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Killer of Gay Man One of 9 on Death Row

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Thank Rue for Being a Friend

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F THERE IS SOMETHING LIKE buyer’s remorse for adopting a dog from the Humane Society, I think I am going through it now. More of a “what was I thinking” kind of thing. Don’t get me wrong (and don’t send me nasty letters), I love the 85-pound idiot of a dog I chose. But, like any time you bring in a new family member, there is that time of adjustment that you just never think you’ll get through. First — the separation anxiety. I can’t even get to my car before I hear the howling and whining. A LOUD howling and whining which only begets feelings of guilt. Second — the kennel cough. All three of the dogs I have adopted from the Humane Society in my life had kennel cough. It is very much like a common cold, except that is goes on for weeks. Like, three or four of them. They give you antibiotics to administer (which can be fun), but they really don’t seem to do anything. Let me tell you: an 85-pound dog has a very large snout. Larger than mine. When this dog sneezes, take cover and pull out the industrial-sized mop. Third — there is Vixen, Chance’s “sister.” Vixen, of course, needs extra attention

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through this period of time so she doesn’t feel unappreciated. She’s also not so sure of this horse-sized snot-dripping addition to the household. She seems to be warming up, but very slowly. Fourth — this dog, when I am home, cannot be more than three feet of me. Try cleaning the house when, every time you turn around, there is an 85-pound knee-high obstacle to trip over. Oh, there’s more, but I don’t want to sound (even more) whiney. I was reminded, however, that Vixen was the same way February before last when I adopted her. Today, I can’t imagine being without her, nor can I think of anything to complain about with her. So, I’m hoping beyond hope that I can make it through a few more weeks of slipping on slime and falling to the ground each time I turn around before we all adjust to each other and become the indestructible family unit that I’m sure we will. If, however, you don’t see an issue of QSaltLake in the next two weeks, send the cops by my house to make sure I’m not crumpled up at the bottom of the stairs with a crying dog lapping at me. Thanks. Q

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BY REX WOCKNER

Federal Prop 8 Case Wraps Up Do bans on same-sex marriage infringe gay people’s fundamental federal constitutional rights? Or, is marriage, by definition, an institution that “channels” procreating heterosexuals into stable unions for the sake of children? The federal lawsuit against California’s Proposition 8, which amended the state constitution in 2008 to re-ban same-sex marriage, wrapped up on June 16 in U.S. District Court in San Francisco following a fivemonth hiatus. Anti-Prop-8 lawyer Ted Olson argued that Prop 8 violates, among other things, the U.S. Constitution’s equal-protection clause by creating separate classes of people with different laws for each. “The fundamental constitutional right to marry has been taken away from the plaintiffs and tens of thousands of similarly situated Californians,” Olson said. “Their state has rewritten its constitution in order to place them into a special disfavored category where their most intimate personal relationships are not valid, not recognized and second-rate. Their state has stigmatized them as unworthy of marriage, different and less respected. … There is not a compelling governmental interest to put the plaintiffs in a class like this and take away what the Supreme Court has called a fundamental right, a right of liberty, privacy, association, intimacy and autonomy.” “This law is discriminatory,” he said. “The evidence is overwhelming that it imposes great social harm on individuals who are our equals. They are members of our society. They pay their taxes. They want to form a household. They want to raise their children in happiness and in the same way that their neighbors do. We are imposing great damage on them by the … state of California saying they are different and they cannot have the happiness, they cannot have the privacy, they cannot have the liberty, they cannot have the intimate association in the context of a marriage that the rest of our citizens do. We have demonstrated during this trial that that causes grave and permanent, irreparable and totally unnecessary harm, because we are withholding from them … that right of marriage in the context of the intimate relationship. We are withholding that from them, hurting them and we are doing no good. If we had a reason, a really good reason for inflicting all of that harm, that might be another matter, but there is no reason.” Pro-Prop-8 lawyer Charles Cooper, in his closing argument, said that “the central purpose of marriage in virtually all societies and at all times has been to channel potentially procreative sexual relationships into enduring stable unions to increase the likelihood that any offspring will be raised by the man and woman who brought them into the

world.” “The right to marry is bound up with and proceeds from the fundamental nature and its fundamental purpose relating to procreation and the existence and survival of the human race,” he said. “So it is itself, by definition, the right of a man to marry a woman, and vice versa. That is — that is the right.” He also argued that sexual orientation is not fixed, referring to “its amorphous, effectively indefinable, at least consistently, nature, and the simple fact that it is not Lawyer Ted Olson. immutable (or) an accident of birth.” “Sexual orientation does change,” he said. “It does change over time. And, it apparently changes especially in women.” The question of whether sexual orientation is fixed could determine how high a legal “hurdle” Prop 8 has to “jump” to be deemed constitutional. Other factors also could apply, such as whether gays have suffered a history of discrimination and whether they are politically powerless. Under the toughest level of federal judicial review — “strict scrutiny” — governmental restrictions of any sort on certain population groups’ equal-protection rights are frequently struck down. The anti-Prop-8 lawyers want Judge Vaughn Walker to apply strict scrutiny in the case. The pro-Prop-8 lawyers are hoping for a more relaxed “rational basis” review, under which Prop 8 could be considered constitutional if any logical reason for its existence can be found. The trial transcript suggests that, to date, no attempt to apply “strict scrutiny” to sexual orientation in a federal case has ultimately succeeded. It has been applied to such “immutable” things as race and national origin — and to religion and status as a noncitizen. Walker suggested to Cooper that he sees the history of discrimination against gay people as the most important factor in determining the legal stringency of his review of Prop 8.

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Equality Utah’s ‘10 in 2010’ initiative is well underway. With a final goal of getting 10 cities or municipalities in Utah to pass housing and employment protections before the 2011 legislative session, they are now 6 for 10 with the addition of Summit County.” —Local activist Eric Ethington, writing about Summit County’s passage of Salt Lake City-style ordinances.

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It’s like we’re a second thought. Everyone talks about being inclusive, diverse, but how do we get there?” —Alex Moya, director of the Utah AIDS Foundation’s Hispanic and Latino outreach program Hermanos de Luna y Sol, talking to Salt Lake City Weekly about the lack of institutional support for gay and bisexual Hispanic Utahns.

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“Isn’t it that it’s the historical context that determines whether or not strict scrutiny is appropriate for a particular classification, more than the political-power factor or the immutability factor or these other factors?” Walker asked. “Isn’t that really what decides the issue? … Isn’t Proposition 8 and these other propositions in other states that limit marriage to opposite-sex couples, the DOMA statute that has been mentioned, the exclusion of gays and lesbians from military service for a long period of time, aren’t all of those simply indicia of a long history of discrimination?” Cooper replied: “We have never disputed and we have offered to stipulate that gays and lesbians have been the victims of a long and shameful history of discrimination. (But) the fact of a history of discrimination is not by itself sufficient to warrant heightened judicial scrutiny. The (U.S. Supreme) Court has always insisted, as well, on immutability of the characteristic and political powerlessness at the time that the issue comes forward to the court.” When he wrapped up his closing argument, Olson spoke again. “Mr. Cooper talks about procreation as the fundamental basis for marriage,” he said. “Well, don’t you have to prove that Proposition 8 does something to protect procreation? (The U.S. Supreme Court has said that) ‘under the lowest standard of review, you have to prove that you have a legitimate interest

I was completely ignored and shunned. I had nothing to do all day but wander around the store wearing a yellow vest no one else had to wear, much like Jews had to wear a yellow star [sic] of David in Hitler’s Germany.” —Former Las Vegas Walmart employee Fernando Gallardo telling The Advocate that he was harassed at work after his supervisor demanded to know if he was gay.

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8 is most coherent as a chilling confirmation of both the mindwarping power of an institution like the Mormon Church and the extent to which politics is, above all, a marketing game.” —Critic Michelle Orange’s review of 8: The Mormon Proposition

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[S]ometimes [directors Reed] Cowan and [Steven] Greenstreet’s zeal clearly gets the better of them. Their imagery is at times overly dramatic … and they fall back on idiotic quotes uttered by anti-gay-rights advocates like Utah Sen. Chris Buttars. But the lack of polish doesn’t tarnish the truth of the story: how an institution claiming to speak for God turned its dogma into law, and shattered the lives of real, loving people in the process.” —Scott Renshaw’s review of the documentary in City Weekly

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In a country that is still struggling when it comes to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights, Utah has been an unlikely contender in the fight for equality.” —Mallory Rogers, a columnist for University of Utah student newspaper The Daily Utah Chronicle, in a piece about the Utah Pride Festival.

and that the object’ — Proposition 8 in this case — ‘advances that legitimate interest.’” “So how does preventing same-sex couples from getting married advance the interest or protect the interest of procreation?” he asked. “They are not a threat to us. What one single bit of evidence (is there) that they are a threat to the channeling (of procreation into marriage) function? If you accept that California has the right to do that in the first place. And I do not. This is an individual constitutional right. And every Supreme Court decision says that it’s a right of persons. Not the right of California to channel those of us who live in California into certain activities or in a certain way.” Olson concluded: “(Overturning) Proposition 8 isn’t changing the institution of marriage. It is correcting a restriction based upon sex and sexual orientation.” Walker then asked Olson whether the U.S. Supreme Court would uphold Walker’s ruling if he strikes down Prop 8. “Do we have a political tide here (on same-sex marriage) that’s going to carry the Supreme Court?” he asked. “I believe, Your Honor, that there is a political tide running,” Olson replied. “I think that people’s eyes are being opened.

People are becoming more understanding and tolerant. The polls tell us that. That isn’t any secret. But that does not justify a judge in a court to say: ‘I really need the polls to be just a few points higher. I need someone to go out and take the temperature of the American public before I can break this barrier and break down this discrimination.’ … This (issue) is going to be in a court. Some judge is going to have to decide what we’ve asked you to decide. And there will never be a case with a more thorough presentation of the evidence.” The Prop 8 case could end up at the U.S. Supreme Court as soon as next year, after a stop at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. If successful, the suit could bring about the legalization of same-sex marriage nationwide. If unsuccessful, it could have the effect of stopping the movement for same-sex marriage — which now is legal in five states and Washington, D.C. — dead in its tracks for possibly a generation. The trial had been paused since testimony concluded on Jan. 27 because Walker said he wanted to study the record before hearing the attorneys’ final statements. The hiatus dragged on longer than expected because of legal skirmishes over production of documents by organizations that cam-

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sexual orientation.” The Red Cross agrees. “The American Red Cross is disappointed with the decision made by the (committee) not to recommend a change to the [U.S. Food and Drug Administration] policy of a lifetime deferral for men who have sex with other men,” the organization said. “While the Red Cross is obligated by law to follow the guidelines set forth by the FDA, we also strongly support the use of rational, scientifically based deferral periods that are applied fairly and consistently among donors who engage in similar risk activities.”

U.S. Government: Gay Blood Ban Stays The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Advisory Committee on Blood Safety and Availability decided June 11 to retain the policy that bans blood donation by any man who has had sex with a man at any time, even once, since 1977. In a 9-6 vote, the committee cited a lack of research to support the notion that lifting the ban would not contaminate the blood supply. Incongruously, current policy allows people who have unsafe heterosexual sex with someone who has AIDS to donate blood after a one-year waiting period. Current HIV-testing technology can identify a new infection with the virus within about 10 days of transmission. The committee acknowledged that current policy permits “some potentially highrisk donations while preventing some potentially low-risk donations.” It called this state of affairs “suboptimal” and suggested more research into the matter. “This decision is outrageous, irresponsible and archaic,” said Rea Carey, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. “We expect more out of this advisory committee and this administration than to uphold an unnecessarily discriminatory policy from another era.” She said all donors should be “screened appropriately and assessed based on actual behavioral risk independent of their

Yuma Mayor Under Fire for ‘Limp-wristed’ Comments, Weak apology The mayor of Yuma, Ariz., Al Krieger, came under fire after a video of him calling gays in the military “a bunch of lacydrawered, limp-wristed people” went viral online. Krieger made the remark during a Memorial Day speech. On June 11, Krieger apologized but simultaneously called the so-called gay lifestyle disagreeable and immoral. “As mayor, I must respect the lifestyle choices of others, no matter how disagreeable they are with my personal beliefs or my personal moral standards,” he told the Yuma Sun newspaper. “I apologize for my comments at the Memorial Day service at Desert Lawn cemetery on Memorial Day.” Local gay activists said the apology was

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Hatch: Remark About Gays and Politics Was a Compliment by JoSelle Vanderhooft

Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch has said that his recent controversial remark about gays and lesbians was intended as praise for the community’s willingness to “pony up money for politics.” Hatch made the comment earlier this month during a St. George town-hall meeting where he urged the audience of 300 to come together in support of the Republican Party as “unions, environmentalists, personal injury lawyers and gay rights activists do for Democrat candidates.” “Gays and lesbians don’t pay tithing, their religion is politics,” he then added. That sentence touched off a firestorm of criticism from gay-rights activists in Utah and from around the country, as well as a host of angry letters to a number of newspapers. “I’d love to know what that means, exactly. Gay people can’t be religious? The LGBT community necessarily cares more [about] politics than the rest of the country?” Washington Monthly columnist Steve Benen asked at the time. In an interview with The Salt Lake Tribune, Hatch attempted to answer the question. “Many gay people are vociferous Democrats who are willing to pony up money for politics. That’s something I admire,” he said. “I don’t know how I could have been much more complimentary the way I said it.” Hatch also said that he never intended his words to imply that gays and lesbians aren’t religious. “There are some very, very good gay people who are very religious who undoubtedly pay tithing,” he continued. “That wasn’t what I was talking about. I was talking about politics and praising them for getting involved. I was making the point that they don’t just stand on the side, they actually support their Democratic candidates with their money.” Several Utahns, however, aren’t buying the apology. Tribune columnist Paul Rolly reminded readers that Hatch said something similar in the 1980s, when he told a group of St. George Republicans that the Democratic Party was the “party of abortionists and homosexuals.” After being confronted with a tape recording of his remark, Rolly said Hatch claimed his remarks were misconstrued. “The point of Hatch’s gaffes is that politicians typically say things in venues they consider politically friendly that they never would say to a general audience,” Rolly wrote. “In the manner of a tent revival, they preach to the choir in the choir’s language in

order to generate enthusiasm and ring up campaign cash. And in those environments, who cares about accuracy?” “What Hatch is saying, then, is that Republicans need to look to The Gays for tips on coming together with unifying messages and tactics,” read a post on the popular gay blog Qweerty. “That is quite a compliment. It also completely ignores the fact that gay activists are wholly splintered on strategy, but hey, the GOP doesn’t need to know that.” But some gay leaders were more forgiving. David Melson, executive director of Affirmation, a support group for current and former gay LDS church members, said that his group was willing to accept the senator’s apology. “Town hall meetings can sometimes bring out emotions or words or thoughts that one would probably not utter in a controlled situation,” Melson told the Tribune. “I doubt very much he would have made the same comment if he were speaking in Salt Lake City.”

$10 for 10 in ‘10 Statewide gay- and transgenderrights group Equality Utah wants to see gay- and transgender-inclusive housing and employment ordinances pass in at least 10 Utah municipalities this year. To reach this goal, the staff is asking for donations of $10 from gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Utahns and their allies, which can be made at equalityutah.org.

Thank the Summit County Council To send a thank-you message to the five-member Summit County Council for passing gay- and transgenderinclusive housing and employment ordinances, email cocouncil@ co.summit.utah.us.

