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Sam Adams took the oath of office as mayor of Portland, Ore., Jan. 1 at 12:01 a.m., making the city the largest in the country with an openly gay mayor.

Adams, 45, captured more than 50 percent of the vote in a May 20 primary election that had 13 candidates, thereby avoiding a general-election runoff.

He has promised to make Portland “cleaner, greener, more sustainable, smarter, more equal, better educated.”

San Diego is the largest city in America ever to have had an openly gay mayor.

Toni Atkins held the job for five months in 2005. She was appointed by the city council after both the mayor and the deputy mayor quit in the wake of a pension-funding debacle.

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Obama Spokesman: ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ is History New White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs says the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” ban on open gays in the military will be repealed.

In a video posted in mid-January at change.gov, in which Gibbs answered some of the 72,000 questions Americans had submitted to the site, he said: “Thaddeus from Lansing, Mich., asks, ‘Is the new administration going to get rid of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy?’”

Gibbs answered: “Thaddeus, you don’t hear a politician give a one-word answer much, but it’s, ‘Yes.’”

Study: Legislators are Not Hurt by Voting for Same-sex Marriage

Voting for same-sex marriage or against an attempt to ban same-sex marriage is a safe move for politicians, a new study by the group Freedom to Marry has found.

A review of such votes in 21 states by more than 1,100 legislators found that the legislators were consistently re-elected. The report revealed: • Legislators who voted to end marriage discrimination in California, New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts had a 100 percent re-election rate in all 499 instances in three consecutive elections.

• Legislators who changed their position from opposing to supporting same-sex marriage had a 100 percent re-election rate in consecutive elections.

• Legislators who voted for marriage equality in their state’s lower house and then sought higher office all won.

• None of 664 legislators from 17 states lost re-election after voting against a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. (Utah Rep. Jim Matheson voted ‘yes’ on the ban.)

“For politicians, standing up for marriage equality is not touching a third-rail; rather, it is a track to re-election,” said Freedom to Marry Executive Director Evan Wolfson.

“Legislators should take the findings of this report as proof that there’s no reason to back down from supporting the freedom to marry and opposing anti-gay measures. And those of us outside the legislature should not be afraid to ask our representatives to do the right thing.”

NGLTF Analysis of Race and the Prop 8 Vote Stirs Controversy An analysis of the Proposition 8 vote released Jan. 6 by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute said the driving forces behind the California marriage ban’s passage were Republican party affiliation, conservative political ideology, frequent church attendance and old age.

But, in its primary focus, the study claimed to “debunk” exit polling that found that 70 percent of black people voted for Proposition 8, saying that the real number was around 58 percent.

The report said 81 percent of Republicans voted for Prop 8, along with 82 percent of conservatives, 70 percent of weekly churchgoers and 67 percent of people over age 65.

The analysis concluded that blacks’ heightened religiosity rather than their race per se explained their elevated voting for Prop 8.

The research, by New York University professor Patrick J. Egan and Hunter College professor Kenneth Sherrill, looked at pre- and postelection polls and precinct-level voting data from five California counties with the highest number of black voters.

In an article posted Jan. 7 at the Web site Box Turtle Bulletin, writer Timothy Kincaid said some of the numbers and methodology of NGLTF’s report did not make sense to him, and he accused the organization of being “more of an agent of spin than an advocate for honesty.”

But Matt Foreman of the Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund, which paid for the study, called Kincaid’s article “an unbelievably shoddy job of analyzing the report.”

In a comment posted at the site, Foreman said: “The statistical facts speak for themselves: when ‘religiosity’ (meaning attending worship at least once a week or more) [is taken into account], African Americans were not statistically different from anyone else. White people who attend

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church at least once a week voted in even higher numbers for Prop 8. The distinction is that African Americans attend worship much more frequently than other people. The fact that so many people automatically defaulted to race is shocking and appalling.”

The report did not explain why it is meaningful to distinguish between a race-based voting pattern and a voting pattern tied to race-based religious habits, though Foreman’s comments on the Web site and elsewhere indicate he believes it is improper to cite a race-based voting pattern by itself (i.e., blacks voted for Prop 8 at a level higher than other racial groups did) if the pattern can be explained by race-based religious habits (i.e., blacks voted for Prop 8 at a level higher than other racial groups did because they go to church more often).

Paradoxically, the NGLTF study found that among weekly churchgoers, the percentage of blacks who voted for Prop 8 (66 percent) was actually lower than for whites (70 percent), Latinos (74 percent) or Asians (68 percent). But the authors said these differences were not statistically significant.

The study also found that blacks who do not attend church weekly voted for Prop 8 at a substantially higher level than whites and Asians who do not attend church weekly. Specifically, among voters who do not attend services weekly, the report found that 48 percent of blacks voted for Prop 8 compared with 46 percent of Latinos, 36 percent of whites and 33 percent of Asians. The authors said these differences also were not statistically significant.

Prop 8, which amended the state constitution to re-ban same-sex marriage, passed with 52.3 percent of the vote on Nov. 4. It is being challenged in the state Supreme Court as unconstitutional, with a ruling expected in June.

Quips & Quotes ❝ ❝Those in opposition to traditional marriage and

family use diverse means to persuade others to support their agenda, including extending benefits to others who are not in same-sex relationships, such as a grandmother living with a grandchild. But this is just a smokescreen to hide the real focus explained by Equality Utah executive director Mike Thompson …”

—United Families Int’l, a group dedicated to protecting “marriage between a man and a woman,” criticizing Equality Utah’s Common Ground Initiative.

❝ ❝In the worst economic crisis since World War II,

the same organizations who mounted the disastrous campaign that was No on 8 are now asking for more funds to repeal the amendment. What about giving funds to Equality Utah to pass a fair workplace bill in Utah instead? We have all read the polls — most Americans are okay with civil unions. But, are we?”

—A post on Amplify (amplifyutah. wordpress.com), the Utah Pride Center’s new venture to keep queer Utahns and their allies informed about local gay rights causes, asking national gay rights organizations to support obtainable gay rights laws in individual U.S. states.

❝ ❝It is fairly easy to get gay bars, gay businesses, or

gay organizations to join a community endeavor. But like any demographic, its [sic] much harder to get individuals to change their life habits. And when you’re taking away someone’s ski trip, you really need to be convincing. But the passage of Proposition 8 changed us.”

—Box Turtle Bulletin, a blog that follows and analyzes anti-gay rhetoric, weighing in on the cancellation of Utah’s Gay & Lesbian Ski Weekend due to lack of participants and the role calls for a boycott of the state’s tourism industry played in the cancellation.

❝ ❝It’s not always easy to get people to give up a favorite

vacation spot. This is great, I’m really quite impressed of everyone out there who chose not visit [sic] the Hate State this year.”

—John Aravosis, gay Washington D.C.-based blogger, weighing in on the Utah boycott and the cancellation of the Utah Gay & Lesbian Ski Weekend.

Gay Bishop Robinson also Selected for Inaugural Amid the controversy over Barack Obama’s selection of anti-gay preacher Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his inaugural, Obama announced Jan. 12 that the Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson, the openly gay and partnered bishop of the Episcopal Church’s New Hampshire diocese, would deliver the invocation at the inaugural concert at the Lincoln Memorial on Jan. 18.

Obama attended the concert.

Because Robinson is gay and partnered, his selection as bishop in 2003 has led to an evolving schism in the Episcopal Church and a near-schism in the worldwide Anglican Communion, of which the Episcopal Church is the U.S. branch.

“President-elect Obama has made a stellar choice in selecting Bishop Gene Robinson to offer the prayer at the Lincoln Memorial to kick off the inaugural festivities,” Rea Carey, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, said after the announcement. “For the first time in history, an out gay man will lead the nation in opening the transfer of power from one administration to another.”

Prop 8 Supporters Sue to Block Access to Donor Records Supporters of Proposition 8, the ballot measure that amended the California Constitution to re-ban same-sex marriage, have sued to remove their donor rolls from the public record.

Protect Marriage and the National Organization for Marriage California claim that their donors have been targeted with harassment, boycotts, death threats, envelopes of white powder, and nasty phone calls, e-mails, postcards and fliers.

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record was itself passed by a ballot initiative, in 1974.

Equality California Executive Director Geoff Kors called the lawsuit “hypocritical.”

“During the Proposition 8 campaign, the very same groups who filed this legal challenge sent menacing letters to Equality California’s donors, as well as corporations, labor unions and individuals who stood up to discrimination and supported the ‘NO on 8’ campaign,” Kors said. “Now they are calling themselves the victims.”

“What’s more,” Kors continued, “these groups are arguing on the one hand that voter initiatives like Prop 8 should never be overturned by courts.

On the other, they are asking a federal court to void a campaign reform law that was passed by voter initiative in California. They are asking that donations to ‘Yes on 8’ and only ‘Yes on 8,’ even if illegal, be hidden from the public. This leads us to wonder what they have to hide?”

Log Cabin Republicans are Broke

ScienceDaily reported Sept 22, 2008 that people who had Botox treatments made a better first impression for attractiveness and dating and athletic success.

The gay group Log Cabin Republicans is broke and $100,000 in debt, according to the Washington Blade.

LCR President Patrick Sammon said the troubled U.S. economy has impacted donations to the organization.

The group currently has two fulltime employees and one part-time employee, three fewer than a year ago.

Larry Craig Abandons ToiletCase Appeals Former U.S. Sen. Larry Craig, RIdaho, has ended his appeals aimed at reversing his guilty plea in the case where he was arrested by an undercover cop in a Minneapolis airport men’s room.

Craig’s lawyer said a further appeal to the Minnesota Supreme Court would be futile.

Craig has claimed he isn’t gay and wasn’t cruising, while the police report says Craig engaged in common cruising moves, such as peering through a stall-door crack, moving his foot in a precise manner used by cruisers, and repeatedly sliding his hand under a stall divider in a specific way.

Craig has maintained he was just looking for an open stall, adjusting his position on the commode, and dealing with a piece of toilet paper that was underneath or had gotten stuck to his shoe. He has said police Sgt. Dave Karsnia misinterpreted his actions.

At one point in the saga, which began in 2007, The Idaho Statesman newspaper published the stories of several men who claimed they’d had sex with Craig or experienced sexual come-ons from him.

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Q Utah Equality Utah Poll Shows Common Ground on Gay Issues Representatives of over 30 organizations surrounded Equality Utah leaders at a press conference called a week before the Utah State Legislative Session is scheduled to begin.

Equality Utah Board Chair Stephanie Pappas opened the conference announcing results of a survey commissioned by the PAC. The Information Alliance, located at Utah State University’s Innovation Campus, polled over 600 Utahns from across the state about issues addresssed by Equality Utah’s Common Ground Initiative.

The survey showed that nearly 70 percent of Utahns know a gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender person and 63 percent believe that gay and transgender people should be provided some legal protections, such as hospital visitations, health insurance and inheritance rights.

Nearly 80 percent of respondents were aware of statements by leaders of the LDS Church saying the church was not opposed to civil unions or domestic partnerships that involve legal protections for gay and lesbian couples.

Over 61 percent supported changing Utah employment law to make it illegal to fire someone because of their sexual orientation or gender identity, with 42.2 percent strongly supporting the change.

Fifty-six percent support a law against denying housing solely because a person is gay or transgender.

The strongest support came for providing state employees with optional health insurance coverage for a spouse, partner or other designated adult — 76.8 percent.

Support was weak for creating a statewide domestic partner registry (31.5 percent) and changing laws to allow gay couples to foster or adopt children (39.1 percent). Fifty-two percent thought gay and lesbian people should be able to adopt their partner’s children, with 39 percent opposing.

The Salt Lake Tribune also released a poll on Jan. 17 showing 56 percent of 500 survey respondents supported extending legal [protections for samesex couples]. An overwhelming 70 percent opposed any attempt to change the state constitution to permit civil unions in the state.

“While we will continue to disagree with the church’s stand regarding

marriage for committed, loving gay couples, we are grateful for its reassurances that, and I quote, the church ‘does not object to rights for same-sex couples regarding hospitalization and medical care, fair housing and employment rights, or probate rights,’” Pappas told the crowd. “These statements demonstrate that there is much more common ground where we can

find peace and understanding than there is battlefield for neighbors to squabble over.”

Several religious organizations have joined the Common Ground Coalition, including First Unitarian Church. UCC Rev. Tom Goldsmith said, “It is self-evident that we are all equal and that God has blessed Americans with the dignity of full hu-

man rights. All of us. And so America, whose history is darkened by excluding various people from their rights, has spent more than 200 years extending our democracy to those who had been left out. We added amendments to the Constitution guaranteeing rights to women and people of color, and now finally in Utah, 2009, we have an opportunity at long last — to extend our democracy to members of the GLBT community.”

Rev. Russell Baker, of the Bountiful Community Church, bristled when the group was asked if the Common Ground Initiative was little more than an attempt for gays and lesbians to sneak same-sex marriage through.

“This is not a gay agenda,” he said.

“This is about human rights.”

Equality Utah Executive Director Mike Thompson said, “With the legislative session upon us, we have no time to waste. There’s no reason for another year to go by when people lose their jobs or their homes simply because they are gay or transgender.

There’s no excuse for another year to go by with loving families denied healthcare and basic protections that all families deserve.”

