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ISSUE 94

Mayor Becker Pushes Domestic Partner Registry Makes good on his promises on the third day of his job

School Districts Hamper UofU High School Conference Only one student shows

2008 Legislative Session Preview WinterPride/Ski-N-Swim Tickets Go on Sale Moscow Idaho Passes Domestic Partner Benefits Troy Williams Turns to Food Ruby: Discrimination is a Drag The Gay Agenda Qdoku, Comics

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South African AIDS Leader Marries Well-known South African AIDS activist Zackie Achmat and his activist boyfriend Dalli Weyers were married near Cape Town Jan. 5. South Africa is one of six nations where same-sex couples have access to full marriage.

Hundreds of people attended the wedding including mayor Helen Zille. Gay High Court Judge Edwin Cameron conducted the ceremony, sporting eye glitter for the occasion.

The wedding cake was a chocolatebrownie tower with a king and a cowboy on top.

Achmat, 45, is the founder and chairman of the Treatment Action Campaign, South Africa’s leading AIDS-activist organization.

“We decided that the marriage statement as a same-sex couple was a profound one and we want the union to be seen as equal,” Weyers told the Sunday Times before the wedding.

Same-sex marriage is also legal in Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands, Spain and the United States (Massachusetts only). Numerous nations (and eight U.S. states and the District of Columbia) offer civil unions or registered partnerships that grant same-sex couples some, most or all of the rights and obligations of matrimony.

Brazilian Gay Activist Murdered Brazilian gay activist Francisco Técio de Oliveira Soares was stabbed to death Jan. 3. His naked body was found in the hair salon he ran in the northeastern city of Crato.

Police have speculated the killing was a crime of passion, given that nothing was stolen from the salon.

Técio, 38, organized several local gay pride parades and had been involved in gay activism for more than two decades.

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Dutch Artist Receives Death Threats Over Gay Muslim photos Dutch artist Sooreh Hera, an Iranian exile, has received death threats and gone into hiding after a museum in The Hague planned to display her photos of gay men wearing masks of the prophet Muhammad.

“They said to me, ‘We’re going to burn you naked or put a bullet in your mouth,’” Hera, 34, told London’s The Times.

“They condemn homosexuality but in countries like Iran or Saudi Arabia it is common for married men to maintain relations with other men,” she said.

The municipal museum later decided not to mount the photos because, said director Wim van Krimpen, “certain

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people in our society might perceive it as offensive.”

Hera accused van Krimpen of “censorship” and caving in to “pressure from Islamists,” and withdrew the rest of her pictures from the exhibition.

A museum in Gouda then said it will put up the photos. The director of that institution has received death threats and is under police protection, according to The Times.

Straight Bouncer Called ‘Breeder’ Wins Discrimination Case A straight bouncer at the Bournemouth, England gay club Dreams was awarded $12,400 in compensation Jan. 4 because the club’s manager called her a “breeder” and fired her, the BBC reported.

An employment tribunal in Southampton agreed that Sharon Legg, 33, was unfairly dismissed from her job.

She received $6,000 for hurt feelings and the remainder for the firing itself.

“It’s an achievement basically for gay, bi and straight people,” Legg told the network. “It’s about basically proving a point that you just don’t treat people like that ... whether you’re straight, gay or bi,” she said. If “the shoe was on the other foot, I don’t think it would be tolerated.”

Traveling Government Exhibit Celebrates Czech Gay History A government-curated exhibition documenting and celebrating Czech gay history has opened in Prague and will later travel around the nation, including small towns, Radio Prague reported.

The exhibition’s curator, Dzamila Stehlíková, is the government’s minister for human rights and minorities, and its coordinator is veteran Czech gay activist Jirí Hromada.

“Twenty years ago homosexual citizens were the first group who began to speak about human rights,” Stehlíková said. “Now, after 20 years of gay and lesbian development, we have a registeredpartnership law, and the homosexual minority is part of democratic society, with its own structure and with a very interesting cultural and social life.”

The exhibition, now at the capital’s House of National Minorities, includes gay magazines, old photos, and videos of the disturbing debate in the Chamber of Deputies over the registered-partnership law.

Openly gay singer Pavel Vítek told Radio Prague: “What I have been most taken by is ... the history, which you now forget, of the period at the end of the 1980s and the start of the ’90s. And I have also really been struck by the discreditable language used by our politicians, both men and women, when registered partnerships were being discussed. It’s certainly worth hearing Justice Minister Parkanová and others again!”

Stehlíková is excited about taking the exhibit on the road.

“In some small towns many people with homosexual orientation have complications with coming out and this exhibition will help them to understand their own identity and to begin to live their own lives,” she said.

Openly gay actor Sir Ian McKellen was made a member of the prestigious Order of Companions of Honour in Queen Elizabeth II’s New Year honors.

The order, founded by George V, has only 65 members.

McKellen, who has been a knight since 1990, was honored “for services to Drama and to Equality,” and now can place the initials “C.H.” after his name.

“I am honored to join an order which includes such distinguished practitioners in the arts,” McKellen, 68, said. “It is particularly pleasing that ‘equality’ is included in my citation.”

Other members of the order include Sir John Major, Dame Judi Dench, Sir David Attenborough and Prof. Stephen Hawking.

Online Homophobes Prosecuted in the Netherlands A Dutch man who was subjected to a barrage of homophobic abuse in an online chat room took a printout of the attack to police and got the offenders prosecuted, Radio Netherlands Worldwide reported.

Franklin Hill, a 32-year-old flight attendant, was bashed with comments such as “Dirty faggot,” “Death to fags” and “The Third Reich should be resurrected.”

A court determined that such language is illegal and sentenced one of the bashers to 15 hours of community service and fined another one 750 euros ($1,100).

“The fact that they now know they can’t just say what they want in a chat room, and that they didn’t get away with it, gives me satisfaction,” Hill said.

“You just have to do something about it when people do something like this,” he said. “There are enough laws and legislation to take on discrimination and threats.”

Bishop: 13-Year-Olds Provoke Sexual Contact The Roman Catholic bishop of Tenerife in Spain’s Canary Islands is in hot water for saying that 13-year-olds seek sex with adults, according to TypicallySpanish.com.

In a Christmas Eve interview with the newspaper La Opinión de Tenerife, Bernardo Álvarez said, “There are 13-year-old adolescents who are under age and who are perfectly in agreement with, and what’s more, wanting it, and if you are careless, they will even provoke you.” Álvarez added that such activity harms society the same as homosexuality does, and said cultures where either takes place will pay a price down the road like “other civilizations” paid. Álvarez’s office later released a statement saying he had not meant to suggest that “an event as condemnable as the abuse of youngsters” could be justified.

The Triángulo Canarias Foundation for the Social Equality of Gays and Lesbians condemned Álvarez’s remarks. Q

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U.S. Army Sgt. Darren Manzella came out on the CBS-TV program 60 Minutes last month, complete with a video of himself and a former boyfriend kissing.

Manzella figured that’d get him kicked out of the military under the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, which says members of the armed forces can be gay only if they keep it a secret.

But nothing has happened to Manzella.

At all.

“I thought I would at least be asked about the segment or approached and told I shouldn’t speak to the media again,” he told USA Today on Jan. 8.

Manzella’s case apparently is not unusual. The Servicemembers Legal Defense Network says there is now a record number of openly gay members of the military — at least 500 that the organization knows about.

Discharges under Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell have fallen sharply since the United States invaded Iraq in 2003.

Dykes on Bikes Wins Case San Francisco’s Dykes on Bikes motorcycle club won the right to keep its trademarked name Jan. 7 when the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal of a man who claimed the phrase is anti-male, scandalous and immoral.

Attorney Michael McDermott of Dublin, Calif., had challenged the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s acceptance of the

trademark, claiming the word “dyke” is widely understood to describe “hypermilitant radicals [who are] hateful toward men.”

He appealed to the Supreme Court after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit dismissed the case in July, saying McDermott hadn’t demonstrated how the organization’s name harms him.

Asked for comment on the case’s resolution, McDermott told the San Francisco Chronicle via e-mail that the Supreme Court “has largely signed on to the socalled homosexual agenda.”

Sen. Craig Expands Legal Strategy U.S. Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, who was arrested last summer and plead guilty for seeking sex with an undercover cop in a Minneapolis airport men’s room, is trying some new legal arguments in his quest to have his guilty plea reversed by the Minnesota Court of Appeals.

In a brief filed Jan. 8, Craig’s lawyers argue: • Minnesota’s disorderly conduct statute under which Craig pleaded guilty requires that “others” (plural) be alarmed by the conduct and, in Craig’s case, only one other person was involved, decoy cop Sgt. Dave Karsnia.

• Karsnia couldn’t have been upset

by Craig’s actions — which allegedly included peering through a crack into Karsnia’s stall, moving his foot invitingly and repeatedly sliding his hand under the stall divider — because Karsnia was moving his own foot enticingly.

Trans Official Returns HRC Award The president of the San Francisco Police Commission, Theresa Sparks, returned her 2004 Human Rights Campaign Equality Award during a meeting with HRC President Joe Solmonese in San Francisco Jan. 5.

Sparks, who is transgender, told the Bay Area Reporter she can’t stand to look at the trophy anymore, given HRC’s behavior during the continuing controversy over whether to include gender-identity protections in the federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act. In November, HRC supported a version of ENDA that protects gay people but not transgender people, after gay U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., insisted the bill would pass the House, which it did, only if “gender identity” were excluded from the language.

Hundreds of other national, state and local LGBT groups refused to support the “trans-free” ENDA, leaving HRC nearly alone in backing Frank’s version.

The House-passed bill moves next to the U.S. Senate.

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Moscow, Idaho Passes Domestic Partner Benefits

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• And disorderly conduct must be “offensive, obscene, abusive, boisterous or noisy,” which, the lawyers argue, Craig’s conduct was not.

Craig has repeatedly said he isn’t gay or bisexual and doesn’t cruise men’s rooms, even after The Idaho Statesman newspaper published the stories of eight men who claim they had sex with him or experienced sexual come-ons from him.

Craig has maintained his foot moved into Karsnia’s stall because, “I’m a fairly wide guy [and] I tend to spread my legs when I lower my pants so they won’t slide,” and that his hand went below the stall divider because he was fetching a piece of toilet paper that was underneath or stuck to his shoe.

Moscow, Idaho — The northern Idaho city of Moscow passed a resolution Dec. 17 to give health insurance benefits to domestic partners of city employees.

365Gay.com reported that the city’s mayor, Nancy Chaney, said that no one had asked for the benefits, but that the city’s insurance company, Regence Blue Shield of Idaho, had recently offered coverage for domestic partners of either sex.

The council voted 4-2 in favor Moscow, Idaho mayor of endorsing the Nancy Chaney resolution. Councilmembers who voted against it said they were not opposed to offering the benefits, but wanted more information before proceeding.

To be eligible for the benefits, employees must sign documents stating that they currently live with a partner and share financial obligations with him or her.

The council is permitted to revisit the issue in 2009.

The Idaho Values Alliance, a conservative lobby group that promotes religious freedom and “the sanctity of marriage and the family” opposes the measure. On Dec. 21 Bryan Fischer, the group’s executive director, sent a letter to the state Attorney General’s office stating that the measure violates Idaho’s constitution.

In 2006, the state constitution was amended to read: “A marriage between a man and a woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in this state.”

“We believe that the city of Moscow cannot be permitted to flout the plain meaning and intent of the state constitution. If the city is allowed to get away with this indiscretion, the constitution itself will become virtually meaningless,” he wrote.

Fischer also asked the Attorney General’s office to “conduct a formal investigation into the actions of the Moscow city council, to determine whether its policy of granting benefits to domestic partnerships is unlawful and violates the Idaho state constitution.”

Six Republican state senators joined the call for an investigation.

“We were surprised to see the decision regarding the health insurance policy,” Sen. Russ Fulcher, R-Meridian, told the Moscow-Pullman Daily News. “It appears it would conflict with the marriage amendment, or at least the spirit of it.”

Moscow City Attorney Randy Fife, however, told Councilmembers that the measure was legal because offering insurance benefits is not the same thing as creating domestic partnerships.

With a population under 25,000, the college town of Moscow is one of the smallest in the nation to move towards granting domestic partner benefits. Q

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Arizonans Split on Domestic Partner Benefits for State Employees

Phoenix, Ariz. — Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano’s proposal to offer domestic partner benefits to state employees drew letters of support and criticism from thousands of Arizona residents before the Jan. 2 deadline for public response.

The president of the University of Arizona joined hundreds of Arizonans petitioning state law makers to offer domestic partner benefits to workers on the state pay roll, who include faculty and staff at public universities.

In a letter to the state Department of Administration, U of A President Robert Shelton said that offering health and other benefits to domestic partners of university employees would help U of A attract and keep “top faculty and staff� from seeking employment at competing universities that offer the benefits.

Shelton was joined by Tucson City Councilman Steve Leal who called the current lack of coverage unfair to unmarried, gay and transgender state employees. Wayne Ecton, a Scottsdale council member also urged the state to extend the benefits. In November, his city joined Phoenix, Tempe and Pima County in offering the benefits to public employees.

However, the Scottsdale City Council stopped short of extending the measure to private businesses.

The Center for Arizona Policy, a nonprofit group that lobbies for “traditional families and traditional moral values� has led the opposition to the governor’s proposal. The group filed comments with the governor’s office saying that the proposal, if enacted, would erode the Legislature’s role in deciding matters of public policy. The group also argues that extending domestic partner benefits to state employees would strain the state’s budget and undermine the state’s promarriage legislation.

Ecton, however, said that based on the number of city workers in Phoenix and Scottsdale who have applied for domestic partner benefits, only 1.2 percent (fewer than 1,000 of nearly 65,000 state employees) would apply for the benefits.

Napolitano’s proposal would set certain limits on whom employees can name as a domestic partner. The couple will need to have lived together for at least a year and file a statement saying they intend to live together for at least the

coming year. They will also need to show evidence of shared financial obligations, such as a joint checking account.

The state has not yet set a date for a public hearing on the governor’s proposal. The policy is scheduled, however, to go into effect by Oct. 1.

Syphilis Rates Rise in Ariz. Gay Men Phoenix, Ariz. – Arizona health officials have declared a syphilis crisis in the state’s most populous county, identifying men who have unprotected sex with other men at a heightened risk for contracting the disease.

