QSaltLake Magazine - October 16, 2007

OCTOBER 16, 2007

ISSUE 88

Man Pleads Guilty in ‘Gay Bashing’ No word whether hate crime enhancement will apply

UofU Gays Cry Censorship Over Posters Images deemed too sexual, stereotyping gays negatively

RCGSE Raises $7000 in AIDS Awareness Week Sen. Craig Named to Idaho Hall of Fame

Gay History Month Continues Ruth Tries Kindergarten Teaching for a Day Gay Geeks The Gay Agenda Qdoku, Comics

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Iranian President Was Not Mistranslated A spokesman for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Oct. 10 that Ahmadinejad was misquoted when he said at Columbia University in New York on Sept.

24 that there are no homosexuals in Iran. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What Ahmadinejad said was ... that, compared to American society, we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have many homosexuals,â&#x20AC;? presidential media adviser Mohammad Kalhor told Reuters.

But the Persian-speaking communications director of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, Hossein Alizadeh, a gay Iranian who won asylum in the United States based on his sexual orientation, disagreed.

Asked for comment Oct. 10, Alizadeh played an audio file on his computer over the telephone and said: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Here is exactly what Ahmadinejad said at Columbia University: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Absolutely not. We in Iran â&#x20AC;&#x201D; we in Iran, firstly, we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have hamjens-

baz [a derogatory term for homosexuals meaning people with loose morals who chase people of the same gender for sexual pleasure] like you have in your country. In our country, there is no such thing. In Iran, such a thing does not â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in Iran, in Iran, absolutely such a thing does not exist as a phenomenon. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know who told you otherwise.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

Alizadeh said Ahmadinejad again denied the existence of Iranian gays a day later at a United Nations press conference.

According to Alizadeh, a reporter for the Voice of Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Persian service asked him: â&#x20AC;&#x153;You mentioned that there is no such phenomena in Iran as homosexuality. Could you please elaborate on that?â&#x20AC;?

Alizadeh said Ahmadinejad replied: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Seriously, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know of any. As for homosexuality, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know where it is.

Give me an address, so that we are also aware of what happens in Iran.â&#x20AC;?

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5,000 March in Johannesburg Some 5,000 people took part in the 18th Joburg Pride Parade in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Oct. 6. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The fact that thousands braved the rain and cold to assert the importance of Pride shows that the event remains entirely relevant,â&#x20AC;? said Pride chairperson Tracey Sandilands.

Police led the 90-minute, four-mile procession of 30 floats and vehicles through the Rosebank neighborhood to a post-parade party back at the paradeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s starting point on the muddy fields of the Zoo Lake Sports Club.

Colombian Court Extends Health Benefits to Gay Couples Colombiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Constitutional Court ruled 7-2 on Oct. 4 that gay people can add their partners to their health-insurance plans the same as married people.

Couples will have to register their unions with a notary before applying for benefits. The ruling, which covers both private insurance and government-run health care (known as social security), took effect immediately.

The court said denying benefits to same-sex partners violated their right to a dignified life and promoted an â&#x20AC;&#x153;absolute lack of protection for couples of the same sex.â&#x20AC;?

Colombia is the first Latin American nation to have implemented such a policy nationwide.

In February, the same court extended spousal property and inheritance rights to same-sex couples.

Swedish Parties Support Same-Sex Marriage Swedenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s three opposition parties introduced a motion in Parliament Oct. 5 to legalize full marriage for same-sex couples.

The opposition Social Democrats, Greens and Left Party support the move, along with three of the four parties that make up the governing coalition. Only the ruling Christian Democrats oppose the proposal.

In order for the measure to pass, only four MPs from the governing coalition will have to vote against the Christian Democratsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; position.

Sweden has had a registered-partnership law that grants same-sex couples all the rights of marriage since 1994.

Britain Plans to Ban Incitement of Hatred Against Gays British Justice Secretary Jack Straw says the government plans to prohibit incitement of hatred against gay, lesbian and bisexual people.

The proposed law would ban words, writings, video, audio and behavior purposefully aimed at encouraging antigay hatred, under penalty of up to seven years in prison. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is a measure of how far we have come as a society in the past 10 years that we are now appalled by hatred and invective directed at people on the basis of their sexuality,â&#x20AC;? Straw said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is time for the law to recognize this.â&#x20AC;?

Christian groups expressed alarm over the governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plan, saying that opin-

5,000 people took part in the 18th annual Joburg Pride Parade in Johannesburg, South Africa, Oct. 6.

ing that gay sex is wrong should not be a crime.

But gay groups and the government said the law would not apply to temperate expression of religious views. â&#x20AC;&#x153;However, we refuse to accept any longer that thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no connection between extreme rap lyrics calling for gay people to be attacked or fundamentalist claims that all gay people are pedophiles, and the epidemic of anti-gay violence disfiguring Britainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s streets,â&#x20AC;? said Ben Summerskill, chief executive of Stonewall, Britainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leading gay-lobby group.

Singaporeans Call for Legalization of Gay Sex Thousands of Singaporeans have signed an online open letter to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong urging legalization of gay sex.

Parliament reportedly is planning to decriminalize oral and anal sex between heterosexuals but leave in force Penal Code Section 377A, which bans â&#x20AC;&#x153;gross indecencyâ&#x20AC;? between men under penalty of two years in prison.

Gays have found a friend in the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s founding prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew, who, in April, stated: â&#x20AC;&#x153;If in fact it is true â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and I have asked doctors this â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that you are genetically born a homosexual, because thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the nature of the genetic random transmission of genes, you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help it â&#x20AC;&#x201D; so why should we criminalize it? ... Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not go around like this moral police ... barging into peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rooms. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not our business.â&#x20AC;?

The elder Lee is the current prime ministerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s father.

A married couple in Australia has become a married lesbian couple after the Administrative Appeals Tribunal allowed a transgender woman to change the sex designation on her passport, SX magazine reported Oct. 4.

The couple, Fiona Power and Grace Abrams, had married in 2005 while Abrams was in the process of changing her gender.

When Abrams later applied for a new passport, she was turned down because her birth certificate says she is male, but the tribunal concluded â&#x20AC;&#x153;it is not so much the identity of the person as she or he was in the past, but the identity of the person as at the time of the application, that is of prime importance.â&#x20AC;?

The tribunal directed the Foreign Affairs Ministry to issue the new passport, which carried the side effect of government acknowledgment of the marriage of two women.

Singapore Celebrities Rap to End Gay Sex Ban

Excerpt from the Penal Code Of The Republic Of Singapore Unnatural offences.

377. Whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animals, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years, and shall also be liable to fine.

Explanation.

Penetration is sufficient to constitute the carnal intercourse necessary to the offence described in this section.

Outrages on decency.

377A. Any male person who, in public or private, commits, or abets the commission of, or procures or attempts to procure the commission by any male person of, any act of gross indecency with another male person, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years.

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Bangkok, Thailand â&#x20AC;&#x201D; When celebrities speak, sometimes people listen. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what some Singaporean stars hoped when they created a public service announcement rap-style video to call for the repeal of law 377A, a national law forbidding same-sex relations.

Openly gay Actor Sir Ian McKellen provided the inspiration for the video (now posted on YouTube) after a July visit to Singapore as part of the Royal Shakespeare Companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s world tour of William Shakespeareâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s King Lear and Anton Chekhovâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Seagull. At the time, he told Reuters, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Coming to Singapore where unfortunately youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve still got those dreadful laws that we British left behind ... itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about time Singapore grew up, I think, and realized that gay people are here to stay.â&#x20AC;?

The video is part of a larger campaign seeking the repeal of law 377A. Under this part of Singaporeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s penal code, men who attempt to procure or who have sex with other men can be imprisoned for up to two years.

Laws established during colonial times have held that same-sex relationships could be punishable by fines and jail time. Additionally, a ban on gay films, art, plays and gay-affirming public events like Pride celebrations has existed since Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yewâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s regime (1959-1990).

Since leaving office Lee, who remains a prominent figure in Singaporean politics, has since changed his opinion about gays. Currently, he advocates a repeal of some laws that make homosexuality illegal. In September, he also helped sponsor a petition that would abolish laws forbidding oral and anal sex between consenting heterosexual adults.

To add to the proposal, Parliament member Siew Kum Hong will circulate second petition to repeal laws that make homosexuality a crime later this month.

Current Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, who seems to support the repeal, suggested that the fact most of the celebrities in the video were straight would be helpful to the cause.

The minute and a half-long video can be viewed at youtube.com/ watch?v=mTGrzte9ZjQ. To sign the petition for the repeal of law 377A, visit repeal377a.com.

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Schwarzenegger Vetoes Same-Sex Marriage Bill

By Bryan Ochalla

Sacramento, Calif. — Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed another gay marriage bill on Oct. 12, once again saying voters and the state Supreme Court, not the legislature, should decide the issue.

In a statement released the same day, Schwarzenegger said Californians “should not be discriminated against based upon their sexual orientation,” adding that he Calif. Gov. Arnold supports state laws Schwarzenegger that give domestic partners many of the rights and responsibilities of marriage.

The vetoed bill, known as AB 43, would have amended California law to define marriage as a civil contract between two people.

After Schwarzenegger announced his veto, California Assemblyman Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, one of the bill’s sponsors, told the San Francisco Chronicle that the governor missed a “lifetime opportunity to show extraordinary leadership and be a real-life action hero.”

“He chose to fail his opportunity for greatness,” Leno added.

Various gay rights groups also expressed disappointment with Schwarzenegger’s decision. Geoff Kors, executive director of Equality California, called the veto “hypocrisy at its worst.”

“We find it shocking for the governor to say he opposes discrimination based on sexual orientation and then veto a bill that would have ended discrimination based on sexual orientation,” Kors said.

Equality California and Mariage Equality USA sponsored protests throughout the state on Oct. 12 in response to Schwarzenegger’s veto.

AB 43 was Leno’s third attempt at creating a gender-neutral marriage bill.

Schwarzenegger rejected a similar bill in 2005, and has said he would veto all such bills that come before him.

Leno, however, said that he would not give up and that supporters of samesex marriage eventually will prevail.

“There’s never been a civil rights movement in the country that has failed,” he told the San Francisco Chronicle.

However, Schwarzenegger also signed four gay-positive bills on the same day.

These included the Student Civil Rights Act and the Safe Place to Learn Act, which aims to protect students from harassment and bullying in public schools.

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‘Freeheld’ Documentary Makes Oscar Shortlist

rangements to be transferred to Andree by a 4-0 vote (one freeholder was absent).

Less than a month later, Hester died. She passed away peacefully on Feb. 18, 2006, with Andree at her side.

The 80th Academy Awards nominaI tions will be announced on Tuesday, Jan. H 22, 2008, at 5:30 a.m. PST from the Acad- t emy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater. m

New York City — A documentary film chronicling a terminally ill New Jersey police officer’s fight to get survivor pension benefits for her same-sex partner is up for a possible Oscar.

Filmmaker Cynthia Wade’s Freeheld is one of eight titles that have been shortlisted by voters in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Freeheld director documentary Cynthia Wade division. Twentythree films were eligible.

Freeheld — which has won accolades across North America, including a Special Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival — tells the story of Laurel Hester, who is dying from cancer, and her fight with the elected anti-gay Ocean County freeholders to have her pension transferred to her partner, Stacey Andree.

Hester believed that making her public fight afforded an opportunity to further the wider cause of securing full equality for same-sex couples. Her decision to let Wade chronicle her final months energized a grassroots movement that extended far beyond the confines of her local community and her home state.

“Before Laurel died, I promised her that I would qualify Freeheld for an Oscar nomination, so that her story could get as much attention as possible as we move into a national election year,” Wade told UK Gay News, adding that she submitted the application to the Academy Awards office on Aug. 15, what would have been Hester’s 51st birthday.

However, Wade emphasized that the possible Oscar nomination is not the point of the film. “[The nomination] is a tactic in a longer, more aggressive outreach strategy to garner press and national attention around the issue of rights for same-sex couples as we head toward the 2008 elections,” she said. “Nearly all of our screenings have included panel discussions and press coverage around the larger issues of equality, and we will maximize this strategy as we head into 2008.”

Hester’s battle with the freeholders was finally won on Jan. 25, 2006, when the freeholders allowed the pension ar-

‘Gay Bomb’ Developers Receive Ig Nobel Prize

By Bryan Ochalla

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Boston — The military developers of a chemical “gay bomb” that made headlines earlier this year e were among the c (not-so) proud v recipients of 2007 e Ig Nobel prizes handed out during an Oct. 4 ceremony in Cambridge, Mass. s Recipients of the prizes, awarded each g year by the science humor magazine An- “ nals of Improbable Research, “first make s people laugh, and then make them think,” t according to editor Marc Abrahams. c “These people really ought to have someone, somewhere, in some tiny way, o give some kind of recognition that they F have done something nobody has ever R done,” Abrahams told Rueters. s The Air Force Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, received this year’s Ig Nobel z “Peace Prize” for instigating research and i development on a so-called “gay bomb” that would “make enemy soldiers become f “ sexually irresistible to each other.”

Other recipients of this year’s Ig Nobel 3 prizes include the Japanese inventor of a h method to extract vanilla fragrance from w cow dung and a team that researched how sheets become wrinkled. A group m of Spanish researchers also picked up a o prize for a study showing rats sometimes d fail to distinguish between a person g speaking Japanese backwards and a per- t son speaking Dutch backwards. a This is the 17th year Annals of Improbable Research has handed out the awards. t Each year, winners receive their prizes fi from genuine Nobel laureates, with this m year’s presenters including Craig Mello a (Medicine, 2006), Dudley Herschbach (Chemistry, 1986), Robert Laughlin (Physics, 1998), William Lipscomb (Chemistry, 1976) and Sheldon Glashow (Physics, 1979).

For more on the Ig Nobel prize, visit improb.com.

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House to Move Ahead with Gay-Only ENDA Trans activists lack votes for inclusive bill In a private Oct. 12 meeting on Capitol Hill, congressional leaders told gay and transgender activists that they would move ahead with a version of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act that lacks transgender protections.

Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign, and Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, attended the meeting and confirmed that House leaders would first seek to pass the sexual orientation-only version of ENDA. But in what Solmonese called an unprecedented commitment, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi agreed to give the trans-inclusive version of ENDA a floor vote â&#x20AC;&#x153;the minuteâ&#x20AC;? enough votes are secured to pass it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our strategy throughout has been to stay at the table and fight for the ultimate goal that we all share,â&#x20AC;? Solmonese said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Today, that strategy has proven to be successful.â&#x20AC;?

Keisling, however, said her organization would stand among the groups that continue to oppose the amended version of ENDA introduced by gay Rep. Barney Frank.

She said that bill, known as House Resolution 3685, lacked the support of â&#x20AC;&#x153;a single LGBT or other civil rights organization,â&#x20AC;? and was inferior to the transinclusive version, House Resolution 2015. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stress enough how we are focusing on passing 2015,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The truth is we feel the strategy around 3685 is bad strategy. We think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been handled badly, we think it is harmful and we oppose it.â&#x20AC;?

The decision by House Democrats to move ahead with the sexual orientationonly ENDA comes two weeks after Pelosi delayed a vote on that measure to give gay and transgender rights groups more time to persuade House members to back a trans-inclusive ENDA. Solmonese said it was determined at todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s meeting that there were not sufficient votes to pass the trans-inclusive measure and House leaders would press ahead with the other version.

The decision was not well received by

several gay and transgender rights groups.

More than 280 state and national gay and transgender advocacy organizations have signed a statement demanding that members of Congress oppose any version of ENDA that lacks protections for transgender people.

Led by the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force, the groups have launched a nationwide campaign called United ENDA, which aims to keep a transgender provision in any version of ENDA considered by Congress.

