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Issue 111 • September 11, 2008

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Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network director to speak at Allies Dinner

‘I have to forever thank the right wing zealots in Utah for bringing our signature program to the attention of the nation’

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ISSUE 111 • SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

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News

World. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Quips & Quotes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Local. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Qmmunity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Sports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

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Letters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Guest Editorial: Dan Fair . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Gay Geeks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Snaps & Slaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Ruby Ridge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Fabulous People. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Perils of Petunia Pap-Smear. . . . . . . . . .

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The Gay Agenda. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Save the Date. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Liz Clark interview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

GayBowl8 Calendar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Brian Kent interview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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From the Editor Hypocrisy

by Michael Aaron

was once a sausage maker.

Not the kind of sausage maker who stuffs indiscernible parts of pigs and horses and the occasional cat into a giant meat grinder and pack the subsequent ooze into the submucosa of sheep, but the kind of sausage maker it takes to run what we call our political system.

Oh, I bypassed the setup, which is a paraphrase of Otto von Bismarck: “They say that politics is like sausage. You don’t want to know how they’re made.”

So, back in my sausage-making days, we found ourselves doing things like creating spin, talking in hyperbole, dancing on the edge of the truth, making threats, following through on threats and other things that people who look in the mirror and like what they see don’t do. We had to do it, because that was what we were up against — people who do just that and have been doing it a lot longer than we have.

We were actually quite good at it.

But then, eventually those who don’t have the fortitude for such things and up burning out on the system and leaving it.

But the experience gave me a whole new understanding on the “whys” that politicians say things and respond to questions on the news.

It also makes me very cynical about the process on one hand and fascinated by it on the other.

The right wing’s spin on Sarah Palin will

be a case study on political spin for decades to come. To see what I’m talking about, Google “Sarah Palin Gender Card” and watch The Daily Show with Jon Stewart clip.

I think it should be required viewing for all American voters.

In it, Stewart shows clips of Karl Rove, Bill O’Reilly, Dick Morris, Nancy Pfotenhauer and Palin herself talking out of both sides of their mouths.

Karl Rove is up first, extolling Palin’s virtues as a “populist and an economic and social conservative. She’s a reformer. She’s a former mayor. She was the mayor of, I think, the second largest city in Alaska before she ran for governor...”

Stewart points out that Palin was the mayor of Wasilla (Alaska’s fourth largest city, bytheway), a town of about 9,000 people.

Yet, as impressed as Rove was with Palin being the mayor of a town of 9,000, he wasn’t as impressed in another clip shot just a month earlier with potential Democratic vice presidential candidate Gov. Tim Kaine, former mayor of Richmond, Va., population 200,000.

“With all due respect to Richmond, Va., it is not a big town,” Rove said. If Obama had chosen Kaine as his running mate, Rove said it would be a “political choice” rather than the right choice for the country.

Next up was Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly, who described daughter Bristol Palin’s pregnancy as a “private family issue,”

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yet declaring Jamie Lynn Spears’ parents “pinheads” who are the blame for her teenage pregnancy.

Then comes the “gender card” issue, where (again, FOX News) Sean Hannity and (prostitution-scandal plagued) Dick Morris, complained loudly that a “biased news media” was treating Palin differently because of her gender.

“A man would never have to go through this,” Morris said. “It’s deep sexism.”

Yet, when it came to his blathering on Hillary Clinton, Morris said that the former candidate would whine that “the big boys were picking on me.”

“Whenever Hillary gets under fire, she retreats behind the apron strings,” he finished.

Then a clip of McCain’s senior policy advisor Nancy Pfotenhauer saying that Clinton shouldn’t play the gender card because “it isn’t what we want in a President” and then turning right around calling criticism of Palin “disrespectful to her as a woman,” among other gender-related charges.

Stewart brilliantly finishes up with Palin herself, when running for governor, saying that women candidates must never whine about sexism.

“That doesn’t do us any good ... work harder ... prove yourself,” she said.

As fascinating as I found all this, I’m am deeply afraid that all of this becomes lost to the average American voter, and when faced with a screen with an (R), a (D), an (L) and a (G), they simply blank out and push the button they always push. The hypocrisy long forgotten. The radical right line swallowed along with the hook and the sinker.

And then, in four years, they will wonder why things didn’t change for them when they took a scalpel and surgically replaced one cell of the Executive Branch, leaving the rest of fully intact. They missed the fact that they could replace the entire cancerous organism.

And the sausage makers win. Q

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Enjoy a hosted reception on the patio with a spectacular view of the city as the sun sets, the night lights begin to sparkle and a jazz trio fills the air with music. Featuring Beth Bruce.

Then move inside for a performance by the choir featuring the music of Duke Ellington, Bing Crosby, Andrew Sisters and more. Everything from camp to torch, folk to swing.

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Join us Friday, October 3 at 7:30pm at the King Art Center, 720 S. Guardsman Way (1580 East). Tickets are $25 and are available by calling 801-913-7893 or by visiting saltlakemenschoir.org.

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Quips & Quotes

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BY REX WOCKNER

We should certainly ❝ intervene whenever possible

Log Cabin Endorses McCain Despite Anti-Gay Republican Platform The 2008 Republican Platform, adopted Sept. 1 at the party’s convention in St. Paul, Minn., is strongly anti-gay.

The document affirms “the incompatibility of homosexuality with military service.”

It calls “for a constitutional amendment that fully protects marriage as a union of a man and a woman, so that judges cannot make other arrangements equivalent to it.”

“In the absence of a national amendment, we support the right of the people of the various states to affirm traditional marriage through state initiatives,” it says.

“We also urge Congress to use its Article III, Section 2 power to prevent activist federal judges from imposing upon the rest of the nation the judicial activism in Massachusetts and California.”

The platform endorses the Boy Scouts’ anti-gay policies, saying, “We support the First Amendment right of freedom of association of the Boy Scouts of America and other service organizations whose values are under assault, and we call upon the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to reverse its policy of blacklisting religious groups which decline to arrange adoptions by same-sex couples.”

Nonetheless, the GLBT group Log Cabin Republicans endorsed Republican nominee John McCain for president on Sept. 2.

The group’s national board of directors voted 12 to 2 for the endorsement.

“On the most important issue that LGBT Americans faced in the last decade — the federal marriage amendment — Sen. John McCain stood with us. Now we stand with him,” said LCR President Patrick Sammon. “Sen. McCain is an inclusive Republican who is focusing the GOP on unifying core principles that appeal to independent voters.”

“Sen. McCain is a different kind of Republican,” Sammon claimed. “He understands the GOP lost its majority in Congress in 2006 largely because the party focused on divisive social issues. Sen. McCain knows the politics of fear and division will damage our party and our nation.”

“We have honest disagreements with Sen. McCain on a number of gay rights issues,” Sammon acknowledged. “Log Cabin will continue our conversation with him. ... Sen. McCain has always shown a willingness to reach out and engage in dialogue with Log Cabin, while considering all sides of an issue. We know that will continue when he is president.”

Sammon predicted McCain “will receive strong support from gay and lesbian Americans.”

“LGBT people are not single-issue voters,” he said, arguing that McCain will do a better job than Barack Obama in areas such as foreign policy, the economy, jobs, energy policy, health care reform and taxes.

to help people avoid the awful choice of suicide. But Pearson’s implication for Mormons seems to be: We must sanction individuals indulging in sodomy without guilt or consequence; otherwise, they’re going to commit suicide and their deaths will be on our heads.

That sounds like blackmail to me, and I don’t accept it.”

Veteran Activist Del Martin Dies Groundbreaking lesbian activist Del Martin died in San Francisco, Aug. 27. She was 87.

Martin was “a founding mother of the modern lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights movement,” said Kate Kendell, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights.

Among much else, Martin co-founded the first lesbian organization in the United States, the Daughters of Bilitis, in 1955; the nation’s first lesbian publication, The Ladder, in 1956; and the United States’ first gay political club, the Alice B. Toklas Democratic Club, in 1972.

On June 16, 2008, the day same-sex marriage became legal in California, Martin and her partner of 55 years, Phyllis Lyon, were the first same-sex couple married in San Francisco — by Mayor Gavin Newsom.

“Ever since I met Del 55 years ago, I could never imagine a day would come when she wouldn’t be by my side,” said Lyon. “I am so lucky to have known her, loved her and been her partner in all things. I also never imagined there would be a day that we

would actually be able to get married. I am devastated, but I take some solace in knowing we were able to enjoy the ultimate rite of love and commitment before she passed.”

Said Kendell: “For all of Del’s life, she was an activist and organizer even before we knew what those terms meant. Her last act of public activism was her most personal — marrying the love of her life after 55 years.

In the wake of losing her, we recognize with heightened clarity the most poignant and responsible way to honor her legacy is to preserve the right of marriage for same-sex couples, thereby providing the dignity and respect that Del and Phyllis’ love deserved.”

On Nov. 4, California voters face a referendum that would amend the state constitution to overturn the state Supreme Court’s legalization of same-sex marriage.

Three recent polls have found that between 51 and 54 percent of California voters oppose the amendment and between 40 and 42 percent support it.

A memorial ceremony for Martin will be held at San Francisco City Hall on Oct. 1.

Gay Leader Matt Foreman Marries The former head of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Matt Foreman, and longtime partner Francisco Adex De León were married Aug. 31 in San Francisco, where Foreman now works as director of gay and immigrant rights for the Evelyn & Walter Haas Jr. Fund.

“It’s true you can’t imagine what it feels like until you actually say ‘I do’ and you hear the words ‘by the power invested in me by the State of CaliforMatt Foreman nia,’” Foreman said in an interview.

Lawyer Shannon Minter officiated. He was lead attorney for the gay side in the California Supreme Court case that struck down the state’s ban on same-sex marriage.

De León owns and runs a graphic-design firm in New York City, from which Foreman recently relocated to California.

“We just got to Mykonos,” Foreman said in a Sept. 2 e-mail. “The dollar truly sucks but it’s fabulous being here. Other than Frank attempting to cut off his thumb to avoid getting married (see photo) the whole

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wedding thing was wonderful. Our parents loved it too — quite a remarkable transformation over the years.”

Editor of Pittsburgh Gay Paper Dies The longtime editor of the Pittsburgh gay newspaper Out, Jeff Howells, was found dead at his home Sept. 2. He had just turned 50.

“He never showed for work Tuesday, so I went to his house,” said Publisher Tony Molnar-Strejcek. “We climbed in through a window and found him on his main entrance steps. He appeared to have been dead for a few days. Police ruled it accidental, but there is a pending autopsy.

He may have had a heart attack.

“Jeff was a very good friend, perfect employee and part of our family. We will miss him greatly.”

Howells had been editor of the newspaper for 22 years. He enjoyed caring for his cats, music and collecting comic books.

Services were held Sept. 7 at a funeral home in Russellton, Pa. Memorial contributions may be made to the Animal Rescue League of East Liberty (Pa.).

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—Provo resident Christopher Bigelow in a letter to The Salt Lake Tribune commenting on Carolyn Pearson’s editorial urging Mormons to love and accept their gay members.

There is always an ❝ obligation to embrace and love all people, regardless of their beliefs. No Latterday Saint apostle has said that the only gay people Mormons are to love, accept and help are those who are working on “overcoming” their same-sex attraction or who are in harmony with Mormonism.”

—Hillary McCormack responding to Bigelow’s letter.

Realize that if gay activ❝ ists get their way, and introduce ‘sexual orientation’ and ‘gender identity’ protections into Idaho law, these owners could be sued for discrimination for their conscience-driven decision not to sell pro-gay greeting cards.”

—Conservative group Idaho Values Alliance thanking their members for convincing Hallmark managers in the Nampa Valley to pull gay marriage greeting cards from their shelves.

Idaho Family Takes Bold ❝ Stand Against Evil Greeting Card Menace” —Headline from liberal blog Rightwingwatch.org poking fun at the Idaho Values Alliance’s calls to have Hallmark gay marriage greeting cards pulled from store shelves.

[Legalizing gay mar❝ riage] will harm you and your family the same way polygamous marriage to 14 year olds will harm you ... It will transform the meaning, expectations and practices of marriage as a social institution and affects everyone who has a stake in marriage.”

—Brigham Young University law professor Lynn Wardle as quoted in the Deseret News in an Aug. 21 speech to attorneys during the school’s education week, encouraging attorneys to speak out against gay marriage.

Downtown Farmers and Art & Craft Markets June 14- October 18, 2008 Saturdays, 8 am to 1 pm Historic Pioneer Park 300 South 300 West Downtown Salt Lake City Come downtown to shop at one of the country’s largest farmers markets. You will find fresh produce as well as local bakeries, native plants, cut flowers, Utah artists, certified organic growers, meats & cheeses, value-added products, and much more. Enjoy weekly entertainment in the company of your community.

