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assistant editor JoSelle Vanderhooft arts & entertainment editor Tony Hobday graphic designer Christian Allred contributors Chris Azzopardi, Lynn

Beltran, Turner Bitton, Dave Brousseau, Brad Di Iorio, Chef Drew Ellswroth, Greg Fox, H. Rachelle Graham, Bob Henline, Tony Hobday, Christopher Katis, Keith Orr, Petunia Pap-Smear, Anthony Paull, Steven Petrow, Hunter Richardson, Ruby Ridge, Ryan Shattuck, A.E. Storm, JoSelle Vanderhooft, Ben Williams, Troy Williams, D’Anne Witkowski, Rex Wockner contributing photographers Ted Berger, Eric Ethington, Honey Rachelle Graham, Chris Lemon, Brent Marrott, Carlos Navales, Scott Perry, Deb Rosenberg, Chuck Wilson sales manager Brad Di Iorio office manager Tony Hobday distribution Brad Di Iorio, Ryan Benson, Gary Horenkamp, Nancy Burkhart publisher

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NATIONAL NEWS

BY REX WOCKNER

Ken Mehlman Comes Out Ken Mehlman, George W. Bush’s 2004 campaign chief and the former chairman of the Republican National Committee, came out of the closet Aug. 25 in an interview with The Atlantic.

He is the most powerful Republican in history to openly identify as gay.

He previously had denied being gay in published reports.

“It’s taken me 43 years to get comfortable with this part of my life,” Mehlman said.

“Everybody has their own path to travel, their own journey, and for me, over the past few months, I’ve told my family, friends, former colleagues and current colleagues, and they’ve been wonderful and supportive. The process has been something that’s made me a happier and better person. It’s something I wish I had done years ago.”

Mehlman’s leadership positions in the GOP came during the party’s most anti-gay period. He was George W. Bush’s political director during Bush’s first term as president, served as Bush-Cheney campaign manager in the homophobic 2004 campaign, and chaired the RNC from 2005 to 2007.

“His tenure as RNC chairman and his time at the center of the Bush political machine coincided with the Republican Party’s attempts to exploit anti-gay prejudices and cement the allegiance of social conservatives,” The Atlantic said.

Raw Story noted, “Some believe Bush’s support for anti-gay marriage measures carried him to victory (in 2004), particularly in Ohio, which had a gay marriage measure on the ballot.”

The Atlantic reported that Mehlman has been making amends behind the scenes on exactly that issue, revealing that he is significantly involved in the Proposition 8 federal lawsuit masterminded by the American Foundation for Equal Rights and superstar attorneys Ted Olson and David Boies.

AFER’s Chad Griffin said Mehlman’s contributions to the group have been “tremendous.”

“When we achieve ... equality, he will be one of the people to thank for it,” Griffin stated.

In September, Mehlman is chairing a major AFER fund-raiser that already has raised $1 million, Griffin told the Towleroad blog.

But as praiseworthy as such moves may be, some of Mehlman’s homosexual brothers are demanding more.

Blogger Mike Rogers, who leaked the story of Mehlman’s coming out just before The Atlantic released it, wrote: “Ken Mehlman is horridly homophobic and no matter how orchestrated his coming out is, our community should hold him accountable for his past. ... I want to hear from Ken that he is sorry for being the architect of the 2004 Bush reelection campaign. ... I want to hear from Ken that he is sorry for the pressing of two Federal Marriage Amendments as political tools. ... And those

state marriage amendments.

I want to hear him apologize for every one of those, too.”

Blogger Joe. My. God. picked up Rogers’ post and called Mehlman a “repulsive ... homophobic scumbag asshat.”

Equality California ExFormer Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman, who came out as gay on Aug. 25. ecutive Director Geoff Kors commented: “I’m glad he final- that) he helped pass, and spend the rest of his ly came out and glad he’s raising money and life working to achieve equality and justice working to undo the tremendous damage he for the community he is part of that he used did to LGBT people. He needs to acknowledge for selfish political purposes.” the damage he caused and apologize for the Kors said Mehlman also should urge lives he’s ruined, raise millions of dollars to George W. Bush to join his wife, Laura, in overturn every one of the state constitution- supporting legalization of same-sex maral amendments (banning same-sex marriage riage.

Scott Long Leaves Human Rights Watch Scott Long resigned Aug. 23 as director of Human Rights Watch’s LGBT Rights Program.

In a note to friends, Long wrote: “In midJuly I suffered a pulmonary embolism of a fairly unpleasant sort. While running to catch a bus on a New York street, I saw a blinding effusion of white light, amid which several spangled and bell-bottomed figures vaguely resembling ABBA beckoned me to an eternal disco complete with spinning ball. Yanked back from their blandishments by a superior fashion sense, I spent a couple of weeks in intensive care. I had plenty of time lying in a bendable bed with an IV dripping, to compose, like Woody Allen, lists of the things that make life worth living: the last movement of Bruckner’s Third Symphony; ‘Sit Down, I Think I Love You’ as covered by the Staccatos, with that harpsichord and those violins; the closing pages of ‘Lolita’; W. H. Auden as sung by Cleo Laine. Somewhere in the middle of the lists, I realized that working for Human Rights Watch wasn’t on them.”

Long said he likely will pursue a fellowship at Harvard University, from which he received his Ph.D., and write a book “about what’s moral and what’s immoral about ‘international solidarity,’ and what’s worked and what hasn’t in campaigns for sexual rights.”

“Scott’s exemplary dedication and diligence has been an inspiration to us all,” said Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran and a member of HRW’s LGBT Advisory Committee.

“His articulate and relentless defense of LGBT rights everywhere is unparalleled, and his tremendous efforts on this front have been a guiding voice for justice and equality.”

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In addition to amassing a long list of accomplishments during his eight-year tenure at HRW, Long occasionally sparked controversy. In June, HRW issued an apology to British gay leader Peter Tatchell for what HRW Executive Director Kenneth Roth called Long’s “inappropriate and disparaging comments” about Tatchell in recent years.

California Legislature Ups the Ante in Marriage Wars The California Assembly passed the Civil Marriage Religious Freedom Act on Aug. 19 in a 46-25 vote. It previously passed the Senate 23-11 and is now en route to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Introduced by Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, and promoted by Equality California and the California Council of Churches, the bill redundantly protects clergy members from having to perform civil marriages that conflict with their religious beliefs.

It also redundantly protects religious institutions from losing tax-exempt status for refusing to perform any civil marriage, and deepens the distinction in state law between religious and civil marriage by defining the latter as a civil contract that requires a stateissued marriage license.

Both of the “protections” in the bill already exist throughout the United States, including California.

“Opponents of marriage equality have falsely claimed that allowing same-sex couples to marry will force clergy to violate the tenets of their faiths,” said EQCA Executive Director Geoff Kors. “This bill should alleviate any concerns that restoring marriage equality will require clergy to perform weddings inconsistent with their faith.”

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Quips & Quotes ❝

I will remain a faithful supporter of everything that Richard said tonight at the rally. I would not have agreed to allow this to happen had I not 100 percent agreed with every accusation that was made and had a very strong belief in the power of ...this community to make changes that may be hard for the sake of our community’s well-being.”

—Rally for Equality organizer Turner Bitton in a Facebook comment about Richard Matthews’ call for Utah AIDS Foundation Director Stan Penfold’s resignation

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I believe due to the current lack of resources it is healthy to review not only the mission of the Utah Aids Foundation, its management and the structure of the organization to see if its effect in reaching its goals helping those with HIV/ Aids and HIV Prevention. … I also think it’s about time this subject of the UAF focus to be open to our community and not limited to Stan Penfield and the UAF Board.”

—Bradley Gubbler in the same discussion

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A quotation mark instead of an apostrophe?

Really? And presumably the perpetrator was trying to denote that there are gay people inside, not that it belonged to them.”

—Commenter “AdmNaismith” on AMERICAblog’s post about the Pride Center vandalism

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BYU is ranked sixth in the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender-unfriendly category, a fact of which it is proud. BYU spokesman Todd Hollingshead said on Fox 13 News that the school is happy with the ranking and hopes to defend the top spot next year. To each his own, I guess. But if I was a prospective college student, I definitely know where I wouldn’t want to go.”

—Daily Utah Chronicle writer Alex Noshrivan, in an opinion piece contrasting the University of Utah and BYU in terms of protections for gay and transgender students.

Come Visit the California Legislature Calls for Census Count of LGBTs The California Assembly passed a resolution Aug. 23 urging Congress and President Barack Obama to require that the next census count LGBT Americans.

Introduced by Sen. Christine Kehoe, DSan Diego, the measure passed 49-25.

It previously passed the Senate 22-9.

“All segments of our nation’s diverse population need to be counted by the U.S. Census,” said Equality California Executive Director Geoff Kors. “By ensuring that the LGBT community is counted, our state and federal government will have the necessary information to address the needs of our community.”

Kehoe said: “LGBT families and households are disproportionately underserved and more likely to live in poverty. We call on the U.S. Congress and the president to ensure that every person living in the United States is counted and has access to culturally competent health and human services.”

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California Senate Unanimously Votes to Repeal Anti-gay Law The California Senate on Aug. 23 unanimously passed a bill to repeal a 1950s-era law that instructs the California Department of Mental Health to conduct research into the “causes and cures of homosexuality.”

The repeal previously passed the Assembly and heads to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger after an Assembly concurrence vote.

“It is outrageous that California law requires the state to expend scarce resources in a futile attempt to ‘cure’ homosexuality,” said Equality California Executive Director Geoff Kors. “This offensive code must be stricken from the books immediately.”

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LOC AL NEWS

Debate Over Utah AIDS Foundation Continues

by Joselle Vanderhooft

Nearly three weeks ago, a group of local activists called for the resignation of Stan Penfold, executive director of the Utah AIDS Foundation and for a restructuring in the organization’s board and programming.

Activist Richard Matthews called for Penfold’s resignation during the Rally For Equality, which Turner Bitton organized on Aug. Stan Penfold 14. Shortly after the rally, Matthews posted a number of criticisms of UAF to his Facebook.

These included the organization’s cutting back HIV prevention programming, lack of programming for HIV-positive youth or a youth-focused prevention program, limited access to the foundation’s testing site and a small board of trustees. He also wrote that Penfold was rarely in the office, that his position on the Salt Lake City Council was interfering with his job, and that Penfold had not worked with other community groups to address a shortfall in funding for low-income people with HIV/AIDS in 2009.

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

By all accounts, this is due more to lack of leadership than lack of funds,” Matthews wrote. “It does not appear that the leadership is particularly passionate about HIV prevention. The UAF needs our help, we must act. Our young people deserve better.

We deserve better.”

“I have received dozens of private messages from former donors, former staffers, former clients, and current and former volunteers. The vast majority of which expressed enthusiastic support for this campaign,” Matthews recently told QSaltLake. “I do believe the whole community supports a change in our approach to HIV prevention.”

Within days, the post garnered nearly 100 comments on Facebook as well as widespread discussion throughout the community. As the discussion unfolded, Shawn Jackson, the chair of UAF’s board of trustees, said that he called for a meeting between himself, board vice chair Lon Jenkins, Matthews, Bitton and Penfold.

He said the five men walked away from the meeting “with greater knowledge and some ideas about how to reach 18 to 21-year-old” men who have sex with men, the group among which HIV infections are growing the fastest and who Matthews said UAF was not serving well.

“We actually were able to implement some of those ideas that first weekend after our meeting,” said Jackson. “I think we are all very lucky to have two such dedicated individuals who are both on board to help improve our community.”

The ideas, said Penfold, all focused on prevention efforts. On Aug. 20, Penfold said UAF’s outreach team went to clubs that cater to patrons under 21 and passed out condoms, safer sex packets and cards for a free HIV test at the foundation.

“We’re going to do more of that now, to be more visible in that population because that is an increasingly high risk population,” said Penfold.

On Aug. 27, Penfold said that gay and bisexual men 22 and under who show up at the foundation’s HIV test site will receive a free HIV test.

“It’ll take us awhile to get the word out, but we’re starting it at the test site immediately,” he said.

Helping Youth Penfold said that UAF is aware of the difficulties in reaching young gay and bisexual men, and is considering how to meet these challenges.

“All of us are frustrated,” he said. “I know there are 19-year-olds getting positive results on an HIV test, so where, as a community, do we have an opportunity to interact with them before they’re sexually active? If they’re showing up at 19 with an HIV reactive result, they’re sexually active at 18, 17. They’re not always identifying as gay.”

Worse, said Penfold, Utah schools prohibit safer sex education and “talking about homosexuality as an OK lifestyle,” meaning that many youth don’t know how HIV is transmitted.

“I believe we have been successful with the ‘use a condom’ message in the past,” said Jackson. “We all need to remember that our youth are not receiving that message, and they don’t see HIV as a big concern anymore.”

Another challenge, Penfold noted, is that youth are using the internet to meet up for sex instead of going to clubs, making older prevention efforts ineffective.

“They’re not in the bars,” he said, “And some are going to straight clubs even though they might be having same-sex sex, but they’re not showing up at gay clubs because they’re not out. We’re assessing [if] anyone is doing outreach into the straight underage clubs. [We’re asking] do we have access there, can we do access there?”

In the past, said Penfold, UAF has partnered with Planned Parenthood to do outreach in straight bars and clubs.

“Sometimes Planned Parenthood can let into some of them when we might not be able to,” he said.

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Community Outreach But the problem, say some activists, is that Penfold has not reached out to other groups, even when they have offered to help. As QSaltLake reported in a previous article, the paper was on an e-mail list last fall where People With AIDS Coalition of Utah Director Toni Johnson and other community leaders kept asking Penfold to meet with them to talk about the needs of people with HIV and AIDS after the state’s Ryan White funding was cut off. Penfold, who was in the final phases of a successful run for Salt Lake City Council, did not attend the meetings, even after the election was over.

Further, some critics have said that Penfold has deliberately interfered with funding for people with HIV/AIDS. Shortly after Jackson posted an open letter to the community on Facebook addressing some of Matthews’ points, Stuart Merrill, former director of the Campaign to End Aids–Utah, sent him and QSaltLake a message in which he blasted Penfold and called Jackson’s letter “wordy; full of hyperbole and outright lies.”

Merrill told Jackson that Penfold had deliberately gotten in his way when he lobbied the state Legislature to augment Utah’s AIDS Drug Assistance Program, a federally funded program which helps low-income people with HIV/AIDS pay for their prescriptions.

“The first year I was lobbying for additional funding at the Utah State Legislature I received calls from friends in the Legislature stating that Stan had contacted our friends on the Hill to tell them not to listen to me, that I was not telling the truth, and that we did not need additional funding,” Merrill wrote. “I found out Stan had called [openly gay state politicians] Scott McCoy, Jackie Biskupski, and Chris Johnson, among others to disseminate these lies about me. Whatever his motivation he was clearly trying to undermine my personal credibility.”

After this, Merrill said that he asked the Utah Department of Health to back him up by saying that they, in fact, needed the money. When he tried to talk to Penfold, Merrill said that Penfold would not take his call and left his office “telling everyone he suddenly fell ill” when Merrill called and said he’s coming to his office to talk in person.

Merrill also said Penfold did the same thing again when he left the state and Johnson, his cousin, took over his lobbying efforts.

“Every time Stan was confronted he released eloquently void statements and avoided all subsequent community meetings,” he wrote. “Stan’s actions to this day horrify me and shock me. Stan’s actions did negatively impact the health of UAF clients.”

Previously, Merrill had brought up some of these concerns on Matthew’s initial Facebook post calling for Penfold’s resignation. When asked (before Merrill sent his message to Jackson) if his allegations of sabotage were true, Penfold said: “This is my perspective. Stuart did an

incredible job and has been the only one I’m aware of that has successfully lobbied the state for HIV-specific funding. And he actually got some out of them. That’s the only time I’ve ever seen it happen.”

“I guess I’m sorry he didn’t think I was supportive enough,” he added.

In his open letter, Jackson concurred.

“Stan, the board and staff have never told the state of Utah that no additional funds were needed for HIV. In fact we have always said that we could use all the money we could get for HIV and AIDS,” he wrote. “Stan has actively voiced how the state should step up its funding for this and other programs. This has always been a priority. The Foundation has lobbied the legislature for funding. The Foundation has also collaborated with several entities to lobby the legislature on legislation that would affect Medicaid and people living with AIDS. This past year the Foundation partnered with Planned Parenthood to affect important legislation around prostitution laws that would affect the Foundation’s constituents.”

When asked about criticisms that he had refused to work with other community organizations, Penfold said the only example he could think of was his refusal of an advertising grant from the Utah Department of Health in 2008.

“Under the Bush administration there was a huge shift in focus away from prevention programs and, we felt, away from prevention programs directed at gay men,” he said.

“They focused almost all their resources on [HIV testing], so we were in the process of working through our contact with the state and we really agonized over it.”

Ultimately, Penfold said that UAF’s board voted to turn down the money in order to create a prevention program that targeted gay and bisexual men “with direct, blunt supportive messages” about condom use and safer sex.

What Now?

Although Matthews said that UAF implemented some changes immediately after the meeting, “any discussion of the allegations that had been raised was avoided.”

Further, Bitton, one of Matthews’ most outspoken supporters, said that he would be taking a limited role in the campaign to change UAF. Shortly after the meeting, Bitton announced he was stepping down from administering the Facebook petition calling for Penfold to resign. In an open letter to the community posted to Facebook moments before Bitton removed himself, he wrote that he “lacked the passion that Richard has” for the issue, and that his attempts to work toward a solution during the meeting resulted in “essentially [throwing] Richard under a bus.”

“I voiced my concerns about a plan calling for the resignation of Stan, and instead called upon the UAF to work to better its programming and its image within our community. I also let it be known that I would work with the UAF toward this goal,” Bitton wrote.

“To Richard, I am sorry for what he believed was my ‘jockeying’ for a seat on the board of the UAF,” Bitton continued, noting that he had no intention of seeking or accepting such a position. “Let me make it perfectly clear that what may appear as weakness on my behalf is merely an attempt to see lasting change brought to the UAF through dialogue and positive approaches to the future of this community.”

“I ask you to stand with Richard in his protest of the UAF because his heart is true and his grievances are just,” he added, before reminding readers that they were “stakeholders in the future” of the organization.

Bitton noted that he and Matthews have scheduled more meetings with Jenkins, Penfold and Jackson.

“There is a lot of disagreement on how that [change to HIV prevention in Utah] should be done,” Matthews said. “I feel that most people that are familiar with the foundation and its work over it’s 25 years of service agree that its time for new leadership at the foundation. While many of them like Stan Penfold, most would agree that 11 years as the director is long enough in a position that constantly relies on new ideas and innovations.” “[An increase in HIV infections] is a problem the entire country is facing,” said Jackson. “That is one of the reasons we have been so deliberate about evaluating and re-designing our prevention programming. We know that what used to work no longer does. The Board and the staff have been looking at programs in other communities to see what is working, and what can we modify and use here to have the greatest impact.”

Bitton and Matthews have also proposed 11 such new ideas and innovations, which are as follows: 1) The director should accept a 12-month probationary term, during which he must complete at least half of the changes to follow. He must: A) raise donations to the UAF by 10 percent, B) reinstate programming for HIV+/AIDS individuals, support groups C) accept a reduction in pay to compensate for the loss of donations.

2) The director and board should work together to amend the bylaws of the UAF to limit the term of a director to five years, at the end of which the director will become a member of the board for a minimum of two years, after which they will be eligible to become director for five more years.

3) The board should permanently increase the number of members on the board to at least 15, creating subcommittees for the various tasks to be performed by the UAF. 4) The board should amend the bylaws to require board members to undergo and evaluation every two years where they must show that they are: A) involved in other community events that raise the visibility of the UAF. B) prove that they have continually educated themselves and thus presented new ideas to the board. If either is found to be unsatisfactory, the board member should be replaced.

5) The board should promptly and immediately increase diversity on the board to include those who are typically unrepresented on the board, i.e. trangender [people], those under 21, Hispanics and minorities, and those affiliated with community organizations.

6) The UAF should endorse and encourage participation in programs for prevention at other organizations, i.e. FAYME at the Pride Center [a group for young gay and bisexual men], SimplySocial, and OUTlet.

The UAF should also understand that it is a community-based organization and thus it should become not only an active member in the community but work with other organizations as the standard bearer for the fight again HIV/AIDS; essentially it is the responsibility of the UAF to act as a leader and channel of ideas to the community as a whole, as Richard has suggested.

7) Beginning immediately, the UAF

should implement a program of education at bars, 21 and under clubs, and activity groups such as SimplySocial. It is the responsibility of the UAF to work as the first line of education in the areas that are typically inaccessible to organizations such as the Pride Center.

8) The UAF should hold age-, income-, and accessibility-appropriate fund raising, organizing, and outreach events. It is irresponsible for the UAF to assume that the constituency in the most danger (younger, less economically free individuals) can afford to pay $100 for a night at the Hotel Monaco [for a ticket to Monaco’s annual Red Party fundraiser].

9) The UAF should accept immediately that it must be the channel of feedback on the issues of HIV/AIDS, and as a result should hold a quarterly board meeting that is open and accessible to the public. Meetings can be conducted like a city council

Defense: DA Should Step Down in Bell-Fair Beating Case Defense attorneys for seven suspects accused of beating a South Salt Lake City gay couple in 2008 have asked a judge to bar the Salt Lake County District Attorney from prosecuting their clients.

The suspects are accused of beating David James “DJ” Bell and his partner, Dan Fair, two years ago on July 4. At the time, the suspects were holding an all-night Fourth of July party at their home when two of the partygoers’ toddlers walked next door to the Bell-Fair household. Bell later said the children stood in his doorway and asked for some Kool-Aid, which he provided. Soon after, Tapululu Latu, the mother of one child, retrieved the children after calling Bell a pedophile and, according to Bell, telling him to “lock your doors.”

Shortly thereafter, several of the partygoers broke into the house and severely beat Bell and his partner.

Bell was charged with attempted kidnapping and burglary. He was found not guilty in Sept. 2009.

Although Latu told the Deseret News that the partygoers had beaten the men, charges were not filed against any suspects at the time. District Attorney Lohra Miller’s office also did not investigate the attack until after Bell’s trial had ended.

Charges were filed against the seven suspects this March.

During an Aug. 26 hearing, Miller took the stand to address the defense’s concerns over her continuing involvement in the prosecution. Defense attorneys have said that Miller promised not to prosecute the suspects if they testified during Bell’s trial, and that they would not have let their clients testify otherwise.

During Miller’s questioning, defense attorney Clayton Simms presented the district attorney with an August 2008 news release her department issued. According

to Simms, the release said that Miller’s office would not pursue charges against the children’s parents, who are among the suspects.

The Salt Lake Tribune reported that Miller first testified that the release was not accurate because her office had not received all of the information about the case from police at the time of its issue. It then said that she later changed her testimony, saying instead that the release said it would not prosecute the parents due to the lack of sufficient evidence.

“She didn’t admit that the statement released (that she held in her hand while on the stand) was incorrect then ‘changed her mind’ a few minutes later,” said Bell.

“The statement she held in her hand was something that she needed to look over briefly before realizing what it was. ... She recognized what it was and corrected Mr. Simms.”

Throughout the trial, Bell has expressed dissatisfaction with Simms on his blog at injustice801.com, accusing him of “putitng words” in the mouths of those he questions.

Bell also disputed Simms’ claim that the defendants were ever promised immunity from prosecution if they testified during Bell’s trial.

“There were no promises made to anyone during my trial, and that needs to be clear,” said Bell after reading the Tribune article.

Bell added that while Miller’s office initially declined to pursue charges against those accused of attacking him, “new information was brought to light that allowed them to look into a different theory, different charges than those that were originally screened, and justice for Dan [Fair], an ‘innocent victim’ (though we all know I was too).”

“That does not mean charges could not

meeting with limited time to speak, and the director must always be present to be spoken to directly.

10) The UAF should undergo a significant restructuring, training and advisement period from a certified instruction agency. The UAF should also be required to undergo training on the proper treatment of volunteers and how to effectively manage them. The director should also be responsible to meet with all volunteers regularly so that they have a chance to speak and voice their concerns directly to the director.

11) The director of the UAF shall once a month publish, release and distribute a report on the vitality, needs and direction of the foundation. It is the responsibility of the director to ensure that the needs of the organization are met and as a result it is time for him to become accessible to and answerable to the community as a whole.

be filed in the future within the four year statute of limitations given to such crimes committed [like the felony riot and assault charges facing the defendants],” he continued. “The DA’s office, for any reason or no reason at all, could have decided at any time between the date of our attack and July 4, 2012, to pursue charges.”

Bell said that he was “angered” by these

Ricky Ian Peace and Lisa Rita Aiono

claims.

“What they [defense attorneys] fail to recognize to the public is that if their clients did not testify against me, they would not have had a case against me in the first place,” he said. “Their testimony of lies was the only thing the prosecution had against me to go on, and it would have destroyed the case against me completely.”

Third District Court Judge Robert Faust is expected to rule on whether or not Miller’s office can remain with the prosecution before Sept. 20.

Charged in the attacks are: Ieti David Mageo (A.K.A. “Punisher”), aggravated burglary, aggravated assault and rioting, all felonies.

Ricky Ian Peace, aggravated burglary, assault and rioting, all felonies.

Ietitaia Tevita Nuusila, aggravated burglary and assault along with rioting, all felonies; misdemeanor assault and giving false information to a police officer.

Angelina Janae Dibella, Marsha Rae Finau and Lisa Rita Aiono, felony rioting.

Dibella; misdemeanor assault..

Many of those arrested have criminal histories, including aggravated burglary, aggravated assault and criminal mischief. Q

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Guv Hosts Utah Log Cabin Republicans

Drag Queen Car Wash The Royal Court of the Golden Spike Empire will host its “Divas and Dudes: Car Wash and BBQ” for to benefit the Utah AIDS Foundation this month. This will be an event for people ages 18 and over.

WHEN: Sept. 4, 4–8 p.m.

WHERE: Club Jam, 751 N. 300 West COST: $3 per car, $5 suggested donation per plate for barbecue INFO: Jared Petersen at jared.d.petersen@gmail.com.

by Michael Aaron

Over 100 people packed the Governor’s Mansion on Aug. 24 as Gov. Gary Herbert and his wife Jeanette hosted the Utah Log Cabin Republicans at an annual reception that started three years ago by then-Governor Jon M. Huntsman. While Huntsman seemed more at ease in a room full of gay, lesbian, transgender guests and their allies, the Herberts were gracious hosts, though the speeches were more generic than some guests had hoped.

“The governor does not necessarily tailor his speeches for particular groups,” said the governor’s Communications Director Angie Welling. “In fact, I can probably give his campaign stump speeches myself.”

But to many attendees, the fact that they were sitting in the mansion in the presence of the governor and other elected officials was victory enough.

“Here we are in Utah, of all places, being invited to the governor’s mansion,” marveled attendee Jim Dabakis before the gathering.

“You don’t see this in Texas or many other Republican states.”

Herbert welcomed the crowd, promising a more social than political tone to the event.

“We’re not here to speechify,” he said. “We are happy to have you here and certainly want you to feel at home.”

First lady Jeanette Herbert repeated a joke from last year, saying that the mansion is “not bad for public housing.”

Lt. Gov. Greg Bell probably came closest to actually addressing the crowd of gay and gayfriendly people.

“Some of the greatest rewards of being in this position is meeting and working with people of all persuasions,” Bell said.

“My son, who has a razor-sharp wit, told me the other day, ‘I finally concluded that every single person just wants their life to be taken seriously,’” Bell said. “The sooner we realize that, and understand that, the better off we all will be.”

Newly-appointed Log Cabin Republicans Executive Director R. Clarke Cooper attended the event and addressed the crowd, saying he heard a speech earlier that day by Florida governor Jeb Bush, under whom he served as deputy director from 1999 to 2001. Bush was in Salt Lake City addressing educational reform and the Utah Governor’s Excellence in Education Commission.

Cooper spoke in veterans terms of state Republican parties acknowledging “deltas” (differences) while working on “common denominators.”

“Where do we find agreement and where do we work from there,” he asked. “Within our party, there are some deltas, but we have commonalities.”

“Log Cabin Republicans believe in limited government, strong national defense, free

Empowerment Workshop

Log Cabin Republicans Director R. Clarke Cooper, Utah Governor Gary Herbert and Utah Log Cabin President Mel Nimer markets, low taxes, personal responsibility and individual liberty,” Cooper said.

Gov. Herbert recognized gay allies Gary and Millie Watts, saying they “go back further than we want to talk about.”

“They are prominent and good people,” he said.

He also recognized Dabakis, saying he was a “groupie” of his when he was an on-air personality at KTALK Radio.

“You’re all a very important part of the fabric of Utah,” Herbert continued. “There will be things we agree on and some things in which we will disagree.”

He lauded Utah Log Cabin Republicans and Utah Chapter president Melvin Nimer, saying, “Melvin and the Log Cabin Republicans are up on [Utah’s] Capitol Hill. We will talk about political issues and we will find common ground.”

Dabakis addressed the crowd saying, “These (Nimer and Herbert) are Republicans, but they are pretty cool.”

Dabakis told a story of bringing a group of young gays and lesbians to the mansion shortly after Matthew Shepard was killed in Laramie, Wyo., when Mike Leavitt was governor. The group was allotted 20 minutes with the governor, but Leavitt waived away his staff’s attempts to move him to his next appointment for the next hour and a half.

“Mike Leavitt sat and listened to stories of his own children. That was something he could relate to,” Dabakis said. “The more we get away from the vicious political rhetoric, the more human we are, and the more we find out that we are more worried about whether or not our swamp coolers work than anything else.”

Dabakis extolled the governor as one who would look more at issues of fairness than demagoguery.

Several candidates and elected officials were in the crowd as well. Congressional candidate Morgan Philpot addressed the crowd, calling for “respect for individual liberty and state sovereignty.”

Taylorsville Mayor Russ Wall and West Valley Mayor Mike Winder were also in the crowd. Both were instrumental in pass-

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ing “Common Ground” non-discrimination ordinances in their cities in the past several months.

The governor, however, is not in favor of a statewide law protecting people from discrimination in the workplace or in housing based on their sexual orientation or gender identity. “[B]ottom line is that that law isn’t good for anyone,” blogger Eric Ethington reported the governor said to him. “Business owners need to have more control over their businesses.

Say you have a man who comes to work every day and acts normal, then one day he decides to come in and act all effeminate. Well, with this law you don’t have the power to do anything even if he’s scaring away your customers.”

Ethington asked about a similar circumstance regarding a religious zealot.

“Yes but that’s in the constitution, this is a new right they’re wanting to put in,” Ethington said was the governor’s response.

Ethington then asked if he would veto a bill worded exactly like Salt Lake City’s ordinance.

“You know, I would hope that people would just do the right thing on their own and not discriminate,” Herbert told him. “I don’t think that a statewide law is necessary, if local municipalities and cities want to pass their own that’s fine but we don’t need that in Utah.”

“The governor has made it plain to us that he prefers to see solid movement at the city/ town and county level of government before the state intervenes,” said ULCR Vice President James Humphreys. “He applies this principle to most issues as a general rule.”

“In my opinion if a non-discrimination bill is passed by the legislature next year, he will sign it – that is our goal to prepare him for that eventuality,” Nimer said.

“In Utah we have a much more cordial relationship with our state officials than many states have with their respective GLBT communities,” Humphreys said. “While progress is slower than many want, progress is being made.” Q

The Utah Pride Center has announced its next Empowerment Workshop. Themed “Living as a Minority: Loving Yourself in a World Where You are Different,” it will be centered around helping participants handle the feelings of inadequacy and self-doubt that come from living in a predominantly anti-gay society. The six-week workshop will begin Sept. 6 and run each Monday from 6:30–8 p.m. through Oct. 11. Joshua Bytendorp will facilitate. Participants are asked to commit to a three-week module.

Workshops will focus on gender and sexuality issues, communication, coping skills and spirituality.

WHEN: Utah Pride Center, Middle Meeting Room, 361 N. 300 West COST: $15 for first or second threeweek module. Scholarships avail.

INFO: Joshua Bytendorp at 801-5731194.

Adopt a Furry Friend PetSmart locations in Utah and across the United States and Canada will host the PetSmart Charities Second Chance for Love National Adoption Weekend, Sept. 10–12. The event hopes to place 19,600 dogs, cats, and a variety of other shelter and rescue pets. The parking lot at the PetSmart location at 389 W. 1830 South will be a showcase of pets in need of homes. Adopters will receive food and toy samples.

INFO: PetSmart.com, 877-473-8762

Family Conference The Utah Pride Center will host “Bringing Families Back Into the Room,” a regional conference, Oct. 8–10, for families with gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer youth. The keynote speaker will be Dr. Caitlin Ryan, head of the Family Acceptance Project at San Francisco State University, which is studying ways to help families support queer children.

INFO: utahpridecenter.org.

Swim, Walk and Bike for Utahns with HIV/AIDS

Utah Pride Center Vandalized On Aug. 20 the Café Marmalade sign at the Utah Pride Center was tagged with the anti-gay slur “Fag”s,” leaving many members of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community to wonder if the misspelled word was a prank by local youth or something more sinister.

Li Nolan, an employee of the Center’s in-house bistro, discovered the vandalism at 5:30 a.m. when she arrived to open the restaurant for business.

“She was pretty terrified, not knowing if the individual or individuals [responsible for the vandalism] were present, or if she was going to find more damage inside or around the building,” said Marina Gomberg, the Center’s director of development and marketing.

Gomberg said that Nolan then called the café’s owner. By the time she arrived, so had reporters from several TV stations and newspapers, who had likely heard about the event over police radio frequencies. Gomberg herself arrived at 9 a.m. and promptly called Executive Director Valerie Larabee. By that time, she said that Marmalade employees had covered the sign with boards.

Currently, added Gomberg, the café is deciding whether they will purchase a new sign or allow the Salt Lake City Police Department’s graffiti removal team to try and clean the old one.

Just hours after the vandalism, the Utah Pride Center published a statement on its website and Facebook page saying that the graffiti would not intimidate the Center to remain silent on gay and transgender rights issues, of which it is a strong proponent.

“We realize that often times the purpose of these actions are to cause widespread fear among the members of our community,” wrote Larabee. “That is why today we are speaking out. This will not be swept under the rug. We will not be scared into silence by acts of intolerance.”

Larabee and Gomberg also said that the

tagging could have been a response to political progress that gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people have made in recent months.

“We welcome civil, respectful dialogues with those who disagree with our mission, but this kind of hate language and vandalism will not be tolerated,” said Larabee.

The Salt Lake City Police Department is currently investigating the case, but has yet to identify any suspects, said Sgt. Robin Snyder, public information officer for the department. She added that patrols in the area are paying close attention to the Center and the area around it and making frequent reports. The case is being treated as a hate crime, she said.

Snyder added that this was the first incident of vandalism at the Center that she could recall.

Gomberg said that the Center appreciated the department’s work and that of the LGBT Public Safety Committee, an organization of law enforcement offiicers and gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community members who work together to improve dialogue and relations between the two groups. The committee, she said, is aware of the situation and “is in touch should anything else happen.”

Reactions to the Center’s Facebook post about the incident were varied. While some members of the community expressed anger and sadness, others mocked the taggers’ spelling and said that they were more determined than ever to fight for gay and transgender rights.

“I won’t be intimidated. I am gay, proud and always will be,” wrote Justan Alma Peterson.