Although the strategy revealed at the meeting allows both versions of ENDA to remain on the table, Matt Foreman, NGLTFâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s executive director, said he disagreed with the approach and would â&#x20AC;&#x153;do everything possibleâ&#x20AC;? to change the legislative course. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It simply makes no sense,â&#x20AC;? he said in a statement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If the goal is moving an ENDA that protects all of us, passing a flawed, gay-only bill utterly undermines that objective. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The notion that the House of Representatives will be willing to revisit a different ENDA before the end of the calendar year â&#x20AC;&#x201D; when it has been unwilling or unable to take up a single pro-gay matter over the last 34 years â&#x20AC;&#x201D; is more than implausible. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We will do everything possible to convince members to end this misguided course of action.â&#x20AC;?

Frank last month introduced a version of ENDA that lacks transgender protections after a preliminary House vote count showed the trans-inclusive version would fall at least 30 votes short.

Solmonese said HRC strongly supports a trans-inclusive ENDA and does not support the gay-only version of the bill.

But he said HRC would not call on members of Congress to vote against the gay-only bill, suggesting that to do so would jeopardize the organizationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s longstanding relationship with members of Congress who have supported gay rights. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think we are apart from other groups in the movement because of the unique nature of our work,â&#x20AC;? Solmonese said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have tried to be clear that we do not support efforts that are not inclusive, but

we are respectful to the â&#x20AC;Ś complex strategy toward passing an inclusive bill.â&#x20AC;?

Solmonese said he thinks enough House Democrats support the amended ENDA that it will pass. A markup of the bill will likely occur next week, but no floor vote has been set. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to have to work for every vote,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But I think the votes are there for that.â&#x20AC;?

Although NGLTF and NCTE leaders indicated they would continue to oppose the bill, Solmonese said those efforts likely would not doom the measure. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a complex issue and I think members of Congress are hearing a variety of messages,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But I think what Congressman Frank and what the speaker has committed to ... is part of a strategy in moving toward an inclusive bill. I suspect that members will take their lead from them.â&#x20AC;?

House Democratic leaders appeared united in their efforts to prioritize the gay-only version of ENDA, and the Democratic National Committee had no immediate objection.

Spokesperson Damien LaVera said DNC Chair Howard Dean did not oppose the strategy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Of course, Governor Dean wants the most inclusive bill possible,â&#x20AC;? LaVera said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And he believes Democrats in Congress are doing their best to pass the most inclusive bill.â&#x20AC;?

In February, Dean addressed the DNCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual winter meeting in Washington and said that he would â&#x20AC;&#x153;do everything in my power to ask Congress to take up, finally, and pass ENDA.â&#x20AC;? He also noted that transgender protections were a crucial part of that effort. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m very comfortable going to Utah and explaining why you shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be fired if you happen to be a gay person, or a lesbian, or transgender or bisexual,â&#x20AC;? he said at the time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And transgender is part of this, too. You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stop, of course, without that.â&#x20AC;?

Oregon Domestic Partnership Law Survives Referendum

By Bryan Ochalla

Los Angeles â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Opponents of Oregonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recently passed domestic partnership law failed to gather enough signatures to put a referendum overturning the measure on the November 2008 ballot.

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Regional News Sen. Craig Named to Idaho Hall of Fame Boise, Idaho — Sen. Larry Craig was named Oct. 13 to the Idaho Hall of Fame despite his arrest and guilty plea in an airport bathroom sex sting.

The Associated Press reported that Craig received polite applause and “a few encouraging hoots” when he was introduced.

“I hope in a very sincere way that the attention that’s been brought to me has not lessened the Idaho Sen. Larry Craig honor you receive,” Craig said to other nominees and the 200 people dinner attendees.

Organizers said Craig was chosen for the honor last spring, well before his well-publicized arrest at the MinneapolisSt. Paul airport in June.

Other inductees included Boise State University football coach Chris Petersen, Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter and Lt. Gov. Jim Risch. Risch is said to be the likley nominee to replace Craig after his term ends.

A crowd of reporters, photographers and television cameras greeted Craig as he entered the Boise Convention Center accompanied by his wife, Suzanne Craig, and mother, Dorothy Craig.

Asked how he was doing, Craig replied, “I’m doing very well. I’ve got my whole family with me.”

Idaho Hall of Fame board member Michael Ritz, said he had been bombarded with calls from national media outlets wanting to know if they could set up cameras at the $50-a-head function.

Ritz said the 12-member board opted to go ahead and induct Craig even though many questioned the timing.

“We thought, ‘It’s kind of going back on your word,’” he said. “Once a person has been sent a letter and voted into the Hall of Fame, it would be kind of like breaking a promise.”

Idaho’s senior Republican lawmaker pleaded guilty in August to disorderly conduct, then unsuccessfully tried to withdraw his plea after the episode became painfully public.

He initially said he intended to resign but now vows to serve out the last 15 months of his term.

The master of ceremonies for the event, former Republican Lt. Gov. David Leroy, acknowledged that attention on the senator and his arrest had raised the profile of the private, nonprofit Idaho Hall of Fame.

Since 1995, it has inducted some 113 members, but before 2007 hadn’t made any new nominations for four years.

Craig Appeals Ruling on Guilty Plea Minneapolis — Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, filed a notice the morning of Monday, Oct. 15 with the Minnesota Court of Appeals that he will appeal a lower court decision that upheld his guilty plea to disorderly conduct.

Craig pleaded guilty to the crime after his June 11 arrest in the Minneapolis airport on charges he solicited sex from an undercover police officer. Later, he filed an appeal, seeking to withdraw his guilty plea. On Oct. 4, a Minnesota judge turned down Craig’s attempt to overturn the plea, saying that Craig’s claim that he didn’t know what he was doing when he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct was “illogical.” Craig’s filing with the Minnesota Court of Appeals is the first step in a lengthy legal process.

Craig’s appeal was filed at the court in St. Paul less than two weeks after Hennepin County Judge Charles Porter refused to overturn the guilty plea, saying it “was accurate, voluntary and intelligent, and ... supported by the evidence.”

The four-page filing did not detail the basis for the appeal.

Craig’s lawyers must first order and file a transcript of his Sept. 26 hearing.

Once that has been filed, his lawyers have 60 days to file a brief outlining his appeal. Then, prosecutors have 45 days to file their response to his appeal. Once those are filed, the court sets a date for oral arguments — which often occurs about six to eight months later.

Ninety days after the oral arguments, the judge will issue a decision.

Billy Martin, the lead attorney representing Craig told the Idaho Statesman the senator has maintained his innocence from the outset.

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“Senator Craig has a right to appeal and we believe that it was a manifest injustice not to allow Senator Craig to withdraw his guilty plea entered in August,” Martin said. “Like every other citizen, Senator Craig has the constitutional right to make every effort to clear his name. Senator Craig is hopeful that the Court of Appeals, after reviewing our arguments, will reverse or vacate Judge Porter’s decision denying his motion.”

In an interview Oct. 14 with KTVB-TV in Boise, Idaho, Craig repeated that he will not resign his post in the Senate and said he had the right to pursue his legal options.

“It is my right to do what I’m doing,” said Craig. “I’ve already provided for Idaho certainty that Idaho needed — I’m not running for re-election. I’m no longer in the way. I am pursuing my constitutional rights.”

“What’s the likelihood of success? Even less likely of prevailing in the appeal than he had in prevailing before Porter,” Steve Simon, a legal defense expert at the University of Minnesota Law School, told the Associated Press.

The appeals court must find there’s been an “abuse of discretion” by the trial judge before overturning a ruling — in other words, that some aspect of the ruling was decided improperly. Ron Meshbesher, a longtime Minneapolis defense attorney, said earlier this month that the standard for an abuse of discretion is vague but that such a ruling is fairly rare.

“It’s not frequent, let’s put it that way,” Meshbesher said. “It certainly is a steep hill to climb.”

It would most likely be well into 2008 before the Court of Appeals rules on the case. The process by which both sides prepare their legal briefs alone usually stretches to more than 100 days.

A heavy caseload at the Court of Appeals has slowed down both the scheduling of oral arguments and the release of rulings, according to court spokesman John Kostouros. It has been taking at least three months after briefs are filed for arguments to be scheduled, he said, and at least another three months before a decision is reached.

Craig’s Senate term ends at the end of 2008.

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Green Bay, Wis. — Brown County GOP Chairman Donald Fleischman has resigned his post, says a spokesperson, after being accused of enticement and fondling of an underage boy, the Green Bay Press-Gazette reported.

Fleischman, 37, is free after posting a $20,000 bond on Sept. 28. “My client is innocent of the charges,” says attorney Jeff Jazgar, who declined to discuss specifics.

“Our plan is to get some witnesses to testify and present enough information to dismiss the case.”

The boy was found by police in Fleischman’s home on two occasions in late 2006 while being sought as a runaway from Ethan House, a home for at-risk youth. Now 17, he says he stayed with Fleischman at his house and a cabin, where he was provided with alcohol and cannabis, and regularly fondled.

Fleischman faces two counts of child enticement, two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a child, and one count of exposing himself to a child. He returns to court on Oct. 29.

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Man Pleads Guilty in ’06 Jazz Festival Gay Bashing Victim: “It’s taken me a long time to put that day behind me.”

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From the fourth floor of downtown’s Scott Matheson Courthouse, Josh Shuck takes a moment to look at the City County Building across the street. Even from this height, he can’t see much of the Salt Lake City Public Library, where a drunk man beat him and broke his neck at the 2006 Jazz Festival. And he says that’s just as well.

“It’s strange to think about it,” he says. “That’s where I was attacked a year ago, and a year later, I’m across the street dealing with it.”

Shuck, who moved to Oregon shortly after the July 9 attack, had returned to Salt Lake City to testify at the trial of his assailant, Marc Handley. But the trial, which had been pushed from July 7 to Oct. 10, never happened. Just minutes before jury selection was to begin, Handley pled guilty to lesser charges of public intoxication — a class C misdemeanor — and assault causing substan-

tial bodily injury — a class A misdemeanor. Handley faced a 2nd degree felony charge of aggravated assault. The maximum penalty for a class A misdemeanor is one year in jail and a fine of $2,500. A class C misdemeanor carries a maximum penalty of 90 days imprisonment and a fine of no more than $750.

“I wish he would’ve done that at the beginning,” said Shuck’s attorney, Deputy District Attorney Langdon Fisher.

Although Handley will not be sentenced until Nov. 30, Fisher said Handley had “indicated he would pay full restitution” to Shuck. Additionally, Handley could face a maximum of 15 months in prison.

“The judge has a full gamut of options to look at, including sending him in for counseling and alcohol treatment,” said Fisher, who added that the last-minute plea did not come as a surprise to him.

“The best case scenario [for Shuck] would have been a third degree felony, and if Handley was convicted, he would have been entitled to reduction after

Assault victim Joshua Shuck in a neck brace a few days after the Salt Lake City International Jazz Festival

probation,” said Fisher. “In my mind, the plea made sense.”

The result makes less sense to Shuck’s friends who witnessed the attack. According to them, Handley and a friend approached them as the festival ended and made sexually graphic comments at two women in the group. When the group tried to walk away, they say Handley attacked Shuck while screaming anti-gay epithets.

“I turned and saw the guy grab Josh by the collar of his shirt and he hit him in the face,” Shuck’s friend Jennifer Ellis told QSaltLake last year. “I turned again to find my friends and turned back and saw the guy had him in a headlock and he threw his head right to the ground.” When Ellis screamed, “This guy is a gay-basher!” passers-by attacked Handley and pulled him away from Shuck, who lay helpless on the ground.

Although Ellis was not harmed, she said she was traumatized for weeks after the attack.

“I couldn’t eat or sleep after seeing something like that happen,” she said.

Shuck had to wear a neck brace for several weeks to repair two crushed vertebrae. With his head immobilized, he was unable to work at either of his two jobs, and he was too traumatized to sleep. When a therapist suggested that he might benefit from a fresh start, Shuck took her advice and moved to Oregon.

Over a year later, he says he still experiences severe headaches and back spasms when sitting or standing up. He is also unable to turn his neck.

“Sometimes he’ll say, ‘I can’t sleep because my neck hurts,’” said Rhonda Shuck, who drove down from Wyoming to support her son at the trial. “Josh has to deal with this forever.”

Although Shuck is still in pain, he said that he is doing his best to put the attack behind him. And part of doing that means not attending Handley’s sentencing on Nov. 30.

“If [Handley] did this while drunk, who’s to say he won’t do it again,” he said. ‘I wish the worst for him because I don’t want this to happen to anyone else.” Q

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Royal Court Raises Over $7,000 During AIDS Awareness Week Over a ten-day period, the Royal Court of the Golden Spike Empire held 14 events to raise funds for local AIDS charities. In all, the organization collected over $7,000.

“The Royal Court has raised funds for AIDS for the past 22 years,” current Emperor-regent Alan Anderson told the crowd at the final event, “Live for Life,” held Sunday, Oct. 14.

“When I was emperor in my first reign, the disease didn’t really even have a name. They called it ‘gay cancer,’ then Gay-Related Immune Deficiency Syndrome, and then finally AIDS,” he continued. As we saw our members and friends dying, we started raising funds for those afflicted with the disease.”

The kickoff event was a Red Party held at Club Sound hosted by Nova Starr, followed by Red Parties at the Paper Moon, Trapp Door and the Trapp.

Sunday, Oct. 7 started with a barbecue at the Trapp Door and finished out with a concert presenting six bands and five DJs. A candlelight vigil was held at Memory Grove on Monday, Oct. 8.

Other events included karaoke, a “drag queen high heel race,” Red Ribbon Monster Ball and a Monarch show.

The final event was held at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, hosted by Peter Chris-

tie and Charles Black. As dozens of live performers and the St. Paul’s Choir entertained, the crowd of about 150 took turns showing appreciation by placing tips in a bowl at the front of the stage. A silent auction drew over $300, bringing the total for the evening to abut $1,700.

“This evening is a far cry from when this event started out years ago in a bar with people singing to karaoke tracks,” Christie reminisced.

Indeed, the church was a formal backdrop to the evening, as was the 12-member orchestra gathered by Black. Black, St. Paul’s music director, also orchestrated much of the music for the evening.

“People seem to think that AIDS is over, but then just last week Scott Morgan — an early participant in ‘Live for Life’ — died of the disease,” Christie told the crowd. “It’s still here, people still die, it’s till important to do what we here are doing.”

“I wish to thank the people of Salt Lake City for their generous support for this worthy cause,” said Anderson.

RCGSE has two AIDS funds — one which benefits local AIDS charities and programs and one which gives people with HIV/AIDS a $100 check over the holidays to use as they wish. Around 130 people receive checks through this fund.

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UofU Students Upset Over Pride Poster ‘Censorship’ LGBT Center Director: Studentcreated work could “distract” from event’s purpose An administrative decision not to display five posters created for the campus’ Pride Week has lead some gay and lesbian students to say they are being censored.

Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Resource Center intern Bonnie Owens created the posters to advertise the university’s week-long Pride festival.

As a back drop, each used a photograph of a Queer Student Union member in a sexually suggestive pose. When Owens gave her work to Cathy Martinez, LGBT Resource Center director, Martinez rejected four of them. The fifth was rejected after Martinez met with Kari Ellingson, associate vice president for student affairs. Both women thought the posters might give people the wrong idea about the Pride celebration.

“When Cathy and I talked about this, we thought it would be important to break stereotypes that being queer is just about sex,” Ellingson told the Daily Utah Chronicle, the University of Utah’s student newspaper. “The pictures would take away from all the other events going on that week.”

“The posters were depicting the community in a sexual way,” Martinez agreed. “My concern was that it would distract what we were trying to do with Pride and that it would stereotype gay people in a negative way.”

Many QSU students disagree. Kevin Ingraham, co-president of QSU called the decision an act of censorship.

“These images are portraits and expression of the gender identities we express on a daily basis,” he said. “I felt that when the images were denied, I was essentially being told that I as an individual was deemed inappropriate and obscene.”

He and QSU leadership has said they will protest the decision. “[An] overwhelming majority of students feel it’s an important issue,” he said. “We’re being silenced and we’re being censored,

and were not okay with that.”

The Daily Utah Chronicle editorialized that sexual imagery is not unique to Pride week.

“In a sense, the LGBT Resource Center is viewed as an entity set up to support the QSU and queer students as a whole.

