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“The church is not commenting on the issue for the time-being.”
Coordinators of Huge Nov. 15 Protests Plan New Actions
—Scott Trotter, LDS Church spokesman, when asked by QSaltLake about the church’s response to Equality Utah’s Common Ground Initiative.
“What’s that choking sensation I feel? Why it might just be the bible belt, slung over the Rockies and slowly being cinched up.” —Eric S. Peterson, blogging about Baptist support for the LDS Church in the wake of Proposition 8’s passage (and ward house vandalisms across the country) for the Salt Lake City Weekly.
“Their story is that we Mormons somehow oppress them [Proposition 8 opponents] and force them; they claim to be our victims. And yet they are the ones who tried to force us to accept their radical change through judicial edict, rejecting a clear majority vote only a few years before.” —Orson Scott Card, LDS columnist and writer, on what he sees as Proposition 8 opponents’ oppressive actions towards Mormons who supported the measure.
“Utah, though it doesn’t know it yet, is one of the largest gay population areas per capita in the country. I see Salt Lake City being one of the areas of major demonstrations in this movement, along with L.A., San Francisco and New York.” —Jacob Whipple, Salt Lake City organizer of the Nov. 7 anti-Prop. 8 rally at LDS Church headquarters, in the Salt Lake City Weekly.
“Salt Lake City is already known for having a surprisingly large and active gay population, and I think we will see more gays flocking here, especially those who are militant against Mormonism. It will become the ultimate ‘we’re here, we’re queer’ trend to move into the shadow of the Salt Lake Temple and practice their alternative lifestyle.” —Christopher Bigelow, Mormon writer, editor and owner of satirical Mormon newspaper The Sugar Beet, predicting (apparently seriously) on his blog that “militant gay activists” will soon take over Salt Lake City.
BY REX WOCKNER
Several new activities are being planned by Join The Impact, the grassroots organizers who conceptualized and coordinated the huge Nov. 15 protests against California’s Proposition 8. Those protests took place in some 300 cities in all 50 states. The weekend of Dec. 5, Join The Impact is urging people to go see the new movie Milk, about the legendary late gay activist and politician Harvey Milk. The group wants to make Milk one of the top3-grossing movies of the weekend. December 10 has been dubbed “Day Without a Gay.” Among other things, Join The Impact is urging all gay people not to spend any money on Dec. 10. December 20 will see candlelight vigils around the nation in malls or other shopping areas, the group says. Participants are urged to wear shirts that say “2nd Class Citizen.” On Jan. 10, Join The Impact is calling for marches on the 50 state capitols as a “National Protest Against DOMA,” the federal Defense of Marriage Act. The group says it wants to remind President-elect Barack Obama that he has promised to repeal DOMA. Finally, on Feb. 12, Join The Impact is calling for nationwide sit-ins at marriage-license bureaus. “If you are denied a license, don’t leave,” the group says. “Sit with your community, your allies, and friends. Let’s show this country just how many U.S. citizens are denied equal protections under the law.” Join The Impact says these upcoming activities are “just the beginning.” “Change will not come if we sit back and do nothing,” the group says. “Change comes through visibility, conversation, demonstration and action.” For more information, see jointheimpact. com. For details on local activities, visit jointheimpact.wetpaint.com.
Reports: No Quick Action Against DADT President-elect Barack Obama may not move quickly to repeal the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” ban on open gays, according to published reports. A Nov. 24 report in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution said: “Very quietly, the Obama team has let it be known that the new administration will not immediately reassess the U.S. military’s policy of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell.’ ... Raising the topic of gays in the military was considered by many to be the second of two out-of-the-box decisions that ended badly for a newly elected President Bill
Florida’s Ban on Gay Adoption Struck Down A Florida circuit court in Miami struck down a state law that barred lesbians and gay men from adopting Nov. 25. The court granted adoptions to a gay man, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, who has been raising two foster children since 2004. “Our family just got a lot more to be thankful for this Thanksgiving,” said Martin Gill, a North Miami resident who is raising two brothers, ages 4 and 8, with his partner. “We are extremely relieved that the court has recognized that it is wrong to deny our boys the legal protections and security that only come with adoption.” The court ruled that the ban violated the equal-protection guarantees of the state constitution because it irrationally singled out gay people and their children for different treatment. The court also found that the ban denied children the right to permanency provided by federal and state law under the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997.
“Reports and studies find that there are no differences in the parenting of homosexuals or the adjustment of their children,” the court said. “These conclusions have been accepted, adopted and ratified by the American Psychological Association, the American Psychiatry Association, the American Pediatric Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Child Welfare League of America and the National Association of Social Workers. ... (B)ased on the robust nature of the evidence available in the field, this Court is satisfied that the issue is so far beyond dispute that it would be irrational to hold otherwise; the best interests of children are not preserved by prohibiting homosexual adoption.” The Florida law barring gays and lesbians from adopting was the most expansive anti-gay parenting law in the country. It was passed in 1977 in response to an anti-gay crusade led by former Miss America and orange juice spokeswoman Anita Bryant.
Clinton (in 1993).” The National Journal and The Washington Times said Obama might wait until 2010 to tackle the ban. However, the gay newspaper Washington Blade reported Nov. 25 that an unnamed Obama spokesperson said the mainstream-media reports were premature. “An Obama transition team spokesperson, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the decision on how to approach repealing ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ ... would be made after more experts have joined the Obama administration,” the paper said. “These decisions will not be made
before the full national security team is in place,” the Blade quoted the spokesperson as saying. A July poll by The Washington Post and ABC News found that 75 percent of Americans said “yes” when asked, “Do you think that homosexuals who do publicly disclose their sexual orientation should be allowed to serve in the military or not?” The poll found that even Republicans (64 percent) and white evangelical Christians (57 percent) supported scrapping the ban. The random survey of 1,119 American adults had a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
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Q Utah Momentum Continues on Gay Marriage Fight
The snow may be falling and Santa a-calling, but the gay rights renaissance spawned by Proposition 8 hasn’t cooled down a bit. As 2008 draws to a close, local gay rights activists have put together a number of events to help you make your holiday season merry and bright while continuing the fight for gay civil rights.
GLBT Toy Drive
From now until Dec. 23, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Utahns can help kids in need have a happy holiday by donating a toy for a patient at Primary Children’s Hospital to open Christmas morning. Organizer Jacob Whipple said he got the idea for the toy drive when he noticed the similarities between gay people and children who must spend Christmas in a hospital bed: Jacob Whipple both, he said, have had their holiday taken away. “For them they’ve lost their Christmas in a very unfair way, through being hurt or sick,” explained Whipple, the organizer of a Nov. 7 protest at Temple Square against the LDS church for its involvement in the effort to pass Proposition 8. “Maybe because of those medical bills their families can’t afford to have a Christmas. And we as an LGBT community have also lost our Christmas in a very unfair way: We’ve had people vote to remove rights from us. In a way your wedding is your Christmas. It’s something you look forward to that makes you happy.” The toy drive, he added, is part of a trend in the gay rights movement that has become particularly noticeable after Proposition 8’s passage: the drive to secure equality for all Americans. As part of this push, Whipple said that gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people should involve themselves in all aspects of their communities. “[The toy drive] is about us getting out there and being seen, not just in rally or parades but in the community,” he said. “Let us do good works.”
New and unwrapped toys may be taken to the following locations during business hours until Dec. 23: Equality Utah (175 W. 200 South); the Utah Pride Center (355 N. 300 West); and QSaltLake’s offices (1055 E. 2100 South, Ste. 206). Primary Children’s Hospital requests that gifts be left in their original containers and not be “gory” in nature (such as toy guns, toy swords or violent games), as the hospital is a place of healing. For a list of acceptable toys visit tinyurl.com/5j8rwc. Individuals wishing to donate toys specifically to gay families should let volunteers know when donating. Questions should be directed to the individual collection centers or Jacob Whipple at AllForOneInitiative@yahoo.com.
LGBT Town Hall Meeting
Representatives from various Utah gay rights groups and gay-positive organizations will assemble for a town hall meeting on Dec. 14 to discuss their plans for securing more legislative protections for gay people in 2009 and to allow members of the community to ask questions and share ideas. With the 2009 legislative session opening in a month and a half and President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration on the horizon, Whipple said that the meeting is essential to help the community organize, so that everyone knows “who is doing what and what is happening.” “It would be worthwhile for us to have one unified voice instead of 1000 voices clamoring for 1000 different things in which case we would lose all creativity and lose all progress,” he said. At the meeting, groups including Equality Utah, the Human Rights Campaign, PFLAG, Stonewall Democrats, Log Cabin Republicans, the ACLU of Utah and gay-friendly Mormon groups such as Family Fellowship and Affirmation/Reconciliation will discuss what their organizations do and their plans for the future. Attendees will then be able to ask questions and voice suggestions to, as Whipple puts it, “have a say in the movement that we’re trying to press forward.” The meeting is currently slated to be held at the Tower Theater, although this location was still being confirmed at press time. To go along with the town hall meeting, the Utah Pride Center is asking gay Utahns and their allies to voice their opinions about what the Center should do in the following months to support gay rights. The survey is available at utahpridecenter.org.
Day Without a Gay
The organizers of Join the Impact, the national grass roots group behind nationwide anti-Proposition 8 protests on Nov. 15, are calling for an economic boycott on Dec. 10.
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Join the Impact Equality Vigil at the Utah State Capitol Grounds on Nov. 15 Called “Day Without a Gay,” the boycott invites gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people not to participate in the U.S. economy for a day by taking the day off work, closing down their businesses, or simply packing a sack lunch if missing work is not an option. The day, however, is less about a strike and more about volunteering for gay rights and human rights organizations. Or, as Day Without a Gay’s Web site puts it: “shift[ing] our strong feelings about injustice toward service.” Although the Utah Pride Center has no set agenda for the day, Media and Special Events Coordinator Doug Jennings said the Center would help to connect Utahns participating in the day to volunteer opportunities that are “as equality-focused as possible.” “We’re definitely going to be keeping in mind [Equality Utah’s] Common Ground Initiative as well as a variety of other activist organizations across the country,” he said. For more information, contact Jennings at doug@utahpridecenter.org.
Food Drive For Equality
Those living near Park City and looking for a worthy volunteer opportunity on Dec. 10 may want to consider the Food Drive for Equality, another event created by Join the Impact. Until Dec. 20, volunteers in Park City will be collecting donations of food for people in need this holiday season. Donations will be taken to the Utah Food Bank, which distributes to individuals and pantries across the state, including the Utah AIDS Foundation’s food bank. “The idea with the food drive is to have the emphasis on helping others,” said Mark Worthen, a Park City resident who has organized the drive. “To let the community know that the queers among them are regular folks who want to help other people.” Worthen also said he hopes to draw a number of straight volunteers to the effort, including those who may have supported Proposition 8. “I think when people with an open mind get to know us, they realize that some of the stereotypes they grew up
with aren’t accurate and they have much more in common with us than they realize,” he said. Monetary contributions are also welcome, and volunteers are still needed to pick up donations. Worthen is also in search of space to store food until it can be driven to the bank. Although the food drive is currently taking place only in Park City, Worthen encouraged individuals in other Utah cities — particularly in Salt Lake City — to organize their own efforts. For more information on the food drive, or on organizing one in your area, visit tinyurl. com/5p9o44.