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End of Summer BBQ The People With AIDS Coalition of Utah will host its 10th annual Super Duper End of Summer BBQ Bash this month featuring a performance by the Righteously Outrageous Twirling Corps of Salt Lake City. Free food and beverages will also be available. The barbecue is held annually in appreciation of PWACU’s members, volunteers and supporters. It is a part of the organization’s Recreation Program, which sponsors social opportunities for people affected by HIV/AIDS. When: Sept. 14, 4:00 p.m.

Where: Fairmount Park (900 E 2400 S) RSVP: Toni Johnson at 484-2205 Cost: Free

Man Stabbed with Pen for ‘Turning Son Gay’ Cedar City police arrested a man after he allegedly stabbed his brother-in-law in the face with a ballpoint pen.

Police say the victim was stabbed as he helped Jesus Javier Ortega, 30, out of his vehicle into his wheelchair in the parking lot at the True Life Center the morning of Sunday, Sept. 7.

“While the brother-in-law was helping to unload him, he asked for a hug,” said Cedar City Police Sgt. Jerry Womack. “When (the brother-in-law) came close, he stabbed him.”

Womack said that the victim was helping raise Ortega’s son while Ortega was in prison and the two were arguing about how the son was being raised.

Witnesses told police that Ortega was accusing his brother-in-law of trying to turn his son gay.

Ortega allegedly stabbed the victim, a 33year-old Cedar City man, in his face several times. He did not suffer any life-threatening injuries, but was taken to the hospital where he received more than a dozen stitches for punctures near his left ear, lip and right cheek, Womack said.

Ortega was charged with a second-degree felony count of aggravated assault and booked into Iron County Jail. His bail was set at $20,000.

The people attending Sunday services in the church were told to stay inside as police assessed the situation, said True Life Center Pastor Pete Akins.

Akins said Ortega began attending the church with his family about a month ago.

Slamming the Vote

According to a coalition of Utah organizations, the average age of a Utah resident is 27, but the average age of a Utah voter is 61.

That is why the groups have banded together to create “Slan the Vote,” a poetry slam, hip hop concert and “non-partisan political power part.”

The American Civil Liberties Union of Utah, Equality Utah and Spy Hop Productions joined together to host the party at the courtyard of Spy Hop Productions, 511 W. Second South. The free event will begin at 7:00 p.m. Friday, Sept. 12. Light refreshments will be served.

Organizers are working to “create a positive and safe atmosphere where first time voters can learn about voting, how to vote, how to register, the importance of voting, what to expect at the polls, and have created a space to speak freely while participating in the slam,” said Liz Coleman, radio instructor and outreach coordinator at Spy Hop Productions.

Performances from DJ Devine, DJ Tri, local SLC poets, and Salt Lake City hip-hop crew, Blue Collar Theory, are expected to go through 10:00 p.m.

The poetry slam is open to anyone willing to participate. The three non-profits are looking for any local poets to speak up about youth power, creating big change, getting active, using your voice, and exercising your rights. Prizes will be awarded.

Gays for Obama: Phone bank

Suspect being sought by Salt Lake City police in a possible hate crime on Capitol Hill.

Salt Lake Police Seeking Suspected Anti-Gay Assailant The Salt Lake City Police Department are asking for the public’s help in locating a man suspected of a possible hate crime in an assault that happened Aug. 9 against a young gay man.

According to Salt Lake police spokesperson Lara Jones, 18-year-old Carlos Lopez, along with his sister and a friend, were attacked after Lopez and his friend were asked if they are gay.

Around 20 people were partying on Capitol Hill’s Churchill Drive cul-de-sac, a popular location for teens and young adults to meet and drink, overlooking the Salt Lake valley. Jones said Lopez didn’t know his assailants, but was friendly with them, even having his photo taken with a man who later became his attacker.

Then, one of the group asked, “‘Are you guys gay?’ My friend and I didn’t even answer them. We just kept walking,” Lopez said.

Lopez said that some of the group began hitting his friend.

“He just punched him,” Lopez said. “I came over and then he punched me too.”

At least one of the group began hitting Lopez as well, taking him to the ground.

“If it wasn’t for some girls who took him away, he probably would have killed me right there,” Lopez said. “I was scared. I thought, ‘I don’t want to die.’”

Police said that others in the group began hitting the victim and broke his orbital bone — the series of seven bones that surround and enclose the eyeball.

“He sustained enough damage to his face that he had to have reconstructive surgery,” said Jones.

Police say that the suspected assailant they are seeking is about 20 years of age and Polynesian. Others in the group are only

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described as also Polynesian.

Jones said the case is being investigated as a hate crime because the assault followed the question of the victims’ sexual orientation.

“On the face it appears to be a hate crime and that’s what needs to be investigated,” she told the media.

Jones said that there are few similarities between this assault and the attack of Dan Fair, who also had his orbital bone broken

by Polynesian men. She said that Lopez’s attack was a clear case of a victim being assaulted because of his “sexual preference.”

It was widely reported by the television news media the night before the attack that the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s office would not pursue charges against those who assaulted Fair and his partner, David Bell.

Jones declined to comment on the case in South Salt Lake.

The police are asking anyone with information on the Salt Lake beating or the suspect to call them at 799-3000.

Biskupski Fundraiser to be a Relaxing Weekend Day Sheriff Jim Winder is hosting a fundraiser for the campaign to re-elect Rep. Jackie Biskupski, D-Salt Lake.

The event is being touted as a “relaxing Sunday afternoon in the beautiful home gardens of Kyle Treadway and Greg Pedroza.”

Treadway and Pedroza live at 360 E. Edith Avenue.

The event will take place Sunday, Sept. 21 from 4–7:00 p.m.

Refreshments and hors d’oeurves will be served. A donation of $50 is suggested.

RSVPs will be taken through Sept. 19 at 801-484-8369.

The Utah LGBT for Obama group will hold a phone bank night to call local Democrats and independents and encourage them to vote.

Training will be provided at each night and no experience is necessary as scripts and call lists will be provided. Food will be available, and participants are encouraged to bring friends to help. Patrick Hutchings will host each night.

When: Every Tuesday until the November election, 5–9:00 p.m.

Where: Obama Campaign Utah Offices (780 E South Temple) Cost: Participants are asked to contribute a few dollars to cover the cost of food.

Living as a Minority Workshop In September and October University of Utah psychology professor Jordan Rullo and therapist Lee Beckstead will offer another workshop in their popular series about the societal oppressions and internalized hatred minorities experience. This workshop is called Living as a Minority: Learning How to Love Yourself More in a World Where You are Different. It will focus on helping participants deal with the “nagging feelings of inadequacy and self doubt” they glean from an anti-gay culture through teaching them how to manage discrimination and conflict. Its end goal is to empower participants to go from surviving to thriving in a community where they are minorities.

When: Sept. 4, 11, 18, 35 and Oct. 2, 16 from 7:00–8:30 p.m.

Where: Utah Pride Center, Middle Meeting Room (361 N 300 W) Cost: $30 for the full six week workshop or $15 for one three week module. Scholarships are available.

Info: Jordan Rullo at rully@psych. utah.edu or 330-1103 or Lee Beckstead at leebeckst@yahoo. com or 556-8110.

LDS Church: Gay Couples Should Have Rights, But Not Marriage Leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints released a statement in August that reaffirmed heterosexual marriage while at the same time supporting some rights for same-sex couples.

In June the church issued a letter to all California bishops stating its opposition to same-sex marriage in California and urging all Mormons to support a ballot initiative to define marriage in the state’s constitution as the union of a man and a woman. The California Supreme Court overturned the state’s gay marriage ban on May 16.

As in the June letter, the Aug. 13 statement, titled “The Divine Institution of Marriage,” the church stated that its involvement in Proposition 8, the ballot initiative specifically concerned “same sex marriage and its consequences,” and not gay people themselves.

“The Church does not object to rights (already established in California) regarding hospitalization and medical care, fair housing and employment rights, or probate rights, so long as these do not infringe on the integrity of the family or the constitutional rights of churches and their adherents to administer and practice their religion free from government interference,” the document, issued by the church’s Public Affairs Department and apparently authorized by the First Presidency, read. Further, it stated that the church’s opposition to gay marriage neither “constitutes nor condones any kind of hostility towards men and women” and did not free church members from the “Christian obligations of love, kindness and humanity toward all people.”

Leaders of Affirmation: Gay and Lesbian Mormons praised this part of the church’s statement.

“This is, by far, the church’s most affirming statement of both human and civil rights of gay people since the issuance of ‘God Loveth His Children,’ which acknowledged that being gay is not a disease or a sin,” said David Melson, the group’s media spokesperson. “We applaud the courage of the leaders who chose to make this statement, which is contrary to many of the Church’s words and actions of the past, and we see this as a positive step.”

He added, however, that the organization “would have been more pleased if [the press release] had not been issued during a time of contradictory action by the Church to repeal the civil rights of gay U.S. citizens and to seek to break apart families.”

But the church also defended its support of Proposition 8 by citing its belief that families headed by a mother and father are “the anchor of civilized society” and stated that legalizing gay marriage would harm the autonomy of religious organizations. The marriages of same-sex couples, it said, could put “church and state on a collision course” by forcing governments to take tax exemptions away from religious organizations that don’t grant gay couples access, among other things, to religious-owned facilities or adoption agencies. Leaders also expressed concern that gay marriage would harm society in the long run by eroding “the social identity, gender development, and moral character of children” and preventing them from developing “sexuality closely linked to both love and procreation.”

Affirmation said the emphasis on heterosexual married couples “marginalizes families headed by widows, single parents,

adoptive parents, grandparents or foster parents, and ignores the church’s own history honoring polygamous marriage.”

Affirmation Executive Director Olin Thomas called many of the church’s assertions “half-truths” and much of the rest of the release contradictory. California law, he noted, did not require any religious institution or official to perform or recognize marriages that run contrary to their teachings. He also cited researcher Jonathan Rauch’s book, Gay Marriage, in which Rauch discovered that countries that have enacted gay marriage actually saw their rates of divorce and cohabitation (two things the LDS church also cites as a threat to families) decrease.

George Cole, Affirmation’s young adults director, stated that the “positive and affirming portions of the Church’s release” were a “very appreciated step forward.”

“We hope and look toward the day when the church will value all families and will recognize that our families are not a threat to theirs, but just another one of the pillars of our society,” he said.

“The Divine Institution of Marriage” was released in the wake of Affirmation’s Aug. 11 press conference asking church leaders to address the problems gay and lesbian Mormons face because of anti-gay teachings. The Sunstone Symposium, a conference addressing issues in Mormon culture and politics, also held a panel discussion about gay marriage in California in which participants said many of the church’s legal and social objections to gay marriage were exaggerated or incorrect.

GET YOUR FRIENDS TOGETHER AND CELEBRATE THE WOMEN

Affirmation Seeks Executive Director Affirmation: Gay and Lesbian Mormons, a group for current and former gay members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and their supporters, has just announced that it is accepting nominations for the position of executive director.

The term of office for this position lasts one year, running from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31.

Outside of offices in individual chapters, it is the only elected position in Affirmation. All candidates for the position will be introduced at Affirmation’s national Conference in Los Angeles this October and will be asked to introduce themselves and their ideas for leadership.

The executive director will appoint two assistant directors who, along with him or her, form the group’s executive committee.

The executive director also appoints associate directors, the treasurer, the webmaster, members of the endowment committee and the editor for Affinity, the group’s newsletter. He or she is also responsible for appointing leaders of such other positions as Affirmation’s young adult program and coordinators for the youth, women’s and transgender concerns groups.

Interested applicants should contact current executive director Hugo Salinas at (703) 864-5527. Only dues-paying members can run for office and must declare their candidacy no later than Oct. 10. To declare candidacy, submit a full statement to Salinas by Oct. 5 either by filling out the email form available at affirmation.org/contact/ webmaster or by mailing the statement to Hugo Salinas P.O. Box 77540 Washington, DC 20013-8504.

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Q mmunity Gays for Obama Seeks Canvassers The Utah LGBT for Obama group will also participate in the Utah Obama campaign’s weekly canvassing events to contact Democrats and independents to encourage them to vote. Training will be provided at each event and no experience is necessary.

Flyers, contact lists, pens and water will be provided.

Participants are also encouraged to bring friends to help.

WHEN: 10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. Every Saturday until the November election WHERE: Obama Campaign Utah offices, 780 E South Temple

Dine O’Round Salt Lake City’s restaurant week returns during the middle of this month with a number of eateries offering tasty, chic lunches and dinners at bargain prices.

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Fall Fashion Stroll SLC Fashion Stroll, a bi-annual celebration of local designers, jewelers and artisans, will return to Salt Lake City’s East Broadway Shopping District this September. It will feature booths from local designers, a live music line up and three evening runway shows featuring local fashions and models from W Talent.

