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PET ISSUE Activist Calls for Stan Penfold’s Ouster

Rally Calls for Unity

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by Michael Aaron

This is the speech I gave at the Rally for Equality at the Utah State Capitol Building on Friday, August 13.

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We live at a time and in a state where there are deep chasms between groups of people with differing views, with differing ethnicities, with differing sexual orientations. The political rhetoric is at a highpitched squeal, and fear and hate are commonplace. We could write a bad romance.

This is the time and this is the place where we need to come together, learn from each other, and build — not burn — bridges.

Six years ago, the Utah Legislature passed a Constitutional amendment that made it so, not only can gay and lesbian people not marry the partner of their choice, but we cannot even have secondclass relationship status. Two-thirds of the state’s voters ratified the amendment and it is now law.

Is this building bridges?

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints has pulled out all the stops to restrict marriage to their own view of what it should be, and in the process deny to gay and lesbian couples over 1000 governmental rights that marriage affords.

Is this building bridges?

Next month, openly-gay Confessions of a Mormon Boy actor Stephen Fales will be on stage at the Rose Wagner Theater, will don sacred Mormon garments, and will reveal sacred Mormon Temple ceremony secrets.

Is this building bridges?

I say many of our actions are only making our bad romance worse.

But I also see thoughtful efforts at trying to build our relationships.

A few years ago, the openly-gay Salt Lake Men’s Choir flew to Washington, D.C. (at its members’ own expense) to sing at the National Cathedral at its quadrennial Utah Day alongside not-so-pro-gay Rev. France Davis of Calvary Baptist Church.

That is building bridges.

For nearly a year, representatives of the LDS Church and a so-called “Gang of Five” gay and lesbian leaders have been meeting to get to understand each other better.

That is building bridges.

For over a decade, the LDS Church has been donating food to Camp Pinecliff, an annual camp for people affected by HIV and AIDS. That is building bridges.

This month a friend is recovering from surgery on his shoulder and the bishop of his Utah County LDS ward offered help with his everyday chores, like yard work and grocery shopping, as he healed. The bishop said

his being gay didn’t mean that the neighbors wouldn’t be willing to help out.

That is building bridges.

These are the stories we need to hear more of. These are the stories that will help heal the divisiveness, fear and anger between us.

But we also need to heal divisions within our own community.

This week, the website Salty Gossip presented a story of a young gay man fighting domestic violence and public intoxication charges. The 68 comments that appeared after the story over the next 24 hours were some of the most bitter, hateful and spiteful bile I have ever read. I nearly bawled that our people could be so disgusting to one another in a public forum, much less face-to-face. The site’s owner had the good sense to pull the whole story.

Is this building our community or tearing us down?

QSaltLake published a letter from a

We need to call the bitterness, hurtfulness and spitefulness what it is — it’s ugly and it’s unacceptable. young man who left Salt Lake, moving to Seattle, because a fellow-gay family member was spreading his HIV-positive status to all of his friends, many of whom went on to shun him rather than support him through what was obviously a difficult time.

Is this building our community or tearing us down?

Newly-out gay men — both young and old — enter into this community with trepidation. Many are leaving the support of family and friends and, rather than being embraced and welcomed into our community, they find themselves shunned for being any multitude of things — too old, lacking fashion sense, socially awkward, having less-than-stunning-model looks, too skinny.

Is this building our community or tearing us down?

We grew up in a culture where people help others when they are in need.

A friend’s garage burned down, and his neighbors showed up with hammers and saws to help rebuild.

That helps build our community.

If someone has a death in the family, we are inundated with Jell-O salads and fu-

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neral potatoes.

That helps build our community.

I was asked: at what point in our coming out process do we shed our upbringing and become bitter, spiteful and hateful?

I’m not saying every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender person is bitter and hateful. But too many are. And it is accepted as being part of our experience.

That has to change.

We need to be better to each other. We need to send out a helping hand or a shoulder to people battling addictions or depression or who are HIV positive. We need to call the bitterness, hurtfulness and spitefulness what it is — it’s ugly and it’s unacceptable.

We need to build our community. We need to offer newly-out people a safe space in their new surroundings. Safe from judgment. Safe from the encouragement of addictive behaviors. We need to show them that there are other avenues in our community than diving headfirst into alcoholism, promiscuity and drug addiction.

The infrastructure is actually already here. In our community there are organizations for almost any interest you might have.

There is a group for people who like to garden. There are organizations for gay parents. For wine lovers, for classic car enthusiasts.

One of the largest swimming organizations is the state is QUAC. One of the largest bowling leagues is Goodtimes Bowling League. There is a softball league, a tennis group, basketball league.

There are groups for people who like to hike, for naturists, for campers, and people who like to read books.

There are spiritual organizations and churches which welcome gay and lesbian people.

There is a group of flag twirlers which performs all over the country. SimplySocial meets on Wednesdays and goes to dinner. There are Spicy dinner parties that happen all over the Wasatch Front.

The Salt Lake Men’s Choir is 50 of the best people you will ever meet.

If you want to find these groups, check the blue section of TheQPages, which are all over town.

We need to direct newly-out people, lonely people, depressed people, people at risk for hurtful addictions to these groups.

We need to help build these organizations and help to make even more.

We need to support them with our presence and our dollars.

In the singer-songwriter-philospher’s words: Rah, rah, ah ah ah Roma roma ma Gaga, ooh la la That translates to: We need to build up and love our community; we need to build up and love our friends; and we need to build up and love ourselves. Q

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BY REX WOCKNER

California Samesex Marriages Blocked for Several Months The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Aug. 16 blocked any same-sex marriages from taking place in California while proponents of the state’s marriage ban appeal the Aug. 4 district-court ruling that found Proposition 8 in violation of the U.S. Constitution.

The appeals court said it will hear the case the week of Dec. 6, and it set up an expedited briefing schedule for the case’s attorneys.

The court also ordered the proponents of the ban to prove that they have “standing” to appeal the decision made by District Judge Vaughn Walker.

The actual defendants in the case, including Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown, have refused to defend Prop 8, and the Court of Appeals’ order seemed sympathetic to the idea that proponents of the ban, as “defendant-intervenors,” are not properly situated to appeal Walker’s ruling.

If they are not, that could end the case, and same-sex marriage would again be legal in California under Walker’s original ruling, though a decision on standing could be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. The defendant-intervenors are the same people who put Prop 8 on the ballot in 2008 to overturn the state’s legalization of same-sex marriage.

“The 9th Circuit put the appeal on a fast track and specifically directed the Prop 8 proponents to address ‘why the appeal should not be dismissed for lack of Article III standing’ in their opening brief,” said the National Center for Lesbian Rights. “That means the court will consider whether the proponents of Prop 8 have the right to file an appeal at the same time that it is considering whether Judge Walker’s decision that Prop 8 violates the federal Constitution is legally correct.”

The proponents’ opening brief is due Sept.

17, the plaintiffs’ opposing brief is due Oct. 18 and the proponents’ reply brief is due Nov. 1.

A decision that the proponents lack standing could come in December. If the 9th Circuit decides the proponents have standing and goes on to consider the constitutionality of Prop 8, it would not be expected to issue a decision until sometime in early 2011. Either decision could be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Meanwhile, the plaintiffs challenging Prop 8 could appeal the 9th Circuit’s current stay to the U.S. Supreme Court right now but have given no indication they will do so.

Robin Tyler, whose marriage to Diane Olson was the first same-sex marriage in Southern California two years ago, said the stay is deeply disappointing.

“We are tired of our emotions being batted around like pingpong balls,” Tyler said. “Gays and lesbians are human

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These days, every time the gay-marriage issue rears its head, I’m reduced to a blob of emotional jelly.

Not again! I think in italics.

I was just getting used to domestic bliss; now I’ve got to spend all my time thinking up new ways of justifying our existence, my cerebral italics continue.

And while I’m doing that, who is supposed to take care of the dirt, grease and stains in our family wash?”

—City Weekly columnist Brandon Burt, blogging about gays, Proposition 8, political football and midterm elections

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Steve Crowston, a Naval Air Force Ensign, who recently received his ‘call sign’ filed an official complaint when he was dubbed “Romo’s Bitch,” a reference to his affinity for the Dallas Cowboys’ quarterback, Tony Romo.

Crowston believes this is part of a pattern of anti-gay harassment he faces in the Navy. beings, and there is not one legal reason to delay same-sex marriages in California. ...

Martin Luther King said, ‘Justice delayed is justice denied.’ He also said, ‘Wait means never.’ Once again, our hopes have been dashed.”

NCLR Executive Director Kate Kendell said: “Every additional day that couples must wait to marry again in California is painful, but despite the terrible disappointment for the many couples whose right to marry has been delayed yet again, today’s ruling includes another significant victory for our side. The court did the right thing by putting the case on a fast track and specifically ordering that Prop 8 proponents show why they have a legal right to appeal. This ruling brings us one step closer to ending the nightmare of Prop 8 and restoring full equality for all Californians.”

Lambda Legal called the stay “painful.”

“We are saddened by the 9th Circuit’s decision to maintain the stay of Judge Walker’s ruling that Prop 8 is unconstitutional,” said Jennifer Pizer, director of the group’s Marriage Project. “We very much hoped to see same-sex couples again free to celebrate their love and mutual devotion through marriage starting later this week. We know this delay is painful for couples in love, who have been denied their basic rights for too long already.”

She also said the 9th Circuit failed to apply “the standard test for when a stay should be

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ordered.”

The test requires, among other things, that an appellant prove a strong likelihood of winning on appeal and that the appellant would suffer an irreparable injury without a stay. Judge Walker said the Prop 8 proponents failed to pass any part of the test. The 9th Circuit’s order did not explain its determination.

Ann Coulter to Headline Gay Homocon Event Conservative author and media diva Ann Coulter will headline Homocon, a Sept. 25 party in New York City organized by the conservative gay group GOProud.

“The gay left has done their best to take all the fun out of politics, with their endless list of boycotts and protests,” said GOProud board chair Christopher Barron. “I can’t think of any conservative more fun to headline our inaugural party than the selfprofessed ‘right-wing Judy Garland’ — Ann Coulter.”

“I can promise you Homocon 2010 will be a hell of a lot more fun than chaining yourself to the White House fence,” Barron added.

Coulter said, “I’m thrilled to be giving a speech to a room full of gay conservatives, because according to every single liberal I’ve ever met, such people don’t even exist!”

We do a lot of protests in Utah. Utah is a state that you have to fight tooth and nail for them to recognize you as a human being.”

—Local activist Eric Ethington, talking to TIME magazine about a rally he organized in time for the Aug. 4 Proposition 8 ruling

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Judge Vaughn R. Walker’s ruling on Proposition 8 in California is just what you would expect of a judge nominated

by President Reagan and again by George H. W. Bush, confirmed by the U.S. Senate on unanimous consent presumably with support of both Utah Senators Jake Garn and Orrin Hatch. He applied the law.”

—Rob Miller, writing about the ruling in the Davis County Clipper.

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One federal judge trumped 7 million voters by making up a right that is not in the Constitution.

This is what happens when judges make up the Constitution as they go along when judges rather than the Constitution are the supreme law of the land.”

—Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, as quoted in the Deseret News

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We’ll go as soon as we can.”

—Utah gay rights activist Jeff Key, telling The Salt Lake Tribune he hopes to wed his partner Adam Nelson in California.

Media Decides Prop 8 Judge is Gay In a break with past practice on outing, the U.S. mainstream media decided in early August that U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker, who struck down Proposition 8 as unconstitutional, is gay, openly gay or reportedly gay.

Walker has never publicly said if he’s gay or straight. In the past, U.S. mainstream media have avoided outing people who’ve chosen not to out themselves.

Most of the reports either attributed Walker’s alleged gayness to other mainstream reports or said it is common knowledge in certain San Francisco circles.

Some reports flat-out called him “openly gay,” without attributing the assertion to any event or individual.

The Associated Press took the plunge on Aug. 6, writing: “Rumors have circulated for months that Walker is gay, fueled by the blogosphere and a San Francisco Chronicle column that stated his sexual orientation was an ‘open secret’ in legal and gay activism circles. Walker himself hasn’t addressed the speculation, and he did not respond to a request for comment by The Associated Press on Thursday.”

The New York Times wrote, “Several published reports have stated that the judge is himself gay.”

New York’s Daily News said, “The federal judge who upended California’s samesex marriage ban this week is now being scrutinized by some for being gay himself.”

Fox News called Walker “one of three openly gay federal judges in the country,” and a CNN opinion piece called him “an openly gay federal judge.”

The Washington Post let a political analyst call Walker “openly gay.”

Anti-gay activists have suggested that Walker’s purported gayness means he shouldn’t have accepted the Prop 8 case, since it deals with whether marriage is only for straight people or also for gay people.

The anti-gay activists did not address the fact that a heterosexual judge would have found himself in an identical situation of ruling on an issue that is related to his or her sexual orientation.

Michelangelo Signorile, who has been credited with inventing outing when he was a columnist at New York’s defunct OutWeek magazine in 1989, said the Walker outing was “a testament to how easily the media is manipulated by the right into doing things about which editors and reporters claim to be staunchly opposed.”

He said the Walker reports amounted to “outrageous hypocrisy ... on the part of the corporate media” because “even with proof and evidence, news organizations refuse to report on the secretly gay sexual orientation of conservative, anti-gay politicians and public figures when the argument for their exposure is made from the left.”

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Activist Calls for UAF Director Stan Penfold’s Ouster

by Michael Aaron

At a rally focused on building community, building bridges and a call to “band together to change our common destinies,” community leader Richard Matthews raised more than a few eyebrows by calling for the resignation of Stan Penfold, executive director of the Utah AIDS Foundation.

“I hate making enemies; I really deep down just want to be friends with everyone,” Matthews wrote, after the rally, in a Facebook appeal titled, “Save the Utah AIDS Foundation.” “However, [rally organizer] Turner [Bitton] and I agreed: there comes a time in your life when you can’t worry about what people think. You have to do what you know is right.”

“I would avoid such impropriety at all costs if it weren’t about the lives and livelihoods of young people who are UNeducated, UNaware of the danger, and woefully UNPREPARED,” he continued.

Matthews believes Utah needs a “comprehensive HIV prevention program” and that Utah is “losing the battle against HIV.” He also questions Penfold’s dedication to his job.

“The leadership that we have entrusted to carry our banner in this battle is absent.

The commander is not on the battlefield.

In fact, I don’t believe you can even see the battlefield from the golf course or the city council chambers. I don’t think everyone realizes the gravity of this crisis. This is all hands on deck! That means you captain! You can’t save this sinking ship when you’re only at the helm for an hour a week,” he wrote.

Penfold said he was surprised at the call.

“I think it’s unfortunate that someone who clearly has concerns about HIV in our community didn’t come and talk to us at the UAF,” Penfold said. “It has caused me to reexamine our open-door policy. We apparently have barriers we are not aware of.”

Penfold said he understands that there might be a perception that he cannot handle both the UAF and his role on the Salt Lake City Council, which he was elected to in No-

vember of last year.

“Yes, the city council is a demanding job, and the Utah AIDS Foundation is a demanding job. Both require a lot of time,” Penfold said. “I put in my full time at UAF. I work at least 40 hours a week, but not at my desk.

I meet with community partners, community leaders, funders, donors and the Board [of Trustees]. A significant part of my job is outside the office. In fact, if I were at my desk, I wouldn’t be doing my job as director.”

“Stan works an average of 45-plus hours a week,” said UAF Board of Trustees Chair Shawn Jackson. “He is a very dedicated executive director and has put his life on hold for many years to ensure that his first obsession — the Utah AIDS Foundation — is the best it can be. UAF’s staff is very well trained with the day-to-day operations, where Stan concentrates on the big picture — the community, community partnerships, donor relations and so on.

HIV on the Rise Matthews points to recent statistics, which show a significant increase in new HIV diagnoses, as his reason for taking action. In eight years, the rate of HIV infections has risen nearly four-fold from 30 to 112, according to the Utah Department of Health. Seventy percent of all HIV-positive people in the state are men who have sex with men, including IV-drug users who also have sex with men. (Twelve percent of HIV-positive people are unclassified.)

“We are losing the battle against HIV, and the response of our flagship HIV foundation is to decrease prevention efforts,” Matthews wrote.

Matthews is a former UAF volunteer who helped run a program since cut by the Foundation — The Village.

“Two years ago I came out of the closet. I had no friends and didn’t know one openlygay person,” he said. “I found a sense of family in The Village.”

He has since started a similar group,

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called SimplySocial, which meets on Wednesday nights at the University of Utah for an hour before going all together to dinner at a restaurant.

Matthews points to what he says are severe reductions in services by UAF. He says that the organization has “dismantled nearly all of their HIV prevention programming,” with the exception of a program for Latino men. He also points to a reduction in HIV testing, especially free and walk-in testing, the discontinuation of the annual Gay Men’s Health Summit and support groups for people living with HIV and AIDS. He claims there is no HIV prevention programming for youth nor services for HIVpositive youth, and that the organization turns away coordination requests from other groups.

Penfold said he is well aware of the increase in HIV transmission rates.

“It has been agonizing to see that, despite all of our efforts, infections are still going up across the country and in Utah as well,” Penfold said. “We’ve been taking a serious, hard look at our prevention programming.

We are trying to be proactive. The old programming wasn’t working anymore, so we took a critical look at it.”

“We looked at other models across the country, but no one yet has a ‘magic cure,’” he continued. “Any good prevention program has a life expectancy of about five to six years.

After that, it gets stale and routine.”

New Outreach Programs Penfold said that the organization is currently focusing on two main efforts — A Mr. Gentleman campaign and the Doctors, Dudes and Dinner (3D) program.

“The Mr. Gentleman campaign is a refocus of our outreach in bar and social settings,” he said. Volunteers dress as superheroes and hand out packets with condoms, lube and a voucher to receive free HIV testing. “It’s an effort to show that safer sex can also be sexy. We worked really hard on sex-positive messages. There are plenty of sex-negative messages out there.”

Penfold says the program scales back in the summer because bar attendance is down and volunteers are more difficult to attract.

“It’ll pick up when school starts,” he explained.

The 3D program focuses on frank talk

about sexual subjects in a relaxed, open setting. Topics are on health issues for gay men, including body image, steroids, drug use and anal care.

“We need to be very focused and specific in HIV education,” Penfold said. “We have done three and a fourth is coming up.”

“They’ve had good evaluations,” he said.

“We want to make sure they are hearing the HIV [messaging] pieces. We’re going to crank it up a bit this fall and winter, doing more of those and broadening the topics to be more edgy and cool.”

As far as free HIV testing, Jackson says that the Foundation still offers testing twice a week — Mondays for drop-ins and Wednesdays for appointments.

“In our prevention outreach programs, we give out safe sex packets which include a card for free HIV testing,” Jackson said.

“Also if you cannot pay for the test, we will not turn you away either.”

“Frankly, we are overwhelmed by the amount of people coming to get tested,” Jackson continued, “We do not have the manpower or the facility to accommodate everyone.”