With Gov. Janet Napolitano’s authorization, they have invested $100,000 from the state’s Health Crisis Fund to educate gay men about the disease and encourage them to get tested. “The gay community, especially in Maricopa County, is where the bulk of the epidemic is now,� Will Humble, the state’s assistant director of public health, told the East Valley Tribune on Dec. 26.

Humble said that the health department would take the education initiative to places where men go to find male partners for sex, including gay bars. He added that the bulk of the money would be spent on printing and distributing brochures about the illness and on staff time.

Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano echoed this concern, saying that the number of cases in the county for the first six months of 2007 was 25 times higher than it was in 2000.

Health officials have identified other populations as being at a high risk for contracting the disease. These include sex workers and their customers, and Latina women. Another $100,000 has also been set aside to educate Latina women, pregnant women and their doctors about the disease and treatment.

The number of syphilis cases in neighboring Pima County has also increased from fewer than five in 2005 to over 60 in 2007, with several of those cases occurring in members of the Tohono O’odham Reservation.

Once a disease with a high mortality rate, syphilis is now easily treatable with antibiotics. However, left untreated and undiagnosed syphilis can be fatal.

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Sexually active gay men are at higher risk for a highly antibiotic-resistant strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, a U.S. study found.

Health officials are encouraging men to wash with soap after sex to avoid complications of the bacteria. Soap is effective at killing the bacteria.

Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, said the bacteria appear to be transmitted most easily through intimate sexual contact, but can spread through casual skin-to-skin contact or via contaminated surfaces.

The newly-discovered strain of bacteria is closely related to MRSA bacteria found in hospitals and the community, but resists many more front-line antibiotics.

Both strains are technically known

as MRSA USA300, but the new strain spreads easily through skin-to-skin contact, invading skin and tissue beneath the skin, the researchers said. “These multi-drug resistant infections often affect gay men at body sites in which skin-to-skin contact occurs during sexual activities,� lead author Binh Diep said in a statement. “But because the bacteria can be spread by more casual contact, we are also very concerned about a potential spread of this strain into the general population.�

However, a good scrubbing with soap and water may be the most effective way to prevent transmission of this bacteria — especially after sex, Diep said.

The findings are published online ahead of print in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

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School Districts Hamper UofU ‘LGBTQ High School Conference’ The University of Utah’s third annual LGBTQ High School Conference drew only one student Jan. 12 — and organizers at the school’s Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Resource Center say the nearly non-existent turn-out is the fault of school censorship.

As with last year, Resource Center staff distributed information packets about the day, designed to give queer high school students information about school services and student life, to school guidance counselors. To add what Resource Center director Cathy Martinez called “credibility” to the conference, they enlisted the help of Dan Cairo from the university’s High School Recruitment Center.

“The five districts in the valley all received the packets, including Provo,” said Cairo. “We didn’t have anyone respond and there was some resistance at the schools we did call in terms of advertising the conference.

“There’s still resistance from some counselors who don’t agree with the workshop, the curriculum or presenters, or even the nature of the student group, what they’re about,” he added.

An email obtained by the Daily Utah Chronicle, the university’s student newspaper, Jordan School District secondary guidance specialist Christen Richards-Khong instructed the district’s counselors not to distribute information about the day.

She wrote: “No posting of information will be provided by the school ... no announcements will be provided by the school ... no transportation will be provided by the school.”

If students still requested information, Richards-Khong said that counselors would need to first contact their parents and explain “the specific content of the information materials.”

This is similar to the situation in which organizers found themselves last year, when Jordan School District administrators actively blocked guidance counselors from distributing the information. According to Resource Center staff, Jamie Vargas, a counselor at Jordan High School, told them he wanted to participate in last year’s event until he received a similar email from district administrators.

Melinda Colton, director of communications for Jordan School District, told the Chronicle that parental permission was necessary for off-campus events because the district has responsibility to the minors who attend its schools.

She added that the controversial nature of the day, which included a workshop titled “Dating and Relationships” made administrators wary. She also said they were reluctant to circulate the information because of rumors that college students give high school students condoms and sexual advice at high school recruitment days.

Martinez said these rumors are absolutely untrue.

“We don’t give out condoms and we don’t give out sex information,” she said.

“It is not part of what we do. It would’ve been nice if they’d called to confirm that.”

In preparing materials for the day, LGBT Resource Center intern Bonnie Owens, a senior in the University of Utah’s Gender Studies Program, said she used the permission slip and conference materials from the Asian Student Union’s recruitment day, just as she had done for last year’s conference. In modifying the permission slip, she merely took out language specific to Asian students. But instead of including notice that this was a conference specifically for gay and transgender students, she said she chose to refer to the event as a generic “high school conference.”

“I was trying to make it as evident as possible where students would be and what they’d be learning. There’s nothing that’s in the permission slip that is a lie,” she said. She added that she didn’t specify that this was an LGBT conference because many high school students are not able to be out to their parents or guardians.

“The reality is if we put that on there, a lot of students won’t want to take the slip home to their parents who might do God knows what to them,” she said. “It was a deliberate move, but not a devious move.” The permission slip for the conference is available on the LGBT Resource Center’s Web site at sa.utah.edu.

Coulton told the Daily Utah Chronicle that the Jordan School District rejected the forms, anyway. She said the event’s ties to sexuality required officials to tell parents about its content.

Martinez also said that nothing about the conference, from its permission slips to its Saturday schedule, was an attempt to “go behind parents’ backs.”

“Doing it on a Saturday was a way to prevent having students leave school,” she said. “It was by no means to divert their parents knowing they were coming up here.”

Although the day drew only one student from Salt Lake Community College, Martinez said she does not consider the day a failure.

“I see it as potentially promising, based on the fact we haven’t had any show up in the past two years,” she said.

Martinez added that for next year’s conference, she and her staff might consider a few different tactics, such as advertising the date several months in advance.

“It’s kind of trial and error, but we’re very invested in having LGBTQ students and their friends and allies attend the university and to have their parents involved, too, if that’s a place where the student is out to their parents.”

Cairo also said that the conference may also need a few years to really pick up.

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Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker made good on his promise to create a domestic partnership registry in the city.

Becker Moves to Create Salt Lake City Domestic Partner Registry On the third day of his new term, Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker announced that he plans to create a domestic partner registry for couples living in the state’s capital — including gay and lesbian couples.

If his ordinance is successful, the registry would be the first of its kind in the state.

Similar to those used in 20 other states, Salt Lake City’s proposed registry would allow adults residents living with another adult to whom they are not married to voluntarily add their names to a catalogue. To do so, they will need to provide proof that they cohabitate and that they rely upon each other as dependents.

While participation in the registry does not provide couples with any benefits, Becker noted that the catalogue will ensure hospital visitation rights. He also said that the certificate accompanying the registration would ensure that couples have fair access to all city facilities, such as parks and recreation facilities.

Becker said he wants to create the catalogue to help private businesses who want to offer benefits (such as health insurance) to domestic partners, and to give the city a way to recognize such relationships.

“This is an opportunity for us to provide all of Salt Lake City’s residents the same level of equality, dignity and respect,” Becker said.

But several legislators, including Sen. Chris Buttars, R-West Jordan, say that the registry is an attempt to get around Amendment 3, the constitutional amendment that banned gay marriage in 2004.

“I have great empathy for that kind of thing,” said Buttars. “I have no problem with people sharing insurance or their wills, estates, real estate or lives. I just

have to be certain we’re not coming in the back door of Amendment 3.”

Salt Lake City Council Chairwoman Jill Remington Love, who was a mayoral hopeful last year, said that Becker and city attorneys constructed the registry ordinance within the law’s limits.

“There is certainly enough support that it’s likely to pass the council,” Love said. “I don’t think Mayor Becker in any way is trying to back-door this.”

If the registry is approved, it will be administered by the City Recorder’s office. Participating residents will receive two notarized and certified documents proving their registration.

The domestic partnership registry is only one of Becker’s promised gay rights initiatives. He has also promised to broaden former Mayor Rocky Anderson’s nondiscrimination ordinance for city employees, extend retirement benefits to domestic partners and to require companies working with the city to offer domestic partner benefits.

Swerve Burns into 2008 with ‘Purge and Predict’ Local lesbian social and service organization Swerve will kick off the new year Purge and Predict, a gathering to let go of negative things from 2007 and envision positive things for 2008.

Participants are asked to bring “whatever they need to let go” to the gathering at the Center’s Black Box Theatre and burn it in the fire. Palm and tarot readers will be present to consult members about the coming year.

Purge and Predict will be held on Jan 19 at 7:00 p.m. The Utah Pride Center is located at 355 North 300 West in Salt Lake City.

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QUAC Ski-N-Swim and Third Annual WinterPride Tickets Now on Sale Discount online ticketing and registration is now available for WinterPride and the Queer Utah Aquatic Club’s Ski-nSwim weekend, held this year Feb. 8–17.

Those who wish to attend are encouraged to purchase tickets early.

“Many of the activities and venues have limited space and seating, requiring us to cap the numbers of tickets sold,” said Brandie Balken of the Utah Pride Center. “Most of the activities sold out last year, so I encourage everyone to purchase their tickets as soon as possible.”

Dave Robinson of QUAC also encourages people to buy tickets early particularly as the club’s popular Ski-n-Swim weekend is now an official part of WinterPride events. “Since we streamlined our events and combined WinterPride with QUAC’s Ski-n-Swim weekend, we anticipate even more participation this year,” he said.

Along with the Skin-n-Swim’s US

Masters sanctioned swim meet, WinterPride’s “10 Gay Days” lineup includes such attractions as family ice skating, a film night at Tower Theatre featuring local directors, writers and performers, and “FAMILIES: It’s All Relative,” a Valentine’s Day photo exhibit on queer families. The festivities will close with a Mardi Gras party and awards ceremony at The Depot.

To purchase tickets visit slcwinterpride.org. A complete schedule of activities (including prices) for WinterFest is also available on the Web site. All tickets purchased online will be available at will call at the first event the purchaser attends.

Online ticketing will continue through Jan. 31. Regularly priced tickets will also be available at the door for many WinterPride events.

Utah Stonewall Dems Invites Gays, Lesbians to Join 2008 Legislative Gala Each year the Utah Democratic Party kicks off the legislative season with its largest Legislative Gala, a black-tieoptional fund raiser and dinner for state Democrats to mix, mingle and strategize for the upcoming deluge of bills, resolutions and last-minute amendments.

And this year, Utah Stonewall Democrats chair Nikki Boyer would like to extend an invitation to the public to sit at the gay-friendly organization’s table for the evening on Jan. 19.

This year’s gala, “A Year for Greatness,” is co-chaired by Salt Lake County mayor Peter Corroon and his wife, Amy. Other notable guests include Senate Democratic Leader Mike Dmitrich, Senate Democratic Whip Gene Davis, Assistant Whip Pat Jones and Senate Caucus Manager Brent Goodfellow. Among representatives of House Democrats will be House Democratic Leader Brad King, House Democratic Whip David Litvack, House Assistant Whip Carol Spackman-Moss and House Caucus Manager Phil Reisen.

“This is an opportunity to have face time with just about anyone,” said Boyer.

“It’s the who’s who of politicos, law-makers and lobbyists.”

But while many of the guests are lawmakers preparing to face two months of weighty issues on Capitol Hill, Boyer said the evening is supposed to be lighthearted. Entertainment will be provided courtesy of Salt Lake Acting Company’s Nancy Borgenicht and Allan Nevins, authors of Saturday’s Voyeur, the annual

satirical musical lampooning Utah news and politics.

“Peter loved Saturday’s Voyeur this year, so he asked Alan and Nancy to do the entertainment,” said Boyer.

Seats are still available at the Utah Stonewall Democrats’ table for $200. They may be purchased by anyone with an interest in the Utah Democratic Party — whether or not they’re registered with the party.

“A lot of Republicans come each year, because they want to see the other side, I guess,” said Boyer.

The Legislative Gala will be held Jan. 19 at Little America Hotel on 500 South Main Street, Salt Lake City. Registration (and a welcoming reception) begin at 6:00 p.m. Dinner and the night’s program follow at 7:00 p.m. with dessert and dancing at 9:00 p.m.

For more information, or to purchase tickets, call Nikki Boyer at 532-5330.

The Utah Stonewall Democratic Club is a chapter of the National Stonewall Democrats. Described as the country’s only “grass-roots Democratic LGBT organization” the club is a chapter of the National Stonewall Democrats dedicated to securing equal human rights for all gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender citizens, fostering the ideals of the Democratic Party, and contributing to the party’s growth and influence.

For more information, visit their Web site at utahstonewalldemocrats.org.

Hotel Monaco Receives Top Rankings

Salt Lake Men’s Choir Performs at Capitol Rededication In its first concert of the year, the Salt Lake Men’s Choir accepted an invitation to perform at the capitol building’s rededication services. About 40 of the choir’s 54 singers participated in the Saturday, Jan. 5 event.

The capitol building has undergone three years of renovations, including seismic retrofitting, restoring aging artwork and a complete reworking of the grounds. Renovations cost over $227 million.

Friday’s services included the International Children’s Choir, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Utah National Guard.

The Salt Lake Men’s Choir is celebrating its 25th anniversary season.

“What a great honor to be asked to sing at the re-dedication of the capitol building on our silver anniversary,”

choir artistic director Dennis McCracken said. “The building is such an important symbol to the state and was re-done with great care. We’re proud to help bring her back to the peopleo f Utah.”

The choir also represented the state in Washington D.C. at the National Cathedral in celebration of Utah Day in 2005.

Rehearsals started up Jan. 3 and the choir is now open to new singers. The choir rehearses at All-Saints Episcopal Church on 1700 S. Foothill Drive each Thursday at 7:30 p.m.

“We would love to have the choir continue to grow in both number and sound,” McCracken said. “This group is incredibly welcoming and more like a family than many biological families out there.”

More information can be found at saltlakemenschoir.org.

Hotel Monaco Salt Lake City, the host of such annual benefit events as the Red Party and summer’s Pink Party for Pride, has been named one of the top 500 hotels in the world.

Travel + Leisure Magazine named the Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants boutique property as one of its nearly 200 highestrated U.S. hotels in its sixth annual T+L 500. In making the list, the magazine’s global staff of reporters and editors determined the best rooms, services and amenities in each hotel and what differentiates each from their local competitors.

Editors called Hotel Monaco “A hotel with personality (evening wine receptions; a Director of Pet Relations) and a convenient location.”

The hotel scored an 82.93 out of a possible 100. Rankings were based on a survey of Travel + Leisure subscribers who were unaffiliated with any travel organization.

