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ISSUE 132 • July 9, 2009

Summer Music

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World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Local. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Views Letters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Snaps & Slaps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Ruby Ridge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Ruth Hackford-Peer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Lambda Lore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Gay Geeks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

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By Rex Wockner

Fort Worth Police Under Fire Over Violent Stonewall 40 Bar Raid Fort Worth police and agents from the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission raided a gay bar June 28 — the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots — and roughed up several patrons, including one who was hospitalized with a lifethreatening blood clot on his brain.

The reason for the raid: To be sure no one was too drunk. Seven people were arrested for alleged intoxication.

Patrons of the Rainbow Lounge say four or five officers tackled Chad Gibson, who patrons say wasn’t drunk, and banged his head on the wall and on the floor for no reason. The police said Gibson fell down later outside and hurt himself, because he was drunk.

Police Chief Jeff Halstead also said Gibson groped one of the officers, yet Gibson was not charged with any sort of assault.

“You’re touched and advanced in certain ways by people inside the bar, that’s offensive,” Halstead said. “I’m happy with the restraint used when they were contacted like that.”

That Gibson groped a uniformed cop is, of course, improbable. As Rainbow Lounge owner J.R. Schrock put it: “The groping of the police officer — really?

We’re gay, but we’re not dumb. That is a lie, and I am appalled by it.”

The police department also said that other patrons “made sexually explicit movements” toward uniformed officers.

Patrons said that nothing of the sort occurred, and that the notion is asinine.

At press time, the police department remained under heavy fire for the raid — from news reporters, newspaper columnists, bloggers, activists and local politicians.

“Jeff Halstead can’t be allowed to use the Gay Panic Defense,” wrote gay syndicated columnist and frequent national-TV talking head Dan Savage.

“His officers weren’t groped, no one was ‘touched and advanced.’ Homophobic cops raided a gay bar, roughed up the patrons, and a young man is in the hospital and may die.”

“This is exactly the kind of statesponsored violence that gays and lesbians fought back against at Stonewall 40 years ago,” Savage said. “Gay men all over the country are going to have to 4 | QSa lt L a k e | issue 132 | July 9,

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The Utah Legislature sees our families as expendable. They have mastered turning a blind eye to the predictable results of this ongoing state policy.”

—Salt Lake City resident Shannon Candice Metzler, in a letter to the Salt Lake Tribune stating that state law disenfranchises gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender parents and their children.

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A candlelight vigil was held outside the Rainbow Lounge in Fort Worth, Texas after a raid by the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Control turned violent on the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots speak up and defend the patrons of the Rainbow Lounge. We can’t allow the chief of police in Fort Worth to use the Gay Panic Defense or exploit stereotypes about gay men — so sexually reckless that they can’t even keep their hands off cops during a raid — to get away with violating the civil rights of gay men in Fort Worth.”

Dallas freelance writer John Selig reported June 30 that President Barack Obama is aware of the raid.

“Jesse Garcia, who has been active in Stonewall Democrats for years and was recently head of Stonewall Democrats of Dallas, mentioned the incident to the president and asked him to pray for Chad Gibson,” Selig wrote. “President Obama told Jesse that he was aware of the situation and that he would pray for Chad.”

The exchange occurred at Obama’s June 29 White House gathering with 300 GLBT leaders to mark the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots.

Obama Invites 300 GLBT Leaders to White House for Stonewall 40 President Barack Obama — under heavy fire for talking the talk but not walking the walk on numerous gay-rights promises — had 300 GLBT leaders over to the White House on June 29 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, which, in 1969, jump-started the modern gay-rights movement.

“I know that many in this room don’t believe that progress has come fast enough, and I understand that,” Obama said. “It’s not for me to tell you to be patient, any more than it was for others to counsel patience to African Americans who were petitioning for equal rights a half-century ago. But I say this: We have made progress and we will make more.

And I want you to know that I expect and hope to be judged not by words, not by 2009

promises I’ve made, but by the promises that my administration keeps.”

Obama also defended his decision not to issue an order stopping the military’s expulsions of openly gay members, suggesting, again, that such an approach wouldn’t work out in the long run.

“As commander in chief in a time of war, I do have a responsibility to see that this change is administered in a practical way and a way that takes over the long term,” he said. “That’s why I’ve asked the secretary of defense and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to develop a plan for how to thoroughly implement a repeal. I know that every day that passes without a resolution is a deep disappointment to those men and women who continue to be discharged under this policy — patriots who often possess critical language skills and years of training and who’ve served this country well.

But what I hope is that these cases underscore the urgency of reversing this policy not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it is essential for our national security.”

SC Lt. Gov. Bauer Isn’t Gay

South Carolina Lt. Gov. André Bauer isn’t gay, he told The State newspaper June 30, introducing the topic himself.

Bauer could become governor if Gov. Mark Sanford resigns in the wake of his June disappearing act, during which he was continuing an extramarital affair with his “soul mate” in Buenos Aires.

“One word, two letters. No,” Bauer said, in response to his own question.

“Let’s go ahead and dispel that now. Is André Bauer gay? That is now the story.

We’re a long way from where we were a week ago. We have diverted what the real topic should be here: Is the governor capable of carrying on the duties for which he was elected?”

Bauer, 40, has never married.

Once safely re-elected, the depth of Huntsman’s discontent showed as he bushwhacked a new moderate wing for his party, puddle-jumped primary states and suggested civil unions might be allowed under Utah’s gay marriage ban.”

—Salt Lake Tribune columnist Rebecca Walsh writing about how outgoing Gov. Jon Huntsman “chafe[d] at the limits of his political affiliation” while in office in a column about the governor’s legacy.

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Am I proud of how I handle life’s joys and its obstacles as a lesbian? Very.

Am I proud of how I try to live my life honestly? Very.

Am I proud of the positive impact I can have on others and their perception of what a gay or lesbian person is like? Of course.

When I celebrate Gay Pride, I celebrate how I live my life, not how I was born.

And in that respect, I am very proud.”

—The owner of the blog Sterkworks, an “ex-Mormon lesbian surviving Utah” discussing why she celebrates Gay Pride.

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Aww. Even though he was straight, I think he deserves to be classified as an honorary bear.”

—Brandon Burt, author of City Weekly’s “Brandon’s Big Gay Blog,” writing about the death of bigvoiced TV pitchman Billy Mays.

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The generosity of the UUA will strengthen our efforts to preserve Utah families and create safe and affirming environments for LGBT youth as they journey into adulthood.”

—Utah Pride Center Director Valerie Larabee thanking the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations for donating $30,000 to the Center earlier this month.

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By Rex Wockner

Interview With Obama Advisor Steve Hildebrand

by Rex Wockner

Openly gay Steve Hildebrand was Barack Obama’s deputy national campaign director. When President Obama started to come under heavy fire from GLBT people in recent weeks — for talking the talk but not walking the walk on his promises to gay people — it was Hildebrand who went into the Oval Office for a one-on-one with President Obama to let him know what was going down. Steve and I spoke late in the evening July 5 in San Diego.

Rex Wockner: There’s probably nobody who’s talked to President Barack Obama more about gay stuff than you — and you’ve done so within the last couple of weeks. Since he’s come under fire for allegedly talking a really good talk but not walking the walk, yet, on gay and lesbian issues ... what did you talk about in that meeting you had with him?

Steve Hildebrand: I told him very clearly that many in the gay community across the country are getting very anxious and that folks have felt very hurt by the Justice Department brief — the language that was used in it.

He reassured me that he will not disappoint the gay community during his time as president, that the promises he made during the campaign are promises he will fulfill, and he was very forthright about his commitment to equality.

And, people will accuse me — probably rightfully so — that I’m a Kool-Aid drinker, that I believe in this guy, but I’ve been around a lot of very important politicians in my lifetime and I think this guy is different and I do trust him to do what is right. I also believe that he knows how to get things done, and that he will make a significant difference in a positive way in the lives of gay and lesbian Americans.

Rex: Let’s go back just a second to the (controversial marriage-case) brief.

Do you have any reason to believe that he may or may not have known what was in that brief before it happened?

Steve: As I understand it, he did not read the brief in advance but he subsequently has read the brief and was not happy at all with both the direction as well as the language that was used — and that he expects much better from

Rex: This same Justice Department is going to have to file another brief in (another federal gay marriage) case in October. Do you think it’s likely we’re going to see something different this time?

Steve: I hope so, I don’t know so. I certainly don’t profess to be somebody who has intimate knowledge of what’s going on at the Justice Department. I hope the outrage that has come — not just from the gay community but from others — about how pathetic the first brief was, that we will expect to see something more improved. You know, I have a little bit different perspective. I, like most people, was not at all happy with the language that was used, but better language would not have changed the end result of what the Justice Department was ruling on. I would like to see the Justice Department take a dramatic step and disagree that DOMA is a constitutional law.

Rex: There were some news stories to the effect that HRC cut a deal with the administration to delay the process on Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and to work on, I guess, hate crimes first. ... Do you think there’s any kind of order for the promises that President Barack Obama made during the campaign on things that he wants to get done for the gay and lesbian community.

Is there an order that we’re likely to see those happen in?

Steve: ... Regarding some kind of deal that was cut, I think that’s pretty crazy.

Anybody who followed Barack Obama during the campaign and anybody that really knows this guy — he’s not exactly one who’s out cutting deals with special-interest groups on the left or the right for the timing of various legislative initiatives. Barack Obama as president and commander in chief is, and will continue to go through, a process, methodically, to get the ducks in a row in order to get the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell done in a successful way that isn’t just going to happen overnight. He has to move the minds of the public, he has to move the minds of Congress and he has to move the minds of military leaders. And once that happens, and the ducks are in a row, I believe he can successfully move forward for repeal, something that he feels very strongly about and something that he spoke very passionately about.

Rex: Are we likely to see some other things from the administration or moving through Congress before Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell? Once again, do you think there’s some kind of order ... for the things that we’re going to see happening? Are hate crimes going to be first and DOMA going to be last, for example?

Steve: Hate crimes has already passed the House. It’s sitting in the Senate. Majority Leader Reid has promised action on it very soon and I hope he’ll live up to

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his administration.

that commitment. Passing hate crimes through Congress, and the signature of the president, can actually have a real positive impact on people’s lives. That’s something that’s very critical — and it’s something that’s really long overdue. So I believe that if there is an order to things, because the House has taken action, because the Senate could take action at any time, that is something that is probably likely to move pretty quickly. I can’t say I’m privy to what might be next, and that doesn’t always just happen from the White House.

You know, Nancy Pelosi as speaker has a real impact on that. Harry Reid as majority leader has a real impact on that, and I have not spoken to either of them.

Rex: In your speech to the National Education Association GLBT Caucus here tonight in San Diego, you came ‘this close’ to basically putting your fist in the air and saying, “It’s time to ACT UP and fight back.” What exactly were you talking about? What do you think ... the gay and lesbian community needs to be doing that we’re not doing?

Steve: I don’t think our voices are as powerful as they should be. I think too many people in the gay community do not push their elected officials as hard as they should. If you had 20 gay people together in a room and asked how many of them actually have reached out and either called, e-mailed or sent a letter to their member of Congress over the last two months, I would say the vast, vast majority of them will have done nothing. My suggestion is that people need to become strong activists, that we need to multiply by hundreds the number of activists we have in the gay community. We need more voices, we need louder voices, and we need to tell politicians at every level we’re not willing to take their excuses anymore.

Rex: ... There has been this sort of groundswell of yelling at President Barack Obama for the last three or four weeks. Would you include him in this kind of call for stepped-up pressure on politicians, or do you have a faith in him — a personal faith in him based on your experience — that he’s

going to be there for us whether we’re nice or not-so-nice to him?

Steve: I would encourage gays and straights alike to put pressure on President Obama, on his administration, to call for action — immediate action on the laundry list of items that the gay community deserves for true equality in this country. What I don’t like is the suggestion by a lot of people that this guy has lied to us and that he isn’t fulfilling his campaign promises, when he’s only been in office for five months.

He can’t change the world overnight and — I’m doing my best to say this without providing excuses — but this is a president who was handed a larger number of really big issues to deal with at the beginning of his presidency than any other president in history. He’s got to get an economy moving, he’s got to get the troops out of Iraq, there’s a lot of big, big problems. At the same time, he is working within his administration to try and get in a position to get some meaningful things done to help the gay community achieve equality. That does not preclude any suggestion that we should not keep up the pressure. He has told me, and he has told ... staff in the White House that pressure’s a good thing, so people should continue to put pressure on him.

Rex: A lot of these things need congressional action, not just him to say things.

Steve: Exactly, and if people want things done, they should demand action from Congress, they should demand action from the president, they should demand action from their school boards, from their city council members, their mayors, their legislators, their governors, everybody. They should demand action within their churches. I don’t believe in the kind of civil discourse that ACT UP used several years back.

My suggestion is that people ought to be very vocal, they ought to vote with full knowledge and full commitment of candidates — not just to support but to actually lead on issues that are important to us.

Rex: From some of our conversations earlier this evening, when we were just chatting, I got the impression

that you believe that Barack Obama, in his gut, gets the gay thing and sees it as one of — or maybe even *the* — last big civil rights things to accomplish, and that this is somebody — I mean, I think it would be comforting to the gay and lesbian community to know that he gets it in his gut and sees it as a fundamental civil rights issue and ... by the end of his first four years in office, you think things are going to have changed for the gay and lesbian community.

Steve: I don’t think it’s just in his gut, I think it’s in his heart. You know, none of us can know somebody exactly, but I do believe this guy fundamentally in his heart believes that we should not stop fighting — whether it’s for gay civil rights or any other kind of equality — until the job is done. ... I do believe that in his heart he will fight his tail off until we’ve achieved full equality in the gay community.