Light Up the Night
Worthen is organizing an additional event in Park City for this holiday season: a candlelight vigil on Dec. 20. Called Light Up the Night, this is the third nation-wide event being planned by Join the Impact this holiday season. “As proposed, the idea is an effort to educate the public about our lack of civil rights,” said Worthen, explaining that unlike previous peaceful demonstrations in Utah, Light Up the Night will be silent, with no chanting and no signs. Instead, he is considering asking gay people to wear t-shirts that read “2nd Class Citizen.” “Though in Park City in December that may be a challenge,” he said, laughing. For straight allies, Worthen suggested a shirt stating that a gay loved one is a second-class citizen. “If we get a lot of family and friends to join us [wearing] shirts that say, ‘my brother is a second-class citizen,’ then I think it can really work,” he said. “It’ll show people that not only we the queer people are angry about having our rights taken away in California, but so are our families.” So far, Worthen has also considered the possibility of asking participants to hand out fliers explaining the vigil to passers-by. Although a location for the vigil had not been confirmed by press time, Worthen said he plans to talk to Park City officials about using Main Street for the event. Q
PHOTOS: WHIPPLE — BRIAN GORDON, EQUALITY VIGIL — GREG IRWIN
Calif. Group Files Complaint Against LDS Church over Prop. 8 The founder of Californians Against Hate, a non-profit group dedicated to fighting Proposition 8, has filed a complaint against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints alleging that the church had not disclosed all of its non monetary contributions to ProtectMarriage.com, a campaign supporting the measure to re-ban gay marriage in the state. In a fourpage sworn statement filed Nov. 13 with California’s Fair Political Practices Commission’s enforcement Fred Karger division, California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown, Jr. and Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff, Fred Karger accused the Utah-based church of being “highly secretive about its massive involvement in the campaign” to pass Proposition 8. “[B]ut we managed to piece together evidence of some of their more visible activities done directly to communicate with California voters,” Karger wrote. In his letter, Karger raised questions about a number of activities he said the church did not report. These included the operation costs of phone centers in Utah and Idaho and how many calls volunteers in each center made to non-LDS California voters; the use of Mormon volunteers to canvass the homes of nonmember voters; and the availability of church-produced satellite broadcasts and “very professionally produced” internet commercials to non-Mormons. Additionally, Karger questioned the financing of buses that allegedly brought out-of-state Mormons to California to participate in rallies held on the three Saturdays before election day. “There were reports that these demonstrators were mostly Mormons, and that many were bussed in from Utah and surrounding states,” Karger wrote. “We have heard that some of the busses had out-of-state license plates. Who paid for the buses, travel costs, meals and other expenses of all the Mormon participants? No contributions were reported.” The key point of contention in
all cases, Karger stressed, was the availability of church campaigns to the general public. While California Election Law does not require organizations like the LDS Church to report such non-monetary activities if they fall under the category of “member communication,” Karger said the church’s efforts were “instead specifically targeted at California’s 17 million voters” — a situation which he said violates the state’s Political Reform Act. To further showcase what he considers the LDS Church’s wrongdoing, Karger compared the church’s non-disclosure of such activities with the reporting of two other groups involved in the ‘Yes on 8’ campaign: New Jersey’s National Organization for Marriage and Colorado-based Focus on the Family. NOM, he said, reported $210,634.75 in non-monetary contributions while Focus on the Family reported $83,790. In a letter dated Nov. 21 and posted to Californians Against Hate’s Web site (californiansagaisnthate.blogspot.com), FPPC Executive Director Roman G. Porter wrote that his organization would proceed with an investigation. He stressed, however, that the department’s agreement to investigate did not constitute “any determination about the validity” of Karger’s allegations. In an interview with the Salt Lake Tribune, Porter later encouraged the public to “reserve judgment” about the investigation until such time as the FPPC could investigate the complaint fully. He added that the organization had not set a timeline on the investigation. If, however, the FPPC determines that the LDS Church violated the law, Porter said that they could face a fine of up to $5,000 per violation and the possibility of facing a civil lawsuit that could end in the church having to pay “three times the amount of unreported or misreported contributions.” Karger said that he was pleased the FPPC had decided to investigate, and that he hoped the LDS Church would “fully cooperate with the investigation.” LDS spokesman Scott Trotter said that the church had received a copy of the complaint. “We will be sending information to the FPPC and believe that any investigation will confirm the Church’s compliance with applicable law,” he said. Q For the full text of Karger’s letter visit californiansagaisnthate.blogspot.com.
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Q Utah Son of ‘Yes on 8’ Organizer Speaks Out by JoSelle Vanderhooft
One thing that many supporters of anti-gay legislation have in common is gay or lesbian children. Eagle Forum founder and Equal Rights Amendment opponent Phyllis Schlafly has an openly gay son. Former presidential candidate and anti-gay pundit Alan Keyes’ daughter Maya came out as lesbian in 2005. And the late Sen. William “Pete” Knight also has a gay son, David, who made headlines when he publicly opposed Proposition 8, the controversial measure that re-banned gay marriage in California last month. In 2000, his father championed California’s Proposition 22, the original legislation banning gay marriage that the state supreme court overturned this May. Now, Gary Lawrence can be added to that number. As State LDS Grassroots Director, Lawrence was a linchpin in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ much-publicized (and much-criticized) campaign to pass Proposition 8, despite the fact that his only son, 28-year-old Matt Lawrence, is gay. The story the younger Lawrence tells is a familiar one: his family, like those of many Mormons, has now been torn apart by the legislation. “My dad knew that this would upset me, but he still thought it was worth it to go ahead and ruin our relationship over this,” said Lawrence in a telephone interview from his home in Riverside, Calif. “Yeah he has his convictions, and yeah he believes gay marriage is wrong, but is it really worth it, estranging your son?” Now, the younger Lawrence says he is resigning from the church in which he has raised (he has not attended services since age 16). Although he says the LDS Church ultimately has a “pretty good” record when it comes to issues such as raising children, being kind to others, and serving those in need, he says he will no longer defend anything the church does. “When people would say, ‘Oh yeah, you guys believe in polygamy,” I would always correct them. … [But] now it’s like, no more. If people have misconceptions about the Mormon
Church, by all means run with it, think what you want,” he says. “They made an enemy out of me, flat out.” Stunned and angered over his family’s support of the measure, he adds that he is no longer speaking to his parents or his three sisters. While he still loves his family, he just feels too hurt and betrayed. “I haven’t talked to them,” he says. “On Thanksgiving, my mom sent an email saying we want you to come out, and I basically told them to go away. I told them before the election, ‘If this passes, do not expect me around. Christmas, nothing.’” This is not the first time Lawrence and his family — and in particular his father — have clashed over the issue of homosexuality. As a teenager, Lawrence says his parents sent him to several therapists and then to live with relatives in Utah when they
guilty like, why do I have these feelings, and I want to a good Mormon, but I’m just not attracted to girls. It’s really rough being a gay Mormon fifteen-year-old. I feel sorry for anybody in that situation.” Still, upon returning home to California, Lawrence said his relationship with his family improved as he entered adulthood. Although he is a staunch Democrat and his father a dedicated Republican, he says the two regularly teased each other about politics. But then one day in 2000, Lawrence went to his father’s garage and discovered two palates of Yes on Proposition 22 signs. In tears, Lawrence said he tried to drag the signs to the trash can while his father attempted to intervene. Almost the same thing happened this year, when Lawrence discovered canvassing information in his father’s
in fact, that he said he spent most of Election Day by himself, drinking to numb the sinking feeling that Proposition 8 would pass, a fact he blames in part on gay people who didn’t vote, assuming that a “blue” state like California would never enact such legislation. He says he hopes that Proposition 8’s success will serve as a “kick in the ass” for gay people everywhere to become more politically aware. Indeed, it would seem that it has. Since Nov. 4, Proposition 8 foes in all 50 states have staged demonstrations, some amassing thousands of participants, demanding marriage equality. While Lawrence approves of these protests and hopes to join one some day, he says the pain is too great for him to do so now. “I’d love to get move involved, but almost going to these things, I just get
discovered he was gay. “They thought I was hanging around with gay people and that’s what made me gay,” Lawrence explains. “So if they removed me from that and moved me to Utah with all the good, upstanding Mormons, I wouldn’t be gay anymore, it makes no sense at all.” “I admit I was a rebellious little brat. I was trying to figure myself out and sneaking out at night, and my parents were just being driven insane,” Lawrence confesses. “I guess they couldn’t handle it anymore.” Nonetheless, he describes the experience as “quite a blow.” In a previous interview with Andrew Callahan, a former Mormon who founded the antiProp. 8 Web site, Lawrence said his cousins were “homophobic” and often called him epithets such as “faggot” in public, while Lawrence’s aunt and uncle “did nothing to discourage his behavior.” “I was really unsure about my feelings,” he says of that time. “I felt
office. The elder Lawrence, he says, tried to dismiss the issue quickly. “He got all serious and said, ‘I just want you to know that I’m working on the [Yes on] Prop. 8 [campaign], and let’s just agree to disagree.’” “It felt like someone punched me in the stomach,” Lawrence remembers. “My dad’s a smart guy, and he can come up with his own opinions, but it’s not like I can just ignore this or we can just get back to normal after this.” His father’s political involvement hit him particularly hard this time, Lawrence says, because the state Supreme Court’s ruling on gay marriage had filled him with “so much hope,” even though he currently has no plans to marry. “I was happy,” he says. “[It meant] I can be monogamous and happy and have a white picket fence and live with somebody someday. It just seems like there was some hope for the future and when that got taken away, I took it very personally.” Lawrence took it so personally,
so thoroughly pissed off,” he explains. When asked if he thinks his own sexuality influenced his father’s support of Prop. 8, Lawrence says yes. “I know he’s ashamed. I’m a disappointment to him,” he says. “The last couple years he looks at me with sadness in his eyes, like, ‘It’s never too late to change.’ I’ve always been a disappointment to my dad.” Asked if he thinks he and his family will ever reconcile, Lawrence says he hopes so. “As pissed off as I am at my family, they’re still my family and I love them. I’m not trying to bag on my family,” he says. “I love my mom. … I got [an email from her] last night saying my father had been threatened. I sent an email back and said, you pissed in your bed, now sleep in it. It hurt me to have to write that, but all [his] information is public. I hope nothing happens, I hope they don’t get hurt. But if you piss off all these people you’re not going to get any sympathy for me.” Q
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Q mmunity HEAL Utah The Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah will hold a panel discussion on renewable energy in Utah, covering such issues as geothermal power, solar energy, green architecture and the possibility of a community-scale wind power installation. Panelists include: Richard Clayton, executive vice president of Raser Technologies; René Fleming (Conservation Coordinator for the City of St. George); Joe Thomas, mayor of Spanish Fork, and Salt Lake City Councilman and architect Søren Simonsen. A benefit reception will follow. When: Dec. 8, 6:00–9:00 p.m. Where: Abravanel Hal, 123 W South Temple Info/RSVP: healutah.org
No Milk for Cinemark A group of gay rights activists is advising movie-goers not to patron Cinemark Theaters when going to see Milk, a biopic about California’s first openly gay elected official Harvey Milk coming to theaters in wide release on Dec.5. The reason behind their protest: Alan Stock, the CEO of Cinemark, donated $9,999 to the ‘Yes on 8 Campaign,’ which advocated for the passage of California’s Proposition 8, which revoked the rights of gay couples to marry in the state. Cinemark also owns CinéArts and Tinseltown theater chains. Info: nomilkforcinemark.com. Utah Cinemark locations can be found at www.cinemark.com/tspage.asp.