Respondents were asked to rate on a scale of one to five (one meaning poor and five meaning excellent) hotels rooms and facilities, location, service, restaurants and food, and value for money spent. Respondents were also given the option to rank the hotels on these categories in terms of appropriateness for business and family accommodations.

This is not the only honor Hotel Monaco has received at the start of 2008. The hotel just received its eighth Four Diamond Award from AAA Travel. It is one of 14 Utah lodgings to receive the honor.

Hotel Monaco’s general manager MaryLynn Beck said that she and the rest of the hotel’s staff are “thrilled” to get these recognitions.

“The Hotel Monaco, in keeping with all Kimpton hotels, is lifestyle driven.

We support guests in maintaining and enriching their lifestyles on the road — whether they are traveling for business, pleasure or both,” she said.

For more information visit travelandleisure.com.

Utah Pride Center to Host Support Group for Sexual Violence Survivors The Rape Recovery Center and the Utah Pride Center will offer a support group for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender survivors of rape and sexual violence in 2008.

The group will provide a safe, confidential space to discuss and explore the impact of sexual violence on members of the community and challenges faced by survivors of sexual violence. The group is open to all gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals who have been impacted by sexual violence at any stage in their lives.

Michelle Call, an openly-lesbian licensed social worker in private practice who also works with The Rape Recovery Center and Westminster College, facilitates the group.

An intake session is required before joining. To schedule an appointment with group facilitator Michelle Call, LCSW, call Ashlee at the Rape Recovery Center at 467-7282.

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2008 Legislative Preview

BY JOSELLE VANDERHOOFT JOSELLE@QSALTLAKE.COM

Each year, Utah’s state legislature debates a number of bills specifically targeted towards gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender citizens. With seven bills proposed so far, the 2008 legislative session is no different. In preparation for the session’s start on Jan. 21, QSaltLake presents a preview of these bills for our readers’ benefit and education.

Fair Workplaces HB 89 ANTIDISCRIMINATION ACT AMENDMENTS was drafted by Equality Utah and is sponsored by Rep. Christine Johnson, D-Salt Lake City.

If passed in its current incarnation, the bill will make it illegal for Utah employers to refuse to hire, promote, demote or fire an employee based on his or her real or perceived sexual orientation or Rep. Christine Johnson gender identity.

The bill also makes it illegal for employers to discriminate against otherwise qualified gay or transgender employees on the basis of wages and privileges and

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In a December interview with QSaltLake, Johnson said that several events inspired her to run the bill. These included the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which passed the U.S. House of Representatives in November (though without protection for transgender workers) and the local case of Krystal Ettsity, a UTA bus driver fired for being a transwoman.

In Ettsity’s case, the Utah Supreme Court ruled that her firing was legal under Utah law, which currently does not prohibit discrimination against transgender people.

Keri Jones, Equality Utah’s Manager of Programs & Administration, said the bill, if passed, will make it so that people are judged solely on their job performance and experience. “The law has held that other characteristics, like race and religion, are irrelevant and should not be considered by an employer,� she said. “Sexual orientation and gender identity are also irrelevant to whether a person is qualified for a job.

Passing this amendment will help ensure a fair and just Utah.�

Currently, Utah law prohibits discrimination on race, color, sex, age (if the individual is over 40 years old), childbirth or pregnancy status, religion, national origin and disability as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Bullying and Hazing Drafted by gay rights organization Equality Utah and cosponsored by Rep. Carol Spackman Moss, D-Salt Lake City, and Sen. Chris Buttars, R-West Jordan, this bill, if passed, will give school districts a set of minimum standards to address all forms of bullying and hazing.

Although the bill is not targeted specifically towards gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Rep. Carol Spackman-Moss students, Buttars specifically addressed the bill’s impact on such students at a November 2007 University of Utah panel discussion on banning workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

Often a foe of gay rights legislation in Utah (including Johnson’s Antidiscrimination Act Amendments bill), Butters said Sen. Chris Buttars he and Spackman worked closely with Equality Utah to draft this bill.

“I hate bullying,” said Buttars. “I grew up protecting the kid that was always picked on. Nobody should be discriminated against.”

Although no text for the bill was available at press time, Equality Utah has said that the legislation, if passed, will create uniform definitions for bullying and hazing. As long as these minimum standards are met, individual school districts will be free to create their own anti-bullying policies.

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Sexually Transmitted Diseases Rep. Phil Riesen, D-Salt Lake City, and Sen. Allen M. Christensen are sponsoring HB 15, Control and Prevention of Sexually Transmitted Diseases. HB 15 seeks to appropriate $350,000 to the Utah Health Department and local health departments to educate Utahns about the health consequences of sexually transmitted diseases and treatment options, both public and Rep. Phil Reisen privately-funded.

The bill allows for materials in English and other languages “appropriate for the geographic area.” It also stipulates that health departments are to give medically accurate information as well as information stating that “abstinence before marriage and fidelity after marriage [are] the surest prevention of sexually transmitted diseases.”

The bill comes at a crucial time for the state. Cases of diagnosed sexually transmitted diseases in Utah have increased dramatically in the past five years.

According to preliminary data from the Utah Department of Health, newly diagnosed cases of chlamydia in the state have jumped from 1,563 in 1996 to 5,627 in 2007. Diagnosed cases of gonorrhea have climbed from 303 in 1995 to 888 in 2007. A number of these cases since 2002 have been documented in Utah’s youth as well, with over 1,300 teenage boys having contracted one or both diseases. Chlamydia rates in young women have also skyrocketed.

Lynn Beltran, STD & HIV/AIDS Program Manager at the Salt Lake Valley Health Department, said that the rise in STD cases parallels an increase in HIV cases, which means people are more likely engaging in unprotected sex. And from what she has seen in her clinic, she says people are likely doing so because they are uninformed about how STDs are contracted.

“I’ve even had people say, ‘wow those diseases are still around’,” she said.

Domestic Violence Rep. David Litvack will reintroduce his dating violence bill. HB 247 Domestic Violence and Dating Violence Amendments makes it easier for victims of dating and domestic violence to file protective orders against their abusers, regardless of the victim and perpetrators’ sexual orientation or gender identity or whether or not the couple is married or living together.

HB 247 will Rep. David Litvak allow orders to be issued and enforced between parties in a romantic or intimate relationship who are emancipated minors or over age 16.

The bill defines dating violence as any criminal offense involving physical harm, the threat of violence or any attempt to commit harm. It is inclusive of assault, harassment (including stalking

and electronic communication harassment), kidnapping, property destruction and sexual offenses. It permits individuals to seek a protective order if a romantic partner has hurt them or if there is a “substantial likelihood” that a partner may do so.

“We’re as likely to be abusive as hetero couples, but the problem is we’re less likely to be seen as cohabiting, as being like victims,” said Carlson. “Because it expands the number of relationships that can be covered by protective orders, we’re supporting it.”

If passed, the bill will take effect Sept.

1, 2008.

Property and Estates Sen. Scott McCoy, D-Salt Lake City, is sponsoring Wrongful Death Amendments, a bill that will allow people to designate who has legal standing if they die due to medical negligence or malpractice.

Utah law currently does not let individuals designate anyone who isn’t a legal spouse or a child. Further, the law doesn’t allow a specific relative to be designated — any or all eligible relatives can sue. Currently, the law excludes not only unmarried partners but step parents and adult step children.

Equality Utah maintains that the current law is harmful to taxpayers because it not only allows multiple people to sue

in wrongful deaths, but puts relatives who can’t sue and who are dependent upon the deceased in danger of becoming financially dependent on the state.

“It’s a really important bill, because someone may die before they have a planned estate to take care of a dependant,” said Carlson. “This allows those who are actually dependant to hold the guilty party Sen. Scott McCoy responsible.”

Like many bills this session, Wrongful Death Amendments came up last year.

But Carlson said it was withdrawn in committee over concerns that it actually increased the number of people who could sue for wrongful death.

Since then, Carlson said McCoy has worked closely with Sen. Lyle Hillyard, R-Cache County, to narrow its focus.

“So part of this bill now is being able to narrow the table in designating who can sue,” Carlson sasid.

The bill had not been released by press time.

Stay tuned for more updates throughout the 2008 Legislative session. Q

Domestic Violence in the Gay, Lesbian Community Discussed in Salt Lake

by JoSelle Vanderhooft

The Utah Pride Center and the South Valley Unitarian Universalist Society held a panel discussion Jan. 11 about the realities of domestic violence in gay and lesbian relationships and what is being done across the country to address and prevent physical and emotional abuse in same-sex relationships.

“Domestic Violence in the GLBT Community: Myths, Facts and How you can Make a Difference” was conducted by members of the National Council of the National Organization for Men Against Sexism, which describes itself as the oldest “pro-feminist, gay-affirmative, anti-racist” men’s organization in the United States. It featured speakers who have worked with gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender survivors of domestic violence — populations that are often invisible in shelters and crisis centers.

“Issues of how LGBT domestic violence happens and what our community’s response to that should be and needs to be ... is not something that’s readily addressed in our community because of the ways in which LGBT people are marginalized,” said NOMAS member and panel participant Moshe Rozdzial, a licensed professional counselor based in Denver, Colo. who works with survivors of domestic abuse.

“We don’t have the community infrastructure needed to protect LGBT folks from domestic violence issues as that which has occurred, for example, to women in the last 20 years of the movement.”

According to Rozdzial, the four NOMAS members on the panel “represent different issues around what’s happening [in the anti-domestic violence movement] and how we should think about LGBT domestic violence issues, specifically from a pro-feminist perspective.” These include Phyllis Frank, director of the Volunteer Counseling Services Community Change Project in Orange County, N.Y. (a pro-

gram that works with people who perpetrate violence in a relationship) and Jim McDowell, the program’s court liaison.

“They do work around how to deal with the batterer, accountability community response, education and criminal justice, all of those issues around how we hold batterers responsible,” said Rozdzial.

Rose Garrity, executive director of New Hope Shelter in Owego, N.Y., also joined the discussion group. According to Rozdzial, Garrity was one of the first people in the country “to deal with creating a safe place for gay men who are battered.”

“She can’t actually bring gay men to her shelter, but she has safe houses in the community where people volunteer to shelter gay men who need a safe house to get away from their abusers,” he said.

“That’s a pretty new model for how to deal with those issues.”

The discussion looked “at the ways how, in a male-dominated culture, women are not individuals but are treated as possessions or objects, and that creates a system in which women can be disempowered and controlled, which is part of the way in which domestic violence happens,” Rozdzial said.

He added that the idea that women are possessions has ramifications for samesex couples — even gay male couples.

“LGBT couples are not immune to the general sociological ways in which we treat each other,” he said. “Similar issues occur in same-sex relationships. In other words, for someone to be abused they tend to be somehow objectified — made a thing or possession. And that then creates the environment that is part and parcel of abuse.”

NOMAS leaders also met in the city over the weekend to plan their annual national conference on men and masculinity.

The national conference is scheduled to be held at the South Valley Unitarian Universalist Society in August. Q

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Sponsored by Rep. Lorie Fowlke, R-Orem, HB 23 Child and Family Protections would make it a third degree felony for parents to abandon their children. The bill also seeks to make child abandonment a second degree felony if it causes the child serious physical injury or if the parents receive any benefit in abandoning the child.

The bill defines child abandonRep. Lorie Fowlke ment as a parent or legal guardian intentionally ceasing to maintain physical custody of a child without making reasonable arrangements for his or her care and provision.

According to Fowlke, this bill is a joint effort of “several attorneys in several agencies” in Utah and is designed to go after leaders of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whose abandonment of teenage boys (dubbed “the Lost Boys” by the press) has made national headlines.

“What we were looking at was a way to criminally go after leaders of the church that require member families to throw out male children so they have enough teenage girls to marry off to the men there.”

This is the reason, she said, that the bill also holds anyone who encourages or orders a parent to abandon a child guilty of a felony. She also stressed that the bill was intended to protect parents coerced

by FLDS leaders into kicking their sons out.

Fowlke added, however, that the bill was not intended to address families who kick children out for other reasons, including being gay.

“It’s intended more for criminal prosecution of organizations that are doing this,” she said.

But Will Carlson, Equality Utah’s Manager of Policy, said that the bill has unintended consequences for other minors.

“What she doesn’t realize is that most homeless youth aren’t homeless because of polygamy but because they’re LGBT, and got kicked out,” he said.

“Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Youth: An Epidemic of Homelessness,” a joint study conducted by the National Lesbian and Gay Task Force and the National Coalition for the Homeless in February 2007 estimated that 20-40 percent of homeless youth in the United States identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender.

Homeless youth are at an increased risk for a number of ills, including substance abuse, mental illness and being the targets of violence. They are also at risk for sexual abuse, including prostitution.

Child and Family Protections passed the House unanimously last year, but did

not make it onto the Senate’s calendar by the time the session closed.

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Letters No One Deserves to Die Editor, There have been a lot of discussions and comments lately regarding the drug overdose death of Gayle Ruzicka’s son. A lot of these boil down to saying that she deserves what she gets, karma strikes, what goes around comes around and such.

Don’t get me wrong. I hate Gayle as much as the next sane person. I’ve listened to her speak in person.

Evil exudes from her every pore. It may not reflect well on me but I feel no sympathy for her.

But saying that she deserved to have her son die is tantamount to saying that her son deserved to die. I hope that we can keep this in mind and simply hope that Gayle learns that the world is not as black and white as she’s always believed. Let’s hope that she learns that in between there are many shades of gray along with the many colors of our rainbow.

William H. Munk Salt Lake City

Fax Gender Proof Editor, I, for one, agree with the university officials in their request for gender proof [“Transgender Student Denied Campus Housing at SUU, QSaltLake, Jan. 3, 2008]. I’ll be faxing my “proof” as soon as I find a photocopier to sit on. We should all volunteer our gender proofs to the university president. Do it for the children!

David Nelson Salt Lake City

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From the Editor Of Primary Concern

by Michael Aaron michael@qsaltlake.com

A friend has been asking me almost incessantly who is going to be the next Democratic nominee and who do I think will be the next president. My crystal ball is in the shop, so I haven’t been able to answer him.

Then he turns to me ... who am I going to vote for February 5 when Utah steps up before the nation and says “the [pretty,] great state of Utah hereby casts its half a vote to...” as the presidential primary race swings through our fair state.

You probably wouldn’t believe me when I said that the primary election sneeked up on me. I know, I know, it’s been on the news since Christmas before last, but I thouight I had more time.

And now it comes down to a choice I have faced over decades of voting: Choose the person you want to vote for but has no chance in hell of winning, or choose the person who is least bad and can win.

