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By Seth Bracken

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HEN I FIRST TOLD MY family I was gay, I expected to feel elated. I expected the weight of a thousand secrets to be lifted from my shoulders. I needed to feel that liberation.

When I first told my family I was gay, I felt terrified and alone. Coming out of the closet was one of the most horrific experiences I have ever gone through. Worse than being robbed and held at gunpoint while the assailants told me exactly how they wanted to kill me and where they would shoot me first. Worse than having my big toenail ripped out without anesthesia in a dirty South American hospital. You see, when I came out to my family I had to relive all of the shame and guilt I felt for more than 20 years. I was alone and vulnerable.

But perhaps the most devastating part of the whole process was that I had to do it over and over again. I had to decide who I would tell. I told my parents, but I also had to call my older brothers and let them know individually. Next, I had to tell my grandma, and then my aunts. Then I told my high school friends. But I never told my coworkers.

I kept that part of my life a secret, because at the time, I worked for the Mormon church. I was working for the Deseret News. I was fraternizing with the enemy. I had to sit through the meetings where the management began each discussion with a prayer. I walked the halls lined with photos of the Mormon general authorities every day.

I signed the statement that said I would espouse and reflect the values of the Mormon church in all my work duties.

However, I did my best to work from behind the scenes. In editorial meetings I emphasized the importance of giving the Pride Parade good play in the paper and online. I monitored the comment boards and removed the most egregious attacks against gay people. I tried to give the Affirmation

If the editors at the Mormon-owned paper get it, why can’t the Utah legislature? stories a better spot on the website than the Evergreen stories. But there was only so much I could do while working for the Mormons.

I left the Deseret News because I knew I would never feel comfortable working for a company that would very likely fire me, lay me off and pass me over for a promotion or a raise just because I am gay.

The anti-discrimination laws that passed in 11 Utah municipalities would not have changed that

uncomfortable pressure to conform and fear to expose my sexuality to my coworkers. Even with the ordinance, the discrimination still existed. I would never have felt comfortable bringing a boyfriend to a Christmas dinner. I would never have felt comfortable talking about my personal life at work. The prayers at the beginning of the meetings and the editorials making strong anti-gay statements made sure of that.

But that’s not all that these laws are about. The ordinance opened up conversations, even at the Deseret News about treating everyone fairly. I even heard an ultra-conservative editor, who supported Rand Paul and Sarah Palin, admit that gay people probably shouldn’t get fired if they are doing their job. If the editors at the Mormon-owned paper get it, why can’t the Utah legislature? Even if the Republicans continue to stall a statewide bill year after year, I am still encouraged by the discussion. Sen. Ben McAdams summed it up in a hearing in the Senate by saying, “The symbolism of this bill goes beyond the protections it offers in housing and employment. ... Since the passage of the Salt Lake City ordinances in November of 2009, healing conversations have taken place in city council chambers throughout Utah. Healing conversations have taken place around the dinner table, at family reunions and among neighbors and friends.”

Hopefully some of these essential conversations will eventually reach our elected leaders and the proposed ordinances will be passed. Here’s to next year and more healing conversations. Q

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NATIONAL NEWS

Quips & Quotes

BY REX WOCKNER

Obama: Sexual-orientation classifications need more scrutiny President Barack Obama and the U.S. Justice Department announced Feb. 23 that they no longer will defend the Defense of Marriage Act in various ongoing lawsuits against the ban on federal recognition of states’ samesex marriages because the ban is unconstitutional.

“After careful consideration, including a review of my recommendation, the President has concluded that given a number of factors, including a documented history of discrimination, classifications based on sexual orientation should be subject to a more heightened standard of scrutiny,”wrote Attorney General Eric Holder. “The President has also concluded that Section 3 of DOMA, as applied to legally married same-sex couples, fails to meet that standard and is therefore unconstitutional. Given that conclusion, the President has instructed the Department not to defend the statute in such cases. I fully concur with the President’s determination.”

The section of DOMA that the government is abandoning reads: “In determining the meaning of any Act of Congress, or of any ruling, regulation, or interpretation of the various administrative bureaus and agencies of the United States, the word ‘marriage’ means only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife, and the word ‘spouse’ refers only to a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife.”

A second part of DOMA purports to give the 50 states cover to refuse to recognize other states’ same-sex marriages.

Holder said that the Justice Department’s defenses of DOMA Section 3 up until this point occurred in federal circuits where binding precedents “hold that laws singling out people based on sexual orientation, as DOMA does, are constitutional if there is a rational basis for their enactment.”

Rational basis is a less-demanding standard of legal review than heightened scrutiny.

But “Section 3 of DOMA has now been challenged in the Second Circuit ... which has no established or binding standard for how laws concerning sexual orientation should be treated,” Holder said. “In these cases, the Administration faces for the first time the question of whether laws regarding sexual orientation are subject to the more permissive standard of review or whether a more rigorous standard, under which laws targeting minority groups with a history of discrimination are viewed with suspicion by the courts, should apply.”

Faced with that situation, the administration concluded that “classifications based on sexual orientation should be subject to a more heightened standard of scrutiny,” Holder said. “(DOMA) fails to meet that standard and is therefore unconstitutional.”

He said that in addition to not defending Section 3 of DOMA in the 2nd Circuit, the

government also takes the position that, despite precedents to the contrary, the heightened standard of review should apply to Section 3 in any circuit where DOMA lawsuits are ongoing or occur. Accordingly, the government will cease its defense of Section 3 everywhere.

Holder informed Congress of his and Obama’s decision, so that any members of Congress who may wish to take up the defense of DOMA themselves know that it now is up to them to do so.

“Much of the legal landscape has changed in the 15 years since Congress passed DOMA,” Holder said in conclusion. “The Supreme Court has ruled that laws criminalizing homosexual conduct are unconstitutional. Congress has repealed the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy. Several lower courts have ruled DOMA itself to be unconstitutional. ... (T)his Administration will no longer assert its constitutionality in court.”

Although the government’s decision to abandon its defense of DOMA is huge news, the guts of the decision are even bigger news — that discrimination based on sexual orientation should be legally subject to heightened scrutiny by courts. When governments treat a particular group of people differently in any way, it becomes much more difficult for that differential treatment to survive legal review if based on a characteristic the people share (sexual orientation in this case) that triggers heightened scrutiny in court.

Heightened scrutiny already exists in regard to governmental treatment based on such things as race and gender.

Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese called the day’s developments “monumental.”

Freedom to Marry called them “a momentous step forward.”

“This is a monumental turning point in the history of the quest for equality for lesbian, gay and bisexual people,” echoed Lambda Legal’s legal director, Jon Davidson. “The president and the attorney general recognized today what we have been saying in court since the day we opened our doors: Discriminating against people on the basis of sexual orientation should be presumed to be unconstitutional, and unconstitutional laws should not be defended.”

“We are proud of our part in the precedentsetting cases leading to today’s announcement,” Davidson continued. “Both Romer v.

Evans and Lawrence v. Texas are landmark U.S. Supreme Court cases litigated by Lambda Legal that established among other things that the equal protection guarantee in the federal Constitution applies to gay people. The attorney general expressly relied on these cases in his letter to Congress explaining why laws discriminating against people based on their sexual orientation are suspect.”

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I refuse to accept that religious liberty is incompatible with protection of gay and transgender people in their home and on the job.”

— Sen. Ben McAdams, D-Salt Lake City, in a Senate hearing

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This is something that we’re going to continue to debate, and I personally am going to continue to wrestle with going forward.”

— President Barack Obama concerning his stance on gay marriage

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With all of the problems facing our country right now, I’m surprised that he woke up this morning and decided that he wanted to pick this battle. This is a fight worth fighting and I’m willing to fight it everyday with him if he wants.”

— Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, told the Deseret News when asked about Obama’s decision to stop defending DOMA

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Lawrence v. Texas effectively struck down all remaining U.S. bans on gay sex. Romer v. Evans struck down a Colorado state constitutional amendment that banned enactment of gay rights laws in the state. The Supreme Court said the Colorado amendment was based solely on anti-gay “animus” and that states cannot zero in on something like sexual orientation and then deny protection “across the board” to the group of people that shares the trait.

“The resulting disqualification of a class of persons from the right to seek specific protection from the law is unprecedented in our jurisprudence,” the court declared. The legal director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, Shannon Minter, called Holder and Obama’s announcement “history-changing.”

“The president and the attorney general were absolutely correct to conclude that there can be no ‘reasonable defense’ of a law intended only to disadvantage and harm some families, while helping none,” Minter said.

“The president and the attorney general were also right to conclude that because LGBT people have suffered a long history of discrimination in this country, laws that target people based on their sexual orientation are highly likely to be based on prejudice and should be presumptively considered unconstitutional.”

It hurts. I may be different, but I’m still human and for them to treat me like that is ridiculous.”

— Luke Herbert, 15, told Orlando News 13 after being bullied by his teacher at school

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Historically (pornography) has been age-restricted at a point of sale that’s a brick-andmortar store. For us to assume that since it’s on the Internet that we should ignore it is wrong.”

— Rep. Jim Matheson told the Deseret News on his reasoning to impose a 25 percent tax on Internet porn sites

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He did when we had the June Pride reception at the White House and he was recognizing a few of the openly gay appointees in the room. He was looking for me and he said, ‘She is here somewhere. She is vertically challenged.’”

— Nancy Sutley, chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality reminiscing with The Bay Area Reporter about President Obama teasing her 5-foot stature

American Foundation for Equal Rights lawyers Ted Olson and David Boies

Olson & Boies: Let Calif. gays marry right now American Foundation for Equal Rights lawyers Ted Olson and David Boies filed a motion with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Feb. 23 asking that it immediately lift its order preventing same-sex marriages in California.

That order, issued in August 2010, temporarily blocked an injunction from U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker that barred further enforcement of Proposition 8.

Walker issued the injunction after finding that Prop 8, via which voters amended the state constitution in 2008 to re-ban samesex marriage, violates the U.S. Constitution.

“The stay was originally ordered with the understanding that the 9th Circuit would rule swiftly on the case before it,” said Olson. “Now that the issue of the (Prop 8) proponents’ standing to appeal has been referred (by the 9th Circuit) for analysis by the California Supreme Court, substantial additional, indefinite and unanticipated delays lie ahead.

It’s unreasonable and decidedly unjust to expect California’s gay and lesbian couples to put their lives on hold and suffer daily discrimination as second-class citizens while their U.S. District Court victory is debated further.”

The huge delay was introduced into the case Feb. 16 when the California Supreme Court agreed to answer a question sent to it by the 9th Circuit.

The federal court asked the state court if

Maryland Senate passes same-sex marriage bill Maryland’s Senate passed a bill to legalize same-sex marriage Feb. 24. The vote was 25–21.

“This is a historic and proud moment in Maryland’s history,” said lead sponsor Sen. Rob Garagiola. “I am ... confident that the Free State will realize full marriage equality in 2011.”

The bill now is being debated in the House of Delegates, where the vote could be close.

Gov. Martin O’Malley has vowed to sign the bill if it arrives on his desk.

Maryland has a system similar to the

the people who put Prop 8 on the ballot have any legal right, under California law, to be in court arguing to overturn Walker’s decision.

The California Supreme Court’s answer would be taken into consideration by the 9th Circuit judges when they decide whether to grant the Prop 8 supporters federal “standing” to appeal. Those proponents need standing because everyone who was sued in the federal Prop 8 case, including California’s governor and attorney general, has refused to defend Prop 8.

The problem in all this, for Olson, Boies and AFER, is that in agreeing to answer the 9th Circuit’s question, the California Supreme Court indicated that it won’t even hear oral arguments on the issue until September at the earliest. AFER also has filed documents asking the California Supreme Court to speed up its process for answering the question.

If the Prop 8 supporters ultimately are found to have no standing to appeal Walker’s ruling, then the 9th Circuit won’t hear the case. That would most likely allow Walker’s ruling to take effect and same-sex couples to marry again in California.

The federal standing question, however, could be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. So could a decision by the 9th Circuit to grant Olson and Boies’ request that it lift the stay on Walker’s injunction.

It has been 207 days since Prop 8 was found to violate the U.S. Constitution — and yet not one same-sex couple has been allowed to marry in California in those 207 days because of actions by 9th Circuit judges.

“After a full trial, the U.S. District Court ruled unequivocally that Proposition 8 violates the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection under the law and harms thousands of gay and lesbian couples and their families,” said AFER Board President Chad Griffin. “While the courts determine procedural questions, gay and lesbian families will continue to suffer. Life is not eternal — sometimes it is tragically short — and courts should not act as if it were otherwise. Today we are requesting the California Supreme Court to quickly resolve the issue of standing, and the 9th Circuit to allow marriages to resume.” one that was used in Maine to overturn the Legislature’s legalization of same-sex marriage there in 2009.

If enough voter signatures are collected, a recently passed law can be subjected to a voter referendum and canceled out. The earliest that such a measure could appear on a Maryland ballot is November 2012.

Same-sex marriage is legal in five states — Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont — and Washington, D.C. Internationally, it is legal in Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden and Mexico (where samesex marriages are allowed only in the capital city but are recognized nationwide).

Hawaii governor signs civil-union law

Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie signed the civil-union bill into law Feb. 23, though it won’t come into effect for 10 more months.

The law grants same-sex couples all the state-level rights and obligations that married people have.

“This signing today of this measure says to all the world that ... everyone is a brother or a sister here in paradise,” Abercrombie said.

“Civil unions respect our diversity, protect people’s privacy, and reinforce our core values of equality and aloha. ... If there is anything that the word aloha means, it’s that our diversity defines us rather than divides us.”

Video of the signing can be viewed at tinyurl. com/hi-sign.

Six other states have laws like Hawaii’s: California, Illinois, Nevada, New Jersey, Oregon and WashHawaii Governor Neil ington.

Five states Abercrombie — Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont — and Washington, D.C., let gay couples marry. Five states have gay union laws that extend some but not all rights of marriage: Colorado, Hawaii (an older law), Maine, Maryland and Wisconsin. Four states do not let gay couples marry but recognize them as married if they get married somewhere else: Maryland, New Mexico, New York and Rhode Island.

In California, same-sex marriage was legal from June to November 2008, when voters amended the state constitution via Proposition 8 to put a stop to it. The couples who married then are still legally married, as are other same-sex couples who live in California and got married anywhere in the world before Prop 8 passed. Gay couples who married somewhere else after Prop 8 passed, or who marry elsewhere in the future, receive every state-level right and obligation of marriage in California except for the legal right to call their marriage a “marriage” when they are in California.

They are not recognized under the state’s domestic partnership law, but rather are married couples who are denied use of the word “marriage.”

Eleven other nations allow same-sex couples to marry — Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden and Mexico (where same-sex marriages are allowed only in the capital city but are recognized nationwide). Numerous other nations have same-sex civil-union laws that extend some or all marriage rights and obligations.

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LOC AL NEWS

All gay-related bills in Utah Legislature dead

By Seth Bracken

After a last-resort effort to move an antidiscrimination bill out of the Senate rules committee failed, all gay-rights legislation in the Utah legislature is essentially dead.

On Monday, Sen. Ben McAdams made a motion with the full Senate to move the anti-discrimination bill out of the rules committee. The motion failed in a 21 to 7 vote.

“This legislation is important because discrimination is real,” McAdams said.

“While Utah is a warm and welcoming community that is not how we are perceived nationally.”

Sen. Margaret Dayton, R-Orem, the chairwoman of the rules committee, objected to moving the bill forward for debate.

“We have a process here where people can create bills and then they are sifted.

We will not hear every bill,” Dayton said.

“There doesn’t seem to be the interest in rules committee to lift it out.”

Sen. Gene Davis, D-Salt Lake, objected to Dayton’s assertion.

“Sifting should not be done in a manner that stops or stifles public comment on issues of our day.”

The bill has been stuck in the rules committee since the beginning of the session and has not been moved for public debate despite recent polling data that shows roughly two-thirds of Utahns support the concept of the measure.

Sen. Ross Romero, D-Salt Lake City, said he feels that too often minority party bills are stifled and not allowed to progress in the Senate.

“We recognize that we don’t always have the numbers to move our bills forward. But we’d like to think that our bills will be given fair consideration,” Romero said.

Dayton disagreed with the allegations that she, and other Republicans, would stop Democratic bills from advancing.

“The accusation that the rules committee is not treating minority bills fairly, I think is questionable,” Dayton said.

Several legislators objected to the bill because they said there was no data shown to indicate a non-discrimination act was necessary. However, at the beginning of the session, Equality Utah delivered a report to each legislator that detailed discrimination in Utah based on a year-long survey.

The survey found that 44 percent of gay people in Utah had been fired or denied a job because of their sexual orientation.

That percentage jumped to 67 percent of transgender Utahns.

In addition to the non-discrimination bill being stuck in the rules committee, the other bills that were seen as pro-gay rights are also very unlikely to move forward in the legislature.

A bill that would have allowed second parent adoptions for unmarried couples, including gay and lesbian couples, went to a committee hearing, where it was tabled and never moved again. Another bill that would have allowed same-sex partners to file suits in the case of a wrongful death never moved to committee.

However, it hasn’t been all bad news

from the Utah legislature for gay rights.

Rep. LaVar Christensen, R-Draper, proposed three different anti-gay bills at the beginning of the legislature, and all three bills were later pulled.

“The rejection of those bills had everything to do with a well-formed coalition of supporters that showed that those bills were not only bad for the gay community, but all Utahns,” said Brandie Balken, executive director of Equality Utah.

Perhaps the most controversial of the three bills was one that would have allowed religion to be a valid defense against discrimination charges. This would have effectively gutted the 11 ordinances already passed in Utah municipalities protecting

Bill that requires ‘alleged’ rapists to be tested for HIV passes House

By Seth Bracken

Victims of sexual assault could request their alleged attackers be tested for HIV under a new bill that has cleared the Utah House. This request would happen before a conviction, based only on probable-cause evidence presented to a judge.

House Bill 324 passed with a 50–12 vote on Friday with no debate. The sponsor of the bill, Richard Greenwood, R-Roy, said the purpose of the bill is to increase the rate at which sexual offenses are reported.

The bill is also designed to help victims of sexual assault to avoid unnecessarily taking HIV-preventive drugs after they might have been exposed to the virus.

The bill would allow the victim of an alleged sexual abuse to request that the accused offender be tested for HIV. If probable cause can be shown, a judge can require the alleged offender to be tested for HIV and the result would be shared with the victim.

“I think the benefit of this piece of legislation ... is it is going to take a lot of women who have been sexually assaulted and who have been raped to come forward and report the rape,” Greenwood said.

