots (ignorance overriding good taste), filled the stadium while a handful of brave men and women picketed in the cause of human dignity against manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inhumanity to man. Being spat upon and facing an openly hostile mob, the supporters of Gay Liberation silently spoke out in favor of love and the right to co-exist on this planet with their brothers and sisters.â&#x20AC;?

Coinciding with the second of Bryantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s two concert appearances, Women Aware had sponsored a candlelight vigil at Memory Grove. Camille organized the vigil for those â&#x20AC;&#x153;killed as a direct result of the hatred generated by the Dade County, Florida controversy.â&#x20AC;? Several hundred people attended the vigil to listen to speeches by Bob Waldrop, Dade Countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s anti-Anita activist Bob Kunst, ACLU director Shirley Pedler and Jeff Fox, a Democratic Utah state representative. By the end of the vigil, a protest march had formed. Without incident or violence, the impromptu protestors traipsed around Temple Square chanting slogans which annoyed no one, because the Powers That Be had already gone to bed.

But it was a jubilee, anyway. The first gay protest in Utah organized against a jingoistic Orange Juice pitchwoman was successful and triumphant. Well, at least no one died or broke a nail.

Hurricane Anita quickly blew out of Utah to become the star attraction at rallies across Bible Belt America, which was hoped to stem the advance of the Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name. However at a news conference in De Moines, Iowa on October 14, 1977, a gay activist posing as a reporter hit Bryant smack in the kisser with a banana cream pie. The act gave her the distinction of becoming one of the first persons to be â&#x20AC;&#x153;piedâ&#x20AC;? as a political act. Anita, wiping the cream from her face, smiled and quipped, â&#x20AC;&#x153;At least it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;fruitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; pie.â&#x20AC;?

Two weeks later on November 5, 1977, Mormon President Spin Kimball, commenting on his girl Anita, stated in a Salt Lake Tribune article that Bryant â&#x20AC;&#x153;was doing a great service, because church leaders felt that the homosexual program is not a natural and normal way of life.â&#x20AC;?

Wooleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s words so affected a gay Mormon man that he penned in his journal, â&#x20AC;&#x153;President Kimball made a statement about Anita Bryant, supporting her actions against gays. He said that gays should not be teachers, lawyers, doctors, nurses, etc. Where are we to go? Kill ourselves? It made me feel cut off from the Church completely. My Lord must have need of me. I am so confused that I no longer understand the Mormon God. So what is there for me. My sorrow is full.â&#x20AC;?

Ironically, President Kimball dropped dead on Nov. 5 eight years later, and Anita Bryant would be divorced, broke and have a gay son who they say canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t drink orange juice to this day unless itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in a Fuzzy Navel. Q

Gay Geeks It’s the Final Count Down!

by Joselle vanderhooft joselle@qsaltlake.com

OMG WTF and BBQ! It just hit me that this is the last time QSaltLake will publish an issue where the fate of Harry Potter, Lord Voldemort and everyone who gets in their way is unknown. Yes, my geeky ones, when I put my fingers to keyboard to write the next installment of this column, the fate of the wizardry world will have been decided, the seven horcruxes revealed and the Great Snape Debate worth less than the pixels and paper on which it has been, well, debated. Oh, and Stephen King will either be celebrating Harry’s survival with champagne or crying into his Wheaties as he writes the eulogy.

Exciting stuff, no? Now I kind of know what it must have been like for those 19th Century Americans who waited on the docks to hear if Little Nell lived, or if they needed to find a bowl of gruel to salt.

In honor of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the end of the most popular fantasy series ever (at least, until the next one comes along), and the legions of queer Potter fans out there, I thought we’d have a little fun this issue. Here follows my “Top 10” list of seven gay things that could happen in the series’ final installment, but probably won’t unless J.K. Rowling really wants to surprise us (or has a sense of humor that out-weirds mine). Yes, it’s a top 10 list but there are only seven things. I’m a journalist, folks. Not a mathematician.

So, read, read and be merry! For come July 21, this list will be worth far less than General Mills, Inc.’s stock.

rainbow, people!). Because the heterosexual team has enough cool people playing on it already. Because we were all thinking it, anyway.

5. Huh-huh. Huh-huh. “Horcrux” Since we first learned about Horcruxes in Half-Blood Prince, Potter fans have devoted time, energy and even a few fist fights to determining which other relics house pieces of Voldemort’s soul. We already know about Tom Riddle’s diary and Salazar Slytherin’s locket and pinkie ring, but what about the other four?

