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We will put issue 300 out in May — the Guide to Utah Pride. Seems fitting that such a monumental achievement — 300 issues — is our most monumental issue of the year.

Our 15th birthday is at the end of April as well. Our first issue hit the streets April 29, 2004. I don’t even have to look that up to remember the date. It was a big day for me, for us, and I’d like to say the community.

On that day we rented two Hotel Monaco presidential suites for a party that included the mayor, legislators, almost all of the 2News on-air team, leaders of almost every LGBT organization in the state, and a lot of wine drinkers as guests.

That day I was on KCPW’s pledge drive for three hours with now-editor of The Salt Lake Tribune Jennifer Napier Pierce. I did a five-minute segment with Mary Nickles on KUTV News. I was on Fox 13 News, News 4 Utah, and KSL News. Yes, KSL. We had stories in The Tribune, Deseret News, the Provo Herald, and Ogden Standard-Examiner.

The past 15 years have had many highs and lows.

To me, though, the lows were actually as good as the highs, like when we feared we were going down in 2012 when the economy, and many of our advertisers, hit hard times. Our community responded to our plea for help and helped keep us afloat as we retooled to become leaner and meaner. Not one very good at asking for help, it was a humbling and a heart-warming experience as my friends, family and fellow commu-

nity members showed me that they thought our work was important to them.

So, here we are 15 years later. While we aren’t dripping with cash, we are still here providing stories our community would not otherwise see.

We are asked often whether we think we are still necessary, since it seems to some that the movement for LGBT equality is done.

What? Were you asleep during this legislative session? Have you not heard of movements across the country and the globe trying to push back time?

National organizations who support the “ex-gay” movement and conversion therapy flew to Salt Lake to testify against our community’s efforts to end the barbaric practice. And they won.

Anti-transgender feminists, known as TERF, around the world have a presence here in our state. Hell, a local anti-LGBT representative from Grantsville tried to make one’s gender immutable, thereby sending the trans movement back to the 50s.

But we are about more than just reporting the news of the equality movement. We are also a lifestyle magazine which brings entertainment, health, culture, and other items of interest specific to our community.

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news The top national and world news since last issue you should know

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Warren, Biden debate ‘Pence niceness’ At a security conference in Europe, former VP Joe Biden, putative 2020 Presidential candidate made the mistake of calling current VP Mike Pence, “a decent guy.” His competitors for the 2020 Democratic Party nomination, especially Sen. Elizabeth Warren disagreed, “I’m sorry, I followed Pence’s history on LBGTQ Americans and I don’t think that is a decent position.”

Openly gay South Bend, Ind. mayor and 2020 presidential candidate, Pete Buttigieg, in 2017 said, “The thing about Mike Pence is, he’s a super-nice guy, who just genuinely believes this stuff [ed: being against marriage equality, adoption, and non-discrimination].” Joe apologized for saying something nice and there have been no recriminations against Buttigieg, yet.

No slice for you!

In Israel, a pizza parlor refused to serve a slice to a gay American rabbinical student.

A Jerusalem court fined the pizzeria 4,500 US dollars for the service refusal. The student said he was wearing a T-shirt with a nickname for his hometown, Cincinnati, emblazoned in rainbow colors when he stopped in for a slice during Pride Weekend in

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Jerusalem. According to the student, “The guy behind the counter said ‘Atah Homo (are you gay)?’ I said yes. “He said ‘out’ and pointed at the door.”

Club closures Gay life in Washington D.C. and Baltimore has taken a hit as two major gay clubs have discontinued operation. Cobalt, a cruise bar in D.C’s DuPont Circle area, was closed outright and Baltimore’s large gay dance club, Grand Central, was purchased by owners who will move away from a gay dance palace to a fern bar.

Owner of Cobalt blamed the high cost of doing business in the DC real estate market and that dating apps have changed the way gay men meet.

Hate chicken at the White House Another college football championship team showed up at the White House and was served fast food. Clemson received Wendy’s, Burger King, and McDonald’s when they went in for a photo op. Another time North Dakota State was served gay bete’ noir, Chickfil-A chicken sandwiches and waffle fries to celebrate their championship. No one took a knee at the ceremony and wings were not on the menu.

Discrimination ordinance veto baffles The mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska vetoed an LGBT-inclusive anti-discrimination ordinance passed by the city council. The odd thing is the mayor was a co-sponsor of the ordinance.

He explained, “I do not take this action lightly. I became a sponsor because I believe that all people should be treated with dignity and respect, and the concept behind this ordinance is sound. As with most concepts, the details become challenging when they affect

so many people with different priorities and opinions.”

Who got to him is not revealed, but he said he hopes the ordinance will end up on the ballot during the October’s election. Fairbanks would have joined Anchorage, Juneau, and Sitka with LGBTQ protections.

US military transgender policy affirmed by court A federal judge unblocked proposed transgender military policy so the DOD can now legally remove people currently enlisted who seek gender transitions and sets conditions for transgender people to sign up. The US Supreme Court has not “ruled” on the policy, but sent the case back to the judge for clarification, effectively ruling out a SCOTUS appeal.

The policy generally bars transgender individuals from serving unless they serve “in their biological sex” and prohibit gender transition while in service. The policy exempts transgender military personnel who began transition before the reviewed policy becomes official. Since this is not a law passed by Congress, policy on transgender military service will remain fluid depending on the whim of current and future presidents.

More gay, bi men are PrEPpy The CDC reported at the 2019 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections that more than one-third of sexually active gay and bisexual men used pre-exposure prophylaxis in 2017, up from 6 percent in 2014. However, the CDC notes “PrEP use remains too low, especially among gay and bisexual men of color”, and blames high cost of the drugs, difficulty with sticking to a daily plan, and insurance

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companies’ policies keeping more people liable to exposure from using the drugs.

Awareness of PrEP and its benefit is in the mid-eighty percent ratios with gay and bi men, but usage is only in the 30-40 percent range. CDC expressed optimism about the “non-daily” schedule currently in clinical trial. Non-gay/bi male populations remain very low in knowledge and even lower in usage of PrEP.

Where you been Chelsea? ‘In jail, again’ Erstwhile Senate candidate, convicted traitor, and high profile transgender female, Chelsea Manning, has been sent to jail for refusing to testify before a grand jury about WikiLeaks. She says she doesn’t object to testifying but does object that the testimony will be secret. This will break her practice of never doing anything which doesn’t result in publicity. The prosecutors said that putting her in jail will not effect on her transition as the transition drug regime would be continued and the jail she is going to has experience with high profile and difficult prisoners.

Colorado baker The Colorado Attorney General and the attorneys representing a Colorado baker who refused to bake a cake celebrating a gender transition announced an end to The Colorado Civil Rights Commission legal action. Also announced was the withdrawal of action relating to his previous refusal to bake a wedding cake for a same sex couple. The Supreme Court partially vacated that suit due to the states “overt antipathy” to his religion. A transgender woman asked the baker make a cake that was blue on the outside and pink on the inside for a celebration of her transition.