However, the bill has large and basic constitutional issues, said Brian Barnard, a Utah civil rights lawyer.

“Under our current system of law you cannot impose that kind of test before someone is convicted,” Barnard said. “It’s an invasion of privacy. You’re taking the information of what’s in someone’s blood without their consent and before they’re convicted of any crime.”

When people are arrested on suspicion of committing a crime, the police can perform a variety of identification tasks such as fingerprinting and mug shots. However, that is done to identify someone later if that person is to somehow escape custody, Barnard said. This bill would circumvent the judicial process and punish someone and invade their privacy before anyone is convicted of a crime, Barnard said.

“If this bill is challenged in court, it will

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not hold up to scrutiny,” Barnard said.

Rep. Greenwood defended his bill and emphasized that the alleged offenders would only be required to be tested if probable cause was shown to a judge.

“Each bill crafted goes through tight legal scrutiny and our legal council did not find any significant constitutional issues with this bill,” he said.

Marina Lowe, on the Legislative and Policy Council with the ACLU of Utah, said her organization is strongly opposed to the bill.

“This is a highly invasive search of an individual,” she said. “It’s seeking highly sensitive information, and not only providing it to the law enforcement, but also providing it to a third party; or essentially, the public.”

Finding out the HIV status of an attacker is designed to help a victim make an informed decision about whether or not to seek immediate treatment for HIV, Greenwood said. However, even the sponsor of the bill acknowledged that there is a potential problem with the effectiveness of testing attackers.

After victims report a rape, they are treated for some of the most common sexually transmitted diseases, including Chlamydia and gonorrhea, said Susan Chasson, the sexual assault nurse examiner coordinator for the Utah Coalition against Sexual Assault.

The routine treatments also include a month-long anti-viral routine that sometimes may have many adverse side effects including nausea, vomiting and fatigue, Chasson said. For the routine to be effective, it must begin within three days of the exposure to the virus, she said.

“Most people feel pretty miserable for the month they’re taking these medications,” Chasson said.

However, even if an offender tests negative for HIV, a six-month window exists before anti-body HIV tests are considered 99.9 percent accurate, said Nicholas Rupp, the public information specialist for the Salt Lake Valley Health Department. This

gay Utahns from discrimination.

Another bill proposed, and later pulled,

by Christensen said that Utah must act only to preserve a family with a mother, father and children. The last proposed bill would have voided all contracts that were against public policy. That could have been interpreted to mean that wills and other guardianship contracts between same-sex couples would have been voided, Balken said.

Christensen said in a statement that all three bills were pulled because they were too important to rush. He said he wanted more time for the bills to be discussed. He did not return phone calls or e-mails made

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means that even if the offender tests negative for HIV, the possibility still exists that he or she is infected and could spread the virus, even if the results did not appear on a test, Rupp said.

Even if the attacker tests negative for HIV, it is still possible that the victim was exposed to the virus and should continue to take the medications and be tested after six months, Rupp said.

“We would advise everyone to always err on the side of caution,” Rupp said.

Lowe also questions whether this bill would accomplish what it is trying to do.

She said the bill could have adverse unintended consequences.

“Just because a victim of sexual assault thinks a defendant is guilty, doesn’t actually mean that person is,” Lowe said. “If someone tests negative, and is later found to be innocent. The victim could have chosen to not take the medication while the real perpetrator is positive. This scenario could result in the unnecessary infection of a victim.”

However, the objections are not unanimous from all representatives of the Salt Lake Valley Health Department. The HIV and STD Program Manager, Lynn Beltran, said patients should be able to make an informed decision about whether or not to take the HIV-prevention medications.

“The immediacy of the information is the issue here, not the HIV window period,” Beltran said. “It is not a reason to stop moving forward and testing an offender.

While there are some outliers, the tests are usually very accurate.”

The anti-body tests are up to 95 percent accurate after only 30 days, Beltran said.

And because taking the medication can have adverse side effects, people should be able to make an informed decision when deciding to take the medication, she said.

The sponsor of the bill agreed that the bill would not provide the victim with a doubtless knowledge about their attacker’s HIV status.

“While I know there is an issue with the tests, the percentages would still be on the side of the victim,” Greenwood said. “It’s all about knowing whether the attacker had the virus or not. That’s all that matters.” Q

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Gov. Herbert wins award for opposing civil unions Gov. Gary Herbert received the annual United Families Utah award for his opposition to civil unions. The conservative group presented Herbert the award in his office last week.

The so-called “Champion of the Family” award is given each year to someone who supports a conservative viewpoint of families and family structure. In order to earn this award, apparently all Herbert had to do was denounce civil unions.

In 2009, Herbert strayed from the lead of former Gov. Jon Huntsman and announced his opposition to civil unions. Herbert said he does not support gay unions and he has continued to oppose gay-rights legislation since he took over the governorship when Huntsman left to be the ambassador to China. Herbert has maintained an annual social at the Governor’s Mansion with Utah Log Cabin Republicans, a gay conservative group, started by Huntsman.

Herbert thanked the group for the award and a painting of a nuclear family.

“In our zeal to promote the ideal, we cannot overlook the vast majority that do not have an ideal family situation,” Herbert noted. “We need to be careful not to exclude others.”

Herbert related that his own parents were divorced, but he loved both his father

and his stepfather.

UFU is a chapter of United Families International, an organization registered in Utah and headquartered in Arizona. Phil Marriott, of Provo, is the board chairman and the group’s registered agent. Salt Lake photographer Laura Bunker is the local chapter director.

The group opposed the second-parent adoptions bill that was killed early in the session. The bill would have allowed a biological parent to designate another person to adopt their child, even if the couple were not married.

The group posted on their website about the adoption bill, “The passage of this bill would completely change the boundaries of marriage and family in Utah.”

In a manual about family and sexual orientation, the group states, “Tolerance toward sexual orientation requires the elevation of dangerous sexual practices to a place equal to traditional monogamous heterosexual norms.

“United Families International believes that gender confusion has a devastating effect on individuals and their ability to lead healthy, productive lives and to form stable nuclear families.”

Past recipients of the award include Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

Utah-based web hosting company pulls anti-gay website A Utah-based web-hosting company temporarily removed an anti-gay website that blamed the recent New Zealand earthquake on homosexuals. Visitors to the site ChristchurchQuake.net will now only see “The website you were trying to reach is temporarily unavailable. Please check back soon.

If you are the owner of this website, please log in for additional information or contact us as soon as possible.”

The host company, Bluehost.com, received thousands of e-mails and letters of complaint about the website, according to an anonymous source from the company who spoke to QueerToday.com.

The website blamed the earthquake, which killed 147 people and displaced thousands of others, squarely on the shoulders of the gays. The website pointed out that

the earthquake occurred on the same day the Christchurch gay ski week was about to kick-off.

The site had the following warning for Christchurch citizens: “Do you really want to tempt fate and risk another quake? The morning of the Christchurch earthquake was the opening of ‘Gay Ski Week.’ The highlight of the week was a party featuring two of NZ’s ugliest and butchest lesbians as the main event in Queenstown.”

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Former SUU Pride Club leader and Utah Stonewall Democrats elect new leader founder kills self during standoff

By Michael Aaron

Cedar City police say a recent breakup led former Southern Utah University Pride Club leader and founding member Evan Wilcock to end his life after a three-hour standoff with law enforcement negotiators.

Wilcock’s father called police at 3:30

Evan Wilcock p.m., Tuesday. He said Evan drove to a “secret camp spot” in Right Hand Canyon.

The spot was a special place Evan once shared with a “significant other,” according to Cedar City Police Dept. Information Officer Lt. Keith Millett.

Police responded and spiked Wilcock’s car as he was coming down the canyon. His car crashed into an Iron County Sheriff’s vehicle and police negotiators surrounded Wilcock’s car. Police also barricaded three city blocks near the incident.

Wilcock’s rifle went off around 10 p.m., striking him near the side of his stomach.

He was taken to Valley View Medical Center where he died of his wounds.

Wilcock was a former radio host on SUU’s Power 91 radio station, a “quirky waiter” and a manager at the Convergys call center in Cedar City.

Last October, Iron County Today wrote a story on the suicides of six teenage boys tormented by their peers for their homosexuality. Wilcock was quoted as saying he “honestly and truly thought he was the only gay man on the planet” as he grew up in Cedar City.

“In Southern Utah there wasn’t a lot of talking about it back then ... you didn’t ‘come out’ out of fear,” Wilcock told the paper. “There were no ‘out’ role models in the 80s, that I had heard of, no celebrities, or anything that I had heard of living here in Cedar City, and I really thought that I was the only one in the world, and I was terrified.”

Wilcock told those struggling in high school that life doesn’t begin until after high school.

“Just hang in,” Wilcock said. “It does get better,” Wilcock was quoted as saying.

“Sure wish he had taken his own advice,” Carin Batcho-Miller wrote on the wall of a Facebook memorial page’s (http://on.fb. me/fsMv6c) set up for friends and family to share stories and their grief of his passing.

“You are loved by so many. From our days at North Elementary, “ wrote Mindy Benson, “to college days where you taught us all to be more accepting, campaigned for student rights, started the gender blender, which you so brilliantly performed at, wore your tiara in the parade, and basically ruled student life at college! You walked away with a T-bird Award to prove it. You were a favorite of everybody and loved by so many.”

Wilcock was 40 years old at the time of his death.

Benjamin King Smith, president of the SUU Queer-Straight Alliance — the new name for the SUU Pride Club, said the group had counselors from the school’s Counseling and Psychological Services available at their meeting Wednesday night after members heard of the incident.

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The Utah chapter of the Stonewall Democrats has elected a new board chair. Todd Bennett took over the helm in January as the organization helped to push for progay rights legislation, and tried to stop some of the anti-gay bills in the Utah Legislature.

The Stonewall Democrats is a political caucus of the state and county Democratic Party.

“We are an all-volunteer orTodd Bennett ganization to get fair-minded candidates elected,” Bennett said. “We work with other political action groups, such as Equality Utah, to help advance gay rights.”

The Stonewall Democrats will be hosting an event to sum up all the events from the Utah Legislature on Saturday, March 26 at 4 p.m. at the Cottonwood Market Street Grill, 6580 S. 2985 East. The event will run for about two hours and appetizers and drinks will be served. Four Democratic legislators will attend as well as the Stonewall

Democrat leadership. Everyone is invited to attend. You do not have to be involved with the caucus. The event is being called, “Oh no they didn’t!” While the event is free, there is a suggested $20 donation.

“This is a great opportunity to catch up on all the issues, not just LGBT issues,” Bennett said. “People should go to socialize and learn how to get involved with politics.”

The Stonewall Democrats meet three or four times a year to keep the members informed and help plan some of the actions the caucus plans to take. And every second Saturday of the month the caucus meets at 10 a.m. at the Utah Pride Center. However, this location will change when the new Utah Democratic Party Headquarters are finished. The group also participates in state and county delegate meetings to help keep fair-minded candidates on the ballot, Bennett said.

Bennett has been a volunteer for the Stonewall Democrats for about three years. Before serving as the board chair, he also served for a time on the Utah Pride Center board.

“I plan to keep the legacy of Nikki Boyer, our previous chair,” Bennett said.

“She did such a great job and we hope to keep it going.”

New Utah volunteer site launches A new volunteer conglomerate website based in Utah, UtahVolunteers.org, will allow anyone to post volunteer opportunities, with one exception. No posts are accepted from organizations that discriminate against any group of people.

Utah Volunteers is dedicated to promoting equality for everyone, said Robert Henline, the managing director of the Utah Volunteers and a QSaltLake columnist.

“I believe that equality is an integral component of a free society and I choose to put my efforts into helping organizations that share that basic value,” Henline said.

While he admits there are plenty of helpful organizations that have some discriminatory policies, Henline said he would not donate his time to those organizations.

In addition to focusing on organizations that do not discriminate, the new website is designed to help organizations that do not have large budgets and are not able to advertise for volunteers, Henline said.

“We wanted to create an organization to help the smaller organizations,” Henline said. “We wanted to create an opportunity for those that don’t have all the resources to find volunteers.”

Utah Volunteers is in no way associated with the Utah Commission on Volunteers, he said. The site is specifically designed for smaller organizations.

“We’re not trying to target United Way here,” Henline said.

Registration is extremely simple for those that are looking for volunteers and for those looking to lend a hand. The registration process to post a volunteer opportunity is clearly labeled and takes only a matter of minutes. After a post is submitted it will be reviewed to ensure it adheres to the standards outlined. Provided the post follows all the guidelines, it will show up on the site with little delay. The site will help sort all of the possible volunteer opportunities by location, activity type and organization.

“I’ve found it best to keep it simple,” Henline, who builds volunteer database sites for a living, said. “With today’s technology we can put huge amounts of information on the site. But I like to keep it simple.”

To ensure that no organizations that discriminate are included on the site, a validation check will be performed, Henline said. This is also designed to ensure that no fraudulent or dishonest organizations are allowed to post on the site.

The site has only been live for about a week, and participation is slowly growing, Henline said. There is a need for volunteers and there are many people looking for an opportunity to help, he said. This site is designed to pair those groups of people together.

“We want to bridge the gap of people who need volunteers, and people who want to volunteer,” Henline said.

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A normal traffic stop lasts no more than 10 or 15 minutes. Especially a routine stop because of a faulty taillight. However, that was not the experience for John Smith (name has been changed).

“Everything was going fine and normal until the officer took my information back to his car, where he pulled my records,” Smith said about the incident, which occurred in 2003.

The officer would have seen on his records that Smith used to have a different first name. And a different gender. He was not born a biological man and his old name was obviously female.

“That’s where the mistreatment began,” Smith said. “He grilled me. I was polite and courteous. He was rude and abrasive. But the mistreatment didn’t start until he had found my records.”

Smith said he was delayed more than hour for a faulty taillight. He did not have any reason to be detained. There were no warrants for arrest or any other reason for the officer to suspect him of wrongdoing.

“I didn’t file any complaint with the police,” Smith said. “I just want to get to work and go home without being bothered.

I don’t want to expose myself to more possible mistreatment or prejudice,” he said.

Smith’s experience is far too common, said Christopher Scuderi, executive director of Transgender Education Advocates of Utah (TEA). This is why he, along with his wife, Teinamarrie Scuderi, associate director of TEA of Utah, are working closely with the Unified Police Department (UPD) to develop a training video for law enforcement. While the video is still in the scripting phase, Christopher and Teinamarrie have high hopes for the training.

“The video is essentially Trans 101,” Christopher said. “It will cover everything from how to handle routine traffic stops to where to place people that are transgender when they are arrested.”

The video is being produced in close association with the UPD, whose representatives have been extremely receptive to TEA of Utah.

“Everyone at UPD has been great,” Teinamarrie said. “We don’t want to paint anyone in a bad light. We just want to help in any education opportunity possible.”

“The video will hopefully be out by this summer, but might take a little longer than that,” Christopher said.

“When the video is released it will hit the ground running,” he said. “Eventually all police officers in the state will receive the training, and all new members will too.”

The UPD is very supportive of any effort to train or educated the officers, said Lt. Justin Hoyal, of the UPD.

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“We’re putting together this video to help educate our officers on the issues that the transgender population is facing,” Hoyal said.

While the exact wording or content of the video has not yet been established, the UPD and TEA of Utah are working together to come up with a video that would best maximize impact and training, Hoyal said.

This is not the first time TEA of Utah has helped to educate a business or agency. The education and advocacy group has helped train fortune 500 companies, small businesses and even educate individual families.

“We are not a support group,” Teinamarrie said. “We are an education and advocacy group.”

When there is a lack of training or education, people that interact with transgender people will often contact TEA for assistance. While many of the referrals come from Equality Utah or the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), TEA of Utah strives to respond to all advocacy needs or education opportunities.

“Some businesses contact us when someone working there is transitioning,” Teinamarrie said. “Most companies want to ask questions about things like how to work with restroom facilities.”

TEA also helps educate and speak with individual families. When family members find out someone they love is transgender, there are a lot of concerns, Teinamarrie said.

“The most common concern is that their son or daughter won’t find someone to love,” Teinamarrie said. “We want to help families see that trans people are just as likely to find love as someone else.”

TEA of Utah is also an advocate force.

For example, when there are issues about changing the gender marker on a driver’s license, TEA of Utah can get involved and assist. Another example might be a department store that won’t allow a person that is transgender to use dressing rooms or even purchase clothing.

To request help, simply go to the website, www.TEAofUtah.org and fill out a request.

All submissions are confidential.

“We can’t help people if we don’t know they’re having problems,” Christopher said.

Christopher and Teinamarrie started TEA of Utah in 2003 because they didn’t see any advocacy or education groups for transgender individuals in Utah.

“Being Trans is very different than being gay,” Teinamarrie said. “There’s a lot more to fear.”

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Hispanic brotherhood growing

By Gus Herrero

Hermanos (Brothers) is an HIV-prevention program for Spanish-speaking gay and bisexual men. The group has been around for more than 20 years in different cities throughout the United States.

However, in Salt Lake City, the group is not very well known, even among Hispanic men.

Alex Moya, the coordinator of the program, said even though the main purpose of the proAlex Moya gram is to help gay and bisexual Hispanic men deal with HIV and how to prevent it, there are other important issues that Hermanos approaches. The group tackles issues such as immigration, family rejection, living alone in a different country where a different language is spoken and – the most important aspect – to help encourage healthy attitudes and habits in the Hispanic community.

Every time the group gathers, there are about 20 or more people, but it has not always been that way. Alex recalls that when he started to work with Hermanos, he was the only member. He had a community to reach out to, but it was difficult to know how best to reach out to such a diverse community.

“The first thing I did was to go to the clubs and talk to guys about Hermanos ... it was kind of awkward,” Moya said.

Besides giggles, and sometimes little flirts, Alex got what he wanted — members of the Latino community coming to Hermanos.

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The first meeting started with two guys, so it had to be canceled. This didn’t stop Alex.

The next meeting was a huge success. Ten people attended the meeting and Hermanos was ready to help out the Hispanic community in Salt Lake City, which he said had been forgotten for many years.

Since then, Hermanos convenes twice a month on Thursdays at the Utah AIDS Foundation for a little chat, coffee, movies or whatever they have planned. There are also other events, such as inviting a moderator to come to the meetings and talk about a variety of topics such as health, relationships and what seems to capture the attention of the Hispanic community: love.

Reaching out to a community is not an easy task, Alex said. Hermanos has developed a magazine for the Spanish-speaking people in Utah called 360. The monthly magazine has been printed since 2009. It helps to highlight important issues that concern the Hispanic community.