These are the elections I hate.

While in college, I would tell people that I voted for the Libertarian in the race because he or she, well ... he, stood up for gay rights because the government had no role in personal freedoms. In secret, however, I voted for the namby-pamby Democrat who said things like, “no one should be discriminated against.” Or “everyone should be created and treated equally.”

Truth-be-known, the Libertarian or left-left-wing candidate had about as much chance of winning as the Democrat did, but you still had to try and hope against all hope.

And here we are today. We have one great choice for a gay-positive Democratic candidate ... who has

no chance in hell of winning. We have a female candidate whom half the country loves to hate but polls well against most potential Republican opponents.

We have a mixed-race-and-looks-black candidate who makes great speeches and sounds pretty good on gay issues, but not great.

Hmmm...

So then my friend asks if a woman or a black man has a chance in hell of winning against a rich white man this November.

I don’t know.

I would love to have a woman president or a black president ... or even better, a black woman president (but Queen Latifah isn’t running). But is America that far along the road of the American dream that anyone can be president?

George Will practically made his anchor (whose name I don’t know) choak when he said on the night of the Iowa primary, “The two big losers tonight are probably Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton: Those who have a sort of investment in the traditional and, I believe, utterly exhausted narrative about race relations in the United States.”

Wow. I pray that day comes, but is it truly today?

And even women think that a woman in the White House is a bad idea. Two women on our ship last weekend (yes — we had a vacation. More on that next issue) moaned that Hillary “teared up” at the New Hampshire debate.

“What is she going to do in the White House when she has to make a tough decision? Sit down and cry?”

I, for one, would find that a good thing. At least better than sitting there and reading children’s stories.

And a lot better than having no feelings at all about the ramifications of their decisions.

And here we are back at square one. Who will I vote for on February 5?

Maybe I’ll sleep in that day. Maybe I’ll bring a shiny coin to toss.

Help me people. Send me a note on who to vote for and why. I’ll print it next issue for others to consider as well.

Editor, So I was reading the January 3 issue of QSaltLake and found out that the Utah Pride Center is holding a bisexual awareness month. I realized that I’d never heard of the event before, so I checked the online versions of the local dailies, including those in Utah and Weber Counties. Nothing, nada, zilch was mentioned about it. I also tried the weeklies. Nope.

So I got wondering how many other articles in Q were about something no other newspaper or magazine cared enough about to put on their pages.

I counted 14 articles. (Yes, I have a lot of time on my hands — I’m retired.)

So, in short, thank you for bringing me news that I care about. If you didn’t, who would?

Lee Christensen Holladay

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by Troy Williams troy@qsaltlake.com

I’ve had a difficult time deciding what to write about this week. My mind isn’t on queer issues at the moment. My brain is swirling through a half-dozen ideas, and I have absolutely no focus on any one thing (which should be evident as you read). I was originally going to write about America’s sweeping descent into fascism – but Naomi Wolf has pretty much covered all that territory in The End of America (which you should all rush out and read). But I was feeling rather upbeat, and the idea of writing about the demise of our civil liberties was a bit too much, even for me. I was then going to write about my frustration with the presidential campaign, and my outrage with progressives for refusing to rally behind Dennis Kucinich (who is, hands down, the only candidate who truly champions progressive — and gay — values). I had written five paragraphs about how terrible the Clinton presidency was, but then scrapped the whole thing. Even I didn’t want to hear myself gripe. I’m not really into politics right now, and even gay issues feel tedious to ponder. I’m sure it’s just a phase. I go through them.

But what more is there really to say about the gays that we haven’t already?

Gay people should enjoy civil liberties like all Americans. Yes. Gay people should stop hating themselves. True.

Gay Mormons should seek therapy.

Absolutely true. Everyone should have safer sex. Yes — even you lesbians.

That just about says everything our community needs, right? How much more validation do we require? If you are feeling uncertain about your gayness, just sit quietly and ask your queer self: Am I living authentically in all areas of my life? And if you find an aspect of your life that is incongruent with your larger self, then set a plan to bring everything into queer harmony.

Get a life coach. Read Byron Katie.

Watch Oprah. Whatever.

The only topic that I’m really interested in right now is food. I’ve recently become obsessed with Michael Pollan, the author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma and his most recent book, In Defense of Food. This guy is brilliant. I have become hyper-aware of what I’m putting in my body, where it was manufactured and if it is, in fact, actually food (and not a nutritionally engineered food-like substance, such as margarine). And if living an authentic life is our goal, then maybe food does play a big part in our journey. If we are what we eat, and what we are regularly eating is processed, fast food-ish nutrients (packed with high fructose corn syrup and other genetically modified organ-

isms), then maybe there is something artificial in the very cellular make up of our bodies. And maybe the processed and pre-packaged nature of our diets is actually working itself into our personalities. Maybe that’s why people act “fake.� Maybe that’s why it’s so easy for us to feel lost. Sometimes we don’t know who we are. We don’t know what we want out of life. Does that sound familiar? Well, check out any random box of food. Look at the ingredients. What the hell is a monostearate? Or a maltodextrin? We are eating this stuff and it is re-building our cellular bodies. If I don’t know what is making me, then maybe it’s no wonder that I’m often at a loss as to who I actually am.

Well, okay. I’ve moved from the gastronomic to the ontological. Some may see that as a stretch. That’s fine. Like I said, my thoughts are anything but focused. I always feel like this when I’m facing one of those big paradigmatic shifts in my brain. Remember when you first came to terms with your gayness, and how the old you (raised as you were in a hetero-normative universe) came crashing up against the emerging you? It’s a time for feeling a bit crazy and unpredictable. Everything is moving beneath your feet. Anything can happen. That’s how I’m feeling about food right now.

I feel that the way I’ve been eating is unsustainable, unhealthy and in many ways detrimental to my body and soul.

Now, I don’t eat fast food. I haven’t for years (except for the occasional late night drunken drive through at Wendy’s). I don’t drink carbonation.

But I haven’t been actively seeking out the healthiest culinary habits, either.

So I’ve decided that I want to eat better: whole foods, seasonal fruits, vegetables, less meat. Why not? It’s all about being happy, right? We have such a personal and intimate relationship with food. If we eat better, we feel better. Our energy increases, our sleeping improves, our sexual stamina is enhanced, and we become more socially responsible. We support local organic farmers with their grass-fed, free-range animals. That’s good, right?

That’s ecologically responsible, yes?

Please forgive my random, unfocused sputterings about eating and authenticity. I’m just wandering through life trying to figure out what everything is all about — just like you.

And yes, I still believe Hillary Clinton would make a lousy president.

And Dennis Kucinich is still the only Democrat willing to stop America’s march of imperial fascism. He is also, incidentally, the only candidate who fully supports gay marriage (are you HRC people reading?). And he’s vegan (though I’m still far from it). These are my thoughts this week, such as they are. We all just need to get together and cook healthy food for each other. Food is also about pleasure — and good company. I can get excited about that. Q

The only topic I’m interested in right now is food.

Troy produces RadioActive on KRCL, 90.9 FM. He blogs at queergnosis.com.

Ruth Hackford-Peer Seven 2007 Do-Overs

By Ruth Hackford-Peer ruth@qsaltlake.com

It seems the older I get the more regrets I have.

anywhere. Stay away from the ugly birds!�

5. My partner and I celebrated our 10th anniversary this year by going on an all-women cruise. One day she wasn’t feeling too well, so we decided she’d nap and I would go enjoy the spa’s thermal suite. I got dolled up in my swimming suit and robe and headed to the suite ... only to find 15 other women who were dolled up in nothing at all. Being the body-hating, repressed American that I am, I chose to draw a whole lot more attention to myself by keeping the swimsuit on.

You know, if I had it to do over, I would

have just taken if off. Just to see how it felt. I mean, the Europeans might be on to something.

4. This was just plain stupid. But if I had a do-over, I wouldn’t have backed my car out of the garage without checking that I was centered and that there was room for my side mirrors.

3. Again, just plain stupid. But if I backed my car out of the garage without making sure there was room for my side mirrors, I wouldn’t have yelled “fucking A� as the side mirror crashed against the side of the garage door.

2. After yelling “fucking A� when I knocked the side mirror off my car while backing out of the garage, I would have made sure to tell my son, who sat shocked in the backseat, that it would be inappropriate to recite the whole alphabet at school in the new, creative way mom just taught him.

1. Since I’m candidly discussing doovers, now seems the appropriate time to mention that if given the opportunity, I would not have said to my partner that I believe writing a dissertation is a lot like writing a monthly column, only you get a year to do it and it’s expected to be a bit longer. Apparently, that can make an overworked and underslept PhD student feel like four years of academic preparation, original research and critical thinking isn’t given quite the respect it deserves. And trust me, this is not something you would want to see. Although to an untrained eye, it probably looks a lot like trying to chase off birds. Q

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Can you believe itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a whole year since I embarked on this monthly column journey? A year that began with one of my sons suckling my breast, barely able to crawl and ended with him running smack into the bathroom door wailing, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The pain! The pain!â&#x20AC;? A year that began with me gainfully employed and ended with me on unemployment insurance. A year that began with a solid housing market and ending with the sub-prime mortgage crisis. What a year.

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He then told us that we sang â&#x20AC;&#x153;Old Age Timeâ&#x20AC;? beautifully, and when heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as old as we are, he hopes he still has a voice.

It seems that the older I get the more regrets I have. OK, maybe not regrets.

Regret is a pretty strong word. I guess they are more learning opportunities.

Screw ups. Things that, if given the opportunity, I would do differently. And I have many. So, to commemorate 2007, I offer you my top seven do-overs.

7. I encouraged loving a lamb over loving all stuffed toys equally. Riley didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need a specific woobie and I must have felt like I was missing out on some great experience. So I nurtured Caseyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s relationship with Lambie even as it turned into obsession. I thought it was cute at first. But these days Casey canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take medicine, get hurt or fall asleep without the little lamb. And now that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mobile, I often get to spend hours looking for Lambie before bedtime. I have also taken up sewing since Lambie has lost an ear and has required mouth surgery already. If I had a do-over, I would encourage Casey to love all stuffed animals so that in a pinch, any creature â&#x20AC;&#x201D; lamb, dog, bear â&#x20AC;&#x201D; would do.

6. When Casey was delighted at the sight of a bird, I thought it was so cute that I bought him a birdhouse.

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birdhouse in the trash and put netting all over the porch. It is equally difficult to explain why whenever I see a bird, I run outside swinging a broom to chase the little bugger off. Arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t these crazy things supposed to fly south? If I could do it over, whenever Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d see Caseyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eyes light up with delight as he pointed and said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;birdâ&#x20AC;? Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d reply, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yes. They are dirty ugly creatures whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll crap

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When I read these words, I say to my self that this may be a great place to be.

Then I find out it is a church and say, “Hmmmm, do I believe that there is a “church” that really has this philosophy?

Then I read “Change your thinking, change your life.” What does that mean? Does that mean that there is something wrong with my thinking ? Some may say, there is nothing wrong with me so why should I go to a place to change my thinking? Good question.

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You can probably agree that we have gotten to the place we are now by our past experiences. So, if there are things that you want to work on, this may be a place to play and look at your thoughts. Why you ask ? Because of the tools that you can learn from this philosophy.

This place gives you tools to build you up. It does not tell you what to do, it gives suggestions and thoughts that maybe you did not think of before. Have you ever thought that if you build yourself up, you can assist on building others up. If you are not built up enough yourself, how can you assist others?

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The Salt Lake Center For Spiritual Living is a place where you can be yourself and learn that our logo, “V”, means : My thoughts + My mind = My reality.

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Work It!

by Ruby Ridge ruby@qsaltlake.com

Well, it’s that time of year again, muffins! No, it’s not the Sundance Film Festival, or the new season of American Idol. It’s way more important than that. It’s time to gird your loins in preparation for the annual Utah Legislative Session, because darlings, it’s an election year and we have got some work to do.

Representative Christine Johnson is sponsoring House Bill 89, which would add sexual orientation and gender identity to the state’s workplace discrimination protections. It’s a great idea whose time has finally come.

Well, technically it’s already come in 11 other more progressive states, and it’s the standard way of doing business in many private Fortune 500 companies.

But be warned, cupcakes, passage of a gay-inclusive anti-discrimination bill in Utah may be a long slog that could take years. Remember how long it took for the hate crimes bill to pass, and that was for something as severe as homicides and assaults. A functional hate crimes bill almost became a mythical quixotic quest with gay-friendly Democrats introducing a hate crimes proposal year after year, only to see it languish in committees, or amended into an unrecognizable pulp. I’m pretty sure it was about seven or eight years before it actually became law.

Which raises an interesting question: Has anyone actually been prosecuted for a gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender-related hate crime using the hate crimes statute, or has the prospect of a sentencing enhancement been

so wildly effective in reducing hate crimes that they simply don’t exist anymore.

Let it go, cherubs, that was a purely rhetorical question and only mildly sarcastic on my part. My conspiracy theory on that one was that we only got a watered-down hate crimes law because the legislature was finally getting embarrassed with Utah being one of the last states that would not protect gay people. Nationally and internationally it made us look like hicks at best, and mean-spirited, intolerant religious zealots at worst.

Not surprisingly, Gayle Ruzicka and the rest of the conservative fringe has already decreed that the workplace discrimination law is flawed because gay people choose their orientation unlike factors of race, color, age or religion. Hmmm ... intriguing!

Tell me, pumpkins, did you get the “gay as a choice” memo? Because I sure as hell didn’t. Well anyway, kids, it being an election year (and after seeing private school vouchers thrashed by voter referendums), you know that some random conservative is going to float some outrageously divisive bill attacking gay rights, abortion or immigration this session — and if they do, we need to be alert and counteract them.

Be prepared!

With that in mind, I am thrilled to announce that before the legislature goes into session, Equality Utah will be holding a cocktail meet-n-greet at The Mynt Lounge (a private club for members at 63 West 100 South) on Wednesday Jan. 23 at 5.30 p.m. I will personally be there to rally the troops.

Do come, won’t you? I would love to see you all, and Michael, Will and the Equality folks will be more than happy to fill you in on the bills of interest.

See you there! Ciao, babies!

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Queer Lounge Panels

Watching a movie is entertaining, but discussing the movie is enlightening.

Actors, writers, directors and producers are just some of the individuals involved in moviemaking that will provide insights on six different movie panels.

