QSaltLake Magazine - 130 - June 11, 2009

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Q World Calif. Supremes Uphold Prop 8 Proposition 8, the voter-passed initiative that re-banned same-sex marriage in California last November, was a valid amendment to the state constitution, the California Supreme Court ruled 6-1 on May 26.

Prop 8’s opponents had argued that it so fundamentally changed the constitution that it amounted to a “revision” rather than an “amendment.” A revision can only be initiated by the Legislature or a constitutional convention. An amendment, on the other hand, can be launched by collecting voter signatures on petitions, which is how Prop 8 got on the ballot, where 52 percent of voters supported it.

Opponents also argued that Prop 8 took away from gays, a fully protected class in California, an “inalienable right” guaranteed by article I, section 1 of the California Constitution. Such rights, they argued, cannot be abrogated by governments, voters or anyone else.

The Supreme Court disagreed.

“Contrary to petitioners’ assertion,” the ruling says, “Proposition 8 does not entirely repeal or abrogate the aspect of a same-sex couple’s state constitutional right of privacy and due process that was analyzed in the majority opinion in (our) Marriage Cases (last year when we legalized same-sex marriage) -- that is, the constitutional right of same-sex couples to ‘choose one’s life partner and enter with that person into a committed, officially recognized, and protected family relationship that enjoys all of the constitutionally based incidents of marriage.’ ... Nor does Proposition 8 fundamentally alter the meaning and substance of state constitutional equal protection principles as articulated in that opinion. Instead, the measure carves out a narrow and limited exception to these state constitutional rights, reserving the official designation of the term ‘marriage’ for the union of opposite-sex couples as a matter of state constitutional law, but leaving undisturbed all of the other extremely significant substantive aspects of a same-sex couple’s state constitutional right to establish an officially recognized and protected family relationship and the guarantee of equal protection of the laws.”

In other words, California’s separate “domestic partnership” law, which grants gay couples all state-level rights of marriage, is ... equality. Or at least enough equality. Who knew? What’s a little “narrow and limited exception” among friends? Who cares about a tiny little asterisk? “Marriage” is just a word, right?

That’s right. “We emphasize ... that among the various constitutional protections recognized in the Marriage Cases as available to same-sex couples, it is only the designation of marriage -- albeit significant -- that has been removed by this initiative measure,” the court said.

“Proposition 8 reasonably must be interpreted in a limited fashion as eliminating only the right of same-sex couples to equal access to the designation of marriage, and as not otherwise affecting the constitutional right of those couples to establish an officially recognized family relationship.”

But what do the six justices personally think about Prop 8? Read between their lines. “(O)ur task in the present proceeding is not to determine whether the provision at issue is wise or sound as a matter of policy or whether we, as individuals, believe it should be a part of the California Constitution,” they said. “Regardless of our views as individuals on this question of policy, we recognize as judges and as a court our responsibility to confine our consideration to a determination of the constitutional validity and legal effect of the measure in question.

It bears emphasis in this regard that our role is limited to interpreting and applying the principles and rules embodied in the California Constitution, setting aside our own personal beliefs and values.”

As for the 18,000 same-sex couples who got married in California last year between June 16 and Nov. 4, amazingly they are still fully married, the court ruled unanimously. That’s despite Prop 8’s über-clear wording: “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.”

In essence, the court said to Prop 8’s supporters: “Sorry. These sorts of things don’t apply retroactively.”

You won’t find it in the statutes or the constitution, but California’s actual reality is: Only marriage between a man and a woman, or between a man and a man, if they got married between June 16 and Nov. 4, 2008, or between a woman and a woman, if they got married between June 16 and Nov. 4, 2008, is valid or recognized in California.

The ruling on the 18,000 marriages is nothing if not Clintonian. “It depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is.” And it makes about as much sense as Bill Clinton’s “compromise” “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, where you can be gay but not say you’re gay. In California now, you can be married, but you can’t get married.

There’s also a mess brewing in the ruling’s footnote 48: “We have no occasion in this case to determine whether same-sex couples who were lawfully married in another jurisdiction prior to the adoption of Proposition 8, but whose marriages were not formally recognized in California prior to that date, are entitled to have their marriages recognized in California at this time. None of the petitioners before us in these cases falls within this category, and in the absence

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of briefing by a party or parties whose rights would be affected by such a determination, we conclude it would be inappropriate to address that issue in these proceedings.”

This quagmire affects any same-sex couple married before Nov. 5, 2008, in Massachusetts, Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands, South Africa or Spain.

Same-sex marriage has become legal in additional states and countries since then.

The new ruling is 50,791 words long.

If you’d like to read it, go here: tinyurl. com/ptthvy. The downloadable file will open correctly in Word, Works Word Processor or OpenOffice.org’s Writer.

It will open without footnotes in WordPad. Mac users can use TextEdit, Word or Writer.

So, what happens now? Gay legal eagles seemingly are planning to go back to the voters in 2010 with a proactive initiative to un-amend the constitution to delete Prop 8. So get ready for endless stories in this space about that. In addition, there was a very surprising development the day after the ruling.

Read on...

Federal Lawsuit Filed to Legalize Same-sex Marriage In a stunning development, the two lawyers who faced off before the U.S. Supreme Court in the Bush v. Gore 2000 presidential-election debacle -- Theodore B. Olson and David Boies -- have teamed up and filed a federal lawsuit seeking legalization of same-sex marriage nationwide.

They say California’s Proposition 8, which the California Supreme Court upheld May 26, violates the U.S. Constitution’s guarantees of equal protection and due process -- and that they believe the U.S. Supreme Court, as currently constituted, will agree.

“Both David and I have studied the court for more years than probably either one of us would like to admit,” Olson said May 27 at a Los Angeles press conference announcing the suit, which was filed in San Francisco. “We think we know what we are doing.”

He added, “If you look into the eyes and hearts of people who are gay and talk to them about this issue, that reinforces in the most powerful way possible the fact that these individuals deserve to be treated equally.”

The suit also seeks an immediate injunction suspending Proposition 8 until the new case is decided. If granted, that would make same-sex marriage legal in California again immediately.

Boies and Olson, who was solicitor general under President George W. Bush, represent a gay couple from Burbank, Calif., and a lesbian couple from Berkeley, Calif., who want to get married. The famed attorneys were hired by a newly formed organization called the American Foundation for Equal Rights, headed by gay political consultant Chad Griffin, who was an aide to President Bill Clinton.

Quips & Quotes ❝ ❝It’s time to focus more attention on the president and the Congress. It’s time to look at the big picture, and focus on federal action.”

—2009 Utah Pride Festival Grand Marshal Cleve Jones speaking to Salt Lake Tribune “Culture Vulture” writer Sean P. Means.

❝ ❝I was surprised that I was participating in a fraternity that made antigay jokes every week. It was a wake-up call that treating everyone with dignity doesn’t always come naturally. It takes work.”

—University of Utah law professor Cliff Rosky discussing the importance of straight allies in the Salt Lake Tribune.

❝ ❝Maybe God didn’t fix me through prayer, but he provided really good surgery.”

—Transsexual lesbian Dominique Storni discussing her life and her gender identity in the Utah Pride issue of In Utah This Week.

❝ ❝Today’s decision by the California Supreme Court is welcome. The bedrock institution of marriage between a man and a woman has profound implications for our society.”

—The LDS Church’s statement on the decision to uphold Proposition 8.

❝ ❝Even though the tens of millions of dollars spent by the Mormon Church could have feed millions of hungry, housed millions of homeless, or educated thousands who will never afford a higher degree of education, they chose to spend their tax-free dollars on maintaining a discriminatory law that affects a relatively small percentage of American citizens … definitely a cause for celebration. I hope they sleep better tonight knowing that gay and lesbian citizens in the state of California are still second class.”

—Gay Agenda blogger James Hipps on the Mormon Church’s response.

New Hampshire Legalizes Same-sex Marriage New Hampshire legalized same-sex marriage June 3 when Gov. John Lynch signed three bills, including one that had cleared the Legislature just an hour earlier.

The bills open marriage to same-sex couples starting Jan. 1 and protect certain rights of religious organizations, associations and societies that oppose gay marriage.

“Today is a historic day for all Granite Staters,” said Mo Baxley, executive director of the New Hampshire Freedom to Marry Coalition. “We applaud Gov. Lynch, (House) Speaker (Terie) Norelli, (Senate) President (Sylvia) Larsen and the leadership of the General Court (legislature) for making sure that all loving, committed couples have the freedom to marry. Today, our shared values of individual liberty, freedom and fairness have been upheld.”

The final bill, tweaking religious protections, passed the Senate 14-10 and the House 198-176. Lynch had required the additional language as a condition of his agreement to allow gays to marry.

In announcing his support for samesex marriage on May 14, Lynch said: “At its core, [this bill] simply changes the term ‘civil union’ to ‘civil marriage.’ Given the cultural, historical and religious significance of the word marriage, this is a meaningful change.

I have heard, and I understand, the

very real feelings of same-sex couples that a separate system is not an equal system. That a civil law that differentiates between their committed relationships and those of heterosexual couples undermines both their dignity and the legitimacy of their families.”

The measures signed into law will repeal the state’s civil-union law effective Jan. 1, 2011, and prohibit any new civil unions after Jan. 1, 2010.

Same-sex marriage is legal in five other states: Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont (starting in September) and Maine (starting in September).

There also are 18,000 same-sex couples legally married under California law, though no more will be allowed to marry until voters repeal Proposition 8, the state constitutional amendment passed last November, or until the U.S. Supreme Court strikes it down or it is blocked by court injunction. Gay groups are planning a ballot initiative to delete Prop 8, and a federal lawsuit has been filed charging that Prop 8 violates the due-process and equal-protection clauses of the U.S. Constitution. The lawsuit also says Prop 8 relegates gays and lesbians to second-class citizenship and discriminates based on gender and sexual orientation. It further seeks an injunction allowing same-sex marriage to resume in California pending resolution of the case.

Obama Issues Pride Month Proclamation President Barack Obama issued a lengthy proclamation June 1 for “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month, 2009.”

It says, in part: “Forty years ago, patrons and supporters of the Stonewall Inn in New York City resisted police harassment that had become all too common for members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community. Out of this resistance, the LGBT rights movement in America was born. During LGBT Pride Month, we commemorate the events of June 1969 and commit to achieving equal justice under law for LGBT Americans. ...

“My Administration has partnered with the LGBT community to advance a wide range of initiatives. At the international level, I have joined efforts at the United Nations to decriminalize homosexuality around the world. Here at home, I continue to support measures to bring the full spectrum of equal rights to LGBT Americans. These measures include enhancing hate crimes laws, supporting civil unions and Federal rights for LGBT couples, outlawing discrimination in the workplace, ensuring adoption rights and ending the existing ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy in a way that strengthens our Armed Forces and our national security. We must also commit ourselves to fighting the HIV/AIDS epidemic by both reducing the number of HIV infections and

providing care and support services to people living with HIV/AIDS across the United States. ...

“During LGBT Pride Month, I call upon the LGBT community, the Congress, and the American people to work together to promote equal rights for all, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.

“NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim June 2009 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month. I call upon the people of the United States to turn back discrimination and prejudice everywhere it exists.”

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Hillary Clinton Issues Pride Month Statement Secretary of State Hillary Clinton issued a gay-pride month statement, June 1.

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In a move that captured national attention, Jones also called upon gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people to march on Washington, D.C. on Oct. 11 to demand that President Obama and Congress support federal legislation to protect queer people, instead of the “patchwork” of state protections in place now. The rally is timed to coincide with National Coming Out Day as well as the 30th anniversary of a similar march on the nation’s capitol held almost a year after Milk’s assassination.

“Our community has many, many leaders, but we have not yet forged a national movement, and that’s what many of us are trying to accomplish right now,” Jones said. “More and more of our rank-and-file activists are beginning to understand that it’s time to shift our focus to Washington, D.C.” Jones also noted that the course of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s had shaped the new strategy he is now calling for.

“Southern states and many others would never really extend equal protection to African Americans,” he explained, noting that gay and transgender people now face a similar situation.

Already, Utah groups are preparing to join the October march. Just hours after the Utah Pride Festival’s closing, for example, the group Utahns for Marriage Equality announced over Facebook that it will organize a large-scale road trip to D.C. for the protest.

But the Utah Pride Festival wasn’t all politics. As in years past, a number of local and out-of-state entertainers performed on the festivals’ three stages for the crowd’s enjoyment. These included the all-female rock blues group Sister Wives, Salty Frogs lead singer Bronwen Beecher and her band, Kid Madusa and several local poets and writers who read for the crowds on one of the side stages. Festival headliner, comedian Paula Poundstone also kept a crowd of hundreds entertained on Saturday night with a set that included several jokes about Utah.