“Just remember guys, with every opposition that comes our way, we have the opportunity to grow from it!” added Heidi van Oostendorp.

Readers with any information about the vandalism at the Center are asked to call 801-799-3000.

This fall, the Utah AIDS Foundation will host three fun, active and exciting annual events to benefit its programs.

On Sept. 12, the foundation will hold its 10th Aqua Aid, a fun, poolside event featuring food, cocktails and a performance by the members of the Queer Utah Aquatic Club.

“They perform some water ballet and drag shows, they end up in the water in their wigs and it’s always really funny,” said Nathan Measom, the foundation’s development director.

Since 2008, Quinn Richins and Kerry Sanford have hosted the party at their home pool.

“It is a venue where people come, eat great food, drink and watch QUAC perform,” said Richins. “QUAC performs about four different performances, which typically end up with the team doing some sort of synchronized swimming in our pool.”

Richins and Sanford said they are “grateful” for the chance to help UAF hold the party every year because they believe in “the value and essential education and assistance” the group provides. Money from the event, said Richins, goes to a number of foundation programs and services, such as purchasing condoms and other materials for safer sex packets, testing supplies for the organization’s test sites and funding 3D (Doctors, Dudes and Dinner)—a free dinner event that brings gay and bisexual men together with health professionals for frank talks about sexual health.

“This event is a great way for people in our community to get to know what the Utah AIDS Foundation does,” said Richins, noting that UAF staff, volunteers and board members regularly attend the party.

“Without our fund-raising efforts and the support from people in our community, the Utah AIDS Foundation would not be able to implement important programs like these.”

Aqua Aid will take place at the home of Quinn Richins and Kerry Sanford, 3693 Oakview Dr. Tickets are a $50 suggested donation and can be purchased at the door.

For more information about this event call Nathan Measom at 801-487-2323.

Roughly a week later, UAF will hold its annual Walk For Life and its second annual Bike for Life. The walk will begin at Liberty Park at 9 a.m. on Sept. 18 (registration starts at 8 a.m.). Registration is free, and walkers may walk alone, with a requested Walk Buddy, with friends or even with their dogs.

Held at the same time, Bike For Life is a more strenuous activity. This year, the ride will kick off at Liberty Park and wind up Emigration Canyon. Its total length is 22 miles.

“We were really happy with the turn out last year,” said Measom. “When you start a new event you never know how it’s going to go.”

Although several bikers participated in the 2009, the inaugural ride had a few hiccups. The route changed to accommodate unexpected road construction and, as Mea-

som put it, included “a pretty grueling hill.”

In response to feedback about this and other parts of the route, the Foundation decided to send bikers up the canyon this year.

“It’s going to be more bike-friendly and a beautiful route,” said Measom.

Registration for both events is free and open now at utahaids.org. After registering, participants can create their own fund-raising web pages to collect donations.

“It’s one of the easiest ways you can support programs for people with HIV,” said Measom.

And he and the rest of the Foundation’s employees are hoping that a lot of people will turn out at all three events to do just that.

“I look at the numbers for cities our size for their AIDS walks and it just blows Salt Lake out of the water,” said Measom. “I’d like to see people in Salt Lake step up and participate in ways people in other cities do.

In Denver [for example], their walk is huge.

It would be great if we could get people to the place where we have that support as well.” Q

For more information about Aqua Aid, Bike For Life and Walk For Life visit utahaids.org.

Tooele Gay Group Says ‘Come Out’

A Tooele County woman is looking to start a social and support group for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer residents of the Western Utah county, where she says opportunities and resources for this community are difficult to come by.

“We came out here and there was absolutely nothing here, no resources or events or anything for anyone in the gay community,” said Robin Sheehy, who moved to county seat Tooele City with her partner earlier this year. Concerned, Sheehy said she wrote a letter to the city government asking if she had missed something.

“The response I got back was basically that they didn’t have any idea what LGBT stood for or what they should be doing,” she said.

So Sheehy decided to take matters into her own hands by turning to Facebook. Her page, titled “Comeout Tooele” currently has around 50 members from all over the county. Soon, Sheehy hopes that they can all meet up in person. She said she is currently contacting local businesses to see if any would be willing to host the group’s inaugural social.

In the meantime, she said that she would like more people to join the Facebook group, socialize with one another, and give her feedback on the direction in which they would like the group to go.

“There really is a need for resources out here,” she said.

To join Come Out Tooele, log in to Facebook and search for “Comeout Tooele.”

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Local Butch Lesbians, Trans People Invited to Gather in LA Utah masculine-identified lesbians and trans people who identify as butch, genderqueer and other similar identities including macha, jock and transmasculine are invited to the Butch Voices LA Conference, to be held Oct. 8–10 in West Hollywood, Calif.

The three-day conference is hosted by LEX-The Lesbian Exploratorium, producers of the “GenderPlay in Lesbian Culture” exhibit and the creators of the Lesbian Legacy Wall collage, as well as The Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Project, Christopher Street West/LA Pride and the City of West Hollywood and its Lesbian and Gay Advisory Board. The conference will focus on bringing butches of all races, sexualities and gender identities together to socialize, learn, build community and tear down stereotypes associated with butch identities.

“A lot of masculine-identified women are victims of hate crimes and harassment and all sorts of things that don’t get the media’s attention,” explained Krys Freeman, a boardmember of US National Butch Voices, an organization that inspired this conference. “Butch Voices is about a sense of community and a space where they can share their experiences, good or bad.”

“The definition of butch is being revived and expanded by a younger generation of lesbians and queers who are comfortable playing with gender, and embracing their masculinity or boyishness. We need to address this re-definition of ourselves,” said Conference Chair Jeanne Cordova. “We particularly planned the Southwest Conference to be in L.A., home of the ‘lipstick lesbian,’ as a rebellious act of butch reclamation.”

Open to butches from across the country and those from the Southwestern states in particular (Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah), the conference’s programing will explore the politics and language around the term “butch” and will feature a number of high-profile writers, activists and film directors. Kimberly

Pierce, writer/director of the film Boys Don’t Cry will lead the panel discussion “Butch in the Movies,” and keynote speakers will include Dr. Judith “Jack” Halberstam (author of Female Masculinity) and activist Carmen Vazquez.

Programming will include workshops

by Kimberly Pierce, author Jeanne Cordova, Butch Voices President Joe LeBlanc and filmmaker Cheryl Dunye. Topics will cover a range of butch issues, from the complex racial and political landscape of butch identity in the Southwestern states, to butch history and topics of butch clothing and butch participation in ballroom dancing. Some workshops, such as “What Butches and Femmes Need to Know about One Another” will address interactions between butches, femme-identified lesbians and queer people.

Overall, the conference will include 20 workshops and three performance events that will include Phranc, D’Lo, comedian Sandra Valls and Butchlalis de Panochtitlan, a Latina butch performance group.

The conference’s opening night will include the fashion show “INVINCIBLE: A Night of Daggers, Dandies, Dapper Dykes” and weekend performances will include “SWAGGER: Butch Bravado by Those Who Live it and Those Who Love It” and a butch comedy show.

Those who do not identify as butch but who are friends and allies of butches, including femmes, divas and transgender people of all gender identities, are also welcome. Registration is $50 for the entire weekend, and youth and low-income individuals can attend for $25. Ten-dollar scholarship registrations are also available.

Founded in 2009, Butch Voices is an organization of butch, stud, macha and similarly identified queer people concerned with community building, butch health and social and economic justice. Q For more information about the conference visit bvla2010.com, twitter.com/ButchVoicesLA #BVLA) or BUTCHVoices. LA on Facebook.

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ROTC-SLC to Honor Sponsors Utah’s gay and transgender-friendly color guard, the Righeously Outrageous Twirling Corps of Salt Lake City will host its annual awards banquet this month to honor its members, sponsors and supporters — including its first sponsor, Club TryAngles, and its affiliate organization, the People With AIDS Coalition of Utah.

The banquet will be held Sept. 18 at 7 p.m. at the home of a member, and catering will be donated by S & A Dutch Oven.

To RSVP contact Director Logan Brueck at director@rotcslc.com by Sept. 5. Tick-

ets for the public are $20.

During the banquet, crystal trophies will be given to sponsors, and additional sponsors will be sought. The group will also announce its plans for the coming 2011 season, its sixth.

Although the color guard had planned to put on a military ball this autumn, a lack of funds have forced this event’s cancellation. Brueck said the group hopes to raise enough money to hold the ball next year.

ROTC-SLC will also finish out its 2010 season with two other events: an open house rehearsal at the Downtown Farmers Market on Sept. 11 and an end-ofsummer barbecue in partnership with PWACU on Sept. 19 at Fairmont Park, 900 E. 2361 South.

More info about ROTC-SLC is at rotcslc.com.

Bambara Receives Community Service Honor Gay-friendly restaurateur Bambara has received a top honor from the National Restaurant Association in recognition of its support for a number of community organizations, including its annual Red Party to benefit the Utah AIDS Foundation.

The organization, which champions roughly 380,000 restaurants and hospitality-related businesses throughout the country, chose Bambara as the Utah winner of its Restaurant Neighbor award earlier this month. The award recognizes a restaurant that seeks to support its local community through philanthropic activities.

In addition to its annual Red Party, held near World AIDS Day (Dec. 1) to benefit the Utah AIDS Foundation’s programming and services, Bambara regularly holds fund raising galas for a number of other organizations. These include The Trust for Public Land and Dress for Success, a program that seeks to provide low-income women entering the workforce with work and interview-appropriate clothing. Fur-

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ther, the restaurant’s staff is involved with a number of environmentally and socially conscious food groups, such as Slow Food Utah and the Downtown Farmers Market.

Through its parent company Kimpton Hotel’s EarthCare program, Bambara also strives to use organic and sustainably farmed food and reduce its water consumption.

“Because caring is a way of being at Bambara, last year, in conjunction with Kimpton’s Monaco Salt Lake City, Bambara raised approximately $38,000 dollars in cash donations, and more than $10,000 worth of in-kind donations for various charities,” said Art Cazares, Bambara general manager.

State Restaurant Neighbor award winners are entered into consideration for the National Restaurant Association’s national awards — which come with a $5,000 contribution to the charity of the winner’s choice. The national award winners will be announced Sept. 11.

Could U of U Drug Stop HIV? A University of Utah research team has created a drug that may well be the next breakthrough in both HIV treatment and prevention.

For the last decade a research team at the University of Utah School of Medicine has been developing PIE12-trimer.

This drug falls into the classification of medicines known as a microbicide — a substance (usually a gel) intended to prevent viruses and bacteria from infecting a host’s tissue. After several successful tests on HIV-infected vaginal tissue in lab conditions, team leader Michael S. Kay said that PIE12-trimer could be used for vaginal protection against HIV infection, and even to treat existing infection.

“We believe that PIE12-trimer could provide a major new weapon in the arsenal against HIV/AIDS. Because of its ability to block the virus from infecting new cells, PIE12-trimer has the potential to work as a microbicide to prevent people from contracting HIV and as a treatment for HIV infected people,” explained Kay, an assistant professor of microbiology at the medical school.

In 2009, QSaltLake reported about research being conducted in another lab at the medical school to create soft polymer rings that could be filled ith antiretroviral drugs or other microbicides and then inserted vaginally to block HIV transmission during sex. This lab, lead by Patrick Kiser, an associate bioengineering professor, is working closely with the PIE12trimer team, said Kay. “My group is focused on deciding the drugs that would end up in such a ring,” he said.

PIE12-trimer is a class of peptide drug that, unlike regular peptides, does not degrade when inserted into the body. It works by joining three peptides (the PIE12 in its name) to form what Kay describes as a “pocket” on the surface of the HIV virus.

The pocket then prevents the virus from entering and infecting a cell.

Like Kiser’s group, Kay’s research team is particularly concerned with stopping the spread of HIV in Africa, which has been hit harder by the virus than any other continent. Currently, the World Health Organization estimates that two-thirds of the world’s 33 million HIV patients live there. In order to make sure that PIE12-trimer is effective in Africa, Kay said that his lab has tested it on tissue infected with all known major HIV strains, including those that most commonly occur on this continent. The microbicide has been successful, he said, in blocking all of them. These results, along with PIE12-trimer’s unique structure, suggest that the microbicide could be an answer to the virus’ capacity for developing drug-resistant strains.

Kay said the drug’s effectiveness against all major types of HIV could indicate that the PIE12-trimer could be not just an effective prevention method, but a treatment method, a fact which could also make it beneficial for people with HIV who live in developed nations, and those in particular who have multiple strains of the virus.

“What makes it so special is we think it will be very nontoxic compared to existing drugs,” he said.

Currently, Kay and his team are raising money to begin testing the drug on rats. If animal tests are successful, they hope that human clinical trials can begin within two to three years. If the drug ultimately proves to treat and prevent HIV, Kay said that PIE12-trimer’s peptide design could be used to create similar drugs to stop other viruses.

The study’s co-authors are Brett D. Welch, Ph.D. and U of U graduate student J. Nicholas Francis. Contributors include Debra M. Eckert, Ph.D., and graduate students Joseph Redman and Matthew Weinstock.

The lab’s research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the university’s Research Foundation. Q

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ARIOUS LEGAL DOCUMENTS will be filed and then the federal Proposition 8 case will be argued in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals the week of Dec. 6.

And there’s little chance California’s statewide and local LGBT activists will talk about much else between now and then.

So what’s the Prop 8 chitchat here on the Left Coast? There are several issues: State Will Not Be Involved The governor and attorney general and everyone else who was sued in the federal Prop 8 case have refused to defend Prop 8 in court. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jerry Brown say Prop 8 is unconstitutional, that gay and lesbian couples should be able to marry right now, and that there should not have been a stay issued pending appeal. Because of their refusals, Prop 8’s only defenders are the defendantintervenors from Protect Marriage, the folks who brought you Prop 8 in the first place. But in what has emerged as a central question in the case, the defendant-intervenors may not have legal “standing” to function as defendants at the appellate level. Nobody sued these folks in this case, and these folks have nothing to do with defending the state constitution, of which Prop 8 is a part. That’s Brown and Schwarzenegger’s job. The 9th Circuit has ordered these Prop 8 proponents to prove they even had standing to file an appeal.

There is at least a 50/50 chance they’ll be kicked out of the case.

Imperial County That brings us to Imperial County, a poor, dusty place of about 167,000 people located in the desert between San Diego County and the Arizona border. Imperial County, represented by a Christian legal group, wants to enter the case as a real defendant so the ruling that struck down Prop 8 really can be appealed to the 9th Circuit. The 9th Circuit will make that call as well. Many observers think it’s a long shot, but, of course, courts are often unpredictable and

the 9th Circuit might really want to find a way for Prop 8 proponents to have their appeal of U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker’s Aug. 4 ruling that Prop 8 violates the U.S. Constitution up, down and sideways.

Start Over If the Protect Marriage folks are allowed to function as defendants, they may attempt to sidestep Walker’s 80-some conclusions from the trial and start from scratch, arguing that gays are hard to define and nobody knows what makes you gay, that morality and religion provide a legally acceptable “rational basis” for governments to discriminate against gays in some ways, that marriage is obviously primarily about making babies the old-fashioned way, and what have you. It will be up to the 9th Circuit to decide how much weight Walker’s comprehensive findings on All Things Gay carry in an appeal. Legally speaking, those are evidentiary facts. There’s something else that can be brought into a courtroom: legislative facts.

For the sake of simplicity, a legislative fact is something of such general knowledge that it need not be proven, or cannot be proven even though everyone knows it’s true. “Love is real” might be an example of a legislative fact. The Prop 8 pro-

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ponents could head down this road in an attempt to restrict marriage to oppositesex couples, arguing, among other things, that “marriage is between a man and a woman — period.” Of course, in the Bible, marriage is sometimes between a man and several women. And starting in 2001 with the Netherlands, 12 countries have decided that marriage also is between a man and a man, and a woman and a woman.

One of those countries is the United States.

Same-sex marriage is legal in Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and Washington, D.C. “Marriage is for procreation” could be another attempted legislative fact, despite the fact that millions of married straight people never have procreated.

What if no one is found to have standing to appeal the Prop 8 case?

Outed Judge The mainstream media have outed Judge Walker as gay, though they have presented no evidence, and Walker hasn’t said anything about his sexual orientation one way or the other. If he’s gay, does that increase the validity of his extensive findings on All Things Gay — i.e., he knows what he’s talking about — or could it mean he was biased in the case from the get-go? Does it matter if he’s gay? Should it matter? Would a straight judge be betterpositioned to restrict marriage to straight

people? We likely haven’t heard the last of the Walker/gay meme.

Onward and Upward The masterminds of the Prop 8 federal case, famed lawyers Ted Olson and David Boies, always have indicated they wanted to take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Others have suggested that should the U.S. Supreme Court rule in a particular way in the case, same-sex marriage would become legal in all 50 states. What if no one is found to have standing to appeal the Prop 8 case to the 9th Circuit? The case would end there, Walker’s ruling would take effect, Prop 8 would be stricken from the state constitution, and one more U.S. state would have gay marriage: California.

Is that an acceptable ending to this super-high-profile case with superstar attorneys who had grander designs? Most California gay leaders say, “Yes, we’ll take it.” Some, however, would certainly see it as a limp ending to a provocative case that was opposed, then grudgingly embraced, by the national gay legal establishment — a case that raised gay hopes high that we could end this whole same-sex-marriage thing in one fell swoop. On the other hand, the case’s stopping before it starts at the 9th Circuit would be a “safe” resolution of the matter. With each appeal, there’s always the chance we could lose it all, California included.

The first court filing in the appeal is due Sept. 17. Q

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VER THE PAST SEVERAL MONTHS QSaltLake has featured a number of columns and news stories related to the struggle for basic human rights for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community. Today, however, I’m going to step back a bit and address human rights from a more general perspective — as they relate to humanity as a whole.

America’s history is an interesting one.

The founders of this nation asserted that all men were created equal and endowed with certain inalienable rights. To some of this, I take issue, as has society over the years.

Legally now, all persons are equal, regardless of sex. As for the endowment of rights, I tend to think this is something inherent to humanity, not something bestowed by an invisible super-being. That said, it took nearly 200 years for America to recognize that people of color deserve the same basic rights as white Americans, and while that fight is over legally, racism still persists in this country.

Additionally, all one has to do is scan the forums of online local or national media outlets to see the persecution of people of Hispanic descent. In virtually every story involving someone with a Hispanic surname or a darker than average complexion, you will see blistering comments about “those damn illegals.” It doesn’t matter if the person in question is in this country legally or not, the inference is there, and the hatred flows.

The Constitution also provides for freedom of religion, expressly prohibiting Congress from making any law that creates an established religion or interferes with the free exercise thereof. Yet throughout the country today, a heated discussion is taking place about the building of an Islamic cultural center (and prayer room) near the site of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

Although I’m a straight male, I can still see the hatred and prejudice that plagues the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community, both here in Utah and throughout the nation. Only a few days ago some cowardly punks decided to scribble obscene, homophobic epithets on a sign at Café Marmalade. Not a day goes by without a story of someone spouting anti-gay hysteria

in the media.

When I read these stories I ask myself one question, and I ask it because I truly do not understand: Why? What goes on in the human mind that turns difference into fear and hate? I’ve been hurt by women in the past, yet I’m not a misogynist. I was mugged coming out of a bar in Detroit by a black person, yet I don’t fly a Confederate flag or wear a sheet and hood. I had a gay roommate in graduate school who stiffed me for the last month’s rent on our apartment, but I still support equality for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community.

But in America today, especially among those on the right end of the spectrum, it has become not only acceptable, but desirable, to lash out at Muslims, Hispanics and gays.

From whence comes this hatred?

For me, America is the land of the free and the home of liberty.

Maybe I’m just a hopeless idealist, but our country is the land of opportunity and the place where dreams can and do come true for people every day.

Our national history is made great by people from different races, different religions, different cultures, different orientations and different beliefs working together to make their communities, their countries and their world a better place. Social improvement and advancement come from acceptance of differences, from embracing diversity and using it to move us all forward. The battles we fight amongst ourselves over race, religion or sexual orientation only serve to bring us down.

To any conservatives who may be reading, this is your chance. Stand up and support the freedoms of all people, not just those that are your “color,” your religion or who fit into your mold. If you truly value a free society, then you must value the freedoms of those who disagree with you as much as you value your own. That is the price of liberty. Q

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by Troy Williams

HILE FOX NEWS AND other conservative media have been ratcheting up racial tensions in America, there are trends to suggest the GOP’s jeremiad on queers may be easing. Slightly.

Many commentators on the right are recognizing that it’s not as easy these days to freak America out over male sodomy and lesbian nuptials. Not that this makes conservatism any less toxic for the country. The right-wing outrage regarding the mosque near Ground Zero (which is actually not a mosque, but an Islamic cultural center) is classic xenophobia that would make Lee Atwater and Karl Rove proud. The irony, of course, is that Saudi Prince Al-Walleed bin Talal, the second largest owner of Newscorp (Fox News’ daddy corporation) has donated hundreds of thousands to Imam Feisal. You know, the guy building the “mosque.”

But details shouldn’t get in the way of a good scare. More right-wing rabidness played out last week when Dr. Laura dropped the “N-word” 11 times on her radio show.

She opted to end her show to reclaim what she called her lost First Amendment rights.

Of course, the First Amendment states that Congress shall not infringe anyone’s right to free speech. It says nothing about popular opinion. Dr. Laura’s “right” to be a racist bitch remains constitutionally intact.

But despite the usual vitriol toward undocumented immigrants, Muslims and blacks, many conservatives are backing off their homophobic rhetoric. This may be in part due to how beautifully Judge Walker crafted his Proposition 8 decision. Many conservatives can see the writing on the wall: federally recognized gay marriage is inevitable.

That doesn’t bother Glenn Beck. He simply doesn’t see gay marriage as a threat. His Fox News cohort Margaret Hoover wrote an open letter to her “fellow conservatives,” explaining why they should rethink their attitude on gay marriage. She explained, “the potential consequence that conservatives land on the wrong side of civil rights history again is the alienation of an entire generation of voters.”

Imagine that! For decades conservatives have used queers as a wedge issue to drive voters to the polls. The new fear is that if the GOP remains anti-gay they will drive younger voters out of the party.

But wait, there’s more. Conservative femme fatale Ann Coulter has agreed to be the keynote speaker of GOProud’s “Homo-

con” convention. They even refer to her as the “right wing Judy Garland” (blasphemy!).

Not convinced the right wing is seriously loving on the gays? GOP dark lord Dick Cheney wants his dyke daughter to legally wed. And so does Laura Bush and Elisabeth Hasselbeck! John Stewart brilliantly suggested that their support of gay marriage makes them both more liberal than President Obama. Go figure.

There is something a little disarming about the radical right having our back.

We’re so used to being used by them to whip

There is something a little disarming about the radical right having our back. up American hysteria that this new found love tryst just feels kind of ... dirty. And not in a good way. Who knew so many Republicans would covet a sassy gay friend?

Have queers become so mainstream that even “Real America” is starting to, dare I say, like us? And if conservatives are our new BFFs, does this mean that we’ve won the culture war? Or more alarming, have they?

Perhaps in our eager assimilation we’ve allowed conservatives to shape us into the monogamous creatures and retail capitalists that appeal so well to their own family values.

Of course, it’s important to clarify an important detail I’ve thus far omitted: Only a certain genre of queer has become the new darling of the right. This is, of course, the white married gay homos presenting as fully assimilated, properly consummated, “straight-acting” power couples. Fierce genderfuck kids with tats, piercings and polysexual perversions need not apply. Judge Walker’s ruling reinforces the absolute supremacy of the conventional wedded couple.

Huffington Post contributor Sally Kohn has astutely observed, “While certainly worth celebrating, the Proposition 8 ruling says that gay people are equal to straight people

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as long as they act like straight people. But the fundamental right to be treated equally, even if you are and act different, remains beyond reach.” Something gained can also be something lost. The only queer the GOP will tolerate is one that looks and acts just like them. If you are an undocumented queer Latino or a lesbian Muslim then it still sucks to be you in America. Sorry about that.

The good news is that equality for white gay couples is almost a done deal. There are a few hurdles left for sure, but nothing the HRC Federal Club can’t get us over. But where does that leave the Latina butch fearing her parents might be deported? Or the unemployed HIV-positive queen with no access to health care? What does the gay-friendly conservative commentator have to offer them? Not a whole helluva lot. For the Tea Party patriot who goes to sleep with his dogeared Ayn Rand Reader on his nightstand, the poor are poor because, well, they deserve it. The underemployed queer just hasn’t pulled himself up by his rainbow-colored bootstraps. They believe social services must be cut. The welfare state that keeps many queers alive on publicly funded HIV meds must be eliminated in the name of austerity.

It’s what Jesus would want.

Conservative ideology exists in total opposition to the social gains progressives have made over the past 70 years. The GOP may tolerate some queers today, but only those who successfully replicate their socioeconomic free-market dogma. Here is the hard truth: There will never be full lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality in America without fair material redistribution of wealth. This is why queers and other minorities have prospered so well in pockets of Europe. They have social safeguards, marriage, health care and access to economic possibility. But Conservative ideologues won’t have any part of democratic socialism that distributes wealth downward. Conversely, they have no problem when wealth is redistributed upward into their hands, away from the poor and working class.

Beware the seduction and advances of the right. It is the most spectacular queer who recognizes this enduring truth: when any person is left out of the American ideal, we are all diminished as a whole. Q Troy Williams is the executive producer of RadioActive on KRCL, 90.9 FM.

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SLAP: Pride Center Vandals Whether it was the work of some bored kids or a nasty anti-gay person, it goes without saying that the vandalism of the Café Marmalade sign at the Utah Pride Center has made people angry, and even afraid. Yet, as awful, wasteful and flat-out mean-spirited this incident was, there’s just something pathetic about a tagger who spells “FAGS” as “FAG”S.” Salt Lake City Police: If you catch this person, can remedial grammar be part of his or her community service project? Or maybe having to write out “I will not misuse quotation marks” 4,000 times before having to clean the entire Pride Center from office to café? Hey, if someone’s going to act like a grade schooler, why not treat them like one?

SNAP: Layton PFLAG Northern Utah just keeps surprising us this year. First it was Logan passing a gay and transgenderinclusive ordinance, and Ogden considering one. Now it’s a PFLAG group forming in Layton, a city that isn’t exactly known for being a bastion of gay and transgender rights activism. That said, the chapter’s founding just goes to show that more Utahns are warming up to the idea that people should be treated with respect and care regardless of their sexual orientations or gender identities. Bravo to the courageous parents who started this chapter — Utah’s fourth! — and may their doors be flooded with members and supporters.

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ELL PETALS, THE ARIZONA immigration law (SB 1070) has gone into effect and the roundup of wayward Canadians can now begin. Now, I know what you’re thinking, darlings: “But Ruby, this law is just about the Mexicans.” But I beg to differ, and here’s why.

Well, kittens, some of you noticed that I missed the deadline for the last happy-happy, joy-joy edition of QSaltLake. Michael and JoSelle felt our community had gone through a lot of negativity and pain over the last month, so they wisely decided to compensate with a perky uplifting edition. At the time I was filled to the brim with industrial strength snarkiness about Robert Gibbs and the White House trashing the liberal left, so for the sake of everyone, my self-handicapping psyche made sure I missed the deadline.

Now, two weeks later, I actually do have some uplifting news.

For those of you who follow my exploits, you know that Mr. Ridge and I have volunteered at the Camp Pinecliff Weekend (a retreat on the Wyoming/Utah border for people with HIV/AIDS, their families and support givers) for the last 21 years.

This year, in addition to our regular Camp Pinecliff Weekend we are adding something wildly different and exciting called Camp Pine Cone. It’s our very first Day Camp for the children of gay and lesbian parents and we couldn’t be more excited! The good people at the Art Access Gallery (love the artists, love the gallery, hate the parking!) have joined with us to lead the arts and crafts workshops. They will be offering printmaking, mosaics and all sorts of other activities for children of all ages — including big kids like me. Although for insurance reasons and the advancement of good taste, I am prohibited to be near a hot glue gun. I know my limitations, cherubs!

Our good friend Ray King from Twigs Flower Co. is wrangling some trays of succulents so the kids can make miniature desert gardens. I had originally thought of doing cactus gardens, but when I men-

tioned it to Ray he just gave me this incredulous look and said, “You’re doing this with kids, right? ... And you do know cacti have thorns, right?” It was about this time I realized that I have the parenting skills of a waffle iron.

To be truthful, I hadn’t thought the whole cactus part through, so he talked me into using some fleshy, roundy-moundy kinds of succulents that won’t impale the children or necessitate chartering a Life Flight helicopter (If you’re coming to Camp Pine Cone with your kids bring a suitable container — we will provide the plants, potting mix and rocks).

The impetus for Camp Pine Cone came last year when Mr. Ridge and I noticed how many campers brought their children. Kids give the campsite an entirely different, uplifting, energetic vibe. Since the HIV/ AIDS epidemic has changed so much since the camp’s early days in the late 1980s, we had been looking for a way to make it more relevant. We feel that Camp Pine Cone is a logical progression from where we have been, to where we want to go.

We are going into our inaugural season with our eyes wide open. We are going to try a few things and see how they work, so we can have some feedback for next year.

I remember our first AIDS Camp that we did in Kamas. As organizers, we were absolutely convinced that our campers needed a structured schedule of stress management seminars, coping seminars, nutrition seminars and so on. But once we got there, everyone just wanted to sit under a tree and relax. People were so happy just to get out of the city and out into nature that they just vegged out and the schedule kind of imploded. That was a major learning lesson for me, pumpkins. So the next year we redesigned and offered loosely organized activities and it was a total success. Q

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by Ryan Shattuck

HE ODDS OF DYING BY being eaten by a shark are 1 in 251,800,000.

The odds of being killed by a vending machine are 1 in 112,000,000.

The odds of dying by being struck by lightning are 1 in 83,930.

The odds of getting divorced are 1 in 2.

The point is clear: It’s time to ban all sharks, vending machines, lightning and divorces.

Many Christian religions and organizations consider the marriage between a man and a woman to be “the bedrock of society.” Thus, it was with a certain predictability that a number of prominent religions — such as the LDS Church and the Catholic Church — and a number of conservative organizations — such as the National Organization for Marriage and the American Family Association — reacted

rather sharply to Judge Vaughn Walker’s ruling in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, which overturned California’s Proposition 8.

Therefore, one might assume that these religions and organizations care so much about protecting marriage, that they would focus the majority of their efforts in combating marriage’s biggest foe. And what exactly is that foe?

The odds of getting divorced are 1 in 2.

One of the biggest ironies in the cultural battle over gay marriage has been conservatives’ ironic, hypocritical and almost spooky silence in regarding divorce. If conservatives are angry over the prospect of gay marriage, shouldn’t they be furious over straight divorce? Why aren’t conservatives writing angry letters to their legislators, imploring that divorce be made illegal? Where are the proposals to change state constitutions, outlawing divorce and

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thus keeping families together? If the Defense of Marriage Act were to truly live up to its name, wouldn’t it defend marriage ... by preventing divorce?

Instead, conservatives conveniently sweep indiscretions, affairs and serial divorces under the morality rug, all while preaching against the ‘marriage-destroying’ influences of gay men and women. Rarely will a Republican politician (or any politician, for that matter) publicly condemn divorce. The odds are better of a conservative pundit being killed by a vending machine, than he or she admitting that divorce erodes the institution of marriage. Even Republican leaders Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh have come out against gay marriage, all while forgetting the inconvenient truth that they’ve collected seven marriages between them, as if their marriages were Pokemon cards.

Seven in 1 chance of getting divorced?

Those are some pretty good odds.

Religious conservatives latch onto the issue of gay marriage with much more ferocity than they do divorce, so surely the Bible must have something to say on the matter.

As it turns out, there are actually more Biblical scriptures concerning divorce (Genesis 2: 24; Exodus 21: 7-11; Leviticus 21: 14; Deuteronomy 22: 19; Deuteronomy 22: 29; Deuteronomy 24: 1-4; Matthew 5: 3132; Matthew 19: 3-12; Mark 10: 2-12; Luke 16: 18; 1st Corinthians 7: 10-17) than there are scriptures supposedly about homosexuality (Genesis 19: 5; Leviticus 18: 22; Deuteronomy 23: 17; Isaiah. 3: 9; Romans 1: 27; 1 Corinthians 6: 9-10; 1 Timothy 1: 10; Jude 1: 7).

If divorce is a greater Biblical sin than homosexuality, then divorce rates should be lower in the Bible belt than in the rest of the more liberal United States, right? The truth is actually quite the opposite. In fact, recent studies have shown that divorce is more common in conservative-voting states than in liberal-voting states. According to two researchers in a story by NPR, women in liberal-voting states are waiting until later to marry, thus reducing the di-

vorce rate: “The states that voted Democratic in the last two presidential elections have the lowest rates of divorce and teen pregnancies. And the red states had the highest.

One of those researchers, June Carbone of the University of Missouri-Kansas City, tells host Guy Raz what she thinks is the deciding factor: Women in blue states wait later to get married and have kids.”

Conservatives argue that allowing gay marriage would destroy the ‘bedrock’ of the ‘traditional’ family. If this fearmongering stratagem was true, then the most obvious way to prove this would be to view the divorce rates of those states that allow gay marriage, versus those states that do ban gay marriage.

Washington DC, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Iowa are at the bottom of the list among the country’s lowest divorce rates. Gay marriage is legal in every single one of these states or provinces.

Arkansas, Alabama, Idaho, Kentucky, Tennessee and Florida top the list with some of the country’s highest divorce rates. Gay marriage is banned in every single one of these states.

Obviously, one cannot deduce that gay marriage prevents divorce. However, one can deduce that gay marriage doesn’t destroy, alter or affect straight marriage in any way. The sexual orientation of one’s neighbors does not affect in any way the marriage of the neighbors down the street.

While there are many obstacles facing the modern family, gay marriage is not one of them. If religious leaders, political pundits and conservative politicians truly do agonize over the state of the modern family, then they will find more success by building up straight marriages, instead of tearing down gay marriages.

After all, the only thing more traditional than a marriage between a man and woman ... is a divorce between a man and a woman.

I hear the odds of that are pretty good. Q

If the Defense of Marriage Act were to truly live up to its name, wouldn’t it defend marriage ... by preventing divorce?

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

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by Ben Williams

IKE MANY OF YOU, I have been following the latest hullabaloo going on over at the Utah AIDS Foundation.

My opinion about the assertions of certain young activists regarding the shelf life of nonprofit agencies’ executive directors, I will keep to myself. However, over the course of its stormy 25 years of existence, the Utah AIDS Foundation has had some rough squabbles. So gather around children and you shall hear the tumultuous beginnings of the first AIDS years.

Serendipitously in October of 1985, two organizations were founded by individuals from within our community to deal with the encroachment of the AIDS plague into Utah. While these two organizations were founded almost simultaneously, the founders were from different sections of the community. Dr. Patty Reagan, Ph.D., had just returned from a sabbatical in Berkeley, Calif., which by 1985 was near the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic in the western United States. Upon returning to the University of Utah she, as a health educator, was horrified at the lack of AIDS awareness in the state. So, with the help of other women health care workers, she created the Salt Lake AIDS Foundation. SLAF’s main purpose, according to Reagan, was to educate Utahns and the gay community specifically on how to take precautions to stop the spread of the fatal disease.