WHEN: Sept. 19, 4–10:00 p.m.

WHERE: State through Fourth East along Third South COST: Free INFO: Matt Monson at slcfashionstroll@gmail.com or (801) 355-3588. The event also has a MySpace page at myspace.com/eastbroadwayslc.

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WHEN: Thursdays, 4–7:00 p.m.

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Kickin’ ASS The Utah Stonewall Democrats will hold a Kickin’ ASS Party for locals to meet their endorsed candidates and enjoy an evening of good food and fun socialization.

WHEN: Oct. 16, 5:00 – 7:30 p.m. The public is welcome to attend.

WHERE: The Market Street Oyster Bar – Cottonwood, 2985 E 6580 South

Idaho Conservative Group: Gay Greeting Card Boycott Successful The Idaho Values Alliance, a conservative so-called “family values� group, applauded its members for helping to get cards celebrating gay marriage from several Hallmark stores in Treasure Valley. “Great news on the culture front! The owners of the seven local Hallmark stores, which all go by the name ‘Jordan’s Hallmark,’ will not stock the corporation’s newly developed homosexual-marriage greeting cards,� an Aug. 25 message on the group’s Web site, idahovaluesalliance.org read.

The seven stores announced that they would not carry the cards, which Hallmark had yet to release to stores on Aug. 22, after receiving a number of complaints. “I have had people saying they would no longer shop at Hallmark based on the fact that Hallmark is carrying them,�

Cassi Jacobsen, an assistant manager for Nampa’s Hallmark store, told the Idaho Press-Tribune on Aug. 22.

In the Aug. 25 Web posting, Bryan

Fischer, IVA’s executive director, said he had a phone conversation with the family that owned the seven stores in which they claimed to have been “blindsided� by Hallmark and “made it clear that they would not stock the card in any case because of their personal values, which are shaped by the Judeo-Christian tradition. “Realize that if gay activists get their way, and introduce ‘sexual orientation’ and ‘gender identity’ protections into Idaho law, these owners could be sued for discrimination for their consciencedriven decision not to sell pro-gay greeting cards,� Fischer wrote.

He encouraged IVA members to support Jordan’s Hallmark for “doing the right thing� by buying their next “special occasion� cards at one of the seven locations.

Among its values, IVA lists its support for “religous [sic] liberty, the sanctity of marriage and the family, the sanctity of life and to restrain judicial activism.�

Temple Squares Modern Western Square Dancing Club Forming Temple Squares, a gay and lesbian Modern Western Square Dance club that is just forming, will host a “New Dancer Hoedown� for those interested in learning more about Modern Western Square Dancing. The event will take place on Fridays, Sept. 19 and 26 at the Columbus Community Center at 2531 S. Fourth East in South Salt Lake.

The evening will introduce dancers to the square dancing style that the group will use once they begin their 16-week cycle of lessons.

The group introduced themselves to the communty at Utah Pride, where callers Ross Crawshaw-Lopton and Allan Hurst found about 150 people interested in learning more.

Once going, the group hopes to join the International Association of Gay Square Dance Clubs.

Organizers are quick to debunk the perception that the group will be a “bunch of hillbillies stomping around in a barn.�

“LGBT square dancing is nothing like that,� Lopton. “We don’t dance in a barn, don’t wear silly clothes, and we dance to contemporary music.�

Square dancing, according to organizers, is a “fun, low-impact aerobic activity in a healthy (no smoking or drinking) environment.� They say it’s also a great way to meet new people.

For those who feel a bit clutzy, Lopton promises that “as long as you can tell your left from your right, and you can walk forward, you can square dance.�

People of all orientations and gender identities are invited to attend. Casual attire is encouraged and singles and couples are welcome. Regular lessons will begin on Oct. 3 and will run 17 weeks.

Organizations Join to Present ‘Healthy Girls, Strong Women’

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Planned Parenthood Association of Utah, Utah Coalition Against Sexual Assault and the YWCA of Salt Lake City will hold Healthy Girls, Strong Women, a conference for girls age 9–12 and their caregivers, which may include gay and lesbian parents. The free conference will teach girls about communication, body image issues, HIV/STD prevention and the rights girls have. All participants will receive a backpack and free prizes.

Andrea Johnston, cofounder of Girls Speak Out, will give an interactive and brief keynote speech.

The event will take place Saturday, Sept. 13, beginning at 9:30 a.m. and ending at 2:00 p.m. at Mountain View Elementary School, 1380 S. Navajo Street.

For more information and to RSVP, contact Planned Parenthood at 801-532-1586 or email info@ppau.org.

Girls Speak Out has a Web site at girlsspeakout.org

For more information, see the group’s Web site at sites.google.com/site/slcsquaredancing/ or call Vincent Paiz at 643-9363 or Ross Lopton at 7979424 or email slcsquaredancing@gmail.com.

Johnathan Field “He Will Be Missed�

Passed away September 1st, 2008. He was not even 28. Johnathan passed away in his sleep due to natural causes. It was sudden and unexpected. For the thousands of lives he touched there is a site on Myspace dedicated to his passing. Go through his profile and friends to find it. His remains have been sent back to Hawaii, on the island of Kaui with the rest of his family, however they welcome a wake for Johnathan here in Utah. A meeting of friends will meet at Club Try-Angles on Sunday Sept.

14 at 2 p.m. If you have any happy memories of Johnathan, we welcome you to bring them.

Afterwards, the wake may go to Area 51, one of his favorite places. We can all take comfort in the fact that he’ll always look this good.

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This election year the Democratic Party drew a record number of gay delegates to its national convention in Denver. Of the 4,400 delegates approximately 250 identified as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. Three came from Utah, and Arlyn Bradshaw was one of their number.

“Our community is very active in Utah and very involved, so it doesn’t surprise me that more openly gay people are taking part in this process — being elected as delegates,” said Bradshaw, one of Utah’s nine Hilary Clinton delegates. “Here we are in conservative Utah and we have openly gay legislators. It should be no surprise that some of the legislators were delegates and that I was able to go,” he added, referring to Salt Lake City politicians Sen. Scott McCoy and Rep. Christine Johnson who made up two of the state’s 14 pledged Barak Obama delegates. Utah also took six super delegates to Denver. When running at this year’s convention, delegates announced which candidate they supported and ran for one of that candidate’s delegate seats, the number of which was determined in the state’s primary. A delegate’s purpose for attending the convention is to elect the party’s national candidate.

For statistical purposes, Utah Democratic delegates are asked to identify their sexual orientation on a form they fill out after being elected to the position.

Bradshaw won the delegate seat at the state party convention in May. And while this was the first time to hold the position, 2008 was not his first convention. As the executive director of the state party he went to the 2004 national convention in Boston.

“But when you’re there as staff, it’s a lot of work,” Bradshaw said. “This was a more relaxing experience in terms of I got to participate in convention proceedings instead of trying to take care of delegates, which is what you do when on staff.”

He described his time in Denver as “an incredible experience.” The highlights, he said, were listening to Obama’s wife Michelle speak on Aug. 25 and Hilary Clinton, Obama’s main challenger, speak the next day.

“Her speech was very inspiring and showed that the Clintons are united behind Obama,” he said.

Bradshaw was also impressed and inspired by former President Bill Clinton’s speech which he said reminded delegates of his presidency which was “actually fairly good times for the country.” A later speech by Clinton’s vice president and 2000 Democratic presidential nominee Al Gore, Bradshaw added, reminded delegates of the importance of winning the presidential election in November.

“A part of his speech I thought was impressive and that stuck with me was [where he said] a lot of people say there’s

no difference between the two party candidates, but you know in Al Gore’s experience in 2000 that isn’t true,” Bradshaw said. “We’d be in a very different place today if Al Gore had been the president.”

On Wednesday the delegates voted in what Bradshaw called their “only official role other than saying ‘aye’ every once in awhile.” Obama and Clinton were both placed up for nomination during role call, in which a representative from each state contingent got to publicly announce how many delegate votes each candidate had.

“It’s kind of fun, and people get to give a speech about how great their state is,” Bradshaw said.

However, Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon wasn’t able to give his speech, because Clinton herself made a motion to suspend role call when the role reached New York. When her motion was seconded, Clinton asked all state delegations to nominate Obama by acclamation.

“He did give it to us the next morning during our breakfast meeting,” Bradshaw said, chuckling.

Although the Stonewall Democrats, the party’s gay caucus, had held its convention on the previous weekend, Bradshaw said that they met again during the convention (another caucus meeting, however, prevented him from attending). The Human Rights Campaign also held a fundraiser concert featuring gay and gay-friendly musicians like Rufus Wainwright, Cyndi Lauper and Melissa Etheridge.

Gay rights, Bradshaw said, were also a key point of every politician’s speech.

“The party has always been supportive of our cause, but I think it’s impressive that it’s getting to the point where we’re openly proud [gay rights] are part of our platform and we’re willing to say that in a prime time speech from our former president and our 2008 candidate,” he said.

Although Bradhsaw was a Clinton delegate, he said that he was “100 percent supportive” of Obama’s nomination and hopes that Clinton will run again some day.

“I’m drawn to both her policies and her as an individual,” he said. “I think she would have been an absolutely amazing president and that having a woman president would be an amazing thing for our country.”

“But in her speech Hilary said very clearly, it was never about me and if you care about the issues you’ll support Obama.” He added that he thinks this remark was intended for the “hold outs” who still “hadn’t gotten over the primaries” earlier this year, where Obama won more delegates than Clinton.

“But,” he added. “I think 99 percent of the Hilary supporters are [behind Obama].”

The Utah delegates cast 28 out of their 29 votes. State Rep. Jim Matheson was unable to attend and his vote could not be cast.

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Over the past year, the Utah Pride Center has hosted a number of six-week workshops on a number of topics that effect gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people’s psychology, including gender roles and identity, communication and power dynamics, sex and intimacy, and reconciling religion and sexuality.

This month, the workshop will focus on gay and transgender people’s status as minorities and how they can learn to love themselves more in spite of social messages that tell them they are inferior to straight and cisgender (matching inward/ outward sexual identity) people.

Workshop facilitator and University of Utah clinical psychology student Jordan Rullo said she got the idea for holding a workshop about minority empowerment specifically geared towards gay and transgender people while taking a course in multicultural therapy this summer. As part of the coursework, Rullo had to participate or create a “social action project.� “So I thought, what if I created a new workshop about privilege and living as a minority and all of the other things I learned in that course,� she said. Although the six-week course she and therapist Lee Beckstead are offering is “definitely therapeutic,� Rullo stressed that it is not therapy. “It’s more for creative expression, exploring the topic and connecting with others,� she said. “A lot of people feel that they’re alone, so to come into a group space and being able to share what they feel with others is really helpful.�

At the group’s first meeting on Sept.

4, Rullo said participants discussed the definition of a ‘minority,’ and the roles privilege (that is, social, political or economic advantages enjoyed by certain groups but not others) and “labels that people give each other� play in oppression. As part of this session, Rullo said she drew a stick figure on the white board to represent a minority individual and asked people to shout out words they associated

with minorities. “What was powerful is at the end of the exercise we had tons of negative labels swarming around it,� she said. The group then discussed how such negative messages impact their self-perception.

In the second session, which will be held Sept. 11, Rullo said participants will talk about “positive and adaptive ways� gay and transgender people can cope with these messages, including the difference between healthy and destructive anger.

The third session will discuss the question of what individuals have the power to define minorities. “When it comes down to it, we’re the only ones who have the power to do that, so how do we want to define ourselves?� she said.

In the second part of the course, participants will work on identifying and prioritizing their values and learning how to live their lives in line with their values (which means setting and enforcing boundaries on their behavior and the behavior of others towards them). In the final session, participants will be asked to discuss their homework assignment: going to an event or interacting with a group of people they are prejudiced against.

Although participants are encouraged to attend all six sessions, they may also attend a mini-module of three consecutive weeks, Rullo said. “This is to allow for continuity in the group,� she explained. “You really develop relationships with other participants in the group and you really want to have the expectation that people will show up.�

The cost is $30 for the full six-week course or $15 per three week module.

Scholarships are also available to any who want to participate but lack the funds.

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OPEN LETTER TO THE GLBT COMMUNITY: When Idaho Senator Larry Craig was arrested for soliciting sex in a men’s restroom in the Minneapolis Airport, I sent him a letter inviting him to admit what and who he was, and to join the Libertarian Party. I told him we don’t care who you have sex with, or how you pay for it. I received no reply; but I added something else to that letter. I advised him that, if he wanted to appeal his conviction, he should pass on to his attorney a case that I won in the Utah Supreme Court, called Provo City v. Willden. Mr. Willden was accused of leaving a note in a men’s restroom asking other men to call him if they were interested in getting together for sex. An undercover police officer made the call, and charged Mr. Willden with violating a City ordinance which prohibited sex solicitation in a public place. The Utah Supreme Court declared that ordinance unconstitutional.