And as always, the festival attracted a number of brightly-dressed partiers.

Along with the usual festivalgoers clad in rainbow colors and drag, this year’s festival boasted a number of people walking on stilts, wearing records as hats, and even wearing animal costumes. Q

Despite dampened boas and rain-draggled flags, the 2009 Utah Pride Parade carried on as usual through a downpour on the morning of June 7.

Although some spectators fled the storm and onlookers were sparse at a few points along the parade route, more than 75 entrants participated in this year’s parade. These included gay civic and political organizations, gay and transgender-friendly churches, businesses, bars and clubs and newspapers such as SLUG Magazine, City Weekly and, of course, QSaltLake. Many parade entrants also had booths on the festival grounds, which once again encompassed all of Washington Square.

Attendance at the festival picked up significantly around noon when the rain finally let up. While official attendance numbers will take some time to be released, KSL reported that festival organizers estimated attendance at 20,000 — a total similar to attendance records in 2007 and 2008. Drink sales, however, apparently seemed a little lower than in years past as festival organizers repeatedly urged the crowd to purchase drinks, sales of which help pay for future Pride Festivals.

Also, this festival seemed to be somewhat more political than even those of recent years. Along with the annual Dyke March, Utah Pride 2009 organizers held a rally across the street at the courthouse. One of the speakers at this rally was festival Grand Marshal Cleve Jones, an intern in openly gay San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk’s office and the founder of the NAMES Project’s AIDS Memorial Quilt.

In an address to festivalgoers after the rally, Jones thanked the LDS Church for supporting California’s Proposition 8, The annual QSaltLake Day at Lagoon and thus spurring the revitalization in has been set for Sunday, Aug. 16. In gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender activism across the country that some past years, hundreds of gay, lesbian, have dubbed “Stonewall 2.0” after the bisexual, transgender and other readers of QSaltLake have participated.

Stonewall Inn riots of 1969.

“We thank you for unifying us as nev- Revelers wear red T-shirts so they are er before,” Jones said. “We thank you readily identifiable and come together for teaching our young people that they in the afternoon for a group photo.

This year, in conjunstion with the must be prepared to fight for freedom.”

Jones also predicted that Proposition Imperial Rainbow Court of Northern 8 would not last long, and that history Utah, the gathering point will once would record its passage as another again be the Oak Pavilion.

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Summit Council Signs ‘Common Ground’ Resolution On May 27, the Summit County Council passed a resolution in support of an initiative of statewide gay rights group Equality Utah to secure basic legal protections for gay and transgender Utahns.

The non-binding resolution, titled “Resolution on Inclusive Communities: A Vision for Common Ground” was drafted by Equality Utah in February and named after its Common Ground Initiative. It was sponsored by Councilwoman Sally Elliot, whose candidacy Equality Utah endorsed in 2008.

It reads, in part: “We mourn past and present discrimination based on race, religion, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, HIV status, veteran status, political affiliation, marital status, disability, poverty and all other classifications which have been used to oppress. And we envision a future where unique characteristics and perspectives are treasured and welcomed.”

It continues: “Summit County hereby reaffirms our commitment to inclusion as a fundamental aspect of our community, pledges active efforts to seek to achieve that goal and urges all residents of Summit County to join together to support this effort.”

Initially a set of unsuccessful bills and a policy change put before the legislature, the initiative has now become a broad effort to secure protections to gay and transgender Utahns in municipalities across the state. These protections

include workplace and housing anti-discrimination laws that include sexual orientation and gender identity and health insurance coverage for same-sex partners of county and city governments.

Although the resolution is non-binding, it will serve as a guide for future policies made in the county, said Will Carlson, Equality Utah’s manager of public policy.

“It will be a guiding light, so to speak,” he said.

Elliot said she had been planning such a resolution for quite some time — much to the surprise of Equality Utah’s staff, who she first told about her plans in a 2008 endorsement interview.

“It was funny. When I was interviewed by EU for potential endorsement they all laughed at me because I walked in and I said, ‘OK guys, here’s what we need to do to get it done.’ I had a plan to get it done,” Elliot said.

She added that equal rights for gay and transgender people are important to her because she has a gay brother and a lesbian daughter.

“I want them to have the same rights under the law that I do, and they don’t,” she said.

Elliot also said that the county has never discriminated “against anybody for any reason that I know of,” including openly gay people.

“We have had many valuable employees. As Hillary Clinton said so brilliantly in her communiqué from the State Department, ‘All our employees make

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valuable contributions,’” Elliot said.

In addition to stating its commitment to inclusion, the Summit County Council is also considering extending health benefits to the same-sex partners of county employees. Currently, these benefits are only offered to married spouses. Elliot, Councilman John Hanrahan and Summit County Manager Brian Bellamy expressed support for offering such benefits to the Park Record late last month.

However, Councilman David Ure, who cast the single ‘No’ vote against the resolution, has expressed reservations.

Noting that he supports the resolution overall, Ure told the Park Record that he was opposed to extending benefits only to same-sex couples.

“If we’re going to award that, then we have to award straight across to everybody, according to our constitution,” Ure said. “There are numerous questions that have to be asked and there is going to have to be a lot of legal research done as to what we can do.”

He also noted he was particularly concerned with extending benefits to employees who are caring for elderly or ill family members who are not their spouses.

“The group I really feel sorry for is the young man who is living with his mother because of her age and is trying to protect her. My heart goes out to that,” he said.

Elliot said that Ure was “very supportive of being inclusive,” and that the decision on health benefits would likely take the council some time to make. Along with who should receive the benefits and the cost to the county

of administering them, Elliot said that the council must also decide how eligible employees would prove they have a domestic partner. She said the benefits might be administered to same-sex couples through an affidavit instead of a domestic partner registry because an affidavit “would be less intrusive into someone’s personal affairs.”

Salt Lake City has had a domestic partner registry — known as the Mutual Commitments Registry — since 2008. The city has also extended health insurance coverage to the unmarried partners of all employees as well as to non-spousal “adult designees,” which can include a sibling or parent. In February, the Salt Lake County Council voted to extend similar benefits to its employees’ adult designees. And at least one member of Sandy City’s council has also expressed interest in studying the issue.

Elliot said she is confident that the council will vote unanimously in the end to extend its benefits package — even though she isn’t sure what that package will look like.

“We don’t fight a lot up here, we tend to agree,” she said. “Eventually it will be an inclusive arrangement.”

Carlson said that as long as gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people and their partners are covered, then Equality Utah will be satisfied. He noted, however, that the dialogue over domestic partner versus adult designee benefits was a “great conversation for them to be having.”

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Utah Two Ogdenites Victim of AntiGay Attacks A reportedly drunken man assaulted an Ogden gay man and a lesbian in two separate attacks outside an apartment complex on June 2, according to the Ogden Standard Examiner, which broke the story on June 5.

Wil Phillips and Whitney Goich were attacked at the Mirador apartment complex by a man who shouted antigay slurs at them. Police later arrested Christopher Vonnegut Allen for the attacks. Phillips and Goich did not know each other at the time.

Phillips was attacked first. He told the paper he was visiting a friend when Allen stopped by. The friend, who asked not to be identified, knew Allen and allowed him to enter the apartment. And when the friend left the room to go to the bathroom, Phillips said Allen sat on him, slapped him and stomped on him while shouting “I’m not [expletive] gay!”

Philips said his friend then overpowered Allen and forced him to leave.

The second attack occurred outside the apartment complex at approximately 2:30 a.m. As Goich was entering the building to visit a friend, she said that Allen grabbed her, punched her in the face and then slammed his knee into her nose while shouting anti-gay slurs.

Goich underwent surgery that night to repair her nose and a sunken tear duct in her left eye. Phillips received some bruises, but did not require medical attention.

“I just asked him, ‘Why are you hitting me? Why are you hitting me?’ and he just — just started using explicit words that he hated faggots, and that I was a bad person for being gay, pretty much,” Goich later told ABC 4 News.

Ogden Police Lt. Tony Fox said Allen was intoxicated during the attacks, and that police are conducting interviews to see if the assaults qualify for hate crimes enhancements. While under Utah law, prosecutors can seek these enhancements in cases where the motive appears to be to intimidate or incite violence against a specific group, the decision whether or not to apply a hate crime enhancement lies with a judge.

Phillips’ mother said that she will go to court if a hate crimes enhancement is not applied.

“My son didn’t deserve to be treated like this because of his sexuality,” she said.

Allen faces two Class B misdemeanor counts of assault and one count of criminal trespassing. He was later released on bail.

Fired ‘Tooele Transcript’ Columnist Also Wrote about Common Ground A Tooele Transcript Bulletin columnist who was recently fired after butting heads with the publication’s editor over a piece that criticized EnergySolutions has revealed that his boss also declined to run a column that praised the Common Ground Initiative.

Freelance columnist Bob Henline spoke to Salt Lake Tribune blogger Glen Warchol on May 27 about the first column, which criticized the corporation, which houses a nuclear waste storage facility in Tooele County, for using duct tape to fix a leak in a truck carrying toxic waste. The leak, which was discovered at a weigh station in Price, cost the company fines by the Carbon County sheriff’s office and the State’s Division of Radiation Control, as well as plenty of public embarrassment.

On May 28, Henline told Warchol that editor Jeff Barrus had fired him for violating workplace confidentiality by discussing the column with another paper — although Henline had said nothing of the column until Warchol approached him. Barrus told Warchol that he rejected the column because he wanted “more variety” from Henline.

“There are some confidences in the workplace that need to be respected,” Barrus told Warchol.

Shortly after his firing, Henline told radio station KCPW that Barrus had previously rejected a column Henline wrote in favor of the Common Ground Initiative — four bills by statewide gay rights group Equality Utah that sought basic legal protections for gay and transgender people during this year’s legislative session.

“As Common Ground started to heat up, especially when the Sutherland [Institute] folks and the Eagle Forum guys decided to do that Sacred Ground nonsense, I thought it would be an appropriate column,” Henline told QSaltLake, noting that he had blogged against Proposition 8 previously.

But Barrus declined to run the column. In an e-mail dated Feb. 6 (and supplied to QSaltLake by Henline), he explained: “It makes excellent points and the topic is worthy of thought, but this simply is not a top-of-mind issue in Tooele County right now. The reason for having a local op-ed columnist is to stimulate public discussion on topics in the news here.” Among such topics, Barrus listed “deteriorating air quality,” Tooele City mayor Patrick Dunlavy’s recent State of the City address and a proposal to dig into the Stockton Bar, a geological landmark in Tooele County.

Barrus said he had no comment on the column, but thanked QSaltLake for giving the paper the opportunity to address the issue.

“He didn’t think it was an issue that Tooele County readers were concerned about,” said Henline. “Which to me ... labels [that] group as provincial if you ask

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me, because civil rights impact us all.”

Henline said he felt the decision was a slap in the face to gay and transgender people living in the county.

“It’s like, we’re our nice little conservative community and those people don’t matter, so we’re not going to write about their issues. Again that’s kind of the nature of what we’re dealing with out there,” he said.

Henline said he didn’t contest Barrus’ decision at the time because he considered it par for the course of being a freelance writer.

“As a freelancer, you get to the point where some things they’ll pick up, some they won’t,” he said. “But in light of more recent events, it just came out that it’s more how they really view the community and not how the community happens to be, which is what we learned form the EnergySolutions debacle.”

Although Henline identifies as straight, he said he will continue to blog about the Common Ground Initiative and other issues effecting gay and transgender people.

“It’s the tyranny of the majority,” he said. “If we can isolate a group of people on any characteristic and then strip them of basic civil rights, it is that proverbial slippery slope. Where does that stop? Is freedom of speech next? Is freedom of expression? We don’t like the way you look so you can’t get together and protest? It boils down for me to the issue of civil liberties, and civil liberties have to do with basic human decency.

We’re all part of the same group, and we all deserve the same rights and the same respect.”

Henline’s full column can be seen in this issue of QSaltLake on page 12.

Allies Dinner to Honor Jenny Wilson Equality Utah’s 8th Annual Allies Dinner will be held in August. This dinner is a fundraiser for the Equality Utah Political Action Committee, which endorses and supports the campaigns of fair-minded political candidates in Utah.

Each year, the statewide gay rights organization also presents its Allies for Equality Awards at the dinner, which honor individuals who have worked to advance the legal equality of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Utahns.

This year’s recipients will be Salt Lake County Councilwoman Jenny Wilson; former ACLU Executive Director Carol Gnade; former Cactus & Tropicals owner Lorraine Miller; and South Valley Unitarian Universalist Society Minister Rev. Sean Dennison.