By not supporting QSU’s input on Pride Week, the LGBT Resource Center is taking on an authoritative role that could cause resentment between the two entities.

“True, the posters might be sexy, but like it or not, sex has become a mainstream asset to society. They say sex sells, and the QSU isn’t the only entity on campus that capitalizes on that wisdom.

“Almost each month, students flock to the dance floor of Crimson Nights in order to bump and grind each other to the latest Kanye West song. Recently, various members of campus were involved in a date auction to raise money for Rock the U. Basim Motiwala, the vice president of the Associated Students of the University of Utah, was purchased for about $55. At nearly every sporting event, crowds are privy to the color of ‘spankies’ each cheerleader wears under her short skirt. Let’s not even start on the motivation behind the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity’s annual ‘schoolgirl’ party,” the editorial stated.

The editorial ended: “Ellingson and Martinez’s objection to the sexuality of the rejected posters is questionable in the face of all the things that could be deemed too sexual at the U. They indicated that, in place of the posters, pictures of couples holding hands, hugging and kissing would be a preferable image. Take a look at the posters and decide which would be more sexual — kissing or glimpses of skin?” Q

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Local News PWACU to Hold 19th Living with AIDS Conference The People with AIDS Coalition will hold a one-day conference designed for people living with HIV, their family members, friends, caregivers and AIDS service providers at Westminster College’s Health, Wellness and Athletic Center (1840 S. 1300 E.) on Saturday, Oct. 27.

Workshops and speakers for the 19th annual conference include Liliana Eagan (Psycho/Social workshop), Deanna Merrill (HIV and Co-morbidity), Sabrina Taylor (Numbers That Count, Understanding Your Labs), LeAnn Kean (“Jeopardy” Health Matters) and Dr. Harry Rosado (Medical Update).

The conference will last 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Tickets cost $25 each, and scholarships are available for people with AIDS. A continental breakfast and lunch will be provided.

Participants are asked to RSVP by Oct. 17. at 484-2205.

The conference is sponsored by Abbott Laboratories, Inc., Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Gilead Sciences,

Inc., GlaxoSmithKline and Tibotec Therapeutics.

Poinsettias for PWACU The People with AIDS Coalition of Utah has announced its third annual poinsettia fundraiser.

From now until Nov. 16, the organization will accept pre-orders for locallygrown red poinsettias at $10 per plant or $75 for eight plants. The popular winter plants are 9-12 inches in height and include a six-inch pot with an attractive pot cover.

While plant deliveries to locations in Salt Lake County require no minimum order, deliveries to Davis, Summit, Tooele and Utah Counties require a minimum order of eight plants. To date, scheduled delivery days are Nov. 27, Nov. 30, Dec. 4, Dec. 7, Dec. 11 and Dec. 14 (dates are subject to change).

To order, call PWACU at 484-2205. At time of order, please specify a delivery date.

Live ‘Rocky Horror Show’ Time Warps Again Throughout the remainder of October, the cult-classic stage musical The Rocky Horror Show will play at several private clubs in the Salt Lake Valley.

Produced by Bacchus Productions in association with Around the Globe Theater Company, The Rocky Horror Show: In Concert features a cast of all-local actors. Directed by Marcie Jacobsen, these include Dave Hanson (Dr. Frank N. Furter), Chelsey Richardson (Janet), Ryon Sharette (Brad), Joseph Rogan (Riff-Raff), Leisl Bonell (Magenta), April Fossen (Columbia), Dennis Bergendorf (The Narrator), Mark Brocksmith (Dr. Scott), Tim Tuke (Rocky) and a man known only as “Big Sexy” as Eddie. Kelly Nobles, Michael Jensen, Melinda Indo and Josh Curtis will appear as additional vocalists.

To enhance the audience involvement and intimate feel that have become Rocky Horror trademarks, a live five-piece band will be intertwined with the actors and vocal performers on stage. These are guitarist and band leader Brian Bonell, Doug Vernieu on drums, Eric Manning on bass and baritone saxophone, Amy Allred on keyboards and Holly Braithwaite on alto saxophone.

The Rocky Horror Show: In Concert will be performed at Club Vegas (445 South 400 West), a private club for members, on Wednesdays beginning Oct. 17. It will also show at The Station, a private club for members in Sandy (255 West Harrison), and MoDiggity’s, a private club for members, on Oct. 27. Single prices range from $6–$10, packets of three tickets from $15–25, and packets of 10 from $40–75, depending on night and venue. To purchase tickets online visit rockyhorrorinconcert.com/index.html For more information e-mail rhsslc@gmail. com or call 706-1613.

Human Rights Education Center to Hold No-Bully Bash

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The Human Rights Education Center of Utah will sponsor a jazz and cocktail fund raiser at the home of John Poole and Andrew Rhoda in Emigration Oaks (5879 E Pioneer Fork Road) on Oct. 20 from 6:00–10:00 p.m.

The evening of music and drinks will begin with the auction of a Jackson Hole vacation package. The winning bidder and six friends will be treated to luxurious accommodations in a two-bedroom (with loft) condominium at Spring Creek Ranch — a $5000 value.

To bid, send name and/or organization’s name, phone number and bid amount to nobullybash@gmail.com.

The suggested donation to attend is $25. All proceeds will go to the Human Rights Education Center of Utah, a non-profit organization whose mission includes ending bullying behavior. Send RSVP to nobullybash@gmail.com.

For more information, contact the Human Rights Education Center of Utah at 521-4283 or coordinators Michael Westley at 550-3155 and Andrew Rhoda at (949) 285-9458.

Utah AIDS Foundation’s October Gay Movie Night The Village, a Utah AIDS Foundation program for gay and bisexual men’s health, is sponsoring one more Gay Mov-

ie Night at Tower Theatre this October.

On Friday, Oct. 19 at 7:00 p.m. UAF, Equality Utah, the Utah Pride Center and the Human Rights Campaign will co-sponsor a special screening of For the Bible Tells Me So. This documentary explores he intersection between religion and homosexuality in the United States and how the religious right has used its interpretation of the Bible to stigmatize the gay community. The film has received several awards including the HBO Audience Award (Provincetown Film Festival) and Outfest’s Audience Award. It was also nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. A panel discussion featuring Rev. Tom Goldsmith and Pastor Erin Gillmore will follow.

The Village is focused on improving gay and bisexual men‘s health and preventing the spread of HIV. For more information call 487-2323 or toll free at (800) 865-5004.

Center to Hold Halloween Party The Utah Pride Center will hold a Halloween Celebration in its south building from 3:00–9:00 p.m. on Oct. 31. The evening will include refreshments and dancing, and those who arrive in costume will be eligible to win prizes.

For more information, contact the Utah Pride Center at 539-8800.

Center to Show Domestic Violence Film In honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month and to raise awareness of domestic violence in the gay and lesbian community, the Utah Pride Center will show the documentary Voices Heard Sisters Unseen for this month’s installment of its Film and Discussion Series.

Representatives from the YWCA, South Valley Sanctuary, the Utah Domestic Violence Council and other social service agencies will be on hand to answer questions and discuss resources available to gays and lesbians in abusive relationships.

For more information, contact Jennifer Nuttall at 539-8800 x 13 or jennifer@utahpridecenter.org.

QUAC offers Water Polo Classes The Queer Utah Aquatic Club will offer free beginner-level water polo clinics every Sunday in November during their practices at the Fairmont Aquatic Center from 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Swimmers of all levels are invited to attend to learn about the sport, or to brush up on skills.

The Fairmont Aquatic Center is located at 1044 E. Sugarmont Dr. (approximately 2200 South).

Center Needs Evening Volunteers The Utah Pride Center is looking for outgoing, responsible volunteers available to work weekends and from 6:00—9:00 p.m. on weeknights. Duties include opening meeting rooms for on-site groups, working in the Center’s library and helping with general upkeep. Q For more information, call 539-8800.

Queer Leaders Discuss Politics at UofU Hinckley Institute Forum The Hinckley Institute of Politics presented a panel discussion Oct. 16 on the changing face of internal lesbian and gay politics in post-Amendment 3 Utah.

Many leaders of Utah’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community were panelists at the event, held in conjunction with University of Utah Pride.

“Amendment Three is a big challenge for the LGBT community,” said openlylesbian Rep. Jackie Biskupski, D-Salt Lake City. “Now it will be legal battles in the courts to ensure the rights of the LGBT community in Utah. If you think your silence is appropriate, think again — it is silence that is so damaging.”

Many of the panelists appealed to the younger generation to become more involved.

Biskupski urged the attendees, largley made up of University of Utah students, to speak out to lawmakers using any and all technologies now available. She mentioned technological tools such as those used by Equality Utah’s Web site to email lawmakers and text messaging directly to their representative’s cell phone.

“It is the youth who are going to make a change,” said Utah Log Cabin Republicans member Mel Nimer. “In my

generation, being gay was an unspeakable sin, but now in your generation, 70 to 80 percent of the youth are accepting and welcoming to members of the gay community.”

“You guys are young,” said Utah Stonewall Democrats member Becky Moss. “You’ve got voices and new ideas, and it is you who needs to be out there advocating for action. I’m old, and our tactics can only carry us so far. Get registered and vote. We need the public to get out and vote, so there can be an accurate representation in Utah.”

Transgender Education Advocates of Utah Executive Director Christopher Scuderi said it’s important to stay in Utah and fight.

“For me, the reason I stay and I advocate is because if we don’t stay together and unite, then what are we doing,” he asked.

“We need to stand together as the LGBTQ community, and all marginalized groups need to stay together because we are all fighting for the same basic human rights.”

University of Utah Pride continues through Oct. 20. See the Oct. 1 issue of QSaltLake for a complete schedule of events or go to sa.utah.edu/lgbt.

Queer Spirit To Bring Gay Liberation Pioneers Photo Show Queer Spirit in collaboration with The White Crane Institute will present Fellow Travelers: Liberation Photos

by Mark Thompson at Cup A Joe Coffee Shop from Dec. 1-31.

The Fellow Travelers Exhibit is a collection of 14 black and white images of Gay Liberation pioneers taken by Mark Thompson, one of the foremost chroniclers of the Gay Liberation movement of the ‘60s and ‘70s. Thompson is best known for his influential trilogy of books dealing with gay spirituality: Gay Spirit (White Crane Books), Gay Body and Gay Soul.

The exhibit will also include an opportunity to meet Thompson and his

partner, Malcolm Boyd at a special gala reception and book signing on Dec. 7. All proceeds, donations and book sales will go towards scholarships for those interested in attending Queer Spirit Retreats.

Fellow Travelers has exhibited at the New York Gay and Lesbian Center, San Francisco Public Library, the LA Gay and Lesbian Center, ONE National Gay Archives, and the Los Angeles Episcopal Cathedral.

For a video of the exhibit taken at the New York Gay and Lesbian Center, visit youtube.com/watch?v=IfFsdrNxjik.

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Guest Editorial How I Came to Oppose Barney Frank’s ENDA

By Jere Keys

From the Editor We Failed

By Michael Aaron michael@qsaltlake.com

Just over a year ago, a young gay man by the name of Joshua Shuck joined some friends at the Salt Lake City International Jazz Festival on a whim. It was late, things were getting a bit rowdy and people were drunk.

Some were very drunk.

Marc Handley was one of those drunk people and he, according to witnesses, began hitting on one of the girls in Joshua’s group. The more the girl said, “thanks but no thanks,” the more Handley tried to sweet-talk her to his place, she told me not long after that night.

She asked for her friends to get her out of the situation. Joshua told Handley to leave her alone.

I met Joshua several days after that night. While he is about six feet tall, he has a soft, angelic face and a demeanor to match. He appears young for his 23 years and is very shy and reserved. It would be obvious to most, even most drunk people, that he is a lover, not a fighter.

So, drunk Mr. Handley apparently determines that he isn’t going to take that from a nelly boy and body slams him to the ground. According to witnesses, Handley calls him “faggot” this and “faggot” that and, as Joshua gets back up, Handley lifts him and throws him headfirst to the pavement, shattering two vertebrae.

His friend, the girl earlier hit on, began yelling to passersby that a “gay-bashing” was going on and they come to Joshua’s aid — to the point Handley himself ends up in the same hospital Joshua is taken to.

One television station — KUTV — and one newspaper — QSaltLake — report on the assault. And there it lies.

Coverage is over, few took notice.

Not one gay group approached Joshua to see if he had any needs, to see if he would press charges, to get the whole story and determine if an outcry is called for. In fact, other than friends and family, Joshua told me I was the only person in the gay community to talk to him

about the incident at all. I talked to him several times over the past year to tell him what was going on — or more correctly what was not going on — with his case.

So, here we are a year later. Handley pleads down to two misdemeanors to avoid a trial. One newspaper showed up to cover the trial — QSaltLake. No television news, no gay activists, no concerned police officers.

And now, we move to sentencing.

Utah’s hate crime law is a penalty enhancement statute. In sentencing, a judge may use the fact that the crime was hate-related in determining what level of punishment is appropriate.

“The sentencing judge or the Board of Pardons and Parole shall consider in their deliberations as an aggravating factor the public harm resulting from the commission of the offense, including the degree to which the offense is likely to incite community unrest or cause members of the community to reasonably fear for their physical safety or to freely exercise or enjoy any right secured by the Constitution or laws of the state or by the Constitution or laws of the United States.”

Joshua has a problem here. Since there was absolutely no reaction to the crime against him, it is likely an uphill battle to prove “public harm” or that a mere slap on the wrist would “incite community unrest.” How can his lawyers say that gay and lesbian people would “fear for their physical safety” if not one group, one activist, one concerned police officer stepped up to publicly say, “Hey, this guy is a victim of a gay bashing and this gay basher should be taught a lesson.”

Joshua is reminded every day that Handley pummelled his head into the pavement. To look left or right he must turn his entire upper body — his neck no longer does that. He has difficulty getting to sleep because of the pain.

Our community, however, forgot about the assault within a few days of it happening. We went merrily on holding wine and cheese parties, elaborate dinners and panel discussions. We tell people to come out of the closet and live their lives openly, yet we provide no resources for when the worst happens because of it. We have no victim services, no shelter for discarded youth, no legal advisors.

How many more Joshua Shucks are out there who we have failed? Q

One of my favorite quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr. says, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Those are words I have tried to live by over my 10 years as a queer activist, and rarely have they rung more true than in recent weeks.

I consider nondiscrimination legislation to be the most important issue facing our community today.

More important than marriage equality, more important than hate crime legislation, more important than military service. Why? Because I think that only a society that says — as a matter of law and as a general cultural value — it’s not okay to discriminate against someone based on their sexual orientation or gender identity can achieve those other goals.

Earlier this year, Barney Frank and other congressional leaders introduced the Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2007. Although the newest version of legislation was weaker in some respects than past versions (this one didn’t include non-discrimination in housing, for example), it also took a huge step forward by including gender identity for the first time.

ENDA, as introduced this year, would have protected transgender people from discrimination.

I was overjoyed. Throughout my career as an activist, I have always done my best to reach out to the transgender community, to be inclusive and supportive. I know I haven’t been perfect in that regard, but I’ve learned a lot along the way. I began lobbying my elected officials to support the bill and begged my friends and family who don’t live in San Francisco to do the same in their districts.

At the end of September, as I was involved in producing the annual Out & Equal Workplace Summit, a conference all about LGBT equality in the workplace, we got word that Barney Frank and other congressional leaders wanted to remove gender identity from ENDA because there were not enough votes to support passage of the fully inclusive version. I was devastated, as were my colleagues and many of the 2400 other professionals attending the Summit.

What, I wondered, would I say to my coworker Zander if I continued to support ENDA without protections for transgender people? How could I sit in board meetings with Amanda, or committee meetings with Lori or Breanna, and look them in the eye? What apology could I make to my former pastor, Rev. Sean?

And how could I respect myself when I went back to my professional and volunteer efforts and told the hundreds of transgender people I have interacted with over the years that I’m sorry, sticking up for them wasn’t politically convenient?