Savage Grace

Saturday, January 19, 2008, 1:30pm

Guests: Tom Kalin (Director), Katie Roumel (Producer, Killer Films), Howard Rodman (Writer), and other guests TBD

The four-story building that will house this year’s Queer Lounge is at 608 Main Street in Park City.

Queer Lounge Readying for Sundance events. Queer Lounge will also publish a comprehensive guide to films with LGBT artists or content appearing at Sundance, Slamdance, and related festivals.

Other highlights at the 2008 Queer Lounge include: Parting Glances: The Queer Sundance Movie Poster Show (1985–2007) Celebrating Sundance’s role as a pioneering advocate of queer cinema, Queer Lounge will showcase original movie posters from LGBT films that have premiered at the festival over the years. (On view daily at the Queer Lounge.)

PlanetOut’s Ninth Annual Short Movie Awards party (Saturday, Jan. 19, 5–8pm) honoring the winners of the largest online competition of LGBT-related film and video shorts Invitation only.

GLAAD’s “And the Nominees Are” event (Sunday, Jan. 20, 5–8pm) announcing the nominees for the 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards. Invitation only.

Homos Away from Home Queer Lounge’s annual closing night event (Thursday, Jan. 24, 10pm–1am), is a revival of the first significant queer party at Sundance held during the early ’90s.

Invitation only.

Queer Lounge will be located at 608 Main Street, a few yards from the intersection at Heber Avenue, from Jan. 18–24, 2008 in Park City, Utah. Lounge hours will be 11am–7pm daily for festival-goers, with private parties at night.

More information can be found at Queer Lounge’s Web site at queerlounge.org

Monday, January 21, 2008, 11:00am

Presentation plus Q&A with Jonathan Handel

The Writers Guild is still on strike – 10 weeks and counting. The Directors Guild will have started its negotiations by the time you read this, and maybe even done its deal. If the WGA doesn’t like that deal, the actors probably won’t either, and, come July 1, both guilds may be on strike, truly a nightmare scenario.

What’s it all mean for the independent filmmaker?

Jonathan Handel, digital media attorney and former associate counsel at the WGA, has the facts. He’s been quoted and interviewed in the media dozens of times, including in the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, CNBC and media across the world via the Associated Press. Don’t miss this chance to get your questions answered.

HBO & World of Wonder Present “When I Knew” Monday, January 21, 2008, 4:00pm

Guests: Randy Barbato & Fenton Bailey (Directors), Robert Trachtenburg (Author), and Rex Lee (Actor Moderator: Anne Stockwell (Editor in Chief, The Advocate)

Inspired by Robert Trachtenburg’s book, When I Knew, award-winning filmmakers Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato (Eyes Of Tammy Faye, Party Monster, and Inside Deep Throat) traveled the country asking ordinary people to tell their stories of when they realized they were gay. Through entertaining, insightful and Tipping Point: Social moving interviews with over Change Through Film Sunday, January 20, 2008, 2:30pm 150 people from five cities, Guests: Neil G. Giuliano the filmmakers captured not (President, GLAAD), Morgan Spurlock (Director, Where in the only the “ah ha” moments, but also moments when World is Osama Bin Laden?)

Ricky Strauss (President, people first felt radically Participant Productions), and different from their friends Christine Vachon (Producer, and family. In a discussion Savage Grace) and other TBD with The Advocate’s Editor in Cinema has a long and proud Chief Anne Stockwell, Bailey, tradition of addressing social issues, though it is somewhat Barbato, Trachtenberg, and Entourage actor Rex Lee will more rare that a filmmaker share their own personal exwill openly attempt to sway periences as they relate to the public opinion through their themes of the documentary. work. In a discussion of the An extended clip of the film fluid lines between art-making and activism, panelists will will be shown, and a reception open to panel attendees will address such topics as how follow the discussion. their beliefs have influenced their craft (and vice versa), the differing strategies of narrative and documentary film, and the true effectiveness of film to sway the hearts and minds of an audience.

Self-distribution & Merchandising

Tuesday, January 22, 2008, 12 Pm Noon

Guests: Josh Caldwell & Hunter Weeks (Directors, 10mph), Leslie Nuccio (Marketing Director, Café Press), Maria Wolfe (President, Wolfe Video), and others guests TBD

The thought of self-distribution is a daunting one.

Negotiating with theatrical exhibitors, creating advertising, publicity and marketing campaigns and perhaps doing it all on your own seems expensive and labor-intensive.

The internet age brings good news, however, both for marketing and creative merchandising — and beyond theatrical distribution, selling DVDs and Video On Demand via internet are perhaps more cost-effective ways of DIY distribution.

This panel will address the options and challenges of selfdistribution, alternative ways to generate funds through the internet and merchandising, and whether cultivating niche audiences can work to a film’s advantage.

The Advocate Presents Gay Filmmakers and Sexual Provocation Tuesday, January 22, 2008, 3:00pm

Guests: Alan Ball (Director, Towelhead), Isaac Julien (Director, Derek), Bruce LaBruce (Director, Otto; or Up with Dead People) Moderator: Kyle Buchanan (Film Critic, The Advocate)

When openly gay directors stormed the film scene in the 1990s, they used their sexuality as a tool to provoke, unsettle and jostle the status quo. “A decade of mainstream assimilation and bland gay romcoms may have neutered that outlaw sensibility,” says moderator Kyle Buchanan, film critic for The Advocate, “but this year’s crop of daring directors aim to bring the teeth back to New Queer Cinema.”

The gay directors on this panel will discuss how sexuality influences their desire to push buttons — even if members of their own queer community take offense.

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Taking over a multi-level storefront in a prime Main Street location, Queer Lounge will return to Park City for its fifth year to champion queer film at Sundance, Slamdance, and other festivals.

Hailed as “ground zero for activity surrounding the [gay] films” in Park City by the Hollywood Reporter, Queer Lounge creates a hub at film festivals where queer-friendly filmmakers, professionals, and audiences connect and network.

Expanding its entertainment media advocacy, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) made Queer Lounge a part of its media programs portfolio in August 2007.

“2008 promises to be a banner year for Queer Lounge thanks to its new location and highly-anticipated new films from some of our most celebrated gay filmmakers,” said Queer Lounge founder Ellen Huang.

She noted that Alan Ball (American Beauty), Craig Lucas (Longtime Companion), Bruce La Bruce (Hustler White), Isaac Julien (Young Soul Rebels) and Tom Kalin (Swoon), returning with producer Christine Vachon (Boys Don’t Cry), will all premiere new films at Sundance, while Greg Araki’s The Living End and Derek Jarman’s EDWARD II will be screened in the Festival’s “From the Collection” category.

“One of the most exciting developments this year is the opportunity to see how queer film has come full circle,” Huang added. “Many of the same directors who put queer film on the map will be back in full force.”

In early January, Queer Lounge will announce its 2008 programs in Park City which will include its trademark mix of panels, parties, exhibits, and special

Director Tom Kalin returns to Sundance 16 years after his debut feature Swoon helped define the “New Queer Cinema” movement of the early 1990s. Like his first film, Savage Grace focuses on a notorious, true-life murder case with a gay perpetrator who ignited a media frenzy.

Kalin’s newest film continues in the style of Swoon by seeking to fill in the grisly crime’s rich and complicated back story. Savage Grace focuses on a former actress and social climber who met a tragic end after attempting to “cure” her son of his homosexuality.

Join the director, producer and screenwriter for a discussion about the dangerous and transgressive individuals that inhabit Kalin’s work, the challenging queer images he puts onscreen, and the true story behind Savage Grace.

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Sundance Film Festival Sundance Institute presents the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, an exhibition of work that showcases the best of independent cinema from January 17–27, 2008. Screenings will take place in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and the Sundance Resort in Provo Canyon. The Sundance box offices are located at the Gateway Center in Park City and Trolley Square in Salt Lake City.

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Be Like Others

World Documentary Competition

Director/Screenwriter: Tanaz Eshaghian

(Canada, 2008, 74 min., color, Sony HD Cam)

In a country where homosexuality remains an offense punishable by death, this documentary asserts that many young gay men and women in Iran are opting to undergo gender reassignment surgery, which is their only legal option under their country’s interpretation of Islamic law. This film explores a culture in which shame and fear have led many to take For more information: extreme measures in an attempt www.sundance.org to find acceptance.

Sundance Features

Sat Jan 19, 6:30PM–Redstone Cinemas Mon Jan 21, 7:00PM–Holiday Vlg Cin IV Wed Jan 23, 11:30 AM–Holiday Vlg Cin II Thu Jan 24, 8:30 AM–Holiday Vlg Cin II Sat Jan 26, 1:30PM–Broadway Centre VI

Director: Craig Lucas Screenwriter: Elyse Friedman Cast: Matthew Perry, Hillary Swank, Ginnifer Goodwin, Ben Foster, Lauren Graham

(USA, 2007, 89 min., color, Sony HD Cam)

The latest film from director Craig Lucas (Longtime Companion, The T Dying Gaul) follows three siblings P who were forced to cope with D S their parents’ death while still C children, and who must now force themselves to grow up and get ( along when they suddenly find A themselves reunited. One of the c d film’s supporting characters is struggling with their own identity s w issues.

Thu Jan 24, 5:30PM–Prospector Square t Fri Jan 25, 11:30AM–Library Center U Sat Jan 26, 6:00PM–Egyptian Theatre Sun Jan 27, 6:30PM–Rose Wagner

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An American Soldier Director/Screenwriter: Edet Belzberg Cast: Teresa Palmer, Joel Mackenzie, Frank Sweet

(USA, 2007, 86 min., color, Sony HD Cam)

Sergeant First Class Clay Usie is one of the most successful army recruiters in the country; he also acts as a mentor to high-school students training to become soldiers, many of whom will eventually be deployed to Iraq. One of the soldiers he recruits, and whom this film follows closely over a period of nine months, is revealed to be a lesbian.

Fri Jan 18, 2:30PM–Prospector Square Sat Jan 19, 10:00AM–Holiday Vlg Cin IV Sun Jan 20, 6:45PM–Broadway Centre Wed Jan 23, 3:15PM–Holiday Vlg Cin III Fri Jan 25, 11:30AM–Holiday Vlg Cin II

Derek Bigger, Stronger, Faster (Documentary Competition)

Director: Christopher Bell Screenwriters: Christopher Bell, Alexander Buono, Tamsin Rawady (USA, 2007, 105 min., color, Sony HD Cam)

After his two brothers found themselves caught up in the dangerous subculture of performance-enhancing drugs and steroids, director Christopher Bell decided to turn his camera on the social pressures that lead some to take drastic steps in pursuit of physical perfection. Among those interviewed is an HIV-positive man and proponent of steroid therapy.

Sat Jan 19, 8:30PM–Holiday Vlg Cin II Sun Jan 20, 10:30PM–Broadway Centre VI Tue Jan 22, 2:30PM–Library Center Wed Jan 23, 12:15PM–Holiday Vlg Cin III Fri Jan 25, 11:45PM–Holiday Vlg Cin III

World Documentary Competition

Director: Isaac Julien Narrator: Tilda Swinton

(UK, 2008, 76 min., color, Sony HD Cam)

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( As one of the most important D British filmmakers of the late 20th century, Derek Jarman produced cinematic works of art C that reclaimed and restaged clas- ( sical history with an unapologetically queer sensibility. Fourteen S f years after his death, director Isaac Julien and longtime Jarman d collaborator Tilda Swinton have i crafted Derek to celebrate the life g and legacy of one of film’s true m o visionaries. f Sat Jan 19, 6:30PM–Holiday Vlg Cin IV Mon Jan 21, 8:30AM–Holiday Vlg Cin II f Mon Jan 21, 6:30PM–Rose Wagner Tue Jan 22, 12:15PM–Holiday Vlg Cin III s o

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to figure out who he is and what he was before, while an aspiring filmmaker decides he’s the perfect star for her cinematic revolt against our consumerist society.

Edward II

The Living End

Director: Derek Jarman Screenwriters: Stephen McBride, Ken Butler, Derek Jarman Cast: Steven Waddington, Tilda Swinton, Andrew Tiernan

Director/Screenwriter: Gregg Araki Cast: Mike Dytri, Craig Gilmore, Darcy Marta

(From the Collection)

(UK, 1991, 90 min., color, 16mm)

Late director Derek Jarman’s take on Christopher Marlowe’s classic play tells the tragic story of King Edward II whose readiness to sacrifice his power and standing to be with his lover Gaveston would ultimately prove the couple’s undoing. This highly stylized cinematic adaptation brings the homoerotic subtext of the original source material visibly to the forefront.

(From the Collection)

Director Gregg Araki channeled a decade’s worth of rage and sorrow brought on by the AIDS epidemic into The Living End — a brash take on the American road movie that follows two HIVpositive gay men reacting to a hostile world with self-alienation and anarchistic violence.

Fri Jan 18, 8:30PM–Prospector Square Sat Jan 19, 4:30PM–Broadway Centre

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (Dramatic Competition)

Premieres)

Director: Amy Redford Screenwriter: Amos Poe Cast: Saffron Burrows, Paz De La Huerta, Isaach De Bankole (USA, 2007, 95 min., color, 35 mm)

After discovering she has terminal cancer, Mel (Saffron Burrows) decides to cram as much living as she can into her remaining time, which includes learning to play the guitar and flings with both a UPS guy and a pizza girl.

Fri Jan 18, 3:15PM–Eccles Theatre Sat Jan 19, midnight - Egyptian Theatre Mon Jan 21, 6:30PM–Peery’s Egyptian Theatre, Ogden Wed Jan 23, 9:00PM–Screening Room, Sundance Resort Sat Jan 26, 9:30PM–Rose Wagner

Sun Jan 20, 5:30PM–Racquet Club Mon Jan 21, 8:30AM–Racquet Club Tue Jan 22, 9:00PM–Broadway Centre Wed Jan 23, 11:30AM–Racquet Club Thu Jan 24, 3:15PM–Eccles Theatre

Set in a futuristic world scarred from global and environmental disasters, this gorgeous and inventive film follows a family’s growing uncertainty after single mother Saura meets a mysterious suitor. At the same time, frustrated daughter Pam longs for a young gay man named Scott struggling for acceptance from his own fundamentalist parents.