Long before the landmark case of Lawrence v. Texas, Utah went on record that one man soliciting another for sex was not illegal (providing, or course, it was not for hire). The ACLU of Minnesota, in a brief supporting the Senator’s appeal, cited my case.

Recently I represented a gay men’s club in Salt Lake City, which was in danger of losing its business license as a result of inappropriate activities allegedly taking place there. The Court of Appeals ruled in our favor, and yet another place where gay men may safely meet and associate remains viable.

Now I am running for Utah Attorney General; and I am Chair of the Libertarian Party of Utah. I recently interviewed for possible indorsement with Equality Utah, who gave me a favorable recommendation, but endorsed the Democratic candidate. Their apparent rationale was that she was a more viable candidate. Anyone who has seen the polls knows that this is not true. She has no chance of winning this office; but she is a Democrat. In fact, every candidate endorsed by Equality Utah is a Democrat. An openly gay Republican candidate for the legislature also received a favorable recommendation, but no endorsement. It is sad that this venerable Utah institution has become a captive of the Democratic Party, and will not endorse those who have the most to offer the GLBT community Because I believe that I am the right candidate for all those who support the right to privacy and full equality, I ask you to support my candidacy with your vote, your efforts, and your money. At this point, the current Attorney General has most of the money, and looks like an easy victor. I ask you, however, to join with me in changing the nature of the debate. Support someone who has supported your right to be free of harassment for who you are; and make your voices heard. Anything less is not enough.

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Q Views Letters Support Candidate Who Supports Our Equality Editor: Your August 28 issue took up a full page announcing Equality Utah’s 2008 political endorsements [“Equality Utah Announces Candidate Endorsements”]. At the bottom of the page were a couple of candidates who were not endorsed, but were given “favorable recommendations.” I don’t know, of course, whether you or they misspelled my name; but the misspelling also affected the listing of my website, so nobody can use it.

Please correct this mistake; and we suggest that you list the simpler version: www. andy4ag.com which was designed for those with spelling deficiencies.

As chair of the Libertarian Party of Utah, it frustrates me that an organization will refuse to endorse the best candidate because of perceived “viability” problems. Anyone who has looked at the early polls knows that the endorsed candidate for attorney general has no chance to win; so I urge your readers to support the one candidate for the office who fully supports your efforts at equality.

W. Andrew McCullough

Libertarian Party of Utah Chair Candidate for Attorney General

Equality Utah Chose Party Over Person Editor, I find it incredible that Equality Utah has thrown their support behind a one-term (presumably) heterosexual incumbent over a long-standing contributor to the gay community, who is gay himself.

The Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund says, “Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender leaders are our clearest and most convincing champions for true equality. Having an LGBT elected representative at the table means that officials who may have never met an openly gay person before will see a leader, a colleague, a public servant — not a scapegoat or a threat. It means that young people who are coming out will have a role model, a beacon of hope — proof that it’s possible to overcome hate and achieve their dreams.”

How dare Equality Utah deprive our young people the beacon of hope in Gordon Storrs. It seems to me that the group went for the political party and not the person in the House District 23 race.

Rob Koster

Salt Lake City

Join the Mayor and Norma Matheson in the Walk for Life Editor, Twenty years ago, most Utahns were still under the impression that there was no such thing as AIDS in Utah — that it was someone else’s issue. Meanwhile, the incidence of local HIV infections was increasing at an alarming rate and the Utah AIDS Foundation was straining just to keep up with the growing need for support services.

In 1988, the Walk for Life was born. Thousands of committed people marched through the streets of Salt Lake City in order to raise much-needed funds and increase public awareness of HIV. Since that very first event, the Utah AIDS Foundation has grown from a small

volunteer-run organization to one of our community’s most valuable resources, providing prevention, education, and direct client services to more than 40,000 Utahns every year.

Unfortunately, not everything has changed in these past 20 years. Utah’s HIV infection rate is on the rise again, and the age of newly infected people is increasingly younger. In fact, the majority of new infections in Utah are in people under the age of 25.

This is why, for the 20th time, we are taking to the streets to Walk for Life. As leaders in this community, we have both seen the effect this disease has had on our state. We are privileged to be serving as honorary cochairs for the Utah AIDS Foundation’s 20th Annual Walk for Life on September 20, 2008.

As the largest gathering of individuals affected by HIV in Utah, the Walk for Life is a powerful public awareness event. This pledge walk attracts a wide variety of eager participants, and thanks to community support, it is one of Utah AIDS Foundations most successful fund raisers.

This year, joining the Walk has never been easier. In honor of the 20th anniversary, you can register for the Walk for Life at no charge by visiting www.utahaids.org. From there you can register online, create a team, and build your own personal fund raising page. Please don’t wait. Get started today.

We look forward to having you join us this year as we “Walk for Life.”

Ralph Becker

Salt Lake City Mayor

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Fly the Family Values Flag?

Editor, As much as I wish the LDS Church had stayed out of the Prop 8 campaign, its involvement doesn’t surprise me. I expected it, and putting my desires aside, I believe I understand where it is coming from and don’t begrudge it for having taken this position. In other words, I will not criticize the church

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leadership for getting involved or for asking members to support the measure. The fact that I cannot come to terms and align myself with the church’s position is of my concern — it’s a struggle that I can live with.

My complaint, however, is not that the church has taken a position on Prop 8. It’s the way this is being implemented. Politics is dirty, and when you play in mud ... I believe the church should be above that. But I fear the temptation will be too great to stoop to the level of politics that I detest, which includes demonizing and attacking the opposition. The church and members acting on its behalf need to refrain from talking about the “gay agenda,” demonizing liberals, criticizing [Calif. Attorney General] Brown for the ballot measure language, discussing out-of-state funding sources for the opposition, criticizing corporations and individuals who oppose the measure, referring to the Hollywood elite, etc. This goes way beyond standing up for what the church believes in.

But all of these things, and more, were discussed in priesthood opening exercises last Sunday. I kept silent, in part of out fear and in part out of not being prepared. But I won’t keep my mouth shut next time it comes up.

My second complaint is that the church needs to admit that members acting pursuant to its promptings are acting on its behalf.

The instruction we received in priesthood was that, when canvassing the neighborhood, we were not to go in twos, wear white shirts and ties or do anything that would make us look like Mormons. Instead, we were to make it clear that we were acting on our own as individual concerned citizens and not on behalf of the church. I think that’s a bit deceptive. If the church is going to strongly urge its members to support the proposition, then it needs to take responsibility for the things those members may do. Perhaps if the church took greater responsibilty for its members’ actions, there would be greater care to avoid the dirtier side of politics.

Keith Smith Orem

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Guest Editorial I Will Not Lie Down This is the statement read at a recent event at the Tavernacle Social Club by Dan Fair, who was attacked in his home by neighbors who accused his partner, David (DJ) Bell, of kidnapping their children.

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who has supported us and remains standing by our side today. Before I go on I want to say that I know DJ is innocent of all charges. I, as many of you, stand by him and will fight for his freedom.

Up until this point I have been quiet about this situation. I want to take this opportunity to express how I feel. I have been denied justice. I woke to a nightmare the morning of July 4th, a nightmare that unfortunately has yet to end. I am sure everyone here knows the allegations against my partner — what you may not know is that I was beaten solely because of who I am. I feel the people who attacked me made an assumption based on my sexual orientation.

They assumed because I am gay I had kidnapped their children with the intent to do harm. They attacked me because they had a preconceived perception of gay people.

A simple misunderstanding turned to a hate crime.

Imagine the serenity of your home being violated by breaking glass — people outside your door yelling at you for reasons you can’t comprehend. Imagine being afraid for your family and friends who remain in the house with you. Imagine what your life looks like as it flashes before your eyes because you are afraid you are going to die. These were the thoughts and fears that I had while I was trying to keep an angry mob from entering my home.

What happened next is something reminiscent of a horror movie. I remember being grabbed from behind and pulled away from the door. The angry mob no longer had resistance and they were able to enter my home. As you can imagine the events that followed are a little blurry. I remember being passed back and forth between people who took turns battering me with their fists. Fists not being an ample enough weapon they began to use house hold objects including a TV, chair, frying pan and an ornate salt shaker to inflict greater damage. My only thought at that point was to remain standing and conscious. Because I knew if I fell down or passed out my life was most likely at an end. I don’t know why they finally stopped. I just remember being thankful that I had survived so far.

After emergency personnel arrived, one of my attackers walked back into my

home. I was shocked to hear him tell the officers how he had just heard about what was going on and came to check things out. The shock gave way to relief as the police put him in handcuffs after I told them he had been one of the people who beat me. Only later did I find out that they released him with no charges. While the others in the home were safe, I was taken away by an ambulance before I could find out what happened to my partner. It was only during my questioning in the hospital that I found that DJ had been arrested for kidnapping.

Upon examination in the emergency room, it was determined that I had a concussion. Cat scans showed no extreme damage to the brain but did show a broken nose and that my orbital floor was fractured. I also sustained many lacerations in my attempts to keep the attackers out of my home. Nine different areas on my body required either stitches or staples. I remained in the hospital for three days. Since then I have had numerous follow up visits, surgery to repair the orbital floor of my eye, and an upcoming appointment with a neurologist because I am still experiencing continuous headaches. My eye doctor expects me to have an additional surgery.

The physical damage is easy to list; the emotional anguish is not as easy to verbalize.

It goes without saying that nightmares keep me up at night and the tears at work make it difficult to earn a living. However, I did not lie down or give up as they brutally beat me and I will not lie down or give up now as this justice system does the same. I survived an angry mob on July 4th and I will survive an unjust legal system now.

However, we still need your help! This fight is long from over and it will only get harder. If you feel like giving up, remember the words I said tonight or go to our Web site for a reminder of what these people did to me. We must stand and fight and make this city safe for ALL people — even the ones who are gay! We must send the message that violence is never the answer and what that angry mob did to me is wrong. If we don’t, what happened to me may happen to you! Please, take flyers, support us online and donate money if you can. Help us make this city safe again!

Again, thank you for believing in us. Only through all of you will our voice be heard and justice served.

DAVID DANIELS

by Dan Fair

Imagine what your life looks like as it flashes before your eyes because you are afraid you are going to die.

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T’S AMAZING, GEEKY ONES.

I WRITE A COLUMN and sometimes people read it. And sometimes the people who read it call me up and say, “Hi, JoSelle. Have you thought about doing a column on (insert subject here)?” I find a lot of cool things to watch, read and write about that way. And sometimes, I hear about some not-so-cool stuff, like I did last week when a reader from California got in touch with me.

Wow. I have readers in California. But anyway, the geek who contacted me asked, “I wonder if you’ve thought about doing a column on Orson Scott Card and his latest articles about gay marriage in The Mormon Times?”

To be honest, geeky ones, I supposed I hadn’t really, because the subject is a rather painful one for me. You see, when I was an awkward 12-year-old geek who was still too tall and too heavy to be a socially acceptable girl, Orson Scott Card was one of my heroes.

He was everything I wanted to be: a successful writer who told interesting, heartbreaking stories like Ender’s Game and Speaker for the Dead, about outcasts and lonely children.

Oh, and he also had Utah connections. Let me tell you, knowing that talented genre writers could come from my home state did more to combat the shame and scorn people from other states would later dump on me for having the audacity to grow up in such a “weird” and “backwards” place. Hearing him speak at my school when I was an awkward adolescent was quite possibly the highlight of 1993.

Now, fast forward to the 21st Century when gay marriage moved from hypothetical discussion to controversial reality — at least in California and Massachusetts. I’m a Real Writer with books and award nominations to prove it, and very far removed from being an adolescent. I haven’t kept current on Card’s publications, but I still treasure the books he signed for me back in the 1990s. And then I discover two of his articles for The Mormon Times that blast the California Supreme Court’s gay mar-

riage decision.

I’m not about to pick apart Card’s arguments in great detail. It would take too long, and we’ve all heard (and argued against) them before: gay marriage destroys the heterosexual family (because heterosexuals aren’t doing a good enough job of that themselves); nonelected judges don’t have the right to go against “laws enacted by majority vote” (which are always fair and constitutional, you know); gay marriage will infringe upon religious freedom in the same way it is now “illegal to kneel and pray in front of a clinic that performs abortions” (huh?); public schools will become “propaganda mills” that teach children that gay marriage is normal (double huh?); and gay leaders promised in the 1970s and 1980s that they would never fight for gay marriage to be legal (no, they didn’t). Oh, and being gay is a choice, as if that actually mattered.