No, the choice was simple. Like many of the so-called “ideological purists” that joined the United ENDA coalition, I could no longer support anything less than a fully inclusive bill. Since taking that stand, and lobbying congress for nothing less than a transgender inclusive ENDA, I’ve been called a “liberal elite,” “unrealistic,” “a sheltered activist” and “a sell-out.” I’ve been called those things by friends and colleagues in the movement and by anonymous internet trolls.

I don’t disrespect those who take a more pragmatic view and say we should take what we can get. I very much respect Congressman Barney Frank for his history and leadership, even though we disagree on this issue.

So maybe I have some starry-eyed idealism about equality. So what? The next time I, or hundreds of other LGBT community leaders, write “transgender” in our mission statements or talk about diversity and respect for all people, we’ll know that our actions speak as loud as our words.

Jere Keys works for Out & Equal Workplace Advocates and currently lives in San Francisco. He is the former editor of this newspaper’s precursor, “Salt Lake Metro.” Find him online at www.jerekeys.com

Ruth Hackford-Peer The Field Trip by ruth hackford-peer ruth@qsaltlake.com

model,” my son inquired. As I shushed him, I realized just how exhausted I was.

But we weren’t done. Next we had a tour of the stadium complete with a chance for the kids to run around the football field until they were exhausted.

When the tour guide announced that there was no food, drink or gum allowed on the field, a little girl in my group spat her gum into my hand.

I wanted to vomit.

Speaking of vomiting, that’s what two children did on the bus ride back to the school. This wasn’t in the parent volunteer job description, so I was more than happy to let the kindergarten teachers clean up.

I went home exhausted and took a nap. I no longer wanted to be a kindergarten teacher. That takes a special breed, and I am thankful that they exist. Perhaps my son is right. Kindergarten teachers might actually be the most beautiful and intelligent people in the world. I sure hope that as he grows up he continues to want to be a kindergarten teacher. But if he doesn’t, I can’t really blame him, can I? It’s a dirty job. Q

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Mountain Meadows Mascara Watching the Apocalypse by ruby ridge ruby@qsaltlake.com

Darlings, have you been watching the late night brainiac channels lately? You know, the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, that sort of thing? I have, and let me tell you, kittens, I am so freaked out I am officially losing my mind! According to the scientists, academics and technical people who know these things, life on earth as we know it could be snuffed out in a millisecond because of: A) rogue asteroids, B) mega-tsunamis, C) mega-earthquakes, D) a new Ice Age, E) methane eruptions, F) pandemics and plagues or G) some combination of all of the above that also involves global warming and some type of nuclear incident. Oh, and don’t even get me started about the black holes and the imminent collision of neighboring galaxies. To make a long story short, cherubs, we are statistically TOAST and I need a Xanax.

Seriously kittens, late night schlockumentaries have got me so paranoid I won’t even vacation in Yellowstone anymore. According to one show, it’s a ticking bomb of geothermal angst that will vaporize Idaho, Utah and Wyoming in a nano-second when it erupts, and cover the rest of the world in ash, thus blocking out the sun until all life is destroyed. That has bad hair day written all over it! And forget going to San Francisco for a weekend getaway, because the Bay Area is just one quick tremor away from oblivion (if the flooding of the Sacramento Valley doesn’t destroy it first). While

you’re at it, cancel your hotel reservations for the circuit party in Miami. Apparently, it could be two miles underwater in a flash if some chunk of the Canary Islands slides off into the Atlantic and creates a tsunami — that’s the same tsunami that would wipe out the maritime states as well as Washington, New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Boston. You know these people are serious when they have a computer graphic that looks like the Giants Stadium being attacked by the Scrubbing Bubbles commercial. And believe me, muffins, at 11:00 p.m., alone in a darkened room, that visual is terrifying.

On the other hand, those Trump properties in Atlantic City should be wiped off the planet in about 10 seconds, which is something to look forward to (for those of you who remember Bob Stupaks’ Vegas World Hotel, they look like that, only bigger and uglier).

But I have to ask myself, “Is the world really ready for West Virginia to be the new Long Island?”

Eeeeww. I’m sure as hell not!

As if living through the George W. Bush era hasn’t been terrifying and apocalyptic enough, do we need to have documentary channels scaring the crap out of us right before bedtime? I think these shows have to be some big-media, big business ploy to freak us out before the next election, or the big oil companies making Al Gore’s documentary on global warming look wussy by comparison.

Either way, I’m taking it seriously and stockpiling water and granola bars. Oh, and don’t think I haven’t made a list of my neighbors with food storage who don’t own guns. Because even during the apocalypse, petals, a girl’s gotta eat.

Sweet dreams, babies! Q

To make a long story short, cherubs … we are statistically TOAST and I need a Xanax!

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My son wants to be a kindergarten teacher. He came home from school a few weeks ago and announced at dinner, “kindergarten teachers are the most beautiful and smartest people in the whole wide world.

They know all the songs and they read all the books. They even know mathematics.

When I grow up, I want to be a kindergarten teacher, too.” My response, “I know songs. I read books,” wasn’t so much to pit his teacher against me, but to get a little appreciation from the guy. I mean, I have read to him every night for five and a half years. He’s never called me the smartest person in the whole wide world.

And here, he’s only known this woman for a couple of months and she gets that honor. Initially, I was — perhaps — a little jealous. Jealousy aside, I was thankful he had a teacher he appreciated enough to want to emulate.

At that moment, I decided that kindergarten teachers have the best job possible. They have 20 or so students each year who want to be just like them. Hell, in Utah they could have as many as 30 students each year who want to be just like them. The kids are still young and cute. They are still malleable, like PlayDoh. I figured it had to be a perfect job for a person’s self-esteem. Dozens of doting children expressing daily how beautiful I am. How smart I am. What a good singing voice I have. That sounds much more rewarding than parenting.

This is why I decided to spend the day as a parent chaperone on my son’s kindergarten class field trip to the University of Utah earlier this month.

We gathered the supplies and the lunches — and the kids — and boarded the school bus. My job was to make sure my son and three other children held hands when they crossed the street, stayed with the rest of group and paid attention, to whatever extent kindergartners can. Easy enough, right? Wrong!

College students and professors gave each child a balloon as they got off the bus. Then a dean gave a short but motivating speech designed to make the children aware of the university and perhaps tuck the idea of going to college into the deep recesses of their minds. Now, giving 50 kindergartners balloons is not the most effective way to command their attention, and my duties quickly deteriorated from chaperone to prison guard.

After threatening my small group that I would pop their balloons if they didn’t leave them alone, one of the students promptly started crying. I quickly recanted and said I would just confiscate it.

She didn’t know what confiscate meant.

“Quit! Or I will take your balloon,” I hollered right as the dean stopped talking.

My voice echoed through the room.

Next, the class split into groups and mine headed to the library. On our way, we had to weave through a construction zone while one boy in the group ran around like a monkey on a pixie stick sugar rush. He made my son Riley look like a focused and calm individual.

Understanding the children was the next hurdle. Some kids, like my son,

can’t say his “r” sounds. It happens when you’re a child, but it makes communication tricky. And it meant that I couldn’t understand one little girl in my charge — and smiling and nodding can only get you so far. At one point on the walk, my smile and nod was returned with an angry “das naht wite!” I finally had to tell her that I had no idea what she was saying, and that unless she had to go potty, perhaps it wasn’t that important after all.

The special collections and archives presentation was interesting to me, if not quite so captivating for the 5-year-olds. We learned the history of bookmaking and got to look at some rare books — including one that was 5,000 years old. The librarian showed the class a wooden model of a printing press and asked if anyone knew what it was.

Nobody did. She explained that the printing press revolutionized the way books were made. My son piped up (without raising his hand, I am ashamed to add): “How could something so small make books that were that big?” The librarian explained it was not an actual printing press but a replica. “Don’t you mean a

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Post-gayâ&#x20AC;? is the new queer. And like it or not, a new generation is giving the terms â&#x20AC;&#x153;gayâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;lesbianâ&#x20AC;? an ontological reboot.

Post-gay is the forward concept that sexual orientation no longer comprises the totality of identity. Today, sexuality is rapidly evolving as an integrated aspect of our larger selves. This category offers interesting potential for our social liberation and may help us finally confront the dark possibility that a gay identity might actually be detrimental to our mental and emotional wellbeing. Yes, you read me right. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m suggesting that a singular gay identity may actually be contributing to a deep psychological alienation. Please hear me out.

As a Mormon growing up in Oregon, I always felt like a freakish outsider.

Mormons are universally weird. As an adult, I traded my temple recommend for my Trapp Door membership and once again found myself numbered with another strange (though extraordinary) group of queer outsiders. All my life Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve defiantly identified with the margins.

My personal ontology has been built on exclusion. And not surprisingly, in my life Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve experienced a profound sense of separation, depression and estrangement. Coincidence?

Humans are hardwired to make meaningful connections. When this basic need is disrupted, we often self-destruct. Many queers confront suicide, depression, alcoholism, drug or sex addiction. Many of us struggle to maintain healthy romantic partnerships. We are working through a lot of pain. And so, with the best of intentions, we organize gay â&#x20AC;&#x153;prideâ&#x20AC;? to cover our public shame and to tell ourselves that we really are, in fact, okay. But sometimes pride and gay-positive messaging doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t address the source of our anxiety.

Our emotional wellbeing depends on a healthy connection to family, friends, lovers and nature. And yet, we live in a culture that distorts and circumvents genuine bonding. I blame an overexposure to advertising, TV, social intolerance and patriarchal religion. But whatever. We try and make do. We construct narratives and build alliances. We identify with any group that will take us in and love us for who we think we are.

But sometimes we still feel crazy.

Buddhist philosophy suggests that suffering comes from living in the illusion of separation. OK. So what, then, is the illusion?

We have become fixated on a â&#x20AC;&#x153;singleself identity,â&#x20AC;? or what mythologist John Lash refers to as the â&#x20AC;&#x153;exclusional identity that disallows a more fluid, playful sense of self.â&#x20AC;? We become so committed to our egoic identities that it becomes difficult to identify with something greater. Buddhism teaches the importance of â&#x20AC;&#x153;egolessness,â&#x20AC;? which Buddhist teacher and author Pema ChĂśdrĂśn describes as â&#x20AC;&#x153;a state of mind that has complete confidence in the sacredness of the world.â&#x20AC;? Our preoccupation with ego hinders our awareness and connectivity to other aspects of our lives. And our obsession with a â&#x20AC;&#x153;gayâ&#x20AC;? identity may keep us from recognizing that we actually hold multiple selves. We have gender, class,

political, religious, national and ethnic identities, as well as career titles â&#x20AC;&#x201D; all of which shape who we are.

But these are, at best, social constructs.

Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not real. We fortify our ego with conceptual holograms. French theorist, Jean Baudrillard details how everything has become a lifeless simulacra of a non-existent reality. What he calls our â&#x20AC;&#x153;messianic incantation of the virtual.â&#x20AC;?

We desperately shop and consume in a narcissistic attempt to prop up and maintain the illusion of our precariously insecure holographic identity. But something inside keeps screaming, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;this isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t how it should be.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Our soul craves authentic, meaningful connection.

Now, this may sound like so much post-modern masturbabble, but any of you who have tripped on magic mushrooms or experienced a blissful state of no-mind while meditating know there are other realities and possibilities. Remember that intense rush of ecstatic joy the first time you peaked on ecstasy? Your ego took a backseat, and for the first time your essence felt plugged into Everything. All artifice was exposed and every inhibition vanished into a total immersion of wholeness. That is, until you came down.

Is it possible to soften the ego and loosen up our identity in a manner that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t require being cracked-out? Can we truly let go and tap into a deeper cosmiccentered reality? After all, the iron that flows through our blood was formed from the scattered stardust that escaped that great galactic explosion. We are the result of an indomitable life force that continues to evolve. Throughout billions of years, we emerged from sub-atomic particles to multi-cellular organisms to self-aware humans. What a fantastic leap. We did that!

Futurist Barbara Marx Hubbard believes that our evolution is incomplete. She predicts the emergence of a Universal Human that will have the capacity to co-evolve with nature and cosmos. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Put yourself into that 14 billion year story,â&#x20AC;? Hubbard says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;so that if you get depressed or discouraged, you can go within to that source of creation and realize that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s evolving as You now.â&#x20AC;? Hubbard believes we must shift from the egoic self to our deeper essence in order to jumpstart the next level of social evolution.

And herein lies the potential in healing our individual isolation. We hide in identity, but our star-born bodies are connected to the life force of the Universe. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s our immutable essence. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s impossible to feel lonely when you are plugged into something that gigantic.

Being gay is fantastic. It is one of my favorite personal characteristics. But I also realize that an excessive focus on any one aspect of our multiple selves fragments the psyche and reinforces the illusion of separation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Post-gayâ&#x20AC;? encourages the balanced integration of all our multiple identities. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Metaqueerâ&#x20AC;? moves us beyond our current fixation with identity politics and toward a profound engagement with our allies in common justice. Ultimately, our psychological and emotional wellbeing depends on nurturing an authentic connection to each other, the environment and the Universe.

This should be our goal. I was born a white male Mormon American who later developed homosexual desires and a postgay worldview. My emerging identity is now a cosmo-global citizen participating within a living planetary ecology. From here I am fluid. I feel connected and sane.

And though we are ancient, we experience all things new. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very cool. Q Read Troyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s blog and download cool podcasts at queergnosis.com.

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Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been meaning to ask you, John Amaechi. I need to have a word with you, Judith Arndt. Could we sit down and talk, Andrew Goldstein? I know youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re screening your calls, but I would appreciate it if you would call me back, J.P. Calderon. I understand you have a restraining order against me, but I want to ask a favor, Ian Roberts.

Could you all stop being so damn athletic? Thanks.

Seriously, professional gay athletes, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re making the rest of us look bad. It was hard enough dealing with the challenges we faced while learning how to survive as a gay student in high school. Many of us hated P.E. and athletics, so we found other outlets by which to channel our energy. We joined the theatre. We became involved in student government. We developed an affinity for music. We pretended to date women. We understood that as long as we survived the 12 or so years of P.E. classes and peer pressure to be athletic, we would no longer be pressured into impressing anyone when we became gay adults.

Wow, were we stupid. Unathletic and stupid.

Now, I certainly donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wish to imply that all gay men experience the same athletically-challenged childhood I had.

I realize that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m most likely projecting my own personal insecurities in the hope that I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the only 14-year-old queer who would flinch at the sight of an incoming volleyball in the way the French would flinch at the sight of the Red Baron. But setting aside the acceptance of personal blame for my own psychological insecurities, I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help but imagine that other people in the gay community feel similar. I have no problem with gay athletes practicing in the privacy of their own home between consenting adults, but why must they come out of the closet and compete in such public settings? The Gay Games, the World Outgames, the National Republican Softball League; must they be so proud of not being sissified, flabby non-athletes like me?

Please, think about the non-athletic children!

Approximately a year ago, a group of friends and I celebrated Independence Day by having a barbecue at a park. Food was present, beer was abundant, gossip was assumed, and then, reminiscent of Pee Wee Herman in an adult theater in the early â&#x20AC;&#x2122;90s, someone pulled out that ticking pigskin time-bomb: a football.

Not only was I horrified that someone had brought a football to a gay barbecue, I was doubly horrified that anyone who happened to not be me was engaged in a very ... letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s say, engaging game of foot-

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ball. Did I not choose to be gay and sleep with men so I could avoid this?

With the gay manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eternal quest for perfection as a backdrop (an eternal quest at least as old as John McCain and at least as successful as his presidential campaign), it must be asked: gay athletes â&#x20AC;&#x201D; good for the gay community, bad for our gay psyche? The rationale, of course, for gay men in sports is that they counter the stereotype that all gay men are indistinguishable, and show we can be as masculinely competitive as heterosexual men. I agree that gay athletics is a vital fraction of the gay community â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a fraction so vital it reaches across all walks of life until it pulls a tendon. Gay men are not one-size-tootight-fits-all; we choose the rainbow to symbolize our community because the rainbow inherently symbolizes the diversity in people.