The dinner will be held Aug. 19, starting at 5:00 p.m. at the Salt Palace Grand Ballroom, 100 S. West Temple.

Info: alliesdinner.org

Q mmunity Log Cabin Republicans Announces Officers Utah Log Cabin Republicans have held their bi-annual officer elections and announced the results. Melvin Nimer will continue as president, and James Humphreys, Jeff Cahoon and Jim Wilson will serve as, respectively, vice president, secretary and treasurer. The group is currently holding a donation drive and preparing to support PFLAG member Leslie Reynolds-Benns in her campaign to be elected to the Salt Lake City Council.

Info: utah.logcabin.org

‘Outrage’ Screening The Salt Lake Film Center and the Utah Stonewall Democrats will hold a screening of the documentary Outrage and a post-screening reception/fundraiser with Academy Award-nominated director Kirby Dick on June 14. The documentary is a harsh exposé of closeted politicians who work against the needs of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans, as well as a discussion of the controversial topic of forcibly outing these politicians.

It includes interviews and analysis from such figures as Congressman Barney Frank, activist Larry Kramer, talk show host Michelangelo Signorile and blogger Mike Rogers, who has led the movement to out anti-gay closeted politicians.

Tickets are free. Dick will be at a post-screening private reception, to which Stonewall Democrats has 100 tickets available for a suggested donation of $25. Troy Williams will moderate the post-screening discussion.

When: June 14. 5 p.m. screening; 6:30 p.m. post-screening discussion; 7:30 p.m. private reception with Kirby Dick.

Where: Tower Theater, 876 E 900 S Cost: Free. Suggested donation of $25 per person for reception.

Tickets: utahstonewalldems.org

Try-Angles Best Dam Bike Tour Team Cyclists of all experience levels are invited to join with Team TryAngles for the two-day Harmons MS Best Dam Bike Tour through Logan, Utah to raise funds for the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Utah.

Participants may bike 40, 75 or 100 miles each day. The ride is fully supported with several rest stops and supply wagons. The team is hoping to raise $5,000.

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GUS Is Coming So, have you done Gus? The University of Utah’s Psychology Department wants to know.

Gus is, of course, not the hot stud you might think he is, but GUS — the U’s Gay and bisexual Utah Survey for men.

And researchers are hoping gay and bisexual men who didn’t take the survey during the Utah Pride weekend will go online and fill it out over the summer.

Launched on June 6, the survey is an attempt to better assess the health risks and health needs of men in Utah’s queer community, said David Huebner, a U of U assistant professor of psychology and the study’s lead investigator. The survey’s results, he added, will help better target services to this segment of the community, including those for HIV/ AIDS education and prevention. “Statewide surveys conducted by government agencies on topics such as substance use, sexual behavior or cigarette smoking don’t ask questions about respondents’ sexual orientation.

So we know very little about gay and bisexual men here in our state,� said Huebner, who conducted a similar survey in Phoenix, Ariz.

The survey is important, Huebner explained, because HIV infections are increasing in Utah, having risen 16 percent in the last year. Worse, two-thirds of these new infections were found in men who have sex with men, who are currently Utah’s highest-risk group for contracting HIV. But despite these alarming statistics, Huebner noted that health workers “don’t know what levels of risk behavior look like� among men who have sex with men.

The anonymous survey consists of roughly 100 questions about sexual behavior, tobacco, alcohol and drug consumption, and participants’ knowledge of health services including free HIV testing, prevention and patient support.

It will also ask gay and bisexual men if they have experienced discrimination, what media they watch and read, and where they spend their time — in places such as bars, coffee shops, social and community organizations or university clubs.

The part about men’s social activities is crucial, Huebner said, because the responses will give researchers and health organizations interested in HIV prevention and gay and bisexual men’s health an idea of how effective their outreach and advertising campaigns are. “If, for example, we learn that guys who spend time at bars have no idea you can be tested at the Utah AIDS Foundation or the Salt Lake Valley Health Department, that suggests we should do a better job advertising testing services in bars,� Huebner explained. He noted that the Phoenix survey in which he participated, for example, found that 40 percent of respondents who engaged in high-risk sex did not go to gay bars.

So researchers realized that they had to advertise HIV prevention and testing efforts in other places, such as online and in local adult bookstores.

The answers to these questions are important not only to U researchers, but to other organizations in the community. Utah’s GUS, Huebner noted, got off the ground in part because researchers discovered that other groups in Utah were looking to do the same thing. “So we decided we should all collaborate and do it once and do it right so we wouldn’t over-survey the community,� said Huebner. These groups include the Utah AIDS Foundation, the Utah Pride Center, statewide gay rights group Equality Utah and the HIV prevention program of the Utah Department of Health. The survey results, Huebner added, will be shared among these groups and among any who have an interest in queer men’s health. “We’re hoping to get a huge response, and are very much looking forward to seeing the results,� said Tyler Fisher, programming director for the Utah AIDS Foundation. “These findings will help our organization — as well as others that serve this community — to guide programming in the coming years.�

But before UAF and other groups can do that, men need to take the survey.

Huebner said he hopes at least 1,000 men

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will complete the survey over the summer. He also added that transgender men and women of any sexual orientation are also welcome and encouraged to take the survey. “Anyone biologically male or who identifies as male and who has sex with men, including straight men who have had sex with men too [may take the survey],� he said.

Huebner and the study’s other partners hope that at least 1,000 men will take the survey. GUS will be available at psych.utah.edu/gus throughout the summer. “We already have tremendous support and enthusiasm for this work among our community partners. Now we just need men in the community to get on board and share their experiences,� said Huebner.

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Tammy Baldwin, Thelma Houston will be at the HRC Gala

The Utah chapter of the Human Rights Campaign will hold its annual Gala Dinner to raise money for its various programs and lobbying efforts.

The evening’s keynote speaker will be Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisconsin, and entertainment will be provided by actress and R&B star Thelma Houston. Pop artist Kristine W. will provide entertainment for the gala’s after party.

The organization will also honor businessman Jim Dabakis and Equality Utah board chairwoman Stephanie Pappas with its Equality Award, which recognizes individuals who work for political equality for gay and transgender citizens.

The event takes place June 20, starting at 5:30 p.m., at the Grand America Hotel, Grand Ballroom, 555 South Main St., Salt Lake City. Tickets are $125 before June 14 and $150 afterward. VIP tickets are $200.

For more information, go to the HRC Utah Web site at utah.hrc.org/dinner.

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fear lurking in bathrooms everywhere.

There are a lot of people in the world and, just like how everybody poops, everybody’s different. So although I can’t find a reason for anyone to agree with calling someone a fag, I’m resolved at least to acknowledge the importance of a different opinion (even a stupid one).

Perhaps if I wasn’t so blinded by initial fear/rage I might have been able to enlighten a stranger, instead I gave the bigot power and, sadly, fuel for the future. Words can really hurt, but not if we don’t let them, whether they come from a soggy drunk or a Republican senator.

One of the greatest feats one can accomplish would be to maintain an unfounding cool, even in the presence of the most formidable bullying.

I’ve heard a statistic: that approximately three percent of Americans are openly gay. How true this is, I haven’t a clue, however, allowing for a reasonable margin of error that still leaves us as a feeble minority in accordance with size. It is a fact of life we all live with and sometimes don’t even notice. I noticed, for the first time in a while, just last week.

I was in a public bathroom at one of my favorite imbibing locales when, after some brief standing urinal banter (polite and rated PG despite the context), the sot next to me called me a fag. I was Jose Ferran furious. In all of my 25 years I had never Salt Lake City been called that (in hindsight I should be quite grateful).

I fled the bar, bright red and pulsing veins on my temples, forcing a premature Editor, last call on my entourage of two before Memo to the board of the Utah Pride fuming out into the night disgruntled Center and the organizers of the 2009 and angry. I spent a few days mulling Utah Pride Festival — prominently lain regret over the things I should have beled as a “program” of the Utah Pride done or said at that moment. Would it Center: 1) Efficient nonprofits don’t charge have done any good to call him a name back? To eloquently share the bigotry their clients for the “programs” they ofassociated with said word? Should I fer.

2) “Programs” are not generally listed have been the bigger person? Should I on your website as an “event” alongside have taught him a lesson?

In the end I’ve concluded it doesn’t other fundraisers.

3) This country’s best-run (i.e. most atmatter. I’ve realized I was really mad at my own emotion of offense. I allowed tended, most financially solvent) pride the words of someone else to dictate my festivals are admission-free, supported emotions and that alone made me feel by corporate sponsorships, vendor fees, and voluntary donations. See: San Franvery, very small.

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Denver, and a host of others.

4) Utah Pride was free to attendees for over 20 years — years when potential sponsors were less-gay-friendly than they are now.

5) Encouraging the GLBT community to bring a straight ally to the Festival is great, but non-queer allies are more likely to attend a free Festival, as they did prior to the admission charges instilled in 2005.

Nicholas Rupp Salt Lake City

Proud of Pride Editor, I’m writing to congratulate the organizers of Pride for the best Pride Day and Parade ever. I’ve been going to Utah’s Pride Days for about a decade and this one, even with the rain, seemed to be the most organized and most enjoyable event we’ve ever seen in this pretty, great state.

I don’t know how anyone swings Paula Poundstone for $10. I just did a search and could only find them for $80 or more.

Cleve Jones was inspiring. The floats this year seemed to move up a notch as well.

I know people like to complain. I think it is equally important to mention when something went right. Congrats!

Robbie Koster Salt Lake City

QSaltLake welcomes letters from our readers Send a letter to the editor to letters@qsaltlake.com. Your letter, if published, may possibly be edited for length, suitability or libel.

No one wants to go to court.

We always thought it was weird that you could do just about anything in Sin City except marry someone of the same sex. But thanks to a narrow (though not narrow-minded) vote in both legislative houses, now you too can have a binding ceremony in front of an Elvis impersonator. Not as binding as Britney Spears’ much-maligned 55-hour marriage, but pretty close to it. In October, domestic partnerships will be legal in Las Vegas and throughout the Silver State, giving committed couples of any sex combination virtually the same rights and responsibilities as their married counterparts. We’ve always loved Nevada for its big skies, beautiful landscape and, well, yeah, the stuff you usually hear about. But now we can love the state for having lawmakers who don’t think the sky will light on fire if same-sex couples are allowed legal protections. What will this mean for Utahns living within reasonable driving — and moving — distance, not to mention supporters and opponents of equal civil rights protections here in Zion? Time will tell, of course, but we predict results as dramatic as any Vegas stage show.

SLAP: Capitol Hill Sprinklers OK, so what was up with the sprinklers suddenly spritzing to life on the Hill’s south lawn during the anti-Proposition 8 rally? True, the sudden jets of water didn’t hurt or thoroughly soak anybody, but they were annoying as hell and kind of distracting. Whether the result of a malfunctioning timer, a miscommunication or a calculated attempt by some irritating boob, we’ll probably never know. We do know, however, that we are not amused. Well ... on the other hand, the unanimous cries of “Damn you, Senator Buttars!” were pretty funny.

SNAP: Team Try-Angles Biking 40–100 mile bouts over a single weekend to raise money for research into multiple sclerosis?

Uh, yeah. The very least we can do is snap our fingers. We might snap our legs if we tried to do more. But seriously, they’re a great group of people working for a great cause.

And if they can once again bring in more money for the National MS Society than some corporations participating in the Harmon’s Best Dam Bike Ride, all the more reason to snap.

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I hate to admIt It , peaches, but I missed the Pride Festival this year.

OK, that’s an exaggeration, I didn’t actually miss it at all, but I was conspicuously absent. I spent the entire Pride weekend doing a MAJOR project at the house, namely rototilling a 90-foot by 20-foot area of my garden where a massive grove of Aspen trees had died off. And yes ... there were two-inch wide tree roots buried everywhere. It was a total nightmare and I am exhausted!

While the idea of having a few acres of land and a menagerie of farm animals might sound appealing and somewhat Arcadian, I have to tell you cherubs, it’s a hell of a lot of work.

About this time of year everything rooted in soil starts growing like an adolescent on bovine growth formula. Weeds become forests overnight, the fruit trees need shaping, veggie plots need to be prepped, and don’t even get me started about the lawns (Here’s a helpful hint you won’t hear on the KSL radio gardening show: Need your lawn aerated for cheap? Soak your lawn the day before, then invite a few hefty drag queens in heels over for cocktails al fresco ... it works like a charm darlings!).