Rex: There’s been all this pressure on President Obama but nobody’s really yelling at Congress.

Why aren’t we yelling at Congress too?

done it because too many members of the House and Senate don’t have the political courage and the political will to take those votes. They believe those votes are too hard and will hurt them in their re-elections, and they’re more concerned about their re-elections than they are about actually helping people.

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Rex: When you look at, say, the Massachusetts example: Not a single legislator who voted for the gay issue of all gay issues — same-sex marriage — lost a seat in Massachusetts as a result of that vote. Do you think this fear that voting in favor of gays is going to lose you your next election is kind of overblown in the eyes of members of Congress and, if so, why?

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Steve: I don’t believe it’s just gay issues that politicians are afraid of. You’re seeing politicians who are afraid to do the right thing when it comes to climatechange legislation, you’re already hearing various members of the House and the Senate go south on health care reform because they think it might be a vote that’s going to be tough for their re-election. These folks, when they’re running for office, say they want to do important things and have a real impact, but then they go to Washington and all they do is focus on their reelection.

‘(President obama) did not read the ... pathetic (marriage) brief in advance but he subsequently has read the brief and was not happy at all with both the direction as well as the language that was used.’

Steve: Everybody should use their voices very loudly until we’ve achieved full equality. I do think that we’ve seen disappointment from politicians — Democrat and Republican— for too many decades now of people who say, “Yes, we support equality,” but then they go to Washington and they don’t do anything about it. They’re too wrapped up in figuring out how to win their next election and they’re not concerned enough about doing what’s right for the American people. And I think, I firmly believe that politicians should stop being so spineless and start being real leaders, and actually doing things that have a dramatic impact in a positive way on people’s lives.

Rex: Make it specific. What would you like to see Pelosi and Reid do next week for gay people?

Steve: Next week they should pass employment nondiscrimination, they should pass the Safe Schools (Improvement) Act (of 2009) to address the bullying issue, and they should pass hate crimes, and put those three pieces of legislation on the president’s desk, where he would sign them immediately.

Rex: Why haven’t they done it?

Steve: I firmly believe they haven’t

ally Congress.

Rex: A lot of these gay ... things, if they were put on his desk tomorrow, he would sign them. So, this is re-

Steve: Well, I certainly don’t want to let President Obama off the hook.

He needs to use his bully pulpit, he needs to use pressure on Congress, he needs to help move public opinion, but Congress needs to step up to the plate and do their part too.

Rex: What do you do to make Congress act? ... How do I get my congresswoman’s attention?

Steve: You should call her office, you should show up at events, whether it’s a town hall or another event that she might be at, and try to address her in person, you should write her a letter, you should write a letter to the editor, which calls upon her to take action that you’re requesting, you should not make a contribution to her campaign, and encourage others not to contribute, if she is not showing leadership on our issues.

There’s a whole bunch of ways.

Rex: Thanks, Steve. Q

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Utah NAACP, Survivor’s Mother Want Ogden Attacks Tried as Hate Crimes Will Phillips said he is doing alright after being attacked while visiting his friend’s apartment on June 2.

“I have a scar on my arm from where he kicked me and broke my skin, and finally the last bruise is about gone,” he said. “It’s kind of crazy, because if I hadn’t had my arms up, he would’ve kicked me smack in the face.”

Phillips, 24, was one of two gay young people attacked at Ogden’s Mirador apartment complex early last month.

The other, Whitney Goich, 20, underwent surgery on June 3 to repair a broken nose and a sunken tear duct she sustained during the attack. Both individuals claim their attacker was Christopher Vonnegut Allen, whom police arrested later that night. The two did not know each other before the attacks.

At the time Allen was charged with two class B misdemeanor counts of assault and one count of criminal trespassing. Since then, the charges against him have been raised to one count of seconddegree felony burglary, which carries a maximum prison sentence of 15 years.

However, a Western chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has urged the Weber County Attorney’s Office to raise the charges even further. On June 21, Jeanetta Williams, president of the NAACP TriState Conference of Idaho, Nevada and Utah, told the Ogden Standard-Examiner that the organization wants to see Allen charged with two counts of burglary, “one for each person [attacked].” “[The assaults] didn’t happen at the same time. They were different aggravated assaults on both of them with different slurs pertaining to the young lady being a lesbian and the young man being gay,” she said.

Phillips said Allen attacked him in a friend’s apartment. The friend, who asked not to be identified, apparently knew Allen and let him in. When the friend left the room, Phillips said Allen slapped him and stomped on him while shouting “I’m not [expletive] gay” until the friend forced Allen to leave.

At roughly 2:30 a.m. Goich, who was entering the building to visit a friend, said Allen punched her in the face and slammed his knee into her nose.

“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.

T h e NAACP l o o k s i n t o crimes in which victims appear to have been targeted because of a number of characteristics inChristopher Vonnegut Allen cluding race, religion, sexual orientation and gender identity. Additionally, Williams said that the local chapter wants prosecutors to call the attacks a hate crime, whether or not they seek to apply Utah’s hate crime enhancement to the case.

“A lot of times [hate crimes] go in as, maybe like this one, a second-degree felony burglary or assault or something like that, so it doesn’t get registered as a hate crime,” said Williams. “It makes it look like there’s no incidence of hate crimes here, which is not true.” If Allen is convicted, Williams said the attacks should be forwarded to the FBI for inclusion in its annual hate crimes report.

Allen failed to appear in court for a hearing on June 8, leading 2nd District

Judge Mark DeCaria to issue a no-bail bench warrant for his arrest. He withdrew the warrant seven days later when Allen’s attorney brought him to court.

Allen’s preliminary hearing is currently scheduled for July 13.

Lucinda Phillips, mother of Wil Phillips, said that she would attend the hearing, and that she would testify if called.

“I don’t necessarily want to see this kid [Allen] get tons and tons of time, but I do want to see him pay for what he did, and I want it to be brought into the public eye that people can’t just be doing this,” she said.

“None of them were doing anything wrong, and this poor girl, she could have died,” she continued. “My son was just there watching TV with his friends. He’s a good person. He’s an awesome kid.”

Phillips noted that the attack had rallied her family.

“His sister has twin 11-year-old girls,” she said. “And she’s decided to talk to her daughters about their uncle being gay and take them to Gay Lagoon Day.” Her son also said that he refuses to let the attack limit him.

“I figure that either it’s going to bring me down or make me stronger, and I’d rather it be the second,” he said. “I’m not going to let someone’s bigotry from scare me and keep me from having a life.” Q

Rev. Gene Robinson to Keynote Allies Dinner

Statewide gay rights group Equality Utah’s annual Allies Dinner will be held August at at the Salt Palace Grand Ballroom. This year’s guest speaker will be Gene Robinson, bishop of New Hampshire’s Episcopal Diocese and the first openly gay man ordained as a bishop in a major Christian denomination.

The recipients of Equality Utah’s 2009 Allies for Equality Award will be Salt Lake County Councilwoman Jenny Wilson, the South Valley Unitarian Universalist Society’s Rev. Sean Dennison, former ACLU director and the Women’s Redrock Music Festival organizer Carol Gnade and Cactus & Tropicals founder and owner Lorraine Miller.

COLAGE BBQ Members of Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere of Utah will be re-launching their group with a BBQ and potluck at the Utah Pride Center later this month. COLAGE is a fun, friendly support and social group for youth age 9 to 18 who have one or more gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender parents. It holds meetings and activities each month including pizza parties, craft nights, swimming and laser tag outings. Parents are welcome to attend the BBQ. If attending, please bring a side dish and wear anything rainbow colored.

When: July 10, 6–8 p.m.

Where: Utah Pride Center, 361 N 300 W Info: RSVP to Cara at caracerise@ hotmail.com or (801) 539-8800.

ROTC to Perfrom at the Farmers Market The gay-friendly color guard, the Righteously Outrageous Twirling Corps of Salt Lake City, will perform at the Salt Lake City Downtown Farmers Market on July 18 from 8–10 a.m.

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UAF Rummage Sale at the Masonic Temple

The Utah AIDS Foundation will hold their annual rummage sale fundraiser on July 11 from 7 a.m. to noon at the Masonic Temple, 650 E. South Temple.

The foundation is accepting donations of items (aside from clothing) including appliances, furniture, books, and children’s things for the sale, of which all proceeds will go to funding its programs. All items should be clean, in good working condition and are fully tax deductible.

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Items should be delivered to the parking lot of Salt Lake City’s Masonic Temple, 650 E. South Temple, on July 10 after 2 p.m. UAF will also accept a limited number of items at its offices, 1408 S 1100 E, on July 9.

Volunteers will be needed to price the items and to staff the sale.

To donate, contact Nathan Measom at 801487-2323 or Nathan@utahaids.org. To volunteer, contact Teresa Hyatt at teresa@utahaids. org.

The Utah Pride Center is asking attendees of this year’s Utah Pride Festival to take a survey to let organizers know what was liked at the festival and what attendees would like to see in coming years. Those who take the online survey will be entered into a drawing for prizes including a round trip pass on Jet Blue Airlines, hotel stays, and a bed and breakfast getaway. To take the survey visit utahpridecenter.org.

2009 Pride Choice Awards The Center is also asking people to review the Utah Pride Festival and the Utah Pride Center at greatnonprofits.org. Reviewers can win prizes including Kimpton Hotel stays.

Info: utahpridecenter.org

Center Golf Classic Registration will be opening soon for the Utah Pride Center’s 10th annual Golf Classic Tournament, which serves as a fundraiser for the Center. The tournament will be held Aug. 30 at the Stonebridge Golf Course.

Info: utahpridecenter.org

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Utah ‘Breast Dialogues’ Bounces Back for Year Five On July 18, the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center will be taken over by boobs.

Well, a performance about boobs, anyway.

The evening will mark the fifth anniversary of Breast Dialogues, an evening of humorous, sober, sexy and uplifting monologues by local women (cisgender and transgender) about these physical endowments that play such a big role in women’s lives from youth to old age.

The show’s structure is inspired by playwright Eve Ensler’s groundbreaking work, The Vagina Monologues, which got women across the world talking about issues directly related to the part of their anatomy that many still see as dirty.

Jennifer Nuttall, Utah Pride Center’s adult programs director, said she hopes that Breast Dialogues (which the center co-sponsors) will do the same thing for women’s breasts that Ensler’s play did for their vaginas. Especially when it comes to the topic of breast cancer, which affects thousands of women in America and which lesbian, bisexual and transgender women are at higher risk of getting. In fact, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation, which cosponsors the performance along with the Center, gave the Center the grant in 2004 that made the first Dialogues possible. The grant, said Nuttall, was intended to educate women, most notably lesbians and bisexuals, about their particular risk factors.

“I think [Breast Dialogues] has been one of the most effective ways to bring awareness about breast cancer to the lesbian, bisexual and transgender community, because it’s a very entertaining and fun way to come and bond with other people around stories about our breasts,” she said. “Everyone has some experience with their breasts and there’s that experience we can relate to.”

Along with the camaraderie this evening of theatre inspires, Nuttall also noted that the show combines entertainment with important education about breast cancer, mammograms, self-examinations and other things women need to know to detect potential tumors early.

“I think we all have some fear,” she continued. “Everyone knows someone who has gotten breast cancer, and to have that environment [the play encourages] to bring up that fear and then to have some resources, can be helpful.

This has been a really effective way to bring that [information] to the community.”

When asked what risk factors lesbian, bisexual and transgender women and men face that their straight and cisgender (non-transgender) do not, Nuttall named not seeking screenings (like mammograms) frequently. “[Lesbians, bisexual women and transgender women and men] don’t go and seek care as often and there are a lot of reasons for that. Part of that is the fear of discrimination in health care settings.”

To help alleviate this fear, Nuttall said the Center has created a list of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgenderaffirming health care providers — each of whom are recommended to the Center by at least one individual patient.

“It’s really important to disclose your sexual orientation to your provider, and we try to provide information [to help facilitate] that,” she said. “Gaining that trust is important and helps you to follow through with the steps [they recommend].”

Breast Dialogues veteran Laurie Wood is serving as the facilitator for the show’s 2009 incarnation, helping the participating women write and hone their monologues. One participant, she said, is writing about her fears of get-

ting breast cancer after watching her mother go through it.

“Now she’s getting to the age where she’s having to worry [about getting it],” Wood said.

But while Breast Dialogues has served as a vehicle for breast cancer education and prevention, the show has never been all about the disease, and neither will it be this year.

“There’s one woman who recently went through breast reduction surgery, so her story is about how having very large breasts impacted so many aspects of her life and reflected on how she saw herself,” said Wood. “Then there’s another story of a woman who has equally large breasts and it’s her celebration of those breasts.”

Nor are cisgender women the only ones interested in writing.

“There are a couple of women [who have come to the monologue workshops] who are in the process of transitioning — one from male to female and one from female to male, and that perspective is really interesting. One is looking forward to getting rid of breasts and the other looking forward to getting breasts.”

“A lot of the stories are about — they’re almost every woman’s stories about insecurities that come with our breasts and how much meaning gets invested in them either through our

Team Try-Angles Raises over $8,000 for MS Despite a slumping economy and a team two members shy of last year’s 13, Team Try-Angles, Club Try-Angles’ entry in this year’s Harmons Best Dam Bike Tour, cruised on, raising nearly $8,500 for research into multiple sclerosis.

The two-day tour, held annually in Cache County’s Blacksmith Fork Canyon, is a fundraiser for the Utah Multiple Sclerosis Society. Money raised goes to research for treatment and a cure for the autoimmune disease, which affects approximately 400,000 Americans.

Although the team had only 11 members this year, team captain Adam Frost said the cyclists — straight men and women, and gay men — exceeded

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their fundraising goal of $5,000.

