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Gay Couples Protest at Marriage-License Bureaus Across the Country Gay couples descended on marriagelicense bureaus around the country Feb. 12 for National Freedom to Marry Day. Forty-eight states prohibit same-sex couples from marrying. Actions organized by Marriage Equality USA took place in Tucson, Ariz.; Jacksonville, Fla.; Lexington, London, Richmond and Louisville, Ky.; New York City; Salt Lake City; and, in California, in Auburn, Bakersfield, Beverly Hills, Eureka, Fairfield, Fresno, Hanford, Lakeport, Lancaster, Los Angeles, Martinez, Merced, Modesto, Nevada City, Norwalk, Oakland, Redwood City, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, San Luis Obispo, San Rafael, Santa Rosa, Stockton, Visalia and Woodland. At the Beverly Hills courthouse, the first same-sex couple married in Southern California, Robin Tyler and Diane Olson, renewed their vows. “This is not about us anymore,” Tyler said. “If the (California) Supreme Court lets us stay married it will be a hollow victory because we do not want to be the only ones on the freedom train. The Supreme Court needs to rule to overturn Prop 8 because what Prop 8 does — for the first time in American history — is take a group that is being considered equal by the Supreme Court out of the constitution. That is dangerous because that means that 51 or 52 percent of people can vote to take you out of the constitution.” Numerous additional actions were organized around the country under the umbrella of Join the Impact, the online force that pulled off the large anti-Proposition 8 protests in all 50 states last Nov. 15. According to Marriage Equality USA, since 2001 its chapters “have engaged in these annual marriagecounter actions to render visible the discrimination that is enforced every day.” “It is an affront to our basic dignity as fellow human beings when same-sex couples are turned away from the marriage counter, but it gives us the opportunity to tell our stories and show that we live in every community and want to honor and protect our families like everyone else,” the group said. In Tucson, Ariz., one lesbian couple was given a marriage license even though the state constitution bans same-sex marriage. It was unclear at press time what will happen next.

Aclu Sues Florida School Board Over Gay Club Ban The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida filed a federal lawsuit against the Nassau County (Fla.) School Board on Feb. 10 after administrators denied students permission to form Gay-Straight Alliances at Yulee High School and Yulee Middle School. In a letter denying access to the group, the board’s superintendent said that groups with names referencing a sexual orientation would not be recognized and that even if the group changed its name to one not communicating a gay-specific mission, approval was uncertain. “We just want the club so that straight and gay kids can get together to talk about harassment and discrimination against gay kids in an open environment,” said high-school student and plaintiff Hannah Page. “Other clubs and groups are allowed to meet on campus.” The federal Equal Access Act requires schools to grant access and recognition to a GSA — and most other student groups — if the school allows any extracurricular groups to meet on campus, which both Yulee schools do. There are more than 4,000 GSAs in the United States. “Gay and lesbian students deserve schools that heed the rule of law,” said Robert Rosenwald, director of the ACLU of Florida’s LGBT Advocacy Project. “These students are trying to bring a message of equality and openness, and the lesson they are being taught is that Yulee High School administrators believe discrimination against LGBT students is an acceptable policy.” The lawsuit alleges violations of the First Amendment and the Equal Access Act, and seeks a preliminary injunction to force school officials to allow the GSA to meet at Yulee High School while the litigation makes its way to trial. “I hope that being part of this important lawsuit will open up people’s eyes so that they can see that there is still a lot of discrimination and we need to sit down and talk about it,” said plaintiff and high-school student Jacob Brock. The ACLU of Florida recently won a similar federal case after Okeechobee High School refused to allow a GSA group to meet. The Okeechobee County School Board ended up paying $326,000 in attorneys’ fees.

Pre-Stonewall Gay Protest Remembered Gay activists, police representatives and City Council President Eric Garcetti gathered at Le Barcito in Los Angeles’ Silver Lake district Feb. 11 to celebrate the bar’s recent designation as Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Landmark #939. On Feb. 11, 1967 — 28 months before

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Quips & Quotes ❝ ❝He had to be dragged to the altar of Amendment 3, and everyone has known since then that Gov. Huntsman would rather be nice than right.” —Jeff Reynolds, spokesman for the ultra-conservative Sutherland Institute, on Gov. Jon Huntsman’s stated support for civil unions. Pre-Stonewall picket at the Black Cat in Silver Lake. the Stonewall Riots — Le Barcito, then known as the Black Cat, was the site of a protest by 300 to 600 gay people angry over a New Year’s Eve raid by the LAPD in which the bar’s patrons had been beaten and charged with lewd conduct for kissing. The demonstration was the nation’s largest gay rights rally up to that time. “This was a watershed event that has gone unnoticed in American history,” Garcetti told the Los Angeles Times in November. Speaking at the commemoration, Garcetti said, “Close your eyes and imagine what it was like 42 years ago, when a police officer wouldn’t be here except to arrest you, when holding hands meant you would get hunted down.”

Gay Immigration Bill Introduced in Congress A bill to extend spousal immigration rights to same-sex couples was introduced in Congress Feb. 12. The Uniting American Families Act, sponsored by Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., and Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., aims to end the problem of binational same-sex couples being forcibly separated — or forced to relocate outside the United States together — because the U.S. government does not recognize the validity of same-sex unions. “It should be an outrage to all Americans that our government continues to deny one set of citizens the fundamental rights enjoyed by the rest of its citizens,” Nadler said. “It is time that we as a society finally acknowledge that a committed, loving family is a committed, loving family.” “Thousands of gay and lesbian Americans who have fallen in love across borders must grapple with an impossible choice between being with the person they love and staying in their country,” added Immigration Equality Executive Director Rachel Tiven. “These couples simply want the same opportunity to prove that their families deserve to stay together.” Some 36,000 couples are thought to be affected by the policy.

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If this is part of Governor Huntsman’s strategy to craft his image for [presidential] Nominee Huntsman, it tells us something interesting about what a conservative Republican in a conservative state predicts American attitudes towards gay couples will be in four years. But whatever his motivation, Huntsman’s support is very welcome.” —Blogger Timothy Kincade on Gov. Jon Huntsman’s support for civil unions on Box Turtle Bulletin”

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Last I checked, we had more people calling to say, ‘Thank you.’” —Huntsman’s spokeswoman, Lisa Roskelley, Gov. Jon Huntsman, Jr.’s spokeswoman, telling the Salt Lake Tribune about the messages the governor has received after announcing his support for civil unions.

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You’re a waste of a vagina!” —America Forever founder Sandra Rodrigues to openlylesbian Rep. Chris Johnson.

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Chris and I don’t agree on much — Chris and I don’t agree on anything — but I won’t stand by and see her mistreated. —Ultra-conservative Rep. Carl Wimmer speaking of Rep. Christine Johnson to Salt Lake Tribune reporter Glen Warchol and why he had America Forever protestors removed from the Capitol Building after they disrupted an Equality Utah press conference.

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Q Utah Utah Log Cabin Thanks Governor for Civil Union Stance

The Utah chapter of the Log Cabin Republicans, an organization for gay, transgender and gay-friendly GOP members, has thanked Gov. Jon Huntsman, Jr. for his outspoken support of civil unions and a set of bills designed to expand gay and transgender rights. “We are especially excited by the public support the governor is showing toward gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizens of Utah,” wrote Melvin Nimer, the group’s president, in a media release. Nimer explained that Utah Log Cabin Republicans have been “working with the governor for over a year on these issues,” and met with Huntsman and his staff to discuss how the governor could extend protections to the same-sex partners of state employees as recently as January. “Log Cabin began these discussions last year before the 2008 legislative session began, and the group asked the governor at that time if he would be willing to issue executive orders allowing state GLBT employees to add their partner to their health insurance program and to their retirement programs, and to make it illegal to discriminate in state employment practices on the basis of sexual identity or gender identity,” the release read. Local gay rights group Equality Utah’s Common Ground Initiative includes this executive order as well as a bill that would extend nondiscrimination workplace and housing protections to gay and transgender people. In preparation to meet with Huntsman, Utah LCR said that it, along with Equality Utah, collected 12 similar executive orders passed by other governors and submitted them to Huntsman, along with the proposed language of each order. “The governor has taken these proposals under advisement and will be meeting with Log Cabin, Equality Utah and other interested organizations after the legislative session is over to work on their possible implementation,” said the organization. Since taking office in 2005, Huntsman has demonstrated support for Utah’s gay and transgender citizens. In the summer of 2008, according to Nimer, he became Utah’s first sitting governor to invite a gay organization — the Utah Log Cabin Republicans — to an open house at the Governor’s Mansion. Q

Jacob Whipple, founder of the All For One Initiative, at a candlelight rally held to thank Gov. Jon Huntsman for his support of the Common Ground Initiative.

Utah Gov. Jon M. Huntsman Supports Civil Unions A spokesperson for Utah Governor Jon M. Huntsman told the media Feb. 9 that the governor supports both Equality Utah’s Common Ground Initiative and civil unions for gay and lesbian couples. “He’s long supported many of the ideas that are presented within the Common Ground Initiative,” Roskelley told the Salt Lake Tribune in an unrelated interview. “He supports civil unions.” Roskelley noted that Huntsman has not yet endorsed any specific bills of the Common Ground Intitiative, waiting until their wording is finalized. Equality Utah’s Common Ground Initiative is a series of bills aimed at securing rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Utahns. The first bill — Wrongful Death Amendments — failed in committee and another which would reverse part of Amendment 3 that bans gay marriage in the state was pulled by its author, Rep. Jackie Biskupski. Huntsman also supports repealing the second portion of Amendment 3, which reads “No other domestic union, however denominated, may be recognized as a marriage or given the same or substantially equivalent legal effect.” That part of the amendment has been used to thwart many efforts across the state to secure gay and lesbian rights. Leaders of the Sutherland Institute, which sponsored an anti-gay rally dubbed “Sacred Ground” at Thanks-

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giving Point last week, were not surprised by the governor’s position. “Governor Huntsman would rather be nice than right,” said Jeff Reynolds, spokesman for the Institute. In a statement to its supporters, Equality Utah Executive Director Mike Thompson wrote, “The ‘sacred ground’ our opponents are standing on is shrinking. They are an outspoken minority. They are finding fewer and fewer allies. Why? Because there is Common Ground. Because Utahns share our vision of a fair & just Utah. Because we are (as the LDS Church encouraged its members) working ‘together for a better society.’” The revelation also drew kudos from at least one national gay group. “This is hopeful and inspiring news, and emphasizes the reality that, as we saw in Wyoming last week, equality is not a partisan issue,” said Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese. “We’re thrilled that Gov. Huntsman recognizes that it’s simply the right thing to do to support equality. We hope that his support will help Equality Utah and fair-minded legislators advance the Common Ground Initiative, which is simply aimed at advancing equal rights for all Utahns by providing important anti-discrimination protections and other rights currently denied to LGBT people in the state.” The governor is often at odds with the very conservative Republicans in the Utah Legislature.

Sen. Scott McCoy, D-Salt Lake, was surprised the governor went so far as to say he supports gay civil unions. “I think this demonstrates that it is possible to say, ‘You know what? We may agree to disagree when it comes to full-blown marriage equality, but there are lots of things short of that that we could talk about and entertain,’” he told KSL News. Roskelley emphasized this morning that the governor does not support gay marriage, but sees civil unions as a legal contract bewteen two adults and would sign a civil union bill that came across his desk. Since the governor’s revelation, groups on both sides of the issue have rallied both the Utah State Capitol Building and the Governor’s Mansion lauding or slamming his stance. America Forever, an ultra-conservative group, and conservative legislators took to the capitol’s rotunda for a press conference. Jacob Whipple, founder of the All For One Initiative, called for a candlelight vigil at the Governor’s Mansion to thank the governor for making his stance public. “Governor Jon Huntsman, Jr. has been a progressive politician, so much so that many call him a RINO — Republican In Name Only,” said Whipple in a statement. “I dont think that you have to be a Democrat to see injustice and want to correct it. I think any strong leader should stand up for any controversial matter that he believes in.” Q

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Q Utah Anti-Gay Group Places Full-Page Ads in ‘Tribune,’ ‘Deseret News’ by Michael Aaron

The anti-gay group America Forever spent the last week protesting the governor for his revelation that he supports Equality Utah’s Common Ground Initiative, disrupting both Equality Utah’s and Californians Against Hate’s press conferences, and now publishing full-page, full-color ads in the Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret Morning News. “Stand Up & Stop the Homosexual Movement” was emblazoned across the top of the ad over a photograph of a biracial male couple kissing (though the Deseret Morning News ran an ad without the photograph). “Shame on Governor Huntsman for joining and adding to this public shame by endorsing the Common Ground Initiative,” and “Shame on Utah Gays for Using the LDS Church to promote the Homosexual Movement,” were the main headlines in the ad. The ad went on to say that, should the term sexual orientation be added to Utah law, “the open representation of Homosexual conduct then would be forced, by the law, into acceptance in every environment of society.” Equality Utah, the ad says, is using “coercion tactics” and misleading poll results to get the initiative passed. “Consciencely [sic], they are using the LDS church’s statements as a shield to numb the public conscience of their religious duty and rights.” The ad also goes on to quote a satirical rant written under the pen-name Michael Swift of Gay Community News in 1987 while making it appear that Equality Utah is the author, “We shall sodomize your sons, emblems of your feeble masculinity...” It also erroneously attributes an article printed in Guide Magazine in 1987 to the Human Rights Campaign and the ACLU called “The Overhauling of Straight America,” which states “In any campaign to win over the public, gays must be cast as victims in need of protection so that straights will be inclined by reflex to assume the role of protector ... ” Both articles are widely used by ultra-conservative groups, yet are relatively unknown to the gay

community. The first paragraph of the Swift article says, “This essay is an outré, madness, a tragic, cruel fantasy, an eruption of inner rage, on how the oppressed desperately dream of being the oppressor.” Yet, that paragraph is always stripped by conservatives seeking to use it against the gay community. Also lost on the conservatives is the nod in the penname to Jonathan Swift, who wrote Gulliver’s Travels and the essay “A Modest Proposal,” which satirized the selling of children to rich people for food. The Guide Magazine article was widely dismissed. The address of an executive suites virtual office building is listed, along with a phone number which shows as “unlisted” in phone directory services.

