QSaltLake Magazine - October 23, 2008

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From the Editor Thank You, John McCain by Michael Aaron

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Republican presidential candidate John McCain for giving me something to focus on since the Republican National Convention: Sarah Palin. I have posted over two dozen articles, video clips, deep thoughts and (to me) witty comments on my Facebook page, all at Palin’s expense. Yes, I could be focusing on more important issues, like each candidate’s stance on civil rights, abortion, the economy, the war, and potholes on my street, but I made up my mind who I would vote for so long ago it just doesn’t seem to matter any more. But Sarah Palin was a jaw-dropping, speachstealing, huh?-invoking decision back when it was made and I’ve been like a horror film addict watching the carnage with a smirk and a tub of popcorn. Of course, it all started with her daughter’s pregnancy in contrast to her beliefs against sex education. Along came Trooper-gate, helicopter hunting, the road to nowhere, Tina Fey, Bristol/ Willow/Piper/Twig. Today’s news is that the Republican Party has spent $150,000 on her wardrobe in one short month. I’m wondering how much John McCain has spent on his hair and makeup. $75,000 of that amount was spent in a single shopping spree at Neiman Marcus in Minneapolis and $50,000 went to Saks Fifth Avenue in New York. What are the critics saying? Well, the fiscal conservatives haven’t weighed in, but the fashionistas have. would like to thank

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Jenny Booth at Times Online calls her outfits “a procession of neat little waisted jackets, pencil skirts, killer boots and patent heels.” But she wasn’t 100 percent impressed. “Mrs Palin has had a few fashion howlers, such as a fussy and unflattering white tie-fronted jacket on October 6, and a hideous shiny brown jacket on October 15. She has also several times repeated the fashion faux pas of teaming white tops with black skirts, making her look like a waitress.” Wow, perhaps I should turn in my gay card. I couldn’t tell you what she was wearing in the last picture I just looked at moments ago (or was that Tina Fey?). I’m glad SOMEONE is taking notice of these important details. Last night’s news was how Palin socked Alaskan taxpayers with the bills to send her kids around the country to see First Dude race his sled and to pull raffle tickets from a hat. And then she tried to cover it up. It is no wonder that recent polls are showing that 33 percent of people say that Palin, by name, is their largest concern against voting for McCain for president. Nothing about the economy; nothing about the war; nothing about his evil, lying ways. Sarah Palin. It’s like an ongoing sitcom with a nightly cliffhanger. I have to keep watching to see what’s going to happen next. Sorry, I have to go. I need to make some more popcorn.  Q

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BY REX WOCKNER

Connecticut Residents Support Same-sex Marriage Decision A Hartford Courant/University of Connecticut poll has found that 53 percent of state residents support the Oct. 10 state Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage, and 42 percent don’t like it. Among Democrats, 72 percent support it while, among Republicans, 69 percent are opposed. The poll of 502 adult residents had a margin of error of 4.4 percentage points. In a 4-3 decision, the Connecticut justices said denying same-sex couples equal access to marriage violated the state constitution’s guarantee of equal protection under the law. “Interpreting our state constitutional provisions in accordance with firmly established equal protection principles leads inevitably to the conclusion that gay people are entitled to marry,” the decision said. “To decide otherwise would require us to apply one set of constitutional principles to gay persons and another to all others.” The ruling is expected to take effect around Nov. 7. Same-sex marriage also is legal in California, Massachusetts, Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands, South Africa and Spain — and will become legal in Norway in January. There is no residency requirement to get married in the three U.S. states or Canada.

Gays Protest at Louisville McDonald’s Gay activists and others protested outside a downtown Louisville McDonald’s on Oct. 10 after an employee called a group of gay customers “faggots” and a supervisor said the incident was no “big deal” and refused to refund the customers’ money. “For any business to treat its gay customers this way is beyond the pale,” said protester Becca O’Neill from the University of Louisville’s Lambda Law Caucus. The demonstrators carried signs reading, “Discrimination Don’t Belong in a Happy Meal,” “Homophobia Served Here” and “NOT Lovin’ It.” “We have a law against anti-gay discrimination in Louisville, but we want people to know that these incidents still happen and that businesses that take part in this kind of illegal discrimination will be held accountable,” said Jeff Rodgers, co-coordinator of the Fairness Campaign. Ryan Marlatt, Teddy Eggers and three friends had stopped for lunch at the East Market Street McDonald’s on July 26. As they waited for their food, an employee referred to them as “faggots” to another employee. Marlatt and Eggers asked to speak with a manager, who then refused to refund the group’s purchase. Marlatt said he attempted several times in the following weeks to contact the general manager of the restaurant and the corporate offices, but got no response. The group seeks an apology, a refund of $28 and disciplinary action against the employees involved.

Polls Flip on California Marriage; Gays Now Losing A TV ad showing San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom saying California is going to have same-sex marriage “whether you like it or not” is being credited with flipping poll numbers to favor the Nov. 4 ballot proposition to amend the state constitution to undo the state Supreme Court’s legalization of same-sex marriage. “This door’s wide open now. It’s gonna happen. Whether you like it or not!” Newsom says in a clip included in the ad paid for by forces supporting passage of Proposition 8. The ad continues: “Four judges ignored 4 million voters and imposed same-sex marriage on California. It’s no longer about tolerance. Acceptance of gay marriage is now mandatory. “That changes a lot of things: People sued over personal beliefs. Churches could lose their tax exemption. Gay marriage taught in public schools. “We don’t have to accept this. (‘Whether you like it or not!’) Yes on 8.” Gay activists admit the ad is effective, even though it contains “lies.” But equally important, they say, the pro-8 side has raised some $10 million more than the anti-8 side, allowing the forces that want to re-ban same-sex marriage greater access to the television airwaves. One of the gay side’s current ads shows the parents of a lesbian pleading with voters not to “eliminate” marriage for anyone. Another shows two women looking at family photos, including a picture from one woman’s gay niece’s wedding. The other woman expresses discomfort with same-sex marriage before agreeing with the first woman that she’s not “willing to eliminate rights and have our laws treat people differently.” On Oct. 9, the gay side launched a third ad, taking direct

aim at the “lies” in the Newsom ad. “Our worst nightmares are coming true,” Equality California Executive Director Geoff Kors said in an urgent fundraising appeal. “Today we learned of the massive $25.4 million our opponents have raised so far. They are using this war chest to broadcast lies 24/7 and up and down the state of California. And the polls show the lies are working. We need your donation now.” Although other recent polls have shown opposition to Prop 8 (which means one supports same-sex marriage) running as high as 55 percent, and support for Prop 8 (which means one opposes same-sex marriage) running as low as 38 percent, two polls released Oct. 6 and 7 show voters now have flipped. Equality California said its internal polling shows 47 percent of likely California voters want to re-ban same-sex marriage and 43 percent want to keep it legal. Likewise, a CBS 5/SurveyUSA poll found 47 percent support for a ban and 42 percent opposition to it. “People change their minds about Proposition 8 when they hear the lie that churches will lose their tax-free status if they won’t marry same-sex couples,” said Kors. “Even though this is not true. So this is crunch time. With less than a month before the election, we must get on the air now to answer these lies and swing votes back to our side. And the only way to do that is to raise more money. The generous $15.8 million that our supporters have given isn’t enough.” The EQCA polling, a compilation of the group’s daily tracking polls, was conducted by Lake Research Partners. It questioned 1,051 randomly dialed likely voters between Sept. 29 and Oct. 2 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percent. The current ads against same-sex marriage can be viewed at tinyurl.com/3jp23l and tinyurl.com/4f36lk. The current ads in favor of same-sex marriage can be viewed at tinyurl.com/noprop8-1, tinyurl.com/noprop8-2 and tinyurl.com/noprop8-3.

Allan Spear dies

A spokeswoman said “equal rights for all” is what teachers teach. The No on (Proposition) 8 campaign says it has failed to raise as much money as the forces favoring the ban and that, as a result, the “yes” side has aired more TV ads and flipped public-opinion polls from opposing to supporting the ban. No on 8’s four TV ads have been criticized by some gay bloggers and others as “tepid,” “lame” and “underwhelming,” but campaign strategists say the ads were tested on undecided voters and they “work” on those people. No on 8 is expected to release one or two additional ads before Nov. 4, and it is likely the new ad or ads will be more aggressive than those that have aired to date, said knowledgeable sources speaking not for attribution. If enough money is raised to keep up with the “yes” side’s spamming of the airwaves with ads, gays will win the fight, No on 8 predicts. Otherwise, the situation looks grim, the strategists say. The outcome is fully contingent on the television ad battle, No on 8 has asserted.

Allan Spear, the first openly gay male legislator in U.S. history, died Oct. 11 in Minneapolis from complications following heart surgery. He was 71. Spear came out in an article published in the Minneapolis Star in 1974. He was first elected to the state Senate in 1972 and served until his retirement in 2000, the last eight years as Senate president. Spear also taught history at the University of Minnesota for 36 years and wrote a notable 1967 book, Black Chicago: The Making of a Negro Ghetto, 1890-1920. He is survived by his life partner, Junjiro Tsuji.

Producer, Teachers Give Big Bucks to No on 8 Hollywood producer and real estate tycoon Steve Bing has given half a million dollars to the campaign to stop voters from amending the California Constitution to re-ban samesex marriage Nov. 4. And the California Teachers Association, the state’s biggest teachers’ union, has pumped another $1 million into the battle against the amendment. The group had given $250,000 earlier.

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To donate to save same-sex marriage in California, visit NoOnProp8.com/home.

Campaign Web site: noonprop8.com.

Quips & Quotes

“American history is full of people like [West Jordan Sen. Chris] Buttars and organizations like the Eagle Forum and the LDS Church. There will always be those who aggressively work to marginalize minority populations. We need them. And strangely, they also need us.” —QSaltLake Columnist and KRCL RadioActive producer Troy Williams in a Salt Lake Tribune guest editorial about how antigay Utahns like Buttars actually help gay rights movements. “We were very happy. It’s the only way we can demonstrate our commitment in Salt Lake City. It represented some serious progress and also some real hope.” —Daniel Holsinger, who with partner Jay Christianson signed Salt Lake City’s “mutual commitments” registry earlier this year, speaking to the Tribune. “Sometimes being Christlike means you have to teach and stand up for principles you believe are important and true. If churches don’t teach and stand up for moral issues, like traditional marriage, who will?” —Lehi resident Jewel Rowley, writing in to the Tribune in support of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ backing of Calif. Proposition 8. “The continuing belief that what happened to Matt was not a hate crime and the notion that ‘special people shouldn’t have special rights,’ is beyond my comprehension. The level of ‘hate’ is frightening … It is ignorance that ultimately results in hate and that may escalate into physical violence. The only way to combat that ignorance is to educate and tell our stories.” —Judy Shepard, mother of slain gay college student Matthew Shepard, on the 10th anniversary of her son’s death. “Every brave soul who has come out inescapably becomes an educator to the rest of us.” —Barry Gomberg, director of affirmative action and equal opportunity at Weber State University, speaking at the Utah Pride Center’s National Coming Out Day Brunch. “Even if you’re not in California, take this one seriously; if you think that our enemies aren’t watching this battle carefully with challenges in Massachusetts and Connecticut in mind, you’re wrong. What happens here will help determine the fate of our equality for years, even decades, to come.” —AfterElton.com blogger Christie Keith on the importance of fighting California’s anti-gay Proposition 8.

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Election Returns Party The Human Rights Campaign of Utah will hold a party on election night featuring television coverage of the returns. Cocktails will be available to be used for celebrating or mourning. When: Nov. 4, 6–8:00 p.m. Where: Club Try-Angles, 251 W 900 S

Utah Pride Center to Celebrate Transgender Awareness Month

Obama in Colorado Each weekend until the election, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Barack Obama supporters are invited to carpool to Colorado to canvass. Obama’s campaign will provide gasoline and volunteers may stay with fellow supporters in the state if needed. Volunteers depart Friday and typically return on Sunday. Info: my.barackobama.com/pages/ utdrive4change

by JoSelle Vanderhooft

This November the Utah Pride Center, in cooperation with the Transgender Education Advocates of Utah, will once again hold a number of rallies, discussions and other events to celebrate and raise awareness of the T in “GLBT.” Transgender Awareness Month will begin Nov. 1 with an 8:00 p.m. concert by Coyote Grace in the Center’s Café Marmalade. The acoustic duo consists of Joe Stevens, a transgender male singer and songwriter and Ingrid Elizabeth, a biological woman who also sings and plays the upright bass. “We had Coyote Grace in two years ago for the Trans Action Rally and they did a great job,” said Jennifer Nuttall, Adult Program Director at the Utah Pride Center. “They’re a really fun band, cool and unique.” The Center will hold its Trans Action Rally on Nov. 28 at 6:00 p.m. at its 361 N 300 W location. The rally, said Nuttall, “came out of the idea of wanting to do something positive” near to the Day of Remembrance, which commemorates people who have died because of anti-transgender prejudice or violence. The rally is a way to show people that they can do something about this violence and to encourage them to “take back the streets,” added Nuttall. On Nov. 25 the Center will screen Trained in the Ways of Men at the Salt Lake City Main Library (210 E 400 S) as part of its film discussion series. The documentary explores the life and death of Gwen Araujo, a female transgender teen murdered in 2002 and the subsequent trial of her killers. A panel discussion on Araujo and gender identity will follow. “We want to talk about domestic violence … and how at risk transgender people are for different kinds of violence, including sexual violence and assault,” said Nuttall. She added that the panel would also address the issue of “transgender panic” in courtrooms. That is, the idea similar to gay panic defense, states that people can panic and then lash out at a transgender person upon discovering his or her transgender status, typically during intimacy. In addition to these events TEA will hold a candlelight vigil and tea party on Nov. 20 at South Valley Unitarian Society (6876 So Highland Dr, 2000 E), a social and fundraiser on Nov. 22, and two workshops on transgender activism and politics with political candidate and transgender activist Dr. Dana Beyer. TEA organizers did not respond to a request seeking more information about these events by press time. For more information on Transgender Awareness Month, visit the Utah Pride Center’s Web site at utahpridecenter.org.