Anyway kids, in homage to my vegetarian, hippy sister (the card carrying member of Green Peace, who is so liberal she makes Dennis Kucinich look like Dennis Miller), I’m trying to go organic, especially in the garden. I have eschewed using pesticides and I’m trying to do the whole mulching, weeding, companion planting, beneficial insect thing. Now before you panic and start sending me Bare Minerals makeup, and porn printed with soy inks, let me assure you I’m just experimenting with a few alternative organic techniques. I haven’t completely come out of the chemically enhanced gardening closet yet, so I think in politically correct terms

that just makes me “bio-curious.” But I digress.

All of the gardening books and Web sites make pesticide- and herbicidefree gardening sound so easy, but between you and me muffins, it’s really labor intensive. I mean, picking up snails after it rains and disposing of the slimy little bastards is a hundred times harder than my old method of just throwing around toxic snail bait like wedding rice. Who has time for that? Now I understand why politicians turn a blind eye during confirmation hearings to candidates who illegally hire immigrant gardeners. I swear to God if I hit one more rock with my rototiller, I’m going to cruise the Home Depot parking lot waving cash and a six pack of Modello beer, and rent me one of those “Manuel” laborers. Homeland Security can kiss my fat, white butt; that is, if they can pry it off my Lazyboy recliner (surprisingly also made in Mexico to put your feet up on).

So hopefully all of this hard work up front will pay off later in the season when my crops are ready to harvest.

This year at my politically correct Thanksgiving dinner of free range celery and cruelty free cranberries, I won’t have to endure my sister’s “Monsanto are complete corporate bastards flooding the world with genetically modified crops, propping up corporate monoculture and destroying family farms” speech (although sadly it is completely true). It’s going to be a really festive and guilt-free meal. So if you’re coming over, pretend you didn’t know ... and bring meat. Ciao babies! Q

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You can see Ruby Ridge and the Matrons of Mayhem performing live, in all of their politically incorrect polyester glory every third Friday of the month at Third Friday Bingo (First Baptist Church, 777 S. 1300 East at 7PM), or see her schedule at thirdfridaybingo.com.

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What is at issue here is the entrenchment of bigotry by a group of people convinced that the only people who deserve the rights and protections of society are people that think, believe and act as they do.

Gayle Ruzicka, president of Utahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eagle Forum and founding member of the new Constitutional Defense of Marriage Alliance, along with state Senator Chris Buttars and former state Representative LaVar Christensen, have teamed up with the conservative think tank, the Sutherland Institute, to lobby the Legislature against a series of bills being proposed to protect the rights of Utahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s LGBT community.

What they are arguing is that extending legal protections to same-sex couples will put Utah on a slippery slope that will end with Utah recognizing same-sex marriage. One of these bills, proposed by Senator Scott McCoy, would have allowed a same-sex partner to sue for wrongful death in the case of a bread-winning partner being killed. This bill died in committee earlier in the session.

Over the course of the past 200 years we have come a very long way in terms of eradicating bigotry, at least in our legislation and institutions. It would behoove Mrs. Ruzicka to imagine life 100 years ago, when she would

not only not have been allowed to vote, but also not to voice her opinion before the Legislature because of outdated sexist discrimination. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve already established that discrimination on the basis of sex is unconstitutional and just plain wrong. How then, can we justify restricting marriage or even certain basic legal protections granted to couples on the basis of sex?

While I would like to see the Utah State Constitution amended to allow this most basic liberty, I realize that in todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s world that is just not going to happen. The good folks at Common Ground are just as realistic as I am, and have worked to build a platform of legislative protections such as prohibitions on employment and housing discrimination that are based on the concept of simple human decency, formalizing rights that are granted to all citizens, but that seem not to apply to those that have an alternative lifestyle. Yet, opponents to these measures cite that it will end with the destruction of Utahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s families and marriages.

My question for all of you is this: How does a married same-sex couple adversely impact your marriage? The issue of marriage makes no difference to anyone in society, except the people that are actually married. A same-sex couple living together next door to me doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t adversely impact me, why would it matter if they are or are not married? The only issue is that with marriage, or with these lesser measures currently being proposed, they are entitled to the same legal protections as the rest of American society.

Ladies and gentlemen, it is time for us all to acknowledge that everyone in this nation and on this planet are equal. We are all entitled to the same basic human rights, regardless of our beliefs or lifestyle. We need to send a message that the entrenchment of bigotry is wrong at every level. Diversity is what has made America a great nation, we should embrace it and value it. Q

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Queer Gnosis Military Service is Not Equality

by Troy Williams

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before President Barack Obama eliminates ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’

This is on the forefront of many a gay activist’s agenda. Protesters are pushing Obama to “keep his promise” after gay linguist Daniel Choi was discharged for coming out on The Rachel Maddow Show.

But of all the promises Obama has made, striking DADT is far from the top of my list of important national priorities. Instead of investing all our money and time pursuing our militaristic desires, I’d like to propose that all gay activists worldwide combine efforts to push Obama to keep another one of his promises — namely to end the goddamn fucking war!

I have listened to many queers tell me their rationale for wanting full military equality. I have dear friends engaged in this fight. And if we were Sweden or Jamaica, I’d totally agree that gays should serve openly. But we’re not. We are the U.S. fucking A. Our business is to expand the empire and commandeer the resources of weaker nations for our own consumption.

I find it immensely difficult to muster patriotism when it comes to the imperial objectives of the U.S. government. We have continually witnessed the abuses of American nationalism through war and conquest. I don’t want the freedom to invade foreign countries. I don’t want the freedom to drop bombs that kill innocent children and families. I don’t want the freedom to round up dark-skinned people in midnight raids. I don’t want the freedom to waterboard and torture.

I don’t want the freedom to bully and intimidate the world with the end of a gun. Not now, not ever.

The U.S. Military is corrupt and rotten through the core. It thrives on rabid sexism, racism and homophobia, and uses these to enforce discipline. The military strips down recruits by initiating them into a world of extreme machismo and authoritarian obedience. Women and queers have traditionally been used as epithets to degrade the training soldier.

This is, of course, to make them better, more compliant machines.

If you need an example of what I’m saying, take Janice Karpinski, who was the commanding general over

Abu Ghraib. When she was on KRCL’s RadioActive a couple years back, she threw out a sobering fact. She told our listeners that if you are an enlisted female, you have over a 50 percent chance of being sexually assaulted. Not by the insurgents, but by your fellow soldiers.

According to a March CBS report, in 2006 there were “2,974 cases of rape and sexual assault across the services.” On top of that, The Pentagon acknowledged, “some 80 percent of rapes are never reported.” I wonder what the stats will be for openly out and proud queers.

There are branches of our military that depend on your ability to kill another human being. The military dehumanizes the “enemy” with xenophobic epithets like “sand-nigger” and “hadji.”

And it’s so much easier to kill someone after you strip them of their humanity. This is something that we “queers” should understand all too well. To covet membership in a sexist, racist organization that routinely denigrates and viciously marginalizes “enemies” should be anathema to every American faggot.

And, of course, what about our returning soldiers?

Divorce rates for Iraq war veterans have been spiking.

What good is finally getting a gay marriage if it’s going to go to hell once you get back from your third tour of duty?

What about the psychological and emotional impacts of invasion and occupation? How do you live with yourself when you have killed in the name of the flag? Are you prepared to fight the unending medical bureaucracy just to get basic health care when you come home fucked up? Are you ready for a government to tell you that you don’t have the symptoms you say you do? Or that exposure to some ungodly chemical agent isn’t why you are cramping, bleeding and dying?

Before we get all fired up over the unfairness of not being allowed to drop a cruise missile on an Afghani wedding party, let’s stop and take pause at what devotion to militarism has cost our nation. We have invested in a trillion dollar war and now experience economic recession. Our citizens return maimed, and are too often unable to access services. Torture, secret prisons, extraordinary rendition and a disregard for our best principles have compromised

our national soul.

I know we want to believe Obama will turn things around. But when I see his commitment to military tribunals and his refusal to hold torturers accountable for their actions, I am suspicious.

I’m not interested in a kinder, gentler empire. I’m interested in the United States being an upstanding global citizen.

Americans get off on violence. For god’s sake, our national anthem is a war song with the “rockets’ red glare” followed by all those “bombs bursting in air.” I get it. War kicks ass. And a group of angry queers bullied in high school probably could do all kinds of damage with a knife and a grenade.

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shoot and maim to sustain our empire — for profit! The pay is unmatched and you can literally make a killing.

And finally, the last thing we need is a flurry of out gay veterans leaving the service and bringing a military worldview into the gay political movement.

Spare us, please. If we think assimilation, male privilege and compliance to heterosexual norms is bad now, imagine what it could be with a bunch of regimented, sexist, automaton fags.

The only gay soldiers I want to see are in porn. This is the best practical place for them. Slap that Kevlar and show me your salute! Other than that, the gay community should not be foot soldiers for imperial demagogues. We’ve got more important work to do, people.

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decision to uphold Bowers v. Hardwick, which kept homosexual acts illegal in America. Here, Burger used the famous legal author William Blackstoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opinions to maintain that sodomy was a â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;crime against natureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ... of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;deeper malignity than rape,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; a heinous act â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;the very mention of which is a disgrace to human natureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;a crime not fit to be named.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

In Utah, on June 25, 1969, the Salt Lake Tribune published an editorial on

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the life and death of Judy Garland. In it they said she had lived a tawdry life, with her domestic affairs making lurid headlines. They called her emotional outbursts childish and said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;her temperamental tantrums robbed her of the dignity of a mature entertainer.â&#x20AC;?

However, they finally came to terms with the essence of her legend when they remarked: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now she is dead at the age of 47 and a world which never has enough joy will remember the pleasure she brought to millions during her troubled career. Judy captured for an all-too-brief moment the very essence of youth. She will always be the appealing wide-eyed Dorothy of The Wizard of Oz. She was indeed eternal youth looking Over The Rainbow. Let us hope she has finally found this special place.â&#x20AC;?

Judy Garlandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s body was returned to New York City from England, and there she was laid out in a glass covered coffin trimmed in baby blue and blanketed with yellow roses. During the viewing, 21,000 fans waited in the blistering summer heat to enter the Madison Avenue funeral chapel single-file to see Judy, dressed in her silver lamĂŠ wedding dress with silver slippers on her feet, for one more time.

By her casket was a floral funeral piece shaped as a rainbow in tribute to Dorothy Gale. Outside the funeral home, waiting behind the police barricades, her young male fans played Judy Garland records on portable record players.

On June 27, Judy Garlandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s funeral was held in New York City. Outside the funeral chapel, 2,000 people stood to glimpse the star before her body was placed in a hearse and taken in a funeral procession down Fifth Avenue.

James Mason, Garlandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s co-star in A Star is Born, gave the eulogy. He said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;She could sing a song so it could break your heart.â&#x20AC;?

On Fire Island, a gay restort, flags were lowered at half mast. And on that same Friday night, for the first time in history, gays were pushed too hard.

They fought back as police tried to arrest the patrons of the Stonewall Inn, a tavern located at 53 Christopher Street in Greenwich Village, Manhattan.

The Stonewall Inn was the most popular gay bar in the Village, and many saw it in the late â&#x20AC;&#x2122;60s as an oasis: a safe retreat from the harassment of everyday gay life, a place that was â&#x20AC;&#x153;less susceptible to police raids than other gay bars.â&#x20AC;? It was also the only gay male bar in New York where dancing was permitted by the owners. Like most gay bars at the time, Stonewall was Mafia-controlled. The owners freely talked about their hatred for the â&#x20AC;&#x153;faggot scumbags,â&#x20AC;? but they made

their fortune off them with watered-down and overpriced drinks. They also stayed in business by paying off the notoriously corrupt New York Sixth Precinct Police Department $2,000 a week.

The Stonewall Inn was known as a fun bar, but also a sleazy one. A hepatitis epidemic broke out in early 1969, which was blamed on the non-sterilized drinking glasses. The Inn had no running water behind the bar, so bartenders simply dunked a used glass in one of two stagnant vats of water kept underneath the main bar, refilled and passed on to the next customer. Most of the employees at Stonewall also did drugs, and the bar was known to be a good place to buy acid.

On weekends, a scantily-clad Go-Go boy danced in a gilded cage on top of the main bar to Motown tunes. Three of the five hit singles were by Marvin Gaye, Junior Walker and The All Stars, and The Temptations.

The love theme from the movie Romeo and Juliet was also popular, along with Elvis Presleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the Ghettoâ&#x20AC;? and The Beatlesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Get Back.â&#x20AC;? Also, very few women ever appeared in Stonewall except for the occasional â&#x20AC;&#x153;fag hag.â&#x20AC;? This was the Stonewall Inn prior to the night of the full moon on June 27.

Around midnight that night, a cluster of vice officers led by Deputy Inspector Seymour Pine gathered in front of the Stonewall Inn to initiate a raid on the bar. This raid was different than the usual kind: It was carried out by eight detectives from the First Division. The corrupt Sixth Precinct was only asked to participate at the last possible moment in order not to tip off the owners.