Dialogue on Discrimination Sponsored by the Salt Lake City Human Rights Commission under the direction of Mayor Ralph Becker and City Council Chair Jill Remington Love, the Dialogue on Discrimination Series will conclude in December. Started in November, these dialogues allow the public to discuss the many forms of discrimination in round-table discussions facilitated by guest speakers. Upcoming dialogues include: racism (Dec. 4, 6:00 p.m. at the U of U Alumni Hall, School of Medicine, 26 S 2000 E); faith (Dec. 5, 6:00 p.m., Westminster College Special Events Room, 1840 S 1300 E); and sexual orientation (Dec. 11, 7:00 p.m., Tenth East Senior Center, 237 S 1000 E). Info: slcgov.com/mayor/divHR
Equality Utah Bill Passes Legislative Committee On Nov. 19 the Judiciary Interim Committee voted 10-4 to give favorable recommendation to a bill that would allow same-sex partners, among other relatives, to bring suit in cases of wrongful death. First introduced in this year’s legislative session by Democratic Salt Lake City Sen. Scott McCoy, the bill seeks to widen the number of individuals who can sue for wrongful death to include all financial dependents. Utah law currently permits only parents, children and married spouses this right. Earlier this year the Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee gave the bill a favorable recommendation. However, the bill saw no debate on the Senate floor and
lawmakers bounced it back to the Senate Rules Committee — the body responsible for assigning bills — days before the session’s end. Now the bill is part of local gay rights group Equality Utah’s Common Ground Initiative. This is a series of six bills aimed at securing such things as a statewide domestic partner registry, equal access to health insurance benefits and fair housing and employment laws for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Utahns. The bill’s connection to the initiative was a bone of contention during this month’s debates. Although McCoy insisted that his legislation did not go against Utah’s ban on gay marriage, a number of individuals testified to
Mormons Resigning Membership After Prop. 8 Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans weren’t the only ones displeased with the LDS Church’s involvement in efforts to pass Proposition 8, the controversial measure which re-banned gay marriage in California. It seems a lot of Mormons are mad, too. And many of them are resigning their church memberships. Two days after a narrow margin of California voters passed the constitutional amendment on Nov. 4, Andrew Callahan, owner of the anti-Prop. 8 Web site SigningForSomething. org, put up a page giving LDS people information on resigning their membership. Since then he said nearly 700 people have posted their intent to resign, or actual letters of resignation. “Maybe 140 or 180” of these he added, said they resigned over the church’s opposition to gay marriage before the election. Approximately 500 have stated their intent after the amendment’s passage. “There are cases where some families — in some cases entire extended families — are leaving the church,” he said. “Some people are very, very angry.” Once an LDS high priest, Callahan is one such angry person. Shortly after the LDS Church began encouraging members to donate money and volunteer their time to ensuring Proposition 8’s passage, Callahan and other likeminded Mormons set up SigningForSomething.org in protest. “This just reminded me so much of the racial bigotry that Mormon leaders have historically been so famous for,” he said at the time. “Our past leaders insisted that racial bigotry against blacks was God’s divine idea, now current ones are promoting this same
kind of bigoted nonsense about gays and lesbians.” Callahan’s Web site, and his letters to LDS officials urging them to rethink their stance on Prop. 8, soon attracted the ire of church leadership. At first, Callahan said leaders just told bishops to ignore him. And when Callahan persisted, he said his bishop asked him to resign his membership. When he refused to do so, Callahan said his bishop told him he would face a disciplinary hearing on Sept. 26. On the day the hearing was to take place, however, Callahan said he received an email from his stake president Weldon Sleight, stating that the hearing had been postponed “given this politically charged election season.” Although the email (which Callahan has posted to his Web site) suggested moving the hearing to November, Callahan said he has yet to hear anything about a new date from church officials. His letters to Sleight on the subject, he added, go unanswered. “Not even an ‘I got your letter’ or ‘we haven’t made a decision,’” Callahan said. Callahan, however, has been receiving scores of letters from Mormons across the country who say they are intending on resigning long before a bishop asks them to. “I have never been ashamed to be affiliated with the LDS Church, even though I have long since been inactive and do not adhere to their doctrine. I am ashamed now,” wrote Robert Shingleton of Cottonwood Heights, Utah. “Now, I want no part of the LDS religion and I will not have my name associated with the LDS Church [sic].” “I can personally attest to the fact
the contrary, including Eagle Forum President Gayle Ruzicka. Ruzicka argued that the California Supreme Court cited similar protections in handing down its historic decision that temporarily allowed gay marriage in the state. “Maybe on their own, by themselves, [the Common Ground bills] seem harmless enough [but] they add up,” the Salt Lake Tribune quoted Ruzicka as saying. Sen. Greg Bell, R-Fruit Heights, disagreed, however. “This does nothing to undermine traditional marriage,” he said. “There are relationships in our society that do warrant some governmental protections.” The committee approved the bill after adding language stating that the protections it offered could not be interpreted as elevating a relationship to the status of a marriage or civil union. that families are being torn asunder due to the First Presidency Message in support of Proposition 8 and urging members to do whatever they can in seeking the passage of such a measure,” wrote David San Filippo of Port Hueneme, Calif. in a resignation letter posted to standingforsomething.org on Nov. 18. “I cannot sit idly by and watch an organization to which I belong help strip my fellow Americans of their rights in the name of Christ. To do so would be in direct violation of what He taught and revealed through the Prophet Joseph Smith.” “I disagree with those who say the church does more good than bad and that it teaches good morals,” wrote Seth Anderson of Tempe, Ariz. on Nov. 17. “The church fails as a moral guide. The standard of good and moral in the church is what ‘God’ says which is what the ‘prophet’ [sic] says, which changes from time to time, thereby providing no moral criterion by which to live.” In addition to these and other former Mormons posting to his Web site, Callahan said he knows several families where all or almost all members are resigning their membership. Indeed, three of Callahan’s four children are leaving. As for himself, Callahan said he will not resign unless his wife does. “I’ll let them excommunicate me,” he said. “Maybe I’m just being cantankerous, but I refuse to do it just because they asked me to do it.” “I really think that the church just completely, to quote our President, ‘misunderestimated’ the backlash,” he said. “In some ways they have to be sorry that they won. I think people are justified in speaking out against them because they have done a horrible thing. … They purposefully, intentionally and willfully trod on people’s rights. That’s a bad thing to do and that’s gonna get people angry with you.” Q
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Q Utah Our Store to Honor Day Without Art for Gallery Stroll This month, the People with AIDS Coalition of Utah’s Our Store will participate in Gallery Stroll, a monthly art exhibition in which several Salt Lake City galleries roll out work by local and out-of-state artists. December is a particularly appropriate time for Our Store to join Gallery Stroll, said director Toni Johnson, because the month’s theme ties in with World AIDS Day. To commemorate people who have died of AIDS, participating galleries will cover at least one of their displayed pieces as part of A Day Without Art. PWACU will do the same at Our Store: Your Thrift Alternative where it will show work by four local artists, three of whom are people with HIV/AIDS. “This is going to be our first time sponsoring Gallery Stroll, and I, of course, think that [having this theme
for our first time] is really awesome,” said Johnson. A Day Without Art, Johnson explained, marks Our Store’s entry as a permanent Gallery Stroll venue. Although the store is open to displaying artwork by any local artist, Johnson said that it gives a preference for local artists with HIV/AIDS. Artists featured at Our Store’s first Gallery Stroll are Stanley Trujillo, Matthew Gerber, Sandy Parsons and Dewayne Sessions, the latter a person with AIDS and a long time PWACU member who recently passed away. Johnson said that Sessions’ piece, a circle plate displaying the red HIV/ AIDS Awareness ribbon and ribbons for a number of other causes, has special meaning for her, because Sessions created it during a PWACUsponsored art class. “I was there when he made it,” she said. True to the day’s theme, one piece, a work by Gerber, will be covered for the night and unveiled the following day. All pieces will be for sale. Gallery Stroll at Our Store: Your Thrift Alternative will be held Dec. 5 from 6:00–9:00 p.m., and artwork will be displayed and available for purchase until the next Gallery Stroll in January. Light refreshments will be provided courtesy of City Gourmet. To learn more about Gallery Stroll and its venues visit gallerystroll.org.
SLCPD Adds Hate Crime Suspect to Most Wanted List On Nov. 21 the Salt Lake City Police Department added a man accused of assaulting a gay teenager to its Most Wanted list. Twentyyear-old Fa Moi Moi allegedly attacked the 18-year-old victim on Aug. 9 on Capitol Hill’s Churchill Drive, a popular hang out for teens and college-aged young adults. The victim told police that a female with Moi Moi asked if he was gay. When the victim didn’t respond and tried to walk away, he said Moi Moi assaulted him and two other people. The victim has since undergone reconstructive surgery on his orbital bone — the series of seven bones surrounding the eyeball. Moi Moi is charged with two counts of aggravated assault (a first degree felony) with a hate crime enhancement. If convicted he could face five years to life in prison and a fine of $10,000 for each count. Salt Lake City Police spokeswoman
Lara Jones said law enforcers added Moi Moi to their most wanted list in hope of “increasing the pressure, not to mention the eyes” on him. As more Utahns are visiting the police department’s Web site, Jones said the likelihood of someone who knows Moi Moi’s whereabouts is increased. “We’re hoping the magic of the net can help us locate him if not [get him to] turn himself in,” she said. Nicknamed “Junior,” Moi Moi is of Polynesian descent with brown hair and blue eyes. Police suspect that he has fled to Hawaii and are working with law enforcement offices in the island state to locate Moi Moi. Individuals with information on the fugitive are asked to call the Salt Lake City Police Department at (801) 799-3000.
Old World Christmas Market The Salt Lake Downtown Alliance is sponsoring a Christmas Market this holiday season. Modeled after European open-air markets, the Old World Christmas Market will feature a number of holiday items including handmade crafts, early evening Commuter Caroling, delicious baked goods and savory spiced cider and hot chocolate. The marketplace is open daily through Dec. 6 at Gallivan Plaza.
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For the next month, bring your nonperishible food or toiletry items so we can
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Gay Geeks Hail to the Geek by JoSelle Vanderhooft
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Who would have thought that just eight days after the 2008 presidential election (at the time I’m writing this, at least) that so many things would change? Not only has Proposition 8 passed, it seems to have ushered in a whole new era of gay rights activism, especially here in Salt Lake City. But you can read the rest of the paper for all that. Let’s talk about President-elect Barack Obama, he of the sound policies, the hope, the “yes we can!” and the general awesome sauce. He’s a leader, he’s a visionary, he can actually speak in complete sentences. He’s also an unabashed geek. Oh, I know. When I heard the first rumors I thought they were too good to be true. I laughed when my girlfriend told me the story of Obama being a dork and treating his wife’s belt like an old school Star Trek communicator. But then there came Leonard Nimoy (a.k.a. Mr. Spock)’s testimony on NPR’s Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me that Obama had flashed him the Vulcan signal at a political event in 2006. And the Daily Telegraph’s report that the presidentto-be collects Spiderman and Conan the Barbarian comics, has read all seven Harry Potter books and adores Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. Yep. ONE OF US! ONE OF US! GOOBLE GOOBBLE GOOBLE! Wanting to do my patriotic duty in helping the Obama administration be, um, less surreal than the last eight years, I have spent several days thinking of ways our new leader can use his geeky powers for good. After much consideration, meditation and repeat viewings of Plan 9 from Outer Space, I came up with the following ideas. I have dutifully submitted them to change.gov, where Obama is asking for input on where to take this country in the next four years.
• Sirius (or if you are a Harry Potter purist, Snuffles) • Akamura • K-9 • Santa’s Little Helper • Spot (Although technically this was the name for Data’s cat in several Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes, it is still a noble and worthy name) 2. When you have named said dog, be sure to post pictures of him or her complete with amusing captions to icanhascheezburger.com. “PRESIDENCEY: BUSH DID IT RONG,” “I’M IN UR WITEHOWSE UNDOIN UR POLICEES” or “YOU CAN HAS HOPE” might be amusing to use. Note: If you are uncertain how to post to this site, ask one of your daughters. 3. During a discussion on what to do about Iraq and Afghanistan, things will probably get pretty tense. When two or more of your generals begin arguing, interrupt them by saying, “Gentlemen you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!” 4. Speaking of Dr. Strangelove, however, please do not tell Vladimir Putin that he is after your “precious bodily fluids.” Probably not a good idea with the situation in Georgia being what it is. 5. Please make the new Star Trek movie not suck. If you can win Virginia, I know you can do this. 6. Please don’t let your daughters watch the Twilight movie. Trust me. 7. Please give a Presidential Medal of Freedom to Hayao Miyazaki. Or at least name a city after him or something. 8. Do a guest voice on South Park, like famous people with senses of humor used to do. Maybe be a squirrel or a talking rock. 9. Tell the nation your official super hero identity. If you don’t have one, at least put an end to the rumor that you are really Spiderman (People found out you were a Spidey fan and they talk, Dear President-elect Obama, Congratulations on winning the elec- you know?). 10. Right as you’re sworn into office, tion, and on being what I assume to be rickroll the entire country by projectour nation’s first geeky president! At last, the American people have a leader ing that Rick Astley music video onto who knows the difference between Star the U.S. Capitol. Or better yet, Barack Wars and star wars and who can locate roll everyone by projecting this video instead: tinyurl.com/5c3kak. Arrakis on a map. As a fellow geek, I Mr. President-to-be, with these hope to advise you on some key issues suggestions and an army of patriotic that may effect your presidency. American geeks at your back, I am sure 1. Obviously, the first big decision your presidency will be as nerdy as it you face as president is choosing a dog for your daughters. When you have de- is successful. Qapla’! cided on a sufficiently hypoallergenic JoSelle Vanderhooft pet, you will need to choose a suitably P.S. Any chance we’ll see Obama name. I recommend the following: action figures complete with budget • Ein balancing action™ any time soon? • Chewbacca 1 8 | QSa lt L a k e | issue 117 | Dece mber 4 , 20 0 8
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fear of anger in Western society, particularly in Utah? Why is it that we as a community have been buying into this notion that rage is too powerful an emotion? Because it just might “get out of control?” Because “power corrupts?” Because we’re “supposed to be ‘better’ than that?” As nearly any other human being with a beating heart would, I have felt such hot anger in countless moments in my young life that it has scared me to know how intoxicating rage can be. A lot of those moments have been the direct result of our current circumstances as a nation, as a community of queers. It is misdirected rage that is a problem: when it becomes violence against innocent people, like a woman or child who is beaten by the husband; like bullies will do to classmates — among countless other instances I could cite ad nauseum. When I hear people complain about feeling “used,” “attacked,” “targeted,” or “singled-out” because they happen to fit in with a particular demographic that has actively pursued the abridgment of rights of their fellow citizens — namely, religious or non-queer people in this instance — then I find it regrettable, but no less speaking from privilege. My anger, as tempestuous, as unpredictable, as vitriolic and sarcastic as it may be is completely legitimate. Queer or not, if you tell me to keep my head down, to “turn the other cheek,” and then recite Martin Luther King Jr or Gandhi to justify your own passiveaggressive approach and invalidate my genuine feelings, then you better get out of my way. There’s some real work to be done and “flower power” isn’t gonna do it. I think back to a pamphlet that was handed out at New York City Pride festivities by members of the Queer Nation back in 1990: “They deflect [our anger], by saying ‘I’m not like that’ or ‘Now look who’s generalizing’ or ‘You’ll catch more flies with honey ... ‘ or ‘If you focus on the negative you just give out more power’ or ‘You’re not the only one in the world who’s suffering.’ They’ve taught us that good queers don’t get mad. They’ve taught us so well that we not only hide our anger from them, we hide it from each other. WE EVEN HIDE IT FROM OURSELVES. We hide it with substance
abuse and suicide and overarhcieving (sic) in the hope of proving our worth. They bash us and stab us and shoot us and bomb us in ever increasing numbers and still we freak out when angry queers carry banners or signs that say BASH BACK. For the last decade they let us die in droves and still we thank President Bush for planting a fucking tree, applaud him for likening [people with AIDS] to car accident victims who refuse to wear seatbelts. LET YOURSELF BE ANGRY. Let yourself be angry that the price of our visibility is the constant threat of violence, anti- queer violence to which practically every segment of this society contributes. Let yourself feel angry that THERE IS NO PLACE IN THIS COUNTRY WHERE WE ARE SAFE, no place where we are not targeted for hatred and attack, the self-hatred, the suicide — of the closet. The next time some straight person comes down on you for being angry, tell them that until things change, you don’t need any more evidence that the world turns at your expense. You don’t need to see only hetero couples grocery shopping on your TV ... You don’t want any more baby pictures shoved in your face until you can have or keep your own. No more weddings, showers, anniversaries, please, unless they are our own brothers and sisters celebrating. And tell them not to dismiss you by saying ‘You have rights,’ ‘You have privileges,’ ‘You’re overreacting,’ or ‘You have a victim’s mental-
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ity.’ Tell them ‘GO AWAY FROM ME, until YOU can change.’ Go away and try on a world without the brave, strong queers that are its backbone, that are its guts and brains and souls. Go tell them go away until they have spent a month walking hand in hand in public with someone of the same sex. After they survive that, then you’ll hear what they have to say about queer anger. Otherwise, tell them to shut up and listen.” —“QUEERS READ THIS” Anonymous, June, 1990 Allies: If by supporting equality for queer people you are suddenly finding yourself on the receiving end of hateful statements and behaviors, perhaps alluding to you being a queer, then do what we’ve had to do since our earliest years: stand up and reclaim your dignity, despite the circumstances. Take pride in knowing that you are anxiously engaged in the cause of equality. Take pride in being lumped in with the queers. Take pride in your community, because community isn’t just a word that means “LGBT people,” it means you as well. Fellow queer people: If my anger offends you, let it wake you up to the various forms of violence that are still going on around you. If you can’t see it, look closer. If you don’t know what to look for, educate yourself. But, until every single person on this planet is protected from violence and hate, don’t you dare tell me not to be angry; you’ll only piss me off even further.