That same month, former health care workers from the defunct Gay and Lesbian Community Center and Clinic formed the AIDS Project Utah. It was patterned after other AIDS organizations in California. Duane Dawson, a registered nurse, spearheaded the formation of this AIDS organization, which was created to provide services to people with the disease. These two organizations were not rivals, but they served two distinct purposes: one to educate and the other to provide services.

Some of the early conflicts in the AIDS community were simply due to the largeness of the personalities of the people involved in the crisis. You must remember that back then no one was getting paid for the long hours of volunteer-ism, and there was an official prejudice against those working with what was perceived to be a gay man’s disease. This made people hypersensitive and very weary, but what choice did we have back then but to plod on? Our friends and lovers were dying.

The first faux pas by the newly created AIDS Project Utah was on the part of its act-

ing Director, Richard Cochran. In October 1986, APU sponsored an AIDS Awareness Week featuring Roseanne Barr, sister of Ben Barr, an APU emotional support volunteer. Cochran, however, caused a rift in the community when he expressed his gratitude for what he thought was “the first AIDS Awareness Week,” even though the Royal Court of the Golden Spike Empire had twice sponsored such activities. This rift led to Cochran’s resignation and Ben Barr’s succession as director in November 1986.

SLAF and APU both struggled over which organization could best get its message out and also provide services to the rapidly-growing AIDS community. The Salt Lake AIDS Foundation seemed, to many, to be more actively involved in the gay men’s community at a time when AIDS Project Utah was marketing itself more towards the general heterosexual population. Differences over the direction that APU’s board of directors was taking the organization caused Ben Barr to leave in 1988, when he joined the SLAF. Dr. Patty Reagan, fatigued by burn-out, had begun stepping down as director, and later in the year she turned the organization over to Barr.

After the departure of Ben Barr from the AIDS Project Utah, their board selected Richard Starley to serve as its director at a time when there was increasingly less support of that organization from the gay community. The Utah Commemorative AIDS Quilt Project was especially peeved with APU when they used their name without permission in an application for AIDS grant money. Toward the end of the year general support for APU was so low that their annual AIDS Awareness Benefit was canceled. The organization itself was dissolved in December.

At the beginning of 1989, the Utah AIDS Project’s direct services programs, such as the “Buddy Program” and emotional support groups were absorbed by SLAF as there was no state or federal funding for the continuance of these essential programs. A few months into 1989, Dick Dotson, who founded a food bank for SLAF, left the foundation along with Donald Steward, program director of the People With AIDS Foundation, and David Sharpton, the founder of the People With AIDS Coalition.

These AIDS activists felt that Ben Barr was spending SLAF’s resources inappropriately “by hiring too large a staff, and not making adequate efforts to use the trained volunteers.” Shortly after the departure of

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these critics the name of the organization was changed to the Utah AIDS Foundation to reflect its outreach to the entire state and not just its capital city.

David Sharpton and Ben Barr’s professional relationship had been stormy for some time. By the beginning of the 1990s, Sharpton had become an increasingly vocal critic of Barr, complaining that he was not doing enough to provide services to the AIDS community. The conflict between the two men came to a head in 1991 when Ben Barr was instrumental in having the Board of Directors of the People With AIDS Coalition kick Sharpton out as president. One of Barr’s complaints against Sharpton was that he threw Eugene Giditus, a PWAC volunteer, up against a wall in a fit of temper, and that the progress of Sharpton’s disease was making him increasingly unstable.

After Sharpton and the other critics left UAF, they formed the Horizon House to provide client services to the general AIDS community and perhaps, as some critics insinuated, to placate the LDS sensibilities of Utahns who viewed UAF as a gay organization.

Bad feelings were rife between the two AIDS service providers from the start, but they boiled over that year, when after a disparaging letter written by Stuart McDonald, a supporter of UAF but who didn’t have

any authorization, was sent to the National People With AIDS Coalition. McDonald attacked the Horizon House and the integrity of Dick Dotson, causing the national AIDS conference that was scheduled to be held in Salt Lake City to be pulled.

By 1992 Ben Barr had enough of the bickering and squabbling over how its scarce resources should be allocated and resigned after six years laying the cornerstones upon which UAF was built.

Barr left UAF with 14 full-time employees, many of whom had master’s degrees — which he, at the time, did not have. In 1992 the top annual salary of any employee was $28,000 with Ben Barr earning just $25,000.

In fact, on many occasions he took nothing in remuneration when the foundation had cash flow problems. Barr left the Foundation owning a building at 1408 S. 1100 East.

The organization also boasted 200 active volunteers donating 10,000 hours monthly to run the food bank, serve prepared meals, staff counseling and education programs, and fight for patients’ insurance and financial benefits.

Successive directors of UAF were LaDonna Moore 1992-1994, Rick Pace (interim director) 1994, Barbara Shaw 19951999, and Stan Penfold 1999 to present. Q

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NYONE DIFFERENT IS OSTRACIZED IN the elementary school yard. And words hurt. Tiny hearts break easily. I know. Here’s a story I was told recently.

“Please, can I stay home?” A 12-year-old boy with freckles begged his mom on the way to school.

She gave him a sympathetic look, wishing that this year would be better for him; that her son would finally stop crying himself to sleep every night.

Shaking, the boy, David James Bell, closed the car door and headed into school as slowly as possible. He quietly said a prayer, just as he did before every school day. When the day started, he sat at a desk with his name tag on the front, his name written in crayon. He breathed a sigh of relief as he opened his new set of colored pencils and blank notebook.

As he started to design a Power Ranger, hands tugged his hair, hurting his scalp tremendously before slamming him into his desk. The pain was so intense his head burned. A migraine began as he ran from the classroom. As he ran, a kid yelled “faggot!” at the top of his lungs.

When he reached the bathroom, he collapsed on the floor. His physical pain didn’t even begin to compare with his emotional heartache. He was starting to believe that his name was now Faggot and his soul was worth nothing.

Boys will not just be boys. Girls will not just gossip. Kids die from this. Kids hang themselves. And those who do survive often have unimaginable scars that don’t heal for years, if ever.

I know because I was one of these kids.

From fourth grade to sixth I was the one in the corner who everyone picked on, left out and occasionally spit on. I was always the last one chosen for a teammate. Twenty years later, dating is still hard for me. I rarely go out on dates for fear of rejection because when it happens I fall back to that time in my life when all my peers really did reject me, and the tears fall like rain in the night sky.

Five suicide attempts later, I have survived and am still breathing. I do look forward to the days ahead. But the life got sucked out of me when I was young and it never fully returned. As a high school student, I learned just like Bell did that it didn’t matter what shallow people thought about us. It only ever mattered if we accepted who we were as a person. When we did, others followed.

“I finally did realize my self worth and took control, but it took a long time, even longer for me to believe I was worth even more than that. I had to fake it till I made

it,” Bell told me.

Men will not just be men. Women will not just be catty. Adults die. Adults hurt so badly they die by their own hands. We tell our kids time and time again to treat others with respect, but our actions speak louder than our words every time.

Twenty years later, Bell is a full-grown man with freckles and long, reddishblonde hair. Two years ago, on July 4, he was settling down from hanging out with his friends at a club. He noticed his tabby cat was missing and searched for her at the neighbors’ house where they were having an adult party.

An hour or so later, their hands tugged his hair as they pulled him out of his house, hurting his scalp tremendously as they slammed him into a concrete driveway. Others joined in, putting in blow after blow. Fist after fist. Pan after pan. The words “faggot” and “cocksucker” echoed in his ear until he lost hearing.

His husband came to his defense, but he only suffered the same fate. They were both left for dead.

The attackers invented a new defense when the police showed up. Assuming he was a pedophile because he was gay the cops cuffed DJ. The detective took him for a brief hospital visit and then off to jail, where he spent weeks for a crime he didn’t commit, and years waiting for justice to finally be served. His physical scars mostly healed, but his emotional ones took more time.

Even the most broken heart can eventually heal. The wounded soul can find release. Those who have suffered greatly can turn around and release others suffering just as greatly. DJ and his husband struggle every day regaining their finances and physical health and dreams that were shattered to pieces that fateful night. But that doesn’t stop either of them from being kind people. David James Bell-Fair is the warmest person I know. He sings for No More Homeless Pets. He touches lives every day with his ability to spread jokes and smiles to everyone he meets. And while he and his husband relive the worst night of their adult lives every day, they do not succumb to hatred, bitterness or a desire for vengeance.

And this is the attitude we have as adults if we want to end the cycle of bullying and violence. In every classroom there is at least one bully. But in every classroom there are also future heroes, whether they were bullies or bullied themselves or just silently watched, who will overcome the scars they caused and scars they received and use what they have learned to better help others. Q

Special thanks to David James and Dan Bell-Fair.

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cr p of the w k Bill McCollum

By D’Anne Witkowski

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’VE NEVER MUCH CARED FOR Florida.

I mean, sure, alligators are cool. It has nice weather in the winter and is home to many kind grandmas, not to mention Disney World. But it also is the only state to completely ban gay people from adopting children. And I can’t help but take that a little personally.

Granted, Florida does allow gays to be foster parents. And even that’s too much for Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum, who is turning up the anti-gay rhetoric as he vies for the Republican nomination for governor.

McCollum, who defended Florida’s anti-gay adoption ban in court and who paid George “Rentboy” Rekers $120,000 to act as his expert anti-gay witness, doesn’t think gays should be allowed to be foster parents, either.

“I really do not think that we should have homosexuals guiding our children. I think that it’s a lifestyle that I don’t agree with,” McCollum told the Florida Baptist Witness. “It’s my personal faith, religious faith, that I don’t believe that the people who do this should be raising our children. It’s not a natural thing. You need a mother and a father. You need a man and a woman. That’s what God intended.”

Hmm. So no homos around the kids because McCollum’s religious-based bigotry is more important than kids without stability in their lives. And gays simply can’t provide that because they are “people who do this ... thing” that is not “natural.” But what is this thing? Being gay? Having sex? Sorry to break it to you, McCollum, those things are natural.

What isn’t natural is voluntarily becoming a foster parent in a state that has no shortage of kids in need of a home.

Becoming a foster parent isn’t exactly an innate trait. It takes a lot of consideration and sacrifice to open your life and your home to kids in need. Are there terrible foster parents out there? Oh, hell yes.

And by automatically weeding out the gay ones you simply shrink the pool, not make it safer.

So if only a mother and a father will do, then that not only rules out gay folks, it also rules out single men and women, which Florida also allows to be foster parents. So I guess what McCollum really wants is to make the shortage of foster parents in Florida worse. You know, for the kids.

“And this election is about ... our children,” he said. “It’s about the grandchil-

“I believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman,” he told the Florida Baptist Witness. “I believe that a family should consist of one man and one woman.”

Wait, so if they have kids then they’re not a family anymore? Dude, you’re confusing me.

There’s really no confusion, however, about the travesty McCollum would be as governor for LGBT Floridians. “I don’t believe in involving the government in enforcing or encouraging the lifestyle of gays and homosexuals. I just don’t believe that,” he said.

But I guess involving the government

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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.

dren and children of the people of Florida and making Florida a better place for them.”

As long as “better” in this instance actually means “shittier,” then McCollum is totally correct.

Not surprisingly, McCollum is also against letting gays and lesbians marry.

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FALL ARTS PREVIEW

Maestro Steichen Pops!

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by Tony Hobday

EARLY 75 YEARS AGO THE Utah Symphony formed. Approximately four decades later the Utah Opera was founded.

In 2002, the two entities converged into a powerhouse arts program that produces approximately 100 performances a year.

To accomplish such a feat, US&O employs 85 musicians, 60 staff members, a two-tier program of Opera Ensemble Artists (five apprentices, six studio level), an 80-member Utah Opera Chorus and a 120-member Utah Symphony Chorus. And under the symphony umbrella, among many talents, is Principal Pops Conductor Gerald “Jerry” Steichen, a worldly man and renowned artist.

Steichen, who recently celebrated his 47th birthday, grew up in a small town in Oklahoma — his high school graduating class peaked at “50 and a

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half ... you know, the pregnant girl.” He comes from a large musical family: “Daddy was a high school band director, and all six of us (Catholic ... not Mormon, LOL) played piano or organ — at least one musical instrument in Band.”

From the age of 5 and on, Steichen learned to play a number of instruments including the piano, bassoon, clarinet, saxophone and, to his own criticism, the oboe badly. He attended Northern Oklahoma College, where he received an associate degree in Accounting. “I was planning to be an international tax attorney,” he admits. But that dream of all dreams changed; he enrolled at Oklahoma City University where he “really learned the craft of making theatre” — from being on stage to conducting and reorchestrating to music directing.

“I spent a year as the first music director of the Tulsa Opera Studio, introducing opera to young people around Oklahoma,” Steichen says.

“And I really fell in love with opera.

I decided after undergraduate school that I needed to move someplace bigger, to learn more about opera — and my other passion — chamber music. I had to choose between New England Conservatory and the University of Southern California.”

He ended up in Los Angeles studying with Gwendolyn Koldofsky, “the ‘dean’ of accompanists.” And his choice appears to have been the right one because after only a year at USC, Steichen accepted an apprenticeship at the prestigious Melora Program in San Francisco where he did learn more about opera. He eventually returned to USC and received a Master’s in Accompanying.

His diverse career has taken him from Miami as the Artistic Administrator for the Greater Miami Opera Association (now Florida Grand Opera) to New York City as a member of the Metropolitan Opera, and a 10-year conducting

Symphony SEPT.10–11

Opening Weekend: Beethoven & Brahms SEPT. 17–18

The Duke Ellington Orchestra SEPT. 24–25

Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto SEPT. 24

Musique d’énergie Inaugural Gala Celebration SEPT. 28

Salute to Youth OCT. 8–9

Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini OCT. 26

The Haunted Symphony OCT. 29–30

Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1

NOV. 1

Riders in the Sky NOV. 5–6

Romeo and Juliet NOV. 12–13

Oz with Orchestra NOV. 19–20

Bruckner Symphony No. 9 NOV. 27–28

Messiah Sing-In DEC. 3–4

Saint–Saëns Cello Concerto No. 1 DEC. 10–11

Holiday Celebration with Jerry!

DEC. 11

The Polar Express with the Utah Symphony DEC. 30

Blue Planet Live!

JAN. 7–8

Barber’s Violin Concerto

stint with the New York City Opera to teaching back in his hometown.

“I took a little break after five years of being on-the-road, and moved back to Li’l Ole Tonkawa to teach at Northern Oklahoma College,” says Steichen. “I taught choir, beginning theory, private piano and musical theatre. I had an amazing, exhausting year. Teachers earn every cent!”

He has been Maestro for many stage productions, such as The Mikado, La Boheme and CATS, has had the honor of doing three Broadway tours: Peter Pan with Cathy Rigby; The Secret Garden and The Phantom of the Opera.

“My first strictly symphonic conducting was at SUNY-Purchase (college) leading their student orchestra,” says Steichen. “That led — in an unusual twist of happenstance — to my engagement with the New Haven Symphony, where I still serve as the Pops conductor.” “I am also currently the Music Director of the Ridgefield Symphony (Connecticut) and now, as you know, the Principal Pops conductor of the Utah Symphony.”

“I love coming to Utah; skiing in the winter, biking and running in the summer, swimming!

The great restaurants, the natural beauty of the state. And the warmth and generosity of the people and the orchestra has been overwhelming. I really feel like part of the community. And I have made many wonderful friends here. It feels like home when I’m here.”

And guys, Steichen is “currently not partnered.”

Below is a list of the 30-plus symphonic performances currently scheduled through May 2011, as well as the four operas. Steichen conducts four of the five concerts that I think will appeal most to the LGBT community, if not just because Steichen happens to be conductor: The Duke Ellington Orchestra, Oz with Orchestra (David Cho conducts), Holiday Celebration with Jerry!, Bravo Broadway: the Wicked Divas! and ABBA–The Music. Q JAN. 27–29

Stravinsky’s Pulcinella (conducted

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Debussy’s La Mer FEB. 11–12

Bartók Concerto for Orchestra FEB. 18–19

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream MARCH 3–5

Robert and Clara Schumann MARCH 12

Peter and the Wolf MARCH 25–26

Mozart Symphony No. 40 APRIL 15–16

Also Sprach Zarathustra

APRIL 22–23

A Child of Our Time APRIL 26

Classical Countdown with Big Buddah APRIL 29–30

ABBA – The Music MAY 6–7

Saint–Saëns “Organ Symphony” MAY 24

2010 All–Star Evening MAY 27–28

The Rite of Spring

Opera OCT. 16,18,20,22,24

La Bohème JAN. 15,17,19,21,23

Hansel & Gretel MARCH 12,14,16,18,20

Little Women MAY 14,16,18,20,22

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Monty Python’s Spamalot Feb. 11–13, Kingsbury Hall

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The Front Burner: Around the World in 80 Days Dec. 2–19

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Thriller Oct. 6–10, Egyptian Theatre Oct. 13–30, Kingsbury Hall

Off Broadway Theatre

White Christmas Dec. 3–24

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Black Comedy Jan. 14–29

Henry Botter Sep 24–Oct. 30 Miracle on Third & Main Nov. 26–Dec. 27

Pinnacle Acting Company PINNACLEACTINGCOMPANY.ORG

Dancing At Lughnasa Nov. 4–20

Pioneer Theatre Company PIONEERTHEATRE.ORG

Hamlet Sept. 17–Oct. 2 Dracula Oct. 22–Nov. 6

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Plan-B Theatre Company PLANBTHEATRE.ORG

She Was My Brother Oct. 28–Nov. 7 Radio Hour: Marathon Oct. 31 Mesa Verde Feb. 24–Mar. 6

Pygmalion Theatre Company

Well Feb. 24–Mar. 13

Repertory Dance Theatre RDTUTAH.ORG

H2O Sept. 30–Oct. 2 Imagine That Nov. 19–20 Charette Feb. 12

Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company RIRIEWOODBURY.COM

Configurations Sept. 23–25

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Cipher Dec. 16–18

The Coming Ice Age Oct. 21–Nov. 7

Circle Cycle Jan. 28–29

Salt Lake Acting Company SALTLAKEACTINGCOMPANY.ORG

Angels in America: Millennium Approaches Oct. 6–31 Reading of Angels in America: Perestroika Nov. 4–7 Boom Nov. 3–Dec. 5 If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Dec. 1–26 The Persian Quarter Feb. 2–27

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FALL ARTS PREVIEW

Utah’s Spencer Day

by Tony Hobday

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UTAH-BORN balladeer with incredible talent, Spencer Day is thrilled to be returning to his birthplace Oct. 16, for a much-anticipated concert. In his new

album Vagabond, to be released Sep. 8 through Concord Jazz, Day explores his “wanderlust and endless search for a place to call home.” The mostly self-taught pianist/jazz singer, Day, in just a few short years, has grown from doing a “few gigs in dive bars and retirement homes” to tours in London and Tokyo.

You have a very mature, eloquent baritone voice for your age, as if you’ve been singing since you were very young. When did you realize your talent? My mother was a classically trained opera singer. I didn’t start to truly realize my talent until I was in my early 20’s but music was always around me and her passion for it lit the first spark inside me. My siblings and I all sang a little, whether it was church hymns or at various family functions.

Being an unhappy and defiant teenager, I suppose I didn’t want to give my mom the satisfaction of seeing me follow a path she had wanted

to pursue herself.

Now that I am a professional musician, she couldn’t be more thrilled.

Then, when did you realize you wanted to be a recording artist, and was there a specific shift in your life that helped you come to that desire/ need? My first paying gigs were really happy accidents. I was a terribly clumsy waiter and my singing resulted in fewer incidents where food wound up in customers laps. So when I stumbled into my first few gigs at dive bars and retirement homes, I thought, “Well, this beat’s waiting tables.” The thing was, I never thought somebody like me could actually make it as a singer/songwriter. I never allowed myself to dream that big. It’s only in the last 4 or 5 years that I finally accepted that music was my calling.

I may never be incredibly successful or famous but this is what I was put on earth to do. This realization drastically transformed my relationship to my art and my confidence as a performer.

Everything changed after that.

Your most recent album Vagabond is sort of a tribute to your growing pains, if you will. Give us a brief overview of those growing pains, as interpreted in a just a few of the songs on the album. Well, I particularly admire artists who let the audience in on their creative and emotional process. I don’t have all the answers and I’ve never pretended to. Instead I try to invite the listener to join me as I ponder what life and love really mean. Vagabond is a musical attempt to explore my own psyche and better understand my wanderlust and my endless search for a place to call home. The songs I have written since then are reflective of the self discoveries I made during the writing and recording of Vagabond.

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You have said that “all those old MGM musicals” were a primary influence. Which ones? There are so many! I love South Pacific, but only the love songs, and “Bali Hai” especially.

The war part of the story didn’t interest me at all.

On the Town first started my fascination with New York and I loved when Fred Astair danced on the ceiling in Royal Wedding. But Singing In The Rain, especially the dance sequence with Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse, was my all time favorite.

You wrote the score for, and starred in, a musical called Someday Love. Tell us a little about the show and your experiences on those two sides of the production? Ever since I was little I wanted to write for the stage as well as perform on one. I would never have dared to tell anyone that since I never dreamed it was possible. I love writing music that takes people somewhere, and writing for the stage is one of the most magical ways to do that. Once I realized that singing is

acting, making the transition from one to the other has been more natural than I thought it would be. Now that I’m living in New York I’m thrilled to not only write for the stage but to hopefully sing and act on one as well.

You were born in Utah but raised in Arizona.

Have you had close family ties to Utah since you left? Yes. My uncle and aunt and their families live in Utah and I love them and hope to visit them more in the future. Due to an unhappy childhood and my parents’ traumatic divorce, I think I unconsciously avoided returning to Utah throughout my young adult life. Coming back to perform at these shows makes this even more important as a homecoming.

I read in an article that the song “Arizona Blue” was written for your younger brother — do you mind elaborating on that? Sure! Well we both love Arizona but also felt that we had to leave it at some point. I started humming the melody for that song late at night on a long road trip headed for California. He was sleeping and I’ve always thought of it as a lullaby, even though he’s all grown up. He doesn’t seem to mind.

What’s on the horizon for you, professionally and/or personally? Well, apart from working on several different musical theatre projects and co-writes, I’m really excited that my fall tour schedule includes visiting exciting cities like London and Tokyo. I still can’t believe I get to travel to such amazing cities and get paid for it!

Tell us one thing about yourself (quirky, serious, funny, etc.) that most people likely don’t already know? Hmmmm, well I’m an Art Deco fanatic and I used to be a pretty good swing dancer. I got out of practice but just started doing the Lindy Hop here in New York and I almost forgot how much fun it was. Although I am obviously inspired by the jazz age, you might be surprised by how eclectic my music collection is. If you put my iPod on shuffle you might find yourself listening to Chet Baker, The Arcade Fire, Debussy, The Rolling Stones, Jeff Buckley and Judy Garland back-to-back. I just love good music! Q Spencer Day plays the Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. Broadway on Oct. 16, 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $29.50–32.50, 801-355-ARTS or arttix.org.

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art exhibits

Sugar Space

KAYOGALLERY.COM

—Continued from page 23 THESUGARSPACE.COM

Yoga Confidential Sept. 10–11 Influx Dance Sept. 23–25 Sketchophrenia, Live Sketch Comedy Oct. 8

UofU Babcock Theatre THEATRE.UTAH.EDU

Alcestis Sept. 18–26

Hay Fever Nov. 5–14 The Last Days of Judas Iscariot Jan. 28–Feb. 6

UofU Studio 115 THEATRE.UTAH.EDU

Fifth of July Sept. 30–Oct. 3 Almost, Maine Nov. 18–21

UofU Modern Dance DANCE.UTAH.EDU

Fall Concert Oct. 21–30

Modern Dance Graduate Concert Nov. 11–13 Student Concert I Dec. 9–11

Wasatch Theatre Company WASATCHTHEATRE.ORG

Page-to-Stage Festival Sept. 9–25 Greater Tuna Jan. 6–29

Kayo Gallery Sean Lyman, Matt Glass Now through Sept. 14 Side Show w/ Ben Thomas, Gentry Blackburn, Pushy Galore Sept. 17–Oct. 12 Lora Fosberg Oct. 15–Nov. 16 Mark England and Sara Edgar Nov. 19–30

Kimball Art Center

KIMBALLARTCENTER.ORG

Brent Godfrey: Getting Real: Visual Expressions of Personal Perception Now through Sept. 26 Nathan Florence: Fabricated Figures Now through Oct. 3 Devorah Sperber: Threads of Perception Now through Oct. 31 Ansel Adams: Early Works Nov. 6–Jan. 7

Phillips Gallery PHILLIPS-GALLERY.COM

Maureen O’Hara Ure Sept. 17–Oct. 8

Hyunmee Lee Oct. 15–Nov. 12 Connie Borup Oct. 17–Nov. 14 Holiday Group Show Nov. 19–Jan. 14

SALT LAKE ART CENTER SLARTCENTER.ORG

Girl Ascending: The photographs of Melissa Ann Pinney Now through Oct. 30

Utah Museum Of Fine Arts UMFA.UTAH.EDU

Las Artes de Mexico Now through Sept. 26

Painting Utah’s Mount Olympus Now through Nov. 14 Idyllic Landscapes: Chinese Landscapes from the Permanent Collection Oct. 7–Jan. 9 Reconciliation: Painting and Sculpture

by Trevor Southey Oct. 21–Feb. 11 Faces: Selections from the Permanent Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art and Yayoi Kusama: Decades Oct. 21–Feb. 13

salt 2: Sophie Whettnall Nov. 18–Feb. 2

concerts, opera & special engagements Kingsbury Hall KINGSBURYHALL.ORG

Second City — FAFSA and the Furious Sept. 30 Vox Lumiere — Phantom of the Opera Oct. 8

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White Christmas Dec. 3 – Dec. 24, 2010

Black Comedy Jan. 14 – Jan. 29, 2011

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The Diary of Anne Frank Mar. 18 – Apr. 2, 2011 Andrew Lloyd Webber’s

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Junior Arts Org Does Risky Business

by Tony Hobday

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ESTLED IN A INDUSTRIALIZED STRIP center in the Sugar House area is a tiny multidisciplinary arts organization fittingly called Sugar Space. A table, a couch, a curio cabinet and several pieces of original artwork decorate the simple lobby.

Two-tiered crescent-moon rows of seats allow for patronage of up to about 80, within the blackbox performance space. The organization was founded three years ago, by its current Executive Director Brittany Reese Dew, after an injury and subsequent surgery to her knees halted her dance career. “In an odd way it was a positive change, though it forced me to put all my creative energies elsewhere and that was how Sugar Space came about,” says Reese Dew. “Sugar Space was definitely a risk,” she also admits. “I was of the mentality that if you build it they will come, which has proved to be partially true. It was a passion for me, and I have always followed my passions in life; so I knew I had to do it and would figure it out along the way.”

Reese Dew is a Utah native, but has spent most of her life outside the state, including “performing and teaching in countries like Poland, Belarus, Taiwan and Brazil. After graduating from the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts she had spent 17 years experiencing much in New York City. Then, after receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts in dance from New York University, Reese Dew spent several years not only performing in New York venues like the Joyce Theater, The Kitchen and Dance Theater Workshop, but she also “performed on bridges, subways, parks, clubs, warehouses — you name it.”

“It was fun because you would perform with a group at BAM and then perform with them the next weekend in a West Village dance club or places like Joe’s Pub or at an art opening,” Reese Dew says. “My clearest memories are of performing in funky spaces where the audience was two feet away, and dancing in the rain in the middle of Krakow on cobblestone, and at some midnight showcase trying get my body warmed up.

Most of the companies I worked with were improvisational and collaborative, yet the directors and choreographers had a very clear vision.

I had enormous input into the creative process and my employers were peers.”

Those years of improvisation and collaboration inspired what Sugar Space is today. “I have carried this idea of collaborative art-making over to Sugar Space,” states Reese Dew. “What sets Sugar Space apart is that we are trying to empower artist’s to create new work themselves and not just learn steps from someone else.”

At its core, there are four main components to Sugar Space: functioning as a presenting venue

for live performance and visual artists; functioning as a training institution and community hub offering ongoing community classes and events for kids and adults; an arts organization that is a participant in community partnerships, outreach and provides logistical and financial support for artists; and provides a space available for private rentals.

Three years have passed since Sugar Space started and Reese Dew feels, though the company is tirelessly trying to achieve 501(c)(3) status, is “getting closer to my original goal.”

“I have more realistic expectations and a more finely tuned vision,” she says.

“We now have an advisory board,” Reese Dew continues. “We started “for profit” and are transitioning to non-profit and just received our first grant. The problem has primarily been lack of funds to pay for administrative staff. Our goal has always been to make sure the artists we work with get paid fairly; and we have not sacrificed that even with our other hurdles.”

Over the next several months, and according to Reese Dew, within a 1- to 2-year plan for the organization, Sugar Space will be home to some exciting works, including “a series that highlights artists from the LGBT community.” Planned for next year, she encourages interested applicants and possible collaborators to contact them now.

“We are moving closer to being a full-fledged presenting venue and have a lot of exciting shows planned,” she continues. “We have some annual series that are like shells that then house different artists annually including Suite, which is a women’s choreographer series with a community outreach element, and After Dark which is a late night performance with more of a nightclub feel.”

“Our Artist in Residence program, which this year will feature Influx Dance, is based on an application process, and recipients receive 40 hours of free space, approximately $500 allotted to staff, marketing materials, etc., and artists receive a percentage of the door.”

Also, arguably our largest event of the year is The Sugar Show (formerly named Audiences Award Artists).” This year we have an 18 and under category in addition to the adult category, and SB Dance will also be a co-presenter this year.

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Preliminaries will be held at Sugar Space and the finals will be held at the Rose Wagner Theater.

Applications are still being accepted for artist’s of any discipline of original, live performance up until September 15. Winners are selected from the audience and a panel of professional’s based on the criteria of potential, originality, execution and merit. Winner’s receive $1,000 and full production support for a future show.”

Sugar Space also presents many independent artist programs throughout the year, including Aporia Productions, a Minneapolis-based ‘experimental” theatre group, who recently performed Mammal Stories, a witty and compelling story about four young lives becoming intertwined

by sexuality and relationships and other strong forces. And coming to Sugar Space in October is Sketchophrenia, live sketch comedy, and starring local comedians Andrew Jensen, Troy Taylor, Christopher Stephenson and Jimmie Morgan.

To help Sugar Space continue to grow and change, Reese Dew asks QSaltLake readers: What do you think a community arts organization could offer you? Who would you like to see presented? What would a program look like that you would want to attend or participate in? What makes you decide to go see live performance instead of going to a movie or hanging at home?

E-mail your thoughts, wishes to admin@thesugarspace.com. Q

FALL ARTS CALENDAR —Continued from page 27 ABBA Mania Nov. 11 The Wizard of Oz Dec. 3–4 MOMIX — Botanica Jan. 22 An Evening with Stephen Sondheim Feb. 1

Salt Lake Men’s Choir SALTLAKEMENSCHOIR.ORG

Christmas Concert Dec. 10–11

Spy Hop Productions SPYHOP.ORG

Best of Awards Ceremony Sept. 23 PitchNic Premiere Nov. 11

Utah Symphony UTAHSYMPHONY.ORG

The Duke Ellington Orchestra Sept. 17–18 Romeo & Juliet Nov. 5–6 Oz with Orchestra

Nov. 12–13

Holiday Celebration with Jerry Dec. 10–11

Spencer Day ARTTIX.ORG

Oct. 16, Rose Wagner

Ingrid Michaelson SMITHSTIX.COM

Bravo Broadway: the Wicked Divas!

Feb. 18–19

Sufjan Stevens

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Feb. 25–26

So You Think You Can Dance Tour

Utah Opera UTAHOPERA.ORG

La Bohème Oct. 16–24 Hansel and Gretel Jan. 15–23

Steven Fales — Mormon American Princess MORMONBOY.COM

Sept. 13, Tavernacle

Smashing Pumpkins

SMITHSTIX.COM

Sept. 17, In The Venue

Wanda Sykes

WENDOVERFUN.COM

Sept. 25, Wendover, Nev.

Blue October Oct. 1, In The Venue

Oct. 26, In The Venue Nov. 1, Kingsbury Hall

TICKETMASTER.COM

Nov. 4, Maverick Ctr

Sara Bareilles SMITHSTIX.COM

Nov. 17, Avalon

The Rockettes TICKETMASTER.COM

Nov. 26–29, Maverick Ctr

festivals Avenues Street Fair Sept. 11

Garden After Dark REDBUTTEGARDEN.ORG

Oct. 21–30

Moab Folk Festival, Moab MOABFOLKFESTIVAL.COM

Nov. 5–11

Oktoberfest, Snowbird SNOWBIRD.COM

Aug. 21–Oct. 9

Pagan Pride Day PAGANPRIDE.ORG

Sept. 11

Powellapalooza Music & Boating Festival BLOOMINGFOOTPRINT.COM

Page AZ, Sept. 23–26

Sundance Film Festival, Park City FESTIVAL.SUNDANCE.ORG

Jan. 20–30

University of Utah Pride Week Oct. 18–22

Utah Humanities Book Festival UTAHHUMANITIES.ORG

Oct. 19–23

Utah State Fair UTAH-STATE-FAIR.COM

Sept. 9–19

Zion Canyon Music Festival, Springdale ZIONCANYONMUSICFESTIVAL. COM Sept. 24–25

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gay agenda A Fair to Remember

by Tony Hobday

Between the Cyndi Lauper concert in Wendover a couple of weeks ago, a trip to Lava Hot Springs the weekend before that and Q Lagoon Day the Sunday before that, I am spent like a two-dollar whore. Not that that’s much different than any other weekend when I’m a three-dollar whore ... but I digress. So I’ve decided to say: “Screw you, Labor Day weekend! I need a break from the 90 hours of labor I was in last month.” I think I have post-August depression, so I’m going to just chill at home with a good book. But you wonderful peeps, please get your kitty scratched for me this Labor Day weekend. Mwah!

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THURSDAY — Flash-fiction, micro-fiction, postcard fiction, haibun, nanofiction, vignette ... can you tell a story using less than 1000 words? Less than 500?

Less than 100? The Community Writing Center is offering SHORTER THAN SHORT: WRITING MICRO-FICTION, a twosession workshop to help writers present a large idea in a small amount of space. Explore character, conflict, setting and dialogue while finding ways to condense and strengthen your words.

6–8pm, tonight & Sep. 9, SLCC Community Writing Center, Library Square Plaza, 210 E. 400 South. Cost $30, 801-957-4992 or slcc.edu/cwc

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SATURDAY — The 38th annual OKTOBERFEST is in full swing with the taste of Bavaria, Dale the Yo-Yo-Man, inflatable rides, craft booths, local musicians, yodelers, a mechanical bull, a climbing wall and more. Visitors can also catch the Alp Horns on Hidden Peak. So enjoy the cool mountain air, music, food and steins of beer available every weekend through the second weekend in October.

Noon–6pm, Sat. & Sun.(including Labor Day, Sept. 6), through Oct. 10, Snowbird Resort, Little Cottonwood Canyon. Admission is free, but nearly everything else isn’t, snowbird.com.

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THURSDAY — I have witnessed many things, and have learned some things too, at the UTAH STATE FAIR; like, did you know that pornology is the “study or science of growing fruit? It’s like everything in the world makes sense now! Anyhoo, entertainment includes Boyz II Men, America, pig racing and, things that all gay men love (especially the Republican ones), a truck pull and demolition derby. And of course there will be stinky animals, cook-offs and art exhibits.