Seriously. Just pull up either of his two articles “State job is not to redefine marriage” and “Science on gays falls short” on your favorite browser. There are many, many more, but keep your blood pressure in healthy limits and just go with these two. Find them and close your eyes, and put your finger anywhere on the screen. You won’t be able to do it once without hitting an asinine argument, whether it’s the ‘fact’ that gays have a “reproductive dysfunction” that society should vigilantly guard against or that reproduction for everyone, everywhere is an “evolutionary normality.”

Because the whole purpose of life is to pop out kids, don’t you know? Because clearly our six billion and counting world population needs to grow further. And while I know that this is not an uncommon belief among members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, that’s not a good enough reason for denying gay couples legal and social protections.

But here’s the part of the “State job is not to redefine marriage” article that I just have to quote. Because I think it shows clearly why I am so profoundly disappointed in, and dis-

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gusted with, my former childhood hero.

“What these dictator-judges do not seem to understand is that their authority extends only as far as people choose to obey them. How long before married people answer the dictators thus: Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down, so it can be replaced with a government that will respect and support marriage, and help me raise my children in a society where they will expect to marry in their turn.”

Yes, you really did read that correctly. Card just said he will seek the destruction of the U.S. government if it allows gay couples to marry. Over marriages that have no effect on his religious beliefs and which he doesn’t have to recognize.

Other than “dude, how incredibly violent and creepy,” how else can one respond to that?

Gay people have been forming couples and living together since long before Card put fingers to typewriter and gave us Ender’s Game. Gay marriage is simply recognizing that this happens, and that couples who share every aspect of their lives should have the legal rights that straight spouses have — including those who, by the way, don’t want or can’t have children, which many gay couples do. But you really can’t argue with someone who is proud of being an extremist, so I suppose I shouldn’t waste any more time or type.

I also, however, don’t have to waste my money. Although I am happy to read and enjoy work by creators of all political persuasions (including those of all orientations who are ambivalent or disapproving of gay marriage), I draw the line when we start talking about destroying governments. If you feel the same, there are plenty of other talented science fiction and fantasy writers with Utah connections who aren’t extremists and who deserve your financial and fannish support.

I recommend Ken Rand, Paul Genesse and Rebecca Shelly to start.

Shame on you, Orson Scott Card. You’ve betrayed the very values you so eloquently wrote about in Ender’s Game, and you’ve let down many a gay fan like me who grew up identifying with your work. It’s attitudes like these that make people regard any writer who spent time in Utah with suspicion and disdain.

And we as Utah creators, fans and fellow geeks deserve better than you as a representative. Q

Snaps & Slaps SLAP: Idaho Values Alliance Question: How do you keep the gay agenda from spreading into your wholesome, vaguely pistolshaped state? Why, threaten a boycott until some poor store managers pull all of the gay marriage greeting cards out of your local Hallmark card stores! That way people celebrating gay weddings can’t get them and you can feel better knowing that the cards aren’t lurking in the aisles waiting to recruit your children with their pictures of two tuxedos standing side by side. It’s great when anti-gay groups write the satire for us.

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SLAP: St. Paul Police Yeah, we know it isn’t exactly local, but we at QSaltLake love the First Amendment, which guarantees Americans the right to a free press. So don’t love it when police arrest journalists who are just doing their job, as the peace officers in Minnesota did when Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman and two of her producers tried to report on protesters at the Republican National Convention. Despite the fact that all three had press passes and were clearly not doing anything illegal, the producers were charged with felony riot charges. Goodman, who tried to question police about the arrests, was charged with obstruction. We won’t even go into the protesters who were manhandled or the Associated Press photographer who was also arrested. We at QSaltLake also love this nation’s hardworking police, and we understand that sometimes mistakes happen.

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know that we’re not all exactly the same, yet many outside of the gay community still believe that all gay men are Queer as Folk for the Straight Guy. Isn’t it time to let the world know that we’re at least as diverse as ABC’s fall lineup?

I used to be a big fan of the show Will & Grace when it was on the air. As anyone who’s ever seen the show will admit, its more entertaining highlights revolved around the characters Jack McFarland and Karen Walker. While Karen Walker would later go on to serve as Alaska’s first female governor and John McCain’s running mate, Jack McFarland would continue to perpetuate the stereotype of a promiscuous, flamboyant gay actor for years to come. Looking back on the show and Jack in particular, I find myself asking: Did I enjoy the character of Jack because I identified with him, or because I enjoyed him as a queer minstrel?

In a progressive year that has seen gay marriage in California, the first pregnant man, the possible election of a U.S. black president and Karen Walker chosen as a running mate, we would think that stereotyping groups of people would be as passé as last year’s Manolo Blahniks.

Nevertheless, it still occurs and we still do it. We as gay men don’t want to be stereotyped ourselves, and yet still stereotype others: the men we date, the politicians we vote for, the co-workers who eat our lunch that was clearly marked with our name in the refrigerator and even family members whom we do or don’t feel obligated to visit during Christmas.

We’re currently making leaps when it comes to gay rights and privileges, but if we want to make bounds we’ll have to change our approach in how we view others and ourselves.

And while I wait for the world to stop stereotyping, I’m going to watch the Designing Women marathon on Lifetime while giving myself a pedicure. I’m also having a beer because dude, I don’t want people to stereotype me as gay. Q

We’re holding a mirror up to a mirror and wondering who the hell is flipping us off.

No one’s better at being stereotyped than are gay men. By the same token, no one’s better at doing the actual stereotyping than are gay men.

By fulfilling these stereotypes, gay men continue to perpetuate these stereotypes by both stereotyping and being stereotyped. In fact, because gay men stereotype and all gay men are stereotyped, this very paragraph is stereotyping the fact that gay men love to stereotype and are stereotyped and will eventually collapse upon itself and the universe will cease to exist.

In other words, we’re holding a mirror up to a mirror and wondering who the hell is flipping us off.

Gay men are just as varied as any other group, and cover the full spectrum of the rainbow — pun mostly not intended. The gay and lesbian community is just as diverse as any other community, and gay men and women proudly come from nearly all walks of life. We refuse to be pigeonholed, we don’t like to be categorized and we get tired of being cast as the funny but sexually ambiguous sidekick in a movie starring Julia Roberts and Dermot Mulroney. Nevertheless, the media continues to stereotype gay men, and we continue to let them. We

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o let me get this straight.

HE MET HER ONCE?! Are you freaking kidding me? Apparently John McCainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exhaustive vetting process for Sarah Palin consisted of one meeting and a couple of phone calls. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s it. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all. The End. Um, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t quite know how to say this John, but that may work for Larry Craig setting up a no-strings-attached sex date on Gay.com, but not so much if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re nominating a candidate for the vice president of the United States. For hellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sake, the guy at McDonalds filling the napkin dispenser has more of a background check than that.

This bizarre â&#x20AC;&#x153;decision makingâ&#x20AC;? from McCain makes me really wonder if his age is a problem. I hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really noticed the age thing before, but maybe thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s because, here in Utah, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re so used to seeing our gray-haired senior leaders incoherent and propped up behind a podium. I guess itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a cultural thing.

But now Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m concerned, cupcakes. Especially considering that Tess of the Tundra is backup Plan B. Yikes! So I say that, in the interests of national security and world peace, John McCain shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be allowed to lift any State Department briefing dossier bigger than the one for Fiji. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too much of a strain at his age. Heaven help us if he has a heart attack because then Super Breeder Church Lady gets the access codes to the nukes. And if thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a copy of Heather Has Two Mommies in a library in Canada, I guarantee, Sarah Palin will not hesitate to use them!

The thing I just canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wrap my head around is this, kittens: Of all the qualified and experienced Republican women he could nominate as VP, McCain enlists Caribou Barbie? WTF? This should have been a pivotal historical moment for the GOP when they finally broke their partyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own glass ceiling with a strong, articulate, knowledgeable female nominee. But nooooo, McCain caves in because he canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get pro-choice Joe Lieberman or Tom Ridge past the Evangelicals, so he scrambles for a token gun-toting conservative skirt (without taking the time for a complete vetting) to dilute Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bounce from his amazing Democratic National Convention speech.

Hell, why didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t McCain just nominate Condie Rice and get a gender/race â&#x20AC;&#x153;twofer?â&#x20AC;? As much as I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like her, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s smart, familiar with Washingtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s myriads of social networks and political systems, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m pretty sure she could find Afghanistan on a map. Plus â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a big bonus â&#x20AC;&#x201D; sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s already been vetted by the feds and the press so there are no skeletons in her closet (just those patent leather dominatrix boots with the spike heels she wore in Germany. I still wonder what was up with those).

Anyway, the whole Palin thing just comes across as an act of desperation and a bone thrown to the extreme social conservative dogs of the Republican Party.

I just wonder how many independents and

moderates are going to be totally turned off when they finally hear her extreme policy positions on social issues. The fact that she tried to censor the public library while she was mayor tells me everything I need to know about Sarah Palin. In fact I would vote for Mitt Romney in a dress before I ever considered her. OK, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a terrifying visual image none of us need.

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Breaking the Silence with Kevin Jennings Executive director of GLSEN will make keynote address at Equality Utah’s Allies Dinner

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Equality Utah’s Allies Dinner has attracted a number of high-profile speakers, including author Andrew Tobias, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights Kate Kendell and Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation president Neil G. Giuliano. This year Kevin Jennings, editor, author and executive director of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, will join their number.

“I’ve always felt this real special affinity for Utah,” said Jennings in a phone interview from his New York City office. “I grew up in a similar kind of place in North Carolina, where there is a dominant religious group that is hostile [to gays], so I know a bit of what people are up against. And some of the early critical battles of GLSEN that were in some ways make-or-break battles happened in Utah.”

Jennings is referring to the 1995 controversy over the formation of East High School’s Gay-Straight Alliance during which the Salt Lake City Board of Education did away with all extracurricular student clubs to prevent a GSA forming at the Salt Lake City high school. The decision sparked student protests and a special legislative session and garnered national media coverage.

The board rescinded the club ban in 2000, but not until after a lawsuit that reached the state supreme court.

GLSEN was involved, said Jennings, because the club’s faculty sponsor had approached them for help in starting their GSA. Initially, Jennings said he was skeptical when

one of his employees at the time remarked that the club’s formation was “gonna be a big deal.”

“And then all hell broke loose,” he remembers. “It was a pivotal moment in GLSEN’s history.” Jennings and his staff knew it would be, he said, when students looking to start GSAs crashed their Web server and phone system 15 minutes after MTV aired a special about the controversy that included GLSEN’s contact information.

“I have to forever thank the right wing zealots of Utah for bringing our signature program to the attention of the nation,” Jennings remarked. “Thank you, thank you for doing that!”

Jennings created the country’s first gay-straight alliance in 1988 when he was a young history teacher at Concord Academy in Massachusetts.

Raised in rural North Carolina, Jennings said he understood what it was like to grow up gay in a hostile environment and became an educator to make sure the next generation of gay students “would have it better than I did.” Strangely, he said his Baptist upbringing, which emphasized honesty and “doing right by others,” helped him pursue this goal.

“When I realized I was gay, I had no choice but to come out because I was taught not to lie,” he explained.

During his third year at Concord Academy, a suicidal gay student made Jennings’ drive to help gay students all the more urgent.

“I had a gay student sitting in my office one day who said he wanted to kill himself,” Jennings remembered.

“When I told him not to he said, ‘Why shouldn’t I, my life

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isn’t worth saving, anyway.’” The conversation deeply troubled Jennings, who had himself attempted suicide at age 16. Two weeks later he came out to the entire student body during a special assembly. Shortly after that a teenager came to his office saying that she wanted to “start a club to fight homophobia.” Her request shocked Jennings, he said, because she was not a troubled lesbian student but a popular straight girl.

“I said, ‘why do you care so much?’ And she said, ‘That’s easy. My mother is a lesbian and I’m tired of getting put down here.’” When Jennings asked her what she wanted to call it, he said she replied: “You’re gay and I’m straight, so let’s call it the gay-straight alliance.” Interest in the club soon spread and two years later, Jennings began GLSEN without a dime in the bank during what he jokingly calls “a fit of insanity.” Since that date it has overseen the implementation of a 1993 Massachusetts law banning in-school discrimination based on sexual orientation. Currently 10 other states offer similar protections.

Today GLSEN has helped to create more than 4,200 GSAs around the country. It has also created a number of programs geared toward ending school bullying — particularly that towards gay and transgender students. This year approximately 7,700 junior high and high schools campuses took place in GLSEN’s Day of Silence, where participating students draw attention to the social and political silencing of gay and transgender people by not speaking during parts of the school day or its entirety.

GLSEN has also launched No Name-Calling Week, a movement encouraging students from fifth to eighth grade to stop verbal bullying.

Although GLSEN and queer students have come far in the past 20 years, Jennings said that this progress was tempered by the murder of gay eighth grader Lawrence King by a 14-year-old classmate who was reportedly upset that King had asked him to be his Valentine. This year’s Day of Silence was dedicated to King’s memory.