Who is America Forever?

The group was started in 1999 by Sandra Rodrigues and her then-18-yearold brother Jonas M.R. Filho. Filho acted as president, registered agent and secretary, and Rodrigues was vice president. Josie Ann Rodrigues was listed as treasurer. News reports over the past decade have always referred to the group as being made up of Rodrigues’ family. On the group’s Web site, the home page reads, “Do Not Be Fooled By Equality Utah and The Common Ground Initiative.” “They are using

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intimadation [sic] to gain ground and are lying to the public, ALL THEY WANT IS MARRIAGE RIGHTS to valdite [sic] their relationship of the same-sex!!! THEY ALREADY HAVE THE RIGHT to Marry, a gay man can marry a gay woman! If they want Marriage Rights then get married, but we cannot afford the same rights of Marriage to other relationships for it will devaluate [sic] Marriage and change society’s perception of what Marriage is!!!” The group advocates the term “anti-species” instead of homosexual, lesbian and gay, on the grounds that homosexuality does not continue the human species. Its literature says that the mention of homosexuality to anyone younger than 18 should be a crime, and sexual practices that do not lead to children should be banned. Rodrigues immigrated to the United States in 1975. Indeed, several years of the group’s efforts were around the rights of children born in the United States to undocumented immigrants. They started an initiative called ‘Save the Innocence’ calling on the government to address the problem. The group came to the attention of authorities in 1999 after complaints from the Mexican consulate said it was selling identification cards for $200 to illegal residents that ask the

Immigration and Naturalization Service not to deport them. The money also allowed them to place their pictures in a book that was given to politicians in Washington, D.C., to explain the plight of illegal immigrants whose children are citizens. The consulate and state residents complained to the Idaho and Utah state commissions on Hispanic Affairs. It was decided that, while the identification cards were worthless, they were not illegal. The ‘Save the Innocence’ immigration campaign fizzled in 2001 and the rhetoric on their Web site turned to anti-gay content. Rodrigues and others in the group have traveled to California to stop a gay-stright alliance there, to Washington, D.C. to protest with signs saying, “Stop Same Sex Marriage: It Endorses Masturbation.” They also testified at a Salt Lake City Council meeting that the ACLU and “the most powerful lobbying firm in the world, the HRC of the homosexuals” were to blame for the controversy over the LDS Church’s Main Street Plaza. The group has remained quiet, other than updating their Web site to endorse Sen. John McCain in the presidential race, since 2006. High-resolution images of the ad are at qsaltlake.com/ad

Group Calls for Boycott of Ken Garff Automotive Over Prop 8 Donation Californians Against Hate called a press conference in Salt Lake City in part to ask for public help in its “Mormongate” investigation, but also to call on a boycott against Utah-based Ken Garff Automotive Group. Owner Robert Garff’s wife, Katharine, donated $100,000 to the Yes on 8 campaign that successfully overturned gay marriage in California’s constitution. In response, Robert Garff told the Salt Lake Tribune the boycott was “grossly unfair.” He said that the donation was a personal gesture from his wife and did not reflect company policy. “We do believe in the proposition of marriage as being between a man and a female,’’ he said to the Tribune. “But we reserve the rights of others to believe and act as they wish. … We want our friends who are gay to know that we respect them.’’ “What’s grossly unfair is the taking of marriage rights from thousands of gay couples,” said Fred Karger, the founder of CAH. Karger also said that Robert Garff was “hiding behind his wife’s apron” by saying it was her, not his, donation. Registering donations under the wife’s name “is a common pattern we’ve seen by business owners to

avoid disclosure,” Karger said. “We researched the Garffs’ past political expenditures and found Robert to be a consistent contributor, but Katharine has only donated $3,000 in nine years.” Karger said the donation was a family contribution funded by the sales of Ken Garff Automotive. “We are asking that if you are going to buy, lease or service a car, go to any other dealer,” Karger explained. “$100,000 is an exorbitant amount of money and we need to fight back.” A reporter at the press conference offered John Garff’s card to Karger, saying that Robert’s son would like to meet with Karger. Karger readily accepted, saying he “would be delighted” to meet with John Garff to work something out together. According to Michael Marriott of the Human Rights Campaign Utah Steering Committee, the Ken Garff Automotive Group has sponsored the HRC dinners at the home of Bruce Bastian since their inception. The Garffs also own the Utah Blaze arena football team. Californians Against Hate set up a Web site for the boycott at BoycottKenGarffAutomotive.com.

Web Site Pinpoints Prop. 8 Donors A controversial Web site is offering a new way to find out who donated to a successful campaign to re-ban gay marriage in California. Using the technology of Google Maps and public records available online at the California Secretary of State’s campaign finance homepage, the Web site — eightmaps.com — lists Proposition 8 donors by pinpointing their location on a map with a virtual red thumbtack. Clicking on the red dot reveals the donor’s name, occupation or business, the amount they donated and the date they made the donation, as well as their address. Donors include students, housewives, retirees, doctors, lawyers, university professors and business owners. Their donations range from $20 to thousands of dollars. Kirk Jowers, the Director of the University of Utah’s Hinckley Institute of Politics and a partner in a Washington, D.C. law firm, told ABC Channel 4 news that while disclosure was “for the most part” good, the Web site’s use of technology to pinpoint donors had some drawbacks. “It’s not the silver bullet that some people think it is because it can be

chilling and it can even make harassment quite easy,” he said. Fred Karger, leader of the anti-Prop.

8 organization Californians Against Hate, also told ABC that he thought the Web site was a bad idea. Karger has filed a complaint with the California Fair Political Practices Commission, alleging that the LDS Church violated California law by not disclosing all of their non-financial contributions to pro-Proposition 8 campaigns, including money spent on phone banks, commercials and direct mailings. Karger said that his Web site, californiansagainsthate.com, lists only the names of individuals and groups who gave over $5,000, not their addresses.

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Salt Lake County Passes Wilson’s Benefits Bill Salt Lake County Councilwoman Jenny Wilson hoped that a Democratic majority would be what it took to pass a proposal to extend health benefits and other privileges to county workers’ unmarried partners, relatives and other adult designees who share their financial obligations. She was right. In a 6-3 vote, the bill passed with a nod from all Democrats on the council and Republican newcomer Max Burdick. Burdick has a gay son, Michael. Wilson first introduced the proposal in 2005, the same year that then-Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson issued a similar executive order for city employees. Although Anderson wanted to limit the benefits to employees’ unmarried sexual partners, the City Council passed an ordinance extending the health and dental benefits to a live-in parent, sibling or roommate less than a year later. Wilson modeled her own proposal upon Salt Lake City’s. In 2005, the Salt Lake County Council shot down Wilson’s measure in a 5-4 vote along Republican-Democrat party lines. Last year, Wilson also expanded her proposal to include financial dependents other than domestic partners, but the Republicandominated Council again voted it down. Instead, Council Republicans put forth a plan to let non-spouses buy into the county health plan out of pocket. The bill did have some opposition. “I don’t think it is going to be the end of the world, but I just don’t think it is good policy,” Republican Councilman David Wilde told the Salt Lake Tribune. “As I define family, it is not family-friendly.” Wilson countered that her proposal was “a fair benefit” to employees’ dependants who might be otherwise uninsured. The bill extends health and life insurance, dental care, extended funeral leave and other employment protections to unmarried partners or other “adult designees” of county employees. The estimated cost to the county is $275,000. Wilson is hopeful that public opinion on gay couples had more to do with the passage of the measure, rather than a change in party control of the council. The bill must be enacted with a ceremonial formal vote later this month.

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Q Utah

Anti-Gay Marriage Rally Held at Thanksgiving Point by Michael Aaron

In a scene that was eerily similar to LDS General Conference, the ultraconservative Sutherland Institute held an anti-gay-marriage rally at Thanksgiving Point Thursday, Feb. 5. Security was tight at the door — so tight, in fact, that any and all QSaltLake reporters and other staff were listed at the sign-in table on a sheet labeled “NO,” and this writer was not allowed entry. Hence, this story is taken from video and written transcripts released after the event as well as first-person accounts from others able to get in. Group leaders announced the event — State of the Union II: The Challenge to Family and Freedom — to launch what they have dubbed “Sacred Ground” in response to Equality Utah’s Common Ground Initiative. Gay activists used social networking site Facebook to encourage gay, lesbian and gay-friendly people to “infiltrate” the rally. Jacob Whipple created one such facebook event, saying “We will be there to show our support for the sacredness of ALL families and the need to protect them all.” The event planners responded to Whipple’s RSVP asking him and others to be respectful, civil and professional during the event. Whipple sent several messages asking those attending to do just that. But the day of the event, Sutherland director of communications Jeff Reynolds got onto the facebook event and said that all people on the list would not be allowed entrance. “While we understand your desire to express your opinions, it is our right (and responsibility to our guests) to mitigate any potential conflict or disruption before, during, or after our event,” Sutherland wrote. “To this end, we have taken a number of steps to minimize the potential for any form of disruption, conflict, or inappropriate behavior. “This is a private event open to the public at our discretion. We must assume anyone associated with any group planning to ‘protest and infiltrate’ our event, is not planning to attend in good faith or with good will. Hence, based on this fact alone, you are not welcome.” Several gay activists and allies did make it into the event, however.

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Pride in Your Community founder Eric Ethington was one of those people allowed in. “It was a notable difference from Equality Utah’s ‘Common Ground Initiative’ kickoff event, which was an open-to-the-public, media and allwelcome event,” he wrote in a recap on his blog. “[T]he young man who checked me in apologized for the extra security, saying, ‘there are supposed to be a lot of bad people trying to get in tonight, so we’re being very careful.’” Laurie Swim, the wife of the Sutherland Institute’s founder, started off by announcing the Sacred Ground Initiative. “This five-part campaign will help citizens of our state engage effectively in an effort to reaffirm and strengthen the moral climate of our local communities,” she said. She then laid out a five-step plan very similar to that of Equality Utah’s, including education, a wordof-mouth campaign, a media response team, a legislative response team and

an online petition. She also announced the publication of a new book published by the Institute, Preserving Sacred Ground: A Responsible Citizen’s Approach to Same-Sex Politics. She finished her statement with, “Some claim that standing up for the enduring, even sacred, definitions of marriage and family is showing “hate” for those who disagree. They are wrong. Defending marriage and family is an act of love for our children and our children’s children.” Sutherland president Paul Mero and former Rep. LaVar Christianson also spoke. Mero spoke on how gay marriage would, indeed, hurt heterosexual marriages. Christensen spoke on how gay initiatives would eventually assure gay marriage. Video transcripts are available on Youtube at youtube.com/ sutherlandinstitute. Full written transcripts can be found on a link through our Web site at qsaltlake.com/sutherland

Five gay and lesbian couples were denied marriage licenses today at the Salt Lake County Clerk’s Office. Clerks at the marriage license desk of the county clerk asked each of the five couples to complete the paperwork required of all couples seeking to be married. As each turned the paperwork in, the clerk responded, “I’m sorry. At this point in time the state of Utah does not allow us to grant you a license.” The couples were participating in National Freedom to Marry Day, put on by Marriage Equality USA. Utahns for Marriage Equality founder Michael Mueller said the couples hoped to raise awareness for the need for gay and lesbian rights. “The purpose of the event was to focus not on any law or state amendment or judicial initiative,” said Mueller. “The purpose was to show love and commitment and to use the action of applying for the licenses to have attention shown to the issue.”

Mueller called the event a success. Salt Lake County Clerk Sherrie Swensen told reporters that only one other gay couple was applied for a marriage license since she was elected to the position 18 years ago, and that one was just a publicity stunt. “Since 2001, Marriage Equality USA chapters have engaged in these annual marriage counter actions to render visible the discrimination that is enforced every day. It is an affront to our basic dignity as fellow human beings when same-sex couples are turned away from the marriage counter, but it gives us the opportunity to tell our stories and show that we live in every community and want to honor and protect our families like everyone else,” said Marriage Equality USA Media Director Molly McKay. “Marriage discrimination is wrong and harms real-life families. All Americans deserve equal treatment under the law. The time has come.”

Group Charges LDS Church with Prop 8 Cover-up, Seeks Help The leader of Californians Against Hate flew to Salt Lake City today to call attention to what he is dubbing “Mormongate” — a cover-up by leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on their financial involvement in the passage of Proposition 8. Group founder Fred Karger said that the LDS Church became publicly involved in Proposition 8 on June 29 when church president Thomas S. Monson signed a letter to be read during church services across the western states. “We immediately noticed an average of $511,000 per day coming in after the letter was read,” Karger said at a press conference in the Downtown Marriott. “We investigated these new sudden donations through previous donations and sites like LinkedIn and others and found BYU alumni, Romney supporters,and such to show these were likely LDS donors.” California election law, Karger explained, requires individuals or organizations to file reports of any contribution of $1,000 or more within two weeks if before the month of August, or 24 hours if after. Karger said that the new revelation that the church spent nearly $190,000 only came about after the California Fair Political Practices Commission agreed to investigate his complaint, lodged a week after the election, that the church under-reported their involvement.

“When I first filed the complaint, [church leaders] accused me of false and misleading information in my account,” Karger said. “One representative even told KGO Television that the church put ‘zero money’ in the passage of Prop. 8.” “Imagine how surprised I was when, lo and behold, it was released that there were $190,000 in non-monetary contributions from the church,” said Karger. Karger believes there is even more than the LDS Church leaders are admitting to. He is encouraging people who may be in the know to contact a special “tip line” he set up where people can confidentially send along information that might be helpul in finding more church expenditures. “Here, I ask for the public’s help with this. You can call 1-800-495-9356 or email tips@mormongate.com This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ,” he announced. Karger plans to file another complaint with the California FPPC with any new findings he may uncover. “Where are the rest of your nonmonetary expenditures, Mormon Church? What about the phone banks, precinct walks, all the slick videos and commercials, direct mail, busses, legal bills fro your California political law firm, etc.? They could not have all occurred until late September and October. It is clear that you began your work in June,” Karger questioned.