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The following interview was presented at a live forum at the Salt Lake City Library on Nov. 21 and broadcast on KRCL’s RadioActive. ov. 27 marked the 30th anniversary of the assassination of Harvey Milk. Elected to the Board of Supervisors in 1977, Milk’s activism and universal vision of social justice ignited a movement and changed history. Last month, FOCUS Films released the eagerly awaited feature Milk, starring Sean Penn and directed by Gus Van Sant. In the shadow of Proposition 8 and other anti-gay measures, I spoke with Milk screenwriter, Dustin Lance Black to ask, “What Would Harvey Do?”
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Troy Williams: Welcome back to Salt Lake City.
Duane Lance Black: Thank you. I love being here. This is where it’s all happening.
TW: The film couldn’t have come out at a better time.
DLB: Sort of, right? I never could have predicted this moment.
TW: A lot of people in our audience probably know Harvey Milk. But for those who don’t, talk about him. Why is he the worthy subject of a feature film?
DLB: Most people don’t know who Harvey Milk is. He’s one of the most significant people in the gay and lesbian movement. There’s no really popularized recorded history of the man. There are great recorded histories. One is a fabulous documentary from 1984, The Times of Harvey Milk, but it was made over 25 years ago. I think the fact that people don’t know about him is why it needed to be done. What people do know about him is that he was the first openly gay man elected to public office in this country. And in a very short time, eleven months in office, he was able to create and pass gay and lesbian legislation and protections that were unheard of. And most notably, he defeated Proposition 6 in California, at a time when anti-gay legislation was sweeping the country. Anita Bryant and her ‘Save the Children’ campaign were defeating gay and lesbian rights initiatives and striking gay and lesbian protection laws across the country, very successfully. In a time that felt more homophobic than today, Harvey was able to win and defeat Anita Bryant and John Briggs in 1978. Proposition 6 would have
removed all gay and lesbian teachers from public schools, and even those who supported them. That sounds radical, but such laws were passing quite easily across the country. And it was polling upwards of 80 percent for passage when he started fighting against it. It makes us ask a lot of questions about why he could win then, and why Proposition 8 was such a defeat for us a few weeks ago. TW: What really inspired me about Harvey Milk is his broad, expansive vision of social justice. He fearlessly went into different communities to build alliances. Communities that you wouldn’t even think of as allies — ethnic communities yes, but also people with disabilities, labor unions, elderly people …
Harvey was not elected by gay people. He won office because he did outreach to the labor guys. DLB: Religious communities. TW: Yes. DLB: Well, it was divisive. We can look back and be like, wow, how cool that he pushed this idea of coming out. That wasn’t the coolest idea in the ’70s. A lot of the gay leaders at the time were like, “It’s not safe for a lot of people to do it, and we’re probably going to piss a lot of people off.” Harvey’s philosophy was like, “No, if you come out, if you self-represent, they’ll know that they know one of you, and they’ll be at least twice as likely not to vote against you.” The gay leaders at the time were like, “No, we can’t do that!” He started this coming out campaign in San Francisco, and it quickly spread to Los Angeles. He called for all gay people to come out. And not just to friends, but to come out to family members, pastors, bishops and your fellow
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workers — and to start that education. Now I can start to go off! Because this is exactly the lesson that was missed and the mistake that was repeated recently in California. TW: Go there. Proposition 8. You live in California. As you were watching it all, you had to be thinking how Harvey might have organized. DLB: Yeah, I worked closely with the people who were doing ‘No on 8’ campaigning. I didn’t agree with their philosophy. We fought. But I was still hopeful. I watched 20 plus million dollars being spent without a single gay person in a commercial, without the word gay or lesbian ever appearing in a single piece of literature or a yard sign. People didn’t know what was being argued about. All they heard was the other side. Their very clear message was, “gay people are going to hunt down and destroy your children.” The same message that was being used in 1978. And gay people returned to the mistakes of 1977. In ’76 and ’77 when gay initiatives were coming up in Wichita, Eugene and Florida, gay leaders sent straight allies. Instead of selfrepresenting they sent them to these states and they lost time and again. It was only with the idea of self-representation, education and outreach, that Harvey was finally successful and beat Anita Bryant in 1978. TW: I really want to see the gay community jumping on board with labor unions and environmentalists and the feminist movement and linking arms together and standing strong. Because that is the message that I get from Harvey Milk. DLB: That’s what he did. Harvey was not elected by gay people. He won office because he did outreach to the labor guys. He was famous for going on construction sites and saying, “Hey I’m a fruit, I got a boyfriend at home. But you know what — I just looked you in the eye and said that, so you know I shoot straight. I’m never not going to support unions.” Harvey did outreach into the senior community. It would be nice to see gay and lesbian youth organizations volunteering at senior citizen homes today. That’s what Harvey did in San Francisco. Cleave Jones and I (Cleave is portrayed in the film by Emile Hirsch and was Harvey’s political protégé — and created the AIDS quilt) — we just released a statement on sevenweekstoequality.com and you can see what we are thinking on the next step for the movement. Harvey said in 1973, “It’s time for the gay community to stop masturbating and stop grabbing at crumbs. And to ask for what we really want and for what we really need.” It’s what every single civil rights movement has done in this country. Q Podcast the entire interview at queergnosis. com.
Snaps & Slaps SNAP: Holiday Giving For the past month, queer Utahns have worked hard protesting Proposition 8 (the controversial measure that re-banned gay marriage in California), and organizing to fight for their rights when the 2009 legislative session opens in January. As 2008 draws to a close, however, gays across the valley are turning their attention to different fights: against hunger and against despair. With the GLBT Toy Drive and the Food Drive for Equality, local queer people are working not only to better their community, but the broader community as well. At a time when America feels particularly divided over the issue of gay rights, it’s nice to see local gays trying to bridge that divide.
SLAP: Utah Boycott Maybe it’s just because we live here and therefore know what the hell is going on, but all this whining about boycotting Utah over Prop. 8 just seems so cluelessly blue state. If it’s not John Aravosis dubbing us all “a hate state,” it’s calls for avoiding the Sundance Film Festival — based in one of our most gay-friendly cities. Even sex columnist Dan Savage chimed in with bizarre ideas about Utah businesses (that they’re mostly Mormon-owned) and a few f-bombs that have provided Salt Lake City Weekly editor John Saltas with fodder for something like three angry columns now. He has a right to be pissed. This hand-wringing is about being smug, not standing in solidarity with gay Utahns, who have dealt with the LDS Church’s anti-gay shenanigans long before California had to. And, you know all about putting down Utah once again as that weird, backwards place that nobody likes. In conclusion: fuck you too, Savage.
SNAP: Mormons vs. Homosexuals Kickball Rumble It’s an understatement to say there’s not a lot of love lost between gays and Mormons right now. How to ease tensions in time for the holidays? Why, let them kick each other’s balls. Yes, Kickball Jesus Productions has organized a play off of Biblical proportions between a Mormon team and a gay team just in time for Christmas. Awash in all-caps excitement and mild innuendo, the game’s Facebook announcement promises to bring “greater understand and dialogue to the LGBT and LDS communities in SLC.” We say Amen to that!
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protesting, the goth kids went into the store without saying a word. Cigarettes lit, they ignited cans of hair spray and used them to set fire to the place. The whole sequence had the funniest Peter Murphy-styled
They act as if LDS temples have been burned to the ground song (“Burning Down Hot Topic”) in the background. At that point, I was almost in tears of laughter. It’s amazing how “topical” this episode was considering the Twilight hysteria going strong in Utah right now. OK, we get the fact that the books have sold a kazillion copies. They have spawned a movie, the author is a Mormon, and the teenage and tween girls (and some of their moms) are completely rapt with the dreamy vampire boys (who never have sex). But jeez, give me a break. If you read the local commentaries on the Twilight phenomenon, the books are suddenly a
reference to and validation of Mormon family values: you know, kids waiting to have sex, chastity, church principles, and so on, and on, and on. It’s as if LDS folks are so eager for validation and mainstream acceptance that they’ve cherry picked a few of their beliefs and made a completely new narrative that fits their world view. See, it’s not enough that David Archuleta is a talented singer. In their narrative, he was pre-ordained to win American Idol because he is a member of the church, and that was his reward from God for being young and wholesome, and that’s why all the tween girls voted for him. And the church is true, and if you don’t believe that then you are just an icky Mormon hater, so there! And it’s not just the starry-eyed, lovesick tweens living in fantasy worlds. Look at the local blogosphere’s response to the largely peaceful Prop. 8 protests. They act as if LDS temples have been burned to the ground, California Mormons have been killed in their sleep, and the church has been horribly scapegoated for absolutely no reason. Their fear and hysteria (which strangely is not being tamped down by the church, surprise, surprise) is completely over the top, considering that most of the vandalism to LDS buildings has apparently been done by teenagers, not gay terrorists. I hope there is an episode of South Park in the future that will delve into the Mormon Prop. 8 crap storm. Only their over-the-top, slightly perverse brand of satire could make any sense of it all. Ciao, babies. Q Ruby Ridge sponsors Third Friday Bingo at First Baptist Church at 777 S. 1300 East every ... well, third Friday of the month.