10am–10pm, through Sept. 19, Utah State Fairpark, 155 N. 1000 West. Entrance $7–9, all-day ride passes $25, utahstate-fair.com.

Q More than 20 of Utah’s finest restaurants, caterers and breweries will serve up delicious food at the wildest party in town, the annual ZOO RENDEZVOUS. There will be a silent auction, featuring one-of-a-kind zoo items, plus live music.

All proceeds from the event are dedicated to animal care and exhibit.

6–11pm, Hogle Zoo, 2600 E. Sunnyside Avenue, Tickets $150, must be 21 or older, 801-584-4546 or zoorendezvous.com.

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FRIDAY — Opening the 2010-2011 Utah Symphony season is BEETHOVEN & BRAHMS (not the actual composers, that would be creepy).

Conductor Hannu Lintu will open with Beethoven’s symphony “recollections of country life.” Then, he leads the orchestra in Brahms’ dramatic Piano Concerto No. 2 with renowned pianist Louis Lortie.

8pm, through Saturday, Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple. Tickets $20–85, 801-355-ARTS or arttix.org.

Q The Temple Squares — a queer square dancing group — encourages first-timers at hoeing to join them for their BEGINNING MAINSTREAM SQUARE DANCE CLASS. The Friday night classes introduce dancers to square dance, hay, 10-gallon hats and sparkly beltbuckles the size of a Flybo XFD. People of all orientations and gender identities are invited to attend. Casual attire is encouraged, and singles and couples are welcome.

7–9pm, Fridays, Columbus Community Center, 2498 S. 500 East. Free, 801-309-6720 or slcsquaredancing.org.

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SATURDAY — The Lambda Hiking Club is taking a 3.5-mile intermediate hike up GOBBLERS KNOB ... unfortunately, like most lesbians, I’ve never been, but it sure sounds fun! Anyhoo, it sits between Big Cottonwood and Mill Creek Canyons so there are a lot of access trails. Just another 900 feet from the Knob is Mount Raymond ... that sounds fun too! I wonder why I equate sex with hiking ... oh yeah, my first time!

9am, meet at Park N Ride at the base of Big Cottonwood Canyon. Free, for more info, contact Mark at 801-485-5654.

Q The 12th annual COW BALLET features, once again, live music by Muddpuddle, and other local artists. There will be a lot of fun games for kids and adults including the infamous cow pie long jump and cow pie bingo, great food and libations, the graceful Cow Ballet choreographed by the great Randy Barton, opportunity drawings, a dunk tank and many more festivities.

2–8pm, Woodenshoe Park, 4900 Wooden Shoe Ln., Peoa.

Tickets $10, mountaintownmusic.org.

Q Sponsored by the Greater Avenues Community Council, the annual AVENUES STREET FAIR is a great event that supports local artists of the historic Avenues, which, for eight

years, was my ’hood. But now I actually do live in the ’hood — What up Dog? Oh lord, it even sounds gay in my head!

9am–6pm, 7th Avenue between ‘I’ and ‘N’ Streets. Free, slcavenues.org.

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SUNDAY — We all love those sinewy bods and bikini-waxed babes of the Queer Utah Aquatic Club, so why not check them out in all their glory at the annual AQUA AID fund raiser — and yes, they do swim and frolic like dolphins. Proceeds benefit the Utah AIDS Foundation.

3–6pm, 3693 Oakview Dr. Suggested donation $50, 801-4872323 or utahaids.org.

Q In 2008 five friends put together a crafts holiday show called CRAFT SABBATH. Since then it has grown into a monthly “handmade” boutique. It showcases 23 different artists, who make everything from jewelry, to embroidered items, to upcycled vintage crafts and baby gifts. The show embraces “rebel” craft and includes everything from handcrafted bacon (huh?) to irreverent zombies (aaah!), as well as more traditional knit and felt items.

1–5pm, first Sunday of each month, Library Square, 210 E. 400 S. Free, craftsabbath.com.

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WEDNESDAY — In commemoration of National Community Center Awareness Day, the Utah Pride Center is holding a DRIVE, FAIR & CHILI COOKOUT. The Center will be collecting sporting equipment for the neighborhood West Capitol Boys & Girls Club in the morning hours. Then, in the afternoon, 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.

4–8pm, Utah Pride Center, 361 N. 300 West. Free, 801-5398800 or utahpridecenter.org.

UPCOMING EVENTS SEP 25 OCT 16 NOV 26-29 APR 11

Wanda Sykes, Wendover, Nev. Spencer Day, Rose Wagner The Rockettes, Maverick Ctr Lily Tomlin, Kingsbury Hall

save the date 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 1 World AIDS Day worldaidsday.org December 10–11 Salt Lake Men’s Choir Christmas Concert saltlakemenschoir.org January 5–9 Utah Gay & Lesbian Ski Week, Park City communityvisions.org January 20–30 Sundance Film Festival, Park City sundance.org

All Over Adam Levine

Maroon 5 frontman on new album, bedroom behavior and being so cool with the queers.

by Chris Azzopardi

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DAM LEVINE KNOWS a little teasing goes a long way. That’s why the Maroon 5 superstud — who’s fronted the funky pop-rock band since its Grammy-winning debut, Songs About Jane, dropped eight years ago – is up for talking gay porn and solving problems in bed. Sex, though, is customary for the group — after all, they named their third album Hands All Over. And put a bare-naked babe on the cover.

That’s just the line Levine, 31, likes to cross, as he tells us. The gay-friendly guy also discussed his hotness eclipsing the band’s music, being domineering, his new fashion venture and freaking out uptight Americans.

Your first gay interview was with The Advocate, right? Yes. Was that a gay interview? It’s so funny — a “gay interview.”

Before that, did you know you had a big gay following? If you have a big following, a certain percentage of your big following must be gay — which, of course, I embrace with open arms.

What’s the significance of the title, Hands All Over? An album title is almost meaningless — the ring of what you’re saying and the combination of words is what really matters. Naming an album is a very weird process; it doesn’t exactly have to mean anything. It just has to feel good.

This one definitely leaves room for interpretation. It could be sexual, or it could simply mean that you have your hands in every musical genre: rock, country, pop, soul. There’s even a disco sound on some of the songs. Is that what you were going for? Yeah, there’s definitely a sound that is ours, and there’s definitely a little bit of ’70s in what we do sometimes. You could say funk, maybe chic.

“Never Gonna Leave This Bed” left me wondering: Do you solve all your problems in bed? (Laughs) That is certainly not a bad place to solve your problems! I also liked the double meaning there, because “Never Gonna Leave This Bed” could sound like you’re really depressed and you just want to sit and eat Ho Hos and be a slob, and also a place you can escape to with someone you care about.

In the “Misery” video, you seem to be enjoying those beatings a little too much. Is aggression a turn-on for you? Not really, actually.

I mean, aggressive, yes. I like to be in control.

I don’t want to be dominated or anything like that — definitely not to the extent in the video.

Getting the shit beaten out of me is not my thing.

Not even in bed? In bed? No, no, no. I don’t like any kind of real pain in bed. Maybe the illusion of pain.

Do you feel like your looks overshadow your music? I definitely think it overshadows our music. It doesn’t bother me, but one really doesn’t have anything to do with the other. And that’s all

I can really say.

As flattering as it is to be considered attractive by anybody — which it is, it really is — it doesn’t really make me feel good when people judge what we do based on that. It’s just really silly because our music became successful on its own merit.

you take advantage of that? I would probably be the same. I’m always inspired to go too far, so I’ll probably do that with this album — make some video or something. I enjoy making uptight Americans feel uncomfortable. It’s sex! Who cares? People are more obsessed with censoring sex than censoring violence. That makes no sense to me. Same reason I don’t understand why marijuana is not legal and cigarettes are.

Do you smoke pot? I write songs ... of course I smoke pot!

Is the band ever envious of you being ... you? No, I don’t think so.

They’re not the types who want it.

I’ve heard that after this album you might disband. And then what? Do gay porn? I’d have to be in a real low place to do that because, unfortunately, as much as I love the gays, I am not one of them (laughs). But if we stop selling records, who knows?

What were we talking about, other than gay porn?

Will the band still be around after this album? I don’t think that the band’s going anywhere. I just say that to fuck with people. And I’m sure that they have no desire to go solo. I may do things on my own and experiment with different people and try different things with different artists. I’ll always do collaborations, but I don’t want to be a solo artist.

If I were ever going to do something, maybe I’d start another band.

But I’m not interested in it just being me — “Hey, look! It’s me, Adam Levine! And here’s my album!” It’s super uncool. I’d much rather be in a band. And I think I’m going to be in this one for a long time.

Why are you more comfortable around gay men than most straight guys seem to be?

Because there’s a lot of homophobic straight guys. Listen, I think the more secure you are with your sexuality, the more it doesn’t matter. I have straight friends and gay friends. I was raised in a place where we were a little ahead of our time with being accepting and tolerant of everybody.

L.A.’s a different place to grow up; there’s obviously a huge gay community there. It was never weird or taboo.

It’s actually really astonishing that homosexuality is one of the last remaining acceptable prejudices. Like, it’s still acceptable to a certain extent for people to be homophobic. And it’s really disgusting, because being homophobic is no different than being racist or sexist. For some reason, people still think it’s OK to call people a faggot, and it really pisses me off.

I do press with gay and straight magazines; it doesn’t make a difference. People need to get real and realize that this needs to stop. But I’m happy about Prop. 8. That’s amazing. I hope it sticks.

You’ve also said that the United States is too uptight about sex. If it weren’t, how would

How will your fashion line, 222, be different from other celebrity lines? The difference is that I’m designing a lot of the stuff, and it’s going to be good. I’m really passionate about this.

This is going to be really special. We have the best cuts, best fabrics, best everything. And it’s really simple. We’re trying to make this as clean and flawless as possible.

Were you this fashionable when you were a teenager? No, I was into wearing the dorkiest things I could find. I loved vintage shopping.

I was definitely a bit of a rebel at the time because I went to school with a bunch of people that were eventually going to become doctors and lawyers, and I wanted to be a musician. That was a rebellious move in my sheltered privateschool world.

On the MTV show When I Was 17 you said you were gross when you were that age. What would you tell your 17-year-old self now? I wouldn’t change a thing. Part of being a kid is not knowing what the hell you’re doing, and the journey of figuring it all out is part of life. And I wouldn’t tell myself anything, because I wouldn’t want to wind up in any other place. Q

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hear me out

By Chris Azzopardi

Katy Perry Teenage Dream As if Christina Aguilera and Ke$ha didn’t already send pop music to its deathbed this year, Katy Perry comes close to finishing it off. The Bible-girl-gone-bad runs wild on the emotionally scrambled hit-factory Teenage Dream – not kissing girls (and liking it), but waking up in a post-party haze, reliving her horny adolescence and shrugging off scandalous pics of her online. And then, to add more cotton candy to her song catalog, there’s the frothy first single “California Gurls.” Where life is peachy, there are popsicle-melting peeps ... and Snoop Dogg. The title track lives in paradise, too — a celebration of youth and finding love, themes that bobble along a current of cosmic rev and a guitar line that sounds faintly like it belongs to “Since U Been Gone.” “Let’s go all the way tonight,” she hoots. And when she follows it up with the trashy, oh-so-clever “Peacock,” her subtly challenged ode to you-know-what that’s so ’80s it wears a leotard, she’s obviously not bluffing. Perry, who began criminally overtaking the charts with mind-hijacking hits off 2008’s One of the Boys, is still the McDonald’s of pop music: an irresistible no-no that quenches hook-hungry heads, especially with the ’90s-sounding soap opera “The One that Got Away.” The pop tart’s a decent writer, a decent singer and a perfect sexpot. And she knows exactly what she’s doing — living deep in our own dirty dreams.

Grade: C+

for a lot of play on the CW with its jaunty coffeehouse pop. Her good-vibes sound — for instance, “Uncharted,” a sugary high that’s pure power anthem — feels good even when she’s not. On “Gonna Get Over You” Bareilles bebops through heartbreak, and she makes “King of Anything,” a killer kissoff, seem as inviting as a prettily packaged bazooka. But this album isn’t some “Love Song” molding machine; Bareilles’ voice reaches into her, well, kaleidoscope heart to pull out all the colors of her voice — the most gorgeous of which shines through “The Light,” a simple, cushy ballad. The delicate “Bluebird,” with its careful breaks and floating keyboards, achieves the same greatness.

“Machine Gun” begins deceivingly, another acerbic rant that bounces into a blaze of instrumental fury and a vocal that reaches past the sky. And it’s Bareilles’ voice that, even when she’s sometimes off her game lyrically, makes this Heart beat.

Grade: B+

Also Out The Weepies Be My Thrill Like She & Him, the Weepies’ whimsical indie folk-pop — also performed by a gender-opposite duo — is as cute as it is emotionally charged. The title track is a perky piece of genius, and even boasts lesbian love in its video. Dig deeper, past ditties like “I Was Made for Sunny Days,” and there’s melancholy longing, as heard on the clever tearjerker “Not a Lullaby.” A thrill, for sure.

Sara Bareilles, Kaleidoscope Megan McCormick Heart Honest Words If we learned anything from Sara Bareilles’ Little Voice, her impression-making major label debut, it was that she was lying: Nothing about her sweet, soulful croon is tiny. That big voice, which blew up because of a certain “Love Song,” commands throughout her follow-up, one that’s poised

Off to a good start with a line of songs that drill and bite, the 23-year-old’s debut coasts with raw, blues-y rockers and a muscular beyond-her-years voice. “Do Right,” a pop-country cut, especially sounds like a hit looking for a home. But when the charged opening tuckers out, she falls back on tedious folk balladry that’s authentic and endearing, but monotonous and sagging.

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FEW WEEKS AGO I HAD friends over for a great party at my house. My tomatoes had just started ripening and the melons at the markets had too. I did sort of a Northwest theme with the food and paired it with Northwest wines. It was a great hit, so I’d like to share some of the recipes and wines with you.

First, I started with a chilled melon soup I’ve been making for years. You make it in the blender and I use the most appropriate fresh fruit in it along with the melons. Here’s how you do it:

Chilled Honeydew Soup • ½ ripe honeydew melon peeled and cubed • One medium cantaloupe peeled and cubed

• About six fresh, ripe apricots, pitted (later in the season I’ll use peaches) • Simple syrup, about 2 cups — you can use the juice off of any canned fruit • Heavy cream to taste • Blue food color — several drops to restore honeydew color • Grand Marnier, three to four tablespoons • Two T freshly squeezed lemon juice Blend ingredients together until ultra smooth.

Add the fruit syrup to desired thickness. Don’t let the soup be too runny or too sweet. Top with a dollop of sour cream and a sprig of lavender which can be swirled into the soup.

House-Smoked Fresh Salmon For the next course, I served a beautiful fresh salmon (pictured), which was kind of smoked on an outdoor grill. I bought some hickory wood chips, which are available at a lot of stores, and I soaked about three cups of the chips in water overnight. I scattered the chips around the edges of my propane grill and placed the salmon on a double thickness of aluminum foil. I drizzled the salmon with a homemade teriyaki sauce — but you could use a commercial one — and cooked it on a low setting until it was done through. This was so easy to do and it had that great smoky taste. I served it still warm with some really nice dark bread and some herbed cheese spread — Boursin would be a great choice.

Sufferin’ Succotash For this dish I roasted four to five ears of corn on the outdoor grill. Later I cut the kernels off the cob and sautéed the corn in a skillet with butter, salt, pepper and Italian pepper flakes—you can use as much as you want! I also put in some fresh green beans and red bell peppers. This dish was so delicious it could almost be made into a meal by itself. I used freshly snapped green beans from my garden, which I blanched for several minutes in boiling water and then cooled before sautéeing with the beans. Please make this. It’s easy and wonderful.

For the main course, I cheated and made a stew ahead in the crock pot. I love doing this because when you’re busy, you can really cut down your anxiety by setting this up in the morning, and it just takes a few minutes to finish before serving. I bought red and yellow “fingerling” potatoes and boiled them a little while before dinner. I arranged them in a circle around the platter, ladled the stew in the center and topped it with chopped parsley. Here’s the recipe:

White Pork Savory Stew with Fingerling Potatoes Mark a 2-lb. pork loin roast on an outdoor grill, let cool and cut into 1½ inch cubes. Place the cubed pork in a crock pot, with already heated chicken, beef or pork broth in it. Add one cup diced celery, onion and carrot. Add a pinch of thyme and bay leaf and several leaves of fresh sage. Add several buttons of garlic, coarsely chopped. Cook in the broth until very tender.

Finish the sauce by adding roux or cornstarch and season as desired. Add cream at the last, as

much as you want. You’ll want to make this dish again and again.

Aunt Ruth’s Graham Cake 1¾ c. whole wheat flour, or graham flour if you can find it. I used a Golden Wheat, finely milled product from Montana.

2 heaping tbsp. cornstarch 5 eggs, separated ½ c. water, almost boiling 1¾ c. sugar ½ c. oil ½ tsp. salt 1½ tsp. vanilla Sift flour and cornstarch six times. Add hot water to egg yolks and beat until stiff. Add sugar gradually while beating. Add oil, flavoring and salt, beating gently until oil is all taken up. Fold the flour in gently. Add stiffly beaten egg whites.

Bake in an ungreased angel food cake pan at 325 degrees for 30 minutes, then at 350 degrees for the last 30 minutes. Serve with fruit and whipped cream on top.

Suggested Wines: With the salmon and the melon soup I paired both a Ste Michelle Dry Riesling (which we loved with both dishes) and a crisp, yet full-bodied Eyrie Pinot Blane. This last wine was delicious by itself and handsomely made — in fact, it was the first time I really loved a Pinot Blanc — but the pairing was not as good as the dry Riesling.

With the stew, I first served a Willamette Valley, whole cluster Pinot Noir — delicious, full, cherryraspberry. It was delicious, and it would be with almost anything. Then, even though the stew has a nearly white gravy, I paired it with a simply gorgeous Columbia Crest H3 Cabernet. For around $16 a bottle it’s ridiculously good! With the graham cake, I made a “hard sauce” with Utah’s own High West Whisky to pour over the cake. Then I garnished with berries, and I served a shot glass of the Whisky on the side.

Please try some of these recipes on your families and guests. Bon Appétit! Q

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HAT’S THE THING ABOUT Planter’s Punch,” Sal shouted over the din at BarHarbor one Friday evening as a crowd of guys holding sweaty dress shirts over their arms, not-soLynne N. Ward - Government/Public Service fresh from the city, yelled remarks at each other Marian Ingham - Community Service while getting smashed on overpriced drinks.

Cynthia A. Bioteau - Education “What’s the thing?” I screamed back. Sal only Deborah S. Bayle - Health/Human Services seemed to mouth his reply; I couldn’t hear a word of it. Sal’s boyfriend, Shea, broke in: “Fact / is, this drink was served by Cuban slave owners but made by slaves from rum distilled by slaves and fruit grown by slaves. Bottoms up!” (“Where?” the wag next to us cried.)

Sal and Shea are oncea-month housemates.

Shea is a successful and salt lake city very handsome 32-year-old actor; he’s always in something, from Broadway to off-off-off. Sal, whose last for Q Salt Lake.indd 1 8/17/2010 2:15:00 PM name is Amminio – his parents were either clueless or just plain mean – comes from South Philadelphia via Harvard Law, and is 50.

Dismissing a lucrative career in corporate law For people of all in favor of various low-paying legal gigs for Next to Club Try-Angles, ages to hang out, the LGBT community, Sal had little savings.

Half Block from TRAX in the NEW Gayborhood! play pool, get on the He’d also learned from the bitter 25-year internet, play music experience of working with and for PIGs (Phenomenally Idiotic Gays) to detest much COFFEE BURGERS of our community. I teased him relentlessly SANDWICHES about his name and spent that weekend obSOUPS scurely singing, “Who killed Teddy Bear? Does SALADS APPETIZERS anybody care?”

BREAKFAST BarHarbor’s Planter’s Punch was obviously BRUNCH made in vats meant for storing crude oil.

POOL TABLE Heavy on cheap juice and full of ice, it still VIDEO GAMES JUKE BOX cost $12 a pop. By the time the bar boy, who FREE WIFI looked like a sixth-grader with very grownup armpit hair, worked his way through the OPEN pheromone-high crowd, the punch was basiMon-Thur 7a–7p Friday 7a-3p cally flavored ice water.

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The conversation over grilled salmon and store-bought potato salad became heated.

Sal and I held equally rigid but opposing positions on the subject of Planter’s Punch.

Saturday’s beach time consisted of more squabbling interrupted by comments about the Speedo-clad boy parade at the water’s edge. The words “rum,” “juice,” and “you’re such an asshole” formed the foundation of our debate. We finally agreed to use Quaker principles: we had to reach consensus on every ingredient and proportion.

Well, we followed the rules but didn’t act very Quakerly. There was far too much tasting and giggling, and Sal and I were already flying high by the time Dan and Sean came downstairs. Sal spent the whole dinner laughing wildly at anything anyone said, while I (I am told) simply passed out at the table.

Sal says everybody loved the punch, but I can’t remember the evening at all.

The words ‘rum,’ ‘juice,’ and ‘you’re such an asshole’ formed the foundation of our debate

Planter’s Punch This recipe makes enough for six drinks 1-cup dark rum (I prefer Havana Club Rum) ½-cup orange juice ½-cup pineapple juice ¼-cup unsweetened lime juice ¼-cup Orange Curacao (Sal’s idea) ¼-cup brandy (my idea; I like Azteca de Oro) Pour all ingredients into a pitcher. Let it blend and chill for a few hours. Then serve over a limited amount of ice.

(Note: Some people add grenadine; we say “yuck!” Some people stick foofy little fruit slices on the edge of the glass — slivers of orange or lime. We say, “Who wants a piece of orange going up a nostril?” I, for one, don’t like anyone or anything getting between me and my drinks.) Q Ed Sikov is the author of Dark Victory; The Life of Bette Davis and other books about films and filmmakers.

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during special events, parties or holidays). The staff is friendly, the drinks are cold, the environment is safe and most of us are accustomed to it. People drink and spend money but aren’t too “tipsy” before they move on (possibly becoming a “problem child” somewhere else).

Maybe if you show up to Püre with a JAM stamp you could get free admission no matter the time. Or if you show up to Edge the next night after venturing to Püre you get a free cocktail.

Regardless the incentive, I hope to see our community come closer together rather than push one another apart.

Basically, this isn’t San Diego where competitive bars work because the community is spread out and can support such a situation. This is Salt Lake City and we’re close like Cheers “where everybody knows your name” (well, to an extent, obviously). But it’s true. Utah has a large lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and many who go out are the same people that go out weekly.

Fall brings nicer weather and beautiful scenery.

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So what’s happening in this upcoming season?

Well, the obvious is Salt Lake City now has another Saturday night venue — Babylon. That’s right.

If you haven’t already heard (and I can’t imagine how you couldn’t have), Babylon has reopened and is already taking some patrons from other establishments.

However, I for one am getting sick of the ever-growing competitive nature of our nightlife spots. I understand that businesses are open (at the end of the day in both senses here) to make a profit, and to make a profit you must have a vast majority of our community frequenting and spending money. That said, ideally what I would like to see is more collaboration between these fine bars, clubs and lounges. We have enough people in this world who are “against us;” we cannot turn on each other for the mere sake of ego, profit or “he who dies with the most customers wins.”

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1 She came between Bess 28 Shirley of Sweet Charity and Jackie 30 2003 film with a Mormon 2 Immeasurably vast hole homophobe 3 High places with flat tops 32 Singer Anita 4 Jazz singer James 34 Puts out 5 Canning container 35 Allergic reaction 6 Sitcom actress Meyers 38 Baldwin and Frank 7 Keanu in The Matrix 40 Brief tussle 8 What 50 million 41 Gaydar, for example Frenchmen never drink 42 Beat up on 9 Part of SSS (abbr.)

47 “Got a Rainbow” lyricist 10 Dinner at Eight director Gershwin George 48 Opposite of swill

11 Garment with a flared bottom 12 Credo 17 Fame 18 Sweaty place 23 Beginning of Hairspray 24 NY Met or LA Dodger 25 Gloomy 26 As Is subject 28 Deli jarful 29 Charlotte Bronte’s heroine 30 Stereotypical hookers’ stations 31 Post-orgy state 32 Poems of Sappho 33 Todd Oldham, for one 36 Marched cockily 37 Trick 39 Word after he and she 40 Pole, for example 43 Like many types of tasty meat 44 Caesar’s milieu 45 Cher’s ex-husband Gregg 46 A sexually enlightened society, and more 52 Pink shade 53 Peru native 54 Suffix with duct 57 Wood and more PUZZLE ANSWERS ON PAGE 47

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Q health Quiznos and Hepatitis A

by Lynn Beltran

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OME OF THE MOST RECENT public health news in Salt Lake have been inspired by a case of hepatitis A discovered in an employee at the Quiznos restaurant at 30 E. Broadway (300 South).

Although the thought of hepatitis A in a restaurant may understandably elicit extreme amounts of fear and result in fewer “take out” meals, let’s take a moment to set the record straight on this incident, as well as the ongoing risk of hepatitis A in the community.

Hepatitis A is a viral infection that may cause acute illness of the liver. Unlike its family members hepatitis B and hepatitis C, both of which lead to chronic liver disease, hepatitis A is an acute infection — and yes, you may be vaccinated against it.

As an infectious disease, hepatitis A is fairly uncommon.

Symptoms generally include yellowing skin and eyes (known as jaundice), fatigue, vomiting and dark urine. Once someone is determined to be infected with hepatitis A, they receive a dose of immune globulin to help their body mount an immune response to the virus and receive supportive care and monitoring as well. The course of illness generally lasts a few weeks at which time the immune system is able to respond to and clear the infection. Again, this is not a chronic infection.

The catalyst for recent concern occurred when a former employee of the above-mentioned Quiznos restaurant became ill and tested positive for hepatitis A at a health clinic. Hepatitis A is a reportable disease by state law, therefore an investigation was initiated. Since Public Health determined that this individual had previously worked in a restaurant, public policy required that the restaurant be notified. After notification, food safety specialists work with the restaurant to make sure that any possible contaminated food is destroyed and the restaurant goes through an extensive cleaning and decontamination process. All employees are tested for infection and receive extensive education about proper food preparation. Any food worker found to be infected with hepatitis A may not return to

work until the infection has cleared; and diagnostic testing is required for clearance.

At this point, no additional cases of hepatitis A have been identified or linked to this individual case. Further, I believe a restaurant that has recently gone through this process is probably now one of the safest possible places to eat.

Since the infected individual was no longer employed at this restaurant, the exposure dates were limited and announced to the public.

The exposure dates occurred during the first week in August, and the Salt Lake Valley Health Department recommends that anyone who ate at Quiznos at 30 E. Broadway during this time receive the hepatitis A vaccine. You may contact your private medical provider for the vaccine or get it through the Salt Lake Valley Health Department.

This does not mean that this restaurant is tainted or dirty. An employee at any restaurant can unknowingly become infected with hepatitis A and put the public at risk during food preparation. Hepatitis A is generally spread through fecal oral contact. This can occur through having contact with animal feces, such as those of a dog, cat or other pet. It can also be transmitted during sexual activities such as rectal sex or “rimming.” Infected individuals can then transmit to household members and others through fomite transmission — by essentially not washing their hands after using the restroom.

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“Gay square dancing is high energy dancing,” said Ross Lopton, caller for the Temple Squares.

“We welcome anyone interested in Modern Western Square Dance to give it a try. It’s not what you remember from junior high and definitely not your grandma’s square dancing!”

People of all races, religions, ages, gender identities and sexual orientations are welcome.

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“A great thing about our group is that it’s not necessary to bring a dance partner,” added Lopton.

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Temple Squares is a member of the International Association of Gay Square Dance Clubs, the umbrella organization supporting gay and lesbian Modern Western Square Dance clubs in the United States, Canada and Japan.

The IAGSDC holds a square dance convention each year in a North American city.

The IAGSDC was formed in 1983 when straight callers decided they would not permit gay or lesbian couples to participate in square dancing.

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ELEBRATING ITS 20TH ANNIVERSARY, THE Salt Lake Goodtime Bowling League rolls into gay-friendly Bonwood Bowl with league play starting Sunday, Sept 12. Anyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, age or ability is invited to participate in this season’s bowling fun.

J Fraga is the newly-elected president of the league after many years of planning and serving as an officer.

“The Goodtime Bowling League is about camaraderie, fun and supporting nonprofit organizations,” said Fraga. “It is a fun way to give back to society and help various organizations with the money that Bonwood Bowl and the Goodtime League donates. I encourage everyone to join the league to have fun, from novice to seasoned player.”

Teams and players are encouraged to arrive 15 minutes before 7 p.m. each Sunday. Players who are not on a team are encouraged to arrive at 6 p.m. and register as an individual player. Each week, each player is required to pay a league fee of $11, and a one-time United States Bowling Congress membership of $19 is required before or on the day of opening season play. Miller states that the league fee is one of the lowest in the state.

“The unique thing about the league is it’s a charity league. All proceeds from bowling the 28 weeks go to charities the league votes on,” said Chad Miller, league secretary. “The owner of Bonwood Bowl, Dean White, has always made the league feel very welcome along with Chad Hall and his staff.”

Weekly raffles and holiday theme nights make for festive bowling during the season. The

end of the season banquet will be held at Club Try-Angles.

“As I start my ninth year bowling on the Goodtime League, I’ve had the opportunity to meet a lot of great people,” said Miller. “I can’t think of a better way to spend a couple of hours on a Sunday evening. Gene Gieber, owner of Try-Angles, has hosted our banquets for the past three years and has always made the extra effort to make sure it’s a great experience.”

This August, two bowlers from the league represented Utah at the 2010 Gay Games in Cologne, Germany. Larry Lee won a silver when added to a German team, while John Bennett did not medal but enjoyed his fifth Gay Games.

Both bowlers credit Goodtime as instrumental in improving their bowling skills and in making new friends.

“Thank you to Bonwood Bowl for allowing us to bowl free the other night and this will be my third or fourth year at Bonwood, but I did play up at the University when it first started over 20 years ago,” said John Bennett, remembering that it was the first year.

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OMMY,” MY MOTHER STARTED IN that patronizing tone she had developed into perfection. “It’s just such a shame.” (‘That you’re gay!’) “You’d make such a great father.” (‘But now you won’t!’)

That’s how my mother had reacted to my coming out 18 years ago ... oh, except for this initial question that she felt needed an answer: “Did somebody talk you into it?”

“No, of course not!” I replied, aghast. (‘Yes! This guy, that I have no attraction to by the way, asked me to be gay so I could be ridiculed, discriminated against, laughed at and possibly beaten to a pulp! So, yes mom, I was recruited!’)

Now, don’t get me wrong, my mother is a gem ... perhaps cloudy and not of the smoothest cut, but a gem nonetheless. I have always loved and appreciated my mother, and now that she’s pushing 70 years old — mostly because her side of the family has a history of Alzheimer’s, among other ailments — I am driven to tell her that there’s a very good possibly that I have a son.

A son named Derek, 19. An October baby, if memory serves.

Obviously this doesn’t make me a father since I don’t know with absolute certainty, nor have I seen the boy since just a few months after his birth. But my friends were convinced ... maybe still are convinced; they all said he was a spitting image. I couldn’t see it or wouldn’t — I mean he was a platinum blond, blue-eyed boy with kind of goofy looking ears — but what? That’s such a rarity?

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I was about to turn 21 and I was still a virgin — in terms of both sexes. I ran with the heterosexual crowd ... because society had talked me into it, because my community had recruited me. And I was bound and determined to lose my virginity before my 21st birthday, so I went with a girl, first.

I had met her at my workplace; we were both CNAs on the night shift. I asked her on a date — it had gone smoothly, but inno-

‘Dammit, that kind of pleasure deserves a baby! And with a gay guy.’ cently — and we started innocently hanging out more and more. One night, after only a few weeks, a date we were on had ended awkwardly. We were at a house party and we had drank too many Seagram’s wine coolers. I knew I had had only a few more days, so I was anxious to get my willy wet — well, as much as a straight-deficient, gay 20-year-old virgin who’s about to have sex with a girl could be anxious. We found a vacant bedroom and I Cryptogram: You can’t comment on every offensive thing people do. I have enough trouble commenting on the offensive things I do.

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Needless to say, I was thankful she had removed her own pants — they were button fly jeans, mind you! Eventually, like an eternity, I had finally found my way into her.

The act of screwing had felt weird; I felt, and probably looked like a baby seal milking its mother. So, as much as a straight-deficient, gay 20-year-old virgin who’s having sex with a girl can get anxious, I had an orgasm so ultra-embarrassingly fast that I couldn’t pull completely out in time.

I’m not sure if, at that exact moment, she knew that it had happened, but I have learned over the years that women have an uncanny intuition. She had probably thought to herself, after ordering me off her, “Dammit, that kind of pleasure deserves a baby! And with a gay guy.”

So, inevitably we had broken up a week later without any further embarrassing “baby seal milking” incidents. But because we had continued to work together, we sort of became friends. One night after our shift, she asked me out for a drink. I complied. Over a couple of weak Screwdrivers she told me that she was pregnant. Talk about ‘deer-inheadlights.’ Well, for a gay guy it’s more like ‘penis-size-in-spotlight.’ However, she was fast to say the baby was not mine.

Once my girl friends had explained ‘gestation period’ to me, it seemed well within the realm of possibility that the baby was actually mine. So, though the mother-to-be continued to deny it, and because she never talked about, nor ended up marrying the “father,” I insisted on helping her out. After she had learned she was going to have a boy, I went gay-bonkers on clothes and toy shopping for the little tyke. Then when Derek was born, I’d gladly go see him time-to-time, I’d take him and his mother out to dinner and to the zoo. It seemed so surreal.

But then I came out of the closet because, at the same time that I was leading pseudo”normal” heterosexual life, I was also having sex with guys. It somehow lead to seeing less and less of Derek and his mother, who one day finally quit her CNA job. That’s as far back as I remember, I don’t know exactly how we lost touch.

I wish we hadn’t. They had been great times! Times I miss, so much so that about 10 years ago, I seriously considered adopting a child. But that’s a story for another time.

I know in my heart it doesn’t matter if the truth is that Derek isn’t mine, I just wish that I had continued watching him grow up; to have nurtured him; to have been his baseballcatching buddy; to have been his bike-riding safety net; to be his friend. Maybe my mother could also have witnessed some of my fathership. Q

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BY REX WOCKNER

Ken Mehlman Comes Out Ken Mehlman, George W. Bush’s 2004 campaign chief and the former chairman of the Republican National Committee, came out of the closet Aug. 25 in an interview with The Atlantic.

He is the most powerful Republican in history to openly identify as gay.

He previously had denied being gay in published reports.

“It’s taken me 43 years to get comfortable with this part of my life,” Mehlman said.

“Everybody has their own path to travel, their own journey, and for me, over the past few months, I’ve told my family, friends, former colleagues and current colleagues, and they’ve been wonderful and supportive. The process has been something that’s made me a happier and better person. It’s something I wish I had done years ago.”

Mehlman’s leadership positions in the GOP came during the party’s most anti-gay period. He was George W. Bush’s political director during Bush’s first term as president, served as Bush-Cheney campaign manager in the homophobic 2004 campaign, and chaired the RNC from 2005 to 2007.

“His tenure as RNC chairman and his time at the center of the Bush political machine coincided with the Republican Party’s attempts to exploit anti-gay prejudices and cement the allegiance of social conservatives,” The Atlantic said.