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“Whether we are married, domestic partnered, civil unioned or legal strangers under our particular state law, all same-sex couples are denied the 1,138 federal rights of marriage,” said Amy Balliett, founder of Join the Impact, which also participated in the event. “With the support of President Obama and with the growing sea change towards supporting protections for same-sex couples, we are hopeful that we can finally turn our attention to overturning the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), passed in 1996, and work together to uphold the American tradition of fairness and equality by ending marriage discrimination once and for all.” Amendment 3, a Utah constitutional amendment approved in 2004, prohibits gay marriages in Utah. Gov. Jon M. Huntsman announced on Monday that he supports civil unions, but not gay marriage. Q

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Q Utah Seelig Sponsors Partner Prescription Pick-up Bill

After this legislative session, picking up a prescription for your partner may become a lot easier. House Bill 17 — known as Expedited Partner Therapy Treatment — would amend Utah law to give doctors the option to issue a prescription for an antibiotic to the sexual partner of a patient who has gonorrhea or chlamydia. Currently, the Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing defines such an act as unprofessional and unlawful conduct. The bill is sponsored by Rep. Jennifer Seelig, D-Salt Lake City. HB 17 allows doctors to give an antibiotic prescription for either of these STDs to a person their patient identifies as his or her partner, or who claims to be the patient’s partner. If the physician chooses this option, she or he may identify the individual as “partner of” on the drug prescription order. Seelig is also sponsoring HB 160, a bill that seeks to create legal documents that would allow unmarried partners to inherit each other’s property and to make medical decisions for one another. HB 160 is also part of gay rights group Equality Utah’s Common Ground Initiative, a set of four bills and one policy change that would grant more legal protections to gay and transgender Utahns. HB 17, however, is not part of that initiative.

The final bill in local gay rights group Equality Utah’s Common Ground Initiative to receive text and a number is seeking to grant unmarried couples in Utah some basic legal protections they have long sought: namely, inheritance and insurance rights, and freedom from housing discrimination. Titled Adult Joint Support Declaration, HB 160 is sponsored by Rep. Jennifer Seelig, D-Salt Lake City. If passed, it would create the Adult Joint Support Act which would allow two people of any sex to enter into a contract that would give them inheritance and insurance rights, and housing protections. Like couples who sign up for Salt Lake City’s mutual commitment (domestic partner) registry, both parties must have proof of shared residence and commingled assets and be at least 18 years old. If they meet these qualifications, HB 160 would allow them to have a Declaration of Joint support notarized and registered in their county’s recorder office. The declaration would provide the couple with inheritance rights. If one member of the couple dies, the person named in the Declaration of Joint Support is entitled to the deceased’s entire estate unless he or she has any surviving children. In this case, half of the estate goes to the deceased’s offspring. If one partner becomes unable to make medical decisions for him or herself, the Declaration of Joint Support would also allow his or her partner to make treatment decisions. The declaration may be terminated if either person dies, marries or files a notarized document at the county

Common Ground Bills Pass Rules, Fail in Committees The two remaining bills in Equality Utah’s Common Ground Initiative, as well as a bill that would let same-sex couples adopt children, passed out of Senate and House Rules Committees early on Feb. 13. Two were killed in their respective committees Tuesday, Feb. 17, hours after this newspaper’s press deadline. House Bill 267 by Rep. Christine Johnson, D-Salt Lake City, that sought to grant workplace and housing antidiscrimination protections to gay and transgender people failed in the House Business and Labor Committee 8-5. Rep. Brent Wallis, R-Ogden, was the only Republican to vote in favor of the bill. In fact, he is the only Republican who has voted in favor of any of the Common Ground Initiative bills. The second, House Bill 160 by Rep.

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Last Common Ground Bill Grants Rights to Couples

Jennifer Seelig, D-Salt Lake City, would allow two unmarried adults with shared assets and liabilities to make a declaration of joint support that would give them inheritance and medical decision rights. Her bill goes before the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday, Feb. 18. Although not part of the Common Ground Initiative, the gay adoption bill, House Bill 288 by Rep. Rebecca Chavez-Houck, was also endorsed by Equality Utah. It was tabled in the House Health and Human Services Committee, effectively killing it, by a vote of 5-1. (Rep. Trisha Beck was absent from the committee hearing.) Equality Utah was happy about how far these bills went in this session, as opposed to previous years. “This is fantastic progress from

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recorder’s office stating that their declaration has ended. The Common Ground Initiative is a series of bills and one policy change designed to grant gay and transgender Utahns more legal protections. So far, one of the bills, Salt Lake City Democratic Sen. Scott McCoy’s SB 32, has been defeated in committee. This bill would have allowed people with a financial relationship to an individual who are not related by blood or marriage to sue in cases of death due to negligence or medical malpractice. Rep. Jackie Biskupski, D-Salt Lake City, also withdrew HJR 2, which would have clarified the part of Utah’s constitutional gay marriage ban that prohibits civil unions from receiving legal recognition. Biskupski said she withdrew the bill (one of the most controversial in the initiative) to give other Common Ground bills a better chance of passing. At press time, HB 160 is scheduled to be heard before the House Judiciary Standing Committee at 2:00 p.m.

Over President’s Day weekend, the Utah Pride Center was broken into and burglarized. The Salt Lake City Police Department suspects that the person or persons responsible concealed themselves inside the main Utah Pride Center Building until Café Marmalade, a coffee shop located below the Utah Pride Center offices, closed the night of Feb. 13. The individual(s) then entered the Utah Pride Center offices by prying open the lock on the door to the second level. At press time, the estimated loss was in the thousands of dollars. “We keep finding more things [taken],” said Marina Gomberg, Utah Pride Center Director of Development and Marketing said. “It’s pretty significant.” “It’s impossible to guess the intentions of the person or people who did this, but what we know is that any crime which affects the community center ends up affecting the entire community,” Gomberg said. “The details of the theft are being withheld pending investigation and we are grateful to the Salt Lake Police Department for the attention they are giving to this crime.” Gomberg said that police have been called to the Center before and they have had different experiences with each different officer. “This time the police were really great,” she said. “In fact, one said that his mother lives with her [female] partner in some place not very gay friendly and he was glad Utah had an organization dediccated to gay and lesbian people.

even last year,” said Will Carlson, the local gay right’s groups manager of public policy. “Now it’s going to be clear we can communicate the issues, which is further than we’ve ever been able to go before.” Both Johnson’s and Chavez-Houck’s bills came up during the 2008 legislative session. However, the House Rules Committee did not pass out either of them. A committee made up of representatives and senators, however, heard testimony on Johnson’s bill during the summer. The two Rules Committees serve as gatekeepers for all proposed legislation. Once they have approved a bill, it is sent to a standing committee made up of senators or representatives which oversee a particular aspect of Utah law (such as transportation, health and human services, or education). The standing committees then hear public testimony on the bills and vote whether or not to release them to the Senate or House

floor for debate. Two pieces of Common Ground legislation had already been struck down before these bills made it through Rules. On the second day of the session, Salt Lake Democratic Sen. Scott McCoy’s Senate Bill 32, which sought to allow financial dependants not related by blood, adoption or marriage to sue if a breadwinner dies due to medical malpractice or negligence, died in the Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee on a vote of 4-2. Earlier this month, Rep. Jackie Biskupski, D-Salt Lake City, pulled House Joint Resolution 2, which sought to clarify Utah’s constitutional marriage ban by striking language forbidding the legal recognition of civil unions. Biskupski told the Salt Lake Tribune that she withdrew the controversial bill in order to give other Common Ground Initiative bills a better chance at passing.

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Monson to Speak at SUU Southern Utah University announced Feb. 2 that LDS Church President Thomas S. Monson will be the main speaker at this year’s commencement ceremony. Monson will also receive an honorary degree from the school. The move has angered many in Southern Utah’s gay community because of the stance Monson and LDS leadership have taken against gay marriage. In June 2008, Monson released a letter to Mormon bishops in California. The letter, read aloud in ward houses across the state, encouraged Mormons to oppose the recent legalization of gay marriage in their state by donating money and time to campaigns to pass Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment that sought to re-ban gay marriage. The LDS Church’s involvement made national headlines and attracted widespread criticism from gay activists and groups advocating the separation of church and state. Ultimately, Mormons donated more than $22 million to pro-Proposition 8 efforts. California voters narrowly passed the measure on Nov. 4, touching protests across the nation. Dean O’Driscoll, vice president of University Relations and commencement committee chair, told the school’s newspaper, the SUU Journal, that commencement organizers were aware of and had discussed the controversy surrounding the church president, though he did not elaborate on the nature of this controversy. “A university is the perfect place to have differences of opinion,” he said, adding that “a place for protest will be

planned for if need be.” The school may very well have such a protest on their hands. On Feb. 12 members and allies of Southern Utah’s gay community met in the school’s English building to discuss a response to the school’s choice. Groups such as SUU’s Queer Student Union and Southern Utah’s chapter of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays were in attendance. Although details to the response to Monson’s speech are still developing, Chris McArdle, the former president of Southern Utah Pride Association, Inc., said that community members were considering bringing in a speaker of their own to speak at an offcampus event. According to McArdle, Mormon author Carolyn Pearson was one name mentioned in the meeting. Pearson is the author of the hit play Facing East, which follows a Mormon couple’s struggles to come to terms with their gay son’s suicide. “They’re going to try and put something separate together off campus, not at the same time, but a different kind of event,” he said, noting that QSA had also asked the university’s “different diversity groups” to participate. “They don’t want it to be [just] a gay thing,” he said. He stressed, however, that all involved wanted to get their message out “with the least amount of disruption to the students.”

For more information about alternative events on SUU’s graduation day, or to express interest in participating, send an email to CommonGroundSouth@gmail.com.

So. Utah Pride Cancelled as Organizers Focus on Center The organization behind Southern Utah’s annual Gay Pride celebration has said that the two-day event will not take place this year. Instead, the group will put its efforts towards opening a Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center in St. George, to serve people from Utah’s Washington County area, Southern Nevada and Northern Arizona cities such as Beaver Dam. “We feel that a center is essential and will help people on a day-to-day basis rather than having a party two days a year,” said Anne Golibersuch, president of Southern Utah Pride Association, Inc., the organization that has run the Southern Utah Pride Festival since 2002. This year, SUPAI plans to hold monthly fundraisers, apply for grants and solicit private donations to make the St. George Center a reality. Fundraiser themes so far include events for Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, Earth Day and the summer solstice, as well as a gay prom.

Golibersuch said she envisions a community center structured along the lines of the Utah Pride Center in Salt Lake City and the Gay & Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas. “We want to be a total resource center, have youth groups, empowerment groups ... and fit it to our needs [as] a much a smaller town,” she said. So far, SUPAI has raised over $3,500 for the center, and is hoping to bring in more money as the year continues. “It may take us a little while, it may take us more than a year, but we are dedicated to opening a center here because it is so needed, us being a much, much smaller community than Salt Lake and Vegas, for instance. It seems to me that it’s so much more intolerant here,” said Golibersuch, noting that the festival has had difficulty attracting “big sponsors.” She added the group would revisit the festival after the center’s founding. “We’re not writing off the festival,” she said.

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Q Utah PWACU to Hill: Help Utahns with HIV/AIDS

The People with AIDS Coalition of Utah is asking the state’s legislature to fund a program that would guarantee low-income Utahns with HIV/AIDS access to medication. The AIDS Drug Assistance Program is typically funded by federal and state money. However, Utah currently does not contribute to the program, which covers 629 Utahns — a number that has increased by nearly 40 percent since 2006. Nearly 70 percent of recipients have incomes at less than 200 percent of the federal poverty level ($20,800 per single person). HIV therapy, on average, costs at least $10,400 per year. To make sure that Utahns with HIV/ AIDS are covered, especially during the current harsh economic climate, PWACU is asking the legislature to fully fund ADAP. The total cost: a $275,000 appropriation, or $437 per person. PWACU Executive Director Toni Johnson has argued that the appropriation would end up saving the state a considerable amount of money. Currently, uninsured people with HIV/ AIDS often must rely on Medicaid —a n average cost of $12,000 per person for the state each year. If ADAP is funded, Johnson said the state could not only save money in the long run, but reduce the long wait lists facing people with HIV/AIDS who are seeking care. PWACU is asking for the community to help in bringing ADAP to the attention of legislatures during the general session by contacting members of the House Health and Human Services Committee, Senate Health and Human Services Committee, the Health and Human Services Appropriations Subcommittee and the Executive Appropriations Committee. They ask that individuals send short, respectful e-mails to the following addresses. More information can be found at pwacu.org.

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GOVERNOR HUNTSMAN Dear Governor: You were absolutely right when you said, “People are divided, and they’re angry. We need to find a little more common ground, points that will bring people together rather than further dividing them. ” And we couldn’t agree more when you said that the Common Ground Initiative “. . . would be very important in healing our community and bringing it together.” Your support of the Common Ground Initiative clearly demonstrates your fair-minded leadership. Many, many gay and transgender Uthans and their loved ones are abundantly grateful for your willingness to take a stand that is not popular with some legislators. By supporting the remaining Common Ground bills, you’re demonstrating you really believe that gay and transgender people should not be fired or evicted solely because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. And, we’re very thankful for your understanding that people in “non-traditonal” relationships still need the ability take care of each other and take responsibility for each other. Basic protections like hospital visitation, medical decision making, and inheritance rights don’t infringe on traditional marriage and would provide much-needed protections to many Utah citizens. Again, we all thank you for what was obviously a heart-felt show of support for many of the citizens you serve who so often feel they are not represented in Utah’s halls of power. With Deepest Appreciation, Contributor Name Contributor Name Contributor Name Contributor Name Contributor Name Contributor Name Contributor Name Contributor Name Contributor Name Contributor Name Contributor Name Contributor Name Contributor Name Contributor Name Contributor Name Contributor Name Contributor Name Contributor Name Contributor Name Contributor Name Contributor Name Contributor Name Contributor Name

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Let’s find our common ground. EqualityUtah.org A draft of the ad to be placed in The Salt Lake Tribune by Equality Utah

Equality Utah to Thank Governor with Ad Equality Utah will be giving a very big thank you to Gov. Jon Huntsman, Jr. for his stated support of civil unions and measures within. The local gay rights group will purchase two newspaper advertisements in the Feb. 18 and 22 issues of the Salt

Alleged Hate Crime Suspect Extradited to SLCPD Custody A 20-year-old man who allegedly assaulted a gay male last August was booked into the Salt Lake County Metro Jail on the morning of Feb. 10.