HIV-Positive Youth Matthews also expressed concern about youth entering the community, already sexually active and already HIV-positive.

“My heart broke upon hearing from a 19-year-old kid, only recently joined our community, freshly diagnosed and now burdened with a lifetime of stigma, compromised health, a shortened lifespan, compromised relationships and psychological burden,” Matthews wrote. This is a terrible price to pay for a mistake, especially when you did not understand the danger. How many kids do we have to lose to this terrible infection before we stop being polite about it?”

“It’s a huge concern and a significant challenge,” Penfold said. “Young men are becoming sexually active before we have any chance to interact with them. They are sexually active in high school and they are not looking to gay organizations and such.”

Penfold said that current Utah law restricts even the mention of homosexuality in any kind of positive light in the classroom.

“They are not going to bars or social groups. They are hooking up online,” Penfold said. “It becomes a really incredible challenge to get to them — especially if they are under 20.”

“People need to start demanding comprehensive sex education in schools,” he said. “We need a bigger, full-community response. Any encounter with a gay youth needs to have a talk about their safety and safer sex.”

Capitol Hill Matthews counters that Penfold cannot be an effective lobbyist on Capitol Hill to demand such things as a shift in sex education because of his role in the Salt Lake City Council.

“The role of director of UAF should be that of lobbyist-in-chief over the issue of HIV/AIDS,” Matthews said. “The door knocking and lobbying on Capitol Hill this year was done by other organizations. I find it hard to believe that being elected to the

city council would make one more willing to be a bull-dog advocate on Capitol Hill when one has sworn an oath to represent the city.”

One of the leading organizations which did the “door knocking” on Capitol Hill was the People With AIDS Coalition of Utah. Director Toni Johnson only said that she has “read the Facebook article, and I agree that there are legitimate concerns which need to be addressed.”

However, QSaltLake was on an e-mail list last fall where Johnson and other prominent community leaders were going out of their way to accommodate Penfold’s schedule to join them in a meeting to address the needs of people with HIV and AIDS in light of decreasing Ryan White funding — and the possibility Utah wouldn’t match the funds at all. Penfold, who was in the final throes of his city council campaign, never attended, even the week following the election.

“Instead of leading the charge of organizing a community-wide response to cuts in state funding to HIV medication, he failed even to attend,” Matthews said.

Former Utahn and HIV/AIDS activist Stuart Merrill, who ran the Campaign to End Aids–Utah, said that Penfold refused for years to meet with him and other community organizations. He believes it came down to the bottom line as to why he wouldn’t have a presence on Capitol Hill.

“He refuses to lobby,” Merrill said. “He goes to great lengths to avoid anything even remotely politically touchy because it may affect his donor base.”

“There are just some times when his political goals directly conflicted with needs of the HIV community,” he said. “On two occasions we successfully lobbied for enough state money to eliminate wait lists in Utah.

Stan, for whatever reason, tried on both occasions to stop our efforts, in spite of the fact that this work and these monies may literally have saved the lives of UAF clients.”

People with HIV/AIDS at Risk Last October, the Utah AIDS Drug Assistance Program closed its doors to new applicants, lowered its income eligibility requirements and kicked 87 people from its rolls because of a state funding shortage.

“This is the money that [Penfold] said wasn’t needed the previous two years,” Merrill said. “Now there are people with HIV and AIDS in Utah who must wait while their disease progresses before they can get treatment.”

“Last year I was hospitalized because I wasn’t on medications,” wrote former Utahn Adam Alder in a guest editorial in the August 3 issue of QSaltLake. “I spent four days at the University Hospital battling pneumonia. I couldn’t get medications because the Utah AIDS Foundation constantly lost the paperwork needed for the Health Department and the Ryan White Program ... Four days, and many antibiotics and shots later, I was starting to make a recovery. Upon checking out of the hospital, I was told to call and make an appointment with the doctor to get me started on HIV meds. The next day I called and was told

there were no openings for six months. So, I told myself that I’d try to stay healthy until I could leave in August.”

“Here in Minnesota we are flush with HIV cash,” Merrill said. “The state budget was just cut by almost $1 billion, but nobody so much as whispered the thought of cutting our HIV funding. The federal bill that I worked on with Senator Hatch netted Minnesota almost $2 million a year more. It also netted Utah a half-million dollars per year, but I guess it wasn’t enough ... now new HIV cases in Salt Lake City have worse access to meds than in Havana or Rio.” A Director’s Pay Matthews also complained of Penfold getting a raise in difficult economic times. Penfold’s salary before 2008 was $58,275 plus $1,020 in an employee benefits plan, according to public records of UAF’s tax returns. In 2008, he received $68,000 and $5,630 in benefits.

“The salary of the director of the Utah AIDS Foundation is larger than the entire organizational budget of the People With AIDS Coalition of Utah,” Matthews wrote.

“Many would argue that PWAC provides more value and programming to the HIVpositive community. The Northern Utah

Coalition operates tremendous programming in the Weber County area with almost no funding.”

“The last time the Board approved any salary adjustments was in January of 2008,” said Jackson. “And it was based on a market survey of the sector and local non-profits.

We made adjustments to several positions, including Stan’s and all adjustments were still below market rates. Prior to 2008, Stan had not received any increase in salary for more than six years.”

“I’m not saying a director isn’t worth $70,000 per year,” said Matthews, “I’m just saying that with that kind of money, we should have a passionate advocate and warrior that is the most recognizable face in the community providing education and guidance.”

Petition Matthews has created a Facebook page to collect “signatures” at tinyurl.com/ saveUAF, titled “Petition to Save the UAF — A Call for New Leadership.” So far, 180 people have “signed” by choosing the “Like” button.

“I’m asking you to stand with me in calling on the Board of Trustees of the UAF to

Rally Calls for Unity, Growth About 100 people gathered on the south lawn of the Utah State Capitol Building on Friday, Aug. 13 in a rally for reconciliation and community building.

The rally focused on the divides between various groups within the state, as well as divides within the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community.

Called after California’s Proposition 8 was declared unconstitutional by a federal judge in the 9th Circuit Court, rally organizer Turner Bitton sought to have a rally more about unity than pointing fingers.

Rally organizer Turner Bitton “At the rally on the night the court overturned Prop 8, I saw people banging on the hoods of cars and taunting people on [Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] church grounds,” Bitton said. “When these things go on, I see the half of me which is gay fighting with the half of me which is Mormon. There has to be a better way.”

“Utah has a proud heritage that has risen from persecution,” said Bitton. “I believe that opening a dialogue between both sides is the only way that we can ever have a civil and just conclusion to this debate.”

Parents, Family and Friends of Lesbians and Gays-Ogden President Allison Black was the first to speak, relaying her journey

from an LDS primary teacher to an LDS primary teacher with a gay son.

“My love is unconditional. It is not based on how well they do in school, which friends they choose to hang out with, which career path they choose, or who they love,” she said. “I also believe that God made us who we are today. We are to love our children for who they are born, not for who we wish they were born. Being raised in the LDS Church taught me to love one another and love my neighbor as myself. That includes people of all colors, religions, and sexual orientation.”

“It is possible to come to the middle,” she said. “I am the middle.”

QSaltLake editor and publisher Michael Aaron spoke of the need to build bridges, build a better community and be more civil to one another.

“The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints has pulled out all the stops to restrict marriage to their own view of what it should be, and in the process deny to gay and lesbian couples over 1000 governmental rights that marriage affords. Is this building bridges?” he asked. “Next month, openly-gay Confessions of a Mormon Boy actor Stephen Fales will be on stage at the Rose Wagner Center, will don sacred Mormon garments and will reveal sacred Mormon Temple ceremony secrets. Is this building bridges?”

Aaron told stories of gays singing alongside an anti-gay minister, the LDS Church supporting an annual camp for those with HIV/AIDS and an LDS bishop offering help with chores of a gay man recovering from surgery, as paths to better understanding of one another.

He also spoke of bitterness, spitefulness

bring in a fresh new perspective, someone with new innovative ideas and approaches,” Matthews wrote. “Young people are more empowered than ever. They’re coming out in junior high. They’re not being rejected by their friends and family. They hang out with straight friends and go to straight clubs. They don’t define themselves by gay labels. This is a whole different gay man we need to reach. Our traditional approaches are completely irrelevant. It’s not enough to sit in a bar and pass out condoms. We can’t keep using the same old approaches that have been used for 30 years. We need new approaches to tackle a problem that we are currently FAILING to address. Actually, I take that back. Even old approaches would be adequate right now. But NO approach is not okay. Doing nothing is not OK. We are not beaten, we have not lost.”

“We are really open and accept criticism,” Penfold said. “I get that this is truly about all of us. It’s going to take every single one of us to make change happen.”

“I think it is great that we are talking about it,” he continued. “If we can get a dialogue going, we can bring our concerns and problems, and come up with solutions together. I think that’s incredible.” Q

and hate within the gay community itself, calling such behavior “ugly and unacceptable.”

He ended his speech with an appeal to build and love community, friends and self.

Transgender activist Dominique Storni spoke on labels that are used to belittle others for a sense of personal empowerment.

“We are called many names. Among them: freak, pervert, sissy, pedophile, faggot, sinner. Rumors, innuendo, conjecture, lies. These are the adjectives that describe how you talk about me and my people,” she said. “You don’t take the time to get to know me. You don’t take the time to learn about me. You simply repeat propaganda you’ve been fed and you hunt me down. I know you’re afraid of me. I was afraid of me. But please, take some time to know me before you revile me.”

She also related a personal story of how, when she was a young man going to school, verbally abused a fellow student with a disability. Years later, that student would seek her out and ask the question, “So, who is the freak now?”

“The persecuted have become the persecutors,” she said.

SimplySocial organizer Richard Matthews then spoke of the problem of HIV and AIDS in Utah’s gay community, saying that the Utah AIDS Foundation is not currently serving the needs of the community and that a change in leadership is needed. (See the separate story on this page.)

Bitton closed the rally, urging people to call the Utah State Senate and House offices, urging them to pass nondiscrimination laws similar to those passed in seven municipalities in the state.

“We know you want to be active, because you are here,” he said. “Now take the next step and call.”

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Queer Oral History Project Debuts Stories The results of a year-long, innovative project to record the stories of Utah’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender residents age 30 and over debuted this summer at the Salt Lake City Main Public Library — coincidentally on the same night that a California judge struck down the state’s controversial Proposition 8.

Because of the larg-scale celebration taking place on the Utah State Capitol’s lawn, project co-director David Alder said that only about 25 people showed up to see highlights from the 14 interviews comprising the Queer Oral History Project. Alder and his

JeremyYamashiro and David Alder

that today’s queer youth lacked role models, just as previous generations had.

“There really isn’t a clear tradition of mentoring youth who are coming out of the closet in how to negotiate the world when it comes to incorporating sex into identity,” Alder said at the time. “... In some ways I feel frustrated that straight people, being that they’re in mainstream culture, have an entire system where they have this kind of support. They have the flow chart of how life is supposed to go at this age, or at this point you do this, these are the cues you follow.

We don’t have that as much.”

The total ‘mentors’ interviewed for the project was 17 people. Of these, three were cisgender (non-transgender) women, one was a trans woman, and the rest were gay men. All were white and only one identified as disabled. None, said Alder, identified as HIV positive.

“We ideally would like to have had a greater representation of communiites of color and with intersectionalities,” said Alder, referencing, for example, to the fact that most of his subjects were non-disabled and came from a roughly similar class background. The homogeny, he said, was partly because the project largely relied on wordof-mouth and referrals to get the word out, meaning that people spoke to their friends who often had several traits in common with them.

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Gays invited to Meet with Gov.

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friend Jeremy Yamashiro, the Utah Pride Center’s HIV prevention youth program coordinator, have been working on the project since November 2009, traveling around the state to conduct, record, edit and transcribe hours of footage from gay men, lesbians, transgender women and a lone bisexual (in the interest of full disclosure, the writer of this article was one of the subjects).

Although Alder admitted that the crowd was a little smaller than he would have liked and did not stay long after because of the Capitol rally, he said that he and Yamashiro were pleased with the results.

“People liked it,” he said. “They learned some new things about the community.”

The duo launched the project last year in order to form bridges between older gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer Utahns and teens and 20-somethings. In an interview with QSaltLake last year, Alder said that he and Yamashiro were worried

For the third year, the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender-friendly Utah Log Cabin Republicans will attend a private reception with Gov. Gary Herbert and First Lady Jeanette Herbert.

The first reception was in 2007 during the governorship of Republican Jon Huntsman, who made several strides in reaching out to Utah’s gay and transgender community during his time in office, going so far as to publicly support civil unions. The reception, said LCR President Mel Nimer, was part of Huntsman’s effort to promote the group within his party and to “build some bridges” between Republicans and gays.

After President Obama appointed Huntsman as U.S. Ambassador to China in 2009, Gov. Gary Herbert kept up the tradition.

In fact, Nimer said that Herbert called him shortly after taking office to let them know they’d be invited to the governor’s annual reception.

“He wanted to carry on Huntsman’s tradition as part of his open door policy,” he said. “Being a Republican organization representing the [gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender] community we do have the ear of the Governor and Lt. Governor.” And even though both officials aren’t always supportive of pro-gay and transgender legislation, Nimer added that LCR’s leadership know they can talk to them and that ‘they see we’re just regular people.’

But Log Cabin Republicans aren’t the only community members who are invited to the reception. All leadership organizations in the community have been invited, said Nimer, including the Utah Pride Center, Equality Utah and the Utah Steering Committee of the Human Rights Campaign.

“This is not just a Republican-only event,’ he said. “It’s Log Cabin sponsoring a LGBT connection to the governor.”

Other officials, such as the group’s endorsed candidates and “all of Utah’s Senators and Representatives” have also been invited, he added.

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The evening is also open invite to any in the community who wish to attend, noted activist Eric Ethington on his blog, PrideinUtah.

“While I am by no means or in any way, shape or form a conservative or a republican, there’s no chance I’m missing this,” wrote Ethington. “Any opportunity we queers have of meeting with Utah’s ultraright wing Governor has got to have some positive possibilities.”

Some topics of discussion at the reception, said Nimer, are those that have recently received widespread attention among Utah’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender population, and which QSaltLake has recently covered.

“We’re hoping to work with the governor on dealing with the suicides and drug use and those kinds of issues both within our LGBT community and within the Utah community in general,” he said, referencing the Gov. Gary Herbert suicides of three young, gay Utah men in July and the widespread use of methamphetamines, particularly among men who have sex with men in the state.

Gov. Herbert and Lt. Gov. Greg Bell will speak at the event. Clarke Cooper, the newly-appointed executive director of the national Log Cabin Republicans, will also be in attendance.

The reception will be held Aug. 24 from 7–8:30 p.m. at the Governor’s Mansion, 603 E. South Temple (enter from H St. and park on the mansion’s east side). Refreshments will be served. RSVP by Aug. 20 to Mel Nimer at ut@logcabin.org or 801-613-8359.

For security purposes, attendees will need to give their full legal names.

Party on the Patio To kick off the 11th annual Utah Pride Center Golf Classic, the Center will host a pre-event party Aug. 20 on the patio of the Circle Lounge, 328 S. State St., from 7–10 p.m.

Tickets are $10 and include food and beverages, a cash bar, and music by DJ TiDY and urban landscapes. Attendees are encouraged to wear something in an argyle pattern in honor of the golf tournament, which is a fund raiser for the Center and its programs.

Funky Hats SAGE Utah, the Utah Pride Center’s social group for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender elders age 50 and over and their loved ones, will host the ‘Do You Like My Hat?’ garden party. Attendees are invited to wear their favorite festive hats while they enjoy live jazz, brunch and drinks. The venu is wheelchair accessible.

WHEN: Sept. 12, 11:30 a.m.–2 p.m.

WHERE: Memorial House in Memory Grove Park, 485 N. Canyon Rd., 120 East.

COST: $25 per ticket (can be purchased at the door, by bringing a check to the Utah Pride Center, or at utahpridecenter.org).

Votes for Queers Equality Utah, the Utah Pride Center, the Gay & Lesbian Leadership Institute, Utah Log Cabin Republicans and Stonewall Democrats will co-sponsor a workshop on running effective political campaigns for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Utahns who are considering running for office.

Topics will include how to create a successful campaign and assess chances of winning. The workshop will look at contemporary statistics about races in which gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender candidates have been involved and provide attendees with relevant polling data and a number of helpful handouts. The Gay & Lesbian Leadership Institute are the sponsors of the LGBT Candidate & Campaigning Training program, which has helped several gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender politicians get elected.

All are welcome regardless of political affiliation.

WHEN: Aug. 25, 7 p.m.

WHERE: Salt Lake County Council Chambers, 2001 S. State Street.

Center to Hold Two Events for Queer Youth As part of the several services it offers to dedicated solely to the youth. and for youth, the Utah Pride Center will Stories collected at the sessions will be host two events this fall designed to help published as a report available to Utah gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender chil- professionals who work with gay, lesbian, dren, teens and young adults, their families bisexual, transgender and queer youth. and the professionals who serve them.

Professionals can register for any of the A series of Center-sponsored listening ses- sessions by contacting Sharon Osborne sions for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender at sosborne@utah.gov or 801-265-7571. For and queer youth in “out of home” living ar- more information about the sessions, and rangements (including homelessness, fos- to download printable fliers, visit utahpriter care and the juvenile justice system) decenter.org. will take place throughout September. IniEqual Youth Services and Volunteers tially slated for August, the sessions were of America, Utah are co-sponsoring the rescheduled for autumn in order to encour- event. age more youth to participate.

In October, the Center also plans to “Quite a few people are busy with sum- hold its first family conference. Subtitled mer vacations, so we wanted to push [the “Bringing Families Back Into the Room.” sessions] back so it’s more conducive to This three-day conference, Oct. 8–10, is people coming back,” said Jenny Arm, for families with gay, lesbian, bisexual, the Center’s training coordinator and re- transgender and queer youth up to 24 search associate. Teachers who work with years old. It will cover, said Arm, strateyouth in these situations, she added, will gies for family preservation and ways to also be back at work. create “safe and affirming family environThe series is modeled upon similar ses- ments for LGBTQ youth” in order to elimisions held throughout 2003 and 2004 in a nate the risks of homelessness, drug abuse number of U.S. cities by Child Welfare Le- and mental illness that can effect queer gal of America and Lambda Legal Defense. youth who don’t have supportive families.

Its purpose is to let queer “out of home” The conference’s keynote speaker will youth talk about their experiences and be Dr. Caitlyn Ryan, a San Francisco work with professionals in changing the State University professor who heads up systems that serve them the Family Acceptance to be more accommodatProject at the Marian Logan ing.

Wright Edelman InstiSept. 8 In defining youth, tute. The project has Utah State University, Arm said that youth up been essential in teachTaggart Student Center to age 25 can participate ing the families of queer Room 336 if they have had recent youth how to accept and Salt Lake City experiences with foster support their children.

