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Ballot Wording Change OK’d in California Marriage Battle
❝I would also suggest that you change the name of this section of the paper to “weddings, engagements and liveins or other relationships” since you obviously seem content to publish out-ofwedlock living arrangements as actual marriages.” —North Logan resident Narayne Rougeau complaining to the Logan newspaper The Herald-Journal about a lesbian couple’s marriage announcement that appeared in the newspaper.
BY REX WOCKNER
California Attorney General Jerry Brown’s rewording of the title and summary of the ballot measure that would amend the state constitution to re-ban same-sex marriage got a green light from Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Timothy Frawley on Aug. 8. The measure originally was titled: “Limit on marriage. Constitutional amendment.” And it was summarized, “Amends the California Constitution to provide that only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.” But afterward, the California Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage, and weddings began on June 16. Brown then retitled the measure: “Proposition 8. Eliminates right of same-sex couples to marry. Initiative constitutional amendment.” And he summarized it: “Changes California Constitution to eliminate right of same-sex couples to marry. Provides that only a marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California. Fiscal Impact: Over the next few years, potential revenue loss, mainly sales taxes, totaling in the several tens of millions of dollars, to state and local governments. In the long run, likely little fiscal impact to state and local governments.” Opponents of same-sex marriage filed suit over the changes, saying they were neither fair nor impartial. The court, however, disagreed, finding that “the Attorney General did not abuse his discretion in concluding that the chief purpose and effect of the initiative is to eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry.” “The Attorney General’s title is an accurate statement of the primary purpose and effect of the measure,” Frawley ruled. “It is not argumentative or inherently prejudicial.” Opponents of the proposed amendment cheered the ruling, while proponents denounced it and filed an appeal. Both agreed the new language will make the measure more likely to fail on Nov. 4.
Cyndi Lauper: I Had to Come Out as Straight Pop singer Cyndi Lauper told The Times of London on Aug. 2 that she had to come out as straight. “My sister was gay, my best friends were gay, so I figured I had to be gay,” she said. “So I did everything they did. I tried kissing girls. But it didn’t feel right for me and eventually I was forced to come out as a heterosexual.” Cyndi Lauper Lauper also launched a broadside against George W. Bush. “When I hear people like George Bush talk about the gay community being anti-American it makes my blood boil,” she said. “The guy who saved the White House, one of the heroes who crashed that plane on 9/11, was gay — the rugby player Mark Bingham — who died on United 93. And does Bush ever mention that? ... That gay guy saved his lousy ass.”
Neil Patrick Harris Wants to Represent ‘Normal’ Gays Openly gay actor Neil Patrick Harris from TV’s “How I Met Your Mother” tells Out magazine in its September issue that he wants to be a role model for normal gay people. “I’m striving to be an example of normalcy,” Harris said. “Because I’m noticed as an actor, people are aware of what’s happening in my life. ... I’m a big proponent of monogamous relationships regardless of sexuality, and I’m proud of how the nation is steering toward that. Then you can look around and say, ‘I really deeply feel like I’m in love with this person, there are people who feel the same thing, and those models are normal.’ The ‘normal’ couples were sort of in the shadows for the past 15 or 20 years because you sort of needed other people to come forward and speak out.” In a more lighthearted moment, Harris told Out he thinks CNN anchorman Ander-
son Cooper is dreamy and is not a candidate for outing. “He’s dreamy. Just dreamy,” Harris said. “I’ve been a fan of his since season 1 of ‘The Mole.’ I just thought he was so cool when he talked in this cool, low, secret-agent voice — ‘If you can accomplish this task...’” Harris continued: “Listen, no one can tell anyone how big their steps should be or when they can take them. You can take issue with someone making overtly denying statements, and you can take issue with people straight-up presenting themselves as someone that they’re not — because I think that’s kind of shady and not very stand-up. But you can’t fault someone for going through the process at their own time.” In May 2007, Out put two models on its cover holding pictures of Cooper and Jodie Foster in front of their faces above the words, “The Glass Closet: Why the Stars Won’t Come Out and Play.”
Minter: Calif. Ruling Changed More Than Marriage Law
specific “compelling interest” — rather than a mere “rational basis” — when it treats GLB people differently in any way. In another interview, with the Palm Springs gay magazine The BottomLine on Aug. 1, Minter said that if the California ballot measure to amend the state constitution to re-ban same-sex marriage fails in November, it will be a “crushing defeat” for gays’ opponents. “If we defeat this proposition, as I believe we will, that victory will resonate across the country,” he said. “Not only will marriage in California be secure, but we will have demonstrated that efforts to politically exploit anti-gay bias no longer work. We have a chance here in California to deal a crushing defeat to the anti-gay forces that have caused incalculable damage to our community for years. This is our opportunity to make a difference that will go down in history books as a critical turning point.” Minter also talked with The BottomLine about his 1996 sex-change operation. “I have been struck by how much more immediate ‘unearned’ credibility and respect I get as a completely average-looking man than I did as a visibly masculine-appearing woman,” Minter said. “The difference is stark — whether it is service in a restaurant or on a plane, or appearing in court.”
The California Supreme Court’s May ruling legalizing same-sex marriage did much more than that, says Shannon Minter, legal director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights and lead lawyer for the successful gay side in the California marriage case. In an Aug. 2 interview with Los Angeles journalist Karen Ocamb, Minter said: “The fundamental right-to-marry part of the holding was extremely significant, but the court’s holding that sexual orientation is a suspect classification was stunning — completely unprecedented. I think it will forever change the legal landscape for LGBT people in the country; it’s going to have a huge impact on courts in other states and, ultimately, on the federal courts. We are now living in a different legal world because of what the court did.” The court’s determination means that any discrimination based on sexual orientation is constitutionally subject to the strictest level of scrutiny by California courts, which makes it dramatically harder for any level of government to defend itself in any arena where gays, lesbians and bisexuals are not treated the same as heterosexuals. A government now has to prove it has a
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❝The fact that this couple is dedicated to each other is all that matters. Unfortunately our state, like most others, refuses to recognize their union, but does that mean they should not be allowed to celebrate a commitment they made to each other?” —Logan resident Lezlie Blazzard writing to The Herald-Journal in support of the couple’s announcement. ❝These are paid announcements, and we didn’t feel we could deny anybody access to that announcement just because they were gay.” —Herald-Journal publisher Bruce Smith explaining his paper’s decision to run the marriage announcement. ❝Utah needs the homophobic, oratorically-challenged, archconservative—if only for his entertainment value. West Jordan, South Jordan, Riverton and Herriman voters: Think of newspaper columnists and theater satirists when you go to the polls in November. Buttars will keep us in business for generations.” —Salt Lake Tribune columnist Rebecca Walsh on the entertainment value of West Jordan Republican Sen. Chris Buttars’ anti-gay, racist and just plain ridiculous quotes. ❝Really quickly on that topic, though, what are your thoughts on the idea of threeday [Gay Pride] weekends always, in the same manner than Utah has been trying out? You work an extra two hours Monday–Thursday, and your weekend is Friday– Sunday. Sounds like a pretty damn good idea to me!” —Daniel O’Hara, producer of CKFR 1150 AM — a news/talk radio station in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada — in a station blog post about the wrap-up of Pride Week in his city.
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Affirmation Uses Press Conference to Get LDS Church Leaders’ Ears
The Southern Utah Pride Festival is seeking volunteers in all areas of festival operation. When: Sept. 26–27 Where: Springdale, UT Info: Contact Volunteer Coordinator and SUP, Inc. Vice President Anne Golibersuch at volunteers@southernutahpride.org.
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by Michael Aaron
After leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints canceled what was to have been a ‘historic’ meeting, leaders of Affirmation: Gay and Lesbian Mormons took their message to the press. In April, shortly after Thomas Monson became president of the church, LDS Church leaders agreed to meet with Affirmation in order to “appropriately understand” the organization’s points of view of gays and lesbians in the church. That agreement made world-wide headlines and was deemed “ground-breaking” and a “welcome event.” On July 23, however, Affirmation received a letter stating that, due to LDS Family Services director Fred C. Riley leaving his position, the meeting was being postponed until the church replaced Riley’s position. “We feel badly about this but believe that for this to be the best experience for all parties and to ensure appropriate consistency and continuity of the process, it would be best to postpone the meeting until the new commissioner is named,’’ Riley wrote to David Melsom, Affirmation’s assistant executive director. Olin Thomas, executive director of Affirmation, told those in attendance at the Aug. 11 morning conference that the group asked to meet with another general authority, but were denied. They also tried to get church leaders to set a more firm date, but were told that it would likely be well into 2009 before a replacement was named. “Because of the important nature of these issues, we determined that this conference was the best way to get our message to the ears of the church leadership,” Thomas said. Church Teachings Melsom explained that many gay Mormons would like to be active in the LDS Church, but in the current atmosphere feel that they cannot. He also explained that because these people feel the need to suppress their sexuality in order to fit in with church teachings, “older adults are coming out and whole families are irreparably harmed.” Thomas said that “many church members believe that being gay and being sexually promiscuous are synonymous.” He said that many gay and lesbian people, including himself, live lives very similar to married heterosexual couples. He stated that the church’s stance on chastity for gay members was misguided. “It isn’t natural for gay members to be
celibate throughout their lives,” he said. “It is important that the church recognize our relationships.” Losing Whole Families George Cole, Affirmation’s young adult chairman, said, “Because of the church’s treatment of gays, it is losing whole families.” “As young people come out and tell their families of their sexual orientation, the treatment they get will often make them leave the church. It is not unusual for the parents to be disgusted by the treatment and leave the church as well,” he explained. Cole also noted that many families will kick their gay child out of their homes. “In the Intermountain West, teen homelessness is incredibly high,” he said. “Our numbers say 50 percent or even more are because they are gay.” “We believe that the church could do better in educating its members to embrace all people and not let these problems continue,” he said. Lay Leaders “The church is not evil,” Melsom said. “But there are many things that have happened at the hands of those ill-prepared for their calling.” Melsom and Thomas offered the group’s help in formulating a training program for the church’s lay leaders to better address the issue of gay church members. “Training is the key to the door of understanding,” Melsom said. Melsom explained that he felt called to be in the leadership of Affirmation. “I believe that one of the greatest gifts God gave me was to be gay at this place and at this time,” he said. Melsom said that he has been one of the few lucky people within the church whose experiences have been mostly positive. His partner, however, was not so lucky. Melsom and his partner bore their testimony years ago at each of their wards — one in the morning and one in the afternoon of the same Sunday. Melsom’s bishop embraced the couple, “with tears in his eyes” and thanked them for their testimony. Melsom’s partner was excommunicated 17 days later. This discrepancy in treatment is one of the things that the group hopes to help the church alleviate.