Time has passed since the footballat-the-gay-barbecue incident, and while Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve thought back on that event, as well as other invitations to play sports (Football?

No thank you. Basketball? Not interested.

Mini-golf? See you Tuesday), I realize that my own insecurity is not a good enough reason to ban gay athletics â&#x20AC;&#x201D; as much as I would prefer that to happen.

Gay athletics are an intrinsic part of the gay community, and unify the gay community in ways neither sex nor alcohol ever will. Well, at least in a way that sex never will.

But Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll still blame Ian Roberts for making me look bad. Q

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GAY HISTORY MONTH

THAT’S NUTS! The Fight for Our Sanity

by Eric Marcus

Barbara Gittings (left) at the May 1972 convention of the American Psychiatric Association. With Barbara (left to right): Frank Kameny, “Dr. Henry Anonymous,” and Dr. Judd Marmor.

PHOTO Kay Tobin Lahusen

Sometimes I think I’m crazy. I’m often anxious, occasionally hypochondriacal. And a deep sense of foreboding flows through my veins as it did through the veins of my great-grandparents, who fled Eastern Europe ahead of pogroms and the Nazis because they knew at a cellular level that bad things were going to happen (there are advantages to expecting the worst when it gets you out of harm’s way).

My therapist tells me I’m perfectly normal for a mildly neurotic, middle-aged Jewish gay guy who has just buried his mother, grandmother and both in-laws over a period of 24 months. But I’m not sure I agree with his benign assessment because I often felt a little crazy long before this current run of bad luck.

If this were 1967 instead of 2007, my suspicions about my sanity (or lack of it) could have easily been confirmed in the pages of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Right there in black and white the American Psychiatric Association (APA) said unequivocally that as a homosexual I was by nature mentally ill.

Kidding aside, I know that the kind of crazy I sometimes feel is no different from what a lot of perfectly normal people experience and it has nothing to do with the fact I’m gay. And by 1973 the APA came around to this idea, voting in that year to remove homosexuality from its list of mental disorders. As one local Philadelphia newspaper archly proclaimed on its front page following the official change of heart: “20 Million Homosexuals Gain Instant Cure.”

It’s a little hard to imagine today the heavy burden of the “sickness” diagnosis. You could be fired from your job or not hired in the first place. After all, you couldn’t possibly employ someone who is mentally ill to teach children, care for the sick, or prepare your taxes. And pity the gay parent trying to hang on to her or his kids in a divorce proceeding.

The sickness diagnosis also meant there was something to cure, which gave rise to a whole industry whose purpose was to help homosexuals recover from their disorder. So in the name of science and the medical and mental health professions, untold numbers of gay men and women were subjected to everything from endless years of fruitless psychoanalysis and devastating electro-convulsive therapy to hormone treatments, aversion therapy (“Now why don’t you sit back and relax and watch this hot man-on-man porn film while I attach electrodes to your genitals and/or give you this liquid to drink that will induce vomiting ... ”), and on rare occasion, castration.

The majority of gay women and men were lucky enough to escape the clutches of the mostly well-intentioned professionals, but they were still condemned to the mental torture of living with the knowledge and stigma that they were classified as mentally ill. And for those who tried to cure themselves, the futile pursuit of banishing same-sex attraction was enough to drive even the most grounded gay person over the edge.

While the 1973 de-listing might in retrospect look like a common sense and easy decision, it was in reality a very contentious process and it was years in the making. The seeds of our sanity conversion were, in fact, planted more than six decades ago by a gay, part-time college student, named Sam Fromm. And it was nurtured by a small group of persistent, mostly straight, psychologists and psychiatrists.

Sam Fromm got the ball rolling in 1945 when, after befriending his UCLA psychology professor, Dr. Evelyn Hooker, he urged her to make a study of “people like us.” As Dr. Hooker explained to me in a 1989 interview, “This bright young man, somewhere in his early 30s, had obviously been thinking about this for a long time. And by ‘people like us’ he meant, ‘We’re homosexual, but we don’t need psychiatrists. We don’t need psychologists. We’re not insane. We’re not any of those things they say we are.’”

Realizing that no one had ever thought to question the homosexual sickness label, Dr. Hooker decided to

take up Sam’s challenge and began her pioneering — and for the time — extremely bold and professionally dangerous research.

When Dr. Hooker presented the results of her work at the 1956 American Psychological Association convention in Chicago, the hotel ballroom was filled to overflowing. She recalled, “The title of the paper was ‘The Adjustment of the Male Overt Homosexual.’ In my paper I presented the evidence that gay men can be as well adjusted as straight men and that some are even better adjusted than some straight men ... so far as the evidence was concerned, there was no difference between the two groups of [straight and gay] men in the study.”

Dr. Hooker’s conclusions set off a firestorm within the mental health profession and inspired others to continue her research in the years that followed. Then, beginning in 1970, veteran gay rights activists Dr. Frank Kameny and Barbara Gittings began pushing for change from the outside (often coordinating with their allies within the American Psychiatric Association, including Dr. Judd Marmor, a leading psychiatrist who was very familiar with Dr. Hooker’s work).

Frank and Barbara’s campaign to banish the sickness label combined direct action protests with sophisticated marketing and targeted education.

Their efforts culminated with a now legendary panel discussion at the 1972 American Psychiatric Association convention, entitled “Psychiatry, Friend or Foe to Homosexuals? A Dialogue.” Joining Barbara and Frank (and documented by Barbara’s partner Kay Lahusen — see photo), was a gay psychiatrist, “Dr. Henry Anonymous,” who spoke of his experience of having to live in the closet because of his fear of ruining his career. (Yes, that’s a mask he’s wearing to disguise his identity.)

“It went off marvelously!” Barbara recalled. “The house was packed. Naturally, I think the anonymous psychiatrist was the main reason the house was packed. He made a very eloquent presentation. Than I read statements [we had gathered] from other [gay] psychiatrists, and that clinched it.” The official vote to remove homosexuality from the list of mental illnesses came just one year later.

Barbara recalled the impact that the de-listing had on the gay rights movement: “From 1967, when I made my first public lecture to a straight audience, I had to deal with people’s conviction that we were sick simply because they had heard some psychiatrist say so. The APA action took an enormous burden off our backs.

We could stop throwing so many resources into fighting the sickness label and begin to devote some of that energy and money to other issues.”

So all these years later, the only ones who still need to have their heads examined are the few remaining mental health professionals, (and more than a few religious zealots) who continue to insist that our sexual orientation is curable (through therapy and/or prayer, among other discredited and less benign methods).

I like what Dear Abby had to say about the unreconstructed counselors some years ago: “Any therapist who would take a gay person and try to change him or her should be in jail.” Amen.

As for the men and women who risked their careers and livelihoods to make the world safe and sane for us homosexuals, I say it’s time to erect a few statues in the public square honoring their courageous efforts.

And let’s start where it began, with the young gay man who proclaimed his own sanity and the psychologist who proved he was right. *For a more complete account of how we gained our sanity, please go to my Web site, www.ericmarcus. com, and read the excerpted interviews from my book, Making History, with Dr. Evelyn Hooker, Dr. Judd Marmor, Barbara Gittings and Kaye Lahusen.

Eric Marcus is the author of several books on gay issues, including Is It a Choice? and his just published book for teens, What If Someone I Know Is Gay? Answers to Questions About What It Means to be Gay and Lesbian.

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Speaking â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Truth to Powerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

By Randolfe â&#x20AC;&#x153;Randyâ&#x20AC;? Wicker

took away the name he had given me. I chose Randolfe Wicker as my new name.

That was â&#x20AC;&#x153;really me.â&#x20AC;?

I fancied myself a modern-day Clark Kent. After work, Charlie Hayden morphed into Randy Wicker, a fearless champion of truth and justice. I dreamed of being Randolfe Wicker 24 hours a day.

In 1967, I would merge my two identities and legally change my name to Randolfe Hayden Wicker.

The stereotypes about homosexuals outraged me. All homosexuals were legal criminals. Psychiatrists classified them as mentally ill. They were, among other things, child molesters and Communists, and the public considered them morally corrupt â&#x20AC;&#x153;sinners.â&#x20AC;?

But the homosexuals I knew were welladjusted, looked and acted â&#x20AC;&#x153;normally,â&#x20AC;? held jobs and were generally indistinguishable from others. The Mattachine Society officially was a national growing nonprofit â&#x20AC;&#x153;educational research organizationâ&#x20AC;? focusing on homosexuality.

I sought out the New York Mattachine Society in June 1958, lied about my age to meet its â&#x20AC;&#x153;21 or overâ&#x20AC;? age requirement, and joined. Several of the older members were informed, educated and articulate.

However, none felt able to be public spokesman. They feared losing their jobs or simply didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want their personal lives to be public.

I believed Mattachine had to wage a campaign against the prevailing public misperceptions. I promoted its monthly lecture with signs all over Manhattan.

Three hundred people showed up instead of the usual 30. The landlord evicted The Mattachine Society, saying he â&#x20AC;&#x153;couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have an organization like that upstairsâ&#x20AC;? with a bar at street level. (The vice squad had visited him.)

It was illegal to serve a drink to a homosexual or to allow them to gather on a barâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s premises in those days. Several years later, Mattachine activists challenged those regulations by demanding to be served at Julius Bar in Greenwich Village â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and the courts overturned them.

A group of psychiatrists declared they could cure any homosexual with just eight hours of therapy on WBAI-FM, subscriber-supported radio in New York City. I went to the station. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Those shrinks were simply frauds,â&#x20AC;? I argued, â&#x20AC;&#x153;seeking vulnerable patients to exploit. We homosexuals were the real authority on homosexuality. We lived it 24 hours a day!â&#x20AC;?

The producers listened â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and, more over, invited us to have a say.

The resulting program, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Live and Let Live,â&#x20AC;? got a full page of coverage in Newsweek and a story and favorable review by the New York Times, among others.

WBAIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s broadcasting license was challenged. But the FCC ruled â&#x20AC;&#x153;homosexuality was a fit subject for public discussion.â&#x20AC;?

Suddenly, radio and TV stations were inundating Mattachine with invites. Mattachineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sole spokesperson was Randy Wicker.

My first three trips to Chicago were to appear on Kupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Show. There wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a single homosexual in Chicago willing to take the public stage. Chicago homosexuals suffered terribly. When a bar was raided, both the name and place of employment of those arrested were published.

I was busy, speaking wherever I was invited whether at student groups or humanist associations. I worked with

servants. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I see continuing progress ironing out the shortcomings of our society. Our right to marriage and military careers are simply a matter of time. I love this country. Today, our communityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s involvement and progress proves freedom is still alive and well in the United States.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Randyâ&#x20AC;? Wicker is a videographer, writer, activist and advisor to the San Franciscobased Immortality Institute. View his blog at

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As a teenager during the 1950s, I knew I was homosexual.

I heard others talking about â&#x20AC;&#x153;queers.â&#x20AC;?

When someone explained what â&#x20AC;&#x153;queerâ&#x20AC;? meant, I realized I was one. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Queerâ&#x20AC;? wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t â&#x20AC;&#x153;catchyâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;inâ&#x20AC;? then. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Queerâ&#x20AC;? was a hateful epithet that caused pain. In high school, some of the local rednecks called me â&#x20AC;&#x153;Que-boâ&#x20AC;? behind my back.

I secretly prowled library shelves devouring every book on the subject. Collected â&#x20AC;&#x153;case studiesâ&#x20AC;? bore titles like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sex Deviants.â&#x20AC;? The â&#x20AC;&#x153;patientâ&#x20AC;? sexual histories dated back to the late 19th century, generally beginning with a student being seduced by a piano teacher. Lesbians were never even discussed. At 17, I read a paperback novel, Rodney Garlandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Heart in Exile. The protagonist describes following an attractive sailor into a gay bar. There were actual bars where homosexuals gathered and socialized? I was ecstatic!

In the 1950s, newspapers and magazines only covered homosexual scandals: Child killers, Leopold and Loeb; Burgess and McLean, British spies whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d defected to the Soviet Union; Sen. Joseph McCarthyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;huntâ&#x20AC;? for homosexuals working for the government; police round-ups of â&#x20AC;&#x153;pervertsâ&#x20AC;? usually featuring photos of drag queens, make-up askew, sitting in a Paddy wagon.

Only pulp publications like Los Angeles Confidential magazine covered â&#x20AC;&#x153;all the news unfit to printâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; about celebrities who engaged in real or alleged homosexual activity.

In 1956, I found gay life in Greenwich Village, a world Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d never dreamed existed one year earlier. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gayâ&#x20AC;? was an in-group term in those days, a word youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d drop as bait to test another personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reaction.

In bars, some talked about a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mattachine Society.â&#x20AC;? No one could answer my questions about it. I discovered The Mattachine Review and One magazines on a local newsstand, bought copies and subscribed. I read them eagerly during my next year at college.

I had no problem accepting my homosexuality. I only feared discovery. As a college freshman, I kept a diary that detailed the crush Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d developed on a fellow student. My father found my diary and read it. Fortunately, the psychiatrist he consulted advised him that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d always be homosexual.

Father confronted me. He believed circumstances had caused my homosexuality. He recalled how Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d cried about Mommy deserting me at age 5, when she was taken away by tuberculosis. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want you to be the best-adjusted homosexual you can become,â&#x20AC;? Daddy told me. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t always be here to take care of you. I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t told your mother, because she could never accept it.â&#x20AC;?

In turn, I invited my father to accompany me to Lennyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hideaway, a Greenwich Village gay bar, where he would have met an impressive assortment of Ivy League students, young lawyers and other professionals. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I can accept you,â&#x20AC;? Daddy said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t accept them.â&#x20AC;?

I eagerly showed my father Mattachine Society literature a few months later and told him I was becoming involved. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your life to live,â&#x20AC;? he surmised. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think you are going to get very far with this. I ask just one thing: that you not involve my good name.â&#x20AC;?

My given legal name was Charles Gervin Hayden Jr. That day, my father

Robert Doty, a New York Times reporter preparing that paperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first major story about â&#x20AC;&#x153;one of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best-kept secretsâ&#x20AC;?

- the â&#x20AC;&#x153;existence of a large homosexual community in NYC.â&#x20AC;?

I took Doty to several of Manhattanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more reserved East Side bars. He assured me that he and his wife had many gay friends, yet marveled at â&#x20AC;&#x153;never having seen it at this level before.â&#x20AC;?

I begged him to mention of the then minority viewpoint that â&#x20AC;&#x153;homosexuality, in and of itself, was not a mental illness.â&#x20AC;? I gave him Evelyn Hookerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s study proving that assertion. Ultimately, he quoted only â&#x20AC;&#x153;all-gays-are-sickâ&#x20AC;? psychiatrists.

By the mid-1960s, I concluded efforts to turn the struggle for homosexual civil rights into a mass movement were futile.

In 1965, the gay movement, founded 15 years earlier by Harry Hay, included only a few hundred. Its existence really depended on a couple dozen activists.

It was a stark contrast from the path that had lead to this point. While attending the University of Texas, in the late1950s, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d joined Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d sat in to integrate lunch counters.

Then, gay activism launched my professional writing career. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d stepped out of the closet to speak truth to power.

Many homosexuals, including most gay activists, believed they would be physically attacked â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or worse â&#x20AC;&#x201D; upon publicly identifying themselves. I discovered Americans were curious; willing to listen to arguments presented intelligently.

But it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enough, it seemed. And as the times turned, by 1964, I had joined the anti-war, sex freedom and legalize pot movements.