“We expect it to be $9,000 when all is said and done,” he said, noting that some donations were still coming in and being tallied. Although the team raised nearly $12,000 last year, Frost said he wasn’t disappointed with this year’s total.

“A few people couldn’t donate this year” because of the economy, he noted.

“I think [the money we raised] shows how we were able to come together as a team.”

To participate in the ride, each cyclist had to raise $250. Twenty-five dollars of each cyclist’s total was supplied by Club Try-Angles owner Gene Gieber, who has

families or siblings or girlfriends or boyfriends. They’re just fraught with meaning,” she added.

Although Breast Dialogues workshops draw a number of women each year, both Nuttall and Wood said they are concerned they won’t have enough new pieces for a show (the piece typically features 10 monologues). Because of the shortage, they have said that a few “favorites from years past” may reappear in 2009’s line up.

But no matter what pieces get used, Wood promised an incredible evening of theatre.

“Every single time, the whole becomes so terrific you couldn’t even plan it better, and it’s all sort of random,” she said. Nobody plans a storyline through the whole evening but it’s so amazing how it comes together.”

Breast Dialogues will be held at the Rose Wagner’s Studio Theatre on July 18 at 7 p.m. Tickets are a suggested donation of $10 to pay for renting the space. Breast cancer information will be available after the show as will light refreshments, provided by lesbian social and civic group sWerve. Shellie Waters will direct.

For more information about the performance, or to express interest in participating, contact Jennifer Nuttall at (801) 539-8800 x 13 or Jennifer@utahpridecenter.org.

sponsored the team for several years now, and who has several family members who have been diagnosed with MS. Frost noted that the tour had an unusually large number of riders participating this year — so many that his team didn’t start peddling until nearly half an hour after lining up at the starting point at 7 a.m. on June 27. Although an unusually stormy June had the team worried they would be battling rain and lightning on their way up the canyon, Frost said the weather couldn’t have been better — though a few gusts of wind made him wobble a little.

“I started up the canyon and it was so windy I couldn’t ride in a straight line — which is appropriate for a gay team,” he joked. “It was pushing me from side to side.” Still, Frost said he and the team managed to push through the feisty wind, and the ride down the canyon was uneventful. Overall, each team member biked at least 75 miles on Saturday and 40-75 miles on Sunday.

The tour, which is not a race, allows riders to bike in loops of 40, 75 or 100 miles each day.

On Saturday night, Frost said he and his teammates had dinner at a local restaurant and went to bed early to prepare for the long ride in the morning.

Although most riders ended the tour feeling tired from the workout, Frost said they all left happy.

“Everyone had a great time. There was a lot of laughing and eating. It could not have gone smoother,” he said.

To donate to the team, visit tinyurl.com/ teamtryangles.

Homeless Youth Pride Walk Soldiers On Two Utah women who are walking across the country while living homeless to raise awareness of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender homeless youth are slowly making their way back to Utah.

Chloe Noble and Jill Hardman began their walk, which they call the Homeless Youth Pride Walk 2009, in early May. So far, they have traveled through Seattle, Portland, Ore., and San Francisco, where they lead a march of queer homeless youth through the Castro District to Harvey Milk Plaza. Along the way they have held “shines� in each city — events designed to allow gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender homeless youth and their supporters to speak out against youth homelessness and the homophobia and transphobia behind it.

The “shines� are named for Operation Shine, a foundation the two women created to fight queer youth homelessness.

The pair are now making their way back to Salt Lake City where they will hold a Utah “shine� at the Utah Pride Center on July 25. This “shine� will have a BBQ and an open mic session the two are calling Youth Voice.

After this “shine,� the women will continue their walk to Washington, D.C. where they have said they will meet up with the LGBTQ National Equality March on Oct. 11.

On July 8, Noble e-mailed QSaltLake to say that Nicole Tomlin, one of the other walkers who have joined the duo, has returned home, feeling that “it was unsafe for her to continue.� “Nicole is one of the brightest and one of the most empowered youth leaders I have met,� Noble wrote. “We learned a lot from one another and are better having known each other even under such stressful circumstances. It is hard to be in survival mode everyday. It can be very dangerous living on the streets and sometimes the trauma that we see is almost too much to bear.�

In the two months Noble, Hardman and companions like Tomlin have been on the streets, Noble said they have experienced harassment from police, injuries including spider bites, a sprained ankle, blisters and exhaustion, and have “run out of money, food and supplies.� “We have only walked one-fourth of our journey,� wrote Hartman. “But we will be out here walking and rallying for Queer homeless youth until the beginning of December.�

While the two women have received messages of support from across the nation and around the world, they also said they have been “receiving an increased amount of hate mail.� Most recently, they have said these include messages from a writer using the name Dell Schanze, the former owner of Totally Awesome Computers and the Utah Libertarian Party’s 2008 controversial gubernatorial candidate. Noble for-

warded the e-mails to QSaltLake, and they include the following quotation: “How can you promote the destruction of the human race and pretend you are anything less than an angel of hell??? If everyone lived like a faggot the entire human race would be destroyed.

Psycho gunmen shooting up a school are far better and more honorable than those that would promote homosexuality to students. The psycho gunmen would only kill people. YOU WOULD SEND THEM TO A FIREY [sic] HELL FOREVER AND FOR ALL ETERNITY!!!!! You are WORSE than HITLER!!!

You are WORSE than terrorists!!!! YOU are worse than an axe murderer and serial killer. Those people only take lives.

YOU completely destroy them beyond repair and send them to suffer an eternity of DAMNATION!!! Why is HELL in YOU??!!! Repent, turn to God!!!�

Schanze has received criticism in the past for making anti-gay remarks in an unaired radio commercial (a CD of which City Weekly received in 2005). In a February post to his blog, he also called Gov. Jon Huntsman “anti-Christ� after Huntsman announced his support of civil unions for same-sex couples.

In a post to her Facebook account, Noble called Schanze’s e-mails “a perfect example of the blatant homophobia and transphobia that is literally tearing our country apart ... [and] a perfect example of the intense and apalling [sic] violence that many Queer youth face, before they are kicked out of their homes and forced to live on the streets.�

She noted that 40 percent of the United States’ homeless youth identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, and that over 20 percent of these “fall through the cracks of the system� because of anti-gay and anti-transgender prejudice. “Almost 70 percent of Queer homeless youth are suicidal and close to 17 percent eventually take their own lives.

87 percent of homeless TransYouth who are murdered, are tortured, shot, beaten, and stabbed beyond recognition. Beyond ... recognition,� she wrote. “The message is clear. We are not being asked to simply hide anymore. We are being assaulted to the point where OUR existence is being destroyed.�  Q For more information about the Homeless Youth Pride Walk 2009, visit the walk’s Twitter and Facebook accounts. Noble and Hardman are also maintaining a blog at pridewalk2009. org, which includes videos and photographs of their walk, and a Google map showing their journey. Videos of their walk may also be seen on YouTube under the account operationshine. To date, the women have uploaded 200 videos, some as short as 30 seconds, some as long as 10 minutes, detailing everything from encounters with homeless youth, recountings of police harassment, and simple meditations upon their journey’s purpose.

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ciety that we exist. That fact is part of how we pursue the ideals that I chose to defend. One day, I know this country will live up to the standard, “All men are created equal.” Until What Pride Means to Me that day, we must continue to fight, Editor, Many years ago, there was a boy who protest and party for the whole world believed in an ideal nation where all to see.

Each day that we live openly, we people were equal. This boy’s ideals change one heart. That one heart beled him to choose to serve and defend that nation. He also didn’t know comes a thread weaved into the fabric who he really was way deep down of change. That fabric grows into the inside. Through many experiences, quilt of history. The quilt will protect he changed and would never be the us from a future of cold injustice. same. He served his nation both at Michael D Whitworth home and abroad. He saw reality at Salt Lake City its harshest and most pure. Then, he figured out who he was. He came to Still Brothers and Sisters understand that to live he needed to Editor, do it openly. He told the world that he In 1969, I turned 16. I knew growing was a homosexual. He didn’t do it with up I was the only person in the world fear or shame. He did it with pride. He feeling the way I did. But by the age of learned that his nation didn’t live up 16, I heard about “queers” and “homoto his ideals. sexuals.” At a young age, my parents Today, I was and still am that boy. instilled in me a habit of reading the I grew and changed. I still believe daily newspaper. Lo and behold, 40 in my ideals for my nation. I am a dis- years ago, quite possibly on this very abled American veteran. I fight each day, I read an article in the Sioux City day with the challenges of that part of (Ia) Journal about an uprising at a my life. I am able to do it with the sup- bar called the Stonewall Inn in New port of my husband of fourteen years. York City.

I make it each day with the support of In 1999, on my first trip to NYC, my friends, family and him. niece and her husband were showing Each year, despite personal fears me the sites of NYC. While walking and apprehension, I choose to attend the city, we accidently entered Christhe annual pride festivities. These topher Square, and we happened to be events exemplify our need to tell so- directly in front of the Stonewall Inn. 12 | QSa lt L a k e | issue 132 | July 9, 20 09

Snaps & Slaps SNAP: Women’s Redrock Music Festival

I told my niece and her husband the history of the bar, and we went in and saw all of the pictures and newspaper articles of what had occurred in 1969.

I told them that this bar was the birthplace of my freedom and equality.

I realize the Stonewall Riots were not the first thing that had been done to gain our rights, but I honestly believe it was the first event to galvanize the gay community. I am continually amazed by the progress that has been made in my lifetime, and I thank all of those before us who fought for our rights and have made our lives better. Remember the victories, to savor those moments. And remember the setbacks, for they make us stronger and more resolved.

And please remember, with all of our differences and disagreements, we are still brothers and sisters underneath it all.

Enjoy this time of year, and always, remember our past.

Alan C. Anderson Salt Lake City

QSaltLake welcomes letters from our readers. Please send your letter of less than 300 words to letters@qsaltlake. com. Include contact info in case we have questions. We reserve the right to edit for length or libel if published.

Utah has long been a (perhaps surprisingly) friendly place for female singers and musicians. Hey, we even had Lilith Fair here once, remember? Along with a healthy year-round music scene featuring a bevy of talented ladies including Mary Tebbs, Bronwen Beecher, Sister Wives and the campyfabulous Saliva Sisters, we are also lucky enough to have the Women’s Redrock Music Festival. Now in its third year, this fest (sponsored by the Utah Pride Center) showcases fabulous female musicians from a number of states — and some from our own neighborhoods, like Misty River, Rita Boudreau and Mona Stevens of Sister Wives. If you’ve attended in the past two years, you know you’re in for a treat this August. And if you haven’t gone yet? Seriously. What are you waiting for? The festival is only a month away, and tickets aren’t going to be around forever.

SLAP: Summer Doldrums Tap tap tap. Um. Hello? Is this community on? Speak up! Hold a rally!

Do a barrel roll! Something! The more we stare at our hands here at the QSaltLake offices, the more we realize how boring our hands actually are.

SNAP: Unitarian Universalists Well, here’s some news, and it’s actually great news. The ever gay and transgender-friendly Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations just donated $30,000 to the Utah Pride Center during its weeklong assembly in the state capitol early this month. The proceeds came from a dance the group held for couples of all sexual orientations and gender identities, as well as from the collection basket passed around on Sunday. Without a recession going on, that would be a lot of money. In the middle of a recession, that amount is nothing short of astounding (or maybe miraculous is the word we should use), and the help it will give to the Center’s youth and adult programming will be just as astounding.

Our fingers are clicking for you, Unitarians! Come back and see us sometime, yeah?

Ruby Ridge Mourning in America

by Ruby Ridge

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o darlings, i’m writing my column

with a heavy, inconsolable heart. I, like you, am grieving over the loss of someone truly remarkable who touched the world. A talent, a legend, a voice, that belongs in the pantheon of the ages. A man, who by sheer charisma and camera savvy became the voice of our generation.

I’m talking, of course, about the passing of Billy Mays.

Cherubs, where do I begin with my eulogy of Mr. Mays? I think I need to go way back to the beginning. Before the Mighty Putty, before the Orange Glo, and long before he started dyeing his beard darker than Elizabeth Taylor’s Black Glamour fur.

It seems like only yesterday when a much younger and burly Billy Mays captured my late night attention with his loud commercial pitches for Oxiclean laundry detergent. Sure, the product was fabulous; his demonstrations were compelling, and the sheer numerical repetition of them just made you want to pull out your credit card and buy Oxiclean by the truckload! Maybe it was just me, but I could read the sexual subtext in those commercials. I remember looking wistfully at Billy’s full luxurious beard and thinking to myself, “Buddy, I could put a stain on your shirt that would take more than two rinse cycles and a scoop of detergent to get rid of.” But then I would remember that sexually objectifying someone and thinking of them only as a piece of man candy is just crass, morally wrong and unbecoming of an influential role model such as myself, whose mildest opinions and slightest actions inevitably inspire imitation by ... “the children.”

Well, despite all the gloom of losing Billy Mays, Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett and Ed McMahon, I do have something uplifting and life-affirming to tell you, and naturally pumpkins, it involves me!

A few weeks ago I was shopping at a large hardware store that shall remain nameless (because last time I mentioned it some politically correct minion e-mailed me and complained

vociferously that it was not on the HRCapproved list of gay-friendly employers). As I was leaving with a cart full of bark chip mulch and variegated irises, this adorable older hetero couple came barreling up to me in the parking lot.

At first I thought they were going to car jack me because they knew I had lozenges in the glove box, but that wasn’t it at all. They asked me if I liked irises (which I adore!). Before long we were exchanging addresses, and arranging a plant exchange.

The next weekend I dug up a patch of yarrow, put it in a tote and drove over to their house. They gave me a lovely clump of double blue irises, and showed me around their welltended garden. Now here’s where I lose all sense of impartiality petals because these folks are my favorite kind of fringe suburban-dwellers.