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“Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year” was clearly not living — what’s the word I’m looking for? — today. The holidays have always been full of emotions, stress and emotional stress, but The Holidays 2008 will prove to be more unique than in years past. Some of us are avoiding going home for Christmas, due to a falling out with our family over Proposition 8. Others of us have lost our “jobs,” our “pensions,” our “retirement funds,” or, as they like to say on Wall Street, “everything I’ve ever owned, and now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to jump off this ledge and there’s nothing you can do to stop me.” It’s a bleak time to be not just an American, but also a gay American. In fact, it reminds me of an old Scandinavian joke: “Things may be bad, but at least the funeral industry is booming.” On second thought, I don’t think
it’s a Scandinavian joke, but instead a joke from Turkey. Maybe it’s Italian. The point is, Six Feet Under is a great show. We can’t get married, we’ve lost our job, our favorite TV shows keep getting canceled, and Sarah Palin has announced she’s pregnant with octuplets. We may as well stay in bed until Valentine’s Day. Sorry, that’s even worse. We may as well stay in bed until St. Patrick’s Day. Everything sucks, life should be over, let’s all order a double cheeseburger with a side order of depression, and hold the double cheeseburger. I couldn’t disagree more (with myself, apparently). There has never been a better time to be a gay American. I went to a preview of the new film Milk last week and needless to say, the film did or did not drive me to tears. For what it’s worth, I do not cry in public. So if you were at the film and thought you saw me crying, then
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you actually saw someone else. While most gay men and women are familiar with the story of Harvey Milk, it’s worth summarizing here: A gay man in his 40s becomes elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1978, thus becoming the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California. He was later assassinated after being in office for only 11 months, and is now one of the most well-known gay icons and martyrs for the gay rights movement. While I’ve been familiar with Milk’s story for many, many years, watching the film reminded me how similar his time was to ours, and how parallel and universal the challenges of gay men and women in the 1970s were to the challenges we face today. Proposition 6, which would have banned gay men and women from teaching in California schools in 1978, inspired the gay community to come together. Ultimately, gay men and women in California united and helped defeat the anti-gay measure by more than a million votes. An anti-gay proposition. Targeting gay men and women in California. Inspiring the gay community to unite in historical numbers. Huh. Where have we heard this before? Milk also points out that Anita Bryant, an ardent anti-gay activist, did not defeat the gay rights movement, but rather brought the gay commu-
nity together as not even Harvey Milk could have. He used anti-gay political enemies to motivate the gay community, and he ran for office many times until he won. He truly understood the philosophy of turning his many failures into big, fat gay successes. So we lost our job in this terrible economy. It’s difficult, but big deal. What might we learn from this experience of unemployment, and might we end up finding a better job? So gay men and women cannot get married in California. It’s heart-wrenching and immoral, but big deal. What might we learn from Proposition 8, and how might this motivate us on a new level? So we’ve been disowned by our families and uninvited to going home for Christmas. That’s depressing and difficult, but big deal. How might we open up a new dialogue with our family? I’m not naïve enough to believe that life is sugary, sunshine fills my lungs, and optimism will cure genocide, recessions and the stripping of civil rights. Nevertheless, we can transform our current challenges and setbacks into successes both personally and for the gay community. Optimism worked for Harvey Milk, and it can work for us. I’m sure Harvey Milk would agree that Christmas truly is the most wonderful time of the year. That is, if he hadn’t been Jewish. Q
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Bryan Woolley as KUTV Channel 2’s cheerful and inventive day chef probably don’t know his secret identity. Before he took up the job of teaching culinarycurious viewers how to make simple but tasty recipes 18 months ago, hose who know
Woolley delighted audiences with another art: opera. Yes, the same chef who teaches you how to bake the perfect brie en crout (French for “cheese in puff pastry”) is also a powerful tenor with a degree in music education and vocal performance from Utah
State University. His latest concert: for residents at the inpatient hospice Care Source where he sometimes teaches cooking classes. Here his penchant for bursting into Bizet and Verdi while waiting for the oven to ding lead residents to dub him “the singing chef.” The name suits him for many reasons. “I’m very passionate about the arts,” Woolley explains after a lunch hour spent slaving over a stove at the Roth Concept Center in Foothill Village, where his noon segment is filmed regularly. “And I think this is why I enjoy the culinary [arts]. Not only can you express the art and creativity sides, but the science side of cooking, which is so amazing to me.” Unsurprisingly, it was Woolley’s eclectic interest in the arts that lead him down the path to chef stardom. After graduation, he traveled the world to sing opera. On the road, he found that such places as Scandinavia, Russia, Western and Eastern Europe had one thing in common: a lot of down time between shows. To fill his hours, Woolley took lessons with local master chefs — men and women who, while not international house names, nonetheless come from family restaurants and bakeries with centuries-old pedigrees. “These are amazing master chefs who are in it because of their passion,” he explains. “Everywhere I would go I would always learn something, because I had the time to learn, and I loved it.” Eventually, Woolley settled in Logan, where he put his love of food to use teaching classes in the culinary arts. Between teaching and traveling abroad to sing, he was leading a busy life. And then KUTV called with an offer that would make him even busier: their day chef post had just opened up. Would Woolley be interested? One interview and one test run through the kitchen later, the singing chef beat out 15 other chefs for the coveted spot. Cooking on TV, as Woolley explains it, isn’t like being the head chef of a restaurant, where a menu might often be set for as long as six months. Monday through Friday he must come up with a new recipe that will be both easy and enticing enough for the home cook to shop for and follow — a goal Woolley admits
is as enjoyable as it is daunting. Another daunting task: accommodating all tastes while keeping local culture in mind, such as the fact that many teetotaling Utahns won’t have alcohol with which to cook. Nevertheless, the challenge of creating nearly 300 recipes a year is one the chef finds exciting. “It’s great, it is wonderful,” he says. “You listen to people and what they’re looking for and try and stay on top of the trends. So, just what are the trends in Salt Lake City, where Woolley now calls home? “Mostly in this area I’ve found that people tend to really like desserts,” he laughs. “And foods that remind them of childhood comfort foods.” From the feedback locals have been sending him, it seems that his desserts and comfort foods are a hit. Woolley says he now gets so many calls and emails that he isn’t able to respond to them all between the time he spends on set, teaching cooking classes and consulting for different restaurants around the valley. Add to this a possible book deal and Woolley’s description of his life as “busy” seems to be an understatement. In those rare moments when he can take a break from the kitchen, Woolley can be found spending time with friends, going on road trips, listening to concerts or playing realtime strategy games. “People think I’m kind of nerdy,” he jokes. “I love computer games.” He also loves movies, especially science fiction flicks. A favorite franchise: James Bond. His favorite movie snack? “Popcorn and diet coke,” He laughs. And when dining out with friends? “A Big Mac and french fries.” But mostly, Woolley says he just enjoys life. “I’m just a down-toearth person,” he explains. “Whatever I can do to enjoy life I do, because it’s just too short. There are just too many downfalls and too many people who don’t want you to be happy or who you are.” Q Catch Woolley’s segment “Fresh from the Kitchen” every weekday on KUTV Channel 2 from noon to 1:00 p.m. Drop by and watch him cook live during these segments at the Roth Concept Center in Foothill Village (1400 Foothill Dr #212). To get Woolley’s recipes visit his Web site chefbryanwoolley.com.
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Chef Bryan Woolley brings you three surprising dishes from a trio of Salt Lake restaurants. Chubby’s Restaurant Chubby Burger When you think of American hamburgers, you don’t always think of a Mexican restaurant. Yet on my quest to find some of the best hamburgers in the city, I just happened upon a neighborhood Mexican Restaurant called Chubby’s (955 N 1400 W). The exterior of the restaurant lacks the glitz of the larger, more expensive restaurants surrounding it and blends into the neighborhood as if to say it has always been there. Entering the restaurant you are greeted by friendly staff and told to sit wherever you would like. The restaurant is filled with booth and table combinations, eclectic Mexican folk art and sports trophies. There’s even a sign reminding you to smile, because you are always being watched by monitors. The menu offers typical dinerstyle Mexican entrées as well as American cuisine selections. Getting back to what I said earlier about burgers, one on the American menu caught my eye: the Chubby burger, a beef patty smothered with guacamole, ham and onions. I decided to take a chance and ordered it. The waitress asked if I wanted regular fries or Mexican fries. I must’ve looked confused, because she quickly explained the difference. The Mexican fries sounded more like a thick potato chip in contrast to the regular French fries we are all accustomed to. Since no hamburger is complete without French fries I weighed my options while sipping my Diet Coke. In the end, I ordered the regular fries.
While waiting for my burger, a loud Polka-style song blared from the juke box and the laughter from the diners became excited and fast. A mix of English and Spanish filled the room, competing with the accordion and tuba music that swelled and diminished into the sounds of the neighborhood diner. I took another sip of Diet Coke and turned my attention to the aforementioned Mexican folk art and sports trophies, which were proudly displayed as if in remembrance of some accomplishment outside of the restaurant. When the burger was placed in front of me, I thanked the waitress who brought me a fresh Diet Coke before leaving to wait on other tables. The burger she brought had a toasted bun and was covered with freshly-made guacamole and pan seared ham. At the burger’s side was a leaf of fresh lettuce, sliced tomatoes and a large slice of grilled onion, typical toppings. Although I was impressed with the fresh guacamole, what completely impressed me was the large slice of onion. It had also been pan seared to bring out its sweetness. As a chef, I was surprised to find these little extra steps that had been taken for a burger. With great anticipation, I took my first bite ... and it was of one of the greatest burgers I’ve tasted. The flavor of the tomatoes, grilled onion, ham and guacamole in combination with the beef patty was incredible. Never before had I combined so many flavors with a burger. I squeezed a large lake of ketchup onto my plate, dunked a French fry and was soon lost in the flavors of not quite Mexi-
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can or American but the Chubby Burger. I finished my burger, sipped the last of my Diet Coke and paid my bill. The staff thanked me for coming and I thanked them for a great experience. This is definitely one burger I will have again! Chubby’s Mexican Restaurant & Ice Cream Shoppe, 955 N 1400 West, Salt Lake City, 801-596-2070
Trio Restaurant Roasted Tomato Soup and Parmesan Flat Bread There are times that the simplest of dishes taste the best. With this in mind let me say that if you haven’t tried Trio Restaurant’s roasted tomato soup and parmesan flatbread, you should. These simple foods represent everything I have come to expect from this restaurant. I’m also calling attention to them here because smaller menu items tend to be overlooked, and often aren’t recommended to the savvy culinary palate. When entering the downtown Trio restaurant located on 900 East, the first thing that catches your attention is the beautiful contemporary décor. Comfortable booths and tables are scattered throughout a large open space surrounded by large windows. Each table is covered by a large piece of paper and beautiful place settings (I always like to fold the sharp edges of paper under to prevent paper cuts.) Diners seem to enjoy just “hanging” out and visiting over a glass of wine at this restaurant. During the summer months, you can also sit on the restaurant’s beautiful patio which is surrounded by fresh herbs and plants (the water mist dispensers above keep the patio’s temperature bearable during the summer heat). While waiting for my table the friendly staff offered me a beverage of my choice. As a waiter went to get it, I became mesmerized by
the large pizza oven in the waiting area. The aromas of baking herbs and spices enticed my senses and enhanced my overall dining experience. When I was finally seated, I simply ordered the roasted tomato soup and parmesan flatbread. It wasn’t long before a server placed a steaming cup of soup and parmesan flatbread in front of me. As I said earlier I have a passion for ordinary foods that are prepared in extraordinary ways. For example, I’m sure you have all opened a can of tomato soup and enjoyed it with a grilled cheese sandwich on a cold winter day. The difference between that canned soup and Trio’s tomato soup is the roasting, which caramelizes and heightens the ingredients’ natural flavors. Similarly, the parmesan flatbread adds a new twist on the grilled cheese sandwich. This flat crispy baked bread brushed with garlic-infused olive oil and finished off with shaved parmesan cheese serves a double purpose: The crispness of the flatbread makes it work as a wonderful cracker, and the cheese adds a twist to the old grilled cheese sandwich. Cafe Trio, 680 S 900 East, Salt Lake City, 801-533-8746
The Garden Café Club Sandwich Any chef will tell you that lunch menus can become very boring. On my quest to liven up my lunchtime a few weeks ago I ventured into the Joseph Smith building and up to the top floor which is home to The Garden Café and a fine club sandwich. While a sandwich is just a sandwich, every once in a while you find a restaurant that really hits everything that makes a sandwich a good sandwich: fresh ingredients, great presentation and, of course, the accompaniment of a bottomless glass of Diet Coke. At The Garden Café I was greeted by the host who told me I would be seated shortly. While waiting for my table I wandered around the top floor, enjoying the view of Temple Square and surrounding city. Upon being seated, I immediately noticed
the open feeling of the restaurant. The natural lighting, plants and table placements made it possible to feel like you were dining in a garden. I was greeted by my server and handed a menu. Reading it over, I thought that the food was simple and to the point. Looking at the tables nearby, I quickly noticed that presentation of the dishes were simple and clean as well. After ordering my club sandwich, sipped on my Diet Coke and just sat back to enjoy my dining experience. As I waited, I reminisced about
the club sandwiches my grandmother made when I was a child until the friendly server brought the restaurant’s take on the dish. The sandwich I had ordered was artfully and excitingly presented — cut into four pieces and arranged around a volcano of French fries. It made the memories of sitting at my grandmother’s cupboard enjoying her amazing club sandwiches come flooding back. The toasted bread, fresh tomatoes, crispy bacon, crunchy lettuce and mayonnaise used by The Garden Café are standard for a club sandwich. What truly set my grandmother’s club sandwiches apart from this standard, however, was the fact that she dipped the toasted bread into the bacon fat. Imagine my surprise when I noticed that the café’s chef had done the same thing with my club sandwich as my grandmother did when I was child. A little touch like this can make the simplest of foods extraordinary! Garden Restaurant, 15 E South Temple #1010s, Salt Lake City, 801-539-3170
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There are plenty of fun holiday shows and events this season that I could not fit in the agenda because Michael has me in a tight leash ... and leather sling. Anyhoo, through the month of December Desert Star’s performing Miracle on 42nd Street and Home for the Holidays; Hale Centre Theatre presents A Christmas Carol; Grand Theatre presents Messiah: A Community Celebration; sWerve’s charitable Giving Fest; and RCGSE’s Winter Wonderland and Sub for Santa shows. So get out and enjoy the month, and remember my birthday’s just around the corner.
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friDAY — Making its Utah premiere is a young musical called The Light in the Piazza. Pioneer Theatre Company presents this romantic musical set in 1950s Italy. A beautiful and innocent young American woman has a chance encounter with a handsome young Italian boy in a sun-drenched Italian plaza. But is their fate not to be together? This show has garnered much praise for it’s heavily orchestrated score involving classical and opera.
7:30pm, through Dec. 20, Pioneer Theatre, 300 S. 1400 East, UofU. Tickets $26–49, 5816961 or pioneertheatre.org.
Q I’ve seen this sexy five-man band from Salt Lake in the past and they’re pretty damn cool. Tonight Starmy is having a CD release party of their new album Starmaggedon. Check out this gay-friendly indie rock band — they really know how to rock. Will Sartain joins them on stage. 9pm, Urban Lounge, a private club for members, 241 S. 500 East. Tickets $2–5, 24tix.com.