Sept. 9 care or juvenile justice “We will also be Sorenson Unity Center Performance (such as recently being bringing in other key Theatre, 1383 S. 900 West released from prison). leaders related to LGBT However, she said that St. George health and well-being,” she expected that the Sept. 13 added Arm, noting, majority of youth who St. George Library, 88W. 100 S. however, that the guest will participate will be Price list is still being cre21 and under.

Sept. 13 ated. She noted that the “It’s hard to have a College of Eastern Utah, Multipurpose conference will likely cut off, so we’re targetRoom, Student Center include social events ing youth and knowing and even a film screenProvo there’s that five-year ing as well as tracks for Sept. 15 range,” she said. providers and families Provo Library, Rm 302, 550 N. In addition to youth, of queer youth alike.

University Ave. parents (including fos“We intend to let folks Ogden ter parents) and profesin neighboring states Sept. 16 sionals from Homeless know too, because we Unitarian Universalist Church, Youth Services, Juvethink we’re doing some 705 23rd St. nile Justice Services, great work here, so we Juvenile Courts and a also want to spread the word and provide number of Utah’s schools will attend. Inopportunities for those who are not in dividual social workers and case workers Utah,” Arm added. Q are also invited.

Forums will be held in the following cities. All meetings will be held from 3:30–7:30 p.m, with the first hour being

Ticket sales and the conference’s venue will be announced soon. For updates, visit utahpridecenter.org.

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Center, Community & Chili The Utah Pride Center will celebrate its second annual National Community Center Awareness Day next month, a day-long event to honor its programs, the power of community and a steaming bowl of chili.

The celebration is held at Pride Centers around the country and is masterminded

by CenterLink, a coalition of over 170 community centers for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities.

The theme the group chose for this year’s festivities is “Building Our Community from the Center.” It’s an idea, said Utah Pride Center Media and Special Events Coordinator Michael Westley, that the Utah Pride Center is honoring in a unique way: through a service project for another

organization in the Marmalade District where it calls home.

On Sept. 15, Center staff volunteers will hold an equipment drive for the West Capitol Boys & Girls Club, which provides adult mentors, recreational activities and a safe environment for youth. The Center will collect school supplies (including backpacks), basketballs, soccer balls and benches for the club’s field. To raise money, it will solicit donations from neighborhood residents and businesses.

“After looking around the neighborhood, we felt that we would be best served with our time and energy and resources by teaming up with another organization that’s already established and has

a shared commitment to our values” in helping youth, said Westley of the club.

“This is primarily about the Pride Center rallying the support of our neighborhood behind the Boys & Girls Club that services our neighborhood.”

Although such a project is something of a departure for the Pride Center, Westley said that helping a neighborhood organization is part and parcel of the Center’s commitment to “be a good neighbor.”

“We believe to have a good neighbor you have to be a good neighbor,” he said. “And part of the importance of community centers is knowing your community, which means knowing your neighborhood. We believe that strengthening and supporting our allied communities is good for everyone.”

The equipment drive will take place during the morning of Sept. 15. The evening, however, will be reserved for activities specifically for the state’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community and its allies. From 4–8 p.m., the Center will host an open house and a fair to introduce many of its programs to the public. It will also hold its second annual chili cookout, a friendly culinary competition between

a number of local gay and transgender rights groups and community organizations. So far, Equality Utah, the Human Rights Education Center of Utah, PFLALG, the Utah AIDS Foundation, the People With AIDS Coalition of Utah, the Center itself and its in house bistro Café Marmalade have signed up to bring their own home-cooked masterpieces.

To sponsor a sense of “fun community building” (and, perhaps, friendly rivalry), the chefs will cook their chili together the night before the big day and serve them up for $3 a bowl ($6 for bread bowl, corn muffin, chili and a drink). Vegans and vegetarians don’t need to worry either — there will be such options available. Just like last year, the money raised during the cook-off will all go to the organization that wins.

Overall, Westley said that the day’s purpose is to encourage people of all sexual orientations to “come and see every inch of the center, how we use it and what we use it for.”

“We’ll be doing what we’re [always] tying to do which is bring people together,” he said. Q

Queer Oral History Project

said that he would like to see youth from the Utah Pride Center’s youth activities center, the Tolerant Intelligent Network of Teens, conduct the interviews.

“The connection is made immediately that way [between youth and older generations],” he said.

Even though the Queer Oral History Project was smaller than either Alder or Yamashiro had hoped it would be, Alder said that the two were touched and enriched by their work.

“My observations about the project were that it was great to be able to work with my best friend on it. He and I would spend hours on the project talking about what we gained from it as youth hearing the voices of previous generations,” he said. “Even if no one [would have seen the interviews], we felt it was of tremendous value to us, to tap into previous generations’ experience of what the life was like.”

Of course, they weren’t the only ones who were moved by the interview clips shown during the presentation. Alder noted that a straight man from another presentation about the project, held in June, said he could sympathize with the way some interviewees felt like outcasts in Utah’s conservative, religious culture.

“He had left the LDS Church as well, and even though he’s not gay, he felt that sense of alienation existed for him as well,” said Alder.

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“The project doesn’t completely represent the community in Utah because it’s such a small sampling,” he said. “But it raised the awareness of how important it is to continue the work.”

In addition to wanting a more accurate representation of Utah’s queer community, the men had also wanted to interview far more than 17 people for the project.

“When we originally wrote the proposal for the project we were hoping to have 100 done in a year, but the amount of work it took to do these interviews was substantial,” he said. “It was much more than we had anticipated,” especially as both he and Yamashiro had to work other jobs while collecting the footage.

“If we did it again, we’d have a single location and have people come to us, and hold interviews once a week to make the process more streamlined and accessible,” he said.

And the pair has said that they would like to do the project again. They are looking at applying for a grant from the Utah Humanities Council this fall and for grants offered by other local foundations.

Alder estimates that they would need roughly $25,000 to carry the project into another year, money that would cover video equipment, travel and the substantial amount of time the two put into managing the footage.

He added that the project could also go smoother by giving people in the community a way to get involved, and youth in particular. If the project happens again, he

For updates, watch utahpridecenter.org.

The Queer Oral History Project is an affiliate program of the Utah Pride Center. To donate to it directly, mention the project’s name in the comment space of checks or online donations to the Utah Pride Center. To view complete interviews visit vimeo.com/qohp.

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Sunstone Conference Gives Insights on Gay, Lesbian Mormons

by JoSelle Vanderhooft

As it has for the past several years, a conference dedicated to “cultivating independent thought and spiritual exploration” in scholarship pertaining to LDS history, faith, culture and politics conjured several insightful looks at the issues affecting gay and lesbian Mormons.

The Sunstone Education Foundation’s symposium is held annually in August at the Sheraton Salt Lake City Hotel. Featuring panels and discussions on such complex (and often controversial) topics as Mormon feminism, the relationship of Mormonism to science, and overlooked parts of LDS history, the symposium’s programming has long included several tracks that address the church’s treatment of its queer members, and the ways in which practicing and former gay and lesbian Mormons interact with LDS spirituality and culture.

Bearing the theme “Reflecting on Maturing Faith,” this year’s symposium boasted eight panels and presentations with gay and lesbian subjects, which focused on such diverse topics as depictions of gay Mormons on stage and screen, the politics of the church’s involvement in California’s Proposition 8, and the individual testimonies of gay Mormons who have decided to remain in the church, even though it teaches that gay sex is sinful.

One active LDS gay man gave one such testimony in the Saturday morning lecture “Church, Priesthood, and the Gay/Lesbian Journey Toward Spiritual Maturity.”

Here, John D. Gustav-Wrathall, an American history professor at the University of Minnesota, talked to a small audience about his excommunication for marrying a man, and his willingness to still attend church even though he had to “let the sacrament tray pass me by.” He described his anger at the church pending his excommunication, and how an intense spiritual experience not only brought him back to

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the church, but made him more thankful for his family and his partner — and even for the straight members who think of him as damned.

“I don’t think most members of the church feel they need me, but I understand the church can’t progress until the members who wish I would go away collectively understand that they need me, just as I couldn’t progress until I understood that I need them,” he said.

Although Gustav-Wrathall admitted that doing so was often hard, he urged gay and lesbian Latter-day Saints to practice the virtues of “long-suffering, gentleness and meekness” for the benefit of themselves and the church at large.

“Gay and lesbian Saints have been given

gry at the church’s anti-gay stance not to leave at all.

“If you are straight brothers and sisters who leave the church over this issue you will make me very angry,” he said. “Don’t go away. I’ve had straight brothers and sisters who have come to me with tears in their eyes who have really wrestled with this out of the love they feel [for gay and lesbian Mormons]. ... That moves me deeply and I’m grateful for that response, but the same basic understanding applies.

The church is an imperfect group of people struggling to create Zion, so have patience and be angels of mercy.”

Later in the day, two panels addressed the representation of gay and lesbian Mormons in literature, film and movies: “The Gay Mormon Literature Project” and “Gay and Mormon on the Stage and Screen.”

The Gay Mormon Literature Project was founded at last year’s Sunstone Symposium and focuses on scholarship around

‘Gay and lesbian Saints have been given a gift because we’re forced to choose between what we know about ourselves and what the world says’ a gift because we’re forced to choose between what we know about ourselves and what the world says,” he said. “Because the world can take so much away from us we’re forced to learn what is really true and valuable in life and to serve without hope of reward. We have been given an opportunity by those who despise us to open a door to Zion.”

However, Gustav-Wrathall also urged gay and lesbian Mormons not to return to church if they felt that doing so would be spiritually and emotionally damaging. He also encouraged straight LDS who are an-

works of literature featuring queer LDS characters. The panel consisted of three papers. In the first, “The Chosen Family in Gay Mormon Literature,” gay LDS author Johnny Townsend discussed how social networks of friends and supportive family members are portrayed in fiction by and about gay LDS men. Townsend described these networks as families of choice for those who are left out of “the idea of family in American society and in Mormon culture in particular.” Townsend then discussed how he treats these family networks in his short stories.

“Friends can be there for lifetime even as partners come and go,” he said. “Since friendships are important to me personally they do find a place in my stories over and over again.

In “Two Paradigms for ‘Gay’” gay LDS author Alan Michael Williams compared portrayals of gay LDS protagonists in his novel Ockham’s Razor, and in Jonathan Langford’s No Going Back. Stressing the need for fiction that addresses the church’s ongoing, fraught discussion about homosexuality, Williams discussed what he called “the singular view” in gay young adult fiction of being true to one’s sexual identity over “society’s hypocrisy” and how more complex views of the topic could be helpful for gay LDS youth.

Gay Mormon Literature Project founder Gerald S. Argentsinger then presented a paper examining the depiction of family — both biological and chosen — in Latter Days, a popular movie about the trials faced by a gay missionary. The film, he said, shows how the church’s strict definition of family (as seen in its 1997 Proclamation on the Family) actually ends up tearing families apart.

“We get all of this input on how to be a family that fits into the proclamation of the church. And how are we doing? Officially we’re doing great,” he said. “We now have access to daily reports regarding the success of the Mormon family, but we never find stories such as these from the last six months in Salt Lake City,” that over half the state’s homeless teens identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender; that Utah ranks 11th in the Nation in suicides of young men “30 percent of which [nationwide] are caused by the inability to reconcile homosexuality with faith.”

The discussions about gay and lesbian Latter-day Saints in art continued that afternoon, in “Gay and Mormon on the Stage and Screen.” Here, BYU playwright Eric Samuelsen talked about portrayals of same-sex attraction in two contemporary plays by LDS women which were written —Continued on page 23

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guest editorial Is the Culture War Over?

Jessica Lee

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HE CULTURE WAR has been an unfortunate sideshow in national politics and has been gravely harmful to the LGBT community. The low light of the culture war was the 2004 national election, when many state Republican parties put gay marriage plebiscites on the ballot in order to increase turnout from the religious right.

I have a Constitutional issue with ballot initiatives that vote upon the rights of others. The Constitution clearly protects the rights of every individual against the tyranny of the majority. Yet the strategy worked, and the anti-gay movement won as all 11 States that put a constitutional ban on gay marriage on the ballot voted yes and approved them.

Those were dark days for gays who support conservative principles, but the tide is changing for the better.

A recent positive flashpoint was when

Grover Norquist, head of Americans for Tax Reform, and one of the most prominent conservatives, joined the GOProud advisory board (I am a board member of GOProud). The anti-gay Family Research

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Council launched an attack on Grover and GOProud that borders on the insane.

Here is an excerpt from their web post: “This is a group that opposes the death tax and ObamaCare — not because they aren’t sound economic policies — but because they ‘discriminate’ against ‘gay families.’

“And the platform doesn’t end there.

One of the group’s top 10 ‘principles’ is to create ‘enterprise zones’ for homosexuals, despite the fact that the average income for gays and lesbians is higher than most everyone else. At least two other of its ‘principles’ call for the overturning of the Defense of Marriage Act. Among their other priorities: allowing homosexuals to serve openly in the military and defeating any attempt to protect one-man, onewoman marriage.”

So the FRC represents a very unfortunate part of the conservative movement, but they are increasingly marginalized.

The blog pamshouseblend.com ran an insightful piece on the controversy. I had the opportunity to speak with Pam Spaulding and her comments were thus: “The libertarian wing in both parties are just plain fatigued of listening to the pious, often hypocritical bleating from the religious right, and those in the GOP are apparently ready to give them the public heave ho. That’s where GOProud comes in. It has stirred up a hornet’s nest among the fundies; look at the Family Research Council’s head explosion over Grover Norquist being named to GOProud’s advisory board. Even worse,

Norquist blew off FRC’s criticism. This has been long overdue, and it’s good to see sanity making a return on the right.”

Grover also sums it up well in the US News & World piece that profiled him: “The center-right is a ‘leave us alone’ coalition. If you look at why people are in the room, why people vote, why people get involved in politics, everybody in the center-right is there because on the issue that moves their vote, they want to be left alone.

“Taxpayers: ‘Leave my money alone.’

Gun owners: ‘Leave my guns alone.’

Home-schoolers: ‘Leave my kids alone.’

All the various communities of faith — evangelical Protestants, conservative Catholics, Orthodox Jews, Muslims, Mormons — the thing that matters to them is to be able to practice their faith and raise their kids. So the religious right, in terms of votes cast, it’s a defensive.”

In addition, the huge challenges that the nation faces — wars on two fronts, a severe recession and current and looming crippling deficits—have captured the focus of most conservatives. In this environment, those who target social issues seem out of touch with reality and out of date.

As the conservative movement becomes more inclusive and less focused on social issues, one can hope that the days of identity politics — that force many gays into feeling they have no choice but to vote Democratic — are over. We are getting there, but we still have some road ahead. Q

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guest editorial A Plea to Support ENDA

by Lawrence J. lee

N THE EARLY 1990S, I was the Assistant Treasurer of the Utah State Republican Party and had the responsibility of developing the internal controls and reporting systems so the Party could accurately track funds for FEC and State reporting purposes. We had established new controls and were committed to following all of the applicable FEC and State requirements, and we were successful.

The Utah Republican Party was in full compliance with the FEC requirements. I was very proud of what I and the officers of the Party had accomplished.

Hanging in my office is a certificate from the Utah Republican Party thanking me for being Assistant Treasurer for 1992 and 1993. The certificate is signed by Governor Mike Leavitt and Bruce Hough. I was, and still am, extremely honored that the Governor, officers of the Party and many members of the Central Committee appreciated what I had accomplished on behalf of the Party.

Yet if anyone had discovered that I was gay, I would have lost my job and been stripped of my title of Assistant Treasurer. I know this with an absolute certainty.

I remember the meetings with the officers and Central Committee meetings where the Party worked to keep the Log Cabin Republicans from being part of the Utah Republican Party. There were a lot of very hateful things said. It would not have mattered that I believed in Republican Principles or all that I had done for the benefit of the Party. Being gay at that time meant that I was not fit to serve the Party or to even keep my job.

Times are better now for many gay Americans but there is still employment discrimination. I met a young Utahn a few months ago who had just lost his job because of his sexual orientation. He explained that he was the only computer programmer for a Utah company that served the oil industry and that the poor economy had not impacted this company.

Yet he lost his job once the owner discov-

ered he was gay. There are many more true stories like this about Utahns and citizens of other states that have lost their jobs, not because of poor job performance, but because of who they are.

As a nation, we have stood for many things including hard work and fair play.

If you work hard, you will get ahead and the only thing that should matter is the individual’s performance on the job. For women, people of color and people of different religions, our nation has enacted laws that essentially say job performance is what matters and no employer can discriminate based upon sex, race or religion.

These laws have helped our country become a much more diverse and productive nation. Could you imagine the outcry if a business refused to hire members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints? I would be appalled, and fortunately there are laws to protect members of the LDS Church from this discrimination.

But we allow gay Americans to lose their jobs just because of who they are. A nation that is supposed to be based upon equality for all cannot allow this discrimination to continue. It is wrong.

I am sorry that I will not have a chance to vote for Senator Bennett again. And, I am not sure if he will have a chance to vote on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which is needed to protect gay Americans from employment discrimination. But he should be a cosponsor of this needed legislation and he certainly can lobby other members of the Senate to support ENDA. As I understand history, his father had to make some tough decisions and was key to getting the non-discrimination laws I mentioned above through the Senate. Bennett’s father was a strong leader and helped all of us understand that discrimination is wrong. My hope is for Bennett to be the leader that America needs so that people will realize discrimination is wrong and that equality for all must include Gay Americans too. Q

We allow gay Americans to lose their jobs just because of who they are

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Equal Rights for Single People

While Proposition 8’s demise was a thing of joy, beauty and wonder,

by Troy Williams

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T’S IMPOSSIBLE TO NOT FEEL immense satisfaction over Judge Walker’s decision to overturn Proposition 8. But now that we’ve celebrated with rallies and marches, let’s pause for a sec and consider who is still excluded by Walker’s decision.

He wrote, “California has an obligation to treat all of its couples equally.” His lengthy decision went on to condemn any legislation based on stereotypes and private moral views.

But Psychology Today contributor Bella DePaulo has offered a fascinating critique of the ruling. She contends that Walker’s decision actually perpetuates stereotypes about single people. In her book, Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After, DePaulo asks why our culture consistently privileges married couples over single people. Why can’t the uncoupled have equal rights, too? I spoke with the Harvard trained social scientist on KRCL’s RadioActive.

TROY WILLIAMS: You wrote a recent Huffington Post op-ed about the Prop 8 decision where you make the case for ending marital privilege. What do you mean by “marital privilege?”

BELLA DEPAULO: It’s a matter of giving benefits, rights, privileges to some people rather than others, simply because they are legally married. Being legally married opens a treasure trove of rights and perks that are not available to anyone, regardless of their sexual orientation, if they are not married and don’t want to be.

TW: There are 1,138 federal benefits for married couples. What are a couple obvious examples?

DP: In the workplace often a spouse can include their partner on health insurance and employment benefits, but a single person can’t include theirs. Those benefits can be quite valuable. And that adds up to unequal compensation for the same work. Or take social security; I’m a single person. I can work side by side for years next to a married person at the same job and the same level of seniority, and if my married co-worker dies, their benefits can go to their spouse. But if I die my benefits go back into the system. It’s part of the stereotype, right? If you are single you don’t have anyone.