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Six Requests Affirmation leaders were going to make six requests of church leaders: 1) They have written a private letter they hoped would be delivered to Monson. 2) An affirming statement be made at the next LDS Conference. 3) An address by a prominent female leader to mothers of gay and lesbian children that their child’s homosexuality is “not their fault.” 4) A meeting with a member of the First Presidency or the Quorum of the 12. 5) They would like to invite Monson to speak at the next Affirmation conference in 2009. 6) To help the church develop training materials for bishops and other lay leaders to help deal with gay members and families of gay people. Response The LDS Church’s response to the press conference was a brief statement: “It has always been the intent of the Church to engage in an open and honest discussion with Affirmation leaders to listen to their concerns. When the Church was originally approached by Affirmation, Church officials offered a much earlier meeting date. The meeting was put on hold until August at Affirmation’s request. The Church asks for the same courtesy as it hires a new director of Family Services, a position crucial to this conversation. “The issues surrounding same-gender attraction deserve careful attention, not public posturing. It appears from Affirmation’s actions today that it has opted for a public rather than a private exchange.” In response, Melsom said, “Affirmation is pleased that the LDS church has responded to the message of our recent press briefing; we regret that this exchange has had to take place through the media, but that is the only means that we have been given with which to reach the Brethren.” Melsom also said that Affirmation is sending a private response to President Monson this week, “which we hope will be answered promptly.” Q
This summer, the DOVE Center, a St. George-based shelter for women and children escaping domestic violence, has run into financial trouble. To help them keep their lights on and doors open, local hypnotist Johnnie Tour will give a special performance of his family-friendly show at the Book Cellar. When: Aug. 29, 6:30 p.m. Where: The Book Cellar (130 N Main Street, St. George) Cost: $5 suggested donation INFO: johnnietour.com
AIDS Community Forum The People’s With AIDS Coalition of Utah will hold a community forum to discuss issues of HIV/AIDS funding and what they mean for Utahns, and to present their call to get more Utahns active in securing more funding for people with AIDS in the next legislative session. Café Med will provide a catered lunch. When: Aug 23, 1:00–3:00 p.m. Where: The Utah Pride Center’s multi-purpose room (361 N 300 W) Info: RSVP by Aug 19, call Toni Johnson at 484-2205 or email director@pwacu.org.
Suicide Prevention Walk The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention will hold its annual Out of the Darkness Community Walk to raise awareness of suicide and the people it leaves behind. Proceeds raised during the hour-long walk will go towards local and national suicide prevention and awareness programs. Registrants may sign up as individuals or as a team, and the event is also in need of volunteers. When: Sept. 27. Registration starts at 8:45 a.m. and the walk begins at 10:00 a.m. Where: Wheeler Farm (6351 S 900 E) INFO: To register, donate or learn more, visit outofthedarkness.org. For more information contact Lori Pagel at 949-6387 or afspslc@gmail.com.
NAMI Walk Another three-mile walk to raise awareness of mental illness, dispel stigmas about these illnesses and foster hope for recovery will take place in September for the Utah chapter of the National Association for Mental Illness. Registrants may sign up as individuals or as a team, and the event is also in need of volunteers. When: Sept. 27, 9:00 a.m. check in and 10:00 a.m. start
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HRC Camp Equality Comes to Utah On Aug. 16, the Human Rights Campaign will bring a one-day camp to Salt Lake City to train Utahns in campaign skills and in doing their part to get “fair-minded candidates” elected to local and national office in 2008. Using lectures, discussions and role play simulations, HRC staff will teach voters how to be visible supporters for gay equality at DAVID DANIELS Todd Hess every stage of a campaign including campaign planning, volunteer recruitment, field strategies, canvassing, seeking media contacts and even keeping a regular campaign blog. According to Todd Hess, political
co-chair of HRC Utah’s Steering Committee, the day long camp will bring HRC lecturers in from Washington, D.C. The camp has also invited local organizations such as Equality Utah and the Utah AIDS Foundation to participate. “We’re also trying to get [Salt Lake County] Mayor Paul Corroon and Rep. Jim Matheson to talk, but that hasn’t been confirmed yet,” he added. According to the HRC’s Camp Equality Web site, the organization chose to send the camp to Utah because it has two targeted races in the capital city this November. Salt Lake City is one of Camp Equality’s stops in 16 states, including California, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado. Registration for the day is $35 and includes an HRC membership. To register online visit hrc.org/campequality.
PWACU to Open Thrift Store In Salt Lake City there is an “absolutely fabulous” building with a large store front, a loading area and a big parking lot. And Toni Johnson is so excited about it that she needs a few minutes to collect her thoughts. “It’s going to open up so many new possibilities for our organization,” said Johnson, the executive director of the People with AIDS Coalition of Utah. “It’s got enough space that I can move our offices into it.” Johnson is talking about the future location of Our Store: A Thrift Alternative, a thrift store PWACU plans on opening in October to help fund more programs for people with HIV/AIDS and to help make the organization self-sufficient (PWACU currently survives mostly on private donations). Run mostly by volunteers, the thrift store will sell clothing, furniture, books, houseware, small appliances and articles made by volunteers, such as jewelry and magnets. The store will also offer needbased vouchers for a specific amount of money to people with HIV/AIDS. The rainbow-colored ‘alternative’ in the name, said Johnson, is both a subtle jab at Mormon-owned thrift giant Deseret Industries and an indicator that the store is run for the benefit of Utah’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender population. “It’ll be a nicer atmosphere than the DI, classier,” she said. “The LGBT community wants a thrift store that matches their ideology and helps the community. There’ll be a strong and ongoing incentive for the LGBT family to donate to our store.” The store manager will be Jim Grady, the partner of local activist, philanthropist and Stonewall Democrat member Mike Picardi. The couple initially approached PWACU with the plan for the thrift store and have been instrumental in getting the
project off the ground, Johnson added. To help get the store up and running, PWACU will hold a fund raiser at the Market Street Grill’s cottonwood location. While noting the event’s unfortunate timeline to the organization’s last fund raiser, a fashion show in July, Johnson said the timing was unintentional: the restaurant offered the space when they could, and she accepted. She also noted that the $75 ticket price for the dinner may startle people who have attended other PWACU fund raisers. “We didn’t want to be exclusive, but this is for our capitol campaign,” she said, also noting that the money raised at the dinner will go not only to the store, but to other programs PWACU wants to offer, including a group that will advocate for more funding for Utahns with HIV/ AIDS during the next legislative session. PWACU is creating the advocacy group, Johnson added, in order to get money to help more people with AIDS than Utah’s portion of money from the federal Ryan White CARE Act — legislation designed to provide money for people with HIV/AIDS who have no other health care options. So far, a number of sponsors have jumped on board to help Our Store transition from business plan to brick and mortar. Along with Picardi, they include restaurant group and Market Street Grill owners Gastronomy, Inc., the Bruce Bastian Foundation, Salt Lake City Democratic Rep. Jackie Biskupski, One Realty Group (formerly Rainbow Mountain Realty) and an anonymous donor who has offered to match the largest donation PWACU receives for the store. Along with more sponsors, PWACU is also looking for people to donate silent auction items to the dinner. For sponsorship and donation opportunities call Toni Johnson at 484-2205. Q
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Q Utah Jewish Community Leader Dies Congregation Kol Ami’s religious school and youth director Rafi Schwartz died Aug. 10 of brain cancer at the age of 45. Born in Haifa, Israel, Schwartz permanently moved to Utah after completing military service to his country as an Israeli Air Force liaison officer at Hill Air Force Base. He earned a business degree at the University of Utah and held a number of teaching positions at the synagogue over the past 20 years, including Hebrew teacher and school director. Schwartz is survived by his mother, sister, brothers and nephews and his partner Chlarson Seeley who he met at the gay-friendly synagogue. Funeral services were held Aug. 12 and Schwartz’s body was returned to Israel for burial.
County DA Will Not Charge Bell, Fair Attackers Charges will not be filed against Ieti Mageo, who allegedly beat David Bell and Dan Fair in their South Salt Lake home the morning of July 4. The Salt Lake County District Attorney’s office said there was not enough evidence to charge Mageo or his friends for the assault. Mageo and his girlfriend, Lulu Latu, told South Salt Lake police that Bell kidnapped their children at 6:00 a.m. while the family was outside during an allDan Fair night 4th of July party. Bell’s supporters claim the children wandered to Bell’s house in search of their parents.
Queer Spirit Offers Writing Workshop As a companion program to gay men’s spirituality group Queer Spirit’s fall retreat, Canadian poet and teacher Ray McGinnis will offer Writing the Sacred, a poetry workshop aimed at teaching gay men how to use creative writing and poetry “as a companion to honor and celebrate [their] own queer spirit[s].” “This is an important piece in empowering anyone on a journey in life — selfawareness, and disRay McGinnis covering that there are resources within us that can help us create a life that is beneficial, satisfying, joyful, loving,” said McGinnis, who has studied poetry at the University of Toronto and who received his certificate in journal therapy from the Center for Journal Therapy in Denver in 1999. Since then he has taught this and other writing workshops to a number of diverse groups. Although McGinnis will structure the exercises in his workshops around the needs and input of the group he teaches, he said his main goal is to get people to think about their lives. He often does this by asking participants to journal about a personal experience, such as a “typical day” in their lives. “[In one of my exercises] I lead a short guided meditation to move people gently through the pace of a typical day, and then participants are invited to write for 10 to 15 minutes,” he explained. “At first some people can’t imagine how they will write for that long. But once they move through the meditation and start to write, sometimes after 15 minutes people are not quite through writing about how they began their morning and having breakfast.” “So when using a journal in a writing workshop, I invite people to try writing prompts that help them explore different sides of themselves.” Next, McGinnis said he often asks participants to re-read their entries and to complete “sentence stems” such as, “When I re-read my journal entry I discover ... ,” “I am surprised by ... ,” “I am aware of ... .” The goal of this exercise, he said, is to get writers to reflect on their experiences and access their intuition and emotions to shed light on “how they wish to create their lives.” Although McGinnis has worked with
several populations including bereavement groups, churches, Buddhist centers and organizations for businesswomen, he said that he is drawn to working with gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender groups for several reasons, including the difficulty a queer writer might have in journaling and speaking out about his or her experiences in a non-queer group. “Being intentional about creating a specific opportunity for a writing group to be led through a GBLT-related group ... a different group of folks then feel safe to sign up and take the workshop,” he said. “For some folks it is important when they are doing what can be very creative and transformative inner work — the integration and naming of their sexual orientation is essential.” McGinnis said he was drawn to offer the workshop to Queer Spirit because of the similarities between his work and Queer Spirit founders Jerry Buie and John Cottrell’s ideology. “Queer Spirit is interested in spirituality and sexuality and healthy integration of these things,” he said. “The work I do in writing sacred poetry invites people to integrate and celebrate who they are — even as they write about the things they want to let go of (laments) and write with thanks and anticipation about the vision they hold for themselves as they continue to grow as human beings.” Although his workshop is titled Writing the Sacred and much of its philosophy comes from his work with the United Church of Canada — a protestant denomination that allows gays and lesbians to hold leadership positions — McGinnis stressed that the workshop is for people of all religious backgrounds, including people who are not comfortable with the idea of spirituality. “In many religious traditions there are references to qualities that we can see that resemble what a spiritual life is like. These qualities may include truth, love, forgiveness, courage, etc. What comes out in many poems when a person is writing from a heartcentered place, is the poem is infused with these qualities,” he said. “I would leave it up to [the individual poet] to name whether they think of their poetry as having anything to do with the sacred.” Writing the Sacred will be held Sept. 9 at 7:00 p.m. at the home of Jerry Buie and John Cottrell (2084 E 6425 S, Holladay). To register call 557-9203. The cost of the workshop is by donation. Q
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Bell’s supporters are not surprised the district attorney’s office had not enough evidence because, they say, that South Salt Lake police conducted a “one-sided investigation,” and did not ask for witness statements from anyone inside the Bell-Fair residence. Friends and family were successful in raising Bell’s bail, and he was released on Friday, August 8. He is facing two counts of kidnapping and one count of burglary. Supporters were concerned about Bell having to appear before the court shackled and in a prison jump suit, concerned that a jury would have a predisposed notion of guilt. According to Bell’s attorney, Roger Kraft, the mother of one of the children, Lulu Latu, had a verbal altercation with Bell upon finding David “DJ” Bell that the children were in the house. Latu took the children home, yelling to Bell and the awakened Fair that they had “better lock the doors and windows” because her family would “freak out” once they found out the children were there. Indeed, witnesses say, 10 minutes later, the child’s father and friends broke windows and kicked in doors to enter the house. Fair confronted the assailants and Bell ran out the front door. Now, a month later, Bell still cannot hear from his right ear, after having his head slammed into the concrete several times by the large male attackers. Wounds from the attackers’ attempts to slit his throat with glass from the windows they broke to enter the house have largely healed, as have his once-blackened eyes. Fair suffered the greatest injuries, including a gash on his head from a large-screen television being thrown over him and a broken eye socket. Witnesses say the attackers used pots and pans hanging in the kitchen to assault Fair. The couple’s supporters are calling the assault “vigilantism,” since the children were known to be home at the time of the attack. Lulu Latu told the Deseret Morning News that she “kind of feels bad” about the extent of Fair’s injuries and that he simply “got caught in the crossfire.” “We regret beating them up as badly as we did,” she said. “But we don’t feel bad, because what if it (had turned into) another case of murdered children?” The Salt Lake County District Attorney’s office offered no further comment. The case now goes to South Salt Lake City Prosecutor’s Office for possible misdemeanor charges. Bell will appear for a preliminary hearing before Judge Robert Faust in Third District Court on Thursday, August 21 at 9:00 a.m. Supporters plan a protest outside the Matheson Court House a half hour prior. Fundraisers are being planned to help pay for Fair and Bell’s legal and medical expenses. Third Friday Bingo will be held August 15 at First Baptist Church, 777 South 1300 East, at 7pm. Supporters are also planning a dinner, to be held at the Tavernacle private club, on Monday, August 25. Donations to Bell’s defense fund can be sent to David Bell, c/o Roger A. Kraft, Attorney at Law, 8813 Redwood Rd, Ste A, West Jordan UT 84088.