Raw Story noted, “Some believe Bush’s support for anti-gay marriage measures carried him to victory (in 2004), particularly in Ohio, which had a gay marriage measure on the ballot.”

The Atlantic reported that Mehlman has been making amends behind the scenes on exactly that issue, revealing that he is significantly involved in the Proposition 8 federal lawsuit masterminded by the American Foundation for Equal Rights and superstar attorneys Ted Olson and David Boies.

AFER’s Chad Griffin said Mehlman’s contributions to the group have been “tremendous.”

“When we achieve ... equality, he will be one of the people to thank for it,” Griffin stated.

In September, Mehlman is chairing a major AFER fund-raiser that already has raised $1 million, Griffin told the Towleroad blog.

But as praiseworthy as such moves may be, some of Mehlman’s homosexual brothers are demanding more.

Blogger Mike Rogers, who leaked the story of Mehlman’s coming out just before The Atlantic released it, wrote: “Ken Mehlman is horridly homophobic and no matter how orchestrated his coming out is, our community should hold him accountable for his past. ... I want to hear from Ken that he is sorry for being the architect of the 2004 Bush reelection campaign. ... I want to hear from Ken that he is sorry for the pressing of two Federal Marriage Amendments as political tools. ... And those

state marriage amendments.

I want to hear him apologize for every one of those, too.”

Blogger Joe. My. God. picked up Rogers’ post and called Mehlman a “repulsive ... homophobic scumbag asshat.”

Equality California ExFormer Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman, who came out as gay on Aug. 25. ecutive Director Geoff Kors commented: “I’m glad he final- that) he helped pass, and spend the rest of his ly came out and glad he’s raising money and life working to achieve equality and justice working to undo the tremendous damage he for the community he is part of that he used did to LGBT people. He needs to acknowledge for selfish political purposes.” the damage he caused and apologize for the Kors said Mehlman also should urge lives he’s ruined, raise millions of dollars to George W. Bush to join his wife, Laura, in overturn every one of the state constitution- supporting legalization of same-sex maral amendments (banning same-sex marriage riage.

Scott Long Leaves Human Rights Watch Scott Long resigned Aug. 23 as director of Human Rights Watch’s LGBT Rights Program.

In a note to friends, Long wrote: “In midJuly I suffered a pulmonary embolism of a fairly unpleasant sort. While running to catch a bus on a New York street, I saw a blinding effusion of white light, amid which several spangled and bell-bottomed figures vaguely resembling ABBA beckoned me to an eternal disco complete with spinning ball. Yanked back from their blandishments by a superior fashion sense, I spent a couple of weeks in intensive care. I had plenty of time lying in a bendable bed with an IV dripping, to compose, like Woody Allen, lists of the things that make life worth living: the last movement of Bruckner’s Third Symphony; ‘Sit Down, I Think I Love You’ as covered by the Staccatos, with that harpsichord and those violins; the closing pages of ‘Lolita’; W. H. Auden as sung by Cleo Laine. Somewhere in the middle of the lists, I realized that working for Human Rights Watch wasn’t on them.”

Long said he likely will pursue a fellowship at Harvard University, from which he received his Ph.D., and write a book “about what’s moral and what’s immoral about ‘international solidarity,’ and what’s worked and what hasn’t in campaigns for sexual rights.”

“Scott’s exemplary dedication and diligence has been an inspiration to us all,” said Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran and a member of HRW’s LGBT Advisory Committee.

“His articulate and relentless defense of LGBT rights everywhere is unparalleled, and his tremendous efforts on this front have been a guiding voice for justice and equality.”

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In addition to amassing a long list of accomplishments during his eight-year tenure at HRW, Long occasionally sparked controversy. In June, HRW issued an apology to British gay leader Peter Tatchell for what HRW Executive Director Kenneth Roth called Long’s “inappropriate and disparaging comments” about Tatchell in recent years.

California Legislature Ups the Ante in Marriage Wars The California Assembly passed the Civil Marriage Religious Freedom Act on Aug. 19 in a 46-25 vote. It previously passed the Senate 23-11 and is now en route to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Introduced by Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, and promoted by Equality California and the California Council of Churches, the bill redundantly protects clergy members from having to perform civil marriages that conflict with their religious beliefs.

It also redundantly protects religious institutions from losing tax-exempt status for refusing to perform any civil marriage, and deepens the distinction in state law between religious and civil marriage by defining the latter as a civil contract that requires a stateissued marriage license.

Both of the “protections” in the bill already exist throughout the United States, including California.

“Opponents of marriage equality have falsely claimed that allowing same-sex couples to marry will force clergy to violate the tenets of their faiths,” said EQCA Executive Director Geoff Kors. “This bill should alleviate any concerns that restoring marriage equality will require clergy to perform weddings inconsistent with their faith.”

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Quips & Quotes ❝

I will remain a faithful supporter of everything that Richard said tonight at the rally. I would not have agreed to allow this to happen had I not 100 percent agreed with every accusation that was made and had a very strong belief in the power of ...this community to make changes that may be hard for the sake of our community’s well-being.”

—Rally for Equality organizer Turner Bitton in a Facebook comment about Richard Matthews’ call for Utah AIDS Foundation Director Stan Penfold’s resignation

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I believe due to the current lack of resources it is healthy to review not only the mission of the Utah Aids Foundation, its management and the structure of the organization to see if its effect in reaching its goals helping those with HIV/ Aids and HIV Prevention. … I also think it’s about time this subject of the UAF focus to be open to our community and not limited to Stan Penfield and the UAF Board.”

—Bradley Gubbler in the same discussion

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A quotation mark instead of an apostrophe?

Really? And presumably the perpetrator was trying to denote that there are gay people inside, not that it belonged to them.”

—Commenter “AdmNaismith” on AMERICAblog’s post about the Pride Center vandalism

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BYU is ranked sixth in the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender-unfriendly category, a fact of which it is proud. BYU spokesman Todd Hollingshead said on Fox 13 News that the school is happy with the ranking and hopes to defend the top spot next year. To each his own, I guess. But if I was a prospective college student, I definitely know where I wouldn’t want to go.”

—Daily Utah Chronicle writer Alex Noshrivan, in an opinion piece contrasting the University of Utah and BYU in terms of protections for gay and transgender students.

Come Visit the California Legislature Calls for Census Count of LGBTs The California Assembly passed a resolution Aug. 23 urging Congress and President Barack Obama to require that the next census count LGBT Americans.

Introduced by Sen. Christine Kehoe, DSan Diego, the measure passed 49-25.

It previously passed the Senate 22-9.

“All segments of our nation’s diverse population need to be counted by the U.S. Census,” said Equality California Executive Director Geoff Kors. “By ensuring that the LGBT community is counted, our state and federal government will have the necessary information to address the needs of our community.”

Kehoe said: “LGBT families and households are disproportionately underserved and more likely to live in poverty. We call on the U.S. Congress and the president to ensure that every person living in the United States is counted and has access to culturally competent health and human services.”

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The repeal previously passed the Assembly and heads to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger after an Assembly concurrence vote.

“It is outrageous that California law requires the state to expend scarce resources in a futile attempt to ‘cure’ homosexuality,” said Equality California Executive Director Geoff Kors. “This offensive code must be stricken from the books immediately.”

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Debate Over Utah AIDS Foundation Continues

by Joselle Vanderhooft

Nearly three weeks ago, a group of local activists called for the resignation of Stan Penfold, executive director of the Utah AIDS Foundation and for a restructuring in the organization’s board and programming.

Activist Richard Matthews called for Penfold’s resignation during the Rally For Equality, which Turner Bitton organized on Aug. Stan Penfold 14. Shortly after the rally, Matthews posted a number of criticisms of UAF to his Facebook.

These included the organization’s cutting back HIV prevention programming, lack of programming for HIV-positive youth or a youth-focused prevention program, limited access to the foundation’s testing site and a small board of trustees. He also wrote that Penfold was rarely in the office, that his position on the Salt Lake City Council was interfering with his job, and that Penfold had not worked with other community groups to address a shortfall in funding for low-income people with HIV/AIDS in 2009.

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

By all accounts, this is due more to lack of leadership than lack of funds,” Matthews wrote. “It does not appear that the leadership is particularly passionate about HIV prevention. The UAF needs our help, we must act. Our young people deserve better.

We deserve better.”

“I have received dozens of private messages from former donors, former staffers, former clients, and current and former volunteers. The vast majority of which expressed enthusiastic support for this campaign,” Matthews recently told QSaltLake. “I do believe the whole community supports a change in our approach to HIV prevention.”

Within days, the post garnered nearly 100 comments on Facebook as well as widespread discussion throughout the community. As the discussion unfolded, Shawn Jackson, the chair of UAF’s board of trustees, said that he called for a meeting between himself, board vice chair Lon Jenkins, Matthews, Bitton and Penfold.

He said the five men walked away from the meeting “with greater knowledge and some ideas about how to reach 18 to 21-year-old” men who have sex with men, the group among which HIV infections are growing the fastest and who Matthews said UAF was not serving well.

“We actually were able to implement some of those ideas that first weekend after our meeting,” said Jackson. “I think we are all very lucky to have two such dedicated individuals who are both on board to help improve our community.”

The ideas, said Penfold, all focused on prevention efforts. On Aug. 20, Penfold said UAF’s outreach team went to clubs that cater to patrons under 21 and passed out condoms, safer sex packets and cards for a free HIV test at the foundation.

“We’re going to do more of that now, to be more visible in that population because that is an increasingly high risk population,” said Penfold.

On Aug. 27, Penfold said that gay and bisexual men 22 and under who show up at the foundation’s HIV test site will receive a free HIV test.

“It’ll take us awhile to get the word out, but we’re starting it at the test site immediately,” he said.

Helping Youth Penfold said that UAF is aware of the difficulties in reaching young gay and bisexual men, and is considering how to meet these challenges.

“All of us are frustrated,” he said. “I know there are 19-year-olds getting positive results on an HIV test, so where, as a community, do we have an opportunity to interact with them before they’re sexually active? If they’re showing up at 19 with an HIV reactive result, they’re sexually active at 18, 17. They’re not always identifying as gay.”

Worse, said Penfold, Utah schools prohibit safer sex education and “talking about homosexuality as an OK lifestyle,” meaning that many youth don’t know how HIV is transmitted.

“I believe we have been successful with the ‘use a condom’ message in the past,” said Jackson. “We all need to remember that our youth are not receiving that message, and they don’t see HIV as a big concern anymore.”

Another challenge, Penfold noted, is that youth are using the internet to meet up for sex instead of going to clubs, making older prevention efforts ineffective.

“They’re not in the bars,” he said, “And some are going to straight clubs even though they might be having same-sex sex, but they’re not showing up at gay clubs because they’re not out. We’re assessing [if] anyone is doing outreach into the straight underage clubs. [We’re asking] do we have access there, can we do access there?”

In the past, said Penfold, UAF has partnered with Planned Parenthood to do outreach in straight bars and clubs.

“Sometimes Planned Parenthood can let into some of them when we might not be able to,” he said.

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Community Outreach But the problem, say some activists, is that Penfold has not reached out to other groups, even when they have offered to help. As QSaltLake reported in a previous article, the paper was on an e-mail list last fall where People With AIDS Coalition of Utah Director Toni Johnson and other community leaders kept asking Penfold to meet with them to talk about the needs of people with HIV and AIDS after the state’s Ryan White funding was cut off. Penfold, who was in the final phases of a successful run for Salt Lake City Council, did not attend the meetings, even after the election was over.

Further, some critics have said that Penfold has deliberately interfered with funding for people with HIV/AIDS. Shortly after Jackson posted an open letter to the community on Facebook addressing some of Matthews’ points, Stuart Merrill, former director of the Campaign to End Aids–Utah, sent him and QSaltLake a message in which he blasted Penfold and called Jackson’s letter “wordy; full of hyperbole and outright lies.”

Merrill told Jackson that Penfold had deliberately gotten in his way when he lobbied the state Legislature to augment Utah’s AIDS Drug Assistance Program, a federally funded program which helps low-income people with HIV/AIDS pay for their prescriptions.

“The first year I was lobbying for additional funding at the Utah State Legislature I received calls from friends in the Legislature stating that Stan had contacted our friends on the Hill to tell them not to listen to me, that I was not telling the truth, and that we did not need additional funding,” Merrill wrote. “I found out Stan had called [openly gay state politicians] Scott McCoy, Jackie Biskupski, and Chris Johnson, among others to disseminate these lies about me. Whatever his motivation he was clearly trying to undermine my personal credibility.”

After this, Merrill said that he asked the Utah Department of Health to back him up by saying that they, in fact, needed the money. When he tried to talk to Penfold, Merrill said that Penfold would not take his call and left his office “telling everyone he suddenly fell ill” when Merrill called and said he’s coming to his office to talk in person.

Merrill also said Penfold did the same thing again when he left the state and Johnson, his cousin, took over his lobbying efforts.

“Every time Stan was confronted he released eloquently void statements and avoided all subsequent community meetings,” he wrote. “Stan’s actions to this day horrify me and shock me. Stan’s actions did negatively impact the health of UAF clients.”

Previously, Merrill had brought up some of these concerns on Matthew’s initial Facebook post calling for Penfold’s resignation. When asked (before Merrill sent his message to Jackson) if his allegations of sabotage were true, Penfold said: “This is my perspective. Stuart did an

incredible job and has been the only one I’m aware of that has successfully lobbied the state for HIV-specific funding. And he actually got some out of them. That’s the only time I’ve ever seen it happen.”

“I guess I’m sorry he didn’t think I was supportive enough,” he added.

In his open letter, Jackson concurred.

“Stan, the board and staff have never told the state of Utah that no additional funds were needed for HIV. In fact we have always said that we could use all the money we could get for HIV and AIDS,” he wrote. “Stan has actively voiced how the state should step up its funding for this and other programs. This has always been a priority. The Foundation has lobbied the legislature for funding. The Foundation has also collaborated with several entities to lobby the legislature on legislation that would affect Medicaid and people living with AIDS. This past year the Foundation partnered with Planned Parenthood to affect important legislation around prostitution laws that would affect the Foundation’s constituents.”

When asked about criticisms that he had refused to work with other community organizations, Penfold said the only example he could think of was his refusal of an advertising grant from the Utah Department of Health in 2008.

“Under the Bush administration there was a huge shift in focus away from prevention programs and, we felt, away from prevention programs directed at gay men,” he said.

“They focused almost all their resources on [HIV testing], so we were in the process of working through our contact with the state and we really agonized over it.”

Ultimately, Penfold said that UAF’s board voted to turn down the money in order to create a prevention program that targeted gay and bisexual men “with direct, blunt supportive messages” about condom use and safer sex.

What Now?

Although Matthews said that UAF implemented some changes immediately after the meeting, “any discussion of the allegations that had been raised was avoided.”

Further, Bitton, one of Matthews’ most outspoken supporters, said that he would be taking a limited role in the campaign to change UAF. Shortly after the meeting, Bitton announced he was stepping down from administering the Facebook petition calling for Penfold to resign. In an open letter to the community posted to Facebook moments before Bitton removed himself, he wrote that he “lacked the passion that Richard has” for the issue, and that his attempts to work toward a solution during the meeting resulted in “essentially [throwing] Richard under a bus.”

“I voiced my concerns about a plan calling for the resignation of Stan, and instead called upon the UAF to work to better its programming and its image within our community. I also let it be known that I would work with the UAF toward this goal,” Bitton wrote.

“To Richard, I am sorry for what he believed was my ‘jockeying’ for a seat on the board of the UAF,” Bitton continued, noting that he had no intention of seeking or accepting such a position. “Let me make it perfectly clear that what may appear as weakness on my behalf is merely an attempt to see lasting change brought to the UAF through dialogue and positive approaches to the future of this community.”

“I ask you to stand with Richard in his protest of the UAF because his heart is true and his grievances are just,” he added, before reminding readers that they were “stakeholders in the future” of the organization.

Bitton noted that he and Matthews have scheduled more meetings with Jenkins, Penfold and Jackson.

“There is a lot of disagreement on how that [change to HIV prevention in Utah] should be done,” Matthews said. “I feel that most people that are familiar with the foundation and its work over it’s 25 years of service agree that its time for new leadership at the foundation. While many of them like Stan Penfold, most would agree that 11 years as the director is long enough in a position that constantly relies on new ideas and innovations.” “[An increase in HIV infections] is a problem the entire country is facing,” said Jackson. “That is one of the reasons we have been so deliberate about evaluating and re-designing our prevention programming. We know that what used to work no longer does. The Board and the staff have been looking at programs in other communities to see what is working, and what can we modify and use here to have the greatest impact.”

Bitton and Matthews have also proposed 11 such new ideas and innovations, which are as follows: 1) The director should accept a 12-month probationary term, during which he must complete at least half of the changes to follow. He must: A) raise donations to the UAF by 10 percent, B) reinstate programming for HIV+/AIDS individuals, support groups C) accept a reduction in pay to compensate for the loss of donations.

2) The director and board should work together to amend the bylaws of the UAF to limit the term of a director to five years, at the end of which the director will become a member of the board for a minimum of two years, after which they will be eligible to become director for five more years.

3) The board should permanently increase the number of members on the board to at least 15, creating subcommittees for the various tasks to be performed by the UAF. 4) The board should amend the bylaws to require board members to undergo and evaluation every two years where they must show that they are: A) involved in other community events that raise the visibility of the UAF. B) prove that they have continually educated themselves and thus presented new ideas to the board. If either is found to be unsatisfactory, the board member should be replaced.

5) The board should promptly and immediately increase diversity on the board to include those who are typically unrepresented on the board, i.e. trangender [people], those under 21, Hispanics and minorities, and those affiliated with community organizations.

6) The UAF should endorse and encourage participation in programs for prevention at other organizations, i.e. FAYME at the Pride Center [a group for young gay and bisexual men], SimplySocial, and OUTlet.

The UAF should also understand that it is a community-based organization and thus it should become not only an active member in the community but work with other organizations as the standard bearer for the fight again HIV/AIDS; essentially it is the responsibility of the UAF to act as a leader and channel of ideas to the community as a whole, as Richard has suggested.

7) Beginning immediately, the UAF

should implement a program of education at bars, 21 and under clubs, and activity groups such as SimplySocial. It is the responsibility of the UAF to work as the first line of education in the areas that are typically inaccessible to organizations such as the Pride Center.

8) The UAF should hold age-, income-, and accessibility-appropriate fund raising, organizing, and outreach events. It is irresponsible for the UAF to assume that the constituency in the most danger (younger, less economically free individuals) can afford to pay $100 for a night at the Hotel Monaco [for a ticket to Monaco’s annual Red Party fundraiser].

9) The UAF should accept immediately that it must be the channel of feedback on the issues of HIV/AIDS, and as a result should hold a quarterly board meeting that is open and accessible to the public. Meetings can be conducted like a city council

Defense: DA Should Step Down in Bell-Fair Beating Case Defense attorneys for seven suspects accused of beating a South Salt Lake City gay couple in 2008 have asked a judge to bar the Salt Lake County District Attorney from prosecuting their clients.

The suspects are accused of beating David James “DJ” Bell and his partner, Dan Fair, two years ago on July 4. At the time, the suspects were holding an all-night Fourth of July party at their home when two of the partygoers’ toddlers walked next door to the Bell-Fair household. Bell later said the children stood in his doorway and asked for some Kool-Aid, which he provided. Soon after, Tapululu Latu, the mother of one child, retrieved the children after calling Bell a pedophile and, according to Bell, telling him to “lock your doors.”

Shortly thereafter, several of the partygoers broke into the house and severely beat Bell and his partner.

Bell was charged with attempted kidnapping and burglary. He was found not guilty in Sept. 2009.

Although Latu told the Deseret News that the partygoers had beaten the men, charges were not filed against any suspects at the time. District Attorney Lohra Miller’s office also did not investigate the attack until after Bell’s trial had ended.

Charges were filed against the seven suspects this March.

During an Aug. 26 hearing, Miller took the stand to address the defense’s concerns over her continuing involvement in the prosecution. Defense attorneys have said that Miller promised not to prosecute the suspects if they testified during Bell’s trial, and that they would not have let their clients testify otherwise.

During Miller’s questioning, defense attorney Clayton Simms presented the district attorney with an August 2008 news release her department issued. According

to Simms, the release said that Miller’s office would not pursue charges against the children’s parents, who are among the suspects.

The Salt Lake Tribune reported that Miller first testified that the release was not accurate because her office had not received all of the information about the case from police at the time of its issue. It then said that she later changed her testimony, saying instead that the release said it would not prosecute the parents due to the lack of sufficient evidence.

“She didn’t admit that the statement released (that she held in her hand while on the stand) was incorrect then ‘changed her mind’ a few minutes later,” said Bell.

“The statement she held in her hand was something that she needed to look over briefly before realizing what it was. ... She recognized what it was and corrected Mr. Simms.”

Throughout the trial, Bell has expressed dissatisfaction with Simms on his blog at injustice801.com, accusing him of “putitng words” in the mouths of those he questions.

Bell also disputed Simms’ claim that the defendants were ever promised immunity from prosecution if they testified during Bell’s trial.

“There were no promises made to anyone during my trial, and that needs to be clear,” said Bell after reading the Tribune article.

Bell added that while Miller’s office initially declined to pursue charges against those accused of attacking him, “new information was brought to light that allowed them to look into a different theory, different charges than those that were originally screened, and justice for Dan [Fair], an ‘innocent victim’ (though we all know I was too).”

“That does not mean charges could not

meeting with limited time to speak, and the director must always be present to be spoken to directly.

10) The UAF should undergo a significant restructuring, training and advisement period from a certified instruction agency. The UAF should also be required to undergo training on the proper treatment of volunteers and how to effectively manage them. The director should also be responsible to meet with all volunteers regularly so that they have a chance to speak and voice their concerns directly to the director.

11) The director of the UAF shall once a month publish, release and distribute a report on the vitality, needs and direction of the foundation. It is the responsibility of the director to ensure that the needs of the organization are met and as a result it is time for him to become accessible to and answerable to the community as a whole.

be filed in the future within the four year statute of limitations given to such crimes committed [like the felony riot and assault charges facing the defendants],” he continued. “The DA’s office, for any reason or no reason at all, could have decided at any time between the date of our attack and July 4, 2012, to pursue charges.”

Bell said that he was “angered” by these

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claims.

“What they [defense attorneys] fail to recognize to the public is that if their clients did not testify against me, they would not have had a case against me in the first place,” he said. “Their testimony of lies was the only thing the prosecution had against me to go on, and it would have destroyed the case against me completely.”

Third District Court Judge Robert Faust is expected to rule on whether or not Miller’s office can remain with the prosecution before Sept. 20.

Charged in the attacks are: Ieti David Mageo (A.K.A. “Punisher”), aggravated burglary, aggravated assault and rioting, all felonies.

Ricky Ian Peace, aggravated burglary, assault and rioting, all felonies.

Ietitaia Tevita Nuusila, aggravated burglary and assault along with rioting, all felonies; misdemeanor assault and giving false information to a police officer.

Angelina Janae Dibella, Marsha Rae Finau and Lisa Rita Aiono, felony rioting.

Dibella; misdemeanor assault..

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Drag Queen Car Wash The Royal Court of the Golden Spike Empire will host its “Divas and Dudes: Car Wash and BBQ” for to benefit the Utah AIDS Foundation this month. This will be an event for people ages 18 and over.

WHEN: Sept. 4, 4–8 p.m.

WHERE: Club Jam, 751 N. 300 West COST: $3 per car, $5 suggested donation per plate for barbecue INFO: Jared Petersen at jared.d.petersen@gmail.com.

by Michael Aaron

Over 100 people packed the Governor’s Mansion on Aug. 24 as Gov. Gary Herbert and his wife Jeanette hosted the Utah Log Cabin Republicans at an annual reception that started three years ago by then-Governor Jon M. Huntsman. While Huntsman seemed more at ease in a room full of gay, lesbian, transgender guests and their allies, the Herberts were gracious hosts, though the speeches were more generic than some guests had hoped.

“The governor does not necessarily tailor his speeches for particular groups,” said the governor’s Communications Director Angie Welling. “In fact, I can probably give his campaign stump speeches myself.”

But to many attendees, the fact that they were sitting in the mansion in the presence of the governor and other elected officials was victory enough.

“Here we are in Utah, of all places, being invited to the governor’s mansion,” marveled attendee Jim Dabakis before the gathering.

“You don’t see this in Texas or many other Republican states.”

Herbert welcomed the crowd, promising a more social than political tone to the event.

“We’re not here to speechify,” he said. “We are happy to have you here and certainly want you to feel at home.”

First lady Jeanette Herbert repeated a joke from last year, saying that the mansion is “not bad for public housing.”

Lt. Gov. Greg Bell probably came closest to actually addressing the crowd of gay and gayfriendly people.

“Some of the greatest rewards of being in this position is meeting and working with people of all persuasions,” Bell said.

“My son, who has a razor-sharp wit, told me the other day, ‘I finally concluded that every single person just wants their life to be taken seriously,’” Bell said. “The sooner we realize that, and understand that, the better off we all will be.”

Newly-appointed Log Cabin Republicans Executive Director R. Clarke Cooper attended the event and addressed the crowd, saying he heard a speech earlier that day by Florida governor Jeb Bush, under whom he served as deputy director from 1999 to 2001. Bush was in Salt Lake City addressing educational reform and the Utah Governor’s Excellence in Education Commission.

Cooper spoke in veterans terms of state Republican parties acknowledging “deltas” (differences) while working on “common denominators.”

“Where do we find agreement and where do we work from there,” he asked. “Within our party, there are some deltas, but we have commonalities.”

“Log Cabin Republicans believe in limited government, strong national defense, free

Empowerment Workshop

Log Cabin Republicans Director R. Clarke Cooper, Utah Governor Gary Herbert and Utah Log Cabin President Mel Nimer markets, low taxes, personal responsibility and individual liberty,” Cooper said.

Gov. Herbert recognized gay allies Gary and Millie Watts, saying they “go back further than we want to talk about.”

“They are prominent and good people,” he said.

He also recognized Dabakis, saying he was a “groupie” of his when he was an on-air personality at KTALK Radio.

“You’re all a very important part of the fabric of Utah,” Herbert continued. “There will be things we agree on and some things in which we will disagree.”

He lauded Utah Log Cabin Republicans and Utah Chapter president Melvin Nimer, saying, “Melvin and the Log Cabin Republicans are up on [Utah’s] Capitol Hill. We will talk about political issues and we will find common ground.”

Dabakis addressed the crowd saying, “These (Nimer and Herbert) are Republicans, but they are pretty cool.”

Dabakis told a story of bringing a group of young gays and lesbians to the mansion shortly after Matthew Shepard was killed in Laramie, Wyo., when Mike Leavitt was governor. The group was allotted 20 minutes with the governor, but Leavitt waived away his staff’s attempts to move him to his next appointment for the next hour and a half.

“Mike Leavitt sat and listened to stories of his own children. That was something he could relate to,” Dabakis said. “The more we get away from the vicious political rhetoric, the more human we are, and the more we find out that we are more worried about whether or not our swamp coolers work than anything else.”

Dabakis extolled the governor as one who would look more at issues of fairness than demagoguery.

Several candidates and elected officials were in the crowd as well. Congressional candidate Morgan Philpot addressed the crowd, calling for “respect for individual liberty and state sovereignty.”

Taylorsville Mayor Russ Wall and West Valley Mayor Mike Winder were also in the crowd. Both were instrumental in pass-

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ing “Common Ground” non-discrimination ordinances in their cities in the past several months.

The governor, however, is not in favor of a statewide law protecting people from discrimination in the workplace or in housing based on their sexual orientation or gender identity. “[B]ottom line is that that law isn’t good for anyone,” blogger Eric Ethington reported the governor said to him. “Business owners need to have more control over their businesses.

Say you have a man who comes to work every day and acts normal, then one day he decides to come in and act all effeminate. Well, with this law you don’t have the power to do anything even if he’s scaring away your customers.”

Ethington asked about a similar circumstance regarding a religious zealot.

“Yes but that’s in the constitution, this is a new right they’re wanting to put in,” Ethington said was the governor’s response.

Ethington then asked if he would veto a bill worded exactly like Salt Lake City’s ordinance.

“You know, I would hope that people would just do the right thing on their own and not discriminate,” Herbert told him. “I don’t think that a statewide law is necessary, if local municipalities and cities want to pass their own that’s fine but we don’t need that in Utah.”

“The governor has made it plain to us that he prefers to see solid movement at the city/ town and county level of government before the state intervenes,” said ULCR Vice President James Humphreys. “He applies this principle to most issues as a general rule.”

“In my opinion if a non-discrimination bill is passed by the legislature next year, he will sign it – that is our goal to prepare him for that eventuality,” Nimer said.

“In Utah we have a much more cordial relationship with our state officials than many states have with their respective GLBT communities,” Humphreys said. “While progress is slower than many want, progress is being made.” Q

The Utah Pride Center has announced its next Empowerment Workshop. Themed “Living as a Minority: Loving Yourself in a World Where You are Different,” it will be centered around helping participants handle the feelings of inadequacy and self-doubt that come from living in a predominantly anti-gay society. The six-week workshop will begin Sept. 6 and run each Monday from 6:30–8 p.m. through Oct. 11. Joshua Bytendorp will facilitate. Participants are asked to commit to a three-week module.

Workshops will focus on gender and sexuality issues, communication, coping skills and spirituality.

WHEN: Utah Pride Center, Middle Meeting Room, 361 N. 300 West COST: $15 for first or second threeweek module. Scholarships avail.

INFO: Joshua Bytendorp at 801-5731194.

Adopt a Furry Friend PetSmart locations in Utah and across the United States and Canada will host the PetSmart Charities Second Chance for Love National Adoption Weekend, Sept. 10–12. The event hopes to place 19,600 dogs, cats, and a variety of other shelter and rescue pets. The parking lot at the PetSmart location at 389 W. 1830 South will be a showcase of pets in need of homes. Adopters will receive food and toy samples.

INFO: PetSmart.com, 877-473-8762

Family Conference The Utah Pride Center will host “Bringing Families Back Into the Room,” a regional conference, Oct. 8–10, for families with gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer youth. The keynote speaker will be Dr. Caitlin Ryan, head of the Family Acceptance Project at San Francisco State University, which is studying ways to help families support queer children.

INFO: utahpridecenter.org.

Swim, Walk and Bike for Utahns with HIV/AIDS

Utah Pride Center Vandalized On Aug. 20 the Café Marmalade sign at the Utah Pride Center was tagged with the anti-gay slur “Fag”s,” leaving many members of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community to wonder if the misspelled word was a prank by local youth or something more sinister.

Li Nolan, an employee of the Center’s in-house bistro, discovered the vandalism at 5:30 a.m. when she arrived to open the restaurant for business.

“She was pretty terrified, not knowing if the individual or individuals [responsible for the vandalism] were present, or if she was going to find more damage inside or around the building,” said Marina Gomberg, the Center’s director of development and marketing.

Gomberg said that Nolan then called the café’s owner. By the time she arrived, so had reporters from several TV stations and newspapers, who had likely heard about the event over police radio frequencies. Gomberg herself arrived at 9 a.m. and promptly called Executive Director Valerie Larabee. By that time, she said that Marmalade employees had covered the sign with boards.

Currently, added Gomberg, the café is deciding whether they will purchase a new sign or allow the Salt Lake City Police Department’s graffiti removal team to try and clean the old one.

Just hours after the vandalism, the Utah Pride Center published a statement on its website and Facebook page saying that the graffiti would not intimidate the Center to remain silent on gay and transgender rights issues, of which it is a strong proponent.

“We realize that often times the purpose of these actions are to cause widespread fear among the members of our community,” wrote Larabee. “That is why today we are speaking out. This will not be swept under the rug. We will not be scared into silence by acts of intolerance.”

Larabee and Gomberg also said that the

tagging could have been a response to political progress that gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people have made in recent months.

“We welcome civil, respectful dialogues with those who disagree with our mission, but this kind of hate language and vandalism will not be tolerated,” said Larabee.

The Salt Lake City Police Department is currently investigating the case, but has yet to identify any suspects, said Sgt. Robin Snyder, public information officer for the department. She added that patrols in the area are paying close attention to the Center and the area around it and making frequent reports. The case is being treated as a hate crime, she said.

Snyder added that this was the first incident of vandalism at the Center that she could recall.

Gomberg said that the Center appreciated the department’s work and that of the LGBT Public Safety Committee, an organization of law enforcement offiicers and gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community members who work together to improve dialogue and relations between the two groups. The committee, she said, is aware of the situation and “is in touch should anything else happen.”

Reactions to the Center’s Facebook post about the incident were varied. While some members of the community expressed anger and sadness, others mocked the taggers’ spelling and said that they were more determined than ever to fight for gay and transgender rights.

“I won’t be intimidated. I am gay, proud and always will be,” wrote Justan Alma Peterson.

“Just remember guys, with every opposition that comes our way, we have the opportunity to grow from it!” added Heidi van Oostendorp.

Readers with any information about the vandalism at the Center are asked to call 801-799-3000.

This fall, the Utah AIDS Foundation will host three fun, active and exciting annual events to benefit its programs.

On Sept. 12, the foundation will hold its 10th Aqua Aid, a fun, poolside event featuring food, cocktails and a performance by the members of the Queer Utah Aquatic Club.

“They perform some water ballet and drag shows, they end up in the water in their wigs and it’s always really funny,” said Nathan Measom, the foundation’s development director.

Since 2008, Quinn Richins and Kerry Sanford have hosted the party at their home pool.

“It is a venue where people come, eat great food, drink and watch QUAC perform,” said Richins. “QUAC performs about four different performances, which typically end up with the team doing some sort of synchronized swimming in our pool.”

Richins and Sanford said they are “grateful” for the chance to help UAF hold the party every year because they believe in “the value and essential education and assistance” the group provides. Money from the event, said Richins, goes to a number of foundation programs and services, such as purchasing condoms and other materials for safer sex packets, testing supplies for the organization’s test sites and funding 3D (Doctors, Dudes and Dinner)—a free dinner event that brings gay and bisexual men together with health professionals for frank talks about sexual health.

“This event is a great way for people in our community to get to know what the Utah AIDS Foundation does,” said Richins, noting that UAF staff, volunteers and board members regularly attend the party.

“Without our fund-raising efforts and the support from people in our community, the Utah AIDS Foundation would not be able to implement important programs like these.”

Aqua Aid will take place at the home of Quinn Richins and Kerry Sanford, 3693 Oakview Dr. Tickets are a $50 suggested donation and can be purchased at the door.

For more information about this event call Nathan Measom at 801-487-2323.

Roughly a week later, UAF will hold its annual Walk For Life and its second annual Bike for Life. The walk will begin at Liberty Park at 9 a.m. on Sept. 18 (registration starts at 8 a.m.). Registration is free, and walkers may walk alone, with a requested Walk Buddy, with friends or even with their dogs.

Held at the same time, Bike For Life is a more strenuous activity. This year, the ride will kick off at Liberty Park and wind up Emigration Canyon. Its total length is 22 miles.

“We were really happy with the turn out last year,” said Measom. “When you start a new event you never know how it’s going to go.”

Although several bikers participated in the 2009, the inaugural ride had a few hiccups. The route changed to accommodate unexpected road construction and, as Mea-

som put it, included “a pretty grueling hill.”

In response to feedback about this and other parts of the route, the Foundation decided to send bikers up the canyon this year.