TW: Single folks seem resigned to this disparity. It’s such an established condition

its timing had the unfortunate effect of stomping all over the that it is rarely questioned, let alone challenged by a mass social movement.

DP: There is a group called the Alternatives to Marriage Project who are interested in activism. There are also a growing number of voices across the spectrum of religion, politics and sexual orientations, who are making the case that marriage is not really where the fight should be. We need to think more broadly about all of our citizens, and not just who is married and who is not. If you add more people into the marriage privilege, that still leaves out all the others.

We need to think more broadly about all of our citizens, and not just who is married and who is not

TW: Salt Lake City responded in an interesting way to our super DOMA, Amendment 3. They created the “Adult Designee” category so that city employees can give their benefits to grandmothers, cousins or a dear friend. It’s a very progressive policy established in the shadow of a conservative culture.

DP: Yes! I loved the article published in The Nation last year by Lisa Duggan called “What’s Right with Utah?” She talks about the adult designee and makes the point that there is a wonderful activist community in Salt Lake City and they are very creative in the way they approach these issues.

TW: You have to be creative in order to protect your lives.

DP: It sounds wonderful.

TW: Judge Walker has made the case that gay couples who are legally married actually feel more acceptance from their family and they have greater access to health benefits, etc. But you make the argument that these are the same exact needs as single people.

DP: That is what was so interesting about this ruling. He is making the case for why single people should have the same rights, benefits, privileges and obligations as anyone else. Just his one sentence, “California’s

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obligation is to treat its citizen’s equally” he goes on to spell out the ways in which LGBT people who are not officially married are treated like second-class citizens. Well, I can make the same argument for anyone of any sexual orientation who is single. They too feel like they are not as accepted as positively as their married counterparts.

second presentation of an equally beautiful and wonderful thing: the Queer Oral History Project. Yes, the presentation of several interviews with over 30 gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Utahns conducted in 2009 and 2010 unfortunately

TW: Discuss what you call “matrimania.”

(though understandably) were

DP: Matrimania is the over-the-top hyping of marriage, weddings and coupling. There are so many ways we see it. On TV it’s The Bachelor or The Bachelorette. And, of course, the whole big wedding industry.

steamrolled by rallies and parties to

TW: It’s all about perpetuating consumerism, right? Get your bridal registry at Target! Our culture saturates every facet of our lives with idealized images of coupledom — pop music, soap operas, romantic comedies, Viagra commercials.

DP: It’s just not popular culture where you find matrimania. You find it in the most supposedly vanguard publications. You find them in The New Yorker and The New York Times, etc. It’s just part of the conventional wisdom that getting married somehow makes you a morally superior person than if you stay single.

TW: Do you see marriage as serving an integral function that promotes healthy societies?

DP: I think there are lots of different ways to promote healthy people, healthy children and healthy societies. There is no reason to privilege marriage over other ways of raising other children.

TW: What can you imagine co-habitation looking like for people who are not in a conjugal relationship?

DP: You can share your life under the same roof, or not, with any variety of people. It might be a sibling or a set of friends, or a variety of people. At retirement age there seem to be more people who are collecting the people who have been meaningful in life and retiring together. The Canadian attempt to get recognition for a wide range of relationships was called Beyond Conjugality. These activists were asking, why can’t we value whatever relationships we say are important? If it’s two sisters or an adult and a child growing old together. Why does it just have to be a couple in the conventional sense? Q Learn more about Singled Out at belladepaulo.com.

Podcast the entire interview at queergnosis.com.

celebrate the striking down of the most hated piece of anti-gay legislation since DOMA. But thankfully, those who missed the lecture can go to vimeo.com/qohp to see Babs DeLay, Randy Burks, Joni Weiss and one QSaltLake staffer talk about growing up in Utah and the legacy of Matthew Shepard. Check it out — especially if you’re under 30 and want to learn about the experiences of your queer elders.

SLAP: California Gay Marriage Delays So. Anyone else want to join us in banging our heads against our desks?

SNAP: Our Pets Yes, this list is noticeably barbfree this issue, but it’s the middle of August and we’re all melting, so what can you do? Whether we have children or not, whether we’re coupled, poly or single — queers are, overall, a pet-friendly people.

Whether they go on four paws, four hooves, feathery wings or scaly bellies, our pets enrich our lives and make us kinder, gentler and more patient people (and in the case of cat owners, properly trained and obedient). Show your pet some love by spoiling them with a treat or two, or just by giving them a hug or a smooch. Just don’t kiss any fire belly toads. Those things are kind of poisonous.

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the straight line Cal Thomas: America’s Great Bigot

by Bob Henline

OR SOME REASON that defies my understanding, The Salt Lake Tribune decided to publish a column by Cal Thomas on Aug. 10. In this column, Thomas lashes out at “openly gay” Judge Vaughn Walker for what Thomas calls his vigilante attack on justice in striking down California’s Proposition 8. Thomas, in typical hatemonger fashion, labels the decision as another step in the downward spiral toward the destruction of American society.

What I don’t understand is how bigots like Thomas (and a good chunk of Utah’s population) can espouse their faith in Christianity while simultaneously spouting such ridiculous hatred. The Christian Bible (if you believe in that sort of thing) teaches that people should forgive and not judge. Sin and vengeance are for God to decide, not man. Yet not a single day goes by without some alleged “Christian” wanting to spout a message of hate in God’s name.

And that’s OK. Idiots have the same right to free speech as the rest of us. What they don’t have, however, is the right to enforce their bigotry through law.

The Constitution of the United States explicitly prohibits the “establishment of religion” from a legal perspective. It grants to each of us the right to choose to live our lives as we see fit, to make our own moral and ethical judgments. It also establishes that there are certain rights that are not subject to the whim of the electorate.

I find it interesting that Thomas would reference the fact that seven million Californians (52.24 percent of voters) voted in favor of Proposition 8, and then say that vote thereby creates validity for the suppression of human rights.

“The decision by a single, openly gay federal judge to strike down the will of seven million Californians, tradition dating back millennia (not to mention biblical commands, which the judge decided, in his

capacity as a false god, to also invalidate) is judicial vigilantism equal to Roe v. Wade.”

Keeping that in mind, read this excerpt from a Cal Thomas column dated October 16, 2009: “We will get more of what we tolerate.

Sexual behavior is an important cultural and moral issue. Mr. Obama won the election with just 52 percent of the popular vote and a margin of 7 percent over Sen. John McCain. This should not be seen as a mandate for him and his administration to make over America in a secular and liberal image. Neither should it be seen as an invitation to give blanket approval to homosexuality, considered by some to be against the best interests of the people who practice it as well as the nations that accept it.”

For some reason, apparently, a 52 percent vote is enough to justify denying equal rights to gays and lesbians, but it’s not enough of a gap to legitimize the elected President of the United States. Am I the only one that sees the obvious hypocrisy here?

Thomas Jefferson warned us all of the dangers of democracy. The Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution in order to prevent a small majority from taking away the rights of the minority. Jefferson called it the “Tyranny of the Majority,” and it’s exactly what happened in California in November 2008.

Judge Vaughn Walker ruled, appropriately, that the voters of California do not have the legal right to deny other citizens their rights under law. This is not judicial activism, nor is it judicial vigilantism. It was a judge doing his job, interpreting the law and protecting the rights of all citizens. Q

A 52 percent vote is enough to justify denying equal rights to gays and lesbians, but it’s not enough of a gap to legitimize the elected President of the United States.

Bob Henline is a straight man. Don’t hold that against him — he was born that way. He is also a professional author and editor and published a best-selling political manifesto entitled “Constitutional Inequality.” His blog can be read at nonpart.org.

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But They’re Still Right

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by Ryan Shattuck

NE NIGHT IN 1958, MILDRED Jeter, a woman of African and American Indian descent, and her husband Richard Loving, a white man, were awoken in their bed by police officers acting on a tip. The couple was arrested and later charged under Section 20-58 of the Virginia code, which prohibited interracial couples from returning to Virginia after being married in another state. The couple plead guilty and were sentenced to one year in prison.

Several years later, their case ended up before none other than the United States Supreme Court. In 1967, the Supreme Court ruled in Loving v. Virginia that: Marriage is one of the “basic civil rights of man,” fundamental to our very existence and survival ... To deny this fundamental freedom on so unsupportable a basis as the racial classifications embodied in these statutes

... is surely to deprive all the State’s citizens of liberty without due process of law.

Because of Loving v. Virginia, my sister married a man of a different race 37 years later, and hasn’t been woken up by the police. Not once.

On Aug. 4, Judge Vaughn Walker ruled in the landmark case Perry v. Schwarzenegger that Proposition 8 was unconstitutional.

His ruling stated that: Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage license ... Because Proposition 8 prevents California from fulfilling its constitutional obligation to provide marriages on an equal basis, the court concludes that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional.

The overturning of the controversial 2008 California proposition was immediately met with a vociferous gnashing of teeth by conservatives and religious groups. Chuck

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Donovan of the Heritage Foundation accused Judge Walker of “extreme judicial activism” and “judicial tyranny,” while thrice-married Newt Gingrich complained that “Judge Walker’s ruling overturning Prop 8 is an outrageous disrespect for our Constitution and for the majority of people of the United States who believe marriage is the union of husband and wife.” Even the American Family Association went as far as to call for the impeachment of Judge Walker: “This is a tyrannical, abusive and utterly unconstitutional display of judicial arrogance ...

It’s inexcusable for him to deprive the citizens of California of their right to govern themselves, and cavalierly trash the will of over seven million voters.”

Never mind the wonderfully ironic fact that this supposedly “activist judge” was nominated

by Ronald Reagan, appointed by George H.W. Bush, opposed by Senate Democrats for being too conservative, and was even accused by Nancy Pelosi of being “insensitive” to gays.

Opponents of same-sex marriage are fond of pointing out that 52 percent of California voters (or approximately 7,000,000 people) voted for Proposition 8, supposedly proving that the ‘majority’ of California residents oppose same-sex marriage.

America prides itself for its democracy, but does the majority always act in the best interests of private citizens?

In the year 2010, the majority of Americans take no issue with interracial marriage, as proven by the election of none other than the current biracial President of the United States. Yet in 1958, a Gallup poll showed that 94 percent of Americans disapproved of interracial marriage. In fact, in 1968, only one year after the Supreme Court ended all race-based legal restrictions in the United States in Loving v. Virginia, a Gallup poll found that 73 percent of Americans still “disapproved” of interracial marriage.

Some may argue that such discriminatory views are simply a reflection of a segregated era that is now long gone. So has our society progressed since 1958, in its view of interracial marriage and civil rights?

In November 2000, Alabama residents went to the polls to vote on Amendment 2 which would remove the outdated Article IV, Section 102 from Alabama’s Constitution. The controversial article decreed:

“The legislature shall never pass any law to authorize or legalize any marriage between any white person and a negro, or descendant of a negro.” Removing antiquated, racist wording from a state constitution 33 years after the federal government made interracial marriage legal — surely this must have been a no-brainer, right?

The amendment barely passed with 59 percent of voter approval.

Does the majority still act in the best interests of private citizens?

As I mentioned earlier, my sister married a man of a different race six years ago. Had they married in Virginia in 1958 — or even in Alabama in 2000 — their marriage would have been illegal.

Nevertheless, marrying a person of a different race is a constitutional right protected under the 14th Amendment, regardless of whether the majority of the American public agrees or not. Opinion polls are irrelevant where constitutionally backed civil rights are concerned.

We live in a country in which the Supreme Court has ruled that even prisoners have the constitutional-given right to marry. Nevertheless, the constitutionally given civil right of marriage is given to gay men and women in only five states because the supposed ‘majority’ finds the idea offensive.

Opponents of same-sex marriage may complain that “the majority of Californians ... have just had their core civil right — the right to vote — stripped from them.” What these opponents fail to recognize is that Judge Walker did not strip civil rights from American citizens, but simply followed the progressive trajectory set up by history by restoring civil rights to American citizens. Many complained when the government freed black slaves, gave women the right to vote, and legalized interracial marriage. Despite these backwards-facing objectors, time has proven and will continue to prove that those who oppose the civil rights of others — whether in the name of politics or in the name of religion — will always end up on the wrong side of history.

Regardless of what the majority thinks. Q

In the year 2010, the majority of Americans take no issue with interracial marriage

Ryan Shattuck is the author of “Revolutions for Fun and Profit,” at revolutionsforfunandprofit. com

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by Ben Williams

ITTLE IS REMEMBERED OF THE Panic of 1893 in the United States which rivaled the Great Depression of the 1930s in severity. A quarter of the nation’s railroads went bankrupt and in some cities, unemployment among industrial workers exceeded 20 or even 25 percent. Some families starved and many unattached males became wanderers or “tramps.” These men crisscrossed the countryside, walking, or hiding on freight trains, appearing at the back doors of houses pleading for work or food. Many of these hobos also found that life “on the road” allowed them to indulge in same-sex activities within the society of male companionship. This way of life, for many in the 19th and early 20th centuries, became the nearest to the gay life they hoped to lead.

The records of homosexual conduct from that time mostly point to an adult and youth relationship where one dominated the other. In his 1897 book Sexual Inversion, sexologist Havelock Ellis included, as an appendix, an essay by Josiah Flynt on “situational homosexuality” among tramps. In “Homosexuality Among Tramps,” Flynt actually went beyond the description of “situational” homosexuality among these adults and warned of the threat posed by tramps to boys.

“Every hobo in the United States knows what “unnatural intercourse” means, talking about it freely, and according to my finding, every 10th man practices it, and defends his conduct. Boys are the victims of this passion,” Flynt later wrote in Tramping with Tramps (1907): “In Hoboland the boy’s life may be likened to that of a voluntary slave. He is forced to do exactly what his ‘jocker’ [adult partner] commands; and disobedience, willful or innocent, brings down upon him a most cruel wrath. Besides being kicked, slapped and generally maltreated, he is also loaned, traded and even sold, if his master sees money in the bargain.”

In Flynt’s accounts, tramping was not bad because the tramp was a lazy vagabond but because he subverted the normal male sexual passion into the “unnatural.”

Stories of same-sex unions where partners are equal and sex is consensual never made it into the news. Rather, Utah newspapers of the time were filled with accounts of tramps seducing, molesting and raping Zion’s youth. The earliest account found was in the Ogden Standard Examiner in August, 1892. The headline

screamed TRAMP RAVISHES A YOUTH. A tramp named John Mack was arrested in a hobo camp near the crossing of the Rio Grande Western and the Southern Pacific in Ogden. He was charged with sodomy with Frank Howard, “a young Californian lad.” Howard was probably a young tramp himself. The reporter covering the trial said Mack “had the audacity to plead not guilty to the charge when there was no question of doubt that he had committed the terrible crime. The fiendish rascal was given a hearing and was held to await the action of the grand jury in bonds of $3000.

Being of course a common ordinary tramp, he was unable to put up the necessary security and he was relegated to the care of the United States marshal.”

In 1896 two sensational tramp stories made news. In May the Salt Lake Herald reported that two 12-year-old “runaways” encountered two tramps while passing through Pleasant Grove. The hobos “overpowered the boys and were guilty of a crime against nature; the details of which are too revolting for publication.”

Public sentiment was so strong against the tramps that the Herald wrote “people are greatly excited and there is strong talk of lynching.”

The other sensational case also occurred in Utah County when an 18-year-old tramp was gang raped in September of that year.

Thomas Clark, of Los Angeles, was a member of a gang of 10 tramps “who got drunk over at Spanish Fork and shamefully used one of the party [Clark].”

Clark was “tramping his way to San Francisco” from being in a Nebraska reform school, and was so seriously injured by the assault that he was placed under a doctor’s care. The deputy sheriff arrested five tramps whom Clark accused of “committing most beastly offenses against his person.” The law officer told the Deseret News reporter that ‘there was at one time thought to be danger of lynching.”

Only three of the tramps were eventually charged with a “Crime Against Nature.”

Frank Merrell, Patsy Calvey and James Owens were found guilty and sent to the state penitentiary. Interestingly, Patsy is generally a girl’s name.

The following summer, the Ogden Standard Examiner reported in July that the “little runaway lad from Salt Lake” was being held by the Marshal of Corrine, Utah as a witness against hobos charged with committing sodomy on him. The tramps them-

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selves were called “youthful villains” and later broke out of the Corrine jail. At “last accounts they were still at large.”

In 1899, a young man complained to Salt Lake City police that he had been robbed of $15 by two tramps near Albany Hotel (the present-day location of Club Sound). He said he met the two men who invited him to a vacant lot and they had several drinks together. “Then life became a blank for a short time, and when he awoke his pockets had been rifled but the two new acquaintances were kind enough to leave a couple or three dollars in his clothes.”

The next year, three Salt Lake City teenagers, Clarence Turner, Frank Wilson and Robert Danley told police that five tramps had “seized them in the brush near the Ogden River and compelled them to submit

to their fiendish purpose.” The boys were forcibly taken to the railroad yard near the Southern Pacific Bridge and sodomized by Fred Wilson, Mike McCormick (a former California boxer) and George Power. The men were found guilty and given a prison sentence.

In April 1901, two tramps using the names Frank Brown and William Dean were arrested for committing sodomy on a 14-year-old Salt Lake City youth and sent to prison.

The presence of tramps in Utah increased crime statistics in general. The Ogden Standard Examiner stated in 1902 that two-thirds of the criminals in Weber County were “made up of the tramp and hobo element.” Q

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ECENTLY, FORMER ARKANSAS Governor Mike Huckabee decided to show off his conservative credentials by blasting gay marriage.

Along with the usual tired platitudes about civilization being built on traditional one man-one woman marriage, he also added that gay people shouldn’t be able to adopt because, “children aren’t pets.”

Man, did that piss me off. No, not just because he compared my kids to animals, but also because he showed such disregard for the importance of my dog, Gracie, in my life.

Long before I was Gus and Niko’s dad, I was Gracie’s human companion.

Personally, no, I don’t consider pets to be the same as children. But I know plenty of people whose pets are their kids, and that’s cool. Besides, who am I to tell someone else how to define their family? And there’s no doubt that Gracie is a part of our family. Sometimes, she’s actually my favorite member of the family.

Gracie was good practice for us to become dads. Having a dog and raising kids aren’t really comparable experiences, but she did help prepare us for the unexpected. For example, in her first few weeks with us, Gracie periodically attacked, killed and gutted various couch cushions, pillows and even her own bed. It wasn’t uncommon for us to come home from work to be met by an excited Gracie, tail thumping at the speed of light, as cotton stuffing snowed down all around us.

Then there was the night we went to dinner and put her in the spacious garage where she’d be comfortable and safe. We returned to find her patiently waiting for us in the driveway, the garage door bashed open by her pure brute force.

It became impossible to even open the front door without Gracie making a mad dash to explore the neighborhood. God help us if she saw a squirrel or the neighbor’s cat!