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SATURDAY — A fun free treat for your kids ... well, and for you too if you have a Santa fetish, is the Trolley Square Holiday Open House. There will be cookies and milk, and roasted chestnuts and hot cider. They will be offering horse-drawn carriage rides, and screening a lovely holiday movie ... I believe it’s Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 4. Tehehe! Come join the fun at this historic landmark/shopping mall. 11am–9pm, Trolley Square, 650 E. 600 South. Free.
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choir as well as a gaggle of audience members, Sister creates a living nativity unlike any you’ve ever seen.
7:30pm, through Dec. 14, Jeanne Wagner Theatre, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. Broadway. Tickets $25–$37.50, 355ARTS or arttix.org.
SUNDAY — Cassar Jewelers presents a Human Rights Campaign Social. HRC members, supporters, family and friends are invited to peruse their huge WEDNESinventory of jewelry and receive a 40 DAY — percent discount (this event only). Broadway Across Refreshments will be provided by Ja- America also presents a holiday soh Prime Dining & Brew Pub. music variety tradition. Kurt bestor 7pm, Cassar Jewelers, 1164 Newgate Mall, is “Mr. Christmas on a scooter.” A Ogden. Please rsvp to 801-394-2090 ext 105 Kurt Bestor Christmas has been a or to rachel@cassarjewelers.com. much-anticipated tradition for audiences throughout the western United MONDAY — OMG! She’s States. Featuring 45 musicians leaving Brian Viglione behind. on stage, sophisticated sound and Amanda Palmer, the bisexual lights and special guests (this year half of the Brechtian punk cabaret is Jenny Oakes Baker), combined duo The Dresden Dolls is taking with warm storytelling and humor, her solo act on the road. And she’s Bestor creates an intimate rapport hitting Salt Lake tonight. Can this with concert-goers. piano-playing, harmonica-blowing, 7:30pm, through Saturday, Abravanel Hall, ukelele lover make it on her own? Or 123 W. South Temple. Tickets $17.50–$37.50, Who Killed Amanda Palmer? 355-ARTS or arttix.org.
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TUESDAY — Broadway Across America presents a holiday mystery extravaganza. Sister’s Christmas Catechism is “Forensic Files goes to Bethlehem.” Retelling the story of the nativity, as only Sister can, this hilarious holiday production is bound to become a yearly classic. Employing her own scientific tools, assisted by a local
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Q Plan-B Theatre Company presents Literary readings & Live Performances, a free one-night event. Join them for an hour-long creative and amorphous mix of poetry, literary reading and stage performance. Guests include Jean Howard and Katharine Coles, and Plan-B favorites Tobin Atkinson, Jay Perry, Matthew Ivan Bennett and April Fossen. 7pm, The Leonardo at Library Square, 209 E. 500 South. Free, planbtheatre.org.
january 7–11, 2009 Utah Gay & Lesbian Ski Week, Park City gayskiing.org january 9–11, 2009 Queer Spirit Winter Retreat, Spring City queerspirit.org 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 June 25–28, 2009 Utah Arts Festival uaf.org July 24–26, 2009 Utah Bear Ruckus utahbears.com August 1–2, 2009 Park City Arts Festival kimball-art.org August 7–8, 2009 Redrock Women’s Music Festival, Torrey redrockwomensfest.com August 19, 2009 EU Allies Dinner equalityutah.org
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Q I fell head-over-heels for Gael García Bernal in the homoerotic films Y Tu Mamá También and Bad Education. And though The Motorcyle Diaries doesn’t have any gay elements, it’s an amazing film. It’s a beautifully wrought account of the dawning of the social conscience of one of the 20th century’s most romanticized revolutionaries. A young Argentine medical student takes an eight month trip through South America, who would become the charsimatic che. 7pm, Jim Santy Auditorium, Park City Library, 1255 Park Avenue, Park City. Free, parkcityfilmseries.com.
Get Your Brass to ‘The Music Man’ by Tony Hobday
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five Tony awards in 1958, and then receiving eight more Tony nominations for its revival in 2000 (though no wins that year) certainly indicates that The Music Man is one of the most inspirational, relevant musicals of all time. Park City’s Egyptian Theatre Company is putting on a well-packaged adaptation of the hit musical during this uncertain holiday season. Artistic Director Terence Goodman says of the
barbershop quartet and ignites a renewed youthful spirit in the children of the town, especially that of 10-yearold Winthrop Paroo (Mason Johnson) whose lisp (... hmmm!) has discouraged him from speaking in public. However, Marian Paroo (Carianne H. Jones), Winthrop’s older sister and the town librarian, doesn’t immediately take to Hill’s charming advances, and Mayor Shinn (Fredric Cook) is threatened by Hill’s presence, setting out to discredit the music “professor.”
most entertaining. Bluford is built as a genuine stage performer — his onstage presence is truly unreachable by many actors. The set design by Anne M. Benson is as simple as the times and the costumes including pompadour frames, by Nancy Hill, reflect the era — although there’s much more makeup then I’d suppose for an early 1900s conservative Iowa since the mayor’s wife Eulalie Shinn (Dee Macaluso) looks like a brothel madame. Of
production: “So what I wanted was to give audiences not only a beautiful story of hope, but an uplifting look at what a wonderful country we once lived in ... ” The backdrop is the Heartland of America circa 1912 when billiards was a devil-derived game and the word ‘swell’ was shunned. The townsfolk of River City, Ia. are a bit stiff, cautious and display a “chip-on-the-shoulder” attitude. That is until a con-salesman, Professor Harold Hill (Mark R. Gollaher), steps off a very bumpy train ride stopped in reserved River City. Hill quickly sweeps the frumpy housewives-in-large-plummed-hats off their feet, distracts the four-man school board by leading them into a
In respect to performance, a lot of movement on stage and singing counterpoint-songs makes this musical quite difficult. I must commend the entire cast on a job well done. Each member of the supporting cast is in that “all-puppies-and-rainbows” character, flashing big smiles under unscathed eyes. The leads, Gollaher (in yet another great ETC performance) and Jones, are simply impressive. Cook portrays Mayor Shinn as a cartoon character — whether that is the intent or not — with animated flair, though it is occasionally difficult to understand what he’s saying. The part of Marcellus Washburn (Carleton W. Bluford), a longtime friend of Hill, is small, yet it is definitely the
course, as the theatre is quite small and intimate, it is easy to get distracted by such things as 7-layer makeup dip, or even little things that aren’t supposed to be part of the production like a square of scotch tape stuck to the back of Marian’s skirt and a distraught spider scurring in circles about the hard-footed stage. These minor distractions are easily forgotten — although I’m still a little upset about the poor frantic spider — and with a brass-filled ending, ETC’s The Music Man is a sweet local treat.
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thurSDAY — RirieWoodbury Dance Company celebrates the intriguing works of its Artistic Director Charlotte Boye-Christensen. Interiors is a full evening of her choreography, featuring a new collaboration with a local graffiti writer, Trent Call. Also restaged will be her multimedia work “Lost” inspired by the artwork of four Mexican gangmembers-turned-artists struggling to find their own identity through artistic expression. 7:30pm, through Saturday, and 2pm Saturday & Sunday, Leona Wagner Theatre, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. Broadway. Tickets $20, 355-ARTS or arttix.org.
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friDAY — A tradition for 26 years, Utah’s “other” choir (OK, can we say waygay) presents its holiday concert sure to get you into the holiday spirit. Sing We Now This Christmas (And the Rest of the Season, too). There will be familiar classics plus a new number, “A New December,” which was written for the West Coast Singers (L.A.-based gay chorus) by Utah local David Frank Long. They will also do a rendition of Kurt Bestor’s hit “Prayer of the Children.” And don’t be surprised if you get caught in a few sing-a-longs. 7:30pm, through Saturday, First Baptist Church Sanctuary, 777 S. 1300 East. Tickets $10, 800-838-3006 or brownpapertickets. com.
UPCOMING EVENTS DEC. 19 Neil Diamond, ES Arena JAN. 9 Suzanne Westenhoefer, Rose Wagner jan. 10 Fabulous Fun Bus to Wendover feb. 22 Celine Dion, ES Arena
The Music Man runs through Dec. 28 at Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main Street, Park City. Tickets $16–34, 435-649-9371 or parkcityshows.com.
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John Trobaugh: As American as Ken and G.I. Joe Interview by Tony Hobday
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John Trobaugh’s works have been censored in the past, he himself has been escorted off the Temple Square grounds and yet, he has been commissioned as a participating artist in the Salt Lake Art Center’s Liberties Under Fire: The ACLU of Utah at 50 exhibition. Plus, since the exhibit’s opening in October, at least one other local gallery has shown interest in showing Trobaugh’s photographs. hotographer
TONY HOBDAY: I recently read that as a child you played with dolls as a way to escape. Today, are your photographs an extension of that escape and how would you describe their importance to you and, hopefully, to the public?
JOHN TROBAUGH: Although they did begin as a way to escape, I see the images as a source of power as well. The power to see things as they might be. So the current series is an effort to take the dolls into the American landscape (metaphorically and literally) and photograph them and their relationships in this context. This will allow the photographs to transform a landscape, seen for the most part as straight, into one that is friendly for all including GLBTQ but also one that blurs the racial segregation that I see even in the GLBTQ community.
TH: Explain the significance of the landscape backdrops in your photographs.
JT: I find landscapes inspiring. I think the place should have significance, even if the viewer can’t immediately identify it. For every photo session I have I end up meeting both nice and not-so-nice people (one lady in a Salt Lake neighborhood told me I was in the wrong state to do these photographs). For me, that is part of the process. I don’t think the images would mean as much to me if I just used Photoshop to drop in a background. I find I react to the landscape in a meaningful way.
TH: You have taken photos in Utah featuring certain landmarks. Tell us a few and why you picked them.
JT: The best story I have from Salt Lake City is getting kicked off Temple Square. Although there are no signs forbidding photographs, and the space is treated as if it were public, I was escorted off the campus and told I was not allowed to take photographs. They said they had never seen anyone take photographs of dolls before but they were “afraid they might be used to make fun of them.” In addition, they asserted copyright to the compound
and told me that I would not be allowed to publish them without the LDS administration’s approval. What they didn’t realize is that “fair use” is applicable when a copyrighted image or object is used to make a social commentary. I dare say that the G.I. Joe and Ken dolls, as an inter-racial couple in front of the Tabernacle is a social commentary. Interestingly, the docents that approached me before the guards noticed me really thought it was a great thing that I was photographing the dolls that inspired me as a child in front of the most inspiring place in the world. TH: Your Double Duty Series was censored from exhibition a few years ago. How difficult has it been since then to show the series elsewhere? JT: I can get individual photographs in group shows, but since the censorship — to see my work in a group — the shows have been sponsored by the Andy Warhol Foundation. I have literally been told by museums and cultural arts foundations that because their funding is tied to public opinion they could not risk showing my work — even though they think my work is of great artistic value. Although, because of [Liberties Under Fire], the A Gallery [in Salt Lake City] has expressed an interest in showing my work.
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TH: One photo —“The Passion of Hollywood” — is particularly interesting for obvious reasons. Would you give us insight on its conception? JT: This photograph is a large-format Polaroid — it is 20 by 24 inches. I had to rent the Polaroid studio in New York City for a day to create this series of images. The backdrops for all these images were painted by me on a scale of about five foot by six foot (except the sauna scene). I can’t tell you what the image means, because I genuinely would like for everyone to take from it what they create in their minds. So it would be interesting to me for you to tell me what it means to you. What I can do is tell you the context and what I was thinking as it was created. The Passion of Christ movie was in theaters and this was a metaphorical response to both the movie and the director, Mel Gibson. Plus, I thought the doll looked somewhat like Mel Gibson.
This is a complex image though; on the surface there is humor, the backdrop is very serious and I painted it feeling real emotion and angst. I think a lot of people see the passion of Christ this way, but Gibson decided to make a Hollywood version of it, with his personal morals meshed. TH: The doll photographs evolve from drawings. Are you still doing drawings and exhibiting them? JT: I do still do my drawings, I will exhibit them from time to time, but mostly my drawings right now are like the precursor to the photographs rather than the end product. Q Liberties Under Fire: The ACLU of Utah at 50 exhibition runs through Jan. 31 at the Salt Lake Art Center, 20 S. West Temple For more information visit slartcenter.org. To learn more about John Trobaugh and his work, visit his Web site www.johnart.com.
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Wanna Get Away This Winter?