My bet is on the following: • A copy of the Donna Summer album I Am the Rainbow.

• A Bud Light bottle.

• The original negative of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

• Ryan Shattuck. Because Voldemort’s servants are always the ones you least suspect, and because nine out of ten QSaltLake readers agree that he’d look really hot in a black cloak.

I’m sure you can think of dirtier — and incredibly obvious — possibilities. But I try to keep “Gay Geeks” as PG-rated as possible, so I won’t list them.

Because everything about her just screams, “dyke!” in bubblegum pink letters

6. Tonks Comes out of the Broom Closet Because if Remus leaves her for a man, it’s only fair. Because everything about her just screams, “dyke!” in bubblegum pink letters (hello? The woman can change her hair to be any color of the

3. Speaking of Lord voldemort ...

Before his final defeat, Voldemort subjects the entire wizarding world to a campy floor show. Peter Pettigrew plays Rocky, complete with gold underoos.

Fans everywhere are traumatized for decades.

2. S-n-a-p-e Snape joins The Village People. Because a guy with greasy hair in long black robes is just what an Indian chief, a police officer, a sailor, a biker, a cowboy and a construction worker needed.

Snape fans of all genders, sexes and orientations eagerly await the re-release of the hit single “Sex Over the Phone” with Alan Rickman doing lead vocals.

1. Harry bares all in a production of eqqus!

Oh, wait ...

1. harry defeats voldemort Which isn’t necessarily a gay thing or a straight thing. But I sure as hell can’t wait to see it.

Happy Book 7, everyone! Don’t be ashamed of your geekiness, either. Go to the midnight book release parties, and go in costume.

Just not as Peter Pettigrew playing Rocky. Q JoSelle Vanderhooft is the assistant editor of QSaltLake. On July 21, she will be where you are: in bed, reading the last book, and possibly crying into her Wheaties on more than one occasion.

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7. remus lupin comes out of the ... um ...

What is an appropriate metaphor for a gay werewolf? I mean, there’s no way in hell one would fit into even the most spacious of walk-in closets. Even if he could, think of the poor stilettos, sequined ball gowns and angora sweaters after the full moon. Maybe it’s the genteel professor routine, maybe it’s the patchwork robes. Most likely it’s the fact that werewolf so easily codes as gay (even up to being outed) in Harry’s world. But Moony was about as straight as a snitch’s trajectory long before David Thewlis and Alfonso Curaón got their hands on him in Prisoner of Azkaban’s film incarnation. Besides, it would be hillarious to hear him tell Tonks, “Dear, I’m not only too old and too dangerous for you, I also fancy Mad-Eye Moody a bit too much for our relationship to work out. Sorry.”

4. This isn’t Lord Voldemort, it’s a mask!

Sure, we all know that Lord Voldemort is really Tom Marvolo Riddle ... or do we? Red eyes, impossibly pale skin, an obsession with stomping on the lives of “inferior” people, like muggles and muggle-born witches and wizards? Yep. Sounds like Chris Buttars to me. And suddenly that “Republicans for Voldemort” bumper sticker becomes more than a goofy attempt at political humor.

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The Gay Agenda

Michael BublÉ See July 17

YOUR CALENDAR OF ARTS, ENTERTAINMENT & IMPORTANT EVENTS

So I checked out the scene at Kilby Court and though I didn’t feel my age, I was certainly well aware of it. Gravy Train was boisterous in their gayness; some may have been put off by it, but they were definitely entertaining in their tighty-whiteys and hanging the moon.

16MONDAY Q I’ve held the belief that movies based on books are rarely as intriguing than the books themselves. In many cases they do come close, but the descriptive depth of the pages in a good book are usually lost on the big screen. I haven’t seen any film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s war-epic Farewell to Arms, but in my opinion the tragic love story is his best work. So I highly recommend the book, but if movies are more your stroke, then check out the 1932, 1957 or 1966 version.

2pm, City Library Auditorium, 210 E. 400 South. Free, 746-7000 or slcfilmcenter.org.

17TUESDAY Q The young Sinatra-esque heartthrob Michael BublÉ comes to Salt Lake with his seductive and immpressive renditions of classic tunes by Ella Fitzgerald, Elton John and Mel Torme, among others, as well as some beautifully orchestrated original songs. Bublé is an extremely talented, charming and handsome 31-year-old with a heart that beats for long ago.