These are the kind of people with that irrepressible kind of joie de vivre who find an excuse to put up displays for every kind of holiday imaginable. The weekend I was there, they were erecting a 16-foot tall plywood Statue of Liberty and a massive copy of the Declaration of Independence. It was awesome!

But that’s not all.

Under their deck they had decorations for nine more annual holidays. Suddenly my light-up Snoopy Santa looked kind of lame. I have to tell you, kittens, I simply adore people who just go all-out, balls to the wall, “screw what the neighbors might think” MAD with front yard displays.

This lovely little couple and their front yard Americana just made my week, and I’m still grinning from ear to ear.

Happy Fourth of July and Pioneer Day Darlings! Q

at first i thought they were going to car jack me because they knew i had lozenges in the glove box, but that wasn’t it at all.

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 E in Salt Lake City at 7 p.m. This month we celebrate “the Fruited Plain” and all things patriotic. The charity of the month is the Salt Lake City Police Dept.’s back to school “Shop with a Cop.”

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The arrival of summer has been nothing short of disappointing to me. Spring rains drizzled into June and the things I remember about summer — luxurious afternoons at the pool, time slowed down and relaxing at every turn — have not happened. In fact, my life has become more managed — the details more important. Things have become more complicated because school is out for the summer and childcare has become the issue-of-the-day to juggle: summer school, art and sports camps, etc.

This year, through all the juggling, we had a week where we didn’t have anything for Riley to do. Since he’s only 7, I wasn’t totally comfortable with him staying home by himself, so I invited my 14-year-old nephew to stay with us for a week and take care of Riley in the day.

Riley loves hanging out with teenagers, and he sure gets sucked into the world of video games and electric guitar.

And food! Everything about that week they spent together revolved around food. The highlight was fruit sorbet served in the half shell. Riley loved the lemon sorbet served in a halflemon shell. His cousin loved the coconut sorbet in the half-coconut shell.

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During one play date, Riley was riding his bike at a friendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house when a neighborhood kid on his own bike cut Riley off. Riley swerved to miss the kid and rode smack-dab into a tree. I told Riley that next time he ought to just run into the kid instead of running into the tree because of course, the tree won.

And poor Riley racked himself in his precious parts.

This was the first time Riley had ever had an injury there, beyond a tiny bump. Until his run-in with the tree, Riley had no idea how painful hurting his privates would be.

But it became apparent when he was finally able to breath, and promptly screamed an obscenity.

Later he told me, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d say that word too, Mamma, if you had a penis.â&#x20AC;? (Indeed, I would.)

He also tried to strip naked right there in the middle of the sidewalk, bike and self still smashed against the tree.

The father of the friend who Riley was visiting ran outside to make sure Riley was okay. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a real sweet guy, and we adore him. But heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got a big voice and a big presence. Physically, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a very big man and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not quite used to boys like Riley. You know, sissies. Riley was wailing. Carrying on. As I said before, Riley was also stripping. Right there on the sidewalk to assess the damage.

Friendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dad said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dude, you gotta take care of your junk in private, man.

Come on. Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s go inside and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get you a wet towel, and you can gather yourself back together.â&#x20AC;?

Riley, through sobs of drama: â&#x20AC;&#x153;But. I. Canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. Walk.â&#x20AC;?

Friendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dad: â&#x20AC;&#x153;You gotta be a man, man!â&#x20AC;?

Riley, defensive through sobs of drama: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Boys can cry. Men cry, too.â&#x20AC;?

Friendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dad: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Of course we do, son.

But we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do it in the street.â&#x20AC;?

Riley: â&#x20AC;&#x153;When we get hurt in the street, we do. I want my mom. Now!â&#x20AC;?

This was sort of an epiphany for me.

It was one of those moments when I expect Riley to want, indeed need, the care and support of a man. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m usually one to assert that a person needs the love and care of a parent, and that parentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gender doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matter. I still believe that.

But in moments like that one, I sort of expect Riley to want to deal with â&#x20AC;&#x153;maleâ&#x20AC;? things with other males. I was shocked

that Riley didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want that. Being used to a â&#x20AC;&#x153;feminineâ&#x20AC;? kind of care, the care Riley received from his friendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dad was both unfamiliar and too â&#x20AC;&#x153;male.â&#x20AC;?

His friendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dad provided care and concern, but even with an injury like that, Riley wanted his moms.

So the dad drove Riley home. We promptly started mothering our son.

He took a cool bath and then stripped down on the couch to watch a re-run of Golden Girls with a bag of frozen peas on his lap. He also insisted he needed to go directly to the emergency room.

Knowing little about emergency care when it comes to these injuries, I had no idea from whom to get this support. I felt so helpless. I also saw how Riley was trying to understand his body in a way where I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help him. What shocked me most was that Riley, in all his pain and bewilderment, could articulate his need to counsel with a man (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Can you call Papa and see if I have to go to the doctor?â&#x20AC;?) while being supported by his moms. Meanwhile, Riley couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t pee. (It hurt.) He couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t eat.

(It hurt.) He couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t cough. (It hurt.)

Apparently, getting sacked in the sac feels a lot like a C-section. Except with a C-section you get a baby. And with this injury, you just might never have a baby.

In any case, Riley carried on all night.

We even had to let him ride in the wagon for our nightly walk. Because, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right, it hurt to walk. The next day Riley woke and seemed to be in good spirits. He got up and dressed for school.

He acted like nothing was wrong. I was afraid to mention it because I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to remind him that he had been hurt. I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help it, though. As we got ready to leave for school and work, I asked if he felt better. He replied that he did.

And then he leaned over and whispered that he was wearing the coconut shell he saved from the sorbet.

He was wearing the coconut cup from his sorbet. And no convincing to do otherwise would have gotten it off of him.

I looked right at him and simply said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;No more drinking water out of it.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Of course not, Mamma,â&#x20AC;? he replied.

And I sent him to school.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m in awe of the joy I feel in parenting boys. Simply in awe of Rileyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s creativity and personality. And I wish the word â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;sissyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; had more positive connotations, because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the only word that truly fits this kid. We made it through his first penis crisis. I love him so much, and after this I just might be ready for the next big milestone, whatever it may be. Q

i assured him that we had perfectly good cups, but he instisted coconut shells are more fun.

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Philip Irvin, a City Lights employee and a well-known anti-gay crusader in Seattle, filed a public disclosure request to get the names of the folks in the group.

The group said “hell no” and the city originally sided with them.

Until the city realized that, well, they kind of had to release the members’ names because it really was public info.

“The city sympathizes with the concerns that the plaintiffs have expressed,” a city attorney said. “Nonetheless, the city believes that the Public Records Act obligates it to disclose the records at issue.”

The LGBT group has since filed for an injunction to block the release, but with the city itself arguing in Irvin’s favor, it seems unlikely that the group will prevail.

So just who is Philip Irvin and why does he want the names to begin with?

According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Irvin “sees himself as the victim of bigotry by the city and intends to form an employee group for former homosexuals.”

Describing his intentions on the Faith and Freedom Network Web site, Irvin claims he was just “curious to find out who was using city resources.” But no doubt his “curiosity” was peaked by more than his identity as a taxpayer.

“Call me a homophobe if you want to but I don’t think the city should fund a secret gay employees group,” Irvin said.

Dan Savage, editor of Seattle’s the Stranger newspaper and author of the syndicated advice column Savage Love, describes Irvin as a “semi-professional homophobe” and “an anti-gay

Christian nutcase.” Savage, however, also agrees with Irvin, at least on this one issue.

“You’re a homophobie, Phil, but you’re right: the city shouldn’t be funding secret groups for gay employees,” wrote Savage on Slog, the Stranger’s blog. “And if SPU’s gay group is an official city group, and it receives funding from the city, it should be subject to the same rules and regulations regarding openness and public disclosure that all other city groups, agencies, individual employees, etc., are subject to.”

Of course, there’s more to this fight then mere procedure. But Savage knows that.

“And that’s easy for me to say, I suppose, sitting here at the Stranger, where everyone is gay and everything is glorious,” Savage writes. “What about SPU’s closeted employees? What about their privacy? Privacy is a concern for some gays and lesbians — for closeted ones — in way that it isn’t for, say, women at SPU who might form an employee’s group. But the lesson here is this: If you’re not out, an employee group funded by the city — and subject to public records requests — isn’t the right support group for you.”

Granted, Savage doesn’t have a lot of patience with closeted folks, but he has a good point. However, it’s going to be a rough transition for some folks in that LGBT employee group.

Considering Irvin’s anti-gay notoriety, he knows damned well how high the stakes are for gay and lesbian employees who haven’t come out of the closet. Outside their employee group, the wider world is a much scarier place. And folks like Irvin are exactly why. Can’t exactly blame them for not wanting to put their names in his hands. Q

So just who is Philip Irvin and why does he want the names to begin with?

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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Lambda Lore 1969 Our Summer of Discontent

by Ben Williams

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n July 1, 1969, while I was sulking

because I felt I was not spending enough time alone with John Cunningham, something big was going on in Washington, D.C.: The deputy director of the Pentagon, Dr. Donald MacArthur, was called before a congressional subcommittee hearing on chemical and biological warfare.

There, he explained that currently all biological agents were naturally occurring, and thus known by scientists throughout the world. However, he also claimed that within the next five to 10 years, “it would probably be possible to make a new infective microorganism which could differ in certain important aspects from any known disease-causing organisms.” He noted, however, that this new microorganism might be uncontrollable since it would attack the “immunological and therapeutic processes” that kept humans free of infectious disease.

Pressing on, Dr. MacArthur then told the subcommittee that a research program to create such a new microorganism would take about five years at a cost of $10 million — since molecular biology was a relatively new science and there were few competent scientists in the field. He suggested that if Congress funded the program it be run through the National Academy of Sciences — National Research Council and

under the control of the Department of Defense.

Dr. MacArthur warned the subcommittee that biological warfare was a “highly controversial issue” and “there are many who believe such research should not be undertaken lest it lead to yet another method of massive killing of large populations.”

The biological agent discussed at this congressional hearing was later called a “retrovirus.” The agency that was to create this retrovirus was later hidden in President Nixon’s National Cancer Act of 1971. As part of this national effort, in October 1971, the Army’s Fort Detrick, Maryland biological warfare facility was converted into a cancer research center, eventually becoming the Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center, an internationallyrecognized center for cancer and AIDS research.

On the following day, the New York City police were summoned for the third time to quell an aggressive crowd of nearly 500 protestors chanting Gay Pride slogans and marching down Christopher Street in Greenwich Village. According to one eyewitness, the police, armed with nightsticks, seemed “bent on massive retaliation.” The Village Voice newspaper reported, “The cops who had been caught off guard and were on the defensive before, had

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taken the offensive and massive retaliation was their goal. Some seemed quite ready to depopulate Christopher Street the moment anyone would give them permission to upholster their guns.” Reports from the Village also stated that “7th Avenue from Christopher Street to West 10th looked like a battlefield in Vietnam. Young people, many of them queens, were lying on the sidewalk, bleeding from the head, face, mouth and even the eyes.” By this time “Black Panthers, Yippies, Crazies, and young toughs from street gangs all over the city and some from New Jersey” out numbered the “queens” and were using the Gay Power movement to loot and cause mayhem in the Village.

On the Fourth of July about 40 of these New York gays boarded a Homophile Youth Movement-chartered bus to go to Philadelphia for the Eastern Regional Conference of Homophile Organizations. ERCHO was holding its fifth anniversary of a homosexual picketing demonstration in front of Independence Hall. The event was called the Annual Reminder. When the youth and the leaders of the homophile organizations came together at Philadelphia, they immediately clashed. The New York contingent brought with them a new militant self-respect that the old guard could not tolerate.

When Frank Kameny, founder of the Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C. and organizer of the Annual Reminder, saw two New York lesbians holding hands, he slapped their hands shouting, “You can’t do that! You can’t do that!”

The New York folks were freaked by Kameny’s actions. To ERCHO’s dismay they broke with the older group and wrote on their own picket signs “Equality For Homosexuals” and “Smash Sex-

ual Fascism.” Many of the youth then began walking hand-in-hand as couples and the Annual Reminder disbanded, never to be formed again. “The new young militants stared at the older homophile organizers across a wide generation gap.”

Back in New York City, leaders of a homophile organization called the Mattachine Society of New York organized the first “Homosexual Liberation Meeting” on July 9. The meeting was made up of a committee which demanded a Gay Power demonstration to protest police harassment. However, dissension broke out immediately over whether the movement should align itself with all oppressed minorities or just work for law reformation for homosexuals.

The Mattachine Society policy was only to be involved with issues related to homosexual liberation, and it would not budge.

On July 16, MSNY and its Gay Liberation Action Committee parted company. MSNY’s founder Dick Leitsch stated that while “police brutality and heterosexual indifference must be protested, at the same time, the gay world must retain the favor of the establishment, especially those who make and change the laws. Homosexual acceptance will come slowly, by educating the straight community with grace and good humor.”

Immediately, a long-haired youth jumped up on his feet and yelled, “We don’t want acceptance, god damn it! We want respect! Demand it! We’re through hiding in dark bars behind Mafia doormen. We’re going to go where straights go and do anything with each other they do and if they don’t like it, well fuck them! Straights don’t have to be ashamed of anything sexy they happen to feel like doing in public and neither do we. We’re through cringing and begging like a lot of nervous old Nellies at Cherry Grove!”

Then James Fourett shouted, “All of the oppressed have to unite. The system keeps us all weak by keeping us separate. We’ve got to work together with all the New Left.”

Poor Dick Leitcsh tried to maintain decorum, but he was firmly ignored.

The day of the homophile was over; after this meeting, young folk’s interest in Mattachine sponsored actions was over as well. They turned to people like Dr. Leo Louis Martello who told fellow gays at that meeting that they must challenge every feeling of worthlessness they may have ever had about themselves. He developed his ideas of Gay Pride further in the first issue of The Gay Liberation Front’s Come Out!.