Fa Junior Moi Moi was extradited from Honolulu over the weekend. He faces two counts of aggravated assault (both first degree felonies) and one count of assault, a Class A misdemeanor charge in connection with an Aug. 9 incident on Churchill Drive on Salt Lake’s Capitol Hill. Moi Moi allegedly attacked the 18-year-old gay victim and two other people at the popular youth hang out after a female with him asked the vic-

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Lake Tribune and Deseret Morning News. To help pay for the cost of the four ‘thank you letters,’ which totals $11,000, Equality Utah asked for $10 donations from the community and straight allies to add their name to the letter. tim if he was gay. The victim told police that Moi Moi assaulted him when he didn’t respond and tried to walk away. The victim has since undergone reconstructive surgery on his orbital bone — the series of seven bones surrounding the eyeball. If Moi Moi is convicted, he could face five years to life in prison and a $10,000 fine for each count. Last November, the Salt Lake City Police Department put Moi Moi on its “most wanted” list, enabling Honolulu police to help in his capture. Salt Lake police detectives flew to Hawaii to bring Moi Moi back to Salt Lake to face charges.

Q mmunity Play Ball! Pride Community Softball League sign ups have opened for team and individual registration. Sponsorships for teams are also available. Individual players who do not have and are seeking a team should email Eliza Goodman with their name, sex, contact information and positions they can play. Applications should be submitted online. League play will begin with an open house on April 4 and will be held Sundays at Jordan Park’s southwest field, 1060 S 900 W. Deadline: March 6 Info: pridelague.com or pcsl@ prideleague.com. If your team needs players contact Eliza Goodman at egoodman@slco.org or (801) 270-7260.

Queer Prom 2009 The Utah pride Center’s youth program, Tolerant, Intelligent Network of Teens, will present Queer Prom 2009: So Excited this April. Queer Prom is an annual event for gay and transgender youth and their straight allies. When: April 18 Where: Salt Lake City Downtown Library, 210 E 400 S Cost: $5 in advance and $100 at the door. Tickets will be on sale soon. Info: bonnie@utahpridecenter.org, (801) 539-8800.

Thanks, Governor! To thank Gov. Jon Huntsman, Jr. for his support of civil unions for gay and lesbian Utahns, call his office at (801) 538-1000.

Utah Pride Festival Needs You The 2009 Utah Pride Festival is now accepting applications for musicians and performers. Applications are due March 1 and can be downloaded at utahpridecenter.org.

GLBT Marching Band Community activist Dominique Storni is looking for people interested in forming a gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender marching band to perform during the Utah Pride Parade. Storni is looking for musicians who have had some experience in marching band, music teachers familiar with typical marching band instruments (drums, horns, etc.), and donations of sheet music. For those who cannot play an instrument but who have interest in helping, Storni is also in need of a support crew. Info: dominiquestorni@hotmail.com

QUAC Rises to the Top in National Water Polo Ranks by Brad Di Iorio

Like a basketball game in a large bowl of soup, water polo consists of two teams working the ball towards the other team’s goal, until a team member sees a chance to throw it effectively past the other team’s goalie to score. With a first place finish at the 2007 International Gay and Lesbian Association’s swim meet and tournament, held in Paris, and the silver medal finish at last year’s IGLA water polo tournament in Washington D.C., QUAC’s water polo team is a leading contender for championship play among amateur, gay and lesbian water polo teams, nationally and internationally. At their first away tournament of the season — the Otters Tournament in Seattle — the QUAC co-ed team took first place, proving that Utah’s water polo players are a diverse and skilled group of athletes, no matter in which division. “These tournaments are always such a positive experience that it is well worth it,” said Trina Pendleton, an out lesbian swim coach who plays on QUAC’s co-ed and women’s water polo teams and serves on the organization’s board of directors, fundraising committee and the IGLA planning committee. “I have been swimming since before I can remember,” she said. “I was invited to a QUAC polo practice four years ago and have been hooked ever since.” Coach Patrick Hayes helped start the QUAC Water Polo team five years ago. “We are always recruiting and are very accepting of new players and friends,” he said. Beginning as a sixth grader in a high school, summer league in Southern California, Hayes played through high school and college at the University of Utah, achiev-

ing All-American status. He still holds a swimming record for the U of U men’s team. These days, he coaches many local swimming and water polo teams including those at Granite, Skyline, Taylorsville and Woods Cross high schools. His assistant coach is Club Sound owner Tom Taylor, who also plays a mean goalie position. Watching the QUAC water polo team play round robin matches with the visiting West Hollywood team this past weekend at the annual Ski-N-Swim tournament fundraiser, the different sizes and skill sets of the players brought home one of QUAC’s beliefs: anyone can learn and play the game. “Actually, most of the Olympic water polo players are my size, but at least over six feet tall,” said player Scott Jackson, who says he weighs over 250 pounds and has wrestled, and has played football and rugby in the past. Born in Salt Lake City and a former Highland High and BYU student, Jackson, a U of U nursing student, usually plays on QUAC’s B team. “We have all types of skill levels, some just learning and some that have been playing all of their lives,” he explained. “The reason I play is because I like to compete, love to work together as a team and win games. It is also a great way to meet friends.” Water polo is played in a deep pool, so a player’s feet never touch the bottom. Also like basketball constant movement is required — in water polo’s case, swimming in short bursts and maneuvering to receive a passed ball while treading water. Also, players may touch the ball with only one hand. “You fight for position,” explained Pendleton. “Pretty much any grabbing, holding or kicking is OK, unless

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you can find a way for the referee to be able to see it.” Penalties occur for reaching over a player’s back and for extreme, aggressive behavior. The ball passes to the other team when a player allows the ball to go out of bounds, or when it is wrestled or batted away, or passed badly to a fellow teammate and snatched by the other team. “You will get punched, kicked, elbowed, scratched and hit in the head with the ball,” said Pendleton. “Men tend to muscle up more and most women rely on speed. Women also tend to grab at each other’s suits. I prefer playing men because they go more for your wrists and ankles. I really try not to be a cheap player, but if someone starts it, I will finish it.” Games usually are divided into four periods. The referee starts each half by dropping the ball in the middle of the pool. Starting at their end of the pool each team must then aggressively swim for the ball. Usually, the fastest swimmers on each team are located in the lanes closest to the referee, so they can reach the ball first. Minor fouls and major fouls can be committed during play, and players are ejected from the game on their third major foul. Each team consists of six field players and one goalkeeper, with a maximum of six substitutes. Of course, this game isn’t for people who are out of shape. “There is no shortcut when it comes to getting in shape for water polo,” said Wes Heaps, a Utah transplant who came from New Mexico State University to attend BYU. “Pat, our coach, always encourages me to swim more. I usually do a workout that alternates between ‘rest laps’ — slower, easily paced laps — and ‘sprints’ — balls to the wall barreling down the pool. I’d never really considered myself an athlete. Getting involved with QUAC has changed that, though.” Heaps played on the QUAC B team in Paris, which placed fifth in 2007. Recently, he participated in the co-ed team that took first place in the Seattle tournament. “Because we don’t discriminate, we get all sorts of people with various skill levels and orientations,” said Heaps. “I think QUAC has been instrumental in building bridges of understanding both inside and outside the gay community, too.” The team accepts gay and straight players and picks up members from other Utah leagues and teams — including athletes from the Masters League, members from local college and high school water polo teams — when attending out-of-state tournaments. “Typically, we have an A team, a B team and a women’s team,” said Troy Blanchard, who was part of QUAC’s original water polo team formed in 2004. “My partner had been swimming with QUAC for some time and I finally gave in and joined as well.” Currently, about 10 women regu-

larly participate in practices and local tournaments. QUAC took a full women’s team to the 2008 IGLA tournament in Washington D.C., and there were only two other all women teams. Although a smaller ball is used in the women’s bracket, the game rules remain the same as men’s or co-ed play. “Maintaining a women’s team has been a goal of both QUAC and the IGLA organizations over the past few years,” said Blanchard, who is also the water polo team’s captain and a member of QUAC’s board of directors. Athletes have to get the time off work and pay their own travel, hotel and entrance fees to attend the tournaments. QUAC raises money throughout the year to help both swimmers and water polo team members offset these costs. Currently, QUAC is also building a ‘scholarship’ fund to help team members attend the July 2009 IGLA tournament in Copenhagen, Denmark and the Gay Games 2010 in Koln, Germany. Besides the Ski-N-Swim fundraiser, QUAC throws summer swim parties at supporters’ pools and partners with other non-profits in creating social events during the year. “We attend three to four tournaments a year besides the IGLA championships,” said Hayes. The team intends on competing in the ‘Tsunami de Mayo’ Tournament in San Francisco, which is held the weekend of May 2-3 and is annually hosted by the San Francisco Tsunami Water Polo team. Look for QUAC to participate with at least one team in the Kearn’s Master Summer League, running June through August, every Wednesday night at Kearn’s Aquatic Center. Water Polo is a fast and furious team sport that is fun to watch, not only for a team’s skill and strategy, but also for the appreciation of athletic bodies clad in QUAC’s standard uniforms: for men, a skimpy, skin-tight Speedo, and for women, a one-piece, formfitting suit. But, as any athlete will tell you, it is the time spent in training and perfecting skills that makes the game rewarding, along with the thrill of beating your opponent in a team atmosphere. QUAC water polo currently holds two practices a week; one on Friday nights from 6:30–8:00 p.m. and the other on Sundays from Noon–2:00 p.m. The Utah Masters also hold a Wednesday night practice at Murray Rec Center from 7:30–9:30 p.m. Water polo players are also encouraged to attend QUAC swimming practices on Tuesday and Thursday nights, from 7:00–8:00 p.m., and on Sundays, from 11:00 a.m.–Noon. QUAC’s website, quacquac.org, lists all practices, locations and events. Q

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Q Views Letters Labels Editor, It’s amazing how a label can sway your perception and support of an idea or a movement. When abortion was being fought over in the Supreme Court, both sides sought out a label that would present their best side and win the most people to their cause: hence pro-life and pro-choice. These days it’s the gay rights movement that is making the headlines, and organizations are picking their labels again. Opponents of gay rights are trying to label themselves as pro-family, not anti-gay.. The truth of the matter is that they’re both anti-family and anti-gay. Of course, that’s not 100% correct. They’re pro-their own-family, just anti-my-family. Why is it that the radical religious right will only recognize their own families and not others? Sure, I can’t marry my fiancé because of Amendment 3, but we’re still living together, love each other; we’re still a family. I know many others, some with kids, some without, but all of which are families… just not the families for which the Eagle Forum or the Sutherland institute are pro-. Every family is sacred, every family is special, and every family needs protection. If you don’t believe so, then you cannot use the label of pro-family. In this fight, it’s the gays and lesbians that are pro-family, yours AND mine, and it’s the religious right that is just downright anti-gay. Use common sense and put the right labels where they belong. Drew Cloud Salt Lake City

Gayle Ruzicka and LaVar Christensen’s ideas about humanity are an absolute joke and should not be representative of this state’s good people. They would prefer to frighten us rather than give us the truth. Please support truth, common human decency and equality in treating all our neighbors with dignity and support bills such as HB267 which promotes fair workplace and housing. Jeffrey Carter Salt Lake City

Make Another Minority Equal

Editor, I am writing you today to express my feelings and explain the common ground initiative bills that are being voted on in the next few weeks. Editor, Many Utahns believe that these bills I am writing as a concerned citizen over have much to do with gay marriage. the “Sacred Ground” Initiative that the Sutherland Institute has kicked off. The They are very mistaken. CGI has nothing to do with marriage at all. CGI is a people in support of it claim to keep families together, but only at the cost of group of bills to protect the LGBT community and those associated. tearing other families apart. Right now in the state of Utah, an The Common Ground Initiative is a individual can currently get fired or peaceful way to give rights to men and kicked out of there home for being gay women who work hard for this great state. It ensures that their children will or transgender. This is not fair and does not represent what freedom is and what be treated as any other child whether America stands for. These bills also they live in a traditional or nontradiwould give hospital visitation rights tional family. The gay people of our to homosexual couples in the state of community only want rights; they Utah. These bills are very important are not denying the laws that passed disallowing gay marriage. They are not to me and my family and I would ask anyone who is debating or against the challenging it. CGI to look into it more and put yourWhy should any of my gay friends or self into the situation of not having the family members be fired or kicked out protections of one of these bills. of their homes merely because they are gay? Again these bills have nothing to do 16 | QSa lt L a k e | issue 122 | Februa r y 19, 20 09

Common Decency

with marriage, they only make another minority equal. Ryan Ford Salt Lake City

No Longer Involved Editor, PWACU’s website, under “Our Store,” contains the article from QSaltLake reporting on the lead-up to the opening of the thrift store. This article contains highly misleading statements. Ms. Johnson, director of PWACU, has allowed this misleading information to be displayed as public fact since Halloween of 2008 when she barred us from involvement in Our Store. We must defend our reputations publicly. Neither of us currently have anything to do with supporting, managing, or helping Ms. Johnson or “Our Store” in any manner (as the posted article states). She barred us both from the premises on Halloween night, 2008, after we had #1) presented her with the concept and name of Our Store to fund PWACU, #2) invested countless hours volunteering our time in the conceptualization and build-out of Our Store, and #3) raised over $86,000 to fund the establishment of Our Store. We publicly demand that Ms. Johnson remove the misleading article from the public PWACU website which purports we support her, Our Store and PWACU. It must be made clear to the public that we in no way support nor endorse Toni Johnson, Our Store nor PWACU. Mike Picardi Jim Grady Salt Lake City

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Ruby Ridge The Gayest Thing Ever

SNaP: Gov. Jon Huntsman, Jr. While there are plenty of gayfriendly Republicans in Utah, they are often quietly gay-friendly out of fear — fear of what their families, friends, colleagues in the Senate and House, or their constituents would say if they knew. And sadly, their silence makes sure that Utah politics remain politics as usual. In this climate, Gov. Jon Huntsman, Jr.’s outspoken support for civil unions is courageous because it puts doing the right thing over fear, reputation and the kangaroo court of public opinion. By going out on a limb for gay Utahns, Huntsman not only did the right thing, he showed real character. And in the end, that’s the only thing that will change the status quo.