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

Tickets $68–88, 467-8499 or smithstix.com.

18WEDNESDAY Q A close friend and I were discussing the following “live” exhibit currently on display at the University of Utah. He’s a nature boy: fascinated by insects, small creepy creatures and other icky wildlife.

I say stick to the animals that are furry and cuddly ... like bears. So anyhoo, Toadally Frogs exhibits more than 90 living frogs and toads representing 23 different species. You’ll feel like you’re trapped in a scene of the X-Files.

9:30am–5:30pm, through Sept. 3, Utah Museum of Natural History, 1390 E. Presidents Circle, UofU. Tickets $3.50–6, 581-6927 or umnh.utah.edu.

Q So Gene Naté is celebrating his 5th year ... of balding. No ... that’s been at least 25 years. Maybe he’s celebrating five years without those pesky hemorrhoids flaring up. Just kidding, Gene ...

I wub you more than my luggage. Actually, its the Fifth Anniversary of Club Try-Angles, and Gene’s ready to party five consecutive days: opening tonight with an underwear party and closing it out Sunday with a scrumptious steak fry. Dance, drink, eat and celebrate with Gene, a true sweetheart of a man.

2pm doors open, Club Try-Angles, a private club for members, 251 W. 900 South.

364-3203.

19THURSDAY Q The Utah Festival Opera Company, among many other productions, brings a Broadway musical favorite, Showboat to the operatic stage. While aboard a Mississippi showboat, four people’s chance meeting binds them in

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waves of tragedies and triumphs that span 40 years. For the full lineup of the company’s 15th anniversary, check out ufoc.org.

1pm & 7:30pm, Wed–Sat through Aug. 11, Ellen Eccles Theatre, 43 S. Main Street, Logan. Tickets $17–50, 355-ARTS, arttix.org.

20FRIDAY Q The Sundance Institute Outdoor Film Festival offers a free screening of the British comedy Kinky Boots. A young sheepish man takes over the family shoemaking business only to learn it’s on the brink of failure. After meeting Lola, a brassy drag cabaret singer(2007 Golden Globe nominee, Chiwetel Ejiofor), the man recruits her as the new footwear designer, attracting the transvestite and fetish markets.

9pm, City Park, 1325 Park Ave., Park City. Free, 435-658-3456 or sundance.org.

21SATURDAY Q I love what sWerve, a local lesbian organization, is and has been doing for the community including the upcoming women’s music fest in central Utah, and the fund raising event, Ex Wives Lounge & Benefit, benefiting those in our community who have lost custody and visitation rights to their children, simply because they are gay.

The event features music from Trace Wiren, Swanjuice and Mary Tebbs, and a special performance from the Salt City Kings; as well as a silent auction and raffle for fabulous prizes.

7pm, Static Salon, 380 W. Pierpont Ave. Suggested donation $15, swerveutahcom.

Q Those darn Utah Bears are always causing a disturbance; so much so, they’ve made a freakin’ event out of it. Luckily, Bear Ruckus 2007 is being held in Idaho, where they can frolick freely in tutus, hang rolls of Charmin from tree branches, lift people’s baskets and cover themselves in honey

and jam without judgment or ridicule.

Through Monday, Lava Hot Springs ranch, 3399 S Old Highway 91, Mccammon, Idaho. Register online by July 15, fees $65/members or $75/nonmembers, utahbears.com.

Q It’s great that Jewel is returning to her musical roots — that whole pop fiasco obviously isn’t her. She’s sultry, her voice ominous and her music socially conscious. This opening concert of the Deer Valley Music Festival, with the accompaniment of the Utah Symphony, is sure to be a sassy, soulful event.

7:30pm, Deer Valley Amphitheater, Deer Valley Resort. Tickets $12-80, 355-ARTS, arttix.org or deervalleymusicfestival.org.

24TUESDAY Q Utah’s one year older, but not much wiser. Thankfully though, it has gads of youngsters — like a strain of bacteria — whose slovenly parents allow them to set off fireworks in the neighborhoods in a 90-100 degree dry heatwave, which leaves this Pioneer Day, highly susceptible to rekindling the likes of The Burning of Rome. Better up your fire insurance.

27FRIDAY Q Obviously the mountains are a great escape from the summer heat. Check out the Snowbird Rock & Blues Festival this weekend. Featured artists include Dickey Betts, Great Southern and Ronnie Baker Brooks. There will also be some yummy canjun cuisine and arts booths to stroll through.