Gay Ski Weeks 2009 While the economy this winter is frightful, a number of places (many of them in the west) are holding delightful ski weekends for gay and lesbian skiers and snowboarders. When planning your winter getaway take advantage of rock bottom gas prices and air fare wars to attend one of these winter festivals. And speaking of air travel, this is a good time of year to consider buying flight insurance with your ticket, in case your flight is cancelled due to storms, airline bankruptcies or event cancellations. by Brad Di Iorio
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Fire & Ice 2009: Aspen, Colo. Jan. 11–18 Located roughly 425 miles from Salt Lake City (that’s six hours by car or an hour and a half by direct flight), Aspen, Colo., the appropriately-named Aspen Gay Ski Week is celebrating its 32nd year. This festival of parties and sking on all four Aspen hills benefits the Roaring Fork Gay and Lesbian Community Fund, which raises money for local high school gay and lesbian clubs and other charities supported by the local gay and lesbian community. This year’s weeklong festival, co-produced by Bryan Gonzales and Pamela Herr, will include fun events off the slopes as well, such as the comedy night A Fag, A Drag, and A Dyke. Hosted by Sister Helen Holy, aka Paul J. Williams, this show also features comedians Mark Allen Smith, Scott Kennedy and Erin Foley. Along with an opening night party at host hotel The Limelight Lodge, other off-slope events include the annual Downhill Costume Competition, with a $500 prize for best costume, and on Thursday night, a concert by the Las vegas-based Purple Reign Tribute band, fresh from their appearance on Late Night with David Letterman. For a complete schedule of events, call the reservation specialists at Stay Aspen Snowmass or visit gayskiweek.com or stayaspensnowmass. com/p-gay-ski-week. Winter Rendezvous XXV: Stowe, Vt. Jan. 28 - Feb. 1 Celebrating its 25th year, the East Coast’s largest gay ski event is the annual five day Winter Rendezvous at Stowe Mountain, Vermont. For Utahns, flying into Burlington, Vt. and renting a car would be the best way to attend this event outside of a long road trip. Put together by MJW Adventures’ owner Michael Wilson, Winter Rendezvous includes such events as snowshoe hikes, cross country skiing and a women-only dinner. Discounted tickets for all ski passes, hotel stays, and equipment rental are also available upon registration. Like most gay ski weekends, Winter Rendezvous also offers nightly entertainment, such as a performance of the Michael Swenson Comedy Hypnosis Show. Commodores Inn Resort, the host hotel, will also host opening and closing night parties featuring local DJs and the Boston Gay Men’s Chorus performing hits by ABBA and Rufus Wainwright and from the musical Spamalot. For couples looking for a more romantic getaway, civil unions are legal in Vermont and most of the hotels in Stowe offer official ceremo-
nies if planned in advance. Check out winterrendezvous.com or mjwadventures.com for all details.
WinterPRIDE: Whistler, British Columbia, Canada Feb. 1–8 Arguably the largest gay and lesbian ski week in North America, Alpenglow Productions Corporation produces this annual event at the very gay-friendly Whistler Blackcomb mountain resort in Canada. The best way to get there from Utah is to take a flight to Vancouver, Canada, and then either a bus, rental car or a charter plane the 72 miles to Whistler (when booking with American Airlines or AIR Canada, check online for the special WinterPRIDE promotion code). Alpenglow Productions offers discounted ski packages with larger discounts for booking early. And although the host hotel is The Westin Resort and Spa, WinterPRIDE also has put together deals at other partner hotels. Overall, there are 115 hotels to choose from. This year, WinterPRIDE will team up with the 2009 International Mr. Gay Competition, and 24 delegates from around the world will compete to take home the title. For the women, WinterPRIDE will also team up with Flygirl, an awardwinning, lesbian production and event company from Vancouver, that will produce two all-girl parties: Friday’s Pampered Pussy Party featuring burlesque dancers, lingerie models, sex toy demos and hot dance music, and the Shred Betties party on Saturday night. The largest mixed parties are an early, Friday evening party, called the MountianTOP Dance Party and the Saturday night Snowball party. Other events at this weekend include a Queerly Canadian Comedy show, a Bear Trap Party hosted by Hairrison Bears, the United Colors of WinterPRIDE Fashion Show featuring guest performances from delegates in the International Mr. Gay competition, AbFab Dining Experience, and of course, the Mr. Gay World Grand Finale. More details are available at gaywhistler. com.
Telluride Gay Ski Week: Telluride, Colo. Feb. 21–28 This may come as a surprise, but getting to Telluride, Colo. from Salt Lake City is remarkably tough by plane. Delta airlines offers the only direct flight to Montrose, Colo., which is 68 miles away from the city. A limited number of connecting flights is also available to the Telluride airport
(TEX) and the Montrose airport (MTJ). Those driving from Utah should be prepared for a seven-hour trip. The annual Telluride Gay Ski week benefits the Telluride AIDS Benefit, a non-profit organization committed to HIV/AIDS prevention and education. The weekend is sponsored by Telluride Mountain Village Owners Association StraightOut Media and Marketing. This year, Telluride Gay Ski Week will hold an Oscar Night T-Bag Party and opening reception on Feb. 22nd at the Historic Sheridan Opera House. Other parties include the Fly Naked with Reichen Party, featuring jewelry designed by Reichen himself, Thursday’s White Night Party, and the TAB Gala Fashion Show and Auction followed by a TAB after Party at Noir Bar. For more information, visit telluridegayskiweek.com.
Lake Tahoe WinterFest Gay and Lesbian Ski Week: South Lake Tahoe, Calif. March 1–8 The drive to South Lake Tahoe is a good eight hours or 565 miles from Salt Lake City, so flying is the fastest way to get to the 14th Annual Lake Tahoe WinterFest. Currently, inexpensive air fares to San Francisco and Oakland abound on Southwest, Delta and United Airlines, but renting a car to get to South Lake Tahoe will be required. A shuttle will run from the airport to the Lakeland Village Beach and Mountain Resort (located right on the shore of South Lake Tahoe) and to Heavenly Lake Tahoe and the Sierra at Tahoe Resort. Given Lake Tahoe’s closeness to the Nevada border, many of this weekend’s events and parties will take place in the Silver State’s casinos and bars. This year’s Lake Tahoe WinterFest will also feature two days of the celebrated Outlaugh Festival (on March 4 and 5). Dana Goldberg and Alec Mapa will headline this comedy event. Locations are still be secured. For more information, check out laketahoewinterfest.com or outlaughfestival.com.
Outboard 2009: Crested Butte, Colo. March 25–29
In its 14th year, Outboard is an online, 2000-member global community that presents a five-day event of the same name for ardent snowboarders in a location the members pick each year. About five percent of attendees are skiers and the group is inclusive of all regardless of sex, gender identity or sexual orientation.
Getting to Crested Butte by car requires extensive research as some roads to the city close during the winter. Because of this, it may be easier to take a direct flight on Delta Airlines from Salt Lake City to the Gunnison/Crested Butte Regional Airport. While drive time from Denver is about four hours, winter weather may cause delays or rerouting. This year’s host hotel is The Lodge at Mountaineer Square. Negotiated group room rates can be found at outboard.org after registering and paying a $10 processing fee, for each individual attending Outboard. As Outboard’s emphasis is on hitting the slopes, social events tend to end early in the evening. This year, however, there will be a dinner (limited to the first 100 people who sign up) and a night snowboarding event/ torchlight parade. The closing party will feature popular Denver-based DJ Foos, who has been invited back for the last five years. More information can be found at outboard. org.
Elevation 2009: Mammoth Lakes, Calif. March 18–22 In its seventh year, Elevation is known as the ‘Circuit Party’ ski week for good reason: It is presented by Los Angeles club promoter Tom Whitman, who was recently named one of OUT Magazine’s 100 people of the year. Whitman knows how to throw a party: This five day event will include seven uniquely themed parties each presided over by a wellknown DJ. To get to mammoth Lakes from Utah, fly into Los Angeles and take a direct flight into Mammoth on Horizon Air. Be warned if taking the five hour drive from Los Angeles: local police along the route are out in force to catch speeders. Elevation has blocked rooms at The Westin Monache (the host hotel), The Village at Mammoth and Mammoth Mountain Inn. The only way to access these rooms is through Jason at Cassis Travel. But if you miss out, rest assured: Many other lodging options are available, from luxurious condo rentals to budget accommodations. Event highlights this year include a no cover Welcome Event at Lakanki, happy hours before the main events, The Party at 10,000 Feet (which features a gondola ride to the main lodge)m and the Cliffhanger Party, hosted by Tom Whitman Presents and Clear Channel. Large parties are limited due to size and require cover charges. For more information, check out mammothgayski.com and tomwhitmanpresents.com.
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A bus so full Ruby had to stand the whole way to Wendover, a special guest appearance of Lucky Charms, Jello shots and rowdy gay boys and girls all add up to a fabulous fun time on the Fabulous Fun Bus to West Wendover, Nevada.
Photographer Brian Gordon snapped hundreds of shots at the first rally that drew about 5,000 people to downtown Salt Lake City. Energy was high, signs were creative and to the point, and not one rally participant ran afoul of the law. We kinda feel sorry for the many cars stuck on State and surrounding streets. Kinda. More shots can be found at bgordonphoto.com
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Lady GaGa ‘The Fame’ Joanne Stefani Germanotta aka Lady GaGa is a 22-year-old singer/songwriter whose first single “Just Dance” from her first album The Fame is streaming the airwaves. Like “Just Dance” the 14-track CD is full of popping club dance numbers. But by the fifth or sixth single, the realization that it’s nothing more than juvenile shenanigans put to words — sex, booze, partying and money — pops Lindsay Lohan into mind and the groove is lost. The album may certainly appeal to younger listeners, and will probably be featured numerous times on episodes of Gossip Girl, but unfortunately it lacks substance.
Morel ‘The Death of the Paperboy’ Openly gay singer/ songwriter Richard Morel has been producing remixing and performing edgy club hits for nearly 15 years. He has dubbed a new style of music “shoegazer disco,” which he explains as exploring rock/electronic and dance elements separately to avoid compromising one or the other. This format is featured extensively on the second disc of The Death of the Paperboy. Disc 1, a more traditional format, delves the deep reaches of the human pysche in a dark, yet angelic style. The 11-track disc carries solemn lyrical and musical elements similar to that of Depeche Mode. What is most impressive though is Morel has a unique vocal range that warms and haunts at the same time.
And, now to end in frivolity (although is it frivolous to raise hundreds of dollars for charities?) — we are at Third Friday Bingo where the camp is in high form and the fouls are anything but. Come check it ouit this month on Dec. 19 at First Baptist Church, 777 S 1300 East.
Labelle ‘Back to Now’ You see the name Labelle and you automatically think of Patti Labelle. But now the name Labelle is an incarnation of three legendary R&B artists: Nona Hendryx, Sarah Dash and of course Patti. As a long-time trio once called The Bluebelles, these three impressive women pioneered the music scene in the ’60s. They are back with a powerhouse release Back to Now, a 10-track funk/rock/ soul CD. With engaging singles that inspire to fight the good fight, Back to Now is an optimistic, in-your-face album. The single “Rollout” featuring Wyclef Jean is feminist power at its finger-snapping finest. The tribute to Rosa Parks in “Dear Rosa” is honorable albeit a bit long. To end the CD, there’s no better choice than Cole Porter’s catchy “Miss Otis Regrets.”
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“The crowds really love him,” Morris said of DJ: K. The club has yet to “lock in” a house DJ for Saturday, said Morris. In the meantime, the spot is held by a number of guest spinners. Tuesdays are disco nights and Mondays bring Monday Night Football. The club also plans on featuring performances by a number of “surprise vocalists.” “We are planning in December to have an acoustic artist here, but we haven’t nailed down all those details,” said Morris. The club has also become a popular spot for groups looking to host private parties, which Morris said can be booked from 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., when the club opens its doors to the public. Along with a party for the Ski OUT Weekend scheduled for Dec. 19, the club is filling up fast this month with bookings for Christmas parties. And true to its commitment to cater specifically to the gay community, Morris added that the club welcomes local groups such as the Utah AIDS Foundation and the Utah Pride Center to use its space for events during the day. Although the club is doing good business, Morris said a few things still have to happen for the club to become fully operational. For example, its owners are still working with the city to get a full liquor license (currently, the club is only authorized to sell beer). As soon as their license is approved, Morris said the club will hold another grand opening party in celebration. And then, of course, there is the task of readying the club for the winter holidays, one task that is fortunately near completion. “By the time this issue comes out we should be decorated for Christmas,” Morris said. Q
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The hottest new gay bar and club in Salt Lake City’s Marmalade District — the streets near Capitol Hill named after fruit trees planted there by early residents — is now open for business. Jam in the Marmalade opened its doors on Oct. 4 and threw its grand opening on Halloween weekend. In the first few months it’s occupied the heavily-remodeled space that once housed a divetrucker bar, The Cedar Lounge, co-owner Brian Morris said business is going well. “It’s been busy and we have a great crowd of people,” he said. “It’s a really great environment.” The neighborhood bar was founded by Morris and business partners Todd Croft and Robert McCarthy, who had a particular vision for a new kind of bar. All men in their late 30s and 40s, they wanted to go clubbing without having to deal with the presence of cigarette smoke. Along with a smokeless atmosphere, Jam in the Marmalade also offers patrons a list of non-alcoholic beverages, such as sports drinks. It’s also the home of hot entertainment six nights a week (currently, the club is closed on Sunday, although Morris noted that this may soon change). The club also features a line up of popular Salt Lake DJs, which they call “Jam Masters.” Every Wednesday is Big City House night, so named for a group of three to five Jam Masters who spin house music, switching off every half hour. “You get to hear a wide range of different DJ styles but [they’re] still playing the same type of music,” Morris explained. “It’s a new thing going on here in Salt Lake and it’s a lot of fun to watch and listen to and pick out different styles of different DJs.” DJ Ruckus has the floor on Thursday nights. On Fridays, DJ Mike Babbitt and DJ: K are frequent guests.