Wrongful Death Bill Revived for 2009 Session For the third year in a row, Sen. Scott McCoy, D-Salt Lake City, will be sponsoring a bill that would allow Utahns to designate individuals who name designees in the case of death due to medical malpractice or negligence.

Under current Utah law, only spouses and biological, adopted and minor stepchildren may sue in the case of wrongful death. McCoy’s bill would change this to allow individuals to designate a person with who they are in “a mutually supportive and dependent relationship,” such as a same-sex partner or a romantic partner of the opposite sex to which the person is not married. The bill defines “mutually supportive and dependent” as the sharing of a residence or assets, and the naming of the individual on such things as a retirement plan, health insurance policy or will. It also stipulates that the deceased’s minor children, if any, shall receive priority in any financial settlement.

Like many bills seeking to advance gay rights during the 2008 session, McCoy’s fared badly. Although the Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee gave the bill a favorable recommendation, the bill never made it onto the Senate calendar for debate. Near the end of the session, Senators bounced it back to the Senate Rules Committee. Much of its controversy centered upon the possibility of an individual designation diluting the rights of children and spouses — particularly if an individual saw fit to designate an adulterous lover

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as a wrongful death beneficiary. And, of course, legislators feared that permitting the designation of a same-sex partner violated Utah’s constitutional prohibition on gay marriage.

In its current form, SB 32 answers this last question by stating: “Neither a grant of standing under this section, nor anything else in this section, nor any finding by the court under this section may be construed as recognizing or treating a mutually supportive and dependent relationship as a marriage, civil union, domestic partnership, or any other legal or relationship status that intends to approximate the design qualities, significance, or effect of marriage as defined in Article I, Section 29 of the Utah Constitution, the section that bans gay marriage.”

Like many other bills in this session that involve the rights of gay people, SB 32 is part of Equality Utah’s Common Ground Initiative. The local gay rights group proposed these five pieces of legislation following the passage of Proposition 8 in California.

At that time, the LDS Church, which supported the measure re-banning gay marriage in California, stated that it did not oppose “rights for same-sex couples regarding hospitalization and medical care, fair housing and employment rights, or probate rights.”

The church has yet to respond to Equality Utah’s request for its support of the initiative.

Other Common Ground Initiative bills include legislation Salt Lake City

Democratic Rep. Christine Johnson seeking to secure workplace and housing protections for gay and transgender people; a bill mandating employee insurance plans to cover unmarried partners if they offer coverage to spouses; legislation that would create a statewide domestic partner registry that would extend inheritance, insurance and housing rights; and a bill that would clarify Utah’s constitutional ban on gay marriage that forbids arrangements other than marriage from receiving legal recognition.

As of press time, only McCoy’s bill had received a number.

Twirling Corps Invites Fans to Vegas Pride

The Righteously Outrageous Twirling Corp, Salt Lake City is the proud holder of the first place trophy at the Las Vegas Gay Pride Parade 2008, and plan to return this April to defend that title. They are inviting fans to come along on the trip in a chartered bus to this year’s Vegas Pride from April 30 through May 3.

The group has chartered a 50-passenger bus and rooms at the Plaza Hotel in downtown Las Vegas. The cost to join them is $200 per person, double occupancy. Final payment is due March 15.

They plan to bring some Utah Cyber Sluts to call bingo on the trip down, plus some other surprises as well.

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Pride in Your Community shoveling walks at their first service project calling attention to same-sex marriage

Buttars Sweetened by Pumpkin Bread?

Pride in Your Community, a service organization spawned by activism after the passage of California’s Proposition 8, has held community service projects like shoveling neighborhood walks of snow with the goal of creating dialogue over the issue of same-sex marriage rights.

On Jan. 17, their monthly service event was passing out pumpkin bread through the neighborhoods represented by Sen. Chris Buttars and Rep. Greg Hughes, both staunch conservatives known for their stances against anything gay-positive.

“We decided to go for the gusto, and started with Senator Chris Buttars who is most commonly portrayed as ‘Public Enemy No. 1’ to the LGBTQ community,” said Eric Etherington, one of the group’s founders. “Imagine our surprise, when with very little hesitation, the senator invited four of us into his home and spent an uninterrupted 45 minutes with us.”

The four group members spoke at length with Buttars about bills sponsored by Equality Utah, collectively dubbed the “Common Ground Initiative,” focusing on bills that would provide housing and workplace

protections in Utah, whereas now it is legal to both fire and/or evict someone soley due to sexual orientation.

“Senator Buttars made it clear that, while he is by no mean pro same-sex marriage or many other gay rights, he is definately opposed to those two kinds of discrimination,” Etherington explained.

After speaking with both Buttars and Rep. Hughes, Etherington was struck with the thought that it may make sense to approach more conservative legislators for their involvement in drafting future legislation.

“How can we expect to change people’s hearts if we don’t sit down and talk to them,” asked Ethertington.

He encouraged people to “sit down with whomever you can and explain exactly why [gay and lesbian legislation] matters so much to us. That this is not some liquor or speed limit law.

This is our lives that we’re fighting for, and the votes that these men and women cast will have a direct impact on our day-to-day lives.”

Buttars told the four that this was the first time he has spoken to a “progay” group. A little pumpkin bread goes a long way.

Utah Gay Ski Week Cancelled Organizers of the annual Utah Gay Ski Week had thought there might be a drop as much as 30 percent from previous years, but they hadn’t thought participation would be so low the event would need to be cancelled.

The group blames a boycott on the state of Utah over Proposition 8 as at least part of the cause.

Organizers said only six people had signed up for the event. Normally, 50 out-of-staters would fly in and 150 people total would participate.

They estimate that Park City businesses lost between $125,000 and $150,000 in anticipated lodging, lift tickets, meals and entertainment.

“In the mind of the boycott organizers, the Mormon Church, basically,

equals Utah,” Organizer John Harriot told the Park Record.

Harriot said the group had been treated well in the eight previous years the group had been coming to Park City, but when it came down to the end, “The boycott worked and there was not enough people to do the group.”

The Record asked Kristauf’s Martini Bar owner Lisa Christoffersen about the loss, since the group partied there in 2008. She said that the group spent “a couple grand” back then.

“To me, that would provide my payroll for two weeks and pay several utility bills,” she said, adding, “They spend well and they tip well. It’s a big boost for everyone.”

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Q Utah Rally at the Capitol Will Promote Common Ground Initiative

On Jan. 24 gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Utahns and their straight allies are invited to gather on Capitol Hill in support of six bills aimed at securing more rights for gay and transgender Utahns and to call on President Barack Obama to repeal a number of anti-gay measures.

Activist Jacob Whipple, the creator of All for One Initiative, has asked participants to meet on the west side of Washington Square (the Salt Lake City and County Building) at 2:00 p.m. on Jan. 24. Marchers will then proceed along State Street to the Capitol Building’s south lawn for the rally, during which participants will call on Utah lawmakers to support Equality Utah’s Common Ground Initiative.

Participants will also be calling on President Obama to enact a gay and transgender-inclusive hate crimes bill and employment nondiscrimination act, and to repeal the military’s “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy and the Defense of Marriage Act. DOMA prohibits gay couples from receiving federal

Rick Warren’s Inauguration Speech Raised Money for 100-Day Gay Awareness Trek President Barack Obama infuriated gays and lesbians across the country when he named Rick Warren, founder of evangelical megachurch Saddleback Church, to give the premier prayer at his inauguration. Warren is known for his ultraconservative and incendiary views about gays and lesbians.

Warren compared the “redefinition of a marriage” to include gay marriage to legitimizing incest, child abuse and polygamy during the battle over California’s Proposition 8.

“Rick Warren, a staunch opponent of equal rights for LGBT people, has used his pulpit to spread lies about LGBT families and to raise money for antigay legislation, such as proposition 8, which stripped equal marriage rights away from same-sex couples,” the group Driving Equality said in a statement. According to the group, when Warren took to the stage on Inauguration Day, he will have had [hopefully] raised thousands of dollars to advance LGBT equality across the country.

Donors pledged a nickle, dime or more for every second Warren spoke during the inauguration. The money will be used by Driving Equality in its “trek across America to raise awareness of the various forms of discrimination faced by LGBT people in each

recognition and allows states not to recognize gay marriages performed in other states or countries.

Sign-making parties will be held at Café Marmalade at Utah Pride Center and the Coffee Garden, 898 S. 900 East, on Jan. 23 at 6:00 p.m. and Jan. 24 at 10:00 a.m. Club Jam, 761 N. 300 West, will also host a rally kick off party on Jan. 23 at 10:00 p.m.

Whipple said that many locals have expressed excitement about the rally.

“All the people that recognize me from the news or even friends are always asking me when the next event will be,” he said. “So I gather that in our community and [among] those who support us, they are excited for this to continue on. They want [these issues] to remain in the news and to be an important issue and topic on the state and federal levels.”

Although Whipple’s activism, like that of many gay and transgender people across the country, was touched off by the passage of California’s Proposition 8, Whipple stressed that this rally, unlike others held in Utah last November, would not be about the controversial measure which rebanned gay marriage in the Bay State.

“It’s not just about venting our feelings anymore,” he said. “This is about actually speaking to our representatives and legislators and telling them we need them to make these changes.”

For more information visit allforoneinitiative.org. state of the nation. Highlighting the differences in rights, laws and amendments between the states will shed light on the current social standing of queer individuals today. I hope to create a dialogue about the disparities across the nation, and what can be done to end discrimination for all,” a statement read on its Web site.

The group held a similar successful “Phelps-a-thon” when Fred Phelps and his followers protested a production of The Laramie Project in Boston.

Driving Equality counter-protested, updating a tote board every five minutes, generating cheers. Online pledges and checks from passers-by during the protest added up to over $4,600 towards the groups goal of $25,000 for the trek.

More information is at drivingequality.com

PWACU Will Host HIV/AIDS Webcast

The People with AIDS Coalition of Utah will be hosting a webcast for an annual international conference on HIV and AIDS on Feb. 11.

Held this year in Montreal, Canada, the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections features the world’s leading researchers in the areas of HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment. From Feb. 8–11 the approximate 3,800 researchers in attendance

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National Equality on Campus Day Encourages Solidarity

by Brad Di Iorio

January 27th has been chosen the day all college students, high school students and their allies, across the United States can show solidarity by ordering and wearing Students For Equality’s t-shirt design to school, on campus or around town, in support and in unity for the fight for equal rights, particularly marriage equality.

“Our organization is basically trying to create a database of all gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgender youth groups, including Gay/Straight alliances at high school and college campuses across the country so that we can quickly unify and mobilize whenever big issues concerning gay and lesbian equality arises,” said Eric Ross, co-founder of Students For Equality. “We had a lot of new, young voters and the main reason to get this going is because there is not a rallying group out there that is trying to keep youth focused and active.”

Ross says that about 20 people present and discuss their research and how it can be turned into medical treatments and practices.

While the conference itself lasts four days, the televised panel discussions on Feb. 11 are the part of the conference the webcast will cover.

Called “Thriving with HIV — Treatment Update 2009,” the two-hour program will allow panelists to discuss what they see as CROI’s most significant findings on AIDS virus and the hepatitis infections that regularly complicate treatment, and will include interviews from some of the

from Utah have signed up through the various Web sites and they have approached Utah State University, Weber State, the U of U, local PFLAG groups, GLSEN, the Pride Center and college-student groups for Barack Obama. Eric said they are working on a couple ideas, including establishing a scholarship fund rewarding students in the community who are active in gay and lesbian issues, a show-and-tell campaign where members tell who they are and get dialogue going, and focusing on the Employee Non-Discrimination Act, The Matthew Shepard Act, adoption rights, and supporting political candidates and current politicians.

“We are having this event one week after the inauguration to remind Obama that we are not going away,” said Ross. “We are expecting him to address same-sex marriage and gay and lesbian rights in general.”

Students for Equality may be found at studentsforequality.com. conference’s researchers. Topics this year will include antiviral treatments, metabolic issues, hepatitis issues and a segment on treatment issues for women with the virus.

PWACU will make the webcast available to people with HIV and AIDS in the local community on Feb. 11 from 5–7:00 p.m. at the University of Utah hospital (room number to be announced). Press conferences and interviews with researchers will be available later at ifaratv.org.

For more information or to RSVP for the webcast, contact 484-2205.

Employment Nondiscrimination Bill Returns to Legislature Equality Utah is hoping that the second time will be the charm for a bill aimed at extending nondiscrimination protections in housing and the workplace to gay and transgender Utahns.

The local gay rights group drafted the bill during last year’s legislative session, where it was sponsored

by Rep. Christine Johnson, D-Salt Lake City. Then Rep. Christine Johnson numbered HB 89 and titled Antidiscrimination Act Amendments, the bill — which focused only on workplace protections — was tabled early in the session by the House Business and Labor Standing Committee. A bicameral committee heard testimony on the bill over the summer as well, but did not come to any definite conclusion about its future at that time.

As in its past incarnation, the 2009 version of the antidiscrimination bill seeks to make it illegal for Utah employers to refuse to hire, promote, demote or fire an employee based on his or her real or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity.

It would further forbid employers from discriminating against gay or transgender employees in wages and conditions of employment because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

This time around, however, Johnson has also added language to the bill that, in her words, “stipulates that you can’t discriminate in any [housing] application prospect, if you suspect or confirm that someone is LGBT.” This, she said, includes such things as advertising that gay people aren’t welcome to rent a property.