At first, we were set on naming her “Tornado,” “Cyclone” or “Hurricane” to reflect the chaos she created in our home. (We had earlier rejected my sister’s suggestion of “Ginger” on the grounds that two white, gay men living in Oakland couldn’t have a dog named “Ginger.”) But then our friend Sabine suggested we provide her with an inspirational name, something that she could

grow into. So we christened her “Grace.”

Never mind people assumed it was a joke, on par with a Chihuahua named “Killer” or a Newfoundland called “Tiny.”

And through all the carnage, we remembered we were Gracie’s last chance.

She was found by animal control wandering scared and hungry at a not-so-nice BART station in East Oakland. When Kelly and my sister saw her at the shelter she only had a few more days to live. They originally left the shelter, deciding to think about it, but half way home they spun around and went back for her.

When I returned from work that night, I found a gangly, dirty, skinny dog sitting in the kitchen. I sat down too, and the would-be Gracie cocked her head, took a good look at me, and then lumbered over, pushing her head up against mine as if to say, “Thanks, dude, for letting me be a part of your family.”

It took us some time, but eventually we got things in order, and she stopped her murderous, house-destroying rampages.

Kelly flipped our back door upside down so the window was at the bottom, allowing Gracie to see us leave and offering her a view of the world while we were at work.

And with a little practice we trained her to heel, sit and do all the other things a wellbehaved dog should know.

And you know what? Treating another living creature with love, patience and understanding was the best training to be parents to our human children that we could ever have received.

And she continues to be a great example of how our family members should treat each other. She’s always patient, always happy to see us, always grateful for whatever she receives.

Now that she’s older — somewhere around 11 or 12 — slowed by arthritis, and sleeping on the couch instead of destroying it, she’s finally grown into her name.

I don’t mean to sound rude, but I’m not sure Gov. Huckabee really understands what the word “family” means: traditions don’t make a family, love does. Trust me, my dog Gracie reminds me of that every day when she pushes her head up against mine and seems to say, “Thanks, dude, for letting me be a part of your family.” Q

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cr p of the w k Gary McCullough

By D’Anne Witkowski

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LLEN DEGENERES MUST BE SO pissed at Gary McCullough right now. Everything was going so well for her on American Idol and he had to go ruin everything by blabbing to the world that she’s a homo. I mean yes, everyone already knew she was a homo but had kind of forgotten over the years because she’s so harmless and lovable. You know, like Elton John.

But McCullough, director of Christian Communication Network, didn’t forget. And when God got the news via His Christian Newswire iPhone app, He got up in Fox’s face and was all, “Hey, American Idol is a family program through which I transmit my message of hating gay people. The lesbo has got to go.”

And then he was all, “Thanks, Gary. I totally follow you on Twitter. LOL.” And my, oh my is McCullough pleased with himself, now that DeGeneres has left the show. “When it comes to the business relationship between American Idol and Ellen DeGeneres, to the chagrin of Pansy Hilton and a multitude of homo-fascist bloggers, I am on an I-toldyou-so roll,” he wrote in a July 30 opinion piece.

He then declared American Idol dead and said it was all Ellen’s fault because she’s a lesbian. Christians don’t want to watch homos on TV, he said, because it burns their eyes and makes Jesus cry.

“There is a moral to the story of this DeGeneres-Idol saga. There is a limit to what Christian viewers will tolerate, and I am using ‘Christian’ in the broadest of definitions,” McCullough wrote. “The revenue-generating ability of television programming that promotes homosexuality has its limits.”

The revenue-generating ability of television programming that promotes Christianity also has its limits, which is why so much of it is on public access. But I digress.

“The encouragement I take from the firing of DeGeneres (she actually resigned, but that doesn’t matter to McCullough) is that someone in Hollywood understands what I have been saying; that the promotion of homosexuality and the production of family entertainment do not mix.”

It’s strange to me that simply having Ellen on the show was, to McCullough, promoting homosexuality.

Perhaps if the other judges had pelted her with stones and called her a bull dyke then McCullough would have had no problem with her tenure there.

It’s true that ratings have slipped this season. While still insanely popular, American Idol isn’t quite as popular as it was. I hate to burst McCullough’s bubble, but I think there might be some factors he’s not considering here.

First off, I don’t watch American Idol, but from everything I’ve gathered, it seems like Ellen was a pretty terrible judge. For whatever reason she wasn’t very funny, nor was she very judg-y. Now, I’m not a TV executive, but I reckon that this would pose a problem for someone who’s been hired as the “funny judge” to replace Paula Abdul. Ellen even noted when she left, “It was hard for

me to judge people and sometimes hurt their feelings.”

Nor does McCullough take into account the fact that Ellen’s arrival coincided with the departure of Simon “I’m A Jerk To Everybody Yet This Is How I Wear My Hair On National TV” Cowell. I mean, let’s face it: Part of the appeal of Idol was seeing Cowell make people cry.

Last but not least, American Idol is kind of a shitty show. Maybe, just maybe, people are finally opening their eyes — and ears — and realizing that there are better ways to spend their time than watching marginally talented people do karaoke. Not to mention the fact that constant change to the judging guard is super disruptive. Even for people who love the show and never miss an episode, it’s not really the same show. Swift change isn’t exactly America’s strong point.

And when it comes to gays on TV, it’s not McCullough’s either. Q

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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Missy Bird: Getting Paid to Make Trouble JoSelle Vanderhooft

Those who attended this year’s Dyke March may remember the Barbie dolls that participated in a riff on Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues. The fabulously dressed fashion dolls were puppeteered by Missy Bird.

“I used to play with Barbies when I was a kid,” said Bird of the speech, in which she encouraged the women to think about their sexual health by asking, as in the play, what their vaginas would wear. “I was just going to borrow the Barbie clothes from my goddaughter, but I was like, no, you have enough Barbies here to let me borrow them and I can dress up the Barbies! It was more fun to me.”

Fun is a good word to describe Bird, the openly lesbian executive director of Utah’s Planned Parenthood Action Council, whose sense of humor and whimsy is as powerful as her commitment to women’s reproductive health.

“I have a very firm belief that until we ensure that women have full reproductive justice and access to full reproductive health care unhindered by any law that

nobody will have full equality and control over their bodies,” she said.

Born in Salt Lake City and raised “mostly in Park City back when Park City was a small town,” Bird initially worked as a nanny and thought that she was “going to teach preschool for the rest of my life.”

But after getting a job as the volunteer coordinator for Court Appointed Special Advocates, a group that provides courtappointed advocates for abused children, Bird found that nonprofit work was her true passion.

“I loved that job,” she said. “But when I got a job at another [nonprofit] organization, I was fired because I was gay. That was life-altering for me in a number of ways. I was out of work and I didn’t know what to do.”

Bird said that her grandmother convinced her to return to school and get a masters degree in clinical social work, which she received from the University of Utah. Inspired by her classes and by memories of the homeless youth she saw while living in San Francisco, Bird said she began researching the needs of Utah’s home-

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less youth who identified as queer. Her interests in homeless youth and gay rights lead her, in 2003, to a young grassroots organization called Equality Utah.

“I called Michael Mitchell [then executive director of Equality Utah] and said, ‘Hey, you need to hire me,’” Bird recalled. “He said, ‘To do what?’ I said, ‘I don’t know, I just want to work here.’”

Bird got her wish. For three years, she worked part time at Equality Missy Bird (left) and wife Lauren Littlefield.

Utah, answering phones In keeping with her concerns for homeand doing odd jobs while less youth, Bird has also worked with leglobbying for the organization’s sponsored islators on both sides of the aisle to change bills. In 2006 Karrie Galloway, CEO of the Planned Parenthood Association of Utah, Utah’s laws about homeless shelters, so hired Bird as PPAC’s executive director one for youth can be built.

“I will not stop fighting until we build and the vice president of public policy a homeless youth shelter in this city. It’s for PPAU. Her first task upon coming on board? Open a dialogue with Utahns about appalling to me that we would let our children sleep on the street,” she said. “We just the services Planned Parenthood offered.

“The first thing I thought was, ‘OK we’ve have to find the money and, as always, I’m got to figure out a way for people to see that working on finding the money.”

As a lesbian, a Planned Parenthood emPlanned Parenthood isn’t just about aborployee and a youth advocate, Bird does not tion,’” she said, adding that the group also see issues affecting lesbians, youth and provides prenatal care and adoption serwomen at large as separate. vices. It made sense, then, that the first bill “Since I’ve been at Planned Parenthood, the group sponsored under her leadership sought — and secured — Department of one of the biggest things I’ve been doing Health funding to educate pregnant women is getting the queer community involved about drug and alcohol abuse, and to give in Planned Parenthood issues,” she said, them priority if they entered detox treat- noting that she has worked with the Utah AIDS Foundation and has served on the ment.

Bird said she is also proud of “The Fertil- Utah Pride Center’s board of directors. “All ity Protection Act,” a 2008 bill that created of us lesbians have vaginas and we need an education campaign about chlamydia to keep them healthy. Just because [some and gonorrhea, two STDs that have been of us] are not going to have babies doesn’t on the rise in Utah during the last decade. mean that we aren’t at high risk for breast The legislation, she added, “is now a na- cancer and cervical cancer or STDs.” And because she sees reproductive tional model for other states.” health and freedom as being connected to “It de-stigmatized what Planned Parall forms of oppression, Bird insists that enthood is about and helped us the next the most important part of her job is keepyear when we pursued expedited partnering conversations about these issues going. therapy legislation,” she said, referring “The community at large thinks a win to the 2009 bill that allowed physicians to comes in passing the law, but it’s not just write antibiotic prescriptions to the sexual about that,” she said. “It’s about how many partners of people with gonorrhea or chlapeople did you get to have the conversation mydia. Last year also saw the unanimous about it.” passage of legislation mandating hospitals “I joke a lot that I get paid to cause trouto inform rape survivors about emergency ble, but this isn’t about the politics for me,” contraception. she continued. “It’s about women and their “That was the first time in the country stories. It’s about the record and what am [a bill like that] passed unanimously in the I doing to change the record and what are year it was presented,” said Bird. “In most we are doing to change the record as an other states it takes five to six years and agency.” isn’t unanimous.”

And sometimes, yes, it’s also about using “I think that speaks to how our elected Barbies to tell lesbians to keep their uterofficials and mainstream Utahns feel about uses healthy. birth control,” she continued. “Here, people “I still think people remember that use it and don’t have a problem using it. And speech,” she said, laughing. “I’ve gotten a more than people admit, they live our vision, lot of comments about it.” Q which is every child is a wanted child.”

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Sunstone Continued from page 13 by two of his playwriting students at BYU: Little Happy Secrets, which portrays the attraction an otherwise straight returned missionary feels for her female roommate; and Be Normal, a “coming out comedy” about the struggles of a young LDS woman and her family to come to terms with her sexual orientation. Argentsinger then took the microphone to present his paper “How the LDS Church is Depicted in Plays and Movies Created by Non-Mormons,” which explored the evolution of Mormon portrayals from the 1950s to the present day.

Local actor Charles Lynn Frost also gave a talk about his experiences in playing the popular drag character Sister Dottie S. Dixon, a Mormon housewife with a gay son who has taken the world by storm. Frost explored the evolution of his alter-ego from KRCL radio personality to start of her own play to guest at local rallies and as the Utah Pride Festival’s 2010 Grand Marshal, and tried to answer “why Dottie has clicked right now” with people of all faiths, sexual orientations, races and ages.

Lightly joking that the inspiration for Sister Dottie had been “a matriarchal blessing from on high,” Frost said that his character, though played by a man, was a symbol of the “emergent feminine of matriarchal transformation that is taking place throughout the universe.”

“In my humble opinion, women — particularly LDS women — have the keys and the power to explode the change occurring in their subculture,” he said. “They are the vitally important change agents for the LDS Church to evolve and accept their LGBTQ members.”

The LDS Church’s involvement in the passage of California’s Proposition 8 appeared in the session “Mobilizing the Saints: Behind-the-Scenes Strategies on Same-Sex Marriage.” In the first paper, “Toeing the Line: Is the LDS Church a Moral Agent or a Political Machine?” journalist and Sunstone board member Laura Compton analyzed the church’s “game plans” in opposing the Equal Rights Amendment and gay marriage legislation in Hawaii and California to ask if the church had “crossed the line from moral organizer to political action committee.”

Compton looked at the church’s insistence that LDS support for Proposition 8 was part of a grassroots message “coming out of nowhere” rather than something leaders had asked them to do, as well as questions about the church’s actual financial donations to the ‘Yes on 8’ campaign and leaked letters detailing leaders’ strategies.

University of Arizona sociology PhD candidate Joseph West, Jr. presented findings from a study of religious participation in a successful 2008 effort to ban same-sex

marriage in Arizona’s constitution in “Mobilizing for Marriage: Congregations and Arizona’s Proposition 102.” In a 2009 study of 297 Southern Arizona congregations’ involvement in the initiative, West said researchers found that LDS wards were more likely than other congregations to actively support the measure. Catholics, Mainline Protestants, on the other hand, did relatively little in the way of supporting the measure, or in some cases (as with Unitarian Universalist churches) opposed it.

West said that researchers thought that Mormons were involved in high numbers not only because “investment in patriarchal power structures,” which many other Christian faiths support, but because of the complex relationship between the LDS Church and U.S. marriage law.

In conducting his surveys of LDS congregations, West said he frequently heard the argument: “If government gets out of the business of marriage, theology will require a return to the practice of polygamy, which is the last thing that church leaders want to deal with.”

“I don’t know if I buy that, but what’s interesting about that explanation is that it’s an acknowledgement that Mormonism is in such a unique position with marriage law in the United States and that position plays a part in how it responds [to measures like Proposition 102],” he said, referring to the church’s position at the epicenter of antipolygamy legislation in the 1800s.

The personal, spiritual and political collided most obviously during the conference in a screening of Two Loves, a documentary short about gay and lesbian Mormons created by two teenage LDS filmmakers through the mentoring of Spy Hop Productions.

Filmmaker Michelle Ripplinger, now a film and English student at Princeton University, said that she began making the film at age 16, shortly after her brother came out in part to resolve her own conflicted ideas about homosexuality. Until then, Ripplinger said that she had considered gays and lesbians to be threats to family and religion.

Subjects who appeared in the film included members of support group Affirmation: Gay and Lesbian Mormons, playwright and author Carol Lynn Pearson, whose husband later came out as gay, and QSaltLake columnist, activist and radio producer Troy Williams.

After the screening of the 25-minute film, Ripplinger urged the audience to listen to gay and lesbian Mormons, and to realize that the church needed to take “the beam out of its own eye” in how it deals with its queer members before calling them sinners. Q For more information about the Sunstone Education Foundation and to order recordings of these and other symposium panels visit sunstonemagazine.com.

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OUR PETS

Our Pet Friends

To many gay and lesbian people, pets are the closest thing they will ever be to having children. To many, that is just fine with them. We asked readers to meet us at Dogs R Us one Saturday and do a family photo. We will be making a donation to the Fuburbia, the Friends of Animal’s adoption center in Park City for all glossy prints bought for this shoot. Fuburbia is a unique adoption center where trained specialists are always on hand to help visitors select the perfect dog or cat to take to a forever home.

And there is never a better time to adopt than now, when shelters all over the valley are overflowing with canines and felines — and kittens in particular. Furburbia’s page at foautah.org allows you to search for a fluffy companion by photo and species, and provides handy information about pet adoption, dog training and even volunteering. Thanks to Laurie Kaufman for all these wonderful shots!

Kevin and Stir Fry Christensen He was renamed Stir Fry after I woke up one morning to find a favorite light fixture completely shredded. He enjoys playing with birds, mice and kitty porn.

Shay and Bella Harvell It is weird to tell people that the first time I ever felt truly loved was when Bella smiled at me. Often times our most happiest memories happen on nice sunny days, and this was no exception. I was feeling really down about life and was wondering if I was loved. I come from a good family and I know that my family loves me, but outside of that I was unsure. I took Bella for a walk to Memory Grove and while she was playing off leash I was pondering. Without warning, Bella comes and gives me the biggest smile and licks my toes. I don’t know why this was different, but it was! The sun felt warmer and that three-second moment lasted so much longer. For the first time in a long time I felt that I was loved — truly loved. Bella is the most special person/thing to me. We have been through a lot including a phase when she ate my toys, (As a lesbian, this is bad news) but we are sticking together. I am hers and she is mine.

Ladd and Fidd McClurg Fidd came to me six years ago on a lark. Halloween 2004. We were having a Halloween party and a friend said in a Wicked Witch of the West voice, “I’ll come and get you and your little dog, too!” I said I don’t have a little dog. I only had a Boxer. So I immediately went to Retland to look at Cairn Terriers. He was in the cube with me not more than 20 seconds, dropped a ball at my feet and I knew “You are going home with me.” He’s been with me ever since.

Mark, Emi and Oliver Canrell Emi & Oliver were found on the Humane Society website & rescued from the South Salt Lake Shelter. They are both very sweet pups. Emi is 9 months and Oliver is 12 months.

Mike Romero and Coco Chanel

Ken and Kimie Walker

This little chocolate Schnauzer lost her home due to the economic downturn.

A good friend who works for CAWS contacted me because she knew I was a Schnauzer lover. It was love at first sight and she gets to stay at Ben Williams Schnauzer house in the day with 3 doggie friends and comes home to her townhouse to relax & sleep. She’s a lover.

I recently divorced and was lonely.

I knew getting a dog would help. I wanted a small dog because I lived in an apartment. The Humane Society had very limited small dogs and nothing I wanted. I found Kimie on KSL classifieds. It was love at first sight and she has an awesome personality.

She is the favorite wherever she goes.

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Michael Ganthrop & Kevin Hutchins with Hades & Hera Found both as stray in the Humane Society shelter. Named after the family tradition of Greek Gods. (Previous names in the family are Zeus, Apollo and Athena.)

Talking to the Animals: Local Pet Psychic Tells All

by JoSelle Vanderhooft

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S AN INTUITIVE LIFE COACH, Roxanne Hunt often spends her days helping clients clarify and achieve their goals.

But some times, she says she uses her same gift of intuition to diagnose injuries in horses to determine whether it’s time to euthanize a pet, or just to help pet owners understand what goes on in Fluffy’s or Fido’s head.

That’s right.

Hunt is an honest to goodness pet psychic. She also has a cat named Princess Gila who reads tarot cards.

“Cats are highly intuitive,” she explains.

“They have the ability to work with human energy to heal us.”

When asked how she got into this unusual line of work, Hunt laughs. “Isn’t that a good question? Nobody I know starts off wanting to do this. It kind of finds you.”

Her job ‘found’ her a few years ago in Hollywood, where Hunt, who is also an actor, and a friend had traveled to talk to a producer about a project they wanted to do. On the way, her friend introduced her to a stable owner who asked Hunt if she could talk to horses.

Until that point Hunt had only used her intuition to talk to human clients. But she told the stable owner she was willing to try. As she walked through the stalls, she tried to talk to the horses by sending them pictures and words.

“I said, “I can hear you. Tell me what you want to say,” she said.

One horse said he was terrified of rattlesnakes. Another showed her images of lakes in the Midwest. Not knowing what, if anything, this meant, Hunt told the stable owner.