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provided. So I let my instincts as a Lady Bird Park “natural bottom” guide me into divinis fraught with danger and ing that “shaft B was to be inserted excitement. into Hole A.” Oh my, what an imWhen the root rot from provement in comfort over using the using too much peroxide on my hair carrots and potatoes that I had availis not aggravating my Mad Cow able to me back on the farm. disease, I can remember one warm Being adventurous and horny, I summer night many years and about decided to initiate my new toy and 100 pounds ago. I’m a “traditional go “hunting” at Lady Bird Park. In values” queen, from another age and addition to wearing the B.P., I was a different culture, Paleolithic if my also wearing some skimpy nylon chronology is accurate. I learned to running shorts (fluorescent pink, of cruise the old-fashioned way, to hunt course) and a T-shirt. It was about for the North American Homosexual 1:00 A.M. and warm enough to have Male in his natural habitat such as the windows open in the car. There in parks and rest stops. Remember was no one at the rest area. As I sat this was a time before there was the internet, or very many other commu- there waiting in my car, my horninity organizations for gay people, and ness overcame my better judgment, and I determined that it would be since I lived in Logan, there wasn’t exciting to “go commando” in my car even a gay bar. We did however have while waiting for potential prey. So the Lady Bird Park rest area at the I stripped off my shorts and T-shirt mouth of Logan Canyon. It became a and was wearing nothing but my legendary cruising venue. On some occasions it was so busy that the dedi- shoes and, of course the B.P. It was so exhilarating to let the canyon breeze cated cruiser would have to wait in flow over body parts that were usuline for their turn at debauchery. ally confined. It was an era when a slower pace, Eventually, a car pulled into the fleeting eye contact and body lanrest area and parked on the far side of guage could speak volumes, and the parking lot. My anticipation of a words were hardly ever spoken. It steamy encounter increased. I waited was a complicated “dance” more with baited breath and clenched intricate and nuanced than anything sphincter. Soon a cute guy got out of they can come up with on Dancing with the Stars. In contrast with today, the car. I was even more energized. Then to my mortification, a second being able to type quickly is the most guy got out of the car. As a rule, two important asset. I regret not having in a car predestined trouble so my exretrieved a souvenir toilet seat when they tore it down. I could have used it hilaration quickly transformed into apprehension. The two guys started to frame my portrait. Back to my story, it was a dark and to trash talk gays. I tried to ignore them hoping they would go away. My steamy night. One of those summer nights when it’s difficult to sleep, and “Midsummer Night’s Dream” was quickly morphing into the “Nightyour mind wanders to those naughty mare On Elm Street”. places. I excitedly opened the brown Then they yelled to me that, paper package that I had received ”You’re probably sitting there naked in the mail earlier that day. Nestled in your car with a dildo up your inside the bubble wrap was my very ass.” I sat there in stunned silence. first sex toy purchase, a butt plug, How could they have known? Was I which for the remainder of this story unconsciously conforming to some will be referenced as “the B.P.” I was stereotype of which I was unaware? just a little bit disappointed that no Do all gay men sit naked in cars with instructions for use of the B.P. were 50 | QSa lt L a k e | issue 117 | Dece mber 4 , 20 0 8 he road to
B.P.s up their asses? With that oh so true statement left floating in the air like a fart in church, they reached inside their car and retrieved baseball bats and began advancing toward my car. At this point I was not about to get into a scholarly discussion about the semantic yet practical differences between butt plugs and dildos. The primal fight or flight instinct started to engage. Since I was naked, I didn’t think I would look very menacing in a fight so I chose to start my engine and drive like “a bat out of hell.” The car was spinning up a shower of gravel on the two guys, proceeding down the winding curving highway, jumping pot holes, outrunning the basher’s car, all the while I was reaching down and trying to pull back on my running shorts. It’s very complicated to keep your foot on the gas pedal while trying to put the same foot through a leg opening in your shorts and maintaining escape velocity from the perusing thugs. Luckily I was fast enough to out run the bashers. On the way home I swore that I would never go cruising again. Of course succumbing to the indomitable forces of nature, I returned to the scene of the crime the following week for more “hunting.” Go Figure! As always, this story leaves us with many important questions: 1. Could cruising be considered a sport? 2. Do all gay men sit naked in cars with B.P.s up their asses? 3. Will pink nylon running shorts ever come back in style? 4. Will any short-shorts ever come back in style? 5. Should we teach the skill of getting dressed while driving in Drivers Ed? 6. Would my portrait look better when framed with a toilet seat? These and other important questions to be answered in future chapters of The Perils of Petunia Pap-Smear. Q
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POLITICAL American Civil Liberties Union, acluutah.org. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521-9862 Disability Law Ctr. . . . . . . . (800) 662-9080 info@disabilitylawcenter.org Equality Utah, equalityutah.org . . 355-3479 Human Rights Campaign. . (202) 628-4160 Human Rights Campaign, Utah, hrcutah.org Log Cabin Republicans, Utah lcrutah.org, lcr@lcrutah.org Utah Stonewall Democrats utahstonewalldemocrats.org 455 S 300 E, Ste 102. . . . . . . . . 328-1212
Info & Referral Ctr . . . . . . . . . . . . . 978-3333 informationandreferral.org UofU Women’s Resource Center sa.utah.edu/women. . . . . . . . . 581-8030 UofU LGBT Resource Ctr. . . . . . . . . 587-7973
COUNSELING
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ALCOHOL & DRUG Alcohol Drug Detoxification Center. . . . . . 363-9400 Alcoholics Anonymous. . . . . . . . . . 484-7871 utahaa.org Sun. 3pm, Acceptance Grp, Pride Ctr Mon. 8pm, Gay Men’s Stag, Pride Ctr Tues. 8pm, Live & Let Live, St Paul’s Episcopal Church, 261 S 900 E Wed. 7:30pm, Sober Today, 4601 S 300 W, Wash. Terr. Fri. 8pm — Stonewall Group, St Paul’s Alternatives, Inc. . . . . . . . . . (800) 342-5429 alternativesinc.com Center for Women & Children . . . . 261-9177 Crystal Meth Anonymous. . . . . . . . 859-4132 crystalmeth.org Sat 7:30pm, Pride Ctr Discovery House. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596-2111 discoveryhouse.com First Step House, 411 N Grant St. . 359-8862 Harm Reduction Project. . . . . . . . . 355-0234 ihrproject.org The Haven. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533-0070 Metamorphosis, breakaddiction.org 536 24th St, Ste 6-A Ogden . . . 622-5272 339 E 3900 S, Salt Lake . . . . . . 261-5790 Serenity House, uafut.org Substance Abuse Day Treatment . 355-1528
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Camp Pinecliff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-8733 City of Hope, Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531-6334 Gay Men’s Health Summit — Village utahgaymenshealth.com Northern Utah HIV/AIDS Project Walk-Ins Welcome. Every other Monday 5–7pm, 846 24th St, Ogden . . 393-4153 People with AIDS Coalition of Utah 1055 E 2100 S. Ste 208. . . . . . . 484-2205 SL Valley Health Dept. HIV/STD Clinic 610 S 200 E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534-4666 University of Utah Department of Family and Preventative Medicine uuhsc.utah.edu/dfpm . . . . . . . 581-7234 Utah AIDS Foundation. . . . . . . . . . 487-2323 utahaids.org
Homeless Services Center for Women &Children. . . . . 261-9177 Homeless Youth Resource Ctr, ages 15-21. 655 S State St . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364-0744 The Road Home, theroadhome.org.359-4142 YWCA, 322 E 300 S. . . . . . . . . . . . . 537-8600
RELIGIOUS & SPIRITUAL
Affirmation — Salt Lake Chapter affirmation.org . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486-6977 Cache Valley Unitarian Universalists 596 E 900 N, Logan. . . . . . 435-755-2888 First Baptist Church of Salt Lake firstbaptist-slc.org, 777 S 1300 E . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582-4921 First Unitarian Church, slcuu.org 569 S 1300 E . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582-8687 Glory to God Community Church 375 Harrison Blvd, Ogden . . . 394-0204 Holladay United Church of Christ 2631 Murray-Holladay Rd. . . . . 277-2631 Inner Light Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268-1137 innerlightcenter.net Integrity/Utah - St. James Church. 566-1311 Lifebreath Center/Interfaith. . . . . . 363-9229 Provo Comm. United Church of Christ 175 N University Ave. . . . . . . . . 375-9115 Reconciliation (Gay Mormons) ldsreconciliation.org. . . . . . . . . 296-4797 Restoration Church of Jesus Christ 2900 S State St. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359-1151 Sacred Light of Christ Metropolitan Community Church, 823 S 600 E. . . 595-0052 Salt Lake Center for Spiritual Living spirituallyfree.org 870 E North Union Ave. . . . . . . 307-0481 South Valley Unitarian Univ. Society 6876 S Highland Drive. . . . . . . 944-9723 Unitarian Universalist Church of Ogden 705 23rd St, Ogden. . . . . . . . . . 394-3338
SOCIAL
Affirmation — Salt Lake Chapter affirmation.org . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486-6977 Best Friends Animal Sanctuary strutyourmutt.org . . . . . . . . . . 483-2000 Bisexual Community Forum. . . . . 539-8800 Body Electric — Celebrating the Body Erotic thomasconnor1@hotmail.com.699-7044 Camp Pinecliff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-8733 Coloring Outside the Lines . . . . . . 957-4562 Gamofites, gamofites.org . . . . . . . 444-3602 Gay and Lesbian Parents of Utah glpu@hotmail.com. . . . . . . . . 467-9010 Imperial Rainbow Court of Northern Utah, irconu.org Kindly Gifts by Stitch & Bitch. . . . . 487-7008 P-FLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays), pflagslc.org Polyamory Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309-7240 1st Tue 7-9:30pm at the Center qVinum gay & lesbian wine group www.qvinum.com Retired & Senior Volunteer Pro.. . . 779-1287 Royal Court of the Golden Spike Empire, rcgse.org Southern Utah GLBT Community Center suglbtcc@yahoo.com. . . . (435) 313-GLBT groups.yahoo.com/groups/suglbtcc
Village Summit, utahgaymenshealth.com STRENGTH IN NUMBERS (SIN) SALT LAKE groups.yahoo.com/group/SINSaltLake sWerve, swerveutah.com U of U Women’s Resource Ctr . . . . 581-8030 sa.utah.edu/women U of U LGBT Resource Ctr. . . . . . . . 587-7973 UTAH BEAR ALLIANCE utahbears.com. . . . . . . . . . . . 949-3989 Utah Families Coalition, utahfamilies.org. . . . . . 539-8800 Ext 23 admin@utahfamilies.org Utah Gay Pride, utahpride.org . . 539-8800 Utah Male Naturists, www.umen.org Utah Power Exchange . . . . . . . . . . 975-0346 utahpowerexchange.org Membership@UtahPowerExchange.org UTAH PRIDE CENTER utahpridecenter.org, 361 N 300 W . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539-8800 Toll-free. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 888-874-2743 Utah Queer Events groups.yahoo.com/group/UtahQueerEvents Western Transsexual Support Grp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (435) 882-8136
SPORTS
Lambda Hiking Club. . . . . . . . . . . . 532-8447 gayhike.org Mountain West Flag Football League mwffl.org . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359-2544 Mountain West Volleyball League slcgaa.org . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407-6183 QUAC – QUEER UTAH AQUATIC CLUB quacquac.org . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671-3367 Salt Lake City Gay Athletic Association, slcgaa.org Salt Lake Goodtime Bowling Lge. . 832-9745 Stonewall Shooting Sports of Utah stonewallshootingsportsutah.org Utah Gay and Lesbian Ski Week communityvisions.org . . . 877-429-6368 Utah Gay Mountain Bike Riders sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/utahgaymtnbike
UNIVERSITY & COLLEGE
Delta Lambda Sappho Union Weber State Univ.. . . . . . . . . . . 627-1639 Gay and at BYU groups.yahoo.com/group/gayandatBYU/ Gay-Straight Alliance Network, gsanetwork. org University of Utah Lesbian & Gay Student Union, utah.edu/lgsu/ Salt Lake Community College Coloring Outside the Lines. . . . . . . . . . . 957-4562 coloring_outside_lines@yahoo.com Southern Utah University Pride suu.edu/orgs/pride/ Utah State University Pride Alliance groups.yahoo.com/group/usupride/ Utah State University Gay and Lesbian Student Resource Center usu.edu/glsrc, usuglsrc@yahoo.com . . . 435-797-4297 Utah Valley State College Gay Straight Alliance, groups.yahoo.com/group/uvscgsa uvsc.edu/clubs/club.cfm?clubID=251 Weber State Univ. Gay Straight Alliance organizations.weber.edu/dlsu/ groups.yahoo.com/group/WeberDLSU
YOUTH Homeless Youth Resource Ctr, ages 15-21. 655 S State St . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364-0744 Gay LDS Young Adults, glya.com TINT (Tolerant Intelligent Network of Teens) Drop-in hours: Tues-Fri: 3 – 9 pm, Sat: 5 – 9 pm , 355 N 300 W. . 539-8800
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