“We already have certain language in the code that stipulates discrimination in housing practice and defines it.

This is just going to add sexual orientation and gender identity to the list of reasons one cannot discriminate,” she said.

Utah law currently prohibits discrimination in housing based on a buyer or tenant’s religion, race, color, sex, source of income, family status, national origin or disability as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act. In the workplace, Utah law prohibits discrimination based on race, color, sex, age (if the individual is over 40 years old), childbirth or pregnancy status, religion, national origin and disability as defined by the ADA.

Johnson said she got the idea to append housing onto her bill late last year, after the debate over Proposition 8, the measure re-banning gay marriage in California, that threw the LDS Church into the national spotlight for its outspoken support of the measure. To counter claims from Proposition 8 opponents that the church was an anti-gay institution, church leaders stated that they did not oppose “rights for same-sex couples regarding hospitalization and medical care, fair housing and employment rights, or probate rights.”

This statement lead local gay-rights group Equality Utah to propose its Common Ground Initiative, a set of five bills seeking to secure these protections for gay and transgender

Utahns. Johnson’s bill is part of this initiative.

Johnson said she is hopeful that her bill will be one of the first up for debate, particularly as legislators have been studying the bill closely during the interim.

“Though there’s still a lot of ground to be gained as far as educating members [of the legislature] and having them comfortable with the topic, I was pleased with the general open-mindedness exhibited by the [House Business and Labor] committee,” she said.

“Honestly I don’t think they know what to do with it,” she continued. “I think no one’s in favor of discrimination, but there’s so much they don’t understand about sexual orientation.

Some of them were surprised to find out they had a sexual orientation, even if they were heterosexual. [We’re trying] to make this [issue] human and make them understand that even based on data given to us by the Utah

Utah Pride Center Celebrates Bisexual Awareness Month The story is pretty well known among those who come to the Utah Pride Center once a month for the Utah Bisexual Support Group meetings.

The concept for a bisexual group in Utah came about in September, 2005, when cofounders Jay and Shauna Brock approached adult program director Jennifer Nuttall asking Shauna Brock if there was a bisexual community presence at The Center. They were instantly signed up for the job. In December, 2005, the first meeting was held and now, two years later, the second Bisexual Awareness Month is happening. The concept was dreamed up right here in Utah, and to date, Utah is the only state celebrating this event.

Shauna is bisexual herself, and explains that she is “very proud of the fact that we are the first state to start an awareness month and celebration around this huge segment of our population and that Utah is spearheading the discussion of our issues in the public forum. Since Kinsey’s research in the 1950s, the existence and prevalence of bisexuality has been accessible public knowledge, but our invisibility has endured through the decades. I hope this trend begins to reverse as January’s events bring increased awareness.” Dr. Lisa Diamond, an Associate Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies at the University of Utah, has conducted

various longitudinal studies of the sexualities of women who self-identify as sexual minorities. She reports that “nonexclusivity in attractions appear to be the norm rather than the exception, and this is critical to understanding sexual fluidity from a psychological perspective.” Organizers say the research only proves that the existence of bisexual behavior, attractions, and desires certainly deserves more attention.

That is why they decided to devote an entire awareness month to Bisexuality. Rachel Langton, one of the Utah Bisexual Support Group moderators, clarifies that “The most important thing is to foster a sense of community among what is often considered an ‘invisible’ sexuality. While many people’s sexualities are, in fact, fluid over the course of their lifetimes, we are a culture that demands labels and boxes. So, if you’re a bisexual woman who happens to be dating a man, then you are instantly classified as heterosexual.” Yana Walton, a graduate from the University of Utah’s gender studies program, echoes this sentiment. Walton says she’s experienced this cultural assumption repeatedly while living in Salt Lake City. “If I bring an opposite sex partner to the Pride Festival, I sometimes feel like an outside spectator rather than being recognized as actively celebrating my sexuality.” In the same vein, if you’re a bisexual man who is dating a man, it is often though that you must be gay.

One of the goals of the event organizers is to break down the idea that bisexual people do not exist – and having a month devoted to the celebration of all sexuality, especially bisexuality, does just that.

Labor Commission, we know that discrimination is taking place on the grounds of sexual orientation in this state.”

Above all, Johnson said she thinks her bill could do a lot in getting legislators to admit that gay and transgender people do exist, and thus need legal protections.

“So far in our code we’re not identifying members of the community who we know live in our midst, but there’s this illusion if we exempt them from being listed in our statutes somehow they don’t exist,” she said. “I think this bill could catapult this conversation to where our laws actually acknowledge that LGBT people live in Utah and are a valuable part of our community.”

Johnson added that she is thankful to gay and transgender people who have come forward to testify so far, and hopes that they will do so again this session.

For the entire month of January, the Utah Bisexuals Support Group will host several events open to all Utahns that bring awareness to all the diversity within bisexuality, create a sense of community, and break down some negative stereotypes surrounding the B in GLBT (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender).

The Utah Pride Center has been elated to include Utah Bisexuals Support Group as part of their adult programming. Their meetings are held at the Utah Pride Center on the second Thursday of every month from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. For more information, please contact the Utah Pride Center at www.utahpridecenter. org or the support group’s website, ­utahbisexuals.bravehost.com.

A listing of events for the balance of the month is listed below. (You can find the hosts by looking for the purple flowers.)

Bisexual Awareness Month Activities: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 Movie Night: ‘Kinsey’. We will be showing the movie ‘Kinsey’, followed by an opportunity to discuss the movie and Bisexuality. (at The Utah Pride Center) HOSTS: Deserae and Shauna Thursday, January 24, 2008 Queer Reader, the Utah Pride Center’s monthly book club, will be discussing the book “Bi Any Other Name”. (at The Utah Pride Center) HOSTS: Shauna and Monday, January 28, 2008 Family Home Evening: Bowling at FatCat’s Bowling Alley (at FatCat’s Bowling Alley) HOSTS: Jay and Shauna

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Tardy Mardy Party

Q Utah Gay Filmmaker Reed Cowan Turns Lens on Proposition 8 Reed Cowan remembers exactly where he was when his son, Wesley, died on April 23, 2006.

As a Salt Lake City news station’s on-call reporter that day, he was the one who received the page to report on a child’s accidental hanging death.

Until Cowan arrived on scene he did Reed Cowan, right, with his son, Wesley, and partner Gregory Abplanalp before Wesley’s death. not realize the child was his own.

“It was horrible,” recalled Reed, not only been victimized by the short up in Roosevelt. And while Cowan who now lives and works in Miami, sited [sic] mindsets that got Prop. 8 recognizes that other communities of Fla. “As I screamed and wailed in through — but also those who have faith participated in raising support grief and cried, the cameras were triumphed over it all in the spirit of for Proposition 8, he said he wants rolling, and the people behind the optimism that will eventually see to tell the Mormon side of this story cameras were my peers” who, like Prop. 8 overturned.” because this is the community he Cowan himself, were just then realknows. izing the reporter’s relationship to “I know what it’s like to be young the dead child. and gay in a Mormon-dominated In the days and months followcommunity,” he explained. “I know ing that day, Cowan and his partner what it’s like to be sent home bloodGregory decided that they would not ied because of it. My partner knows let the child’s death be in vain. Over what it’s like to be thrown out of his the past two years they have created own home because of his sexuality.

The Wesley Smiles Coalition, an orgaAnd the thought that, in many Mornization named after his son, which mon congregations over the country, has built water treatment facilities, young people heard discussions on medical centers and schools for this matter, and I’m sure gay ones felt AIDS orphans in Kenya. The couple a hot rush of blood to their cheeks in also created On The Other End of the knowing that in their own place of Lens, a documentary about Cowan’s faith they were somehow less than experience of becoming the subject of [makes me] duty bound to help the national news, instead of a reporter. upcoming generation that felt this.”

The film has been entered in several Along with gay and lesbian people festivals including the Nashville Film who experienced pain when ProposiFestival, an Oscar-qualifying venue. tion 8 passed, Cowan said he is also Now, Cowan is turning his camera interested on talking to those who lens back to the state where he experihelped pass it — people like Sen. enced such deep personal grief. For Chris Buttars, R-West Jordan, and his second documentary effort, he Utah Eagle Forum President Gayle will be focusing on Proposition 8 and Ruzicka, whose anti-gay rhetoric is the activism surrounding it — among On Jan. 30, Cowan plans to be in well-known throughout the state. gay people as well as members of the Salt Lake City to interview people “This is not going to be a propaganChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day on all sides of Proposition 8. And he da film,” he explained. “I’m a journalSaints, who contributed over $22 mil- hopes to hear from more than just a ist, so I hold up the very high value lion to the controversial measure’s handful of people. of getting all sides told. It’s going to passage.

“What I really want is to see everyAnd he is looking to hear from you. one who turned out for the November show all sides of it because I believe the human spirit is able to filter and “I want to hear from Mormons protests and who will turn out for see all sides, and we all gravitate to (gay and straight) who sat in church other events to be there,” he said. “I and felt the pinch of authority tellneed to see them there. If they’ll com- light. I believe those who are open to this film, and who see all sides of the ing them to do something that was mit to me to be brave and tell their coin, will gravitate to the truth.” against their own beliefs about LGBT stories, I’ll commit to them that their The venue for the filming is still issues,” Cowan wrote in a press stories will be seen.” release. “I want to hear from those Proposition 8 matters to Cowan, he being determined. For more information, or to express interest in telling who are former Mormons, who have said, not only because he is gay, but your story, contact Cowan at darrinbeen rejected by their faith combecause he and his partner have a munity because of their sexuality. deep connection to Utah — both grew reedcowan@gmail.com or Elaine Ball at elaineballfr@gmail.com.

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It’s going to show all sides of it because I believe the human spirit is able to filter and see all sides, and we all gravitate to light.

Supporters of the 2009 Utah Arts Festival will hold a fundraiser for the event next month at the Salt Lake Hardware Building. The fundraiser is the organization’s sixth annual Mardi Gras and will include its third annual Texas Hold’em Tournament.

Food and soft drinks will be provided and alcoholic beverages are available for purchase. No one under 21 will be admitted to the Texas Hold’em Tournament.

When: Feb. 28, 1–11:00 p.m.

(Tournament 1–5:00 p.m.)

Where: Salt Lake Hardware Building, 105 N. 400 West Cost: $35 donation until Jan. 30, $55 at the door. $75 donation to participate in the tournament until Jan. 30, $100 at the door Info: uaf.org

Estate Planning Workshop The Utah Pride Center will hold a free seminar on estate planning for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. Jim Alder of Gray Alder & Cawthorne, P.C. will present the seminar, which is co-sponsored by Memorial Cemeteries and Silverado Hospice. Light dinner options and beverages will be provided.

When: Jan. 27, 6:00 p.m.

Where: Utah Pride Center, 361 N. 300 West

Tax Workshop In plenty of time for tax season, the Utah Pride Center will present a workshop on taxation issues effecting Utahns, including such recent changes to Utah tax law as the elimination of several deductions from income and the new homeowner tax credit. H & R Block representatives will lead the free seminar.

When: Feb. 18, 6:00 p.m.

Where: Utah Pride Center

‘It’s Still Elementary’ The followup film to It’s Elementary — a documentary about gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender teachers and their students — will be shown this month at the Salt Lake City Public Library. It’s Still Elementary examines the impact of the first film over the last decade and features interviews with teachers and students from the first film to see how lessons about gay and transgender people changed their lives. The new film also looks at the controversy behind PBS’ broadcast of the original film and right-wing attacks on the film and its creators.

A panel discussion will follow, and the event is free to the public.

When: Jan. 28, 7:00 p.m.

Where: Salt Lake City Public Library Auditorium, 240 E 400 South

Gay Utah Man Eyes Matheson’s Seat Gary Barkley is not happy with much of the work politicians in Washington, D.C. have been doing lately. But instead of merely petitioning them to do better, he’s taking things a step further by considering a run for Utah Democratic Representative Jim Matheson’s seat in 2010.

The idea, as Barkley explains it, began in 2006 when Democrats won control of both congressional houses.

At that time Barkley, an Iraq War veteran, hoped that the new congress would cut off funding to the war, and remembers being angry when they — including Matheson — largely voted against it.

“I felt my government was abandoning me because we had politicians who were afraid of being called weak on terror [by scaling down funding],” he explained, adding that the ongoing war “is weakening us and weakening us against the terrorists, weakening our national security.”

“You have brave American servicemen and women dying in Iraq.

From a veteran’s standpoint, it’s outrageous they’d surrender to fear and expect people to die for their mistakes,” he said.

And continued financial support for the Iraq War wasn’t the only thing that enraged Barkley; Congress’ passage of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendments Act in July, which received widespread criticism for retroactively legalizing government eavesdropping on electronic communications.

And when California voters passed Proposition 8, the measure re-banning gay marriage in the state last November, Barkley said his frustration came to a head. Tired of what he saw as legislators trampling on the constitution he, as an Army officer, had sworn to defend, he decided to take action.

“Somebody has to do something, and I guess I’m going to have to do it myself,” he recalled thinking at the time. After that, he said he began seriously thinking about a run for congress.

As a potential candidate, Barkley said he has a lot to offer his country and his state, specifically as a gay war veteran. Among them: speaking out against federal policies that hurt gay people.