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Grande show at Manchester Pride The online scold mob does not like Ariana Grande being the headliner for this year’s Manchester Pride Festival.

First, it has somehow become inappropriate for a lesbian and gay audience to hear a straight woman sing at a Pride Festival.

Second the festival announced higher than expected ticket prices following the announcement of her headline status.

Appearing in Manchester, England is a sentimental return for her as 23 people were killed in a terrorist bombing at a venue there hosting a Grande concert in 2017. She defended herself, “I have nothing to do with ticket pricing.

I just wanna put on a show that makes my LGBTQ fans feel special and celebrated and supported.”

Jay-z, Beyonce’ bag GLAAD Award Beyonce and Jay-Z will receive GLAAD’s Vanguard Award later this month. GLAAD says the couple will receive the honor, which is “presented to allies who have made a significant difference in promoting acceptance of LGBTQ people.” GLAAD cites the money-making activities of the two — like hiring Laverne Cox as a spokesperson for a clothing line, denouncing “religious liberty laws,” Beyonce dedicating a song to the families of the 49 victims killed in the Pulse nightclub shooting, and featuring Jay-Z’s mother discussing being a lesbian on an album ― as their criteria for giving what they call, “this iconic couple” the award.

Country singer dance Country artist Cameron Hawthorn has made a very sweet video to showcase his new track: “Dancing in the Living

Room.” See it at bit.ly/hawthorndance. The song is about love and intimacy and is one he thinks that couples will dance to in their living rooms.

As well, the video also serves as his official coming out. Said Hawthorn, before coming out, “I remember always thinking how special it was to dance freely with my boyfriend living room of our apartment.

It’s not as easy to dance as a [gay] couple in public together as it is for a straight couple.”

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House Dems exclude LGBTQIA from resolution In the US Congress, haste makes wasted opportunity. In making a list of the “hating” the US House of Representative Democrats “hate” they forgot hate for LGBTQIA. The list was used in a House Resolution to protect firstyear Rep. Ilhan Omar’s comments from criticism as anti-Semitic. The resolution condemned bigotry; listing anti-Semitism, white supremacy and “every form of bigotry and hatred against people based on religion, race, or place of birth and origin.” It even managed to bring in the internment of Japanese US citizens in WWII and anti-Catholic bias against JFK in 1960. It passed the House on a party line vote.

Irish for a day, gay for breakfast For the second St Patrick’s Day holiday in a row, VP Pence, notorious in gay and lesbian circles for his opposition to marriage equality, hosted the gay-identifying Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar (Taoiseach in Celtic-Irish) for a breakfast meeting. This time it was at the VP Mansion in DC and with the PMs husband in tow.

The Irish PM traditionally celebrates the day in the US as it’s a “meh” day in Ireland.

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Biskupski will not seek re-election Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski announced Monday that she will not be seeking re-election. On her Facebook wall, she posted: “Recently my wife Betty and I have been faced with a serious and complex family situation that requires our attention.

As parents, we have and will always put the needs of our children first.

With that as our compass, we have made a decision for our family which will require an all-hands-on-deck approach. As this is a private issue involving our children that is all I want to say on the matter, and I appreciate your respect for our privacy.

For this reason, I have come to the difficult decision to withdraw from the 2019 Salt Lake City mayor’s race.

In making this decision I weighed three things.

My responsibility to my family—something I have fought to legally have for most of my personal and professional life.

My duty to the people of Salt Lake City and to the office I hold.

And, my desire to be a candidate for mayor.

There is no question in my mind, that my commitment to my family and my role as the Mayor of this great City must be my top priorities over being a candidate.

Over the next 9 months, Salt Lake City will undergo tremendous change, as many of the programs and policies we have been fighting for the last three years will be realized and implemented.

New City-sponsored bus service will begin, helping bridge a gap between our east and west-side communities—bringing increased equity and adding a critical component to our effort to help clear our air.

We will be opening the new homeless resource centers this summer, a new service model to help those most in need in our community.

We will be welcoming the world as Salt

Lake City hosts the United Nations Civil Society Conference, the largest international gathering Utah has seen since 2002, and the first time it will be hosted on American soil, outside of New York.

We will be launching new housing programs to ensure that Salt Lake City is a welcoming place to live for people of all backgrounds and income levels.

A new agreement between Salt Lake City and the School District regulating how law enforcement engages with students in our schools has just been put into place—helping to further break down the school to prison pipeline.

Major infrastructure projects will begin— the start of a multi-year plan to repair and replace our failing roads and infrastructure.

We will move forward on our 100% clean energy plans, including updating the City’s goal to be completed by 2030.

And, we will ensure that our lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the State’s takeover of our land use and taxing authority to build the Inland Port, moves through the courts.

When I took office, I asked City staff to begin a journey with me, a journey to Build a City for Everyone.

Together, we have created fundamental shifts that will make our City more accessible and equitable for decades to come.

We have ensured that whomever takes this office next, will stand in a better position to further move our City toward greater resilience, and equal opportunity.

As your mayor, I will spend my remaining time in office, implementing all we have created, as well as launching new initiatives around education and our Justice Courts.

Salt Lake City deserves a candidate for mayor focused on the issues that matter and the policies that will change lives for the better.

I fully intend to be a part of this debate. To

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challenge those that seek this office, to demonstrate their ability to prioritize the people most in need and to develop policies which will help them achieve their potential.

From housing, air quality, water, infrastructure, climate change, transportation, jobs, and how all people should be welcome here, I want to know where they stand on these issues and the Inland Port.

I want my mayor to be someone we can believe in and who will continue to fight for us.

Salt Lake City is unique and complex and requires thoughtful attention from experts like those we are fortunate to have on this team.

This is not the time for goodbye—rather, to every expert who has helped drive the change we’ve seen over the last three years, I want to say thank you—for the hard work you’ve done and for all we will do together in the next nine months.

I want to acknowledge those who have supported me through good times and tough times—particularly my office staff and cabinet members.

I have always said my greatest accomplishment has been the team I have built. You are extraordinary leaders and the City is fortunate to have you.

Your strength, kindness, and understanding have helped our residents and your drive to do what is right have inspired me to always move forward.

One of the most rewarding parts of my career has been the opportunity to mentor and serve with women. The advice I have often given them is to “give your full self to the things that inspire you.”

My decision today is to live up to this advice and give my full self to my family and this job, both of which I love.

Biskupski was elected as the first openly gay mayor in Salt Lake City in 2015, beating out incumbent mayor Ralph Becker.

She will be the only one-term mayor in Salt Lake in four decades. In February, she announced that she was launching a re-election campaign.

A wide field of candidates have filed for the office, including two openly gay men — former Sen. Jim Dabakis and Utah AIDS Foundation executive director Stan Penfold.