“She said, ‘I’m really freaked out. How do you know this?’” Hunt recalls. It turned out that the first horse’s owners had brought him to the stable after the rattlesnakes at their stable scared him so much they could no longer ride him. The second horse was going to return to the Midwest with his owners on the following day.

“I would be the first to say this is outside the box and pretty bizarre but when you have outside people validating it, it sort of takes on a life of its own,” says Hunt.

After that, she decided to offer her intuitive services to stable owners. It wasn’t long, she says, before people asked her to speak to their pets. Although Hunt notes she’s particularly drawn to horses (“they’re very clear and easy for me to connect with”), she has talked to dogs, cats, goats and even spinner dolphins while on a swim. As part of her services, she offers home parties where she talks to attendees’ furry,

feathered and scaly friends. She also hopes to someday do a television show “when the time is right” for one.

“Animals are so delightful because there’s no

JoSelle’s Cat Talks with Roxanne Hunt — Again

by JoSelle Vanderhooft

When we profiled Roxanne Hunt back in April of 2008, I asked her to speak with my cat, Oscar, in order to get an idea how she works with our four-legged friends. Not wanting to be too repetitious, this time I asked her to speak with one of my grandmother’s cats, a pretty 8-year-old Siamese named Asia. Lounging beneath an end table near the computer, Asia seemed unperturbed at this interruption in her busy daily schedule of eating, napping, meowing to be let outside, sleeping, dozing and did I mention snoozing?

In the 15-minute session that followed, here are some things I learned about one of my feline overlords.

Asia lives with two cats, one she is indifferent to and one with whom she shares a strong bond. These would be, respectively, her two offspring, Boswell and Nemo. She’s always adored Nemo but tolerated Boswell, who seems to tolerate both of his family members.

Here’s where things get especially interesting. I asked Hunt to talk to Asia about a neighbor kitty named Tessa. With no information to go on other than a name, she said that Asia thought this cat had died. Interestingly, Tessa’s family moved away six years ago, which Hunt said would have felt like a death to Asia (who,

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drama,” she says. “They’re very clear and to the point. They’re just delightful.”

Knowing how “bizarre” the idea of an animal psychic can be for many people, Hunt says she encourages her clients to be skeptical, and to realize that she would never say she’s “100 percent accurate.”

“I don’t know how you would be,” she admits.

“But you do the best with what you’re given. It becomes your job to relay the information as incidentally, had liked Tessa almost as much as she does Nemo).

“The feeling is almost matter-of-fact; Tessa’s gone,” she said.

This wasn’t the only time that death appeared in a roundabout way. Hunt noted that a man used to live in Asia’s house who “doesn’t live here anymore.” That man would have been my grandfather, who died in 1999—four years before Asia and her brood came to live with my grandma. When I pointed this out, Hunt said that the cat could have picked up on this fact, either from residual energy in the house or from seeing him (for the record, my mother just thinks she overheard us talking about my grandfather).

Most surprisingly, Hunt then asked if my grandmother had been ill recently because Asia had felt that she isn’t “available to her right now, to pet her and be with her.’ As a matter of fact, my grandmother had a nasty fall about two weeks ago and has both arms in casts. Definitely not an ideal situation for pets and snuggles.

Finally, Hunt observed that Asia had come into my family’s life in order to replace a cat who had recently left. Surprised, I told her that the cat who had lived with my family for 15 years had died the day before we found her and her kittens in our hedge.

Overall, Hunt’s perception of this kitty was that she was a “a little bit snobby, but nice and loveable.”

“I like this cat,’ she said.

clearly and authentically as you can without putting any of your own information into it.”

When her clients ask her to tell their animals how much they love them, Hunt reassures them that their pets already know.

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OUR PETS Honey Rachelle and Faith Graham My doggie’s name is Faith! She will be three on August 28th.

I was dog-sitting my friend’s dog for about a year when she wasn’t able to take care of her. When this fluffy dog had to go back to her owner, I could barely eat, walk or sleep. I went the following day to go out searching for dogs, even though my dad, who is also my landlord , told me I had to wait a few months.

This tiny wide-eyed puppy stared back at me with the most eager expression on her face.

The assistant frowned when I told him I wanted to see that dog. “Have to warn you, this one snaps at people she doesn’t know. In fact, she snaps at all of us here at the store. She doesn’t let anyone go near her.”

“I’ll try.” I said, not even caring if I got bit.

He gladly moved away and let me reach in to get the miniature dachshund. She immediately wrapped up in my arms, like she belonged there without the slightest form of aggression. She stayed in my arms for a long time as the sadness in my heart started to soften. About a half hour later, I reluctantly placed her back into her cage.

I went back three times that same day. My sister, store clerk and my mom finally talked my Dad into relenting. The store clerk even lied and said she as potty-trained. A fact everyone found out later as she pooped wherever she wanted.

This tiny joy ran all over the house, sniffing and checking out every crack and corner. The best part was I had the energy to run with her. We shared a large hamburger in front of the family’s indoor movie screen and then went off to bed. She spent most the night too excited to sleep, chewing on her edible pig ear.

I didn’t get a whole lot of sleep that night with her hyperness and loud chomping, but I didn’t mind. Its never possible to replace a dog because they all have such unique personalities. Still she brough hope back into my life and that is why I chose to name her Faith.

Craig, Gus & Sadie Morrison

Eric “Taco” and Mocha Hurtado

We love camping and walks. Gus thinks tomatoes off the plant, ripe or not, are great chew toys and treats! They both love carrots. Gus is a year old PoodlePekinese- Schi-Tzu mix (aka Poopshit), while Sadie is a 5-year-old black & silver miniature schnauzer. Dad loves cooking & spoiling us.

Mocha, my Himalayan cat, and I first met three years ago this Thanksgiving after he was abandoned and put on the street by some uncaring human. He showed up near my home at Trio restaurant and brought to me by a friend. He is so good natured and full of love. Not to mention gorgeous!

Cleopatra du Pris and Tony Fantis I found my owners while shopping. Go figure. In my spare time, I like to chat with my friends on Facebook. My sister, Trixie Licorice Canasta is also on Facebook. She’s the bitchy one but I love her anyway. My dads, John and Tony, give me pedicures and let me sleep all day. When I grow up, I want to be a dentist.

John, Pumpkin & Bandit Bennett Both my dogs were rescue dogs. I got my girl, Pumpkin, from the Humane Society seven years ago. A couple of years later I learned from one of the seniors I work with of a three-legged dog that was to be put down by its breeder owner who no longer wanted Bandit after his hind leg became infected and amputated. We took him in, and Pumpkin and Bandit have been inseparable ever since.

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Michael and Vixen Aaron

Troy and Kona Hunter I rescued Kona from a puppy mill in Utah County because she was not in good shape.

She’s now my whole world and love of my life — for a girl.

Vixen is a Humane Society find and it was apparent she was not fond of some children in her previous household. She lacked trust, chewed on every piece of footwear I had and had severe kennel cough when I first got her. The first three weeks were a bit of a challenge. A few days of positive reinforcement later, everything but the runny nose was over and we have been best of friends since. I can’t imagine life without her.

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by JoSelle Vanderhooft

OST PET OWNERS ARE FAMILIAR with the anxiety that comes with boarding a pet at a kennel or a veterinarian’s office before taking off on a trip. But thanks to two Utahns, your pets can stay comfortably at home while you travel.

Angie Kieffer and Curtis James are co-owners of Angie’s Pet World, a professional pet service provider that is specialized in in-home pet care.

Since 2005, the duo have cared for dogs and cats throughout the Salt Lake Valley, as well as exotic, hobby farm and “wild-domesticated

pets,” according to Kieffer.

“There are so many hazards when boarding [for example] a dog,” she said. “Not just separation anxiety, but the risk of them not getting personalized care. This is an alternative for people who don’t want to take chances, and want their pet to be in a safe home environment rather than an institutional setting.”

Originally, the business began when its founder was an unemployed single mother and student who wanted to put her knowledge of anatomy and physiology to use while supporting

Rub-A-Pug-Pug

by JoSelle Vanderhooft

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T ISN’T USUALLY OBVIOUS, BUT our fluffy, feathered and otherwise four-legged friends get just as sore and stiff as their humans do. And when their muscles scream and their joints grumble, one Utah woman is there to soothe them.

Mary Norton has been practicing pet massage for three years. It started when she learned the basics of massage from her mother’s osteopath.

Although she liked learning, she knew she didn’t have the stamina, at 50 years old, to become a licensed massage therapist.

Shortly after that, one of her elderly rescue dogs began having lifethreatening problems.

“She was having severe trouble maneuvering the stairs and getting outside to do her business,” said Norton. “One day I noticed she was having trouble getting up.”

Not wanting to euthanize her pet, Norton decided to put some of her training into practice.

“I very, very gently massaged her back legs as I would for a person, though I didn’t use near the strength,” she said. After a few tries, her dog was up and walking again.

“That’s when I decided to see if there was such a thing as pet massage,” said Norton. After looking online, she discovered a correspondence school called Effective PetMassage. Four months and several hours of working on dogs and cats under their owners’ supervision, she had her certification.

So how, exactly, does a pet massage work?

The answer, says Norton, is a lot like a massage for humans. The motions and strokes are virtually identical, but the pressure is not.

“The amount needed for an animal is minute

by [human] standards,” she explained. “I tell people who want to get into this to put a nickle on the back of their hand and feel how much pressure that is. It’s not much. It’s extremely light. It’s a type of thing that I could turn around, take you for an hour and teach you to do it on your own animal.”

That is, as long as your pets are cats or dogs, which are the only animals that someone who does pet massage are allowed to work on. The difference, said Norton, between a certified pet massage practitioner like her and a licensed animal massage therapist is that LAMTs are licensed massage therapists (that is, trained to work on humans) and trained to work on a number of animals, from tiny guinea pigs to cows and horses. And while LAMTs typically work with orthopedic pet hospitals, vets or pet groomers, pet massage practitioners tend to work independently.

And they also tend to do house calls. Norton will travel anywhere within the Salt Lake Valley to give a cat or dog a much-needed rub down.

“I feel it’s easier on everyone,” she explained.

“It’s certainly better for the animal who is surrounded by things they know. You’re only reducing one strange thing, and that’s me.”

When working, Norton makes sure that the pet’s people are nearby so the pet can relax better. When it comes to cats, who are notoriously skittish around strangers, she typically prefers to coach an owner to do it him or herself. She offers one-hour training sessions to people with cats or dogs for $50.

And while Norton says all cats and dogs can benefit from a good massage, she specifically enjoys working with animals who are elderly, injured or recovering from surgery.

“I love working with older animals to give them a new lease on life, as it were,” she said.

Norton’s sessions are all 30 minutes long and her fees range from $25 for cats and small dogs to $45 for large dogs. She can be reached at 801739-4581, She will appear on 4LeggedForum, a local internet radio show about pets, on Aug. 27 from 1:30–2:30 p.m. at blogtalkradio. com/4leggedforum. Q

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sage practitioners and pet psychics like Mary Norton and Roxanne Hunt, who are profiled elsewhere in this issue. In fact, Norton and Hunt will both appear on the program, Aug. 27.

“We cover a wide divergence of issues out there. It’s not just dogs and cats,” said Kieffer.

“We [and the people who appear on the show] all want to give to pets and their people, to serve them in a way that isn’t the norm. Pets deserve the quality of life we have.”

Eventually, Kieffer hopes to take the “universal voice for animal awareness” to the radio waves.

“I really am projecting to get it out on the air here in Salt Lake and have something tangible for our community because there’s no one doing it,” she said. “We want to educate the community about animal shelters and rescues out there that are trying to reduce euthanasia and save more lives. It’s not just dogs and cats, it’s all animals who deserve to live out their lives.”

“I’ve tried so many different things to touch our community and give back; as a mother of four and a wife, I’m grateful to be able to assist the community in giving back to awareness for pets,” she added. Q Visit Angie’s Pet World online at angiespetworld.com and 4LeggedForum at Blogtalkradio. com/4leggedforum.

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Angie’s Pet World: A World of In-Home Pet Pampering

her family and her educational ambitions.

“I was going to school to have a real job through medical assisting, and I needed some other income, so I thought I’d make an in-home business,” she said. “I learned to love it so much that after I graduated, I just continued to do it. I never did what I went to school for.”

Working at home, she added, gives her time to be with her children while teaching them the workings of a small business and respect for animals.

“I don’t think I appreciated it before I had a need for it,” added James, Kieffer’s friend who initially hired her to tend his cats while he was out of town. Intrigued by the business, he said that he soon asked Kieffer if he could assist her. Today, he serves as the ad manager and co-owner of Angie’s Pet World and co-host of “4LeggedForum,” the business’ new internet radio show about all things related to Utah’s animals.

“We struggle for the microphone,” joked James, who has a background in broadcasting.

“It’s an ongoing battle to see who’s the voice of the program.”

But the program itself has found its voice, despite having just launched in July. Every Friday from 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. James and Kieffer interview a variety of animal service providers, including people involved in local reptile rescue 7.875x10.375.qxd 4/2/09 3:10 PM Page 1 organizations, pet trainers, and even pet mas-

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gay agenda Fierce as a Ouiser

by Tony Hobday

It was another successful Q Lagoon Day, even more so than last year: more people overall, more people in red and more chances to actually get on a ride before dying from sunstroke. The most fiercely painful thing of the day was when one lesbian flashed her knockers at us — twice — while on Rattlesnake Rapids; the funniest thing of the day was the pan of “special” brownies; and the best thing of the day was when Michael Aaron won me a cute little purple monkey on the Whack-A-Mole game (I’ve named her Ms. Ross and I’ve slept with her every night since.).

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THURSDAY — When I first heard that Utah Contemporary Theatre was producing a play call DONNA ORBITS THE MOON, my initial thought was about my friend Donna because ... well, she’s always orbiting the moon. I mean extra cuckoo, here!

Tehehe! I should be careful, she’s got a fierce right-hook that could knock me into orbit. Anyhoo, Donna’s life seems perfect (not my Donna’s — hers is a tragic mess!)) until gravity stops working for her the way it used to. It takes a string of vehicular mishaps and an attempted assault with a deadly Bible to bring her back to Earth. (The Bible-thing works on my Donna too.)

8pm, Studio Theatre, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. Broadway.

Free, 801-886-3019 or utahcontemporarytheatre.org.

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FRIDAY — It’s Christmas in August you bunch of hot and sparkling tree ornaments. So put on your snow boots, parkas and turtleneck undies for the Royal Court of the Golden Spike Empire’s annual PWA KICK-OFF WEEKEND. Filling their People with AIDS Christmas Fund is mighty important for this year’s gay yuletide. Enjoy tonight’s opening event, Cruel Summer, at Paper Moon; Saturday, partake in a fabulous Carnivale and Drag Queen Mud Wrestling; Sunday, finish off this sweltering Christmas in August with a lovely Luau on The Trapp’s patio. Now, you may end up dehydrated, overheated, muddy and broke, but isn’t it worth it?

Times vary, each event is $5 at the door. For more information, visit rcgse.org.

Q As a dawning of the Golf Classic 2010 on Sunday — you know all gays and lesbians need at least a full 24 hours between partying and doing anything active — the Utah Pride Center presents this PARTY ON THE PATIO, a social event before the golf tournament. But you don’t have to golf in the tournament (or be a golfer at all) to attend this fabulous party. Enjoy food, cash bar, music by the outstanding DJ TiDY, urban landscapes and opportunities to win some fierce prizes. Fierce Argyle clothing is also encouraged.

7–10pm, Circle Lounge, 328 S. State St. Cost $10 at the door, utahpridecenter.org.

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SATURDAY — Hey Gene, it’s that time of month again to change your underwear ... they’re getting kind of fierce! Join Mr. Naté and

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Manhunt.com at Club Try-Angles’ monthly UNDERWEAR NIGHT. You don’t necessarily have to dance, drink, play pool and stand on the patio smoking in only your skivvies, but Ms. Ross likes it more if you do ... and we’re all here on earth to please Ms. Ross!

9pm, Club Try-Angles, 251 W. 900 South. For more info, 801-3643203.

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SUNDAY — Have you slept off your fierce hangover from Friday’s Party on the Patio ... or from anywhere else for that matter? It’s time to pull out the big clubs for the GOLF CLASSIC 2010, the annual Utah Pride Center golf tournament. The day includes breakfast and lunch, 18 holes of golf and prizes. It has become one of the most acclaimed LGBTQ events of the year in Utah. Sponsors and players alike join forces to raise funds for the Center’s vital and life-saving programs and services.

Go get ’em Tigers!

6:30am Breakfast & 8am shotgun start, Stonebridge Golf Club, 4415 W. Links Dr. Registration $125, utahpridecenter.org.

Q SimplySocial is a group of gay men dedicated to building a vibrant community through friendship. They meet together regularly on Wednesdays for food and good times.

But today, they’re hosting a GAY DAY AT RAGING WATERS. Chill in the Wave Pool or on the Lazy River just slyly checking out the hottie lifeguards, or go a bit more fierce with wedgie after wedgie on the serpentine slides. Either way you’ll get a thrill out of it.

Noon, Raging Waters, 1200 W. 1700 South. Tickets $18.95, for more information about SimplySocial, visit them on Facebook.

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WEDNESDAY — In a beautifully wrought account of the awakening of one of the 20th century’s most romanticized revolutionaries, THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES recounts the odyssey undertaken by a young “Che” Guevara and his friend Granado in 1952, when Guevara was a 23-year-old medical student.

This Spanish biopic stars the wonderful Gael García Bernal (Y tu mamá también and Bad Education).

9pm, Red Butte Garden Amphitheatre, 300 Wakara Way. Free,

redbuttegarden.org.

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THURSDAY — If you don’t know what STEEL MAGNOLIAS is, then your card should be revoked, or at the very least you should be put in a small, air-less room with Ouiser Boudreaux for an hour ... the old hag is as fierce as Lindsay Lohan on crack.

Anyhoo, this production of the play by Robert Harling will have you laughing and crying along with a fabulous group of witty, smart-mouthed women from The South.

7:30pm, through Sept. 11, Midvale Performing Arts Center, 695 W. 7720 South. Tickets $12–15, 801-674-7956 or pinnacleactingcompany.org.

Q Join the hundreds of fans who make Momentum one of the most anticipated dance performances in Salt Lake City.

In its 4th year, MOMENTUM 2010 brings the unique opportunity to witness the creativity, physicality, sophistication and maturity of some of Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company Alumni’s most promising artists. The choreographers include Juan Carlos Claudio, Jill Voorhees Edwards, Karen Fenn, Jillian Harris, Caine Keenan, Stevan Novakovich and Jill Patterson.

8pm, through Saturday, Black Box Theatre, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. Broadway. Tickets $15, 801-355-ARTS or arttix.org.

Q Sugar Space presents BLACK/LIGHT, a new work by the Allen Gardner Dance Theatre, a dance company encompassing all forms of movement with an emphasis in Butoh, which typically involves playful and grotesque imagery, taboo topics, extreme or absurd environments — sounds like a date with Michael Aaron. The performance is a study in contrast, conflict and opposites; takes us back and forth across the boundaries of life and art, of dance and stillness, chaos and order, sanity and madness, reality and illusion.