“I served in war under Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, and I recognize it is a direct threat to our national security,”

he said, noting that the policy was responsible for the dismissal of roughly “five dozen” military linguists who speak Arabic. “That directly weakens our security, especially when you consider in all federal [security branches] there are only 200 people who speak and read Arabic sufficiently to translate.”

“It betrays the principles of liberty on which our country was founded, and for which those gay vets served,” he continued. “It’s mind boggling we can say you can serve your county, but you’re not allowed to tell us who we are or bond with your comrades in the way everyone else has.”

In the same vein, Barkley also sees the federal Defense of Marriage Act —

the environmental situation without addressing economics; you can’t address economics without addressing immigration.”

Economics, for example, is one of Barkley’s strongest concern, in part because of his educational background: he holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and a master’s degree in finance. Indeed, Barkley opined that the United States’ current economic crisis came about largely because of its support for supply side economics, which privileges money and those who control it (capital) over workers. “[Supply side economics] has been discredited in theory and are even more disastrous in practice,” Barkley explained. “Even though the facts are slapping us in the face, our congress and what’s coming out of our new president is tax breaks for the rich again. That’s what got us into this mess, and we’re just going to do it again.”

“Why do we owe our livings to the wealthy? It’s the other way around, it always has been,” he continued. “You have to have capital and labor, and the more important is labor. You have nothing without labor.”

And without improving the lot of workers, Barkley does not think the economy can escape its current

troubles. For this reason, he supports strengthening labor unions, regulating businesses (particularly those that could do damage to the environment), and does not support a flat income tax, which he said would hurt poorer families. And while he recognizes the need for a stock market, he said he does not favor a market based on speculation.

“If we’re more interested in really making this a more fair system, we need to look at things,” he said. “If you’re not working for anything [and just receiving returns on stocks or investments], why should you get more than the laborer who is doing something more with it?”

If Barkley runs and wins, he said he makes no promise as many legislators do to “shake things up in Washington.”

“I will go to Washington and thoughtfully represent my district in such a way that I would always boil down decisions to a ‘me vs. we’ calculus,” keeping in mind not special interests, but how each proposed law would benefit the American people at large.

“That’s how you shake up Washington,” he said. “It takes time, but that’s how it’s done.”

To learn more about Barkley visit barkley4change.org.

Feb. 21 which prohibits federal recognition of same-sex marriages, and allows states not to recognize gay unions performed in other states and abroad — to be in direct conflict with the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the U.S. Constitution.

“If I have a driver’s license in Utah and drive to Vermont, Vermont is supposed to accept that I have a driver’s license,” he explained.” Why is my marriage license not as valid as my driver’s license? It’s because you have some fundamental zealots with some perverse ideology that are trying to tell the government that their religion subverts my liberty.”

But while Barkley is concerned with these and other gay rights issues, he stressed that he is not a “one-trick pony.”

“I do understand that everything we do in this country is interconnected,” he explained. “You can’t address

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Q Views Letters We’ll Fight Locally and Nationally Editor, Since the initiative began to add Proposition 8 to the California ballot, The Human Rights Campaign mobilized its membership to donate, volunteer and rally their community in defeating this anti-marriage initiative. The Utah HRC Steering Committee would like to thank all of those Utahns who gave their time, money, and talent to fight against California’s Prop 8.

Though there were many people of Utah who supported Proposition 8, there were those citizens of Utah that opposed it, including one who was one of the largest individual donors, giving over one million dollars to oppose Prop 8.

This battle against Prop 8 has been heart wrenching. We caught a glimpse of what it must have been like in the civil war; brother against brother, sister against sister and parent against child. The Prop 8 campaign not only cost millions of dollars that could have gone to better use, but family relationships were strained or even torn apart.

“Proposition 8 broke our hearts, but it did not end our fight… Fifty-two percent of the voters of California voted to deny us our equality on [Nov 4th], but they did not vote our families or the power of our love out of existence; they did not vote us away,” said Joe Solmonese, HRC president.

We, as the Utah Steering Committee, will continue to fight for equality nationally as well as locally with our community. We support Equality Utah’s effort to engage the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with its Common Ground Initiative.

This initiative consists of six bills that coincide with recent press releases and comments by the LDS Church.

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SNAP: Jim Alder In this state where few laws exist to protect same-sex couples, few can deny that we all need a really good estate planner. This is why Jim Alder is awesome for donating his time to a free workshop at the Utah Pride Center to help gay and lesbian couples put their paperwork in order — or learn exactly what paperwork they need. No matter how much you know or think you know on the legal ins and outs of protecting your family in these gay-hostile times, why not give Alder’s workshop a try?

This advice usually doesn’t come free, and often doesn’t come easy or at all when you’re trying to find it yourself.

SLAP: Utah Boycott – again!

Oh, boy. Here we go again. This month, the Park Record reported the cancellation of Utah’s Gay & Lesbian Ski Weekend, due largely to out-of-state gays and lesbians, who stated they weren’t coming to “show solidarity” with a proposed boycott of the state over the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Organizer John Harriot, a bisexual man who lives in California, estimated the city has lost between $125,000 and $150,000. So, let’s get this straight. The idea is to hurt the Mormon Church by boycotting the entire state, including a city well-known for being gay positive — because the entire state supported Prop. 8. And because money spent in Park City might make it into the hands of Mormons. Who are all anti-gay, of course. And as for gay businesses that may be hurt along the way? Well, why would any selfrespecting gay person live in Utah!

Gee, it must be so nice to live in a nice, liberal state where you can afford to know nothing about gays living in less-friendly areas.

SNAP: Local gay businesses But let’s move on to something that actually makes sense. In the past few weeks, several local gay and straight-owned businesses and volunteers of all sexual orientations and gender identities have put their money, materials and time into making the Queer Lounge at the Sundance Film Festival a success.

Some may call it self-hating or selling out. We call it engaging with people — including those who are anti-gay — to tell our stories, and maybe change some hearts and minds. You know. Doing what we need to do and should do in this state.

by Joni Weiss

I

am saddened by the introduction

of a bill by Herriman Rep. Carl Wimmer. HB225, Driver License Amendments, will have very unfortunate consequences for Utah’s transgender population.

Imagine if your child, your brother or sister, your parent or your very best friend were transgender and were being affected by this bill. What would you do? I am asking each of you to read and act. I am personally asking for your help in getting this bill either withdrawn by the author or killed before it has a chance to get to the House Floor.

This bill addresses when a person is changing their sex designation on their drivers license or ID card because they are transgender and are transitioning to their target gender. The proposed change to the law will require that a transgender person complete sex reassignment surgery prior to changing the sex designation on their driver license.

There are problems with this requirement along with consequences (unintended I am sure) for the majority of transgender citizens of this great state: 1. The sex designation on a driver license provides visual identification information that, along with the person’s height, weight, eye and hair color and date of birth, help make a positive identification that the ID belongs to the person being identified. Therefore it would seem to be more important that the sex designation more closely resemble the person’s gender expression (how they present themselves in terms of gender) than to match the configuration of their genitals (which are not normally inspected when making a match of the ID to the person).

2. A crucial and required step on the road of gender transition is something called the Real Life Test in which the transgender person is required to live fully as their target gender in every aspect of their life for a minimum of one year prior to being approved for sex reassignment surgery. This bill, if passed, will make this period particularly difficult for the transgender person as every time they have to show their ID, the person examining their ID will know something is “awry.” This will significantly add to the trauma he or she experiences on a daily basis.

Some of the unintended consequences of this may be an increase in suicide rates and an increased tendency to rush their way through the Real Life Test and move forward with the sur-

gery possibly before they are ready.

3. Most transmen (female-to-male transpersons) do not have sex reassignment surgery, usually due to the steep cost, inherent complications and higher rate of patient dissatisfaction with female-to-male sex reassignment surgery.

4. For many transwomen, SRS is financially out of reach or cannot be completed due to health and other reasons. Many others choose not to have the surgery as they do not feel it is a necessary part of their transition (yes, many are happy just to live their lives in peace in their target gender).

5. Surgery costs tens of thousands of dollars. Most transgender people live

in poverty due to employment, insurance and housing discrimination. It is therefore very difficult for transgender people to find employment in order to save enough money for surgery.

Many transgender people also lose support from their family and faith community. This bill will force many transgender people to live for the remainder of their lives being “outted” as transgender every time they show their drivers license.

This bill, if passed, will cause a great amount of additional trauma in the lives of transgender people while they are passing through arguably the most difficult transition a human being can ever be asked to go through.

For all of the above reasons I say “No.” I plead with my fellow Utahns, beloved family and my dear friends to work with me to keep this bill from passing.

Please contact your State Legislators and let your voice be heard. All the resources you need to help can be found at Equality Utah’s Web site, equalityutah.org.

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by Ruby Ridge

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etals, have you ever had one

of those inbox moments that just stops you in your tracks?

I had one yesterday when I got a really affirming and a really sad e-mail all in the same batch. The sad news was that William Munk had passed away while on vacation in Egypt. Our community has lost one of the good guys at a time when we really need reasonable, experienced voices to advance our causes. I always loved opening up the Salt Lake Tribune or the Deseret News to see one of his letters to the editor. William was direct and to the point, but he was also sincere, disarming and very persuasive. I always got the impression that he was grinning mischievously from ear to ear when he wrote some of his more pointed home truths.

In an age where people post hundreds of anonymous comments on the

internet while lurking in the shadows, William was old school and fearlessly threw down his name on the editorial page of the major newspapers for all to see. I was always impressed by that unapologetic honesty (which reminds me of another lion of the gay and lesbian community unafraid of being accountable — Ben Williams — I never tell you enough how much I love you, and what you do for us in the media!).

William Munk advocated for gay causes, raised funds for charities, chronicled all sorts of community events with his photographs and quietly helped countless numbers of people along the way. But for all of those accomplishments, my favorite memory of William is one of those little things that just captured his good-natured essence and is making me cry even as I write this. William would bring bags of eggs from his

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chickens to community meetings to give to anyone who needed them. It was such a simple act of sharing, but to me it speaks volumes about William’s good heart and soul. I will miss him dearly.

My good news e-mail came slowly chugging through my anti-spam filter.

It was a series of huge photographs (seriously ... billions and billions of pixels) of my friends Danny and Joseph’s wedding in Connecticut.

These two kids are just cuter than hell and I adore them, and you know me, kittens, any wedding picture that has Troll Dolls on the mantelpiece ... I am all over it!

I have known Danny and Joseph for years (they always cover their table at Third Friday Bingo with the best snacks) so I was tickled pink that they finally tied the knot and stopped fornicating in pre-marital sin. To them and their families I wish a heartfelt congratulatory “Mazal Tov” or whatever the

local Mormon cultural equivalent of that is. For some reason I can’t stop imagining a Mormon same-sex wedding cake made from Rice Krispie Treats with two LEGO firemen on top.

That image is burned into my psyche.

Anyway pumpkins, speaking of the Mo’s.

Have you seen their new marketing savvy ads for General Conference on billboards and buses? Apparently they’ve given President Monson a cordless microphone, and renamed General Conference “Walking with Dinosaurs.”

How very au courant.

Who says the church is out of touch and resistant to change?

Oh I’m just kidding ... . I just needed to cathartically vent before the legislature commences next week.

Happy 44th presidency, darlings! Q

You know me, kittens, any wedding picture that has Troll Dolls on the mantelpiece ... I am all over it!

See Ruby Ridge at Third Friday Bingo at the First Baptist Church, 777 South 1300 East, every third Friday of the month, as well as at Fabulous Fun Bus trips to West Wendover, Nev. See gaywendover.com for details.

Gay Geeks Make Genetics Your Bitch!

JoSelle Vanderhooft

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I’m guessing the headline caught your attention. But unfortunately, I’m not going to tell you how to genetically engineer yourself into awesomeness in this installment of “Gay Geeks.” Instead, I’ll be telling you about the awesomeness that is Repo! The Genetic Opera.

Wait. Didn’t I already do a column about this, you’re saying? Well, yes, but that was so 2008, you guys — and so before I actually got to see Repo! myself at the Tower Theatre. In the company of co-writers Darren Smith and Terrance Zdunich as part of their Repo! Road Tour 3, no less. Yep, I shook their hands. You may commence with the groveling now.

But the point of this column isn’t to gloat about how I got to meet two truly kind and generous men whose writing and overall aesthetic I admire. It’s to review this risky and gutsy (in more ways than one) goth/rock/splatterpunk opera in hopes that you’ll check it out.

And I do want you to check it out.

You guys, when I lined up at The Tower earlier this month, I was excited, but a little dubious. Sure, I liked the songs for Repo! The Genetic Opera, but would I like the film itself, I wondered.

Would its storytelling be uneven? Its acting over the top and goofy, and not in a good way? Would this be one of those things where I would love the concept, but hate the execution?

I needn’t have worried. Repo! not only met my expectations, it exceeded them. Oh, how it exceeded them. And not just because of the scantily-clad GENterns (think: sexy surgeons with a penchant for lesbian sexing), although they helped.

To recap, as I usually do, for the geeky ones just tuning in: Repo! The Genetic Opera is what happens when horror meets rock opera. In the “near distant” future, widespread organ failures devastate the planet. Enter GeneCo, a genetic engineering megacorporation that provides people with the organs they need to keep living, or plastic surgery they need to keep fashionable. The only catch: people who are 90 days delinquent on their payments get visited by a masked repo man, who will blithely repossess their organs and leave them to die.