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Website Asks LDS Woman to Reassess Plan to Marry Gay Man by Jason Clark, Special to QSaltLake

What are the chances of having a successful Mormon marriage when a straight woman decides to marry an openly gay man? Using quotes from church President Gordon B. Hinckley and Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, a new web site urges a Mormon woman to think twice before marrying her fiancé who is an out gay man. DanielleDontDoit.com warned Danielle Palmer that if she went forward with her plan to marry her gay fiancé on May 22, she might be “gambl[ing] on some kind of ‘holy experiment’ that is almost certain to fail.” Despite the warning, Palmer married Ty Mansfield, a Mormon man who came out in 2004 when he co-authored the faith-promoting book In Quiet Desperation. Mansfield, who admitted to having been involved in relationships with other men, wrote that “when I finally decided to give my life to the Lord, I accepted in my heart that I would probably never marry, and I was okay with that.” That was in 2004. In recent essays, Mansfield promoted a vision of marriage without romantic love and sex, claiming that these are an almost insignificant part of married life. “To some, perhaps especially men, love isn’t love unless it’s sexual or romantic. And

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yet, that’s The Great Lie,” Mansfield wrote. “Sexual or romantic love, as I see it, are only a *tiny tiny* piece of the Love that God calls us to,” he added in a Web-log entry. Mansfield said that he is now a family therapist — a statement which is leading some bloggers to wonder what kind of advice he would give to gay clients, and whether he believes people can change their orientation. A long list of Mormon women attest to the heartache and dissolution of family bonds that almost inevitably occurs when straight women marry gay men. From Ruth Pingree Smith, who was married to a secretly gay church patriarch and followed him into exile in Hawaii, to Emily Pearson, who repeated the pattern of her mother Carol Lynn Pearson by first marrying and then divorcing a gay man, these stories suggest that rarely do women who marry gay men lead happy lives. “Danielle, marriage is hard enough without trying to make it work when one of you is straight and one of you is gay,” the web site begged. “Please don’t sabotage yourself by sacrificing your life, your future, and your happiness for a marriage that has no credible assurance of surviving.”

The Downtown Farmers Market has now opened, offering Utahns over 250 vendors including farmers, growers, bakers and local artisans. Special events are held every Saturday that include cooking demonstrations and tastings, live music and children’s activities. WHEN: Saturday mornings through Oct. 16, 8 a.m.–1 p.m. WHERE: Historic Pioneer Park, 300 W. 300 South COST: Free INFO: slcfarmersmarket.org

Boobies, Boobies, Boobies The Utah Pride Center and local civic and social lesbian organization sWerve will present The Breast Dialogues. The evening of monologues written and performed by members of Utah’s gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer community explores performers’ and writers’ feelings about and experiences around their breasts. Monologues in the past have ranged from the humorous to the dramatic. Refreshments and drinks will be provided afterward by sWerve. The production is supported by a grant from the Salt Lake City affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, a foundation which supports prevention of and research into breast cancer. WHEN: July 17, 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, Black Box Theatre, 138 W. 300 South. COST: Suggested $10 donation

Summit County Passes Ordinances by JoSelle Vanderhooft

Summit County has become the sixth Utah municipality to pass ordinances that protect gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people from housing and job discrimination. Although only three of the county’s five council members were present for the June 16 vote — Sally Elliot, John Hanrahan and David Ure — their unanimous vote was enough to pass the ordinances, said Brandie Balken, executive director of Equality Utah. The statewide gay- and transgender-rights group has been working with city and county governments to create such protections. She added that the absent council members, Chair Claudia McMullin and Vice Chair Chris Robinson, would likely have voted in favor of the ordinances as well. “I think from sitting in [on previous sessions where the ordinances were discussed] they were positive votes as well,” Balken said. Like Salt Lake City’s ordinances, Summit County’s apply to businesses with more than 15 employees and to landlords renting four or more units. Violating the ordinances can result in a fine of up to $1,000. Religious organizations are also exempt. She said that this particular victory for gay and transgender Utahns was unique because Summit County is the most rural location yet to pass these ordinances, which are modeled off the ones Salt Lake City passed in 2009. “Hoytsville, Peoa, Coalville, all of these are very small towns. Summit County isn’t just Park City,” she said. “I think this is a representation of how we’re really making progress in the entirety of the population of Utah.” Before the council voted, several people spoke in favor of the ordinances’ passage, including Park City resident Melyssa Davidson and the Rev. Robert Bussen, the former pastor of St. Mary of the Assumption Church. “Fr. Bussen spoke about how proud he was to be a resident of Summit County and how proud he was of the work being done and how much it speaks to residents, especially young LGBT people,” Balken said. During the council’s two public meetings on the ordinances, held June 2 and 16, she said that no residents spoke in opposition. “But, that’s not to say that people didn’t connect with their council people outside of those meetings,” she added. The five other Utah governments that have passed housing and employment or-

dinances for gay and transgender citizens are Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Park City, Logan and West Valley City. Equality Utah hopes to add at least four more to that list by the end of the year. She added that Equality Utah is currently talking with a number of other cities, several of which are located outside of Northern Utah. “Right now our focus is moving into the south,” she said, noting that a number of public meetings about the ordinances are scheduled in Cedar City where Southern Utah University’s Queer Student Union is “working pretty hard” to educate the community about the measures. Moab’s mayor has also shown interest in the ordinances, but so far, Balken added, St. George has not. “Through our initial conversations [with city government], we understand they’ll be more comfortable moving further down the line,” she said. Meanwhile, a committee of Taylorsville citizens has unanimously approved the ordinances and passed them to the city council for consideration (all ordinances proposed by residents must go through this committee first). She said that the council will vote on them as soon as they are done drawing up the city’s budget. Similarly, Equality Utah plans to speak to the Sandy City Council later this summer after its budget is finalized. Until then, the staff will give a presentation on the ordinances to the Murray City Council on June 24 and is scheduling meetings in Torrey, Grand County and Moab. “I’m also starting to do a little more work back in Ogden and Weber County,” she added, noting that Ogden’s council is also working on budgeting matters. “One thing that we know is that you need to plant the seed and nourish it. We’re in the nourishment phase with a lot of our municipalities,” she said. Equality Utah took up the municipal strategy in 2008 when its Common Ground Initiative failed to pass in the Legislature. The initiative was a series of bills that sought to secure more protections for gay and transgender Utahns, including statewide employment and housing nondiscrimination. A bill to that effect was sponsored in 2008 and 2009 by openly lesbian state Rep. Christine Johnson, D-Salt Lake City, and failed both times. In 2010, Johnson and Republican leaders compromised to withdraw both her bill and legislation aimed at striking down Salt Lake City’s ordinances before they could be enacted on April 2. Q

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Killer of Gay Man Is One of 9 on Utah’s Death Row by Michael Aaron

Now that Ronnie Lee Gardner has been executed by the state of Utah, nine more await their turn on death row, including one man who murdered a gay Cedar City student in 1988. Michael Anthony Archuleta was found guilty of raping, robbing, torturing and killing Gordon Church, a 28-year-old theater student at then-Southern Utah State College. His accomplice Lance Wood, however, received a life sentence for the crime, leading some to believe, including Archuleta and his family, that his legal representation is partly to blame for him facing execution.

The Murder According to transcripts of the murder trial, Church was killed within a month of the release of Wood and Archuleta from the Utah State Prison. On Oct. 25, 1988, Wood, then 20-years-old and newly released from prison, moved into the Cedar City two-bedroom apartment of his girlfriend, Brenda Stapely, and Archuleta, 26 and also just released, moved into the same apartment to be with his girlfriend, Paula Jones. Wood and Archuleta had met in prison. On Nov. 21, 1988, Wood and Archuleta purchased soft drinks at a local convenience store. After adding whiskey to their drinks, the two men engaged in a conversation with Gordon Church, who was seated in his car in a nearby parking lot and asked for a ride. Church drove Wood and Archuleta up and down Main Street and then up Cedar Canyon. After returning to Cedar City, Church left Wood and Archuleta at their apartment complex. Wood and Archuleta went to the apartment of Anthony Sich, who lived above their apartment. Wood told Sich that he was going into the mountains and asked if he could borrow a pair of gloves. Sich sent Wood to retrieve the gloves from his car, and while Wood was outside, Church returned and invited him and Archuleta to go for another drive. Church drove Wood and Archuleta back to Cedar Canyon and pulled off the road. Wood and Archuleta exited the car first and began to walk down a path. Archuleta told Wood that he wanted to rob Church, and Wood acquiesced. Church caught up with the men, and as they started back down the trail toward the car, Archuleta grabbed Church and put a knife to his neck. Although Wood attempted to stop Archuleta by grabbing his arm, Archuleta made a surface cut on Church’s neck. Church broke free and ran, but Archuleta chased after and tackled him, again putting the knife to his neck and threatening to kill

him. Archuleta cut Church’s throat again so that the two cuts formed an “X” on the front of Church’s neck. Archuleta bent Church forward over the hood of the car and, with the knife still at Church’s throat, had anal intercourse with him. At Church’s request, Archuleta used a condom. Archuleta then turned to Wood, who was standing by the trunk of the car, and asked if he “wanted any.” Wood declined. Archuleta went to the trunk of the car and opened it. He told Wood that he was looking for something with which he could bind Church. Wood removed a spare tire and a fan from the trunk, while Archuleta retrieved tire chains and battery cables. Wood remained at the rear of the car, while Archuleta returned to the front, where he wrapped the tire chains around Church. Archuleta also fastened the battery-cable clamps to Church’s genitals. Wood testified that he removed the clamps from Church as soon as he realized what Archuleta had done. Archuleta led Church to the rear of the car and forced him into the trunk. Wood and Archuleta replaced the spare tire and fan and drove to a truck stop near Cedar City where they purchased gas. They continued north on Interstate 15 until they reached the Dog Valley exit. They parked along a deserted dirt road where Archuleta told Wood, “You know we have to kill him.” Archuleta removed Church from the trunk and attempted to kill him by breaking his neck. When that failed, Church suffered several blows to the head with a tire iron and a jack. The tire iron was then shoved and kicked so far into Church’s rectum that it pierced his liver. A state medical examiner testified that Church was killed by injuries to the head and skull due to a blunt force and internal injuries caused by the tire iron inserted into Church’s rectum. After Church died, Wood and Archuleta dragged his body to some nearby trees, where they dug a shallow grave and covered it with branches. They swept their path with branches on the way back to the car to conceal any footprints. With Wood at the wheel, the pair again drove north on I-15 and abandoned Church’s car in Salt Lake City. The men went to the home of Wood’s friend, Christy Worsfold, who immediately noticed that Archuleta’s pants were caked with blood. Wood explained that they had been rabbit hunting the night before, their car had broken down, and they had hitchhiked to Salt Lake. The two men then went to a thrift store for new clothes. Archuleta discarded his bloody jeans in

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a drainage ditch near the 4500 South onramp to I-15 in Salt Lake County. He and Wood then went into a nearby Denny’s restaurant, where Wood left the gloves he had borrowed from Sich. After eating, the two hitchhiked as far as the Draper exit, where Archuleta pulled out Church’s wallet, scattered its contents, and handed the wallet to Wood. They next hitchhiked to Salem, where they visited Archuleta’s father. From there, they hitchhiked to Cedar City, arriving at about 11:30 p.m. Wood immediately went upstairs to Sich’s apartment and told him about the murder. When Sich advised him to contact the police, Wood responded, “[M]aybe I could get some kind of federal protection.” Sich and Wood walked to a local convenience store, where Wood called Brenda Stapely, who was in Phoenix, and told her that Archuleta had killed someone. Stapely contacted John Graff, Wood’s parole officer, and told him to call Wood at the store. Graff called Wood and arranged to meet him at the convenience store. Just before Graff’s arrival with the police, Wood discarded Church’s wallet. Wood and Sich accompanied Graff and a police officer to the corrections department office, where Wood recounted the events of the previous night. The police arrested Archuleta for the murder and, after several

interviews with Wood, also charged Wood with murder in the first degree, aggravated sexual assault, object rape, forcible sexual abuse, aggravated kidnapping, aggravated assault and possession of a stolen vehicle. After being arrested, Archuleta talked to a psychiatrist about hallucinations he was having, saying, “I was seeing Gordon. He was right there. I could see Gordon saying, ‘Why are you doing this to me?’ I could see Gordon laying on the ground. I could see the shallow grave Gordon was in. I could see myself standing right next to Gordon, looking at him. I still see him.” Archuleta later told his lawyer that the vision would “never go away.” Archuleta was found guilty of aggravated murder Dec. 20, 1989 and sentenced to death. Wood was found guilty of the same crime six months later, and given life in prison.

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Archuleta was originally scheduled to be executed in 1990 but appealed the jury’s verdict to the Utah Supreme Court, which denied the appeal in March 1993, leading Archuleta’s attorney, Michael Esplin, to appeal the case to the U.S. Supreme Court. After that rejection, Archuleta filed a writ of habeas corpus in Utah 4th District —Continued on page 12

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2010 Pride Draws 25,000 Although it will be some time before the Utah Pride Center knows how much money it took in during this year’s Utah Pride Festival, the tickets have been tallied. The results: This year’s festival drew in 25,000 visitors, slightly more than it did last year. Of those tickets, said Center Executive Director Valerie Larabee, 21,000 were paid and 4,000 were given away to vendors and their staff, or as prizes. Further, Sunday’s Utah Pride Parade attracted close to 90 entries, tying it with last year’s for the biggest parade in the festival’s history. In addition to the increase in ticket sales, she said that this year’s festival has received a lot of positive feedback. “I have had nothing but rave reviews of the event, and really it’s been across the board,” she said. “People were very impressed with the entertainment. They really liked Sandra Bernhard and Martha Wash — they loved Martha Wash. They loved the [festival] grounds and how it was laid out, and how well-oiled the team was that checked people in and out.” As for the parade itself, Larabee said that she was proud of its diversity. “We had the mariachi band, just this really wide range of folks who participated,” she said. “It really represented to me the work of the Pride Center, which is every part of the community being represented in the work of Pride.” She was also pleased, she continued, with the volunteers’ hard work, particularly when it came to tearing the festival

down on Sunday. In her first years working the festival, she said that cleaning up typically took until 3:00 a.m. This year, she said that it took only tree and a half hours. “Monday is our day to take everything that belongs to the Center to our storage facility. It used to be that Monday was an all day job to load into the facility. But, we had enough people and are getting so good at it that we were done in under three hours this year,” she continued. “When you have a group of people that have been working together for a number of years it really begins to show. I’m proud that people really get behind Pride and show a lot of pride in the work the put towards it.” On a more playful note, she added that attendees were asking “if they think our parade will be the biggest in Utah.” “And, I say ‘of course it will be someday!’” she said. Although the 2010 Utah Pride Festival closed its doors just a few weeks ago, she noted that the Center is already planning for 2011. “We want to continue to work on the programming on the stages and make sure from the minute the festival grounds open that people have something to be attracted to on the stages,” she said. “I think we still have some work to do there.” The Center also encourages attendees of this year’s festival to fill out a survey detailing their experiences. The survey can be found at utahpridecenter.org.

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Jacob Whipple Leaving Utah by JoSelle Vanderhooft

One of Utah’s most prominent new gay rights activists will be leaving the state in August. “Work came and asked if I would apply for a new trainer position that opened in Charlotte [N.C.], I did and they gave me an offer,” said Jacob Whipple, who works for home automation manufacturer Control4. Whipple became a leading player in Utah’s gay- and lesbian-rights movement shortly after the passage of California’s Proposition 8 in 2008. In just a few days after the state re-banned same-sex marriage, Whipple organized a protest around Temple Square. The Friday-night march drew thousands of participants and dominated local news coverage throughout the weekend. After founding the grassroots gay-rights group All For One Initiative, Whipple helped to organize a number of community-service events including General Service Weekend (held the same Sunday as April’s LDS General Conference) and a quarterly town-hall meeting between leaders of various gay, transgender and allied organizations, and the general public. Today, the meetings exist as regular gatherings among queer leaders and leaders from the Pacific Islander and Hispanic communities. Whipple also assisted Reed Cowan and the team behind the Proposition 8 documentary 8: The Mormon Proposition at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Whipple said he will move in mid-August. For now, he said he is traveling to Charlotte periodically to tour the facility where he will train Control4 workers to install and program the company’s homecontrol programs and applications. “First and foremost, I’m going to miss my friends,” said Whipple. “I’ve been here for nearly a decade and I’ve been able to almost literally handpick the best people that I’ve met in Utah and call them my closest and best friends.” “Aside from that, being a public figure, I’ve gotten to know a lot of people and I’m going to miss all the contacts and networking I’ve been able to accumulate while I’ve been here. I’m going to go out to North Carolina and not know anybody. I’m going to have to start from scratch … [and] prove myself all over again. I’ve been here awhile and I’ve done some great things, and people know of that at least. But, in moving, no one is going to know me or what I’m capable of.” He noted that doing so may be difficult because Charlotte is a long way away from Raleigh, N.C., where the bulk of the state’s gay and transgender organizations including Equality North Carolina are located. “The legislative efforts on Capitol Hill will be a lot more difficult for me to participate in.” As a result, Whipple said that he

has considered becoming more involved with fund-raising efforts. Reflecting on his decade in Utah, Whipple said that he was thankful for the support he received from local gay and transgender people, particularly when he was coming out of the closet as a BYU student. He is also proud to have been a part of what he sees as a powerful change in the state gay- and transgender-rights movement after Proposition 8’s passage. “I like to think that I was an instigator and an organizer. I was able to push that energy in a direction and give that energy a form it didn’t have before,” he said. “And, by doing so, I was able to see it grow into this incredible movement it is now. I can’t take credit for everything it’s accomplished at this point, and, of course, I’m not the first person to have done that, but my snowball merged with other snowballs and now look at Utah. Look at us.” “Troy Williams [QSaltLake columnist and local activist] said that Utah is a great place to cut your teeth in regards to activism, and I completely agree with that,” Whipple continued. “I don’t think I could have eve tried what I accomplished in Utah anywhere else there’s this perfect combination of a large gay community and a community of social awareness, and that energy and momentum to actually fight for something we believe in. I hope to take all the lessons and experiences I’ve been able to get easily in Utah and apply them to North Carolina when I get out there.”