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Kim Farah of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Public Affairs Office accepts letters and flowers from 40 people.

Gay Marriage Supporters Present Letters, Flowers to LDS Church Dozens of current and former Mormons marched to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints headquarters to deliver flowers and letters opposing the church’s support of California Proposition 8, which would ban same-sex marriages in the state. Gay and lesbian couples have flocked to California since the state’s supreme court ruled this summer that not allowing gay marriages was against the state constitution. After the group sang the Mormon hymn, “As I Have Loved You, Love One Another,” LDS High Priest Andrew D. Callahan was met by Kim Farah of the church’s Public Affairs Office. “We have hundreds of people who have prepared these letters and signed our petition, and we would very much appreciate if the leadership of the church would read these letters and listen to the members of the church,” Callahan said to Farah. People then began bringing stacks of letters wrapped in pink ribbons and carna-

tions to carts brought out by LDS Church officials. Callahan has been threatened with excommunication for creating a Web site soliciting the letters, but was told be church leaders thathis trial will not happen until after the election. The petition was signed by 400 people and asked the church to “stop political organizing efforts and financial support of attempts to use government to restrict the secular and religious rights of gay and lesbian individuals.” According to Callahan, many Mormon families with gay and lesbian sons and daughters are suffering a crisis of consciousness over the gay marriage issue and want very much to be heard by leadership. Two life-long members of the church traveled from St. George to help deliver the letters. Steve and Linda Stay said two of their nine children are gay. Their son, Tyler Barrick, married his partner, Spencer Jones, in San Francisco on June 17.

Fabulous Fun Bus to Make Another Run to West Wendover Ruby Ridge will be calling “en fwauty fwaur” while traveling 75 miles per hour on the way to West Wendover once again on Saturday, Nov. 15. The QCares Foundation, the charitible arm of QSaltLake has scheduled another bus trip to the border city and the New Zealandborn Ruby Ridge has agreed to host the bus. The increased price of fuel has raised the price to run the bus the 120 miles, but organizers were reluctant to raise the price of the trip. “Our favorite trips are those that have a full bus,” said Michael Aaron, publisher of QSaltLake. “Though this is a fundraiser, it’s also about fun.” Tickets are $21 per person and include the trip out and back, $5 cash back from the Montego Bay Casino, a choice of a brunch or dinner buffet at the Montego, Rainbow or Peppermill casino restaurants, a free drink

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coupon and lucky bucks which can be played as cash at any of the casinos’ tables. Ruby Ridge is a QSaltLake columnist who has been dressing in “camp drag” (cross dressing with no intention of looking even remotely female ... to the point of leaving a full glitter-coated goatee) for many years to raise funds for dozens of charities. Sharp-tongued and politically aware, Ridge is a favorite at Third Friday Bingo at the First Baptist Church. In October, bingo raised over $600 towards the RCGSE People with AIDS fund which gives a $100 bill to those affected by HIV/AIDS during the Christmas season. The bus will leave the Club Try-Angles parking lot at 12:00 noon and will return by about 9:00 p.m. Tickets are available at gaywendover.com or by calling Brown Paper Tickets at 1-800838-3006.

Capitol Hill Hate Crime Salt Lake City Police are still looking for the person they have identified as the main suspect in the Capitol Hill hate crime that occurred Aug. 9. Police have described the suspect, who along with others beat and broke the eye socket of a gay man at a Churchill Drive party, as about 20 years old and Polynesian. Anyone with information on this case is encouraged to contact the Police Department at (801) 799-3000. Refer to case number 08-155753.

PWACU Needs Store Volunteers The People With AIDS Coalition of Utah has secured a building and will soon open Our Store, Your Thrift Alternative. To set up the store (the proceeds from which will benefit PWAs living in Utah) the organization needs several volunteers over the next few weeks every day from 12—8:00 p.m. To offer help or to get more information contact Toni Johnson at (801) 484-2205. The store is located at 358 S 300 E.

PWACU Poinsettias The People with AIDS Coalition of Utah has opened preorders for their red poinsettia plants, which they sell during the winter holidays to benefit Utahns with HIV/AIDS. The poinsettias stand approximately 1519 inches and come in six inch pots. They are locally grown and come with care instructions. They cost $10 per plant or $75 for a batch of eight plants. Plants must be ordered by Nov. 20 and can be delivered on Nov. 25 and 28 or Dec. 2, 5, 9 or 12. Deliveries in Salt Lake County require no minimum order. Deliveries to Davis, Summit, Tooele, Utah and Weber Counties require a minimum order of eight plants and can only be delivered on the following dates: Nov. 25 and Dec. 5 for Davis and Weber Counties; Nov. 28 and Dec. 9 for Summit County; and Dec. 2 and 12 for Tooele and Utah Counties. Dates are subject to change. Orders: Call (801) 484-2205 or visit pwacu.org.

Salt Lake Team Reaches Finals in Gay Bowl 8 Championship By Brad Di Iorio

Salt Lake City’s X-Communicated flag football team advanced to play in the finals of Gay Bowl VIII, against defending champions, The New York Warriors. Amid occasional rain and snow showers at Murray Field, during Utah’s first winter weekend, Oct.10–12, the X-Communicated advanced undefeated over the three-day tournament to face the undefeated, twotime defending Gay Bowl champions. The team, lead by quarterback Michael Madsen, scored the first touchdown within their first charge down the field, passing targeted throws to well-covered receivers. The first half saw the X-Communicated defense intercept Warrior passes and defend the Warriors first attempt to score at the

goal line, but during the second half, the Warriors dominated the SLC team, winning the championship game, 28-20. Salt Lake City’s other Gay Bowl VIII team, the SLC Avalanche, finished the tournament, 3-3, placing 12th among the 19 teams. The Gay Bowl VIII tournament was Salt Lake City’s first foray in hosting a gay and lesbian football tournament, led by Mark Barr of the Salt Lake City Gay Athletic Association and many volunteers and donations from both local and national businesses. Local flag football practice will begin March 2009 and more information is available at www.gaybowl8.org and www. slcgaa.com.

Nuptials Donna Siepker & Michelle Davies Donna Siepker & Michelle Davies are pleased to announce they will be exchanging marriage vows on October 31st in San Diego, Calif. A small group of family members and close friends will attend the ceremony holding lit candles and offering the brides a single flower to create their bouquets. A close mutual friend, who was recently appointed as a Deputy Commissioner of Civil Marriages in the state of California, will perform the intimate ceremony. The reception will last throughout the weekend.

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Transgender Awareness Month The Utah Pride Center will kick off its annual month devoted to transgender people with a performance by Coyote Grace, an acoustic band fronted by a transgender male singer. Events throughout the month will include socials, film discussions, candle light vigils and discussion sessions. When: Nov. 1, 8:00 p.m. Where: Café Marmalade, located in the Utah Pride Center’s downstairs (361 N 300 W) Info: utahpridecenter.org

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The Gallivan Center will host the Monster Block Party to celebrate Halloween. The familyfriendly party includes trick-or-treating booths, pumpkin decorating, magic and reptile shows, a costume contest with prizes in child, teen and adult divisions and a performance by School of Rock. When: Oct. 25, 1—5:00 p.m. Where: Gallivan Center (239 S Main St.) Info: slcityevents.com

Gobble, Gobble The Utah Pride Center is planning its annual Pride Thanksgiving Dinner and need volunteers willing to donate prepared dishes and to help run the dinner. When: Nov. 27, 11:00 a.m.—3:00 p.m. Where: Utah Pride Center, 361 N 300 West Info: Jennifer@utahpridecenter.org or (801) 539-8800 x 13

Queer Spirit 2008 This month, the Open & Affirming: Rocky Mountain Conference of the United Church of Christ will host The Queer Spirit retreat to discuss integrating the perspective of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people into the broader life of the UCC. Through discussion and reflection the weekend will ask participants to bring their full selves—that is, the physical, spiritual and sexual parts of their identities— to church by exploring the ways in which people are encouraged and prevented from fully participating in their religious community. The weekend stresses that all individuals are God’s beloved children and holy physical, spiritual and sexual beings. Individuals of all faiths are welcome to attend. When: October 24–26, 2008 Where: Holladay United Church of Christ (2631 East Murray Holladay Rd, Salt Lake City) Cost: Regular price $55, Early Bird Special $35 Registration: rmcucc.org (follow the Queer Spirit links) Info: Glen Brown, glen-denb@mac.com or Russ and Joe Baker-Gorringe, russgorringe@ yahoo.com

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laughed. She encouraged people to continue bringing in donations, however, in order to fill the store before its Oct. 31 opening. Along with merchandise, PWACU will also need volunteers to accept and clean donations, price items, create displays and help out with every other aspect of running the store. “I have staff to run the store but it’s going to be a huge job and they can’t do it by themselves,” she said.

Although the thrift store is run and operated by and for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, Johnson added that everyone is welcome to shop there regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity. “It’ll be a fun environment. It’s a gay thrift store! How can it not be fun?” she said. Our Store will hold a Halloween party open house on Oct. 31 from 5 to 8:00 p.m. “People are always welcome to come dressed up. I can’t promise I’ll be dressed up, but they can,” Johnson joked. Visitors will be able to make purchases and bring in donations at this time. The store’s grand opening will be Nov. 1 from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Currently, Our Store is scheduled to be open seven days a week: 11:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m. Saturday and 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Sunday. To donate, enter the parking lot of Stoneground Pizza at 249 E. 400 South and circle around to the back of the thrift shop. To volunteer, contact Toni Johnson at (801) 484-2205.

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Sanctuary works closely with the Utah Pride Center. Both organizations regularly exchange referrals and the Center is regularly supplied with the sanctuary’s brochures. Additionally, the shelter’s Web site links to several resources for gay and transgender people such as the Gay Men’s Domestic Violence Project and rainbowdomesticviolence.itgo.com, a catch-all Web site listing a number of resources. Regardless of stereotypes and gayspecific barriers to seeking help, Masterson stressed that the dynamics of power and control abusers use are the same regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. And fear and violence is never something that a gay person should tolerate from a partner, especially when help is available. “If we’re creating a service that empowers the most marginalized survivor of domestic violence, we’re improving things for all victims,� she said.

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Q Views Letters Keeping Their Eye on the Ball Editor, Three years ago, during one of the earliest planning meetings for Salt Lake’s gay football league where we hashed out which field to play on and how to get a 501(c)3 status, I listened to organizer Mark Barr drone on and on about how he wanted to bring the Gay Bowl to Utah. I thought, “this guy is nuts.” On Sunday, Oct 12, as I shivered in the snowy cold cheering on the home team as they made it to the final game, I happily ate my words. Gay Bowl 8 brought hundreds of masculine, stereotype-breaking gay men from New York, Chicago, San Diego and all over the US to the capitol of a state that consistently tells gays they are second class citizens. They competed in a sport that is the epitome of masculinity and being straight. And surrounding the competition were events at Port O Call, Trolley Square and Club Babylon that rocked downtown and helped show businesses the financial impact of a major gay event other than Pride. All the people that worked literally years bringing the Bowl to Utah deserve a huge round of applause. It was an amazing PR opportunity not just to be heard by people in the other cities, but by the people in Salt Lake who tend to drone on and on about how Salt Lake has so little to offer gay men (I admit I can be part of that chorus sometimes). Their passion for keeping their eye on the ball and bringing the event to Salt Lake City deserves praise. Great job guys!

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Vote Head and Heart Editor, John McCain has never once voted to progress LGBT equality. He voted against federal

legislation that would protect LGBT people from being fired just for who they are, he believes gay people should not be able to serve in the military, visit their loved ones in the hospital and he isn’t even sure we should be able to adopt. He has even appeared in TV commercials asking Arizonans to support a bill that would forever write discrimination into the Arizona state constitution and keep our families from being recognized as equals in the eyes of the law. Barack Obama has a strong and consistent record in support of LGBT people. He promises to include me and other LGBT people in his vision of America and will work to make sure we are secure in our jobs, safe from hate crimes and equal in the eyes of the law.