The story follows the entangled lives of one such repo man, the guilt-ridden Nathan Wallace, his chronically ill teenaged daughter, and the terrifying, yet goofy, family behind GeneCo,

which includes Paris Hilton. Oh, and one malcontent of a graverobber who narrates it all. That’s Zdunich’s part.

Geeky ones, this film is freaking brilliant. It’s hilariously, cartoonishly violent, just bloody enough to tickle the horror fans without permanently damaging the squeamish, and fiend-

‘Repo! The Genetic Opera’ is what happens when horror meets rock opera. ishly acted by a very talented cast — some of them big names like Hilton, Sarah Brightman and Anthony Head (Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s Giles), and some of them musicians like Ogre of Skinny Puppy, who plays the self-absorbed GeneCo brat, Pavi Largo. And

the special effects (including the CGI used for its cityscapes) are so sleek and stylish that you’d swear this was a film with a huge budget, not a relatively microscopic one of $8.5 million.

Yes, I love the music of Repo!. I love the movie’s risk-taking, its dark humor and its insistence on trying something different. But what I like most about this movie may surprise you: I like its heart, and not the one that Nathan the repo man rips out of a poor woman’s chest at the film’s beginning, either. When Repo! wants to be, it’s quite touching. Seriously, Nathan and daughter Shilo’s tender yet silence-filled relationship is one of the best treatments of fathers and daughters that I have ever seen on screen, hands down. It also makes a surprisingly powerful statement about disability, and the fact that one’s genes have nothing to do with their potential for goodness.

And the fans! Let me tell you, watching this musical with a room full of enthusiastic fangirls and boys (some of them in costume, many of them goths) is nothing like watching it by yourself in front of a small screen TV. We laughed, we cried, we sang along and we yelled at the screen. I mean, how can you not call a movie that allows 200 or more people to yell “Pavi, shut the fuck up!!!” at the same time magical?

Stay tuned! In my next column I will officially end my Repo! column trilogy with an interview with Darren Smith and Terrance Zdunich, the graverobber himself. And remember ... the genetic opera is good. Very good! Q

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by JoSelle Vanderhooft

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Utah parents with gay children, Kathy Godwin wasn’t sure where to turn when her younger son came out to her six years ago as a high school senior — until she and her husband Bill discovered their local Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians and Gays chapter.

Six years later, she is now leading the Northern Utah chapter, helping other parents who were once in her position, trying to cope with a child’s coming out.

“I try to tell parents that they [your children] are leading,” Godwin explained.

“You have to let them lead you a bit, which isn’t always easy as a parent, but you do have to sort of do that.”

Long before Godwin learned to follow her son’s lead when it came to his sexual orientation, she knew a little about what being different felt like as a member of “probably one of the sole Democratic families in Orange County,” where she grew up and lived for the most part, until 1990 when she and her husband Bill received an offer to purchase G & S Sales Incorporated, a Utah business specializing in plumbing and irrigation equipment. Although she had never been to the state, Godwin (who lived in Memphis, Tenn. at the time) was familiar with the culture, having had a friend who attended BYU and was a practicing Mormon.

“We wanted to get west,” she said of the move.

After coming to Utah, Godwin became involved first with the University of Utah’s Tanner Dance Program, where she is currently a board member. In fact, she says her involvement with Northern Utah’s PFLAG chapter was slight for several years because the board’s ike many

meetings conflicted with PFLAG’s.

However, she recalled “going to many activities in the community that were LGBT related” such as panel discussions, so that she could learn more about her son’s orientation.

Eventually, the dance program’s meeting schedules changed and Godwin was able to devote more time to PFLAG. In September of last year, the organization’s outgoing president asked her if she would be interested in running for the position. Godwin said yes, ran unopposed for the seat, and came to office just as demonstrations against Proposition 8 exploded across the nation and throughout Utah.

“Our November meeting was right after the election.

That was a very well-attended meeting, because parents felt [concerned] as to what was going on and how it affected their families,” remembered Godwin.

As the group’s new president, Godwin jumped headlong into the surge of gay rights activism in Salt Lake City.

Already familiar with Equality Utah’s director Mike Thompson, she joined efforts to lobby for the group’s Common Ground Initiative (the bills targeted towards getting more rights for gay people in Utah this legislative session), and joined other gay rights leaders for a “town hall”-style meeting in mid-December. In addition, she has participated in Equality Utah’s citizen lobbyist training, and is actively looking for families of gay children who would like to testify before the Utah legislature in support of Equality Utah’s bills.

As the 2009 legislative session prepares to open, Godwin said she is also trying to do all she can not

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only to support local gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, but their families.

“One of my biggest goals is to try to reengage families who may or may not be active members in PFLAG and try and find out what they’re looking for,” she said.

Godwin said she does this by putting out information on the group through a variety of channels, and responding to parents who contact her as promptly as possible — she aims for a maximum of 24 hours.

She will also meet with parents “if they want to see that there are other parents out there” facing the same circumstances.

“What happens is when you have a family member who comes out, you want someone else to talk to, to help you parent,” she explained.

Although not a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Godwin says she also refers parents to more Mormon-focused

groups for parents of gay children, such as Affirmation or Family Fellowship.

“This is a unique community. It has a very strong religious community that I am not personally a part of but I have to be very sensitive to,” she said.

Overall, she wants parents of gay children to know that things can turn out alright. In the years since her son’s coming out, Godwin said she feels they have grown closer.

“It’s just part of growing in your relationship with your children as adults,” she said. “As a family he has taught us how to open our minds to a community of people we are really enjoying, that otherwise we might not have met. [As a family], I think we’re all pretty strong and continue to be strong.”

For more information about Northern Utah PFLAG contact Kathy Godwin at slcpflag@ gmail.com. PFLAG’s Web site can be found at pflag.org.

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Lambda Lore ‘The Boys in the Band’

by Ben Williams

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am neither a film nor theater

critic but I am excited to see that Mart Crowley’s The Boys in the Band is being staged again in Salt Lake City, 41 years after it first opened Off Broadway in New York City.

Mart Crowley wrote The Boys in the Band in 1967 and it was first performed in 1968. Within a year the world in which these characters were placed was rapidly disappearing as the youth movement began replacing the old homophile organizations with the Gay Liberation movement.

Because a lot of things have changed for gay people in the last 40 years, the play elicits strong feelings — and debate about its merits — among people who watch it, depending I suppose, on what era a person came out of the closet. However, the play is important

because it is a time capsule of a period in American history when the Gay Rights movement was on the cusp of a revolution.

In other words, this play is about a different time and a totally different mindset of what it means to be gay.

The Boys in the Band is about eight friends, who, on average, are about 30 years old. These men came to age during the Civil Rights movement of the ’50s and ’60s, and it is important to note that one of these characters is black. But these men are not Baby Boomers, hippies, or anti-war activists. They grew up in a time when homosexuals were considered security risks and subversives, and could not be employed in the government. As homosexuals they were considered unfit to serve in Vietnam even though

they were all of an age to be drafted.

These eight friends lived in an era when homosexuality was considered a pathology by the American Psychiatric Association, and they could be fired for being mentally unstable if their sexual identity was disclosed. They lived in a time where it was even illegal to serve a homosexual alcohol in New York City — where this play takes place.

What is remarkable about these characters, however, is that they were all “out of the closet” according to what that term meant before the Stonewall Riots. To be “out” simply meant you accepted that you are a homosexual. You might not have liked it, but you accepted it.

The first mention of The Boys in the Band in Utah was in a Salt Lake Tribune article dated June 24, 1969. It simply said that members of the play’s original cast had just held a reading of the screenplay for the upcoming movie. Less then three days later, the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village would be the site of the beginning of a movement known as Gay Liberation. This movement would sweep aside all the issues that made the play compelling. Basically, the characters of The Boys in the Band would have been more comfortable drinking at an upscale bar then burning one down.

By the time the movie version of the play was released in April 1970 a new day was dawning. I was a freshman in college in Orange County, Calif.

The place was not a hotbed of liberalism. the Los Angeles Times film critic Charles Champlin wrote a review of The Boys In The Band which was also printed in the Salt Lake Tribune.

It read, “Its content is historic, in that the joys and sorrows of adult male homosexuals have never to my knowledge been treated so unreservedly and unevasively in a movie aimed for a commercial rather than a cultist market ... Crowley’s tale is of an odd squad of queers gathered for a birthday party which becomes a drunken hell night largely because of the arrival of the host’s pal from the straight world. The question is whether the cold college chum is the prince of a fellow he takes himself to be or a latent princess. The answer remains ambiguous but meantime we’ve all had a good look at the anguish behind the mincing gaiety.” While the Los Angeles Times praised the film as “unquestionably a milestone,” it refused to run ads for it.

I learned about The Boys in the Band from homosexuals in the theater department at Cypress College. I was not “out” nor had admitted that I was a homosexual even to myself, so I stealthily went alone. In the parking lot I sat in my car until I could steel up enough nerve to go buy a ticket. I was petrified that by buying a ticket someone might think I was a queer. Choosing to see The Boys In the Band was one of many first steps to acknowledg-

ing that I was indeed a queer and that my love for a boy named John Cunningham was not just a phase.

The movie was a revelation. Of course there was self-loathing and alcoholic-induced rancor in it, but more importantly there also was love and affection.

The Boys In the Band was also a real milestone for the portrayal of gays in film. At the time it was released, it was only rated R when just the year before, The Killing of Sister George and Midnight Cowboy were given X ratings simply because there were homosexual characters in both films.

Just for your information, many forget that Midnight Cowboy was the only X-rated movie to win best picture at the Academy Awards. It has since been reduced to an R. Gay Liberation was gaining ground quickly during the heady days of the early 1970s, and many college theater departments were performing The Boys in the Band. In 1971 Cal-State Fullerton’s theater department put on a production of the play which I attended. Attending the play was a way of seeing who else on campus might also be gay. They were easy to spot, because the gay guys always came with a girl on their arm.

Even in Zion, The Boys in the Band was making history as being the first openly gay play performed in Utah. In May 1971 Theater 138’s Underground performed the play to a full house.

Only the University of Utah’s Daily Chronicle, however, had reviewed it.

Jerry Andersen wrote that “the audience responded with a great amount of sympathy and in some cases uncertainty.” An ad in the Chrony for the play also stated: Theater 138 Underground “Gayly Presents” The Boys in the Band.

The last time I remember that The Boys In the Band was performed in Salt Lake City was in the early 1990s, and it was staged at Beauchaine’s Aardvark Caberet by local gay actors.

The Boys in the Band fell out of favor for decades after it was released.

The Celluloid Closet’s author Vito Russo commented: “The internalized guilt of eight gay men at a Manhattan birthday party formed the best and most potent argument for gay liberation ever offered in a popular art form.” A harsher critique, however, came from Edward Guthman, a San Francisco Chronicle critic. In 1999 he called the play “the gay equivalent to a minstrel show.”

The Boys In the Band is a period piece that captures pre-Stonewall gay life. It is pre-AIDS, pre-Human Rights Coalition, pre-gay gentrification. The play terrified me, but it also excited me. Shortly after seeing the play performed at Cal-State Fullerton I felt empowered enough to join the first gay student Union on campus, in part because I never wanted to be like the self-depreciating Michael. I wanted to be Harold. Q

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Q Safety SLCPD’s Same-sex Domestic Violence Program

by Dianna Goodliffe

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2004 the topic of same sex domestic violence was a frequent item on the agenda of the LGBTQ Public Safety Liaison Committee. These discussions surrounded a reported fear by some members in the LGBTQ community about calling the police and about the treatment they would receive if they did call for police assistance. This fear seemed to generate, out of belief, that the police would not be sensitive to the needs and concerns of the LBGTQ community and by reports that members in the community had been treated poorly by members of law enforcement.

Either way of looking at how and why the fear was present came down to the need to educate law enforcement about the dynamics of same-sex domestic violence and the need to educate the community that it is safe to report occurrences of violence in their relationships. The solution became one of how do we educate the involved communities on ways they could help themselves or each other so that we could begin to address the needs of the community in regard to interpersonal violence. Public Forums were offered for the LGBTQ communities to have their questions answered; comments addressed and hopefully help them feel safe if and when they needed to call the police for assistance. The second task the committee addressed, that of educating law enforcement was accomplished through the training of most if not all of the Salt Lake City Police Department sworn personnel, as well as South Salt Lake Police Department.

As we identified the training objectives we were going to achieve with the officers, the first concern we identified was training officers on language that allowed them to properly identify the relationship and to validate the relationship for its true nature; second the similarities and differences between same sex DV and that of heterosexual couples; and third to address the special concerns when children are present.

In our training our hope is to help the officers identify ways in which they could identify the nature of the relationship and validate the relationship for what it is. We want officers to have language that allow the involved parties to be able to give their relationship the name that works for the, boyfriend, life partner,

spouse, etc. We discuss that different individuals will identify their partner using different labels and that some of it will depend on how comfortable and safe they feel with the person asking the questions. For some members of the community police are not identified as safe people and therefore they might be unwilling to identify the involved party as someone in who they share an intimate relationship with, we try to help officers understand those concerns.