“Ten years ago there was enormous attention when Matthew Shepherd was killed. Ten years later it’s a gay eighth grader, so we clearly have an enormous amount of work left to do,” said Jennings. “I’m very proud of what we’ve accomplished and daunted by how far we have to go until young LGBT people are physically safe when they’re at school.”

He also had harsh words for anti-bullying policies and laws that do not specifically cover gay students, including a Utah law passed this year that creates minimum standards all public schools must follow when dealing with bullying or hazing. Statistically speaking, Jennings said, such regulations do not make gay students safer and in some cases actually cause more harm than does the lack of any rules about bullying.

“Our research, which is the most comprehensive in America, shows that the rates of bullying are slightly higher in states that have generic laws than no laws at all,” he said. “[Laws like Utah’s] are another example of people putting politics ahead of kids. We know which policies work better. This is not Kevin’s opinion; it’s a statistical fact based on districts and states that have comprehensive, generic and no laws. When we don’t enact the laws that help kids nothing changes. These legislators did absolutely nothing but pat themselves on the back. It will have no impact on Utah schools, none.”

But ending bullying does not start with a law or a school policy, Jennings added. Rather, it starts with education.

“The story of Lawrence King is in the end a story about the limiting of policies,” Jennings continued, adding that in a GLSEN survey of high school principals only 2 percent said they had any training about “LGBT issues.” “If you want teachers to meaningfully implement a policy, you have to give them training. Then you have to look at curriculum.”

Jennings has also pursued his goal of helping make all students safer in a number of books that he has authored or edited. These include Always My Child, a resource book for parents with gay students about the daily struggles — including in-school harassment — their children face; Becoming Visible, a gay history text for classroom use; and One Teacher in Ten, a collection of essays by gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender teachers. He has also written a memoir, Mama’s Boy, Preacher’s Son, which details in part his mother’s transition from fearing gays to founding a chapter of Parents, Family and Friends of Lesbians and Gays and becoming one of her son’s strongest supporters.

Near the end of her life, Jennings said she volunteered at

stand 20, 40, 60 years ago and I think that imposes on us today a moral obligation to stand up for the next generation, because a previous generation stood up for us.”

Ultimately, Jennings said he accepted Equality Utah’s invitation to speak at this year’s Allies Dinner out of respect for the often difficult stand gay people and their allies are taking in Utah.

“Frankly, it’s not very hard to take a stand [for gay rights] in New York City, but it’s much harder in Salt Lake City, and especially when you get out to other places, like Provo,” he said. “I hope I can impart a little bit of inspiration that night, but in reality I’ll probably be getting more inspired than they will.” Q Visit Jennings’ blog at kevinjennings.com.

The Allies Dinner: A History Equality Utah’s annual Allies Dinner has been raising money for the campaigns of fair-minded Utah politicians and honoring the allies — gay and straight — of the state’s queer community since the beginning of the new millennium.

And nobody knows more about its work than Michael Mitchell, the gay rights group’s first executive director who founded the first dinner in 2001. “[At the time] there were other events that were aimed at the gay community, like Oscar night and the ACLU dinner, but never one specifically for the gay community — working for our rights. So we wanted to do something like that,” he said. And despite some people’s fears that such an evening wouldn’t draw good attendance or would take money away from other events, Mitchell and his staff decided to “just give it a go and see what happens.”

Even in the face of criticism that gays “wouldn’t show up to see non-gay people” if straight allies were involved.

“We said we can’t get our work done unless we have allies,” Mitchell said.

And so began the dinner’s Allies Awards, which honor Utahns who fight for gay rights regardless of their sexual orientation. Mitchell credited the dinner’s goal of inclusion with its success.

“It’s a great place to bring your mom and dad, and they won’t be offended, and they’ll meet wonderful and beautiful people and see how great the community is,” he said.

“The challenge of setting up a new event is like setting up any new thing — you have to convince people that this is the place to be, and to do that you have to find the right people to tell their friends,” said Mitchell, who had created special events in New York but had never before launched one in Utah. To spread the word about the dinner he approached people with “big circles of friends” and asked them to serve as table captains “which is something every dinner does and that’s how you get every table filled.”

Equality Utah’s board members were also key to making the first dinner a success. Many of them, Mitchell said, had experience in planning such dinners and were willing to help with tasks like mailing out invitations, which Mitchell himself designed for “the first couple of years.” At the 2001 dinner, Equality Utah (which had only recently changed its name from Unity Utah) honored local philanthropist Bruce Bastian and then Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson.

Andrew Tobias, who under the name John Reid authored the 1973 gay memoir The

Best Little Boy in the World, was also the inaugural keynote speaker.

“That of course brought out a lot of people,” Mitchell remembered.

Much to Mitchell’s surprise the dinner made money during its first year — a rarity, he said, for first-time events. During his term at Equality Utah’s helm, which lasted until the spring of 2005, Mitchell planned three more dinners all of which grew in creativity. In 2002, an Equality Utah board member began the tradition of auctioning off each table’s unique centerpiece. And during the height of the Don’t Amend Campaign, Equality Utah’s 2004 campaign to keep an amendment banning gay marriage out of Utah’s constitution, so many people wanted to come that they had to turn people away.

“We kept adding so many more tables that I think we exasperated the folks at the Hilton that year. We ran out of centerpieces and everything,” Mitchell laughed.

“But they wanted to be there and pay money, and they didn’t care.”

Mitchell was in the middle of planning 2005’s dinner when the American Civil Liberties Union offered him a job at their national headquarters in New York City — a job he accepted. Today he works for the Equality Federation, a national group that assists gay rights groups in every state. He has since returned to Utah to attend the 2005 and 2006 Allies Dinners and has been impressed with their growth.

“It was so much bigger,” he said. “There were 1,000 people there [in 2006], which was amazing. The production values were things I could only dream about that first year [when it] was a dinner in a small Utah hotel ballroom. Now it’s a huge dinner that is the envy of a lot of organizations around the country.”

“It’s important to note that this event with Equality Utah PAC has become one of the most effective statewide LGBT PACs in the country,” Mitchell added.

Although Mitchell won’t be able to attend this year’s dinner, he said his heart is always “in Utah when they’re doing the event.”

“There are always people in the room that it’s their first big gay event and it means so much to them,” he said. “To see the looks on their faces when they’re in this beautiful and empowering space, to see people being inclusive … that’s life changing for gay people and non-gay people.”

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“I have enormous hope because I’ve seen how people can change and grow,” he said. As a history teacher, he added, the achievement of full civil and political equality for gay and transgender people is inevitable — merely a “question of when.”

However, he added, gays and their allies, and not time, are the only forces that can bring about this change.

“Things haven’t gotten better for LGBT people because time has passed but because people of all sexual orientations and ages have stood up and said, ‘This has got to stop,’” he said. “We today are the beneficiaries of people who took a stand when it was much more frightening than it is now.

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Held in spring and fall, Dine O’Round was founded in 2002 by the Downtown Alliance, a 17-year-old nonprofit organization that promotes businesses and properties in the 40 block area between North Temple, 500 W, 400 S and 200 E. Andrew Wallace, the Alliance’s marketing director, said founders patterned the two-week celebration of haute cuisine on similar events in such metropolises as New York City and Denver.

“A bunch of restaurants got together and said they wanted to do it,” he said. And after visiting organizers of the Big Apple’s event to see how they organized and administered it, these restaurants opened the original Dine O’Round six years ago.

Like many of Utah’s cultural events, Dine O’Round has grown from a few interested eateries into 31 participants this season. Last year, according to Wallace, 35 participated, but a few of these have since closed their doors permanently or temporarily to re-do their menus.

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“It’s a great way for people to discover new restaurants and visit old favorites,” said Wallace. Patrons like the event, he added because of the variety and the prices. Restaurants appreciate Dine O’Round because it brings in new patrons — particularly during the fall slump after school starts and vacations end but before the first heavy snow ushers in the ski season.

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Save the Date

Q Arts

Major Events of the Community

The Gay Agenda

september 16 Equality Utah Allies Dinner equalityutah.org september 20 Walk for Life utahaids.org

Dance, Dance, Dance

september 20 Gay Bowl 8 Yard Sale Fundraiser brian1971@hotmail.com

by Tony Hobday

I want to give a shout out to my friend Blaine who’s celebrating his boof-day month. I love this guy — he does the best impersonation of a chicken I’ve ever seen (or want to see). Unfortunately he has to go in for surgery this month as well, so please give hims some snaps of encouragment because he has the pain threshold of a timid virgin.

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FRIday — Park City’s Egyptian Theatre Company presents Pageant, featuring six lovely “women” (some apparently more masculine than others) competing with style, comical wit and genuine desire to be the next Miss Glamouresse 2008. See the contestants at their best as they show off side-splitting talents from ventriloquism to roller-skating, and even award winning iced tea recipes as they all vie for the crown and title.

7:30pm, through Oct. 18, Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main Street, Park City. Tickets $16–34, 435-6499371 or parkcityshows.com.

Q Ahhh ... the lovely Nova Starr is turning 20 plus a few years. Think of it as in just two years she’ll be an old trolly molly. But hey, at least her rack will still be shapely and perky. Anyhoo, join the fabulous drag entertainer in celebration of her birth during Gossip’s Stardust event. The night includes go-go boys, birthday surprises and special guest Danyel Vasquez.

10pm, Gossip at Club Sound, a private club for members, 579 W. 200 South. Free to members, myspace.com/gossipslc.

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SATurDAY — The 36th annual Oktoberfest is in full swing with the taste of Bavaria, clowns, inflatable rides, craft booths, local musicians, yodelers and more. So enjoy the cool mountain air, music, food and steins of beer available every weekend through the first weekend in October.

september 20–21 Baker, Nevada Trip RCGSE.org

Q Dance Theatre Coalition warns the return of Proving Ground is “not for the faintest hearts.” The contemporary dance showcase premieres works by local and guest artists working in all disciplines of performance. Get your ears ready for industrial droning machines, eyes prepped for physicality and pockets full of “Jason Dollars” because you’re going to have a chance to throw around all the money you don’t have.

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

8pm, through Sunday, Black Box Theatre, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. Broadway. Tickets $15, 355ARTS or arttix.org.

october 10–12 SLC GayBowl VIII mwffl.org

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october 11 Coming Out Day Breakfast utahpridecenter.org

WEDNESDAY — Salt Lake Acting Company opens their 2008-09 season with J.T. Rogers’ The Overwhelming, a spell-binding exploration of one of the great human tragedies of our time. Set in 1994 Rwanda, it tells the tale of an American professor who unwittingly takes his family on a trip to Rwanda in the weeks leading up to the genocide. Intended as a reunion with an old college friend, the visit spirals quickly into chaos, duplicity and tragedy as Rwanda descends into the maelstrom of a bloody civil war.

8pm, through Oct. 12, Salt Lake Acting Company, 168 W. 500 South. Tickets $13–34, 363-7522 or saltlakeactingcompany.org.

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THURSDAY — Pioneer Theatre Company’s season opener is a production of the fabulous musical My Fair Lady. Confirmed old bachelor Henry Higgins bets his friend Pickering that he can turn Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl, into a lady by teaching her to speak properly. He’s a stern taskmaster, but he just may have met his match in the spirited young “guttersnipe” he takes in.

7:30pm, through Oct. 4, Pioneer Theatre, 300 S. 1400 East, UofU. Tickets $26–49, 581-6961 or pioneertheatre.org.

Noon–6pm, Sat.–Sun., through Oct. 5, Snowbird Resort, Little Cottonwood Canyon. Free, snowbird. com.

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Q The 11 Grammy award-winning artist Alicia Keys brings her soulful R&B talent to her adorning fans in Utah. The accomplished pianist, composer and singersongwriter has been entertaining the gay masses for years with songs like “Fallin’,” “My Boo” and “No One.” “My Boo” is actually dedicated to me ... Usher has a thing for me!

7:30pm, Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, Tickets $49.50–75, 355-ARTS or arttix.org.

january 7–11, 2009 Utah Gay & Lesbian Ski Week, Park City ­ gayskiing.org

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january 15–25, 2009 Sundance Film Festival, Park City ­ sundance.org

FRIDAY — RawMoves dance company (in collaboration with RDT’s Link Series) is proud to present Our Divided Anatomy, an evening of physical, athletic and arresting dance featuring new works choreographed by Nicholas Cendese and Natosha Washington. The performance fearlessly explores the human condition in all its guises and will showcase the talents of some of Salt Lake’s most outstanding performers.

8pm through Sat. & 2pm, Sun., Black Box Theatre, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. Broadway.