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Where: Franklin Covey Field (77 W 1300 S) INFO: Visit namiut.org or call 3239900 to volunteer.
Allies Dinner Utah gay rights group Equality Utah will hold its 7th annual Allies Dinner to benefit the Equality Utah Political Action Committee, the group that endorses local fair-minded candidates and supports their campaigns with financial contributions and volunteer efforts. The theme this year is “The Power of One.” When: Sept. 16, 6:00 p.m. cocktail hour and 7:00 p.m. dinner service Where: The Salt Palace’s Grand Ballroom (100 S West Temple) Cost: $100 per person INFO: equalityutah.org. Sponsorship opportunities and information is also available at alliesdinner.org.
Get Out and Vote If you’re new to town or just haven’t signed up yet, Equality Utah would like to make sure that all Utah adults are registered to vote in this November’s election. For a voter registration packet, contact Keri Jones at keri@equalityutah.org.
Let’s Get Physical Black Belt Master Sabina Wise teaches Wise Fitness, a queerfocused fitness program, each week at the Utah Pride Center. Subjects include kickboxing, yoga and karate (spar and individual). When: Every Friday (space permitting), 6:00–7:00 p.m. cardio/kickboxing, 7:00–8:00 p.m. slow stretch yoga, 8:00–9:00 p.m. traditional karate. Where: The Utah Pride Center’s multi-purpose room (361 N 300 W) Cost: $5 per class for monthly signups or $10 per drop in. First class is free. Info: Call Sabina Wise at 232-1728 for more information.
Pride Meditation Pride Meditation is a group for meditation enthusiasts of all skill levels and religious practices. Each session includes basic instruction for newcomers, a 20-minute meditation, a brief stretching session and a final meditation period. Participants are asked to wear loose-fit clothing and to bring a pillow or Zafu for sitting. When: The first Tuesday of each month Where: The Utah Pride Center (361 N 300 W) Info: For more information contact Joe at Kensho.zazen@yahoo.com or 599-5022.
This Potluck is Gay Gay-friendly potluck socials are held each month in 12 communities across the Wasatch Front. To find the social closest to you, visit the Utah Pride Center’s Web site.
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Sexuality and Mormon Doctrine Discussed at Sunstone Symposium I Love You No Matter What
by JoSelle Vanderhooft
Each year the Sunstone Education Foundation holds its symposium in the Salt Lake City Sheraton Hotel. Dedicated to “free and frank exploration of gospel truths� for members and friends of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the symposium focuses on several hot-button topics in the historical and contemporary LDS church, including the church’s portrayal in the media, its role in environmental sustainability and interfaith conversations, and such thorny Mormon doctrines as deification and the specter of 19th Century Mormon polygamy. Nearly every year, homosexuality appears on the program. This year, at least four panels and papers directly addressed such topics as California’s legalization of gay marriage, accepting gay family members and the spirituality of gay Mormons under 30. In an unusual — if not serendipitous — piece of scheduling, nearly all of the panels were held back-to-back on Saturday, Aug. 9.
Proclaiming the Family: Which Family?
In this paper presentation Dr. H. Parker Blount, professor emeritus, educational policy at Georgia State University, addressed the LDS Church’s First Presidency’s document “The Family: A Proclamation to the World� and the church’s repeated insistence that the family “is under attack.� In Blount’s view, the proclamation’s attempt to safeguard and strengthen families around the world has backfired, because church leaders have blamed the wrong external forces for the family’s supposed demise including adultery, divorce, spousal and child abuse, abortion and homosexuality. Rather than blaming the “disintegration of the family� on something such as “allowing same-sex couples to have a ceremony,� Blount said that the church’s time would be better spent in combating clear threats to families, such as environmental pollution, the closure of familyowned businesses, a corporate-controlled global economy, war, the lack of available health care and the exploitation of foreign workers. “Lacking food for one’s children or women’s prenatal health care are problems immensely more destructive than having a gay couple with children living next door,� he said.
At age 9, piano teacher and stay-at-home mom Emily Petersen overheard a friend of the family mention that her father was gay. Already reeling from her parents’ divorce Petersen said the revelation filled her with worry — about her father going to Hell and about the possibility that she too could be gay. “I had always strived towards perfection, but now that was gone,� said Petersen. Her autobiographical essay detailed how her mother helped Petersen come to terms with her father’s sexuality by reassuring her that he was a good father and dedicated police officer, and that his sexual orientation wasn’t inheritable. Although it took her several years, Petersen said she finally talked to her father about his sexuality last year. She learned then that his bishop had encouraged him to date and marry and “everything would be OK,� despite her father’s lack of attraction to women. “That’s what they told us in those days, but it didn’t work,� Petersen quoted her father as saying. After their discussion, Petersen said she and her father came to an understanding. “My dad understood that I didn’t hate him, and he could accept that I was part of a religion that shuns him,� she said. “We bonded because we were father and daughter, and nothing, not even homosexuality, can come between us. We had finally learned to say, ‘I love you no matter what.’� Many audience members expressed relief and joy that Petersen’s story had ended so positively. “If we say we are Christians, we should act like Christ,� Petersen answered them.
California’s Continuing Battle Over Same-Sex Marriage
In this 60-minute panel, Thomas Jefferson Law School assistant professor Kaimipono “Kaimi� D. Wenger, J.D., semi-retired attorney and Sunstone Board of Directors member Nadine R. Hansen, and Clark Pingree, an openly gay LDS man, addressed the California Supreme Court’s decision to legalize gay marriage and the decision’s ramifications for the LDS church. Wenger began by exploding several myths about the decision’s impact — namely, that it will open the door to legalized polygamy (a move Wenger said the decision explicitly bared) and that it will force churches to perform marriage ceremonies Continued on page 12
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Sexuality and Mormon Doctrine Discussed at Sunstone Symposium Continued from page 11 for same-sex couples (the decision does not apply to religious denominations). “The court could change its mind in the future, but this part seems unlikely to change,” he said of the religious exemption, adding that this part of the decision was tied to the holding of the court, or the court’s explicit decision. To force churches to marry gay couples, Wenger said the entire Supreme Court ruling would have to be re-written and retried. Further, Wenger added that religions were not likely to lose their tax exempt status over the issue of not performing same-sex marriage ceremonies, as the law would have to show that their refusal to do so would undermine “the community conscience” and “public benefit.” As long as a religious group does not advocate or raise money for a specific candidate, Wenger also said they can “weigh in” on political issues, such as the constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage in California. If the proposition is successful, Wenger said “nobody knows” if the gay couples married before its passage would still be married, or if their marriages would be annulled. Pingree said he was “overwhelmed with positive emotion” when he learned about the high court’s decision. “It was my society finally recognizing me as a full human being with full needs and dreams.” His spirits fell, however, when the LDS Church sent a letter to its California bishops instructing them to tell church members to back a proposition that would ban gay marriage in the state pending voter approval this November. “Why did the church pick this issue and not others of a great magnitude, such as genocide in Darfur, the persecution of Palestinians and the starvation of millions in North Korea?” he asked.
was straight, also said that he has seen some changes in how Utah Mormons deal with gay youth, but not nearly enough progress. “Mormon gay youth are still encouraged to resist their orientation, even though their [non-Mormon] peers come out and are accepted,” he said. He also stressed that Affirmation’s resources are open and available to youth of all ages. Although Cole, 26, and Affirmation’s young adult chairperson, wanted to go on a mission, he was excommunicated after coming out when his home teacher asked why he had stopped attending services. In his presentation he described the experiences of several gay Mormon friends: one of who had left the church feeling he had “no need for a church that says negative things about him,” one who identifies as a bisexual male and has considered marrying a woman and one who won’t come out because he thinks his feelings contradict church teaching. “I don’t want anyone to have to choose between their faith and their true selves,” Cole said. Nielson, 24, and president of Reconciliation, a Utah-based gay-positive Mormon group with ties to Affirmation, was the only one of the three men who is openly gay and actively Mormon. After his bishop refused to give him a mission call Nielson said he made a list of reasons to “continue living and not to.” And after leaving the church for a year he said he came back when he realized being Mormon was a crucial part of his identity, and that many of the people who expressed anti-gay views were not necessarily his enemies. “At our core we really are all about love and sometimes we get confused on how to express that,” he explained. Affirmation’s Public Relations Director David Melson closed the panel by explaining that the church had cancelled a longanticipated meeting between Affirmation and church leadership that was scheduled to take place on Aug. 11. Melson said that Affirmation would hold a press conference instead to present its suggestions about how the church could do a better job of treating gay members kindly and keeping families with members who come out together. “When the church does things right we want to praise them for what they do, but at the same time we want to hold them accountable for not being Christ-like,” he said. Q
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In one of the weekend’s final panels members of gay Mormon support group Affirmation addressed the spiritual challenges gay Mormon teens and 20-somethings face. After discussing the organization’s history and purpose, executive director Olin Thomas and its senior assistant executive director yielded the floor to three young Affirmation members, Michah Bisson, George Cole and David Nielson. Bisson, 28, and Affirmation’s youth services director, discussed his experiences of growing up gay and closeted in rural Colorado, and entering the army to avoid going on a mission. Bisson, who said he would still attend the LDS church if he
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Q Views Letters Inappropriate Criticism Editor, What has happened to civility? I would like to encourage members of our community to cease their knee jerk politics. [“Utah’s First Lady Touching,” QSaltLake, July 17, 2008]. As a guest of Log Cabin Republicans you embarrass your hosts by your criticism of the governor and under the circumstances your complaining is inappropriate. Your outbursts hurt rather than help our cause. While your friend has my deep and sincere sympathy for having lost custody of her daughter, what result was she expecting? As you rightly point out, it’s the law. What is needed is a change in the law. Gordon Storrs and the Log Cabin Republicans have worked hard for over four years cultivating a relationship with the governor’s office to insure that LGBT concerns are beginning to be heard. It is time to thank Gordon and the LCR’s for their efforts in making this groundbreaking meeting possible. Our community needs to join Governor Jon Huntsman and support Gordon Storrs in his bid for State Representative District 23. Orlan R. Owen Fairpark Community
Unitarian Universalists Will Keep Doors Open to All Editor, On Sunday, July 24, the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville, Tenn., was attacked by a shotgunwielding man, resulting in the loss of two innocent lives and wounding of seven others. We share in the shock and grief ex-
pressed at this act by people of good will in our community and we are communicating that good will to the Unitarian Universalists and clergy members in Knoxville. As an association of congregations, Unitarian Universalism has long advocated the exercise of free will and conscience in matters of faith, promoted respect for diversity in religious practice and society at large, and championed the rights of those suffering discrimination, particularly when dogmatic religious beliefs are used to justify that discrimination. It is reported that our reputation for such “liberal” stances may have been
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the reason that the attacker in Knoxville selected a Unitarian Universalist congregation for his rampage. It is indeed shocking, but ultimately not surprising, that such violence should be visited on members of a religiously liberal faith tradition. As a religious organization, Unitarian Universalism does not seek involvement in politics for its own sake, but finds itself involved in the issues of the day by way of addressing them from moral and spiritual perspectives. While most who disagree with us do so with respect and reason, this violent individual, motivated by hateful political ideals, decided that our involvement was sufficient to justify the church in Knoxville as a legitimate target. Given the threat from such individuals, it would be tempting to reduce our advocacy on controversial issues, adopt more hostile attitudes toward those whose views differ with our own, or even to restrict access to our church for the sake of physical security. We will, of course, do none of those things. As was the case when Unitarian Universalists faced threats during the civil rights movement, we will view this attack as a reminder of how much the world needs our continued commitment to equality. Drawing on the Christian tradition, one of many religious sources from which we derive wisdom and inspiration, we will continue to love our neighbors as ourselves, and to do unto others as we would have them do unto us. And most of all, we will continue to open our doors and our hearts to the community, offering worship and programs that benefit everyone in our community. DAVE MILLER, BONNIE LEPOFF & BRYAN GEORGE Sterling, Va.