This raid was also different due to the fact that a small group of onlookers had gathered; usually at the first sign of a raid, gays immediately scattered. This crowd was decidedly different. It was small but strangely quiet, as if waiting for the next development.

At 1:20 a.m. on June 28, the police pushed opened the front door and marched into the bar, ordering the 200 patrons to line up and get their IDs ready. The only people arrested in a raid were usually those without IDs, those dressed in the clothes of the opposite gender, and some, if not all, of the employees.

But this night was different. Many of the Stonewall Inn patrons were pissed and felt edgy and emotional over the death of Judy Garland â&#x20AC;&#x201D; some had even attended her funeral. One of the patrons later remembered his mood that night: â&#x20AC;&#x153;It had got to the point where I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to be bothered anymore.â&#x20AC;?

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Every time I think of the years wasted before Joe the Plumber took to the national political stage, I die a little bit inside. Listening to Joe speak is a breath of fresh air. Granted, that air is devoid of any oxygen and thus incapable of sustaining intelligent life, but it’s still air.

Hot, hot air.

I mean, the man is an expert on just about any subject — whether it’s business taxes, war correspondence or, now, gay marriage.

During an interview with Christianity Today, Wurzelbacher was asked what he thought about gay marriage at a state level in light of recent developments in Iowa and Vermont.

“At a state level, it’s up to them,” he said. “I don’t want it to be a federal thing.

I personally still think it’s wrong.”

OK, so far so good. He’s not calling for a federal marriage amendment or anything and he has every right to think marriage for gays and lesbians is wrong.

Opinions are like assholes, after all.

But then things start to fall apart.

“People don’t understand the dictionary — it’s called queer. Queer means strange and unusual,” Wurzelbacher said. “It’s not like a slur, like you would call a white person a honky or something like that.”

I realize that it appears he is saying the dictionary is queer and thus misunderstood. But I think he’s substitut-

ing the word “dictionary” for “definition of the word queer.” Maybe that’s all the dictionary is to him. Reading is pretty gay, after all. Now I could jump all over him (figuratively, of course) for using the word “queer” as a pejorative.

Instead I’ll just say this: Wurzelbacher is a honky.

His answer continued, “You know, God is pretty explicit in what we’re supposed to do — what man and woman are for.”

That’s right. God is pretty explicit if you take the idea that the Bible is literally His word.

There is some racy stuff in that book.

But what Wurzelbacher is referring to specifically here is the commandment: “Thou shalt have penile-vaginal intercourse.”

Not that Wurzelbacher will hate you if you don’t “do it” right.

“We’re supposed to love everybody and accept people, and preach against the sins,” he said.

“I’ve had some friends that are actually homosexual.

And, I mean, they know where I stand, and they know that I wouldn’t have them anywhere near my children. But at the same time, they’re people, and they’re going to do their thing.”

Gosh, I wonder what lucky homosexuals get to be Wurzelbacher’s friend.

Nothing says “I value your friendship” quite like “stay the fuck away from my kids you hideous pervert.”

But hey, at least he acknowledges that homosexuals are people. And I am happy to return the favor. Wurzelbacher is only human. A deeply flawed, proudly ignorant human being who embodies the face of today’s Republican Party.

Congratulations G.O.P., “Joe” Wurzelbacher is your boyfriend.

‘I’ve had some friends that are actually homosexual. And, I mean, they know where I stand, and they know that I wouldn’t have them anywhere near my children.’

D’Anne Witkowski has been gay for pay since 2003. She’s a freelance writer and poet (believe it!). When she’s not taking on the creeps of the world she reviews rock and roll shows in Detroit with her twin sister and teaches writing at the University of Michigan.

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2009 Damn These Heels!

Film Festival Guide The SLC Film Center and Salt Lake Film Society have joined together to bring the th annual Damn These Heels!

LGBT Film Festival. Thirteen awardwinning films from all over the world will be screened June 10–14 at Tower Theatre, 876 E. 900 S. Subjects include the U.S. military’s ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy, a love story inspired by A Midsummer’s Night Dream, parenthood and 1960s transgenders.

to personal re-discovery.

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An intimate and unflinching look at life in Iran, seen through the lens of those living at its fringes, Be Like Others is a provocative look at a generation of young men choosing to undergo sex change surgery.

Saturday, June 13, 6 p.m.

Itty Bitty Titty Committee is a rockin’ love song to the heady rush of sex, freedom and rebellion. Anna eagerly joins the ranks of C(I)A — Clits in Action — and starts her rollercoaster ride from meek and mousy to bad-ass bravado.

Friday, June 12, Midnight

Director: Tanaz Eshaghian

Director: Jamie Babbit

I — OUTRAGE i Director: Kirby Dick g An exploration into the ethics, media cover- m age and double lifestyle of closeted politi- f cians with appalling gay rights voting recordse against the LGBT community. A discussion s with the director will follow the film.

S Sunday, June 14, 5 p.m.

VALENTINO THE LAST EMPEROR Director: Matt Tymauer

Opening this year’s festival is a special advance screening of Valentino The Last Emperor with director Matt Tyrnauer in attendance. The film charts the mutual dependency and tension in Valentino’s 45year association with Giancarlo Giammetti, his ocassional lover and constant business partner. The film follows them through the final two years of their careers, and shows the struggles they face as they confront the final act of nearly 50 years at the top of the world’s most glamorous, competitive game.

In the end, however, the story proves to be not one about money or expensive clothes, but about love.

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A touching comedy that tells the story of a very “straight” gay couple; Eric, a former pro hockey player, and Sam, a lawyer, who end up with temporary custody of recently orphaned Scot, a budding 11-year-old queen.

Breakfast with Scot caused a stir when the Toronto Maple Leafs NHL team officially endorsed it.

Thursday, June 11, 7:30 p.m.

LOOKING FOR CHEYENNE (OUBLIER CHEYENNE) / France Director: Valérie Minetto

A story of love and longing between Sonia and Cheyenne holds a delicious array of emotions and characters played out against the social and political framework of France today. A contemporary tale about the fragility of modern life, the need to make changes and the power of love.

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Friday, June 12, 6:30 p.m.

“ c o Directors: Victor Silverman & Susan W Stryker m This film introduces viewers to street e queens, cops and civil rights ministers who F recall the riot that was on the forefront of the LGBT fight for equal rights. They paint a vivid T v portrait of the wild transgender scene in F 1960s San Francisco. g Saturday, June 13, 4:30 p.m.

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G c SCHOOLBOY CRUSH / Japan m Director by Kotaro Terauchi h This Japanese film is spiraling game of erotic r pursuit with beautiful actors. Told in the style F of Japanese manga of the yaoi genre it is a cultural and cinematic treat.

Sunday, June 14, 3 p.m.

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The film explores the mutually enabling relationship between a stern, repressed piano teacher and a profoundly talented, violent young inmate she teaches at a women’s prison. This powerful film is the winner of 21 international and U.S. awards.

Saturday, June 13, 10 p.m.

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OTTO; OR, UP WITH DEAD PEOPLE / Germany/Canada

Director: Bruce LaBruce

This is Bruce LaBruce’s latest controversial, post gay zombie movie with a multicultural cast. A young, gay zombie named Otto appears on a remote highway uncertain of his own past and future. When he runs across a poster for an open casting call for Up With Dead People, the “epic political-pornozombie movie” he finds himself on the road

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‘8: The Mormon Proposition’

An Interview with Director Reed Cowan Interview by Chino Blanco

Editor’s Note: Former Utah resident and KSTU Fox 13 reporter Reed Cowan is the producer of 8: The Mormon Proposition, a documentary about the LDS Church’s involvement in passing the constitutional amendment that re-banned gay marriage in California. He and his documentary made international headlines in February when excerpts of his interview with anti-gay state Sen. Chris Buttars, R-West Jordan, were aired on local news stations. In this interview, Buttars famously compared gays and lesbians to extremist Muslim terrorists and said they had no morals. Cowan is also the director, producer and executive producer of The Other Side of the Lense, which chronicles the weeks in which Cowan went from reporting the news to being in the news upon the death of his young son, Wesley.

ChIno BlAnCo: When did you decide you were going to be the one to make 8: The Mormon Proposition and what factor(s) drove your decision? What aspects of your own background or of the Prop 8 campaign brought you to this project? reed Cowan: Truthfully, this film started out as an exposé on the problems of gay teen homelessness in Utah’s “Zion” and an examination about why otherwise loving parents would kick their kids out on to the streets just because their kids are gay. But as the weeks and months unfolded in our project, I began seeing that history demanded our project be larger in scope. Slowly, but with great force, our focus shifted to what I believe is the “touchstone” of Mormon ideology regarding homosexuality ... and that is exclusively Mormon efforts to get Prop 8 on the ballot in California and see its passage. It’s the case against Mormons and what I believe has been a decades-long work to damage gay people and their causes.

Prop 8 is truly the most obvious, shining example of what is at the root of Mormon belief about gay people.

As to what factors drove my decision to make the film what it is today, they were personal really and deeply rooted in something that is fundamental to my character. Human suffering cuts me to the quick. And when I obtained the entire LDS call-to-action broadcast (transcripts and audio) that was heard by thousands in California, as a former Mormon myself, I knew statistically speaking, that at least 10 percent of the Mormon youth who heard the call to action, were gay. I hurt over the thought of what they must have felt sitting in those pews, hearing their church leaders launch an assault against gay people. I went in the direction of the fires of their pain, and it’s my prayer this film will be a part of putting out the fire of that pain in their lives. What the Mormons did and what they continue

to do against gay people needs to be a matter of record, because it is spiritually criminal. When these young people sitting in the pews grow up, I hope they can turn to my film and get the message that it’s OK to leave the organization that pulls them to its breast tenderly, while choking the spiritual life right out of them through assaults on their very civil rights.

BlAnCo: When you started, did you have any idea that the question of marriage equality generally, or Mormon involvement specifically, was headed for its current high level of national awareness?

CoWAn: I’m continually thrilled to see this issue rise in prominence. It gives me hope in people. When I started, I knew there were literally thousands of people out there who want my partner Gregory [Abplanalp] and myself to be married ... to enjoy the same civil rights as our non-gay counterparts. And I am so damned proud of the good people in the American citizenry who are becoming our allies in this fight. The scales are tipping in our favor, and it feels good.

BlAnCo: Can you give us an update on where the project stands? Distribution, release dates, Web sites, scheduled screenings, or any other news?

CoWAn: It’s crazy making a film! So many things to update you on. The film is in edit, and in mid-May I get to see the first cut of the film. After that, adjustments will be made and we’ll be solidly headed towards the finish date of June or July.

Distribution will hinge on interest and buzz generated in film festivals.

I’m really hoping Sundance screeners give our film a fair look and choose to include it in their upcoming festival.

Can you imagine the press that would happen if our film were to premiere in Utah at Sundance? It would be explosive. So, Sundance is my first hope. But they are such a pristine festival, that many great films don’t make the cut. If we don’t, we’ll shop it around to other festivals. I have received many highlevel inquiries about the film though, so maybe we won’t need to do festivals. I just keep thinking: One thing at a time.

First we’ll finish it, then we’ll work on the other stuff. Right now it’s all about making this the most explosive, compelling piece of documentary film-making you’ve ever seen. And as I look at the wealth of material we have obtained, I just have to say: Brace yourselves.

BlAnCo: As busy as you’ve been, I was watching some footage of the crowds at the California Supreme Court’s Prop 8 hearing in San Francisco and I think I spotted you. Were you there?

CoWAn: Indeed I was. Me and a little Mormon group called America Forever. I’ll be interested to see what the Mormon Church thinks of what their

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members had to say that day to the gay people on the sidewalk.

BlAnCo: What challenges, if any, did the project face in the course of filming? Any “war stories” related to technical, financial, logistical or other aspects that you’d like to share? Any experiences with your interview subjects that you’d like to recount?

CoWAn: The greatest challenge I’ve experienced is the trauma within the families Greg and I are attached to that are Mormon. So many of our Mormon relatives, on learning of the content of the film, have begged us not to release it. It’s been excruciating to be in a position of having the material we have, having the sense of moral obligation to get it out, and yet feel sad that it will likely hurt good, moral, loving family members who still are attached to the Mormon machine.

The next greatest challenge has been the all-out assault of Mormons that came after my interview with Senator [Chris] Buttars. KSL [5] TV’s Web site hosts the comments of cruel, cruel people who have slandered and defamed my good name for no other reason than what they have “heard” about me. Some of those attacks have been so hurtful.