SLaP: Sutherland Institute We probably should just reserve a spot in this column for this “family values” group until the end of the legislative session, because they just keep creating new lows to sink to. But we wonder how they can sink too much lower after banning some members of the media from their “sacred ground” conference on marriage earlier this month — namely, our entire staff and nobody else. QSaltLake publisher and editor Michael Aaron tried to get in and found his name and his employees’ names on a list with “NO” written at the top of the page. Why, because we’re gay so we can’t behave like professionals? Because we’re not real news media, just like we’re not real people? The Sutherland Institute can bray about private property and non-public events all it wants, but that doesn’t change the fact that allowing some media in while keeping others out makes you look not only like foes of the freedom of the press, but like you have something to hide.

SNaP: Riley Hackford-Peer Speaking of courage and cowardice, it takes a lot of the former to speak out against injustice when the latter is making so many people behave badly, especially when you’re only 7 years old. But Riley Hackford-Peer (son of our columnist Ruth Hackford-Peer and her wife, Kim) did just that at Equality Utah’s Family Rally Day by asking legislators and citizens to protect gayheaded families like his. By being honest, Riley said more about the need for letting gay couples adopt children than our paper ever could. Riley, if you do decide to run for president as someone suggested, we’ll vote for you. Think it over, OK?

by Ruby Ridge

very now and then kittens,

I do something so ultra gay that the mercury gets blown right through the top of the gay-o-meter. Last week was one of those times. I’m embarrassed to admit it, cherubs, but I have painted my office walls to match my cat. I know, I know, even Thom Felicia is going, “girlfriend, that is really GAY!” I had grown tired of the muted sage green, and one day my cat, Nutmeg, jumped onto a newspaper I was reading ... and voila! The rest, as they say, is acrylic-base, satin-finish history. Now for those of you familiar with my cat, you know it is a calico — a cat with blotches of tans, ochre and black. It’s really kind of pretty in a mutant, “my mother was an indiscriminate slut unconcerned with pedigree breeding” sort of way (oh speaking of irresponsible sluts, don’t even get me started about Nadya Suleman and her litter of octuplets? OMG!). But anyway, my big problem was how do I match the paint color to Nutmeg’s fur? My initial thought was one of those knee-jerk, not-necessarilythinking-of-the-consequences kind of thoughts, where I would just take Nutmeg to the paint counter at Lowe’s, and they would scan her with one of those handheld things that looks like a cop’s radar gun. As I went for my car keys and a cat carrier, my better angels finally woke up and whispered, “Ruby, do you think the poor straight paint counter guy really needs your pussy shoved in his face?” Wait, that didn’t come out right ... but you know what I mean. So I came up with a Plan B which involved shuttling back and forth with paint swatches and small cans of paint. I gravitated towards the orangebrown colors. Oh my God, pumpkins, their names were just so evocative, butch and strangely southwestern. There was “bearclaw,” “laredo,” “canyon sun” and a pandering shout out to all of the Mexican immigrants painting ugly stucco McMansions across Southern Utah called “la fonda sombrero.” Then there were more delicate, lighter shades that sounded super femme like “brioche,” “clove bud” and “tomato bisque.” I’m convinced that last color was named by a straight man because: a)

It was orange, not even remotely red and b) Because any gay guy would have automatically called it “pumpkin puree,” or “Martha’s Tuscan soup.” And, darlings, that’s why the heteros fear us. We have panache and we are not colorblind. The one color that I really liked was called “longhorn,” so I got a samplesize can of paint and slapped it on the wall. It looked great in the store, but under fluorescent light it turned a weird peach-terracotta color. And not in a good way like those gorgeous terracotta pots at Cactus and Tropicals. No, this was more like the “plastic flower pots from the dollar store that come with the cheesy silk plants that you put on the graves of relatives that you never really

liked every Memorial Day” kind of terracotta color. Um, not good! So it was back to Lowe’s where I settled on two semi-finalists: A dark tan color called “cattle drive” (wouldn’t that be the greatest name for a leather bar?) and a lighter version called “warm cardamom.” It’s a nice color, but really hard to describe. Imagine a beige-orange-tan kind of color somewhere between Muenster cheese and John Boehner’s face and you’ve got it. Seriously, what is up with that guy? Does the GOP have pigment envy now that Obama is in office, or what? I swear, Boehner looks like George Hamilton wearing Sam Donaldson’s hair helmet. But I digress. The end result of my painting makeover in the office is now super cheerful and warm. The only drawback is that now my cat, Nutmeg, has this camouflaged cloak of invisibility, and she scares the living bejeezus out of me every time she jumps off the bookshelves. Petals, I have to wonder: Exactly why did we riot at Stonewall if I still have pussies flying at me 40 years later? Have we made any progress at all? It’s something to think about, babies. Ciao! Q

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Bullshattuck Ex Marks the Spot by Ryan Shattuck

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whatever. But I’m tired of talking about you. You’re kind of boring. Let’s talk about my favorite topic instead: Me. I currently live with my ex. We ended our relationship a long time ago, but have continued to be friends. Due to the convenience of our living situation — i.e. we’re both far too lazy, and moving out actually involves ‘doing stuff’ — we decided to continue living together. It’s not a perfect situation, but it’s not a bad situation. It’s a real life situation. Much like childbirth. Or hurricanes. Or rhinoplasty. Despite the fact that we get along, we recently decided it’s time to part ways as roommates. In a month I will be moving in with one of my best roommates. My ex will be moving in with Shia LaBeouf (can’t say I approve). Although our relationship has been over for quite a while, moving out will officially end that chapter of my life. Actually, no. That chapter of my life ended when we broke up a long time ago. Moving out is not only ending that chapter, but it is tearing that chapter out of the book of life, stuffing it into a manila envelope and mailing it to some guy in Wisconsin who

bought it online for 20 bucks. It’s amazing what people will buy on eBay. I can count my exes on just one hand (I save the middle finger for a particular ex). While the level of communication between my exes and me varies with each person, I harbor very few ill feelings towards them. I would be lying if I were to say that I’ve never wished death upon any of my exes in the past, but I now feel as though I’ve come to peace with all of them and wish them nothing but goodwill. That and the fact that I have almost no desire to go to prison on homicide charges. I may be bad at lying, but I’m even worse at being a prison bitch. In the Game of Life — which I usually cheat at by hiding money under the board — we encounter a number of relationship-y people with whom we don’t get along. Do we fight with any of our exes? Do we avoid talking to people we’ve hooked up with? Do we despise the person our boyfriend is having an affair with? Do we think we’re better than people who use words like “relationship-y?” Probably. Although I feel as though I’m in a good place right now when it comes to my former relationships,

fake relationships, dead relationships, pseudo-relationships and Shia LaBeouf, I’m certainly not perfect. Like most melodramatic gay men (that is, all gay men), I become jealous, I loath and I am petty. I pride myself on being a responsible, mature adult ... only to open my mouth and realize that I have the emotional maturity of a 6-year-old. Or anyone on a VH1 reality show. Is this healthy and does this matter? Like every other gay issue that’s taken place after Nov. 5, 2008 — the day the gay community suddenly decided to care about marriage — even our relationships with our exes affect our struggle for equal rights. We all know the catchphrase “united we stand, divided we fall,” so why do some of us act as if this spirit of unity only applies to ... people who haven’t dated us? Imagine if everyone in Hollywood refused to work with or even associate with an ex. Movies and television shows would only be made by asexual celebrities. Who would want to watch a movie starring Paula Poundstone, Morrissey and pre-September 2008 Clay Aiken? If there’s one community that’s bitchier, cattier and more self-

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absorbed than the gay community, it’s the Hollywood community. Yet even the Hollywood community manages to work together. (Note: The “be nice to your ex” rule doesn’t apply if you’ve dated Joel Schumacher — one of the few people who embarrasses both the Hollywood community AND gay community.) The gay community has enough problems as it is. So let’s stop blocking our exes on Facebook. Let’s stop ignoring our exes when we run into them at the grocery store. Let’s stop talking about them behind their backs. They’re human beings, we’re human beings, and if we ever want any semblance of equal rights — including gay marriage — we’re going to have to grow up and get along with people we don’t like. Starting tomorrow. I have plans tonight to egg Shia LaBeouf’s house. Q

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Gay Geeks For Great Justice by JoSelle Vanderhooft

s soMe readers (hopefully not many of you) may know, I was once something of a playwright. Sometimes those urges still afflict me. Like last week, when our entire staff was blacklisted from the Sutherland Institute’s “State of the Union II” (a.k.a. “sacred ground”) meeting at Thanksgiving Point. Like many gays who were personae non gratae, I found myself wondering: What exactly are they saying and doing that they don’t want gay people — includ-

ing one of Utah’s newspapers — to know? What, exactly, is it that went through the minds of the people at this meeting? Eventually, I wrote up the most likely scenario as a skit. Think of it as answering drama with drama. narrator: In A.D. 2009 war was beginning. [Lights up on a room at Thanksgiving Point. LAVAR CHRISTENSEN, PAUL T. MERO and LAURALYN B. SWIM sit before a group of UTAHNS.]

laVar ChrIStenSen: Gay marriage is bad. paul t. mero: It’s like the French Revolution. [note: Yes, the French Revolution came up at the meeting.] lauralyn B. SWIm: “We are the defenders of freedom, protectors of liberty and guardians of virtue.” [note: a real quote from the meeting] [Suddenly, the room rocks as if hit by an explosion!] laVar ChrIStenSen: What happen? paul t. mero: Someone set us up the gay. lauralyn B. SWIm: We get signal. laVar ChrIStenSen: What! paul t. mero: Main screen turn on. [A white screen lowers. THE GAY MENACE’s face appears on it. He is wearing a leather jacket, an eye patch, chaps, has a pink triangle tattooed on his arm and speaks with a lisp. He may or may not resemble JACOB WHIPPLE.] laVar ChrIStenSen: It’s you!!

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tgm: How are you gentlemen!! All your marriage are belong to us. You are on the way to destruction. laVar ChrIStenSen: What you say!! tgm: You have no chance to survive make your time. Ha ha ha ha ... [LAURALYN B. SWIM faints.] laVar ChrIStenSen: Fight every Common Ground Initiative bill. [to TGM] You know what you doing. [to UTAHNS] Fight CGI. For great justice. OK, OK. So I never said I was a particularly good playwright. And I never said I wouldn’t pretty much stelal my script wholesale from the online ‘All Your Base’ phenomenon (an infamous scene from Zero Wing, a poorly translated Japanese video game which some YouTubers turned into a bizarre techno music video here, for the very bored or very curious: tinyurl.com/ qsqj8). And in all fairness, I wasn’t at Thanksgiving Point to be unceremoniously denied entrance, having made other plans that night to subvert the natural family. I still think my description is pretty accurate. See, whenever I hear Common Ground Initiative foes talk, I don’t hear blustering about the Constitution, the Bible, the natural family or even how gay sex is icky and being around gay people makes them obsess about gay sex. I hear science fiction clichés. Think about it. The Sutherland Institute and those who share their opinions portray themselves as a group under siege from any number of faceless, megalithic foes: gays, the gay agenda, activist judges, atheists,

the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Tinky Winky. We’re the Galactic Empire; they are Luke Skywalker and the rebellion, fighting to bring freedom and justice back to the universe. I mean, I love Star Wars and the ninety bazillion movies after it that are based on the same monomythic structure of Ultimate Good vs. Ultimate Evil in the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny (the very bored or very curious should also click here: tinyurl.com/7njwc), but I don’t let them shape my politics. Or do I? Do we all? Could it be that more than a few of us on any “side” of the great gay marriage debate are thinking of ourselves as the rebellion, and those who oppose us as the Galactic Empire? If we do, does this model of thinking serve us or work against us? Yes, the Sutherland Institute’s arguments against the Common Ground Initiative are asinine, and consist mostly of straw men, Constitutional misinterpretation, evasion, historical ignorance and unexamined heterosexual privilege. But that hardly makes them Darth Vader Mini Mes. At the end of the day, they’re just people like us, with the same needs, wants and fearful reactions to human difference they don’t understand or find troubling. It’s tempting to want to scream, swear and otherwise behave badly in the face of such frustrating ignorance (and maybe even deliberate malice in some cases), especially when those against the Common Ground Initiative seem unwilling to entertain any “side” in the debate but their own. It’s tempting to want to call them out as the great Cosmic Evil. And why shouldn’t it be? They ultimately have no dog in this fight, and it isn’t their lives, their romantic relationships and their legal rights that are on the line. But I would propose that giving into that temptation isn’t the way. The more calm gay people and our allies remain, and the more reasonable we sound, the more Utahns will come to realize that the right “side” in this debate isn’t the one with the people who can’t seem to stop talking about the French Revolution and the evils of a non-theocratic government. Hell, more than half of Utah has already said that the people making these arguments don’t speak for them. The dumber the Sutherland Institute makes itself look, the more people will join that number. So whether you’re out protesting during this legislative session, or simply talking to your family and friends about the Common Ground Initiative, remember: the world isn’t like Zero Wing, and there is no phantom menace out to get us. Though fighting for great justice is a pretty good idea. Q

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Ruth My Son, the Lifelong Activist by Ruth Hackford-Peer

couple of weeks ago,

Equality Utah invited my 7-year-old son to give a speech about his family at the capitol for Equality Utah’s Family Rally Day. Riley was excited to participate. His first response was, “How big will my stage be, and how many people will be watching me?” He’s a ham. He’s an extrovert. But he is only 7. I wasn’t sure he could pull it off. He started practicing his speech right away. The next day I saw him standing in front of the mirror in the walk-in closet hollering, “Freedom. Freedom! We live in America and we’re supposed to have freedom!” That night, he told me and his Mama Kim that he was going to need our help typing his speech because he kept forgetting what he wanted to say. So after dinner, Kim and Riley went downstairs and Riley dictated his speech to Kim. He practiced every night. He edited his words. He put the right emphasis on the right syllable. And each night he wowed me in my living room. We were running late the day of the rally. So by the time we walked into the Capitol rotunda, the rally had already started. There were a couple hundred people there. Suddenly, Riley looked terrified. We took our spot at the side of the room and that’s when Riley noticed them. The camera crews. He beamed. He whispered in my ear, “I wore this sweater because I knew the news was going to be here. Mom! I am going to be on the news. I know it.” His anticipation and excitement returned and the fear seemed to subside. Will Carlson introduced Riley as “a man I have known since 2004. A man who has been a lifelong activist.” Riley beamed and stumbled to the front because he insisted on carrying a music stand to hold his speech. He seemed awkward as he fumbled with the microphone. And then he began.