“It’s going to be more bike-friendly and a beautiful route,” said Measom.

Registration for both events is free and open now at utahaids.org. After registering, participants can create their own fund-raising web pages to collect donations.

“It’s one of the easiest ways you can support programs for people with HIV,” said Measom.

And he and the rest of the Foundation’s employees are hoping that a lot of people will turn out at all three events to do just that.

“I look at the numbers for cities our size for their AIDS walks and it just blows Salt Lake out of the water,” said Measom. “I’d like to see people in Salt Lake step up and participate in ways people in other cities do.

In Denver [for example], their walk is huge.

It would be great if we could get people to the place where we have that support as well.” Q

For more information about Aqua Aid, Bike For Life and Walk For Life visit utahaids.org.

Tooele Gay Group Says ‘Come Out’

A Tooele County woman is looking to start a social and support group for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer residents of the Western Utah county, where she says opportunities and resources for this community are difficult to come by.

“We came out here and there was absolutely nothing here, no resources or events or anything for anyone in the gay community,” said Robin Sheehy, who moved to county seat Tooele City with her partner earlier this year. Concerned, Sheehy said she wrote a letter to the city government asking if she had missed something.

“The response I got back was basically that they didn’t have any idea what LGBT stood for or what they should be doing,” she said.

So Sheehy decided to take matters into her own hands by turning to Facebook. Her page, titled “Comeout Tooele” currently has around 50 members from all over the county. Soon, Sheehy hopes that they can all meet up in person. She said she is currently contacting local businesses to see if any would be willing to host the group’s inaugural social.

In the meantime, she said that she would like more people to join the Facebook group, socialize with one another, and give her feedback on the direction in which they would like the group to go.

“There really is a need for resources out here,” she said.

To join Come Out Tooele, log in to Facebook and search for “Comeout Tooele.”

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Local Butch Lesbians, Trans People Invited to Gather in LA Utah masculine-identified lesbians and trans people who identify as butch, genderqueer and other similar identities including macha, jock and transmasculine are invited to the Butch Voices LA Conference, to be held Oct. 8–10 in West Hollywood, Calif.

The three-day conference is hosted by LEX-The Lesbian Exploratorium, producers of the “GenderPlay in Lesbian Culture” exhibit and the creators of the Lesbian Legacy Wall collage, as well as The Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Project, Christopher Street West/LA Pride and the City of West Hollywood and its Lesbian and Gay Advisory Board. The conference will focus on bringing butches of all races, sexualities and gender identities together to socialize, learn, build community and tear down stereotypes associated with butch identities.

“A lot of masculine-identified women are victims of hate crimes and harassment and all sorts of things that don’t get the media’s attention,” explained Krys Freeman, a boardmember of US National Butch Voices, an organization that inspired this conference. “Butch Voices is about a sense of community and a space where they can share their experiences, good or bad.”

“The definition of butch is being revived and expanded by a younger generation of lesbians and queers who are comfortable playing with gender, and embracing their masculinity or boyishness. We need to address this re-definition of ourselves,” said Conference Chair Jeanne Cordova. “We particularly planned the Southwest Conference to be in L.A., home of the ‘lipstick lesbian,’ as a rebellious act of butch reclamation.”

Open to butches from across the country and those from the Southwestern states in particular (Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah), the conference’s programing will explore the politics and language around the term “butch” and will feature a number of high-profile writers, activists and film directors. Kimberly

Pierce, writer/director of the film Boys Don’t Cry will lead the panel discussion “Butch in the Movies,” and keynote speakers will include Dr. Judith “Jack” Halberstam (author of Female Masculinity) and activist Carmen Vazquez.

Programming will include workshops

by Kimberly Pierce, author Jeanne Cordova, Butch Voices President Joe LeBlanc and filmmaker Cheryl Dunye. Topics will cover a range of butch issues, from the complex racial and political landscape of butch identity in the Southwestern states, to butch history and topics of butch clothing and butch participation in ballroom dancing. Some workshops, such as “What Butches and Femmes Need to Know about One Another” will address interactions between butches, femme-identified lesbians and queer people.

Overall, the conference will include 20 workshops and three performance events that will include Phranc, D’Lo, comedian Sandra Valls and Butchlalis de Panochtitlan, a Latina butch performance group.

The conference’s opening night will include the fashion show “INVINCIBLE: A Night of Daggers, Dandies, Dapper Dykes” and weekend performances will include “SWAGGER: Butch Bravado by Those Who Live it and Those Who Love It” and a butch comedy show.

Those who do not identify as butch but who are friends and allies of butches, including femmes, divas and transgender people of all gender identities, are also welcome. Registration is $50 for the entire weekend, and youth and low-income individuals can attend for $25. Ten-dollar scholarship registrations are also available.

Founded in 2009, Butch Voices is an organization of butch, stud, macha and similarly identified queer people concerned with community building, butch health and social and economic justice. Q For more information about the conference visit bvla2010.com, twitter.com/ButchVoicesLA #BVLA) or BUTCHVoices. LA on Facebook.

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ROTC-SLC to Honor Sponsors Utah’s gay and transgender-friendly color guard, the Righeously Outrageous Twirling Corps of Salt Lake City will host its annual awards banquet this month to honor its members, sponsors and supporters — including its first sponsor, Club TryAngles, and its affiliate organization, the People With AIDS Coalition of Utah.

The banquet will be held Sept. 18 at 7 p.m. at the home of a member, and catering will be donated by S & A Dutch Oven.

To RSVP contact Director Logan Brueck at director@rotcslc.com by Sept. 5. Tick-

ets for the public are $20.

During the banquet, crystal trophies will be given to sponsors, and additional sponsors will be sought. The group will also announce its plans for the coming 2011 season, its sixth.

Although the color guard had planned to put on a military ball this autumn, a lack of funds have forced this event’s cancellation. Brueck said the group hopes to raise enough money to hold the ball next year.

ROTC-SLC will also finish out its 2010 season with two other events: an open house rehearsal at the Downtown Farmers Market on Sept. 11 and an end-ofsummer barbecue in partnership with PWACU on Sept. 19 at Fairmont Park, 900 E. 2361 South.

More info about ROTC-SLC is at rotcslc.com.

Bambara Receives Community Service Honor Gay-friendly restaurateur Bambara has received a top honor from the National Restaurant Association in recognition of its support for a number of community organizations, including its annual Red Party to benefit the Utah AIDS Foundation.

The organization, which champions roughly 380,000 restaurants and hospitality-related businesses throughout the country, chose Bambara as the Utah winner of its Restaurant Neighbor award earlier this month. The award recognizes a restaurant that seeks to support its local community through philanthropic activities.

In addition to its annual Red Party, held near World AIDS Day (Dec. 1) to benefit the Utah AIDS Foundation’s programming and services, Bambara regularly holds fund raising galas for a number of other organizations. These include The Trust for Public Land and Dress for Success, a program that seeks to provide low-income women entering the workforce with work and interview-appropriate clothing. Fur-

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ther, the restaurant’s staff is involved with a number of environmentally and socially conscious food groups, such as Slow Food Utah and the Downtown Farmers Market.

Through its parent company Kimpton Hotel’s EarthCare program, Bambara also strives to use organic and sustainably farmed food and reduce its water consumption.

“Because caring is a way of being at Bambara, last year, in conjunction with Kimpton’s Monaco Salt Lake City, Bambara raised approximately $38,000 dollars in cash donations, and more than $10,000 worth of in-kind donations for various charities,” said Art Cazares, Bambara general manager.

State Restaurant Neighbor award winners are entered into consideration for the National Restaurant Association’s national awards — which come with a $5,000 contribution to the charity of the winner’s choice. The national award winners will be announced Sept. 11.

Could U of U Drug Stop HIV? A University of Utah research team has created a drug that may well be the next breakthrough in both HIV treatment and prevention.

For the last decade a research team at the University of Utah School of Medicine has been developing PIE12-trimer.

This drug falls into the classification of medicines known as a microbicide — a substance (usually a gel) intended to prevent viruses and bacteria from infecting a host’s tissue. After several successful tests on HIV-infected vaginal tissue in lab conditions, team leader Michael S. Kay said that PIE12-trimer could be used for vaginal protection against HIV infection, and even to treat existing infection.

“We believe that PIE12-trimer could provide a major new weapon in the arsenal against HIV/AIDS. Because of its ability to block the virus from infecting new cells, PIE12-trimer has the potential to work as a microbicide to prevent people from contracting HIV and as a treatment for HIV infected people,” explained Kay, an assistant professor of microbiology at the medical school.

In 2009, QSaltLake reported about research being conducted in another lab at the medical school to create soft polymer rings that could be filled ith antiretroviral drugs or other microbicides and then inserted vaginally to block HIV transmission during sex. This lab, lead by Patrick Kiser, an associate bioengineering professor, is working closely with the PIE12trimer team, said Kay. “My group is focused on deciding the drugs that would end up in such a ring,” he said.

PIE12-trimer is a class of peptide drug that, unlike regular peptides, does not degrade when inserted into the body. It works by joining three peptides (the PIE12 in its name) to form what Kay describes as a “pocket” on the surface of the HIV virus.

The pocket then prevents the virus from entering and infecting a cell.

Like Kiser’s group, Kay’s research team is particularly concerned with stopping the spread of HIV in Africa, which has been hit harder by the virus than any other continent. Currently, the World Health Organization estimates that two-thirds of the world’s 33 million HIV patients live there. In order to make sure that PIE12-trimer is effective in Africa, Kay said that his lab has tested it on tissue infected with all known major HIV strains, including those that most commonly occur on this continent. The microbicide has been successful, he said, in blocking all of them. These results, along with PIE12-trimer’s unique structure, suggest that the microbicide could be an answer to the virus’ capacity for developing drug-resistant strains.

Kay said the drug’s effectiveness against all major types of HIV could indicate that the PIE12-trimer could be not just an effective prevention method, but a treatment method, a fact which could also make it beneficial for people with HIV who live in developed nations, and those in particular who have multiple strains of the virus.

“What makes it so special is we think it will be very nontoxic compared to existing drugs,” he said.

Currently, Kay and his team are raising money to begin testing the drug on rats. If animal tests are successful, they hope that human clinical trials can begin within two to three years. If the drug ultimately proves to treat and prevent HIV, Kay said that PIE12-trimer’s peptide design could be used to create similar drugs to stop other viruses.

The study’s co-authors are Brett D. Welch, Ph.D. and U of U graduate student J. Nicholas Francis. Contributors include Debra M. Eckert, Ph.D., and graduate students Joseph Redman and Matthew Weinstock.

The lab’s research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the university’s Research Foundation. Q

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guest editorial What Matters Now in the Prop 8 Federal Case?

News analysis by Rex Wockner

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ARIOUS LEGAL DOCUMENTS will be filed and then the federal Proposition 8 case will be argued in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals the week of Dec. 6.

And there’s little chance California’s statewide and local LGBT activists will talk about much else between now and then.

So what’s the Prop 8 chitchat here on the Left Coast? There are several issues: State Will Not Be Involved The governor and attorney general and everyone else who was sued in the federal Prop 8 case have refused to defend Prop 8 in court. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jerry Brown say Prop 8 is unconstitutional, that gay and lesbian couples should be able to marry right now, and that there should not have been a stay issued pending appeal. Because of their refusals, Prop 8’s only defenders are the defendantintervenors from Protect Marriage, the folks who brought you Prop 8 in the first place. But in what has emerged as a central question in the case, the defendant-intervenors may not have legal “standing” to function as defendants at the appellate level. Nobody sued these folks in this case, and these folks have nothing to do with defending the state constitution, of which Prop 8 is a part. That’s Brown and Schwarzenegger’s job. The 9th Circuit has ordered these Prop 8 proponents to prove they even had standing to file an appeal.

There is at least a 50/50 chance they’ll be kicked out of the case.

Imperial County That brings us to Imperial County, a poor, dusty place of about 167,000 people located in the desert between San Diego County and the Arizona border. Imperial County, represented by a Christian legal group, wants to enter the case as a real defendant so the ruling that struck down Prop 8 really can be appealed to the 9th Circuit. The 9th Circuit will make that call as well. Many observers think it’s a long shot, but, of course, courts are often unpredictable and

the 9th Circuit might really want to find a way for Prop 8 proponents to have their appeal of U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker’s Aug. 4 ruling that Prop 8 violates the U.S. Constitution up, down and sideways.

Start Over If the Protect Marriage folks are allowed to function as defendants, they may attempt to sidestep Walker’s 80-some conclusions from the trial and start from scratch, arguing that gays are hard to define and nobody knows what makes you gay, that morality and religion provide a legally acceptable “rational basis” for governments to discriminate against gays in some ways, that marriage is obviously primarily about making babies the old-fashioned way, and what have you. It will be up to the 9th Circuit to decide how much weight Walker’s comprehensive findings on All Things Gay carry in an appeal. Legally speaking, those are evidentiary facts. There’s something else that can be brought into a courtroom: legislative facts.

For the sake of simplicity, a legislative fact is something of such general knowledge that it need not be proven, or cannot be proven even though everyone knows it’s true. “Love is real” might be an example of a legislative fact. The Prop 8 pro-

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ponents could head down this road in an attempt to restrict marriage to oppositesex couples, arguing, among other things, that “marriage is between a man and a woman — period.” Of course, in the Bible, marriage is sometimes between a man and several women. And starting in 2001 with the Netherlands, 12 countries have decided that marriage also is between a man and a man, and a woman and a woman.

One of those countries is the United States.

Same-sex marriage is legal in Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and Washington, D.C. “Marriage is for procreation” could be another attempted legislative fact, despite the fact that millions of married straight people never have procreated.

What if no one is found to have standing to appeal the Prop 8 case?

Outed Judge The mainstream media have outed Judge Walker as gay, though they have presented no evidence, and Walker hasn’t said anything about his sexual orientation one way or the other. If he’s gay, does that increase the validity of his extensive findings on All Things Gay — i.e., he knows what he’s talking about — or could it mean he was biased in the case from the get-go? Does it matter if he’s gay? Should it matter? Would a straight judge be betterpositioned to restrict marriage to straight

people? We likely haven’t heard the last of the Walker/gay meme.

Onward and Upward The masterminds of the Prop 8 federal case, famed lawyers Ted Olson and David Boies, always have indicated they wanted to take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Others have suggested that should the U.S. Supreme Court rule in a particular way in the case, same-sex marriage would become legal in all 50 states. What if no one is found to have standing to appeal the Prop 8 case to the 9th Circuit? The case would end there, Walker’s ruling would take effect, Prop 8 would be stricken from the state constitution, and one more U.S. state would have gay marriage: California.

Is that an acceptable ending to this super-high-profile case with superstar attorneys who had grander designs? Most California gay leaders say, “Yes, we’ll take it.” Some, however, would certainly see it as a limp ending to a provocative case that was opposed, then grudgingly embraced, by the national gay legal establishment — a case that raised gay hopes high that we could end this whole same-sex-marriage thing in one fell swoop. On the other hand, the case’s stopping before it starts at the 9th Circuit would be a “safe” resolution of the matter. With each appeal, there’s always the chance we could lose it all, California included.

The first court filing in the appeal is due Sept. 17. Q

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VER THE PAST SEVERAL MONTHS QSaltLake has featured a number of columns and news stories related to the struggle for basic human rights for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community. Today, however, I’m going to step back a bit and address human rights from a more general perspective — as they relate to humanity as a whole.

America’s history is an interesting one.

The founders of this nation asserted that all men were created equal and endowed with certain inalienable rights. To some of this, I take issue, as has society over the years.

Legally now, all persons are equal, regardless of sex. As for the endowment of rights, I tend to think this is something inherent to humanity, not something bestowed by an invisible super-being. That said, it took nearly 200 years for America to recognize that people of color deserve the same basic rights as white Americans, and while that fight is over legally, racism still persists in this country.

Additionally, all one has to do is scan the forums of online local or national media outlets to see the persecution of people of Hispanic descent. In virtually every story involving someone with a Hispanic surname or a darker than average complexion, you will see blistering comments about “those damn illegals.” It doesn’t matter if the person in question is in this country legally or not, the inference is there, and the hatred flows.

The Constitution also provides for freedom of religion, expressly prohibiting Congress from making any law that creates an established religion or interferes with the free exercise thereof. Yet throughout the country today, a heated discussion is taking place about the building of an Islamic cultural center (and prayer room) near the site of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

Although I’m a straight male, I can still see the hatred and prejudice that plagues the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community, both here in Utah and throughout the nation. Only a few days ago some cowardly punks decided to scribble obscene, homophobic epithets on a sign at Café Marmalade. Not a day goes by without a story of someone spouting anti-gay hysteria

in the media.

When I read these stories I ask myself one question, and I ask it because I truly do not understand: Why? What goes on in the human mind that turns difference into fear and hate? I’ve been hurt by women in the past, yet I’m not a misogynist. I was mugged coming out of a bar in Detroit by a black person, yet I don’t fly a Confederate flag or wear a sheet and hood. I had a gay roommate in graduate school who stiffed me for the last month’s rent on our apartment, but I still support equality for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community.

But in America today, especially among those on the right end of the spectrum, it has become not only acceptable, but desirable, to lash out at Muslims, Hispanics and gays.

From whence comes this hatred?

For me, America is the land of the free and the home of liberty.

Maybe I’m just a hopeless idealist, but our country is the land of opportunity and the place where dreams can and do come true for people every day.

Our national history is made great by people from different races, different religions, different cultures, different orientations and different beliefs working together to make their communities, their countries and their world a better place. Social improvement and advancement come from acceptance of differences, from embracing diversity and using it to move us all forward. The battles we fight amongst ourselves over race, religion or sexual orientation only serve to bring us down.

To any conservatives who may be reading, this is your chance. Stand up and support the freedoms of all people, not just those that are your “color,” your religion or who fit into your mold. If you truly value a free society, then you must value the freedoms of those who disagree with you as much as you value your own. That is the price of liberty. Q

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by Troy Williams

HILE FOX NEWS AND other conservative media have been ratcheting up racial tensions in America, there are trends to suggest the GOP’s jeremiad on queers may be easing. Slightly.

Many commentators on the right are recognizing that it’s not as easy these days to freak America out over male sodomy and lesbian nuptials. Not that this makes conservatism any less toxic for the country. The right-wing outrage regarding the mosque near Ground Zero (which is actually not a mosque, but an Islamic cultural center) is classic xenophobia that would make Lee Atwater and Karl Rove proud. The irony, of course, is that Saudi Prince Al-Walleed bin Talal, the second largest owner of Newscorp (Fox News’ daddy corporation) has donated hundreds of thousands to Imam Feisal. You know, the guy building the “mosque.”

But details shouldn’t get in the way of a good scare. More right-wing rabidness played out last week when Dr. Laura dropped the “N-word” 11 times on her radio show.

She opted to end her show to reclaim what she called her lost First Amendment rights.

Of course, the First Amendment states that Congress shall not infringe anyone’s right to free speech. It says nothing about popular opinion. Dr. Laura’s “right” to be a racist bitch remains constitutionally intact.

But despite the usual vitriol toward undocumented immigrants, Muslims and blacks, many conservatives are backing off their homophobic rhetoric. This may be in part due to how beautifully Judge Walker crafted his Proposition 8 decision. Many conservatives can see the writing on the wall: federally recognized gay marriage is inevitable.

That doesn’t bother Glenn Beck. He simply doesn’t see gay marriage as a threat. His Fox News cohort Margaret Hoover wrote an open letter to her “fellow conservatives,” explaining why they should rethink their attitude on gay marriage. She explained, “the potential consequence that conservatives land on the wrong side of civil rights history again is the alienation of an entire generation of voters.”

Imagine that! For decades conservatives have used queers as a wedge issue to drive voters to the polls. The new fear is that if the GOP remains anti-gay they will drive younger voters out of the party.

But wait, there’s more. Conservative femme fatale Ann Coulter has agreed to be the keynote speaker of GOProud’s “Homo-

con” convention. They even refer to her as the “right wing Judy Garland” (blasphemy!).

Not convinced the right wing is seriously loving on the gays? GOP dark lord Dick Cheney wants his dyke daughter to legally wed. And so does Laura Bush and Elisabeth Hasselbeck! John Stewart brilliantly suggested that their support of gay marriage makes them both more liberal than President Obama. Go figure.

There is something a little disarming about the radical right having our back.

We’re so used to being used by them to whip

There is something a little disarming about the radical right having our back. up American hysteria that this new found love tryst just feels kind of ... dirty. And not in a good way. Who knew so many Republicans would covet a sassy gay friend?

Have queers become so mainstream that even “Real America” is starting to, dare I say, like us? And if conservatives are our new BFFs, does this mean that we’ve won the culture war? Or more alarming, have they?

Perhaps in our eager assimilation we’ve allowed conservatives to shape us into the monogamous creatures and retail capitalists that appeal so well to their own family values.

Of course, it’s important to clarify an important detail I’ve thus far omitted: Only a certain genre of queer has become the new darling of the right. This is, of course, the white married gay homos presenting as fully assimilated, properly consummated, “straight-acting” power couples. Fierce genderfuck kids with tats, piercings and polysexual perversions need not apply. Judge Walker’s ruling reinforces the absolute supremacy of the conventional wedded couple.

Huffington Post contributor Sally Kohn has astutely observed, “While certainly worth celebrating, the Proposition 8 ruling says that gay people are equal to straight people

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as long as they act like straight people. But the fundamental right to be treated equally, even if you are and act different, remains beyond reach.” Something gained can also be something lost. The only queer the GOP will tolerate is one that looks and acts just like them. If you are an undocumented queer Latino or a lesbian Muslim then it still sucks to be you in America. Sorry about that.

The good news is that equality for white gay couples is almost a done deal. There are a few hurdles left for sure, but nothing the HRC Federal Club can’t get us over. But where does that leave the Latina butch fearing her parents might be deported? Or the unemployed HIV-positive queen with no access to health care? What does the gay-friendly conservative commentator have to offer them? Not a whole helluva lot. For the Tea Party patriot who goes to sleep with his dogeared Ayn Rand Reader on his nightstand, the poor are poor because, well, they deserve it. The underemployed queer just hasn’t pulled himself up by his rainbow-colored bootstraps. They believe social services must be cut. The welfare state that keeps many queers alive on publicly funded HIV meds must be eliminated in the name of austerity.

It’s what Jesus would want.

Conservative ideology exists in total opposition to the social gains progressives have made over the past 70 years. The GOP may tolerate some queers today, but only those who successfully replicate their socioeconomic free-market dogma. Here is the hard truth: There will never be full lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality in America without fair material redistribution of wealth. This is why queers and other minorities have prospered so well in pockets of Europe. They have social safeguards, marriage, health care and access to economic possibility. But Conservative ideologues won’t have any part of democratic socialism that distributes wealth downward. Conversely, they have no problem when wealth is redistributed upward into their hands, away from the poor and working class.

Beware the seduction and advances of the right. It is the most spectacular queer who recognizes this enduring truth: when any person is left out of the American ideal, we are all diminished as a whole. Q Troy Williams is the executive producer of RadioActive on KRCL, 90.9 FM.

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SLAP: Pride Center Vandals Whether it was the work of some bored kids or a nasty anti-gay person, it goes without saying that the vandalism of the Café Marmalade sign at the Utah Pride Center has made people angry, and even afraid. Yet, as awful, wasteful and flat-out mean-spirited this incident was, there’s just something pathetic about a tagger who spells “FAGS” as “FAG”S.” Salt Lake City Police: If you catch this person, can remedial grammar be part of his or her community service project? Or maybe having to write out “I will not misuse quotation marks” 4,000 times before having to clean the entire Pride Center from office to café? Hey, if someone’s going to act like a grade schooler, why not treat them like one?

SNAP: Layton PFLAG Northern Utah just keeps surprising us this year. First it was Logan passing a gay and transgenderinclusive ordinance, and Ogden considering one. Now it’s a PFLAG group forming in Layton, a city that isn’t exactly known for being a bastion of gay and transgender rights activism. That said, the chapter’s founding just goes to show that more Utahns are warming up to the idea that people should be treated with respect and care regardless of their sexual orientations or gender identities. Bravo to the courageous parents who started this chapter — Utah’s fourth! — and may their doors be flooded with members and supporters.

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ELL PETALS, THE ARIZONA immigration law (SB 1070) has gone into effect and the roundup of wayward Canadians can now begin. Now, I know what you’re thinking, darlings: “But Ruby, this law is just about the Mexicans.” But I beg to differ, and here’s why.

Well, kittens, some of you noticed that I missed the deadline for the last happy-happy, joy-joy edition of QSaltLake. Michael and JoSelle felt our community had gone through a lot of negativity and pain over the last month, so they wisely decided to compensate with a perky uplifting edition. At the time I was filled to the brim with industrial strength snarkiness about Robert Gibbs and the White House trashing the liberal left, so for the sake of everyone, my self-handicapping psyche made sure I missed the deadline.

Now, two weeks later, I actually do have some uplifting news.

For those of you who follow my exploits, you know that Mr. Ridge and I have volunteered at the Camp Pinecliff Weekend (a retreat on the Wyoming/Utah border for people with HIV/AIDS, their families and support givers) for the last 21 years.

This year, in addition to our regular Camp Pinecliff Weekend we are adding something wildly different and exciting called Camp Pine Cone. It’s our very first Day Camp for the children of gay and lesbian parents and we couldn’t be more excited! The good people at the Art Access Gallery (love the artists, love the gallery, hate the parking!) have joined with us to lead the arts and crafts workshops. They will be offering printmaking, mosaics and all sorts of other activities for children of all ages — including big kids like me. Although for insurance reasons and the advancement of good taste, I am prohibited to be near a hot glue gun. I know my limitations, cherubs!

Our good friend Ray King from Twigs Flower Co. is wrangling some trays of succulents so the kids can make miniature desert gardens. I had originally thought of doing cactus gardens, but when I men-

tioned it to Ray he just gave me this incredulous look and said, “You’re doing this with kids, right? ... And you do know cacti have thorns, right?” It was about this time I realized that I have the parenting skills of a waffle iron.

To be truthful, I hadn’t thought the whole cactus part through, so he talked me into using some fleshy, roundy-moundy kinds of succulents that won’t impale the children or necessitate chartering a Life Flight helicopter (If you’re coming to Camp Pine Cone with your kids bring a suitable container — we will provide the plants, potting mix and rocks).

The impetus for Camp Pine Cone came last year when Mr. Ridge and I noticed how many campers brought their children. Kids give the campsite an entirely different, uplifting, energetic vibe. Since the HIV/ AIDS epidemic has changed so much since the camp’s early days in the late 1980s, we had been looking for a way to make it more relevant. We feel that Camp Pine Cone is a logical progression from where we have been, to where we want to go.

We are going into our inaugural season with our eyes wide open. We are going to try a few things and see how they work, so we can have some feedback for next year.

I remember our first AIDS Camp that we did in Kamas. As organizers, we were absolutely convinced that our campers needed a structured schedule of stress management seminars, coping seminars, nutrition seminars and so on. But once we got there, everyone just wanted to sit under a tree and relax. People were so happy just to get out of the city and out into nature that they just vegged out and the schedule kind of imploded. That was a major learning lesson for me, pumpkins. So the next year we redesigned and offered loosely organized activities and it was a total success. Q

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by Ryan Shattuck

HE ODDS OF DYING BY being eaten by a shark are 1 in 251,800,000.

The odds of being killed by a vending machine are 1 in 112,000,000.

The odds of dying by being struck by lightning are 1 in 83,930.

The odds of getting divorced are 1 in 2.

The point is clear: It’s time to ban all sharks, vending machines, lightning and divorces.

Many Christian religions and organizations consider the marriage between a man and a woman to be “the bedrock of society.” Thus, it was with a certain predictability that a number of prominent religions — such as the LDS Church and the Catholic Church — and a number of conservative organizations — such as the National Organization for Marriage and the American Family Association — reacted

rather sharply to Judge Vaughn Walker’s ruling in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, which overturned California’s Proposition 8.

Therefore, one might assume that these religions and organizations care so much about protecting marriage, that they would focus the majority of their efforts in combating marriage’s biggest foe. And what exactly is that foe?

The odds of getting divorced are 1 in 2.

One of the biggest ironies in the cultural battle over gay marriage has been conservatives’ ironic, hypocritical and almost spooky silence in regarding divorce. If conservatives are angry over the prospect of gay marriage, shouldn’t they be furious over straight divorce? Why aren’t conservatives writing angry letters to their legislators, imploring that divorce be made illegal? Where are the proposals to change state constitutions, outlawing divorce and

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thus keeping families together? If the Defense of Marriage Act were to truly live up to its name, wouldn’t it defend marriage ... by preventing divorce?

Instead, conservatives conveniently sweep indiscretions, affairs and serial divorces under the morality rug, all while preaching against the ‘marriage-destroying’ influences of gay men and women. Rarely will a Republican politician (or any politician, for that matter) publicly condemn divorce. The odds are better of a conservative pundit being killed by a vending machine, than he or she admitting that divorce erodes the institution of marriage. Even Republican leaders Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh have come out against gay marriage, all while forgetting the inconvenient truth that they’ve collected seven marriages between them, as if their marriages were Pokemon cards.

Seven in 1 chance of getting divorced?

Those are some pretty good odds.

Religious conservatives latch onto the issue of gay marriage with much more ferocity than they do divorce, so surely the Bible must have something to say on the matter.

As it turns out, there are actually more Biblical scriptures concerning divorce (Genesis 2: 24; Exodus 21: 7-11; Leviticus 21: 14; Deuteronomy 22: 19; Deuteronomy 22: 29; Deuteronomy 24: 1-4; Matthew 5: 3132; Matthew 19: 3-12; Mark 10: 2-12; Luke 16: 18; 1st Corinthians 7: 10-17) than there are scriptures supposedly about homosexuality (Genesis 19: 5; Leviticus 18: 22; Deuteronomy 23: 17; Isaiah. 3: 9; Romans 1: 27; 1 Corinthians 6: 9-10; 1 Timothy 1: 10; Jude 1: 7).

If divorce is a greater Biblical sin than homosexuality, then divorce rates should be lower in the Bible belt than in the rest of the more liberal United States, right? The truth is actually quite the opposite. In fact, recent studies have shown that divorce is more common in conservative-voting states than in liberal-voting states. According to two researchers in a story by NPR, women in liberal-voting states are waiting until later to marry, thus reducing the di-

vorce rate: “The states that voted Democratic in the last two presidential elections have the lowest rates of divorce and teen pregnancies. And the red states had the highest.

One of those researchers, June Carbone of the University of Missouri-Kansas City, tells host Guy Raz what she thinks is the deciding factor: Women in blue states wait later to get married and have kids.”

Conservatives argue that allowing gay marriage would destroy the ‘bedrock’ of the ‘traditional’ family. If this fearmongering stratagem was true, then the most obvious way to prove this would be to view the divorce rates of those states that allow gay marriage, versus those states that do ban gay marriage.

Washington DC, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Iowa are at the bottom of the list among the country’s lowest divorce rates. Gay marriage is legal in every single one of these states or provinces.

Arkansas, Alabama, Idaho, Kentucky, Tennessee and Florida top the list with some of the country’s highest divorce rates. Gay marriage is banned in every single one of these states.

Obviously, one cannot deduce that gay marriage prevents divorce. However, one can deduce that gay marriage doesn’t destroy, alter or affect straight marriage in any way. The sexual orientation of one’s neighbors does not affect in any way the marriage of the neighbors down the street.

While there are many obstacles facing the modern family, gay marriage is not one of them. If religious leaders, political pundits and conservative politicians truly do agonize over the state of the modern family, then they will find more success by building up straight marriages, instead of tearing down gay marriages.

After all, the only thing more traditional than a marriage between a man and woman ... is a divorce between a man and a woman.

I hear the odds of that are pretty good. Q

If the Defense of Marriage Act were to truly live up to its name, wouldn’t it defend marriage ... by preventing divorce?

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

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by Ben Williams

IKE MANY OF YOU, I have been following the latest hullabaloo going on over at the Utah AIDS Foundation.

My opinion about the assertions of certain young activists regarding the shelf life of nonprofit agencies’ executive directors, I will keep to myself. However, over the course of its stormy 25 years of existence, the Utah AIDS Foundation has had some rough squabbles. So gather around children and you shall hear the tumultuous beginnings of the first AIDS years.

Serendipitously in October of 1985, two organizations were founded by individuals from within our community to deal with the encroachment of the AIDS plague into Utah. While these two organizations were founded almost simultaneously, the founders were from different sections of the community. Dr. Patty Reagan, Ph.D., had just returned from a sabbatical in Berkeley, Calif., which by 1985 was near the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic in the western United States. Upon returning to the University of Utah she, as a health educator, was horrified at the lack of AIDS awareness in the state. So, with the help of other women health care workers, she created the Salt Lake AIDS Foundation. SLAF’s main purpose, according to Reagan, was to educate Utahns and the gay community specifically on how to take precautions to stop the spread of the fatal disease.

That same month, former health care workers from the defunct Gay and Lesbian Community Center and Clinic formed the AIDS Project Utah. It was patterned after other AIDS organizations in California. Duane Dawson, a registered nurse, spearheaded the formation of this AIDS organization, which was created to provide services to people with the disease. These two organizations were not rivals, but they served two distinct purposes: one to educate and the other to provide services.

Some of the early conflicts in the AIDS community were simply due to the largeness of the personalities of the people involved in the crisis. You must remember that back then no one was getting paid for the long hours of volunteer-ism, and there was an official prejudice against those working with what was perceived to be a gay man’s disease. This made people hypersensitive and very weary, but what choice did we have back then but to plod on? Our friends and lovers were dying.

The first faux pas by the newly created AIDS Project Utah was on the part of its act-

ing Director, Richard Cochran. In October 1986, APU sponsored an AIDS Awareness Week featuring Roseanne Barr, sister of Ben Barr, an APU emotional support volunteer. Cochran, however, caused a rift in the community when he expressed his gratitude for what he thought was “the first AIDS Awareness Week,” even though the Royal Court of the Golden Spike Empire had twice sponsored such activities. This rift led to Cochran’s resignation and Ben Barr’s succession as director in November 1986.

SLAF and APU both struggled over which organization could best get its message out and also provide services to the rapidly-growing AIDS community. The Salt Lake AIDS Foundation seemed, to many, to be more actively involved in the gay men’s community at a time when AIDS Project Utah was marketing itself more towards the general heterosexual population. Differences over the direction that APU’s board of directors was taking the organization caused Ben Barr to leave in 1988, when he joined the SLAF. Dr. Patty Reagan, fatigued by burn-out, had begun stepping down as director, and later in the year she turned the organization over to Barr.

After the departure of Ben Barr from the AIDS Project Utah, their board selected Richard Starley to serve as its director at a time when there was increasingly less support of that organization from the gay community. The Utah Commemorative AIDS Quilt Project was especially peeved with APU when they used their name without permission in an application for AIDS grant money. Toward the end of the year general support for APU was so low that their annual AIDS Awareness Benefit was canceled. The organization itself was dissolved in December.

At the beginning of 1989, the Utah AIDS Project’s direct services programs, such as the “Buddy Program” and emotional support groups were absorbed by SLAF as there was no state or federal funding for the continuance of these essential programs. A few months into 1989, Dick Dotson, who founded a food bank for SLAF, left the foundation along with Donald Steward, program director of the People With AIDS Foundation, and David Sharpton, the founder of the People With AIDS Coalition.