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Sept. 8, 1975, Latter-day Saint Air Force Sgt. Leonard P. Matlovich Jr. appeared on the cover of Time magazine, declaring â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am a Homosexualâ&#x20AC;? to the nation and hurled himself into the national spotlight as the â&#x20AC;&#x153;poster boyâ&#x20AC;? for gay rights. In a watershed moment for the gay rights movement, the gay Mormon was the first openly-gay person ever to appear on the cover of a major U.S. news magazine. Matlovich was featured in the magazine because he was suing the U.S. Armed Forces for discharging him for being gay, despite the fact that he had an impeccable record, having served three tours of duty in Vietnam, where he received the Bronze Star, a Purple Heart and an Air Force Meritorious Service Medal. Matlovich, initially raised Catholic, had apparently converted to the LDS Church during his tour of duty in Vietnam. He was ordained a Mormon Elder on January 19, 1971 while in Vietnam, by W. Brent Hardy. Although the Time article did not mention that Matlovich was LDS, when the publicity on his case against the Air Force broke, the Mormon Church conducted a series of trials against him. On August 1, 1975, the Norfolk Virginia Stake High Council met with Matlovich to investigate â&#x20AC;&#x153;alleged wrongdoing on [his] part involving infraction of the standards and rules of the church.â&#x20AC;? During this meeting, Matlovich â&#x20AC;&#x153;made a strong and convincing plea for time to think and consider the course of action [he was] pursuing, and to decide whether or not to abandon it and to seek professional help,â&#x20AC;? which the stake presidency had â&#x20AC;&#x153;offered to help arrange.â&#x20AC;? Matlovich was disfellowshipped at that time, meaning he could attend church meetings but was not â&#x20AC;&#x153;entitled to speak, offer public prayer, partake of the sacrament, or otherwise participate in these meetings.â&#x20AC;? Of course his first charge was to â&#x20AC;&#x153;continue to pay [his] tithe and offeringsâ&#x20AC;? to the church. Matlovich stopped attending church services and declined further â&#x20AC;&#x153;invitationsâ&#x20AC;? to meet with the stake presidency. After his appearance on the cover of Time a month later, the Norfolk Stake leaders decided a more severe punishment was warranted. Stake president W. Boyd Lee and his two counselors, Kirk T. Waldron and Mark J. Rowe, wrote him on Sept. 12, 1975, requesting another appearance before the Stake High Council on Sept. 27, because of his â&#x20AC;&#x153;expressed decision to make no effort to change or correctâ&#x20AC;? his homosexual activism. Matlovich was unable to make that meeting because of â&#x20AC;&#x153;the demands on [his] time by the Unitn
ed States Air Force,â&#x20AC;? however, the high council ignored his plea to reschedule. They met without him on October 7, 1975 and â&#x20AC;&#x153;took action to excommunicate [him] from the Church,â&#x20AC;? citing his â&#x20AC;&#x153;intention to continue activism in a practice which is abhorrent to and in direct violation of the laws of our Heavenly Father.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;We cannot accept that you cannot change or be helped. It is our prayer that you may come to realize that you can indeed be changed and that you will seek such help as is necessary to accomplish it,â&#x20AC;? the leaders wrote in his excommunication letter. They informed him that excommunication meant â&#x20AC;&#x153;complete severance from the church and denial of all church priveliges [sic] and rights.â&#x20AC;? He was welcome to attend public meetings as a guest but he was â&#x20AC;&#x153;not to pay tithe or other contributions, but [was] encouraged to keep them on deposit until such time as [he] might be readmitted to the Church.â&#x20AC;? (Apparently getting money from even ex-members is a priority for the Church!) They concluded in their letter to him that they urged him â&#x20AC;&#x153;to study the scriptures and pray, that [he might] come to know the truth, and to ig-
â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.â&#x20AC;? nore the rising popular clamor for liberal practices in conflict with Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s laws and eternal purposes.â&#x20AC;? After his court victory against the Air Force (which ultimately ended in Matlovich resigning with a large settlement in hand), he moved to San Francisco and then appeared on the Phil Donahue television show in 1978. On Oct. 12, 1978, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Matâ&#x20AC;? Matlovich received yet another summons from the church, this time from the San Francisco stake president, Jonas J. Heaton, to investigate â&#x20AC;&#x153;conduct in violation of the law and order of the church.â&#x20AC;? Matlovich was unable to make that trial date and Heaton wrote an identical letter on Nov. 20, 1978, requesting a trial on Jan. 17, 1979. In January 1979, both the California Sentinel and the Bay Area Reporter published stories of how the LDS church was shortly going to excommunicate Matlovich yet again. Metropolitan Community Church Elder James Sandmire, an excommunicated Mormon â&#x20AC;&#x153;high officialâ&#x20AC;? said in the media interviews that he had â&#x20AC;&#x153;had seen or heard of hundreds of these cases where gays have either been â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;disfellowshippedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; or â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;excommunicatedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? once, but not twice.
Jonas Heaton also told the reporters that there â&#x20AC;&#x153;is a move to drop the upfront gay activist because of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;conduct in violation of the law and order of the churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x201D; namely his homosexuality.â&#x20AC;? Matlovich in turn vowed, â&#x20AC;&#x153;that the attempt to remove him from Mormon rolls will be a media event.â&#x20AC;? Matlovich also admitted he â&#x20AC;&#x153;[was] confused on how he [could] be removed twice from the same church. When Heaton was asked about the double excommunication, the official said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a private matter within the church â&#x20AC;&#x201D; I know a great deal about Mr. Matlovich that I am not going to discuss.â&#x20AC;? Matlovich was then excommunicated a second time from the Mormon Church in January, 1979. The publicity surrounding Matlovich was enormous, and he received thousands of letters from all over the nation and even Europe, praising his courage and bravery for coming out. Of the many letters I read in his archived collection, only two were negative; the rest were heart-wrenching expressions of gratitude and support. For example, Joseph Allen, a native of Vienna, Austria, wrote him to say, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I saw your picture on the front cover of Time and cried. It is, indeed, a new awakening for us ... I feel it happening because of people such as you who are unafraid.â&#x20AC;? Matlovich also befriended and corresponded with several other gay Mormons. For example, C.R. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Joeâ&#x20AC;? Smith, corresponded regularly with â&#x20AC;&#x153;Matâ&#x20AC;? in 1978 and 1979, encouraging him in his activism, and frequently mentioning their bond as ex-Mormon gays. Smith had been raised in Utah but was excommunicated. He then had moved to Yucca Valley, Calif. where he and his partner lived for many years together, running an animal shelter in the high desert. Eventually the media circus around Matlovich exhausted him and he grew weary of being at the brunt of the gay rights movement. However, he did continue to speak out against homophobic crusader Anita Bryant, and in June 1977 was a featured speaker at a large gay rights convention held in Salt Lake City, during which Affirmation: Gay Mormons United was founded. In 1980, a federal judge ordered the Air Force to reinstate Matlovich with back pay. The Air Force, disgruntled that their policy was found to be discriminatory and illegal, pressed Matlovich to drop his case and settle out of court, or they would appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. Finally Matlovich gave in and accepted $160,000 tax free, and explained to angered gay rights advocates that â&#x20AC;&#x153;he believed it to be less likely to win a government appeal in front of an increasingly conservative U.S. Supreme Court.â&#x20AC;? Leonard Matlovich announced that he had HIV on the Good Morning America television show in July of 1987 and died from AIDS in West Hollywood at the home of a friend on June 22, 1988. His famous epitaph at the Congressional Cemetery in Washington DC reads, â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.â&#x20AC;?
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K people, so here’s what I don’t get about the whole South Salt Lake “kidnapping” thing. Have you ever seen DJ Bell? He’s the size of an Egg McMuffin! Despite what I’ve read in the media, I find it hard to believe that he leapt over a fence, crept into a house full of partying Polynesians and carried off two children under his arms like Cruella De Vil stealing Dalmatian puppies. And it seems to get more bizarro and confusing every time the media gets involved, so now I don’t know whom to believe. The timeline changes; the location of the children changes; the number of witnesses changes, and apparently a family of Samoans have somehow, according to rumor, become not just Tongans, but Tongan Crip gang members. That’s a pretty impressive trick. And therein lays the main problem, petals. Over a month after the tragic events, no one in a credible position of authority has publicly gone on record, leaving a huge void of facts that can only be filled by speculation, finger-pointing and good oldfashioned gossip. That’s not reassuring or helping anyone. What the South Salt Lake Police Department and the County Attorney’s office clearly don’t understand is that a crime of violence like this is not just about DJ Bell and Dan Fair. It booms and resonates throughout the gay and lesbian community and reinforces our worst fears and perceptions. Pictures of bruised and bloodied gay men inflame our fears of hate crimes and our own potential victimization.