For the third and last Mattachine Society Community Action Meeting, very few straight or gay folks even turned out. It was time for a new beginning.

Oh, yeah. And on July 20 we put a man on the moon. Q

Gay Geeks Summer Sucks?

by JoSelle Vanderhooft

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s it just me, or does everything

around here slow down after Pride?

It’s kind of a shock. I mean, here we spend weeks and weeks building the perfect float, picking the perfect music and finding just the right pair of red booty shorts to go with your angel wings (you know who you are, if you’re reading this ... you looked fabulous!), and then in one weekend, poof! It’s all gone in a flash of feathers and rainbow sequins. And with it, what seems like the entire gay and transgender community — at least until Oktoberfest rolls around in, oh, for us queers, September or so.

Sure, there are concerts, square dancing lessons, bingo nights, garden parties and a whole lot of other activities I’m not listing because we’d be here all day, but everything just seems to be moving in three-quarter time when the mercury passes 90. Maybe it’s because the legislature’s on break and Chris Buttars isn’t shooting his mouth off (well, outside of Saturday’s Voyeur, anyway). Or maybe it’s just the usual July doldrums in action. Hell, maybe it’s even the mercury — those 100 degree days sure make me lethargic.

Whatever the reason, the kids on South Park said it best: Summer sucks.

Well, not really. Not if you’re me, at least. I’m spending all this down time overloading on cheesy This TV movies (Meteor, the Sean Connery vehicle we won’t let him forget), catching up on science fiction and fantasy books I want (and need) to read and breaking my brain on Umberto Eco’s The Island of the Day Before. Just for fun. Oh, and flying east to attend Readercon — one of the most book-friendly science fiction and fantasy conventions around — in Massachusetts a few days after writing this column.

Seriously, geeky ones. Just because things are a little slow in the hotter months doesn’t mean that Kyle, Cartman and Stan are right. We own summer, and there are a lot of ways to show it other than indulging in all those big budget SF and action films Hollywood feeds us from Memorial Day to Labor Day (er, not that I have anything against explosions and giant robots, but still). Here are a few of my ideas for making your summer extra geeky.

1. MST3K, the home edition. It’s one thing to watch, say, Meteor all by your

lonesome. But as Mystery Science Theatre 3000 taught us in the 1990s, the appeal of bad movies is directly proportionate to the number of people (or robots) watching them. So Netflix yourself a copy of Attack of the Puppet People, Manos: The Hand of Fate, Masters of the Universe (the deeply unfortunate 1987 He-Man movie) or anything other film that can only be described as sucktacular, invite a few geeky friends, order a pizza and go to town. I can tell you from experience that this is quite possibly the most fun you can have for under $15.

2. Costumed Picnic: One really popular thing I’ve noticed in a few anime and manga (Japanese comics) fandoms lately is the idea of having a picnic, a dinner or some other outing while in costume — or cosplaying, if your character comes from a Japanese anime, manga, video game or a J-Rock or visual kei (think Japan’s version of glam rock) figure, like Malice Mizer. I like this idea a lot, personally. It’s a great excuse to get out the sewing machine, do something creative and have fun with a few or a lot of likeminded people — especially if some or all of you act in character the entire picnic. Plus, anything to freak out the mundanes, right?

Seriously, if any of you are setting up something like this, let me know? I have a kick-ass costume I’d like to make, and I cook a mean jambalaya, for all your potluck needs. C’mon, cosplayers! I saw you at MountainCon last year and CONduit earlier this year. I know you’re out there.

3. Gay Lagoon Day. So, QSaltLake does this every summer, and 2009’s will be on Aug. 16. As anyone who has ever been within 500 feet of this amusement park knows, it’s one of the geekiest places in the state (I mean, last time I went it had, like, two pirate rides, and this was years before Pirates of the Caribbean made pirates in eyeliner sexy). So why not come down and be out, proud and geeky with us? We can even wear red Star Trek officer’s shirts to identify ourselves as gay and geeky!

(Or to identify ourselves as wanting to be the first member on the away team to get shot at, but never mind).

Well, OK. I don’t own a Star Trek shirt (gasp! blasphemy!), but I’d still like to see you. So come and say hi.

Summer may be boring and slow at times, but that doesn’t mean it has to suck. Q

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Women’s Redrock Music Festival in Torrey, Utah Enters Its Third Year

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ACLU Utah director Carol Gnade got the idea to start a women’s music festival in Torrey, Utah, she admitted that the idea was something of a “crap shoot.” There were expenses to consider — buying supplies for even a small music festival is not easy in a small southern Utah town — as well as the local atmosphere: Would Torrey’s citizens accept the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender audiences that such a festival draws?

Worse: Would anyone actually show up?

Although the challenges facing the fledgling festival were many, the numbers quickly proved that they were not at all insurmountable. In its first year the Women’s Redrock Music Festival drew roughly 350 people, and received almost no complaints from locals known for their conservatism. Even better, Carol Gnade it actually made money, something nearly unheard of for festivals in their first year.

“It was wonderful. Everybody loved it,” said Gnade.

Two years later, audiences still love the festival. In 2008, 350 increased to 500 attendees, which included some from other states and even other countries: Australian, German and French tourists making the rounds of the Southwestern United States’ National Parks. A Hungarian lesbian couple who learned about the festival on the Internet hen former

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even came to celebrate their anniversary. But even though the festival’s reputation as a fine venue for independent female musicians is spreading across the world, Gnade predicts that the festival, like its stages tucked away between the towering cottonwood trees, will always remain small and intimate.

That, she says, is part of its charm and appeal.

“In a way I don’t think it will get much bigger,” she admitted. “It will probably stay the way it is.”

Indeed, Torrey’s beautiful scenery (the town is close to Capitol Reef National Park) was one of the reasons Gnade thought it would be a perfect venue.

And though the town, like much of southern Utah, has a reputation for being anti-gay, Gnade, who lives in Torrey year-round, said she wanted the music festival to change those attitudes.

“There are still people who are homophobic, and there are still people who say I don’t want these kinds of people in our town. But we’ve been pleasantly surprised that there’s been very little of that,” she said. “[The locals have seen] that they’re ordinary people, and that has been great. Interestingly enough, a lot of our volunteers are local now, and that’s a wonderful transition to go through, from people not knowing about [the festival] and being shy and suspect to calling to volunteer. This is the way we make headway and gay rights in small ways all over the state of Utah.”

The Women’s Redrock Music Festival, Gnade said, has been great for Torrey because it has also stimulated the local economy (she estimated the town does business comparable to a Fourth of July weekend during the show’s two-day run), and attracted national attention to the area. In its three year existence, the festival has become synonymous with quality and support for the independent female

musicians its audiences love. Gnade credited its success to the hard work of its many volunteers, including stage manager Lu Prickett and operations manager Laurie Wood; and its burgeoning reputation for great music to programming director Jeri Tafoya, who assembles the line-up of local, regional and even national musicians each year from the scores of bands and soloists who ask to participate.

“What we try to do is stay somewhat within our region,” Tafoya explained. “We like to support and empower independent women around the world — not [women musicians signed with] a big label, but the independents who are just there for the music, for the women.”

Keeping this mission in mind, Tafoya said she brings in a number of local musicians. Familiar faces in 2009’s lineup include keyboardist and singer Misty River, who dazzled crowds at a rally against Proposition 8 last November; club favorite Rita Boudreau, and sisters Tessa and Sophie Barton, a pianist-composer and singer duo from Salt Lake City.

“My gosh, her voice is absolutely amazing,” Tafoya said of Sophie Barton, who is still a teenager.

“When I first heard her, her manager sent me some of her clips, and I thought, oh my gosh, who is this person? Why haven’t I heard about her?”

“Crowd favorite” Mona Stevens (lead vocalist of the popular rock and blues band Sister Wives) will also serve as the festival’s emcee. Other festival favorites who will return this year are Jill Knight, Vermont-born Edie Carey and the Debi Graham Band. When it comes to the festival’s headliner, Tafoya said she tries to pick someone who is “really popular and who has a really good following in Utah.” This year, that someone is Sarah Bettens, a Belgian alt-rock star with her own label, Cocoon Records, and a new CD out called Never Say Goodbye.

“It was kind of difficult to get her,” said Tafoya, noting that Bettens will be playing in Brussels two nights before the festival opens. But Bettens and her band said they would take an all-night flight and then make the four-hour drive from the Salt Lake International Airport to Torrey to play.

“They really have heard some great stuff about the festival,” said Tafoya. “That was really quite flattering [of them to do this], and we are so pleased that she could make it.”

The festival will also feature Andrea Gibson, an award-winning slam poet who has recently combined her spoken word art with music on her album, Yellowbird. Her poetry, said Tafoya, focuses on such urgent topics as global injustice, gender issues and anti-gay legislation.

“With all of this stuff going on with Proposition 8, she has a lot to say about that,” she said.

The main reason for starting the festival, said Gnade, was to connect musicians like these with Utah audiences hungry for their work. And while women’s music festivals have a reputation of catering only to lesbian, bisexual and transgender women, she said that the festival welcomes all fans of women musicians — although she noted that the audience’s make up is currently about 90 percent female and 10 percent male.

“But we’re getting more and more couples who are coming, more and more straight couples who hear about the music, and that’s good too,” she said.

“Our motto is: Music by women, for everyone.” Q

To see the complete lineup of this year’s festival, purchase tickets and view lodging options, visit redrockwomensfest. com. The festival is still looking for art and craft vendors. To express interest, contact Carol Gnade at womensfest09@ gmail.com.

Fabulous People Bronwen Beecher: Preachin’ with a Fiddle

by JoSelle Vanderhooft

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Beecher became the fiddle preacher thanks to a crowded room and some enthusiastic journalists. And alcohol.

“I was at Piper Down,” she said. “I used to play there quite a bit, and Dave the owner had me booked to play, just me and my fiddle. He said, ‘What do you want to be called?’ And this was afternoon or evening, and I’m sure I had already had four beers or so, and I said, ‘Just call me Bronwen Beecher the fiddle creature.’ He misheard it and wrote it as Bronwen Beecher the fiddle preacher, and it went into the papers like that.”

When another newspaper picked up the misunderstood moniker, Beecher, who is also an out lesbian, knew that the name was going to stick; today it even graces her Web site. And yet, the name is so fitting that you’d never guess it resulted from a loud pub and tipsiness.

Beecher’s violin playing, powerful lyrics and soulful voice have captivated audiences across the West for years.

She is also a popular local performer, appearing regularly at the Utah Pride Festival, the Utah Pride Center’s Café Marmalade and a number of other locations across the state. As many of her fans will testify, her fiddle can, indeed, preach when it wants to.

“When I start playing a Celtic fiddle tune, I can feel a change in the audience,” she said. “It makes people’s blood boil. There’s this certain element to it, a certain rememberance that we all have in common with any kind of traditional music that I can only describe as magical. I can’t think of any other way to explain it.”

Beecher has worked for decades to perfect that magic. At age 7 she began taking violin lessons.

“But I’m told I was drawn to the violin at 4,” she remembered, noting that she took a shine to the instrument when she heard someone playing it in the church she attended while growing up in Utah. “Apparently I was just mystified, but the local violin teacher wouldn’t start teaching kids until age 7, so I had to wait a few years.” ronwen

Although Beecher had days, as all children do, when she did not want to practice, she said the instrument has been a part of her life ever since. Such is often the case, she notes, for violin players with classical training.

“I talk to a lot of guitar players who are all, ‘Yeah I was like 16 when I started, and I took a summer off and got back to it,’ but it’s not like that for classical violin. I don’t remember taking more than a week off,” she said. “It’s a difficult instrument. It takes a long time to start sounding OK. My adult students ask me how long it will take them to sound good, and I tell them, ‘oh, about four years, depending on how much you practice.’”

Although she left the state to study music at New Orleans’ Loyola University, Beecher eventually returned to Salt Lake City, where she has been a part of the local music scene ever since. And while her training may be classical, she isn’t the kind of musician to limit herself strictly to Tchaikovsky and Handel.

Over the years, she has experimented with a number of musical styles, including goth, rock, bluegrass, Celtic and that often amoeba-like genre known as “alternative.” And when it comes to music that she enjoys playing, Beecher says she likes the dramatic, the theatrical and the multi-layered.

“You know if you’re a classical musician you don’t have a lot of cool points unless you’re a traveling soloist or a virtuoso, so playing in a rock band is always a nice place to start for the sheer cool points,” Beecher joked. But all kidding aside, she said she has enjoyed playing in a number of musically diverse bands, including the muchloved Celtic rock group the Salty Frogs (which disbanded in 2008) and Luna Picasso Project, a quartet that rivaled the painter of the same name in ingenuity and experimentation. Project consisted of Beecher on violin, a drummer, a cellist and a soprano who would play and drastically re-arrange compositions by classical and baroque composers — such as a piece by Mozart or Bach where the soprano would sing a part written for another violin, or where the

cellist would use a tool called an octave pedal to play the instrument a full pitch lower than it normally allows.

“I developed [Luna Picasso Project] to do something interesting instrumentally, but also use the skills I had learned [in] imitating other instruments and filling out sound with other classical instruments,” Beecher explained. “We did a lot of parties, corporate stuff when they wanted something edgy. We were able to do more classical stuff but also more hip and groovy stuff.” Their repertoire, she added, covered everything from Mozart to Dusty Springfield’s “Son of a Preacher Man,” yet sadly disbanded after a year when the soprano moved away. Beecher, however, hinted that the project may be revived because the singer has returned.