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Court, on the basis of his former attorney was ineffective at presenting mitigating evidence during the penalty phase of the 1988 trial. That evidence would include Archuleta’s background history, including childhood and psychological factors, or neurological defects that might have led to criminal behavior. That petition was initially rejected. That rejection was later reversed by the Utah Supreme Court and sent back to the 4th District Court for another hearing. In 2002, Archuleta filed a second petition through attorneys Edward Brass and Lynn Donaldson, raising 120 claims. The state Office of the Attorney General filed a motion for sanctions against the attorneys, under what is called Rule 11, saying that the attorneys were raising unsupported and inapplicable claims. The court decided against sanctions, but Brass dropped Archuleta’s case shortly after because of the financial strain it was causing him and his practice. The latest appeal was filed on Nov. 7,

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2008, during which Associate Chief Justice Michael Wilkins warned that death sentences would be reversed if the state Legislature fails to provide for adequate counsel in death-row appeals. “It falls to us, as the court of last resort in this state, to assure that no person is deprived of life, liberty, or property, without the due — and competent — process of law,” Wilkins wrote. “Without a sufficient defense, a sentence of death cannot be constitutionally imposed.” He wrote that the justices may soon be forced to reverse a death sentence and impose life without parole on such grounds if the Legislature fails to provide adequate resources.

Family Archuleta’s family stands behind him and are doing what they can to overturn the death sentence. Archuleta’s adoptive mother, Stella, testified in court that her son was kind and caring, telling Judge Donald Eyre how he took care of his children and stepchildren, and his aunt. “I’m proud of him,” she said. “He was a good father.” Archuleta’s son, Tyler, who shares his middle name and was four years old at the

time of the murder, defended his father on a blog about the crime and bristled at comments left by fellow readers. “You don’t know the man and you don’t know what happened,” he wrote. “I know the story and I’ve read my little heart out and listened to even more. My father is not a murderer. Aggravated assault, yes. Rape, yes. Robbery, definitely. But to receive the death penalty for his actions shows us all that there is no ‘one nation under God.’” “I’m not saying my father should be released,” he continued. “I’m saying my father deserves a fair trial with a proper defense.” He said that the state “denies my visiting. He has been living with the fact that he can’t see his only son. I have to live with the fact that I’ve never felt a hug from my father.”

Where he is now

Archuleta’s latest appeal was denied Jan. 5, 2009. His case is likely to move to a federal court. If the Ronnie Lee Gardner execution is any indication, Archuleta and his family likely have another five years of legal wrangling before any kind of resolution. Meanwhile, he sits and waits at the Utah State Prison. Q

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Local Kingpins Attend Gay Games by Brad Di iorio

Bowling may be one of the oldest modern sports in the history of mankind, with clues that it may have been practiced by Egyptians as early as 3200 B.C. There are clear indications that a form of bowling was practiced by King Henry VIII’s troops and was a popular sport, as Henry outlawed the sport so his troops would focus on archery, according to historians. Today, over 90 countries practice the game making it the most universally played sport by all people, regardless of size, age, gender or skill level. Considered a social sport, as each person takes his turn against allowing the opponent to watch the results with comment, the Gay Games have offered bowling since its inception. Two experienced, gay bowlers from Salt Lake City are attending the Cologne Gay Games, July 31–Aug. 7, to test their skills competitively against other gay and lesbian bowlers. “John and I met for the second time three years ago when we both showed up as new members of the Good Times Bowling League,” said Larry Lee, 52, referring to his friend and fellow bowler, John Bennett. “I have met many wonderful people on the Good Times League and now some of my closest friends are from bowling in the Good Times league. I also discovered that I really enjoy bowling.” The league is the state’s gay and lesbian bowling organization, holding official league play on Sundays at Bonwood Bowl beginning at the end of August each year and extending through winter. After league play, members and friends meet throughout the year to enjoy a good bowl and socialize. The league is a member of the United States Bowling Congress and the International Gay Bowling League which allows all members to play in any international gay bowling tournament in the world. This will be Lee’s first games’ competition and he did think about participating in the cycling events but decided against it because of the cost of shipping his bike and scheduling issues with the bowling competition. “I have done the MS 150 for many years and this year I am riding the MS 150 with Team Try-Angles,” said Lee. “This summer I am also bowling on Tuesday nights — Tuesday Night Mixed — at Bonwood in the hopes that my score will improve.” Lee currently averages 134. Lee is a father of two, officially came out three and a half years ago, and his family and co-workers have been very accepting of his lifestyle change. “My son has bowled on my team on the Good Times league for the last two years and he plans on bowling on the league again this fall,” said Lee. “I work for a construction company and I think most people have figured me out.

Overall, all of the important people in my life have been very accepting.” Bennett, on the other hand, is an experienced games enthusiast, participating in four previous games, twice as a bowler at the New York and Amsterdam Gay Games in ’94 and ’98. “I started in the first season of the Good Time Bowling League back when it was at the University of Utah Union Lanes,” said Bennett. “I was happy to reconnect with the league three years ago and have been on Larry’s team ever since.” Bennett and Lee call their team ‘The Jeff Strykers’, a reference to one of gay porn’s most memorable kingpin. Bennett has never won a medal at the Gay Games but appreciates its mission, ‘Participation, Inclusion and Personal Best.’ Bennett also plays tennis and darts, competing in the Chicago Gay Games in the dart competition. Bennett’s bowling average is 163. “My dad used to take us bowling as kids,” remembers Bennett, 48. “It is strictly an amateur venture for me but I have kept it going over the years and was pleased when such a popular and vibrant gay league was established that I could be a part of.” Bennett and Lee will compete in Men’s doubles in the League competitive division and will also compete separately as individuals in the League division, so they have the potential to win a Men’s doubles medal or individual medals. They were both required to submit official certification of handicaps and averages since July 1, 2008, which are officially recorded through the Good Time Bowling League, to participate in the tournament. “I get to spend time with average people and talk about life. I have fun,” said Lee. Both Bennett and Lee are volunteers with the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), both members of HRC’s Utah Steering Committee, while Bennett is political cochair and Lee is co-chair of HRC’s Federal Club of Utah. Bennett recently celebrated 25 years of being ‘out’ in which he held a party for Equality Utah on his 48th birthday. “It brings me out of my shell,” added Bennett. “Honestly, it’s sometimes hard to bowl into the evening on a Sunday night before the work week, but the camaraderie and enjoyment of the game is definitely worth it.” Both men hope to do their best and have a great time at games this summer, representing Utah bowlers, and meeting and making new friends. The games’ bowling competition will take place in two locations in Cologne, Germany, on Aug. 1-6. For more information on Gay Games VIII, visit www.games-cologne.de.

Local Sport Team Fundraisers JUNE 26, Salt Lake City Avalanche Pool Party & BBQ, hosted by the Mountain West Flag Football League, to raise funds to send Avalanche to Gay Bowl X, Rick & Kyle’s, 259 N. State St, 2-6 p.m., $20 cover. JULY 10, Drag Race. 40-yard dash in heels and drag, to raise funds for the Salt Lake City Gay Athletic Association, 4 p.m., $10 participation fee, e-mail slcgaadragrace@ gmail.com, Location TBD, www.mwffl.org JULY 3, Team Utah/QUAC carwash, $5 a car, Janica Nicole Salon & Spa, 2165 E. 3300 South, 11 a.m.–4 p.m. JULY 24, QUAC Pool Party JULY 24, Team Hardwood House Party

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le ers Pride Re-‘Zones’ Rights Editor, It’s hard for me to believe that one of the features at the 2010 Utah Pride Festival was a “Civil Rights History Zone” exhibit (“What’s New at Pride,” QSaltLake, May 27). This was the same festival which, according to its own guidelines, banned nudity, drug possession and alcoholic beverages which were purchased outside of the festival (acts which are already crimes, but festival producers wanted guests apparently to really, really know that criminal behavior is forbidden); banned firearm possession (despite Utah laws which protect it); banned coolers, glass bottles and open containers of any kind, and discouraged personal food or beverages (so much for that planned family picnic or needed diabetic snack; festival food will have to do); discouraged guests from bringing pets (no matter how small, harmless or restrained); restricted cameras and recording devices (memories alone will have to do);

and even warned of the physical searching of all guests and bags (at any time and place at the festival). With festivals like this, I wonder who needs legalistic politicians to restrict our rights. At this rate, civil-rights history zones — like free-speech zones — might become the only expression of the rights that the zones claim to honor. I believe that festival producers could learn from other events which ban very little by relying correctly on state and local laws, and which succeed for it.

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Editor, I happened to be in Salt Lake when the “Damn These Heels” film festival was going on, and I cannot compliment the crew which put it on enough. Salt Lake has impressed me greatly by being able to put on a top-notch film festival. I will be sure to add next year’s to my list of travels.

Editor, I have a couple of critiques on the Pride weekend I would like to share. First of all, those DC Cowboys were totally awesome, and I hope sincerely that you get them back next year. However, I hope they get a full hour or so to perform; two numbers was just not enough. My second comment refers to the timing. San Diego holds their parade on Saturday, and I have two reasons for suggesting that the Salt Lake City community should do the same: 1) There are many gay Mormons who would probably enjoy the parade, except that we are all in church. If it were on Saturday, we could see it or participate. 2) Much of the rhetoric in Salt Lake City is directed against the Church. If you want to protest the Church, it is pointless to have the parade and party on Sunday when your targets, gay and straight, are in church. If the parade were on Saturday, everyone could see it, and your messages.

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Justan Peterson This year Pride was infinitely better than previous years. My entire family was there to support me, including my father and stepmom. It was their first time coming. And it’s the first Pride that we recognized our history! Grace Tippetts I loved the double rainbow, wish we could make that happen every year! Robert John Moody Amazing pride. It just keeps getting better. As one of the old-school people who went when it was at Murray Park, we have come a long way! Thanks Pride staff! Danny Thomas Couldn’t ask for better weather than we had this year. The interfaith service, the march on Saturday. The parade with all the groups and entertainment all were well done and seeing all my friends and family. A job well done by all.

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Democrats who are willing to pony up money for politics. That’s something I admire, I don’t know how I could have been much more complimentary the way I said it.” That was your senator, Orrin Hatch, attempting to explain away his hateful remarks made recently to a group of constituents in St. George. He wasn’t calling gays and lesbians godless heathens. Of course not; he was praising their dedication to the political process. But, here are his actual remarks: “Gays and lesbians don’t pay tithing, politics is their religion.” Apart from the fact that there are undoubtedly a significant number of gay and lesbians who are members not only of Hatch’s Mormon faith, but tithe-paying members of other faiths. I’d also be willing to bet that there are a significant number of gays and lesbians who don’t contribute to politics. To put it simply, gays and lesbians are just like everyone else in society. There is no religious, socioeconomic, racial or political caste which encompasses gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer people. What I find most reprehensible about Hatch’s comment is how he used it. Not only did he make these anti-gay remarks at a campaign stop disguised as a town meeting, he made them in such a way as to deliberately inflame the crowd and motivate them to donate money and get involved to “stop the gays.” A U.S. senator — our U.S. senator — has stooped to using fear tactics to help suppress the rights of a segment of our society and further his own selfish political ends. What makes this even worse is that this wasn’t a “campaign stop.” It was entirely funded by the U.S. Senate and paid for by our tax dollars. I called his office the day after the meeting to confirm that this was, in fact, a Senate-funded trip.

Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative, independent or Green, party or affiliation are all irrelevant. Hatch has demonstrated to all of Utah exactly what Hatch is: A relic. He is preying upon fear and ignorance to fan the flames of intolerance in our society. Over the past year we have seen some pretty impressive changes, with anti-discrimination ordinances being passed in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Park City, West Valley City, Logan and most recently Summit County. Similar ordinances are also being considered in a number of other municipalities across the state. These ordinances are made possible by understanding. By people looking beyond sexual and gender identity and seeing that we are all brothers and sisters in humanity. Hatch is, unfortunately, an authority figure who commands a certain level of respect from a number of people in our community. He has been our senator for over 30 years and doesn’t make public statements without knowing exactly what he’s saying and to whom. He intended fully to scare a group of conservatives in southern Utah into donating to his campaign and voting for established GOP candidates, using “the gays” as a means to an end. Is this really the kind of person you want representing you in the U.S. Senate? Hatch’s seniority means absolutely nothing when he uses that seniority only for his own advancement and to benefit his corporate friends. Q

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WO, FOUR, SIX, EIGHT, SMASH the church, smash the state!” was one of the rallying cries of the Gay Liberation Front, a radical group of queers that organized in the late ’60s and early ’70s. Tommi Avicolli Mecca was one of the original organizers. He is the editor of the new anthology, Smash the Church, Smash the State: The Early Years of Gay Liberation, which brings together diverse essays chronicling that establishment-cracking era. Organizations like Dyketactics, Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries, Radical Lesbians and the GLF exploded onto the scene with the ambitious goal of total social and global transformation. I recently spoke with Tommi on KRCL’s RadioActive.

municipalities passing employment and housing protections for gay and that’s a good parallel to what a lot of queers have been doing since Stonewall. TW: You discovered the Gay Liberation Front at Temple University. TAM: I went to Temple to avoid the draft. And, I’m very proud of that! I didn’t have the courage to get arrested and thrown in jail. I couldn’t do that to my family. I knew Temple had a reputation as a radical working class school. It was the only college in Philadel-

Back then, not only could we be arrested, we were arrested!

TROY WILLIAMS: You grew up in Philadelphia in an Italian-American home in the ’50s and ’60s. I imagine that was rough for a queer boy. TOMMI AVICOLLI MECCA: Yes, it was a traditional Roman Catholic home and yes, it was very rough. TW: You talk about sneaking off to antiwar marches. TAM: Yes, by 16, I was sneaking off to anti-war and civil rights marches because I felt a great sense of social and economic justice. TW: And, how did your family react? TAM: My family was Republican. My father was very pro-America with that nauseating sense of blind patriotism. It’s really weird that his generation turned out that way, because if you look at the history of Italian immigration, a lot of them were anarchists and socialists involved in the union movements of the ’30s. But, somehow my father’s generation ended up very conservative. TW: Do you think that was assimilating to the new culture? TAM: Yes, it was all about assimilation. It was about not wanting to be victimized for being different. Italians were treated like crap. We weren’t considered white when we got here. We were considered barbaric and inferior. Writings from the turn of the last century compared Italians to monkeys. There was no use to even educate us because we were just going to dig ditches for a living. That was not unusual. All immigrants were treated like crap when we got here because the dominant Anglo culture didn’t like us and didn’t want us here. Italian-Americans overreacted and became more conservative. And, I think

phia where working class kids could afford to go. When I got there, the first thing I did was join Students for a Democratic Society, which was a radical anti-war group. I helped organize when Kent State happened on May 4 of 1970. And, then I heard about Gay Liberation. I went to a meeting and I was scared out of my mind! I couldn’t hide anymore. Any rationalization I had made about being queer all dissolved the moment I made the decision to walk into that room. It changed my life. TW: That was a whole different culture. TAM: Back then, not only could we be arrested, we were arrested! There were bar raids and they would cart out 50 to 100 guys and take them to jail. The next day the daily papers would publish their names, addresses and employers. These peoples’ lives and careers were wrecked. The police had total discretion. You weren’t assumed to have rights. I don’t know that there is really any way for people who didn’t grow up under it to really comprehend what we went through. It really was the dark ages. TW: Talk a little about the name “Gay Liberation Front.” This was a takeoff of the National Liberation Front that was fighting U.S. troops in Vietnam. That was incendiary! TAM: Yes, but that was keeping with the times. Look at the three words — they are very important. “Gay” was not popular at the time. “Homophile” or “homosexual” was.