Hermanos is not just a social group — it also volunteers in the community. Moya said the members feel like they are an integral part of the Salt Lake community, and to show this they help children in need, visit senior centers and perform other service-related activities.

Despite all these efforts, Alex feels that something else needs to be done.

“I think that we are not reaching everyone who speaks Spanish,” he said. “My goal is not only to let everyone know that Hermanos is here but also to let everyone know they are welcome to join our activities.”

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By Gus Hererro

Hermanos, un programa de prevencion de VIH para hombres gay y bisexuales de habla hispana ha estado presente desde hace ya algun tiempo en los Estados Unidos. Sin embargo, en Salt Lake City poco o nada se sabe, incluso para los hispanos.

Alex Moya, el coordinador de este programa, menciona que a pesar de que el proposito principal de este programa es el de ayudar a los hombres gay y bisexuales hispanos a lidiar con el VIH y además como prevenirlo, hay otros temas importantes con los que Hermanos se enfrenta día a día, tales como la imigración, rechazo familiar, el hecho de vivir en un pais donde no se habla el idioma español el más importante aspecto, el de desarrollar personas saludables dentro de la comunidad hispana.

Cada vez que estos muchahos se reunen, estos suman aproximadmente 20 o más personas, pero esto no fue siempre asi, Alex recuerda que cuando el empezo a trabajar con Hermanos, el era el unico miembro, el tenia que llegar a una audiencia, la pregunta era “como.” “La primera soa que hice fue ir a los clubs y hablar con los chicos acerca de Hermanos,” “era un tanto raro.” Ademas de sonrisas y un poco de coqueteo, Alex obtuvo lo que el queria, miembros de la comunidad Latina asisitiendo a Hermanos.

La primera reunión empezo solo con dos chicos, como era de esperarse, la reunión tuvo que ser cancelada. Esto, no detuvo a Alex de seguir trabajando con Hermanos. La

siguiente reunion fue de acuerdo con el un tremendo éxito. Diez personas atendieron la reunión y Hermanos estaba listo para ayudar la comunidad Hispana en Salt Lake City, la cual por cierto habia sido olvidada por mucho años.

Desde ese entonces, Hermanos se reunen dos veces al mes los dia jueves en el edificio del Utah AIDS Foundation, tal vez para una pequeña conversación, una taza de café, peliculas o cualquier cosa que ellos hayan planeado, en adicion a esto, existen otros eventos que cuentan con la participacion de moderadores los cuales tocan temas variados tales como, salud, relaciones, y el tema que parece capturar la atencion de la comunidad: el amor.

El llegar a toda una comunidad no es una tarea facil dice Alex, y abordando este tema, Hermanos ha desarrollado una revista para los hablantes de Español en Utah. “360” es la revista que desde el 2009 ha estado una vez al menos en las calles tocando temas que conciernen a la comunidad Hispana.

Hermanos no es solo un grupo para pasar el tiempo, no solo un grupo social que se reune para comer, tomar algo de café y otras actividades vanales, estos chicos se reunen para ayudar a la comunidad. Ellos dicen sentirse parte de la comunidad y para demostrar esto, se reunen para ayudar a ninos necesitados, visitar asilos entre otras actividades.

A pesar de todos estos esfuerzo, Alex siente que hay mucho mas por hacer. “Creo que no estamos llegando a todos las personas que hablan español, mi meta es no solo llevar a conocer a Hermanos sino tambien dejar saber que todos son bienvenidos a unirse a nuestras actividades.

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The Utah Senate passed a bill that would change liquor and beer service time, ina crease the number of restaurant liquor licenses and eliminate mini-kegs in Utah liquor stores, amongst a variety of other changes.

Senate Bill 314, which cleared the Senate on Friday afternoon, is designed to make people eat when they consume al, cohol, said the bill sponsor, Sen. John n Valentine, R-Orem. Utah has one of the s fastest-growing restaurant industries in the nation, according to the Utah Restaus rant Association. The bill would add 15 new full-liquor service licenses and 25 beer and wine licenses. The bill would also allow an unlimited amount of beeronly licenses for restaurants that only want to serve beer. No additional licenses would be given for bars or clubs in the new bill. However, it makes liquor licens9 es transferable, so when a bar or tavern s is purchased, the liquor license could be included with the purchase.

Melva Sine, Utah Restaurant Association president, said she had issues with the quota system and Utah still needs more than just 40 new licenses. e “We’re still concerned with the fact that we have only 40 licenses,” Sine said. y “Those licenses will go fairly quickly and this is an issue that we’re consistently addressing.”

The bill would also move all restaurant -liquor and beer service to 11:30 a.m. The current system allows for beer service at -10:00 a.m. and liquor service at noon.

“The bill would make uniform hours for all restaurants,” Valentine said.

However, taverns and social clubs would still be able to serve drinks start-ing at 10:00 a.m. The change in starting otime for beer and liquor service will only affect restaurants.

In addition to making changes to the laws concerning restaurants, the proposal would create a new reception center license. Valentine said wedding reception centers do not have enough oversight and need to be regulated.

“The problem we have right now with the reception center license is ... the father of the bride, or the father of the groom brings in all the alcohol, sets it out and there is no service. There is no control of underage drinking. There is no control of over drinking,” Valentine said.

“So we have this big hole in our control of alcohol consumption in these reception centers.”

People would no longer be able to bring their own alcohol to reception centers for events such as weddings. Instead, each reception center would have to receive a permit and distribute the alcohol.

The proposed legislation also bans mini-kegs, or “Chubbies.” Beer could not be sold in containers larger than 2 liters.

Currently, some local breweries have high-content alcohol mini-kegs for sale in Utah liquor stores. The mini-kegs hold 5 liters.

The bill, which is 174 pages long, also has many other stipulations, some of which include the following: • Drinks can be purchased by the glass in hotels from room service.

• The bill prohibits events from selling or furnishing an indefinite or unlimited number of alcoholic drinks for a fixed price. This essentially kills the current functioning of the City Weekly Beer Fest.

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• Increases the number of officers to enforce drunken driving laws.

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snaps & slaps SNAP: Anti-gay bill dies in Wyoming A bill that would ban Wyoming from recognizing same-sex marriages performed in other states died quietly in committee. The committee could not decide how to deal with existing language in state law and it appears the bill will miss a key legislative deadline. The House and Senate passed different versions of the same bill and compromise on language could not be reached. Gay-rights advocates are celebrating the victory in the so-called “Equality State.”

SNAP: Brazil ‘Homophobia Helpline’ launches Despite the infamous Sao Paolo and Rio de Janeiro Pride events, Brazil still has a long way to go before all its citizens are treated

mountain meadows mascara Mondays are a drag

By Ruby Ridge

ARLINGS, I CAN HOLD MY tongue no longer. There is a tawdry, secretive epidemic in our community that we need to discuss. Am I referring to naked sex parties in the stucco McMansions of Sandy? I should be ... but I’m not!

How about conservative politicos having meth-fueled trysts via Craiglist? Provocative and compelling, yes ... but sadly no. This shameful act occurs every Monday behind the closed curtains of anonymous homes in quiet suburban cul-de-sacs, where large burly men are squealing in high pitch like tween girls at the sight of Robert Patterson shirtless. The reason is gay men are flocking to viewing parties for the kitschy, bitchy, glamorfest called RuPaul’s Drag Race and RuPaul’s Drag Race Untucked (8–9:30 p.m. on Logo). And I, Ruby Ridge, approve!

As someone mildly involved in camp drag (real drag’s embarrassing relative who no one invites to Thanksgiving dinner) I really do respect “real drag” performers even though I mock them relentlessly. The drag queen contestants on Drag Race have to be multi-talented glamazon decathletes. In order to stay in the competition, these girls

have to flawlessly lip-sync, model, dance, sew, blend their make-up, and avoid all of the inevitable drama and backstage politics that arise when a dozen drag queens are trapped in one room. That’s like running a marathon in a couture gown, with rabid packs of Chi-

That bitch is not afraid to throw grenades huahuas nipping at your zebra-striped Jimmy Choo’s. No, darlings, this is not a contest for the faint of heart and it makes for some really entertaining television.

Logo has set up all sorts of interactive goodies online to accompany the series including fantasy football-style brackets (think tucks, not cups, and padding, not padding). I personally am hoping Raja wins because her sense of style is so different and compelling (unless she gets railroaded in one of the team challenges, which could happen). For me the rest of the contestants just kind of blend to-

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equally. Many gay Brazilians seek asylum from persecution in the gether in a glittery over-accessorized, overwaxed, blob.

But like most “reality” competitions, the best part of the show is the characters you get to loathe and cheer against. This season there was Mimi Imfurst who was delusional with a capital “D.” And close behind, in my view, is Delta Work. I know, I know, some of you love her, but she just seems petty and classless to me, and she always seems to be pissed off and scowling during the judging. But my absolute favorite playing the role of villainess is the caustic and mouthy Shangela. Oh my god I love her! Pumpkins, Shangela should be in the military, because that bitch is not afraid to throw grenades! Seriously, cupcakes, RuPaul’s Untucked would be about three minutes long if it wasn’t for Shangela running her mouth off. You know damn well she is going to be eliminated in a tsunami of drama sooner or later, but while she is on screen, Shangela is a casting director’s dream. That’s probably why they brought her back from season two.

Can I get a halleloo?

Anyhow, kittens, I highly recommend you get together with friends and watch live on Monday nights, or catch up on all three seasons of Drag Race online at LogoTV.com.

Once you are up to speed with those sparkling gems you can start on all the back episodes of Glee. Ciao, babies! Q You can see Ruby Ridge and the Matrons of Mayhem in all of their polyester glory at Third Friday Bingo (every Third Friday of the month at 7pm) at First Baptist Church (777 South 1300 East). This month we are raising funds for the Queer Students of Color at the University of Utah (it’s for the gay children!).

United States and elsewhere. The helpline was launched to help fight such pervasive homophobia and mistreatment. This helpline can be reached around the clock by dialing 100 from any phone.

The launch ceremony featured the Senate vice president and other federal representatives.

SLAP: Anti-gay pastor arrested Rev. Grant Storms, famous for speaking out against all things bright, shiny and gay, was arrested after witnesses say they saw him masturbating in a park in front of children. He defended himself claiming to have been urinating in a plastic bottle in the park, but later changed his story and admitted to pleasuring himself in public. He is a regular protestor at Southern Decadence, a three-day gay festival held annually. He and his followers surround the event with bullhorns and large signs while chanting anti-gay protests.

In a news conference he asked for forgiveness from his family and the gay community. However, he said he is not a pedophile.

Qu r gnosis Sound the alarm: GOP on the attack

By Troy Williams

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E’VE ONLY BEEN IN 2011 for two “friendship.” months and already it’s difficult Another blow to progressive victories to keep up with the daily as- occurred last Friday when the House GOP saults from the organized right- voted to end Title X funding to Planned wing. Last December, President Obama Parenthood. This will effectively end federcowardly surrendered to Republican House al funding for birth control, cancer screenleadership to extend tax cuts to the mega- ings, HIV testing and other reproductive rich. It was an ominous sign of things to health measures throughout the nation. come. The GOP’s demand for severe austeri- It will also have an adverse impact on the ty measures to cut the federal deficit needs to healthcare of thousands of Utahns. be called out for what it really is – an aggresPlanned Parenthood of Utah’s Karrie sive assault on every Galloway recently progressive victory the wrote in the Salt Lake Left has achieved over Tribune that in Utah, the past seventy years.

PPAU “provides reThe newly emboldened productive health care Right intends to disto nearly 51,000 men mantle all of the social and women who make safety nets that we have over 158,000 visits to established to protect our nine heath centers vulnerable populations; and 12 contract locathe poor, women, ethnic tions each year. The minorities, queers and people who utilize our the public sector are all valuable preventive at risk. health care services Last week the GOP are in desperate need controlled House voted of affordable, often lifeto eliminate funding saving health care. In — Grover Norquist for the Corporation Utah, 97 percent of our for Public Broadcastclients we serve are ing. The CPB was esuninsured and almost tablished in 1967 under President Lyndon 85 percent of the services they were given Johnson. The CPB has been the steward for were provided with Title X funding.” the federal appropriation that funds NPR, In addition to controlling women’s rePBS and Utah’s own local community sta- productive lives, the GOP’s larger objection KRCL. Defunding the CPB won’t pro- tive is to privatize the public sector and vide a significant reduction in the deficit. cut social programs back to nothing. Or, The CPB appropriation comprises only .01 as Grover Norquist famously opined, “I percent of Obama’s proposed three trillion don’t want to abolish government. I simdollar budget. But it does send a political ply want to reduce it to the size where I can message that the Republicans are back in drag it into the bathroom and drown it in business and no one is safe. the bathtub.”

In addition to KRCL, the loss of funding The baby is drowning. for CPB will adversely impact Utah’s other Naomi Klein describes these orchestratpublic stations; KUER, KBYU and KUED. ed efforts in The Shock Doctrine: The Rise These stations provide quality program- of Disaster Capitalism. Klein documents ming that educates and strengthens citi- how neo-liberal capitalists have worked zens in our community. Anticipating the ceaselessly to dismantle healthy social House vote, Rep. Chris Herrod, R-Provo, in- democracies and replace them with untroduced a bill to provide legislative over- regulated free market economic systems. sight of KUED and KUER’s annual budget. Collective shocks, such as earthquakes, He doesn’t believe that taxpayers should tsunamis or war are used as the justificafund programming that he perceives to tion for massive privatization and restruchave a liberal bias. He is concerned that turing of entire societies. Think Chile afSesame Street indoctrinates children with ter the Pinochet coup, New Orleans after outrageous ideas like climate change. Sci- Hurricane Katrina and Iraq after the U.S. ence corrupts kids! And though he hasn’t “Shock and Awe” invasion. In each exsaid as much, we must assume he is equal- ample local communities saw their public ly alarmed over Burt and Ernie’s close infrastructure devastated and their econo-

‘I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.’

mies later rebuilt to accommodate transnational pro-corporate agendas. And, as Klein tirelessly documents, the poor are always the population hit hardest. Neo-liberalism consistently fosters wealth disparity, inflation and high unemployment.

The shock today is an economic crisis and a skyrocketing federal deficit. This is the GOP justification for why social programs must be slashed. The GOP won’t advocate raising revenue through fair taxation of the super wealthy. The Republicans won’t end corporate welfare. They won’t reign in their over-extended military operations abroad. No. The poor and working class must carry the economic burden laid on them by Wall Street and Washington D.C. While this agenda is pushed on the federal level, it’s also fomented here in the Utah Legislature by the “State’s Rights” circus that comprises The Patrick Henry Caucus and the Utah Eagle Forum.

Carl Wimmer wants a state gun so that Curtis Oda can shoot feral cats in close proximity to school children. The same school children, who according to Chris Buttars, are being indoctrinated into godless socialism by the Alpine School District. Steve Urquhart wants to revoke driver privilege cards for undocumented Latinos, effectively placing 40,000 unin-

sured drivers on Utah roads. And if any of these newly uninsured Latinos gets into an accident and goes to the emergency room, Chris Herrod wants the federal government he despises to pick up the tab!

The Left has to pull itself together and vote these whacko legislators out of office.

Is anybody leading the Utah State Democratic Party? Anyone at all? State Democrats continue to hemorrhage legislative seats. This is absolutely unacceptable. The stakes are too high to fail.

I do see bright spots of resistance. Locally, we should cheer Equality Utah for their skillful handling of LaVar Christiansen’s now defunct anti-gay bills. Nationally we must all throw our support behind the protestors fighting the Wisconsin Governor’s attack on public sector unions. Revolt is in the air. Progressives are pissed again!

The Egyptian people are all the world’s heroes. Now is the time for feminists, queers, union workers, Latino organizers and environmentalists to collectively defend the public sphere. We must preserve and strengthen the commons that belong to all of us. We must put vulnerable populations first and profits for greedy politicians and corrupt corporations last. Q Troy Williams is the executive producer of RadioActive on KRCL 90.9 FM.

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Why anti-discrimination ordinances are wrong

Why Pastor Mallinak is wrong on the ordinances

By Pastor Dave Mallinak

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WO “EITHER-OR” FALLACIES mark the nondiscrimination debate. The first applies to the Ogden nondiscrimination ordinance itself. If I do not support the ordinance, then I must favor discrimination. The second relates to my opposition to homosexuality. If I oppose homosexuality, I must either be hateful or homophobic.

Oversimplification stifles this discussion. In both examples, we find more than two choices. First, I oppose these ordinances, but I do not want real discrimination; and second, I do not oppose homosexuality because of hatred or homophobia.

I denounce homosexuality because God does. I oppose a nondiscrimination ordinance that includes homosexuality because it only establishes another kind of discrimination — one against Christians, like me, who object to homosexuality.

Hatred and homophobia are wrong reasons to disapprove of homosexuality. Homophobia indicates a sickness or pathology that produces irrational objections. Mine are entirely rational.

I do not hate homosexuals, either. Hatred is immoral. The Bible compels me first to love God, and then to love my neighbor, because he is made in the image of God. Loving my neighbor requires me to love even my enemies.

What God condemns as sin, government should not sanction. And I should at least have an equal opportunity to express my objections to homosexuality.

Assuming you disagree with me, I am grateful for this opportunity. Thanks are in order, first to QSaltLake for publishing my views, and then to those who will give them a fair hearing.

In the Image of God Consistent Christians do not hate you. Hatred violates God’s law as much as homosexuality does. Our opposition to homosexuality is motivated by the antithesis of hate.

Love motivates Christians to voice their objections to your lifestyle. If we loved ourselves most, we would say nothing.

Speaking out against homosexuality is not the same thing as racism. Racists judge people of a particular race as somehow less than human. God’s word teaches that every person is made in the image of God. That includes you. In opposing homosexuality, we do not say that you are sub-human. In fact, we denounce homosexuality because you are made in the image of God. Homosexuality defaces that image.

Racism and Gay Rights Race and homosexuality differ. A person cannot change his skin color, but some homosexuals have repented and permanently

abandoned homosexuality. Paul says of those in Corinth, “and such were some of you,” (I Corinthians 6:11). If homosexuality really is a DNA issue, you might think that you escape responsibility.

For the sake of argument, I will concede the genetic explanation, but I deny that this eliminates your responsibility. I will concede the genetics because I believe in depravity and inborn sin. Every man is born in sin, and his sin defaces God’s image in Him. Principle Problems with the Ordinance It Prevents Christians from Witnessing Because I believe that homosexuality is a sin that God will judge at the last day, I want the Christian’s right to warn homosexuals in the workplace preserved. Ogden’s nondiscrimination ordinance threatens that right.