Second, we spend a great deal of time going over the fact that Domestic Violence tends to look the same in same-sex relationships as it does in heterosexual relationships, one of power and control. We discuss the more traditional forms of control such as financial control, limiting access to friends and family, physical violence, emotional abuse and threats. We also explore control mechanisms that might be more specific to same-sex couples such as “outing” ones partner to family and or employers, reinforcing the fear that no one will help them because they are gay, lack of shelter or special concerns about both parties ending up in the same shelter and portraying the violence as mutual combat.

Lastly we spend time talking about what to do if children are present. As members of the community are deciding to have children or have had children from previous relationships the issue about what to do with the kids if the biological parent is arrested will become more and more an issue that the police will have to address. We discuss ways in which the police can try to identify who has legal rights to the children and what sort of documentation might be present to help them sort out what they can and can not do with the children. We discuss that some children might have been adopted by the nonbirth parent, or that legal co-guardianship might have been established through the court which would allow the officers to leave the children in the home.

The hope of the training is to help officers feel comfortable asking about the nature of the relationship, helping them understand the similarities as well as differences they would encounter in same-sex domestic violence cases, as well as what they can and can not do in reference to the children being raised in samesex homes. We hope that members of the LGBTQ community can feel safe

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calling the police and that the police respond in a professional and appropriate manner.

Salt Lake City Police Department has developed an information packet specifically oriented for Same-sex Domestic Violence. This packet includes information on how to assess your risk of domestic violence, a resource guide, a fact sheet on Same-sex Domestic Violence and more.

Dianna Goodliffe is a victim advocate for the Salt Lake City Police Department and a member of the GLBT Public Safety Committee. If you have any questions about Same-sex Domestic Violence please call Dianna at 799-3497. If you would like an information packet, we can mail it to you or you can stop by our offices at 327 E. 200 South. Further information or training on this topic is available upon request.

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This legislative session will certainly be eventful for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Utahns as Equality Utah works to push through its Common Ground Initiative bills and other legislators bring others that affect our community.

Here are the first eight bills out of the gate with recommendations from Equality Utah (EU) and Stonewall Shootings Sports of Utah (SSSU).

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Lamb’s Grill Liberty Heights Fresh Mazza MCC Mischievous MoDiggity’s Nostalgia Oasis Cafe Paper Moon Pinon Market/Cafe Pride Counseling Radio City Lounge Red Butte Cafe Red Rock Brewing Regency Theatres Royal Eatery SL Coffee Break SL Community College Sorenson Multicultural Ctr Squatters Pub Squirrel Bros StoneGround Tavernacle The Bakery The Center The Other Place Tower Theatre Trapp Trapp Door Univ. of Utah Urban Bistro Urban Lounge Virgin Megastores SUGAR HOUSE 21 21 Coffee Blue Plate Diner Cockers/Sparks Dancing Crane Fiddler’s Elbow Free Speech Zone Millcreek Coffee SL Pizza & Pasta Tea Grotto Westminster Wild Oats

SOUTH SALT LAKE All For Love Alternative Eyewear Bagelry Cafe Med Century Laundry LaPuente MURRAY 24 Hour Fitness Bubba’s BBQ WEST VALLEY Century Laundry Gringo’s SL Community College Wise Guys Comedy TAYLORSVILLE Coffee Club Just Add Coffee 24 Hour Fitness Beans and Brews PROVO Borders MOAB Back of Beyond Books CEDAR CITY Blue Kat Cafe ST. GEORGE Kaleidescope Cafe Xeteva Gardens

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H.B. 17 — Expedited Partner Therapy Treatment (Rep. Seelig, J.) EU: Unknown, SSSU: Yea This bill amends the Pharmacy Practice Act in the Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing Act. The bill: 1) defines terms; 2) excludes from the definition of unprofessional conduct and unlawful conduct under the Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing, issuing a prescription for an antibiotic to an unnamed partner of a person who has any one of certain designated sexually transmitted diseases; 3) does not mandate the use of expedited partner therapy; 4) provides an option for physicians to use expedited partner therapy; 5) makes conforming changes to the Pharmacy Practices Act; and 6) makes technical changes.

SSSU says: “The bill would help many Utahns by providing that a person who is the unnamed partner of a person who has any one of certain designated sexually transmitted diseases may be issued an ‘expedited partner therapy’ prescription for an STD antibiotic. The bill would encourage better health care for a person who has been exposed to an STD without requiring a separate medical examination and prescription.”

H.B. 225 — Driver License Amendments (Rep. Wimmer, C.) EU: Unknown, SSSU: Yea This bill modifies the Uniform Driver License Act by amending provisions relating to changing the information provided on a driver license or identification card application. The bill: 1) provides that if a person requests to change the sex designation on a driver license or identification card, the Driver License Division shall issue a duplicate driver license or new identification card upon receiving: a) an application and fee for a duplicate driver license or identification card; and b) written verification from a licensed physician that the applicant has undergone and completed a sex reassignment surgery; 2) provides that a person shall provide the person’s sex on

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an application for an identification card; and 3) makes technical changes.

SSSU says: “The bill would help many Utahns by providing that a person may request to change his sex designation on a driver license or identification card according to certain conditions. The bill would require the state Driver License Division to accommodate the desires and needs of transgender citizens.”

H.B. 238 — Exemption of University Housing from Eviction Laws (Rep. Holdaway, K.) EU: Unknown, SSSU: Nay This bill amends the Forcible Entry and Detainer chapter of the Judicial Code as it relates to student housing. The bill: 1) defines terms; 2) permits an institution of higher education to exclude or evict a student from student housing, if the student has violated the student’s lease, without resorting to a judicial process; 3) establishes procedures and due process requirements for the exclusion or eviction of a student from student housing; and 4) makes technical changes.

SSSU says: “The bill would harm many Utahns by providing that a person who is a higher-education student and party to university-housing lease agreements and rules which might cause his eviction based on his otherwise legal ownership or possession of firearms, or his gender- or sexual-minority status. The bill would allow different standards of due process and equal protection be imposed on the student — standards which are often beyond the control or influence of the state government, and would be unconstitutional in any other application. As a practical matter, such agreements and rules extend only for an academic semester or year, and usually less than nine months. There are already provisions for removal of a student who behaves criminally or disruptively.”

S.B. 32 — Wrongful Death Amendments (Sen. McCoy, S.) EU: Yea, SSSU: Yea This bill expands the definition of “heirs” to include a wrongful death designee. The bill: 1) defines wrongful death designee as a person who: a) is designated as the only wrongful death heir in the decedent’s will, trust, or other notarized written directive; and b) has been adjudicated by a court of competent jurisdiction, by clear and convincing evidence, to have had a mutual supportive and dependent relationship with the decedent; and 2) provides minor children with priority over other heirs in the event of a wrongful death settlement.

EU says: “The sudden death of a loved one is painful. When someone dies because of the negligence or malpractice of another, we can help families stay in their homes by removing existing barriers to inheritance and insurance. This bill was introduced in the 2007 session as SB 58 and in the 2008 session as SB 73.”

SSSU says: “The bill would help many Utahns by providing that a person who designates as his choice of a wrongful death heir another person who has been

adjudicated by a court of competent jurisdiction, by clear and convincing evidence, to have had a mutual supportive and dependent relationship with the person. The bill would protect those relationships and families including those of gay partners by recognizing their dependence to and with others.”

IN PROCESS Antidiscrimination Amendments (Rep. Johnson, C.) EU: Yea, SSSU: Yea EU says: “Currently, it is legal to fire a person from her job just for being gay or transgender. This bill will add sexual orientation and gender identity to the list of characteristics that employers may not consider when making decisions about employment. This was introduced in the 2008 session as HB 89.”

Joint Resolution to Amend the Marriage Provision of the Utah Constitution (Rep. Biskupski, J.) EU: Yea, SSSU: Yea EU says: “A government registry involving inheritance, housing, and insurance is nowhere near the legal equivalent of marriage. But the second part of Amendment 3 has been misinterpreted to prevent any recognition of gay and transgender couples in Utah. This bill would repeal the portion of Amendment 3 which states “no other domestic union, however denominated, may be recognized as marriage or be given the same or substantially equivalent legal effect.” It will not change Utah’s current definition of marriage, which is one man and one woman.”

PLANNED Domestic Partner Rights and Responsibilities Act EU: Yea, SSSU: Yea EU says: “Apart from marriage, we can do much more to help committed couples in Utah care for each other. This bill creates a domestic partner registry and will attach rights of inheritance, insurance, and fair housing.”

Expanding Health Care EU: Yea, SSSU: Yea EU says: “Most gay Utahns can not insure their family. This bill will mandate that public employer insurance plans which extend benefits to an employee’s spouse, also cover an employees partner. When insurance plans cover families, they should cover every family member.”

Fair Housing EU: Yea, SSSU: Yea EU says: “Similarly, a people can be evicted from their homes if they are gay or transgender. This bill will add sexual orientation and gender identity to the list of characteristics that landlords may not consider when making decisions about eviction.”

As bills progress and as new bills are presented, read QSaltLake and visit qsaltlake.com.

Christine Johnson: A Progressive Voice on the Hill

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anti-Proposition 8 demonstrators or trying to teach heterosexual Utah legislators that they, too, have a sexual orientation, openly lesbian Rep. Christine Johnson, D-Salt Lake City, has been an outspoken erudite and patient voice for queer Utahns and their rights since she took office in 2006. This session, her bill which seeks to extend nondiscrimination protections to gay and transgender Utah workers is up for a second hearing on Capitol Hill — now with a section asking for equal protections in housing as well.

Given all of Johnson’s hard work and dedication to Utah’s gay and transgender population, it’s sometimes hard to remember that she has only been in office for two years, after winning her seat from Ross Romero, who left to run for a state senate seat.

It’s even more difficult to think she has only been active in Utah’s political scene since 2003.

Born on the East Coast, Johnson grew up in South Carolina and Virginia until age 13, when her family moved to Utah. Her mother having joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when Johnson was 8 years old, Johnson spent her dadolescence as a practicing Mormon living in Provo — a place that did not suit her very well.

“It didn’t seem to be a good fit for me,” Johnson remembers, noting that she left the state at age 18, returning only for a few years to attend Dixie State College. Due partly to her Mormon upbringing, Johnson says she came out as a lesbian much later in life than many would suspect — at age 31, and after marrying and having a child.

“I think there were definitely some societal pressure weighing in that caused me to shut that door, but it kept becoming an issue,” says Johnson. “I think there is only one lifestyle that is advocated for young women within the Mormon Church: It is your goal to marry a returned missionary and have

a family. [Being gay] had never even dawned on me.

At one point I remember my mother asking when my daughter was 6 months old, if I was lesbian. I asked, ‘What are you talking about?’ I was completely in denial. She had made it clear to me at that point that it’s not something she would support if I were.”

Although Johnson says she had been “apprehensive and a bit scared” to acknowledge her true sexual orientation, she finally “gave in” after several attempts at heterosexual relationships. She says she is “much happier” now that she has admitted the truth about herself.

“I remember meeting my first partner and thinking, ‘Oh my gosh! This was supposed to be what it feels like. Why did I resist this so long?’” she says, laughing.

In fact, it was ultimately one such partner who brought Johnson back to the Beehive State in 2001.

When Johnson moved from Baltimore, Md. to live with her, she remembers being shocked when she encountered Utah’s political climate as a gay person for the first time.

“I was astounded when I moved here and turned on the TV and saw [Senator] Chris Buttars and [Eagle Forum President] Gayle Ruzicka talking about gay people in the state — their unapologetic disapproval and willingness to discriminate,” she remembers. “I couldn’t figure out why more people weren’t upset or advocating for themselves. Perhaps it’s because I’d come from a life of intensifying as a heterosexual woman and [assuming] I’d have these rights. It was a bit of a shock to learn that the decision to be with a woman and be myself would cause me to lose all those privileges.”

But Johnson didn’t let herself remain shocked for long. She quickly lent her support to several gay rights organizations in Utah, ultimately serving as the Vice Chair for HRC Utah and a board member of local gay rights group, Equality Utah. And in 2003 when Buttars ran a bill that sought to alter Utah

code to define marriage as the union between a man and a woman, Rep. Jackie Biskupski asked Johnson to testify against the bill before the legislature. Her testimony was all over the news that night, and her voice only became stronger during the next session, in which Amendment 3, the constitutional amendment that banned gay marriage in the state, called many activists to arms.

“The more they pushed, the more I wanted to prove them wrong,” she remembers. Yet, while Johnson was more than comfortable speaking out against anti-gay legislation, she hadn’t given much thought to doing so on the House floor.

“I thought perhaps one day I’d run for office, but I didn’t expect it would happen in my 30s,” she explains. But that all changed when Romero called Johnson, and told her she should run for his vacant seat.

“I was astounded and just kind of dove in not knowing what I was headed for,” she says.

In the campaign that followed, Johnson utilized her “basic grass roots networking” and her support from such local political movers and shakers as Stacey Adams, Jan Lovett and former Utah Democratic Party chair Donald Dunn. With their help and with a lot of determination, Johnson campaigned and won a majority vote both in Salt Lake and Summit Counties, and won again easily when she ran for re-election last November.