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“Gay” was a radical word. I know it’s hard to believe now. Back then it was radical to call yourself gay rather than homosexual. Next, “Liberation.” Who was using words like liberation? It was the Black Panthers. It was women’s liberation. Liberation was associated with radicals and revolutionaries. And, then “Front,” which was very consciously taken from the Vietnamese group. We were rejecting all the old words and defining ourselves. “Gay” is how we will define ourselves. “Liberation,” because that’s what we are about. And, “Front,” because we were in solidarity with all oppressed people, including the people that this country was trying to kill. It was a real slap in the face. TW: The equivalent today might be a radical group calling itself Al-gayda? TAM: Or, the Gay Terrorist League! TW: How did more conservative organizations react to the GLF? TAM: There was certainly friction between Gay Liberation and some of the older homophile groups. They were taken back because we were so brash and in-your-face. We defined “in-your-face.” Homophile groups for years were trying to work with the American Psychiatric Association to get homosexuality removed from the list of diseases. They were doing it in a nice, polite way. We started invading, disrupting and taking over their conferences. There was a famous conference in L.A. where Gay Liberationists went to the conference, all headed up to the stage, pulled the mic out of the hand of the guy speaking and said, “We are the Gay Liberation Front, we are now in charge and you’re going to listen to us!” That was our attitude. We don’t have to respect you if you are oppressing us. That was all over. We were now going to tell you how to define us. And, we were going to tell you the new terms of our relationship. Homophile groups were really taken back by that. They were really into assimilation. They said, “We have to be nice. Women have to wear dresses and men have to wear suits. We have to look good.” Gay Liberation didn’t care about that. We built more alliances with Black Panthers, The Young Lords, women’s liberation and the anti-war movement. That was where are real coalitions were. Eventually, the more conservative gay groups came along, but we were more at home with the leftist groups. Q In part two we’ll discuss the decline of radicalism and the corporate takeover of gay politics. Podcast the entire interview at queergnosis.org.

transgender people. Considering that four is also the number of their full-time staff, this is nothing short of incredible. This isn’t to say, of course, that citizen activists in several counties and cities haven’t played a tremendous part in the successes, only that they’d probably be further behind without the leadership of these remarkable women. Their goal is to see at least 10 cities and counties pass these “Salt Lake-like” ordinances before the next six months are over, and they can’t do it without our help. So keep writing and calling your local government officials, writing in to your community papers and talking to your neighbors, co-workers and loved ones about the importance of equal housing and job rights. Oh, and be sure to donate to Equality Utah too, if you can. And, long may Balken and company keep our fingers stiff with snapping.

SLAP: Sen. Orrin Hatch Oh my. He just keeps swallowing and swallowing that foot of his, doesn’t he? Senator, to bastardize Oscar Wilde: To make one antigay remark may be regarded as a calculated political move; to then call it a compliment just looks like election-year desperation.

SNAP: Summer Doldrums Ahh, the summer solstice! As fun as Utah Pride always is, it never fails to leave the staff here at Q Towers a little tired (you all followed the saga of building the gia-normous queer superhero on Facebook, right?). So, now that we’re all partied and paraded out, we’re looking forward to a long, hot summer of sports, Cyndi Lauper, the Red Rock Women’s Music Festival, Lagoon Day and, of course, just chilling out. Now, if only we don’t forget our sunscreen …

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So What, I’m Neurotic by Christopher Katis

HERE WAS ONLY ONE PERSON I was ever scared to tell I was gay: My dad. I’m embarrassed to admit it, but I didn’t want to disappoint him. Fathers have dreams for their kids — especially their sons. I think a dad sees his boy as a second chance to lead the life he wished he had led himself; a chance to be the man he wished he would have become. Dads dream a lot of things for their sons, but I’d wager that never will they be gay. I’m going to make a big confession right now. One that doesn’t make me the best gay man I can be: I’ve dreamed that my sons grow up to be straight men. Does that make me homophobic? I’m ashamed to admit, I think it does. I’d like to try to rationalize this by arguing that life would be easier for them if they were straight, and I can offer some rather compelling arguments to support that position. Being gay opens a person to harassment, institutionalized discrimination and even physical violence. But, I also know that much of the country’s attitude toward gay people has changed dramatically since I was growing up. There are gay-straight alliances in high schools and even some junior highs. Thanks to the hard work of Equality Utah, more and more cities are passing basic nondiscrimination ordinances that cover gay and transgender people in housing and employment. Salt Lake City has a gay council member, and in November, the Salt Lake County Council will probably have one, too. And, isn’t vicariously living your life through your child about dreaming of a better future for him or her? If we’ve made this much progress in the 20-plus years since I’ve been out of college, just think of how great life will be for gay people in another 20 years! But, you know what? This really isn’t about them at all. It’s about me. It’s about me, just like the guy screaming at his little leaguer, it has nothing to do with the kid’s swing and everything to do with the dad’s failure to make the varsity team in high school. For me, having gay kids would feel like I proved all those opposed to gay parents right: Gay people do mean gay kids. It would be like handing the religious right

a slide for their anti-equality PowerPoint presentation. It’s stupid. I know that. It’s completely illogical. I recognize that. But, that doesn’t stop me from thinking it’d be better for everyone involved if Gus and Niko would just cooperate and grow up to like girls. Right now, both my kids do think girls are icky but in an age-appropriate way. Come to think of it, I loved girls when I was Gus’ age; it was the guys who turned out straight who thought they were gross! Hmm. I’m being completely neurotic, of course. But, in my defense, I totally have an obsessive-compulsive personality. Just ask my sister. She recently watched me succumb to my need for order as I rearranged a plate of little creamers at a restaurant so they were all facing the same way in a lovely display of symmetry. (Hey, she had to admit they did look better that way!) Also, I wouldn’t be the first parent to fret over how I may have influenced my kids’ sexual orientation. And, if I’m being really honest, whether my kids are gay or straight is truly the least of my worries. So, what’s the big deal? Maybe writing this column has been cathartic for me. As the old adage goes, admitting you have a problem is the first step in overcoming it. So, just like that dad who needs to let go of the fact that he simply wasn’t good enough to earn a letterman’s jacket, I need to teach myself to worry about what will make my kids happy, not how people may potentially judge me in the future. My boys are going to be who they are — and there’s really nothing I can do about that. And I guess I’m cool with it. Because the bottom line is if I really, truly don’t care if they study law at Harvard, win Wimbledon or are elected to the U.S. Senate, why should I care about whom they choose to love? I should know better. I do know better. I may once have been scared to tell my dad I’m gay, but that was my issue, not his. The reality is that it didn’t really matter: he loves me unconditionally. Not as his gay son. Just as his son. He loves me for who I am, not for whom he dreamed I might become. I owe it to him to love my kids for who they are, plain and simple. Happy Father’s Day, Daddy. Q

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HAVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT sodomy a lot lately. I know what you are thinking: “Like who isn’t?” But, gentle readers, I mean sodomy strictly in a historical context. Seven years ago on June 26, the U.S. Supreme Court emancipated Americans from antiquated sodomy laws which prohibited nonpenis-to-vagina consensual sexual activity. Wahoo! When I was a youth, I’d never heard of sodomy, not in the movies or on television. It was only when I was 18, and upon hearing the soundtrack from the movie Hair, that I first heard the term. “Sodomy, fellatio, cunnilingus, pederasty / Father, why do these words sound so nasty? / Masturbation can be fun / Join the holy orgy Kama Sutra everyone!” After furtively looking up the word, I think I was more shocked to learn that it was illegal more than by what it was. Here

I was, on the verge on manhood, and I was already labeled a sexual outlaw by America’s legal code — a sodomite! How could this be? Well, it seems that back in merry old England, between divorcing and chopping off the heads of his wives, King Henry VIII introduced the first secular English legislation against sodomy. Actually, sodomy was the Catholic ecclesiastical term for anal intercourse. But, since he was asserting the power of the state over the church, the law was called the “Buggery Act of 1533.” Buggery, by the way, was punishable by hanging, a penalty not lifted until 1861. The term “sodomy,” of course, had Biblical weight behind it, but buggery? What’s up with that? Buggery, my fey friends, came from the French who believed that anal sex was the preferred sexual behavior of the Bulgarians, who, of course, were influenced by the Turks. Confused yet? It

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seemed that no one wanted to take responsibility for the origin of butt love. Unbelievably, as late as 1895, the Provo Daily Enquirer was still blaming the Turks! Check this out: “The Infamous crime of Sodomy, brought out with such startling effect at the trial of Oscar Wilde at London, is an Oriental crime. It is practiced extensively by the Turks, and no Turkish bath in Constantinople is complete without its retinue of boys for lewd purposes.” So, why would the state care, as musicians Romanovsky & Phillips so aptly sang, “what goes into my asshole and who puts it there?” Well, you can blame the Christian Roman Emperor Justinian for the world’s prurient busy bodies! In 538, he codified into law the belief that tolerating homosexuality would bring the wrath of God down upon the state. He said: “For because of such crimes there are famines, earthquakes and pestilences; wherefore we admonish men to abstain from the aforesaid unlawful acts, that they may not lose their souls. But if, after this our admonition any are found persisting in such offenses, first they render themselves unworthy of the mercy of God, and then they are subjugated to the punishment enjoined by law.” The Justinian Code was used for a thousand years during the Middle Ages. The code still influences moralists today who insist that tolerating homosexuality will ensure God’s wrath upon our nation. Think Pat Robertson and the Westboro Baptist Church. (Now, spit and rinse.) The Puritans may have brought a belief in a pissed off God and a strict interpretation of Leviticus with them to the American colonies, but during the Age of Enlightenment, a legal system based on society’s desires and not deity began to appear. Sir William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–1769) are regarded as the most influential writings in the development of the U.S. legal system. Still, he defined the crime of butt love “as the abominable and detestable crime against nature.” A variation of the phrase is the “infamous crime against nature.” The term “crime against nature” first appeared in legal usage in 1828 and was used extensively for over 100 years. After Utah was organized as a territory, it enacted its first code of laws in 1851. These laws included a criminal code that prohibited “any man or boy” from having or attempting to have “any sexual inter-

course with any of the male creation.” The penalty was a fine or imprisonment “as the court may direct.” However, in the following year, a new code was adopted where sodomy was not mentioned. This silence gave sodomy de facto legalization in the territory. Still, any Latter-day Saint who had a hankering for some one-on-one man action thought better of it after 1853, when Mormon Apostle Parley P. Pratt gave a sermon recommending “blood atonement” for anal sex. Sodomy was not re-criminalized in the territory until 1876 when the territorial government adopted the legal code of California. In 1896, Utah became the 44th state to outlaw it. From that date on, account after account of men being tried for the “crime against nature” can be found in the state’s newspapers. By the 20th century, the term “crime against nature” began to be replaced with the word “sodomy.” Utah’s laws called for a three to 20-year sentence for anyone convicted of man love. It remained a felony in the state until 1969. In 1923, legislators amended the law to add oral sex. Fellatio and cunnilingus were now part and parcel with sodomy as a crime. At this instant, women who liked women became sodomites, too. This decade in America was rampant with morality legislation, including, most famously, Prohibition. In 1925, legislators even passed a law that those convicted of sodomy could be castrated — although the state only sterilized people with mental disabilities during this time. By 1951, legislators enacted a “psychopathic offender law” which allowed judges to send anyone convicted of sodomy, lewdness, or an attempt to commit either, to the state mental hospital for life. I found newspaper articles about at least two Ogden men who received life sentences. Until 1974, homosexuality was a pathology, and commitment for life was compulsory for anyone determined to be suffering from mental illness. While sodomy laws are still in the state code today, they cannot be enforced unless the act is not consensual. You can safely do the dirty deed without fear that the police will find you and arrest you in your bedroom as they did to Michael Hardwick in 1982. Now, that’s a reason to celebrate and sing Cole Porter’s anthem “Baby, I’m the bottom, You’re the top!” Q

cr p of the w k Family Research Council By D’Anne Witkowski

N MAY 28, PRESIDENT OBAMA declared June 2010 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month. Such a declaration was, according to the Family Research Council, an outspoken allegiance to gay people and rights, tantamount to declaring war on “traditional” families. “Happy sexual deviance month — or, as this President likes to call it, Gay Pride Month,” begins a shrill edition of FRC’s Washington Update online. Ha-ha. Get it? “Sexual deviance month,” because to the FRC, gays aren’t people; they’re walking, talking sex acts, no more human than feral cats screaming and screwing in dark alleys all summer long. Gays are not, as Obama says in his declaration, “Our mothers and fathers, our sons and daughters, and our friends and neighbors.” Nope. The FRC wants to make it clear that gays are just people who want to fuck on the taxpayer dime. “Under this administration, every month feels like one long same-sex parade,” the message continues. I must not watch enough CNN because I seem to have missed this so-called “parade.” Especially since, to the FRC, a gay parade consists of undulating twinks in neon pink banana hammocks shaking their asses to Madonna songs on a parade float shaped like a giant cock ring, followed by fat lesbians on motorcycles and drag queens on stilts. If this kind of thing has been going on in the White House since Obama was elected, then shame on the press corps for missing some really incredible photo ops. The idea that there could be anything to celebrate about gay people stupefies the FRC. Like I said, these aren’t people we’re talking about, these are threats to every aspect of American life. “(Obama) called on ‘every American’ to spend the month celebrating their movement — a movement dedicated to destroying marriage, free speech, public health, religious liberty and (after the Don’t Ask,

Don’t Tell repeal) national security.” Gays are, in the eyes of the FRC, terrorists holding the American people hostage. In the gay-run post apocalyptic world envisioned by the FRC, traditional one-manone-woman marriage will be but a distant memory, and all Americans will be forced to gay-marry each other and have sex openly in all kindergarten classrooms. If you have something against that, you’d better shut your mouth lest the speech police lock you in the kinky S&M dungeons that will replace all prisons. Bodily fluids will flow down the streets. Everyone will have AIDS. No one will believe in gods of any kind and the only deity anyone will be allowed to worship is the current International Mr. Leather. Our all-fag army will be easily defeated by morally righteous nations that advocate death for gays and the United States of Gay-merica will be no more. Sure, I may be exaggerating FRC’s position a bit. But, I doubt it’s by much. Just look at their reaction to Obama’s expansion of domestic-partner benefits for federal workers: “If agency men decide to sleep with other men — or if a government worker chooses to dress in drag and sleep with anyone — you’ll be picking up the tab,” FRC cries. This is, of course, a gross exaggeration of Obama’s policies. Cross-dressers who “sleep with anyone,” huh? It takes more than sleeping with someone to be a domestic partner, or … dare I say it? … husband or wife. Sex is only part of the equation in a committed relationship. But, of course, it’s the only part of the equation FRC will acknowledge. Anything else might make gay people too human. And, we can’t have that. Q

‘If agency men decide to sleep with other men — or if a government worker chooses to dress in drag and sleep with anyone — you’ll be picking up the tab’

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.

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SUMMER MUSIC

True Blues by Chris Azzopardi

So much for just having fun. Cyndi Lauper’s been doing anything but lollygagging lately — appearing on Celebrity Apprentice, promoting AIDS awareness and gay rights, and releasing a new album, Memphis Blues, which ditches the all-dance vibe of her last studio offering Bring Ya to the Brink for a classic, old-fashioned sound. That’s not all: She’s writing dance music for the stage version of 2005’s British indie Kinky Boots, working out a reality show and touring through the summer, Including a stop in West Wendover, Nev. on Aug. 20.

yndi Lauper found a few minutes to chat about all her projects — and also, what to make of past and present diva beefs, whether she’ll duet with Lady Gaga anytime soon, and why she’s “giving a damn.”