A Christian employer might object to homosexuality like I do. This ordinance will require him to keep his convictions to himself. If his opinion offends a homosexual, it could bring harassment charges. “Harass” is an ambiguous term. The ordinance nowhere defines it. Witnessing could easily result in an offensive work environment, which could result in harassment charges.

It Establishes the “Diversity Farce” If a Christian orders his life around the Bible, he will not be popular with those who applaud homosexuality. If a Christian is popular with those who support homosexuality, then he does not order his life around the Bible. Universal tolerance is impossible, since universal tolerance cannot tolerate intolerance.

This conundrum illustrates the absurdity of the modern diversity doctrine. Diversity would insist that my right to declare my convictions be protected on an equal level with the homosexual’s right. Diversity would insist that “evidence of a person’s moral or religious beliefs, opinions or views, or expressions thereof, shall be inadmissible to prove violation” of the nondiscrimination ordinance.

It Establishes Secularist Morality Every culture condemns sin and embraces holiness on the basis of an accepted standard. Secular culture is no different. Secularism has a very defined moral code, complete with a set of “thou shalts” and “thou shalt nots.” Thou shalt not judge. Thou shalt not condemn. Thou shalt not be intolerant. Thou shalt embrace diversity. Thou shalt not discriminate. Thou shalt encourage and promote free “love.”

But where did secularism get its moral code? Lightning striking mud does not produce morality. Yet, secularism insists that existence morphed out of primordial ooze.

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By Bob Henline

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N FEB. 15 I WROTE A STORY in QSaltLake regarding Ogden’s non-discrimination ordinances and a possible move to insert religious exemption language into the proposal. After that article was published on the Internet, Pastor Dave Mallinak of the Berean Baptist Church in Ogden responded to my e-mail.

Then QSaltLake’s editorial team invited Pastor Mallinak to write a guest column explaining his views, which he graciously agreed to do, and it’s published in this issue.

I asked the editor and publisher to allow me to dedicate my column to a rebuttal of the pastor’s argument. If you haven’t read it yet, you should probably do that first. Also, I think it is important to note that Pastor Mallinak’s original column was edited for size, so if I respond to something you don’t see in the print edition, you might want to go to the online edition, which doesn’t suffer from size constraints.

I think the most important thing to note about Pastor Mallinak’s position is that he falls upon the same tired nonsense to which the rest of Utah’s religious bigot brigade clings. Yes, I understand that your god doesn’t approve of homosexual behavior.

We’ve all heard that line, we all understand it, and quite frankly, most of us don’t care.

The First Amendment to the United States Constitution clearly spells out that the laws of our society will not and cannot be determined by any particular religion.

The next piece of the argument is the one I find most distressing: “I oppose a nondiscrimination ordinance because it only establishes another kind of discrimination — one against Christians like me who object to homosexuality.” Is this really the case? I don’t think so. All this ordinance does is tell bigots ... errr ... “Christians like him” that they don’t have the right to impose their beliefs onto anyone else, especially through employment or housing decisions.

The Pastor goes on to argue that these ordinances will deny him the right to object to homosexuality in the workplace, and would prevent good Christians from doing their god-given duty and “witnessing” to the evil gays about the sin of their existence. In his own words, “I want the Christian’s right to warn homosexuals in the workplace preserved.”

What gives anyone the right to “witness” or “warn” anyone about their lifestyle? He goes so far as to defend the good Christian’s right to harass an unbeliever, “More than a few homosexuals would consider a call to repentance ‘unwelcome.’”

On this, he’s probably right. More than a few heterosexuals would also consider such

a call unwelcome. I know that I would take offense to some religious zealot calling upon me to change my ways in order to conform to his or her notion of morality. But I’m a straight man, and hence, I’m protected from that in the workplace. Apparently Pastor Mallinak believes that not everyone is entitled to that same protection, or that being gay is, in some way, the most heinous of sins and requires special attention.

That fact is made obvious by his numerous biblical quotes. He begins by invoking Leviticus, which never ceases to amaze and amuse me. This particular piece of the bible references all manner of sin, such as the eating of shellfish and the use of blended fibers in clothing. It goes on to explain how to eradicate sin through burnt offerings.

How often does Pastor Mallinak’s church perform ritual burnings of cattle, sheep, or fruit in order to honor their god? Why is it that certain parts of this passage can be ignored, but that one line about lying with mankind as with womankind is so important?

He goes on to explain that god will judge the homosexuals on the last day, quoting Corinthians. Of course, he neglects to pay any attention to the rest of the people being judged by god: fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, thieves, covetous, drunkards, revilers, extortioners ... Does this mean that we should then practice housing and employment discrimination against anyone that drinks, has engaged in premarital or extramarital sex, has coveted or stolen?

The Pastor’s entire argument is that he, as a “good Christian,” should have the right to point out the sin of homosexuality and to call upon the sinner to repent. Well, to one extent he is correct. He does have that right, as do we all. We all have the right to believe as we will, and to express that belief. What we don’t have is the right to push that belief onto those that don’t want it. I don’t have the right to go into my workplace and attempt to convince my colleagues that their beliefs are wrong. Why should anyone?

We don’t have the right to deny basic social liberties to a class of people on that basis. Ogden’s housing and employment protections merely serve to clarify the societal requirement that all of us are, in fact, equal under the law.

Unfortunately, I am constrained by space requirements as well, and so cannot get into the logical fallacies prevalent in the rest of the argument. I would welcome the opportunity to continue this discourse with Pastor Mallinak in another format, such as a public debate on this issue. Q

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lambda lore Last of the gay historians

By Ben Williams

HE AUTHOR PEARL BUCK ONCE said, “If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.” Sometimes I feel like I am the grandmother’s attic for the gay community. Scattered about, dusty, rarely looked at, with years of recollections, articles, and reflections waiting to be boxed up and taken to the dump when grandma’s house is razed for something newer and shinier. Well, that’s the nature of things.

However, I think it’s a sad commentary that I am virtually the only person trying to preserve our collective history here in Salt Lake City, the Crossroads of the West.

No matter how committed I may be to being impartial, my perceptions will color and misrepresent people and events of the history of the struggle for gay rights in Utah.

I know of only two others who have tried to preserve our history: Connell “Rocky” O’Donovan and Jay Bell.

O’Donovan and I founded the Utah Gay and Lesbian Historical Society in 1988. At the time I was more of an archivist while O’Donovan was doing some first-rate research into early Utah Mormon history. He began collecting and archiving documents, photos and other materials relating to homosexuality and transexuality. In 1992, through Signature Books in Salt Lake City, he published a preliminary history called” The Abominable and Detestable Crime Against Nature: A Brief History of Homosexuality and Mormonism, 1830-1980,” which is now online at connellodonovan.com.

O’Donovan moved away to Santa Cruz, Calif. in 1994, where he maintains, in his home, the large archive of historical material related to both Utah and Mormonism.

In 1995, the year after O’Donovan left Utah, Bell attended his first meeting of Affirmation in Salt Lake City where he came out as a gay man. Bell, despite being completely blind in one eye and legally blind in the other, was an avid reader and researcher. His love for research began as a student at BYU. Bell belonged to a group known as the “Xerox Priests,” an underground group of BYU students who spent hours photocopying the controversial Mormon historical documents that were emerging in those days. He was perpetually collecting documents and sharing them with those who asked for a copy.

Bell’s first research project was looking for gay Mormon related articles in the local papers. He later expanded his research over the Internet, capturing hundreds of pages with gay Mormon related articles from the web. Bell also conducted research outside of

Utah – at the One Institute and Archives in Los Angeles and at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. During the last years of his life, Bell was a permanent fixture at the LDS Church Historical Library on Temple Square and the Special Collection at the Marriott Library.

His concern for the preservation of gay Mormon history led him to create the Affirmation Collection at the Marriott Library at the University of Utah. He and I also worked together to start a similar collection of Utah gay history at the university’s special collections. Eventually, Bell wrote several articles for the website for Affirmation (www. affirmation.org). He also composed a datadisc compilation of some 130 documents and articles related to homosexuality in the LDS Church and the Community of Christ.

Bell died as consequence of a traffic accident in Salt Lake City, in 2003, precisely when his remarkable research was beginning to bear fruit.

Now I am the last gay historian to remain in Utah, but I’m the first to admit that my collection is tainted by biases imprinted at an early age. It focuses on the people I knew either personally or by common knowledge.

I have an encyclopedia memory of first hand events from 1986-1997 but I rely on the memories and printed articles of others for events prior and afterward. Though, I’ve tried to be objective.

I have written a history column for Utah’s Gay publications since 1987 and acted as the archivist for the old Utah Stonewall Center from 1991-1997. After the closure of the archives, I rebuilt my collection, and with the help of the late Chad Keller, restarted the Utah Stonewall Historical Society, which can be found on Facebook.

I stopped recording Gay events at the end of 2010. In an era where the Salt Lake Tribune has a blog page devoted exclusively to LGBT issues, it has become tedious, as well as irrelevant, to record the minutiae of our lives. There was a time when one had to ferret and sniff out our hidden history since we were a taboo subculture in Utah society. We can hardly be called a subculture or taboo anymore. We have become so main-stream that we are now simply ordinary, which, to me, is extraordinary. I liked it better when we were simply fabulous. In the not so distant past, we had to be fabulous to overcome the slings and arrows of a hostile society that were directed at our collective soul.

O’Donovan, Bell and I all kept a history of gays in Utah for various reasons. None of them was for fiduciary benefits. While I cannot speculate on why O’Donovan and

Bell devoted much of their lives to reclaiming our past, one of my main reasons for 25 years of record keeping is that I felt the story of the determination of a people to fight for dignity and justice has to be told.

I am also convinced that a people without a history are not a people. What binds us together is our connection to the past. Yes, I am old school and still believe that gays are a “people” with special and unique quantifiers that make us slightly different from heterosexuals, not better or worse but certainly out of the ordinary. And it’s our right to know where we came from and how we got to where we are now. That’s my bequeathment to a community I have always been proud to have served and have loved.

We have a common legacy.

Finally, I like to think of my writings and interpretations of past events as how the American philosopher Elbert Hubbard once defined history as “gossip well told.” Q

Guest Editorial —Continued from opposite page

How did mud manage this?

Science offers no justification for morality. Science deals only with the material world. Throughout history, science has demonstrated an inability to answer questions regarding immaterial things.

Since God created the world and revealed His will for mankind in the Bible, morality is a simple matter of studying the Bible and obeying what it says. God’s existence provides ample justification for morality, and God Himself establishes every moral standard in His Word, the Bible. Nothing else does. Q

This editorial has been edited to fit in the newspaper. Please go to qsaltlake.com/?p=6104 for the full, unedited article.

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By D’Anne Witkowski

WW, SO SWEET. Donald Trump thinks gay people are great.

Mind you, not so great that they should be allowed to marry.

And if there’s anyone we should take advice from about marriage, it’s Donald Trump. I mean, he’s had a lot of practice.

First there was Ivana Trump, then he cheated on her with Marla Maples who became his second wife, and then he dumped Maples for his current wife, Melania Knauss.

So, let’s see. That’s two divorces, three marriages. The man obviously knows what he’s doing. After all, each new wife is younger and hotter than the previous wife.

Hey, Trump’s just keeping it sacred.

During a Feb. 14 interview on Fox News with Greta Van Susteren, Trump flexed his conservative muscles and showed off the world’s most expensive comb-over mullet.

“I’m probably as conservative as anybody on your show, and that’s going a pretty strong step. I’m Republican, a very conservative Republican. I believe strongly in

just about all conservative principles,” he gushed.

“Gay marriage?” Van Susteren asked.

“I’m not in favor of gay marriage,” Trump replied.

Then Van Susteren asked if he had any doubt about that position. “No,” he said.

“I’m just not in favor of gay marriage. I live in New York. New York is a place with lots of gays, and I think it is great. But I’m not in favor of gay marriage.”

This isn’t a huge surprise. According to Politico, Trump entered into the gay marriage fray in 2009, when he defended Carrie Prejean’s stated opposition to gay marriage. Trump, who owns the Miss USA pageant, defended Prejean for speaking out, comparing her views on gay marriage to President Barack Obama’s.

Mind you, he doesn’t tell Van Susteren why he’s against gay marriage. But really, he doesn’t have to. No doubt his position has a lot to do with his talk that he might run for president in 2012. And even a super

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rich tycoon who lives in faggy New York City feels obliged to appeal to the wing-nuts in the GOP these days.

Trump was a big hit at last month’s Conservative Political Action Conference, long a bastion of anti-gay fervor. Mind you, this year GOProud, a group of gay Republicans, was involved in the CPAC mix, which made a lot of the anti-gay groups cry and go home. Still, CPAC is hardly a gay pride parade.

“Well, they’re really my people,” he said of the CPAC folks. And this certainly includes GOProud, who not only invited him to CPAC, but who also pushed for Trump as a write-in candidate for CPAC’s presidential straw poll. It didn’t work, but Trump is hardly discouraged.

He said he’s “incredibly tempted” to run and that he’ll decide by June.

Why does he want to run? “I love this country. I hate what’s happening to this country. It’s just different. It’s not like when I was growing up,” he told Van Sus-

teren. “During these times we were really a respected country.”

Hmm. Let’s see. If we take “when I was growing up” to mean birth to age 18, then America was a respected country from 1946 to 1964. He’s right. Times were different then.

During that time 14-year-old Emmett Till was murdered for whistling at a white woman, Rosa Parks was thrown in jail because she wouldn’t give up her bus seat to some white asshole, the National Guard had to be sent in so that nine black kids could go to school in Little Rock, Ark., and racists in Birmingham, Ala., had their hands full throwing Martin Luther King, Jr. in jail, blowing up little black girls in church, and turning fire hoses on civil rights protesters.

People who wax nostalgic about that era always seem to forget about that kind of stuff. Something tells me only rich, white, heterosexual men would actually like to go back. Q

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who’s your da y?

The typical gay overachiever

By Christopher Katis

I, MY NAME IS CHRISTOPHER. And I am an overachiever. I pretty much always have been. In high school I used to read my term papers backward to make sure there weren’t any spelling errors. In college I took 18 credit hours, worked 20 hours a week and ran for a city e council seat — all in a single quarter.

More than 25 years later, I’m not much o better. In fact, I could be getting worse.

As I sat down to write this column I s asked my son, Gus, what he’d like most to d change about me. At first he giggled at the r idea. Then he decided I’m too obnoxious about homework — wanting him to do more, read longer, practice over and over.

I’m not the only parent with these issues. My f friend, Kerri, and I were recently talking about o this. She and I have known each other since we were overachieving high school students.

You know the type: AP classes, Model UN, speech and debate team. That was us.

Kerri also struggles to balance her need to overachieve and her children’s need to be, well, happy. (They are, by the way, highly intelligent, successful, well-adjusted kids of whom any parent would be proud, just as she is.)

I wish I could blame my parents for my need to overachieve. Although they always encouraged me to do my best, truthfully they always worried that in my desire to strive for perfection I would take on too much. They still worry about that with me.

No, for me I believe it stems from something else. Like many gay men, I seem to have a deep-rooted need to really achieve.

I’m sure that a therapist would trace it to a subconscious desire to feel a level of selfworth or something.

That need for achievement extends to my kids. I guess I feel if my kids achieve, at least by my definition of the word, then I am successful. There are some people out there who would argue that it was the overachiever in me that made me want to become a father in the first place. Actually, when my brothers Dan and John congratulated me on becoming a dad, I did tell them that if they could raise five great children between them, I figured I ought to be able to raise a freakin’ Nobel Prize winner.

Of course, I meant it as a joke. But still.

Circumstances beyond my control have

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dictated how I deal with this trait in my personality. I’m working longer hours, which means Kelly is now in charge of homework.

Before this turn of events, homework had always been my responsibility. It wasn’t something Kelly and I had discussed, it just seemed natural — have the guy that received two bachelor’s degrees and a minor in four years with an A– grade point average be in charge of education.

And I think Gus and I had a pretty good system. We’d practice spelling words. Do a page of math. Practice spelling again.

Then maybe tackle another worksheet. So what if we stretched his teacher’s recommended 20 minutes of nightly homework by 5 or 10 minutes?

Kelly’s method, shall we say, is less rigorous.

And that worried me; especially when I started to get updates from him that Gus was only hitting about two-thirds of the words on the spelling list when they practiced.

What truly baffled me was Kelly felt that was OK. To him, missing three or four words out of 20 was pretty good. My immediate response was to figure out a way for me to take over doing homework with Gus again.

But Kelly calmly and rationally reminded me that wasn’t an option. More importantly, he put everything in perspective for me. Missing a few words on a spelling test in second grade wasn’t going to prevent Gus from going to college. It didn’t mean his life was ruined. Nor did it mean I’m an awful person or a bad parent. It was just a second grade spelling test. It’s about Gus, not me — it’s his life, not mine.

Because I cared about trying to have the highest score in most of my classes, doesn’t mean he has to. Being a “good” student is enough for him. Maybe he won’t do extra history assignments like I did, but hopefully he’ll have more laughs than I did.

That may actually be my most meaningful measure of parental success: happy kids, who feel encouraged, and not pressured, by their dad to achieve their own standards.

In the end, Gus had 19 out of 20 words right on the test. Kelly’s homework system works just as well as mine had. Of course, had I been helping him ... Q

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A queer slant on Utah’s artistry

By Tony Hobday

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HE EXPANSE OF THE UTAH ARTS community is, in some way, mind-boggling; thankfully, the community includes many queer artists who, through their chosen mediums and tasks, have continually striven to help open the minds and hearts of all people through hard, dedicated work.

But how accessible has the arts in Utah been for LGBT artists and issues over the last 30 years? Decades ago in Utah, a stipulation that male ballet dancers had to adhere to was to be married.

Fran Pruyn, artistic director of Pygmalion Theatre Company believes queer theater still has its challenges.

“Oh sure, everyone knows that controversy sells, but in the ’80s, and certainly before, it was fraught with serious issues,” says Pruyn.

Certain concerns, according to Pruyn, include: How do you get the money to put it up on the stage? Public granting organizations are always getting their hands slapped for giving money to “profane artists;” what will this show do to my audience base?

The seats are full for this show, but will more conservative audience members steer clear of the next one?; will the reviewers embrace it because it is brave, or dismiss it because it isn’t in line with community values; certainly, the out queer community will come, but can you get the attention of the “legitimate theater” audience members, or would they be too scared to sit in the seats; what would doing it say about you – especially in the newspaper?

Pretty much, you gotta be “out” to do queer theater.