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We need to engage people in the system to elect Barack Obama and to elect fair-minded Democrats to Congress, who will pass a fullyinclusive Employment Non-Discrimination Act that Barack is eager to sign, and who will help him repeal DOMA and the ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ policy that is preventing honorable men and women from serving in the military right as our country needs them most. This is going to be the tightest race in recent memory, a handful of votes will decide if battleground states go red or blue and decide the election. This handful of votes may be LGBT votes and every single vote is needed to ensure an Obama victory on November 4th. That is why we need you to get involved, spend the rest of the election cycle knocking on doors and making calls. We cannot wake up on November 5th wishing we had done more. Vote with your head--and your heart!

Frank Sabatini Exeter, Penn.

Slam the Door Dear President Monson, As long as the Church continues to spread lies and hate with regard to same sex marriage, I will continue to tell my family and friends to slam the door in the face of missionaries around the world. The Church must face up to its intolerance and message of discrimination. I am sure one day, however long delayed by the voices of conservatism and bitterness in the leadership, as in the case of the blacks, the Church will change its position. Welcome to the 21st century!

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I don’t know about you, kittens, but I for one have been absolutely glued to the 24-hour news networks for weeks. Their coverage of the elections has just been RIVETING! Seriously, darlings, they may as well just cancel network TV’s regular shows until after the elections because my evenings now consist of a daily three-hour dose of The Rachel Maddow Show, Countdown with Keith Olberman, and the Chris Mathews Show, with a chaser of The Daily Show with John Stewart and the Colbert Report. Every now and then I flip over to Anderson Cooper’s 360 on CNN because, let’s face it, pumpkins, CNN’s coverage and analysis of the presidential debates was freaking genius! I love the fact that they can have Republican and Democratic spin-miesters, reporters, consultants, campaign staff and demographers sitting side-by-side and not killing each other. It’s just so healthy! Although I have to admit, my favorite odd-couple pairing is Rachel Maddow and Pat Buchanan on MSNBC. It cracks me up that two people who are so polar-opposite on just about EVERYTHING can be so cordial and seem to be having such a great time together. Sadly, cherubs, election fatigue started to set in last week after the final debate. In an attempt to call time out, I decided to go cold turkey and withdraw from all things political (until the Sunday morning pundit shows, of course), so I started trolling through the obscure cable channels and landed squarely on the Turner Classic Movie Channel. Now I am geeking out over TCM because they play really obscure stuff and they don’t interrupt their films for commercials. Very cool! I ended up watched the 5000 Fingers of Dr. T, which I think was made around 1953. I don’t know how to describe this film, darlings, because it was so truly bizarre and I watched it with my jaw on the floor in shock. It must have been an adaptation of a Dr. Suess book or something because it was just that hallucinogenic and abstract. The protagonist was a small boy who was being forced to take piano

Wonka at an early age. Anyway kids, the next night TMC showed The Thief of Baghdad (1946) which despite being over 60 years old, holds up really well. Take my personal recommendation and watch some of these classic flicks. They are a welcome escape from reality especially during the next two weeks while the slimiest and most destructive of the election commercials will be running. See you after the election. Ciao, babies!  Q

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messed up. For example, Dr. T’s henchmen include two old men on roller skates joined together by their beards. I couldn’t wrap my noggin around two things 1) This psychedelic film was made in conservative post-war 1953, and 2). If this was a kids film, it was really, really sinister and warped despite all of the rainbow colors. Do you remember watching Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory when you were a kid? Remember how creepy and downright disturbing that movie was? Well it was like that and then some. Even now, I still blame my skewed view of the world (and my irrational fear of Welsh men) from being exposed to Willy

lessons from the evil piano teacher Dr. T, who was collecting 500 young boys to play a massive piano that requires 5000 fingers. And then things got weird. I can’t even describe it, muffins, you’ll need to rent it, or see it for yourself. Just don’t take any cold medication for a week before you watch 5000 Fingers or you could get really

Guest Editorial $50M Spent on Fighting a Word by Jacob Whipple

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California which is drawing national attention and has accumulated over $50 million between both sides, and it’s all over the use of a single word: Marriage. I won’t go into all of the usual arguments such as writing discrimination into a constitution, Mormons fighting for “traditional marriage” when they used to fight for polygamy and equal rights for all men and women in this country. I won’t even go into detail about the “sanctity of marriage” when the divorce rate is hovering around 50 percent, when you can get married in a drive-through in Vegas, when there’s so much opposite-sex spousal abuse and when divorcees are getting married over and over again (if you want to go back to biblical laws to fight gay marriage, shouldn’t divorcees who re-marry be stoned to death?). Instead, I want to ask, “What would really change?” Mormons are donating millions of dollars to win this proposition in California, where, even if this proposition passes, gays will still have all of the same legal rights as hetero couples. The only difference will be the word “marriage.” Nothing else will change. We will here is a debate in

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still “co-habitate” with our partners. We will still have our “ring ceremonies.” We will still buy houses together, and go on vacation with each other. We’ll still have hospital visitation rights, and inheritance contracts, adoption rights, etc. We will still have our pride celebrations, celebrate National Coming Out Day and mourn the anniversary of Matthew Shepherd’s violent death. However, both sides are inherently wrong. Marriage should be defined by a church, not by the government. The government should issue civil unions to all parties (hetero and homo). These unions should be a proceeding that unites a couple legally and provides rights and recognition to that couple. Marriages are religious institutions that have no legal binding and are only recognized within that religion. Unfortunately, the United States has irreversibly combined these two institutions into a singular event. In many countries around the world a marriage done by a church is not legally recognized, and the couple is required to be civilly married in order to be recognized by the government. Therefore, since the government based on equal rights, religious freedom, and separation of church and state should not

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base its definition of a legally recognized couple on what religious institutions say it is. Our government should recognize any relationship between two consenting adults, and leave the “moral” implications to the churches and their congregations. However, since the legal recognition of a couple in this country is called a marriage, all consenting adults should be equally able to obtain that institution. So, there are two different options: all couples (hetero and homo) must be united civilly by the state for legal status and then must be “married” by their religion of choice, or the institution of marriage should be universally recognized as the union of “two consenting adults.” Anything else is blatant discrimination by the government on the behest of the “Christian Right” to maintain the “morality of the nation.” I agree that religions have the right to fight for the morality of our society. However, they should focus on the morality of their congregation, and those who might wish to join them, and should not be involved in a legal recognition of a couple that is not part, nor wants any part of that congregation. In conclusion, to the Mormon Church: I was a member, but I am gay (note that: I AM gay, not I CHOSE to be gay) and you wouldn’t accept me so I was forced to leave your congregation, and now that I have found the man of my dreams you are campaigning to prevent our wedding and our home from being legally recognized. We will still be wed, we will still buy a house together and live with one another, and we will still be happy. Stay out of my politics and worry about your ailing weekly attendance.  Q

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints is aggressively mobilizing their members to outlaw gay marriage in California. They are pouring millions of dollars into Proposition 8 to “protect the sanctity of marriage.” Really? This again? How ironic for a church that still marries multiple women to men in heaven. And since they are so determined to condemn our relationships, I think turnabout is only fair play. It’s time to call out the Mormon temple marriage for what it really is: the ritualistic humiliation of women. It is a ceremony we queers would never want to emulate. Having been born LDS (and believe me, that was definitely not a choice), I was indoctrinated my entire life to be morally “worthy” so I could enter the temple. I had absolutely no idea what I was doing when I received my first temple initiation at age 19. It’s taken me years to figure it out. For those of you who don’t know, Mormons believe that their family can only be together in heaven through temple rituals. That’s how my parents and siblings were all married. Church founder Joseph Smith was given the “Keys of Elijah” to seal wives to

husbands back in 1836 in the first LDS temple in Kirkland, Ohio. Yes, the actual angel Elijah from the Old Testament literally appeared to Joseph and gave him the power to marry people for all eternity. Replicating Old Testament patriarchs, Joseph sealed over 40 women to himself and called it “celestial marriage.” Smooth, Joe. In 1842, Smith was initiated into the fraternal order of Masons in Nauvoo, Ill. He received further revelations that the Masonic rituals were really an apostate version of the true endowment that Jehovah gave to Adam in the Garden of Eden (located in neighboring Missouri). Joseph adapted the Masonic rituals into his own ceremony. After his murder in Carthage, Ill., Brigham Young led the Saints west to Utah, where he formalized the temple rites and made them available to all worthy Saints. And though there have been modifications over the years, the key elements of the ceremony remain. Initiates re-enact the myth of Adam and Eve. They are cast out of Paradise. They are taught by angels who reveal a series of secret handshakes that allow them to progress back into the presence of god. The temple is also where newlyweds are sealed together for “time and all eternity.”

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Mormons believe the only path to exaltation is through marriage. As a woman prepares to enter “the Celestial Room” (which symbolically represents the Celestial Kingdom, the highest level heaven), she approaches a veil where “god” sticks his hand through and tests her knowledge of the secret handshakes. If she passes, she is pulled through the veil and into the celestial heavens. But here’s the thing: When a woman marries, it’s actually her husband who goes behind the veil. He plays the role of god by placing his hand through to test his wife. As “god,” he effectively controls his wife’s access to heaven. When my mother and sister went through the temple they raised their hands to the square and covenanted to “obey the law of your husband.” They bowed their heads and said, “yes.” Over the marriage altar, the husband grabs his wife’s forearm in what is called the “the patriarchal grip.” The same “grip” is used when the husband/ god pulls his wife through the veil. All first time initiates are given a “new name.” Mine was Elijah. Men are forbidden to reveal their new name to their wives. The wife, however, must surrender her name to her god/husband at the veil. This is how he will call her forth on the “first morning of the resurrection” to take her into heaven. Temple marriage is a symbolic humiliation of both men and women. It falsely inflates the male ego to supposed godhood while women remain subservient helpmeets. Queers should be eternally grateful to be cast out of the Mormon cult of infinite marriage. Being gay saved our souls. Mormons can keep their creepy rituals for themselves. We’re not interested! The church is in no position of moral superiority to dictate what is “sacred.” Their pro-family rhetoric should be laughed out of the public sphere. What Mormons call “traditional marriage” I call patriarchal submission. The temple ceremony is an insult to all women. I know many LDS wives will disagree and argue passionately that they feel liberated in their temple marriages. But underneath their testimony and tears, they each know they have been ritualistically humiliated in their wedding ceremony. They made their husbands their god. On some deep psychological level, this shadows every aspect of their relationship. No wonder Mormon women abuse their Prozac. And further, Mormons worship a violent sociopath named Jehovah. He values obedience and patriarchal compliance above all. And did I mention that Jehovah is also racist? When it was fashionable, the apostles of this false god also denounced interracial marriage. Up through the ’60s the Church frequently declared that it was contrary to revealed doctrine for the seed of Cain to mix with the seed of the white race. How times change. Oh, Jehovah — kiss my ass. Queer relationships are radical. We disrupt the old rules and enrage the old gods. As we should. We must never allow fundamentalists to shame us. We must never allow them to take away our civil liberties. We must categorically reject their lies about our lifestyle. They are projecting their own deviant perversions onto us. I’ve had enough of Mormons who scapegoat gays and blame us for the corruption of society. If heterosexual marriages are collapsing, then blame heterosexuals. Don’t lay your relationship failures at our feet. It’s time for us all to get loud. Come out to your friends and family. Get involved politically. Stand up and demand equality. Never allow religious cults to strip away your dignity. Claim your right to freely love who you desire. NO ON 8! Q Troy blogs at queergnosis.com. He excommunicated the entire LDS Church in 1999.

Snaps & Slaps SNAP: Equality Utah He may single-handedly piss progressives off enough to build coalitions and get into politics, but Republican West Jordan Sen. Chris Buttars’ loud mouth, racist gaffs and blatant anti-gay bias is an embarrassment to his district and his state. And grass roots gay rights group Equality Utah is fighting for his defeat this November — in fact, almost up until the polls close. On Oct. 25 the organization and its fairminded volunteers will canvass selected houses in Buttars’ district (Senate District 10) giving out literature on Equality Utah’s endorsed candidates and asking people not to shy away from the polls come Nov. 4. It may seem like a drop in the bucket, but enough drops often lead to a flood. Good on Equality Utah for keeping the floodgates open even as 2008’s election season closes.

SLAP: Yes on 8 Campaigns As election day draws ever closer, the ads favoring Proposition 8 (which would amend California’s constitution to illegalize gay marriage) are getting downright ugly. “I can marry a princess!” a little girl tells her mother, when asked what she learned in school that day — the implication being that children will be “indoctrinated” into gay marriage if Prop 8 fails. And let’s not forget those old canards about churches being sued to marry gays and wicked judges who “ignore the will of the people” in, um … actually doing their job and upholding the state constitution? With a shrill and disinformation-happy campaign like Yes on 8 going strong, there’s never been a more crucial time for Utah gays and their allies to step up and support efforts to defeat this proposition.

Snap: Halloween for Grown-Ups Oh yeah, we have it, despite what out-of-staters think. And if you’re gay and seeking a party after dark, it doesn’t get wilder, sexier or, well, more fun than at two times in the year: Utah Pride and Halloween. As the year slides slowly into November and trick-or-treaters again pound the pavement, no less than eight gay or gay-friendly clubs in Salt Lake City will hold All Hallow’s Eve bashes that will carry on well into All Saint’s Day. If you miss dressing up, throw together a costume and head on down to your favorite club for a sweet-as-candy drink. It sure beats turning off the lights and hiding under the table when little ghosts and goblins lean against the doorbell.