Tickets $15, 355-ARTS or arttix.org.

december 12–14 Salt Lake Men’s Choir Holiday Concert saltlakemenschoir.org

June 6–7, 2009 Utah Pride ­ utahpride.org June 20, 2009 HRC Utah Gala ­ hrcutah.org July 24–26, 2009 Utah Bear Ruckus utahbears.com Email arts@­qsaltlake.com for consideration to be included in Save the Date.

Q Phyllis and Karen Horne of HORNE Fine Art proudly announce the exhibit of their newest “outdoor” paintings, More Fresh Paint. From roses, hollyhocks, alpines and aspens to scenes from the Utah Arts Festival, a colorful array of paintings will be on display for your pleasure and purchase.

6–9pm, Opening reception tonight. Exhibit through Nov. 8, normal gallery hours. HORNE Fine Art, 142 E. 800 South. Free, 533-4200 or hornefineart.com.

Q The Temple Squares — a queer squaredancing group — encourages firsttimers at hoeing to join them for their New Dancers Hoedown. The evening introduces dancers to squaredance, hay, 10-gallon hats and sparkly beltbuckles the size of a Flybo XFD. People of all orientations and gender identities are invited to attend. Casual attire is encouraged and singles and couples are welcome.

7–9pm, Columbus Community Center, 2531 S. 400 East. Free, 643-9363 or 797-9424.

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SATURDAY — Help wipe out AIDS with toilet paper and dollar bills. The Utah AIDS Foundation’s 20th annual Walk for Life sashays and prances around Liberty Park today. Get involved, get some exercise, be a part of something important ... you can take your dog, boyfriend/girlfriend/both, family members, pastors, bishops, mentors, teachers ... whomever. Register online now for FREE! Pledges and toilet paper donations desperately needed.

8:30am–Noon, Northwest corner of Liberty Park, 900 S. 500 East. Register online at utahaids.org.

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WEDNESDAY — Here it is ... the greatest night since Sarah Palin’s speech at the Republican National Convention. Actually, this will be less tedious and more honest. The Top 10 dancers of So You Think You Can Dance hit Salt Lake tonight for a whirlwind of fabulous dance: From contemporary, jazz and ballroom to hip-hop, tango and salsa. Join America’s favorite dancer Joshua and Twitch, Katee, Gev (Utahn), Mark, Chelsie (Utahn), Will, Courtney, Kherington and Comfort as they work they’re moves.

7:30pm, The E Center, 3200 S. Decker Lake Dr. Tickets $35–54.50, 988-8888 or theecenter.com.

UPCOMING EVENTS

OCT. 3 Salt Lake Men’s Choir, King Art Ctr OCT. 20 David Sedaris, Abravanel Hall OCT. 28 Jason Mraz, E Center Nov. 21 Celine Dion, ES Arena Nov. 22 Coldplay, ES Arena

Southern Utah Pride Headliner Liz Clark Is In Pursuit

by JoSelle Vanderhooft

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York City-based singer/songwriter Liz Clark has impressed audiences with her poetic and earnest folk rock songs since the tender age of 14, when she played her first club gig in her hometown of Denver, Colo. A major part of Denver’s music scene until her transcontinental move at the age of 21, she has released two albums, 2000’s Love and War and more recently Hand on the Stove (2005). Her third album, Pursuit, is currently available for preorder. A popular performer in the United Kingdom, Clark divides her time between the United States and Ireland, the nation from which her partner hails and from where she answered my questions over the internet phone service Skype.

LC: I moved from Denver at 21 because I had played every single gig you could possibly play in Colorado. There was a great music scene, but it’s also still in the middle of nowhere. It’s sort of landlocked.

Even to get to Salt Lake it’s I don’t know how many hours, nine or 10? I was also having some adolescent rebellion, so I got a sleazy apartment in Brooklyn and started from there.

JoSelle Vanderhooft: What takes you to Ireland this month? Do you have a gig?

JV: Tell me about coming out. Did that happen in Denver or later?

Liz Clark: My partner is Irish and we spend a lot of time here, so we have to make it work with the music thing, too.

I’m getting really excited about what the UK has to offer musically. Singer/songwriters just get a lot more attention over here, and it’s just a bigger deal. I’m still just tapping into it. I’m excited about the potential.

LC: I came out in New York City. It was just a really kind of easy thing because I ended up just falling in love with somebody who was a woman and I think because I had never experienced love on such a huge deep level, it was this really right partnership and situation [so it felt really easy to do that. Even in a small town in Ireland we had our wedding here and almost the whole village came to the wedding. I guess I’m pretty lucky. I’ve been always doing pride festivals. Even when I had a male partner I always did pride festivals and any kind of woman-related thing.

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JV: How are singer/songwriters treated differently in your experience?

LC: Mostly I play the same type of gigs over on this side [of the Atlantic] that I do back in the States, which is just small venues, coffee shops. In Ireland right now we spend a lot of our down time in this really small village that has a population of about 200 people and the pub next door has an Irish traditional jam session. We go every Monday and I’m the token yank that tries to play along, being American, with the Irish songs. But they let me sing my songs, too. I’ve never experienced something like that over in the Uinted States where you can bring your guitar to any old bar and try to sing your song and the whole bar would shut up and listen to your song.

JV: So you got your first gig at age 14.

How did you do that?

LC: I think I was one of those weird kids that didn’t want to do anything else. My parents would drive me to my gig. [I was underage] so they’d go in with me at the bars. I don’t know, even looking back I think that was weird. But I really wanted to play gigs. I didn’t go to prom or do any of that, I was playing gigs. I guess I took myself really seriously right off the bat. But I take myself less seriously now.

Sometimes the gigs I play are the same I got at age 15 or 16 — small coffee shops and festivals. I had to realize I’m just doing it for the love of it.

JV: When and why did you leave the clubs of Denver for New York City?

JV: What musicians would you say have influenced your work?

LC: For sure it was really Bob Dylan and The Beatles. I’m pretty heavy on that ’60s rock era, I think I still draw on that. My musical philosophy kind of stems a lot from that era. What makes a song good is melody and if it’s catchy, that’s what’s been engrained on me from The Beatles.

And getting near Dylan’s lyrics is something to strive for, to have that kind of meaning.

JV: So you’re coming to Utah soon! How did you get in touch with Southern Utah Pride?

LC: I don’t know how [my agent] Rich [Overton] finds these things, but he seemed to be really excited about Southern Utah … it’s small but it has a group of passionate people who are really excited about it. It’s got a lot of heart, that’s what he seemed to mention.

JV: Have you ever played in Utah before?

LC: I have in Salt Lake. It was awhile ago.

I haven’t spent a lot of time here but [I’ve driven] though on my way to L.A. It’s the most gorgeous drive that could possibly happen. I’ve also traveled through on a train. It’s one of the most beautiful states, especially when you’re taking the scenic trip.

JV: Is there a special appeal for you in performing live?

LC: I guess I haven’t figured out the psychology of that, but it probably has to do with sharing something emotionally with people. I’m sure it’s the buzz of [the fact] we’re all experiencing something musical together. I think music kind of connects people in an emotional way before it gets too cerebral. I love that about it, that you can hear a song and even if it’s on the radio, it really applies to you so specifically.

JV: Can you tell me a bit about your new album Pursuit?

LC: I’m really excited about it. It’s one of the coolest things I’ve gotten to do.

We recorded this one in a big room [in Kentucky] that was something like 10,000 square feet and all the musicians we wanted were there. It seemed like all the stars aligned perfectly. My producer was really lovely and we creatively clicked and my partner Tessa is singing on every song.

We had this great two weeks. I felt like cutting to the bone on this one and doing what was meaningful and necessary lyricwise and just doing it from the heart. Q Liz Clark will perform at Southern Utah Pride, Sept. 26–27. For tickets and info go to ­southernutahpride.org

GayBowl8 Events Sept. 20th Octoberfest Event Pass Party $40 at Brian Doughty’s house, 859 S. 700 East Oct. 5th Pep Rally & Fashion Show Trolley Square, 4–7PM Oct. 9th Registration Mixer Port O’Call, Event Pass required for free entrance or membership Oct. 10th Gay Bowl VIII Party Club Sound*, Event Pass required for free entrance or membership Oct. 11th Gay Bowl VIII Party Babylon*, Event Pass required for free entrance or membership Oct. 12th Awards Dinner at Rice Eccles, followed by party at Trolley Sq., Event Pass required for free entrance only! *PRIVATE CLUBS FOR MEMBERS

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Brian Kent released his first album Breathe Life in 2007. Since then this musical journey of self-awareness, discovery and “the recovery of one’s authentic self” as his site describes the album has garnered critical acclaim and rotation time on dance floors across the country. Previously the video for his hit single “I’m Not Crazy” spent over 15 weeks on LOGO’s top 10 countdown show “The Click List” and also appeared on HBO and VH-1. Kent has toured several Pride Festivals and before cutting his debut album, he performed in several shows in Las Vegas and was a member of the original cast of the gay-favorite musical Naked Boys Singing. A video for “Breathe Life” premiered on LOGO this May. JoSelle Vanderhooft: So you spent some time in Las Vegas. Were you a singer there? A dancer?

Brian Kent: I was actually both, plus I was a competitive ice skater for many years.

When I first moved to Vegas one of my first shows was an ice show at the MGM Grand Hotel. I worked that during the day and in between my shows I would run out into the theme park they had there where I was a singer and dancer. And at night I would work at another show, so I had really long days! It was a great experience, and at that point I was so excited to be making money performing and living somewhere where the entertainment was a key factor.

JV: What drew you from Vegas to New York City? Was it just that you wanted to pursue your musical career?

BK: Yeah, it was one of those things. When I was a little kid I wanted to move here. I was just wowed by New York and the lights. Vegas was great but I kind of decided if I was going to do this music thing with my life it was time to go somewhere where I could make that happen a little bit better. I came to New York about 10 years ago.

JV: I just love your cover of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing.” In fact, I think it’s one of the best covers of that song I’ve heard. What drew you to that particular song?

BK: When I was first trying to break in I just new that [I needed to do] a cover, because I really hadn’t written anything. So I thought it was a good route to go, to choose a song that everybody loved and that meant something and that we could all have fun listening to on the dance floor. I loved that song and I thought it was a great way to start my career with a positive note.

JV: Do you write all your music, or do you often work with others’ songs?

BK: I wrote or co-wrote most of the songs on Breathe Life. I got into song writing with [the second single] “I’m Not Crazy,” and when I went to do the album I decided I really wanted to write as much as possible.

JV: A lot of people classify your work as dance club music. Do you think that’s fair, and is that the audience you wanted to reach?

BK: I think people classify me as dance because those are the tracks that have gotten

the most exposure. But if you listen to the whole album you’ll see that there are a lot of tracks on there that are not dance at all.

I would consider myself a dance/pop artist because dance/pop is its own genre. … If you go back to the ’70s and you listen to some of the great artists back then the songs on each album were different [in style.] You had ballads, you had your up-tempos, and it was more of a journey. That’s why I have stuff on my album that is dance for sure, and stuff that is more rock-sounding. But being in the dance category certainly hasn’t hurt me, so I’m OK with that.

JV: What would you say are some of your musical influences?

BK: You know, it’s always hard for me to answer that question. I was one of those kids growing up who was a little different in that I listened to — and I’m not exaggerating — every type of music. I would have a Carol King album sitting next to Ella Fitzgerald sitting next to a punk rock band, and my mother could never figure out what it was that I was into. There are so many artists whose work I respect that I feel like all types of music have informed me. I think music is so subjective and different types of music fit different moods.

JV: How would you say being gay has shaped your music?

BK: I think that being gay presents many challenges you have to overcome. [These] inspire me and help me be myself, but also I use those struggles to write music and tell the story. I thank God every day that I’m gay. I think being gay is such a beautiful gift because we’re forced to look at life [in a way] that many heterosexuals don’t have to. And instead of following a more sheepish path, we’re forced to go, ‘Wow, we’re different,’ and that causes us to be a little more well-rounded.

JV: I know that RJO artists [Kent’s booking agent] were in charge of a lot of the booking, but can you tell me a little bit about how you got involved with Southern Utah Pride?

BK: Rich [Overton of RJO] had brought up that he was working on some level with SUP and [asked] would it be something I would be interested in, and I said absolutely I am. I love Utah. I’ve been there for different reasons, whether it was skiing or rock climbing and I think it’s really beautiful. And having lived in Vegas it’s not too far from there.

JV: Have you heard from any Utah fans so far?

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BK: I have received a couple of emails actually from — do you call yourself Utah-ians?

— just saying they’re looking forward to seeing my performance, which is exciting because I didn’t know I had fans in Utah.