So false. For example, I read on KSL’s Web site comment board recently, something like, “Reed left his wife and little boy to be in the arms of his partner Gregory Abplanalp.” That couldn’t be further than the truth, and Mormonowned KSL actually allows a falsehood that they themselves know is untrue to remain in perpetuity on their Web site for all to see. (On that note, my ex-wife left me for a doctor nearly twice her age and I didn’t have interaction with Greg until two years after my divorce).

Senator Buttars, Gayle Ruzicka and all whom they are connected to have worked to tear down my character through out-and-out lies, and that has been painful. My film will have the truth about Senator Buttars and Gayle Ruzicka and the Eagle Forum and the Sutherland [Institute] group and America Forever. I only wish that those who aligned themselves with the ideologies of these groups would also seek truth, rather than attacks such as they have.

These have been my war stories.

As to interview subjects: I have four hard drives full of interviews. And I can tell you this: The most vitriolic and hateful interviews do not come from gay people or their allies. In actuality, the gay people and gay allies I interviewed were very kind (for the most part) about the LDS Church and its people. I felt the spirit of God when I talked to these people. I did not feel it when I talked to Gayle Ruzicka or Senator Buttars or America Forever’s people. What does that say about all of this? Hmmmm ...

It was also interesting to see certain things come up in the film in two different states ... people who had never met each other ... with similar stories about private visits to Mormon Prophet Spencer W. Kimball’s home that they all independently characterized as “prurient.” Some highly credible people with this information. People with name recognition.

BlAnCo: Without your interview of a certain Utah state senator, Buttarspalooza never would have happened.

Any comment on the brouhaha that erupted after Senator Buttars’ remarks were made public?

CoWAn: Oy! That’s my comment. Oy! It was explosive for sure. International press. And what we saw at that point is nothing compared to what will likely happen when the film is released.

BlAnCo: According to Senator Buttars, you assured him that he would be allowed to see his work and approve his part before you released it. Are you ready to apologize for your unfair treatment of The Honorable Senator from Utah?

CoWAn: He’s a liar. And I have recorded conversations and interviews to substantiate my position that this man lied, ducked and covered when put under pressure. Senator Buttars owes me an apology. And he owes people an apology. In 20 years as a journalist I have never once cut a deal with someone to let them see something before air. It’s ridiculous. He’s ridiculous.

BlAnCo: How did ABC 4 obtain that Chris Buttars interview footage?

CoWAn: I saw Rich Piatt with KSL and Chris Vanocur [of ABC 4] outside Buttars’ office the day of the interview.

I told them why I was there. Chris Vanocur asked for the footage. I let him see it. He and his managers found it newsworthy, seeing that Buttars had said these things while Senate business was going on without him. They asked if they could air portions. I obliged.

No big woop. I did not plan to release the footage before the interview, and frankly, didn’t plan in the weeks after to release it either. But Chris asked.

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Jennifer Nuttall Takes Pride in Programming

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gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender adults with a number of interests and needs, from health and wellness programming to neighborhood potluck dinners.

Jennifer Nuttall has a lot to be proud of. As the Center’s adult programs director, she has made this change in programming possible.

“I think getting the baseline support groups in place was really important,” she said, referring to the groups the Center now holds for lesbian and bisexual women, gay and bisexual men, and transgender adults and their partners.

“People would call just coming out or having broken up with someone, in a really vulnerable state, and there was no [program] we could provide for them where they could met people who had been through the same things.”

Long before she made revolutionary changes to the Center’s programming, Nuttall lived in Orem, where she grew up in a typical Mormon household with her 10 siblings. A BYU student majoring in international relations, she served an LDS mission in northeastern Italy at age 21 and later received a minor in Italian from the school. She says that her Mormon background, and the difficulty she had in coming out to a largely Mormon family, has inspired much of her work as an activist.

“It was really difficult and there were so many people to come out to and everyone was having their own reaction,” she said of her coming out at age 27. “It’s been a struggle. I’d say for the first good four to five years I was very consumed by the fact they didn’t accept me for who I was, and [I was] trying to find ways for them to accept me. But at some point I was able to let that go. I don’t need their acceptance. I’m good with who I am.”

“I feel like that whole experience was what motivated me to work to help alleviate [the suffering] that is caused by people being raised Mormon and having a sexual orientation that is different from the norm,” she continued.

But when Nuttall began volunteering at the Utah Pride Center (then called the GLBT Community Center) under former director Paula Walsh in 2004, adult programming was anything but the norm for the center. Five years ago, the center’s programming was focused mainly on youth; adult gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Utahns interested in starting up a program or a support group mainly just used the Center for meeting space. Indeed, Nuttall’s first assignment as a volunteer was managing a grant from the Utah Department of Health designed to help gay and transgender people stop smoking.

The resulting ‘Queers Kick Ash’ campaign, on which she estimates she spent 75 percent of her time, made headlines across the state when Hillcrest High School students were suspended for sporting shirts with the catchy slogan.

The flap ended with UDOH withdrawing the grant — a move which nearly ruined the Center financially.

“It was scary because the center went under, but it was a good thing because then we were able to concentrate on getting adult programs the community needed.”

These programs included, of course, the aforementioned support groups. Of these, Nuttall said she is particularly pleased with the three groups the Center now extends to transgender people, their partners and the parents of transgender youth.

“Seeing how the transgender community has flourished and grown and become really united is one of the highlights that has happened at the Center,” she said. “Most of my resource calls at this point are for transgender resources, so it’s interesting how the need for transgender services has grown in the past few years.”

The Center also offers programs and support groups for gay and lesbian parents, bisexuals, Latino gay and transgender people, and even music nights in their in-house bistro, Café Marmalade. Nuttall has also expanded adult programming to include a brace of wellness programs, free and confidential HIV testing and “culture competency training” for health care providers, businesses, journalists and educators who want to learn more about gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people and how to better serve them.

“That’s something I feel is really instrumental,” she said. “As a community center there’s no way we can provide everything, but we can make our communities more caring and competent to serve the LGBT community.”

Sometimes, education, outreach and fun come together in her programming, as in The Breast Dialogues, an annual performance modeled loosely after Eve Ensler’s hit The Vagina Monologues about breasts and breast cancer.

“People love being a part of it and it provides an educational component to the community,” Nuttall said of the long-running show. “When you put all those things together, I think you have a very successful program.”

When Nuttall isn’t administering these successful programs she enjoys swimming, camping and spending time in the great outdoors with her niece and nephew, whom she has had permanent custody of since 2006. And being a mother is another thing that Nuttall is proud of.

“It’s amazing, it’s the best thing in the world but it definitely was a huge adjustment as you can imagine,” she said. “Being a mother has completely changed my life. You can’t even know until you experience it. I feel all my priorities have shifted, they [my children] have become top priority, and I prefer to spend time with them over anybody.”

Although juggling work and family can be hard, Nuttall says she wouldn’t give her children up “for anything.”

“It completely changed my life and it’s been a wonderful experience,” she said. Q

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Charley’s Aunt, see June 12

Gay Agenda Being Incognito

by Tony Hobday

It is the day after Pride Day and I’m too exhausted and waterlogged (OK, beer-logged, too) to be witty or clever (if you find me to be) in this opening remark. But I will tell you that we, at the Q Towers, love all the wonderful, beautiful messages put up on our Pride Wall at the festival. Thank you for sharing with us and the community.

before jumping her bones’ seems to have even dated back to the late 19th century. Although, in Pinnacle Acting Company’s production of Charley’s Aunt, it’s not exactly like that. But however you look at it, a boy dressed in girls clothing is almost always a recipe for success.

7:30pm, through June 27, Midvale Performing Arts Center, 695 W. Center St. Tickets $10–12, 801-674-7956 or pinnacleactingcompany.org.

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SATURDAY — So, the Salt Lake Men’s Choir is doing the ’60s with a Twist ... but not a shout? Pff! I bet the most twisted thing about this concert will be Michael Aaron in pink Go-Go boots singing “These Boots Were Made For Walking.” And probably the closest thing to the ’60s you’ll notice is Dennis McCracken’s eerie resemblance to Richard Nixon.

Tehehe!! In all honesty, it’ll probably be so good you’ll wet yourself — and since it’s the ’60s, no one will care.

7:30pm, Libby Gardner Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Cir., UofU. Tickets $12–17, 801-5817100 or kingtix.com.

THURSDAY — The adjectives used to describe Desert Star Theatres’ new parody is ‘bigger, bolder, blonder.’ Funny, those were the exact adjectives I used to describe my ... well, you know, when I turned 14. Anyhoo, adventure, sex and intrigue sweep the stage in James Blonde: Agent 7-11 in Casino Real. Look for death-by-brain-freeze from sucking down a Slurpee. Ooo ... even better, look for sexy Real soccer player Tony Beltran playing the evildoer who’s been stalking ... me!

7pm, through Aug. 22, Desert Star Playhouse, 4861 S. State St. Tickets $8.95– 14.95, 801-266-2600.

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QQ It is one of the most beloved musicals today, and it had won 10 Tony awards after its premiere staging in 1964. Also, it is based on gay playwright Thornton Wilder’s The Merchant of Yonkers. Do you know which musical? If you don’t know Hello, Dolly! then you don’t deserve to marry your same-sex partner, bitch!

Oops, sorry, I sometimes get riled up. The show is all about meddling, matchmaking and mandolin lessons.

7:30pm, through Aug. 1, Hale Centre Theatre, 3333 S. Decker Lake Dr. Tickets $15–26, 801984-9000 or halecentretheatre.org.

QQ Celebrate the anniversary of Park City’s incorporation (1884) during their 125th Birthday Bash. The festivities begin with a walking parade down historic Main Street. Miners Park will be programmed with live music, including John Boys Mule, Swagger and Fat Paw. There will be beer gardens to quench your thirst throughout the day. Need I say more? OK, the evening

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culminates with the exciting sounds of the Sam Bush Band.

11am–9:30pm, Park City Historic Main St. Free, 435-615-5833 or parkcityinfo.com.

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SUNDAY — The Park Silly Sunday Market kicks off it’s third season today. This zero waste festival and open air market features music, kids activities, eclectic local artisans, an expanded beer garden and farmers market. The event provides an opportunity for local independent businesses and farmers outreach for over 80 nonprofit and sustainability groups, and a venue for professional and up-and-coming musicians, performers and artisans.

10am–4pm, Sundays through Sept. 27, Park City Historic Main Street. Free, parksillysundaymarket.com.

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FRIDAY — According to their press release, SB Dance’s newest creation, Drosselmeyer Inc., is part South Park, part The Nutcracker. It’s a play with song and dance meant for audiences of all persuasions. Contains mature humor that will have you laughing like an adjective-plus-noun-notpermitted-in-this-description. Hell, in this fag-rag we can say just about anything — how about ... laughing like pot-smoking Michael Phelps.

8pm through Saturday & 4pm, Sunday, Black Box Theatre, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. Broadway. Tickets $15, 355-ARTS or arttix.org.

QQ Have you seen those guys running around in blue spandex suits with the letter A emblazoned on the chest.

They’re oddly sexually enticing ... or else I’m just a slut. Anyhoo, Aquabats’ music is also enticing. Check out MC Bat Commander, Crash McLarson, Jimmy the Robot, Ricky Fitness and Eagle Falconhawk, the greatest crimefighting rock ‘n rollers ever.

7pm, In the Venue, 219 S. 600 West. Tickets $17.50/adv–$20/day of, 801-467-8499 or smithstix.com.

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SATURDAY — Join many of the prominent movers-and-shakers of the gay community at the fifth annual HRC Gala Dinner & Auction. Tammy Baldwin is keynote speaker, plus Jim Dabakis and Stephanie Pappas will be honored for their dedication and commitment to the battle for equality.

Then enjoy performances by Thelma Houston and Kristene W. 6pm, Grand Ballroom, Grand America Hotel, 555 S. Main St. Tickets $75–200, utah.hrc.org.

QQ What can I say about the B-52s except for that they are just plain fabulous — their hair is fabulous, their clothes are fabulous and their music is freakin’ fabulous. So even if though you have to drive a couple hundred miles to see them this time around, it’ll be worth it!

7pm, Peppermill Concert Hall, West Wendover, Nev. Tickets $60–100, 1-800-5370207 or wendoverfun.com.

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7pm, Club Manhattan, a private club for members, 5 E. 400 South. Tickets $10–15, 801-364-7651.

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WEDNESDAY — The Community Writing Center is holding a panel discussion, Talking about writing: Playwriting. Since The Passion of Sister Dottie S. Dixon was such a huge success, they have invited Troy Williams and Charles Lynn Frost, the madmen behind Sister Dottie to discuss their favorite plays and the emotional appeal from the stage.