These AIDS activists felt that Ben Barr was spending SLAF’s resources inappropriately “by hiring too large a staff, and not making adequate efforts to use the trained volunteers.” Shortly after the departure of

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these critics the name of the organization was changed to the Utah AIDS Foundation to reflect its outreach to the entire state and not just its capital city.

David Sharpton and Ben Barr’s professional relationship had been stormy for some time. By the beginning of the 1990s, Sharpton had become an increasingly vocal critic of Barr, complaining that he was not doing enough to provide services to the AIDS community. The conflict between the two men came to a head in 1991 when Ben Barr was instrumental in having the Board of Directors of the People With AIDS Coalition kick Sharpton out as president. One of Barr’s complaints against Sharpton was that he threw Eugene Giditus, a PWAC volunteer, up against a wall in a fit of temper, and that the progress of Sharpton’s disease was making him increasingly unstable.

After Sharpton and the other critics left UAF, they formed the Horizon House to provide client services to the general AIDS community and perhaps, as some critics insinuated, to placate the LDS sensibilities of Utahns who viewed UAF as a gay organization.

Bad feelings were rife between the two AIDS service providers from the start, but they boiled over that year, when after a disparaging letter written by Stuart McDonald, a supporter of UAF but who didn’t have

any authorization, was sent to the National People With AIDS Coalition. McDonald attacked the Horizon House and the integrity of Dick Dotson, causing the national AIDS conference that was scheduled to be held in Salt Lake City to be pulled.

By 1992 Ben Barr had enough of the bickering and squabbling over how its scarce resources should be allocated and resigned after six years laying the cornerstones upon which UAF was built.

Barr left UAF with 14 full-time employees, many of whom had master’s degrees — which he, at the time, did not have. In 1992 the top annual salary of any employee was $28,000 with Ben Barr earning just $25,000.

In fact, on many occasions he took nothing in remuneration when the foundation had cash flow problems. Barr left the Foundation owning a building at 1408 S. 1100 East.

The organization also boasted 200 active volunteers donating 10,000 hours monthly to run the food bank, serve prepared meals, staff counseling and education programs, and fight for patients’ insurance and financial benefits.

Successive directors of UAF were LaDonna Moore 1992-1994, Rick Pace (interim director) 1994, Barbara Shaw 19951999, and Stan Penfold 1999 to present. Q

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NYONE DIFFERENT IS OSTRACIZED IN the elementary school yard. And words hurt. Tiny hearts break easily. I know. Here’s a story I was told recently.

“Please, can I stay home?” A 12-year-old boy with freckles begged his mom on the way to school.

She gave him a sympathetic look, wishing that this year would be better for him; that her son would finally stop crying himself to sleep every night.

Shaking, the boy, David James Bell, closed the car door and headed into school as slowly as possible. He quietly said a prayer, just as he did before every school day. When the day started, he sat at a desk with his name tag on the front, his name written in crayon. He breathed a sigh of relief as he opened his new set of colored pencils and blank notebook.

As he started to design a Power Ranger, hands tugged his hair, hurting his scalp tremendously before slamming him into his desk. The pain was so intense his head burned. A migraine began as he ran from the classroom. As he ran, a kid yelled “faggot!” at the top of his lungs.

When he reached the bathroom, he collapsed on the floor. His physical pain didn’t even begin to compare with his emotional heartache. He was starting to believe that his name was now Faggot and his soul was worth nothing.

Boys will not just be boys. Girls will not just gossip. Kids die from this. Kids hang themselves. And those who do survive often have unimaginable scars that don’t heal for years, if ever.

I know because I was one of these kids.

From fourth grade to sixth I was the one in the corner who everyone picked on, left out and occasionally spit on. I was always the last one chosen for a teammate. Twenty years later, dating is still hard for me. I rarely go out on dates for fear of rejection because when it happens I fall back to that time in my life when all my peers really did reject me, and the tears fall like rain in the night sky.

Five suicide attempts later, I have survived and am still breathing. I do look forward to the days ahead. But the life got sucked out of me when I was young and it never fully returned. As a high school student, I learned just like Bell did that it didn’t matter what shallow people thought about us. It only ever mattered if we accepted who we were as a person. When we did, others followed.

“I finally did realize my self worth and took control, but it took a long time, even longer for me to believe I was worth even more than that. I had to fake it till I made

it,” Bell told me.

Men will not just be men. Women will not just be catty. Adults die. Adults hurt so badly they die by their own hands. We tell our kids time and time again to treat others with respect, but our actions speak louder than our words every time.

Twenty years later, Bell is a full-grown man with freckles and long, reddishblonde hair. Two years ago, on July 4, he was settling down from hanging out with his friends at a club. He noticed his tabby cat was missing and searched for her at the neighbors’ house where they were having an adult party.

An hour or so later, their hands tugged his hair as they pulled him out of his house, hurting his scalp tremendously as they slammed him into a concrete driveway. Others joined in, putting in blow after blow. Fist after fist. Pan after pan. The words “faggot” and “cocksucker” echoed in his ear until he lost hearing.

His husband came to his defense, but he only suffered the same fate. They were both left for dead.

The attackers invented a new defense when the police showed up. Assuming he was a pedophile because he was gay the cops cuffed DJ. The detective took him for a brief hospital visit and then off to jail, where he spent weeks for a crime he didn’t commit, and years waiting for justice to finally be served. His physical scars mostly healed, but his emotional ones took more time.

Even the most broken heart can eventually heal. The wounded soul can find release. Those who have suffered greatly can turn around and release others suffering just as greatly. DJ and his husband struggle every day regaining their finances and physical health and dreams that were shattered to pieces that fateful night. But that doesn’t stop either of them from being kind people. David James Bell-Fair is the warmest person I know. He sings for No More Homeless Pets. He touches lives every day with his ability to spread jokes and smiles to everyone he meets. And while he and his husband relive the worst night of their adult lives every day, they do not succumb to hatred, bitterness or a desire for vengeance.

And this is the attitude we have as adults if we want to end the cycle of bullying and violence. In every classroom there is at least one bully. But in every classroom there are also future heroes, whether they were bullies or bullied themselves or just silently watched, who will overcome the scars they caused and scars they received and use what they have learned to better help others. Q

Special thanks to David James and Dan Bell-Fair.

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cr p of the w k Bill McCollum

By D’Anne Witkowski

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’VE NEVER MUCH CARED FOR Florida.

I mean, sure, alligators are cool. It has nice weather in the winter and is home to many kind grandmas, not to mention Disney World. But it also is the only state to completely ban gay people from adopting children. And I can’t help but take that a little personally.

Granted, Florida does allow gays to be foster parents. And even that’s too much for Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum, who is turning up the anti-gay rhetoric as he vies for the Republican nomination for governor.

McCollum, who defended Florida’s anti-gay adoption ban in court and who paid George “Rentboy” Rekers $120,000 to act as his expert anti-gay witness, doesn’t think gays should be allowed to be foster parents, either.

“I really do not think that we should have homosexuals guiding our children. I think that it’s a lifestyle that I don’t agree with,” McCollum told the Florida Baptist Witness. “It’s my personal faith, religious faith, that I don’t believe that the people who do this should be raising our children. It’s not a natural thing. You need a mother and a father. You need a man and a woman. That’s what God intended.”

Hmm. So no homos around the kids because McCollum’s religious-based bigotry is more important than kids without stability in their lives. And gays simply can’t provide that because they are “people who do this ... thing” that is not “natural.” But what is this thing? Being gay? Having sex? Sorry to break it to you, McCollum, those things are natural.

What isn’t natural is voluntarily becoming a foster parent in a state that has no shortage of kids in need of a home.

Becoming a foster parent isn’t exactly an innate trait. It takes a lot of consideration and sacrifice to open your life and your home to kids in need. Are there terrible foster parents out there? Oh, hell yes.

And by automatically weeding out the gay ones you simply shrink the pool, not make it safer.

So if only a mother and a father will do, then that not only rules out gay folks, it also rules out single men and women, which Florida also allows to be foster parents. So I guess what McCollum really wants is to make the shortage of foster parents in Florida worse. You know, for the kids.

“And this election is about ... our children,” he said. “It’s about the grandchil-

“I believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman,” he told the Florida Baptist Witness. “I believe that a family should consist of one man and one woman.”

Wait, so if they have kids then they’re not a family anymore? Dude, you’re confusing me.

There’s really no confusion, however, about the travesty McCollum would be as governor for LGBT Floridians. “I don’t believe in involving the government in enforcing or encouraging the lifestyle of gays and homosexuals. I just don’t believe that,” he said.

But I guess involving the government

in discriminating against “gays and homosexuals” (because there’s apparently a difference) is A-OK. 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.

dren and children of the people of Florida and making Florida a better place for them.”

As long as “better” in this instance actually means “shittier,” then McCollum is totally correct.

Not surprisingly, McCollum is also against letting gays and lesbians marry.

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Maestro Steichen Pops!

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by Tony Hobday

EARLY 75 YEARS AGO THE Utah Symphony formed. Approximately four decades later the Utah Opera was founded.

In 2002, the two entities converged into a powerhouse arts program that produces approximately 100 performances a year.

To accomplish such a feat, US&O employs 85 musicians, 60 staff members, a two-tier program of Opera Ensemble Artists (five apprentices, six studio level), an 80-member Utah Opera Chorus and a 120-member Utah Symphony Chorus. And under the symphony umbrella, among many talents, is Principal Pops Conductor Gerald “Jerry” Steichen, a worldly man and renowned artist.

Steichen, who recently celebrated his 47th birthday, grew up in a small town in Oklahoma — his high school graduating class peaked at “50 and a

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half ... you know, the pregnant girl.” He comes from a large musical family: “Daddy was a high school band director, and all six of us (Catholic ... not Mormon, LOL) played piano or organ — at least one musical instrument in Band.”

From the age of 5 and on, Steichen learned to play a number of instruments including the piano, bassoon, clarinet, saxophone and, to his own criticism, the oboe badly. He attended Northern Oklahoma College, where he received an associate degree in Accounting. “I was planning to be an international tax attorney,” he admits. But that dream of all dreams changed; he enrolled at Oklahoma City University where he “really learned the craft of making theatre” — from being on stage to conducting and reorchestrating to music directing.

“I spent a year as the first music director of the Tulsa Opera Studio, introducing opera to young people around Oklahoma,” Steichen says.

“And I really fell in love with opera.

I decided after undergraduate school that I needed to move someplace bigger, to learn more about opera — and my other passion — chamber music. I had to choose between New England Conservatory and the University of Southern California.”

He ended up in Los Angeles studying with Gwendolyn Koldofsky, “the ‘dean’ of accompanists.” And his choice appears to have been the right one because after only a year at USC, Steichen accepted an apprenticeship at the prestigious Melora Program in San Francisco where he did learn more about opera. He eventually returned to USC and received a Master’s in Accompanying.

His diverse career has taken him from Miami as the Artistic Administrator for the Greater Miami Opera Association (now Florida Grand Opera) to New York City as a member of the Metropolitan Opera, and a 10-year conducting

Symphony SEPT.10–11

Opening Weekend: Beethoven & Brahms SEPT. 17–18

The Duke Ellington Orchestra SEPT. 24–25

Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto SEPT. 24

Musique d’énergie Inaugural Gala Celebration SEPT. 28

Salute to Youth OCT. 8–9

Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini OCT. 26

The Haunted Symphony OCT. 29–30

Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1

NOV. 1

Riders in the Sky NOV. 5–6

Romeo and Juliet NOV. 12–13

Oz with Orchestra NOV. 19–20

Bruckner Symphony No. 9 NOV. 27–28

Messiah Sing-In DEC. 3–4

Saint–Saëns Cello Concerto No. 1 DEC. 10–11

Holiday Celebration with Jerry!

DEC. 11

The Polar Express with the Utah Symphony DEC. 30

Blue Planet Live!

JAN. 7–8

Barber’s Violin Concerto

stint with the New York City Opera to teaching back in his hometown.

“I took a little break after five years of being on-the-road, and moved back to Li’l Ole Tonkawa to teach at Northern Oklahoma College,” says Steichen. “I taught choir, beginning theory, private piano and musical theatre. I had an amazing, exhausting year. Teachers earn every cent!”

He has been Maestro for many stage productions, such as The Mikado, La Boheme and CATS, has had the honor of doing three Broadway tours: Peter Pan with Cathy Rigby; The Secret Garden and The Phantom of the Opera.

“My first strictly symphonic conducting was at SUNY-Purchase (college) leading their student orchestra,” says Steichen. “That led — in an unusual twist of happenstance — to my engagement with the New Haven Symphony, where I still serve as the Pops conductor.” “I am also currently the Music Director of the Ridgefield Symphony (Connecticut) and now, as you know, the Principal Pops conductor of the Utah Symphony.”

“I love coming to Utah; skiing in the winter, biking and running in the summer, swimming!

The great restaurants, the natural beauty of the state. And the warmth and generosity of the people and the orchestra has been overwhelming. I really feel like part of the community. And I have made many wonderful friends here. It feels like home when I’m here.”

And guys, Steichen is “currently not partnered.”

Below is a list of the 30-plus symphonic performances currently scheduled through May 2011, as well as the four operas. Steichen conducts four of the five concerts that I think will appeal most to the LGBT community, if not just because Steichen happens to be conductor: The Duke Ellington Orchestra, Oz with Orchestra (David Cho conducts), Holiday Celebration with Jerry!, Bravo Broadway: the Wicked Divas! and ABBA–The Music. Q JAN. 27–29

Stravinsky’s Pulcinella (conducted

by Keith Lockhart) FEB. 4–5

Debussy’s La Mer FEB. 11–12

Bartók Concerto for Orchestra FEB. 18–19

Bravo Broadway: the Wicked Divas!

FEB. 25–26

A Midsummer Night’s Dream MARCH 3–5

Robert and Clara Schumann MARCH 12

Peter and the Wolf MARCH 25–26

Mozart Symphony No. 40 APRIL 15–16

Also Sprach Zarathustra

APRIL 22–23

A Child of Our Time APRIL 26

Classical Countdown with Big Buddah APRIL 29–30

ABBA – The Music MAY 6–7

Saint–Saëns “Organ Symphony” MAY 24

2010 All–Star Evening MAY 27–28

The Rite of Spring

Opera OCT. 16,18,20,22,24

La Bohème JAN. 15,17,19,21,23

Hansel & Gretel MARCH 12,14,16,18,20

Little Women MAY 14,16,18,20,22

Falstaff

FALL ARTS CALENDAR theatre & dance

Kurt Bestor Dec. 16–18, Abravanel Hall

Ballet West

Spring Awakening Jan. 14–15, Kingsbury Hall

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Carmina Burana Oct. 29–Nov. 6 The Nutcracker Dec. 4–31 The Sleeping Beauty Feb. 11–19

Broadway Across America-Utah BROADWAYACROSSAMERICA. COM

The Color Purple Nov. 16–21, Capitol Thtre

Monty Python’s Spamalot Feb. 11–13, Kingsbury Hall

Dark Horse Company Theatre WEB.MAC.COM/DARKHORSEPRODUCTIONS

The Great American Trailer Park Musical Sept. 17–Oct. 3, Egyptian Theatre

Desert Star Theatres DESERTSTAR.BIZ

Welcome Back Potter Sept. 23–Nov. 13 Christmas Vacation: The Bipolar Express Nov. 18–Jan. 1 Back From the Future Jan. 6–Feb. 26

Grand Theatre THE-GRAND.ORG

Oliver!

Oct. 6–23 Messiah Dec. 10–13 The Glass Menagerie Jan. 19–Feb. 5

Hale Centre Theatre

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The Drowsy Chaperone Oct. 5–Nov. 20 A Christmas Carol Nov. 27–Dec. 23

Meat & Potato Theatre MEATANDPOTATO.ORG

The Front Burner: Around the World in 80 Days Dec. 2–19

Odyssey Dance Theatre ODYSSEYDANCE.ORG

Thriller Oct. 6–10, Egyptian Theatre Oct. 13–30, Kingsbury Hall

Off Broadway Theatre

White Christmas Dec. 3–24

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Black Comedy Jan. 14–29

Henry Botter Sep 24–Oct. 30 Miracle on Third & Main Nov. 26–Dec. 27

Pinnacle Acting Company PINNACLEACTINGCOMPANY.ORG

Dancing At Lughnasa Nov. 4–20

Pioneer Theatre Company PIONEERTHEATRE.ORG

Hamlet Sept. 17–Oct. 2 Dracula Oct. 22–Nov. 6

In Feb. 18–Mar. 5

Plan-B Theatre Company PLANBTHEATRE.ORG

She Was My Brother Oct. 28–Nov. 7 Radio Hour: Marathon Oct. 31 Mesa Verde Feb. 24–Mar. 6

Pygmalion Theatre Company

Well Feb. 24–Mar. 13

Repertory Dance Theatre RDTUTAH.ORG

H2O Sept. 30–Oct. 2 Imagine That Nov. 19–20 Charette Feb. 12

Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company RIRIEWOODBURY.COM

Configurations Sept. 23–25

PYGMALIONPRODUCTIONS.ORG

Cipher Dec. 16–18

The Coming Ice Age Oct. 21–Nov. 7

Circle Cycle Jan. 28–29

Salt Lake Acting Company SALTLAKEACTINGCOMPANY.ORG

Angels in America: Millennium Approaches Oct. 6–31 Reading of Angels in America: Perestroika Nov. 4–7 Boom Nov. 3–Dec. 5 If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Dec. 1–26 The Persian Quarter Feb. 2–27

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FALL ARTS PREVIEW

Utah’s Spencer Day

by Tony Hobday

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UTAH-BORN balladeer with incredible talent, Spencer Day is thrilled to be returning to his birthplace Oct. 16, for a much-anticipated concert. In his new

album Vagabond, to be released Sep. 8 through Concord Jazz, Day explores his “wanderlust and endless search for a place to call home.” The mostly self-taught pianist/jazz singer, Day, in just a few short years, has grown from doing a “few gigs in dive bars and retirement homes” to tours in London and Tokyo.

You have a very mature, eloquent baritone voice for your age, as if you’ve been singing since you were very young. When did you realize your talent? My mother was a classically trained opera singer. I didn’t start to truly realize my talent until I was in my early 20’s but music was always around me and her passion for it lit the first spark inside me. My siblings and I all sang a little, whether it was church hymns or at various family functions.

Being an unhappy and defiant teenager, I suppose I didn’t want to give my mom the satisfaction of seeing me follow a path she had wanted

to pursue herself.

Now that I am a professional musician, she couldn’t be more thrilled.

Then, when did you realize you wanted to be a recording artist, and was there a specific shift in your life that helped you come to that desire/ need? My first paying gigs were really happy accidents. I was a terribly clumsy waiter and my singing resulted in fewer incidents where food wound up in customers laps. So when I stumbled into my first few gigs at dive bars and retirement homes, I thought, “Well, this beat’s waiting tables.” The thing was, I never thought somebody like me could actually make it as a singer/songwriter. I never allowed myself to dream that big. It’s only in the last 4 or 5 years that I finally accepted that music was my calling.

I may never be incredibly successful or famous but this is what I was put on earth to do. This realization drastically transformed my relationship to my art and my confidence as a performer.

Everything changed after that.

Your most recent album Vagabond is sort of a tribute to your growing pains, if you will. Give us a brief overview of those growing pains, as interpreted in a just a few of the songs on the album. Well, I particularly admire artists who let the audience in on their creative and emotional process. I don’t have all the answers and I’ve never pretended to. Instead I try to invite the listener to join me as I ponder what life and love really mean. Vagabond is a musical attempt to explore my own psyche and better understand my wanderlust and my endless search for a place to call home. The songs I have written since then are reflective of the self discoveries I made during the writing and recording of Vagabond.

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You have said that “all those old MGM musicals” were a primary influence. Which ones? There are so many! I love South Pacific, but only the love songs, and “Bali Hai” especially.

The war part of the story didn’t interest me at all.

On the Town first started my fascination with New York and I loved when Fred Astair danced on the ceiling in Royal Wedding. But Singing In The Rain, especially the dance sequence with Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse, was my all time favorite.

You wrote the score for, and starred in, a musical called Someday Love. Tell us a little about the show and your experiences on those two sides of the production? Ever since I was little I wanted to write for the stage as well as perform on one. I would never have dared to tell anyone that since I never dreamed it was possible. I love writing music that takes people somewhere, and writing for the stage is one of the most magical ways to do that. Once I realized that singing is

acting, making the transition from one to the other has been more natural than I thought it would be. Now that I’m living in New York I’m thrilled to not only write for the stage but to hopefully sing and act on one as well.

You were born in Utah but raised in Arizona.

Have you had close family ties to Utah since you left? Yes. My uncle and aunt and their families live in Utah and I love them and hope to visit them more in the future. Due to an unhappy childhood and my parents’ traumatic divorce, I think I unconsciously avoided returning to Utah throughout my young adult life. Coming back to perform at these shows makes this even more important as a homecoming.

I read in an article that the song “Arizona Blue” was written for your younger brother — do you mind elaborating on that? Sure! Well we both love Arizona but also felt that we had to leave it at some point. I started humming the melody for that song late at night on a long road trip headed for California. He was sleeping and I’ve always thought of it as a lullaby, even though he’s all grown up. He doesn’t seem to mind.

What’s on the horizon for you, professionally and/or personally? Well, apart from working on several different musical theatre projects and co-writes, I’m really excited that my fall tour schedule includes visiting exciting cities like London and Tokyo. I still can’t believe I get to travel to such amazing cities and get paid for it!

Tell us one thing about yourself (quirky, serious, funny, etc.) that most people likely don’t already know? Hmmmm, well I’m an Art Deco fanatic and I used to be a pretty good swing dancer. I got out of practice but just started doing the Lindy Hop here in New York and I almost forgot how much fun it was. Although I am obviously inspired by the jazz age, you might be surprised by how eclectic my music collection is. If you put my iPod on shuffle you might find yourself listening to Chet Baker, The Arcade Fire, Debussy, The Rolling Stones, Jeff Buckley and Judy Garland back-to-back. I just love good music! Q Spencer Day plays the Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. Broadway on Oct. 16, 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $29.50–32.50, 801-355-ARTS or arttix.org.

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FALL ARTS CALENDAR

art exhibits

Sugar Space

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Yoga Confidential Sept. 10–11 Influx Dance Sept. 23–25 Sketchophrenia, Live Sketch Comedy Oct. 8

UofU Babcock Theatre THEATRE.UTAH.EDU

Alcestis Sept. 18–26

Hay Fever Nov. 5–14 The Last Days of Judas Iscariot Jan. 28–Feb. 6

UofU Studio 115 THEATRE.UTAH.EDU

Fifth of July Sept. 30–Oct. 3 Almost, Maine Nov. 18–21

UofU Modern Dance DANCE.UTAH.EDU

Fall Concert Oct. 21–30

Modern Dance Graduate Concert Nov. 11–13 Student Concert I Dec. 9–11

Wasatch Theatre Company WASATCHTHEATRE.ORG

Page-to-Stage Festival Sept. 9–25 Greater Tuna Jan. 6–29

Kayo Gallery Sean Lyman, Matt Glass Now through Sept. 14 Side Show w/ Ben Thomas, Gentry Blackburn, Pushy Galore Sept. 17–Oct. 12 Lora Fosberg Oct. 15–Nov. 16 Mark England and Sara Edgar Nov. 19–30

Kimball Art Center

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Brent Godfrey: Getting Real: Visual Expressions of Personal Perception Now through Sept. 26 Nathan Florence: Fabricated Figures Now through Oct. 3 Devorah Sperber: Threads of Perception Now through Oct. 31 Ansel Adams: Early Works Nov. 6–Jan. 7

Phillips Gallery PHILLIPS-GALLERY.COM

Maureen O’Hara Ure Sept. 17–Oct. 8

Hyunmee Lee Oct. 15–Nov. 12 Connie Borup Oct. 17–Nov. 14 Holiday Group Show Nov. 19–Jan. 14

SALT LAKE ART CENTER SLARTCENTER.ORG

Girl Ascending: The photographs of Melissa Ann Pinney Now through Oct. 30

Utah Museum Of Fine Arts UMFA.UTAH.EDU

Las Artes de Mexico Now through Sept. 26

Painting Utah’s Mount Olympus Now through Nov. 14 Idyllic Landscapes: Chinese Landscapes from the Permanent Collection Oct. 7–Jan. 9 Reconciliation: Painting and Sculpture

by Trevor Southey Oct. 21–Feb. 11 Faces: Selections from the Permanent Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art and Yayoi Kusama: Decades Oct. 21–Feb. 13

salt 2: Sophie Whettnall Nov. 18–Feb. 2

concerts, opera & special engagements Kingsbury Hall KINGSBURYHALL.ORG

Second City — FAFSA and the Furious Sept. 30 Vox Lumiere — Phantom of the Opera Oct. 8

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White Christmas Dec. 3 – Dec. 24, 2010

Black Comedy Jan. 14 – Jan. 29, 2011

In Feb. 18 – Mar. 5, 2011

Hamlet

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The Diary of Anne Frank Mar. 18 – Apr. 2, 2011 Andrew Lloyd Webber’s

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Junior Arts Org Does Risky Business

by Tony Hobday

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ESTLED IN A INDUSTRIALIZED STRIP center in the Sugar House area is a tiny multidisciplinary arts organization fittingly called Sugar Space. A table, a couch, a curio cabinet and several pieces of original artwork decorate the simple lobby.

Two-tiered crescent-moon rows of seats allow for patronage of up to about 80, within the blackbox performance space. The organization was founded three years ago, by its current Executive Director Brittany Reese Dew, after an injury and subsequent surgery to her knees halted her dance career. “In an odd way it was a positive change, though it forced me to put all my creative energies elsewhere and that was how Sugar Space came about,” says Reese Dew. “Sugar Space was definitely a risk,” she also admits. “I was of the mentality that if you build it they will come, which has proved to be partially true. It was a passion for me, and I have always followed my passions in life; so I knew I had to do it and would figure it out along the way.”

Reese Dew is a Utah native, but has spent most of her life outside the state, including “performing and teaching in countries like Poland, Belarus, Taiwan and Brazil. After graduating from the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts she had spent 17 years experiencing much in New York City. Then, after receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts in dance from New York University, Reese Dew spent several years not only performing in New York venues like the Joyce Theater, The Kitchen and Dance Theater Workshop, but she also “performed on bridges, subways, parks, clubs, warehouses — you name it.”

“It was fun because you would perform with a group at BAM and then perform with them the next weekend in a West Village dance club or places like Joe’s Pub or at an art opening,” Reese Dew says. “My clearest memories are of performing in funky spaces where the audience was two feet away, and dancing in the rain in the middle of Krakow on cobblestone, and at some midnight showcase trying get my body warmed up.

Most of the companies I worked with were improvisational and collaborative, yet the directors and choreographers had a very clear vision.

I had enormous input into the creative process and my employers were peers.”

Those years of improvisation and collaboration inspired what Sugar Space is today. “I have carried this idea of collaborative art-making over to Sugar Space,” states Reese Dew. “What sets Sugar Space apart is that we are trying to empower artist’s to create new work themselves and not just learn steps from someone else.”

At its core, there are four main components to Sugar Space: functioning as a presenting venue

for live performance and visual artists; functioning as a training institution and community hub offering ongoing community classes and events for kids and adults; an arts organization that is a participant in community partnerships, outreach and provides logistical and financial support for artists; and provides a space available for private rentals.

Three years have passed since Sugar Space started and Reese Dew feels, though the company is tirelessly trying to achieve 501(c)(3) status, is “getting closer to my original goal.”

“I have more realistic expectations and a more finely tuned vision,” she says.

“We now have an advisory board,” Reese Dew continues. “We started “for profit” and are transitioning to non-profit and just received our first grant. The problem has primarily been lack of funds to pay for administrative staff. Our goal has always been to make sure the artists we work with get paid fairly; and we have not sacrificed that even with our other hurdles.”

Over the next several months, and according to Reese Dew, within a 1- to 2-year plan for the organization, Sugar Space will be home to some exciting works, including “a series that highlights artists from the LGBT community.” Planned for next year, she encourages interested applicants and possible collaborators to contact them now.

“We are moving closer to being a full-fledged presenting venue and have a lot of exciting shows planned,” she continues. “We have some annual series that are like shells that then house different artists annually including Suite, which is a women’s choreographer series with a community outreach element, and After Dark which is a late night performance with more of a nightclub feel.”

“Our Artist in Residence program, which this year will feature Influx Dance, is based on an application process, and recipients receive 40 hours of free space, approximately $500 allotted to staff, marketing materials, etc., and artists receive a percentage of the door.”

Also, arguably our largest event of the year is The Sugar Show (formerly named Audiences Award Artists).” This year we have an 18 and under category in addition to the adult category, and SB Dance will also be a co-presenter this year.

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Preliminaries will be held at Sugar Space and the finals will be held at the Rose Wagner Theater.

Applications are still being accepted for artist’s of any discipline of original, live performance up until September 15. Winners are selected from the audience and a panel of professional’s based on the criteria of potential, originality, execution and merit. Winner’s receive $1,000 and full production support for a future show.”

Sugar Space also presents many independent artist programs throughout the year, including Aporia Productions, a Minneapolis-based ‘experimental” theatre group, who recently performed Mammal Stories, a witty and compelling story about four young lives becoming intertwined

by sexuality and relationships and other strong forces. And coming to Sugar Space in October is Sketchophrenia, live sketch comedy, and starring local comedians Andrew Jensen, Troy Taylor, Christopher Stephenson and Jimmie Morgan.

To help Sugar Space continue to grow and change, Reese Dew asks QSaltLake readers: What do you think a community arts organization could offer you? Who would you like to see presented? What would a program look like that you would want to attend or participate in? What makes you decide to go see live performance instead of going to a movie or hanging at home?

E-mail your thoughts, wishes to admin@thesugarspace.com. Q

FALL ARTS CALENDAR —Continued from page 27 ABBA Mania Nov. 11 The Wizard of Oz Dec. 3–4 MOMIX — Botanica Jan. 22 An Evening with Stephen Sondheim Feb. 1

Salt Lake Men’s Choir SALTLAKEMENSCHOIR.ORG

Christmas Concert Dec. 10–11

Spy Hop Productions SPYHOP.ORG

Best of Awards Ceremony Sept. 23 PitchNic Premiere Nov. 11

Utah Symphony UTAHSYMPHONY.ORG

The Duke Ellington Orchestra Sept. 17–18 Romeo & Juliet Nov. 5–6 Oz with Orchestra

Nov. 12–13

Holiday Celebration with Jerry Dec. 10–11

Spencer Day ARTTIX.ORG

Oct. 16, Rose Wagner

Ingrid Michaelson SMITHSTIX.COM

Bravo Broadway: the Wicked Divas!

Feb. 18–19

Sufjan Stevens

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Feb. 25–26

So You Think You Can Dance Tour

Utah Opera UTAHOPERA.ORG

La Bohème Oct. 16–24 Hansel and Gretel Jan. 15–23

Steven Fales — Mormon American Princess MORMONBOY.COM

Sept. 13, Tavernacle

Smashing Pumpkins

SMITHSTIX.COM

Sept. 17, In The Venue

Wanda Sykes

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Sept. 25, Wendover, Nev.

Blue October Oct. 1, In The Venue

Oct. 26, In The Venue Nov. 1, Kingsbury Hall

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Nov. 4, Maverick Ctr

Sara Bareilles SMITHSTIX.COM

Nov. 17, Avalon

The Rockettes TICKETMASTER.COM

Nov. 26–29, Maverick Ctr

festivals Avenues Street Fair Sept. 11

Garden After Dark REDBUTTEGARDEN.ORG

Oct. 21–30

Moab Folk Festival, Moab MOABFOLKFESTIVAL.COM

Nov. 5–11

Oktoberfest, Snowbird SNOWBIRD.COM

Aug. 21–Oct. 9

Pagan Pride Day PAGANPRIDE.ORG

Sept. 11

Powellapalooza Music & Boating Festival BLOOMINGFOOTPRINT.COM

Page AZ, Sept. 23–26

Sundance Film Festival, Park City FESTIVAL.SUNDANCE.ORG

Jan. 20–30

University of Utah Pride Week Oct. 18–22

Utah Humanities Book Festival UTAHHUMANITIES.ORG

Oct. 19–23

Utah State Fair UTAH-STATE-FAIR.COM

Sept. 9–19

Zion Canyon Music Festival, Springdale ZIONCANYONMUSICFESTIVAL. COM Sept. 24–25

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ARTS&ENTERTAINMENT

gay agenda A Fair to Remember

by Tony Hobday

Between the Cyndi Lauper concert in Wendover a couple of weeks ago, a trip to Lava Hot Springs the weekend before that and Q Lagoon Day the Sunday before that, I am spent like a two-dollar whore. Not that that’s much different than any other weekend when I’m a three-dollar whore ... but I digress. So I’ve decided to say: “Screw you, Labor Day weekend! I need a break from the 90 hours of labor I was in last month.” I think I have post-August depression, so I’m going to just chill at home with a good book. But you wonderful peeps, please get your kitty scratched for me this Labor Day weekend. Mwah!

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THURSDAY — Flash-fiction, micro-fiction, postcard fiction, haibun, nanofiction, vignette ... can you tell a story using less than 1000 words? Less than 500?

Less than 100? The Community Writing Center is offering SHORTER THAN SHORT: WRITING MICRO-FICTION, a twosession workshop to help writers present a large idea in a small amount of space. Explore character, conflict, setting and dialogue while finding ways to condense and strengthen your words.

6–8pm, tonight & Sep. 9, SLCC Community Writing Center, Library Square Plaza, 210 E. 400 South. Cost $30, 801-957-4992 or slcc.edu/cwc

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SATURDAY — The 38th annual OKTOBERFEST is in full swing with the taste of Bavaria, Dale the Yo-Yo-Man, inflatable rides, craft booths, local musicians, yodelers, a mechanical bull, a climbing wall and more. Visitors can also catch the Alp Horns on Hidden Peak. So enjoy the cool mountain air, music, food and steins of beer available every weekend through the second weekend in October.

Noon–6pm, Sat. & Sun.(including Labor Day, Sept. 6), through Oct. 10, Snowbird Resort, Little Cottonwood Canyon. Admission is free, but nearly everything else isn’t, snowbird.com.

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THURSDAY — I have witnessed many things, and have learned some things too, at the UTAH STATE FAIR; like, did you know that pornology is the “study or science of growing fruit? It’s like everything in the world makes sense now! Anyhoo, entertainment includes Boyz II Men, America, pig racing and, things that all gay men love (especially the Republican ones), a truck pull and demolition derby. And of course there will be stinky animals, cook-offs and art exhibits.

10am–10pm, through Sept. 19, Utah State Fairpark, 155 N. 1000 West. Entrance $7–9, all-day ride passes $25, utahstate-fair.com.

Q More than 20 of Utah’s finest restaurants, caterers and breweries will serve up delicious food at the wildest party in town, the annual ZOO RENDEZVOUS. There will be a silent auction, featuring one-of-a-kind zoo items, plus live music.

All proceeds from the event are dedicated to animal care and exhibit.

6–11pm, Hogle Zoo, 2600 E. Sunnyside Avenue, Tickets $150, must be 21 or older, 801-584-4546 or zoorendezvous.com.

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FRIDAY — Opening the 2010-2011 Utah Symphony season is BEETHOVEN & BRAHMS (not the actual composers, that would be creepy).

Conductor Hannu Lintu will open with Beethoven’s symphony “recollections of country life.” Then, he leads the orchestra in Brahms’ dramatic Piano Concerto No. 2 with renowned pianist Louis Lortie.