Several queer artists, whose time in the Utah arts scene ranges from as little as five years to as many as 30, share similar experiences, mostly positive, of queer inclusion and influence in the arts. And each share hopes for the future of queer arts and of the whole spectrum of the arts community.

Alexis Baigue / Actor Once a concert choir vocalist, Baigue first felt the acting-itch when he was 16 years old. He attended acting classes at the Salt Lake Community College, then entered the

University of Utah Actor Training program. Over the following 20 years, Baigue has performed in numerous stage productions. Two of the more wellknown gaythemed plays he’s performed in during his career are The Boys in the Band and Angels in America.

According to Baigue, the theater community has always enjoyed a healthy population of queer people, at least over the last couple of decades.

“I would like to excite more people to participate in the abundant art in Utah, both as consumers and creators, whether the material is easily accessible or challenging and experimental,” says Baigue on the future of the arts.

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Bronwen Beecher / Musician

Eldon Johnson / Dancer

Beecher is known as the “fiddle preacher,” which is fitting for a person who has been “playing the violin for 26 years.”

“Which is strange because I’m only 25,” jokes Beecher.

A graduate of Loyola University, she has been playing professionally for 10 years. She has played the Utah Arts Festival, Helper Arts Festival, Pride Day and the Women’s Redrock Music Festival.

“One of my favorite [gigs] was when I played the role of a musician in a Pygmalion production of Sordid Lives,” says Beecher.

“Fun, fun.”

During her time as a professional musician, Beecher says that queer inclusion in the medium has not been an issue, but rather the mindset is “if you can play, you’re in.”

“It would be great to spend some time and money educating the general public about art, music, dance, etc.,” says Beecher about the future of the arts. “If people aren’t totally turned on by the brilliance of our local arts scene it’s because they don’t know enough about what they’re experiencing - what they’re hearing, seeing, tasting and smelling. It is also the job of artists and those who support artists to let people know how to have a relationship with the arts.”

A 14-year veteran with Odyssey Dance Company, Johnson has “thrilled” and awed many dance enthusiasts since his Odyssey debut in the inaugural season of Thriller (ODC’s most popular show). For the past two years he has also been the company’s associate director.

“Over the years I feel that the biggest change in the arts community has been a more informed, and wider audience,” says Johnson.

“Thanks to exposure from TV shows, such as So You Think You Can Dance and Dancing With the Stars, a broader audience has re-learned to appreciate dance in its art form.

Although I would say that these shows do not set a great standard for what dance as an art form really is, they have definitely sparked interest in those who may not have been interested before.”

The world of professional dance has, since its beginning, been believed to be riddled with homosexuals, even in Utah, according to Johnson.

“I think that it’s probably harder for a straight male dancer to defend his sexuality, at times, in this medium of arts, then for a homosexual dancer to be out,” Johnson says. “The hard part for most gay dancers is maintaining a sense of who they are with out being forced to act like someone they are not.”

Hopefully the future will be full of acceptance and full of art in every form,” continues Johnson, “Whether it’s dance, opera, painting or acting, art is the truest form of self expression. With that self expression, comes diversity, and with that diversity, comes so much beauty.”

John Geertsen / PTC Company Manager Only a five-year addition to the Utah Arts community, Geertsen is a native Utahn and studied Broadcast Communication at Southern Utah University before moving out of state. He has an extensive background in television.

“Upon leaving television I began working as a stage manager, eventually becoming a member of Actor’s Equity Association,” says Geertsen. “Prior to my current position I stage managed for Utah Contemporary Theatre, Egyptian Theatre Company and Salt Lake Acting Company.”

Geertsen admits he is somewhat unfamiliar with the history of theater in Salt Lake City, but believes “it is impossible to remove the influence of the LGBT community from the performing arts.”

“Queer artists, designers and performers are evident and strong voices in every theater I have been a part of here,” explains Geertsen.

“Exploring the LGBT experience is not in short supply with what is produced here. It’s impressive that the dialogue is so strong and continuous. Every professional theater company here has beautifully contributed to the conversation.”

“From Charm and Angels in America at SLAC to PTC’s gorgeously staged A Chorus Line and upcoming Rent, producers here are not afraid to not only touch upon queer subjects but embrace them fully,” continues Geertsen. “Even the local universities create great pieces of theater that are known for LGBT themes such as the University of Utah producing Rocky Horror Show and Weber mounting a beautiful Laramie Project. They are wholeheartedly open and exciting.”

In regard to the future of gay influence on the performing arts, Geertsen believes it will remain “assured and solid.”

“Queer individuals not just contribute to the arts, many of them are respected pillars of the wider community as well.”

“In the future I think it’s time to move beyond making being gay extraordinary.

The conversation needs to shift to queerness being ordinary, average and well ... just like everyone else,” says Geertsen. “It would be an amazing shift for there to many more stories about homosexuals where the focus isn’t on homosexuality.”

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George Maxwell / Set Designer As the resident set designer for Pioneer Theatre Company for over 30 years, Maxwell believes change is happening in regard to LGBT influences in the arts, especially in the upcoming summer months.

Maxwell says that gay characters are becoming more prevalent, more acknowledged in today’s theater world, particularly within PTC’s productions.

“There’s Paul in A Chorus Line, Christopher Wren was played as gay in The Mousetrap and Steven Fehr’s choice to play the stage manager as gay in White Christmas,” remembers Maxwell. “Pioneer is producing Rent this summer which has several gay characters.”

Keven Myhre / Producer “Theater has been in my blood since nursery school,” says Myhre, Salt Lake Acting Company’s executive producer.

Myhre received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Utah and a master of Fine Arts in Theatre from the University of Michigan. He’s spent 16 seasons as SLAC’s producing director; he’s created 105 sets, and has been costume designer for 38 SLAC productions, as well as for over 50 other local arts organizations.

“The best queer theater is when being queer is not the source of drama,” says Myhre. “It is just who the character is, like in boom.” (The character of Jules is a gay man, but the story is not about his homosexuality.)

“Over SLAC’s 40year history, it has been at the front line in presenting plays with queer characters,” continues Myhre. “Our audience is built with warm, smart, open-minded and accepting individuals.”

Myhre believes, however, that “there are so many queers out there who are missing out on great theater.”

“I would propose a ‘bring-a-queer-to-thetheater drive.’”

Sandy Parsons / Painter Over 15 years, Parsons has been showing her art “where ever I could until I got into galleries and art festivals,” which included, among others, in restaurants and courthouses.

With admittedly minimal training, Parsons has made a name for herself. Her emphasis has been on oil painting — particularly figures and portraiture.

“I developed my ever-changing style art intuitively,” she says. “I have always spoken the visual language of art easily and fluently.”

Parsons describes herself as a rebel artist, one who doesn’t play by the rules. Her subject matters have ranged from therapeutic need to environmental activism to animal suffrage.

“I’m very sensitive to the suffering of animals and environmental degradation due to our insatiable, self-centered, meataddicted, rapacious way of life in civilization,” Parsons explains.

“Whether or not there is a place for an artist like me in the Utah art market, I’m here, and I’m not afraid to speak out anymore.”

“My role as a queer artist in the Utah art scene is to be unique, and to stand out as different in order to bring attention to the issues that I care about,” she continues. “My genderqueer lifestyle gives me an interesting perspective on the world that I might not have otherwise, which I am grateful for.”

Though Parsons admits she hasn’t felt excluded by the art community in Utah, she believes that it is “continually getting more and more progressive and inclusive of queer issues.”

Her hopes for the future of the arts is to return to its roots as “a service, an expression” rather than a commodity, a blatant act of consumerism.

“I would like to see more artists daring to speak their truth, even if it isn’t sellable,” Parsons says.

For more information on Sandy Parsons and upcoming shows, visit sandyparsonsgallery.com

Cory Thorell / Props Master Thorell is a Utah native who says his profession is that of a “theatre-maker.” He’s been the Props master with Ballet West for 12 years and before that, a 10-year stint at the Utah Opera.

But to become a “theatre-maker” one must perhaps follow in his footsteps: “I have worked for theater, dance, opera, rock ‘n’ roll, radio, installation and gorilla theater,” says Thorell.

“I design sets, lights, sound and foley effects, and I direct some, act some. I used to be a rhythm tap dancer, and an African hand drummer.”

Thorell agrees with the others that queer influence has always been evident in the Utah theater world, at least during each of their years in it. And as with several of the others, he’d like to see the theme of “homosexuality” itself removed from the future of arts.

“I have done many “queer” shows, gay plays, drag, new works, etc. for different companies and myself,” he says. “I’m kind of tired of it when it is just that ... who cares! However, if it’s a human piece with some queer themes ... way more interesting.” Q

Park City’s Main Street breaks into song

By Tony Hobday

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BOUT TWO YEARS AGO news of Egyptian Theatre Company’s dissolution shocked the small-town community of Park City, as well as the many fans from the Salt Lake Valley. Though the company is no-longer, the historic theater itself continues to widely entertain.

Randy Barton, the theater’s manager, says that the loss of a professional in-house theater company “was not a departure from how the theater was used in the past — more of an expansion of uses.”

“We no longer are able to mount productions that run for five or six weeks — we now offer more productions than ever,” says Barton.

In the past year, Egyptian Theatre was home to not only Youth Theatre, Odyssey Dance Company and Dark Horse Company Theatre productions, but hosted four of “our own community theater productions” including the hit Hair, of which QSaltLake was a proud sponsor.

The theater houses other live performances including stand-up comedians and concerts, and converts to a movie house during the Sundance Film Festival.

“For the first time ever, the theater has had live entertainment on stage every weekend of the year,” Barton glows.

2011 appears to continue such an exciting achievement, with already several shows and concerts scheduled. One, which is of considerable note, is the Musicals on Main Series, a collaboration between three incredible arts organizations: Plan-B Theatre Company, Dark Horse Company Theatre and the Egyptian Theatre.

“Dark Horse Company Theatre was born out of this necessity to continue a tradition of edgy, quirky and unique musical theatre for the Egyptian Theatre and Utah in general,” explains company co-founder Daniel Simons.

Jerry Rapier, Plan-B Theatre Company’s artistic director was invited last year to produce and direct the musical Hair, which ran for eight weeks to critical acclaim: This production of the “American Tribal Love-Rock Musical” is wonderfully and gayly depicted by director Jerry Rapier.

That invitation led Rapier, Simons and Barton to sit down with Egyptian Theatre board members to discuss the upcoming year.

“They wanted to continue presenting Dark Horse Company Theatre’s productions and wondered if, rather than have me directing a show for them, if I would bring in a Plan-B show,” Rapier remembers. “I immediately thought of our 2007 Fabby Award-winning production of Gutenberg! The Musical!.”

And so Musicals on Main was propagated.

“We basically chose the Musicals on Main lineup by bringing ideas to the table that included past successes and new shows that would support each other and also tie in to other things going on in the community,” says Simons.

Dark Horse will open the series this month with a Jonathan Larson musical tick, tick...

BOOM!. Larson is widely known for Rent, which won four Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize in Drama, all after his untimely death.

(Larson’s Rent is also being staged this May

by Pioneer Theatre Company.)

“It [Rent] is his legacy he left behind,” says Simons, “and tick, tick...BOOM! is his story. It’s an autobiography, although completed after his death, in his own words, with his own music. It’s hauntingly prophetic yet inspirational, as if he had some inclination of his limited time here on earth.”

Next in the series, in June, is Plan-B’s revival of Gutenberg! The Musical! with Kirt Bateman and Jay Perry reprising their roles as Bud and Doug, who are, according to Perry, “two musical geeks, ahem ... enthusiasts and best friends who dare to dream an impossible dream that one day the show they’ve written will make it all the way to Broadway.”

The character Doug is gay and he “possesses an uncanny ability to see the ... uumm, brilliance in this important musical saga that he and Bud have created: this epic of Johann Gutenberg and his life in Schlimmer, Germany, with all its milkmaids, monks and printing presses,” Bateman quips.

“It felt like kismet,” says Rapier about reviving the show with Bateman (Rapier’s partner of 15 years) and Perry.

“I feel like a little schoolgirl at a Justin Bieber concert,” jokes Bateman, then says more sincerely, “Jay Perry is brilliant. He is also so unselfish, he will make you look so much better and so much funnier than you really are. He and I are like brothers.”

“When Jerry told me about plans to remount Gutenberg I thought Christmas had come early,” adds Perry in a kindred joking manner. “I don’t think I’ve had more fun on stage than in the two productions of Gutenberg with Kirt Bateman.”

Again kindred in manner.

The following month, July, Dark Horse returns and closes the series with Gypsy, a well-known musical loosely based on the 1957 memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, the famous striptease artist.

“Gypsy is a large-scale classical piece of musical theater for the summer which fits perfectly with the type of shows Dark Horse likes to do while maintaining an appeal to a very diverse audience,” says Simons. “It’s a musical that appeals to three maybe even four generations.”

The Musicals on Main series, according to Simons, is “an exciting collaboration in which each company involved can bring their strongest attributes to the table to create an incredible end product for Utah.”

“With the evermore-complicated challenges of producing theater, it is exciting to be part of something new: a partnership between three non-profit arts organizations presenting professional musical theater at an affordable price,” adds Rapier.

Ticket package to all three musicals is only $45, or $18-20 per individual tickets.

The first show tick, tick... BOOM! runs March 11-27; the second show, Gutenberg! The Musical! runs June 3-19; and the third, Gypsy, runs July 8-31. All three will be performed at the Egyptian Theatre in Park City. For tickets and more information visit egyptiantheatrecompany.org. Q

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Theatre 138 — Salt Lake’s first ‘alternative’ theater company

Leaders have always known that art and literature have more power to change hearts and minds than political activism, and therefore they must be very, very dangerous.

By Fran Pruyn

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HERE IS A FAIR SHARE of us doing alternative theater in Salt Lake City these days — and a lot of us are queer; but in the ’60s and the ’70s, and for most of the ’80s, there was only Ariel Baliff, Stu Falconer and Tom Carlin fighting the good fight.

Ariel, Stu and Tom were three gay men who started THEATRE 138 in a historic church building at 138 S. 200 East. Theatre 138 was the first intimate, “alternative” theater company in the Salt Lake Valley. From 1966 to 1989, they

produced over 300 shows — 60 of which were premieres of new scripts.

Stories of how the three met and formed an alliance are apocryphal. What is certain is that Tom served in World War II, that there was a family connection between Stu and Tom, and that Ariel most certainly was Stu’s partner of four decades.

Ariel had Utah roots but a national reputation.

After graduating from BYU and Yale, he taught design from 1957-62 at the Yale School of Drama.

He designed for Yale Resident Theatre, national stock companies and early television productions. In the ’50s, Ariel, Stu and Tom opened a small dinner theater in Richmond, Va., called The Renaissance.

In 1962, Ballet West founder William Christensen talked Ariel into moving back to Utah and holding a teaching position at the University of Utah. The three moved to Salt Lake City. While Ariel taught at the UofU, Stu landed acting gigs and Tom became a radio personality on AM radio.

In 1967, they opened Theatre 138 with an original play, This is the Place?. Ariel was the artistic director and resident set and costume designer. Stu was the technical and production manager. He acted in many of the shows, as well as being the master carpenter and general handy-guy.

The running joke was that Stu had to fix the wiring between act breaks. Tom was the administrative arm of the company, handling everything from ticket sales to PR. Theatre 138 did the classics like Hay Fever and Long Day’s Journey into Night.

They did musicals like The Fantasticks and C “feel-good shows” like A Thousand Clowns,M On Golden Pond and Y 84 Charing Cross CM Road.

More importantly,MY they took risks on CY plays that mainstream theaters couldn’t CMY or wouldn’t touch. K Theatre 138 produced works by Tennessee Williams and Edward Albee that were edgy and esoteric. They also produced new plays by Utah authors, including scripts about unusual topics, like art therapy.

They staged very bawdy productions of Chicago and Sweeney Todd. They produced Carnival with an interracial cast, and did Sticks and Bones — a dark comedy about a blind Vietnam War veteran. They produced Equus, complete with nudity, and, according to Jim Dabakis, “they were sure they would be shut down.”

Theatre 138 mounted The Boys in the Band to sold-out crowds. In 1987, Ariel, Tom and Stu joined forces with Walk-Ons Theatre Company, a nomadic company produced by a young David Spencer and Jayne Luke. At Theatre 138,

but he continued to design for Pioneer Theatre Walk-Ons staged As Is at the height of the AIDS epidemic. As Is, by William Hoffman, is a surpris- Company. His last works were designs for ingly funny, and graphic play that is sympathetic PTC’s ’93 production of O Pioneers, and a “new Nutcracker” for Ballet West. to people living with AIDS. Cast members were Stu Falconer died of cancer in 1993, a few seriously worried about bomb threats. days after being diagnosed. Ariel’s health As Is was the last show at Theatre 138. deteriorated after Stu’s death, and he died in Mountain Fuel Supply bought the building, tore it down and it became a parking lot. Thereafter, 1994 of a heart attack, four days before receiving Theatre 138 and Walk-Ons produced theater the Madeleine Award for Distinguished Service together at the Center Stage on Highland Drive to the Arts and Humanities. Tom Carlin passed for two years until that building, too, was sold, away in the Veteran’s Hospital in April 2000 after and both companies dissolved. an extended illness.

At the time Ariel Ballif said, “We’re past the Actors at Theatre 138 received $7.50 a week age of the full-time, 12-shows-a-year routine. for hosiery and gas. The company’s alumni But, we’re certainly not going to retire from the include veterans Gene Pack, Margaret Crowell, business, because it’s too much a part of our Anne Cullimore Decker, Joan Erbin, Tony Larimer, lives.” and young upstarts Anne Stuart Mark and James Stu continued to act sporadically. It was Morrison. “I was so pleased to work at Theatre rumored that Ariel had been asked to leave 138,” said Vicki Pugmire. “I thought I had made Pilobolus for Q Salt 3.3.11.pdfit to1Broadway.”

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SPRINGARTSGUIDE

‘Rent’: Bohemian theater at its finest

By Tony Hobday

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N JAN. 25, 1996, American composer and playwright Jonathan Larson passed away at the age of 35; his untimely death occurred just one day before the OffBroadway premiere opening of Rent — a seven-year project on which he and playwright Billy Aronson initially collaborated. The musical rock opera became an instant hit, moved to Broadway three months later, and garnered Larson three Tony Awards and the coveted Pulitzer.