Hi. My name is Riley Hackford-Peer. I am 7 years old, and I have a little brother named Casey. We have two moms. We are a family. We take care of each other. We hug each other. We play together. We do chores together. We eat together. And we love each other no matter what! At school I am learning about freedom.

I am learning that in the United States we have freedom. But sometimes I don’t feel like we do. I think that freedom means we can have the family we have and people shouldn’t say mean things about us just because we have two moms or two dads. I think that in families like mine, two moms or two dads should be free to take care of their children. That would make those families feel more safe. I am lucky because I was born in Massachusetts so both of my moms are

“I’m afraid that I might be assassinated.” my legal moms. I am thankful that they can always protect and take care of me. I wish that all of the children in families like mine could feel safe like I do. This would help me believe in freedom more. Thank you for coming tonight and please don’t stop working to change the adoption laws so there can be freedom in Utah and Liberty and Justice for ALL! It was perfect. He was perfect. Tears of pride dripped down my cheeks and I quickly wiped them away. And sure enough, his first speech was captured on several news channels. One channel even asked if they could get a comment from him. I wasn’t sure at first, but Riley was bouncing with excitement. “I have to do it Mom,” he said. And we let him. He couldn’t wait to get home and see himself on television. He called relatives to remind them to watch the news and he told each one, “Have you ever known anyone who has been on TV? Well, now you do.” We let him stay up to see the 9 o’clock news, and then tried to get him to sleep despite his excitement. We assured him we’d record the news at 10. As we tucked him into bed he told me, “Tonight someone told me I should run for president. And you know what Mom, I’m thinking about it.” I gave him a squeeze and stepped

aside for Kim to get her snuggles. “I’m changing the world,” he told her. “You sure are,” she replied. As we stepped away from the bed to turn off the lights, Riley sat up. Suddenly he looked concerned, even scared. “Do you know what I am a little bit worried about?” he asked us. “What?” Kim replied. “I’m afraid that I might be assassinated.” “You mean, if you became president?” “No. I mean, what if someone saw me on the news and they weren’t a free-thinker. A lot of people who tried to change the world were killed. Like Martin Luther King Jr. And John F. Kennedy.” I had hoped he was expressing a regular age-appropriate fear. You know, like the fear of the boogie man. Only the boogie man to him was embodied in hateful homophobia. But as we talked, I came to understand that he really just got it. He gets the impact of oppression, even more than I realized at first. So we assured him that most people would be respectful to him and wouldn’t hurt him. We talked about how most people who don’t support his family are still good people. Then we told him we’d do everything we could to keep him safe. And we reviewed safety rules just to assuage his anxiety. But really, what do you say to a 7-year-old who asks you that? Especially after you run out of things to say, and he asks, “I wonder if you could ask Martin Luther King Jr. if all he did was worth dying for, what would he say?” I told him it was a good question, one to be pondered while he slept. As we shut off the light, he said just one more thing, “I think he would say it was worth it.” Q

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Entrepreneurs Gordon Wilkins is a Cupcake Diva By Brad Di Iorio

50-year-old Utah native Gordon Wilkins at Diva’s Cupcakes and Coffee most days, working on his computer at one of the tables, working on the back patio or dome, helping the kitchen staff or taking customer’s orders. “I like to work. I wanted to go to New York for a couple of days to relax recently and see some shows, but I thought I should stay here,” said Wilkins, reflecting on his dedication to creating a versatile eatery/coffee house atmosphere to visit with friends, inside or out, while enjoying sandwiches, cupcakes, coffee or tea, or studying or getting work done with the free wireless. Wilkins opened Diva’s in October 2008 with the goal of providing a clean, creative environment for all Utahns to enjoy. “The thing I love about this place is that we are very diverse. There are old people, straight people, gay people, young people and people from all backgrounds and experiences,” said Wilkins. Not a stranger to starting and running his own business, Wilkins also owns a small landscaping business and was past owner of The Gathering Place at Gardner Village, an event- and party-planning business, from 1997 to 2000. Growing up in Roosevelt, Utah, as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and later attending Utah State University, Wilkins said he always knew he was gay. After dating the same woman for seven years, he asked a gay friend to take him to one of Salt Lake City’s gay bars. “I was lying,” Wilkins said. Wilkins stature is that of a basketball player, standing at 6 foot 5 inches, with a winning smile and “can-do” demeanor. “I was looking for a building on Highland and once I found this place available and peered over the fence into the backyard, where a gigantic Sycamore tree grew, I knew I wanted it, without even seeing the inside,” Wilkins said. The inspiration for Diva’s just came to him one morning. “I woke up and had cupcakes on my mind and Googled cupcakes and there was everything you wanted to know about cupcakes,” he said. “I talked to my friends and family and they thought I was a kook.” With his 18-month business plan in hand and his friend Matt, who helped get him the financing and announced it as a “fixer-upper,” Wilkins started with the landscaping of the back patio, the inside dome area, and the front of the building. “I originally wanted to pull down the dome, but it is a historical landmark, I guess,” Wilkins said. The dome was used extensively when the place was called Pearson Floral and Wilkins says people remember the dome on 33rd South. Wilkins developed the interior as winter started and he noticed that sales jumped with the use of the extra space. Located east of Highland Drive, once locals learned about the outdoor deck at back of the building, the comfortable conservatory-style dome filled ou will find

with plants, orchids and a rock fireplace, as well as the free internet library connecting the dome to a traditional-style coffee house, Diva’s has become a popular gathering place. Opening every morning at 6:30 a.m., except Sundays at 7:00 a.m., Diva’s offers daily brews — light, dark and medium — of organic, shade-grown coffee exclusively from Caffe Ibis of Logan, Utah. The lunch menu features creative combinations, all made fresh, including sandwich bread from Stone Ground Bakery. Wilkins makes his own granola, soups, salads, sticky buns and yogurt, plus brioche — a homemade, French breakfast bread that is a rare find in Salt Lake City. But the specialty item at Diva’s is the cupcake. “Nothing is from a box,” said Wilkins. “Using Sysco flour, the cupcakes are from recipes that I and the kitchen staff have tweaked a bit.” Featuring two sizes — medium and mini — different flavored cupcakes are rotated, but Red Velvet is the number one seller. “You can order by the box with 48-hour notice,” Wilkins noted. Specialty cakes, wedding cakes, chocolate-cov-

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ered strawberries and gourmet cupcakes are also available to order and Diva’s new products in the spring will include homemade gelato and jam from local farms and food products. Diva’s is also featuring local artists each month, with a Meet the Artist night the last Thursday of every month. February’s featured artist is husband and wife team, Tyler Davis and Bregelle Whitworth Davis, highlighting two distinct styles of fine art and subject matter. Diva’s also features Scrabble and chess tournaments, a book exchange, and Saturday night acoustic music featuring local musicians. Wilkins also supports local gay and lesbian sports leagues, lending a hand at the recent QUAC dessert night by providing creampuffs, chocolate covered strawberries and his classic cupcakes as part of the swim club’s annual Ski-N-Swim fundraiser weekend. “I tell people that my dog is the diva,” Wilkins said. But Diva’s Cupcakes and Coffee is all Wilkins vision. Q Enjoy Diva’s Cupcakes and Coffee, located at 1560 E. 3300 South, www.divascupcakes.com, or 801-485-0619.

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Entrepreneurs Kelly Nielsen and Brandy Romero are Sweet as Toffee

Fe ature

by Matthew Gerber

hen you walk into

Held’s Toffee House you can’t help but feel like a big kid in a candy store because, well, you are. The modest brick exterior of the shop and its location in a business complex primarily occupied by wholesale businesses made the interior of Held’s come as quite a surprise. It is not really where you would imagine coming across a candy shop. The walls of the front part of the shop are arranged with displays of offerings like toffee, caramel pretzel sticks, and white chocolate and caramel popcorn. Boxes of fresh chocolate-covered strawberries take up all the space on tables in the factory portion of the business, evidence of a number of Valentine’s Day special orders. Products such as peanut butter-caramel-delight rice crispy treats with fudge icing and white chocolate-dipped caramel apples sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar show that when it comes to candy, Held’s means business. Founded about five years ago by Pat & Amy Held, the shop was purchased

about a year ago by Pat’s sister, Kelly Nielsen. Kelly, along with her daughter and business partner, Brandy Romero, are the sole employees of their venture. Brandy would sometimes assist her aunt and uncle during their ownership of the business and gained some experience in the candy industry at that time. Because of this, Kelly’s purchase of the business was contingent on Brandy’s participation. Both left careers in unrelated fields: Kelly from a seven-year stint at ARUP and Brandy from 11 years at a preschool. According to Brandy, she and her mother have never spent as much time together as they have over the past year, but she feels that they work well together. Currently, the majority of their business comes from sales to retail outlets such as Beans & Brews, Sportsman’s Warehouse, The Store and The Store 2, Coffee Connection and Tea Grotto; to two food distributors; and to businesses that purchase candy packages as corporate gifts for employees and clients. They would,

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however, like to expand the amount of business that comes from direct retail sales. Like most candy companies, business seems to spike during holidays, particularly Christmas, Easter, and Valentine’s Day. Their product mix doesn’t change, but they do decorate the candy in colors specific to the various holidays. While she is not herself a lesbian, Brandy views the gay community as her own. “It’s my community,” she says, indicating that half of her friends are gay or lesbian. She began participating in the Utah AIDS Foundation’s Walk for Life in 1998, shortly after her father passed away from complications of AIDS in 1997 when Brandy was 17 years old. Brandy lived with him at the time of his death and even though her father never offi-

cially came out to her, Brandy always knew that he was gay. Since that first walk, Brandy has become involved with the Utah AIDS Foundation as a volunteer, doing outreach at bars, intake at the weekly HIV test site, and participation in planning committees for both the Walk for Life and Oscar Night fund raisers. She will be part of the volunteer staff at this year’s Oscar Night America on Sunday, Feb. 22. Q Held’s Toffee House is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Most products are available for immediate purchase at the shop at 3345 South 300 West, however products containing fruit, such as chocolate-covered strawberries, need to be special ordered in advance to ensure freshness. Orders may be placed by calling 801.467.2992.

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Entrepreneurs Robin Paluso’s Nest by Matthew Gerber

Robin Paluso started her sandwich shop, The Robin’s Nest, in 2003, it occupied a small robin egg-blue bungalow on 3300 South and about 1000 East. It didn’t take long before the business outgrew its space: it was hard to find a table inside, or parking outside, because both were always full. In April 2006 the restaurant moved to its current location in the Judge Building at 311 S. Main Street in downtown Salt Lake City. The new location has allowed The Robin’s Nest to tap the downtown business worker looking for a quick, delicious, inexpensive lunch, a market of which they were previously unable to take full advantage. Through the years, Robin was consistently praised by family and friends for her superb cooking skills, but she never worked in the restaurant business prior to opening her own shop. She decided on a sandwich shop because she didn’t want to deal with the hassles associated with a formal, sit-down restaurant. The decision seems to have worked well for her. When you dine at The Robin’s Nest you don’t order a ham and cheese. The sandwiches, and the names they bear, stand out among typical lunch fare. Robin’s personal favorite is the Not So Average Joe, consisting of medium roast beef, tomato, red onions, lettuce and cheddar toasted on fresh sourdough bread with Paluso’s chipotle spread. Other sandwiches include the Aloha Oink, consisting of Black Forest ham with a homemade spicy pineapple salsa on ciabatta, or The Madam, with roasted turkey breast, tomato, melted provolone, ranch and bacon on ciabatta. Many items on the menu are named for friends and family members: The Madam is named after Robin’s daughter Cecily, The Nutty Flora (one of the shop’s salads) is named after her Sicilian grandmother, and The Papa is modeled after the salad her father made each day when she was growing hen

up. [For purposes of full disclosure, the writer has a sandwich named after him: ordering the Rooster Call chicken salad sandwich with tomato will make it a Matty, my own personal favorite menu item.] The Robin’s Nest refers to itself as “The Home of the Squeak and Bubble Sandwich.” The first step in building each sandwich involves spreading butter on slices of artisan bread and toasting it until it squeaks and bubbles, something that her mother did when she was a girl. The bread is then spread with just the right amount of dressing, covered with generous portions of meat, cheese and fresh vegetables, and toasted again. Each sandwich comes with either The Robin’s Nest signature orzo salad or chips. Paluso believes she has succeeded in the restaurant business because of her attention to quality. “I send out very high quality food without skimping on quantity ... I want to give the people who come in what they love.” Employees cut the meats, cheeses and vegetables fresh every morning and the artisan bread is baked fresh by a local bakery. Robin’s two children, Josh and Cecily, from a previous marriage of 28 years, can often be found working in the shop. She has been with her partner Yvonne for four years. Her life experiences have contributed to her philosophy of acceptance. Painted above the door exiting the shop is the phrase “May All Who Enter Leave as Friends.” She describes The Robin’s Nest as “everybody-friendly.” “My very favorite days are when I have such a smattering of people. I have a Mohawk, I have gay people, I have lawyers in suits, I have people who just got done with temple work, I have AfricanAmericans and other ethnic groups. I just like everybody,” she states. “The days when I truly feel successful are when I see a little bit of everyone in here. I love people and I love to bring people together.” The Robin’s Nest is open Monday through Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The shop is available to cater parties and provide box lunches to companies. Delivery in the downtown area is available for orders of at least 10 lunches. For additional information, call 801.466.NEST. Q

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Tapas Time with Mom and Mom at Meditrina by JoSelle Vanderhooft

eeling peckish for lunch?