Publishing â&#x20AC;&#x153;issue buttonsâ&#x20AC;? was my hobby. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Equality for Homosexualsâ&#x20AC;? was my first big success. By 1967, my hobby grew into a lucrative business. I opened a buttonposter-psychedelic shop on St. Marks Place in New York City. Once again, I was in Newsweek and other publications getting press. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d become a sloganeer, the â&#x20AC;&#x153;button kingâ&#x20AC;? of the hippie era. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dump Johnsonâ&#x20AC;? buttons, targeting President Lyndon B. Johnsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s potential bid for reelection, sold by the thousands. The NYT first started using the term â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dump Johnsonâ&#x20AC;? movement with quotes as shown. Ultimately, they simply talked about the Dump Johnson Movement without any quotes. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d named a movement.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d left ghetto politics behind. Or so I thought. Then, the Stonewall Riots happened, with strong numbers of gay and transgender New Yorkers standing up to the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s police. I realized I had prematurely given up on the community. Reinvigorated, I kept attending the annual Fourth of July demonstration in Philadelphia at Independence Hall, demanding my rights as an American (in 100-degree heat and in a proper business suit). In 1970, I watched that protest become New York Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first Gay Pride Parade. â&#x20AC;&#x153;How do you feel about America?â&#x20AC;? became a subject of discussion at a SAGE (Senior Action in a Gay Environment) group I attend. There were honorablydischarged veterans offended by â&#x20AC;&#x153;Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ask, Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tell.â&#x20AC;? Others, with long-term relationships, were offended by the absence of legalized gay marriage. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve lived the American dream,â&#x20AC;? I declared. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In my lifetime, homosexuals have gone from being criminals to being a legitimate minority group. We may not have â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;full equalityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; yet, but weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re slowly getting there. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve watched young gay activists go to city hall to lobby politicians on gay issues only to end up being hired by them and having careers as openly gay civil

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by Tom Connor

The first time I heard about the Body Erotic workshops run by Body Electric was on a business trip to Denver. I was given a brochure that said, “Body Electric has offered innovative courses in bodywork and erotic education for over twenty years. We continue to create safe and loving spaces for people to explore their erotic bodies. This is not always an easy process, but the results are deeply rewarding, and for many become the experience of a lifetime.”

Erotic bodies? Experience of a lifetime? What gay man wouldn’t be intrigued by that?

The brochure listed workshop dates around the country but, alas, nothing in Salt Lake City. I checked the listed Web site, still no Salt Lake.

I continued to check for a couple of years and, voila, one day Salt Lake City appeared on the list. I immediately called and signed up. The information posted on the site was sparse and I ached for more details.

I received some paperwork in the mail detailing the times, location and requirements for the workshop.

The information warned to refrain from party drugs, alcohol and orgasm. It stated that the workshop was not about sex but rather exploring your erotic side. My curiosity heightened.

It was never explained to us but I suspect that the reason the Web site is vague on specifics is that their workshops mean different things to different people.

Some men come because they have trouble introducing themselves to other men, while others want to learn how to make deeper and more intimate connections, and still others have years of guilt and shame to deal with. While I didn’t sign up with a predetermined intention, I found myself in the last category. The reasons for attending Body Electric are somewhat limitless. They do teach Taoist erotic techniques that can spice up your love life and ways to respect all of your relationships whether they be work, love, family, or friendships.

Here is the description from the Web site of the Body Erotic workshop:

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When men take responsibility for their erotic education, they realize how much there is to learn about awakening the erotic energy that lies within all of us. They begin to realize the satisfaction that comes from learning how to both give and receive pleasure. And they learn how to be open with a partner in expressing their deepest erotic desires.

An exploration into the erotic potential of oneself involves the mind, the body and heart and is a lifetime journey of discovery and sustenance.

Celebrating the Body Erotic teaches men how to connect with their deepest centers of pleasure. Through a series of exercises that involve breathing, stretching and touching, men shed the inhibitions that block access to their erotic zones.

The CBE workshop is conducted in a setting that is playful, safe and honoring of each participant.

The workshop focuses on the entire body in order to give each man full access to his feelings and desires. Each participant learns how to give and receive a full-body erotic experience; each has the chance to explore full-body orgasm without ejaculation. The benefits of this work are many: • The participant gains greater acceptance of himself as an erotic being, both physically and mentally; • He discovers ways to develop a more satisfying erotic relationship with others.

• He becomes more aware of spiritual dimensions in his erotic explorations.

Celebrating the Body Erotic is a full two-day workshop (9 a.m.-7 p.m.) designed for pioneering men open to touching other men and being touched in return. It is a clothes-off workshop for those who are ready to vigorously explore new levels of feeling, both within themselves and within a community of men. The workshop draws from Eastern traditions that view erotic energy as a powerful resource for healing. For this reason, it can be especially beneficial to men living with HIV, men coping with substance and behavior addictions, and men in recovery from medical proce-

dures that have affected their sense of themselves as sexual beings.

mine behind in a profound way. I’ve since been back to Wildwood for another Body Electric intensive and was able to revisit the place where I effectively buried my baggage of guilt and shame that I dragged around and wore on my chest as a medal for so long. It’s been over a year now and I still feel the powerful effect of finally facing my own shame and dealing with it in such a powerful way.

So if you were considering doing a weekend workshop you should just take the plunge and do it. Think of it as an investment in you. While there are no guarantees in life I do with great certainty promise that you will come away from the experience a better person, maybe more relaxed, maybe more excited, maybe better able to handle the daily pressures, definitely better able to go deeper in your relationships, definitely better able to think through situations, better able to make decisions, and much more. As Collin Brown told us at our week intensive, “When you’re faced with something difficult, just take a few deep breaths and then do it.” What strength I’ve gathered just by that simple act.

Now it’s your turn, take a few deep breaths and then call and sign up. I’ll be there with you. Q More information on Body Electric classes is available through their Web site at bodyelectric.org or by calling Tom or Dean at 699-7044. The next Salt Lake City classes will be held the weekend of Nov. 3–4, 2007.

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Did I mention that this is a “clothes off” workshop?

Yes, during the first day of exercises you do reach a point where the clothes come off. No, in case you were wondering, nobody cares what your body looks like, how heavy or skinny, hairy or smooth, old or young.

In fact, one of the first exercises of the workshop once the clothes are shed is to see and appreciate the differences in each individual body. I found that true change and learning occur when we remove the barriers we hide behind, such as our clothing.

Remember that this workshop is not about sex. The instructor never touches you. It is about intimacy and relationships with other men and, to some, spirituality.

I met a Salt Lake woman after she attended the female class of Body Electric where she learned how to speak in public. She had been terrified of getting up in front of large groups and found that the workshop gave her the confidence to overcome her fears.

Over the course of the two days they place heavy emphasis on the fact that the workshop is about you and what you need. So don’t do what I did and have that thought in the back of your mind that you’ll sign up when you’ve lost a few pounds, had that laser hair removal or that long-needed pedicure. Come as you are. This is a workshop to build you up, not put you down. I’ve been to several weekend workshops now and recently attended with a man who had lost several hundred pounds which left his body scarred and with sagging skin just about everywhere. The last day of the workshop his comments were of gratitude for not just what he learned but of the genuine acceptance he experienced from everyone at the workshop.

This is not a workshop of “hooking up” but of learning about you and building a better and stronger you. A question that you get used to being asked is “what do you want?” They teach you not only to ask for what you need but to also provide what is asked of you. Sounds like a novel concept and easy to do in theory but until you practice it and then apply it in real life you’ll kick yourself for all the time and energy you wasted when all you had to do was ask for what you want and be open enough for others to ask for what they need you to provide. I believe this was the first step towards making deeper connections.

The workshop is split into two days. The first day is largely instructional with the second day reserved to put the instruction into practice.

Body Electric does a fantastic job of creating safe space for their workshops. We quickly took oaths to respect each other’s privacy by agreeing not to share names of participants and others’ experiences unless we first received permission. To further create a safe place we started to do exercises meant to “break the ice” and get everyone to a place of comfort so that learning could start. We were split into small groups by counting off and then back into a large group and back again to small groups. There was never a time where pairing off happened so nobody felt left out or the last person picked.

I came away from the workshop with such profound lessons I went back and took the course a few more times. I found that I learned more each time I went and each time I was more and more open to learning.

I grew up Mormon, went on a mission, graduated from BYU and then came out of the closet. I was messed up. I knew from an early age that I was gay but tried for a long time to change my orientation. Somehow I made it through BYU without getting married.

The weekend workshop was the first step towards my own healing and coming into the full knowledge that I was gay and to stop the cycle of depression for my supposed failure in changing my sexual orientation. I left the initial weekend workshop feeling like I was walking six inches above ground.

I then toyed with the idea of moving on and doing a week-long intensive with Body Electric. I finally signed up for “Dear Love of Comrades.”

“Dear Love of Comrades” is an intensive that every man should take, whether gay, straight, bisexual or whatever flavor. The course is rightly called an intensive as it is quick-paced and filled with surprises.

I think getting caught off guard actually added to opening my mind to learning and experiencing new ways

of thinking, exploring new avenues, and added to my ability to bond with other men. During the week there is intense bonding similar to that which happens when a tribe is formed with extremely tight ties. My intensive had 30 men and in the year since I went we’ve had mini-reunions around the country where we renew the tight bonds we forged during our week-long intensive.

I never before made such loving connections with other men than I did at the intensive.

The former director of Body Electric, Collin Brown, led my week-long intensive which was held at Wildwood Retreat Center. Collin started out by saying that we were going to learn the things we should have learned growing up. We learned and put into practice ways of interacting with others, being honest with our emotions, putting speech to our thoughts and intentions. Just like in the weekend workshops we did exercises both in small groups and in larger groups.

I ended up working with everyone at the intensive as we worked to break down the barriers we had taken a lifetime to construct. I never felt alone. I never felt rejected. I felt love, acceptance, support, and genuineness every moment.

Without giving away any of the surprises of Dear Love I will say that whether or not you came with an intention, the week builds to a point where you are ready to leave behind the baggage you have been dragging around whether or not you were aware of it. I left

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In last issueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s column we talked about cyberpaths â&#x20AC;&#x201D; those sociopaths who go online to harass, humiliate and threaten people, many of whom they call friend or lover. They can be as brutal as my friend Pattyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lesbian-phobic cyberpath, who quite literally drove her to a suicide attempt. Or they can be more insidious: the lover always on the verge of leaving her wife for you or the friend spreading lies about you across message boards.

You may recognize a cyberpath quickly, or after a few years of what you thought was a meaningful relationship. But once you have recognized that an online friend is deliberately, maliciously trying to hurt you, that relationship needs to end for your safety and sanity. Continuing to be a friend or lover to an abuser wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t change that person, but it will change your self-respect and mental health for the worse. Just ask Patty.

So how do you get away from cyberpath?

It depends on the nature of your relationship, on how close you and he or she have become. If heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s someone to whom youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve only spoken on instant messenger or e-mail, blocking him (and telling any mutual online friends that you wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t talk to him if he tries to reach you through them) might be enough. Cyberpaths harass and hurt because they take pleasure from upsetting their targets, and they often lose interest if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t respond. Although itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a pain in the ass, sometimes switching screen names or e-mail accounts can work, too.

But if your cyberpath is a friend youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had for several years or a romantic partner, getting away from her may be more difficult than hitting the block button. Especially if she has your phone number, address or any means by which to bring her vendetta into â&#x20AC;&#x153;real life.â&#x20AC;? If harassment continues when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve made it clear that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re through, create a paper trail. Save threatening e-mails, record nasty phone calls and donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tape over messages she leaves on your answering machine. Then give the evidence to the police.

Now, cyberstalking is a relatively new problems for law enforcement, and sometimes there just isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a lot police can do. But most states have laws against cyberharassment, including Utah â&#x20AC;&#x201D; despite what you may have read on a few Web sites that really, really need to be updated. In our state, using electronic communications â&#x20AC;&#x153;with intent to annoy, alarm, intimidate, offend, abuse, threaten, harass, frighten or disrupt the electronic communications of anotherâ&#x20AC;? is a class B misdemeanor (check out le.utah.

gov/~code/TITLE76/htm/76_0B010.htm for the full text). But to get laws like this to work for you, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll need to have proof that harassment has taken place.

Unfortunately, cutting a cyberpath who falls between these two extremes out of your life can be harder, because his or her means are often difficult to ignore but not easy for the law to deal with. Take Pattyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cyberpath, Alex from last issueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s column. At first glance, she may seem like one of the easier cyberpaths to get rid of. After all, Alex ended their friendship because she claimed she couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t cope with another woman having a crush on her. But instead of doing the sane thing and leaving Patty alone, Alex attacked her by proxy. She told mutual friends Patty had sexually harassed and threatened to kill her, and not to ask Patty about this because she was â&#x20AC;&#x153;crazyâ&#x20AC;? and would only â&#x20AC;&#x153;lieâ&#x20AC;? to them. As a result, Patty lost most of her online friends â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the only support network she had as a severely physically and mentally ill person â&#x20AC;&#x201D; for what seemed to her like no reason. Clearly, this situation could not have been solved by ignoring Alex, and involving the police would not have been worthwhile, or even possible.

In cases like these, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s difficult to know what to do, especially if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re already an emotionally vulnerable person. Had Patty asked for my advice today, I would tell her that being honest and (figuratively) walking away are the only things to do in situations like hers. Cyberpaths are just like cult leaders: They can make even the smartest and most sensitive of us believe the flimsiest of lies. Worse, the internetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s long-distance nature often makes deprogramming the people theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve duped impossible. Given that Alex had been particularly vicious in breaking off their friendship, I would have told Patty to assume the worst when mutual friends stopped talking to her and refused to explain why when asked. I would have told her to do her best to accept their decision to leave her and to move on.

Now, while I fully support getting out of a cyberpathâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s way, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not suggesting that running away is a good idea. Quite the opposite â&#x20AC;&#x201D; hiding may feel like the right thing to do (especially if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re the kind of person who hates conflict), but it will hurt your mental and emotional wellbeing in the long run. If your cyberpath spreads lies about you, answer with the truth. Even if no one believes you, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll remind yourself that you did nothing wrong. This also denies your cyberpath your silence and submission, and most of all your tears and rage â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which is what most of them really want.

Honesty and forthrightness are the first steps to recovering from a cyberpath. But getting over the long-term effects may take a lot of time and work.

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll take a look at surviving emotional trauma a cyberpath can wreak in next issueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s installment.

Until then, my geeky ones, stay healthy and safe wherever you go on what Sen. Ted Stevens calls that series of tubes known as the internet. Q

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EVENTS THIS MONTH AT THE

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By Ross von Metzke ross@qsaltlake.com

OCT 1 6p Just Q! 6:30p DiverseCity Writing Group 8p Twelve Step: Gay Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s AA OCT 2 7p Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Support Group 8p Twelve Step: Live & Let Live OCT 3 12p Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sack Lunch 5p Parents of Transgender Youth Group 7:30p Twelve Step: Sober Today OCT 4 4p Free HIV Testing 5p Transgender Youth Group 6:30p Transgender Adult Support Group 7p Empowerment Workshop 7p Coloring Outside the Lines OCT 5 7p Salt Lake Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Choir Does the Ladies Literary Club 7p Utah Polyamory Society Meeting 8p Twelve Step: Stonewall Group OCT 6 1p Japanese Food Bazaar 6p Twelve Step: Free to be Me 7p center stage live-featuring Sam Burton OCT 7 1p Neighborhood Potluck 3p Twelve Step: GLBT AA 6:30p DiverseCity Writing Group OCT 8 8p Twelve Step: Gay Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s AA OCT 9 4p Public Safety Meeting 7:30p Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Support Group 8p Twelve Step: Live & Let Live OCT 10 12p Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sack Lunch 5p HIV Testing 7:30p Twelve Step: Sober Today OCT 11 7:30a National Coming Out Day Breakfast 5p Transgender Youth Group 7p Empowerment Workshop 7p Bisexual Community Forum OCT 12 7p Gay Bingo 8p Twelve Step: Stonewall Group OCT 13 6p Twelve Step: Free to be Me 7p Coming Out Day Dance & Celebration OCT 14 3p Twelve Step: GLBT AA 4p Rainbow Roundup Committee Meeting OCT 15 Pride at the U 6:30p DiverseCity Writing Group 8p Twelve Step: Gay Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s AA OCT 16 Pride at the U 7p A Night With Elvira Kurt 7p Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Support Group 7:30p Royal Court Meeting 8p Twelve Step: Live & Let Live

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Pride at the U 12p Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sack Lunch 5p Parents of Transgender Youth Group 7:30p Twelve Step: Sober Today OCT 18 Pride at the U 8a GLBTQ Affirmative Psychotherapy Guild of Utah 4p Free HIV Testing 5p Transgender Youth Group 6:30p Transgender Adult Support Group OCT 19 Pride at the U 7p Village Gay Movie Night @ Tower Thtre 8p Twelve Step: Stonewall Group OCT 20 Pride at the U 10a Western Transsexual Support Network 6p Twelve Step: Free to be Me 7p QB Spelling Bee OCT 21 12p Rainbow Classic Car Club 3p Twelve Step: GLBT AA 6:30p DiverseCity Writing Group 7p LDS Reconciliation

This weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hottie comes to us courtesy of Divorce Court.