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Maybe it’s time for the candidates for president and vice president to start treating voters like grown-ups on the marriage issue. Tens of thousands of American gay and lesbian couples now have their marriages legally recognized by the states of Connecticut, Massachusetts, California and New York, and by countries as diverse as Canada and South Africa. The sky hasn’t fallen, the sun still rises and no one’s opposite-sex marriage has been harmed. Instead, the only change is that thousands of same-sex couples and their children now have the basic security that marriage provides. But the candidates for president and vice president still run scared on the issue. The Federal Marriage Amendment is dead, and its advocates are gone or headed out the door — Karl Rove is just a talking-head, Rick Santorum lost his seat, George Bush is hobbling towards the end of his term and the House sponsor Marilyn Musgrave is trying desperately to not get booted out of Congress by the voters, but the candidates for the country’s highest offices are literally cowed into incoherence on the issue. In the vice presidential debate last Friday, Joe Biden — who was twice an important opponent of the discriminatory Federal Marriage Amendment in the Senate — momentarily forgot that he was supposed to feign indignation at same-sex couples marrying. In a stirring defense of the Constitution and fairness, Biden declared, “We do support making sure that

committed couples in a same-sex marriage are guaranteed the same constitutional benefits as it relates to their property rights, their rights of visitation, their rights to insurance, their rights of ownership as heterosexual couples do.� That was exactly right, and exactly where more and more states and a quickly growing number of Americans are. But then Sarah Palin stated her “nonsupport for anything but a traditional definition of marriage,� and it seemed to remind Biden that he was supposed to oppose marriage for same-sex couples. Biden jumped back into the debate to oppose “redefining from a civil side what constitutes marriage,� but then groped for a reason why he opposes it. Ignoring both logic and common sense, he explained that he wants to leave the definition to “faiths and people who practice their faiths� even though no state can ever tell any faith how to define a religiously recognized marriage. His only explanation was nonsense. Instead, all of the major party candidates hide behind varying concoctions of legal protections, “tolerance,� “tradition� and equality. The rhetorical gymnastics of the candidates on the marriage issue should earn them all spots on the Chinese gymnastics team. Barack Obama opposed the Federal Marriage Amendment, opposes the California proposition that would take away the marriages of thousands of married couples and their children, and advocates for equal benefits and protections, but then opposes the very marriage rights that provide those protections.

An Unjust Religious Intervention by Jared Petersen

Election time is fast approaching and as you may or may not know, there’s a new amendment on the ballot in California. Proposition 8 aims to make same-sex marriage illegal. Many conservative organizations, including the LDS church, are supporting the amendment for “moral� reasons. Morality has no place in politics because morality is open to interpretation by those who write the laws. What one person thinks is moral, another may not. It’s about what is equal, what is fair. What the church is asking its members to do is not just. At the most recent LDS general conference, three church leaders spoke about the “need� for California Mormons to get involved. Later on in the broadcast they asked members across the country to also get involved, spreading support for the amendment any way possible. Now, prior to this election, church leaders had never publicly asked all members to get involved in political issues. They had always publicly stated that it is important to vote in local, state, and national elections to ensure that quality leaders are picked, but the church never took an official public stance on any certain candidate or certain issue. In fact, the church actually preaches in its own doctrine that the “feel� involvement in political events isn’t right. “We do not believe it just to mingle religious influence with civil government,

whereby one religious society is fostered and another proscribed in its spiritual privileges, and the individual rights of its members, as citizens, denied.� As quoted in the LDS scripture Doctrine and Covenants, Section 134, Verse 9. It seems to me that the church is operating by a double standard. In its own doctrine, it states that it is unjust for religious influence to get involved with the civil government, yet they’re urging their members to vote a certain way and lend support to a certain issue. They’re even going as far as considering excommunicating those who don’t agree with and take a public stand against their political involvement in this issue. A member of the LDS church in Nebraska has a Web site that is centered around collecting the viewpoint that the church is wrong for getting involved. This man has been given a notice to appear before a disciplinary council to determine whether or not he should still be welcome in the church. The letter basically states that the church feels he is committing conduct unbecoming of a church member and is living in a state of apostasy, simply because he’s expressing his own political views. In the words of George Santayana, “Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.� The LDS Church really needs to take a look at their actions over the last 50

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John McCain twice bucked his party and helped defeat the discriminatory Federal Marriage Amendment in the Senate, but then supports an Arizona referendum and a California proposition that would take away the marriage protections that he fought in the Senate to protect. Palin may have the oddest mix of ideas of any of the four candidates. Shortly before she became governor, the Alaska Supreme Court decided a case that the ACLU brought on behalf of nine couples, and held that the state must extend benefits to the same-sex partners of Alaska state employees. Palin stated at the time that she disagreed with the court’s decision, but followed the advice of Alaska’s Attorney General to veto the legislation because it would have artificially extended the battle over implementing the court’s decision at the state level. It was, almost quite literally, one of her first decisions upon taking office. However, she then supported an expensive and non-binding statewide referendum aimed at showing that the general population opposed the court decision. Just last week, she was at it again: in the space of less than two debate minutes, she opposed marriage for same-sex couples, seemed to oppose extending the Alaska policy to the rest of the nation, but then extolled “tolerance� and said no one in her government would “do anything to prohibit, say, visitations in a hospital or contracts being signed, negotiated between parties.� It’s time for the double-talk on marriage to end, and for presidential and vice presidential candidates to act like grownups, and treat American voters like grownups. The only way to ensure that all American families get the same protections for their relationships and their children is to stop trying to take away the marriages of samesex couples, and instead treat all families equal.

years and see what they have gotten them. Up until 1978, the Church did not allow African Americans to hold the priesthood or take part in other religious ceremonies that are key parts of the LDS faith. This oppression ended in 1978 (about 20 or so years after the nation had been dealing with issues of racial segregation) after a sudden “revelationâ€? from the President of the Church at the time, Spencer W. Kimball. Many people thought, and still to this day think, that it was due to immense political pressure. The LGBT community isn’t asking for a moral or religious right to marry. It is seeking marriage equality politically and legally -- the right to go down to a courthouse, say “I DOâ€? and gain the thousands of legal rights that come with it. As a gay man, and still a “technicalâ€? member of the church, I have been stewing over this issue for weeks. I have experienced oppression from members of the church before because of who I am, but never viewed it as the church’s fault. I have never spoken out against the church before, because as an organization, I felt it was fairly neutral when it came to many LGBT issues. Now, I feel very hurt and betrayed by the church I once cherished, and have been contemplating withdrawing my membership ‌ I think that the church should never have changed its stance because of what is perceived a moral issue. Like I said, morality has no place in politics.

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Several gay and lesbian organizations have endorsed candidates in this year’s election. To help you at the polls, we have put all of the endorsements on this chart. Included are those from Equality Utah (EU), Stonewall Shooting Sports of Utah (SS), Utah Log Cabin Republicans (LC) and Utah Stonewall Democrats (SD). Candidates who have received one or more endorsements from these groups are bolded and italicized. (I) = Incumbent PARTY: CON = Constitution Party DEM = Democratic Party REP = Republican Party ENDORSEMENTS: EU = Equality Utah SS = Stonewall Shooting Sports of Utah LC = Utah Log Cabin Republicans SD = Utah Stonewall Democrats

Utah Senate 13th District

Kenneth B. Peay, DEM  Mark Benson Madsen (I), REP  Utah Senate 14th District

John L. Valentine (I), REP

Utah House 9th District

Utah House 28th District

Utah House 46th District

Utah House 64th District

SL Cty Mayor

Neil Hansen (I), DEM  EU  SD  Jeremy Peterson, REP  James E. Carrell  Write-In

Jared Beck, CON  Brian S. King, DEM  EU  SD  Jeffrey R. Morrow, REP LC

Katie Cameron, CON  Marie H. Poulson, DEM  Jaren L. Davis, REP

Boyd Jay Petersen, DEM  Nathanial Ashby, LIB  Becky Lockhart (I), REP  SS

Leonard Olds, CON  Peter Corroon (I), DEM  EU  SD  Michael Renckert, REP

Utah House 10th District

Utah House 29th District

Utah House 47th District

Utah House 65th District

D. Edgar “Ed” Allen, DEM  Brent Wallis, REP

Grant R. Pearson, CON  Janice Fisher (I), DEM  SD  Phil Conder, REP

Joye S. Wyatt, CON  SS  Jennifer Burley Wolfe, DEM  Steven R. Mascaro (I), REP

Douglas A Baxter, DEM  Francis D. Gibson, REP

SL Cty At-Large Council A District

Utah House 30th District

Utah House 48th District

Melody Chapman, CON  Jackie Biskupski (I), DEM  EU  SD  Kay M. Garske, REP

Trisha S. Beck, DEM  SD  LaVar Christensen, REP

Debbie Swenson, DEM  Mike Morley (I), REP

Utah House 31st District

Michael D. Nichols, CON  Larry Wiley (I), DEM  EU  SS  SD  Lisa Morrise, REP

Wayne Crawford, CON  F. Jay Seegmiller, DEM  SD  Charles A Bonsall, LIB  Greg J. Curtis (I), REP  SS

Utah House 32nd District

Utah House 50th District

Jennifer Schmith, CON  Mike Lee, DEM  Ron Bigelow (I), REP

Russell G. Hatch, CON  Patty Rich, DEM  Merlynn T. Newbold (I), REP

Utah House 33rd District

Utah House 51st District

John Horne, CON  Neal B. Hendrickson (I),

Lisa M. Johnson, DEM  Greg Hughes (I), REP

Utah House 11st District

Becky Maddox, CON  Mark Openshaw, DEM  Brad Dee (I), REP  Utah House 12nd District

Mark Sage, DEM  EU  Richard A. Greenwood (I), REP  SS

Utah Senate 16th District

RaDene Hatfield, DEM  Curt Bramble (I), REP  Fred Desposorio  Write-In

Utah House 13rd District

Utah Senate 19th District

Utah House 14th District

Bill R. Hansen, DEM  EU  SS  Allen M. Christensen (I), REP

Marcie West, DEM  EU  SD  Curtis Oda (I), REP  SS

Rob Bishop (I), REP

Utah Senate 20th District

Utah House 15th District

U.S. House 2nd District

Steve Olsen, DEM  SD  Scott Jenkins (I), REP  SS

Ryan Mellor, DEM  Douglas C. Aagard (I), REP  SS

Utah Senate 23rd District

Utah House 16th District

Jorgina Hancock, CON  Richard Watson, DEM  Dan Liljenquist, REP

Carole E. Peterson, DEM  SS  Brent Zimmerman, LIB  Kevin S. Garn (I), REP

Utah Senate 24th District

Utah House 17th District

Benton L Petersen, CON  SS  Tobiah Dillon, DEM  Ralph Okerlund, REP

David A Armstrong, CON  Pat Herrera, DEM  SD  Julie Fisher (I), REP  SS

Utah Senate 25th District

Utah House 18th District

Joe Dulin, DEM  EU  SS  Lyle W. Hillyard (I), REP

Roger Edward Barrus (I),

U.S. House 1st District

Kirk D. Pearson, CON  Morgan Bowen, DEM  SD  Joseph Geddes Buchman, LIB  SS

Dennis Ray Emery, CON  Jim Matheson (I), DEM  SS  Mathew Arndt, LIB  Bill Dew, REP  U.S. House 3rd District

Jim Noorlander, CON  Bennion L. Spencer, DEM  SD  Jason Chaffetz, REP  Utah Attorney General

Jean Welch Hill, DEM  EU  SD  W. Andrew McCullough, LIB  SS

Mark L. Shurtleff (I), REP LC  Utah Auditor

Richard D. Proctor, CON  Clare Collard, DEM  SD  Mike Stoddard, LIB  Auston G. Johnson III (I), REP  Utah Governor-LT Governor

Springmeyer-Valdez, DEM

EU  SS  SD

Schanze-Hobbs, LIB  Huntsman-Herbert (I), REP LC  Ken Larsen  Write-In  Utah Treasurer

Dick Clark, DEM  SD  Richard K. Ellis, REP  Utah Senate 1st District

Luz Robles, DEM  EU  SD  Carlton Christensen, REP  Utah Senate 5th District

James E. Peverelle, CON  Karen Mayne (I), DEM  SS  SD  Jonathan “Jon” Fidler, REP  Utah Senate 6th District

Cora Lee Jckowski, DEM  EU  SD  Michael Waddoups (I), REP  SS  Utah Senate 8th District

Liz Phalp, CON  Karen W. Morgan, DEM  SD  Carlene M. Walker (I), REP  SS  Utah Senate 10th District

Steve Maxfield, CON  John Rendell, DEM  SD  D. Chris Buttars (I), REP

Ben F. Wofford, DEM  Paul Ray (I), REP  SS

REP  SS

Utah Senate 27th District

Utah House 19th District

Robert J. Armstrong, CON  Brad King, DEM  SD  David Hinkins, REP

Cory G. Seegmiller, CON  SS  Sheryl Allen (I), REP

Utah Senate 29th District

Wade Beatty, CON  Brooks Pace, DEM  SS  Steve Urquhart, REP  Utah House 1st District