Sat Tue Fri Sat

Jan 19, 9:00PM–Holiday Vlg Cin III Jan 22, 3:00PM–Egyptian Theatre Jan 25, 6:30PM–Holiday Vlg Cin IV Jan 26, 12:45PM–Broadway Centre V

Director: Peque Varela

(Dramatic Competition)

Director/Screenwriter: Daniel Barnz Cast: Felicity Huffman, Patricia Clarkson, Elle Fanning (USA, 2007, 96 min., color, 35mm)

The different psychological realities of children and adults are explored in writer/director Daniel Barnzs’ tale of a frustrated academic struggling to raise her daughter, Phoebe, a gifted child prone to escapist fantasies, who wants to take part in a school production of Alice in Wonderland.

Sun Jan 20, 2:30PM–Racquet Club Mon Jan 21, 11:30PM–Library Center Tue Jan 22, 6:30PM–Rose Wagner Thu Jan 24, 9:15AM–Eccles Theatre Fri Jan 25, 8:30PM–Racquet Club

(United Kingdom, 2007, 9 min., color)

Savage Grace (Premieres)

Director: Tom Kalin Screenwriter: Howard A. Rodman Cast: Julianne Moore, Eddie Redmayne, Stephen Dillane (USA, 2007, 96 min., color, 35 mm)

Based on true events, this film tells the story of unabashed social climber Barbara Daly, who, after watching her marriage to a wealthy man crumble, later attempts to “cure” her son’s homosexuality with tragic results.

Savage Grace marks director Tom Kalin’s return to Sundance 16 years after his first feature, Swoon, helped define “New Queer Cinema.”

Sun Jan 20, 9:30PM–Rose Wagner Fri Jan 25, 6:15PM–Eccles Theatre Sat Jan 26, 11:30AM–Racquet Club

Pretty Bird

(Dramatic Competition)

Director/Screenwriter: Paul Schneider Cast: Billy Crudup, Paul Giamatti, Kristen Wiig, Denis O’Hare (USA, 2008, 120 min., color, 35mm)

The spirit of invention is alive and well in Curtis Prentiss, a driven man intent on creating a rocket-powered belt, who finds unexpected success when he teams with an out of work aerospace engineer and a friend with the funds to underwrite the project. At least one of the film’s characters will come out of the closet by the film’s end as well.

Sunshine Cleaning

Director Bruce LaBruce has never been one for modesty or self-censorship, and his latest tale following a gay zombie is no exception. Poor Otto is a rather confused zombie. He struggles

Fri Sat Tue Sat

Jan 18, 5:30PM–Prospector Square Jan 19, 3:00PM–Broadway Centre IV Jan 22, 6:15PM–Holiday Vlg Cin III Jan 26, 3:15PM–Eccles Theatre

From the powerhouse gay producing team of Neil Meron and Craig Zadan comes this

Director: Kevin Lee Burton

(Canada, 2007, 12 min, color, Sony HD Cam)

The narrative of the Cree people is deconstructed by the filmmaker, who attempts to create a linguistic soundscape in this beautiful short.

(International Experimental, Shown as part of Shorts Program I)

Director: Jules Nurrish

(United Kingdom, 2007, 3 min., color, Sony HD Cam)

Toying with the visual signifiers of gender, two androgynous individuals with chests bound by black tape dance on gallery podiums, in director Jules Nurrish’s homage to the living sculptures of cheeky art-world icons Gilbert and George.

Fri Jan 18, 10:00AM–Holiday Vlg Cin IV Fri Jan 18, midnight - Holiday Vlg Cin IV Sat Jan 19, 7:30PM–Broadway Centre VI Sun Jan 20, 9:15AM–Holiday Vlg Cin III Wed Jan 23, 6:15PM–Holiday Vlg Cin III Sat Jan 26, midnight - Holiday Vlg Cin IV

Pariah

(US Dramatic. Shown as part of Shorts Program IV)

Director: Dee Rees

(USA, 2007, 27 min., color, Sony HD Cam)

A lesbian teen living in the Bronx must juggle multiple identities to maintain peace between her personal and familial lives, but as the pressures of her double life mount, the wall between her personas begins to crumble.

Fri Jan 18, 9:15AM–Holiday Vlg Cin III Fri Jan 18, 11:45PM–Holiday Vlg Cin III Sat Jan 19, 8:30PM–Prospector Square Sun Jan 20, 9:45PM–Broadway Centre V Sat Jan 26, 2:30PM–Library Center

(USA, 2007, 102 min., color, Sony HD Cam)

In an effort to turn their lives around, two sisters start a crime scene cleaning business and quickly learn that the job requires more than just elbow grease.

Things get even more complicated when sister Norah becomes sexually obsessed with a blood bank technician named Lynn.

La Corona (The Crown) (US Documentary, Shown as part of Documentary Spotlight)

Directors: Amanda Micheli, Isabel Vega

(USA, 2007, 40 min., color, Sony HD Cam)

A women’s prison in Bogota, Columbia is the setting for a very unique beauty pageant, in which the contestants are comprised of thieves, assassins, and guerillas.

Fri Jan 18, 8:30AM–Prospector Square Fri Jan 18, 10:30PM–Broadway Centre VI Sat Jan 19, 12:15PM–Holiday Vlg Cin III Mon Jan 21, 5:30PM–Prospector Square Sat Jan 26, 5:30PM–Library Center

(Premieres)

(USA, 2007, 131 min., color, Sony HD Cam)

(International Experimental, Screening with The Linguists)

Bend It

A Raisin in the Sun Director: Kenny Leon Screenwriter: Paris Qualles Cast: Sanaa Lathan, Audra McDonald, Phylicia Rashad, Sean Combs, John Stamos

Nikamowin

Fri Jan 18, noon - Egyptian Theatre Sat Jan 19, 12:45PM–Broadway Centre Sat Jan 19, 11:30PM–Prospector Square

Director: Christine Jeffs Screenwriter: Megan Holley Cast: Emily Blunt, Amy Adams, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Steve Zahn, Alan Arkin

(Midnight)

(Germany/Canada, 2007, 95 min., color & b/w, 35 mm)

A young school girl’s anxieties about not fitting in with her more feminine classmates manifest as a bitter, little knot of black energy in this inventively animated short.

(Dramatic Competition)

Fri Jan 18, 8:30PM–Racquet Club Sat Jan 19, 6:30PM–Rose Wagner Sun Jan 20, 12:15PM–Eccles Theatre Mon Jan 21, 9:30PM–Redstone Cinemas Thu Jan 24, 11:30PM–Library Center Fri Jan 25, 11:30AM–Racquet Club

Otto; Or, Up With Dead People Director/Screenwriter: Bruce LaBruce Cast: Jey Crisfar, Katharina Klewinghaus, Marcel Schlutt, Christophe Chemin

Fri Jan 18, 8:30AM–Holiday Vlg Cin II Fri Jan 18, 11:30PM–Holiday Vlg Cin II Sat Jan 19, 3:45PM–Broadway Centre V Sun Jan 20, 5:30PM–Prospector Square Thu Jan 24, 6:30PM–Holiday Vlg Cin IV Sat Jan 26, 5:30PM–Prospector Square

Towelhead (Premieres)

Director/Screenwriter: Alan Ball Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Maria Bello, Toni Collette, Summer Bishil

Lloyd Neck

Sunlit Shadows

(US Dramatic, Shown as part of Shorts Program V)

Director: Benjamin M. Piety

(USA, 2007, 14 min., color, Sony HD Cam)

A “visual mix-tape” that combines music with beautifully lit cinematography to evoke the conflicting emotions in letting go of a lost love.

Fri Jan 18, 8:30AM–Holiday Vlg Cin II Fri Jan 18, 11:30PM–Holiday Vlg Cin II Sat Jan 19, 3:45PM–Broadway Centre V Sun Jan 20, 5:30PM–Prospector Square Thu Jan 24, 6:30PM–Holiday Vlg Cin IV Sat Jan 26, 5:30PM–Prospector Square

(US Dramatic, Shown as part of Shorts Program V)

Director: Benedict Campbell

(USA, 2007, 16 min., color, Sony HD Cam)

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(USA, 2008, 116 min., color, Sony HD Cam)

Sat Jan 19, 9:00PM–Broadway Centre IV Thu Jan 24, 9:30PM–Eccles Theatre Fri Jan 25, 8:30AM–Prospector Square

A young girl with a crush on her brother’s best friend notice’s that Jesse’s feelings for her brother may be more than platonic. In one of the last days of summer, the three spend the day taking pictures in a Long Island state park before college inevitably separates the boys.

(International Animated, Shown as part of Animation Spotlight)

Phoebe In Wonderland

Sun Jan 20, 8:30PM–Racquet Club Tue Jan 22, 11:30PM–Library Center Wed Jan 23, 9:15AM–Eccles Theatre Thu Jan 24, 9:00PM–Sundance Resort Screening Room Fri Jan 25, 2:30PM–Racquet Club

(New Frontiers)

From the creator of Six Feet Under, Alan Ball’s adaptation of Alicia Erian’s novel follows the sexual awakening of a 13-yearold Arab American girl named Jasira who becomes involved with an army reservist living in her neighborhood.

1977

(USA, 2007, 95 min., color, 35 mm)

This adaptation of Michael Chabon’s celebrated novel follows aimless mobster’s son Art Bechstein in the summer that he meets Jane and Cleveland, a couple with whom he soon finds himself in a bisexual love triangle and increasingly risky situations.

(USA, 2007, 115 min., color, 35mm)

Sundance Shorts

Director/Screenwriter: Rawson Marshall Thurber Cast: Jon Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Sienna Miller, Mena Suvari, Nick Nolte

Half-life

Director/Screenwriter: Jennifer Phang Cast: Sanoe Lake, Leonardo Nam, Julia Nickson

Wed Jan 23, 3:15PM–Eccles Theatre Thu Jan 24, noon - Egyptian Theatre Thu Jan 24, 9:30PM–Rose Wagner

(USA, 1992, 92 min., color, Sony HD Cam)

Fri Jan 18, 6:45PM–Broadway Ctr Cin V Sun Jan 20, 2:30PM–Holiday Vlg Cin II

The Guitar

Sat Jan 19, 11:30PM–Library Center Sun Jan 20, 3:00PM–Egyptian Theatre Tue Jan 22, 10:30PM–Broadway Centre IV Sat Jan 26, 9:00PM–Egyptian Theatre

latest take on the classic play

by Lorraine Hansberry, featuring several Tony Award-winning performers from its acclaimed Broadway revival. Set in 1950s Chicago, the story focuses on the Younger family as they wait to receive an insurance check that may change all their lives.

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(From the Series Earth People 2507, US Experimental, Screening with Half-Life)

Director: Nao Bustamente

(USA, 2007, 4 min., color, Sony HD Cam)

Seeking to create a â&#x20AC;&#x153;time capsuleâ&#x20AC;? to be opened in the year 2507, Bustamente has created an assemblage of found footage, crude video, and stampeding poodles to be the first in a series of films meant for future generations to re-experience.

Sat Tue Fri Sat

Jan 19, 9:00PMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Holiday Vlg Cin III Jan 22, 3:00PMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Egyptian Theatre Jan 25, 6:30PMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Holiday Vlg Cin IV Jan 26, 12:45PMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Broadway Centre V

Slamdance Film Festival

Called stalkers by the media, the two individuals profiled in this film would probably describe their shared obsession with 80â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pop star Tiffany in far more benign terms. One of the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s subjects, Slamdance Film Festival Denver native Kelly McCormick, is will be held from January intersex.

17â&#x20AC;&#x201C;25, 2008. Slamdanceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sun Jan 20, 12:30PMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Treasure Mtn Inn box-office is located at Wed Jan 23, 9:30PMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Treasure Mtn Inn 255 Main Street in Park City, Utah. Tickets are $11 or $8.50 for Utah residents. Screenings will be held at Slamdanceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s headquarters, Treasure Mtn Inn, at the top of Main Street in Park City along with venues in Salt Lake. Pageant For more information: www.slamdance.com

The Wrestling

(International Dramatic, Shown as part of Shorts Program II)

Director: Grimur Hakonarson

(Iceland, 2007, 20 min., color, 35mm)

A pair of wrestlers living in rural Iceland must hide their relationship from the macho sporting world to which they belong.

Fri Fri Sat Tue Sat

Jan 18, 8:30AMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Racquet Club Jan 18, 6:00PMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Tower Theatre Jan 19, 1:00PMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Holiday Vlg Cin IV Jan 22, 5:30PMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Prospector Square Jan 26, 9:15PMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Holiday Vlg Cin III

Goodbye Baby

Director/Screenwriter: Daniel Schechter Cast: Christine Evangelista, Kevin Corrigan, Ivan Sandomire, Kane Manera

Directors/Screenwriters: Ron Davis, Stewart Halpern

(USA, 2008, 95 min., color) When most people think of drag queens, vulgar humor and awkward lip singing very often spring to mind. But as the contestants in the 34th Miss Gay USA pageant prove, professional female impersonation requires hard work, artistry, and a competitorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s edge.

This documentary follows five diverse gay men as they travel to Memphis, Tennessee to compete for the title.

Sat Jan 19, 7:00PMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Treasure Mtn Inn Tue Jan 22, 12:30PMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Treasure Mtn Inn

(USA, 2001, 87 min., color)

Xanadu

(New Frontier)

(USA, 2007, Installation) As part of the free exhibitions at the New Frontier space on Main Street, Robert Boydâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s installation Xanadu will be shown every day in a single channel presentation.

In rapid fire, music style montages, Boyd throws a disco track over images of doomsday cults, political figures, and fundamentalist rage against feminism and gay rights.

Jan 18-25, 2:30 PM Daily - New Frontier @ 333 Main Street

Felicia

(Screening with Pageant)

Director: Tim Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hara (USA, 8 min.)

Sync or Swim

Director/Screenwriter: Cheryl Furjanic (USA, 2008, 100 min., color)

Synchronized swimming doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t spring to many peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s minds when they think of the toughest Olympic competitions, but this documentary seeks to show just how much grueling training actually goes on behind the scenes.

Sun Jan 20, 7:00PMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Treasure Mtn Inn Tue Jan 22, 9:30PMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Treasure Mtn Inn

Slamdance Shorts Broken English

Director: Oscar Alvarez (USA, 10 min.)

(Screening with Neo-Lounge)

With his outrageous publicity stunts and audience participation gimmicks, horror-movie impresario William Castle revolutionized the movie going experience, and crossed paths with some quite notorious figures along the way.

John Waters is among those interviewed on Castleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legacy.

(France, 8 min.)

I Think Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re Alone Now Director/Screenwriter: Sean Donnelly

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(USA, 15 min.)

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, this documentary short follows one New Orleans gay man who refused to evacuate, choosing to stay behind and care for his 18 pets.

Director: Karl Tebbe (Germany, 4 min.)