After a year of waiting, the courts made it official. As of Oct. 5, Ryan Phillippe is no longer tied to Reese Witherspoon.

Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s available, boys, and whether he plays for our team or not, something tells me men everywhere are going to be coming out of the woodwork for a shot at one night with this man â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and why shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t we? From 54 to Cruel Intentions to that just-surfaced David LaChappelle ad for Armani with Ryan running naked through the streets of New York City, boys donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get much hotter than Ryan.

And much as I love Legally Blonde, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always secretly wanted to kill that bitch Reese!

Now I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to. I can love her work and fuck her ex-husband, too.

What do you say, folks? Deal. Free-forall on Ryan.

In case you still donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t follow, take a look at said ad over at youtube.com/ watch?v=OZkK4NW8gHM, and another classic photo of Ryan to remind you just what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re dealing with here!

OK, letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just get one thing straight. If you are a celebrity who has ever popped a pill, downed a few too many cocktails or operated a motor vehicle under the influence of either, nowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the time to clean up your act, hire a driver or move the hell out of Los Angeles. The authorities are cracking down, and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in the line of fire.

We all know how a judge took Britneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s babies away on Oct. 1 for refusing to comply with court-ordered drug testing and shuttling her boys around town without

a valid driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s license. Well, a week and a half later, after getting a driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s license and passing a drug test, Brit asked the courts to grant her overnight visitation with her kids, supervised by her mom, who she only reconciled with just last week.

Their answer? A big fat no! Why? They say itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s because Britneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;I could give a shitâ&#x20AC;? attitude for the law is what landed her in this mess in the first place. Also, I somehow think her not showing up in court because of the paparazzi madhouse (especially when she doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem to mind them on her daily Starbucks runs) was the final nail.

But wait! Leave it to Britney to swoop in and get someone to throw her a bone.

Nearly five hours late, Brit decided to brave the camera storm and plead her case. The result? One night a week with her kids, with a court appointed supervisor â&#x20AC;&#x201D; not her mother.

At the very least, that means one night at home, right? Well, unless she pays off the help and bribes her with table service at Area.

At least sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s avoided jail time so far. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more than we can say for Kiefer Sutherland who, after four DUI busts (and two convictions), will spend a whopping 48 days behind bars. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s even longer than Paris Hilton. The 24 star pleaded no contest to charges that he was driving under the influence a few months back. And the worst part is that Kiefer had a ride. He allegedly turned down a lift from a FOX Networks limo and insisted on driving himself home from the Fall Lineup kickoff party.

Well, he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t quite get there. Instead, the police pulled him over for making an illegal U-turn, issued a breathalyzer and took him into custody.

I guess thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to put a damper on the seventh season of FOXâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s smash hit.

Just pray, pray, pray they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t decide

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that in his absence, his daughterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s up to the challenge of saving the world. Die Kim Bauer, die!

And the most fucked celebrity of all? Michelle Rodriguez.

After violating probation, driving under the influence and basically pissing on authority, a judge showed her the same respect, ordering her to spend 180 days behind bars. Why this time? Oh, she just lied about completing the community service from her last sentence and managed to get caught downing booze three times while wearing an alcohol monitoring device.

A message on the former Lost starâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s MySpace says sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happy as a clam, though â&#x20AC;&#x201D; heading for New Zealand to begin work on James Cameronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new pic where sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll wrap her role just in time to get back to the states and begin her stay behind bars on Christmas Eve. Ah, home for the holidays. How ... sweet?

On the subject of royally fucked celebrities, when are these comedians going to learn that the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; word is just not funny?

Former Kids in the Hall sketch comic Scott Thompson dropped the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; bomb and then some before a crowd of gay athletes attending the North American Gay Amateur Allianceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual softball world series.

A look of disgust swept the audience and half walked out. According to one reporter from TMZ.com, Scottâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s routine started to go down the tubes the second he dissed Kathy Griffin.

Yeah, any gay comic should know you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fuck with Kathy.

Remember the days when Kathy Griffin only got a gay gig when Margaret Cho was busy? That seems like so long ago.

Now, Caroline Rhea is Kathyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s replacement gay comic. And if sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not available, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re fucked.

Sorry, Scott.

Pleasure doing business with you.

And just because I know the gays love a good Madonna tidbit, the material girl just banked a cool $120 million for signing a new contract with LiveNation, which isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even a record label. But I guess for Madge, companies back the trucks up. Hell, she probably could have gotten Shredded Wheat to back her next four albums. The deal accounts for concert promotion, tours and merchandise.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a whole lot of cash, but does this mean Madonnaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gonna be warbling her way through â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ray of Lightâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;til sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 60?

OK, folks, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m signing off. Until we meet again, remember, take the time to stop and smell the gossip! Q

Q Scene

Photographer Jay Windley was on-hand at the

Royal Court’s “Live for Life” show at St. Pauls Episcopal Church which raised over $1,700 for AIDS charities

“Salt Lake Men’s Choir Christian Allred snapped these shots at the is Jumpin” fund-raiser Jont the and Does the Ladies Literary Club ...

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The Gay Agenda

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY TONY See OCT 8

YOUR CALENDAR OF ARTS, ENTERTAINMENT & IMPORTANT EVENTS

My friend Steve, who’s celebrating a birthday this month, and his partner (whose birthday was last month) recently exchanged gifts of a Nissan Pathfinder and a 24foot travel trailer. For my birthday last year, these thoughtful boys gave me the skull of a dead animal.

What’s up with that? Such damn tight wads. But I love ‘em anyway. Happy B-day Steve!

its Performing Dance Company. This year’s annual Fall concert Seduction, Virtuosity, Dance and Media is sure to be no exception. Check out great works by esteemed faculty members and guests such as Ellen Bromberg, Victoria Marks, Eric Handman and Kaye Richards.

7:30pm, through Oct. 27, Marriott Center for Dance, 330 S. 1500 East, UofU. Tickets $7–10, 581-7100 or kingtix.org.

18THURSDAY

Q Well twist my rind, pour sugar over it and call me “lemon”-ade, someone’s feeding the Utah Bears at the Food You’d Bring To a Lesbian’s House dinner. I believe this is a private feeding for the Utah Bear Alliance, but I just had to add it because I love the lesbian and her sweet-n-sour Lemon hosting the event. Anyone for spice cake?

7–9pm. For more information call 3867933 or visit utahbears.com.

Q Odyssey Dance Theatre, honoree of the Best of State in Dance 2007 and Best in of State in Arts & Entertainment 2007, open the new season with their spooky Fall classic Thriller. You’ll be shocked and amazed by Frankenstein’s double-jointed mystique and the Mummy’s unraveling free spins.

7:30pm, through Oct. 31, Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, UofU. Tickets $20–40, 581-7100 or odysseydance.com. A production is also running Oct. 18-20 at the Eccles Center, Logan.

Q It’s Magic! In the Garden After Dark. Join Red Butte Garden for an enchanted evening filled with radiant lights, magic shows, fortune tellers, henna, bubbling cauldrons, pumpkin painting, storytelling, face painting, great food and hot drinks. A great time for kids of all ages including Michael’s.

6-9pm, Mondays and Thurs.–Sat. through Oct. 29, Red Butte Garden, 300 Wakara Way, UofU. Admission $5–7, 5814747 or redbuttegarden.org.

Q The University of Utah shapes some of the finest dancers I’ve had the pleasure to watch including those of

19FRIDAY

Q As part of the Taiwan Cultural Festival, the SLC Film Center offers a screening of The Wedding Banquet, the 1993 film directed by Oscar winner Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain). Wei-Tung, a gay Chinese immigrant, caves to his parents’ pressure to marry ... a woman.

Much to his and his lover Simon’s dismay, Wei-Tung’s parents decide to visit him and his new bride.

10am, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. Broadway. Free, 746-7000 or slcfilmcenter.org.

Q Plan-B Theatre Company opens the new season with the sociopolitical Exposed. The state of Utah was downwind of many of the 928 nuclear bombs the U.S. government exploded in the Nevada desert between 1951 and 1992. The show explores the human consequence

We Need Tenors!

Some say tenors are divas.

We agree.

Come be a diva with us!

To join, come to a Thursday night rehearsal at 7:00pm at All Saints Episcopal Church, 17th South and Foothill and ask for Dennis.

See saltlakemenschoir.org for details.

of the nuclear history of our state and our nation.

8pm, through Nov. 4, Studio Theatre, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. Broadway.

Tickets $18, 355-ARTS or arttix.org.

who have participated in the program since it was launched in 1990.

11am–6pm, through Jan. 26, Salt Lake Art Center, 20 S. West Temple. Free, 3284201 or slartcenter.org.

Q Blue Medusa Fashion and SKS Film Productions present the fabulous fund raising event An October Evening full of stilt walking, art, photography, film, fashion designs, a hypnotist and a musical performance by The Red King.

Proceeds benefit Shriner Hospital and a young girl named Zelah.

7pm, Masonic Temple, 650 E. South Temple. Tickets $9/adv.–$10/day of event.

Tickets available at Obscura Clothing and Arsenic Fashions.

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Q The Utah Arts Alliance is currently exhibiting GLOW PEOPLE, PROJECTION PEOPLE & GLITTER PEOPLE, an illuminating photographic series by executive director Derek Dyer. Dyer will be on hand tonight during a special reception from 6–9pm.

Hours vary, Tues.–Sat. through Oct. 27, Utah Arts Alliance, 2191 S. 300 West.

Free, 485-2105.

20SATURDAY Q With the expansion of the Tea Grotto in Sugar House comes their first Gallery Stroll featuring the vibrant landscape and nature photographs of award-wnning Tiffany Daines. There will also be live jazz music and free tea tasting.

6–9pm, Tea Grotto, 2050 S, 900 East. Free, 466-8255.

Q SF Recycled takes a colorful and imaginative look at the impact of postconsumer waste through an investigation of artwork made from discarded objects, materials and packaging by participants in the Artist In Residency Program at SF Recycling and Disposal, Inc. in San Francisco. This exhibition features eight of the 60 or so artists

Q The Utah Humanities Council celebrates the 10th annual Utah Humanities Book Festival. This year’s week long event includes readings and signings by many authors including William Kittredge, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Jane Hamilton, and Eboo Patel. There will also be panel discussions, film screenings, games and children’s activities.

Hours and locations vary through Oct. 28. Free, for full schedule call 359-9670 or visit utahhumanities.org.

23TUESDAY Q The last flight I took was to Norfolk, Va. via a three-hour layover in Dallas.

Talk about being in a bad mood by the time I reached my final destination.

Anyhoo, Around the World in a Bad Mood is a one woman show written and performed by real-life flight attendant Rene Foss. It’s a humorous look at the profession and the air travel industry through flight debacles, security strip teases, pistol packing pilots, a six-week unpaid training program and a brief historical overview.

7:30pm, through Nov. 11, Black Box Theatre, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. Broadway. Tickets $30, 355-ARTS or arttix.org.

26FRIDAY Q On the shortlist of the world’s great guitarists, Manuel Barrueco strives to make his instrument sing by playing every note “with character.” His sensuous expressiveness will give way to Hector Berlioz’s defining work Symphonie Fantastique, a revolu-

tionary symphony that begins with “dreamy melancholy” and ends by hurtling headlong into a clamorous fit of despair.

8pm, through Saturday, Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple. Tickets $12–48, 355ARTS or arttix.org.

Q It’s a Halloween classic, but if you don’t want to be dubbed a “weenie”, then I suggest you see The Rocky Horror Picture Show sometime other than Halloween night ... perhaps this weekend. There will be a live pre-show performance and a sing-along during the show presented by Salt Lake’s Latter Day Transvestites. Prop kits will be sold at the theatre, so no outside props are allowed.

7:30pm, Tonight & Saturday, and Midnight, Oct. 31 (for all you weenies), Tower Theatre, 876 E. 900 South. Tickets $10, on sale now, 321-0310.

and TV turned off to ward away those pesky little trick-or-treaters, then tune your radio to KUER FM90 for Plan-B Theatre Company’s third annual Radio Hour. This year’s show features two ghostly scripts by Matthew Ivan Bennett and features Jay Perry, Teresa Sanderson and Chelsi Stahr.

11am & 7pm, KUER FM90. For more info visit planbtheatre.org.

UPCOMING EVENTS Nov. 2–4 — Moab Folk Festival, Moab Nov. 17 — B–52s, The Depot Nov. 29 — Tori Amos, E Center Dec. 15 — Paula Cole, Park City Mar. 15 — Rufus Wainwright, Park City

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Yep, urine Ogden!

8pm, Teazer’s Bar & Grill, a private club for members, 366 36th Street, Ogden.

Tickets $7.50/adv–$10/day of, 467-8499 or smithstix.com.

Nov. 6 Election Day

31WEDNESDAY Q If you’re just kickin’ it at home this Halloween night with your lights

Nov. 17 Imperial Rainbow Court of Northern Utah Coronation, irconu.org DEC. 7–8 Salt Lake Men’s Choir 25th Anniversary Holiday Concert, First Baptist Church, ­ saltlakemenschoir.org If you would like your event considered for this list, email tony@­qsaltlake.com.

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ETCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sweeney Todd Minces The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

by Tony Hobday

I was what some would call a Sweeney Todd virgin. So before I attended Egyptian Theatre Companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s production of Benjamin Barkerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legendary and bloody reign of terror on the dark, damp cobblestone streets of 19th century London, I had certain expectations. I had painted Barker a purely evil pyschopath with absolutely no emotion or sense of morality.

But much to my surprise, Barker a.k.a.

Sweeney Todd is just a mild-mannered man turned horribly unhinged by his surroundings. I felt for Todd ... I felt his plight ... I felt his frustration ... I felt his powerlessness. Not to say I agree or even comprehend with which he attempts balance and justice in a selfish, uncouth world, but just how evil is a man whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pushed into a sea of predators?

More than Toddâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wielding straight razor, the suggestive nature of Judge Turpin (Jim Dale) and Johannaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (Cecily Ellis) relationship is disturbing; and of course, cannibalism jsut leaves a nasty taste in my mouth.

So how does Egyptian Theatre Company turn a dark and misanthropic story into a entertaining staged musical you ask. Well, they produce a valiant effort with just a few missteps along the way.

Director Jim Christian immediately sets the mood in the opening scene, which makes your stomach leap. He introduces the unruly-clad ensemble cast sporting doe-like eyes and brooding

expressions as they boom â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Ballad of Sweeney Todd.â&#x20AC;? But then the momentum suddenly stalls and doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t pick up again until the introduction of Mrs. Lovett. However, Christianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brilliance shines in the scene involving the bulk of Toddâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s casual killings, which is creepy, and yet perfectly lightened by humorous stage antics and the incongruous melody of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Johanna.â&#x20AC;?

J. Michael Baileyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performance as Sweeney Todd is mostly mild and the goofy hair and makeup makes him look less a madman and more the botched lovechild of Wolverine and Elvira. Mrs. Lovett is uproariously portrayed by Camille Van Wagoner, whose performance stands far alone in the limelight.

Company newcomer Justin Bills humbly plays Anthony Hope, a naive â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dutch Boyâ&#x20AC;?-looking young man who quickly falls in love with Toddâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daughter Johanna. Unfortunately their courtship is awkward and unbelievable in its haste.