Latino businessman David Ibarra; David Garbett, son of Jan Garbett, the president of Women for Decency; freelance journalist Richard Goldberger; and veteran Aaron Johnson have also announced their candidacy. Q

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No hate crime charges in Utah viral video assault

Saying he doesn’t have a usable hate crime law, Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill filed misdemeanor assault charges in the case of a man striking another after asking if he was gay.

Carlo Sammy Alazo, 22, of Tampa, Fla., was charged in 3rd District Court with threatening to use a dangerous weapon during a fight, a class A misdemeanor, and two counts of assault, class B misdemeanors.

According to charging documents, Alazo was talking on his phone on Main Street near Exchange Place at about 1:45 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 17. A group near him, including Sal Trejo and friends, overheard parts of the conversation that were “derogatory and vulgar” and mentioned he was “standing by a gay guy.”

Trejo has told the media that Alazo appeared very intoxicated and was loudly speaking on the phone, calling those around him “faggots” and the women “fat pigs.” Charging documents say that Alazo mentioned the cut of coat Trejo was wearing, and Trejo interrupted Alazo to correct him.

That is when Trejo says Alazo grew even more belligerent, so Trejo pulled out his phone to record what was happening.

The viral video shows Alazo saying, “Are you gay though?” To which Trejo says he is. Alazo says “oh, then you’re gay,” and as Trejo answers, Alazo allegedly slaps at Trejo, knocking the phone from his hand.

Trejo and his group of friends followed after Alazo and charging documents say Alazo shoved one of the women in the group and pulled out a butterfly knife and pointed it towards Trejo, but dropped it. He picked up the knife and jumped into his car and fled.

Once the video was posted, it went viral, and Salt Lake City Police tweeted, asking for the public’s help in identifying the suspect. Facebook commenters included a woman who said Alazo tried to “pick [her] up” who gave his phone number and his name as Carlo.

Police the next day tweeted that the suspect had contacted them and he was “cooperating fully with the investigation.”

Police investigated the charges and

turned the case over to the District Attorney’s office.

Charging documents spell out three charges.

The first is Threatening with or Using Dangerous Weapon in a Fight or Quarrel, a Class A misdemeanor, saying Alazo did “draw or exhibit a dangerous weapon in an angry or threatening manner or unlawfully use a dangerous weapon in any fight or quarrel when such an act was not necessary for self defense or defense of another.”

The second and third are Assault, a Class B misdemeanor, for an “attempt, with unlawful force or violence, to do bodily injury to another; or commit an act, with unlawful force or violence, that caused bodily injury to another or created a substantial risk of bodily injury to another.”

The filed declaration of probable cause is based on the following: “The statement of Salvador Trejo that on or about February 17, 2019, at approximately 341 South Main Street in Salt Lake County, the defendant, later identified as CARLO ALAZO, approached Trejo and Trejo’s friends while making “homophobic comments” and “racial comments” towards them.

“Trejo began filming ALAZO with a cell phone. ALAZO then hit Trejo’s arm knocking Trejo’s phone out of his hand while he was still recording ALAZO. ALAZO then pulled out a small “butterfly-type” knife and pointed the knife blade in Trejo’s direction, but the knife slipped out of ALAZO’s hand.

“The statement of Kelly Moore that ALAZO approached her and her group of friends while ALAZO was talking on

his cell phone. Moore heard ALAZO make a comment about standing next to a “faggot,” as well as a comment about the pattern of Trejo’s jacket. Trejo attempted to correct ALAZO’s description of Trejo’s coat pattern, which caused ALAZO to become more belligerent. ALAZO started calling Moore, Trejo and the others with them names, including calling Trejo a “faggot.”

“Trejo and another one of their friends began recording with their cell phones and ALAZO “slapped the phone out of [Trejo’s] hand using an open palm,” hitting Trejo’s arm in the process. ALAZO then pushed Moore, and then pulled out a knife which he dropped.

“The statement of Sara Runnel that ALAZO approached her and her group of friends while ALAZO was talking on his cell phone. Runnel heard ALAZO make a comment about “standing by a gay guy.”

Trejo reacted to the comment and ALAZO became more belligerent. ALAZO started calling Trejo and another male in their group “faggots” and ALAZO made derogatory and vulgar comments towards Runnel and Moore. At that point, ALAZO asked Trejoif he was gay and then hit Trejo. According to Runnel, it appeared that ALAZO was trying to hit Trejo but only hit Trejo’s cell phone. ALAZO then shoved Moore.”

Butterfly knives are illegal in many countries and states. They are, however, legal in Utah unless carried by someone with certain convictions. They are legal in Florida.

Utah’s hate crime law has never been successfully enforced since its passage.

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Utah 2019 Legislative Session wrap-up

BY MICHAEL AARON

The 2019 Utah Legislative Session, according to former Utah Sen. Jim Dabakis, was the worst in a generation.

Dabakis recounted the session, saying, “The first thing [the legislature] did when they went into session is they, with astonishing arrogance, killed the medical marijuana and Medicaid expansion. They killed $800 million to struggling Utah families.”

Then, a bill was drafted behind closed doors in the Republican caucus to increase the tax on healthcare by one percent, exacerbating the problem of affordable healthcare for thousands of Utah families, and to tax services that are currently not taxed. To keep taxes at a net-zero gain, the bill also lowered the income tax, of which all goes to fund education in the state.

“They were going to take money out of education and give it to the general operations of the state,” he said. “They have a $1.1 billion surplus and they are coming up with plans to steal the money from education.”

Ultimately, the tax reform bill failed and a task force was formed to start from scratch on the restructure.

Several LGBT-related bills came before the legislature this session as well, many of which were tabled to retool and rethink at a future date.

Trans-related bills pulled from being heard at the Utah Legislature Two bills dealing with issues of birth certificate gender marker changes were among the first bills out of the gate, and were pulled from consideration and will possibly be discussed in an interim session.

Sen. Todd Weiler, R-Woods Cross, was drafting a bill that ultra-conservatives thought went too far and transgender advocates said didn’t go far enough.

The bill would provide a path for changing a gender marker on one’s driver license, since the current system of going through the courts was yielding wildly disparate results. The ability to be awarded a gender marker change is currently entirely dependent upon which judge will hear the case.

“The fact of the matter is the legislature has never weighed in on this,” Weiler said.

“We’ve kind of just let everything happen without any policy, without any law.”

A bill by rabidly anti-LGBT Utah Rep. Merrill Nelson, R-Grantsville, that would forbid the changing of a birth certificate to represent a gender different from that registered at birth was pulled from the agenda the morning of its first hearing.

Representatives from Equality Utah, TEA of Utah, and Transgender Inclusion Project had been meeting with Nel-

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son, according to activist Sophia Jean Hawes-Tingey.

The bill would have rigidly defined the terms male and female and greatly restrict the ability to change birth certificates once they are sent by doctors to the state shortly after birth.