8pm, through Saturday, Sugar Space, 616 Wilmington Ave. Tickets $10/adv.–$12/day of show, 888-300-7898 or thesugarspace. com.

UPCOMING EVENTS

SEP 25 Wanda Sykes, Wendover, Nev. OCT 16 Spencer Day, Rose Wagner NOV 26-29 The Rockettes, Maverick Ctr APR 11 Lily Tomlin, Kingsbury Hall

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SLAC Presents Fearless Fringe Festival

August 20 Cyndi Lauper, Wendover, Nev. wendoverfun.com August 22 Utah Pride Center Golf Classic

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utahpridecenter.org August 22 Gay Day at Raging Waters facebook.com/simplysocial September 12 AquaAid utahaids.org September 18 sWerve’s Oktoberfest swerveutah.com September 18 Walk for Life, Bike for Life utahaids.org September 25 ROTC Military Ball rotcslc.com September 25 Wanda Sykes, Wendover, Nev. wendoverfun.com September 28 Equality Utah Allies Dinner equalityutah.org October 9 National Coming Out Day Breakfast utahpridecenter.org October 16 sWerve’s Halloween Bash swerveutah.com October 16–20 Living With AIDS Conference pwacu.org October 18–22 UofU Pride Week emanzanares@sa.utah.edu 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 January 20–30 Sundance Film Festival, Park City

N CORRELATION WITH THE 14TH annual New York International Fringe Festival being held in New York City, the Salt Lake Acting Company presents the 1st annual Fearless Fringe Festival, Aug. 27–29. Fringe theatre describes alternative or non-mainstream forms and declarations of art. SLAC, a Utah staple of nontraditional performance art, showcases three different works in various stages of production in this festival, which will be held at SLAC’s Chapel Theatre, 168 W. 500 North.

“Stephen Brown and Sam Wessels approached us (nearly at the same time) with their latest works in progress, needing a space and help in developing their plays,” says SLAC Executive Producer Keven Myhre. “This need from our artistic community inspired us to present a festival of new work, thus the Fearless Fringe Festival was born. SLAC has had a long history of developing new work; this festival allows us to synergize and collaborate with other arts organizations and individual artists even more.”

Stephen Brown is the director of SB Dance Company, and his managerial philosophy is: “If you hire really good people and exhaust them with bad ideas, they’ll eventually do great work just to get you out of their hair.” Brown also has been a yoga instructor for nearly 10 years, which prompted his entry, Yoga Confidential, into the Fearless Fringe Festival. Confidential is a “glorified monologue” about yoga. “It has a pleasant mix of high-brow and low-brow humor,” says Brown. “Scato-philosophical might be a good description.”The performance features Brown, Daniel Beecher — of The Vapid Lovelies fame — and Tracie Merrill. Performances of Confidential will be Aug. 27–28, 7 p.m.

Local gay actor/playwright Sam Wessels introduces sam i was, a musical memoir about his diagnosis of leukemia and his subsequent treatment. “Sam is a 21-year-old gay actor on the cusp of adulthood [who is diagnosed with leukemia],” explains Wessels. “Sam’s Hand, Death, and Greg — the Big Gay Lounge Singer — are unfortunate side effects of the chemotherapy.”

While in treatment Sam ponders the meaning of life with the help of Donny and Marie, his parents and his ex-boyfriend. “In the end, Sam learns that there is no one answer when it comes to life, and, really, we just have to make it up as we go along,” said Wessels.

The show is a work in progress. “The performances [during the festival] will give me the feedback and time I need to craft a script and score that are ready for a full production,” said Wessels. Scenes from sam i was will be per-

formed Aug. 27, 9 p.m. and Aug. 28, 2 p.m.

In a Reading of openly lesbian Julie Jensen’s play The Harvey Girls, Jensen gives a topsy-turvy look into the lives of the women who “civilized the west.” “It’s a play about the women who were recruited from the east to work in a chain of upscale restaurants along the Santa Fe railroad during the late 19th century,” explains Jensen.

“The Harvey Organization gave women jobs, in exchange for their obedient behavior and long hours of work.”

Jensen asks the question, “How do a group of attractive young women handle a situation like this one?” With humor, poignancy, oddities, provocativeness? “Come and see.” A Reading of The Harvey Girls is scheduled for Aug. 29, 1 p.m. Q Tickets to the Fearless Fringe Festival are $12 per show or $24 for all three, call 801-363-7522 or visit saltlakeactingcompany.org.

Sam Wessels (top), Julie Jensen (middle) and SB Dance Company (bottom)

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‘Modern’ Man Sitcom star Jesse Tyler Ferguson on hit comedy’s sophomore season, the gay couple’s controversial kiss and Nathan Lane’s kooky cameo.

by Chris Azzopardi

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IRST KISSES ARE ALWAYS A big deal, and clearly that’s been true for two Modern Family fathers. The ABC sitcom hit a home run during its debut season last year, garnering critical kudos, healthy ratings and Emmy love for its funny family romp. But the gay parents, Cameron and Mitchell (played respectively by Eric Stonestreet and Jesse Tyler Ferguson), have yet to reach first base.

The lack of lip action prompted frustrated fans to launch a kisspushing Facebook campaign, but Ferguson, who plays the series’ uptight lawyer, assures us it’s finally happening this season, premiering Sept. 22. Ferguson, on the way to the Modern Family set in L.A., chatted about risking his career for this role, Nathan Lane’s crazy-and-queer parties, whether there will be a CamMitchell marriage and how the sitcom changed his life.

What’s it like to be back on the Modern Family set? You know, honestly, there hasn’t been a job that I’ve enjoyed more than this.

It really does feel like a family reunion every time we get back together.

How has the show changed your life? I have no anonymity anymore. It’s funny, because when I did The Class, (director) James Burrows said to the cast, “You have to say goodbye to your anonymity. It’s going to be different. I saw this happen with Will & Grace and Friends.” We were kind of terrified, actually. And then the show was canceled, and my anonymity stayed fairly intact. So I’m now experiencing that.

You’re single — has it helped in the dating department? (Laughs) It’s actually been harder! I have a lot of people who I think are hitting on me, but then it ends up that they just want to be friends. It’s just hard to tell people’s intentions.

Who’d be your type: Cam or Mitchell? Oh gosh! It seems wrong to say Mitchell, but I definitely like Cam. He’d be a lot of fun to date, actually. If I could find an Eric Stonestreet-type who wants to date me, that could be great.

Too bad Eric’s straight. Too bad, but it’s been nice test-running that chemistry with him.

Modern Family has become a monster hit among gay audiences, even picking up GLSEN and GLAAD honors. How do you feel that the show has been a positive influence for gay and lesbian people, especially parents? Gosh, I mean it’s really hit very close to home because I have parents who also found it challenging at times. I have a gay sibling as well, and it’s been hard for my parents, so I think it’s been really helpful for them to see their son, not just on TV in a gay relationship, but able to be more open and out in the community in real life as well.

There are a lot of great TV shows that are just sort of putting it out there. They’re not “gay” characters; they’re just great characters who happen to be gay, just operating among society like they do in real life. It’s really great for families who maybe have a challenging time with that. I wish there was a reference point like Modern Family or Glee to show my parents when I was a kid — and to reassure me as well.

Your parents, particularly your father, had a hard time with your sexuality, as you noted in Out Magazine. What was it like for them — and him, especially — to see you on the cover of Out? It was challenging for him, but also really exciting. He was sort of confused because I made reference to the Jonas Brothers

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and having crushes on all of them. It means what it says!

They’re handsome men!

He’s a funny little guy. He hasn’t grown up in the entertainment industry, so with my Emmy Award nomination (for Outstanding Supporting Role in a Comedy Series), he asked, “How does that come to be?”

It needs to be broken down for him, and that’s OK. I’m willing to take those steps with him.

The Cam-Mitchell kiss is a hot topic lately. When will it happen? And is there really a wedding in the works? First of all, with the kiss thing, it’s been built up to a kissing episode — and I have to say, it’s not going to be an episode about kissing.

(Glee creator) Ryan Murphy criticized us, saying that it shouldn’t be this big thing, and he sort of didn’t have his facts right because it’s not going to be this big thing. The Facebook campaign and all these people rabidly excited about the kiss are what’s made it a big thing.

There’s a big PDA episode that deals with public displays of affection in general, but the kiss might not even be a part of that episode. We’re trying to integrate it in a way that’s just very natural.

And with the gay marriage, we were just so excited about Proposition 8, but we certainly don’t have a wedding episode planned. We hope to be on the air for a very long time, so we don’t want to put all the eggs in Season 2’s basket and then not have any stories to tell.

While we’re on the topic of eggs, is there another baby on the way? I would be thrilled with a second kid in the future, but I don’t think it will happen this season. Honestly, as an actor, I don’t know if I can handle another kid right now (laughs). It’s enough when we have the twins (who both play their daughter, Lily) on the set. I play with both of them and look at their parents and I’m like, “How do you do this all the time?”

Has it turned you off from being a father? No, it’s actually whetted my appetite. I’ve been a little baby crazy lately, but I’m single — so there’s that. If the opportunity arose, I would totally jump on it.

How will Nathan Lane play into Cam and Mitchell’s lives in Season 2? He’s our older, gay and flamboyant friend who throws these very eccentric themed parties, such as the “Studio FiftyFourth of July Party.” In this episode he’s throwing his “Oscar Wilde and Crazy Brunch Party” and we have to all dress up in Oscar Wilde gear, and we’re trying to get out of going to these parties but he’s very sensitive about people who cancel on him. It’s a really funny episode, and he’s perfect for this part.

I could see Cam having more fun than Mitchell at these parties.

Even he’s reached the breaking point. When we were actually shooting our scenes without Nathan Lane, the ones that lead up to his entrance, we’re in some very specific Oscar Wilde costume gear, and I looked at Eric — and he was wearing this fantastically flamboyant outfit — and said, “If this is what you’re wearing, Nathan Lane has to be a few notches above this?”

Have you given Eric tips on playing gay? I know he’s got the “z-snap” down. That’s never happened again — which is good.

But Eric is doing such a fantastic job, and he understands the workings of Cameron so well that I would never even attempt to offer any advice. All of his instincts are always spot on.

You recently were in some Central Park productions, The Merchant of Venice with Al Pacino and The Winter’s Tale.

What’s it like moving between theater and TV? My roots are in the theater, so it was harder going from theater to my first sitcom.

I love the immediate response from the (theater) audience. But on a show, you don’t know if something’s funny because no one’s allowed to laugh and you’re working very closely and very quietly and very intimately with the other actors.

After playing gay on Fox’s short-lived 2008 show Do Not Disturb and again now on Modern Family, do you fear being typecast? Honestly, no. I would never have given up the opportunity to play Mitchell because of that fear. It’s been interesting because Do Not Disturb was not successful at all. It’s interesting to see how playing gay on one sitcom just did not work and here it’s working brilliantly. I’m happy to have the opportunity to play gay on a sitcom that is working so well, and I just can’t worry about being typecast.

Even gayer than either sitcom role is your hilarious rendition of Lady Gaga’s “Alejandro” on YouTube. Are you inspired to take that further? I’m trying to put together a show. It’s probably going to be a pretty gay show, actually. Gaga musical theater, that’s what you can expect. Q

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restaurant review Two Enchanted Evenings

by Chef Drew Ellsworth

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HERE ARE MANY EVENTS WE attended this summer for QSaltLake and QVinum.

We spent a wonderful evening in Park City at the Main Street Savor the Summit Festival where we enjoyed good food and very nice beer. I’m not crazy about beer but, like unusual wines, I know when I’m tasting good ones. At the Wasatch Brew Pub, seated at a table in the middle of Main Street, Brad Di Iorio and I had a great time and I actually loved the “jalapeno” beer they were serving. The food was nicely paired with

beers made here in Salt Lake City and I also really liked a dark-brown beer they paired with a molten, chocolate cake — delicious! We owe the owners of the Wasatch Brew Pub and Reister Media for inviting Q to this extravaganza, and I truly want to take my younger, beer-drinking friends up to that pub to repeat such a fun time! (Date next summer?)

A few weeks ago, Brad and I went to Solitude Ski Resort to Taste of the Nation — also a cool event with tents and booths neatly arranged and over-flowing bowls of fresh, ripe cherries

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everywhere. We arrived late, and in the hot sun, I thought the food was already on its way out, but all the trendy restaurants were there along with most wine brokers in town who were pouring very good sips. Next year I want to make a huge deal about this event which reminds me of the Memorial Day Wine Fest in Jackson Hole — who says we can’t have great wine events in Utah?

Well this one is worth writing about and supporting. (Date next summer?)

But the two enchanted evenings I’d like to tell you about, also took place up in the mountains. I was personally invited to dinners during the Park City Food and Wine Festival the first week in July.

The first was at Spruce restaurant in the newlynamed Waldorf Astoria and the second was at the restaurant of my friend and wine guy, Jerry Guileman, owner of the River Horse on Main Street.

Michael Atcheson, is perhaps the most decorated sommelier in Utah. He’s tall and down-to-earth and although quite good-looking, he reeks of wine geekyness! His title is obscure at Spruce, but I have a feeling he is the one who really keeps all the wheels turning. It was my sister Lottie’s birthday on the July 8 and Michael invited us to an extremely awesome wine-pairing dinner hosted by Fisher Wines from Napa Valley. The Fisher’s have a Utah connection.

Mrs. Fisher was the daughter of Dr. Lamb who practiced many years in Salt Lake City and lived in Holladay. The Fisher’s were also influential in establishing the Utah Small Winery discount which allows us to get very good deals in Utah from excellent boutique wineries from nearly everywhere — a big thank you to the Fishers.

Our evening was hosted by Rob Fisher who is Dr Lamb’s grandson and one of the Fisher siblings.

His sister, Whitney, is the newly-hired “Wine Maker” for Fisher — quite a distinction for a woman.

We were served rocket greens with watermelon cubes and local feta in a very light vinaigrette, followed by halibut on corn fondue, then fig mole over short ribs, lamb Porterhouse with olive sauce and New Orleans-style Beignets with Crème Anglaise. We tasted, in order, the new Fisher Unity Rosé, two vintages of Whitney’s Chardonnay, 2004 and 2008 plus 1995 and 2005 Cabernet, Wedding Vineyard. We were also treated to Lamb Vineyard Cab — 1996 and 2006. My sister and I were honored to be present at such an evening, and thanks to Michael

at Spruce for this opportunity. Spruce offers a monthly wine-pairing dinner like the Fisher one, and also, the highly-trained chefs there teach classes to the public. Please check their website for details.

The very next evening I went to dinner with friends at the fabled River Horse on Main Street. We were all wowed by the treatment we received. Jerry had his best waiters hover at our table, and we were served many awe-inspiring items. First our tables received two of those “appetizer-towers” full of savory goodies. Wontons and riblets, potstickers and smoked salmon. We were all brought a slice of house-baked bread that reminded me of something I would bake.

Soft and textured, light multi-grain — probably colored and flavored with molasses — I might be wrong. Many in our party chose outstanding entrees but I wanted the red trout, a Utah critter, succulent, flaky — perfectly cooked and beautiful on the plate — my hat’s off to the chef for this dish so beautifully conceived in the new Utah scene. The trout was beautifully flanked with Thai Forbidden Black Rice, so delicious with a crisp, yet still creamy fried, gremolata cake — gorgeous! The dessert I had was house-made vanilla ice cream which was so sexy by itself I don’t even remember the topping — of course I’d had a little wine.

We chose Utah connection wines, again.

Joe Padilla and Dee Erickson’s wines were very good for their new endeavor. Their first label is Two Dog wines and I really like the white but not as enthused about the red; however, I loved the new Two Dog Cab, which at just a little over $10 was just delicious, smooth and balanced.

I detected a little Petite Syrah in the blend but have not confirmed that. I also really liked a white blend called Padilla/Erickson Grace’s White, which is an aromatic Viognier blend at $18, but well worth the price — one of those summer whites you never forget. (Most of the wines mentioned above are available at the new wine store on 300 West — the older vintages excluded, unfortunately.)

If you haven’t yet been to the Wasatch Brew Pub, Spruce at the Waldorf, or if it’s been a while since you’ve dined at the River Horse — it’s time to go! The quality, uniqueness, trendy flavor profiles and outstanding quality are yours for a quick trip up the canyon. Q

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Park City at Kimball Junction I-80 & Hwy. 224 (Behind Wells Fargo Bank)

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OME OF US ARE SO gay-centric that we have no close straight friends and leave our families in Anamoose, N.D., or Chloride, Ariz., and never look back. But if you’re like me, you love your friends, straight or gay, and you love your family, too. Still, we tend not to mix our friends with our families. We prefer to lead double lives.

Your straight brother doesn’t know you’ve been licking some guy’s balls for the last few weeks, and the guy whose balls you’ve been licking never, ever hears stories about when you were 5-years-old.

But inevitably comes the dreaded day when our two worlds collide. Mine came last weekend. There were extra rooms in the beach house, so I invited my big sister, Barbara, who, for a brief period in 1966, dropped the second “a” from her name; my nephew, Luke, a 6-foot-5 former skateboarder who’s now 32 and teaches elementary school science; my niece, Laurel, who at the age of 12 drove her friends around town in her mother’s car and is now an executive at the world’s most famous soup company; and Ken, her hunky new husband, who at 18 was a nationally-ranked diver and is now a management consultant built like a middleweight wrestler.

Our two housemates last weekend are cut from decidedly different cloth. Ian and Frankie each manage top-notch restaurants in Manhattan. Ian is low key and gentle.

Frankie is a flaming whirl of activity and talk, all performed as though he was auditioning for a happy-ending remake of The Boys in the Band. “Oh, Mary!” Frankie says witheringly; “Louise!” figures prominently, too. “Ladies!,” Frankie says. “Forget making sandwiches. The lunch meat is poo-sniggles.” He’s a hoot — to us. How Ken and Luke would handle him was my concern. Then worry. Then barf-quality terror.

As it turned out, my family was way cooler than I imagined. Luke and Frankie barbecued

lamb together; Frankie’s nickname for Luke (“Cuteness on Stilts”) actually flattered the designee. Barbara and I spent our time ripping some distant relatives to shreds, while Dan, Laurel and Ian baked cookies and made salads while listening to Laurel’s iPod on the sound system. (I caught Dan in the kitchen bouncing to the beat of Death Cab For Cutie.)

And le cocktail du weekend? I thought Negronis would be nice. Well, duh? Luke and Ken wanted beer, Dan his Pernod; Barbara only drinks Scotch; Laurel brought a six-pack of V8 and drank highly vegetabled Bloody Marys; and Ian and Frankie had gin and tonics.

I made Negronis anyway — for me. “Oh, Louise!,” Frankie sang out. “So much fuss! (Look at her! She’s measuring!)

Dollface! Just dump it in a glass and come join us!

We’re playing ‘If you were a drag queen, what would your name be?’ Ken wants to be LaJolla Jacksonville.