Billy R. Morgan, DEM  Ronda Rudd Menlove (I), REP  SS

Utah House 2nd District

Tom Edwards, CON  Ben C. Ferry (I), REP  Utah House 3rd District

Tanya T. Taylor, DEM  Jack R. Draxler (I), REP  SS  Utah House 4th District

Gilberto Urroz, DEM  SD  Fred R. Hunsaker (I), REP  SS  Utah House 5th District

Suzanne Marychild, DEM  Curt Webb (I), REP  Utah House 6th District

Ava L. Painter, DEM  Kerry Gibson (I), REP  Utah House 7th District

Rob Reynolds, DEM  Ryan Wilcox, REP  Utah House 8th District

Trent Alvord, DEM  Gage Froerer (I), REP  SS

Utah House 20th District

Robert G. Moultrie, CON  Kyle E. Roberts, DEM  SS  SD  Becky Edwards, REP  Utah House 21st District

Jonathan Dee Garrard, CON  James R. Gowans (I), DEM  Dan Egelund, REP  SS  Utah House 22nd District

Thomas M. Mangum, CON  Sue Duckworth, DEM  Utah House 23rd District

DEM  SD

Warren R. Webb, REP  Utah House 34th District

Barbara Benton, CON  Kathie A. Davies, DEM  SS  SD  Kory M. Holdaway (I), REP  Utah House 35th District

Mark A. Wheatley (I), DEM

EU  SS  SD

Rob Alexander, REP LC  SS  Utah House 36th District

Nishan Beglarian, CON  Phil Riesen (I), DEM  EU  SD  Shaun Kruger, LIB  Drew B. Quinn, REP  Utah House 37th District

Carol Spackman Moss (I), DEM

EU  SS  SD

Linda Cooper, REP  Utah House 38th District

Charles Henderson, DEM  SD  Eric Hutchings (I), REP  SS  Utah House 39th District

Denise R. Hancock, DEM  Jim Dunnigan (I), REP  SS  Utah House 40th District

Lynn N. Hemingway (I), DEM

EU  SS  SD

Jen Seelig (I), DEM  EU  SS  SD  Gordon Storrs, REP LC

Daniel F. Marriott, REP

Utah House 24th District

Matthew M Woolley, CON  Todd E. Kiser (I), REP  SS  Fred Ash  Unaffiliated

Rebecca Chavez-Houck (I), DEM

EU  SS  SD

Dylan McDonnell, LIB  Joe Jarvis, REP LC  Utah House 25th District

Clark Miles, CON  SS  Christine A. Johnson (I), DEM

EU  SD

Garrett Clark, REP LC  SS  Utah House 26th District

Michael Jordan, CON  David Litvack (I), DEM  EU  SD  Seth Robert Wright, REP  Utah House 27th District

Gwyn C. Franson, DEM  John Dougall (I), REP

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Utah House 41st District

Utah House 42nd District

Nathan Gedge, DEM  EU  SS  SD  Jim Bird (I), REP  Utah House 43rd District

Brian Yardley, DEM  Wayne Harper (I), REP  SS  Utah House 44th District

Tim Cosgrove (I), DEM  SD  Raymond J. Poole, REP  Utah House 45th District

Dave Perry, CON  Laura Black, DEM  EU  SD  Brian Monsen, REP

Utah House 49th District

Utah House 52nd District

Dave Hogue, DEM  Carl Wimmer (I), REP

Utah House 66th District

Utah House 67th District

Paul Pugmire, DEM  SD Michael H. Jensen, REP  Salt Lake Cty Council 4th District

Utah House 68th District

Jani Iwamoto, DEM  EU  SD  Mark Crockett, REP

Susan Kaye Sorensen, CON  Ed Phillips, DEM  Brad Winn (I), REP  William M. York  Write-In  Utah House 69th District

Christine F. Watkins, DEM  Jerry B. Anderson, REP  Utah House 70th District

Bevan Bastian, CON  Kay L McIff (I), REP  Utah House 71st District

Katherine R. Lofft, DEM  EU  SD  Melvin R. Brown (I), REP  Utah House 54th District

Utah House 72nd District

Douglas K. Thompson, CON  Neil G. Anderton, DEM  Kraig Powell, REP  Rebecca C. Jones  Write-In

Ryan Bundy, CON  SS  Kirk DeMille, DEM  Evan J. Vickers, REP

Utah House 55th District

Allison Howes, CON  “Cowboy” Ted Hallisey,

Daniel Ray, CON  Wayne Y. Hoskisson, DEM  Ronald S. Regehr, LIB  John G. Mathis (I), REP

SL Cty Council 2nd District

Feleni Siufanua, CON  Patrick Painter (I), REP

Michael J. Ferrin, CON  Lyman Whitaker, DEM  Aric M. Cramer Sr., LIB  Brad Last (I), REP  SS

Utah House 53rd District

Randy Horiuchi (I), DEM  EU  SD  Steven L. DeBry, REP

Utah House 73rd District

DEM  SS

Salt Lake Cty Council 6th District

Roger M. Harding, DEM  EU  SD  Max Burdick, REP  Summit Cty Council A District

Sally Elliott, DEM  EU  SD  Granite School Bd 1st District

Dan Lofgren  NA  Katharine H. Newton  NA  Granite School Bd 2nd District

Connie Anderson  NA  Patricia “Patty” G. Sandstrom  NA  Granite School Bd 4th District

Michael Gabbitas  NA  Sarah R. Meier  NA  Murray School Bd 1st District

Mike Noel (I), REP  SS

Maria “Mitzie” H. Huff  NA

Utah House 74th District

Murray School Bd 5th District

Utah House 56th District

Terence W. “Terry” Moore,

Michael J Barron, CON  Kenneth W. Sumsion (I),

David Clark (I), REP

SLC School Bd 1st District

Utah House 75th District

REP  SS

DEM  SS

Marjorie Tuckett  NA

Utah House 57th District

Don L. Ipson, REP

Amanda Thorderson  NA  Cliff Higbee  NA

Mary Lou Huffmon, DEM  Craig Frank (I), REP  SS

Utah Bd of Ed 1st District

SLC School Bd 2nd District

Susie Campbell Ashliman  NA  Shelly Locke  NA

SLC School Bd 5th District

Utah House 58th District

Steve Baugh, DEM  Stephen Eric Sandstrom (I), REP  SS

Utah House 59th District

Paul Thompson, DEM  Lorie D. Fowlke (I), REP  Utah House 60th District

Scott P. Swain, CON  Boyd McAffee, DEM  Bradley M. Daw (I), REP  SS  Utah House 61st District

Deon S. Turley, DEM  Keith Grover (I), REP  SS  Utah House 62nd District

Claralyn Hill, DEM  Christopher N. Herrod (I), REP  Utah House 63rd District

Donald K. Jarvis, DEM  Steve Clark (I), REP  SS

Utah Bd of Ed 4th District

Chris L. Dallin  NA  Dave Thomas  NA  Utah Bd of Ed 7th District

Leslie Brooks Castle  NA  Randall A. Mackey (I)  NA  Utah Bd of Ed 8th District

Janet A. Cannon (I)  NA  Trent E. Kaufman  NA  EU  Utah Bd of Ed 11st District

Dave Crandall  NA  Ted H. Heap  NA  Utah Bd of Ed 12nd District

Mark Cluff (I)  NA  Carol A. Murphy  NA  Utah Bd of Ed 13rd District

Kyle Bateman  NA  C. Mark Openshaw  NA

Alama Uluave  NA  Heather Bennett  NA  Maile Kali  NA

SLC School Bd 7th District

Hilary Pembroke  NA  Kristi Swett  NA  Special thanks to David Nelson, Stonewall Shooting Sports of Utah for assistance in formatting this chart.

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This sounds too familiar for me to buy. Not so long ago, state and federal governments used sodomy laws to justify discrimination against queer folks. Because gay sex was illegal under those laws, governments could (at least theoretically) harass and even jail queer people. And whenever the issue of gay civil rights came up, inevitably there’d be someone (like our own Gayle Ruzicka when Weber State set up the Matthew Shepard scholarship) trying to shout it down on the grounds that gays were criminals. These are parallels that I think deserve attention. Each of us should be able to look at the bigger picture: At the laws themselves; at the economic system that supports — indeed depends — on undocumented immigrants; at the companies that benefit from these immigrants’ labor; at the history of unpaid and underpaid work in this country. And, most importantly, we should look at who benefits from the work, from the fear, from the marginalization of immigrants in a country that was founded by immigrants. Pause and reflect on this. Our most intimate moments with our sexual partners were not so long ago illegal. I was once an “illegal queer.� I committed misdemeanors and even felonies in multiple states. I didn’t steal, didn’t do drugs, I didn’t even go over the speed limit while driving, but I was a self-proclaimed lesbian. An unrepentant homosexual. A law-breaker. Legally I was once a sexual criminal in the same way that a child molester is a sexual criminal. Just as sodomy laws dehumanized gay and transgender people and therefore justified societal discrimination against us, so do anti-immigration laws target and dehumanize immigrants. Sodomy laws are now a thing of the past, and since the decriminalization of homosexuality, queer folks have made other huge gains in civil rights. Now we have brothers and sisters criminalized and dehumanized because of their immigration status and so many of us are sitting on the sidelines. Where are the allies? And briefly, regarding the second conversation I mentioned at the start of this column: Let’s all be honest. The current crisis was not spurred by illegal immigration but rampant unchecked greed and capitalism facilitated by the (so-called) best and brightest on Wall Street. I have no doubt I could have run one of these international corporations as poorly as some of these grossly overpaid executives, only I would have done it at a fraction of the cost. Put the blame where it belongs and leave immigrants out of it. Q

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sparked this column. First, someone asked why I so adamantly believe that gay folks should be more involved in immigrant rights. Second, I spoke to someone awhile ago who blamed the current economic crisis — including the bank and credit freeze and the housing slump — on undocumented immigrants. Both conversations were important enough for me to write about here. So why do I think gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender folks ought to be more involved in the current local and national discourse on immigration? My first — and the easiest —answer is that, like anyone else, queer people come to the United States from all over the world, which means immigration issues affect us too, and often in very complex ways. What ways? Well, immigration laws are clearly heterosexist. The U.S. lesbian who falls in love with a German student on an F-1 VISA can tell you how impossible it is for them to remain together legally after graduation. The heterosexual couple in the same position can utilize the institution of marriage to manage to stay together. There are also gay and transgender immigrants in the United States who fear for their safety should they have to return to their native country. Although gay and transgender individuals have been granted asylum here in the past, the process is lengthy and expensive. For some, staying in the United States, even illegally, is far better than facing the very real possibility of anti-gay violence in their home country. So, there are gay and transgender Immigrants, some documented, some not. But we shouldn’t care about immigration only because they directly affect gay people. Doing that is a cop out on an issue where I, and many of you reading this, hold privilege. Queer folks ought to be more involved in the current local and national discourse on immigration because we know what it’s like to be scapegoated. Because we know what it’s like to exist in the margins. Because we know what it’s like to be stereotyped. Because all oppression is interconnected. Because the power of love is more important than the love of power (thank you, Jimi Hendrix). And mainly because, except for the younger generation of queer folks just coming out, queer folks in the United States know what it means to be illegal. The main anti-immigrant argument I often hear is that it’s illegal for immigrants to be in the United States while undocumented. Strangely this often translates to some people as: Therefore, the most vulnerable of us do not deserve protection. Or: Therefore, undocumented immigrants are bad people. Or, worse: Therefore, we must protect our children from “those people.�

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Obama Talks, McCain Balks By Mark Segal, Gay History Project

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Gay History Project attempted to bring you the views of both the Democratic and Republican candidates for president — just as we attempted to bring you the views of the top two candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination for the spring primary. The format for both candidates was to be the same: the same questions, with no follow-up questions and the same time limit. And since April, we have repeatedly reached out to Republican Sen. John McCain’s press representative Jill Hazelbaker by phone, letter and e-mail. Once it became clear that McCain would not participate, Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign put no conditions on the interview. Obama spoke to Mark Segal by phone Aug. 16; an audio version of the interview will be posted at www.epgn.com. In his first interview with gay press since he officially accepted the Democratic nomination, here’s what Obama had to say.

that we are working through a process, getting the Joint Chiefs of Staff clear in terms of what our priorities are going to be. That’s how we were able to integrate the armed services to get women more actively involved in the armed services. At some point, you got to make a decision that that’s the right thing to do, but you always want to make sure that you are doing it in a way that maintains our core mission in our military.

close and my preference would be to work through a legislative solution. I would also point out that if it’s going before this court, I’m not sure what chances it would have to be overturned. I think we’re going to have to take a different approach, but I am absolutely committed to the concept it is not necessary.

MS: Many lawyers contend that the Defense of Marriage Act passed by Congress is unconstitutional. It takes away over 1,100 rights, including IRS joint filings. If a suit is filed in federal court, would you expect or instruct your attorney general to join in that suit with an amicus brief questioning its legality?

ferring to her discussions with Harvey Milk, said “I think we both knew that one of us was going to die.” Milk, of course, was killed. As the first AfricanAmerican president, have you and Michelle discussed this?