Having grown up coveting the dance moves and pop bravado of Michael Jackson, director Tebbe gives it his all in a naked â&#x20AC;&#x153;technosoulâ&#x20AC;? performance, assisted by some stop-motion animation.

Fri Jan 18, 2:30PMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Treasure Mtn Inn Tue Jan 22, 11:00AMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Treasure Mtn Inn

(Screening with Shorts Block 4)

Director: Josephine Mackerras

Having been rejected by the town he grew up in, a drag queen moves to Paris in the hopes of living a better life, only to find new difficulties.

Sun Jan 20, 11:00AMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Treasure Mtn Inn Wed Jan 23, 2:30PMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Treasure Mtn Inn

Feedback

Mariquita Con Perro (Fag With Dog) (Screening with Shorts Block 3)

Director: Vicente Villanueva

Director: Michael Lucid

(USA, 7 min.)

Using plastic dolls in place of actors, this short tells a tale of a gay manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;love and longingâ&#x20AC;? set inside carefully crafted, miniaturized sets.

(Screening with Shorts Block 6)

Director: Jonathan Lisecki (USA, 20 min.)

An actress named Sarita hopes to land a role as the ghost of an Iraqi rape victim, but no one seems to know anything about the film.

Director Lisecki also shows up as Saritaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;uber-gayâ&#x20AC;? agent.

Sun Jan 20, 2:30PMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Treasure Mtn Inn Wed Jan 23, 4:30PMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Treasure Mtn Inn

Park City Music Film Festival

The Park City Film Music Festival recognizes the contribution of composers and music to film.

Screenings will take place from January 17-27, 2008 at the Main Street Mall, 333 Main Street, in Park City, Utah and at Dumke Recital Hall at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.

For more information: parkcityfilmmusicfestival.org

Salvation

Director/Screenwriter: J.A. Steel Cast: Heather, Surdukan, Ben Bayless, Glen Jensen (USA, 2008, 16mm)

Fri Jan 18, 11:00AMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Treasure Mtn Inn Sun Jan 20, 4:30PMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Treasure Mtn Inn

Sat Jan 19, 9:45PMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Main Street Mall

A narrative short following an animated Spanish talk show host named Pablo, and the little dog that accompanies him.

(Screening with Shorts Block 2)

Out actor Jack Plotnick stars in this short film, in which a talented storyteller receives some

Director: Bryan Jackson

(Spain, 15 min.)

Serene Hunter

(Screening with $99 Specials)

(Screening with Shorts Block 5)

Woman in Burka

A fetishistic relationship between a young man named Heiko and his seventy-year-old lover is suddenly taken to extremes in a sci-fi twist.

(Screening with Shorts Block 2)

Diva

Softly

(Portugal, 13 min.)

Karaoke Show

Fri Jan 18, 4:30PMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Treasure Mtn Inn Tue Jan 22, 7:00PMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Treasure Mtn Inn

Fri Jan 18, 2:30PMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Treasure Mtn Inn Tue Jan 22, 11:00AMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Treasure Mtn Inn

Sat Jan 19, 4:30PMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Treasure Mtn Inn Thu Jan 24, 11:00AMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Treasure Mtn Inn

Director: David Bonneville

Sat Jan 19, 3:30PMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Treasure Mtn Inn Tue Jan 22, 4:30PMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Treasure Mtn Inn

City of Cranes

to move in with his boyfriend Sebastien, but the arrival of Lucâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Los Angeles lover Jon complicates matters.

(Screening with Shorts Block 4)

Director: Brent Joseph

Mon Jan 21, 12:30PMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Treasure Mtn Inn Wed Jan 23, 7:00PMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Treasure Mtn Inn

(USA, 2008, 5 min.)

Heiko

(Screening with My Motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Garden)

A Latino high school student fights for a spot in an advanced placement biology class, which he qualified for, but was denied entry.

Director: Jeffrey Schwarz

Tue Jan 22, 10:45PMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Treasure Mtn Inn

Sat Jan 19, 7:00PMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Treasure Mtn Inn Tue Jan 22, 12:30PMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Treasure Mtn Inn

Holdout

(Screening with The Project)

From the metal cage that makes up his workplace, a crane operator shares his experiences and observations after years of viewing humanity from hundreds of feet above.

Spine Tingler!: The William Castle Story

Though she faces an uncertain future with barely enough income to cover her burial, an aging transgender woman named Felicia Elizondo keeps a positive outlook in this documentary short.

Sun Jan 20, 11:00AMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Treasure Mtn Inn Wed Jan 23, 2:30PMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Treasure Mtn Inn

(U.K., 14 min.)

(USA, 2007, 80 min., color & b/w)

Director: Robert Boyd

Fri Jan 25, 9:30AMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Treasure Mtn Inn

Director: Eva Weber

Fresh off the boat in New York City, Melissa moves into a small one-bedroom apartment shared by her brother Robbie and his boyfriend, and takes a waitress job while pursuing her dream of becoming a stand-up comic.

Tue Jan 22, 8:30PMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Treasure Mtn Inn Wed Jan 23, 3:30PMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Treasure Mtn Inn

unwanted feedback.

(USA, 2008, 70 min., color)

Director: Jason Bushman

After being resurrected, a murdered girl must choose a side in a heavenly battle between good and evil that has been waged for centuries.

Sources: Queer Lounge, SUndance Film Festival, Slamdance Film Festival, Park City Music FIlm Festival

(France/USA, 13 min.)

A young Parisian named Luc trades a life of anonymous sex

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Sundance Film Festival Screening Times SUN = SUNDANCE SLAM = SLAMDANCE PCFMF = PARK CITY FILM MUSIC FESTIVAL

Friday, Jan. 18 8:30AM

La Corona SUN

Prospector, Park City

Lloyd Neck SUN

Hldy Vlg Cin II, Park City

Sunlit Shadows SUN

Hldy Vlg Cin II, Park City

The Wrestling SUN

Raquet Club, Park City

9:15 AM

Pariah SUN

Hldy Vlg Cin III, Park City

10:00 AM

Bend It SUN

Hldy Vlg Cin IV, Park City

11:00 AM

Mariquita Con Perro (Fag With Dog)

Treasure Mtn Inn, Park City

Noon

Nikamowin SUN

Egyptian Theatre, Park City

2:30 PM

An American Soldier SUN

3:30 PM

Holdout SLAM Treasure MTN Inn, Park City

3:45 PM

Lloyd Neck SUN Broadway Ctr V, Park City

Sunlit Shadows SUN

Broadway Ctr V, Park City

4:30 PM

The Living End SUN Broadway Ctr, Park City

Softly SLAM Treasure MTN Inn, Park City

6:30 PM

Be Like Others SUN Redstone Cinemas, Park City

Derek SUN

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The Gay Agenda

Mary Beth Maziarz See Jan. 24

YOUR CALENDAR OF ARTS, ENTERTAINMENT & IMPORTANT EVENTS

Since I was a little tike, I’ve been prone to bouts of severe motion sickness. In fact, more often than not I would suddenly tip off my Big Wheel in a wave of vertigo. My dad was certain I had some kind of learning disability, which could still be true since I never was tested. But alas, I braved the Monarch of the Seas with buckets of non-drowsy Dramamine, and am proud to say I was more prone to the alcohol spins. Big thanks to all the pharmaceutical companies who keep us sedated!

17THURSDAY Q Which questions and comments will send your legislator into a tizzie fit and which might actually get them to think? What are those blue notes passed around in the hallways at the capitol? Who are my legislators, anyway? Learn the answers to these and much more at the Salt Lake Citizen Lobbyist Training sponsored by ­Equality Utah.

6–8pm, Capitol Complex West Building, Rm W135. RSVP to keri@equalityutah. org. These sessions fill up.

18FRIDAY Q Local up and coming visual artist Kristopher Scott has many years experience working with several different mediums from pencil to photography. His work reflects his love of nature and the human form. Scott will be in attendance tonight during the gallery stroll reception to discuss and answer questions about his works.

6–9pm Tonight, 9am–6pm Mon.–Sat., through Feb. 13, Visage Studio Salon, 2006 S. 900 East.

19SATURDAY Q When Scarpia, Rome’s treacherous chief of police, develops a violent passion for Tosca, a famous singer, she must make deals with the devil to save the man she loves. Who will survive this tangled web of deceit, double-crosses, and murder? This famous opera by Giacomo Puccini is sung in Italian with English supertitles.

7:30pm, through Jan. 27, Capitol Theatre, 50 W 200 South. Tickets $12-48, 355-ARTS or arttix.org.

Q It is said that Diamonds are a girl’s best friend, and I say that shoes are a gay boy’s best friend — mostly because I just bought my 27th pair last weekend. Anyhoo, check out the Imperial Rainbow Court of Northern

Utah’s show, hosted by themazi threetiered Diamonds: Kendra, Sherry and Zsa Zsa. 9pm. The Brass Rail, a private club for members, 103 27th Street, Ogden. Tickets $5 at the door, 801-399-1543 or irconu.org.

22TUESDAY Q In correlation with Bisexual Awareness Month, Utah Pride Center’s Bisexual Support Group hosts a screening of Kinsey, starring Liam Neeson, about the life and research of famed sexologist Alfred Kinsey. Since I’ve slept with only one woman and some 112 men (just kidding!), I’m most certainly a six on the Kinsey scale.

7pm, Utah Pride Center 355 N. 300 West.

Free, 539-8800 or utahpridecenter.org.

23WEDNESDAY Q Ruby Ridge can be such a drag. Oh wait ... that’s not it. Ruby Ridge is hosting Discrimination is a Drag at the Mynt Lounge for Equality Utah tonight right after work. Head on over and hear Ruby put the fun in fundraiser on this Rally-eve rantebration of the 2008 Utah Legislative Session.

Hold onto your nipples ... this is gonna be a bumpy year.

5:30-7pm, The Mynt, a private club for members, 63 W. First South. Suggested donation of $5 at the door. 355-3479.

24THURSDAY Q It’s time for a wowie! Equality Utah invites you to Rally for a Fair Workplace at the Capitol building. Show the Utah legislators that the majority of Utahns support equal employment rights, even for gays and lesbians.

And you can see the updated digs that your $244 million got you while you’re there.

6-7pm, Capitol Rotunda. 355-3479.

Q Planned Parenthood Action Council and the Pro-Choice Advocates celebrate the 35th anniversary of Roe vs.

Wade with food, a cash bar and live music from the local band Andale!.

This two-woman/two-man member band says their music’s influenced by alcohol. Woohoo! Your support will help protect your reproductive rights, especially when too much alcohol is involved.

7–9pm, Bar Deluxe, a private club for members, 666 S. State Street. Tickets $20/ adv.–$25/door, 328-8939 or ppacutah.org.

Q I was first introduced to the incredible musical styling of Mary Beth Maziarz during last year’s Park City Arts Festival. I quickly snatched up her CD, and am still glad I did. She is blond and beautiful with a voice to match. She’s an accomplished pianist with a soulful heart that resonates

through her music. “This is Our Life” is a touching, romantic single that’s perfect as a wedding (or civil union) song. Check her out on stage with local band Lord Mandrake.

7pm, Kilby Court, 741 S. 330 West. Tickets $6 at the door, 320-9887 or kilbycourt.com.

Q Hunky country music sensation Brad Paisley, who has garnered oodles of awards and holds a record of 38 nomminations from the Country Music Awards, brings his sexy cowboy hat and hot bushy eyebrows to Salt Lake for a night of grand ole time.

7:30pm, Energy Solutions Arena, 301 W. South Temple. Tickets $32.75–48, ticketmaster.com.

25FRIDAY Q Adapted from the book by Michael Cunningham and Craig Marberry, Crowns is a moving and celebratory musical play in which hats become a springboard for a compelling exploration of African-American traditions.

Hats are everywhere, in exquisite variety, and the characters use the hats to tell tales concerning everything from the etiquette of hats to their historical and contemporary social functions.

7:30pm, through Feb. 9, Grand Theatre, 1575 S. State Street. Tickets $10–24, 9573322 or the-grand.org.

26SATURDAY Q The Royal Court of the Golden Spike Empire presents the 26th annual Mr., Miss & Ms. Gay Utah Gay Pageant. There will be beauty, intellect (or a lack there of), hot bods and possibly bulimia. Just keep your fingers crossed there won’t be any makeup brush sabotage — that’s just plain unsportsman-like.

8:30pm, The Trapp Door, a private club for members, 615 W. 100 South. Tickets $6 at the door, 533-0173.

Q If the new upgraded lighting at Trapp Door doesn’t meet your required weekend-sensory overload, then check out the return of the Pink Floyd Laserspectacular. With 10,000 watts of concert-quality power, Pink Floyd takes over the entire theater as it surrounds the audience with a bag of visual tricks, including 3-D imagery, animated neon figures and more.

7:30pm, Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle. Tickets $19.50–25.50, 581-7100 or kingtix.org.

Q Join the Utah Pride Center Youth Activity Center, TINT, for the 2nd annual fund raiser Châteaux de Vogue.

There will be refreshments, a drawing and entertainment by wonderful youth drag queens and kings like Trixie Belmont, Misty Lenox and others.

4–7pm, Utah Pride Center, 355 N. 300 West. Suggested donation $5, 539-8800 or utahpridecenter.org.

Q After Châteaux de Vogue — or in lieu of — check out the sweet celtic fiddling of local artist Bronwen Beecher. She is a classically trained violinist, and learned Irish and Scottish fiddling in the lively pubs of New Orleans and Ottawa.

7–9pm, Cafe Marmalade, Utah Pride Center, 355 N. 300 West. Free, 539-8800 or utahpridecenter.org.

29TUESDAY Q In honor of Westminster College’s 2007-08 campus theme Desert, it is proud to present In the Desert, a onenight concert celebrating Steve Reich’s enigmatic classical desert music, a work that captures the essence of desert. Free bottles of water will be handed out at the door, and those who are unaccompanied have the option to sit with a camel.

8pm, Vieve Gore Concert Hall, Westminster College, 1840 S. 1300 East. Tickets $10/public and free to students/faculty, 832-2457.

30WEDNESDAY

sale with nothing in common but a black lace bra, memory loss, night sweats, not enough sex and too much sex. This joyful parody set to 26 classic baby boomer songs, from “Puff, My God I’m Draggin’” to the disco favorite “Stayin’ Awake, Stayin’ Awake” will have you cheering.

7:30pm, through Feb. 17, Jeanne Wagner Theatre, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. Broadway. Tickets $25–45, 355-ARTS or arttix.org.