“H.B. 153 is based on the scientific and medical fact that an individual’s sex is determined at conception by chromosomal make-up and is not subject to change or self-determination later in life,” Nelson wrote in a statement.

Equality Utah’s executive director Troy Williams called it “an egregious attack on the transgender community.” The ACLU of Utah labeled it “unconstitutional.”

Former state Sen. Steve Urquhart, who pushed LGBT-rights legislation during his tenure, asked: “Why do they feel the need to do this?” Misty Snow, a transgender woman who made history in winning a U.S. Senate nomination, said it’s “a bad bill” built on discrimination.

“By defining ‘male’ and ‘female’ as requiring specific genitalia and declaring it immutable for the purposes of a birth certificate, Rep. Nelson is attempting to erase the ability of transgender individuals to change their birth certificate to match their true gender,” Transgender Education Advocates of Utah Chair Sue Robbins said, “The damage this bill can do to the Utah community is immeasurable.”

The fiscal note was set at $0, which obviously doesn’t take any potential lawsuits into consideration.

In the end, Weiler and Nelson held a joint press statement saying that both bills would be sent for further research.

Williams said transgender people must be included in any bill negotiations.

“Any proposal that directly impacts trans youth must be approached with care and compassion. Our laws must honor the dignity and personal liberty of transgender Americans. We look forward to working with him toward that end,” he said.

Hate Crime Bill The first effort to pass a hate crime bill in Utah was when I worked with Rep. Frank Pignanelli, D-Salt Lake City, in 1990. It didn’t get very far, and it took two years to pass a “Hate Crime Statistics Act” to require police departments to report crimes to the FBI and a severely compro-

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mised bill which stripped all categories, in fear of codifying the term “sexual orientation” into Utah law.

The bill proved to be unworkable, as prosecutors were never able to get a conviction to stick.

Sen. Pete Suazo, D-Salt Lake City took up the gauntlet to bolster the law, bringing it for many years to the legislative sessions. He died in an ATV crash before being able to pass a stronger law, even with the backing of Senate GOP leaders and Mark Shurtleff, the state’s Republican attorney general.

His wife, Alicia, took over his seat and tried again to pass a stronger law in 2002 as the Winter Olympics were in town.

Even as the world watched, a tougher hate crime bill failed passage.

Republican Sen. Steve Urquhart then tried for several sessions to pass a tougher law, to no avail.

In 2015, the Legislature passed the much-lauded compromise bill, supposedly balancing LGBT and religious liberty rights with the blessing and cooperation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

For years, Sen. Daniel Thatcher, R-West Valley City, fought for a new hate crime law, but was thwarted as fellow legislators thought they “did enough” with the compromise bill.

This year, after a man assaulted a father and son, saying he wanted to “kill a Mexican,” and after Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill had to bypass using the law to prosecute a hate crime that went viral around the country, Thatcher was able to get traction on the new, stronger law.

Senate President Stuart Adams, R-Layton, added his support to the measure, but it still was an uphill battle to make it happen. As late as Feb. 15, he told the media he felt the bill had a 50-50 chance.

Days later, Thatcher walked out of a closed-door Republican caucus saying the bill would finally be assigned to the Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee. It was passed unanimously by the committee, but Thatcher still proceeded with caution.

“Victory laps would be very premature.

But it does feel damn good to be on the field,” he said as he left the hearing.

When the bill hit the Senate floor, there was no debate, but it passed with an 18-11 vote.

Even with the Utah Eagle Forum lobPHOTO FROM SEN. DEREK KITCHEN’S FACEBOOK WALL.

bying against it in a House committee, it passed through 8-2.

“If we are going to create special protections for people for hate crimes, because that’s what this is, then we need to protect everybody and not just if you happen to fall into one of those classes of people,” said Dani Palmer with the Utah Eagle Forum.

The House saw an emotional debate over the issue.

“Our law doesn’t work. We have to fix it,” Rep. Lee Perry, the bill’s House sponsor, testified before the vote. A majority of Utahns favored the bill according to polls.

The Utah House passed it by a vote of 64-9 after lawmakers told of constituents, acquaintances, and family members being targeted because of their race, ethnicity or religion but the current law didn’t protect them.

After the vote, Thatcher gave Williams a bear hug.

“Did I tell you this was our year?”

Thatcher said.

Utah Governor Gary Herbert has said he plans to sign the bill.

“I appreciate the great work of the legislature on SB103, which will serve as a powerful tool in providing critical protections to Utah residents. I look forward to it landing on my desk and signing it into law,” Herbert wrote in a tweet.

Ban on Conversion Therapy Perhaps the bill with the most hope around it was the effort to stop conversion therapy in the state.

The press conference organized by Equality Utah to announce the bill that would prohibit licensed counselors from practicing therapies aimed at changing

a client’s sexual orientation or gender identity drew a wide range of legislators and organizations to the Utah Capitol.

The bill, HB399, was titled “Prohibition of the Practice of Conversion Therapy upon Minors” and “prohibits certain health care professionals from providing conversion therapy to a minor; and would add a violation of the prohibition to the list of conduct that constitutes unprofessional conduct for licensing purposes.”

Williams started by thanking members of the Utah Legislature for advancing anti-suicide measures as numbers of suicides and suicide attempts grow in the state.

“We know there is more than one factor that contributes to suicide, so there must be more than one solution,” Williams said. “As we’ve talked to people in the LGBTQ community, we hear about people’s experience with conversion therapy. We’ve talked to people in their late 60s and as young as 18 years old who went to therapists who tried to alter, fix, reduce, or cure their same-sex attraction.”

He said they all spoke of increased depression and their attempts of suicide.

Williams said EU approached Rep. Craig Hall, R-West Valley City, several months ago to spearhead the legislation and he agreed. Then, on the first day of the session, Sen. Dan McKay came to Williams saying he wanted to be the Utah Senate sponsor. McKay is known for being conservative, earning an 89 percent rating by the American Conservative Union and 98 percent by Libertas Institute.

“Senator Dan McKay?! Let’s do this!”

Williams says he exclaimed.

Hall said he was proud to sponsor the legislation that “helps us protect children

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from conversion therapy.”

“We know that conversion therapy has been proven again and again to not be effective,” Hall said. “Fifteen states have prohibited conversion therapy because they understand that conversion therapy has proven to be not effective and is particularly harmful, especially to youth.”

McKay said the way this bill has been worked is what makes him proud to be a Utahn.

“This is what Utah does when Utah is at its best,” he said. “We come together, we work together, we put our arms around one another and we try and find solutions.

And in my opinion, and we will see if my colleagues agree, this is the Utah we want.”

“This has been an education for me, as not a prototypical sponsor, potentially, for an issue like this. But it has been shown in this education process how important it is to our youth to understand how much we love you, how much we value you, and we want every single one of you to be part of the future. We don’t want to lose any of you.