Want to try something new for dinner, but aren’t sure if you’ll want a huge heaping plate of it? Hungry for tapas with a twist? Meditrina Small Plates & Wine Bar can help you with all that. Head chef Jen Gilroy and her partner, front-of-house manager Amy Britt, opened the café located at 1394 S. West Temple two months ago. They offer tasty salads, sandwiches and, of course, the “small plate” cuisine that sets it apart from any other restaurant in the neighborhood — and maybe even the city. So what is “small plate” dining? It has nothing to do with the size of the dish, says Gilroy, but rather the types of food on the dish — in this case, several appetizers served together, a concept similar to Spanish tapas or finger foods. But while

Meditrina serves such Spanishinfluenced tapas as patatas bravas (grilled potatoes with shallots, tomato aioli and chili oil), the appetizers are more accurately called fusion dining. “You can bring in any flare from anywhere in the world and call it [fusion] and not be infringing on the tapas style,” she explained. And Meditrina’s appetizers do draw from just about everywhere in the world. Their current menu (which will rotate roughly two or three times a year) offers decidedly Italian bruschetta and prosciutto, Middle Eastern hummus, Thai chicken satay and Indianinspired curry-lime prawns over basmati rice. Britt said she and Gilroy became interested in fusion dining when traveling the United States. When stopping to eat, the couple found that many cafes had the same “casual eclectic feel” to their menus as the two wished to bring to Meditrina’s. “We didn’t want to have just one style of dish, we’d order lots of dif-

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ferent appetizers so we could have a lot of tastes going on,” she said. Along with giving diners a variety of different tastes, the couple also caters to the different tastes of the diners. Several items on their lunch and dinner menus, for example, are vegetarian or vegan, or can be made so on request. And for diners who want something bigger than a finger food plate, Meditrina offers salads, sandwiches, burgers and even linguini for lunch, and shepherds pie for dinner. Diners who want to shop “local first” can also rest assured that Meditrina tries to be, in Gilroy’s words “as organic and local as possible.” In fact, many of their menu changes are brought about to offer tasty seasonal vegetables and fruit from Utah’s farms. Since tapas, antipasto and other finger foods also go better with wine, Meditrina also boasts a classy wine list with several red, white and sparkling/rose selections, as well as a bevy of fine beers. Few of which are over $8 a glass and many far under this price — the better for oenophiles who want to sample drinks as much as food. In the coming months, Gilroy and Britt hope to expand the beer and wine list and offer a Sunday brunch service beginning in April to attract “some of the baseball crowd” from the nearby Franklin Quest field. The portions will be “more traditionallysized,” said Gilroy, and will cover “everything from heavy and greasy to very light.” They’re also looking to involve diners in several activities, including monthly wine tastings and charitable work. On March 15, the restaurant will hold a catered silent auction benefit for the Utah Humane Society, called Paws for Wine, with prizes including original artwork by Jan Moulding, gift certificates and cheese tasting classes. For now, the couple is happy to be part of what Britt calls “the up-andcoming” West Temple neighborhood. “Come in and try something different and you don’t have to be afraid to commit to a $12 glass of wine and a $20 entree,” said Gilroy. “We’re as mom and mom as it gets.” Q

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Q A&E Gay Agenda Show Me Your Junk by Tony Hobday

Some of you may have taken last issue’s Gay Agenda headline to heart. Let me clarify: I am not a woman, never have been. Yes, some may also say that’s debatable, but so be it. I like men ... actually, adore men and all their parts. That aside, I’d like to wish everyone a happy Fat Tuesday. Be smart, play safe and collect a lot of beads.

thursDAY — The University of Utah Department of Modern Dance presents its Performing Dance Company’s annual Spring Concert. Discover the body, awaken the senses and shake the soul as this acclaimed company presents works by Martha Graham, Tandy Beal, Ellen Bromberg, Stephen Koester and others. Post-performance discussions held Feb. 20 and 27. 7:30pm, through Feb. 28, Marriott Center for Dance, 330 S. 1500 East, UofU. Tickets $7–10 581-7100 or kingtix.com.

FRIDAY — Plan-B Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Matthew Ivan Bennett’s Block 8, a provocative look at World War II Japanese American internment camps or “war relocation camps.” Ken is a young internee grappling with enlisting in the military to prove his loyalty to the United States. Ada is a caucasian librarian whose son is fighting in the Pacific. Their unlikely friendship offers insight into the paranoia, distrust and xenophobia that led to the existence of Japanese internment camps. 8pm, through March 8, Studio Theatre, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. Broadway. Tickets $20, 355-ARTS or arttix.org.

QQ This month’s theme for Third Friday Bingo is fittingly Mardi Gras. So clad yourself in purple, gold and green and join Ruby Ridge for a fabulous night of gaming. But be forwarned, she’ll be giving out anal beads ... I mean mardi gras beads like sacrament bread if you flash her when you call out BINGO! 7pm, First Baptist Church, 777 S. 1300 East. Bingo cards $5. QQ Troy Hunter, owner of Water Crest Design and amateur photographer boasts an exhibit of his photographs. The exhibit called Essential Tremors is also a hereditary nervous disorder that Hunter suffers. But he uses the condition when taking photos of light sources

at night. The disorder causes the lights to move in the photos, creating fluorescent abstract designs. 6–9pm, Opening Reception, regualr gallery hours through March 13, Art Access II, 230 S. 500 West. Free, 328-0703.

SUNDAY — I’d go down with the Titanic for Leonardo Di Caprio, too. Anyhoo, the woman who recorded Titanic’s oscar-winning theme “My Heart Will Go On,” and who is a major diva for many a queer guy, is the incomparable Celine Dion. Rejoice in her illustrious career tonight ... I hear she puts on one hell of a concert! 8pm, Energy Solutions Arena, 301 W. South Temple. Tickets $45–125, 325-SEAT or ticketmaster.com. QQ The Fabulous Baker Boys, a program of RCGSE, presents Ze Romantic French Dinner, an annual fundraiser for the elementary school in Baker, Nev. Each year these queens head down to Baker for Diversity Days and since nearly the whole town shows up for it, they just want to give back. Hell, it’s for the children! This year’s menu includes French onion soup, Chicken Divan, Quiche Lorraine and more. 5pm, The Trapp, a private club for members, 102 S. 600 West. Donations $5, 531-8727.

FRIDAY — Creating the “perfect

marriage of the so-called inaccessible classical drama and popular culture,” this inventive British-American ensemble makes great works relevant. With “superb acting and clever staging,” the Aquila Theatre Company produces “unmistakable fun.” Thanks to Homer and Shakespeare, Park City will savor a sparkling, dramatic evening of their respective masterpieces: The Iliad on night one and The Comedy of Errors the following night.

7:30pm, through Saturday, Eccles Center, 1750 Kearns Blvd., Park City. Tickets $18–65, 435-655-3114 or ecclescenter.org.

QQ OMG ... I think I could pass out from the excitement. MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice on stage together in Utah. Could you not just become hysterical? I just knew these highly talented singers would make a comeback. Uummm ... did I forget to take my clozapine today? 8pm, McKay Events Center, 800 W. University Parkway, Orem. Tickets $32.50–38, 467-8499 or smithstix.com.

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QQ Moises Kaufman’s The Laramie Project is the best known artistic reaction to the 1998 murder of Matthew Wayne Shepard, an openly gay university student in Laramie, Wyo. This major news story resulted in attention to hate crime legislation at the state and federal levels. This major production, in its wide popularity, still has an alarming affect. 7:30pm, Eccles Theater, Browning Center for the Performing Arts, 3402 University Cir., Weber State University. Tickets $5.50–8.50, 1-800-WSU-TIKS.

SATURDAY — Artist Darin Jones, yoga guru John Cottrell and Gary Walker present Passion: A Yoga Dance/Art Insallation. This one-day cirque du soleil-inspired event includes Yoga Dance Practice and an Art Show & Reception. For more detailed information see the article on page 32. 2pm, Centered City Yoga Studio, 918 E. 900 South. Yoga Dance Practice $20, register with John Cottrell at 556-2303 or john@mbody.org.

WEDNESDAY — I know it’s stereotyping to say all gay men love musicals, but when the pump fits ... ummm, does that sound dirty to you? Anyhoo, The Grand Theatre presents The Musical of Musicals, The Musical! This production parodies some of the finest composers and lyricists in the history of musicals and is sure to delight audiences, especially gay men. 7:30pm, through March 14, The Grand Theatre, 1575 S. State Street. Tickets $5–24, 957-3322 or the-grand.org.

UPCOMING EVENTS

MAR. 20 Lily Tomlin, Peppermill Concert Hall, Wendover MAR. 31 Blue October, The Depot APR. 13 Fall Out Boy, Saltair

APR. 14 Britney Spears, ES Arena JUN. 20 B-52s, Peppermill Concert Hall, Wendover

B Scene by Tony Hobday

Here are the top picks for happening events that if you miss, I’ll take away your gay membership card. And trust me, they’re extremely expensive to reinstate. Anyhoo, here are two events that you really must attend.

SUNDAY — Of course I’d love to see Milk win in all eight of its nominated categories, but I’m not holding my breath after the Brokeback Mountain burn. Plus, I’m a bit disappointed that James Franco wasn’t nominated, that naked butt scene alone should have given him an edge. Milk’s out director Gus Van Sant is up against Stephen Daldry (also openly gay) for The Reader in the Best Director category. Penelope Cruz is up for a Supporting Role award for her performance in Vicky Cristina Barcelona, in which she has a little woman-on-woman action. But if we learned anything from Brokeback Mountain, it’s that Hollywood’s not as gay-friendly as it was once perceived. BUt gays still love a good party, especially when they get to dress up. And the UAF Oscar Party is at the top of the list. 6pm, Wells Fargo Building, 299 S. Main Street. Tickets $120/person, table seating also available, 4872323 or utahaids.org.

THURSDAY — Who doesn’t want to be queen for a day? Unfortunately, that’s a long shot for many, especially for those born 1960 and earlier. So maybe instead One Night of Queen is the way to go. For those who grew up in the ’70s and ’80s, this concert will be hugely nostalgic, if not blurry. For the younger lads, it’ll be a learning experience — well ... if nothing else, a chance to giggle at the fashion disaster that was the ’70s and ’80s. One good thing about the ’70s was that all the gay boys wanted Farrah Fawcett hair. 7:30pm, Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Cir., UofU. Tickets $28.50– 39.50, 581-7100 or kingtix.com.

Review

Funny Things Happen In ... by Tony Hobday

have indicated in the past

that sometimes theatre needs be nothing more than pure highflying entertainment — without heavy moralistic or social issue. The Egyptian Theatre Company tends to fulfill such necessity. Its 2008-09 season ends with yet another musical comedy coming to boil with sexual innuendo, questionable gender identity and sexual orientation, and riotus stage antics. Therefore, many funny things happen in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. A Plautine comedy, the story is stuffed with burlesque situations, campy dialogue and cartoonish characters. Young Hero (played with a multitude of gummy expressions by the talented Josh Brodis) — the virgin son of a Roman senator, Senex (Bob Longoria) — accepts a deal with his personal slave Pseudolus (ETC’s staple Jason Tatom) who will help him win the heart of Philia (Carianne H. Jones), a courtesan living next door, in exchange for his freedom.

Pseudolus soon finds out his plan will not be as easy as first suspected. He learns from Philia’s “pimp,” Marcus Lycus (returning ETC favorite, Christopher Glade) that she has been promised to a respected captain of the Roman army Miles Gloriosus (a humorously boastful Garrick Dean). Dean is “glorious” as the self-absorbed warrior with ham shank-sized thighs, golden blond hair and chiseled facial features. To draw Philia out of Lycus’ house, Pseudolus claims Philia is suffering from a plague and must be moved to the house of Senex. While there, she and Hero fall in love. But her devotion to courtesanship restricts her from running off with him. Pseudolus, undeterred, then plans to fake Philia’s death, blaming it on the plague. He steals Hysterium’s (a hysterical Jacob Johnson) — the Senex house head-slave — book of potions and concocts a sleeping potion. Unfortunately, because of her “religious beliefs,” Philia refuses to drink it. When Gloriosus arrives, Pseudolus, still apt to gain his freedom, forces Hysterium to dress up as Philia and fake her death. Typical of slapstick comedy, pandemonium ensues from mistaken indentities, mistrust and misguidance. Director Kirstie Gulick Rosenfield doesn’t stray far from the 1962 original production. She says, “The play sticks to what is known in academic

circles as ‘the classical unities of space and time’ — that is one setting and one day for the action. These elements overlap with the comic schtick, songs, madcap physicality and cross dressing of vaudeville and early ‘screwball’ comedy movies.” The most “screwball” scene is the fake Philia’s funeral. Posing as the dead Philia, Hysterium, who’s commonly called a eunuch, proves otherwise quite convincingly to the audience. The stage design by Shawn Fisher is just as cartoonish as the characters. The extensive costumery by Phillip R. Lowe is mostly accurately depicted of the ancient Roman era, except for the remote possibility of Senex’s fisherman sandals. The choreography of Stephanie Thomas is mutually comical to that of the theme. ETC is a reliable theater company, especially in regard with musicals. And with A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, it has once again provided a light, willowy evening at the theatre for its many loyal fans like myself. Unfortunately, to be absolutely honest, through my own witnessing, not everyone soaks up the appreciation. Q A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum runs through March 21, Egyptian Theater, 328 Main Street, Park City. Tickets $23–34, 435-649-9371 or parkcityshows.com.