I’m Her Majesty LaFrancine, the OxyQueen.

Who the hell are you?”

Dollface! Just dump it in a glass and come join us!

We’re playing ‘If you were a drag queen, what would your name be?’

The Negroni (original recipe) 1-oz Beefeater gin 1-oz Campari 3/4-oz sweet vermouth Mix the three liquors in a shaker filled with ice. Shake, and then strain into a prechilled martini glass.

The Negroni (my way) 1-part Beefeater gin 1-part Campari a splash of sweet vermouth Follow the same mixing instructions as above. But I like to taste gin and Campari more than sweet vermouth, so I drastically reduce the vermouth. Try the original recipe first, then play around.

Ed Sikov is the author of Dark Victory; The Life of Bette Davis and other books about films and filmmakers.

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dining guide Frida Bistro Sophisticated Mexican cuisine, wine and spirits 545 W. 700 South 801-983-6692 Loco Lizard Cantina Serious mexican food since 1999 at Kimball Junction.

1612 Ute Blvd., Park City 435-645-7000 Meditrina Small Plates & Wine Bar Encouraging gastronomic exploring in tapas tradition 1394 S. West Temple 801-485-2055 Metropolitan Handcrafted new American cooking 173 W Broadway 801-364-3472 Off Trax Internet Café Coffee, wi-fi and pool 259 W 900 South 801-364-4307

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2280 S West Temple 801-484-8378 The Wild Grape Bistro Eat where the locals eat 481 E South Temple 801-746-5565

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Omar’s Rawtopia Restaurant Organic live food 2148 S. Highland Dr. 801-486-0332 Sage’s Cafe The freshest and healthiest cuisine possible 473 E 300 South 801-322-3790 Tin Angel Cafe Local food, music, art. Serving lunch, dinner and Saturday brunch 365 W 400 South 801-328-4155

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Learn about great wines and great food Wine taught by Wasatch Academy of Wine’s Sheral Schowe, and staff Food taught by Chef Drew Ellsworth, Certified Executive Chef Sunday, September 19

FRANCE--LOIRE WITH CA COMPARISONS Sancerre with Sauvignon Blanc—Chenin Blanc with Vouvray Great Foods from Central France— full menu to be announced

Treat yourself or a loved one to cooking classes with Chef Drew Ellsworth, 34-year chef, wine manager of the Third West Wine Store, QSaltLake’s Restaurant reviewer.

With small groups of no more than 8 students, Ecole Dijon gives you the opportunity to watch and interact with a professional chef preparing foods in an exciting and expeditious way.

The atmosphere is very casual and warm and students can freely move around to see what the chef is doing. “Hands on” training is available when possible.

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See the Web site for details.

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community I support, and we will open,” Radcliffe proclaims.

Talking with Radcliffe, who is not only a long-term entrepreneur but a friend, it is clear he is supporting a community that doesn’t always support him. “It’s not easy to say, but backing a club where you live or die by your customer-base is hard.” Many don’t realize, but the bartenders serving us, winking at us, smiling at us, making our night more enjoyable, don’t have stability in their jobs.”

Radcliffe is attempting to create more nights for the individuals that work hard for their community and enjoy what they do.

One of Radcliffe’s priorities of reopening Babylon is the fact it gives his employees a second night to support themselves and make an honest living (or have fun and go wild at a distance). “I’ve never employed more honest and trustworthy employees, and I hope to create more nights that they can support themselves and the loved ones they hold dear — two nights is not much, but I can only do so much for the people that do so much.”

There is only one word to describe the LGBT nightlife scene and that is growth ... growth from within and growth within the individuals opposing us from left and right. We will unify every day and we will grow in support and positivity!

Babylon opens this Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010. I not only hope you will all support an organization working daily for a safe environment to congregate, but also consistently support all the establishments that, truly fight daily to support their community. Every LGBT supportive club/bar/lounge seeks to provide an environment where drinks are poured without worry, staff is courteous without question, and friends are around for great laughs and safety.

See you this Saturday as we all welcome a blast from the past and a new “territory” claimed. Q

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HERE WAS ONCE A PLACE with many names, many visitors and many management teams. This place is located at 400 S. West Temple. Many memories were made across the sexual orientation border. From Splash to Bliss, from The Bay to Vortex it has made a name for itself as inconsistent and irregular.

I surely do hope this comes as a testament to a new era for this establishment – Babylon.

That is right, Babylon has resurrected from the shadows of the past to the present and hopes to open as Utah’s Saturday night hot spot — with many rivals “unpleasantly surprised.”

One may ask, because of such inconsistencies, is this possible? After speaking with David Radcliffe, the new CEO of the Rail Event Center and financial backer behind Püre and the soon to open Babylon, I believe the answer is yes (after many marketing campaigns and promotional ads mind you).

The location is well-known, easy to find and best of all it’s downtown — where most the LGBT community wishes to venture.

“The gay community is a viable and positive community,” Radcliffe explains. “I have been in this industry for a long time and never has there been more safety and respect for a large club than the gay community provides.”

Radcliffe went on to explain that Utah, in general, is fighting the opening of not only another LGBT establishment, but at the specific location of 400 South and West Temple, which has always been sought after by organizations (if you can even define the opponents as “organizations”).

Radcliffe is up against opposition that veils its malicious intent behind the “safety of the public” and stereotypes our community faces every day. “This is an uphill battle but I have put faith in the

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back to health. Get creative and busy with something you love, but make sure to take time for calm centering.

Shrug It Off, Aries!

By Jack Fertig

The Sun’s opposing Neptune and Chiron, Venus and Mars are square the nodes, and Mercury is turning retrograde. Freaking out won’t help.

Resist the temptation to childish indulgences.

This won’t be easy, but hard work, maturity and responsibility offer the most effective way through this mess.

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ARIES (March 20 – April 19) Relationship karma is hitting hard.

Just shrug it off. Sublimate any urges to act out. Creativity will pay off, but only through careful consideration and cooperation. Acceptance and learning from frustration leads to enlightenment and success.

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TAURUS (April 20 – May 20) You may hate arguments, but listen at least. You don’t have to join in, but hear out new ideas and decide for yourself, however quietly, which ones to profit from. Don’t get caught up in details. Keep an eye to the larger picture.

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GEMINI (May 21- June 20) Your home life is going topsy-turvy.

That’s a distraction that will work itself out. Focus on your investments, both financial and romantic; take the sensible, mature approach to both. Don’t follow any ideas you don’t understand.

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CANCER (June 21- July 22) Worries about money are usually a combination of realistic concerns and patterns absorbed in childhood from parents. Sorting those out aren’t easy, but your partner or a very good friend can help you clarify what you really need to deal with.

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LEO (July 23 – August 22) Your birthday may bring up the stress and worries of being truly fabulous with advancing age. The truly fabulous are ageless and don’t worry about such things. What exercise and diet don’t preserve, inner peace, acceptance and an open heart will overcome.

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CAPRICORN (December 21 – Jan. 19) The “King of the Hill” is more target than monarch. Do your best work in a forthright manner and try not to be too competitive or flamboyant about it. Keep your ego right sized and let your work speak for itself.

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AQUARIUS (January 20 – Feb. 18) Uncertainty about yourself and your sexuality can open you up to learning more about both. Let your partner take the lead, and if you don’t know what to do for yourself, focus on making your honey look good.

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PISCES (February 19 – March 19) Worries, especially about work, health, relationships and sex, are kicking up a storm in your head. The real challenge is to take a mature, sensible view.

An older friend can help you keep things in perspective.

Jack Fertig, a professional astrologer since 1977, is available for personal and business consultations in person in San Francisco, or online everywhere. He can be reached at 415-864-8302, through his website at www.starjack.com, and by e-mail at QScopes@qsaltlake.com.

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SPORTS

Douglass and QUAC Bring Home Gold from Cologne

by Brad Di Iorio

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VER HALF OF TEAM UTAH athletes attending Gay Games VIII this summer brought home medals, with Utah’s top woman cyclist winning three gold medals and the state’s water polo team beating the international favorite in the finals for the gold.

Margaret Douglass, the Utah athlete with the most medals from previous Gay Games, added three more golds to her collection of five gold and two silver medals in cycling. She was only supposed to compete in two events at this year’s games in Cologne, Germany, but when the German women’s team saw her perform in the criterium and road race, they asked her to join them for their team trial race.

“I felt very honored and told them yes [and] we won the gold. They were really strong [and] one of them had out-sprinted me in the two previous races,” said Douglass.

At the time, Douglass was not feeling her best and was not using her own bike. She rented a bike at a local bike shop instead of shipping her bike via plane, which was cost prohibitive.

“My sprinting wasn’t what I can usually perform because of jet lag, not [using] my own bike, and the bike wasn’t a top of the line bike, meaning it didn’t respond when I sprinted like mine does,” she said. “So I felt very good about my performance overall.”

Douglass won gold in the women’s Road Race in her age category, placing fourth overall out of all women racing; and gold in the women’s criterium in her age category, placing third overall. She also had one of the winning times in the team trial, as four cyclists are allowed to compete in the team trials, but the lowest time is thrown out.

“We had a two-time silver Olympic medalist racing amongst us, Michelle Ferris [from Australia]. I was determined to out sprint her but she got by me before the [finish] line,”said Douglass. “It was fun racing with a former Olympian, and when I won my medals in Sydney she was the one who presented our medals to us.”

When not competing, Douglass also cycled Germany’s beautiful countryside. “One of the highlights of my trip other than the races was riding to Bonn from Cologne,” said Douglass. “I got to feed some sheep, and the older sheep just loved my massages.”

The Queer Utah Aquatic Club’s water polo team made up of 14 gay, lesbian and straight players, was placed in the tougher of the sport’s two brackets. This meant they played two games the first day of the seeding process, one of which was against defending champions, West Hollywood.

“The QUAC water polo team played very well throughout the tournament and showed a lot of character in winning the gold,” said Pat Hayes, QUAC water polo coach and player. “But the kids hung to together and seemed to play better and gain in confidence with each game.”

After the water polo team lost to Melbourne,

Australia in the seeding games of the tournament, they realized that this was the team to beat. QUAC was placed second in their bracket and so had to battle throughout the brackets to make it to the championship game.

“Everyone played very well and kept the intensity level up for the entire game. QUAC ended up winning 11-5,” said Hayes. “[I’m] so very proud of the team for sticking to the game plan and helping and supporting each other throughout.”

The QUAC water polo team was a diverse group, including three women players, team members who had never competed at a Gay Games, and players ranging from college age to middle-age water polo veterans.

“From the opening to closing ceremony everyone seemed to have a great time competing, hooking up with old friends, making new ones and exploring a different culture,” said Hayes.

“Everyone seemed so happy just to be there that it was [as] if the competition aspect was almost secondary. Each night there were numerous parties and activities that no one was wanting for something fun to do.”

With this win, QUAC’s water polo team has taken the title of the world’s best gay and lesbian water polo team.

QUAC’s lone swimming entrant at the Gay Games, Val Mansfield, competed in four races.

Although he didn’t place in his age category, the experience of competing against an international field of backstroke and crawl enthusiasts added to his stamina in a swim tournament arena. He is expecting to continue to compete in upcoming IGLA and national swim tournaments.

A surprise silver medal went to first-time Gay Games bowler, Larry Lee. “John Bennett and I had signed up for the singles and doubles events. We did not sign up for teams [four people] as we were the only bowlers from Utah,” said Lee. “When we got to Cologne we asked if there were any openings on teams. The day of the team event we arrived at the bowling center and discovered that we had been placed on different teams. I was with three Germans.”

Lee made it to the finals in all his events, which were singles, doubles and the team event.

His team placed second in their division. He and the team won the silver medal the day before his birthday, Aug. 6.

“In six days, I bowled 21 games and threw my ball more than 500 times. My left thigh is still tight and sore,” said Lee. “The bowling took six days and unfortunately, the only other event I got to see was our Utah Water Polo Team beating a California team.”

Also unfortunately, Bennett, the member of Team Utah who has attended the most Gay Games representing the state and who bowled alongside Lee, did not medal.

Utah’s women’s fast-pitch softball players who played on the Paris team also won medals.

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in the fast-pitch tournament and then gold in the slow-pitch tournament,” said Nancy Joyce, who joined the Paris team with her partner. “All in all, we played 16 games in six days. There were 12 women on our team: three from Paris, three from Berlin, two from Salt Lake City, one from the Netherlands, one from Canada, one from England, one from Australia, for a total of four languages.”

Joyce and her partner traveled to Cologne a week before the games to practice with the team. “Eight of us lived together in an apartment, which I believe contributed to the great camaraderie that our team developed,” said Joyce.

She added that the coach spoke English with the team, which in turn encouraged the team to communicate in English, with a bit of German on the side. But they all learned different cheers in all four languages.

“We were the only international softball team and it was incredible to see how we rallied in the end to win the gold medal in the slow-pitch tournament, playing like a team that had played together for years,” said Joyce. “Playing on an international team is a great way to meet new friends. Once a small group of French women smiled at us and started speaking French to us.

We had to apologize and tell them that we didn’t speak French even though we had BK Paris T-shirts on. They laughed.”

Team Hardwood, Utah’s men basketball team, did not fare well at Gay Games VIII. After winning silver at the Chicago Gay Games four years ago, the team moved up to the 35+ category, expecting that their experience would dominate in the age category. According to Ralph Ingersoll, most of the teams in their division had players that were 6 feet 8 inches or taller, which made defending against the other teams particularly difficult. Coach Stewart Ralphs is Team Hardwood’s tallest player at 6 feet 7 inches tall. “We got second in every game we played,” said Ingersoll, meaning that the team didn’t win a game. But the team had a great time and experienced Cologne and the Gay Games as any 35-year-old or older male could.

As predicted, more Europeans attended the Gay Games VIII than originally registered to participate. Final numbers estimated 9,500 registrants in the sporting and cultural events, with another 800 or more attending at the opening ceremonies. Gay Games organizers had estimated 8,000 registrants, so they beat their predictions. The numbers may mean that they

have made money for the international nonprofit, gay and lesbian sporting organization.

“The opening ceremonies were amazing.

Before the ceremonies all of the athletes met outside the stadium and got organized by team,” said Lee. “This was the first time we got to see everyone together and it was amazing to see the teams from so many countries. We traded our [Team] Utah pins for other team pins and had a little time to meet people from other teams. I don’t know how it happened but I got to help carry the Team Utah banner into the stadium.”

Though it did not boast the largest attendance at a Gay Games, this year’s event assembled over 10,000 visitors in Cologne during a worldwide recession for an international gay event, making it a huge success. A few surprises accompanied Gay Games VIII, including Ford Motor Company, an official sponsor, handing over the six vehicles that were used as official travel vehicles for Gay Games German staff preparing for the games, the City of Cologne extending the drinking curfew from 10 p.m. to midnight after the games began, and a police escort of team trial cyclists after their finals to the city centre of Cologne in honor all Gay Games participants.

“I had the time of my life,” added Lee. “I will remember and cherish this week in Cologne forever.”

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HE ROAD TO MY BEDROOM is fraught with danger and excitement.

Being a gravity-enhanced person, I’m drawn to air-conditioned spaces like a moth is to a flame, lest the inevitable flood of perspiration be unleashed that could rival the flow of the Great Teton Dam Flood of 1976. (Just in case you were wondering, I have an ironclad alibi to prove I was not even present at that catastrophe. If you check the records of the Language Training Mission in Provo, you will find that I was being held prisoner there and forced to learn Japanese.) So, in order to preserve lives and save a fortune on antiperspirant, I moved a while ago into the basement apartment of a house. I figured that since food stays fresher when kept in a refrigerator, the cool climate of a basement would be just perfect in order to slow the pace of my meteoric melt down. I found the climate in the basement, though very much similar to Antarctica, was perfect for me.

One lazy afternoon, after I had been in this place for a couple of weeks, and had become comfortable with my surroundings, I found myself lying naked on the sofa watching True Blood and sipping a Mai Tai. I believe that this is how God intended us to enjoy the delights of television. Naked and tipsy, especially while watching an eye-candy-rich show like True Blood.

Suddenly, the door burst open and in rushed a strange man, whom I had never seen before.

He was calling out for Jim. He passed on through the living room and proceeded to go back into the bedrooms calling “Jim, Jim where are you?�

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about the living room for any article of clothing, or a table cloth, doily, or anything else with which to cover up. The best I could come up with was two throw pillows from the couch.

I remembered the story about when an unknown naked intruder entered Queen Elizabeth’s bed chamber in the middle of the night, and how Mrs. Windsor diffused the situation by engaging the prowler in clever conversation and offering tea.

With that supreme example of queenly decorum in mind, clutching the pillows to hide the royal jewelry, and trying to retain some modicum of dignity in the process, I called out to the man and asked if I could help him. He returned to the living room, still asking for Jim. It took me about three minutes of earnest urging to convince him that Jim had moved out, and I was the new tenant.

It was like a scene straight from a porno movie, and in other circumstances, could well have been the subject of a different kind of column.

But alas this guy looked a little unstable, if not dangerous. I could see the tabloid headline now, “Naked, Make-up-less Queen Found Murdered.�

Oh the horror, to meet my maker without my face on! Thankfully the confused man finally left. To this day however, I still leave my door unlocked on the off chance the porno dream sequence should present itself. Hint, hint!

Just recently my landlord decided to move into the unit upstairs and approached me about sharing my computer connection and satellite TV service to help us all save a little money.

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my delight, moving in with the landlord was a very hunky, muscularly magnificent piece of eye candy of a roommate. Tragically, the gay-dar again, read zero.

Luckily I had just finished a “very private workout� to a Broke Straight Boys DVD and was getting dressed, when they knocked on the door and asked if they could come in and install a wireless router on my computer.

Well, my computer is located in the Inner Sanctum, the Holy of Holies, the Forbidden Palace of my bedroom. Admittedly, a high traffic area, but strictly off limits to our non-curious hetero brethren. Hesitantly, I invited them both back into the bedroom, where, to my dismay, and extreme embarrassment, and with both of them looking over my shoulder, on the screen was a page of thumbnail photos of porn. With the speed and dexterity of a striking cobra, I rushed to the computer and closed that page.

To my horror, the page behind was a full screen shot of Bel-Ami’s best, Lucas Rigeston ... uhh ... playing a spirited game of leap frog with Johan Paulik.

What is a queen to do except apologize and close the page. The landlord and the hunky roommate didn’t utter a sound. There hasn’t been this much tension in a room since the time I was forced into a public weigh-in at Weight Watchers, but I digress. I had to restrain myself from breaking into the song “The Internet Is For Porn� from Avenue Q. As the hunky roommate worked on the computer, I tried to discreetly close the door of the closet, which displayed several sequined ball gowns, feather boas and other assorted queenly necessities. Thank god the dildo drawer was closed!

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Transgender Care: Primary Healthcare/ Physicals Pre-Operation Guidance MTF/FTM Hormones Travel Medications

Specialty Care for: Smoking Cessation Diabetes & Insulin Resistance High Blood Pressure Low Thyroid Low Testosterone Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome

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