But while Johnson has supported legislation that is specifically focused on gay and transgender people, she is hardly a ‘one-issue’ politician. During her first term she wrote two successful bills: one that clarified the numbering of constitutional amendments on ballots, and another that mandated Utah manufacturers to reduce the amount of phosphorous in detergents by 2010, thus decreasing the impact on local ecosystems. In 2008 she also sponsored legislation that created a fund to retrofit antiquated diesel school bus engines, and to teach drivers how to cut down on idling. Thanks to EPA grants, Johnson estimates that 90 percent of the state’s yellow buses have been cleaned up so far.

“I think that some people on the other side of the aisle and certainly my opponent in the last election wanted to frame me as a single issue person, that issue being my sexual orientation,” Johnson explains. “That’s not the case. I feel a great deal of responsibility to my LGBT community. But this session, only 20 percent of the bills I’m running have to do with LGBT issues.”

Her other bills include legislation focusing on funding domestic violence shelters, providing health insurance to uninsured children and banning gifts from lobbyists. She’s also considering proposing a resolution that would ask the U.S. Congress to overturn the military’s ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy.

“It’s just such a hypocritical philosophy. The fact we would ask people to serve our country and risk their lives while denying them authenticity while they are alive is just absurd,” she says.

When she is not working as a realtor, or debating a bill on the House floor, Johnson says that she enjoys spending time with her daughter, kayaking, cooking and rollerblading. And, of course, listening to her constituents.

“I’m also really pleased that my constituents are not only supportive when I go out on a limb for them,” she says. “When I make a statement on the floor that’s perhaps a little more brazen or direct, or maybe [support] an unconventional theory that’s very left, instead of getting criticism from my constituents, they remember it and are very appreciative. I consider it a luxury to be that progressive voice on the Hill.” Q

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Sports Team Harwood Wins in San Diego

by Brad Di Iorio

Team Harwood, composed of local Utah athletes, sent 10 players to San Diego, Calif., this past weekend to play in the country’s first major, gay basketball tournament of the season, the Hillcrest Classic ’09 — to win the Lower ‘B’ recreational division. Eight teams participated in the division with a round robin on Saturday, splitting the teams into two ‘B’ divisions, Upper and Lower ‘B.’ Team Harwood battled three teams to win their division championship.

Team Hardwood is part of the Mountain West Basketball League, a division of the broader Salt Lake City Gay Athletic Association.

“The Utah league is not organized into specific, separate teams,” spokesman Jeffrey Sanchez said. “We are just a loose group of players and, depending on the level of interest in a particular tournament, determines if more than one team will be needed to be fielded. There is no one leader of the basketball team. Instead there is a core group of caring individuals who take the lead on missions such as getting us to the Hillcrest Classic tournament.”

The league is a product of local organizing taken on by the SLCGAA for participation in the 2006 Gay Games, in which the basketball team won a bronze medal. Founder of the SLCGAA, Mark Barr, is currently looking for a gym for the basketball league and the volleyball league to play in, one night a week.

The league plays most Sundays according to Sanchez, but does skip holiday weekends and other weekends.

Currently, the league plays at the HPER gym on the University of Utah campus at 11:00 a.m. A $5 non-student fee is required to play at HPER, but the league is looking for an inside gym where a fee is not required.

“Individuals should always contact us through the Web site to verify time and place and be put on our weekly Evite e-mail.” Sanchez said. “The bottom line is all are welcome regardless of their skill level. We divide up teams so each team has equal talent. Women who want information about playing on a women’s team can contact me.”

Sanchez said the purpose of maintaining a gay basketball league in Salt Lake City is that some in our community feel more at ease playing sports and it gives those individuals a venue for their talents. “Bigger than basketball or any sport, I think it is necessary to offer social events that do not involve bars only,” Sanchez said.

The Mountain West Basketball League is part of the larger, National Gay Basketball Association, which

was started by Mark Chambers of Long Beach, Calif., to build community-based gay and lesbian participation. The main role of the league is “to provide tournaments in various cities to help build excitement and participation,” Chambers said. “Upcoming goals of the league are to prepare for the 2010 Gay Games and get more cities involved, and encourage players to step up and lead NGBA, set up the tournament calendar, and create a NGBA community service drive from leagues and outreach to educate people on healthy lifestyles.”

The NGBA officially began in November 2004, becoming a non-profit in 2005, and helping in creating the National Lesbian Basketball Association. Though there are no active lesbians playing in the lesbian association, Chambers hopes that it will develop over time.

“Tournaments have fees associated with them but those are paid by members of the team who attend the tournament,” Sanchez said. “For instance, the tournament we played this past weekend in San Diego cost individuals $35.”

The league will begin fundraising to send a team or teams to the 2010 Gay Games in Cologne, Germany.

“The only annual, [gay] basketball event is the Coady Roundball Classic in Chicago, the home of the NGBA GLBT Championships,” Chambers said.

For more information visit www.slcgaa.org.

For information on the National Gay Basketball Association, visit www.ngbaus.com, for national tournament information, or click on the ‘women’ link for the National Lesbian Basketball Association.

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William Munk Dies in Egypt Utah photographer and banker William Munk died after suffering from a seizure while sailing down the Nile River on Jan. 15. Munk was well known in the gay and lesbian community as the smiling face behind the camera at many Royal Court of the Golden Spike Empire, Utah Gay Rodeo Association, Utah Bear Alliance, Utah Pride and other community events. He shot thousands of photographs for QSaltLake and The Pillar, as well as for his personal collection.

A funeral will be held in Tempe, Ariz. where his parents live. Utah friends are organizing a local memorial. QSaltLake will publish details as they become available.

Munk described himself as a “Mild Mannered Banker by day, Passionate Photographer and Traveler by Night, weekends and whenever I can!

I watch too much tv and read too few books. I drive too much and walk too little.”

Munk was an avid contributor to the Letters to the Editor sections of Utah’s dailies as well as the Pillar and QSaltLake. He also spent much

time on the online forums of the local dailies.

At the time of his death, Munk held the Court title of Miss Golden Spike Universe. Three years ago he held the title of Mr. Golden Spike Universe and made a dream come true when he developed the drag personality of Magna Cum Loudly and delighted judges with his outrageous and irreverent evening wear, answer to the pageant question and performance.

He was epileptic and synaesthetic, but chose to live life to its fullest, regardless.

Munk was born and raised in Tempe, Ariz. and attended Mesa Community College and Arizona State. He worked at Zion Bank since 1995 and owned Puddle Products, his photography company.

A memorial will be held at the Trapp Door, 615 W. 100 South, Tuesday, Jan. 27 from 6–8:00 p.m.

Photos William has taken over the years will be available to be taken as a memento. Personal stories will be encouraged.

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by Tony Hobday

This year’s attendance at the film festivals in Park City seems lighter than years past, and the parties a little less bling bling. Thankfully the weather’s been cooperative and that I had the chance to see ‘Humpday.’

It’s a smart, hilarious film about two straight college buddies, now in their 30s, who decide to make an “artistic” porn film in which they have sex with each other and claim “it’s not gay; it’s beyond gay.”

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thursDAY — This East L.A. rock band uses musical molds built on the blues, rockabilly, jazz and Latin; putting it all together instrumentally with saxaphones, mandolins, banjos, harmonicas and more. The five members that make up Los Lobos challenge themselves with conscience-raising songs and thought-provoking lyrics. Tonight, they’ll be performing an acoustic concert of their unique, experimental and engaging music.

7:30pm, Kingsbury Hall, 1361 E. Presidents Cir., UofU. Tickets $27–47, 581-7100 or kingtix.com.

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FRIDAY — This young artist from England dubs her sound as heartbroken soul. Her name is Adele and she’s up for four Grammy Awards including Record of the Year and Song of the Year for “Chasing Pavements.” Check out this rising star as she breaks her way through the U.S. music charts.

7:30pm, Murray Theater, 4916 S. State Street. Tickets $13/adv–$15/day of show, 467-8499 or smithstix.com.

QQ The five rather good looking members of the pop rock band The White Tie Affair from Chicago joined last year’s True Colors Tour and will be opening for Lady GaGa on her upcoming summer Tour, so they must be worth seeing, right? Tonight they will share the stage with Secondhand Serenade.

6:30pm, Avalon Theatre, 3605 S. State Street. Tickets $10/adv–$12/day of show, 467-8499 or smithstix.com.

QQ If you didn’t get enough partying in on December 31st, then get your groove on at Gossip’s Chinese New Year party. Celebrate the year of the Ox. My animal is the Cock, or more accurately the Rooster ... but I like Cock better. Anyhoo, there’ll be plenty of giveaways and goodies including special Gossip fortune cookies. Nova Starr also presents “The Forbidden Kitty” show with her very special guest, and one of my favorite performers, Systine — she can shoot ping pong balls out of her ... well, I do have limits.

10pm, Gossip at Club Sound, a private club for members, 511 W. 200 South. Free to members, gossipslc.com or myspace.com/ gossipslc.

QQ Maybe you’re more into girls than Cocks, so how about helping Toni and her lovely maidens celebrate at Paper Moon’s 15th Anniversary Party. It seems that Toni always has something fabulous going on during her special parties, and I’m sure this will be no exception. All of us at QSaltLake send many kudos to Paper Moon for making it 15 years, and surely 15 more to come.

9pm, Paper Moon, a private club for members, 3737 S. State Street. Tickets $5–6, 713-0678 or the papermoon.info.

QQ A new performing arts company named Salt Lake City Ballet opens their debut production, At Capacity, tonight. The show consists of a salute to Harald Lander’s famed Études, re-choreographed by Artistic Director Cristóbal Márquez and named “Estudios en Études.” Following is a mixed repertory consisting of excerpts from such beloved ballets as Don Quixote, Le Corsaire, Carmen, Romeo & Juliet, and also features four original contemporary dance pieces choreographed by Kassandra Taylor and Kea Kapahua.

7:30pm, through Saturday, Rowland Hall St. Mark’s Larimer Center Theater, 970 E. 800 South. Tickets $10–15 at the door or 664-4607.

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SATURDAY — Clip those taloned toenails, spread those little piggies and wisk away the webs, and pummel those dry, flaky, cracking heels; it’s time again for another Barefoot ­Boogie. Sugar Space presents a community dance to pop and world beat, and the theme is “Good people, good fun. No smoke, no alcohol, no drama.”

7–9pm, Sugar Space, 616 Wilmington Ave. Suggested donation $5–20, 1-888-300-7898 or thesugarspace.com.

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TUESDAY — In honor of Bisexual Awareness Month, the Utah Pride center is holding several events including the screening of Bi the Way, an entertaining documentary about the changing nature of sexuality and sexual identity in America today and how the next generation is redefining its sexual mores. The directors traveled across the country talking mostly to young people about their new definitions of sexual identity. The film begins to break down our normative dichotomous definitions of heterosexuality and homosexuality.

6:30pm, City Library Auditorium, 210 E. 400 South. Free, 539-8800 or utahpridecenter.org.

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WEDNESDAY — Salt Lake Acting Company presents Dark Play or Stories for Boys. Inspired by his teacher’s description of a theatrical game called “dark play,” where one player knows the rules and the other doesn’t even know they’re in the game, a teenage boy begins an online role-playing fiction that tumbles into the real world and ultimately twists the need for love into a dangerous and potentially deadly obsession. A wry and razor sharp tale of rudderless youth looking for real meaning in a virtual world.

7:30pm, through February 22, Salt Lake Acting Company, 168 W. 500 North. Tickets $13–34, 363-7522 or saltlakeactingcompany.org.

QQ In February 2008, Lawrence King, a 15-year-old openly gay student at E.O. Green Junior High in Oxnard, Calif. was murdered because of his

february 14, 2009 sWerve’s Valentine’s Day Gay-la ­ swerveutah.com february 22, 2009 UAF Oscar Night America ­ utahaids.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 October 17, 2009 PWACU Living with AIDS Conference pwacu.org

Email arts@­qsaltlake.com for consideration to be included in Save the Date.

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FrIDAY — Alwin Nikolais’ THE CRYSTAL AND THE SPHERE, presented

by Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, involves an array of strange and humorous characters woven into a colorful Space Fantasy against vibrant light projections and magical black light images. With such delightful titles as “Waddle Birds,” “Outer Space Clown” and “Chess Skaters,” this performance will fire the imagination of all ages.

7pm, through Saturday, Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South. Tickets $30, 355-ARTS or arttix.org.

Q Castle of Chaos has kicked off a new interactive murder mystery filled with murder, magic and mayhem.

Award-winning designer and illusionist, Michelangelo, has created a mystery filled with magic, ghosts and unexpected thrills called the MYsterY of DoCtor D’ArC. In the show, guests join retired magician, Dr. D’Arc, as he summons seven deadly suspects back to the Castle of Chaos where one year ago, his beautiful wife was viciously murdered. Guests must solve the mystery before the ghost of Mrs. D’Arc takes her terrible vengeance. Instead of sitting in just one room, guests explore many different ones, complete with secret doors and hidden rooms.

7:30 & 9:30pm, Fridays & Saturdays, Castle of Chaos, 3300 S. 120 West. Tickets $11, 4614444 or castleofchaos.com

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SAturDAY — The Royal Court of the Golden Spike Empire presents the 27th annual UtAh GAY PAGeAnt. There will be beauty, intellect (or a lack there of), hot bods and possibly bulimia. Just keep your fingers crossed there won’t be any makeup brush sabotage — that’s just plain unsportsman-like.