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Review

‘Stop Kiss’: Brandie Balkan’s Directorial Debut by Tony Hobday

here were several reasons

why I was more than a little excited to preview Pygmalion Theatre Company’s production of Stop Kiss, by Diana Son, but I’ll name only two here: First, I was utterly impressed by the small company’s production of Sordid Lives last season. I realized then, here is a small theatre company — led by Artistic Director Fran Pruyn — that produces only three productions per season, and has a real talent and vision for creating

quality works. Second, and though we’re only acquaintances through our connection with QSaltLake and softball, I was thrilled to be witness to Brandie Balkan’s directorial debut. Balkan’s a wise choice to have direct the production, not only for her intelligence and passion, but also for having played the lead role of Callie some years back. Stop Kiss is a love story between two women set in contemporary New York City. It’s not the stereotypical, ‘Hey,

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let me buy you a Coors Light,’–‘Hey come home with me,’–‘Hey, let’s rent a U-haul’–love story. Sara (Daisy Blake) has just moved from St. Louis to New York City with her cat Ceasar, but not her boyfriend Peter (Lane Richins). She meets Callie

(Tracie Merrill), fortuitously through Ceasar, and the two quickly become friends. Though they can easily converse about their personal lives including Callie’s open relationship with her masculine college friend George (Alex Bala) and Sara’s teaching fellowship in The Bronx, there’s a sexual tension between them that neither will admit. From one man’s point of view — one who has a very deep friendship with a lesbian couple, I must say that Callie and Sara’s interaction is humorous and honest. I’ve witnessed “swerving” before, and it’s endearing in Stop Kiss, just as it is in reality. Once the couple succumb to their mutual desire, it unfortuantely leads to a tragic event. Callie and Sara being witnessed kissing outside a bar in the West Village, are brutally attacked by the unknown assailant, which leaves Sara comatose. Callie then, through the questioning of a detective (Jeffrey Owen) and the aide of a compassionate nurse (Barbara Gandy), must come to terms with who she really is and who she truly loves. Cutting back and forth in time, this comic drama depicts not only personal fears about sexuality, but societal fears as well. And again from one man’s point of view, Stop Kiss enlightens about hate crimes against lesbians. With such a devout ignorance among certain groups of people, it’s certainly not uncommon for gay women to be brutally prejudiced against, but it seems it’s just less talked about. Balkan says of the show, “One need not look too far to see this story played out off stage, in the streets of our towns and cities.” “People are boxed up, labeled and treated differently because they have been audacious enough to love.” Frankly, Balkan couldn’t be more right. Stop Kiss is genuine in its simplicity and Son has created a heartfelt story with well-depicted characters. This is a worthwhile way to spend an evening with your valentine and for anyone who wants to believe in love. Q Stop Kiss runs through Feb. 28, Black Box Theatre, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. Broadway. Tickets $20, 355-ARTS or arttix.org.

Queen Resurrected

Gary Mullen didn’t necessarily have stars in his eyes, he just enjoyed singing karaoke, especially to Queen songs. Then in 2000, his wife and mother conspired a plan — one that ultimately led him to an audition for Stars In Their Eyes, a then-popular television game show in the UK. The game’s object, which last aired in 2006 and was co-hosted by Cat Deeley (host of So You Think You Can Dance), was to be awarded the most audience votes for impersonating a famous singer. Mullen’s impersonation of Freddie Mercury was a huge hit, garnering the Grand Final award with over 850,000 votes — an all-time record for any contestant on the show. With huge public demand following Mullen’s win, he created One Night of Queen — “a fully live, amazingly accurate” tribute concert. Over the past nine years, One Night

of Queen has toured non-stop all over the world playing theaters, arenas and festivals to sell-out crowds. The twohour concert recreates and celebrates the music of Queen with “fantastic staging, lighting and effects.” Queen was a popular rock band in the 1970s and ’80s, up until Freddie Mercury’s death of AIDS-related complications in 1991. They were known for their extravagant stage settings and Mercury’s flamboyant costumes and incredible vocal ability. From legendary songs like “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “We Are The Champions” and “We Will Rock You,” One Night of Queen, for those true believers, resurrects Freddie Mercury. Be a part of the past with Gary Mullen and his band The Works (also the title of Queen’s 1984 album) who make up One Night of Queen at this special engagement, Thursday, Feb. 26, 7:30pm, Kingsbury Hall. Tickets available through kingtix.com or 581-7100. Q

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hen roads diverge and one

person takes the lesstraveled path, it becomes interesting who you meet and what happens when you do find a fellow traveler. Take the case of artist Darin Jones and yoga life coach John Cottrell, both of whom have left what those around them would say was their prescribed path, and in doing so found happiness, fulfillment and meaning in their lives. They also found a connection that will culminate in an evening of art and dance yoga that may be a first of its kind.

an artist’s Life transformed

Jones started out his art career doing architectural renderings and incredibly realistic graphite portraits — types of artwork that can make someone as talented as he a fine living. Then suddenly, Jones’ work began to change. He discovered Cirque du Soliel, came out, and his artwork suddenly took on a new life. “I came out in ’96,” he explains, “and I started doing Cirque. I moved from black and white to color ... bright, warm color. I found in that a new way to express myself.” Indeed his work of today is as bright and shocking as paint comes. “I had a professor who always said not to use paint right out of the tube,” he remembers. “But I love the rich vibrancy you get when I do that.” Jones doesn’t necessarily paint imagery directly from Cirque du Soliel shows, but uses the music to inspire him and remind him of the movements in the shows. “Different shapes and colors and sizes become interconnected in my head,” he explains. “One day I was just scribbling while listening to the music. Later, I found a very similar image in the [Cirque] show, Delerium.” Jones says that his work today differs in another aspect from his portraiture and renderings. “With this kind of artwork, you are much more vulnerable. You open yourself up for more criticism,” he said.

Psychologist to Yoga Instructor

Cottrell had a passion for dance while growing up, yet ended up going to school to become a psychologist. In fact, he graduated with a doctorate in clinical psychology. Working with patients, though, is known to take a toll on the caregiver. “Being in psychology, you have to find a balance,” he said. “My balance was my music and movement.” Cottrell choreographed and performed at a nightclub — an old pussycat theater in San Jose, Calif. — with a friend named Gary Walker. “We used to bring theater into the nightclub. We performed pieces from shows like Grease and Jesus Christ Superstar — just the major songs.” But then school became demanding and he took a quarter off from performing. “That was the worst quarter I ever had in school,” he said. “I knew then that I needed that balance.” Cottrell found balance by starting a dance project that met at the Rose Wagner Center. “At 5 p.m. people would come in — anywhere from 8 years old to grandmothers. They would talk a lot during the day, but used this time to just move their emotions.” Eventually, his dance moved to yoga and he found that yoga was his middle ground. It was dance and psychology molded together. “In yoga you strive to become aware, to be present, to be clear and open,” he explained. “It’s the same in psychology. Psychology is about clearing the fog, tearing down the walls of temporary addiction.” Cottrell began holding yoga practices with friends in his home for a small fee. Eventually it grew from a weekly to daily practice, and he left his job as a therapist at a drug rehabilitation program and began working full time as a yoga and pilates instructor.

a Connection

That is where Jones met Cottrell when he decided to try yoga. Cottrell would sometimes use music from Cirque du Soliel during the practices. “It had a good energy and we just started talking about Cirque,” said

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Artist Darin Jones’ artwork started out with architectural renderings and photorealistic graphite portraits. Eventually he branched out into a more colorful style, inspired by Cirque du Soliel

Jones. “Eventually this idea just came up.”

a Choreographed Yoga Dance Practice and art Show

The idea was to meld their new-found passions into an evening of art and dance inspired by Cirque du Soliel. They brought in Gary Walker, who now also lives in Salt Lake City, to produce and design the show. The event, titled “Passion: A Cirque du Soliel Inspired Event,” will take place at City Centered Yoga Studio at 918 E. 900 South, on Feb. 28 beginning

at 2:00 p.m. The art show and reception will run through 5:00 p.m. and will feature several works done by Jones inspired by Cirque. The yoga dance practice will run from 2–4:00 p.m. and, of course, will feature the music of Cirque. Q For more information about Jones’ artwork, call 801-910-0697 or email darin@passionatearts.com. For yoga information and registration, contact John at 801-556-2303 or john@mbody.org.

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Homoscopes Mercury and Mars are lined up in Aquarius provoking wild impulses of word and deed, all too easily going dangerously overboard. As they aspect Saturn in Virgo, sensible restraint may come a bit tardy. Try to engage some critical foresight before it’s too late!

arIeS (Mar 21–Apr 20) Showing off and accepting friendly dares can get you badly hurt. Instead, focus your wit on actions you can take to improve your work and your well-being. Friendly suggestions should be considered only as a spur to better ideas.

tauruS (Apr 21–May 21) New ideas can boost your career, but don’t go too far out on a limb. While revolutionary approaches have their day, this ain’t it! Get creative with careful, traditional methods and discuss improvements with your boss or some experts ﬁrst!

you like hearing the other side, the better you should listen. Impulse spending is like heroin right now. Avoid it the best you can.

aquarIuS (Jan 21–Feb 19) Take time away to ﬁgure out what’s making you so bloody touchy. Your attitude may provoke people to think you should be tied down and ﬂogged. That could actually help, but you have to ask the right person nicely for it.

pISCeS (Feb 20–Mar 20) A generous idealist by nature, you often expect and desire a return of more than others can give. Taking a quiet retreat away from everyone will be good for all involved. If you must have company, choose very carefully!

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VIrgo (Aug 24–Sep 23) Saturn in your sign can make you feel old, but take that as a challenge to be more responsible. To restore your youth, start or revise an exercise plan that you can focus on and commit to!

lIBra (Sep 24–Oct 23) There may be a touch of desperation in your efforts to play. This could feed artistic creativity (It made Edvard Munch famous!) or undermine your social efforts. Don’t take out your frustration on folks at home.

SCorpIo (Oct 24–Nov 22) Political arguments at home can help you hone your ideals, maybe see better how they ﬁt with reality. They could also change how you relate to your family, but don’t let your temper lead you to precipitous or hurtful decisions.

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SagIttarIuS (Nov 23–Dec 22) Try to keep arguments out of work. That’s what friends and siblings are for. Those disputes could help you reevaluate your work and career, but stay calm with colleagues and bosses, especially if you really must be critical – or get criticized!

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gemInI (May 22–Jun 21) Arguments are too likely to go to overheated extremes. If there’s any possibility of make-up sex, scream and shout! Otherwise try your best to be civil and openminded. Family disagreements can be especially volatile. You can call Mom next week.

CanCer (Jun 22–Jul 23) Keeping the ﬁre in your relationship is less a problem than keeping the ﬂames where they belong! Air your disagreements in a calm respectful manner and save the screaming, yelling craziness for bed!

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eavy rain pounded the roof

and slapped the bedroom windows, which cured another night of insomnia. Jacin fell into a deep sleep similar to when he had is accident several weeks ago. Jacin is at The Trapp with some friends and a woman he doesn’t know, but that Josh calls Keri. She removes a photograph from her wallet and passes it around. When it makes its way to Jacin, he sees a photo of a young, conservatively dressed man with black wavy hair and shocking green eyes. The strange woman says to the group, “Mark’s a good husband and father…” Suddenly Jacin’s laying face up on cold concrete, pain searing through his body. He just makes out the same man in the photo standing over him, his eyes now more shocked than shocking, and cradling a small girl with velvety blonde curls – the same girl Jacin just risked his life to saving. This January marked a change in Utah weather: more precipitation but less snowfall, which led to more days of inversion hovering over valley floors like dirty tube socks. This, coupled with asthma, prohibited Jacin’s father from being outdoors helping move in boxes and furniture. Jacin’s father’s built slight, but could hold his own with a pissed-off moose. He used to be one of those gun-totting,

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Skoal-chewing, narrow-minded types. But when his son’s relationship with George only continued to grow in love, support and security, and because he truly felt George was good guy, he eventually came to terms with Jacin’s homosexuality. Jacin was thrilled by the change in his father, and over the last few years they’ve bonded more than Jacin would ever have imagined. But today, this cruddy air-filled winter day, Jacin felt that their bond may have become too tight. From this day forward, he will always notice the little brown-brick duplex through his large living room window. And from this day on Jacin will always be reminded that inside one-half of the little brownbrick duplex — just four doors east of his home — his parents lived. Within a 53-second walk. He checked. He stood looking out the living room window, his right knee throbbing, and he watched George, Josh and Mark schlep box after box through the west side duplex’s front door, the side closest to his own front door. On the small square porch stood Jacin’s mother, also slight in stature; yet could easily turn a man to stone with just one look. Jacin had weathered that look countless times, especially as a child. He and his twin brother Jeff used to cause all sorts of mischief in the neighborhood by pulling pranks, not only on other

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kids, but on their parents, too. One evening the twins conspired against their mom after she made them sit at the dinner table until they ate all the nasty chick peas off their plates. (Funny how Jacin grew to love them.) They eventually made it through, but immediately raced to the bathroom to purge, so to speak. While bent over the toilet bowl, Jacin noticed his mom’s Prell shampoo bottle. He sneaked it into his and Jeff’s bedroom and filled it with blue paint from the model World War Two fighter plane his dad had given him last Christmas. He had yet to build the model plane, but was certain he never would, so he used the whole canister of paint. The next morning, from the bathroom came the Screech Heard Round the World. Unfortunately for Jacin and Jeff they were forced upright the rest of the day from the lashings they received from their mom who used the belt they gave their dad last Christmas. Mom blamed Jeff, which was usually the case, so Jeff received the brunt of the belt, fifteen lashings, while Jacin had to withstand only five. Jeff has always held true that Jacin is the favorite son because he was the first born, by a mere seven minutes. And Jacin has never voiced his agreement to Jeff. Their dad arrived home that night to find Mom with a boyish haircut and a soft blue hue to it. Being a prankster himself, he couldn’t help but laugh when she told him what had happened. Years ago, just after they were married, they went fishing on Strawberry reservoir. Actually Jacin’s dad fished and his mom sunbathed. Jacin’s dad finally caught a fish after several hours. His mom paid no attention to his dad’s enthusiasm, so he sneaked up behind her beach chair and dropped the small slimy fish down the front of her swimsuit. Jacin had always wondered if this was why he and his brother weren’t conceived until nearly a year after his parents married. Jacin watched George, Josh and Mark finish unpacking the moving truck and then walk the 53 seconds back to the house. He looked at George and smiled, feeling the butterflies in his stomach even after all these years together. Then he focused in on Mark. Jacin, having never met Mark, felt like he’d seen him somewhere before, but couldn’t remember with any certainty. The trio strolled through the front door, welcomed by the dachsunds Hansel and Gretel. “Hey Jacin,” said Josh. “This is Mark, the guy I’ve been telling you about.” Jacin felt a strange sensation, like déjà vu, when he finally had a good look at Mark, but he couldn’t figure out why. And when they shook hands, Jacin could feel the tension in Mark’s grip. “It’s nice to meet you,” offered Jacin. Mark hesitated and had an expression of sinking in quicksand. He couldn’t believe he was standing in front of the man who saved his little girl. Q

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