6:30pm & 5pm Saturday, Snowbird Resort, Little Cottonwood Canyon. Tickets $35–95, 933-2200 or snowbird.com.

30MONDAY Q The Salt Lake Film Center offer screenings of two interesting GLBT documentaries: Freeheld and Outside.

The first chronicles the battle between

Q Ex-lovers Scott Blond and Lisa Light may not make the best lovers but their band The Lovemakers make some cool electro-pop rock music. This Oaklandbased band not only has an intoxicating sound, they provide “outrageous” performances, which tend to draw the GLBT crowd. Hmmm ... are we mistakenly considered “over-the-top?” Nah ...but I hope Liquid Joe’s can make Red Bull & vodka (with a fresh strawberry) in a champagne flute for me.

9:30pm, Liquid Joe’s, a private club for members, 1249 E. 3300 South. Tickets $10, 467-8499 or smithstix.com.

Q The ever popular And the Banned Played On returns in celebration of the First Amendment. This year, Plan-B’s breakthrough fund raising produc-

tion is hosted by Doug Fabrizio and Senator Scott McCoy with appearances

by Ralph Becker and David Litvack, among others.

7pm, Jeanne Wagner Theatre, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. Broadway. Tickets $35, 355-ARTS or arttix.org.

31TUESDAY Q As I said before, the mountains are the way to escape the heat, and when there’s good music available, the whole experience is surreal. Shawn Colvin & John Hiatt will help you kick back, relax, sip a glass of wine and hold your partner in that long overdue embrace.

6:30pm, Deer Valley Resort, 2250 Deer Valley Drive. Tickets $35, 467-8499 or smithstix.com.

Aug. 29 Equality Utah Allies Dinner, Salt Palace, equalityutah.org

July 30

SEPT. 9 Pride Community Softball Kaos Classic Tournament, Jordan Park leaguelineup.com/pcslutah

AUG. 17–19 PrIdaho, Pocatello, Idaho, pridaho.org AUG. 19 Lagoon Day, pride365.org Aug. 24–26 The Village Summit, Jewish Community Center ugmh.com Aug. 26 Utah Pride Center Golf Classic, utahpride.org

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July 28 — Fergie, Las Vegas Aug. 4 — Park City Arts Festival Aug. 25 — Ub40, Las Vegas Aug. 25 — Beyonce, Las Vegas Aug. 28 — Josh Groban, Energy Solutions Arena Oct. 31 — Maroon 5, Energy Solutions Arena

THROUGH Oct. 20 Farmers’ Market Pioneer Park Saturdays

AUG. 17-18 Women’s Redrock Music Fest, sWerve, Torrey, Utah redrockwomensfest.com

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Upcoming Events

SAVETHEDATE Aug. 9–12 PWACU River Trip, pwacu.org

“YOU’LL HAVE THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE!”

SEPT. 16 PWACU End of Summer BBQ, pwacu.org SEPT. 27–29 Out & Equal Workplace Summit 2007, Washington D.C. outandequal.org SEPT. 28–29 Southern Utah Pride, Springdale southernutahpride.org SEPT. 28–30 QVegas National Coming Out Day Weekend Festival ncodvegas.com

OCT. 5 Salt Lake Men’s Choir 25th Anniv.

Fundraiser, Ladies’ Literary Guild saltlakemenschoir.org Nov. 2–8 Salt Lake Gay and Lesbian Film Festival saltfest.org

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Laurel Hester and the laws of New Jersey regarding same-sex benefits. Local filmmaker Natalie Avery’s compelling Outside follows true life stories of some of Utah’s homeless GLBT youth.

Both filmmakers will be holding a Q&A Monday only.

4pm & 7pm, through Tuesday, Tower Theatre, 876 E. 900 South. Free Monday, $5 tickets on Tuesday, slcfilmcenter.org.

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Egyptian Flourishes with New Breed of Little Shop of Horrors

BY TONY HOBDAY TONY@QSALTLAKE.COM

The intimate charm of Park Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Egyptian Theatre capsulizes a horrifically hilarious production of the cult classic Little Shop of Horrors. Loosely based on the low-budget 1960 film, this black comedy musical revolves around a man-eating, English-speaking, foulmouthed plant called Audrey II, and the Egyptian Theatre Companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s puppetincarnation of the carnivorous plant is quirky and unforgettable (Frank Oz would have been impressed).