MS: In last year’s [Gay] History Project, Elaine Noble, who was one of the first elected [gay] officials in the country, re-

McCain voted against adding sexual orientation to the definition of hate crimes and says he’ll vote against it again. Isn’t this inconsistent for a man who knows torture? BO: You’ll have to ask Sen. McCain that. Here’s what I can say. There is no doubt that hate crimes based on sexual orientation are all too prevalent. It is something that we have to hit back hard against and identify these vicious crimes for what they are: hate crimes. This is something that I believe in and will continue to believe in when I am president. MS: President Reagan, President Bush

MARK SEGAL: You are the most LGBTfriendly candidate running for president in history. Are you concerned that John McCain and the Republicans might use this as a divisive issue as they did in 2004? BARACK OBAMA: No. I think they can try but I don’t think it will work for a couple of reasons. Number one, I think that the American peoples’ attitudes with respect to LGBT issues are continuing to evolve. I think people are becoming more and more aware of the need to treat all people equally regardless of sexual orientation. There are some people who disagree with that, but frankly those folks — many of them — probably have already made their minds up about this election earlier. MS: You’ve talked about your many gay friends. Would you and Michelle be comfortable attending their commitment ceremony? BO: We would. But I’ll be honest with you that, these days, I can’t go anywhere. MS: The current President Bush has used signing orders to change military rules and regulations. If White House counsel advised you that you could end “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” by attaching a signing order to a military appropriations bill, would you? BO: I would not do it that way. The reason is because I want to make sure that when we revert “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” it’s gone through a process and we’ve built a consensus or at least a clarity of that, of what my expectations are, so that it works. My first obligation as the president is to make sure that I keep the American people safe and that our military is functioning effectively. Although I have consistently said I would repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” I believe that the way to do it is make sure

BO: I would want to review carefully any lawsuit that was filed. This is probably my carryover from being a constitutional lawyer. Here’s where I can tell you [what] my principle is: DOMA was an unnecessary encroachment by the federal government in an area traditionally reserved for the state. I think that it was primarily sent as a message to score political points instead of work through these difficult issues. I recognize why it was done. I’m sympathetic to the political pressures involved, but I think that we need to bring it to a

BO: We don’t spend time worrying about security issues. We have Secret Service protection, which is the best in the world. Obviously we take precautions and listen to them, but what I spend the day thinking about is how do I get my message out that we need to change this country to make it more just and more fair, to make sure the economy is growing on behalf of middleclass Americans, make sure kids can go to college and bringing this war in Iraq to an end. That’s what I spend my time thinking about. MS: In the wake of the torture murder of Matthew Shepard [in 1998], Sen.

and President Clinton, when meeting world leaders, have raised humanrights questions. Amnesty International has documented countries that imprison, torture and kill gay men, some of which are very close U.S. allies. Would you be willing to raise that question when meeting with those leaders? BO: I think that the treatment of gays, lesbians and transgender persons is part of this broader human-rights discussion. I think it is not acceptable that we would in any way carve out exceptions for our broader human-rights advocacy to exclude violations of human rights based on sexual orientation. I think that has to be part and parcel of any conversations we have about human rights. Q Mark Segal is publisher of the Philadelphia Gay News. He can be reached at mark@epgn.com.

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ELECTIQ N 2008 Gay-Friendly Republican Seeks Seat Utah’s Republican legislative majority is not particularly known for its support of gayrights. And one Republican candidate says he would like to do his part to change that. “I agree with what I’ve been hearing Gov. Huntsman saying, that the party ought to be a big tent, it ought to be very inclusive,” said Joe Jarvis, who is challenging Democratic Rep. Rebecca ChavezHouck for her Legislative District 24 seat this November. Best remembered perhaps for challenging openly gay Sen. Scott McCoy in 2006 for his Senate District 2 seat, rheumatologist Jarvis said he would like to bring a Republican’s touch to such progressive issues as healthcare and education reform, environmental conservation and gay rights. To prove his commitment he sought out an endorsement from Utah’s chapter of the Log Cabin Republicans. “Joe came to us and spoke with us and we were very impressed with him and his politics and support of gay issues,” said Gordon Storrs, an LCR member and the Republican candidate in the Legislative District 23 race. The organization agreed, officially giving the following endorsement to Jarvis this month: “Dr. Jarvis is a practicing physician in Salt Lake and an ardent supporter of individual and equal rights for all citizens. He is campaigning for more choice in education, ethics reform for campaign finances and full disclosure from our legislators, clean energy and a green environment, strong statewide healthcare reform, and ending workplace discrimination.” So just how does Jarvis support gay rights? Well, as a Republican would, in a way that favors less government and individual responsibility. For example, Jarvis said that he did not favor a recent bill to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity in Utah’s workplaces. But not for reasons one might think. Rather than using legislation to force employers into obedience, he said the state should “lead out” on the issue of gay workplace equality by enacting a nondiscrimination ordinance for its employees. The hope in doing that, he said, is to show businesses that there is no good reason to discriminate against gay or transgender workers and in doing so encourage private companies to follow suit. “It’s a better approach,” he said. “Better for the gay community and the gay worker to go at this thinking of the state as the leading example.” “There’s no place for this kind of discrimination,” he continued. “But I think the first way to go about [ending it] is to lead by example and try to induce good behavior by encouragement rather than the regulatory approach with the stick of litigation or the threat of litigation. I think that’s more consonant with the concepts Republicans tend to embrace around the market . If that doesn’t work—and I recognize that in many, many cases there has been the potential at least of adverse job discrimination that should have never occurred—then maybe the wish and desire to have a good example lead out may have to be reinforced later.”

On the issue of gay adoption (a bill on which Chavez-Houck authored this past session), Jarvis takes a similar approach. While stating that it should be up to parents and not the law to make decisions such as “who can be the other parent to a child,” he said that many Republicans on the Hill simply haven’t considered the issue from a gay person’s perspective. And until they can, he did not think that a bill attempting to give gay couples the right to adopt children would get very far. “They haven’t even thought about it,” he explained. “I started to have conversations on a narrow section of this topic with various people within Republican circles in hopes of trying to see what kind of immediate effect we’d have.” “I began talking about a situation where a gay or lesbian person had a child biologically and was the only biological parent responsible for that child. I asked, given Utah’s basic history of honoring parental duties, responsibilities and prerogatives whether it does not make sense to allow that parent to have a lot of freedom in making decisions about what other person might also be a parent. I very carefully tried to frame that. I got neutral responses from a lot of people or puzzled responses, like they didn’t even know what I was talk-

ing about. So I know I have a real task on my hands to try and further that conversation. But it does make sense to me that that’s where we should start rather than starting with a wholesale change of Utah’s historical adoption law.” Jarvis was one of a handful of Republican candidates (including Storrs) who sat down with Equality Utah representatives earlier this year when the gay rights

Dem. Incumbent Supports Gay Bills Salt Lake City Democratic Rep. Rebecca Chavez-Houck received her seat in the Utah Legislature when Democratic delegates elected her to replace Ralph Becker after his successful mayoral bid. After serving District 24 for a scant nine months, Chavez-Houck now has the task of convincing more than just Becker’s

delegates to let her continue serving as their voice on the Hill. But she says it’s a challenge she’s up for—even if some of her constituents aren’t sure who she is yet. “I’m running into a lot of people who haven’t made the connection that if Ralph isn’t mayor anymore, who is that [who has taken his place],” she said. “So I’m making people aware that I’m the one who was appointed. I’ve tried to do the best I can in that short amount of time.”

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In making people aware of who she is, Chavez-Houck said she took a leaf out of her predecessor’s mayoral campaign book. “[Ralph] was just the kind of person who was very committed to running a grass roots campaign.” Over the past few months, Chavez-Houck said she has been visiting her constituents, attending public events in her district, and responding to voters who call her at home to ask questions. It’s work with which she is well acquainted. Upon joining the Utah Legislature early this year, Chavez-Houck agreed to run a controversial bill drafted by Equality Utah that sought to overturn a 2000 ban on same-sex couples adopting children. Before agreeing to champion the bill, Chavez-Houck said that she had not been “actively involved” in gay-rights causes. Still, she said she “didn’t need to think” about accepting it. “For me it was the right thing to do,” she said. “I think part of what spoke to me is being a mom. I just imagine a world where somebody told me that I couldn’t raise my children the way I wanted to raise my children, or I couldn’t choose who would be my partner or who to co-parent with. … I just couldn’t imagine my children not being able to know who their parents are or that they couldn’t count on their parents being there for them. To be a parent and to have the anxiety of every day thinking if something happens to me who would be there for my kids—I can’t imagine having to live with that day to day.” Although the adoption bill never made it out of committee for debate on the House floor, Chavez-Houck said that she will continue fighting for it if re-elected. She will also continue to fight for

group interviewed for its endorsements. Ultimately Equality Utah endorsed only Democratic candidates, a decision gayaffirming libertarian and Republican candidates criticized. Although Jarvis said he was “could not see how” Equality Utah would not endorse an openly gay Republican like Storrs, he did not fault the group for not endorsing him. “That’s neither here nor there,” he said. “But I am criticizing an approach that seems like you have to be an orthodox Democrat or you can’t get our endorsement. That doesn’t make sense to me. They’ll need both. They’ll need the goodness of both sides.” Although Democratic and Republican approaches are vastly different, Jarvis said that both were legitimate approaches that deserved discussion. And while Jarvis said he has a lot to learn about the gay community as a straight man, he hopes that voters in his heavily Democratic district will give his approach a chance. “My campaign would be going better if I felt like I had some working relationship with people who are in the gay community but who also happen to live in my district,” Jarvis said. “I welcome the chance to talk to you because I’m very willing to talk. I have other issues that I really like to talk about a lot which I think effect people in every community gay or otherwise, such as health system reform and the environment and education. These are things everyone needs to address. I’ve got strong opinions about these and may years of experience in a lot of those areas.” To learn more about Joe Jarvis visit his Web site at electjarvis.com. another cause that has long shaped her political work: women’s rights (including reproductive choice issues).Before joining the House of Representatives, ChavezHouck served on the Planned Parenthood Association of Utah’s Board of Trustees, the Utah Department of Health’s Rape and Sexual Assault Media Campaign Committee and the YWCA Board of Directors. She remembers testifying in front of the Legislature against parental consent laws for abortions and before the Salt Lake School District’s maturation committee a few years ago to advocate that schools allow teachers and parents an option to give students “medically accurate sex education.” As the daughter of an immigrant from Mexico, Chavez-Houck also said immigrant’s rights are close to her heart. “When my father came here it was a heck of a lot easier to come legally,” she said. “I guess when I see new Americans trying to make a living and a life for themselves and their families in this country I see his struggle to come to this country and have a family and take are of us. Those are opportunities I now wonderfully enjoy and I just think that there’s such a discrepancy between how easy it was in early part of the 20th century [to immigrate] and how it is now. The public policy we have now is not the reality of what is needed.” To do her part in drafting public policy to help immigrants Chavez-Houck authored HB 428 Statewide Standards for Healthcare Interpretation. The bill would have ensured that healthcare providers offer eligible clients interpretation services, for which Medicaid and CHIP pay. Although the bill ultimately failed, ChavezHouck has promised to continue working with the Legislature’s Interim Health and Human Services Committee on the issue.

Ultimately, the representative sees gay rights, women’s reproductive rights and immigrant rights as part of the same issue: that of constitutional freedom. “For me it’s part of ensuring that people are treated fairly and that the protections afforded in the Constitution are given to everyone,” she said. On her campaign trail, Chavez-Houck said she tries to discuss her support of the constitutional freedoms to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness equally with her qualifications for office. Along with sponsoring four bills in the 2008 general legislative session, she also held the 4th highest voting attendance record in the House. She has also put herself in touch with a number of “different advocate groups” in order to learn about issues on which she is not so knowledgeable.

She said she is also working hard to educate herself more fully on issues important to gay and transgender people. For example, she had a booth at this year’s Utah Pride Festival and also attended a transgender issue forum at the University of Utah to learn more about the legal issues transgender Utahns face. “I feel like I’m very supportive of the community, but I know I can’t ever begin to understand what’s like to be someone from the community,” she said. “We know our own struggles and what we’re going through, so I try not to be presumptuous. I’m always learning and always open to learning more. And the best way I can do that is to hear people’s stories because that’s what we individually own.” To learn more about Chavez-Houck visit voterebecca2008.com.

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Gay Agenda Boogie Woogie Woogie by Tony Hobday

As I continue to hang out with my cackle of lesbian friends, I feel like I’m becoming more and more butch. I play softball (but tend to get nailed by the ball), spit loogies and most recently I attended a UofU football game. My friend Shortbus and I were in the nosebleed section with three or four flasks of vodka. By halftime I was talking like a dirty sailor, scratching my crotch and flirting with the pretty girl seated in front of me. Now where’s that therapist’s phone number?