8pm, through Saturday, Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple. Tickets $20–85, 801-355-ARTS or arttix.org.

Q The Temple Squares — a queer square dancing group — encourages first-timers at hoeing to join them for their BEGINNING MAINSTREAM SQUARE DANCE CLASS. The Friday night classes introduce dancers to square dance, hay, 10-gallon hats and sparkly beltbuckles the size of a Flybo XFD. People of all orientations and gender identities are invited to attend. Casual attire is encouraged, and singles and couples are welcome.

7–9pm, Fridays, Columbus Community Center, 2498 S. 500 East. Free, 801-309-6720 or slcsquaredancing.org.

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SATURDAY — The Lambda Hiking Club is taking a 3.5-mile intermediate hike up GOBBLERS KNOB ... unfortunately, like most lesbians, I’ve never been, but it sure sounds fun! Anyhoo, it sits between Big Cottonwood and Mill Creek Canyons so there are a lot of access trails. Just another 900 feet from the Knob is Mount Raymond ... that sounds fun too! I wonder why I equate sex with hiking ... oh yeah, my first time!

9am, meet at Park N Ride at the base of Big Cottonwood Canyon. Free, for more info, contact Mark at 801-485-5654.

Q The 12th annual COW BALLET features, once again, live music by Muddpuddle, and other local artists. There will be a lot of fun games for kids and adults including the infamous cow pie long jump and cow pie bingo, great food and libations, the graceful Cow Ballet choreographed by the great Randy Barton, opportunity drawings, a dunk tank and many more festivities.

2–8pm, Woodenshoe Park, 4900 Wooden Shoe Ln., Peoa.

Tickets $10, mountaintownmusic.org.

Q Sponsored by the Greater Avenues Community Council, the annual AVENUES STREET FAIR is a great event that supports local artists of the historic Avenues, which, for eight

years, was my ’hood. But now I actually do live in the ’hood — What up Dog? Oh lord, it even sounds gay in my head!

9am–6pm, 7th Avenue between ‘I’ and ‘N’ Streets. Free, slcavenues.org.

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SUNDAY — We all love those sinewy bods and bikini-waxed babes of the Queer Utah Aquatic Club, so why not check them out in all their glory at the annual AQUA AID fund raiser — and yes, they do swim and frolic like dolphins. Proceeds benefit the Utah AIDS Foundation.

3–6pm, 3693 Oakview Dr. Suggested donation $50, 801-4872323 or utahaids.org.

Q In 2008 five friends put together a crafts holiday show called CRAFT SABBATH. Since then it has grown into a monthly “handmade” boutique. It showcases 23 different artists, who make everything from jewelry, to embroidered items, to upcycled vintage crafts and baby gifts. The show embraces “rebel” craft and includes everything from handcrafted bacon (huh?) to irreverent zombies (aaah!), as well as more traditional knit and felt items.

1–5pm, first Sunday of each month, Library Square, 210 E. 400 S. Free, craftsabbath.com.

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WEDNESDAY — In commemoration of National Community Center Awareness Day, the Utah Pride Center is holding a DRIVE, FAIR & CHILI COOKOUT. The Center will be collecting sporting equipment for the neighborhood West Capitol Boys & Girls Club in the morning hours. Then, in the afternoon, 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.

4–8pm, Utah Pride Center, 361 N. 300 West. Free, 801-5398800 or utahpridecenter.org.

UPCOMING EVENTS SEP 25 OCT 16 NOV 26-29 APR 11

Wanda Sykes, Wendover, Nev. Spencer Day, Rose Wagner The Rockettes, Maverick Ctr Lily Tomlin, Kingsbury Hall

save the date 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 1 World AIDS Day worldaidsday.org December 10–11 Salt Lake Men’s Choir Christmas Concert saltlakemenschoir.org January 5–9 Utah Gay & Lesbian Ski Week, Park City communityvisions.org January 20–30 Sundance Film Festival, Park City sundance.org

All Over Adam Levine

Maroon 5 frontman on new album, bedroom behavior and being so cool with the queers.

by Chris Azzopardi

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DAM LEVINE KNOWS a little teasing goes a long way. That’s why the Maroon 5 superstud — who’s fronted the funky pop-rock band since its Grammy-winning debut, Songs About Jane, dropped eight years ago – is up for talking gay porn and solving problems in bed. Sex, though, is customary for the group — after all, they named their third album Hands All Over. And put a bare-naked babe on the cover.

That’s just the line Levine, 31, likes to cross, as he tells us. The gay-friendly guy also discussed his hotness eclipsing the band’s music, being domineering, his new fashion venture and freaking out uptight Americans.

Your first gay interview was with The Advocate, right? Yes. Was that a gay interview? It’s so funny — a “gay interview.”

Before that, did you know you had a big gay following? If you have a big following, a certain percentage of your big following must be gay — which, of course, I embrace with open arms.

What’s the significance of the title, Hands All Over? An album title is almost meaningless — the ring of what you’re saying and the combination of words is what really matters. Naming an album is a very weird process; it doesn’t exactly have to mean anything. It just has to feel good.

This one definitely leaves room for interpretation. It could be sexual, or it could simply mean that you have your hands in every musical genre: rock, country, pop, soul. There’s even a disco sound on some of the songs. Is that what you were going for? Yeah, there’s definitely a sound that is ours, and there’s definitely a little bit of ’70s in what we do sometimes. You could say funk, maybe chic.

“Never Gonna Leave This Bed” left me wondering: Do you solve all your problems in bed? (Laughs) That is certainly not a bad place to solve your problems! I also liked the double meaning there, because “Never Gonna Leave This Bed” could sound like you’re really depressed and you just want to sit and eat Ho Hos and be a slob, and also a place you can escape to with someone you care about.

In the “Misery” video, you seem to be enjoying those beatings a little too much. Is aggression a turn-on for you? Not really, actually.

I mean, aggressive, yes. I like to be in control.

I don’t want to be dominated or anything like that — definitely not to the extent in the video.

Getting the shit beaten out of me is not my thing.

Not even in bed? In bed? No, no, no. I don’t like any kind of real pain in bed. Maybe the illusion of pain.

Do you feel like your looks overshadow your music? I definitely think it overshadows our music. It doesn’t bother me, but one really doesn’t have anything to do with the other. And that’s all

I can really say.

As flattering as it is to be considered attractive by anybody — which it is, it really is — it doesn’t really make me feel good when people judge what we do based on that. It’s just really silly because our music became successful on its own merit.

you take advantage of that? I would probably be the same. I’m always inspired to go too far, so I’ll probably do that with this album — make some video or something. I enjoy making uptight Americans feel uncomfortable. It’s sex! Who cares? People are more obsessed with censoring sex than censoring violence. That makes no sense to me. Same reason I don’t understand why marijuana is not legal and cigarettes are.

Do you smoke pot? I write songs ... of course I smoke pot!

Is the band ever envious of you being ... you? No, I don’t think so.

They’re not the types who want it.

I’ve heard that after this album you might disband. And then what? Do gay porn? I’d have to be in a real low place to do that because, unfortunately, as much as I love the gays, I am not one of them (laughs). But if we stop selling records, who knows?

What were we talking about, other than gay porn?

Will the band still be around after this album? I don’t think that the band’s going anywhere. I just say that to fuck with people. And I’m sure that they have no desire to go solo. I may do things on my own and experiment with different people and try different things with different artists. I’ll always do collaborations, but I don’t want to be a solo artist.

If I were ever going to do something, maybe I’d start another band.

But I’m not interested in it just being me — “Hey, look! It’s me, Adam Levine! And here’s my album!” It’s super uncool. I’d much rather be in a band. And I think I’m going to be in this one for a long time.

Why are you more comfortable around gay men than most straight guys seem to be?

Because there’s a lot of homophobic straight guys. Listen, I think the more secure you are with your sexuality, the more it doesn’t matter. I have straight friends and gay friends. I was raised in a place where we were a little ahead of our time with being accepting and tolerant of everybody.

L.A.’s a different place to grow up; there’s obviously a huge gay community there. It was never weird or taboo.

It’s actually really astonishing that homosexuality is one of the last remaining acceptable prejudices. Like, it’s still acceptable to a certain extent for people to be homophobic. And it’s really disgusting, because being homophobic is no different than being racist or sexist. For some reason, people still think it’s OK to call people a faggot, and it really pisses me off.

I do press with gay and straight magazines; it doesn’t make a difference. People need to get real and realize that this needs to stop. But I’m happy about Prop. 8. That’s amazing. I hope it sticks.

You’ve also said that the United States is too uptight about sex. If it weren’t, how would

How will your fashion line, 222, be different from other celebrity lines? The difference is that I’m designing a lot of the stuff, and it’s going to be good. I’m really passionate about this.

This is going to be really special. We have the best cuts, best fabrics, best everything. And it’s really simple. We’re trying to make this as clean and flawless as possible.

Were you this fashionable when you were a teenager? No, I was into wearing the dorkiest things I could find. I loved vintage shopping.

I was definitely a bit of a rebel at the time because I went to school with a bunch of people that were eventually going to become doctors and lawyers, and I wanted to be a musician. That was a rebellious move in my sheltered privateschool world.

On the MTV show When I Was 17 you said you were gross when you were that age. What would you tell your 17-year-old self now? I wouldn’t change a thing. Part of being a kid is not knowing what the hell you’re doing, and the journey of figuring it all out is part of life. And I wouldn’t tell myself anything, because I wouldn’t want to wind up in any other place. Q

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hear me out

By Chris Azzopardi

Katy Perry Teenage Dream As if Christina Aguilera and Ke$ha didn’t already send pop music to its deathbed this year, Katy Perry comes close to finishing it off. The Bible-girl-gone-bad runs wild on the emotionally scrambled hit-factory Teenage Dream – not kissing girls (and liking it), but waking up in a post-party haze, reliving her horny adolescence and shrugging off scandalous pics of her online. And then, to add more cotton candy to her song catalog, there’s the frothy first single “California Gurls.” Where life is peachy, there are popsicle-melting peeps ... and Snoop Dogg. The title track lives in paradise, too — a celebration of youth and finding love, themes that bobble along a current of cosmic rev and a guitar line that sounds faintly like it belongs to “Since U Been Gone.” “Let’s go all the way tonight,” she hoots. And when she follows it up with the trashy, oh-so-clever “Peacock,” her subtly challenged ode to you-know-what that’s so ’80s it wears a leotard, she’s obviously not bluffing. Perry, who began criminally overtaking the charts with mind-hijacking hits off 2008’s One of the Boys, is still the McDonald’s of pop music: an irresistible no-no that quenches hook-hungry heads, especially with the ’90s-sounding soap opera “The One that Got Away.” The pop tart’s a decent writer, a decent singer and a perfect sexpot. And she knows exactly what she’s doing — living deep in our own dirty dreams.

Grade: C+

for a lot of play on the CW with its jaunty coffeehouse pop. Her good-vibes sound — for instance, “Uncharted,” a sugary high that’s pure power anthem — feels good even when she’s not. On “Gonna Get Over You” Bareilles bebops through heartbreak, and she makes “King of Anything,” a killer kissoff, seem as inviting as a prettily packaged bazooka. But this album isn’t some “Love Song” molding machine; Bareilles’ voice reaches into her, well, kaleidoscope heart to pull out all the colors of her voice — the most gorgeous of which shines through “The Light,” a simple, cushy ballad. The delicate “Bluebird,” with its careful breaks and floating keyboards, achieves the same greatness.

“Machine Gun” begins deceivingly, another acerbic rant that bounces into a blaze of instrumental fury and a vocal that reaches past the sky. And it’s Bareilles’ voice that, even when she’s sometimes off her game lyrically, makes this Heart beat.

Grade: B+

Also Out The Weepies Be My Thrill Like She & Him, the Weepies’ whimsical indie folk-pop — also performed by a gender-opposite duo — is as cute as it is emotionally charged. The title track is a perky piece of genius, and even boasts lesbian love in its video. Dig deeper, past ditties like “I Was Made for Sunny Days,” and there’s melancholy longing, as heard on the clever tearjerker “Not a Lullaby.” A thrill, for sure.

Sara Bareilles, Kaleidoscope Megan McCormick Heart Honest Words If we learned anything from Sara Bareilles’ Little Voice, her impression-making major label debut, it was that she was lying: Nothing about her sweet, soulful croon is tiny. That big voice, which blew up because of a certain “Love Song,” commands throughout her follow-up, one that’s poised

Off to a good start with a line of songs that drill and bite, the 23-year-old’s debut coasts with raw, blues-y rockers and a muscular beyond-her-years voice. “Do Right,” a pop-country cut, especially sounds like a hit looking for a home. But when the charged opening tuckers out, she falls back on tedious folk balladry that’s authentic and endearing, but monotonous and sagging.

Reach Chris Azzopardi at chris@pridesource. com.

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f d & wine End of Summer Party and Recipes

by Chef Drew Ellsworth

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FEW WEEKS AGO I HAD friends over for a great party at my house. My tomatoes had just started ripening and the melons at the markets had too. I did sort of a Northwest theme with the food and paired it with Northwest wines. It was a great hit, so I’d like to share some of the recipes and wines with you.

First, I started with a chilled melon soup I’ve been making for years. You make it in the blender and I use the most appropriate fresh fruit in it along with the melons. Here’s how you do it:

Chilled Honeydew Soup • ½ ripe honeydew melon peeled and cubed • One medium cantaloupe peeled and cubed

• About six fresh, ripe apricots, pitted (later in the season I’ll use peaches) • Simple syrup, about 2 cups — you can use the juice off of any canned fruit • Heavy cream to taste • Blue food color — several drops to restore honeydew color • Grand Marnier, three to four tablespoons • Two T freshly squeezed lemon juice Blend ingredients together until ultra smooth.

Add the fruit syrup to desired thickness. Don’t let the soup be too runny or too sweet. Top with a dollop of sour cream and a sprig of lavender which can be swirled into the soup.

House-Smoked Fresh Salmon For the next course, I served a beautiful fresh salmon (pictured), which was kind of smoked on an outdoor grill. I bought some hickory wood chips, which are available at a lot of stores, and I soaked about three cups of the chips in water overnight. I scattered the chips around the edges of my propane grill and placed the salmon on a double thickness of aluminum foil. I drizzled the salmon with a homemade teriyaki sauce — but you could use a commercial one — and cooked it on a low setting until it was done through. This was so easy to do and it had that great smoky taste. I served it still warm with some really nice dark bread and some herbed cheese spread — Boursin would be a great choice.

Sufferin’ Succotash For this dish I roasted four to five ears of corn on the outdoor grill. Later I cut the kernels off the cob and sautéed the corn in a skillet with butter, salt, pepper and Italian pepper flakes—you can use as much as you want! I also put in some fresh green beans and red bell peppers. This dish was so delicious it could almost be made into a meal by itself. I used freshly snapped green beans from my garden, which I blanched for several minutes in boiling water and then cooled before sautéeing with the beans. Please make this. It’s easy and wonderful.

For the main course, I cheated and made a stew ahead in the crock pot. I love doing this because when you’re busy, you can really cut down your anxiety by setting this up in the morning, and it just takes a few minutes to finish before serving. I bought red and yellow “fingerling” potatoes and boiled them a little while before dinner. I arranged them in a circle around the platter, ladled the stew in the center and topped it with chopped parsley. Here’s the recipe:

White Pork Savory Stew with Fingerling Potatoes Mark a 2-lb. pork loin roast on an outdoor grill, let cool and cut into 1½ inch cubes. Place the cubed pork in a crock pot, with already heated chicken, beef or pork broth in it. Add one cup diced celery, onion and carrot. Add a pinch of thyme and bay leaf and several leaves of fresh sage. Add several buttons of garlic, coarsely chopped. Cook in the broth until very tender.

Finish the sauce by adding roux or cornstarch and season as desired. Add cream at the last, as

much as you want. You’ll want to make this dish again and again.

Aunt Ruth’s Graham Cake 1¾ c. whole wheat flour, or graham flour if you can find it. I used a Golden Wheat, finely milled product from Montana.

2 heaping tbsp. cornstarch 5 eggs, separated ½ c. water, almost boiling 1¾ c. sugar ½ c. oil ½ tsp. salt 1½ tsp. vanilla Sift flour and cornstarch six times. Add hot water to egg yolks and beat until stiff. Add sugar gradually while beating. Add oil, flavoring and salt, beating gently until oil is all taken up. Fold the flour in gently. Add stiffly beaten egg whites.

Bake in an ungreased angel food cake pan at 325 degrees for 30 minutes, then at 350 degrees for the last 30 minutes. Serve with fruit and whipped cream on top.

Suggested Wines: With the salmon and the melon soup I paired both a Ste Michelle Dry Riesling (which we loved with both dishes) and a crisp, yet full-bodied Eyrie Pinot Blane. This last wine was delicious by itself and handsomely made — in fact, it was the first time I really loved a Pinot Blanc — but the pairing was not as good as the dry Riesling.

With the stew, I first served a Willamette Valley, whole cluster Pinot Noir — delicious, full, cherryraspberry. It was delicious, and it would be with almost anything. Then, even though the stew has a nearly white gravy, I paired it with a simply gorgeous Columbia Crest H3 Cabernet. For around $16 a bottle it’s ridiculously good! With the graham cake, I made a “hard sauce” with Utah’s own High West Whisky to pour over the cake. Then I garnished with berries, and I served a shot glass of the Whisky on the side.

Please try some of these recipes on your families and guests. Bon Appétit! Q

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The YWCA Salt Lake City is pleased to invite you to the 22nd annual celebration of women in our community!

FOOD&DRINK

cocktail cha er

YWCA LeaderLuncheon • September 17, 2010

How’d Ya Like a Nice Planter’s Punch?

Grand America Hotel • 555 S. Main Street, Salt Lake City Reception 11:30 a.m. • Luncheon 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Keynote speaker: Jeannette Walls, author of the New York Times best-seller The Glass Castle.

By Ed Sikov

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HAT’S THE THING ABOUT Planter’s Punch,” Sal shouted over the din at BarHarbor one Friday evening as a crowd of guys holding sweaty dress shirts over their arms, not-soLynne N. Ward - Government/Public Service fresh from the city, yelled remarks at each other Marian Ingham - Community Service while getting smashed on overpriced drinks.

Cynthia A. Bioteau - Education “What’s the thing?” I screamed back. Sal only Deborah S. Bayle - Health/Human Services seemed to mouth his reply; I couldn’t hear a word of it. Sal’s boyfriend, Shea, broke in: “Fact / is, this drink was served by Cuban slave owners but made by slaves from rum distilled by slaves and fruit grown by slaves. Bottoms up!” (“Where?” the wag next to us cried.)

Sal and Shea are oncea-month housemates.

Shea is a successful and salt lake city very handsome 32-year-old actor; he’s always in something, from Broadway to off-off-off. Sal, whose last for Q Salt Lake.indd 1 8/17/2010 2:15:00 PM name is Amminio – his parents were either clueless or just plain mean – comes from South Philadelphia via Harvard Law, and is 50.

Dismissing a lucrative career in corporate law For people of all in favor of various low-paying legal gigs for Next to Club Try-Angles, ages to hang out, the LGBT community, Sal had little savings.

Half Block from TRAX in the NEW Gayborhood! play pool, get on the He’d also learned from the bitter 25-year internet, play music experience of working with and for PIGs (Phenomenally Idiotic Gays) to detest much COFFEE BURGERS of our community. I teased him relentlessly SANDWICHES about his name and spent that weekend obSOUPS scurely singing, “Who killed Teddy Bear? Does SALADS APPETIZERS anybody care?”

BREAKFAST BarHarbor’s Planter’s Punch was obviously BRUNCH made in vats meant for storing crude oil.

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Sal and I held equally rigid but opposing positions on the subject of Planter’s Punch.

Saturday’s beach time consisted of more squabbling interrupted by comments about the Speedo-clad boy parade at the water’s edge. The words “rum,” “juice,” and “you’re such an asshole” formed the foundation of our debate. We finally agreed to use Quaker principles: we had to reach consensus on every ingredient and proportion.

Well, we followed the rules but didn’t act very Quakerly. There was far too much tasting and giggling, and Sal and I were already flying high by the time Dan and Sean came downstairs. Sal spent the whole dinner laughing wildly at anything anyone said, while I (I am told) simply passed out at the table.

Sal says everybody loved the punch, but I can’t remember the evening at all.

The words ‘rum,’ ‘juice,’ and ‘you’re such an asshole’ formed the foundation of our debate

Planter’s Punch This recipe makes enough for six drinks 1-cup dark rum (I prefer Havana Club Rum) ½-cup orange juice ½-cup pineapple juice ¼-cup unsweetened lime juice ¼-cup Orange Curacao (Sal’s idea) ¼-cup brandy (my idea; I like Azteca de Oro) Pour all ingredients into a pitcher. Let it blend and chill for a few hours. Then serve over a limited amount of ice.

(Note: Some people add grenadine; we say “yuck!” Some people stick foofy little fruit slices on the edge of the glass — slivers of orange or lime. We say, “Who wants a piece of orange going up a nostril?” I, for one, don’t like anyone or anything getting between me and my drinks.) Q Ed Sikov is the author of Dark Victory; The Life of Bette Davis and other books about films and filmmakers.

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Maybe if you show up to Püre with a JAM stamp you could get free admission no matter the time. Or if you show up to Edge the next night after venturing to Püre you get a free cocktail.

Regardless the incentive, I hope to see our community come closer together rather than push one another apart.

Basically, this isn’t San Diego where competitive bars work because the community is spread out and can support such a situation. This is Salt Lake City and we’re close like Cheers “where everybody knows your name” (well, to an extent, obviously). But it’s true. Utah has a large lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and many who go out are the same people that go out weekly.

Fall brings nicer weather and beautiful scenery.

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So what’s happening in this upcoming season?

Well, the obvious is Salt Lake City now has another Saturday night venue — Babylon. That’s right.

If you haven’t already heard (and I can’t imagine how you couldn’t have), Babylon has reopened and is already taking some patrons from other establishments.

However, I for one am getting sick of the ever-growing competitive nature of our nightlife spots. I understand that businesses are open (at the end of the day in both senses here) to make a profit, and to make a profit you must have a vast majority of our community frequenting and spending money. That said, ideally what I would like to see is more collaboration between these fine bars, clubs and lounges. We have enough people in this world who are “against us;” we cannot turn on each other for the mere sake of ego, profit or “he who dies with the most customers wins.”

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by Lynn Beltran

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OME OF THE MOST RECENT public health news in Salt Lake have been inspired by a case of hepatitis A discovered in an employee at the Quiznos restaurant at 30 E. Broadway (300 South).

Although the thought of hepatitis A in a restaurant may understandably elicit extreme amounts of fear and result in fewer “take out” meals, let’s take a moment to set the record straight on this incident, as well as the ongoing risk of hepatitis A in the community.

Hepatitis A is a viral infection that may cause acute illness of the liver. Unlike its family members hepatitis B and hepatitis C, both of which lead to chronic liver disease, hepatitis A is an acute infection — and yes, you may be vaccinated against it.

As an infectious disease, hepatitis A is fairly uncommon.

Symptoms generally include yellowing skin and eyes (known as jaundice), fatigue, vomiting and dark urine. Once someone is determined to be infected with hepatitis A, they receive a dose of immune globulin to help their body mount an immune response to the virus and receive supportive care and monitoring as well. The course of illness generally lasts a few weeks at which time the immune system is able to respond to and clear the infection. Again, this is not a chronic infection.

The catalyst for recent concern occurred when a former employee of the above-mentioned Quiznos restaurant became ill and tested positive for hepatitis A at a health clinic. Hepatitis A is a reportable disease by state law, therefore an investigation was initiated. Since Public Health determined that this individual had previously worked in a restaurant, public policy required that the restaurant be notified. After notification, food safety specialists work with the restaurant to make sure that any possible contaminated food is destroyed and the restaurant goes through an extensive cleaning and decontamination process. All employees are tested for infection and receive extensive education about proper food preparation. Any food worker found to be infected with hepatitis A may not return to

work until the infection has cleared; and diagnostic testing is required for clearance.

At this point, no additional cases of hepatitis A have been identified or linked to this individual case. Further, I believe a restaurant that has recently gone through this process is probably now one of the safest possible places to eat.

Since the infected individual was no longer employed at this restaurant, the exposure dates were limited and announced to the public.

The exposure dates occurred during the first week in August, and the Salt Lake Valley Health Department recommends that anyone who ate at Quiznos at 30 E. Broadway during this time receive the hepatitis A vaccine. You may contact your private medical provider for the vaccine or get it through the Salt Lake Valley Health Department.

This does not mean that this restaurant is tainted or dirty. An employee at any restaurant can unknowingly become infected with hepatitis A and put the public at risk during food preparation. Hepatitis A is generally spread through fecal oral contact. This can occur through having contact with animal feces, such as those of a dog, cat or other pet. It can also be transmitted during sexual activities such as rectal sex or “rimming.” Infected individuals can then transmit to household members and others through fomite transmission — by essentially not washing their hands after using the restroom.

Given what we know about hepatitis A infection and transmission, the Salt Lake Valley Health Department and the Centers for Disease Control and Transmission recommend the hepatitis A vaccine for the following at risk groups: • Men who have sex with Men • Food Service Workers • Drug Users • Animal research workers • Anyone who works with animals

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VIRGO (August 23 – September 22) In the constant and necessary negotiations of relationships, you can expect to hit a bump on something you thought you had tight agreement on. Don’t overreact. Just talk it out; keep it clean and open. Maybe agree to disagree.

As Jupiter backs into Pisces and bumps into Uranus, Venus will quincunx both, inspiring brilliant attempts at reconciliation and harmony.

Then Mars follows Venus, energizing those ideals, which might help – or could ruin the whole thing by being too pushy. Easy does it!

LIBRA (September 23 – October 22) Take a good hard look at your diet and exercise. Some adjustments are necessary on both scores. Maybe just a few less desserts, a few more reps. It doesn’t have to be anything dramatic, but in time the results could be!

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SCORPIO (October 23 – Nov. 21) Meditation and retreat should prove very harmonizing, but once you get relaxed, some of your darker dreams and fantasies can surface. You can handle that and more. It should make good creative inspiration.

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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, at www.starjack.com, and QScopes@qsaltlake.com.

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TAH’S NONPROFIT, GAY AND LESBIAN square dance club, the Temple Squares, will offer Beginning Mainstream Square Dance classes starting Sept. 10. Held each Friday night at the Columbus Community Center from 7–9 p.m.; all singles and couples are welcome to join the group and learn square dancing basics. No experience is encouraged. Dancers should wear comfortable clothing, and shoes and the Temple Squares will provide the music and the instruction.

“Gay square dancing is high energy dancing,” said Ross Lopton, caller for the Temple Squares.

“We welcome anyone interested in Modern Western Square Dance to give it a try. It’s not what you remember from junior high and definitely not your grandma’s square dancing!”

People of all races, religions, ages, gender identities and sexual orientations are welcome.

All varieties of music are used, and the beginning steps are easy to learn and necessary for learning more advanced steps.

“A great thing about our group is that it’s not necessary to bring a dance partner,” added Lopton.

For the last two years, Temple Squares have been recruiting at the Utah Pride Festival. Word of mouth and enthusiasm for the dance has grown the group to include lesbians, straight allies, past square dancing aficionados and newbies eager to learn the dance and participate

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in physical activity. It is also a great way to meet other active Salt Lake residents and make new friends.

Temple Squares is a member of the International Association of Gay Square Dance Clubs, the umbrella organization supporting gay and lesbian Modern Western Square Dance clubs in the United States, Canada and Japan.

The IAGSDC holds a square dance convention each year in a North American city.

The IAGSDC was formed in 1983 when straight callers decided they would not permit gay or lesbian couples to participate in square dancing.

The Gay Callers Association taught gays and

lesbians how to call square dancing so that gay clubs would have a person who knew and taught the standard dances to the community. Today, the IAGSDC holds a national conference and The Gay Callers Association sponsors a calling school at the annual convention. Q

The Columbus Center is located at 2498 S. 500 East, South Salt Lake City. For additional information including dance schedules and events, visit Temple Squares at www.templesquares.org or contact Ross Lopton at 801-309-6720, ross. lopton@gmail.com, or Roque Salas at 801-8963508, engrnfwb@gmail.com.

Goodtime Bowling League Scores 20

by Brad Di Iorio

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ELEBRATING ITS 20TH ANNIVERSARY, THE Salt Lake Goodtime Bowling League rolls into gay-friendly Bonwood Bowl with league play starting Sunday, Sept 12. Anyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, age or ability is invited to participate in this season’s bowling fun.

J Fraga is the newly-elected president of the league after many years of planning and serving as an officer.

“The Goodtime Bowling League is about camaraderie, fun and supporting nonprofit organizations,” said Fraga. “It is a fun way to give back to society and help various organizations with the money that Bonwood Bowl and the Goodtime League donates. I encourage everyone to join the league to have fun, from novice to seasoned player.”

Teams and players are encouraged to arrive 15 minutes before 7 p.m. each Sunday. Players who are not on a team are encouraged to arrive at 6 p.m. and register as an individual player. Each week, each player is required to pay a league fee of $11, and a one-time United States Bowling Congress membership of $19 is required before or on the day of opening season play. Miller states that the league fee is one of the lowest in the state.

“The unique thing about the league is it’s a charity league. All proceeds from bowling the 28 weeks go to charities the league votes on,” said Chad Miller, league secretary. “The owner of Bonwood Bowl, Dean White, has always made the league feel very welcome along with Chad Hall and his staff.”

Weekly raffles and holiday theme nights make for festive bowling during the season. The

end of the season banquet will be held at Club Try-Angles.

“As I start my ninth year bowling on the Goodtime League, I’ve had the opportunity to meet a lot of great people,” said Miller. “I can’t think of a better way to spend a couple of hours on a Sunday evening. Gene Gieber, owner of Try-Angles, has hosted our banquets for the past three years and has always made the extra effort to make sure it’s a great experience.”

This August, two bowlers from the league represented Utah at the 2010 Gay Games in Cologne, Germany. Larry Lee won a silver when added to a German team, while John Bennett did not medal but enjoyed his fifth Gay Games.

Both bowlers credit Goodtime as instrumental in improving their bowling skills and in making new friends.

“Thank you to Bonwood Bowl for allowing us to bowl free the other night and this will be my third or fourth year at Bonwood, but I did play up at the University when it first started over 20 years ago,” said John Bennett, remembering that it was the first year.

The league is also a member of the International Gay Bowling Organization, and will encourage league players to travel and participate in IGBO tournaments throughout the year. Q

Interested players are encouraged to e-mail signup@saltlakegoodtimes.com. For more information, visit saltlakegoodtimes.com or the league’s Facebook page. You may also call Cody Ellison at 801-856-9973. Bonwood Bowl is located at 2500 S. Main St., Salt Lake City and its website is bonwoodbowl.com. Information about IGBO tournaments can be found at igbo.org.

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OMMY,” MY MOTHER STARTED IN that patronizing tone she had developed into perfection. “It’s just such a shame.” (‘That you’re gay!’) “You’d make such a great father.” (‘But now you won’t!’)

That’s how my mother had reacted to my coming out 18 years ago ... oh, except for this initial question that she felt needed an answer: “Did somebody talk you into it?”

“No, of course not!” I replied, aghast. (‘Yes! This guy, that I have no attraction to by the way, asked me to be gay so I could be ridiculed, discriminated against, laughed at and possibly beaten to a pulp! So, yes mom, I was recruited!’)

Now, don’t get me wrong, my mother is a gem ... perhaps cloudy and not of the smoothest cut, but a gem nonetheless. I have always loved and appreciated my mother, and now that she’s pushing 70 years old — mostly because her side of the family has a history of Alzheimer’s, among other ailments — I am driven to tell her that there’s a very good possibly that I have a son.

A son named Derek, 19. An October baby, if memory serves.

Obviously this doesn’t make me a father since I don’t know with absolute certainty, nor have I seen the boy since just a few months after his birth. But my friends were convinced ... maybe still are convinced; they all said he was a spitting image. I couldn’t see it or wouldn’t — I mean he was a platinum blond, blue-eyed boy with kind of goofy looking ears — but what? That’s such a rarity?

However, I can’t argue the fact that the timing was suspicious — looking back, it’s

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I was about to turn 21 and I was still a virgin — in terms of both sexes. I ran with the heterosexual crowd ... because society had talked me into it, because my community had recruited me. And I was bound and determined to lose my virginity before my 21st birthday, so I went with a girl, first.

I had met her at my workplace; we were both CNAs on the night shift. I asked her on a date — it had gone smoothly, but inno-

‘Dammit, that kind of pleasure deserves a baby! And with a gay guy.’ cently — and we started innocently hanging out more and more. One night, after only a few weeks, a date we were on had ended awkwardly. We were at a house party and we had drank too many Seagram’s wine coolers. I knew I had had only a few more days, so I was anxious to get my willy wet — well, as much as a straight-deficient, gay 20-year-old virgin who’s about to have sex with a girl could be anxious. We found a vacant bedroom and I Cryptogram: You can’t comment on every offensive thing people do. I have enough trouble commenting on the offensive things I do.

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honor ro preceded to make a fool of myself; I removed her shirt without incident, but the bra was a mighty adversary — even when I found a pair of scissors. Finally, she told me, with intense conviction, just to leave it on.

Needless to say, I was thankful she had removed her own pants — they were button fly jeans, mind you! Eventually, like an eternity, I had finally found my way into her.

The act of screwing had felt weird; I felt, and probably looked like a baby seal milking its mother. So, as much as a straight-deficient, gay 20-year-old virgin who’s having sex with a girl can get anxious, I had an orgasm so ultra-embarrassingly fast that I couldn’t pull completely out in time.

I’m not sure if, at that exact moment, she knew that it had happened, but I have learned over the years that women have an uncanny intuition. She had probably thought to herself, after ordering me off her, “Dammit, that kind of pleasure deserves a baby! And with a gay guy.”

So, inevitably we had broken up a week later without any further embarrassing “baby seal milking” incidents. But because we had continued to work together, we sort of became friends. One night after our shift, she asked me out for a drink. I complied. Over a couple of weak Screwdrivers she told me that she was pregnant. Talk about ‘deer-inheadlights.’ Well, for a gay guy it’s more like ‘penis-size-in-spotlight.’ However, she was fast to say the baby was not mine.

Once my girl friends had explained ‘gestation period’ to me, it seemed well within the realm of possibility that the baby was actually mine. So, though the mother-to-be continued to deny it, and because she never talked about, nor ended up marrying the “father,” I insisted on helping her out. After she had learned she was going to have a boy, I went gay-bonkers on clothes and toy shopping for the little tyke. Then when Derek was born, I’d gladly go see him time-to-time, I’d take him and his mother out to dinner and to the zoo. It seemed so surreal.

But then I came out of the closet because, at the same time that I was leading pseudo”normal” heterosexual life, I was also having sex with guys. It somehow lead to seeing less and less of Derek and his mother, who one day finally quit her CNA job. That’s as far back as I remember, I don’t know exactly how we lost touch.

I wish we hadn’t. They had been great times! Times I miss, so much so that about 10 years ago, I seriously considered adopting a child. But that’s a story for another time.

I know in my heart it doesn’t matter if the truth is that Derek isn’t mine, I just wish that I had continued watching him grow up; to have nurtured him; to have been his baseballcatching buddy; to have been his bike-riding safety net; to be his friend. Maybe my mother could also have witnessed some of my fathership. Q

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