Seymour ( J.C. Ernst) is a young orphaned man with a geeky disposition and geekier wardrobe, and works in a struggling floral shop spending most of his time in the back room crossbreeding exotic plants. By his side at work and always quick to defend Seymourâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s oddities is Audrey (Lisa Ann Grow), a well-endowed, bleach-job tramp ... but with good intentions (you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t find too many of those anymore). Audreyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s scumbag boyfriend Orin (a richly animated Marc Raymond) uses her as a punching bag when heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not cladding leather and chains in his dental office.

Mr. Mushnik (Steven Fehr) is the floral shop owner whose greediness becomes his downfall.

When Seymour uncovers a venus flytrap-like plant, its exoticism creates

a whirlwind of success for the floral shop as well as for Seymour. However, it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take long before Seymour realizes the monster heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unleashed. He is quickly torn between newly found grandeur, his love for Audrey and an inner evil.

The introduction of Audrey II, at its seedling stage, reminded me of the terrorizing infant in the 1974 B-movie Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alive. It made me chuckle ... and gave me goose pimples at the same time.

This reaction feels like director Brent Schneiderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s intention of sorts: The death scene of the sadistic dentist Orin and his subsequent feeding to Audrey II is slightly morbid, chilling and casually dry-witted leaving the audience feeling a tinge of guilt for the pleasure. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s innocuous for most adults, but children under the age of 10 could be traumatized ... especially if seated in the front row.

The on-stage chemistry between Ernst and Grow is bitterweet and real, which brings to the production a level of sensibility not usually common â&#x20AC;&#x201D; yet refreshing â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in dark comedies.

Their longing when near each other is magnetic, pulling them to each other, but with just the right amount of tension ... and the vibration is felt throughout the theater.

Schneider not only brings sensibil-

ity to the show, he also creates a lively Motownâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Doo-wop hybrid reminiscent of the early â&#x20AC;&#x2122;60s complete with his own â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dream Girlsâ&#x20AC;? (Ali Bennett, Clotile Bonner, Kandyce Marie Gabrielsen), who belt out a sassy rendition of the title theme-song â&#x20AC;&#x153;Little Shop of Horrors,â&#x20AC;? among other memorable numbers. Plus, these lovely ladies have multiple fabulous wardrobe changes that would make Diana Ross pull at her ratâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nest and weep.

Schneider has a hand in several

facets of the production including the choreography and set design. With so many directives in his control, it will certainly put him under scrutiny with the critics. Well, this critic says â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bravo!â&#x20AC;? to the entire cast, and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kudos!â&#x20AC;? to Schneider and the abated crew for filling the room with his own delightful dose of Nitrous Oxide.

Little Shop of Horrors runs through Aug. 18 at the Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main Street, Park City. Tickets $17-36, 435-649-9371 or www.parkcityshows.com.

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the once thought unbreakable American Idol winner was forced to cancel her summer tour.

A sign that tastes are changing? Or a sign that enough bad press can shape America’s opinion before the product has even given them a chance to form one? Well, enough bad press. I’m going to make it a point to give Kelly some good press. I like the new CD. No, scratch that. I love the new CD. Let’s be real.

Most singers in music today would sell their soul to the Devil for an ounce of the singing ability this lady has. No one, and I mean no one (sorry Xtina) can sing a song like this girl. While it is true that the new album is decidedly more rock and less radio-friendly than Breakaway, it’s an album that, if given a chance, has the power to become a classic and mark the moment Kelly Clarkson went from

singer to artist in the span of 13 tracks.

Screw the critics. My December deserves a fair shot. To prove it, go watch a You Tube clip of Kelly performing her latest single, the haunting “Sober,” live at youtube.com/ watch?v=Mo7qonefSTk. If you can honestly make it through this track and not see this girl for the rare gift she is, you really have to get your ears checked.

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So, if you’re one of the few who hasn’t heard, Nick Lachey and his new girl Vanessa Minnillo were photographed nude in Mexico over the July 4 weekend. The press caught the pair swimming naked outside their hotel room and, in an attempt to launch a smear campaign against the young stars, printed the pics as if they should be ashamed.

I haven’t officially seen Nick’s goods, but if they’re anywhere near as hot as the rest of his bod, I don’t think he has a damn thing to be ashamed about. In fact, the only thing that gets me upset is the fact that I’m not in that hot tub with him.