Aronson wanted to create “a musical based on Puccini’s La boheme, in which the luscious splendor of Puccini’s world [1800’s Paris] would be replaced with the coarseness and noise of modern [1980’s] New York.” Along with the many parallels to La boheme, Larson included autobiographical arrangements: the play is set in the East Village of Manhattan — just down the street from the apartment he shared with Jennifer Beals’ (The L Word) brother Greg (from whom the character of Roger is loosely based); the fact that Larson lived in poor conditions like no heat a bathtub in the middle of the kitchen and the inability to ‘buzz’ people into his secure building is reflected in Rent; and one storyline in which Maureen leaves Mark for a woman is based on the fact that Larson’s girlfriend left him for another woman.

Also incorporated into the musical are actual New York establishments and historical events; the riot at the end of the first act is based on “the East Village conflicts of the late ’80s that arose as a result of the city-imposed curfew in Tompkins Square Park.”

Late this spring Pioneer Theatre Company brings Rent back to the Utah stage. The show’s director Karen Azenberg (a long-time friend of Larson) says, “What I love about this piece, and I think was part of Jonathan’s intention, is that the LGBT characters, like all the characters, are human beings.”

“At the end of the day they are all people, who love and lose, laugh and cry, live and die,” Azenberg continues. “Embracing life and your fellow man, and having ... for lack of a better term, love in your heart, are the most universal qualities that we might all strive to have define us. That sounds a bit Pollyanna-ish, but for the characters in the play, and in the world of the play, there is a level of acceptance of LGBT people that hopefully allows for the bigger message to come forward.”

(In 2009, the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, of which Azenberg is president, adopted a ‘Memorandum of Support’ for marriage equality: “SDC works diligently to ensure equal and fair protection for all of its Members, ... unanimously support the members of the LGBT community fighting to secure their constitutional right.”)

Azenberg met Larson when she had the opportunity to work with an organization that was developing work for educational theater.

“They were pairing older established composers or lyricists with a younger, up-and-coming collaborator,” she remembers. “This is where I met Jonathan Larson, along with Hal Hackaday. They wrote a play called Blocks that was targeted at pre-teenagers and addressed the “blocks” that get in the way of personal success or confidence in people of that age. It’s a wonderful piece and it was also clear that Jonathan was a huge talent.”

The story of Rent involves a group of young Bohemian artists and musicians struggling to survive under the shadow of HIV/AIDS, during a period in which the infection was most obscure. The two-act show opens on Christmas Eve with Mark, a filmmaker (and narrator of the show) and his roommate Roger — a reformed junkie and musician — shooting a documentary. As the act progresses, other lead characters are introduced: Tom, a gay philosophy professor; Benny, the apartment building’s landlord; Joanne, a gay lawyer;

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Maureen, a bisexual performance artist; Angel, a drag queen street percussionist; and Mimi, an S&M dancer.

Also during the first act, romances evolve between several of the characters, a civil protest is marked, and Mark and Roger are threatened with eviction. During the second act, from New Year’s Eve through spring, jealousies erupt, a life ends and the audience becomes privy to epiphanic life lessons.

“Part of the message of the play is to live for today — now — appreciate everything you have, and experience as you are living it,” explains Azenberg.

Considering that Azenberg knew Larson and “that he never lived to see the incredible success and response to this play, it’s so emotional and heartbreaking, bizarre and foreboding.”

Musically, Azenberg says of Rent,”Jonathan’s score is brilliant.

He is really one of the first composers to successfully meld a contemporary rock ‘n’ roll sound and musical theater storytelling into a complete piece of theater. His musical choices were very reflective of the kind of music that each character in the piece would listen to.”

“I think this is a very well-structured play that tells a really touching and universal story, and though this production will not copy the Broadway version in terms of the staging, I very much hope to hold onto the authors’ storytelling intentions,” adds Azenberg. Q

Rent runs June 10-25, Simmons Pioneer Theatre, 300 S. 1400 East, UofU. Tickets now available at 801-581-6961 or pioneertheatre.org.

Play raises cancer awareness with humor

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FUNNY PLAY ABOUT CANCER is a tough sell. However, A Slight Discomfort, a play by Salt Lake City playwright Jeff Metcalf, is more than just a humorous approach to his experience with cancer. The play is about human experiences with health and medicine, something everyone can relate to, Metcalf said.

The play is a one-man performance that follows the journey of the author as he is diagnosed and treated for prostate cancer.

“The play kept rearing its head in all the journals that I kept,” Metcalf said. “I started keeping a separate journal for (the cancer). And I realized in the cancer journal there was always laughter and light. It really surprised me. There was a lot of funny stuff.”

The play was first produced by Salt Lake Acting Company in 2008 and since then has received rave reviews at theaters across the nation.

The play will be making a one-night appearance at the IJ & Jeanne Wagner Jewish Community Center on March 10. The event is free, thanks in part to the Jewish Community Center and the Holme Robert & Owen LLP law firm.

The community center officials felt this play would be an opportunity to raise awareness about prostate cancer, as well as other types of cancer, said Michelle Oelsner, the community special events coordinator.

“The play is about awareness,” Oelsner said. “It’s not something people easily talk about.”

Men often have a difficult time speaking about feelings and other issues that might be affecting them, Metcalf said.

“The play gets men talking,” Metcalf said. “I can always tell which men have prostate cancer when they watch it. The play is humorous in the sense that we can see ourselves in there.”

However, the play is not just for men with prostate cancer, Metcalf said. The audience of the play is usually well-balanced with men and women. And the play is about so much more than just cancer, he said. It speaks to the human condition and allows us to reflect on our relationship with health and medicine.

“The play is about life, laughter and love. It’s a play about, oh yeah, cancer,” Metcalf said. “Which is the smallest part of the play, as far as I’m, concerned.”

WEDDING GIVE AWAY

Wedding videos: Priceless keepsakes

Pride Greetings: A gay and tasteful card choice Since Pride Greetings launched in November 2009, the company specializing in gay-themed greeting and wedding cards has grown in leaps and bounds. The cards are now distributed in more than 20 different locations across the nation and are available online.

The company founder, who is a Utah native, Dave Burton, started the company when he couldn’t find a tasteful wedding card for his friends traveling from Utah to San Francisco to get married when same-sex marriages were legal.

“The company was started because of a gay Utah couple,” Burton said. “I don’t want anyone to forget that there are gays in Utah.”

Burton, who now lives in Washington D.C., has helped the company grow into a variety of markets, providing an assortment of greeting cards, including cards for major holidays,

sympathy, birthday and new babies.

“The greeting cards are tasteful,” Burton said.

The Pride Greeting Cards are not pornographic, nor are they great gag gifts. The cards are stylish, affordable and attractive for anyone looking to share a card with someone they love, Burton said.

In addition to being gay-themed, all the cards are green-friendly. The cards are made from recycled materials and so is the plastic sleeve.

Pride Greetings provided envelopes for the upcoming QSaltLake-sponsored wedding.

To pick up Pride Greetings cards in Utah, go to the website, www.PrideGreetings.com or go to Cahoots or Cabin Fever in Trolley Square.

Belly dancing: Performance art and expression Not too many people can honestly sum up their life in one sentence. Especially as simple of a motto of “Belly dancing is my life.” But for Thia Fadel, there’s not much else to life.

“I totally dedicate myself, and my life, to promoting the art of belly dancing,” Fadel said.

Fadel said she is attracted to the dynamic nature of belly dancing. She studies every year in Turkey and Greece to ensure she is staying sharp and current with her dancing and teaching. She has also studied in India so she can correctly incorporate Bollywood dance styles.

“Belly dancing is pure expression,” she said.

Fadel has shown her craft with her students at restaurants, cultural celebrations, churches, weddings and other events. She is also performing at the QSaltLake-sponsored wedding.

“There’s a misconception about belly dancing,” Fadel said. “People think it’s a crude or a lewd form of dance. But when done correctly, it’s actually an art form that is family-friendly.”

The belly dance performances can include as few as two or three people or as many as 60 people, depending on the venue and the audience. Belly dancing also, in some ways, follows an audience participation model. Depending on how the crowd reacts, the show might alter slightly, Fadel said.

“We try to tailor each show to each audience,” Fadel said.

Most people don’t know what they want to be when they grow up. For Leyda Cordova, that was only partially true.

“My vision for myself was to always be creative,” said Cordova, the wedding videographer for the QSaltLakesponsored wedding.

She has been filming and editing wedding videos for about eight years, and while most weddings have similarities, there are always individual moments that can be highlighted in each wedding, she said.

“I really like knowing the tastes and motivations of my clients,” Cordova said. “I like to show the personalities in the wedding. My videos are more than just nice pictures with music in the background.”

The videos will include the marriage ceremony in its entirety as well as the speeches. However, after that, every video is individualized. The music included on each video is different and used to reflect the personality and style of the couple, she said. The wedding attendees will never be asked to pose for a shot or manufacture any situation, she said.

“I like to take a very genuine approach to filming,” Cordova said. “I like to mirror the memories that people will already have.”

While the technology has changed significantly over the past decade, Cordova likes to see tech-

nology only as a tool to reflect her own creativity and the magic of the moment in the wedding.

“If you’re considering a wedding videographer, it shows great foresight on your part,” Cordova said. “Pictures are nice, but videos are an excellent way to capture so much more than that; your voice and your movements. Really, the videos will be priceless.”

Before a wedding, Cordova will plan everything out with the bride and groom to make sure she understands what they want in a video. After that, just leave everything to her. However, it is important to note that a videographer does not replace a photographer.

For more information or to see samples of some of Cordova’s favorite wedding videos, go to Rockmelon.net.

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Is coming March 17

When performing at weddings, the dancers will try to help audience members learn and practice belly dancing and each performance.

This could include the people that were married, or other participants in the wedding.

For more information about Bellydancing by Thia, or to book her group for an event, go to their website, www.bellydancingbythia.com.

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Street in the center of downtown and the old brick building has been refashioned with a beautiful Oriental façade. Even from the sidewalk and on a weeknight, you can feel the excitement of happy people, the atmosphere of fun and anticipation. I knew right away I was in for joyful ride.

Timid at first, I let several others be seated before me while I checked out the scene before me as I decided where to sit. A nice-looking maître d’ with a shaved head asked if I was an adventurous eater, and even though it’s not always the case, I said yes. By then, the host had been notified that I was with QSaltLake and I was seated at the sushi bar directly in front of Tommy, the

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head sushi chef — a spot I had already decided mushrooms were sautéed in a tiny bit of soy and was the best place in the house. sake and there was a dollop of crème fraiche, so I rolled it all up into a sort of burrito. I did I sat between two out-of-towners who were think the taste of the sake was a bit too strong busily talking to the sushi makers and asking, at first, but after I mixed in the crème I liked it a “can you do this?” and “can you do that?” I was lot more. The mushrooms alone had the most blown away. Takashi is a do-it-yourself sushi succulent and buttery flavor. At any rate this dish heaven. was so stunning, unusual and driven by quality.

The entryway at Takashi divides two dining Simply put, I was amazed. rooms on either side and in the back there is a Tamara really spoiled me, and Rod, my long sushi bar with about two dozen stools. The companion on the right shared tastes of his two place was packed and for me, it was such a new experience I must have been grinning from ear to different sakes with me. I chose a glass of Pinot ear. The two guys on either side of me began tell- Gris. I’m not a huge sake fan. I really prefer a ing me of how they always come to Takashi when nice, crisp white wine with Asian food; Pinot Gris, Pinot Blanc and Muscadet from the Loire they are in Salt Lake on business. Just at that Valley are my favorites. Tamara and Takashi have moment, a cook appeared from the back, and I an excellent list of both wines and sakes and saw Tommy, the man to my left, deftly prepare a bed of rice and seaweed right in front of me. The they special order many of their beverages so you can only get them at Takashi. cook handed Tommy a freshly deep-fried, spicy I won’t bore you with all the details, but crab which was quickly wound into a stunning here is a list of the many ingredients I saw and California roll. The roll was cut into about eight tasted at Takashi: Quail egg yolks, many types of pieces and placed in front of the guy on my left. caviar, tomatillo, dicon, horse radish, fresh red “Wow,” he said, “you need to try some of this” beets shredded into fine threads, countless fish — and I did! including every part of the fish, crab and I could I love California rolls because they are so go on and on. safe. You can even have California rolls made Tamara is a self-motivated expert on mushout of avocado and cream cheese. But a spicy soft-shelled crab? I hadn’t imagined it. In front of rooms and is one of those naturists who travel far and wide to find the shy fungus. She uses each setting at the bar there are all the necesa specific mushroom to make an sary condiments, which you just infusion which she then adds to grab with your fingers. I made Takashi her delicious pots-de-crème, aka a small pool of wasabi mixed 18 Market Street panne cotte. This awesome desert with soy sauce on my plate and 801-519-9595 although made from a mushroom, dipped the crab roll into it before Weekday lunch tastes like maple — who knew? The popping the whole thing in my 11:30am–2pm tiny, yet bursting-with-flavor gelatin, Weekday Dinner mouth. I was not disappointed.

5:30–10pm flanked by a few berries and two The fellow on my right was fasciSat 5:30–11pm slices of Chardonnay poached nated that I was a culinary writer CHEF DREW’S SCORE: pears was do die for. After receiving and he too began sharing his 93 desert, many other customers at food with me. This went on for the bar also wanted one. quite some time before I chose I love going to places where I am any food on my own. surprised with creativity, new ideas, spectacular By this time, Tamara, owner and wife of Chef Takashi, had joined me. She brought a beautiful and expensive ingredients and nice company.

The artistic and detail-oriented plating may be sautéed bouquet of wild mushrooms, (I can’t the best in Utah. I am probably behind the times imagine how much they cost), served with a here but if Takashi is a secret to you as it was buckwheat crepe. I thought for a moment I was in a French restaurant because in Normandy and for me, don’t waste any more time. Go! I give Takashi a rating of 93. Q Brittany they also make buckwheat crepes. The M a rch 03 , 2011 | issue 175 | QSa lt L a k e | 27

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Monday night classes $35 or 3 for $95 Sunday night wine classes $40 plus $15 the night of the class or $110 for three.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

gay agenda

Kaboom See March 11

Channeling Old Spice and Imogen Heap

by Tony Hobday

Well prop me on a white horse, on a white, sandy beach, shower me with diamonds and call me Gaaayy, this spring and summer the performing arts is going mega-homo. Pioneer is doing Rent, Westminster College is doing Equus, Plan-B is doing Borderlands and Gutenberg! The Musical!, Dark Horse Company Theatre is doing tick, tick ... BOOM! and Salt Lake Acting Company’s annual Saturday’s Voyeur is always gay. Now back to me!

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THURSDAY — “You might be a redneck if ...” you make moonshine in your basement, or accidentally shoot your hunting buddy or strike it rich in jockstrap oil-wrestling. Anyhoo, Desert Star Theaters presents BEVERLY HILLBILLIES 90210, a backwoods-caliber musical comedy. The Clams move to Bevery Hills to make a fortune selling Granny Pitts’ homemade moonshine as clean-burning fuel. But their greedy neighbor plans to swindle them out of their fortune, until his surfer son falls for one of the hillbillies.

Q Award-winning playwright Jeff Metcalf has written a remarkably honest and outrageously funny play about his experience with prostate cancer called A SLIGHT DISCOMFORT. Ah-ha! I thought it was called this when Michael Aaron’s Peruvian boyfriend licks my ear. “It explores the shared experience of being human and dealing with a crisis with grace and humor; it’ll take you from laughter to tears, from blushing to bravo, from thought to action, from tragedy to triumph.”

7:30pm, April 23, Desert Star Playhouse, 4861 S. State St. Tickets $10–16, 801-266-2600 or desertstar.biz.

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WEDNESDAY — Grand Theatre

presents the regional premiere of an off-Broadway musical that took New York by storm. Meet THE MARVELOUS WONDERETTES, a doo-wop group with hopes and dreams as big as their crinoline skirts and voices to match, while they perform at their 1958 high school prom. A musical trip down memory lane with classic songs such as “Lollipop,” “Mr. Sandman,” “Leader of the Pack,” “Respect,” and many more.

7:30pm, through March 26, Grand Theatre, 1575 S. State St. Tickets $9–24, 801-957-3322 or thegrand.org.

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THURSDAY — Back by

popular demand, Odyssey Dance Company’s work of Romeo and Juliet, the tale of star-crossed lovers ... but in the Odyssey tradition of a hip-hop version. Choreographed by principal Eldon Johnson, along with sections

by Ashleigh and Ryan Di Lello from So You Think You Can Dance, this is a unique and powerful tour de force. Also on the SHUT UP & DANCE schedule is Dancescapes, which will include two world premieres: Artistic Director Derryl Yeager’s abstract work called: Heap!, to the instrumental music of Imogen Heap, and Associate Artistic Director Christina Bluth’s In the Shadow, followed by Act II of the Company’s acclaimed Giselle.

7:30pm, through March 19, Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Cir., UofU. Tickets $15–35, 801-5817100 or kingtix.com.

7pm, Jewish Community Center, 2 North Medical Dr. Free, 801-581-0098.

FRIDAY — “I’m more like undeclared,” Smith says of his sexual proclivity in KABOOM, a 2011 Sundance film selection. A hyperstylized, pansexual trip, the film was born out of the graphic novel aesthetic. Thomas Dekker plays Smith, a film student lusting after his dumb, hunky roommate, but after eating a drug-laced cookie, he hooks up with a hot chick. Meanwhile, a bizarre mystery brews involving his lesbian BFF’s obsessive, witchy girlfriend, guys in masks who chase him around campus and a recurring dream about a dead girl. This flick is odd and campy, but has nice eye-candy.

Opens today, Broadway Centre Cinemas, 111 E. 300 South. Tickets $6–8.50, 801-746-0288.

Q The Utah Arts Alliance presents CONNECT a free monthly event held for artists, art enthusiasts and anyone interested in meeting with people who are a part of creative communities. A casual “meetand-greet” atmosphere where artists can meet others in their field, showcase select pieces from their portfolio, learn from their peers and vote for their favorite pieces of art that evening. This month’s special guest artist is Anthony Granato.

7–9pm, Utah Arts Alliance, 2191 S. 300 West.

Free, 801-485-2105 or utaharts.org.

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SATURDAY — The Utah Symphony presents, for the whole family, the children’s musical symphony PETER AND THE WOLF. It’s the story of a brave young boy, a menacing and hungry wolf, a grumbling grandfather, an adventurous duck and a couple of

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mean old hunters. It’s ravishing! Prokofiev’s beloved tale will come to life with Ballet West dancers and the musical characterizations of a parade of animals played by the symphony musicians.

11am & 12:30pm, Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple. Tickets $6–20, 801-355-ARTS or arttix.org.

Q As a follow-up to their jaw-dropping Cultural Olympiad performance in 2002, the world renowned dance troupe, PILOBOLUS, returns to the Eccles Center for a long overdue performance. Founded in 1971 and recognized for its imaginative and athletic exploration of creative collaboration, the troupe has evolved into a pioneering American cultural institution of the 21st century.