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Although, not at all heartening. no matter how deeply disappointed you are in the current struggle for equal rights, Salt Lake Acting Companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual kick-in-the-garments satire, Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Voyeur, itself, is heartening ... and hilarious, clever and occasionally devious. It will lift your spirits. the form of a mannequin in a green, homosexual equality, especially one-piece thong swimsuit (imagine a within marital rights, has been a hot plastic, hairless Borat) who depicts the topic â&#x20AC;&#x201D; an unnecessary controversy â&#x20AC;&#x201D; deviant desires of the Freebe family over the past year. Voyeurâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s creators members.

Allen Nevins and Nancy Borgenicht In between segments of the Freebe have had, lucky for family plight, there them, plenty of mateare news updates with rial stemming from Ted Tithing (Jacob this controversy to Johnson) and Forgetta bring their hundreds Beejay (Alicia Washof loyal, adoring and ington), an insurgence often enthusiastic fans of Amish massage in back this year to what Lindon and Jesus (Jescould arguably be one se Pepe) is discovered, of the best Voyeurs in through his Fresh Valits 31-year run. Grantues grocery card, to be ed I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see all 31, in Utah, among other so thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biased, but off-the-wall olios. forgive me because my choreographer giddiness is still fullCynthia Fleming blown even 24 hours afcreates playful and ter seeing the show. charming routines set supported by an to ingenious parodies amazing ensemble cast of classic songs like â&#x20AC;&#x201D; brilliant each and â&#x20AC;&#x153;One Night in Bangevery one of them â&#x20AC;&#x201D; kokâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Addicted Voyeur is an hour-long to Love.â&#x20AC;? Brenda Van radio show â&#x20AC;&#x153;that feels like twoâ&#x20AC;? on K Der Wiel ignites a rainbow of colors to IM 1 RU in Lehi. The central charac- the many costumes, which also keeps ters are the Freebes, a Mormon nuclear up the playful feeling of the show. family living in Happy Valley: Bishop director John Caywood manages father (Steven Fehr), sanctimonius and a nice consistent flow throughout the distant, loving mother (Shannon Mus- show, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the final two scenes that grave), in complete denial, and their six will leave a mark. First is the dance children. number with Elder Alma Valentine the parents are frazzled and threat- (Alexis Baigue), Elder De Lete Wadened by the â&#x20AC;&#x153;gathering stormâ&#x20AC;? of ho- doups (Jacob Johnson) and Darryl â&#x20AC;&#x201D; mosexuals trying to destroy traditional I mean you wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be disappointed by family values. As Bishop Freebe gives watching these boys dance in their unall the family money to the Eagle Forum dies, plus Alexis has damn fine gams! to fight the gays, and as his wife Uhadda Second is the outcome to the Freebesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Freebe struggles to find a practical use impending doom â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the underlying for her husbandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s four-hour, foot-long message is touching and, as I said beerection, their son Darryl (Jesse Pepe) fore, heartening ... truly, beautifully deserts his mission to practice gayism heartening. in Salt Lake City and their daughter Baby Doll (Shanna Jones) comes to rev- Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Voyeur runs through Aug. 16, Salt elations that not only is she a lesbian Lake Acting Company, 168 W. 500 North. Tickets but also black. Thrown into the family $39â&#x20AC;&#x201C;54, 801-363-SLAC or saltlakeactingcommix is Randi, an aberration of sorts in pany.org.

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Gay Geeks F--k You Very Much, Self-Promotion

by JoSelle Vanderhooft

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IN UTAH THIS WEEK (the one with Pride busting out all over the cover, since it won’t be the latest issue when this column sees the light of day), then you know that the secret is out. In my other life, I’m a poet and novelist. f you cauGht the latest Issue of

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Of course, it never really was a secret to begin with. I just prefer to write about other people doing interesting geeky things in my column inches. I mean, I didn’t name it “Stuff About JoSelle” for a reason.

And not just because that’s a stupid name for a column, either. I just really don’t like self-promotion — yeah, I would even go so far as to say I suck at it. Yes, I know. In these latter days all authors must hit the streets, the bookstores, newspapers, the TV and radio stations, that series of tubes known as the internet to plug their wares — unless, of course, they happen to be J.K. Rowling, Stephenie Meyer, Stephen King or anyone else who is lucky enough to capture that force known as word-of-mouth, the Zeitgeist or whatever weird alchemical process it is that makes people pick up their damn books. We do what we have to, but that doesn’t mean we all like it, do well at it, or don’t feel like a 6-year-old throwing a tantrum in the mall, only in reverse: Buy my book! Buy my book now! Mommy mommy why aren’t they buying my book NOWWWWWWWWW?!?

Naturally, I think this frustration on many writers’ parts would be readily solved if God would send us into the world with a twin who enjoys and truly excels at marketing. And who also looks just like us so we could tick people off at parties. Sorta like that bastion of airport reading, My Sister’s Keeper, only with 20 percent fewer ethical issues and maybe even more book sales. Then everybody would win. But if God actually listened to my suggestions, then it would rain pizza and LaVar Christensen would feel a sudden and uncontrollable urge to move to Antarctica.

Whenever it’s time to start promoting the next book, I always go to that Godzilla of internet time-wasters, YouTube. Mainly because I wish my selfpromotion efforts were as successful as some of the videos (read: seen by a lot of people) hosted there. You’ve seen the ones I mean, geeky ones: Kelly’s “Shoes” and the acting career it spawned; Tay Zonday’s “Chocolate Rain;” the Numa Numa guy; what’s his name’s “Leave Britney Alone!” Yeah, some of these are so 2007-2008, but that’s the point. We still remember and watch them.

Just like I think we’ll all be watching this particular video for several years to come.

I wish I had just one-quarter of the creativity, playfulness and video editing skills of Stevie Bishop, an Australian dancer who decided he was fed up with the racist, sexist and anti-gay cesspool the internet can often become and called on YouTubers to help him create a playful project to mock such behavior. The end result was a video collage telling anti-queer people where to stick their hate. Launched on May 4, Stevie’s video featured YouTubers of all sexes, races, sexual orientations and gender 28 | QSa lt L a k e | issue 130 | June

identities dancing, goofing off and acting fabulous while lip-synching to British pop star Lily Allen’s “Fuck You,” a breezy song that gleefully skewers all stripes of bigots and contains the lyrics “you say it’s not OK to be gay/well, I think you’re just evil.” As you can probably guess the song’s most prominent word is “fuck” and the performers’ most frequently-used hand gesture is the naughty half of the peace sign.

As I write this column in June, nearly 184,000 people have viewed this video.

And who knows how many views it has ultimately received from being distributed on other YouTube channels. It also spawned a sequel. On May 17, a French group called the GayClic put up a similar video that has received about 150,000 views to date. Which is something like ten million more views than most book trailers get on YouTube.

“I never set out to change the world,” Stevie wrote in the video description of the original video (note: the unique capitalization is his). “I did not make this for the gay haters to see. I wanted to make something lighthearted and funny for the victims of gay hate, to teach them to brush off the hate and stand strong and confident as who they are. You’re not alone! Stevie loves you. :)” As a queer person, I’m glad that Stevie’s video and the French response took the internet by storm. I hope they did change the world in some small way, if only by helping victims of antiqueer hate and discrimination laugh.

As a writer, however, I find myself asking, how the hell do they do it? How do wonderful, geeky people like Stevie and Liam Kyle Sullivan (the guy behind shoes-loving Kelly) manage to make something so captivating, so memorable, so noticed? Is it a matter of just putting the video out there for the love of it, and do you actively have to not care about it reaching zillions of people? Is catching people’s eyes, ears and hearts in our fast-paced world some kind of modern-day Grail quest, where only those who don’t seek the Grail find the Grail?

Heck. If I had answers, I wouldn’t be sighing every time I look at my Amazon rankings. And who knows? Maybe I’d actually even enjoy self promotion instead of feeling like I’m rolling around and flailing my limbs on the floor of a Toys “R” Us. One thing is clear to me, however: Geeks are powerful, passionate and creative people with strong opinions and a whole lot to offer. We can and do change the world every day, in small ways and big, whether we mean to or not.

Some of us just seem to do it better than others. Q

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Q Sports Team Try-Angles Gets Ready to Ride Once again, cyclists representing Club Try-Angles will strap on their helmets and kneepads and zip down Logan’s Blacksmith Fork Canyon to help fund research into multiple sclerosis.

The team, which will ride in Harmons Best Dam Bike Ride 2009, is sponsored

by Try-Angles owner Gene Gieber, who will donate $25 to each rider this year.

All riders must raise at least $250 to bike in the two-day event held during the last weekend of the month.

“Two years ago I knew two family members who have MS, and now I have four so it’s personal to me,” said Gieber,

noting that his mother, sister, niece and cousin have the disease — in which the body’s autoimmune system attacks its central nervous system. Gieber has sponsored a bike team for a number of years and said he is committed to keep doing so.

So far, the 2009 Team Try-Angles has nine members which include gay and straight men and straight women, said team captain Adam Frost.

“I think we have a good mix, but we’d definitely love to have some lesbians.

We had some last year,” he said. He noted that two to four additional members may also join and that people can join the team as late as the day before the ride, held June 27-28.

This year, Team Try-Angles hopes to raise $5,000 for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. At press time, their Web site indicated they had raised almost $2,000, with some team members having raised double the minimum

amount required to ride. In order to reach their goal the riders have also sponsored some fundraisers. In May, for example, the members sponsored a “Bingo Bust” Fun Bus to Wendover staffed by local camp drag group the Utah Cyber Sluts.

Frost said he is confident the team will reach its goal.

“At this point if we end up with 10 riders and everyone makes the $250 minimum, that’s $2,500,” he said. Frost also noted that totals tend to “skyrocket” near the cut off date for donations, as team members enter their final totals.

Last year, the team raised $12,000.

On the weekend of the tour, the team will camp at the fairgrounds in Logan where they will relax between rides.

Last year, Frost said that the team’s tent was a fun, upbeat place complete with massage tables, inflatable furniture and, of course, food.

“It’s kind of a party atmosphere when

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you get back from the ride,” said Frost.

“Everyone sits around and relaxes, gets some dinner and enjoys the evening because you have another day of riding ahead.”

Team members need all the relaxation they can get on their off-hours, as they will bike in loops of 40, 75 or 100 miles on Saturday and Sunday. And while that may seem like a lot of route to cover, Frost said that putting in the miles isn’t as hard as it appears.

“It’s not a race, it’s a tour,” he explained, noting that riders are free to go at their own pace and that no segment of the ride is timed by a judge. Last year, he noted, most of the team preferred to do the 75 mile loop with a few electing to ride 40 miles. Some also biked for only one of the two days.

This year cyclists won’t have to navigate around cars, campers or slow-moving trucks; the canyon will be closed to traffic on both days of the ride, which will head north on Saturday and down through Cache Valley on Sunday.

Every five miles or so cyclists can also take advantage of rest stops stocked with water, power bars and fruit. ‘Sag wagons’ will also patrol the route to assist tired or injured riders, and to help repair flat tires. This year, the ride will also provide bikers with three meals on Saturday and breakfast and lunch on Sunday.

Because the Best Dam Bike Ride is so well-supported, Frost said it is the perfect ride for beginner cyclists. And beginners are more than welcome to join up with the team.

Nevertheless, even 40 miles is a lot of ground to cover. To help prepare for the ride, Frost said team members have been on group rides — though recent inclement weather has thwarted a few of them.

While the bike ride is a lot of fun and can be undertaken by riders of all skill levels, Gieber also noted that it’s still a lot of work, and that he is proud of all who bike for Team Try-Angles.

“I admire them for their efforts. It’s not as hard to write a check as it is to ride those bikes, I know that,” he said.

For information on donating to the team or becoming a rider contact Frost at teamtryangles@gmail.com. The team’s donation Web site is located at tinyurl.com/teamtryangles.

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dancing to the community to see if they could build an interest for a Salt Lake chapter. A year later, membership stands at 12, with seven dancers becoming members this past year.

“We like it here. We have been pleasantly surprised about the size of the gay community and how close-knit they are,” said Justin. The couple lives in a Woods Cross neighborhood which has been very accepting of their family, which includes two children adopted by Justin and his previous partner. Their teenage daughter, Ashley, is now a square dancing “angel,” helping teach the dance to new members.

Square dancing is an American dance form, originating with settlers to the New World as a form of recreation after a long day’s work in building communities and homes in New England at the turn of the century. Settlers and immigrants brought their popular national dances with them, teaching them to other families as a form of socializing, requiring someone to “call” the dance moves when changing specific steps.

Someone in the group would remember each new dance, and this person developed a verbal pattern to remind folks as they moved from dance to dance, developing new dances as they went. The caller would teach people in groups of four, hence the “square.”