How do you go from dance to blues? Blues is the basis of all music — the basis of dance, the basis of rock. It’s the beginning of all the music I sing. It’s just the roots. You’ve wanted to do a blues record for a while, is that right? For eight years. How come it didn’t happen sooner? Because I was on Sony, and they didn’t want to do it. They didn’t even really see the dance record; I was just doing it. But they had some interesting people there at that point and then I don’t know. You know, it doesn’t matter. It’s not like I’m not writing dance music. I’m writing for a play and a lot of it is dance music. Which play? I’m writing for Kinky Boots, and it’s all kinds of music. It’s kind of wonderful. But the blues ... you know, I studied music. When I started singing I was bored with what I was singing so I became a student at Lennie Tristano’s school of music. I studied with Betty Scott, his singer, and it was jazz. But before jazz was the blues, and out of blues came jazz. If it weren’t for that kind of study, I wouldn’t understand it as well. Besides your voice obviously, what do you think your gay following will appreciate on this album? You know what, I give my gay following more credit than most people. I think that this music, they’ll relate to, because I chose music that people could relate to. It’s fun, and it’s also written in code, and if the community understands anything, it’s code. Do you feel like you’re taking a big risk with this album because it’s not pop, it’s not dance, it’s not commercial? No. I think I gotta make music that I always dreamed of making, and I gotta do stuff like this because I want to leave behind a body of work that’s as great as I can do. This is some of the best singing that I think I’ve ever done. This is a live CD. Everything was live. It took two weeks to record, and we recorded it on an 8-track machine. Bill (Wittman, her longtime collaborator) kept saying, “The Beatles could record Sgt. Pepper on 4-track. We could do this blues record on 8-track.” You mention issues at Sony, but do you feel like you can get away with more now than you could earlier in your career? Well, I’m the boss now. And I said that I could do it (laughs). Listen, right now America is singing the blues. We are all singing the blues. It’s hard. So I tried to pick songs that speak about the times that we’re living in now. The things that are timeless issues.

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Do you have any plans to take any classic songs, like “She Bop,” and give them a blues makeover for the tour? I already did. But I’m not saying, because it’s really fun. It’s so funny, but kind of cool. You’ve been working hard on the “Give a Damn” campaign. What do you hope to achieve with it? To raise awareness. Bring the straight community in to support our brothers and sisters in the gay community. You’ve been a supporter for a while, but what was the moment where you really started to “Give a Damn”? Well, I always did. But I realized that you could actually do something, and so I tried. It was step by step by step that I realized, Oh, that’s what’s happening. Well, I can do this to help that. So now I’m here. You established a relationship with Lady Gaga while working with her on the Viva Glam campaign for MAC to spread AIDS awareness. Wonderful artist. Very inspirational. What do you make of this Gaga and Christina Aguilera rivalry? Well, that’s because they’re both blondes. You’ve got to let that stuff go. That’s just people not having enough to write about in the paper. It’s like wrestling — good guy, bad guy. Like me and Madonna, I doubt that it’s real. Do you remember any tension between you and Madonna? No! Are you kidding? She was always inspirational for me. I always felt like she was my sister from another mother (laughs) because we were kind of partners in crime out there, in an odd way. When I saw the “Like a Prayer” video, I was like, “Yes!” Because you were feeling the same way? Well, every Catholic schoolgirl does. Have you entertained the idea of doing a duet with Lady Gaga? Nope. She’s really, really, really stretched right now. She’s got a lot of people on her. If it does happen, you’ll send the gays to homo heaven. And say it did, have you thought about how it might sound? No. I told her, “Listen, know that my door is always open.” You never know. What the heck! She’s in her moment right now; let her have some time, space, happiness. Let her do her thing. Are you thinking ahead to which genre you want to explore on the next album? No, I’m not thinking that far ahead. I’m doing this and I’m writing the music for Kinky Boots with different partners, and I’m just thinking about what I need to do right now. I know I’m going to do other things. I signed a production deal with Mark Burnett. I’m looking forward to working with him and I hope that that happens soon. That’s the reality show, right? Yeah, that’s a reality show, but I kind of want to make it funny, too, like a comedy. Your life must be pretty comical then, huh? Sometimes I think all that’s missing are the dancing bears rolling through. Q

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Deer Valley

Bryon Friedman

Even deeper and cooler into the Wasatch Mountains is the Deer Valley Summer Concert Series held Wednesdays, 6-8 p.m. Attendees are encouraged to bring picnic items for snacking and many guests choose to enjoy wine and beer as well. Deer Valley’s food and beverage concession stand will also be open during the weekly concerts.

Lash LaRue July 7

George T. Gregory Band July 14

The Matt Lewis Band July 21

Wisebird July 28

Jeanne Marie Rettos August 4

August 11

The Mana Poly All-Stars August 18

Ryan Heller August 25

Shaky Trade September 1

Radius

August 19

Big Boi | Chromeo August 26

She & Him | Dum Dum Girls

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Aug 1

Mary Chapin Carpenter

Mary Chapin Carpenter, 52, is an American folk and country music artist with five Grammy Awards under her belt, and is the only artist to have won four consecutive Grammy Awards for Best Female Country Vocal Performance, which she received from 1992 to 1995. Though she’s been placed in the country-music genre, some critics have said that some of her songs are reminiscent of The Beatles, The Beach Boys and Motown.

Red Butte Garden Concert Series The Red Butte Garden Outdoor Concert Series has been, during the last nine years, one of the most diverse summer series in Utah. It has hailed artists ranging from jazz and R&B to country and rock ‘n’ roll. Big-name musicians (in the gay community) who have played this charming hillside venue include Bonnie Raitt, Ani DiFranco, Diana Krall, The Indigo Girls and Death Cab for Cutie, just to name a very few. This year’s 21-concert line-up (the largest to-date) is no different. However, several of the concerts are

Aug 4 Natalie Merchant Once a member of the 10,000 Maniacs in the 1980s, Natalie Merchant moved to a solo act in 1993, and has since produced 10 albums. Her first solo work, Tigerlily, was a critical and commercial success, spawning her first top-10 hit with the single “Carnival,” and achieving top-40 success with subsequent singles “Wonder” and “Jealousy.” The album would go on to sell over 5-million copies.

already ‘sold out.’ Following is the remaining summer line-up. Visit redbuttegarden.org for tickets and additional information. Aug 8 Allen Toussaint with Dirty Dozen Brass Band and Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue

June 28 JJ Grey & Mofro with Todd Snider featuring Great American Taxi

grew to a five-member rock band and took Canada by storm. Page, however, has since left the band. “Our relationship with Steve Page was great and very fruitful,” said Robertson. “It lasted almost 20 years, but it was time to move on. Now, we’re doing something that feels really fresh and exciting to me. His departure left four singers and three multi-instrumentalists in the band, so we’re not lacking for musical ideas, and now there’s more room for the other writers in the band to bring songs to the table.”

JJ Grey & Mofro is a fusion of funk, soul, blues and southern rock. Their sound has been said to carry the likes of Muddy Waters, Otis Redding and Van Morrison. And, Grey recently said about his music, “It just gives people that freedom to move and to breathe, man. That’s what it’s all about to me.”

July 7

Joan Baez with Guy Clark

Performing for nearly 50 years, this 69-yearold openly bisexual folk singer/songwriter has reached optimum success. Her music is considered folk but is diversified, encompassing genres including rock, pop, country and gospel. Baez has also been prominent in the struggle for gay and lesbian rights. In 1978, she performed at benefit concerts to defeat Proposition 6, which proposed banning gay people from teaching in the public schools of California. Later that same year, she participated in memorial marches for assassinated openly gay San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk.

Allen Toussaint, 72, is an American musician, songwriter and record producer, and one of the most influential figures in New Orleans R&B. Toussaint has written songs and arrangements for, or collaborated with, such artists as Paul McCartney, Otis Redding, Elvis Costello and Boz Skaggs. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.

July 14 Lyle Lovett and His Large Band

July 11

Brandi Carlile

The openly lesbian 28-year-old indie pop rock singer/songwriter is a petite, sassy songstress with such unique voice control that it leaves you awestruck. From sharp piano ballads to stints of booming country rock to even yodeling, Carlile keeps the crowd in a wild frenzy like a drug addiction. Seeing Carlile live is incredible; Her performance has intense passion as if she was singing each song for the first time.

July 13 Barenaked Ladies Founded as a duo in 1988 by schoolmates Ed Robertson and Steven Page, the group soon

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Once married to Julia Roberts and winning four Grammy Awards over his 30-year career, Lovett finally returns to the Red Butte stage after five years. While typically associated with the country genre, Lovett’s compositions often incorporate folk, swing, blues, jazz and gospel music as well as more traditional Country & Western styling.

July 25 Rhythm Devils featuring Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann and Keller Williams The Rhythm Devils began as the duo of Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann and his percussionist partner Mickey Hart. Over the years, they transcended rock ‘n’ roll drum stereotypes with polyrhythmic explorations of the world of percussion, using an extraordinary variety of instruments and approaches.

Aug 10 Chris Isaak Chris Isaak is a 25-year veteran of American rock music, and his Elvis-esque persona has brought him success and admiration as well as controversy. Throughout his impressive recording career, right from his stunning 1985 debut to his latest effort, Mr. Lucky, Isaak has tunefully and artfully explored the good, the bad and the ugly of love, as well as other matters of profound human interest. He has done so with an abiding respect for popular music’s past, but at the

same time with clear and vital passion for the here and now.

Aug 15 The Swell Season The Swell Season is an indie folk-rock duo consisting of Glen Hansard (from the Irish band, The Frames) and Marketa Irglova (classically trained Czech pianist and vocalist). They rocketed to American acclaim after their acting/singing debut in the 2007 independent film Once. The song “Falling Slowly” won an Oscar for Best Original Song.

Aug 19 John Prine John Prine has taken a place, since his beginning in 1971, as one of the most influential songwriters of his generation. Bob Dylan said of his style, “Prine’s stuff is pure Proustian existentialism. Midwestern mind trips to the nth degree. And he writes beautiful songs.” Though his lyrics have been controversial in the past, Prine has garnered much respect from the country-music industry, and he won Artist of the Year at the Americana Music Awards in 2005.

Aug 20 Norah Jones with Corinne Bailey Rae ‘SOLD OUT’ Aug 22 A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor A Prairie Home Companion is a live radio-variety show — occasionally taken on the road — created and hosted by Garrison Keillor. It is known for its musical guests, especially folk and traditional musicians, tongue-in-cheek radio drama, and Keillor’s storytelling segment, “News from Lake Wobegon.” The radio program inspired a 2006 film of the same name, starring Lily Tomlin and Meryl Streep,

Davis County Free Sunday Night Concert Series Sunday nights at the Ed Kenley Centennial Amphitheater in Layton Park will have a variety

Aug 29 Doobie Brothers ‘SOLD OUT’

of concert offerings. Starting at 7 p.m., the am-

Sept 1 Sheryl Crow ‘SOLD OUT’

phitheater has both chairs and grass seating

Sept 10 Willie Nelson ‘SOLD OUT’

and outside food, but not alcohol, is welcome.

June 27

Gina Bachauer Pianists in Concert July 4

Voices of Liberty Patriotic Concert July 11

Layton Main Street Band July 18

Songwriters-in-the-Round July 25

SaddleStrings Cowboy Band August 1

Flautissimo Flute Choir & 4tissimo Male Quartet August 8

Marcia Knorr & The Ripe Tomatoes August 1

“The Other Three Tenors” August 22

“When You Believe”— with guest artist Alex Boye’ August 29

An Evening with Marshall McDonald & Steven Sharp Nelson

Utah Festival Opera If you haven’t been to Logan for the five-week Utah Festival Opera, and you have even the slightest love for opera, you need to get your butts up there. People travel from across the country for the well-produced festival — brainchild of Michael Ballam.

his year, the festival turns 17 and is presenting the comedic The Barber of Seville, Tony-Award-winning Guys and Dolls, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music and Verdi’s La Traviata. Also, the festival includes an old-fashioned radio broadcast-like George M! featuring Ballam himself; a tribute to Lerner and Loewe, Musica Magnifica; an eight-handed piano performance; Carnefale Operafesta and Ballam’s second annual international operatic competition. Ballam is able to lure performers from around the world to the festival, one of the few that run during the summer. The 1,100seat Ellen Eccles Theatre, built in 1923, was restored in 1993 to its original elegance for the festival. The staging is impressive and the performers are world-class. Part of the fun of the festival is that

lead performers meet the audience after the performance outdoors in the Cafe des Artistes and listen to “informances” given by Ballam prior to a performance. On Saturday mornings, you can join the festival stars for breakfast. On Mondays at noon, there is a free concert series and, on various days throughout the festival, you can take a 90-minute backstage tour. More information on this year’s season can be found at ufoc.org

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Women’s Music Festival to Rock Redrock Country by JoSelle Vanderhooft

For the fourth year in a row, the Women’s Redrock Music Festival will enliven the beautiful scenery of Torrey with the music of some of the world’s best independent woman-identified musicians.

ESPITE LOSING SOME GRANT MONEY thanks to the continually rocky economy, the festival is not only going forward as planned, but adding some exciting changes, said Jeri Tafoya, the festival programming director. “We wanted to give our web site a more updated look, to make it more simple for people to go in and buy tickets, to see the performers and to get a feel for the majestic view of Capitol Reef National Park” which is located near Torrey, she said. “We pretty much kept the same logo, but we jazzed it up more.” One thing that hasn’t changed, of course, is the festival roster of high quality musicians and performance poets. Although Lilith Fair, the internationally renown women’s music festival, will bring artists like Rihanna, Ke$ha and Emmylou Harris to Salt Lake City on July 12, Tafoya said that the Women’s Redrock Music Festival has a much different feel and focus. “We’re not competing with them,” she said. “The Women’s Redrock Music Festival is more indie-based. We are more intimate, we have a small venue that holds up to 600 people

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in Torrey and we’re going to keep that as is. The stage is small enough for a connection, but big enough that magic happens there.” “Plus,” she added, “where else can you go to spend $55 to hear artists who can hold their own with the talent of Lilith Fair?” She said that one of her passions as the festival program director is finding unsigned female artists to perform in the intimate venue. “There’s nothing that pleases me more than having someone walk up and say, ‘Where did you find this person?’” she said. Some of the talented local women who will take the stage on Aug. 6 and 7 include newcomer MARIE BRADSHAW, a Bountiful performer specializing in folk, blues, country and rock who will appear on July 2 at the Real Salt Lake Soccer Game and Fireworks Show. Bradshaw and her four-member band will play on both days — something, added Tafoya, that is unusual at the festival. “She has this brilliant voice that sounds like Brandi Carlile’s,” Tafoya said. “My wish for her and for her band is to be discovered

so the world can hear the amazing voice she has.” Other Utah performers will include BRONWEN BEECHER, the self-described “fiddle preacher” who has wowed audiences at a number of local venues, including the Utah Pride Festival, with her boundlessly energetic bluegrass, folk, rock and Celtic-inspired tunes. More local artists, Tafoya added, will be added to the Women’s Redrock Music Festival web site soon. As always, the festival also casts a wide net when searching for talent, and draws in performers from across the United States and across the seas. California poet and singer/songwriter ANGIE EVANS, who appeared on the Utah Pride Festival’s main stage earlier this month and drove her U-Haul truck in the Pride Parade, will return to the state with hard-hitting, politically incisive folk-inspired songs that the Women’s Redrock Music Festival describes as “a four-car accident with drivers Joni Mitchell, Ani DiFranco, Erykah Badu and Ella Fitzgerald.” “She’s a queer woman who puts a lot of poetry into her music and it comes out with such special drive and emotion,” said

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Tafoya “She was so great, so wonderful with the crowd interaction [at Pride] and really sold the music festival. We’re so grateful she’s coming back for us again.” Speaking of DiFranco, one of the folk superstar’s former touring mates will also step onto the Torrey stage: BITCH, a New York City-based electric violin, bass and ukulele player, record producer and theater artist whose style the festival calls “left-of-center and controversial.” Her music can be heard in John Cameron Mitchell’s film, Shortbus and on two albums, Make This/ Break This and the newly released and selfproduced Blasted!. From Boulder, Colo. comes AYO AWOSIKA, a classically trained vocalist with a background in jazz, opera, roots music and art songs who has performed throughout the United States, Europe and Japan, and is a star in her state’s vibrant music scene. Her voice has been compared those of Ella Fitzgerald and Diana Ross. And, from San Diego, comes RUNHONEY, a quartet which Tafoya describes as having “powerful voices and kick-ass rhythms.” The festival’s featured artists are JENNIFER CORDAY and her all-female band, THE CLASSIC ROCK COUGARS who, as the name suggest, specialize in classic rock, with a special love for the tunes of the 60s, 70s and 80s. Corday and her band are award-winning artists whose laurels include multiple Orange County Music Awards for best live band, best alternative band and best live female performer. Corday herself has opened for a number of notable acts including Cher, Sugar Ray, Joan Osborne and Indigo Girls. “This is a group that shows up on stage with something different to offer every time,” said Tafoya. “You never know what you’re going to get with their blend of originals and with their cover sets. They go on stage and feel what the crowd wants and goes from there. It’s really kick-ass and brilliant.”