Q Salt Lake Acting Company presents Skin in Flames (no, it’s not based on my campfire catastrophe). An American photojournalist’s iconic photo of a schoolgirl thrown into the air by a bomb blast has made him internationally famous. Twenty years later, he returns to that third-world country to receive an award from the troubled “democracy.” Two intertwining stories create a harrowing parable of the jaundiced symbiosis between the power of the First World and the desperation of the Third.

7:30pm, through Feb. 24, Salt Lake Acting Company, 168 W 500 North. Tickets $13–34, 363-7522 or saltlakeactingcompany.org.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Feb. 8-17 — WinterPride Feb. 8 — Mika, In The Venue Mar. 6 — Matchbox Twenty, E Center Mar. 11 — Bette Midler, Las Vegas Mar. 15 — Rufus Wainwright, Park City Nov. 21 — Celine Dion, ES Arena

Q Broadway Across America presents Menopause the Musical, about four women at a Bloomingdale’s lingerie

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JUNE 14 HRC Utah Dinner hrcutah.org

If you haven’t heard of the UK’s Mika, you probably aren’t reading enough. He graced the cover of Out Magazine, over the headline “Mika: Gay/Post Gay/ Not Gay.” Mikey Rox did a review of his first CD, Life in Cartoon Motion, here in QSaltLake. (If you missed that, we have another one by Duane Wells below.)

He is being compared to fellow UK band Scissor Sisters.

Born in Beirut in 1983, his family left war-torn Lebanon when he was just a year old. The family moved to Paris, then London when he was nine. It was in London where he bagan to train under Russian opera pro Alla Ardakov and began performing in the Royal Opera House. He has a vocal range of at least three-and-a-half octaves and uses his whole range in most of his music.

His debut single, “Relax, Take it Easy,” was released in 2006, but his career took off after releasing “Grace Kelly” in January of last year.

Life in Cartoon Motion was released in February, 2007, and reached number one spots in most of Europe, and #29 in the U.S. His “camp” performances have led to speculation that he might be gay, to which he told UK Pink News, “I never talk about anything to do with my sexuality. I just don’t think I need to. People ask me all the time. But I just don’t see the point. In order to survive I’ve kind of shut up different parts of my life, and that’s one of them, especially this early in my career.

Gay or not, his incredible vocal talent and his over-the-top perfomance skills are garnering him a large gay following.

Mika will be at In the Venue February 8. Tickets are $25 at the door or $23 through smithstix.com

Mika / Life In Cartoon Motion

by Duane Wells

There are simply not enough superlatives to describe the debut album from British musical export, Mika. In a mere thirteen tracks, Mika’s stunning collection, Life In Cartoon Motion, establishes itself as a landmark pop album and in the process restores a dignity to authentic pop music and the male pop star identity that has been MIA since George Michael rode high atop the charts.

An unapologetically pop recording devoid of syncopated beats and hip hop braggadocio, Life In Cartoon Motion is the licorice sweet fruit of seeds planted by pop icons like Elton John and Freddie Mercury.

With an almost unconscious commercial appeal that will likely trump that of his musical kin Scissor Sisters, and more integrity than the majority of artists who have laid claim to the title of pop icon over the last decade, Beirut-born Mika fans the winds of musical change with

gale force on his premier release.

“Grace Kelly”, the bubbly lead single from Life In Cartoon Motion, is an ebullient homage to Freddie Mercury that brilliantly embodies the spirit of its progenitor both lyrically and vocally, while tracks like “Relax (Take It Easy)”, a song the evokes Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s biggest hit in spirit as much as in name, and the energetic “Love Today,” on which Mika’s sublime falsetto shimmies with merciless grace from note to note, approach pop dance floor nirvana.

Meanwhile, the cheeky “Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)” is one of the album’s most wickedly fun tracks in addition to being an instant classic and sure-fire favorite for the more bootylicious guys and gals of the world.

Because Life In Cartoon Motion is a feel good album drizzled liberally with a high camp sensibility and an oldfashioned sense of good fun, it represents the power of pop music at its best and restores it to its rightful throne in the pantheon of musical genres.

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JAN. 17 April 12 Citizen Lobbyist Training Stonewall Caucus, Aug. 1–3 Salt Lake County equalityutah.org Democratic Convention The Village Summit JAN. 24 utahstonewalldemocrats.org utahaids.org Rally at the Capitol AUG. 7–10 equalityutah.org April 26 PWACU River Trip Queer Prom Feb. 5 pwacu.org “The Origin of Love” Presidential Primary AUG 24 utahpridecenter.org FEB. 8–17 Center Golf Classic May 26-28 WinterPride utahpridecenter.org Royal Court of the slcwinterpride.org OCT 10–12 Golden Spike Empire Feb. 24 Salt Lake City Coronation Oscar Night America GayBowl VIII rcgse.org utahaids.org mwffl.org JUNE 6–8 Mar. 24 OCT 11 Utah Pride Festival Precinct Caucuses Coming Out Day utahpride.org (mass meetings) Breakfast JUNE 14 Mar. 28-30 utahpridecenter.org Salt Lake Men’s Choir Utah Bear and Cub “SLMC Does Hollywood” If you would like your event Contest considered for this list, email 25th Anniv. Concert ­ utahbears.com tony@­qsaltlake.com. saltlakemenschoir.org

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By Ross von Metzke

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Once, just once, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like another celebrity to fuck up more than Britney Spears. Not that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m wishing ill will on the sea of Hollywood starlets out there, but it sure would make this column a whole lot less predictable.

News flash, Britneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s at it again, this time missing her fourth scheduled deposition in her child custody hearing because she ... well, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not quite sure what she was doing.

Previous excuses that her alarm clock didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go off and that she was suffering an anxiety attack were issued through her legal team. This time, though, a reason wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t given, prompting her legal team to step down. All the while, Britney â&#x20AC;&#x201D; who would have been smart to stay out of sight for the afternoon â&#x20AC;&#x201D; was filmed caravaning around town in her â&#x20AC;&#x2122;cedes, hand clamped over her mouth.

Bad fish, Britney?

Whatever caused Brit to make the universal sign for â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m gonna ralph,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; she spent about an hour driving aimlessly and then beat it back to her luxury pad in the hills.

Then, some sorry ass judge who apparently has nothing better to do with his spare time than sit around and wait for Britney to surface, decided to give the pop tart one last shot. And on Jan. 4, finally, Britney showed up for her deposition ... her legal team standing by her once again. She showed up late and left early.

Where she was off to, who can say?

Maybe Starbucks is having one of their frequent customer appreciation days and Britney had to make it on time to receive her complimentary double shot of bull shit.

But of course! In the hours since sitting down to write this, Britneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gone off her rocker again, this time landing herself in the psych ward. Honestly, at this point, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s passed entertaining and gone directly to sad without passing go or collecting $200.

Further down the Spears food chain â&#x20AC;&#x201D; this is where I would typically talk about the latest challenges unwed, underage mama-to-be Jamie Lynn Spears is facing as she plugs along toward motherhood â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but GayWired. com writer Bryan Ochalla has done the leg work for me in an open letter to her.

Here he addresses rumors

like the one about the 40-something Nickelodeon exec who may have knocked her up.

Statutory rape? That her mom would pimp her out for a dollar? That sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s indeed six months pregnant? I love it!

Of course, a letter to Jamie Lynn would be pointless if it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t include her mom. Check out what he has to say to the dynamic duo at gaywired.com.

At the very least â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and, admittedly, at this point, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not saying much â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Jamie Lynn is seemingly enjoying a sober pregnancy.

Sobriety, however, is often challenged this time of year in Hollywood.

As celebs ring in the New Year round

the globe, the alcohol is typically flowing freely. This might explain why reports are trickling in accompanied by video footage of Lindsay Lohan chugging what looks like champagne straight from the bottle at tmz.com.

Lohan has been living it up in Capri, where she reportedly dropped damn near $1,000 on booze for some of her closest friends.

Apparently trying to escape U.S. awards season â&#x20AC;&#x201D; while others bask in the glow of their Golden Globe nominations, Lohan was voted the worst actress of the year by a poll of some 4,000 moviegoers â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Lohan hightailed it over to the Euro hot spot with her bleach blonde bangs, her very hairy hook up (see pics of him over at Perez Hiltonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s blog at perezhilton.com) and some bubbly.

While folks from said party are attempting to spin the video â&#x20AC;&#x201D; â&#x20AC;&#x153;there were plenty of non-alcoholic beverages to drink,â&#x20AC;? one source said â&#x20AC;&#x201D; how many times have you and your closest friends taken to the dance floor to chug a bottle of Martinelliâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sparkling Cider? At that point, just gimme a Red Bull and letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s call it a night.

According to a quote received by the Huffington Post, Lohanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lawyer said: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The good news was that Lindsay stopped herself that night, called her sponsor and got herself immediately back on track. There is no magic cure here. The most unfortunate part of this is that Lindsay has to share her â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;one day at a timeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; with the entire world.â&#x20AC;?

Hey, her little sis could always go out and get pregnant. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d take the heat off Lindsay.

At least thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one list Lindsay didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that of celebs supposedly banned from seeing Victoria Beckham perform live.

Apparently, just as most celebs have a guest list when they roll into town, when the Spice Girls come to a venue near you, Posh also hands over list of folks she wants banned from the arena — British folk mostly.

Two of whom, at least, have gone head to head with Vicky on the charts.

No Lily Allen, and judging from some of this chick’s blogs, I can’t say I blame her. She sounds nuts.

No Sophie Ellis Bextor. Well, I suppose I’d want to keep a girl whose biggest hit is called “Murder on the Dance Floor” away from me, too.

No Graham Norton. I guess not all the gays love Posh.

And no Jordan. Who’s Jordan? A British socialite who looks like a cross

between Anna Nicole Smith and Jenna Jameson. She probably tried to mount David. Hell, screw having her banned from the arena. If she did that, I’d hire a hitman and have the bitch offed.

No word on what happens if the other four Spice Girls try and sneak a peek at Posh’s dressing room.

And in perhaps the week’s most pathetic news, apparently Cash Call called about their money and Gary Coleman didn’t have the funds.

What’s a former child star who lost all his dough to money-grubbing parents to do? Pick up a few polos and khakis from Gap, sign his John Hancock and put the pint-sized clothing up for auction.

At last check, Gary Coleman’s signed

khakis had attracted a measly $24.50 in bids — and that’s less than those things run at Old Navy.

I have a friend who used Cash Call once.

Those loans run at a 70 percent interest rate. Gary should set his sights higher … maybe autograph a few pairs of Dolce & Gabbana undies and see what he can fetch. For more info on the

saddest attempt by a has-been to get money since Screech begged folks to save his house from foreclosure, visit Dlisted at dlisted.com.

(Editor’s Update: Coleman’s signed pants sold for $203.49. The eBay listing shows the item’s location as “Santaquin, Utah.” Coleman, 39, moved to the rural Utah town of Santaquin in 2005 when he started filming the movie “Church Ball.” He was cited for disorderly conduct in Provo last July following a heated argument with a woman.)

And that, my friends, is the end of another sad week for Hollywood. Until we meet again, remember to take time to stop and smell the gossip! Q

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Resolve to Be Sexually Healthy in 2008

by Lynn Beltran

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Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a new year and time for resolutions. So of course I thought, what a perfect time for me to throw out suggestions for sexual health resolutions.

Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s talk again about why your sexual health should even be on your radar. Just like all aspects of your health, maintaining good sexual health will help prevent problems later in life and will allow you to be sexually active for a long time. Good sexual health is usually equated with disease-free status. Complications from sexually transmitted infections can lead to vascular scarring, which can lead to problems with erections, prostate problems, heart problems, arthritis and sterility.

As I compile my year end data for 2007, it appears that cases of syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia all increased significantly from the previous year.

Worse, these case rates have been steadily increasing for the last five years. This means that your pool of potential sexual partners is that much more likely to be infected, and that they can transmit the infection to you.

Remember, that over 50 percent of those infected with a sexually transmitted disease do not have symptoms and do not know they are infected.

Rates of new HIV cases remained about the same as in 2006, although the number of new cases diagnosed in 2007 is at least twice as high as it was five years ago. The majority of new cases of HIV are being diagnosed in men who have sex with men and many of the chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis cases are also occurring in HIV positive MSM. This indicates that condoms are not being used, which means people are putting themselves at risk for all sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. It also means that people who are infected with chronic infections like HIV are more likely to be engaging in unprotected sex than they were 10 or even five years ago.

What kinds of resolutions can you make to improve your sexual health in 2008? There are several things you can do.

Solutions from page 33

For more information on testing for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, call the Salt Lake Valley Health Department Clinic at 534-4666.

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â&#x20AC;˘ Use condoms. When used appropriately, condoms are over 98 percent effective in reducing the risk of transmitting or acquiring an STI. Research shows that if you plan to use condoms, you are much more likely to follow through and use them in the â&#x20AC;&#x153;heat of the momentâ&#x20AC;? or if a partner seems resistant to the idea. â&#x20AC;˘ Have a plan. Develop a mindset about your sexual activity before you go out. Your plan may be as simple as only kissing someone youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve just met but under no circumstances going home with that person. Reinforcement can be helpful, so get a friend to help you stick to your plan. â&#x20AC;˘ Know that alcohol and drugs influence your risky behaviors. Simply knowing that you are more likely to engage in risky sex while under the influence can help you prepare. Make a pact with a friend that you will look out for one another under these circumstances and not allow each other to enter into a new sexual situation when impaired. â&#x20AC;˘ Limit or decrease your number of sexual partners. Every sexual partner you have multiplies your risk of acquiring an STD. If you have multiple partners, then your partners are likely to have multiple partners, too. This means that you are indirectly sexually active with an entire pool of people â&#x20AC;&#x201D; many of whom youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never even met.

If you choose to continue this practice, use condoms; it is almost certain that at least one of those people is infected with an STI that will eventually make its way to you. â&#x20AC;˘ Get tested. Knowledge is power, and knowing your disease status is the best way to remain sexually healthy. It is also a great time to have an open discussion with your partner about both of you getting tested. Many people rely on information such as, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have always only been sexually active with one person and I knew all of them, or my doctor never said anything.â&#x20AC;? With each sexual partner, STI testing should be done regardless of how well you know them. The majority of infected people do not know they are infected. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t rely on the â&#x20AC;&#x153;no news is good newsâ&#x20AC;? plan after your annual check up. Doctors often do not routinely check for STIs unless requested or unless there is an obvious symptom.

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