Usually meeting in someone’s living room, barn or a community building, the only requirements were a hardwood

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known to develop passions for various forms of entertainment and activities, and square dancing has proven to be a dance form that has endured and flourished in the community and throughout the nation.

Temple Squares is Utah’s gay and lesbian square dancing club, formed a year ago and is now recruiting for new classes to introduce and teach interested people in the dance.

“Square Dancing is a physically social activity,” said the club’s president Justin Crawshaw-Lopton. “My partner and I moved here from Seattle where we were very active in Seattle’s square dancing clubs.”

Crawshaw-Lopton met his partner, Ross, in Seattle and they were married in Vancouver, Canada four years ago.

They moved here when Justin took a position with a Salt Lake City company.

At last year’s Pride Festival, Justin and Ross decided to present square

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floor, a fiddle, guitar or accordion, and someone who could remember the different national dances and tie them together verbally.

A s Am e r i c a n cities grew and new ways of communicating dance fads dominated the culture, square dancing interest decreased, but in the 1930s, Henry Ford’s personal interest in the dance during the New England restoration project, prompted a new interest in modernizing the dance form, and clubs sprung up around the nation, revitalizing and updating square dancing. Today, millions of Americans enjoy the art form and the popularity has spread to other countries where new square dancing clubs are forming.

The International Association of Gay Square Dance Clubs formed in 1983 when other groups would not permit gay or lesbian couples to participate in square dancing. The Gay Callers Association taught gays and lesbians how to call square dancing so that gay clubs would have a person who knew and could teach the standard dances to their communities. Today, the IAGSDC holds a national conference and GCA sponsors a calling school at the annual convention.

Ross is Temple Squares’ caller, learning from the GCA four years ago.

“There are thousands of square dance calls if you choose to learn them. Square dancing can be done to any music,” said Ross, mentioning that the dancers are at the mercy of the caller.

“A call named ‘Zoom’ was the favorite this past year for Temple Square participants,” said Ross. “Calls are classified into categories, starting with ‘Basic,’ ‘Mainstream,’ ‘Plus,’ ‘Advanced’ and ‘Challenge,’ with different levels to learn in the last category.”

Temple Squares will host three beginning classes called ABC Dances this summer: June 25, July 30 and August 27 at the Columbus Community Center starting at 7 p.m.

In the winter, the group will meet once a week, usually Thursday nights, working toward graduating new dancers. Graduation requires that beginners learn and dance the 120 calls of the ‘Mainstream’ program to become official members of of the group. A small membership fee and registration in the IAGSDC is required.

Temple Squares’ goal is to grow locally and throughout the state, and the leadership is currently working on bringing the IAGSDC convention to Salt Lake City in 2014.

Temple Squares was officially admitted to the IAGSDC this past April in

Washington D.C. “[The pairings in] square dancing are somewhat the sexist roles,” said Justin.

“There are boy parts and girl parts, with the traditional leader and follower. Wearing shoes that are comfortable and don’t have too much traction are preferred for the wooden dance floors.”

Each dance is usually done with eight people forming four sets of partners.

Members Maureen Davies and Brenda Voisard are recent members learning the dances and actively recruiting and helping teach the dance to interested gays and lesbians.

“I’m the fem, but I’m the boy,” said Davies, explaining she has never been a “girl” before except in square dancing.

Davies and Voisard have been a couple for 24 years, getting married in 1991 at the Unitarian Church in Salt Lake City, and recently marrying again in Oakland before Prop. 8 passed.

Temple Squares is open to everyone, single or partnered. Last year, after the initial Utah Pride recruitment, about 75 people came to the ABC beginning classes. If you are single, you will be meeting people with a shared interest and paired with partners at the same level.

Square dancing is a low impact exercise that requires practice and remembering dance parts and moves. Comfortable clothing is suggested and there is twirling involved, so tennis shoes or dress shoes are recommended. Q For more information about Temple Squares, go to tinyurl.com/templesquares or e-mail slcsquaredancing@gmail.com.

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Budweiser, Urban Talent Management, Club Jam and QSaltLake banded together to seek out Utah’s next Bud Boy the Wednesday before Pride. Poor Michael Aaron had to help judge guys’ bodies. It’s a tough life being an editor of a gay newspaper, isn’t it?

And here’s Salt Lake’s newest Bud Boy, Tim: Photos by Brian Gordon

The Rainbow Classic Car Club’s annual car show in the parking lot of Club Try-Angles was a great success.

And here is Team QSaltLake of the Pride Community Softball League celebrating their 17:0 loss to Try-Angles’ Salt Lake’s Fynest.

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The Dating Diet Dude Looks Kinda, Sorta Like a Lady

by Anthony Paull

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I think the further we advance in technology as a world culture, the further we regress when it pertains to matters of the heart. Consider the life of our ancestor, the common cave man. Back in the Paleolithic era, being immersed in essential daily tasks like hunting, gathering and crafting tools left the average knuckle dragger little time to fret about the lingering fears facing most romantics today.

Will I love? Will I be loved? Will we be together forever? For the lucky men living during the Old Stone Age, this was inconsequential. Rather, the important questions were based on the dirty ground-floor of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.

Fire=hot? Food=good? Sex=hot and good?

You see, in the long lost days of the Flintstones, there simply was no time to enter into mind games with your primemate and then self reflect. And Twitter?

Why, heavens no! I mean, really. What man had a minute to update the status of a relationship when he was busy figuring out how to be fossilized in a proper rock formation?

Yes, that’s the problem with folks nowadays. Due to our advances in health care, it seems, we have too much time.

And the longer we live, the longer our life-long partnerships are expected to last. At birth, we’re conditioned to seek “happily ever after” without realizing just how long we have to go with the same person. So what happens when your partner changes? Evolves? Are you supposed to happily go along with it even if you’re unhappy? Or should you leave your immortal love behind in favor of a new relationship?

Such questions plague the life of Terence, my dear friend for many years. You see, Terence has been with his partner Chazz since the advent of online men-4men chat rooms, and though they had a great relationship 10 years ago, their love has taken a turn for the worse since Chazz discovered his love for lingerie in the petites section at Macy’s.

Yes, my dear readers, Chazz is a panties man. And I mean that in the most literal sense. He’s simply fallen in love with the way the soft cotton tickles the tips of his balls, and since his revelation, he’s begun to explore his feminine side. First, it was panties. Then one night he popped out of the bathroom in fishnet stockings. Then he started buying makeup at the drug store and applying it like a toddler lost in a bathroom drawer. And now, he’s wearing mini-skirts while shopping for kitty litter at Target. But that’s fine, because ometimes

he’s wearing a black hoodie so no one can see him. At least, that’s what Chazz tells Terence.

“Oh, give me a break. This isn’t Harry Potter. A hoodie is not an invisibility cloak,” I inform Terence over the phone.

Writing a novel on the second floor of an intimate college library, I’m trying to whisper, careful to avoid interrupting the students during their studies. “I mean, seriously, Stevie Wonder could spot a guy in fishnets at Target considering all that fluorescent lighting.”

“Yeah, tell me about it,” Terence agrees. “Get this. Chazz says it’s common in Europe. That French guys think panties are all the rage. But skirts? I don’t buy it. And I’m sorry, but I don’t think it’s fucking hot.”

“Maybe not to you,” I mutter. “But he seems to be getting off on it.”

“Hey, why are you whispering?”

“I’m at the library.”

“Which one?”

“The one near the college.”

“Dude, that’s another place he goes!”

Terence yells.

And I kid you not. Call it serendipity, call it blind fate, but I look up from my computer and there goes Chazz darting by faster than a fever in a black hoodie, board shorts and a pair of purple pumps.

He’s heading to the exit like a rhino because he landed eyes on me. And his legs ... they’re hairier than an unkempt Chia pet.

“You two are setting me up,” I tell Terence. “This has to be a joke.”

“No man. He likes to rile up the students. You see him?”

“Um, yeah, I think everyone does,” I reply, as student heads begin popping up from the dirt like Groundhog’s Day. Then quickly, the space erupts with stifled laughter and whispers. “But hey, at least he knows how to rock those heels.”

“That’s not funny. This is not what I signed up for. What am I supposed to do?”

The truth: thankfully, I never had to answer his question. I told him I had a deadline to finish writing my column.

Terence ended their relationship just a day later.

Honestly, I didn’t have a good reply for him. As a friend, I wasn’t sure if it was my place to tell him to end it. At the onset of a relationship, usually rules are established. Don’t cheat. Don’t lie. But don’t dress like a woman? Well, that’s never come up for me. And if my boyfriend was to dress like a woman, I’d at least hope he’d have the decency to shave his god damn legs. Still, I believe that change is inevitable in all relationships. Everyone has a fetish, and for Chazz that meant getting aroused from the feeling of doing something naughty in public.

Winona Ryder shoplifts. And Chazz, he shape shifts. No harm.

Still, it interfered with Terence’s need for a publicly masculine partner. So he moved on to bachelorhood even though feelings of guilt have continued to linger in his heart. Who knows? Maybe one day he’ll look beyond the exterior of Chazz and remember what he loved about him in the first place and return home. And if not, that’s dandy, because living “happily” doesn’t always include “ever after,” especially when the person you thought you knew becomes invisible. Q

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that was much too hot to drink right away. When he returned to his private corner in the terminal, an unexpected passenger had taken over his seat. Eddie immediately noticed how handsome the man was as he clicked away on a laptop. Black curls drooped slightly over his eyes, his thick lips pursed in concentration. The man turned his head. Eddie’s eyes darted as if being chased.

“Hello,” said the handsome man in a low, pleasant voice.

“Uh ... hi,” Eddie scrambled for the word.

The man nodded at the seat next to him, “Please, sit!”

Without a word, Eddie sat down, forgetting the bag slung on his shoulder, which knocked the laptop over.

“Oh crap! Sorry,” Eddie apologized.

The man retrieved the computer from the floor. “No harm,” he assured Eddie and smiled at him. “Where are you headed?”

“St. Paul.”

“Really,” said the man with more enthusiasm than Eddie thought necessary.

“Flight 642?”

“Uumm ... Yeah I think so,” replied Eddie.

“Me too,” the man’s smile grew wider.

A tinny female voice echoed through the terminal announcing that passengers on Flight 642 to St. Paul with small children or special needs could board

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rushed Jody, his then-roommate, to the hospital after she collapsed on the Gallivan Center ice rink, her knee popped out of its socket. At the time Jody didn’t carry health insurance and because of the doctor’s persistent recommendation for surgery she and Jacin agreed to a shotgun City Hall wedding and an update to Jacin’s health insurance policy.

How Josh is currently dating his coworker’s husband who also happens to have a daughter whom Jacin recently saved from being run down by a Trax train, but unfortunately he had been clipped by it and had spent several days in a coma. Now he has a somewhat mild form of amnesia, but eventually he should get his complete memory back.

How his friend Cameron had a baby about year ago on Halloween and how everyone was at a costume party when she went into labor. In the waiting room of the hospital, people were giving them strange looks — like they didn’t know it was Halloween — as Joe Dirt, a couple of FBI agents, a hippie and two ugly witches played canasta. Cameron and her son Leonard moved to Idaho Falls shortly after the birth.

About the time Jacin and Josh had taken him to Seattle for his 30th birthday to visit their friend Matthew and how he and Jacin got tattoos — he, a inkwell and quill on his right shoulder, and Jacin, a pair of dancing flamingoes in top hats on his lower back. And how six months later Matthew had passed away from AIDS-related complications. He was cremated and returned to Salt Lake City where they scattered his ashes in the Great Salt Lake.

And how he likes to play mind games with himself. Nearly every day on his drive into work he plays a game in which for him to win, he must reach his destination before the song playing on the radio ends. If he loses to himself, he has to pull over and walk the rest of the way; he’s lost the game a few times, but has actually never pulled the car over. And nearly every morning irrational thoughts of the shower curtain being ripped open and him being murdered forces him into speed-showering. On occasion he’s wondered if it’s a rare phobia, a fear of not being squeaky clean upon death.

This last bit of information created an odd expression on Gabe’s face — a cross between fear and humor.

“Sorry, I’m babbling on,” Eddie quickly admitted. “I shouldn’t have shared so much. You probably want to go sit in your assigned seat now.”

Gabe chuckled then said, “No, no. It’s OK. I liked the stories. There’s just never a dull moment in your life is there?”

“I guess not,” Eddie agreed.

A tinny female voice blasted through the cabin, “Please be seated, fasten your seatbelts and put your seats in the upright position, we are making our final descent into St. Paul.”

“Would you like to have dinner with me tonight?” Gabe asked.

“Uumm ... sure,” Eddie replied with stunned hesitation.

To be continued ...

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