The no-contact order placed between DJ and his partner and the apparently onesided investigation by SSLPD reinforces our distrust of law enforcement. While the prosecutors’ cavalier dismissal of assault charges against the assailants (without any explanation to the public), feeds our fears of a politically motivated prosecutor biased against gay Utahns. And don’t even get me started about the
God, it’s so weird being the voice of reason, especially considering I lipsynch! hate-filled blogs and venomous comments posted on KSL.com, or the Deseret News and The Salt Lake Trib’s Web sites. They were unbelievable! The net result of all of these negatives is that the gay community can feel vulnerable, targeted, outraged and powerless. I believe this defenselessness is why some of our community are so quick to use the “nuclear option” and call the event a hate crime. Unfortunately, the words “hate crimes” are so politically loaded, they automatically wind
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up the media and the gay-haters, and cause public safety agencies to go into full-blown denial and defensive mode. Ironically, I of all people am suggesting we need to use the term judiciously and sparingly, and only after we know all of the facts. Now petals, I am not the person to argue what is and what isn’t a hate crime. Primarily because my legal expertise comes from watching every episode of Scooby Doo ever made, and a few seasons of Murder, She Wrote. But ... I do know this. Eventually everyone will get their day in court and hopefully (with all of us watching and paying attention) the process will be fair and impartial. Until then, we need to ratchet down the rhetoric, slow the flow of gossip, and get the hell out of the way. God, it’s so weird being the voice of reason, especially considering I lip-synch! Anyway, cherubs, for my part, I am hosting a benefit night of Third Friday Bingo at First Baptist Church (777 S 1300 E) on Friday Aug. 15 (at 7:00 p.m.) to raise funds for Dan Fair’s medical expenses and legal costs (we should have a better idea of DJ’s situation after his preliminary hearing on Aug. 21, and we will cross that bridge later). Hope to see you (and your checkbooks) there. Bye, kittens! Q
For an evening of politically incorrect entertainment, questionable glamour, and raucous opinion, join Ruby Ridge as she hosts 3rd Friday Bingo (on the 3rd Friday of each month at 7PM) at the First Baptist Church in Salt Lake City (777 South 1300 East). Oh, and wear sensible shoes! (Don’t even ask why).
SLAP: The Salt Lake DA’s Office When it comes to the child kidnapping charges against David James Bell there’s a lot of heat and little light being generated in the Salt Lake Valley. As child abuse is an emotional and upsetting subject, this is understandable. But what isn’t understandable is the Salt Lake District Attorney’s Office’s decision not to press charges against the people who attacked Bell and his partner Dan Fair. We’ve seen the photographs of their injuries, and we know at least five adults from the children’s household broke into their house and beat Fair with a television set, breaking his eye socket. We know that several beat Bell’s head into the pavement, making him lose hearing in his right ear. And we know that the children were safe at home by then, just as we know Fair wasn’t charged with any crime. So we have a break-in, an attack that wasn’t defensive and at least one completely innocent man (Fair was reportedly asleep at the time the children were found in the house) with extensive injuries. Something is wrong with this picture. SNAP: Affirmation It takes courage, patience and tenacity to attempt to hold dialogue with a church that considers gay sex to be sinful, and the members of gay Mormon support group Affirmation have more than a few handcarts of these qualities. Undeterred by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ cancellation of an Aug. 11 meeting to discuss how the church can treat its gay members better, Affirmation leadership held the meeting anyway, presenting their points of discussion to the press. Dialogue and persistence is often how change happens, and those who strive for them should be applauded. SNAP: The Herald-Journal A Logan newspaper runs a paid wedding announcement for a lesbian couple and refuses to apologize when angry readers whine about the traditional family and cancel their subscriptions. Now that’s what we call classy and courageous!
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an incredibly small deposit. While I’m embarrassed to admit in public how small this deposit was, I will say that it was certainly smaller than Mark Wahlberg’s prosthetic in Boogie Nights. I arrived at the bank, hoping to get the transaction over with as soon as possible. I wasn’t really in a mood to explain to the teller, “See, my account balance is significantly lower than I had anticipated due to my sister cashing a check that I had forgotten about, and because I’ve recently paid some bills which I know will soon show up in my account, I want to make this small deposit to ensure that none of those payments bounce, because did you know that the average bra size today is 36C while 10 years ago it was 34B, and isn’t Jon Voight an underrated actor?” Needless to say, I have a tendency of giving too much information to too many people. I once killed a guy. Halfway through the transaction, the teller caught me off guard by asking, “Do you write for QSaltLake?” I had been discovered. The secret was out. Lance Bass was out of the closet. Bill Clinton had admitted to receiving a blowjob. Someone learned the moon landing was filmed on a sound stage. I wasn’t embarrassed to admit that I write for QSaltLake, as much as I was embarrassed that someone caught me making a ridiculously small deposit to my bank account. The point is, pride knows no boundaries, much like a poison gas or illegal immigrants. That wasn’t the first time I had been recognized in public. I write a number of blogs and columns for a few different Web sites and papers, so although I have yet to accomplish a Kathy Griffin-esque D-list status due to my current residence on Z-list Street, I generally have no problem with the occasional recognition. Nevertheless, while I’ve been recognized at the post office, the library and the bank, I’ve also been recognized at lesssavory places — such as never you mind, none of your business, and who asked you. We’re all recognized at some point throughout our lives. Sometimes people identify us from work, sometimes people know us from school, and sometimes we’re recognized from that group orgy where Steve got really high and ended
up streaking through the street until the cops came by to arrest him for indecent exposure and subsequently asked us what kind of “gay party” we had going on here, anyway, funny to run into you here at the grocery store and yes, this is my mother. Now if you don’t mind, I need to go buy toilet paper in bulk. It’s been difficult to turn on the news recently without hearing about The John Edwards Sex Scandal of the Week™. How long did the affair last? Is he the father of his mistress’ child? Would the affair have affected his run for president? Is it written into the constitution that all U.S. senators must commit adultery and/ or be a closet homosexual during their terms? While I’m not all that interested in following John Edwards’ affair, I have wondered how someone in such a position of power could do something so stupid. Sex is enjoyable, but lasts for 12 minutes (not that I’m using personal anecdotes or anything). A reputation on the other hand, lasts for years. As Bill Clinton taught us: One blowjob = 10 years of bad press. Some gay men are promiscuous, some gay men are alcoholics, some gay men have drug addictions and some gay men are Rufus Wainwright. One of the criticisms launched at the gay community from some Krazy Kooky Khristians is that gay men have many more sexual partners than do straight men. This accusation is certainly unfair and sometimes untrue, but many of has have made mistakes which have later come back to haunt us. I’ve know that I’ve certainly made more than my share of mistakes. Not all of us are crappy, second-rate columnists. Not all of us are politicians running for president. Nevertheless, it might do gay men some good to remember that in the digital age of Life 2.0, nothing is kept hidden anymore. Affairs are revealed. Secrets are told. We never know what secrets of ours will sabotage an interview, ruin an opportunity, or destroy a relationship. Instead of indulging every desire that runs through our veins, perhaps we should step back and ask ourselves how our actions will affect the big picture. After all, we never know when we may be recognized at the post office, the bank or none of your business. Q
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“beach books” – celebrity memoirs, purply romance novels and, at least for those of you who waited in line for a copy of Breaking Dawn on Aug 2, sparkly vampires. Not that there’s anything wrong with that – the brain needs a vacation just as much as the body does during the hotter, dryer months. And besides, trashy books are fun. Stephenie Meyer’s unintentionally hilarious Twilight saga, of which Breaking Dawn is the final installment, has kept me and my girlfriend laughing for weeks, for example. I mean, you guys. Vampires that sparkle. In the sun. And whine for hundreds of pages. Seriously. But for me, the dog days of August are also a good time to catch up on that long list of books I want to read, but haven’t yet (currently, it numbers about 2,000 – I wish I was joking). At the top of the list: George Orwell’s 1984, the novel that brought us such watchwords as “freedom is slavery,” “doublethink,” “thoughtcrime” and “Big Brother is watching you.” No, I really didn’t read it until this year. Tenth grade English was all about Animal Farm (no sex and no disturbingly graphic torture, and therefore no angry parents and well, sometimes it just takes awhile to seek things out when they’re not on the syllabus. Especially when reading and writing is your career. Although it took me long enough, I’m glad I chose this month to pick up this heartbreaking, bleak and truly terrifying book. Not just because it’s a classic. Not just because it’s timely. Not even because people who mindlessly bleat, “1984 is coming true” without having ever read the book really piss me off. I’m glad because, Cold War and Stalinist preoccupations aside, 1984 still has a lot to say to people of all races, sexes and sexual orientations. Not necessarily about the perils of totalitarian government, but
about the all-too-human cruelties and lusts that construct such governments. As is usual with my columns, here’s a little bit of description to help those of you who haven’t read the book (or who just need a review). It is 1984 in the nation of Oceania – or at least, that’s the closest date our protagonist Winston Smith can guess at, seeing as the government of Ingsoc (that is, a super-powered brand of English Socialism) isn’t very good at keeping reliable records. Or very good at not destroying or altering historical for its purposes, not twisting the English language into a painful (and often contradictory) shorthand, not spying on its citizens through omnipresent telescreens (TVs that double as security cameras and which can’t be turned off) or not making real or perceived dissenters disappear. Oh, and because this column is called “Gay Geeks,” I should also add that it’s also really good at punishing any non-procreative sex acts including gay sex. Ingsoc’s interest in the above dehumanizing activities has exhausted and disgusted our man Winston. And like any sane, thinking and compassionate person, he wants to rebel. He does so by keeping a diary of his innermost fears, plotting to join an underground revolution and having a purely sexual affair with a vibrant and fascinating young woman named Julia. And all goes well until the thought police (yep, Orwell coined that one, too) catch him, break him and turn him into a stunted, hollow, Big Brother-loving shell. It’s the last part of the book that I
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haven’t been able to stop dwelling on. You see, it’s disarmingly easy – and maybe not entirely wrong – to call 1984 dated in some ways. Orwell’s vision of a world completely divided between three totalitarian superpowers has a very distinctive Cold War ambiance, making the book seem a good century removed from the world’s current political landscape and the still largely territorial and ideological wars fought upon that landscape. And for all the excesses of the Bush years, FISA and the Patriot Act, and the countless ways entertainment and apathy have debased how we think and speak America in 2008 is still not Ingsoc in 1984, even if Orwell’s warnings about surveillance and mindless war-mongering feel eerily contemporary. However, our gullibility and fragility is ageless. The weaknesses in mind and body that make governments like Ingsoc possible are Orwell’s focus in the third part of 1984, in which a man named O’Brien beats, starves and terrorizes Winston into loving submission to Big Brother. The point of the beatings, the electroshock and the brainwashing isn’t just to force Winston into obedience. Obedience in action isn’t enough, O’Brien explains, because people like Winston could still cause problems for the government they secretly despise. Nor is it enough to simply kill him, as killing a heretic simply makes a martyr. The only way for a government to rule unquestioned is to eliminate the ability and desire to question, to phase concepts such as
1984 still has a lot to say to people of all races, sexes and sexual orientations.
“freedom,” “equality” and “love” out of the language and to burn everything but fanatical devotion from the minds of the ruled. And when O’Brien finally forces Winston to betray his lover in a sequence that is too terrifying and powerful for me to spoil for you, he makes his point clear. “The object of persecution is persecution,” he tells Winston. “The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?” Some of my writer friends say that they don’t like dystopic novels in the vein of 1984 because they are profoundly hopeless. I would argue, however, that 1984 is one of the most hopeful books I’ve ever read. Orwell crushes Winston Smith so that we won’t be crushed. He forces us to realize that our minds and bodies simply are not built to withstand any form of abuse in the names of such principals as love, honor and loyalty. Neither are we always equipped to identify the techniques the power-hungry use to lull us into an apathetic security. Hence, the lessons of 1984 are as essential to keeping ourselves alive and happy as is eating right, getting enough sleep, and taking an active interest in current events. After all, if we don’t know the often subtle ways true megalomaniacs will use to grab and hold onto control over our lives and minds, how can we possibly ever hope to fight them before they metastasize like a cancer: in war-fever that tells us questioning governmental policies is un-American and criminal, in purity campaigns that demonize sex and label gays as lawless perverts, in our own laziness that whispers every day should be summer and every book we read should be about the angsty love lives of sparkly vampires. For your sake, read (or reread) 1984 this summer.