Then again, Beecher is involved in so many bands and projects that fans of Luna Picasso may have to wait. Most obviously, there’s her self-titled band, which dabbles in a “danceable” mix of big rock instrumentation, traditional Celtic beats and more modern music influences like Mariachi.

“I’ve been doing a lot of singer/songwriter and guitar stuff,” she said of the past few years. “That was a fascination and a passion for me, and now I’m coming back to violin and fiddle and hiring guitar players and building a sound around that. It’s kind of like a coming home for me.”

That isn’t the only project, either.

There’s Shanahy, a more traditional Celtic band complete with bagpipes; Stonecircle a “new agey, Celtic-y” band reminiscent of the work of Loreena McKennitt and a “wild Gypsy party at Stonehenge;” and Purdy Mouth, which Beecher calls “blue rock grass.”

When not on stage preaching with her fiddle, Beecher can often be found in the yoga studio. After being introduced to the physical and spiritual practice by D’ana Baptiste of Centered City Yoga, Beecher said she began doing yoga five days a week, dropped 20 pounds and experienced “a lot of psychological benefits.”

Recently she has also become a certified yoga instructor and a practitioner of Forrest Yoga, a vigorous form of the discipline developed by Ana Forrest, with whom Beecher studied in San Francisco (an experience she dubs “the Navy Seals of yoga training”).

“She’s very intense,” Beecher said of Forrest. “But what really appealed to me about Forrest Yoga is it has a really big healing element; emotional issues or physical issues or whatever spiritual issues. It has a lot of focus on what’s relevant to our bodies and our emotional problems today without a lot of the woo woo traditional yoga stuff. It’s just been one of those things that I developed a passion for and dove into wholeheartedly and suddenly I’m teaching it.”

Whether making people’s blood boil with her fiddle, teaching adults how to go from OK to great on the violin or

showing a class of eager students how to hold a downward-facing dog pose, Beecher’s schedule is certainly a busy one. This month, you can hear her play during the Brown Bag Concert Series with Shanahy at Washington Square in Salt Lake City, and another concert in Heber City the following night. She also plays at Café Marmalade on the last Saturday of each month.

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The Black Keys | Human Highway Rock ’n’ roll duo The Black Keys is praised by critics, fans and musicians alike. Dan and Patrick live in Akron, Ohio and the album Magic Potion — in addition to being pure rock ’n’ roll — serves as a raised glass to their home town. Dan says, “The idea was for people to be able to sit on a porch in Akron with a can of beer and blast the record through a boom box ... people can depend on Pat and me to play music and be around for life. We have to, it’s the only job skill we have.”

The indie pop duo Human Highway is comprised of Nick Thorburn (frontman for the eclectic group Islands) and Jim Guthrie (formerly of Islands and Royal City). Their style is influenced by 1960s-70s AM radio pop music. Their debut album Moody Motorcycle showcases the duo’s whimsical, doo-wopinfused, folky sound.

July 23

M. Ward | Land of Talk With his seventh album, M. Ward secures his reputation as one of America’s distinctive talents. His last three albums, Transfiguration of Vincent, Transistor Radio and Post-War have struck a singular chord among music fans. His deft guitar picking, bar room piano and voice like drizzled honey have also made him a favorite with critics.

Singer/songwriter/guitarist Elizabeth Powell set about making an album that encompasses a great deal with very little. The result is a heartbreaking and fist-pumping album for Land of Talk’s Some are Lakes.

It is a beautiful continuation of the internal conversation Powell has been holding with herself since she began her musical career.

July 30

Sonic Youth | Awesome Color

Salt Lake City Arts Council Twilight Concert Series Rocks Gallivan In its 22nd year, the Twilight Concert Series is a progressive mix of alternative folk and rock to new voices of hip hop and beyond. The Thursday night series opens July 9 and continues through August 27 at the Gallivan Center in downtown Salt Lake City. To complement the music, the Twilight Market offers food, beverages and locally made crafts. The market opens at 5 p.m. and the concerts are free, beginning at 7p.m.

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Bon Iver | Jenny Lewis Bon Iver (pronounced “bone eevare,” French for “good winter”) is both a greeting and a sentiment. Bon Iver’s debut album landed on a number of “Best of 2008” yearend lists. In 2009, Bon Iver released an EP of old and new songs titled Blood Bank. The New York Times considers it “a piece of commentary, or a conceptual joke, or a subversion of rustic naturalism. Whatever the case, it’s wonderfully strange, and in that sense true to form.”

Over this decade Jenny Lewis has shown multiple facets to her performance style.

With Rilo Kiley, her rock band of the past 10 years, she’s transformed from a shy, whispering singer to an authoritative singer/ songwriter.

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Sonic Youth is one of the great success stories of underground American rock in the ’80s. They began their career by abandoning any pretense of traditional rock ’n’ roll conventions. Sonic Youth redefined what noise meant within rock ’n’ roll, inspired directly by hardcore punk, post-punk and no wave.

Psych-garage-noise purveyors Awesome Color formed after skateboarder Michael Troutman and Allison Busch hooked up with fellow Michigan expat Derek Stanton in 2004. Tired of the same old scene that was passing for NYC underground punk at the time, they set out to inject a little Detroit rock know-how. They’ve succeeded at channeling the grit and free abandon of the Stooges and MC5 into a propulsive, riff-based live show.

August 6

Q-Tip | B.o.B. Longtime emcee with hip-hop trio A Tribe Called Quest, rapper Q-Tip was born Jonathan. Tribe’s debut single, “Description of a Fool,” appeared in 1989. With its fiercely intelligent, socially progressive lyrics and brilliant fusion of rap and jazz, the group emerged as one of the most popular and influential groups in hip-hop. Q-Tip mounted a solo career with the 1999 release of Amplified, and recorded The Renaissance in 2008.

At age 17, B.o.B. (Bobby Ray Simmons)

signed his first major-label record deal in a field of emerging rap artists from Atlanta. By the time he was 15, he had already formed a production duo called the Klinic before becoming a solo artist. Several outlets and publications took notice of him, running “Artist to Watch” features and tagging him as the next Atlanta rap artist to hit the national scene.

August 13

Toots & the Maytals | N.A.S.A. Comprised of Frederick “Toots” Hibbert, Nathaniel “Jerry” Mathias, and Raleigh Gordon — all natives of Kingston, Jamaica— Toots & the Maytals formed in the ’60s, and the Maytals had a reputation for strong, well-blended voices and a seldom rivaled passion. Hibbert is a legend whose career spans every development in Jamaican music, from ska through rock-steady to reggae.

The story of N.A.S.A. (acronym for North America/South America) goes back over five years when Squeak E. Clean (Sam Spiegel) and DJ Zegon (Ze Gonzales) met in Brazil and discovered their mutual love for rare Brazilian funk and soul. They decided to create a record that brought people together from different musical genres, races, religions, politics, countries and languages, ignoring boundaries that keep people divided.

August 20

Iron & Wine | Okkervil River Iron & Wine is the stage and recording name of singer/songwriter Samuel Beam.

While many learned of Iron and Wine by Beam’s tender and spare rendering of The Postal Service’s “Such Great Heights” on the Garden State soundtrack, those who dug deeper discovered a classic American tunesmith with a precocious musical signature. Many of the songs musically memorable, lyrically evocative and casually atmospheric.

Combining folk-rock inspirations and alternative rock sways, Okkervil River creates a visionary sound, strongly founded on dark lyrics and chaotic visions. Okkervil River began as a mutual project of Will Robison Sheff and Seth Warren. According to their Web site, during the succeeding years and with multiple albums later “it’s been touring, recording on the sly, days of laughter, nights of overindulgence, mornings of regret, miles and miles of inexhaustibly breathtaking America, driving, playing and driving.”

August 27

Robert Randolph & the Family Band | Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears Steeped in the “sacred steel” tradition, Robert Randolph’s astonishing pedal steel playing has had a revolutionary impact.

Like a mere handful of musicians he has redefined the sonic possibilities of his instrument. Randolph’s string wizardry is the focal point of the Family Band’s legendary live appearances.

Austin-based Black Joe Lewis is a contemporary singer and guitarist with a bent toward vintage blues, soul and R&B, backed by the Honeybears. Esquire listed the band as one of the “Ten Bands Set to Break Out” at 2009’s SXSW Festival.

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find the happy medium and balance between backing off too much, and coming on too strong.” And her music does just that.

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Aug 6

Luke Mann of keller-Williams has been bringing live acoustic music to Jam for several months on Thursday nights and it has drawn quite a following. Now moving out to the club’s large patio brings a warm summer feel that only an outdoor concert can bring.

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Kristi & Scotty—Acoustic on the Loose kRiSti and Scotty make up Acoustic on the Loose and have been called a “soulful” duo.

“They are Melissa Ethridge-esque,” says Mann. They were recently featured on kUTV and have played at Park Silly.

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Cary Judd caRy Judd undoubtedly redefines the oneman-show. Deceptively understated as just a man and a guitar, what you see is not all you get. Cary begins each show by playing a riff or progression that finds itself embellished in a swirl of drum and guitar loops that he masterfully creates with a series of electronic pedals at his feet. His songs — vulnerable, clever and beautifully full of contradictions — appeal to virtually all listeners because of their raw connection with human fear, hope and triumph.

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Jen Stensrud Jen StenSRud was born and raised in Murray, Utah and says she inherited a good ear for music from her parents. “I’ve always played around with dad’s guitars as a kid, but picked it up and got serious about learning at 12. I learned my chords by writing songs with them, and here I am 12 years later still loving it!” Her early influences were Lisa Loeb, Sheryl Crow and Ani Difranco, but says her sound has grown into her own since then.

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JuStin utley was born in Salt Lake City and first began performing on piano at age 7. He was awarded “Best Singer and Songwriter”

by Salt Lake City Weekly and performed at the Salt Lake 2002 Winter olympics. Utley released his first nationally-distributed CD, Runaway, in 2005. He left Utah behind in 2006 for New York City after releasing “Hold You + Remixes.” Scott Nevins said Utley has “looks, talent and a voice to die for,” and Planetout’s J. Poet said he was “born to be a rockstar.”

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Caroline Bybee caRoline bybee writes what she knows; and she knows music. The 23-year-old Utah native first picked up a guitar in high school, but has been involved in music with her family for most of her life. Inspired by the work of Imogen Heap, John Mayer and others, Caroline has written her own lyrics and songs since the beginning. In a recent blog post, Caroline says, “If we all walked around blabbing words of affirmation right and left to one another we may get bored or become desensitized to one’s sincerity. ... We must

annie dean loves to sing more than anything in the world, but for some strange reason has the worst stage fright. “But I do my best to just get up there and sing my heart out,” she says. “Everyone tells me they have no idea I am ever nervous, I try to block it out, and just sing with my heart.” She has played the guitar since she was 6 years old and has developed her own style that some say is similar to Jewel. She currently has four of her own songs on her Myspace page, myspace.com/anniedean914.

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SUMMER MUSIC Deer Valley Concerts Shine Bright

by Brad Di Iorio

The big brass sound of Blood, Sweat And Tears opened this season’s St. Regis Big Stars, Bright Nights concert series on a clear warm night in the clean, crisp air of Deer Valley. The Park City mountains rang with the horns, sax, guitars, harmonica and raspy, male vocals of the legendary smooth rock and jazz band.

People of all ages tookt coolers, blankets and libations to the base of Deer Valley Mountain Resort. There, they sat on the grassy slope facing Deer Valley’s Snow Park Amphitheatre, under the perch of construction of the new St. Regis Deer Crest Resort and Residences, which is in its second year of sponsoring the series (Deer Valley Resort and Summit County are co-sponsors).

Blood, Sweat And Tears founder, Steve Katz, reminisced about the beginnings of the band in New York City’s Greenwich Village, reminding the old-timers in the crowd about the band’s appearance at Woodstock — an appearance which arguably catapulted the group to worldwide fame.

Known for “picking up” band members and vocal artists from the late ’60s to the present day, Blood, Sweat And Tears has had 10 Grammy Award nominations, of which they won three, including Album of the Year for their 1969 self-titled album.

The band played many classic, smooth rock covers, highlighting the talent of current musicians. They also played their hits “Spinning Wheel,” “And When I Die,” and “You’ve Made Me So Very Happy.” By the end of the night, the audience had loosened up and was dancing to the hits, even bringing the band back on stage at the end of night in appreciation.

The Big Stars, Bright Nights series will present four more summer concerts at the Deer Valley Snow Park Amphitheatre. These include Simone, the daughter of Nina Simone, who will perform with Ryan Shaw on August 2.

Shaw opened for Joss Stone two years ago during the same series. He brings his Grammy-nominated, eclectic R&B sound together in a double billing with singer/songwriter Simone’s range of pop, jazz, soul and funk stylizations for a blend of young talent and experimentation.

August 16 brings another double billing, this one of Lucy Wainwright Roche, the younger half-sister of Rufus

Wainwright and Martha Wainwright, and Madeleine Peyroux, the FrenchAmerican singer-songwriter. The two will perform back-to-back sets in their specific styles — Wainwright Roche her brand of folk music, and Peyroux her blend of blues and jazz storytelling.

Rock legend Chuck Berry will grace the stage on August 29 with a special guest to be announced.

The last concert of the summer will be a triple bill of singer/songwriters, including country-alternative Robert Earl Keen, ironic folk storyteller Jill Sobule, and John Doe, founding member of the Los Angeles punk band X. Doe has transformed his vocal interests to country rock, and currently is working with Canadian indie rock group The Sadies. This concert should be an interesting mix of different styles and genres, including spoken word, poetry and comedy. It is scheduled for September 7.

Reserved seating includes a metal chair in the middle section of the audience area. The less expensive lawn seating sandwiches this middle section on either side. A nine-inch high chair restriction applies to lawn seating, and certain sections exist for those who only bring blankets or flatfloor seats.