University of Utah law professor Cliff Rosky helped draft the bill and said it was based on all 15 states’ passed legislation, including six states where the legislation was signed by Republican governors.

Asked about the odds of the bill being passed in this legislative session, Rosky was optimistic.

“I think we are very confident this bill will pass,” Rosky said. “We have Republicans behind us, Democrats behind us.

We’ve heard from key stakeholders in the community (pointing towards the Church Office Building). I don’t see why this wouldn’t pass this year.”

“We know that suicide is the leading cause of death among our youth. We know that recent studies show that LGBT youth who are subjected to conversion therapy have double the rates of depression and nearly three times the rate of suicide attempts. This is an urgent, pressing issue. As Sen. McKay said, this is what Utah does best: protect its children. And this bill protects children from conversion therapy, which is a dangerous and discredited practice.”

Rosky quoted the definition of conversion therapy as, “any practice or treatment that seeks to change the sexual orientation or gender identity of a patient or client, including mental health therapy that seeks to change, eliminate, or reduce behaviors, expressions, attractions, or feelings related to a patient or client’s sexual orientation or gender identity.

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The bill “is neutral with respect to sexual orientation or gender identity which provides assistance to a patient or client undergoing gender transition; provides acceptance, support, and understanding of a patient or client; facilitates a patient or client’s ability to cope, social support, and identity exploration and development; addresses unlawful, unsafe, premarital, or extramarital sexual activities in a manner that is neutral with respect to sexual orientation; or discusses with a patient or client the patient or client’s moral or religious beliefs or practices.”

The bill also specifically excludes “a clergy member or religious counselor who is acting substantially in a pastoral or religious capacity and not in the capacity of a health care professional; or a parent or grandparent who is a health care professional and who is acting substantially in the capacity of a parent or grandparent and not in the capacity of a health care professional.”

HIJACKED While hopes were high, ultraconservative groups had other ideas.

In committee, lawmakers introduced a substitute bill that significantly weakened the ban — stripping out any reference to gender identity such that it would no longer have provided any protection to transgender kids.

The substitute bill also narrowly defined conversion therapy so that the ban no longer applied to most forms of talk therapy.

Instead, it would only apply to practices that cause “physical discomfort through aversive treatment that causes nausea, vomiting, or other unpleasant physical sensations” or that involve “electric shock or other electrical therapy, including electroconvulsive therapy or transcranial magnet stimulation.” It’s unclear how common these practices are. The bill also ensured that talk therapy would still be permitted.

Hall announced that he was pulling the legislation because he could not support the substitute bill.

“We look forward to continuing to discussing this issue over the summer and hope that we can one day find some good language that everyone can agree on,” he said.

LGBTQ advocates strongly opposed the substitute bill. Williams called it a “sham” and insisted that the state’s governor and lawmakers had “abandoned LGBT kids.”

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therapy “barbaric.” But he supported the weaker substitute bill as well, guaranteeing the demise of the original legislation.

WILLIAMS, HIATT RESIGN ANTISUICIDE TASK FORCE Herbert’s support prompted both Williams and American Foundation for Suicide Prevention of Utah’s Taryn Hiatt to resign from the Governor’s Youth Suicide Task Force, effective immediately.

“Governor Herbert turned his back on LGBTQ kids by endorsing the hostile rewrite of HB 399 by pro-conversion therapists. He supported Rep. Lisonbee’s substitute bill that erased transgender youth and provided authorization for these discredited ‘therapists’ to continue their harmful practices with impunity.

“In so doing, Governor Herbert also turned his back on the consensus of the nation’s leading medical and mental health organizations. The current substitute will not prohibit conversion therapy, nor will it help reduce suicide among LGBTQ youth.

“We have worked in good faith with the Governor’s office. We cannot in clear conscience continue with the pretense that the Task Force will ever explicitly address LGBTQ suicide,” Williams wrote in his resignation letter.

“We are grateful to HB 399’s sponsors, Rep. Craig Hall and Sen. Dan McCay for courageously fighting for LGBTQ kids.

They have been a phenomenal force. We have asked them to pull the bill from further consideration, and they have agreed,” he continued.

He called for people to have hope for a future where conversion therapy is no longer practiced in the state.

“Please do not lose hope. Yesterday’s loss is just the beginning. We now see clearly that conversion therapy is #StillHappening in Utah and their proponents have lawmakers who will advocate for their harmful cause. But we know from experience that when we fight, we inevitably win,” he wrote. Q

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Utah adds ‘X’ to driver license gender markers While you can count on one hand the number of times it has happened, Utah has joined the ranks of states issuing gender-neutral markers on their driver licenses and state IDs, but for transgender, nonbinary, and intersex people, they’re still hard to get.

Since September of last year, Utah has been quietly issuing “X” markers on the identification cards, and it has been available on birth certificates since 2017. Only two licenses have been issued with the “X” marker since September, according to the public affairs director for the state Department of Public Safety, Marissa Cote.

The “X” marker is used for those who identify as neither male nor female.

The state issued its first nonbinary driver license to Mel Van De Graaff in September 2018, making Utah one of eight states, along with Washington, D.C., to offer a third option on driver’s licenses and state-issued ID cards. The other states include Arkansas, California, Colorado, Indiana, Maine, Minnesota and Oregon.

Vermont recently announced plans to roll out a third gender option sometime this summer.

Gender-neutral birth certificates are now permitted in New York City and several states, including California, New Jersey, Oregon, Washington and Nevada (where Van De Graaff was issued theirs).

The National Center for Transgender Equality includes Idaho and Montana on this list, though NBC News has not yet independently confirmed this.

The milestone in Utah went largely unnoticed by the national media. Even the Movement Advancement Project, an LGBTQ think tank that tracks changes in policy and legislation

for sexual and gender minorities across the U.S., does not include Utah among its list of states with nonbinary ID options.

That may be, in part, because the policy in the state remains murky, according to Van De Graaff.

“Because it’s up to the judge, a lot of nonbinary people just don’t try and get their markers changed,” De Graaff said. “A lot of them don’t have the monetary means to do so. I really believe the only reason I got mine granted was because I got an attorney, and attorneys are not cheap.”

The Utah Division of Motor Vehicles determines the gender marker listed on an applicant’s identification either by their birth certificate or a valid U.S. passport. As Cote explained, the Utah DMV’s policy “has always been to base the gender notation off of an acceptable primary identification document which includes a gender notation.”

Utah has granted just two nonbinary birth certificates since 2017, said Terry Lucherini, acting bureau director of the Utah Vital Records and Statistics. He said these documents are granted by “court order only.”

“That’s the only way we change the gender on a birth certificate,” Lucherini told NBC News.

To date, the U.S. has never issued a nonbinary passport.

Because of that, trans and nonbinary people need to rely on birth certificates to update their IDs in Utah, but even getting those updated in the state can be exceedingly difficult, advocates say.