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20 and 40 percent of all homeless youth identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender, according to a January 2007 report released by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. In 2007 these numbers held true for Utah according to a survey the Homeless Youth Resource Center conducted of its drop-in clients. But in January and February 2008 something strange happened: the number jumped to slightly over 50 percent. “Over half of our youth coming in at that time identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning or other,” said Teresa Stocks, Homeless Youth Resource Center program manager. In past surveys, she said, the number of such self-identified youth ranged “between 29 and 35 percent.” In trying to puzzle out the large increase, Stocks mentions a number of possibilities. It could be that adding an “other than heterosexual” option on their survey gave youth who don’t identify as lesbian, bay, bisexual or transgender — or who just dislike labels — an appropriate box to check. For reasons the center has yet to determine, the clients they served between January 31 and Valentine’s Day were also somewhat younger than the clients they normally see (that is, youth under the age of 18). It could be that these youth have simply not figured out their sexual orientation yet, making the “other than heterosexual” box the best fit for them. “That was the weird thing,” said Stocks. “We weren’t really able to identify why [this was happening], or if in the past it was always about 50 percent, but people didn’t feel safe identifying that way. We’re really not sure.” Regardless of the reasons, one thing is clear: Utah has long had a number of teenagers and young adults living on the streets and a significant portion of that number are queer youth, many of whom are kicked out of their homes when they come out or when parents discover the truth about their sexual orientation or gender identity. And their situation makes psychology student and gay homeless youth advocate Shannon Candice Metzler angry. “We have an estimated 3,000 homeless youth in this state. Roughly 900 to 1,200 are self-identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender,” Metzler, a transgender woman who herself has been homeless for the past 11 months, wrote in a Deseret News letter to the editor on Aug. 7. “Many are forced to escape from a home plagued with abuse and hate. At some point parents must be held accountable for throwing their children’s lives into chaos.” “It’s ridiculous that we say we’re so pro-family values, yet we leave kids to sleep outside in the cold,” said Metzler, who has of late spoken to Utah news outlets including City Weekly and The Salt Lake Tribune about youth whom she says regularly “fall between the cracks” in society. As a queer person, a parent to two boys (ages 6 and 10) and someone who has experienced home-
lessness, Metzler said that helping gay and transgender homeless youth is her calling. “They will get into drugs and alcohol and not be able to further their lives,” she said. “When we take them away from the stability of a home, school, access to food, what kind of future are we giving these kids?”
Soup’s On! Utah Pride Center Youth Program Director Rachel McNeil is well acquainted with homeless queer youth. In July, she estimates that “25 percent of youth we served at the [Center’s] Youth Activities Center were homeless.” Knowing that many of the teens and young adults (the Center’s Youth Activities Center serves youth age 14–20) who drop by for activities may not have homes to return to, McNeil said the Center has devised a number of programs to help them. One of these is the Soup’s On! program, which provides homeless youth (or any hungry person) with meals donated by community members and local churches. The Center also distributes personal hygiene products and supplies like blankets and jackets in the colder months. Because a queer youth might also come to the Utah Pride Center first, McNeil also said that she works closely with the Homeless Youth Resource Center. “When I have a kid come here and is recently homeless I’ll call the Resource Center and ask them to come over because the youth [often] feels safer here,” she said. When a staff person arrives, McNeil said they work together to see if the young person has any immediate needs to be met, such as pressing health concerns or at-risk behaviors. “We help them go through what resources or support they have available to them,” she said. “Often they’ll meet with a case worker at Volunteers of America [the Homeless Youth Resource Center’s parent organization]” to get help with securing a photo ID, getting a job or finding transitional housing. For youth whose first stop is the Resource Center, Stocks said she and her staff can supply things to meet their clients’ basic needs “from chap stick and Q-tips to showers, laundry and food.” Further, her staff is “welltrained in community resources.” “If a kid says, ‘I have a toothache,’ we can refer them to a dentist who would see them for free,” she said. For pregnant girls and young women, they can assist with finding prenatal care and signing them up for Medicaid. They can also assist youth with getting everything from photo IDs to food stamps, housing program referrals and even assisting them in anything from “getting a job or writing a resume to taking cooking classes.” For youth who don’t want to or can’t drop in, the Resource Center also has a street team program that distributes basic necessities, food and advice. “A big piece of what we do here at the Utah Pride Center is trying to prevent homelessness in LGBT kids to begin with,” McNeil added. Utah, she
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said, is one of only two states (Massachusetts being the other) to offer “cultural competency training” to Department of Child and Family Services workers, to help make them aware of the unique issues facing queer youth and the ways they can make the child welfare system safer for youth of all orientations and gender identities. Currently, McNeil said she takes the three-hour training session to workers in all regions of the state. Eventually she said she would like to take the training to foster parents and to family preservation workers. “Say a kid comes out and there are problems in the family. A family preservation worker would step in to try and help them [the family] resolve their issues so the kids can stay in the home,” said McNeil. If a family preservation worker has biases against gay or transgender people or “doesn’t know what to do” to help them, McNeil added that they won’t be able to help queer youth effectively. The Letter of the Law In this decade, Utah has taken several small steps towards helping homeless youth. In 2006 Gov. Jon Huntsman signed the Emancipation of a Minor Act allowing teens 16 and older to petition juvenile courts to be granted independence from their parents and the ability to live by themselves, enter into legal contracts, manage their financial affairs and seek independent medical care. This year, the governor also signed HB 23 or Child and Family Protections into law, making it a third degree felony for parents to kick out their children. However, not all minors have the means to seek emancipation or will be granted it, even if they are attempting to flee an abusive home. And while HB 23 may be able to help homeless gay youth by holding their parents accountable, the bill’s language (including a sentence about punishing individuals who coerce parents to abandon their children) seems more geared to helping youth abandoned by fundamentalist polygamous groups. Further, Utah law often limits what both centers can do for youth under 18. “Legally in this state there’s not much we can do for them without parental approval,” said McNeil. “As a social service agency we can serve homeless youth for up to eight hours without calling Child Protective Services or getting parental permission, and then they’ll check and see if the youth has been reported as a runaway.” “If a parent doesn’t care or isn’t in contact, what do you do?” Metzler asked. Although Stocks said getting guardian approval is typically not difficult, the difficulty lies in getting youth age 15–17 to use their services.
“What we find is that most kids under 18 are so afraid of the system in general that they are really unlikely to come into our drop-in center,” she said. But when a guardian can’t be reached or doesn’t grant permission, McNeil said her hands are tied. There also isn’t a lot that she can do in the period between when a homeless teen seeks help and when that help can be marshaled. And with the homeless shelters downtown unable to take in teens, and the Homeless Youth Resource Center equipped only to serve drop-in clients, McNeil said that sometimes she has no choice but to give youth food and warm clothing and tell them to come back in the morning. “They’re not so concerned about what we can do in a week or a month, they want to know where they’ll be sleeping for the night,” she said. “We’re adults and we’re supposed to be protecting these kids, and they shouldn’t be sleeping on the streets.” Although Volunteers of America runs a transition home for teen girls age 16–18, Stocks said it only has seven beds and can only place girls for 18 months. Both women say their organizations are advocating for the building of a homeless youth shelter, but they don’t see one being built in the near future. “Maybe in five to 10 years,” said Stocks.
“Legally in this state there’s not much we can do for them without parental approval.”
Taking Action In the interim, the number of homeless youth of all orientations is on the rise in Utah. Stocks said the Resource Center now sees 25–30 youth each day. In 2007 and 2006 she estimates that number was between 10 and 12. Although she and her staff have yet to explain the spike in numbers — which Stocks speculates may be the result of recent economic down turns and the street outreach program getting the word out that the Resource Center exists — she said the need to help homeless youth is critical. “I don’t think people realize what kind of impact these numbers can have on a population,” she said. But for Metzler, Utah just isn’t doing enough. And the problem, she said, is largely one of cultural attitudes towards gay and transgender people. The relative ease by which a parent can throw away a gay child, she said, is little more than “a socially approved way of reinforcing the norms of sexual orientation and gender identity.” And enforcing those norms has a very human cost, especially as with few laws on the books to help gay and transgender ‘throw away kids.’ “But what about now, when we have kids who will freeze this winter,” she asked. “I want to see something happen now so that when we go from these hot temperatures into cold, we don’t treat them the same as we have been doing.” Q
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Taste of the Nation raises over $100,000 for Utah Hunger non-profits by Brad di Iorio
Under a blue, clear sky, over 30 local restaurants from the greater Salt Lake City area, tempted attendees with appetizers and culinary tidbits, in Share Our Strength’s annual Taste of the Nation fund raiser presented by American Express, Aug. 3, at Solitude Mountain Resort. Taste of the Nation is the premier culinary benefit dedicated to making sure no kid in America grows up hungry. Each spring and summer, the nation’s hottest chefs and mixologists donate their time, talent and passion at more than 55 events across the United States and Canada, with one goal in mind: to raise funds needed to end childhood hunger. One hundred percent of ticket sales went to three local non-profit organizations. Duane Reading, chairman of the Share Our Strength’s local Utah chapter and current Director of Market Development and Customer Analytics at SYSCO, said, “This is the ninth year Salt Lake City has participated in the Taste of the Nation event and the 20th year that the Share Our Strength national non-profit organization has presented the event to raise money for the grant recipients. Locally, that includes Utahns Against Hunger, Ogden Weber Community Action Partnership and Utah Food Bank Services, who work to eliminate hunger and assist low-income individuals and families in Utah.” From bacon-wrapped, baked peaches stuffed with goat cheese (courtesy of Tuscany restaurant) to the most tasteful watermelon, shrimp, Saba combo, toothpick appetizer (from Café Trio), great tastes were complimented with wine donations from Gloria Ferrer Sparkling Wines, Acacia Winery, and Jeff Carter of Southern Wines and Spirits, along with local beer from Squatters and Wasatch Breweries. Other favorite local restaurants in attendance who donated their time, food samples and travel expenses included Red Iguana, Metropolitan, Salt Lake Pizza and Pasta, Fiddler’s Elbow, Bambara,
Baxter’s, Market Street Grill, Sage’s Café, Vertical Diner and Cali’s Natural Foods. “This was our third year attending the event, and we love getting out in nature, on the hill, and greeting people and sharing Puntas a la Nortena and Enmolada,” said Elizabeth Lopez of Red Iguana. A special sweets and desserts booth, the Utah Bakers Dozen, featured chocolate Penuche Cake from Royal Street Café at Deer Valley Resort, Kahuana confections from Sage’s Café and Vertical Diner, and Chad Horton’s chocolate-, peanut butter- and cayenne-caramel-flavored popcorn balls from The Metropolitan. Local ski and mountain ski resorts donated luxury accommodation packages including dining privileges at the live auction, while a silent auction provided additional donations from local businesses to Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry program. Zane Holmquist, executive chef at Stein Eriksen Lodge, kept upping the properties live auction donation, which finally included a massage from the waist down or facial, a deluxe room for two at Stein Eriksen Lodge and brunch for 12, featuring his original hot dog creation smothered in macaroni & cheese and pickles. Working with local and national hunger-related community groups, nonprofit organizations, and activists, along with the culinary industry, Share Our Strength creates events to raise money for local and national food programs. The next Share Our Strength event is the Great American Dine Out presented by American Express, Sept. 21–28, where participating restaurants will donate between one and five percent of sales during the week to help support Share Our Strength’s work to increase and facilitate kids’ access to nutritious foods where they live, learn, and play. Share our Strength is based in Washington D.C, www.strength.org. Utahns Against Hunger, www. uah.org, Utah Food Bank Services, www.utahfoodbank.org, and Ogden Weber Community Action Partnership, www.owcap.org
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I recently went camping at Pineview with this one guy I didn’t know ... and about 17 lesbians. Need I say more? Yes. It was a birthday bash for my friend Brenda (Pearl), and we thought it would be a hoot to float a quarter-mile down the stream to the lake. About an hour after we started, we bailed out of the water like a pack of river rats and scurried up the steep plateau to the highway and walked back to camp ... it was definitely a hoot!