A don’t miss!

7:30pm, Eccles Center, 1750 Kearns Blvd., Park City.

Tickets $18–65, 435-655-3114 or ecclescenter.org.

Q If you didn’t get enough fatty foods on Fat Tuesday, or not enough of any food on Ash Wednesday, or or not enough booze on Thirsty Thursday, or not enough whoopie on F*** Friday, then check out the TARDY MARDI PARTY presented by the Utah Arts

save the date

Festival. Starty with Bacardi and party hardy until you’re foolhardy. Give me a break, I’ve had too much Wild Turkey ... and it’s only Manic Monday.

6–11pm, Salt Lake Hardware Building, 105 N. 400 West. Tickets $50 or $75/includes Texas Hold ’Em tournament, 801-322-2428 or uaf.org.

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MONDAY — In the 2009 lesbian film by Steve Balderson, STUCK!, the beautiful young Daisy feels “stuck” working as a shopgirl by day and caring for her ailing mother by night.

A suicide gone wrong leaves Daisy wrongly imprisoned, while the neighbor, whose testimony put her away, struggles with guilt.

This is a tongue-in-cheek homage to 1950s women-in-prison films ... oh lord!

7pm, Tower Theatre, 876 E. 900 South. Free, 801359-5158 or saltlakefilmsociety.org.

UPCOMING EVENTS APR 16 Lily Tomlin, Kingsbury Hall APR 20 David Sedaris, Kingsbury Hall JUL 25 Katy Perry, ESA

May 5–6 Hey Look Us Over, Salt Lake Men’s Choir, saltlakemenschoir.org

March 19 sWerve’s St. Patty’s Day Party swerveutah.com

June 3–5 Utah Pride Festival utahpridecenter.org

April 15 Day of Silence dayofsilence.org

June 11 HRC Gala Dinner hrc.org

April 16 Queer Prom utahpridecenter.org

June 17–19 Damn These Heels! Film Festival damntheseheels.org

April 22–23 Rocky Mtn Olympus Leather Competition rockymountainolympus. com April 24 PWACU’s Spring Fling pwacu.org

June 23–26 Utah Arts Festival uaf.org August QSaltLake Day at Lagoon qsaltlake.com

August PWACU River Trip pwacu.org August 4–7 Park City Arts Festival kimballartcenter.org August 12–14 Utah Rebellion utahrebbion.com August 20 Equality Utah Allies Dinner equalityutah.org December 1 World AIDS Day worldaidsday.org To get your major event included on this list, e-mail arts@qsaltlake.com

2011 fa y awards baot This is your chance to vote for

who is the best in the state for our community!

Choose any of our nominees or write in your own favorite. Please complete a minimum of 10 categories and mail or fax it to us. One ballot per person please.

restaurants Best to Get Your Money’s Worth  The Other Place  Off Trax  Bayleaf Café  _______________________

Best After Midnight  Off Trax  The Pie  Bayleaf Café  _______________________

Best Pizza  SLP&P  Settebello  Stoneground  _______________________

Best Caterer

 Cuisine Unlimited  Le Croissant  Cuisine Unlimited  _______________________

nightlife

Best Place to Get Your Groove On

 Red Iguana  Rio Grande  Frida Bistro  Loco Lizard

 Babylon  Pure  Club Try-Angles  Pachanga  _______________________

 _______________________

Best Place to Hook Up

Best South of the Border

Best Contemporary Restaurant  Meditrina  Metropolitan  Franck’s  Bambara  _______________________

Best in Park City  Bandit’s Grill  Riverhorse  Wahso  _______________________

Best Asian Food  Sapa  Thai Garden & Noodle House  J Wongs  _______________________

Best Vegetarian/Vegan  Omar’s Rawtopia  Sage’s Café  Evergreen House Café  _______________________

f d & drink

Best Cupcakes/Pastries  Diva’s  Mini’s  So Cupcake  Schmidt’s  Les Madeleines  _______________________

Best Breakfast Selection  Off Trax  The Other Place  Blue Plate Diner  _______________________

Best “Hangover” Brunch

 Club JAM  Pure  Babylon  _______________________

Best Place to Sing Karaoke  Tavernacle  Trapp  Paper Moon  Club Try-Angles  Club JAM

 _______________________

Best Place to be Friday Nights  Pure  Club JAM  Club Try-Angles

 _______________________

Best Place to be Saturday Nights  Babylon  Club Try-Angles  Club JAM  _______________________

Best Afternoon Crowd  Club Try-Angles  Trapp  Paper Moon

 _______________________

Best Gay-Friendly Bar  W Lounge  Area 51  Tavernacle  Urban Lounge

 _______________________

Best Place for Drag Queen Sightings

arts & culture

Best Local Theatre Company  Plan-B  SLAC  Pygmalion  Dark Horse Theatre  Pioneer Theatre  _______________________

Best Dance Company  Ririe-Woodbury  Odyssey  Repertory Dance  SB Dance

 _______________________

Best Play/Musical of 2010  Broadway-Avenue Q  Dark Horse Theatre-Reefer Madness  SLAC-Saturday’s Voyeur  Egyptian Theatre-Hair  SLAC-Angels in America: Millenium

 _______________________

Best Special Engagement Show in 2010  SLMC-Brothers & Sister feat.

Sister Dottie  Plan-B-Radio Hour:Marathon  SLAC-Angels in America: Perestroika (reading)

 _______________________

Best Dance Program

 Sugar Space-After Dark  Odyssey-Shut Up & Dance  Repertory-Mystique  Ririe-Configurations  Sugar Space/SB Dance-Yoga Confidential

 _______________________

Best Art Gallery/Museum  UMFA  Phillips Gallery  A Gallery  Salt Lake Art Center  Utah Arts Alliance  _______________________

Best Local Visual Artist  Trevor Southey  Sandy Parsons  Troy Hunter  Derek Dyer  _______________________

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Best Thrift/Consignment Clothing

 SLP&P  Ruth’s Diner  Squatters  The Dodo  _______________________

 Paper Moon  Thrid Friday Bingo  Cyber Slut Bingo  Studio 27

 Pib’s Exchange  Our Store  Decades

 _______________________

Best Sandwiches

Best Drink Prices

Best Thrift/Consignment - Furniture & Home Décor

 Toasters  Robin’s Nest  Tin Angel

 Club Try-Angles  Trapp  Tavernacle

 _______________________

 _______________________

 _______________________

Best Adult Toy Store  Mischievious  Cahoots  Blue Boutique  All For Love  _______________________

Best “Elephant” Gift Store  Cabin Fever  Cahoots  Mischievious  _______________________

Best Flower Shop  Twigs  Flower Patch  Aunt Fannie’s Blooms  _______________________

Favorite Local or State Politician  Peter Corroon  Ben McAdams  Christine Johnson  _______________________

groups

Best Social Group  ROTC  Affirmation  Simply Social  Alternative Garden Club  Utah Male Naturists  _______________________

Best Political/Service Group

 Sam Weller’s  King’s English  Ken Sanders Rare Books

 Equality Utah  Utah Pride Center  Utah Stonewall Democrats  PWACU

 _______________________

 _______________________

Best Bookstore

Q fabulous Best QSaltLake Columnist

 Troy Williams  Ruby Ridge  Christopher Katis  Ben Williams  _______________________

Best Story of 2010  Trevor Southey’s Life in Art  My Last Shot  Living with HIV/AIDS in Utah  _______________________

Best Q Event in 2010  Fabulous Fun Bus  Annual Fabby Awards Ceremony  Cyndi Lauper in Wendover  Annual Q Lagoon Day  Q Day at Park Silly Market

 _______________________

Best Religious/Spiritual Organization  Unitarian Universalist Society  LDS Reconciliation  Queer Spirit  _______________________

Best Sports Organization  QUAC  PCSL  MWFFL  GoodTimes Bowling  Lambda Hiking Club  _______________________

services Best in Skin

 A New Day Spa  Skinworks  Dr. Douglas Woseth  _______________________

Best Massage

Best Real Estate Agent/ Mortgage Lender  Brad Dundas  Tony Fantis  Babs DeLay  Vernon Jemmott  Scott Alexander  _______________________

Best Tattoo/Piercing Parlor  Koi  Iris Piercing  SLC Ink Tattoo  _______________________

Best Attorney  Doug Fadel  Lauren Barros  Marva Match  _______________________

Best Pet Stylist/Daycare  Camp Bow Wow  Dog Show  Dog Mode  Dogs R Us  _______________________

Best Counseling Services  Pride Counseling  Don Austin  Linnea Smith Noyes  Terri Busch  Jim Struve  _______________________

Best Insurance Agent  Steven Fisher  Alexius Gallegos  Bella Moretti  Dan Rodriquez  Jon Jepsen

 _______________________

Best for Keeping a Roof Over Your Head  Aspen Roofing  Freedom Roofing  Wesley Green Roofing

 _______________________

other

people

 Pride Massage  Kevin Guzik  Massage Bodywork  _______________________

 David Fetzer / Boom (SLAC)  Alexis Baigue / Saturday’s

Best Photographer

 _______________________

 David Daniels  Brian Gordon  Laurie Kaufman-Red Dragonfly  David Newkirk  _______________________

 KUTV  FOX  KSL

Best 2010 Performance

by Local Actor

Voyeur (SLAC)  Joe Debevc / She Was My Brother (Plan-B)  Luke Monday / Hair (Egyptian Theatre)  _______________________

Favorite Bartender/ Barback/Server  Jim Smith–Club Try-Angles  Brian Gordon–Club JAM  Jabe Hatch–The Trapp  _______________________

Favorite Leader of a Queer Organization

 Our Store  Now & Again  Abode

 Valaree Larabee-Pride Center  Brandie Balken-Equality Utah  Kari Beattie-sWerve  Allison Black-PFLAG Ogden

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 _______________________

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Best Local News Station

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divided space might be a good place to hold a party or two.

JAM has long been a hot spot for birthdays and whether the roped off area is filled with glitter or balloons it will be a good bet no matter what the night. Remember, however, that you should never wait till the last minute to book your party because you wouldn’t want the liquor to run out at your place and nowhere to have the after-party.

Püre? Now that is a mystery. I have never held nor been an attendee to a birthday party there. Nor do I know what it would be like but I imagine the owners of Pure can accommodate any sort of party that you wish. Might be worth looking into when debating where to go — especially when it warms up and they upper deck area is open. That might be a nice VIP event to celebrate with old and new friends alike.

I have been to The Trapp for a few birthday parties. Almost every celebration was extremely enjoyable and memorable. This might be the location of choice.

Or maybe Try-Angles? Or possibly any number of establishments you venture to.

Regardless, we have options for our celebrations.

I know from now until fall I have roughly 15 birthdays needing celebration, and I anticipate venturing to all of our friendly bars/clubs. I hope to see many of you there and as always, if you hear of anything new, up-and-coming or anything that’s “happening,” please let me know so our community will be aware and hopefully help support!. Q

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T’S TIME TO DARKEN OUR skin, cut our hair and get ready, because spring is just around the corner. I know it’s hard to tell with the temperatures ranging from 30 to 60 degrees. But let’s face it, we are all ready for warmer weather and that means preparation.

So what can be expected? For one, I know many birthdays are between spring and fall.

Which means parties are being planned and that begs the question: Which bar/club is best to hold an event as special as celebrating our birth?

Luckily we have many options: The Metro, JAM, The Trapp, Püre and Try-Angles are just a few. And believe it or not, another club is opening up for a Thursday gay-night at The Bay. Yes, that’s right, The Bay! On March 3 The Bay will have its opening night. Now, I know this establishment has been back and fourth from gay friendly to not, from old management to new and yet again the doors are opening for another attempt to draw our attention.

Will the new Thursday night at a long-known establishment flop as in years past? I don’t know, but I will give it a shot regardless. Any place willing to open its doors specifically for our community is worth giving it a try.

Everyone get excited or at least give it a shot on March 3 — same location but hopefully a different venue than we’re all used to.

Back to the main point: birthdays and party planning (where should I plan mine on June 23?!).

The Metro, which has proved to be a popular spot on Saturdays, will soon incorporate light finger foods, as it has in the VIP area. The large

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Q bar guide WEEKLY BAR EVENTS T CLUB TRY-ANGLES ●

251 W 900 S • D M N 801-364-3203 • clubtry-angles.com

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751 N 300 W • D F M N 801-891-1162 • jamslc.com

K KARAMBA ●

1051 E 2100 S • D M X 801-696-0639 • klubkaramba.com

V TAVERNACLE ●

201 E 300 South • K X 801-519-8800 • tavernacle.com

R THE TRAPP ●

102 S 600 West • B N D K M 801-531-8727 • tinyurl.com/trappslc

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KARAOKE $1 DRAFTS

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DANCE! DANCE! DANCE!

FRIDAY FIX WITH DJ \V/

BOOM BOOM ROOM WITH DJ MIKE BABBITT

DUELING PIANOS 9PM

DUELING PIANOS 9PM

DART TOURNAMENT 7PM DJ D

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SUPERSTAR KARAOKE WITH BRIAN G

LATIN GAY NIGHT DJ FRANK GO-GO DANCERS $1 DRAFTS KARAOKE W/KEVAN 9PM

PIANO KARAOKE WITH ERIC 8–11PM

POWERBALL KARAOKE W/ TROY 9PM

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FOOD&DRINK

cocktail chatter I get what I deserve: The hot toddy

By Ed Sikov

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’B BISERABLE,” I shnuffled from my sweaty side of the bed. Dan didn’t answer.

“I’b biserable!” I shouted, then broke into a coughing fit of such violent proportions that, well, I’ll spare you the details — not that I don’t want to describe my mucus with the vividness and color one associates with a great travelogue or restaurant review, but it would be edited out anyway on grounds of revulsion.

Dan came rushing in from the living room. I was wiping something yellowy-chartreuse from my upper lip. “You’re a mess, honey,” he said, quoting Dietrich in Touch of Evil.

“Da-a-an?” I cooed.

“I know that tone,” he said warily. “What do you want now?”

“A hod doddy.”

“A what?”

“A hod doddy!” I said before expelling more green stuff from my lungs.

“Oh, a hot toddy. I have no idea how to make one. You’re the cocktails guy.”

I wasn’t fond of this aspect of Dan’s personality — the willful ignorance of domestic tasks.

Three Harvard degrees, a job that demands brilliance, research grants so plentiful that they remind me of The Producers (50 percent of his time gets charged to this grant, 30 percent to that one, 40 percent to another, a little 20 percent grant to top it off. ...). And he can’t sew on a button, locate a colander, or make be a dabbed hod doddy!

“Neber mide,” I said.

I wrapped myself in a heavy-hooded robe that made me look like a Trappist, shuffled into the kitchen, rooted through the liquor cabinet, and promptly knocked over the bottle of herbinfused Absolut I’d made in the fall.

“Shid!” I cried after the glass shattered on the

merciless tiles.

What was left of my Scarborough Fairs quickly spread across the floor. Dan, contrite at forcing me to make my own drink, kindly offered to clean up the mess. When I returned to the kitchen, the only remnant of my delightful autumn tincture was the faint aroma of rosemary.

“Dis id de way de world will end — not wid a whimper but wid a hideous and defeadig crash,” I said sadly and snottily. I found the bourbon and gripped it like a barbell dangling over my head.

You can make a hot toddy out of practically any liquor, but the darker ones — whiskey, bourbon, scotch, brandy — are the classics. You can also use hot tea as a base. But I like cocktails to be cocktails and tea and coffee to be just tea and coffee. (There will be no Irish Coffee column, for instance, because it’s repugnant.)

And I only drink hot toddies when I’m sick. The combination of those good old-fashioned cold fighters, honey and lemon, with a scientifically proven germ killer, bourbon, works best for me when I’m hacking up thick, slippery blobs of sputum that look like somebody made Jell-O out of thin, rotten pea soup and ... oh, right. Forget it.

I wasn’t fond of this aspect of Dan’s personality — the willful ignorance of domestic tasks.

The hot toddy Boil one-quarter to one-third cup of water.

Into a mug or heatproof glass, pour enough honey to coat the bottom. Add 1 or 2 teaspoons of lemon juice, and give it a stir. Pour in the amount of bourbon you think will kill enough germs to make the drink seem healthy. (Most recipes call for two tablespoons, but that’s like taking an antibiotic for which the bacteria is thoroughly resistant.) Pour in the boiling water, stir, and enjoy the drink’s curative effects. Q

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1612 Ute Blvd., Park City 435-645-7000 Off Trax Café Coffee, wi-fi and pool 259 W 900 South

Omar’s Rawtopia Restaurant Organic live food 2148 S. Highland Dr. 801-486-0332

Trolley Wing Company We’re Back! Open daily noon to 11pm 550 S 700 East 801-538-0745

Sage’s Cafe The freshest and healthiest cuisine possible 473 E 300 South 801-322-3790

Vertical Diner Vegetarian restaurant open seven days a week 10 a.m.–9 p.m.

2280 S West Temple 801-484-8378

Tin Angel Cafe Local food, music, art.

Serving lunch, dinner and Saturday brunch 365 W 400 South 801-328-4155

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FUN & GAMES

A Different Perspective Across 1 Chicago director Marshall et al.

5 Top of St. Peter’s 11 Flirts with, with “on” 15 Etheridge’s “I’m the ___ One” 16 Beat up on 17 Taking care of business 18 “I don’t celebrate ___ ...”

21 Fruitless 22 High point in church construction?

23 Some like it hot 24 Where a trolley goes “Clang, clang, clang” 27 Stuck your nose in 28 AARP members 29 Condom, in slang 32 Mag. execs 33 Skater who is the source of the quote in this puzzle 35 Feeds, in a sty 37 Labia, e.g.

40 Climax at the end of an action film 41 Oz setting 45 Continental coins 47 Former Minnesota governor Carlson 48 Like cardboard glasses at a movie 50 Singer Lovich

51 Start of a Hollywood Squares win 52 “... so why should I celebrate ___?”

54 [Not my error] 55 Greeting to Maria 56 B&O and Reading 57 Charlottesville sch.

58 Uey from WSW 59 Autobiography of 33-Across 64 Become an open pansy, e.g.

65 Locale of valuable stones 66 Stars that shoot off 67 Elroy Jetson stroked him 68 Goes out with 69 Shoots off Down 1 Men with steel rods 2 A fan of 3 Venetian assembly 4 Where priests come together 5 Sounds of Scarecrow’s foes 6 Herald 7 Pitchfork-shaped letter 8 Morsel for a mare 9 Stays in the closet, say 10 Loads 11 Score for Billy Bean 12 Where little Jack Horner stuck it 13 Used hoes

14 High-spirited horses 19 What you use to tie a man up?

20 Cold-blooded one 25 Alice portrayer on The Brady Bunch 26 Frigid 30 Post-lovemaking sighs 31 WWI troop group 33 “No way” man?