Deer Valley Resort provides a diverse menu including vegetarian dishes, and beer and wine menu items.

However, all attendees are allowed to bring refreshments in coolers. Deer Valley Resort also sells gourmet picnic baskets, which must be reserved 72 hours in advance.

Each concert goes on in either rain or shine and tickets are non-refundable. Gates open 90 minutes before each concert, but most folks start arriving a couple of hours before the concert to get in the line. There are ‘ins and outs,’ so arriving and setting up camp is allowed, as is returning at a later time after getting your hand stamped. Parking is free and the season pass holder’s parking lot opens to everyone 15 minutes before show time.

The Park City Performing Arts Foundation is non-profit arts organization dedicated to presenting world class performances to the greater community through two venues: The George S & Dolores Dore Eccles Center for the Performing Arts (for performances held from September through April) and Deer Valley Resort for performances during the summertime. Q

Ticket prices are $56 for reserved seating and $31 for general admission or lawn seating, with discounted tickets available for seniors and children 12 and under. Tickets are available for purchase online (except discounted tickets) or at Park City Performing Arts Foundation offices, which have moved to Main Street in Park City. For more information, go to ecclescenter.org or call 435-655-3114.

This Summer: A Concert in a Garden?

In this season of concerts, both indoor and outdoor, some of the best music around can be found in Carolyn Turkanis’ back yard.

No, seriously. Each Saturday from the middle of May up to mid-September, Turkanis, a Salt Lake City schoolteacher, opens her beautiful, intimate back yard to a local band or musician — many of them gay and lesbian — as part of Carolyn’s Summer Garden Concert Series.

As Turkanis tells it, the series began about six years ago, when a friend invited her to a house concert — which is exactly what it sounds like.

“At the time I was very naïve, and I didn’t even know what a house concert was, so they had to explain to me that it’s an indoor concert where people open up their home, bring food and host a musician or singer,” Turkanis explained. “It was a very lovely social event. I came away from that first experience being really inspired and wanting to support local musicians.”

Unfortunately, Turkanis soon realized that her house on Kensington Avenue was too small to host even the tiniest concert. Her backyard, on the other hand, had a deck that could serve as a

stage and plenty of room for an audience — albeit a small one. So as soon as Utah’s chilly spring faded into summer, she opened her yard to her first musician and asked each attendee to donate $5-10, all of which went to pay the performer. Deciding that the weekend might be more convenient for audiences than a Friday night, Turkanis scheduled her concerts on Saturdays.

But convenience aside, attendance was sporadic at first.

“But then word got out that I was hosting local musicians, and then people began to call me and e-mail me,” she said.

Although Turkanis has several gay and lesbian friends, she said she didn’t set up her concert series solely to showcase gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender musicians. However, many of the performers who have played on her deck are lesbians, including Bronwen Beecher, Mary Tebbs, Kathryn Warner (now a Colorado resident) and Leraine Horstmanshoff, all of whom have played or will play during 2009.

“I don’t think I could say it’s intentional, but I think I just have a lot of gay friends and a lot of them are musicians,” said Turkanis, though she noted that networking among musicians and advertising her concerts on Web sites such as that of local lesbian social and civic organization sWerve probably contributed to the gay-friendly nature of her garden concerts.

Each concert is open to as many teens

and adults that can comfortably (and legally) fit into the lawn chairs arranged in Turkanis’ back yard (she asks that parents make other arrangements for very young children and babes-inarms). Stragglers and those who prefer to stand may stand in the driveway or by the refreshments table on the patio and listen (attendees are invited to bring potluck dishes). But lest one think that the garden concerts are crowded and noisy, Turkanis says that she strives to be a “good neighbor.” Thus, she never blocks off the street, and insists that the music end promptly at 9 p.m. Guests, however, are more than welcome to stay after and socialize.

Although the majority of performers in Turkanis’ back yard are local, a few (typically performers who have moved) come from out of state to play. Warner, for example, drives to Utah each summer to perform. Another former local, Tacoma, Wash. resident Megan Peters, also drives down, as do Keith Taylor and Kristin Erickson, now California residents. “[Taylor] flew in Friday night, performed Saturday and flew out Sunday,” she said.

The musicians come back not only because they like the intimate, friendly atmosphere, but because they can often make good money. Turkanis encourages attendees to bring friends and family and to be generous — especially when a solo performer goes on stage.

“I get very invested in the money

part because I want them to feel like this venue is successful for them,” Turkanis said, “I always feel if I get a better crowd it’s better for the musician.” She noted that a few performers, like Megan Peters, can make as much as $1,000 per performance — only, though, if they draw the kind of crowd Peters did.

“The driveway and the front porch were filled up,” Turkanis laughed.

No matter if the act is a soloist or a large band like Stonecircle, Turkanis said her house concerts are a fun and affordable date and social night, especially considering how much tickets to concerts in bigger venues cost. And, they’re a great way to get away from the weekly rush to enjoy good food and good music.

“There’s nothing better than a warm summer evening listening to a local musician, a glass of wine, a plate of delicious food and good friends,” she said.

“A lot of people ask me where are you going for your summer vacation? And I say, I don’t need to go anywhere. My vacation is in my own back yard. You know that saying, ‘home is where the heart is?’ Every Saturday night is a real magnificent experience for me.”

Carolyn’s Summer Garden Concert Series is held each Saturday until Sept. 19 at 1443 East Kensington Ave. (1520 S). The suggested donation is $10 per person. For more information or to inquire about booking yourself or your band for a 2010 performance, contact Turkanis at (801) 466-6402.

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Gay Agenda It’s Worth the Ticket

by Tony Hobday

I was honored with an invitation to finally meet Sister Dottie S. Dixon in person last week. Actually, it was her more-submissive male personality, Charles Lynn Frost; yet, when the conversation turned impassioned (as when we discussed Troy Williams) out popped Dottie like the rascally gopher in Caddyshack ... but with an angelic grin. It was a real treat! She could be my godfearing, gay-loving Mormon mom any day.

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FRIDAY — Featured beboppers at the Salt Lake International Jazz Festival include Mehmet Okur, Ronnie Brewer, Carlos Boozer, Kyle Korver (his ass is totally smokin’!) ... oops, wrong peeps. How about Great Basin Street Band, SLC Jazz Orchestra, Big Band

Jam, Fat Soul and Tower of Power (their brass is totally smokin’!).

3pm, through Sunday, Washington Square, 450 S. 200 East. Tickets $16 per day or $30/ three-day pass at the gates.

QQ Utah has a whorehouse in it! Well, that is besides mine. Anyhoo, Dark Horse Company Theatre presents their inaugural staged musical production with The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. Not sure if anyone can stand up to Dolly Parton, but hell, the songs alone will be worth the ticket.

Follwing each show The Voodoo Darlings perform. This certainly isn’t “your parents’ theater company.”

7:30pm, through Saturday & July 17–19, Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main St., Park City.

Tickets $10, 435-649-9371 parkcityshows. com QQ The Snowbird Renaissance Center proudly presents the inaugural Snowbird Mountain Music Festival, featuring national Americana artists, local favorites and a variety of free musical events (banjo competition, harmonica workshop, etc.). Escape the dry blistering heat this weekend; and tonight, check out The Cowboy Junkies and Justin Townes Earle.

Other musical performances over the weekend include Band of Annuals and T.R. Ritchie.

Hours vary, through Sunday, Snowbird Resort, Little Cottonwood Canyon. Tickets $35/adv–$45/at gate per day or $75–$85/ full-festival pass, 801-933-2215 or snowbirdrc.org.

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SATURDAY — The Utah AIDS Foundation is holding their annual Rummage Sale fundraiser today. So donate those things you don’t use anymore like deodorant, dental floss, rubber sheets, nose hair trimmers, nipple gel ... no, seriously, they’ll accept items such as furniture, appliances, books, electronics, kitchenware and children’s items, but no clothing. Take your donations

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to the Masonic Temple June 10, after 2 p.m.

7am–Noon, Masonic Temple, 650 E. South Temple. Free, unless you buy something, and you better. utahaids.org.

headboard with Bob Dylan is worth the ticket.

8pm, Ed Kenley Amphitheater, 403 N. Wasatch Dr., Layton. Tickets $28-48, 801546-8575 or thedavisarts.com.

QQ Gene Naté is spent from drooling over your stuffed tighty-whiteys, so he’s trying something new — his inaugural Uniform Night. Be your sexiest uniformed character like a naughty nurse or a skanky cheerleader or a fireman with a gigantic hose.

I’m going as a slutty schoolgirl ... big stretch, right?

9pm, Club Try-Angles, still a private club for members, 251 W. 900 South. Free to members, 801-364-3203.

tuesDAY — Adam Lambert’s gay?!!?? I just don’t buy it ... damn poser. Anyhoo, it’s another year of the American Idols Live Tour. The top 10 contestants include Allison Iraheta, Anoop Desai, Danny Gokey, Kris Allen, Lil Rounds, Matt Giraud, Megan Joy, Michael Sarver and Scott MacIntyre.

7pm, E Center, 3200 S. Decker Lake Drive.

Tickets $40.50–69.50, ticketmaster.com.

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FRIDAY — Lambda Hiking Club has organized their annual car camping weekend to Granite Hot Springs. Enjoy hiking during the day, and then soak in the developed hot springs before dinner.

Doesn’t that sound perfectly delightful?

Through Sunday, Granite Hot Springs, Wyo. For more info and to rsvp, visit gayhike.org.

monDAY — Folk singer/ songwriter, Joan Baez, takes the stage tonight. She’s a gay rights activist and she had performed at benefit concerts to defeat Proposition 6, which proposed banning homosexuals from teaching in California public schools. She also participated in memorial marches for Harvey Milk. Musically, she has a three-octave vocal range and a distinctively rapid vibrato. Hell, anyone who played Woodstock and bangs the

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QQ I met actor Joshua Leonard at Queer Lounge this year during the Sundance Film Festival. Super nice

guy ... for a straight man. Anyhoo, he stars in HuMPday, a side-splitting comedy about two staight college buddies who decide to enter an amateur porn contest. Their niche? They’re going to have sex with each other. It is a super witty and crazy-ass film. Hell, just watching them try to out-hetero each other is worth the ticket.

Opens today, Broadway Centre Cinemas, 111 E. 300 South.

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SATURDAY — Renowned ABBA cover-band, Waterloo, hits Deer Valley with the Utah Symphony for an explosive concert, abba: tHe SyMPHonic HitS. Revisit the hits “Take a Chance on Me,” “Mamma Mia,” “Waterloo,” “Dancing Queen” and more — with a twist!

7:30pm, Snow Park Amphitheater, Deer Valley. Tickets $15–85, 801-355-ARTS or arttix.org.

Q Denver-based piano-rock band, tHe fRay, comes to Salt Lake City for an outdoor concert you don’t want to miss. Playing the mega-hit “How to Save a Life” and others like “Over My Head” and “All at Once,” it’s sure to be a hoot. Jacks Mannequin opens.

7pm, USANA Amphitheatre, 5400 S. 6200 West. Tickets $19.50–64.50, 801-467-8499 or smithstix.com.

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SUnDAY — Singer/songwriter Jakob Dylan gracefully bears the burden of being the youngest child of the legendary

Bob Dylan. His stubborn will to have his music judged on it’s own merits helped tHe WallfloWeRS create a sound of rootless roots music that’s vaguely retro country-folk rock with plenty of ’60s antecedents. Hell, knowing his daddy’s banging the headboard with Joan Baez is worth the ticket.

7pm, Red Butte Garden, 300 Wakara Way. Tickets $25–35, 801-585-0556 or redbuttegarden.org.

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monDAY — Many gay boys are sinfully attracted to toRi aMoS. Ergo, her Sinful Attraction tour. Perhaps the gay attraction is her many idiosyncracies, but it also could be her unconventional songs like “Crucify,” “Cornflake Girl” and “Silent All These Years.” Whatever the attraction — like boys attracted to boys — it’s worth the ticket.

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they have become infected with HIV. I can say that the majority of people who receive a positive HIV diagnosis in my office are truly shocked and had no idea they were positive. Their reactions show that many people are misinformed about being at risk or donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re at risk, and they have likely been telling partners that they are not HIV-positive.

So, what can you do to be informed and to maintain good sexual health?

Abstinence. But abstinence only works if it is realistic for you. You are the only one who can make that decision.

Monogamy. Monogamy is the next safest plan, but only if certain guidelines are followed. Make sure that you both communicate and both agree to monogamy. Start with condoms and do not stop using condoms until both you and

circulating about HIV and when a person is at risk for getting it.

Unfortunately, this misinformation is leading many people to keep putting themselves or others at risk.

When it comes to your sexual health, it is critical that you are informed ... with the right information.

Some of the things I often hear from patients are: I am always safe, I always know my partners, or I always check my partner(s)â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s HIV status when I meet them on Web sites, such as manhunt or gay.com.

The problem is, you cannot tell if a person has an STD â&#x20AC;&#x201D; including HIV â&#x20AC;&#x201D; simply by looking at him or knowing him. While knowing someone more than 24 to 48 hours can understandably bring you some sense of comfort â&#x20AC;&#x201D; particularly if you are going to be sexually intimate with that person â&#x20AC;&#x201D; knowing a person does not help you identify a clean bill of health. Up to 75 percent of people infected with chlamydia and gonorrhea have no symptoms, and it usually takes seven to 10 years before any symptoms of an HIV infection appear. In all three of these cases, people are exposing their sexual partners to infection even though symptoms are not present. Also, the sores, lesions or skin disorders that characterize other STDs often appear in places that are not visible, such as inside the rectum or the shaft of the penis.