In only four years, the festival has gained international acclaim for the high caliber of its performers. Its reputation is such, she said, that several artists come to perform even though the festival can only pay “a small scale of what they generally get paid and are capable of earning.” “They’ve heard a lot about the festival and its being one of the best that [its] performers have played at, so it really is an honor to have so much talent coming to Utah,” she said. Their dedication to the festival is such that some performers, she added, will hop red-eye flights to Salt Lake City right after playing at the famous Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, with which the Women’s Redrock Music Festival has coincided since its founding. “That will change next year, I promise,” she said. When asked what else makes the music festival so popular for artists and attendees alike, she pointed to the majestic Utah landscape from which it draws its name.

“They love the beautiful surroundings, they love the circle of women and being able to share the intimate love of fantastic music,” she said. “We’re grateful about how it has organically grown into something everyone loves.” And, while the festival is named the Women’s Redrock Music Festival, she is quick to stress that the venue welcomes people of all gender identities and sexual orientations. In fact, she said that men have attended from the first year on. “We’re completely accepting of everyone who shows up and grateful to have them,” she said. “A lot of people bringing their families with them, [and there are] a lot more children, a lot more men. As it grows, I think people will start to

realize it is for everyone. You don’t walk in ever feeling like it’s going to be a lesbian festival. You walk in and feel like it’s all about music and the area.” The festival has grown a lot since its first year. To sustain itself — particularly with the loss of grant money — it is always actively seeking sponsors. Sponsor information is located on the website at redrockwomensfest.com as are vendor applications. Artisans, craftspeople and businesses of all kinds, save for those that sell food, may apply for space on the festival grounds until July 6. Space is limited to 25 booths and the cost is $100, which covers both days. She attributes the festival’s ongoing success to the efforts of founder Carol Gnade, stage director Lu Prickett and volunteer director Laurie Wood. Gnade and her partner, said Tafoya, wanted to give something to Torrey when they moved to the small Southern Utah town a few years ago. “She wanted to offer a gift of having every single hotel booked and every single campground booked and having so much filled within that weekend than they did in three months of the entire year,” Tafoya said. “I’d like concertgoers to check out our web site and become familiar with these awesome performers coming here for them from all over the world. To me, it’s one of the greatest gifts we can give: The gift of music that touches all of us and the gift of sisterhood.” Q The festival is a nonprofit organization and a program of the Utah Pride Center. More information can be found at redrockwomensfest.com

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gay agenda Jell-O Gelatin Presents QSaltLake versus Paper Moon by Tony Hobday

To help you understand the headline better, I’ll give you an example of QSaltLake’s ironclad softball-team strategy. Now, you may think it’s cheating, but we are really just a bunch of girls who just wanna have fun! When we come head-to-head with Team Try-Angles (for which we shiver with wanton excitement), we make a deal that if we throw the game, then Gene will by our team a round of Patron — which, of course, we do. Seriously, we have no shame. We do take the game very seriously, as it is ap-

UTAH ARTS FESTIVAL See June 24

parent in the photo on faceb o o k .co m/p r i d e s o f tballslc where I look like a five-year-old pretending to be an airplane. Weeeeeee!

dancers are taken by surprise as their bodies embrace new and unfamiliar territory. 8 p.m., Sugar Space, 616 E. Wilmington Ave. Tickets $10/adv. or $12/at the door, 1-888-300-7898 or thesugarspace.com.

SATURDAY — Join Wasatch Community Gardens for their First Annual EARLY BIRD BRUNCH. There will be locally raised eggs (by two daddies) and locally grown and prepared food. They will have chicken T-shirts (one size fits all chickens) designed by Leia Bell for sale, a drawing to win tickets to the Jack Johnson concert in August, a custom built coop (for when you’ve been cock-blocked) and tour guides for the Tour de Coops (the annual chicken unicycle race). 9–11 a.m., Squatters Pub Brewery, 147 W. Broadway. Brunch is $15 per person, registration is suggested as space is limited, wasatchgardens.org.

THURSDAY — The 2010 UTAH ARTS FESTIVAL opens with headlining performances from the Cowboy Junkies and Michelle Shocked. The festival also welcomes more than 200 visual and performing artists and offers children’s activities, culinary arts, 5K race, the Fear No Film shorts festival and more. Two visual art exhibitions new to the festival this year are Eclectic Paintings and Automata featuring Edie Roberson and the Higher Ground Learning Gallery of Urban Art. Noon–11 p.m., through Sunday, Library Square, 210 E. 400 South. Tickets $5–10/per day at the festival, visit uaf.org for ticket discounts and ticket packages.

FRIDAY — The Egyptian Theatre proudly presents their production of HAIR: THE AMERICAN TRIBAL LOVE-ROCK MUSICAL. This fabulous musical centers around a tribe of friends speaking out against war and repression, and singing out about love and freedom. The lovely, talented and good-looking Jerry Rapier directs … yes, I’m shamelessly (just as I do in softball) trying to get a part in one of his shows. 8 p.m., through July 25, Egyptian Theatre, 328 S. Main St., Park City. Tickets $22, 435-649-9371 or egyptiantheatrecompany.org. Q Sugar Space presents NOW THE SHOW which includes works by the company’s “Now Practice” workshop participants, as well as by New York-based Brandin Steffensen and Salt Lake City’s own Graham Brown. This improvisational performance will share the experience of an improviser as the judging mind quiets and the moment takes over. In this state, the

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Q After you’ve had Camilla the Chicken, the love of Gonzo’s life, for brunch … cruel bastards! Please, I eat the feet! Anyhoo, join the Lambda Hiking Club for the FULL MOON HIKE ON BLACK MOUNTAIN. This is an intermediate hike, about 4.5 miles each way. Please take rain gear, plenty of water and snacks (I recommend chicken pot pie), a flashlight and spare batteries. 8 p.m., hikers will meet at the Chevron parking lot on the corner of 200 S. 700 East. For more information, contact David Vickery at 801-503-8709.

SUNDAY — Last season, the night before the QSALTLAKE VERSUS PAPER MOON game in the Pride Community Softball League, Team QSaltLake attempted to get the girls of Team Paper Moon sloshed at a party. Unfortunately, as Team QSaltLake can be lushes, the Paper Moon girls outwitted us by pretending to swallow the Jell-O shots but were actually hiding them in their pockets. Kind of obvious right? Sufficed to say, the next morning not one member of Team QSaltlake could locate his or her underwear, nor remember what they were supposed to do that day. Not goin’ to happen this year Moonies! 1 p.m., Jordan Park, 1060 S. 900 West. Free.

WEDNESDAY — Salt Lake Acting Company presents SATURDAY’S VOYEUR 2010: THE YEAR THAT WAS. This year’s show is ripped from the headlines of Utah newspapers over the last 15 months. Headlines satirized include: “Men arrested after kissing on Main Street Plaza,” “Orrin Hatch, a Mormon, pens Hanukkah song,” “Congressman Chaffetz seeks to ban whole-body imaging at airports,” “‘Maverick’ Sarah Palin to sign new book at Salt Lake City Costco,” “Kevin Garn resigns in wake of hot tub confession,” “Wife blindfolded husband for ‘surprise,’ and beats him with hammer” and many more. 7:30 p.m., through Sept. 5, Salt Lake Acting Company, 168 W. 500 North. Tickets $39–54, 801-363-SLAC or saltlakeactingcompany.org.

SATURDAY — Utah Symphony presents PATRIOTIC CELEBRATION. The night’s program includes Morton Gould’s “American Salute,” Antonin Dvorak’s “Symphony No. 9: Largo,” Proto Casey at the Bat traditional “Take Me Out to the Ball Game,” William Steffe’s “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” Edwin Bagley’s “National Emblem March,” arr. Bob Lowden’s (various) “Armed Forces Salute” and John Philip Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes.” 7:30 p.m., Deer Valley Snow Park Outdoor Amphitheater, 2250 Deer Valley Dr. Tickets $25–65, 801-355ARTS or arttix.org.

SUNDAY — If you can pull away from family

home evening on this, our country’s birthday, check out the opening of the 2010 St. Regis Big Stars, Bright Nights concert series with ONEREPUBLIC. This chart-topping pop-rock band heats up the mountainside with its distinct, Grammynominated and oh-so-fabulous tunes. The Coloradobased group swaps instruments on stage, showing remarkable versatility and musicianship as well as an ability to rock out and have a good time. 7 p.m., Deer Valley Snow Park Outdoor Amphitheater, 2250 Deer Valley Dr. Tickets $35–65, 435-655-3114 or ecclescenter.org.

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Paula Poundstone, Rose Wagner The Cliks, The Complex Cyndi Lauper, Peppermill Concert Hall, Wendover, Nev. Wanda Sykes, Wendover, Nev.

save the date June 24–27 Utah Arts Festival uaf.org July 12 Lilith Fair usana-amp.com July 17 Breast Dialogues swerveutah.com July 23–25 Utah Bear Ruckus utahbears.com July 24–25 Utah Male Naturists Pio-nude Day Camp Out umen.org August 1 Mary Chapin Carpenter redbuttegarden.org August 6–7 Women’s Redrock Music Festival, Torrey redrockwomensfest.com August 6–8 Utah Rebellion utahrebellion.com August 7–8 Park City Arts Festival kimballartcenter.org August 8 Q Lagoon Day qsaltlake.com August 8 AquaAid quacquac.org August 20 Cyndi Lauper, Wendover, Nev. wendoverfun.com August 22 Utah Pride Center Golf Classic utahpridecenter.org September 18 sWerve’s Oktoberfest swerveutah.com September 28 Equality Utah Allies Dinner equalityutah.org October 9 National Coming Out Day Breakfast utahpridecenter.org October 16–20 Living With AIDS Conference pwacu.org November 25 Thanksgiving Dinners at the Utah Pride Center, Club Try-Angles and The Trapp December 10–11 Salt Lake Men’s Choir Christmas Concert saltlakemenschoir.org

‘Saturday’s Voyeur’ Goes ‘David Frostesque’ by Tony Hobday

30 YEARS , S ALT Lake Acting Company has, with hilarious ingenuity, backhanded the state of Utah with its annual political and social satire, Saturday’s Voyeur. Just as in years past, writers Allen Nevins and Nancy Borgenicht have had plenty of material to mock in our predominately ‘red state.’ The 2010 Saturday’s Voyeur: The year that was is “ripped straight from the headlines of Utah newspapers from the last 15 months.” “It’s a chronological account of the past year in the news, starting March ‘09 to now,” said director and choreographer Cynthia Fleming. It’s a tribute to the newspapers and press professionals because it’s their work that inspired the script.” “This year, we were still totally engaged in many events that occurred over a year ago and decided to do a kind of David Frost-esque That Was the Week That Was, but for the year,” added Borgenicht. “We’ve never done a chronological account of the past year that all of us as a community have lived through. The connections are rich and layered.” Scenes and musical numbers in The year that was that are inspired by headlines include: “Orrin Hatch, a Mormon, pens Hanukkah song,” “Congressman Chaffetz seeks to ban wholebody imaging at airports,” :‘Maverick’ Sarah Palin to sign new book at Salt Lake City Costco,” “Blanding arrests made in sale of Indian artifacts,” “Gary’s glitzy gala: Herbert raises one million dollars in elaborate fund raiser,” “Kevin Garn resigns in wake of hot tub confession,” “Wife blindfolded husband for ‘surprise,’ beat him with hammer” and “GOP opposes Ethics Initiative.” QSaltlake’s coverage of “The Kiss Heard Round the World,” and perhaps some other media outlets, prompted a Voyeur scene that jabs at the detainment of Matt Aune and Derek Jones, a gay couple, for sharing a kiss on the Main Street Plaza last summer. However, this is not the only gay-inspired scene in the show: “Dancing With the Stars’ Len and Bruno inspire two homeless lovers played by Kent Harrison Hayes and Aaron Swenson,” Fleming reveals. “And when we visit Costco for the SLC Goin’ Rogue book signing, a transvestite Costco employee, played by Justin Ivie, serenades Sarah Palin with ‘She’s a Lady.’ At the state Legislature, we meet Christine Johnson, the lesbian lawmaker who is OR OVER

with child for a gay couple and has had her fill of ‘Utah Family Values.’” Among the cast are returning “Voyeur veterans” Alexis Baigue, Jesse Pepe, Steven Fehr, Shannon Musgrave and Jeanette Puhich. Fleming has also cast four “Voyeur virgins” whom she is excited to have their talent on the stage. “Ashley Gardner Carlson is a technically brilliant dancer that raises the bar of our musical numbers,” said Fleming. “Brock Smith is a fantastic singer and a comedic giant in his embodiment of the Republican Bullies. Stephanie Chace Bass is an ice skater, gymnast, dancer, singer, political science major, flautist, aerialist, comedian — need I say more?” Also, “Voyeur virgin” Victoria Elena Nones reprises, as seen at the 2010 Utah Pride Festival, her role as Sarah Palin, and about who Fleming said “knocked us out at our callback auditions with her fearless full throttle portrayal.” Though Fleming is extremely pleased with the entire production this year, she said a couple

of her favorite scenes are, “In the Plaza kissing scene, our Plaza singers croon ‘Groovin’ as Deeda Seed, played by Jeanette Puhich, revisits her Kiss-In protest.” And, “At the close of the 2010 Legislature, the weary and defeated Democrats rally and sing this really fantastic, cathartic song, ‘Enough is Enough,’ inspired by Barbara Streisand and Donna Summer — it’s a really great moment.” The Year That Was opens June 30 and runs through Sept. 30. Performances tend to sell out quickly, as Voyeur is one of the most popular shows in the city, so purchasing tickets early is advised. Small coolers and picnic baskets may be brought into the performances. “Come party and play at SLAC and enjoy an amazing night of theatre and fun,” Fleming encouraged. Q Tickets range from $39–54, discounts available for groups of 10 or more, call call 801-363-SLAC or visit saltlakeactingcompany.org.