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THursday — This week the Twilight Concert Series hosts two indie-rock bands. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah hails from the East coast and from San Diego comes Delta Spirit. Even if you’ve never heard these bands, Thursday nights at the Gallivan are really just a social gathering, so the concert’s free and the beer ain’t ... Yep urine Utah! 7pm, Gallivan Center, 239 S. Main Street. Free, gallivancenter.com.
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FRIDAY — OK, I realize I add Third Friday Bingo to the agenda every month unlike many other monthly events. It’s partially professional courtesy, but mostly because I want to shove my head under Ruby’s Double-D water bra and suckle like a starving infant. Anyhoo, the proceeds will go to DJ’s (Lola) and Dan’s legal and medical expenses. 7–9:30pm, First Baptist Church, 777 S. 1300 East. Bingo cards $5.
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SATURDAY — The Italian celebration Ferragosto returns this weekend for another favoloso street fair. There’ll be great entertainment including the C.J. Santoro Band and Alice Cipollini. There will also be a sausageeating contest, bocce tournament, Italian car show and much more. Salute! 11am–10pm, Downtown Salt Lake, 450 W. 300 South. Free, 979-1997 or italianinutah.com.
Q The “Empress of Soul” comes to Utah, but I think probably Pip-less. Check out one of the most popular R&B artists to date — the incomparable Gladys Knight. Unfortunately because she’s playing at Deer Valley and UDOT (Utah’s Dumb-
est Officers of Transportation) will have eastbound lanes in Parley’s Canyon closed at 7:00 p.m., it would be wise to arrive extra, extra early ... Yep urine Utah! 7:30pm, Snow Park Lodge, Deer Valley Resort. Tickets $40, 888-451-2787.
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MONDAY — Around the Globe Theatre Company presents gay playwright Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie. This is one of his most famous works — a semi-autobiographical “memory” play about a St. Louis family being forced to surrender their fantasies and face reality. A tender story of love lost. 7:30pm, through Aug. 23, Studio Theatre, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. Broadway. Tickets $12, 355-ARTS or arttix.org. Q He’s got charisma, a sexy voice and most importantly, he’s a surfer dude ... cowabunga! That’s freakin’ hot! Hawaiianborn Jack Johnson carves the Utah stage tonight sharing his acoustic pop-rock style with his adoring fans ... be a part of the Pipeline, and hang ten dude! 7pm, USANA Amphitheatre, 5400 S. 6200 West. Tickets $29.50–49.50, 487-4899 or smithstix.com.
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WEDNESDAY — This Scottish singer-songwriter hit stardom with the single “Black Horse and the Cherry Tree.” (If you don’t know it, check it out, it’s freakin’ hot!) She is Grammy-nominated KT Tunstall and she’s playing at Red Butte tonight. Her music’s been dubbed “heartfelt pop, rootsy electric blues and alternative folk.” Martha Wainwright opens. 7pm, Red Butte Garden, 300 S. Wakara Way, UofU. Tickets $32–37, 5855225 or redbuttegarden.org.
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THURSDAY — Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company presents Momentum “Untold Stories,” their 2nd annual alumni dance concert. Dancers from Los Angeles, Long Beach, New York City, San Francisco and Salt Lake City will present a thought-provoking and fascinating dance/theatre production. The show features an eclectic conglomerate of RWDC artists and choreographers, including Chia-Chi Chiang, Javier Cordoba, Juan Carlos Claudio, Aaron Draper, Jill Voorhees Edwards, Tammy Metz-
august 24 Center Golf Classic utahpridecenter.org Aqua Aid utahaids.org september 12–14 Queer Spirit Retreat queerspirit.org september 16 Equality Utah Allies Dinner equalityutah.org september 20 Walk for Life utahaids.org september 20–21 Baker, Nevada Trip RCGSE.org september 26–27 Southern Utah Pride, Springdale southernutahpride.org october 3 Salt Lake Men’s Choir 40s fundraiser dinner saltlakemenschoir.org october 4 sWerve’s Oktoberfest 2008 swerveutah.com october 10–12 SLC GayBowl VIII mwffl.org october 11 Coming Out Day Breakfast utahpridecenter.org december 12–14 Salt Lake Men’s Choir Holiday Concert saltlakemenschoir.org january 7–11, 2009 Utah Gay & Lesbian Ski Week, Park City gayskiing.org january 15–25, 2009 Sundance Film Festival, Park City sundance.org June 6–7, 2009 Utah Pride utahpride.org July 24–26, 2009 Utah Bear Ruckus utahbears.com Email arts@qsaltlake.com for consideration to be included in Save the Date.
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FRIDAY — So a few issues ago we informed everyone there would not be a Pridaho event this year. Well that’s still partially true as it’s now called Pocatello Pride, hosted by Charleys. There will be a White Party tonight and a picnic at Ross Park on Saturday from 6–10 p.m. The folks in Pocatello are fabulous, so go up there and help them celebrate. Tonight & Saturday, Club Charleys, Pocatello, Idaho. For more info call 208-232-9606 or visit clubcharleys.googlepages.com.
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SUNDAY — If you haven’t yet signed up for the Pride Center’s 9th annual Golf Classic, you better do it now to secure a spot. Play 18 holes of golf, enoy a complimentary breakfast and lunch, and decorate your golf cart to win prizes. 8am, Stonebridge Golf Course, 4415 Links Drive. Registration fee $95, 539-8800 or utahpridecenter.org.
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MONDAY — She’s so damn hot her hair is practically on fire and her Salt Lake concert sold out faster than the Ped Egg. So now Utah will be graced with a second night of Bonnie Raitt. Tickets are still available, so chop, chop lollipop! 7pm, Red Butte Garden, 300 S. Wakara
Way, UofU. Tickets $53–58, 585-5225 or redbuttegarden.org.
Q Nine-time Grammy winner Sheryl Crow is here ... that’s freakin’ hot! If you don’t already know, her music blends rock, country, pop, folk and blues to create such amazing hits as “The First Cut Is The Deepest” and “Picture.” Sexy James Blunt and Toots & The Maytals open the show. 7pm, USANA Amphitheatre, 5400 S. 6200 West. Tickets $40–61, 487-4899 or smithstix.com.
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WEDNESDAY — My friend Michelle is obsessed with Dave Matthews to the point of creepiness. She’s one of those sex-starved roadies that follows him around the country, boobs at full attention. Anyhoo, you’ll recognize her in the crowd tonight because she’ll be the only one singing louder and more boisterous than Dave. 7pm, USANA Amphitheatre, 5400 S. 6200 West. Tickets $39.50–65, 487-4899 or smithstix.com.
UPCOMING EVENTS SEP. 18 Alicia Keys, Abravanel Hall SEP. 23 So You Think You Can Dance Tour, E Center OCT. 20 David Sedaris, Abravanel Hall OCT. 28 Jason Mraz, E Center Nov. 21 Celine Dion, ES Arena Nov. 22 Coldplay, ES Arena
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you’ll probably remember being told “write about what you know.” Everyone knows about coming-ofage, we all experience it, so it’s one of the most prevalent subjects in American literature. Yet, it’s also become cliché — especially gay coming-of-age stories. So when I picked up Shawn Stewart Ruff’s debut novel Finlater, I was prepared for predictability. What I got was something completely different, something special. Cliffy Douglas is black. Noah Baumgarten is Jewish. They’re gay, in their early teens and coming-of-age in the hate-mongering 1970s. Racism. Bigotry. Hatred. Homophobia. Predictable? Perhaps, but Ruff expertly buries these elements just under the surface, drawing more on the deep-rooted insecurities, complexities and flaws of the characters, particularly his protagonist Cliffy. Cliffy is young, bright and hardened by his surroundings, and yet as fragile as daybreak. Besides his mother, he keeps the world at a distance and he would do just about anything to get out of the Findlater Gardens Projects. Then two seemingly unrelated events occur in Cliffy’s life that dramatically alter it: his abusive absentee father returns and he finds himself in a promiscuous relationship with his friend Noah. When Noah’s father’s health dwindles and they are suddenly whisked away to New York City for an indeterminate amount of time, Cliffy realizes and, while already dealing with oppression, fears his true feelings for Noah. Ruff develops Cliffy’s character naturally, without puffiness or pretention. –The anger in her eyes I would forever see, her hand lifting and swinging toward me ... The tears blurred her in my eyes and I would never again see her the same. Ruff also develops Cliffy and Noah’s relationship honestly and compassionately. -His arms relaxed and he lay on top of me, his head lowering and lips brushing the side of my face as his head wedged beside mine. “It never felt like that. I never did all we did. I never kissed like we kiss.” –His white toes against my yellow ones sent waves of tingles that changed the way my eyes saw. In relation to Cliffy, the supporting characters are three-dimensional and honestly depicted. –I was surprised to see him sitting on the sofa in his exotic underwear, legs cocked open, his attention glued to a bowling tournament on the fuzzy, crackling RCA. Like he’d been there all along, a daddy centerfold in our living room, only we hadn’t noticed. –That’s what I liked about Delrico, he wasn’t hurtful, even if he had killed his
sister, and even if he could be spiteful. Ruff’s descriptive prose is delicately honest and vivid so that you feel like you’re physically drawn into the book with the characters, experiencing what they’re experiencing — you can smell the alcohol and musk on Cliffy’s father, see the translucent silky-fine hair on Noah’s lower back and feel the burn of Mr. Coursey’s blatant bigotry. Finlater isn’t just about race, social status or sexuality ... It’s foremost and simply about one boy’s journey into manhood, as a coming-of-age tale should be. Ruff genuinely turns a gay boy into a gay man using the irony of fathers and sons, and we all shall be the more appreciative of
the beauty of the transition. And truly, you will find that we all have loved as Cliffy has loved. Q
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Painting the Pain: A Steve Salget Retrospective by JoSelle Vanderhooft
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Steve Salget often had difficulty talking about his work and what drove him to create it. “It’s a healing thing, a restoring thing,” he told this writer in 2004. “It’s my interpretation of what life is, and the experience of it, the joy of it. That there is this beauty all around us.” Until 2006 the Utah artist painted the beauty he saw in the natural landscapes of several Western and Southern states including rugged Nevada, swampy Louisiana, colorful Utah and his native Washington. He painted his impressionist-style landscapes (think what Claude Monet might have done if he exchanged his water lilies for sage brush and mountain vistas) in part, he said, to “[restore] me, and [keep] me going” through his years-long battle with HIV. But instead of focusing on disease and disintegration, Salget poured his energy into depicting the landscape’s still, contemplative beauty. For him, doing so was just a different way of engaging with HIV and AIDS than many artists would take. “At one point people asked, ‘You’ve been through so much — why don’t you paint the pain?’” he said in 2004. “In a sense I can say, ‘Well I do.’” But sometimes the pain of life just becomes greater than the beauty. In January Salget committed suicide after a long struggle not only with HIV but with bipolar disorder (manic depression) and other health concerns, including a broken wrist last fall. “You could tell he was depressed,” said Joe Evans, Salget’s friend and the owner of No Brow Coffee and Tea who said he noticed a “downturn” in the artist shortly after Salget injured his wrist. “He got quieter and quieter,” he remembers. “And in December he spoke in a voice that was barely a whisper. I don’t remember hearing him talk about being suicidal per se, but nobody I knew seemed surprised when he died.” In the months before his death Salget and Evans had spoken about hanging a show of Salget’s paintings. A few days after the funeral, Evans sat down with Salget’s partner Lars Hansen and finalized the show which opened July 18, two days before Salget’s birthday. The show ran until Aug 13. With the exception of two paintings Salget asked to be included in the show, “Allous – Lafayette, Louisiana” and “Espiritu Sanctu,” the task of going through the artist’s 80 unsold paintings fell to Hansen. To make his decisions, Hansen would pin each onto the board that Salget carried in his truck and upon which he painted his landscapes during his many rambling journeys through the wilderness. “It was quite a choice,” he said. “I didn’t have any particular painting in mind, I’d just put them up. I tried to get a good variety of colors and stuff.” Hansen remembers riding through the state with Salget in the artist’s flat bed truck, its bed modified to carry all of Salget’s art supplies and even a sleeping bag, in case he needed to camp overnight on one of his painting trips. “If I was with him he’d say, ‘OK, this