7–9pm, Club Sound, a private club for members, 511 W. 200 South. Tickets $6 at the door, rcgse.org.

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Pounding the Streets of Sundance

by Tony Hobday

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i spent more Quality drinking time at the many parties QSaltLake was invited to attend, especially those hosted

by Queer Lounge. This year however, I’ve only been to Outfest’s (L.A.’s film festival group) annual brunch on Sunday, Jan. 18.

It was held at the Grub Steakhouse, as last year, but this time it wasn’t nearly as claustraphobic. There was actually room to dance on the small dance floor. Chris Lemon (Vapid Lovelies) and the cast and crew of Mississippi Damned (including Michael David Kelley of Lost) took eager advantage of it and danced off the heavy calorie intake of sweet rolls, bagels and fruit served at “the brunch.” It’s quite possible that such a benign serving of food could easily intensify the affects of the open bar consumption by more than just Michael Aaron. He’s so damn cute when he’s had a couple!

Also this year, and by the end of the fesitvals, I will have seen more films than I did last year, which is really the point — not the parties like Demi Moore’s annual birthday party; not the star sightings like Zooey Deschanel, Kevin Bacon, Jane Lynch; not the bling bling, in fact as I was shopping for bling to wear to the festival, I found a black T-shirt that read: fcuk fashion.

I nearly bought it, but was afraid I’d be ostracized. I’m such a wuss.

I’ve seen a dozen or so short films so far. My favorites being James, about a young teenager coming to terms with his homosexuality by frequenting public restrooms; Countertransference, about a homely lesbian with self-esteem issues and her awkward therapy sessions; and Instead of Abracadabra, about twentysomething Tomas who still lives with his parents and dreams of becoming a great magician, though his abilities could be terminally dangerous.

Certainly I should include Frank Feldman’s Slamdance entry Vapid Lovelies as one of my favorites even though I’ve only seen a screnner of it and not on the big screen. However, the word on the street is Feldman and his posse have been invited to submit it for screening in a well-known international film festival.

So far I’ve seen two feature-length films, Unmade Beds and Humpday.

The first is a UK film written and directed by Alexis Dos Santos. Twentyyear-old Santos moves to London in search of the father who abandoned him when he was three years old.

However, he arrives penniless and jobless, however, he somehow manages to frequent clubs and get so drunk, he doesn’t remember anything about ast year

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the night before. He’s befriended and taken in by an “underground polyglot squat of free spirits.” While dealing with his attraction to the boy who brought him in, Axl also struggles with introducing himself to his longlost father.

The film is low budget, the writing cursory, the acting fair and the soundtrack outstanding. The single “Hot Monkey, Hot Ass” by Black Moustache is a catchy tune.

Humpday, on the other hand, is well-written: smart and witty. Lynn Shelton’s (screenwriter/director) third feature is a comic delight. Ben (Mark Duplass) and Andrew (Joshua Leaonard) are old college buddies that, for the past 10 years, have lead completely different lives: Ben, the domestic life of a loyal, abiding husband; Andrew, the failing gypsy artist life.

When Andrew shows up unannounced on Ben’s doorstep, Ben’s wife Anna’s dismay of the uncomprehen-

sible male is the center of a 90-minute testosterone-driven romp into the pysche of the heterosexual male and his ability to bond with the same sex.

During a Dionysian party, involving booze and bong hits, Andrew and Ben decide to make an “artistic” amateur porn film, but they would have to “draw straws” to see which one would “bone the shit” out of the other.

As the fateful “action” draws nearer, Shelton emanates an uncanny perception of the male ego, one that is spirited and funny, without being condescending. This film is a must-see for gay and straight alike.

Perhaps the current economic stranglehold and the ‘call to boycott’ have had some affect over the festivals this year, but the overall energy is still high, the filmmaking risky, the parties festive and there’s plenty of faux fur. So make your way up to Park City before the Sundance Film Festival ends Jan. 25. Q

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Winter weather has a way of triggering strange urges within me. I generally try to blame these urges on age or hormones, but just accept them and try to maneuver through daily life.

One such urge came to me a few days ago after work, I was craving Greek food. I called a friend and asked him to recommend a great Greek restaurant. I listened to the recommendation, wrote down the name and looked the address up. I eventually found myself at the front door of Café Med. I had a sense of excitement as I entered the café. I was greeted right away and seated. I had obviously missed the lunch crowd and was enjoying the quiet around me so I looked around at my surroundings. At one table, a couple visited about there new-found interests, at another table sat a woman buried behind papers relating to accounting ventures. The café was simple, clean and welcoming.

My server dropped off the menu and poured me an ice cold glass of water. I opened the menu and began my usual routine of looking it over. I made my

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basement prices in postelection recessionary America. It’s Jake and me, and we’re spiraling down a dark, air-free tunnel where we feed on the other’s edible soft spots, wallowing in what is currently wrong with our relationships. Each of us hasn’t had sex in a week – that’s the major issue.

My boyfriend, he’s been on tour with a Grateful Dead spin-off band, and Jake’s man dumped him for younger model who squirted perfume on him at a mall kiosk. So far, this is the third major disconnect for Jake this year; his legion of exes, it just keeps expanding, exacerbating his inability to sustain monogamous relationships.

You see, Jake wasn’t left behind just because his boyfriend found someone better. No! Jake’s boyfriend was fed up with the way Jake collects exes like beanie babies, storing them on his mental bookshelf, even when he’s dating someone.

In his defense, Jake says he only keeps his exes on-call for ‘pointers.’

The problem is these ‘pointers’ come with swinging balls attached, leading to a casual fling rather than sound advice. And even though this has taxed each of Jake’s relationships, he refuses to let any ex go, stating each holds a piece of what he’s looking for in a real man. With each piece in hand, Jake feels he’s assembled Mr. Right. “The good thing about ending a relationship is you can keep the good without the bad,” he says.

For example, Jake’s ex-boyfriend Tim, a raging alcoholic with a wet diaper fetish, is a really sweet movie enthusiast who will cuddle Jake for hours, watching whatever Jake chooses. And now, at the commencement of their movie marathon, Jake can send him home without having to deal with an itchy rash for waking up beside a puddle of pee the next morning.

And his other ex, Harry, the hot surly one with chronic bouts of depression: things are heavenly between him and Jake now that they’re over.

When Harry’s in a manic phase, he spends all types of money on Jake, racking up credit debt on pricy bottles of white wine bearing French names that Jake can’t pronounce. And since they’ve broken up, Jake can have these spontaneous shopping sprees minus the baggage attached. He no longer contends with Harry’s mood swings or needs to make sure Harry showers the week it takes him to recover from bottoming out.

“But isn’t that part of a relationship? Taking the good with the bad?” I ask. We’re talking over scorched cups of coffee, and Jake has already found his next ex: the guy he’s text-messaging in a caffeine craze as we chat at

an indie coffeehouse where they use magazine stacks as chairs.

“Forget the bad,” Jake scoffs. “Who needs the drama?”

“True, but relationships can’t be perfect all the time,” I remind him.

“When it’s my time, they can,” he says, informing how he has a separate ex for each occasion: movies, sex, fine dining, family gatherings, dancing, even going to the Holocaust museum.

“They add up to a perfect guy with no strings attached and no drama.

I’m sick of dating. I don’t need a new boyfriend.”

“Really? Then why are you texting this new guy?”

Grimacing, Jakes emits a hushed bark, continuing to check his Blackberry for a new message from his new man. Me, I’m pondering where we went wrong in this love-starved society. Why does each of us feel entitled to the perfect love, the perfect life, even when surrounded by domestic chaos, environmental crises and financial let-downs? When are we going to teach ourselves that love isn’t fair?

Who knows? Maybe we’ve been spoiled, riding the reality-TV illusion that every person must have the perfect crib, the perfect car, the perfect nose attached to the perfect boyfriend’s face, in order to feel happy. The shiny, happy people on TV, they edit out the dismal parts; we’re spared the ugly side of beautiful pseudo-celebrities who can’t afford rent once their life is canceled due to a ratings slump. We change the channel when we realize the happy newlyweds get divorced.

The truth is we’re screwed. The stock market is crashing, house prices are plummeting and more people are finally getting a grip on the reality that we can’t afford to eat out a designer meal every night and we can’t afford to buy a designer outfit for every stupid, designer occasion either.

And maybe that’s not so bad ... .

Hard times, they remind us to be humble, grateful for the small things, like that rushing sensation in your heart from being waken by a lover’s kiss in the morning. Recessions, though tough, implore us to think twice before wasting our lives away with the delusion that a happy ending comes devoid of problems at the beginning. When we take the reality out of the TV, no matter how much we lie to ourselves, nothing is perfect in life and our intimate relations are no exception. Boyfriends come with bags, tempers, flaws, diseases and foul family members. Still, we can’t run after each fight and every tragedy. Like the erratic stock market, relationships contain volatile times, but as Americans, we’ve come to learn that those who stand strong are the ones who truly endure.

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ALL “FAMILY” WELCOME

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next prey, Mr. Bunyan. The bathNew Year, January 1, 2000, or com- house was located on a dark deserted street. Mr. Bunyan pushed open the monly referred to as Y2K. Owen weathered wood door. There was a had easily reeled in the short, long, empty corridor and a barred shirtless black boy and had spent most window was cut out of the wall just to of the time dancing with him. Through the foggy dance floor, their sweaty bod- the right of the entrance. A plywood slider door behind the bars slid open ies nearly touching, one could almost and revealed a blond, burly man with see the current of electricity ricochetan unkempt handlebar mustache. He ing off their naked skin. immediately demanded twenty-five Jacin, Eddie and Matthew sat at dollars per person to enter. Paul Bua tall bar table just off the dance nyan whipped out his cash, but Owen floor, plastic champagne flutes in complained about the fee. The ornery hand readying for the countdown. doorman abruptly slid the slider Josh was off flirting with random shut without another word, and Mr. guys, which seemed only to annoy Bunyan gave Owen a “too bad, so Matthew a small amount. Of course, sad” look and swaggered down the it had been a year since they had broken up. However, Jacin did notice corridor. Peeved, Owen promptly a flash of jealously in Matthew’s eyes, unzipped his patent leather pants and urinated in the hallway. or maybe it was angered defeat.

Four! Three! Two! One! Happy New After waiting forty-five minutes Year! for the ferry in the frigid night air, Cheers and kisses were exchanged the gang finally arrived at Matthew’s between hundreds of gay men, most house. Owen, drunk and still upset of whom would never share the moabout the bathhouse, adamantly ment again, including Owen and his refused to spend another night on the mysterious partner — they locked lumpy sofa sleeper and crawled into lips, smiled and walked away from bed with Matthew.

The following afternoon, the gray each other as if they’re only purpose sky lingered with scattered patches for each other in the two hours was of blue. Matthew had been awake for to have someone to kiss on New a while since he hadn’t drunk much Year’s Day. They didn’t even bother the night before — his body wouldn’t exchanging names.

Once the group reeled in Josh, allow it. But once bored he woke which took nearly half an hour of everyone else with two Midol and a swimming through a sea of hard-bodglass of water.

Matthew suggested they spend the ied men, they shoved off to The Cuff. day in Port Townsend. When each As soon as they stepped out of Neighhad showered and finished complainbours, the plummeting temperature cooled their overheated bodies. Along ing about their hangovers, they piled into Matthew’s pickup truck. Jacin the way they ran into five young and Eddie were forced to sit in the men wearing black berets and white covered bed of the truck where they sweatshirts emblazoned with ‘Safety Patrol.’ They were volunteers from lo- cuddled underneath a mound of blancal schools whose aim was to keep the kets. Not much was said in the truck or on the ferry until they reached streets safe for the party-goers.

After spending just enough time in Port Townsend, a quiet, sleepy tourThe Cuff for Owen to meet a tall lum- ist town on the Olympic Peninsula, berjack-type guy, they decided to go and inhabited by many writers, to a bathhouse suggested by Owen’s musicians and artists.

42 | QSa lt L a k e | issue 120 | J a nua r y 22, 20 09 t was eight minutes to the

The group strolled through the quaint boutiques, art galleries and antique shops that line the waterfront.

After lunch Jacin and Eddie decided to stroll along the beach while the rest returned to shopping.

Jacin and Eddie walked precariously hand-in-hand through the thick sand.

Then they came upon a message that had been carved into the sand fifteen yards twofold. It read: JAKE MORGAN HAPPY BIRTHDAY MIKE 51 MIKEY PINDER AND JARON

Having just celebrated a birthday the day before, Eddie became overwhelmed with emotion. Sensing some type of loss from the message, or maybe it was intense love, Eddie suddenly felt thankful to Josh, Owen, Matthew and especially Jacin for their friendship and love. Turning thirty years old, experiencing that exact moment on the beach and what would happen in the very near future became pivotal turning points in Eddie’s life.

Jacin and Eddie returned to the truck to find Josh and Owen in a heated argument. Matthew was inside the cab with music blaring and smoking a cigarette. Josh noticed them approaching and immediately cut the argument off.

Six months later Josh received a phone call from Matthew’s aunt Mavis. Matthew had just passed away from AIDS-related complications.

Matthew would be cremated and returned to Salt Lake City. Matthew’s wish was to have Josh scatter his ashes in the Great Salt Lake.

The day Josh took Matthew to the lake the air was warm and breezy.

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