Q Kicking off this year’s RCGSE AIDS Awareness Week are their Red & Wild Party and Disturbia Show. So you have to pick whether you want be wild or disturbed. I tend to choose the latter since it’s already embedded in my psyche. But I also like to get wild ... like sometimes I just have to squeeze the toothpaste from the top of the tube ... it’s fucking exhilirating. Anyhoo, both are good choices tonight, so have some fun, and for a complete list of events see the column at right.

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SATURDAY — Usually when I hail to Park City to see a show at Egyptian Theatre, this fabulous paper I work for flips the hotel bill so I can double the fun ... and sometimes double the pleasure. Anyhoo, keep this in mind if you happen to partake in the Main Street Music Crawl fund raiser. Participants will meet at The Star Bar for live music featuring Swagger, socializing and drinks. Then off they go to Miner’s Park for a special performance. Then they’re on their own to enjoy live music at The Sidecar, Shabu and The Spur. All proceeds go to benefit Mountain Town Stages, a non-profit organization.

THURSDAY — In celebration of the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah, in honor of their 50 years of advocacy in defending civil liberties, the Salt Lake Art Center has organized Liberties Under Fire. This exhibition features artwork by five artists who depict or suggest pivotal civil liberties issues identified by the ACLU of Utah. One of the five civil liberties issues addressed by pairings of artists and writers include LGBT issues: artist John Trobaugh and playwright Julie Jensen.

Hours vary, exhibit runs through Jan. 31, Salt Lake Art Center, 20 S. West Temple. Free admission, 3284201 or slartcenter.org.

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FRIDAY — This year Plan-B Theatre Company is moving the setting of their popular annual Halloween show from the studio to the stage, The fourth adaptation, Radio Hour: Frankenstein is based on Mary Shelley’s horror classic and is adapted for radio by resident playwright Matthew Ivan Bennett. Featuring Doug Fabrizio, Tobin Atkinson and Jay Perry. 8pm, through Nov. 2, Studio Theatre, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. Broadway. Tickets $20, 355-ARTS or arttix.org.

Q If you have yet to decide on a costume for that all-important Halloween party you’ll be attending this year, in hopes of being that sexy, mysterious, masked person that the entire room falls over, then zoom up to Park City for Egyptian Theatre Company’s Costume Closet Sale. Countless great costumes including, men’s polyester, sequin suits, giant penguin suits, medieval, flapper outfits, and various hats and accessories. 11am–5pm, Egyptian Theatre, third floor (Edwina room), 328 Main Street, Park City. Many items under $5 (cash only), 435-645-0671.

9pm, Trapp Door (Red & Wild), 615 W. 100 S., and Paper Moon (Disturbia), 3737 S. State Street, both private clubs for members. Donations at the doors.

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7pm, The Star Bar, a private club for members, 268 S. Main Street, Park City. Tickets $20/adv — $25/at the door, montaintownstages.com.

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MONDAY — As part of the GAM Foundation’s Jazzslc concert series comes the Clayton Brothers Quintet. Bassist John Clayton is a prolific composer and arranger, a distinguished conductor and teacher, and an inspiring performer who epitomizes the best in jazz music. Don’t miss this unforgettable night of jazz. 7:30pm, Sheraton City Center,150 W. 500 South. Tickets $25, 278-0235 or jazzslc.com.

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WEDNESDAY — “I’ve been in relationships with both men and women so I guess I fall most easily under the category ‘bisexual’... Please rest assured that I am not, never have been, and never will be ashamed of my sexuality but also please respect the fact that when I do an interview I want it to be about my music and not about my love life!” This interesting quote befell the mouth of pop singer Missy Higgins. She shares the stage tonight with Joshua Radin, and apparently she holds her musical talent in high regard ... could be worth the ticket price.

7:30pm, In the Venue, 219 S. 600 West. Tickets $15/ adv — $18/Day of, 467-8499 or smithstix.com.

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THURSDAY — Nothing On is a play in which young girls run amuck in their undies, old men drop their trousers and many doors continually open and shut. But the real play is Noises Off, by Michael Frayn, in which slapstick comedy of errors ensues off-stage. Sometimes things are just much funnier behind the scenes.

RCGSE AIDS WEEK October 24, 9pm “Disturbia” Show, Paper Moon Red & Wild Party, Trapp Door October 25, 8pm Monarch’s Show, Trapp Door October 26, 4pm Red, Hot & Spicy dinner, Trapp October 26, 10pm Pachanga Night, Trapp Door October 27, 9:30pm Bowling, Bonwood Bowl October 28, 8:30pm Dinner and a Movie, Trapp October 29, 7:30pm Slut Bingo, Trapp Door October 30, 9pm Red Ribbon Monster Ball, Trapp Door November 1, 9pm Drag Roulette, Trapp Door November 2, 9pm “Red Imperial Party” - Trapp Door November 8 Red Party - Club Bliss/Babylon

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9pm, Trapp Door, a private club for members, 615 W. 100 S. Donations at the door, 533-0173.

november 4 Election Day November 15 Fabulous Fun Bus to Wendover qsaltlake.com/funbus december 4 Red Ribbon Party kimptonhotels.com december 12–14 Salt Lake Men’s Choir Holiday Concert, saltlakemenschoir.org

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

7:30pm, through Nov. 15, Pioneer Theatre, 300 S. 1400 East. Tickets $26–49, 581-6961 or ­pioneertheatre.org.

Q The RCGSE AIDS Awareness Week events continue with their annual Red Ribbon Monster Ball. This is a great event with fabulous music and surprise entertainers and scary monsters and AIDS awareness and a lot of red.

FRIDAY — I will be in San Diego, California hitching my friends on this Halloween Day. I’m curious about how many other couples will be dashing off to Cali this final weekend before the Vote. Anyhoo, I’ll be thinking of all of you half-naked ... whatever running from club to club in 40-50 degree weather while I’m frolicking on the nude

january 15–25, 2009 Sundance Film Festival­ sundance.org february 13–15, 2009 QUAC Ski N Swim ­ quacquac.org april 17, 2009 Day Of Silence ­ dayofsilence.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 August 7–8, 2009 Redrock Women’s Music Festival, Torrey redrockwomensfest.com

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WEDNESDAY — One of Shakespeare’s most loved romantic comedies Much Ado About Nothing returns to the Utah stage. Two very different sets of lovers must overcome obstacles, evil plots, misunderstandings and their own stubborn blindness before finding happiness in this witty, brilliantly crafted play. 7:30pm, Babcock Theatre, 300 S. 1400 East, UofU. Tickets $7–13, 581-7100 or kingtix.com.

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knowledge that I am partial to Odyssey Dance Theatre performances. I do enjoy being exposed to all forms of dance and the stories they aim to convey, but I can’t help but be excited about great dance that also does a superb job at entertaining. ODT has yet to fail me in this manner. The company’s annual “Halloween spectacular,” Thriller opened Oct.15 to hoots-n-hollers from a moderate, but loyal audience. I find it unbecoming of theatregoers that more seats weren’t filled opening night – I’ve seen their annual spring repertory Shut Up & Dance performed to energized packed houses. Hopefully the masses have merely chosen to wait and see the show as Halloween draws nearer I can’t stress enough though the lengths ODT takes to offer audiences unparallel experience in many different forms of dance, all the while successfully providing immense joy and laughter, and gratitude for a night well spent. Artistic director Derryl Yeager, who by the way, attended opening night dapper as ever in a hooded sweatshirt and baseball cap, — damn, I love the man — respectfully demands seven-hour daily rehearsals, five days a week, seven to eight weeks prior to each production. This intense rehearsal strategy, undoubtedly, is what makes ODT’s productions so spectacular. But what is even

more spectacular — in the entire dance model — is there is nothing permanent or stale about dance. Whether you’ve seen Thriller each year for the past 11 years or you’ve only been one time, there is absolutely nothing you will see that you’ve have seen in entirely the same way. This year’s Thriller includes several original and returning pieces. One of the more popular numbers, ‘Jason Jam,’ is a Three Stooges-like parody on the machetewielding nemesis in the Friday the 13th horror flicks. Also returning is ‘Children of the Corn,’ a scary, less humorous piece, and which was slightly better performed than last year — there are fewer highpitched screeches from the dancers, which is favorable to your nerves. For all you who love the male-dancer physique, the return of ‘Lost Boys’ will leave you over-heated and wishing your blood was being sucked on stage. Plus, ‘Curse of the Mummy’ is … well, highly distracting especially if your seat is on the floor and your line of vision is … say, waist high. New pieces this year include ‘The Grudge,’ an eerie and dramatic piece that has an X-Files aura about it, which therefore I loved. Also, Yeager and young dance prodigy, Tristan Gray, a resident of Ogden, created a hip-hop piece ‘Mr. Roboto,’ which features a notable performance by members of Odyssey 3. Gray, at his young age, is already a genius. He will

take the dance world by storm very soon. On a negative note, though its weight is personal, interactive theatre peeves me. I think it’s an unnecessary tactic to energize audiences. Thriller has had zombies wreaking havoc in the aisles since I started seeing the show, and that’s alright. But glow-in-the-dark inflatable beach balls and confetti being thrown out into the audience like we’re at an AC/DC concert, for me, is just wrong. That said, ODT remains my favorite dance troupe in the state, and regardless of whether or not you agree with me, they have earned the respect of the dance community at large and deserve our respect as theatre-goers. Thriller runs through Nov. 1 at Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, UofU. Tickets $20-40, 581-7100 or kingtix.com.

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Halloween means candy, goofy costumes and scampering through the neighborhood while your parent(s), babysitter or unusually responsible older sibling insists you stop running ahead and put on your coat, already! While you can never get too old for candy, Halloween takes on a slightly different meaning later in life, and by that we mean parties. And Salt Lake City’s gay scene has a lot of them going on this Oct. 31. “Tons of my friends are seriously stoked because Halloween is one of the big bar holidays,” said Nova Starr, drag queen extraordinaire and promoter for Gossip, a gay club in the city that boasts a huge Halloween bash every year. You’re never too old to dress up or to party. Here’s a list of what the capital’s gayest and most gay-friendly clubs are doing Halloween night.

Area 51

348 W 500 S Salt Lake City goth/punk/industrial hot spot Area 51 will celebrate All Hallows Eve with what its Web site calls its “legendary” Halloween Party. In honor of the day Area 51 will offer drink specials, $1000 in prizes for its costume contest and a $10 cover charge that includes a free pass to Nov. 1’s Heaven and Hell Party. The two floor club will offer two dance floors for the evening. Upstairs DJ Darren Weight, DJ Jeremiah and DJ Radar will spin alternative, electronica, dance, ’80s tunes and requests. Downstairs DJ Evil K and DJ Viking join forces to spin industrial, goth and darkwave music into the wee hours. Doors open at 8:00 p.m. Like many clubs around the valley, Area 51 will also extend its Halloween celebrations into the next month with its Heaven & Hell Party on the following day in which the club’s upstairs is transformed into a blacklight heaven and its downstairs becomes a steamy hell. Club-goers can complete the theme by coming dressed as angels or demons. The evening comes complete with more divine prizes and fiendish drink specials. Doors open at 9:00 p.m. and the cover charge is a mere $3 before 10:00 p.m., a mere $5 after.

Club Bliss/Babylon

404 S West Temple Dance club and bar Bliss will honor the spooky season with not one, but two parties. The first is the Halloween Block Party held Oct. 31 in which Club Elevate, Lumpy’s and The Hotel will also participate. A pass for the evening grants access to all clubs where DJ Jello, DJ Juggy, DJ Scarecrow and J2 will spin tunes well into the wee hours. Like many places around the valley, all four clubs will hold costume contests with cash prizes for the best outfits. Tickets to the block party are $25 for presale and $30 at the door. They can be purchased at 24tix.com or at all Smithtix locations. On Nov. 1 the club will hold a “day after” Day of the Dead party featuring a costume contest and $500 in cash prize giveaways, as well as a number of other surprises. The party starts at 9:00 p.m.

Jam

751 N 300 West The newest gay cub offering is having its grand opening the weekend of Halloween, and how appropriate is that? On Halloween night, Jam teams up with Uinta Brewing Company to give away a snowboard for its Monster Jam costume contest. Jam Master Junk spins the tunes. On Saturday, Jam has its official opening, bringing in the hottest vampire on Earth — Ethan Reynolds of here! TV’s The Lair. Reynolds might be better known as the blond/piercing blue half of the Ginch-Gonch model couple. See Michael Aaron’s interview with him on Page 34. This is a masquerad ball - so dig out that fab mask and dust it off.

Paper Moon

3737 S State St Salt Lake City’s now lone lesbian club, Paper Moon, will strap on its Ruby Slippers and dance over the rainbow with its Halloween theme party “A Night in Oz.” Designed by Vanessa Vaughn (the mind behind last year’s Willy Wonka-themed Halloween bash), the evening will see Paper Moon whimsically transformed into the Yellow Brick Road and the Emerald City, complete with appropriate drinks like Witch Juice, Ruby Slippers, Emerald City Shooters and Lollipop Shooters (so named, of course, for the Munchkin Lollipop Guild). Although revelers don’t need to dress up as Dorothy or Toto or even Glinda the Good Witch, Paper Moon’s costume contest will be giving away prizes for Best Oz costume as well as Best Sexy Costume and Most Original Costume. Vaughn also said that the club had “really cool stuff coming in” for its prize giveaway, such as silk sheets, bar stools, sexy gift baskets and, best of all, neon bar signs, such as those seen in the windows of watering holes everywhere advertising everything from Budweiser to Corona to Bacardi. “I’m really excited for that one,” she said. Cover charge will be $5 for members and $6 for nonmembers. Speaking of dressing up for those who can’t wait until Halloween, Vaughn will also host Devil’s Night: Fetish Ball 2008 at Paper Moon on Oct. 24. Party-goers are invited to come dressed in their favorite fetish wear from vinyl to rubber, lace to leather, corsets to spiked heels. The evening will include fire breathers, a senses table and a number of sexy prizes.