looks like a place I need to paint,’ and we’d pull over,” Hansen remembered. “He’d figure out where he’d want to go and I’d have to leave, he’d say, ‘I can’t have you here.’” This was because Salget did his best work “when he got into his subconscious.” “I paint what I see using primarily acrylic, spray paint, and soft pastel. I use other materials as I feel along with chemicals and water, producing texture,” said Salget in 2004. “I generally work very quickly with the climate of the out-of-doors as a determining factor in how the work progresses. I enjoy this evolveas-you-work process — always producing something in a different way.” “When I was watching him at first it was like a kid finger painting,” Hansen recalled. Salget would often spend several hours painting outdoors, or plen aire, using water to keep the oil paint, spray paint and acrylic moist and pliable in the hot desert sun. When finished, he would take the painting home, hang it on the wall and consider it for about a month, making sure that it was exactly what he wanted. Approximately a third of the remaining paintings lack his signature, meaning that they are unfinished. “I’d say 80 percent were done when he was done [in the field],” Hansen said. Hansen said Salget favored chalk, spray paint and acrylics because of the way they blended with the oils. Acrylic painting also dried faster, meaning that Salget could finish a draft of his painting in hours instead of days if he wanted. In the past, Salget also constructed furniture such as end tables and designed windows for Macy’s, Nordstrom’s and ZCMI, including, quite possibly, some of the Christmas windows the then Mormonowned department store unveiled in the mid 1990s. Along with the 80 unsold paintings, Hansen also has one of Salget’s unfinished projects hanging in his garage – “about a dozen” clocks in various stages of painting and disassembly. “They look like lava rock, and they look heavy,” said Hansen when asked to describe Salget’s last project. “He’d chop them up and put them together [in different ways] and paint them in different colors.” Salget then screwed the deconstructed clocks on “two or three pieces of Styrofoam” and numbered them, so the purchaser could hang the clock sections “how they best felt it fit together.” Salget even strung Christmas tree lights through one clock, the one now hanging in Hansen’s house. Although Salget had plans to sell the clocks through a shop in Washington near his
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mother’s house, Hansen said that he “kind of gave up on them.” In his previous interview with QSaltLake, Salget prophetically – and perhaps eerily – commented on his work as a representation of life’s fragile and fleeting nature, a theme with which he was all too familiar as a man living with HIV. “I may be less likely to see as many tomorrows as I might if HIV/AIDS weren’t directly a part of my daily life,” he said then. “Of course, upon living with this idea for a long time, I’ve learned that none of us
A run-of-the-mill coming-of-age movie set in 1980s Belgium, The Curiosity of Chance beholds a lazy Sunday afternoon brainless frolick. On the first day of school a fashionconscious gay-American Army “brat” succumbs to bullying from a popular jock, chastisement from the stenchy assistant principle and ridicule from classmates. Backed by a tough loner-chick and a paranoid Inspector Gadget-type, Chance takes on the school and his nonchalant father in a reign of drag and rock bands. There are a few snappy lines and humorous scenes in this cutsy flick by Russell P. Marleau, but what makes it bearable are the leads Tad Hilgenbrinck (American Pie Presents: Band Camp) and Brett Chukerman (Eating Out 2). Their on-screen chemistry bubbles over ... and both are mighty easy on the eyes.
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as human beings have any true reliance of a tomorrow.” But Hansen can rest assured in the reliance that his partner’s spirit and personality live on through his unique and beautiful paintings. This is true for Hansen of the 2005 painting “Allous – Lafayette, Louisiana.” Although Salget never spoke much about this painting, Hansen said he just knows it was of a place in New Orleans. “I am thinking he’s in the park lying on his back looking through the tree, and this is his holy spot,” he said. To learn more about Salget’s art work or to purchase paintings visit stevesalget.com.
When a sexy egomaniacal photographer goes missing, his identical twin brother (Michael Molina) goes undercover (as his brother ... duh!) to find him. With the help of a private dick ... private dick-less, a smarmy lesbian (Jessica Graham) with a bathroom fetish, the two enter the dark and sexy world of modeling. Written and directed by Robert Gaston, this film is fairly predictable, but has wit and film-noir appeal. Plus nudity runs rampant.
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This stylishly bold tribute to the volatile artist stars Nigel Terry as the controversial painter torn between his rugged lover (Sean Bean) and his mistress (Tilda Swinton). Director Derek Jarman sees the darkly handsome Caravaggio as a passionate man with a liking for “rough trade.” An elegant tale centering around both the creative process and the touching homoerotic love story of the two men.
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QSaltLake editor Michael Aaron shucked his editor hat and donned his photographer hat and shot all the boys and girls in red at Q Lagoon Day. Hundreds attended the annual day of coasters, wet t-shirts and Speedos.
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C O M F O R TA B L E 9 T H & 9 T H / Tr o l l e y. Q u a l i t y R e s t o r a tion with attention to detail! 1923 brick bungalow 2 bed 1½ bath. All original wood including floors, mantle and built-ins. Original tile fireplace neatly updated to gas. Fabulous antique lighting fixtures and new push button dimmer switches throughout. Many wonderful amenities including tranquil, private yard with fish pond, paver patio and walks, hot tub, gym room with large cedar sauna (gym equipment and treadmill included), wall bed, heartland vintage-style stove (kosher even!), new high efficiency furnace, fully storm-windowed, newer roof, mature landscaping, outdoor lighting and electrical, wired for cable/satellite/stereo. 613 S 800 E. $345,000 Mark McGowan at Rainbow Mountain Realty 486-4872
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Q Tales The Perils of Petunia Pap-Smear The Tale of the Mountain of Sheep Shit by Petunia Pap-Smear
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fraught with danger and excitement. When I was a young little closetqueen, living on an Idaho potato farm with 5,000 sheep, (Baa, Baa) before I even had my first set of heels, I dreamed of having a “Brokeback Mountain” moment in a beautiful scenic mountain setting. But alas initiation into the “Love That Dare Not Speak It’s Name” was not to be until many years later. The hired farmhand looked like the ugly love child of Chris Buttars and Gayle Ruzika, so romance was not even imaginable and I was not desperate enough to date one of the sheep. One of my chores was to feed the 5,000 sheep. When most people think of sheep they have pleasant scenes in mind of Jesus on the green rolling hills with a few cute sheep, or those cute things on the Serta Perfect Mattress commercials. Nothing could be further from the truth. Sheep are definitely one of Satan’s most devilish creations. SHEEP ARE STUPID, EVIL AND STINK TO HIGH HEAVEN!!!!! To make matters worse, rather than have our sheep spread out in picturesque pastures like on postcards, they were all crowded into a feedlot corral very close to the house. Not only was the idyllic vision of them diminished, but the smell was concentrated and extremely foul. The stench was so bad that when the school bus would get to within a half-mile of our house, everyone would roll up their windows until
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the bus was at least a half-mile past our place so that the students would not have to breath the contaminated air. A young princess tries to overcome such social disgraces but she can only use so much perfume to disguise that “natural scent” before it will cause genetic mutations and she will become transformed like the “Toxic Avenger” except with a better wardrobe and makeup. For those of you who don’t have any experience in such things, sheep only do two things. They eat, and they shit. They shit a lot. It’s green, and when it rains it turns into a foul runny muck that spreads over the earth like the waters of Noah’s flood. In the winter time, my dad would scrape up all the sheep shit in the corral and push it into a large pile to await good weather in the spring so we could load it into the manure spreader and spread it as fertilizer on the fields. One winter’s day when I was about 16 years old I was out in the corral feeding the sheep. For practicality’s sake I forewent the five-inch pumps and I was wearing a stylish (they were green to match the color of the shit) pair of hip boots to keep the shit at bay. I needed to get to the far side of the pile of shit. Being winter time in Cache Valley, it gets cold enough to freeze a queen’s mascara into razor sharp shards that could blind an unwitting wanna-be, so consequently the pile of shit was frozen. In an effort to save some time, (really I was just lazy) I began to climb over the top
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of the mountain of manure. As I reached the summit of the pile I felt much like the “girls” in Pricilla Queen of the Desert as they topped Ayers Rock, except I was carrying a pitch fork instead of a feather boa. I suddenly realized that I had made a horrible, terrible, no good, very bad and potentially life-threatening error, forgetting that manure ferments and creates heat when it is piled up. The frozen crust of shit broke through and down I sank clear up to my arm pits, faster than a starving hustler goes down on the first “customer” of the night. So here I am nipple-deep in sheep shit screaming for help like Akasha, queen of the damned. In my memory I was yelling in a butch farm boy voice, but in reality it was most likely a high-pitched squeal that perhaps only dogs could hear. The middle of the mountain of shit was all warm and gooey. On this cold winter’s day it sort of felt good, like a mud bath at a spa in Mesquite. Of course that “warm and cozy” feeling was tempered by the stinking steam that was rising up around my face. To be sure it was not Channel Number Five. It took several minutes of yelling for help before my dad heard me and came to the rescue. He had to bring the tractor with the front end loader over and tie a rope under my arms and lift me up, much like when they airlift a moose when returning it to the wilderness. Tragically, suction forces being what they are, my boots remained stuck firmly in the shit. After they lifted me out, my mom would not let me near the house. Even though the temperature was below freezing, they had to hose me off outside with cold water before I was allowed in to take a bath. We just burned my clothes. This experience leaves us once again with several eternal questions: 1. Which perfume is best to mask the smell of sheep shit? 2. Was it sick and perverted to enjoy the warmth inside the pile of shit? 3. While buried in the sheep shit, would anyone notice if I “left a load” myself? 4. If I had drowned in the sheep shit what could they write on my tomb stone? 5. Which shade of eye shadow would best match the sheep shit? 6. My skin was extra soft after this experience, should this be a new spa treatment? 7. When stuck neck deep in shit, should a queen use the “Parade Wave” to summon help? These and other important questions to be answered in future chapters of “The Perils of Petunia Pap-Smear.” Q
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