Brian Kessler is quite memorable as Tobias Ragg, a young lad longing for acceptance and tenderness. His duet with Mrs. Lovett, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not While Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m Aroundâ&#x20AC;? is beautifully sung and cuts a heartwarming scene. The cruel nature of Beadle Bamford is unfortunately underplayed

by D.L. Walker. But Nicholas Bayne as Pirelli, an aspiring entrepreneur, is energetic and fun.

Stephen Sondheimâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s difficult lyrics are sometimes muddled in delivery by the characters singing over each other,

Sen. Craigâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Wide Stanceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Excuse During Restroom Arrest Finds Its Way Into National Lexicon REBECCA BOONE, AP

coded invitation for gay sex.

During questioning, the senator said he simply has a wide stance when using the restroom and that the officer must have seen him reaching to pick up a piece of paper on the floor, according to the police report.

Craig pleaded guilty in August to disorderly conduct, then unsuccessfully tried to withdraw his plea after the incident became public. Though he initially said he intended to resign, Craig vowed last week to serve out the last 15 months of his term.

Will â&#x20AC;&#x153;wide stanceâ&#x20AC;? last as long in popular usage? â&#x20AC;&#x153;You search the blogosphere or even newspapers and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll find a lot of references to it,â&#x20AC;? said Grant Barrett, co-host of the nationwide public radio show â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Way With Wordsâ&#x20AC;? and author of several slang dictionaries. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People are toying with the words, seeing how it feels on the keyboard.â&#x20AC;?

Craigâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office declined to comment.

The question to any new slang is whether it will last five or 10 years, Barrett said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;How can we not mention Watergate and the -gate suffix? Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the single most successful new political word ever,â&#x20AC;? Barrett said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Over time, the use makes the original meaning become diminished _ even curse words, with use, their value diminishes and they become ordinary.â&#x20AC;?

So far, about six weeks after the scandal broke, the slang shows no sign

Sweeney Todd is currently running through Oct. 31 at the Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main Street, Park City. Tickets $17-36, 435-649-9371 or egyptiantheatrecompany.org.

of slowing down. The Oct. 8 edition of The New Yorker magazine featured an illustration by Barry Blitt called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Narrow Stance,â&#x20AC;? showing Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sitting in a menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s room, looking down at another manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s foot thrust underneath the stall divider.

In an Oct. 6 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Saturday Night Liveâ&#x20AC;? skit, comedian Amy Poehler remarked, â&#x20AC;&#x153;You do have a wide stance,â&#x20AC;? as the punch line of a series of jokes about Craig. Late-night talk show hosts Jay Leno, David Letterman and others have also lampooned the senatorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stance.

Still, another new slang term seems to be outpacing â&#x20AC;&#x153;wide stanceâ&#x20AC;? in the national lexicon, Barrett said. Unfortunately for Craig, it also stems from his scandal. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Are you tracking the term `toe-tapper?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gotten more traction than `wide stanceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; so far,â&#x20AC;? Barrett said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They both have too much cachet. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re political, social, new, slangy and a little naughty.â&#x20AC;?

Both phrases will likely make Barrettâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s short list of nominations for the most significant new word of 2007, as voted on by the American Dialect Society, he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a whimsical vote that we do each year,â&#x20AC;? said Barrett, who is a vice president for the society.

So what makes a new phrase last?

It has to be useful, Barrett said, and it has to be able to stand alone, without a reference to its origin. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of political slang that hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t lasted,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The test will be when the storyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s old hat and then weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll know for sure.â&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201A; Q

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Among the most famous excuses ever given for questionable behavior, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have a wide stanceâ&#x20AC;? must fall somewhere between the schoolchildâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s favorite â&#x20AC;&#x153;the dog ate my homeworkâ&#x20AC;? and President Clintonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t inhale.â&#x20AC;?

But Sen. Larry Craigâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s contention _ made just after his arrest in a restroom sex sting _ has permeated the public consciousness, showing up as more than just the punch line to late-night talk show jokes.

The online Urban Dictionary defines â&#x20AC;&#x153;wide stanceâ&#x20AC;? as a euphemism for a closeted homosexual. David Kurtz of the blog â&#x20AC;&#x153;Talking Points Memoâ&#x20AC;? called Craigâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wide stance claim â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Best Legal Defense of 2007.â&#x20AC;? And Beau Jarvis, who writes about wine, travel and food on the blog â&#x20AC;&#x153;Basic Juice,â&#x20AC;? notes that the phrase has become less than innocent and proposes â&#x20AC;&#x153;cleansingâ&#x20AC;? it by using it to describe a well-balanced wine.

Craig uttered the now-famous phrase after an undercover police officer at the Minneapolis airport arrested him on June 11, according to police reports.

Sgt. Dave Karsnia claimed Craig entered a neighboring stall after peering at him through a crack in the door, then slid his foot underneath the stall divider, tapping it several times before moving it so it touched the officerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s foot.

Then, Karsnia said, Craig waved his hand underneath the divider. Karsnia said he recognized the gestures as a

leaving the audience hearing only noise.

The set design is simple, unobtrusive and offers a not-so-hindered view of stagehands and the orchestra, which is nicely reminiscent of true Broadway theatrics.

ETCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s adaptation of one of the most difficult productions ever taken to the stage â&#x20AC;&#x201D; though not excellent â&#x20AC;&#x201D; is still enjoyable. Beyond the entertainment value lies an eerily thought-provoking proclamation to the dark side of human nature and our unbridled instinct for survival.

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ARIES (Mar 21 - Apr 20)

It feels like the world will beat a path to your door this November.

And Rambos with a “gayme” plan can make considerable strides in their long term goals. It will require sustained effort and strategic focus through the month. However most of you would prefer to relax in front of the tube in a tryptophan doze. Remember, you snooze, you lose, pal.

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TAURUS (Apr 21 - May 21)

Queer Bulls are the toasts of the town in November. Not only do you attract admirers from all walks of life, you also know how to strut your stuff for the greatest effect. And yet, before you know it, all this hob nobbing and elbow rubbing will start to chaff. Working the stump will wear you down to a nubby stub. Vote for a day of utter relaxation every so often.

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GEMINI (May 22 - Jum 21)

Pink Twins find that their relationships can become all consuming and passionate. That is the good part. The difficult part is that November will be a time of crushing work commitments that can cause conflict and excess stress and tire you out. Wait until the end of the month before you complain however. By that time you will have a few days off for Thanksgiving.

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CANCER (JUN 22 - JUL 23)

Not only are you especially diligent and resourceful, you can tackle anything that life puts in your path this November. Pink Crabs should consider embarking on a long deferred project now because not only are they thinking clearly, they are able to easily enlist help. Hurry before this energy fades and you are left to your own devices. Do I hear ticking...?

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LEO (Jul 24 - Aug 23)

Enjoy yourself all through November, proud Lion. You are the life of the party and too delicious in the eyes of many. All this attention can go to your head where you go more for quantity than quality. Don’t try to sample every taste because you can. Perhaps you should find a place where you can get a little privacy with you-know-who. Oh but be careful of who you wish!

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VIRGO (Aug 24 - Sep 23)

You may find yourself spending more time entertaining at home. But before you send out the invitations, there may be a few do-it-yourself projects that need to be handled. Partners try to help and have a few home redecorating ideas in mind. They may try to surprise you this November. Ah an orange plastic houndstooth ottoman. How nice.

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LIBRA (Sep 24 - Oct 23)

Gay Libras wax poetic all through November. You seem to know just what to say at the right time. Instead of fanning the air and hearing yourself speak, why not take up the cause and change a few hearts and minds?

Not only are you charming, you are also magnetic. Stick to the script and focus on the message. Or is it the massage? Rubadub.

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SCORPIO (Oct 24 - Nov 22)

Not only can queer Scorps make a bundle this November, they can put it to good use from any major project to any light affair. The secret is to plan your purchasing carefully and strategically to see if it will bring you personal value and satisfaction. You don’t have to spend big to enjoy big.

Sometimes it is true that size doesn’t matter. Rarely, but sometimes.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov 23 - Dec 22)

Your personal stock soars to new heights this November. Don’t let it sit on the shelf and eventually go on sale. Plan your best moves, reach out and meet and greet. Not only can you change the course of human events, should you choose to do so, you get a little something extra in it for yourself.

You have a certain je ne sais quois so quois it all over town.

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CAPRICORN (Dec 23 - Jan 20)

If you try to stifle certain secrets they will not be contained this November. That is good. Pink Caps have a tendency to hold back but you will find that letting things out in the open is not only liberating, it is also a huge relief. Once you have cleaned up your act, it will be time to dress it up and take it out on the town. Do some early holiday shopping.

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AQUEERIUS (Jan 21 - Feb 19)

How much fun can Aqueerians have? Quite a bit this November as compadres get into your act and insist that you take it on the party circuit. Don’t be shy and retiring. Expand your social world. Join a few new clubs or show your face in a few new, offbeat venues. Not only will you have a ball, you may even have two or more.

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PISCES (Feb 20 - Mar 20)

Guppies can make their mark in bold strokes this November. This is an excellent time to take stock of your life’s direction and either make a correction or forge ahead with all speed. Things heat up to a fevered pitch towards the end of the month when you may have to make a big decision about your career. Okay, take the promotion and the huge raise.

Community Guide ORGANIZATIONS ALCOHOL & DRUG TREATMENT

Alcohol/Drug Detoxification Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363-9400 Alcoholics Anonymous . . . . 484-7871 utahaa.org Sunday 3pm — Acceptance Group, Utah Pride Center Monday 8pm — Gay Men’s Stag Utah Pride Center Tuesday 8pm — Live and Let Live St Pauls Episcopal Church Wednesday 7:30pm — Sober Today 4601 S 300 W, Washington Terrace Friday 8pm — Stonewall Group St Pauls Episcopal Church, 261 S 900 E Alternatives, Inc.. . . (800) 342-5429 alternativesinc.com alternativesinc@att.net Center for Women and Children . . . . . . . . . . . . 261-9177 Crystal Meth Anonymous . 859-4132 crystalmeth.org Saturday 7:30pm — Utah Pride Ctr Discovery House . . . . . . . . 596-2111 discoveryhouse.com First Step House 411 N Grant St . . . . . . . 359-8862 Harm Reduction Project . . 355-0234 ihrproject.org The Haven . . . . . . . . . . . . 533-0070 Metamorphosis breakaddiction.org Ogden Clinic, 536 24th St, Ste 6-A . . 622-5272 Salt Lake City Clinic, 339 E 3900 S . . . . . . . . 261-5790 Serenity House uafut.org Substance Abuse Day Treatment Program . . . . . . . . . . . . 355-1528

BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL

EDUCATIONAL Information & Referral Ctr 978-3333 informationandreferral.org UofU Women’s Resource Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581-8030 sa.utah.edu/women UofU LGBT Resource Ctr . . 587-7973

HEALTH & HIV Camp Pinecliff . . . . . . . . . 518-8733 City of Hope, Utah . . . . . . 531-6334 Gay Men’s Health Summit — Village utahgaymenshealth.com Northern Utah HIV/AIDS Project Walk-Ins Welcome. Every other Monday 5–7pm 846 24th St, Ogden . . . 393-4153

HOMELESS SERVICES Center for Women and Children . . . . . . . . . . . . 261-9177 Homeless Youth Resource Center Youth ages 15-21.

655 S State St . . . . . . . 364-0744 The Road Home . . . . . . . . 359-4142 theroadhome.org YWCA, 322 E 300 S . . . . . . 537-8600

POLITICAL American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521-9862 acluutah.org, aclu@acluutah.org Disability Law Ctr . . (800) 662-9080 info@disabilitylawcenter.org EQUALITY UTAH . . . . . . . . . 355-3479 equalityutah.org, info@equalityutah.org Human Rights Campaign . . . . . . . . . . . . . (202) 628-4160 Human Rights Campaign, Utah hrc.org, HRCSaltLakeUT@aol.com Log Cabin Republicans, Utah lcrutah.org, lcr@lcrutah.org Utah Stonewall Democrats utahstonewalldemocrats.org njmikeutah@yahoo.com 455 S 300 E, Ste 102 . . 328-1212

RELIGIOUS & SPIRITUAL Affirmation — Salt Lake Chapter affirmation.org. . . . . . . 486-6977 Cache Valley Unitarian Universalists 596 E 900 N, Logan . 435-755-2888 First Baptist Church of Salt Lake firstbaptist-slc.org, office@firstbaptist-slc.org 777 S 1300 E . . . . . . . . 582-4921 First Unitarian Church slcuu.org 569 S 1300 E . . . . . . . 582-8687 Glory to God Community Church 375 Harrison Blvd, Ogden . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394-0204 Holladay United Church of Christ 2631 E Murray-Holladay Rd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277-2631 Inner Light Center . . . . . . . 268-1137 innerlightcenter.net Integrity/Utah - St. James Church . . .

566-1311 Lifebreath Center/Interfaith Ministry 363-9229 Metropolitan Community Church – Bridgerland, 1315 E 700 N, Logan . . . . . . . . (435) 750-5026 Provo Comm. United Church of Christ 175 N University Ave, Provo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375-9115 Restoration Church of Jesus Christ 2900 S State St . . . . . . 359-1151 Sacred Light of Christ Metropolitan Community Church 823 S 600 E . . . . . . . . . 595-0052 South Valley Unitarian Universalist Society 6876 S Highland Drive . 944-9723 Unitarian Universalist Church of Ogden 705 23rd St, Ogden . . . 394-3338

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TOXIC. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll freely admit that Brit had a few catchy tunes. Cheesy, but catchy.

Wow! From schoolgirl to S&M dyke in just a few short years! She really grew up fast and hard. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m surprised that by this point, she wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t worse off than just a few botched dance moves and lip-synching.

Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d almost expect her to have morphed into crackhead biting the head off of a live chicken at this point. A day or two later after the VMAs, she flashed her pussy again. It was almost like, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Um, I bombed at the VMAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. Let me go back to flashing my cunt. That was one attention-grabber which worked. I think I can still do this trick. I just have to remember to take off my panties. It may have been shocking but it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t, like my VMA flop, seen as shockingly bad.â&#x20AC;?

She never deserved to be a superstar in the vein of true musical talents like Prince, Mariah Carey, Tina Turner, or even â&#x20AC;&#x201D; although Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not a fan â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Celine Dion. These are artists with an identity which is uniquely theirs with accomplished voices full of personality to actually sing their tunes with.

Remember singing? I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a sign of how completely dumbed down weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve become that Britneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s off-synch lip-synch at the VMAs was so heavily criticized. What about criticizing Britney Vanilli for lip-synching in the first place? Wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you kind of expect a major recording artist to SING? Well, our expectations are so low at this point that we will happily watch Janet Jackson, J-Lo, Madonna, Britney and plenty of other pop â&#x20AC;&#x153;divasâ&#x20AC;? lip-synch â&#x20AC;&#x201D; just donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let them miss their pre-recorded words or all hell will break loose. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m so glad that we still draw the line there. We still have some standards.

Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re unbelievably low, but we still have a few.

Last Thursday, I had the honor of djâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ing at an event where Patti Labelle performed. She didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need dancers, choreography or a frantic light show to distract the audience. She just walked out and sat by a piano and belted her ass off until she sent chills up and down your spine. Not the shudders of revulsion which Britney suddenly made everyone feel. The thrill of an electrifying entertainer with real talent. And Pattiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not got just a little tum-tum.

Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s full-on full-figured.

Though I guess one difference lately is that sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s become a drunk/drug addict who wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t listen to the very handlers who made her what she is. Forcing her to rehearse. Choosing her songs. Writing her songs. And picking her outfits. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s taken matters into her own hands (along with a bottle of booze) and we see her for what she really is. Nothing special. A cute girl who ainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t got much. And when you are primarily known for being cute and suddenly you arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t as cute, the whole world turns against you. For realizing what they should have known about you all along. I hope itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a wake up call to both Britney and her fans to start recognizing the difference between talent and hype.

Or maybe the whole flop was orchestrated by her record company and I bought it along with the rest of you. Maybe they thought, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Have her flop bigtime live at the VMAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and then release a sizzling video so everyone will think â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Britneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s back on point!â&#x20AC;&#x2122; (Just not live.) Q Anagram

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