Seriously, the guy is fine, and whether or not he should have taken better care to cover up with cameras around, any time Nick feels like dropping trow for the world to see, I’m fine with that.

Unfortunately, we only have a link to the censored pics. But we have amassed quite a collection of hot, shirtless pics of Nick over the years, a couple of which we dug up for you here. This is one side of beef I’m always happy to taste. Enjoy!

She’s having a baby — two, if she’s to be exact. One good news, and one ... well, we’ll let you decide.

Seriously, after watching Christina Aguilera strip down to a string bikini top and assless chaps in her “Dirrty” video, who’d have picked Xtina as the graduate of the late ’90s teen pop movement least likely to fuck up a kid? Britney’s already doing her worst with two of them. Jessica? Well, she’d probably use her pregnancy as fodder for another reality show.

But Christina, behind the scenes it seems, is your typical, down-to-earth 25-year-old, one with a year and a half of married life under her belt with a seemingly normal (almost nerdy) hubby.

Congrats, Miss Aguilera. Stage demeanor aside, I have no doubt you’ll make a damn good mom.

Nicole Richie, on the other hand, I have concerns about.

First off, who’d have thunk she could even get pregnant? I have friends who are a good 20 pounds heavier than Richie, who claim they had trouble getting preggers because they’re too thin. And here she is, sporting a baby bump that some people initially confused with having a

bloated belly caused by hunger.

Word is Nicole’s planning to marry the baby’s daddy and become an honest woman. I’m just hoping that when she does pop the kid out, daddy springs for a driver as a b-day gift. Lord knows we don’t need Nicole toting toddlers the wrong way down the 134.

Speaking of crap driving, for those naysayers convinced that the only drawback to owning a hybrid is an inability to pick up speed on the freeway, note that Al Gore’s son managed to get one up to 100 mph on July 4.

That’s not a good thing, by the way.

True, Al Gore III had the common sense to get busted in an earth-friendly auto, but he did it while doped up on earth-friendly drugs, and some not-so-natural substances like Valium, Xanax and Soma, all anxiety pills. No prescription. No explanation.

Just the embarrassment of being the former Vice President’s son at 2:15 in the morning flying 100 mph in a car that allegedly takes 37 seconds to reach that speed.

Unfortunately, I guess this means we can’t fairly attack the Bush girls anymore.

They’ve officially taken a backseat to this mess.

In one of the more embarrassing apologies of her career — and Lord knows there have been many — Britney Spears is issuing a shout out to paparazzi, claiming her umbrella tirade wasn’t a nervous meltdown at all, but preparation for a movie role.

Yes, you read that correctly. Britney Spears wants everyone to believe that the night she took an umbrella and beat the shit out of an SUV in front of her soon to be exhubby Kevin Federline’s house — the same night she checked herself back into rehab on the threat of losing her kids in a custody battle — she didn’t melt down.

She was rehearsing.

For those of you who find that tough to swallow, take a number. Dressed in a hoodie, pearls and, of course, a newly shorn bald head, Britney’s tirade made for the most creative use of an umbrella since Mary Poppins (quickly to be eclipsed by Rihanna’s smash summer anthem, but hell, we all know Britney can’t own the spotlight for long these days).

Needless to say, Britney didn’t get the role. Maybe that’s because it’s the same mythical movie project Janet Jackson gained 60 pounds to do. Ooops, did I say that? This is what happens when you don’t have a publicist.

Before we sign off, I wanted to take a second to offer a shout out to Kelly Clarkson. The media just won’t leave this girl alone. Every new headline brands this new album a flop (since when is selling 300,000 copies and debuting at number two in the first week of release failure?). Perez Hilton can’t seem to let a day go by without calling her new album crap and suggesting she let it die and get right back in the studio. As a result, radio plays haven’t been strong, and

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Club Try-Angles celebrates five years of beer-soaked weenies ... as well as hot dogs.

by JoSelle vanderhooft joselle@qsaltlake.com

us,” he says.

And it’s those friendly members and staff that Wilma counts among his favorite people.

“It’s been the members’ support that made us the success we are,” he says.

“I remember that, and I take care of them. They’re all appreciated, those with nicknames and those without. We also have the friendliest and best staff.

I’m extremely proud of them, and we’re all a family here.”

As far as his latest career goes, Gieber doesn’t think he’ll be returning to the bank, the schoolhouse or Wendover any time soon.