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How ’Mo Can Kathy Griffin Go? Comic diva dishes on the new season of D-List, getting gayer and her sex symbol status by Chris Azzopardi

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UT-GAYING CHER TAKES SOMEONE WITH a strong allegiance to the queer community. Someone who’s played lezzy, and maybe undergone some plastic touch-ups. Someone like Kathy Griffin, the funny “fag hag” who’s shamelessly self-deprecating about her D-list status, always adding to her Hollywood hitlist and, now, even too gay for Cher. The comedian’s also a memoirist, a voice in the latest Shrek film and down with doing some girl-on-girl action, as

she showed on a recent episode of Law & Order: SVU. Still got a Kathy craving? The sixth season of her wildly successful, Emmywinning Bravo reality show My Life on the D-List airs this summer, premiered June 15. Griffin gave us a peek into what she’s calling the gayest season of the series, including her involvement in the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal. She also chatted about how she discovered her queer cult, being inspirational and why she was a “Gleek” before they took over the world. I noticed something on your Twitter recently. On my twat? Oh, thank you! No, no. I’m gay. I don’t notice those kinds of things. Oh yeah! So on your Twitter — not your twat — you actually remind people that there’s swearing at your shows. Isn’t that like saying there’ll be gays, too? It’s pretty obvious, don’t you think? I had walkouts in Biloxi, Miss. People stormed out. So I just feel that it is incumbent upon me – as a very serious artist – to remind people that when they come to see me they’re not seeing Mamma Mia! or The Lion King, because I get to play these really beautiful theaters (laughs). I just want to make sure everyone knows what they’re in for. I just feel it’s fair. Yeah, there’s swearing, but swearing is sort of an understatement. I just did my ad for Vegas, because I’m doing the Colosseum like I’m fucking Celine Dion or something –

How gay! It’s beyond gay. In fact, Cher wants me to take it down a notch, that’s how gay I am now. But anyway, I actually had them put in the ad, “Kathy Griffin: D-List star doing her stand-up comedy show. Hopes to offend.” You sell out shows everywhere and you’ve won two Emmys, but you still claim you’re on the D-list. How the hell? I know I’m on the D-list. I’m reminded, I wouldn’t say on a daily basis, but a good twice a week, when I’m called Kathie Lee Gifford. There are still a lot of talk shows I can’t get on. And these are the same shows that are happy to have Heidi and Spencer on, but that’s more of a Hollywood thing. The D-list in my life: I was literally called Kathy Lee Griffith last night. I went to see Ricky Gervais at a theater and I was parking and they said – (Griffin’s cell phone cuts out for several minutes before we reconnect.) Chris, that was a bit of a D-list moment! No kidding! Crappy phone? Yeah, I have an unbelievably cheap phone and it’s now officially broken. I’ve been on an emotional journey with that phone and now I have to realize it’s time to let go. What’s great is that I’m now using my old-fashioned princess phone that I probably got at Sears like 20 years ago. But you know what? This fucker works. Where were we? The D-list and Ricky Gervais. Right. Parking attendant. Kathy Lee Griffith. So I had to keep convincing him that I was on the list if he would just get the name part correct. And then there was the moment during the _Shrek Forever After_ premiere recently. Yeah, that was very A-list until my, of course, D-list moment of standing next to Ryan Seacrest. I really had a moment of thinking, Here I am in this room with Cameron Diaz and Antonio Banderas and Mike Myers and Eddie Murphy. And then it’s time for the photo and sure enough, I’m standing next to Ryan Seacrest. In that movie you voice a witch? I’m the head witch, which I’m excited about. I took the other witches down. That sounds about right. It’s just like my life. When did you realize you had your gay audience? It was really before stand-up, because I would do anything – anything! – to be on stage somewhere. I would go any place that would have an open mic night, and that’s when I kind of discovered the gay club scene

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because I just went wherever they had open mics. I didn’t care if it was a black club or a gay club or a comedy club or a music club. And then I started going, “Oh, these audiences are better!” Actually, I write about this in my book (Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin, now available in paperback), the whole question of which came first, the chicken or the egg? How did I find the gays? How did they find me? And it’s sort of a combo. I just always gravitated toward gay people as long as I can remember. It certainly started in high school with the musical theater clique. I had a great nerd clique in high school and I’m still friends with them today. And we still have our middle fingers up to the cheerleaders. Basically, it was Glee; I was a “Gleek” before that show was on. Since June is Pride month and you’ve been a regular on the circuit, can you share your fondest memory of playing one of the festivals? Last time I did Orlando Pride, it was outdoors with about 5,000 guys — and a few of the ladies showed up. By the time I got out there, they were still dancing. There may have been a little alcohol involved. And there might’ve been the occasional amount of ecstasy. Anyway, my favorite part was as I was walking out they were still dancing and then one guy just passed out and fell on the grass. And, you know, those gays did not even move to help him! They just danced around him. I was worried! I was like, “Uh, someone passed out in front.” And somebody yelled: “He’ll be fine, girl!” And I said, “OK, only at a gay Pride fest.” If that happened anywhere else, there would’ve been an ambulance. But I like that the gays were just like, “Oh, he’ll come around.” And sure enough, by the end of the show, he was up and dancing again. For a minute I thought, Oh my God, we need the gurney! We need to get this guy to the ER! I didn’t know it was basically a girl-down situation. Celebrity photographer Mike Ruiz recently took some pics of you as Bettie Page. How did that come about? He really is an artist. One of the best. And he has shot everybody. So he called me with this idea and I’m like, “How could I possibly channel Bettie Page?” But, boy, obviously he pulled it off. It was great. He flew the hair and makeup people in from New York, he got the outfit, and he came up with the whole vision. And I was thrilled, and so we covered that on the D-List. He said he was trying to bring out your “inner vixen.” Do you see yourself as a sex symbol? (Laughs) I do when I’m with Mike Ruiz. I mean, boy, he’s the one who got away. Mike Ruiz is the very reason that you have these women saying they’re either married or gay because when you look at Mike Ruiz you just want to take a bite out of him.

How is your mother? (Sigh) Well, she’s coming over today, so we have to stock up the bar. Just know that when she comes over it’s completely normal for (my assistants) Tom or Tiffany to say, “Do we have wine? How much wine do we have?” It’s not really about her walker or if she has a stomach ache. Just making sure we’re stocked up. Are you shooting more of My Life on the D-List? Of course. It’s the show that never ends (laughs). The last season of the show was probably the gayest so far. Will this upcoming season out-gay that one? I fear it might be gayer (laughs). First of all, in Episode One we have Liza Minnelli. So out the gate, we’re pretty fucking gay. And she’s fantastic. And she’s Liza. And we get to go to her New York apartment, which is a dream come true for any gay boy such as yourself — or me. How about the episode in Washington, D.C., involving the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”? I’m really proud of that one. I go to Washington, D.C., and do my part to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” because I, of course, have many gay friends in the military and seeing the way that policy has impacted their lives is heartbreaking. Before I started this episode I really thought these men and women left the military or left their service or were even kicked out because they came out. I didn’t understand that currently you can actually be kicked out if one person makes a compelling argument and just basically says this person’s gay. So when I went to my first Senate hearing, I heard so many of these men and women testifying saying, “You don’t understand. I didn’t come out.” So John McCain, who I lost total respect for, kept trying to imply that these men and women had been flaunting their sexuality. They didn’t have one single person testify that actually came out; they only had people testify saying, “I didn’t even come out! Nobody was asking, and I wasn’t telling.” It was shocking. A few of them had their personal e-mail accounts hacked into. It was really interesting to watch that process. What I really learned was, honestly, the best advocate to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is Sen. Carl Levin from Michigan. He was so great during the testimony, and John McCain was not (laughs). It was one of those great episodes because we thought it was going to go one way and then this took a turn, and this took a turn. I really learned a lot and it was great. You actually received some advocacy tips from Melissa Etheridge during the last season of D-List, and she recently said she finds you inspiring. Do you think you’re inspirational? (Laughs) She’s a little more in the inspirational category, but I do like to inspire people to be more profane, to be more foul-mouthed and to be more inappropriate. I’m an inspiration for everything wrong. Q

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Downtown Farmers Market Opens Summer has arrived in Utah at last, and so has that favorite fixture of summer in Salt Lake City, the Downtown Farmers Market. One of several of its kind today, including the People’s Market in the Rose Park neighborhood, the downtown market was among the first of its kind in the state. It opened in the early 1990s during the same year its parent organization, the Downtown Alliance, came into being. “At the time, Salt Lake City targeted the neighborhood for revitalization and to clean up the park,” said Kim Angeli-Selin, the alliance’s special-events director, referring to Pioneer Park where the market has been held since that time. “The park was literally littered with needles and well known as a haven of criminal activity. One of the strategies to revitalize the park was to introduce programming and activities to bring people to the park for community gatherings.” Launched by the alliance’s former executive director, Bob Farrington, the market was one such program. However, said Angeli-Selin, it had a difficult start because of the park’s reputation and because “the farmers-market movement had yet to sweep the nation.” “The concept of selling direct to the public was not a regular part of the business plan for the farmers,” she explained. In its first year, the market attracted only about 10 vendors and a handful of customers. It began to take off, however, when community sponsors came on board. The alliance’s decision to invite other vendors, including bakers and those who created “garden-inspired art” also widened the circle of customers. Today, the market’s roster includes scores of farmers, beekeepers, ranchers, growers and even those who sell prepared food. The alliance added an Art and Craft Market in 2003 as well. Current attractions also include popular cooking demonstrations by the Viking Cooking School. Additionally, the market has taken several steps to reduce its effect on the environment. This year, vendors are being encouraged to use recyclable materials and customers are asked to bring bags instead of asking for plastic or paper. A bicycle valet is also on hand to encourage the use of pollution-free transportation. Rocky Mountain Power is also providing “eco-friendly” energy through its Blue Sky program. The company will have a booth at the market to sign up customers for what it calls this “voluntary renewable energy program.” “We truly are focused on making this market a zero-waste marketplace,” said

Angeli-Selin. “We’re covering a lot of details. We have a fellow from the University of Utah who is working with our vendors to use eco-friendly packaging for food.” Today, she said, the market attracts vendors from all across the state and a few from Idaho and Wyoming. It also draws up to 10,000 people each Saturday from all walks of life and all of the state’s neighborhoods. “I think there are a couple of reasons for this,” she said. “First, food is a commonality we all share and the market offers freshpicked produce at its peak and plates of homemade delicious cuisine. There truly is something for everyone.” “Also, the market is free and a central gathering place in a beautiful urban green space,” she continued. “The market is a place for people to spend their Saturday mornings surrounded by the Salt Lake community. Markets are a place to meet new people, to strike up conversations, to run into old friends.”

hear me out by Chris Azzopardi

Christina Aguilera Bionic Whatever war that’s erupted on the diva front, Christina Aguilera’s shooting a bunch of blanks on her first album since her dirrty self went chic-retro. Now, on this futuristic pop piece, she’s one song away from picking up an STD — sexing-up the CD with randy ruminations on her confectionary bits (the nauseating oral-sex ode, “Woohoo,” with Nicki Minaj riding shotgun), reckless behavior (lazy leadoff “Not Myself Tonight”) and, forget Wheaties, “Sex for Breakfast.” Aguilera’s voice has always been her one-up card, and though she sounds full and forceful throughout, Bionic wants to be everyone else — especially a certain Lady. Knocks-offs like “Glam” and “Prima Donna” sound especially desperate to be part of 2010’s post-modern pop lexicon that Aguilera’s now clawing back into. And, if anything, her guest list – names like Peaches, Le Tigre, M.I.A. and Ladytron – should’ve been her ticket back to the top, but these collaborations beget gutless beats that stutter, squeal and pound. Never are they very memorable, though. Or, in the case of the dumbed-down “My Girls” and “I Hate Boys,” any good. Really, only songstress Sia sweetens Aguilera’s stale sound on a string of ballads — and if more of the disc’s Eurotrash was like the spastic, electro-thudding of “Elastic Love,” she’d have a better shot at bouncing back. Instead, she’s a stock robo-slut who needs to pop back into her genie bottle and find the magic again. Grade: C-

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“We are in the midst of a food renaissance,” she said. “Buy fresh! Buy local! Treat your body to fresh, healthy fruits and veggies. Make the farmers market a part of your weekly shopping routine, your taste buds will thank you.” The market, located in Historic Pioneer

Park, 300 S. 300 West, is now open Saturdays from 8:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Starting Aug. 3, the market also will be open Tuesday evenings from 4:00 p.m. to dusk. The market’s season ends Oct. 16. Information about an indoor, winter market is also forthcoming.

Sarah McLachlan Laws of Illusion

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Sometime within Sarah McLachlan’s sabbatical — and after her divorce — she had some of the best sex ever. Then she wrote about the orgasmic ordeal, calling it “Loving You is Easy,” forgettable fluff that’s as refreshing as a Mojito on a summer day and tries to reposition her as, say, a Sara Bareilles. But she’s not all rainbows and ponies, which is just the way Sarah should be – at least musically. Sure, “Illusions of Bliss” has a charming sweetness wringing from its percussion-stomped nectar, but McLachlan’s made Debbie Downer look delightful with a catalog that cuts to the core (why else would they have her do a PSA with sad little doggies?). Satisfying that niche is “Forgiveness,” a beautiful, wrenching love ballad that’ll make hearts sink. Much of the rest ignores trends and plays on that sumptuous, celestial sound that became McLachlan’s mode in the latter years of her commercialized career. She reclaims some of the Fumbling Towards Ecstasy edge, lacing songs — namely on the clamoring opener “Awakening” — with atmospheric electric-powered intensity, but the 12-track disc is bloated with ballads (two of which are double-dips from her hits collection). Some are wispy and don’t bind, but when they do, like on the ethereal “Bring On the Wonder” send-off, it’s no illusion; just the very real fact that not many artists can leave you as breathless as this one.

Jewel’s all cute and cuddly on her second country CD, lassoing her sweet voice around these cowgirl cuts — both in regular and acoustic format – like she’s fixed on becoming Music Row’s all-in-one machine. She tries on Taylor Swift for “I Love You Forever” and aims for a big Carrie Underwood ballad on “Bad as it Gets” — most of it, the aging lament “Fading” being an exception, sounding as bland as flat soda. It’s not as bad as it could get, though: Remember her dance phase?

Grade: B-

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The Twilight Saga: Eclipse – Original Soundtrack

For as sucky as the films are, the music has major bite – and the sophomore soundtrack from the vampire soap opera keeps that trend rolling with airy indies (Band of Horses’ “Life on Earth”), infectious alt-rock (The Bravery’s “Ours”) and the dramatic instrumental, “Jacob’s Theme.” Sia’s sweeping piano lament “My Love” is even more gorgeous than Jacob’s body, but Florence + the Machine and Vampire Weekend make this franchise sound a lot better A than it is, too.

Clay Aiken, Tried and True The title says it all: Songs from the Idol runnerup’s classic covers album are timeless, and the warbling daddy (like, he has a kid) doesn’t take them anywhere he shouldn’t. Flaws are few, too; his voice, which is great throughout, gets swallowed up on the Disney version of “Unchained Melody,” but otherwise he gives Claymates what they want. And he seems right at home doing it. Maybe _too_ at home, actually. Reach Chris Azzopardi at chris@pridesource. com.

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FOOD&WINE

restaurant review Frida Bistro, Not Frida’s Bistro by Chef Drew Ellsworth

TRIED TO CALL 411 TO get the number for the new restaurant, Frida Bistro, the other day so I could make a reservation. I got a voice with a heavy accent on the phone — directory assistance ain’t what it used to be! As it turns out, the listing was under Frida Bistro, not Frida’s. Anywho, my experience at the restaurant was much better than the one I had with 411. In fact, my experience at the restaurant was unique and wonderful! From the moment Frida opened her doors, my sister, Lottie Ann Ellsworth, has been asking, “When are you taking me to Frida Bistro?” Here’s a dish-by-dish picture of the evening when I finally took her. Just to give you some background first: Frida is an extension of the very large and profitable Rico’s Foods. It’s located in the front of Rico’s warehouse at 545 W. 700 South in the middle on Salt Lake’s old industrial area which is just now rising from last century’s ashes. Frida is on a tree-lined street and looks quite rustic. We were met by the very smart and welcoming Stephanie Bailey-Hatfield who is the front-end manager of Frida. Stephanie, who has worked in many Salt Lake City restaurants, has completely immersed herself in Mexican culture and regional lore in order to add strenuous authenticity to her work — and she has succeeded. Frida says “MEXICO” the minute you walk up: It has all the kitsch of the Tijuana-border crossing, but with style. From the hardwood floors, exposed brick walls and beautiful glass light fixtures, to the rustic furniture and art, Frida is inviting, colorful and fun. Our waiter was Eric Adams, who was a bit shy but a good waiter nevertheless. He talked us into trying two of the restaurant’s fabled mojitos. I chose the Prickly Pear and Lottie chose the Passion Fruit. The mojitos were tall and

refreshing, and full of fresh mint, agave nectar, ice and other flavorings — quite chi-chi in my opinion, but a very welcome change from typical margaritas. My Prickly Pear was flavored with a syrup made from the fruit of the prickly-pear cactus and had a flavor reminiscent of both pomegranate and cassis. Its color was amethyst, and although it was quite sweet, I loved it. The fresh mint added an herbal pungency that really enhanced the agave. The first food item brought to our table was an amuse-bouche they called a “gordita,” which actually means “little fat one” in Spanish. These were tiny sandwiches made of red spicy corn tortillas cut into small disks and filled with requeson cheese. The sandwiches were sitting on a bed of toasted and sweetened seeds, some of which I recognized as sunflower and pumpkin. Lottie and I loved it. So many times you get this tiny little morsel at the beginning in trendy restaurants, but it doesn’t mean anything — and although this dish was small, it meant a lot. Next, we were brought a plate of esquite. This was served in a cool margarita glass surrounded by homemade blue corn chips. The esquite itself was a nothing-but-corn salsa which has been cut off the cob, slightly roasted and marinated in citrus. It was topped with a creamy aioli, lightly flavored with chipotle and cheese. The creaminess seeped into the salsa and, when eaten with the chips, it was really delicious. My sister and I thought it needed a little color for salsa but, as I already knew, this was a very regional, at-home dish served in poor homes. This made it very different and a nice change from the usual “chips and salsa” served at Mexican restaurants. On the side of this dish, we had small quesadilla triangles filled with black beans and cheese stuffed into soft, blue-corn tortillas. These came with one of those authentic hot chili salsas you only see in Mexico. The combination of these two items was enough to totally sell us on Frida, an island of old, rural Mexico right here in the — of late — chilly Utah mountains. Next, we were treated to a beautiful arugula salad with fresh pineapple slices and mango. The dressing was made from the mango and citrus juices. We really liked this refreshing and different salad. We then shared two more entrées; first, a trimmed rib-eye steak served in a pool of red-chili sauce that didn’t come out of a