I don’t know much about Zion specifically as far as the gay community goes or what to expect, but that makes it more exciting for me. I do know just based on the people putting it together that it’s going to be a real fun show. Q Brian Kent will perform at Southern Utah Pride, Sept. 26–27. For tickets and info go to ­southernutahpride.org

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Utah voters overwhelmingly passed a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage in 2004 and Equality Utah’s Don’t Amend Campaign closed up shop, Mike Thompson thought his time in the Beehive State was over. After several months serving as Don’t Amend’s fund raiser and deputy campaign manager he was now heading to Kansas City to work as a consultant.

But in early 2005, not even a year after Don’t Amend entered the annals of gay Utah history, the gay rights organization was contacting him again. Executive director Michael Mitchell had just taken a job with the American Civil Liberties Union. Would Thompson like to interview for his position, the group wanted to know.

“I loaded up and came back to Salt Lake,” says Thompson, who has held that very job for the last three years.

“It’s been good,” he continues. “I have to say that my friends thought I was crazy to come the first time and really crazy to come back the second time to do the work we’re doing here, but my response has always been if change is going to take place on a national scale, it’s the red states that have got to have some conversion. I thought [taking this job] was a tremendous opportunity to work in the reddest of red states.”

And Thompson knows a lot about red states. He grew up in Tulsa, Okla. where evangelical Christianity dominates local culture and politics in much the same way the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints holds sway in Utah.

“I guess there’s comfort in the familiar, and I think what I noticed when I first came to Salt Lake City was a similar ecclesiastical cloud that hovers over the city,” says Thompson. “It influences everything.”

Like many gay Utahns, Thompson grew up in what he calls “a fairly conservative community where religion played a huge part in people’s lives” and found at a young age that his sexual orientation clashed against his cultural surroundings. Although Thompson realized he was gay in high fter

school he didn’t come out until moving to Chicago to start his first post-college job as a consultant for an oil company.

“Even then I had to reel it back in,” he says of that time. “I actually went from being very out to being very closeted to work through that whole religious component. It was an ongoing process to me until I was in my early 30s. One of the things I had to do was to learn to reconcile my own faith with my sexual orientation. To me, faith is such a personal thing in that the intimacy with our creator, we all have to arrive at our own conclusions. I think as a Baptist kid from Oklahoma it wasn’t necessarily an easy process; but it was certainly enriching.”

After four years of traveling the country for his first consulting job, Thompson found himself back in Tulsa. Here he took his first job at a nonprofit organization, serving on the board of a school that served special needs students from kindergarten to eighth grade. During his stint on the board, and later as executive director, the school went from “a struggling and nearly failing program” to acquiring a 10-acre campus, expanding its programs and substantially increasing its funding. After this he served as a consultant for several nonprofit organizations in Denver, teaching them how to structure their fundraising practices and their mission statements.

“In my corporate background I worked with individual business owners to help them strengthen and solidify their businesses, so I learned some skills I got to apply to nonprofits to help them reach their potential,” Thompson says. “I think that’s what my passion is — building organizations so they can operate at their fullest capacity and have the broadest reach and impact.”

Thompson carried these skills over to Equality Utah. Soon after taking the helm, Thompson lead the organization through what he calls a “re-branding exercise” in which the organization got its now-familiar logo and tagline, “Working for a fair and just Utah.”

“We needed to go from being on the

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defensive to working to advance policy that supports LGBT Utahns and their families,” Thompson explains. As part of its changes, Equality Utah also opened dialogue with conservative legislators (traditionally known for their opposition to gay-positive legislation) about creating a more just government that includes gays as full legal citizens. It also began drafting proposed legislation. In the 2008 session, Equality Utah-sponsored bills seeking to overturn Utah’s gay adoption ban, add sexual orientation and gender identity to statewide employment nondiscrimination laws, and to create statewide anti-bullying standards in schools appeared on Capitol Hill. Gov. Jon Huntsman signed the anti-bullying bill into law in March. Although the adoption and fair workplace bills are still struggling, Thompson called them keys to abolishing the biggest legal hurdles gay Utahns face.

“The workplace bill represents a broader breakthrough on the broader issue of discrimination, getting people to acknowledge sexual orientation and gender identity on a broader perspective,” Thompson explains.

“The adoption bill that would remove cohabiting proscription [in Utah law] would be the breakthrough bill in the area of family law,” he continued. “[O]nce we get past those hurdles, it would be easier to advance other legislation because we’ve broken through the biggest barriers.”

Equality Utah has come a long way under Thompson’s leadership. In the last three years it has doubled its staff and gone from endorsing a handful of gay-friendly political candidates to nearly 40 in this election cycle. Understandably, the executive director’s life is “a bit consumed” by his responsibilities. In the leisure hours he does have, Thompson says he enjoys spending time with friends and family.

“I love doing what I do,” he says. “I love to see the progress and I’m grateful to be in a community that is passionate about this work. I think together we’re accomplishing some great things.” Q

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When: Sept. 13 10am-Noon — Ages 9–13 Thriller (Chucky – Rama) and/or It’s A Wonderful Life (Male & Female Jazz and Ballroom Dance experience a plus.)

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Hunt Mysteries Dinner Thtr Hunt Mysteries Dinner Theater has scheduled auditions for their two December shows. Bring a head shot and resume, any conflicts you may have, and be prepared with a comedic one-minute monologue, 16 bars of an upbeat or romantic song, and for The Altos a one-minute dramatic monologue. Bring a minus track (there will be no pianist).

Rehearsals in the Salt Lake Valley.

You may expect three to six shows a week at various venues from Provo to Ogden for the month of December; no shows on Sundays or Dec 21–27. Call backs will be held on Monday, Sept. 22.

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by Kyle Jones, Salt Lake City Police Department

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several acts of violence in public places including churches, universities, schools, offices and malls. Watching these events unfold could easily cause someone to believe there is nothing she or he can do in these situations. However, you can mentally prepare yourself to deal with these situations so you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel powerless.

Follow these 12 steps to keep yourself safe.

1. Accept that the world is full of dangerous people who could become violent.

This means itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important for you to be alert and vigilant, and to develop what is known as â&#x20AC;&#x153;situational awareness.â&#x20AC;? This is essentially the skill of paying attention to what is going on around you so that you can spot potential problems early and get out of harmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s way. For example, in a recent mass murder at a mall, one victim was wearing headphones and ended up walking right into the shooting spree. If she had been using all of her senses to gauge was what going on around her, she could have kept herself safe.

2. Have a plan for putting distance between you and a shooter. Either find a way to run away or put some physical barrier between you.

3. Realize that just because someone has a gun doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean that your death is inevitable. Since paramedics and trauma specialists began using advanced life support techniques and equipment, the number of people who have died from gun shot wounds has been dramatically reduced. Also, unlike what you see in the movies, being shot with a handgun seldom incapacitates people.

4. Immediately locate the exits whenever you enter a club, restaurant or mall.

Some restaurants may not have many vis-

ible exits in the dinning area, but there is almost always an exit in the kitchen.

5. Sit facing the door, and if possible, near an emergency exit. Pay attention to everyone who comes in.

6. Trust your instincts when they tell you something is wrong. They are usually correct.

7. Control the urge to investigate strange noises. Several of the victims at the Trolley Square shooting in 2007 were shot because they went to investigate sounds which turned out to be gun fire.

8. If you see a fight, go in the opposite direction. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not unusual for an innocent bystander to be shot when one of the fighters pulls out a gun.

9. Avoid confrontations with strangers, since you do not know what they will do.

10. If things become violent, deny the shooter access to you by heading for the nearest exit. Going out an emergency exit is better than the main door because thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s where everyone else will likely head. Go for the exits even if you know she or he may shoot at you. Your chances of survival are much better!

11. If you cannot exit, deny the shooter access to you by locking yourself in a room and staying quiet. This has worked effectively in numerous shootings.

12. If you get cornered, fight back! This is the last thing your assailant will expect.

Curling up under a table and hoping you wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get hurt is not an effective survival strategy.

Surviving an unexpected attack requires paying attention to your surroundings and knowing what you can do to keep yourself safe. Start practicing these tips to make sure they are second nature if you ever need to use them.

In the next issue, we will discuss strategies for keeping you and your loved ones safe during a fire.

Kyle Jones is the Detective Division Captain for Salt Lake City Police. He is also a member of the GLBTQ Public Safety Committee. For information on this article, the GLBTQ Public Safety Committee or other public safety matters you may contact him at 799-3727.

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Q Tales The Perils of Petunia Pap-Smear The Tale of the Missing Car Cover A warning to our readers: This month’s Perils of Petunia Pap-Smear is not for those who may be considered prudish by their friends.

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fraught with danger and excitement!

A few years ago, I purchased a 1996 Buick Road Master, me being a considerable “Size Queen” when cars are involved. Oh, did I say only cars? Silly Me! To christen the car, I thought that the cadre of fellow princesses from Logan and I needed to go on a road trip. It just so happened that it was the same year that the LDS church rebuilt the Nauvoo Temple, and being a cultural Mormon, (you can kick the boy out of the church, but you can’t kick the church out of the boy) I am still interested in the historical stuff. I thought we could drive the Road Master and the whole “tiara” of queens from Logan, (Is tiara the right collective noun?) could visit the temple open house and other church history sights. I’m sure if we had worn our best white frocks, sensible heels and greatly reduced make-up we could have fit right in with any of the Relief Society sisters. Of course it remained without saying that I also expected to be checking out all the bathhouses and porn stores that we could find along the way.

After all, I do have my priorities! I thought we could call this road trip, “The Great Midwest Church History and Bathhouse

Tour.” Alas, due to delivery problems with the car, this wonderful trip never materialized, but the concept just makes the imagination race with possibilities doesn’t it?

Several people have asked that I share some of my bathhouse stories. So, in my best Bette Davis impersonation, “Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night.”

A good bathhouse is one of my favorite places on Earth to be. First of all, you can assume that everyone is there for the same reason. You don’t have to spend all that money on drinks to get the object of your desire drunk before last call. Plus there are showers with which to clean up, and mirrors with which any respectable queen can re-apply her make-up. Such an improvement over cruising in the bushes, and you can save months of time over cruising on the internet.

On one occasion, I was visiting the Melrose Baths in West Hollywood, a pleasant neighborhood bathhouse with a variety of guys.

Preppies and Jocks and Bears, OH MY! I met this very nice handsome gentleman and we decided to adjourn to his room for some privacy in which we could “trade fashion tips” among other things.

Well one thing led to another and he decided he would like to “park his Buick” in my “garage.” I asked him to please drive

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safely and to cover his “Buick” with a latex “car cover.” Ribbed for pleasure, Oh Joy! Consequently he did park his “Buick” in my “garage,” repeatedly, for quite some time. My advice to the novice is to always remember to liberally lube your “car and garage door” for better and longer lasting performance.

After his “Buick” came to a sudden and erupting halt, spewing it’s “transmission fluid” he withdrew out of my “garage.”

I turned around to help him remove his “car cover” and give his “Buick” a “spit shine,” and low and behold he was no longer wearing one. I panicked and accused him of removing it during the “parking” process. He swore he had not and that it had probably fallen off inside the “garage.” I’ve heard of having “junk in the trunk” before, but this was ridiculous. So I reached around to my “backyard” and opened my “garage door” with my fingers feeling around in the dark for the missing “car cover.” Where is a pair of salad tongs or even a gerbil that knows how to fetch, when you need them? Just then I felt something and pulled out my fingers to investigate. To my abject horror, right there in front of god and everybody, especially “Mr. Wonderful,” sticking to my fingers was a sizeable piece of “Brown Play Dough.” Dumbfounded, we both stared at it. The awkward silence was palpable.

Miss Manners’ social training has never taught me how to deal with this type of “fecal faux pas.” Stunned by the “Audacity of Poop”, I suddenly exclaimed, “Oh, Shit!”

Never have my words been more literal in meaning, as I suppressed the childish urge to form a sculpture out of the “Play Dough.” Desperately, I looked around the room for somewhere or something to free my fingers of the brown scourge as all anticipation of preserving any queenly decorum speedily evaporated. Chivalrously, Mr. Wonderful grabbed the garbage can and offered it to me. I quickly flung my fingers into it with much vigor, the queenly parade wave having insufficient centrifugal force for this occasion, letting the proverbial “shit fly.” In a last ditch effort to maintain a modicum of dignity, I discretely excused myself and retired in privacy to the restroom. To my great relief, after several minutes of intense Kegel exercises, I was able to extricate the missing “car cover,” replete with its contents of “transmission fluid.”

Of course as always, this story leaves us with many important questions: 1. Are combined Church history and bathhouse tours commercially marketable?

2. How would Queen Elizabeth have handled this situation?

3. Do they teach these kind of “parking methods” in Driver’s Ed? 4. Do you think that I could star in a German Scheisse video?

5. Is there big money to be earned in German Scheisse videos?

6. Must I be able to speak German to star in a German Scheisse video?

7. Should I start carrying salad tongs in my purse?

8. Did Dr. Kegel have this type of situation in mind when he developed his exercises?

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