When Van De Graaff started pursuing a new gender marker in November 2017, they claimed no one they knew had “heard

of anybody in Utah having a gender ‘X’ license or documentation of any kind.” Van De Graaff said the common thinking was, “This can’t be done, because it hasn’t been done.”

Because Utah lacks a clear, statewide policy on changing one’s name and gender on vital records, like birth certificates, whether an individual successfully obtains a court order is largely up to the determination of local judges — who often vary widely in their decisions.

This applies not just to those

looking for a gender-neutral “X” marker, but also to those looking to update their documents from “F” to “M” or vice versa.

Two years ago, Judge Bruce C. Lubeck of Utah’s 3rd Judicial District Court reportedly told 17-year-old transgender male Lex Rigby that Lubeck could not “in good conscience” allow the gender marker on Rigby’s birth certificate to be updated from “F” to “M.” Lubeck told Rigby, “I seriously hope this won’t offend you.” Q

United Jewish Federation of Utah commemorates LGBT of all faiths Beginning April 19, 2019, Jewish people around the world will sit down to celebrate the start of Passover, a week-long holiday commemorating Pesach, the deliverance of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt, as recounted in the Bible in the book of Exodus.

Passover, marked in a variety of ways in the Jewish community, includes a Seder. A Seder means “order” in Hebrew, precisely because there is a strict order and regulation in relation to texts read; prayers recited; songs sung; food and drink consumed; symbolic questions asked; and the use of ritual objects on a ‘Seder plate’.

For most Jewish people, reference to a Seder leads to an assumption that the festival spoken of is Pesach; although there is a growing standardization, and acceptance of, the practice, within various denominations across the Jewish community, of the celebration of the festival of Tu B’Shvat (New Year or Birthday of the Trees) through holding a Seder which reflects on the natural world and ecological concerns.

Holding a Seder thus has profound psychological and ritual significance for Jews, and is associated with moral responsibility and recognition

of themes of social justice.

And for more than three decades, the Pride Seder tells the story of the liberation of LGBT people, much as the Passover Seder tells the story of the liberation of the Jews. In holding a Pride Passover Seder, which incorporates secular (profane) ritual and symbols — for example rainbow-themed flags and foods; bright clothing with rainbow colors and symbolic items associated with Pride celebrations and also sacred items such as candles and a Seder plate, demonstrates ritual activities which represent a blending of identities and recognition of the importance of Jewish LGBT Pride.

The United Jewish Federation of Utah’s Pride Passover Seder, to be held April 22, 2019, welcomes LGBT individuals beyond the Jewish community, as well as allies of the LGBT community. It will be a unique opportunity to bring Jewish customs and rituals into the light for non-Jews and bring LGBT customs and rituals into the light for Utah’s LGBT allies.

UJF Pride Passover Seder takes place at the IJ & Jeanné Wagner Jewish Community Center located at 2 North Medical Dr., Salt Lake City, on April 22, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Q

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Qmmunity Q Talks — ‘Gay Rights and the Mormon Church’ Gregory Prince draws from over 50,000 pages of public records, private documents, and interview transcripts to capture the past half-century of the Mormon Church’s attitudes on homosexuality. Initially that principally involved only its own members, but with its entry into the Hawaiian political arena, the church signaled an intent to shape the outcome of the marriage equality battle. That involvement reached a peak in 2008 during California’s fight over Proposition 8, which many came to call the “Mormon Proposition.”

Prince’s avocation in history has led him to write dozens of articles and three books, including the award-winning volumes David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism (coauthored with Wm. Robert Wright) and Leonard Arrington and the Writing of Mormon History.

QTALKS, hosted by the University of Utah Press and Equality Utah will be held Monday, March 25, 7-8:30 p.m., at the Marriott Library, 295 S. Campus Dr., UofU. It is a free event, but guests must register at eventbrite.com.

Pronouns 101 You can’t always know what someone’s pronouns are by looking at them. Asking and correctly using someone’s pronouns is one of the most basic ways to show your respect for their gender identity.

When someone is referred to with the wrong pronoun, it can make them feel disrespected, invalidated, dismissed, alienated, or dysphoric (often all of the above.)

Hence, SAGE UTAH hosts Lunch and Learn on Thursday, March 28 on the subject of proper usage of pronouns in the LGBTQ community – What are they? Why are they important?

Who is using them? How do we

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use them correctly? So pack a lunch and get learning. The class will be held at the Utah Pride Center, 1385 S. Main St., 11:30 a.m.–1 p.m.

Business owners invited to 3rd Annual Gay-la The annual Gay-la and membership drive is the UTAH LGTBQ+ CHAMBER OF COMMERCE’s premier event and it gives you an opportunity to network with a phenomenal group who support Utah’s LGBT community.

The evening includes keynote speaker, Bobby Edwards, CEO of Squatty Potty (featured on Shark Tank and Dr. Oz) and entertainment by the Tribeca Ensemble.

Hope Woodside will emcee.

The event is on April 4 at the Cottonwood Country Club, 1780 E. Lakewood Dr., Holladay, 6-9 p.m.; dress code is cocktail attire.

Tickets are $25, available at utahgayla.com.

Salt Lake Stallions to host ‘Pride Night’ The Salt Lake Stallions are a professional American football team based in Salt Lake City and are charter members of the Alliance of American Football. Set to be coached by Dennis Erickson, 2019 marks the inaugural season. On this special Pride night, Saturday March 30, they will be playing the San Diego Fleet. Grrrr...

Use “STALLIONPRIDE” as your code for discounted tickets and a portion of each ticket will go directly back to supporting the LGBTQ community, this is a win-win! And with the Stallions on the field, that’ll be another win! Tickets at bit.ly/stallionpride

Bingo for The Inn Between Hospice for Homeless The April charity for Third Friday Bingo is the Inn Between, a hospice for the homeless. Because of the Easter holiday, the event is on the SECOND Friday this month.

Friday, April 12, First Baptist Church, 777 S. 1300 East. $6 for one card or two for $10. Q

Prides across the state A newly formed coalition of Pride organizations in Utah met last weekend and the Utah Pride Center and announced the dates for this year’s festivals. Save the dates!

May 31–June 2: UTAH PRIDE — Salt Lake City, Utah Aug. 3: OGDEN PRIDE – Ogden, Utah Sept. 14: LOGAN PRIDE — Logan, Utah Sept. 14: PROVO PRIDE — Provo, Utah Sept. 16–22: PRIDE OF SOUTHERN UTAH — St. George, Utah Sept. 28: MOAB PRIDE, Moab, Utah

Prides around the globe Mar. 30: Tampa Pride, Tampa Apr. 1–7 2019: Miami Beach Gay Pride Miami Beach, Fla. Apr. 6–7: Phoenix Pride Parade Phoenix, Ariz.