“I keep telling people I’ll probably do

“It’s been the members’ support that made us the success we are, ” Gene says.

“I remember that and I take care of them.

this until I die,” he laughs.

To commemorate Club Try-Angles’ fifth birthday, Wilma says he decided to throw a five-day party. It begins Wednesday, July 18 with one of the club’s famous Underwear Nights. On Friday and Saturday July 20-21, local musician Drew Schofield will perform. The party will end Sunday, July 22 with a barbecue on the club’s patio, featuring steak and Club Try-Angles’ famous beer-soaked weenies — as seen in City Weekly’s Best Of issue.

Beer-soaked? Really?

“When I moved to Salt Lake City, I found out I didn’t like the taste of the water. I could smell it when I made hot dogs, so I just substituted beer,” he says.

Too bad the Days of ’47 celebration doesn’t do the same thing. Q Club Try-Angles is located at 251 West Ninth South. Their Web site is clubtry-angles.com and they are open daily from 2pm to closing.

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On July 18, as much of the state prepares for the Days of ’47, Gene “Wilma” Gieber will be getting ready for another kind of anniversary — one involving sexier dancing and a lot more booze. Club TryAngles, his business, is celebrating its fifth birthday.

“I just wanted a nice little local, neighborhood type of bar,” Gieber remembers, indicating the establishment’s dance floor. “And it has definitely grown beyond that.”

Gieber has also grown beyond his beginnings. Born and raised in Wendover, he held a number of jobs before becoming a bar owner, including teacher of English, drama, journalism and “whatever got left over.” He was also the assistant principal of a small high school — a job at which, he admits, he wasn’t very good.

“Somehow, school would always get out early when I was in charge,” he laughs.

Eventually, Gieber relocated to “the bright lights of Salt Lake City” and took a job as a banker at Key Bank and then as a data processor for another bank.

He worked there until the day before the 2002 Winter Olympics, when he was inexplicably laid off. After a few months on unemployment, he made a decision.

“It was at that point where I tried to find a job that I decided to make a job for all us derelicts,” he remembers. Armed only with his cashed-in 401(k), his experience as a bartender in Wendover and years of drinking in Utah bars, he opened Club Try-Angles. He says business was “about average” at first. That is, until his 50th birthday in 2005.

“We did 50 cent beers and 50 cent shots. After that weekend, things really picked up,” he says. Now, his “nice little neighborhood bar” with a capacity of 200 boasts a membership of 2,500. He regularly has to turn people away at the door or ask them to wait until enough people leave for them to enter.

“Each month just gets busier and busier. Thank goodness all the members don’t all come out at once!” Gieber laughs.

Although his business has grown in popularity, Wilma has kept the bar’s local neighborhood feel alive by giving back to Utah’s gay and lesbian community. Club Try-Angles has supported and sponsored gay and lesbian golf tournaments, baseball teams and Salt Lake’s Righteously Outrageous Twirling Corps — a local gay color guard.

The camp drag group Utah Cyber Sluts has also called the bar home for their various fund raisers. This year, Gieber sponsored several bar regulars who participated in the Harmon’s Multiple Sclerosis Bike Tour. He’s planning to sponsor an entire team in 2008.

“I do this to make the community stronger,” he said. “If I’ve got it, and they can use it, we can do it.”

Though Club Try-Angles is a gayowned business, it has several straight patrons, and many are regulars.

“They come in with a friend and they feel welcome because we have the friendliest crowd,” he explains. He attributes the club’s welcoming atmosphere in part to the fact that it’s a drug-free zone. Though he says he doesn’t judge anyone who uses drugs, he will not permit them to be used or sold at his business — something his patrons seem to appreciate.

“I don’t have to be on the prowl for that because our members are alert and have no problem telling

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Fitness Ross the Intern Gets Fit

By Dylan Vox, dylan@qsaltlake.com

Often in gay life we look to the most butch, best looking people as role models simply because of the way they appear in print or on television. Reality television stars seem to flood the market as of late, and the more contestants that appear on the A a shows, the more gay players tend to surface. But usually we I are only drawn to the better looking ones. r When Danny Roberts was first cast on Real World New Orleans, everyone was so excited because he was a hot gay guy W on TV. Then his season aired, and everyone realized just how M a charisma-free a hot gay guy on TV can be. Then a few years B later, Reichen-mania began, and he graced the cover of every gay mag, video and book jacket he could possibly run to and people actually began to look to him as a mentor. He’s the hot guy who won The Amazing Race, whoopee.