34 Julia of Kiss of the Spider Woman 35 Loses an erection 36 Robert Goulet role on Broadway 38 Can some tomatoes, e.g.

39 Acquired family member 40 Red grape variety 41 Tools for Michelangelo 42 East end?

43 Stocking stuffer?

44 Billy Bean’s food group?

46 Pulls out, in Gone with the Wind 48 School year division 49 Jones with a locker 52 Relief that rhymes with “homo” 53 Open-mouthed responses 60 Nero’s heart 61 Foot fetish digit 62 Verse on a vase 63 Caveman of comics PUZZLE ANSWERS ON PAGE 37

anagram An anagram is a word or phrase that can be made using the letters from another word or phrase. Rearrange the letters below to answer:

Name the artistic director of Ballet West.

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Q Scopes

Open yourself, Taurus!

By Jack Fertig

Venus entering Aquarius opens new aesthetic opportunities and challenges. Be daring and adventurous in your own presentation and your choices for entertainment and art. The North Node entering Sagittarius opens new challenges to look past apparently logical details to the fuller picture. Both are leaving Capricorn, so break out of old problems with new perspectives.

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ARIES (March 20–April 19) Being a bit more charming and innovative are great ways to promote yourself. The energy is there; take advantage of it. Dress for the job you want, not the one you have, but don’t shy away from your own sense of style!

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TAURUS (April 20–May 20) Open yourself to new art, new movies, new movies. Ask yourself what’s the most beautiful country in the world (besides your own). Do some research and expand your aesthetic vision to open up a much deeper sense of yourself.

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GEMINI (May 21- June 20) New sensual/erotic exploration won’t just spice up your sex life but help you understand where your relationship needs to go–or where one should get started. Discuss it with your partner; invite your honey to surprise you in bed.

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CANCER (June 21- July 22) Start a new conversation with your partner about old challenges. A breakthrough will likely require some risks and experimentation, possibly but not probably sexual. Review how the two of you share or divide tasks.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22–Dec 20) Set aside some money for a spontaneous indulgence or impulsive whim.

Resist the urge to splurge on anyone else.

This treat is for you! Get yourself something outré, so wrong that it’s right!

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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, through his website at www.starjack.com, and by e-mail at QScopes@qsyndicate.com.

LEO (July 23–August 22) Redecorate your workplace to make it more efficient. Innovate your beauty and health regimen. Novelty will keep you more involved. Dance classes are fun and would introduce you to new people. Try something very wild and different!

VIRGO (August 23–September 22) Your creativity is opening up in dazzling new directions. Play with new ideas and images. The urge to be the best or to utilize these expressions professionally should take a backseat to expressing youthful visions and affirming your roots.

SCORPIO (Oct 23–November 21) Grab keyboard or pen and paper; liberate your mind writing whatever occurs to you. Go for pretty, not logical poetry, songs, free association. Scrapbooking works. Review it a few days later and see

CAPRICORN (December 21–Jan 19) Take time out–a long walk or a spiritual retreat–to think about who you really are deep inside and who you want to be. Then consider how best to make your outside match your inside.

AQUARIUS (January 20–Feb 18) Liberate your past to get a clearer bead on your future. Old traumas contain lessons, but better yet review your earliest feelings of love and beauty. Sure, age brings disappointments. So what? You can still keep those innocent ideals alive.

PISCES (February 19–March 19) Your social instincts are especially sharp. Resist the tendency to fall back into the partying embrace of your home and community. Network! Hang out with people who can help you get ahead.

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SPORTS

Blitz gals gear up for 2nd season

By Brad Di Iorio

Gearing up for an April opening on a new field in the heart of downtown Salt Lake City, one of two Utah all-female, full tackle football teams, the Utah Blitz, has started practices and will be competing within their division in the national Women’s Football Alliance (WFA).

Founded in 2009 by four, out lesbians, Utah Blitz was formed when Utah’s former indoor women’s tackle team, Avalanche, disbanded.

The founders, Concetta Defa, Brooke Perkins, Judy Rich and Chrystle Kerfoot, still organize and run the team after two years. They make sure the team has a proper coaching staff, they do the scheduling, planning and arranging the team schedule, which includes travel and guest team stays. It’s also important to work with individual

players and the coaching staff to create a team camaraderie that will produce a winning formula.

“For me, my friends talked me into it, but for a lot of the girls they always wanted to play but they never got to,” said Defa, co-founder, executive board member, and team nose guard. “On our team, it doesn’t matter if you are straight or gay. We are there to watch each other’s back. We are a team.”

A full Utah Blitz roster is 40 players, but only 30 players have committed. The Blitz are open to adding new players but are looking for athletic prospects who might be able to catch on quickly and not hurt themselves. As a full-contact sport, women who have not played any sports for years tend to need more practice and conditioning

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than their male counterparts who may have played sports every year.

“Two gals moved from Idaho who were former players in the league, and two gals were from the Portland Fighting Fillies team,” Defa said. “Our team is incredibly better because of the girls that are returning and have experience, the new girls from other teams, and our coaching staff.”

Returning this year on the coaching staff is Dave Charley, or Coach D, who was an assistant coach last year, but took on the role of head coach for the 2011 season. Charley is assisted by another former assistant coach from last year plus four new assistant coaches, one of which is his father.

“We have a couple of women who are coming to practice that may coach down the road,” Defa said. “Our current coaches are teaching these ladies to coach as they get in shape during practice play.”

The cost to run a team with several months of organized practice and a full season averages $47,000. The teams in the WFA are non-profit, (C)7 sports clubs. Each team finds local sponsors to help pay for the costs of running the team during the season. Main costs are bus travel to opposing team’s cities and hosting the teams that travel to Utah to play on the Blitz’s home field. The Blitz covers hotel costs for the visiting team to stay comfortably while visiting Utah.

Locally, Red Robin West Valley has returned for the second year as sponsor, supporting the Blitz with game sales of burgers and fries.

Defa also hopes that IBEW, local Union 57, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, will return as a sponsor for 2011.

Ashley Kuster, 26, is an out Park City native who moved to Roy. She joined the Utah Blitz after her friends were interested in playing football.

“You get a new family out of it. It isn’t just coming here to play,” said Kuster, who trains and teaches Tae Kwon Do. “I couldn’t find a better group of girls.”

Kuster says she had not ever watched or played football and she was a bit confused. “It is completely different positioning than Tae Kwon Do,” Kuster explains. “Playing football you have to be close to the ground as where Tae Kwon Do is up and out. They did football 101 with me.”

Kuster has learned how to tackle and is practicing the defensive back position. Currently looking for work, her teammates helped her get her gear from an old teammate from last season.

Each individual team member is responsible for

her own equipment including cleats, pads and a helmet. Player fees are $100 which includes a home jersey, an away jersey, belt, pants and socks. Players can find used gear to help offset the costs and in the next couple of years, the Blitz will have enough equipment to rent to new Blitz members.

Another rookie, married mother of two, Carrissa Sinnott, 34, found the team on the Internet.

“The high school I went to in Seattle was a state champion and girls weren’t allowed to play,” Sinnott said, who is practicing at the guard position on the offensive line. “We moved to Utah and I didn’t know anyone here and they are like family now.”

Her husband has supported her and the team, even baking cookies and bringing them to practice. Sinnott is a grad student at USU and her two boys are excited to start playing football.

“I know it sounds funny, women’s football, but it isn’t any different from a man’s team,” added Sinnott, who previously played water polo in college.

Utah Blitz has their supporters like Patty Galindo, who gives away free prizes in the stands during games and Anita Hutton, who runs the game days.

“I’m just the behind-the-scenes person. My sister is Crystle, one of the founders,” Hutton said. “I set up the booths, sell tickets to games, do the paperwork, and sell team apparel like sweatshirts, t-shirts, hats, blankets and bumper stickers.”

Individual game tickets are $8, but a full season pass for all four home games is $20, available online. Regular season play includes eight games, four at home and four away games, followed by the playoffs and the championship in July.

Last year at the WFA Championship in Las Vegas, members of the Blitz met a drummer from a rock band who they talked into composing a fight song. The team’s own fight song will be revealed at their first game of the season at Judge Memorial High School, on Saturday, April 3, at 5 p.m., against the new Spokane, Wash. team, the Spokane Scorn.

Current indoor practice is being held each Saturday from 8 a.m. to noon at the Kaysville Sportsplex Fieldhouse. All the home games are held at Judge Memorial High School, which is located at 650 S. 1100 East. For more information about Utah Blitz, visit www.utblitz.com or find them on Facebook. Q

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“Era hispano, hablaba un idioma distinto y encima de todo eso, era gay,” dice.

William era distinto a todos. El hecho de venir de una sociedad tan cerrada que el tan solo hecho de jugar volleyball es usualmente calificado como homosexual, William pensó que el vivir en los Estados Unidos sería algo terriblemente difícil.

Algunos meses después, las cosas empezaron a caer por su propio peso y William obtuvo un trabajo y eventualmente un novio. ¿Sus miedos y demás empezaron a crecer una vez mas, seria difícil tratar de tener una relación con un hombre de raza caucásica?, ¿los dos tendrían cosas en común? ¿Que debía esperar?, ¿que pensaría la sociedad?

Las relaciones interraciales las tienen difícil. Estas sufren no solo por los problemas que todas las relaciones atraviesan sino por lo que las otras personas puedan pensar, en adición a esto, los problemas culturales entre dos tipos de culturas.

Los grupos étnicos traen variedad y enriquecen la sociedad al introducir sus propias ideas y costumbres. Esta es la principal razónpor la cual los Estados Unidos es muchas veces referido como “the melting pot.”

Las relaciones interraciales introducen además mucha variedad. En un mundo perfecto, todos deberían estar felices por este hecho, pero el mundo no ve como algo sano el amor entre dos personas que no son de la misma raza o género.

Si fuéramosciegos a los colores, aceptaríamos las relaciones interraciales.Casi 500 anos después que se descubrió America, los “Americanos” todavía estaban preocupados por la raza. Hoy, America sigue siendo conocida por ser una sociedad multicultural.

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Tomemos estas communes tipos de diferenicas, sumadas a los problemas que se pesentan en una relacion, y el resultado seran los ingredients perfectos para que surgan los conflictos. Cada persona en una relacion interracial ha optado por apostar todo. Han entrado en una relacion que bien no podria ser aceptada por sus propios amigos y familiars. ¿Como podemos vencer estos problemas si estamos en una relacion interracial?

Primero que todo, debemos de entender que nuestra situacion no es la unica. Hay muchas personas que atraviezan la misma situacion.

Ademas de esto, debemos de conoceracerca de la cultura de nuestra pareja tanto como nos sea posible. Esto nos ayudara a entenderlos un poco mejor.

Un error común es el uso de las palabras, por ejemplo en America Latina se usa la palabra “gordita” como un gesto de carino o sentimiento por otra persona. En cambio en los Estados Unidos, esta palabra puede ser usualmente tomada como un insulto.

Otro ejemplo de esto, es el hecho de que los Americanos usan lafrase “I’m sorry” con mucha recurrencia. Mucha veces esto puede hacer pensar a los otros si eso que ellos realmente sienten o lo dicen por pura costumbre.

Sean pacientes y enseñen mutuamente las costumbres y cultura, no sus prejuicios y creencia. No esperen que por que ellos estan en su pais, ellos deben acomodarse a su forma de vivir. Tal vez ellos lo haran en el futuro, pero no apliquen presion. Dejen que su pareja crezca con su ayuda y entedimeinto.

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“I was Hispanic, spoke a different language and on the top of that, I was gay,” he said.

He was very different from everyone else.

Coming from a society so closed-minded that even a boy that plays volleyball is usually chastised and called a fag, William thought that living in the United States was going to be terribly difficult.

A few months after arriving, things started to settle down and William got a job and, eventually, a boyfriend. His fears and concerns suddenly started to rise again. Was it going to be challenging dating a white a man? Will the two of us have things in common? What should I expect? What will society think?

Interracial relationships have difficulties that other relationships don’t have to face. They suffer not only from general issues of a relationship, but also the prejudice of other people, and problems brought on by differences between their cultures.

The difficulties in the relationships are balanced by other rewarding benefits. Ethnic groups bring variety and richness to a society by introducing their own ideas and customs.

In a perfect world, everyone would be happy about increasing diversity and adding richness to our culture. But the world doesn’t look at all relationships as love between two people without regard to their race and gender.

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When you have two people from two different countries, or from two different races, you have different angles to the same situation because there are differences in the ways people are raised.

Take these common cultural differences, combine them with problems that are already present in developing new relationships, and we will have the ingredients necessary for conflict. Each person in an interracial relationship has taken a chance. They have entered into a relationship that might not be accepted by the prejudices of their own family and friends.

How do you overcome the problems if you are in an interracial relationship? First, understand that your situation isn’t unique. There are many people out there with the same situation.

Also, find out as much as you can about your partner’s culture and background as possible. It will help you to understand his or her issues.

A common misunderstanding is the use of some words. For example, people in Latin America use the term “fatty” (gordita) to show some kind of love. It doesn’t have any intention to make anyone feel unhappy. But in the United States that word can be extremely offensive.

Another example of this is the fact that Americans use the phrase, “I’m sorry,” too often.

Sometimes it makes me wonder if the person is really sorry, or he or she is just saying the phrase.

Be patient and teach your partner your customs and culture, not your prejudices and beliefs. Do not expect that just because your partner is in your country he or she should adapt to your ways. Most people probably will, over time, but don’t apply pressure. Let them grow on their own with your help and understanding.

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Legend has it there is a large porno distribution warehouse in Jerome, Idaho that facilitates the shipment of most of the porn west of the Mississippi River.

Or so I was told several years ago by a helpful and attentive sales clerk at a porn store in Pocatello (Poke-a-fellow). It was during one of those quaint chit-chat sessions where you learn each other’s name, hometown and determine which underwear belongs to whom. This was shortly after he had given me some “very personal assistance” in the video arcade booth.

While trying to hand press the wrinkles out of my taffeta skirt and straightening my tiara, in a fruitless attempt to appear respectable on the way to the parking lot, I vowed someday to travel to Jerome and investigate this porno revelation.

Helpful hint: a queen should never wear taffeta when “shopping” at a video arcade. It’s just too high maintenance. I heartily recommend polyester. It doesn’t wrinkle when kneeling, and you can wash out those pesky “baby batter” stains.

So, you can imagine my immense twitter-pation last month when I had occasion to travel to Jerome for work. Excitedly, I filled the 25-gallon gas tank of Queer-Tanic, my 1975 Buick Electra land yacht, for the trip. At today’s gas prices I practically have to sell a kidney to afford to keep Queer-Tanic on the road. I was overjoyed, when on the trip northward, there was a fierce tail wind strong enough to assist Queer-Tanic in achieving her all-time best gas mileage of 12 mpg. But it was still not strong enough to dislodge my beehive hair, stylishly secured in place by two full cans of Aqua Net. After my work in Jerome was finished, I conducted an extensive search for the legendary porn warehouse. Usually, I can detect the presence of porn anywhere within a 10-mile radius, and I can do it faster than a BYU coed can find a Twinkie!

Alas, to my bitter disappointment, this legendary warehouse of my dreams turned out to be nothing more than an urban legend.

On the return trip, I was blissfully motoring along that truly godforsaken stretch of I-84 between Burley and Tremonton, singing along to “Dancing Queen” by ABBA, when I ran into a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad blizzard. And to make the experience even more compelling, Queer-Tanic’s heater/window defroster chose that exact moment in time to go colder than the icy stare of a drag queen who just missed out on the last free sample at the cosmetic counter at Nordstrom.

I pulled into a rest area next to a big truck being tended to by a hunky driver. I was grateful that I would, at the very least, have some hot inspiration during my moment of chilly desperation. I thought that if I wasn’t able to fix the heater, I would undoubtedly become the Ice Queen of Narnia. Or even better, carve out an igloo with the hunky truck driver next door and I could become a

fashionable Mrs. Nanook of the North.

I deduced that Queer-Tanic must have a clogged heater core, the Buick-equivalent of an enlarged prostate, thereby restricting the free flow of fluid. So I stepped out into the raging blizzard, with the driving snow pelting me in the face hard enough to crack my Revlon facial foundation. I heaved open the heavy hood, revealing QueerTanic’s throbbing 455-cubic inch engine. Size queens be jealous! With a sensitive probing gaze, I located the hoses attaching the heater to the cooling system. I decided to detach the hoses and orally blow the clog. Desperate, and needing a screw driver to loosen the hose clamps, I was just about ready to sacrifice one of my Lee press-on nails for the purpose, when I remembered that I could use a dime instead. Glory be! I saved the nails! I grasped the flaccid hose firmly with my trembling hands, gently tugging.

I placed my quivering lips over the end of the hose to give it a puff. After several large breaths, in and out, manipulating “the prostate” faster and faster, my face growing redder and redder, and with one final gasp the hose gave a sudden shudder, and the situation came to a climax.

A gelatinous blob erupted from the end of the hose, shooting past the front bumper and landing on the grill of the nearby truck as Queer-Tanic’s engine gurgled in relief. I could taste the saltiness of anti-freeze on my tongue. Wisely, I believe, on this occasion I chose to spit, not swallow. I quickly reattached the hoses and climbed back inside. To my delight, with the yellow fluid flowing freely once again, Queer-Tanic’s cabin interior was growing toasty warm in the afterglow. Oh, sweet mystery of life!

I glanced in the mirror to check my makeup and was mortified. The snow melting on my face had caused the mascara to run so that my eyes resembled something only a mother raccoon could love. Then I saw my black lips. They looked like I had either been rimming Count Chocula, or had mugged Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, for her lipstick. Apparently, heater hoses melt in your mouth, not in your hands. Thank goodness in princess training classes we were taught to always keep a large pack of wet wipes on hand.

But miracle of miracles, the beehive hair survived unscathed. God Save the Queen!

Like always, these events leave us with many important questions: 1. Does Twitter have an app for twitter-pation?

2. Could Bill Clinton’s impeachment have been prevented if Monica Lewinski’s blue dress had been made from polyester?

3. Does the porn warehouse, like Brigadoon, only appear during the potato harvest?

4. Could I become a spokesperson for Aqua Net? These and other important questions to be answered in future chapters of: The Perils of Petunia Pap-Smear. Q

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