Apr. 25–28: Jasper Pride Jasper, Alberta, Canada Apr. 25–28: Philadelphia Black Pride Philadelphia, Pa. Apr. 28–29: Tokyo Rainbow Pride Tokyo, Japan May 2–12: Maspalomas Gay Pride, Gran Canaria May 4: Raleigh Pride Raleigh, N.C. May 18: Belgian Pride Brussels May 18: Springfield Pride, Ill. May 18: New Hope / Lambertville Pride Parade, Pa. May 18–19: Long Beach Lesbian & Gay Pride, Calif.

May 24–28: DC Black Pride Washington, DC May 25–26: Birmingham Pride, UK May 25–June 2 Torremolinos Gay Pride, Torremolinos, Spain May 27–June 3: El Paso Pride Texas, El Paso, Texas May 31: Guelph Pride 2018, Ontario, Canada May 31–June 2: Tusla Pride, Okla.

May 31–June 2: Provincetown Pride, Provincetown, Mass.

May 31–June 3 Laguna Beach Pride 365, Calif.

May 31–June 9: Boston Pride — Boston, Mass.

May 31–June 9: Capital Pride, Washington DC May 31–June 9: Central Alabama Pride – Birmingham, Ala. May 31–June 2: Sonoma County Pride, Calif.

June 1: Magical Pride at Disneyland Paris, Paris, France June 1: Sun City Pride, El Paso June 1: Guadalajara Pride, Mexico June 1: Pride in the CLE, Cleveland, Ohio June 1–2: Dallas Pride, Texas June 1–3: Venice Pride, Calif.

June 2: Pride Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico June 1–8 Pride Niagra, St. Catharines, Ontario June 1-9: LA Pride, Calif.

June 1–10: Pride Sitges, Spain June 14–15: Zurich Pride Festival, Zurich, Switzerland June 15: Pride Edinburgh, UK June 1–30: NYC Pride, New York June 7–9: Albuquerque Pride, N.M. June 7–9: New Orleans Pride, La. June 8: Gay Pride Rome, Italy June 9: Athens Pride, Greece June 9–15: Varese Pride, Italy June 12–15 Ibiza Gay Pride, Spain June 13–16: Shanghai Pride, Shanghai, China June 14: Tel Aviv Pride, Israel June 14–16: Baltimore Pride, Md. CONTINUED ON PAGE 41

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Utah Pride Festival to expand this year. Parade, festival apps open This year’s Utah Pride Days will begin May 17 with the Utah Pride Spectacular.

Once the Wednesday or Thursday of Pride, it will be held two weeks before the big festival weekend and parade.

The Utah Pride Festival is a community event which features a broad spectrum of activities and entertainment. The 44th Utah Pride Festival will be held June 1–2

at Washington Square in downtown Salt Lake City. Pride 2019 is excited to offer additional celebratory events, diverse food and booth vendors, venue upgrades and excellent entertainment options.

The overall theme this year is “Exist.

Resist. Persist. Celebrating 50 years of Stonewall.” The beginnings of Pride worldwide are generally attributed to an uprising at the Stonewall Inn in New York City’s Greenwich Village in June, 1969.

From its humble beginnings in 1974 as an informal gathering in the park, the Utah Pride Festival has come a long way.

It is now a major Salt Lake City event that grows bolder and brighter every year. The Festival empowers the LGBTQ+ community of Salt Lake, as well as the state of Utah as a whole, to come together and celebrate. The Festival is now attended by more than 50,000 people and continues to grow each year. In 2018, the Pride Parade attracted 50,000 spectators.

A broad spectrum of people can be found at all these events, including members of the LGBTQ+ community, their family members and allies.

Booths and Parade Applications are now being taken on the Utah Pride Center website for booth rentals and parade entries.

Standard registration for exhibitors ends April 20, with late registration

extending through May 10 depending on availability. Rates vary depending on profit/nonprofit status and the size of the organization. Small grassroots organizations and arts and crafts organizations can participate in a tent with other similar groups. An interactive zone will be set up and a new kink zone is still in the works.

Parade applications are being taken through April 1. Because of the continued growth of the parade, new this year is a series of questions on the application which will help a selection committee

determine which groups will be allowed to participate. Parade organizers typically receive over 200 applications to participate, but only 150 can be accommodated.

Consideration of the size and number of participants of the parade entry, its focus on the LGBTQ+ community, and the “intersectionality of oppressions” of the applying group.

Schedule PRIDE SPECTACULAR kicks of Utah Pride Days on Friday May 17, from 6 to 9.30 p.m. at the Union Events Center 235 N. 500 West.

The REAL SALT LAKE PRIDE NIGHT will be held at their stadium, 9256 State St, Sandy. Details are still forthcoming.

The PRIDE INTERFAITH SERVICE will be Thursday May 30 from 7 to 8 p.m. at Christ United Methodist Church, 2375 E. 3300 South. The guest speaker will be Bishop Karen Oliveto, he first openly lesbian bishop of the United Methodist Church and the Bishop of Utah, Colorado, Montana, and Wyoming United Methodist Churches.

The YOUTH PRIDE DANCE will be from 8 to 11 p.m. on Friday May 31 on the Festival Grounds. Entrance at 500 S. State Street.

OUTDOORS and PROUD 5K will be the morning of Saturday June 1 from 8 to 11 a.m. at Jordan Park & Peace Gardens, 1060 S. 900 West

The annual PRIDE MARCH AND RALLY will be Saturday June 1 from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Utah State Capitol south stairs, 350 N. State Street.

The FESTIVAL itself will be Saturday June from 1 to 11 p.m. and Sunday June 2 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Washington Square, the park around the Salt Lake City and County Building.

The UTAH PRIDE PARADE will again take place Sunday June 2 beginning at 10 a.m. at West Temple, running along Second South to Fourth East.

Other events are in the planning stages as well and will be in the next issue of QSaltLake Magazine, along with some of the entertainment highlights. Q More information at utahpridecenter.org

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BYU’S FOOTBALL MASCOT, COSMO THE COUGAR, UNMASKED ‘If they knew who I really was, would they hate me?’

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In a guest

opinion piece for the Deseret News, a former Brigham Young University Cosmo the Cougar football mascot did something no Cosmo has done before: reveal himself both by name and by coming out.

Titled, “Everyone loved me as Cosmo the Cougar, but would they love who I was behind the mask?” Charlie Bird tells the world that while he was dressed as Cosmo, he “kept the best part of my life a secret from everyone around me by wearing a mask.”

Bird was Cosmo the Cougar from 2015 through 2018. During his reign, NBC Sports named 2017–18 the “Year of the Mascot,” in honor of his viral influence.

Headlines like “BYU is having a terrible season, but at least its mascot can dance” from Yahoo Sports were common. Bird, as Cosmo, is shown in many viral videos, from Star Wars-themed routines to snowboarding to dancing all over campus and Provo.