Remember Ross the Intern from the Tonight Show with Jay Leno? He was the pudgy little uber-gay guy who did the street interviews and basically became Leno’s light-hearted punching bag. He was the guy you kinda wouldn’t take notice of except to chuckle at with your friends. Well, the 27-year-old overweight Sta intern joined this season of VH1’s Celebrity Fit Club and after three months of battling with the judges, overcoming his fear of working out, and having to put up with child star loser-turned-fatso Dustin Diamond, Ross the Intern came out on the other side as Ross Mathews, a stronger, more fit young man who proved that kindness is the true value that makes a great gay role model.

Celebrity Fit Club follows eight chunky, plump or downright fat celebrities as they try to lose weight. They are split into two competing teams of four and each week, teams are given different physical challenges, and weighed to see if they reached their target goals. They are monitored and supervised by a team that includes a nutritionist, a psychologist, and a physical trainer, and the series is hosted by none other than the amazingly unfunny gay comedian Ant. This year marked the fifth incarnation of the show, and right from the beginning Ross stood out as a fan favorite. His jolly, happy attitude and his aversion to everything fitness related W seemed to bring the judging panel into his corner and he h charmed everyone with his silly antics and gay humor. It was e refreshing to see a gay guy like that on television because most 1 of the time gay men are relegated to being either the bitchy r queen, or the muscle boy who can barely speak. n The panel, led by marine drill instructor Harvey Walden IV, A put Ross and his fellow cohorts through rigorous fitness camps c that would test their physical ability. Mathews scored some of C the lowest physical scores and the 214-pound self-proclaimed s “couch junkie” looked as though he wouldn’t make it through a the training at all.

D He, however, befriended fellow bubbly personalitied Maureen McCormick, who played Marsha Brady on the Brady Bunch, and the two of them began a quest to lose as much weight as possible and get in better shape than they had ever been in.

The show focuses on three different sides to fitness; nutrition, exercise, and psychology.

For the nutrition portion of the program, Ross was advised by medical expert Dr. Ian Smith, who writes health columns for the New York Daily News and Newsweek magazine.

Walden lead bootcamp-type training courses that took the workout out of the gym and created a fun, interesting environment for the celebrities. Ross learned that working out could be fun, and his whole-hearted approach was really inspiring to viewers and other contestants.

The third and most interesting part of the change was the psychological aspect of losing weight. Unlike all of his celebrity counterparts, Ross had never been thin or fit, so overcoming the mindset of a fat person was his toughest challenge. Psychotherapist Stacy Kaiser had the unenviable task of unraveling the pseudo celebs tremendously troubled lives in order to get them on the right track to a better body.

At the last weigh in, Ross became the highest ranked male contestant of any season when he showed up 41 pounds lighter and losing 19.2% of his body fat. He even bought a new outfit to highlight his 173-pound frame and joked with the judges about how much he had learned on the new program.

No, Ross Mathews is not the hottest guy on the planet, and no he probably won’t get a whole lot of credit in the gay world, but somehow, it was refreshing to see someone who wasn’t afraid to just be himself. He wasn’t trying to hide the fact that he fit the stereotypical gay role, and yet was so unstereotypical because of his strength and will to achieve his goals. So the next time you put all of your faith and effort into a new gay icon, try to remember that being yourself, no matter who you are, is what truly makes someone a special person. Q

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Well, hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver, usually due to an infection. It can lead to scarring and may make the liver function ineffectively for short or long periods of time. Chronic liver disease â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which hepatitis can cause â&#x20AC;&#x201D; may eventually lead to the need for a liver transplant, or it may result in a premature death.

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The ABCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s of Hepatitis Hepatitis A is the one that you often hear about in the news, because it is the type responsible for closing down restaurants. It is most commonly passed through fecal-oral contamination â&#x20AC;&#x201D; like when an infected person fails to wash their hands after using the restroom and then transmits the disease to food theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re handling. Men who have sex with men are also a high risk group for hepatitis A, because risk of fecal-oral transmission increases during anal sex or rimming.

Hepatitis A is not considered a chronic infection. Once you have had hepatitis A, you cannot become infected again, although in some cases relapse can occur within a year of the initial infection. The hepatitis A vaccine is recommended for all men who have sex with men.

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