Club Sound/Gossip

579 W 200 S Since 2003, Gossip has boasted what Nova Starr calls “the biggest gay Halloween party in town.” According to her, the club drew 1,600 partiers on Halloween night last year. They expect 2,000 to come this year. The party will include a costume contest with $500 in cash prizes and gift certificates to adult boutique Mischievous Pleasures for the first, second and third place and prize giveaways will also happen throughout the evening. Special guests will also drop in, including female impersonator Miss Wendy Williams, Portland, Oregon’s Sable Cities and Aden and Jordan Jaric, international porn icons from Falcon Studios

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who are also one of the few gay couples to star in porn videos together. At midnight, Nova and her girls will take the stage for their Halloween show, which will also celebrate Gossip’s fifth anniversary at Club Sound. Club doors open at 9:30, and Nova advises partiers to come early and to bring their coats. “We will have lines wrapped around the building at 11 o’clock,” she predicted. Cover charge is $5 for the club’s 21 and over side and $7 for its 18 and over side.

The Trapp

102 S 600 W Located just a stone’s throw from The Gateway Center, this comfy gay bar is something of a community landmark with its trademark patio and its reputation for a relaxed, inviting atmosphere. The Trapp’s Halloween celebration this year perfectly matches the club’s character: a party and a costume contest with cash prizes for the most fabulous entries. There is no cover charge for members.

The Trapp Door

615 W 100 S Located behind The Trapp, The Trapp Door will hold what is arguably the city’s longest Halloween Party. Beginning Oct. 30 with its All Hallow’s Eve Dead Man’s Party with DJ DC. On Halloween proper the club will hold its Gothic Night with what Trapp Door promotions and advertising specialist Justus Salazar calls “every DJ imaginable from the Gothic crowd.” If partiers aren’t exhausted by Nov. 1 the club will hold its Latin Night Halloween Celebration. Called “the biggest Latin Night in Salt Lake City hands down” by Salazar, this party will feature DJ Frank and a live talk show with Manuel Arano, who will have what Salazar called “the first gay radio show on any Latin station anywhere.”

Club Try-Angles

251 W 900 S Known for its ’80s nights, underwear parties and beer-soaked weenies, this gay-owned dance club and bar will hold a costume contest with cash prizes for the top three costumes on Halloween night in an event appropriately called “Halloween Party.” “We’re real creative around here,” laughed owner Gene Gieber. Although details are still in the planning, Gieber said the bar and club will likely screen camp classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show at 8:00 p.m. and open its doors for revelers after the credits roll. The costume contest may also break in one of the club’s newest toys if Gieber and company can work out all the bugs before the big night: a text messaging system at the bar. “We don’t have it in stone, but we have a text to video program in the bar and we’re thinking of taking the top ten [costume contest] entrants and having people text in their vote,” said Gieber. “But I haven’t perfected that yet.” There is no cover charge for members.

W Lounge

: 358 S West Temple Fans of Indie music should scoot over to the W Lounge on Halloween night for a concert with South Carolina’s Culture Prophet. This eclectic electro/ghettotech/New Wave/grindcore/Death Metal group will play well into the chilly, early hours.  Q

DVDiva Reviews by Tony Hobday

The Gay Bed & Breakfast of Terror Release Date: Nov. 18 Ariztical Entertainment, $29.95 ariztical.com The Blue Party, the biggest party of the year, draws five gay couples and a fag hag to the Sahara Salvation Bed & Breakfast Inn. A creepy, run-down monstrosity, the B&B is owned by a god-fearing mother and her homely daugther (with schizophrenic tendencies). It’s all fresh cut roses and mincemeat muffins until the daughter, Luella, takes an “unnatural” liking to the female guests. Then mother goes, yet again, on a murderous rampage, offing the lesbians one-by-one. Unfortunately a wrench is thrown into her plan of marrying Luella off to one of the male guests when her son Manfred, a horrorific mutation of a “100 Republicans,” escapes from the attic tearing the male guests limb-from-limb. Directed by Jaymes Thompson and starring pornstar Michael Soldier as drag queen extraordinaire Carrie D’Way, The Gay Bed & Breakfast of Terror has no fear about disgusting, bloody scenes. However, it will leave horror film fans on the fence because frankly it’s stupid. Yet, it knows it’s stupid, which makes it sort of fun. It’s tongue-in-cheek, but the humor is so subtle it could easily be missed. To fully appreciate the film, if at all, one must be in a frivolous mood. There’s plenty of good-looking boys and girls, gratuitous sex, murder, gore and an ending that will make you throw your head back and say, “Oh, lord!”

Butch Jaime Release Date: Nov. 18 Wolfe Video, $17.96 wolfevideo.com All Jaime wants is to land a leadinglady role in a movie, but her “manly” features are a roadblock. Dumping on her pysche even more is her bisexual roommate’s success as a cat actor. Her gay best friend finally talks her into auditioning completely as herself. Quickly she lands a leading role, but as a man. Through a confidentiality clause in her agreement, Jaime must not let anyone find out she’s actually a woman. But keeping her true gender under raps proves difficult when s/he starts dating Jill, the beautiful costume coordinator. Directed by and starring Michelle Ehlen, Butch Jaime is supposed to be a romantic comedy. Though its certainly endearing, it falls short on comedy. Plus several aspects of the film are difficult to believe, especially the courtship between Jaime and Jill.

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sexy Ginch Gonch spokesmodel Ethan Reynolds will be in Salt Lake on Halloween weekend to help Jam open in a grand way. (Get it ... grand opening ... yeah, sorry. It’s late.) Last year he was coupled with gay porn actor Benjamin Bradley, highly-recognized as an underwear model, and a very popular blogger. Then there was the bitter breakup, the bankruptcy of Ginch-Gonch, and his blog went dark. Now he is back in the public eye in an ongoing role on Season Two of here! Networks’ The Lair vampire television series.

Michael Aaron: So, being a GinchGonch spokesmodel with your thenboyfriend Benjamin Bradley skyrocketed your face ... and abs ... into stardom, only to have the whole thing collapse out from under you. Do you regret the experience?

Ethan Reynolds: No. I don’t regret the experience at all. I was able to travel around the world and make new friends. I had an opportunity to experience a lot of things that can only be dreamed. But while I don’t regret the experience, I do regret some of the situations. I was proud of promoting the underwear and really believed in the product. It hurt when I was one of the many people the company didnt pay. Then when they filed bankruptcy a company bought them and changed many of the things that I thought were so fun. Like you know how the underwear had little stories you could assume with the names? The innuendos? Well those are all gone now. I have even heard that they are trying to get away from their gay roots to appeal to more people. It’s a shame that after all of that hard work (and without the pay promised in my contract) that they could just turn their back on me, the community, and the people who believed in them.

MA: Did you burn all of your GinchGonches?

ER: (laughs) I have been in talks with a new underwear company and they are very interested in that idea for an ad campaign. But no, I still have them. They are a good pair of underwear. Its just everything else that makes it so unfortunate.

MA: You’ve moved your very popular blog to MySpace. What brought that about?

ER: Another amusing question! You’re on a roll, Michael! Let’s just say my blog seemed to be part of my “divorce.” It was stolen away from me. But I just can’t let go of the blogger inside of me. I still have things I want to say and goals I want to achieve. So I figured I would use my myspace to stay in contact with all my friends. After everything I have been through, I have a true appreciation for

those who have stuck with me and kept me from falling apart. MA: I won’t ask what happened between you and Benjamin, but was it difficult to be in such a high-profile public relationship and then public breakup? ER: Well I will be the first to admit I was in shock for some time. I really didn’t see anything coming. It’s as if everything was well-planned out and I was told when it was all over. But, like I tell everyone who asks me, I wish my ex all the best. He has a lot of potential and I hope he uses it. He deserves his happiness like all the rest of us. As for things being public, it’s how I have been living my life for a while. It was difficult to go through so much agony. But like I said before, you really find out who really cares about you during those times! MA: You’ve joined the cast of here! TV’s gay-themed vampire show, “The Lair.” How did you land that role? ER: I was invited for an audition and fortunately they offered me a spot. I had a lot of fun and I really enjoy all of the people I had a chance to work with. And now look at the entertainment world! There are a bunch of vampire movies and shows out there now. But I want everyone to know that The Lair is the hottest one by far!

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try. So thats my ultimate goal. MA: Anything you want to say to your Utah fans? ER: Would a question count? How did one region in this world get so many attractive guys? I am pretty certain that their Utah upbringing of values, love and respect would be something I could use in a boyfriend. But I also want to say thank you to all my friends in this area. Many of them stood behind me during the dark days and I hope they will come out to visit me during my upcoming appearance at Jam. I had a lot of fun the last time when I was at Club Sound, but I bet Jam is going to become the place that everyone will hang out at in Salt Lake. It sounds like it was the right place to invite me after all!  Q See Ethan on here! TV’s “The Lair” at heretv.com/thelair. He will be at Jam, 751 N 300 West, the night of Saturday, Nov. 1 for a masquerade ball and grand opening.

MA: Was this a “made for you” part or are you stepping outside yourself as an actor? ER: Actually, I ended up taking over the role of Jonathan from another actor in season one. It’s like those situations that you see in soap operas from time to time. One day the actor is one person, then some tragedy and he is completely different! They reshot some of the season one clips with me to give me the chance to own the role. Hopefully everyone enjoys my addition. MA: Had you acted before or is this your first? ER: I will let you in on a secret. I have been acting on some other projects. But The Lair is the first project to actually hit the screen! Which is something I am excited about because it’s the only time I have been given the chance to be a part of a “love” scene. Can you think of a better way to push through all of the stage fright and nervousness? It’s behind me now and I can not wait for my next challenges. MA: Are you enjoying it? ER: More than I can say in words. But not just the acting. Its being around some very creative people. I love to brainstorm and share ideas. Wait ’til you see some of the other projects that comes out of meeting all these great people.

guys in it? So yes, I am starting to visit Salt Lake more often now! MA: What’s next for you? ER: That’s a hard question to answer. I am willing to try any project. But ultimately I want to figure out a way where I can help others reach their dreams. I have had so many people stand behind me that I want to make sure that I use that same energy to help others as well. It would be selfish not to

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Q Horoscopes It is November and thankfully we have a rush of positive powerful energy pulsating in lucky Sadge through the month. And yet we may find that it is too much of a good thing. Don’t gobble when you can nibble.

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ARIES (Mar 21 - Apr 20)

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

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

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

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CANCER (JUN 22 - JUL 23)

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

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

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

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Jacin and George were playing canasta. Leticia was reading A Million Little Pieces, an Oprah’s Book Club selection, which she would soon regret taking the time to read. Josh slept upright in a chair, drooling on his Joe Dirt wig that had slipped askew. “Excuse me everyone,” the doctor interrupted. Leticia elbowed Josh awake. “She had a healthy baby boy,” informed the handsome doctor. “They’re both doing very well.” “Yes! I won,” stated Joe Dirt excitedly, throwing his arms up in victory. The next afternoon, Jacin, George, Josh and Eddie returned to the hospital to visit mother and son. They first stopped in at the hospital gift shop and after much consideration bought the baby a purple plush monkey and the mother, a bouquet of pink roses. They stepped out of the elevator on the fourth floor, signed in at the desk and were directed to Cameron’s room. Jacin slowly pushed the door open and they quietly walked into the room. Cameron, looking pale and tired, was in the bed holding her sleeping child. “Hi,” Cameron whispered. Her friends congregated around the bed and turned all gooey over the baby. “Have you thought of a name?” asked Eddie as he peered at the pimply-faced baby. “Leonard Jefferson Berner.” They all exchanged a look of bewilderment. Then Josh said, “Well, at least I won the other three.” “Won what?” Cameron asked. “Oh, well we took bets on the date and time of the birth and the sex and name of the baby,” admitted Josh. “And I got all of them right but the name.” “You bet on my baby?” Cameron asked exasperated. “Yeah we did,” George said, handing an envelope to her. “Earlier today we opened a savings account for Leo’s education with the money. This is the account information, which is under your name.” “Leonard,” Cameron corrected, taking the envelope. “But that’s so sweet of you guys,” she continued with a smile. “So does the father know you had the baby?” asked George. “My mom called him last night,” she replied, then hesitated. “Listen. There’s something I need to tell all of you. I’ve decided to move to Idaho Falls so Leonard can be near his father.” “What … no way!” exclaimed George. “I know you don’t approve of Heath, but Leonard needs his father and I don’t want to raise him alone.” Cameron stated. George huffed and stormed out of the room. To be continued …

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