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can as so many cooks would use. Instead, it was made with real achiote-like chilies and blended with Jamaica which is the infused juice of the hibiscus flower. It also came with a twice-baked potato. My sister and I didn’t like this part. The potato tasted old and over-cooked to me, like it had been sitting in a warmer too long. It was my only truly unhappy moment during the dinner. After that, we got carnitas that were crisp, yet tender and lightly seasoned. They came with warm corn tortillas, a delicious salsa and homemade guacamole, and we ordered a side of tres verdes rice to go along. Tres verdes means “three greens,” and I believe the rice was seasoned with spinach, jalapeno and cilantro. I’m going to try this recipe myself within a week or two. Although we had mojitos at Frida, I also brought along a white Bordeaux, Ducasse Graves ’06. It is a floral Semillon-based wine that tastes a bit smoky and minerally. I thought it went great with all our food. We also had a glass of a wine that Stephanie special orders for Frida: A Mexican, Montefiori Vineyard red made from Cabernet and Sangiovese, and full of raspberry essence. We loved it. Dessert came in the form of a beautifully plated chocolate/cinnamon cookie flanked by homemade dulce de leche ice cream. On the plate were three dots of hot fudge flavored

with Mexican chili and other baking spices. We needed more of the fudge! I lived in San Diego for many years and have frequently traveled to Mexico. I had many Hispanic friends who taught me how to cook several dishes. At this time, I also watched a PBS program featuring chef Rick Bayless. Rick is the foremost chef, in my opinion, who studies and takes you to out of the way places in Mexico and Central America. Frida is the first time I’ve ever seen a restaurant follow in his footsteps. Usually, restaurants make American Mexican food; at Frida, you get the real thing. If you’ve visited Mexico, watched one of Bayless’ shows, or if you’re just really interested in truly innovative, yet authentically based foods, you have to go to Frida. Other than the potato I didn’t enjoy, I would have liked to have seen at least one green sauce made of tomatillo — which Frida may indeed have on the menu and I just didn’t notice. I felt there were too many red-chili sauces that were too similar and perhaps, too much use of the requeson cheese. Nevertheless, Frida tops my list of Mexican restaurants in Salt Lake and I highly, highly recommend it with a rating of 95 points. Q

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Wine and Ritual

RECENTLY CAME ACROSS AN OLD article written by one of my favorite wine writers, Matt Kramer, a contributor to The Wine Spectator. In it he reflects of the role of ritual in life and how it deepens our relationship with the subject matter and provides a comforting space in that relationship. Matt Kramer makes a comparison between music and wine, two subjects near and dear to my heart. Remember when music came in the form of record albums? Playing them was an exercise in ritual. One would remove the album from its sleeve, being careful to hold it by the edges, and gently place it on the turntable. The grooves would be cleaned with a special brush, and a quick blow on the needle cleared off any dust before lowering it onto the record with surgical care. The slight scratches and pops were like the lights going down before a show. Nowadays most of my music is loaded onto my computer. It can be split into playlists, downloaded, sorted by artist or genre, and any tract can be played with the simple push of a button. There is nothing to handle, to touch, and to clean – there is no connecting ritual. I still love my music but there seems to be something missing in the process. As with any ritual preceding a pleasant event, anticipation is part of the enjoyment. I find myself appreciating wine for qualities beyond those found in the glass. The rituals associated with wine, often taken for granted, now move me into a Zen-like frame of mind, bringing into greater focus. These include cutting the foil around the neck of the bottle, removing the cork, choosing a proper glass, and “seasoning” the glass with a splash of wine to remove any residual soap or chlorine. This allows for a greater experience of aroma from the wine, and perhaps even decanting it to achieve maximum expression. Various processes are employed by winemakers to make their wine instantly approachable, removing the need to allow a wine to breathe and open up over time, in our quest to make wine more accessible and seemingly less “pretentious.” This may just wind up removing some of its soul-connecting properties as well – its rituals – and that would be a shame. The next time you get ready to enjoy a glass of wine, take the time to enjoy the process leading up to your first sip

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ACK FOGG, THE CNN REPORTER, strode into the house with the world-ownership attitude of everyone who went to Harvard. With him was his lithe Indian boyfriend, Samir. They rented a room one weekend a month. “Dude!” said the accent-free Samir, who liked to be called Sammy. Jack smiled his regal hello and bounded up the stairs to their room. I stared at his perky rump as he exited and immediately knew what cocktail I’d make. “Sammy,” I began. “Don’t you think Jack’s attraction to Indian men and madras shorts is a sign of cultural imperialism?” “Dude! His diapers were madras. You should see his father, who actually looks like Ralph Lauren.” (“Lifshitz!” Craig cried from the other end of the room.) But don’t give me your crap about ‘cultural imperialism.’ We kicked the Brits’ asses after a century of real-peoplesuffering imperialism. Besides, Jack takes it, not the other way around. He likes it when I ….” “What am I missing?” Jack cheerfully asked as he made his second entrance, this time wearing only — I swear — madras swim trunks. His fine Anglo-Saxon chest was hairy. “Well if, baby, you’re the bottom….” Craig sang out. Jack shot Sammy a glare that unnerved me to the bone. Not Sammy, who just grinned and said, “Only geeks wear swimsuits.” And with that he stripped off his clothes and exhibited the centerpiece of their relationship. “Do we have cranberry juice?” I wondered as Jack and Sammy headed for the pool. Craig was aghast. “Why on earth, after a spectacle worthy of Chi Chi LaRue, does your geriatric mind turn to cranberry juice? Kielbasa and Crisco, yes; but Ocean Squirt?” “Sorry,” I replied. I did groove on Sammy’s body — Jack’s too — but I was getting sloshed on Absolut on the rocks without the rocks, my default drink when I was down. It had been a rotten week. The publishing industry was crueler than ever, my latest book proposal seemed dead in the water, I was wildly depressed, and Jack

was so successful…. “I’m going to make Madrases,” I slurred, “to celebrate the colonials’ revenge. So Jack likes India inside and out: how totally Harvard! But I hate Ocean Squirt. I like 100% juice, even if it’s mostly apple.” “Thank you, _Consumer Reports_.” Craig’s eyes turned skyward. “Give him two perfect asses and two six-packs – 12! a case! – and he’s earnestly comparing juices. Well, the cupboard’s bare, too, so I’ll go down to the harbor and get some. I’ll pick up more OJ as well.” “No pulp!” I shouted as Craig lumbered out. I thought morosely about Jack Fogg’s lickable chest, Sammy’s breathtaking body and the futility of the human condition, especially mine. “Snap out of it, Eddie”, Jiminy Cricket scolded. “Go get the right glassware.”

The Madras is a more complex Screwdriver: vodka, OJ, and cranberry juice. It’s great stirred together, but you can layer it like a Tequila Sunrise. Here’s how: 1 part Absolut 1.5 parts cranberry juice (ignore my pickiness; use what you like) 1 part orange juice (the no pulp kind if possible) Fill a tall glass with ice, and add the vodka. Give it a stir. Pour in the cranberry juice and let it settle. Then attempt to float the OJ on the cranberry juice by pouring it gently onto the back of a spoon, which you have inserted into the glass at the top level of the OJ. If you fail the first time, drink the ruined cocktail and keep making and drinking them until you get it right. Then drink it.

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2008, I was fortunate enough to work for one of the largest club franchises in the world at their American corporate headquarters in New York — PACHA (I would hope some of you know of this establishment). Moving on, I had the privilege to work not only on their corporate events and marketing campaigns, but also with their “promot-

Promoter to Host, It’s Not Just For Anyone

Being a promoter can be anything from activism of a cause to telling friends about a birthday party.

by Hunter Richardson

OST OF US, EAGER TO find an event worth going to, usually end up at a “hot spot” due to the promotion of any given event. What does that mean — Promotion? At its bare minimum, it means a message is issued in behalf of some product, cause, idea, person or institution; “the packaging of ideas.” So, who can portray such a “package”? A promoter can; someone who is an active supporter and advocate of whatever is being packaged. I’ll throw some names out: Paul, Dave, Brian, Eric, Rob, Tim and me (to an extent). These are known individuals who dedicate countless hours making sure that not only is everyone informed of the events they represent, but also make sure they run smoothly. From the many (and I mean many) Facebook event invitations to buying ads in this magazine, they go to great lengths making sure that they stand true to the definition of what it means to be a promoter. Let’s delve deeper into the position, however. It seems that Utah promoters take on a host-like role. This is intriguing to me. Let me explain: In

ers.” And, by promoters, I mean anyone PACHA could get to influence others into attending events and frequenting their multi-level club. There was no host-like aura to their position because they were merely “spreading the word.” Truly, being a promoter can be anything from activism of a cause to telling friends about a birthday party. So, many promoters in the state become actual hosts for the events they are pro-

moting and I find it to be a positive transition. Which makes me wonder where the delegation is. Usually the host delegates to the promoter and isn’t the promoter themselves. Which, I suppose, is just a mere mystery I thought worthy of noting. But, nonetheless, being a “promoter” has become merely a title for satirical value as there is a slew of “hosts” welcoming the masses to the party that they represent. “My event is on Friday.” “Come to my party.” “I have the best DJ ever coming to play.” This kind of ownership phrasing proves my point of host versus promoter. A promoter supports and advocates whereas a host invites. Which, we all know, leads to a heavy weight of accountability mixed with responsibility and tied together with stress. Regardless of the title, it’s a rough job. I think most people in this position would agree — always being pressed for results, always having people requesting comp’ed admission, drinks or VIP treatment, and always having to be in the spotlight while running the behind-the-scenes work. It’s a grueling situation to be in week after week — but for the right individual(s) it’s not only rewarding, I’m sure it pays the bills. One issue that arises is that people go out to see and be seen, and a good event is secondary to them. A nice reprieve is that Utah promoters/ hosts know this and respond to it in what seems to be an organized and tactical fashion. So, I end with cheers. A cheers to the people that inform, produce, request, submit, greet, grin, smile and dial to get us into their establishments. Q

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Thank Rue for Being a Friend by Kathi Wolfe

OP CULTURE IDOLS

RISE OR fall in the click of a mouse or arched eyebrow. Yet, “The Golden Girls,” the TV show that aired on NBC from 1985 to 1992, is in no danger of losing its iconic status. Rue McClanahan, the Emmy Award-winning actress, who played the beloved Southern vixen Blanche Devereaux on the hit series, died on June 3 at age 76. Everyone, straight or gay, with a DVD player or who’s tuned into Lifetime, will miss McClanahan. But, to we who are queer, Blanche is indelibly imbedded in our DNA. Our community will especially mourn her passing. When McClanahan as Blanche entered the room it was as if a waterfall of unadulterated pleasure – a monsoon of camp – had enveloped the TV screen. “Blanche was an oversexed, selfinvolved, man-crazy, vain Southern belle from Atlanta – and I’m not from Atlanta,” McClanahan wrote with campy affection about herself and Devereaux in her autobiography “My First Five Husbands…and the Ones Who Got Away.” Why is McClanahan, who was straight, so beloved by LGBTQ people? Because she was talented, daring, witty, and, in a charming manner, willing to speak her mind. Born in Healdton, Okla., McClanahan was bitten by the acting bug early on. At age 4, she acted for the first time in a production of “The Three Little Kittens.” After graduating with honors from the University of Tulsa in 1956, one of her first professional acting gigs was portraying Blanche DuBois at the Pasadena Playhouse in California. Before acting in “The Golden Girls,” McClanahan appeared in the groundbreaking TV program “All in the Family” and with (“The Golden Girls” co-star) Bea Arthur in its spinoff “Maude.” These 1970s shows tackled issues from abortion to feminism to racism that hadn’t been dealt with previously on television. McClanahan received an Obie award in 1972 for her portrayal of a father’s mistress in the drama “Who’s Happy Now?” “Your work is that rare combination of earthiness and lapidary polish. … Frippery combined with fierceness,” playwright Tennessee Williams wrote to McClanahan on her portrayal of the wife of Dylan Thomas in the play “Dylan.” Later in her career, McClanahan appeared in other stage, movies and TV shows, including the

feminist show “The Vagina Monologues,” the Broadway musical “Wicked,” “Law and Order” and a cable television series “Sordid Lives.” Off-stage, McClanahan was active in causes that were dear to her. She spoke to cancer support groups because she herself had survived breast cancer. A lover of animals, McClanahan was an honorary director of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. McClanahan’s interests also took a sartorial turn, leading her to develop the clothing line “A Touch of Rue.” McClanahan’s superb talent and bravery in her life and work touched many from breast cancer survivors to animal lovers. Yet, it is her embodiment of Blanche Devereaux that will be forever in our hearts. “The Golden Girls” is iconic in a way that few TV series have been or ever will be – especially for the queer community. Set in Miami, the show was about four older women who live together. They have heart attacks, endure family drama with their far-flung relatives, eat tons of cheesecake, work as substitute teachers and grief counselors, dance, have cat fights, say deliciously bitchy things, dish about sex, have sex, look for romance … have more sex. “What do you think I ought to do with my bed?” Blanche asks Dorothy (Bea Arthur’s character). “Put it in the Smithsonian, Blanche,” Dorothy says, “It’s got more miles on it than the Spirit of St. Louis.” “The Golden Girls” resonates so powerfully with queers because of its emphasis on friendship. Like so many of us in the LGBTQ community, the Golden Girls are vulnerable as well as campy and bitchy. Unable because of circumstances (they’re divorced or widowed and too poor to live alone), they form their own family. Even though we can legally marry in six states, many LGBTQ people still form their own families through friendships. “The Golden Girls” shows us that we can have friends no matter how old we are. Rue, you’ll always be our friend. R.I.P. Q

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Say What’s on Your Mind, Leo! By Jack Fertig

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CANCER (June 21- July 22) What disturbs you most about your partner could be exactly what’s needed for him or her to help you to succeed. Get past your own reactions to whatever “flaw” or blessing that may be, and learn how to work with it.

LEO (July 23–August 22) Health problems, hopefully minor, are best addressed by radically new approaches. Chiropractic and high-colonics are indicated for the body, meditation and rebirthing for the soul. Say what’s on your mind, but be ready to have your mind changed.

VIRGO (August 23–September 22) You may shock your friends with your sudden urge to challenge them with

deep and frightening ideas or risky games (It’s not a great time to take up skydiving or rugby!). Spontaneous seductions, however, can work out brilliantly.

LIBRA (September 23–October 22) The hardest learned lessons from early childhood are resonating at work. You may feel pressured or bullied. Resist temptation to vent at your partner, but do have a frank discussion. That’s where you’ll get your best ideas.

SCORPIO (October 23–Nov. 21) Calm down. Think ahead. Identifying too much with grand ideas can blind you to important basic details. Trying to pull all that together can distract you, causing accidents. Vigorous exercise can burn off the stress if you don’t overdo it.

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CAPRICORN (December 21–Jan. 19) Times are tough; you’re feeling it hard. Still, share your feelings with someone you do have a deep connection with and get some perspective. Hard work or sports can cultivate a strong sense of home and community.

AQUARIUS (January 20–February 18) All your secrets and worries can start pouring out of you before you realize it. This can be a great time to work on deep personal problems, but be very careful to make sure you can trust your confidante.

PISCES (February 19–March 19) Avoid impulsive spending and gambling. Carefully calculated creative efforts can prove lucrative. You can get ahead doing something creative and fun, but the keys to fiscal sanity are still hard work and discipline.

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Is it cool to come out on Facebook?

: I’ve wanted to come out for years, but I’m a senior in college now and haven’t found the courage to tell anyone. Recently I’ve been thinking about just updating my Facebook profile before I tell my friends or family. What do you think about that? : Coming out online has its benefits. Making your announcement to so many people at once can be liberating, and you don’t have to go through the hassle of having the same conversation a dozen times. But I’m afraid using social networking sites this way is no replacement for direct, in-person conversations. In your case, I think it’s especially unwise because you say you’re having trouble speaking up offline about your sexuality. The first step in any successful coming out is getting comfortable enough to talk about it. Then, tell your closest friends, parents, siblings, and others you care about—in person. After that, it’s fine to note on your profile that you’re interested “in men” or “in women” and see where that leads you. One final note: You mention that you’re a college senior, so presumably you’ll be seeking a job upon graduation. Remember that anything you post on a social networking site is forever. So it’s in your interest to think carefully about who else may have access to whatever information you post—today and down the road.

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