Another problem is, quite frankly, that people lie! Rather, some people lie and others simply donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know or understand that they became infected after their last negative test. Current research shows that attitudes have shifted toward a sense of â&#x20AC;&#x153;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not my problemâ&#x20AC;? where sexual activity is concerned. For example, a survey conducted by the Utah Department of Health in 2008 asked a number of HIV-positive individuals if they inform their partners of the HIVpositive status. Several respondents stated, â&#x20AC;&#x153;No, it is not my responsibility to protect them.â&#x20AC;? Anecdotally speaking, I find the same attitude in my discussions with HIV-positive individuals: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just not my problem.â&#x20AC;? There is also a real fear amongst HIV-positive men that if they even bring up the issue of condom use, sexual partners will begin to suspect they are HIV-positive and will be ostracized in the community.

I also encounter many men whose plan to protect their sexual health is to get an HIV test every six months. With each negative test they tout their HIV status as negative, and they feel confident that they are negative.

But this plan is flawed because you can get a negative test this morning, but if you go out and have unprotected sex an hour later, then that negative test is null and void. This plan also does not consider that there is a three- to sixmonth window for rapid HIV testing.

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your partner have been tested and are negative for all STDs including HIV and both of you are out of your six-month window period for HIV. If there is any chance that either you or your partner is not completely compliant with the monogamy plan, then ... Condoms, condoms, condoms!

Having multiple sexual partners. It is possible to have multiple sexual partners and still remain disease-free. Again, condoms, condoms, condoms! Protection is really the only way to remain sexually healthy outside of abstinence and monogamy, even if you think you know your partnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s status. If you have multiple partners, each of them also likely has multiple partners.

This creates an entire network of partners, and means you are being exposed to diseases that any person in this network

has. Condoms, when used appropriately, will provide protection from diseases that exist within this network.

Knowing your disease status is critical, as is not falling into a false sense of security by getting tested every six months. The simple fact is, if you have ever engaged in unprotected sex and you are a man who has sex with other men, your risk for getting HIV is significant.

You should be tested immediately and then you should repeat that test at three and six months to ensure that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re truly not infected. If you have any other unprotected encounters, the three- to six-month period starts over, and does so with each encounter you have.â&#x20AC;&#x201A; Q

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Cocktail Chatter The Mixer Mix-up

by Camper English

Much as I love the name, I can’t bring myself to consume what the kids today are calling the Skinny Bitch. This cocktail is usually made with a flavored vodka, Diet Coke, and a squeeze of lime. My issue with the drink doesn’t involve the liquor, but with the artificially flavored and sweetened soda.

But the Skinny Bitch is not really a drink focused on the Coke; it’s a drink focused on the Diet. Also focusing on the diet is a writer named Teresa Marie Howes, who wrote a whole book on diet drinks this year called Skinnytinis. Most of the recipes in the book cut calories in cocktails by adjusting the amounts of liqueurs and mixers, since distilled spirits like gin and vodka all have about the same number of calories per volume. Her drink recipes call for light or diet juices and sodas, flavored water and other mix-

ers instead of sugar-laden liqueurs.

She makes crafty placements like swapping out the orange liqueur in a Margarita with light orange juice and Sweet’N Low. One set of mixers that are often mixed up are soda water and tonic water. They both have water in the name so you can understand the confusion, but the two are vastly different liquids. Soda water is carbonated water and mixes well with vodka. (Gin not so much.) Tonic water pairs well with more spirits, and is consumed in different countries with vodka, gin, rum, tequila and even Port wine.

But tonic began as a tonic — a medicine used to prevent and cure malaria.

It gets its flavor from the very bitter quinine that was once harvested from the bark of the cinchona tree, nicknamed the “fever tree” as it cured the malarial fever. To make the powdered bark palatable, explorers and soldiers in mosquito-intense countries around the world added sugar to the solution.

Later, gin was added and the G&T was born. Hooray for medicine!

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Its presence (or more commonly, the presence of high fructose corn syrup) in drinks means it has those calories you’ve been trying to avoid. Many people think they’re sipping a diet drink when they choose tonic water, but really they may as well be swilling cola.

Now that I’m a fully functioning cocktail snob, I don’t drink the tonic water, sodas and juices that come out of the cocktail guns in bars at all. I like fresh juices and mixers without artificial sweeteners — and it turns out these typically have less calories than do the sugared-up cranberry juice and sodas you’ll get in most bars anyway.

At home, you can buy high quality mixers with natural and organic sweeteners for your cocktails. Out at the clubs though, you probably won’t have that option, so you can opt for diet soda or soda water as mixers. Or better yet, opt for that sugar-laden Apple-CosmoChoco-Tini at the bar, and then spend the night working off those calories on the dancefloor. Q Camper English is a writer at Alcademics.com.

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Because of a record number of participants in this year’s Pride Softball League, the regular summer softball season started June 14, with the creation of two divisions: Gold and Silver.

“Pride Community Softball League was divided into two divisions in order to make the games more competitive. For the rest of the season, teams will be playing against other teams with similar experience levels,” said Jarrod Ames, chairman of the committee of PCSL. “The first five games do not

count in the standings — they were used to determine which division individual teams would be placed. All batting stats from these games will count. The first five games will not be used to determine tournament seeds unless a tie situation is encountered.”

Nine games will be played in regular summer season play at Jordan Park and each division will then be seeded in a final tournament to be held Sept. 6 and 13. Both divisions will play each Sunday in September, single elimination, and a winner of each division will be determined.

“Salt Lake County Recreation organized registration, scorekeeping and umping this season,” said Ames. “We are the first gay league to be officially recognized by the county.”

All teams have complete rosters, so no new team members can be added. Pride

Softball League begins each April, with a fall league continuing for those die-hard athletes who want to continue to play or for new participants to get involved.

Most teams have sponsors which help with team costs, including team uniforms, practice field fees and equipment.

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Pride Community Softball will continue play Sunday July 12 and Sunday, July 19, taking a break on the weekend of Pioneer Days, continuing Sunday, Aug. 2. All games are played at Jordan Park, located at 1060 South 900 West, starting at 9 a.m., each Sunday morning.

For more info, go to prideleague.com

Mountain West Flag Football League After a rainy start, flag football season has started with two weeks already played, out of six scheduled. This season, four teams have formed and will play each week to determine who will represent Salt Lake City in Gay Bowl Ix, to be held in Washington D.C., oct. 8-10, 2009. Players from all four teams who have excelled in season play will be chosen to represent the Mountain West League at the annual, national Gay Bowl.

Last year, Salt Lake City and the Mountain West Flag Football League hosted Gay Bowl VIII, where 25 teams from the United States and Canada participated for the national flag football championship.

Games are played on Thursday evenings at Sugarhouse Park, south side, in the middle of the soccer field, at 6:30 p.m. Look for cones, team uniforms and colored flags around the hips of players.

Week 1: Jam 45, Edge 27, MVP – J. Jones Try-Angeles 40, Cahoots 12, MVP – J. Barnes

Week 2: Edge 25, Cahoots 22, MVP – C. Jones Try-Angles 32, Jam 6, MVP – Robert Van Reenen

Next games are scheduled for Thursday, July 9 and July 16. Fundraising pool parties will be announced for July, August and September, to help raise funds to send the All-Star team to Gay Bowl Ix.

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by Anthony Paull

Mind you, it’s supp o s e d to be a festive, yet relaxing dinner with friends. No one expects there to be a tragic break-up on the menu. Much like life, it just sort of happens. It’s the typical story; someone might have cheated on someone else, there might have been pictures and there might have even been a dildo involved. Still, we won’t go into details because we’re here to eat, and that’s clearly a no-no when it pertains to demonstrating good table manners.

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Me, I’m all about the chopsticks. And I’m wondering what it would feel like to have them needling my asshole, but I can’t say a word of it, because everyone is glued to Jeffrey, and I don’t want to bring up assholes tonight because everyone thinks he is one.

Why? Well, because he recently cheated on his partner, Thomas, who found a number of pictures of naked men on Jeffrey’s computer.

Now, don’t think ill of Jeffrey. He’s a professional photographer, and the naked men were just clients, he informs us. The dildos up their asses — they were merely props!

Of course no one dares challenge him. That’s because everyone is trying to be fabulous, and who wants to ruin

a perfectly good martini with a messy topic like cheating? Besides, we’re all close with Jeffrey and Thomas, and no one wants to take a side.

Well ... except for Steve, who seems to love a good controversy.

You see, Steve’s that friend who loves to stir the pot and watch the bunny rabbits boil. Yes, he’s done it all twice, and he thinks that gives him permission to help friends during the ‘break-up’ process by planting advice in their ears. Sadly, his advice isn’t always good. Like tonight, his advice to Jeffrey is to fuck another guy.

Yes, that would make everything better! Dr. Phil, eat your heart out!

The trouble is that Jeffrey is in such a cloud that he doesn’t realize bad advice when he hears it. So he just grunts, wallowing at the table, feeling awful about his actions because he’s still in love. Toying with his sashimi, he confesses that he’s worried about Thomas.

“You don’t need to worry. He’s not your problem anymore. You broke up,” Steve states.

“So what? That doesn’t mean I don’t care about him. Where is he?” Jeffrey inquires.

Ask and thou shall receive, I think.

The trouble is Jeffrey is in such a cloud that he doesn’t realize bad advice when he hears it.

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That’s because faster than a bird blink, I see Thomas heading toward the table.

Looking glum, yet shiny in a silver tie, he reaches the group, greeted by a mournful hug from a girl.

Totally appalled, Steve slams a bit of wine and glares at me. “Did you invite Thomas? How could you do this to Jeffrey? They just broke up.”

“Don’t look at me. I didn’t know he was coming,” I state.

“Give me a break. You want the drama for your column!” Steve exclaims.

Overwhelmed by the commotion, Jeffrey jets out for a cigarette break. The second he’s gone, Steve sets sights on Thomas. “Are you stupid? Are you trying to ruin Jeffrey’s night? You should be off fucking another guy. What are you doing here?”

“I invited him. He’s my friend,” a girl snaps.

Hence, the drama of the evening begins. Steve is arguing with Thomas.

I’m mad at Steve. The girls are mad at Steve. So the dinner party splits up, and we call it a night before driving away in different directions. Of course, Steve says he was just trying to help.

“By telling them to fuck other people?

That’s not what they need to hear!” I yell at him in the car.

“So what? Should I pretend that everything is fine like the rest of you?”

And for the moment, I don’t answer.

I suppose that’s because as a friend in this situation, I’m not sure what I’m supposed to do. To me, breaking up is a form of death, and when I attend a funeral I have a hard time communicating what I’d like to say. So I observe.

And when I lay eyes on Jeffrey and Thomas, what I see is two people who care deeply for each other, trying to make right of a situation gone wrong.

Like today, Jeffrey posted a frantic love poem to Thomas on the Internet, and he sent flowers to Thomas at work.

And though Thomas is hurt, he tries to keep a level head, though I’m certain it’s hard. So if I don’t rush to their aid with unsolicited advice, I’m sure they know it’s not because I’m pretending everything is fine. Instead, it’s because I believe they have it under control.

And if not, as a friend, I welcome their call, and if I can’t talk, I’ll do better — I’ll listen. Q

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Jacin just stared at him in disbelief.

After a moment, George laughed and said, “Come on. Say yes. We’ve already paid for the cabin and we’re allowed to have the ceremony anywhere in Yellowstone we choose.”

Still no response.

George prodded, “Eddie pitched in with me for our honeymoon to Cancun.”

“I can’t. I’m sorry,” was all Jacin said before leaving the room.

After the unexpected proposal from George, Jacin had spent three nights at his parents house across the street.

On the fourth day he somewhat reluctantly returned home after realizing he couldn’t sleep worth a damn without George by his side.

Jacin, along with his parents, had decided earlier to spend the Fourth of July weekend camping on their property. So Jacin invited George to go along — who somewhat reluctantly accepted. They packed up the truck with camping necessities including their dachsunds Hansel and Gretel, a port-a-potty, fishing gear and enough beer to cure an alcoholic.

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Eventually night fell, but only after Dad had three white Russians, which loosened up his lips. He told George about back in the day when women still shaved their legs before bearing them to the world. But how Mom used Nair instead; and therefore could easily remove the stubbly hair any time, any where — even once at the drivein theater. But the funniest time, he said, was when she tried doing it at the beach. While he helped Jacin build a sand castle, Mom sat on a beach towel and smeared Nair along her legs; within seconds she was running and screaming up and down the beach with a swarm of bees circling around her white, foamy legs.

Mom smirked at Dad’s story and retaliated, “Let me tell you an even better story about Dad.” “Jacin was about 16, I think,” she started. “And one night Dad started having chest pains, and as they worsened we decided we should take him to the hospital.”

Immediately Jacin thought discouragingly, “Another time I don’t remember.”

He shifted uncomfortably in his chair as Mom continued the story.

She said that the doctor told her that he needed a heart stint as soon as possible. After the surgery, the doctor said it went well, but that Dad should lie still for at least two hours, to move as little as possible. However, this was made more difficult since the remote to the television in his room wasn’t working properly, and the channel it was turned on to was fuzzy.

When the doctor finally allowed Jacin and Mom into Dad’s hospital room, after the two-hour period, they had found Dad on his knees on the floor — the opening of his hospital gown revealing his bare butt — wrestling with an octopus of cords, trying to fix the TV. “After fiddling with all those cords,” Mom continued. “He got up and walked over to the TV, rolling his IV stand with him. “And then, you know Dad’s a fairly short man, and the TV was bolted high on the wall, so he literally started jumping up and down, pushing the channel buttons with his finger.”

Mom and Dad began laughing at the memory, and Mom continued, “And we all just stood there stunned by the fact that two hours ago he had just had heart surgery, and now he was jumping around like a 6-year-old.”

Suddenly, a memory from that day vividly illuminated in Jacin’s mind.

He turned to George.

“I’m ready to marry you,” he said behind an enormous smile. Q To be continued ...

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