He performed with the BYU Dunk Team, slamming balls through the hoop as he was dropped from a 3-tier human pyramid.

Inside Edition did a story that has 1.4 million views on YouTube called “Everyone Is Going Crazy Over This College Mascot’s Dance Moves,” where the host tells the rest of the BYU cheerleaders that they are awesome, “but Cosmo is stealing the show.”

He also did a dance-off with the Oregon Duck on ESPN’s College Football Awards.

But, with all that exposure, Bird had a huge fear.

“As scary as it seemed to dance in front of 60,000 people, an even scarier thought often crept into my mind — ‘If they knew who I really was, would they hate me?’,” he wrote.

“I wore another mask while I was at BYU — a mask to cover the shame I felt for being ‘different.’ For years I pleaded with God to change my sexual orientation, but after returning to BYU from a full-time mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I began realizing that being gay is an integral part of who I am,” he continued. “As I grappled to develop a better understanding of myself, I felt immense pressure to hide my sexual orientation. I was hyper-aware of what some of my peers said about the gay community, how they viewed samesex attraction and the often unkind and

“I wore another mask while I was at BYU — a mask to cover the shame I felt for being ‘different’” insensitive words they used to describe LGBTQ people — people like me.”

He said, while he was regarded as a superstar as Cosmo, it “often simultaneously made me feel broken, unloved and defective.”

During his senior year, he was proudly representing the school while it was ranked the second-most LGBTQ-Unfriendly College by the Princeton Review.

Another study released by LGBTQ media group, GLAAD, showed an increase in intolerance toward our community for the first time in four years.

“We must recognize that members of the LGBTQ community are present and participating in both academic and religious discussions. We must learn that showing empathy and support is not a compromise of moral values.” Bird wrote.

Referencing a Book of Mormon scripture, he also wrote, “We must ‘comfort those that stand in need of comfort.’”

Now graduated, Bird is reconciling his sexual orientation with his faith.

“As I integrate my sexual orientation with my church activity and faith in Jesus Christ, my future sometimes seems bleak and overwhelming,” he wrote. “The family and friends who have shown me Christlike love and support, however, give me hope. I am grateful to everyone who used inclusive language or expressed

empathy toward the LGBTQ community. They may not have known it, but in small ways they helped me feel a sense of belonging that I desperately needed. The LGBTQ community needs such visible love and support.”

He says that he misses his time as Cosmo “like I’ve never missed anything before.” Taking off both masks, he says, has “freed me from much of the shame and embarrassment that once seemed inseparable from my life. Doing so has allowed me to feel more fully the love of others. Doing so has allowed me to feel more fully the love of God.” “Everyone deserves a life where exuberant, transformative experiences are not blanketed in sadness like mine often were.

By actively showing love and acceptance, we can create a space in which people can remove their masks, no longer subject to the isolation and hopelessness that comes with feeling obliged to hide who they really are,” he ended the editorial.

A commenter to the story by the name of Wendell from Provo, Utah, said Bird was not alone in his situation.

“I, too, was Cosmo, and I am also gay.

Of course, it was very different 30 years ago, but I’m sure we have both experienced some of the very same things,” he wrote. “Representing BYU was one of the highlights of my life, and obviously dealing with my sexuality was a struggle for me for a long time. However, the decisions I’ve made have helped me become the man I am today. Life truly is wonderful for me, and I feel incredibly blessed for friends and family who accept and love me regardless of how I live or who I love.” Q

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quotes “A good show can send you back out into the night feeling – for at least a little while – that everything isn’t broken.”

— JT Nero

“Any act of love is an act of bravery. We want to give people some good news. And we want them to be able to dance when they hear it.”

—Allison Russell

“When I first got off the bus years ago, I had the strangest feeling that I’d come home.”

—Mary Ann Singleton, Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City

“Teenage Fever kind of looks inside my head and shares a sound that’s more authentic than it has ever been. The songs are about experiences I’ve had – things I think all teenagers can relate to – especially while trying to navigate the high school years.”

— Johnny Orlando

“’Swan Song’ is a love letter to a man who changed my life by always having the courage to be fabulous.”

—writer/director Todd Stephens

“It has been a dream of mine to play my own Red Rocks show ever since I saw Incubus’ “Alive” DVD at this magical venue many, many years ago. I’m beyond excited to finally announce this show and bring my new production to Red Rocks!”

—Zedd

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who’s your daddy

TAX TIME FEEL SAFE AND CONFIDENT

Parents like mine

Gay owned and operated.

Filing individual, business, estate and trust returns

BY CHRISTOPHER KATIS

My friend

Adam became a dad the old-fashioned way — he was married to a woman for 15 years. Like many couples raised Mormon, they felt the right course of action was to get married, even though Adam had confessed he was gay.

“I actually told her I was gay while we were dating,” he told me. “Initially, we went our separate ways, ultimately ending up back together. We both knew I was gay, but felt we were doing what we were supposed to do to ‘fix’ it. That included having three wonderful kids.”

For many kids, it must be a difficult transition when one parent comes out.

Luckily, the Utah Pride Center has several programs to help LGBTQ parents and their kids.

One of those programs is Parents Like Mine. According to Jimmy Lee, the youth and family programs manager, “Parent’s Like Mine is for LGBTQ+ parents to discuss an array of timely topics such as mentoring, navigating extended family support, and discussing school safety, while hosting fun activities for kids.”

Monica Perez, the program’s coordinator added, “We want to foster a community-oriented environment for kids to develop a sense of pride for their own unique family dynamics and connect with other youth who share similar experiences.”

One of the many aspects of the program I think is great is the help it gives parents with the coming out process.

“We’re here for parents who are thinking about coming out, those who have been out for an extended period of time, or those who don’t feel pressured to come out at all. We recognize that this journey is deeply personal, and all parents are invited to attend,” Lee added.

Our boys have always known we’re gay, but for Adam’s kids it was different.

“Two years ago, after 15 years of marriage, my wife and I came to the conclusion and agreement that we had given it our all, that we would remain friends, but it was time to go our separate ways,” he said. “Honestly, it was a relief for both of us.”

With that, Adam knew he would have to come out to his kids. “I sat my now 15and 11-year old boys down and basically told them that I loved their mom but not in a romantic way, that I was attracted to men. I simplified it for my daughter, who is now eight, by saying I liked boys instead of girls.”

His kids have taken it all surprisingly well. His oldest son’s friends even think it’s cool he has a gay dad. (We hear that frequently too.) But they had a lot of questions. “One that reminded me of what phenomenal people they are was if anyone had made fun of me or given me a hard time about being gay. I told them only when I was younger and confused about myself.”

Lee cites the parenting group ­COLAGE’s suggestions, “Remember, it’s never too late to come out to your kids.

Their responses can vary widely, so honor the process they need to go through themselves. And connect them with other kids who have LGBTQ+ parents.”

Adam advises parents who find themselves in a similar situation to love your kids, be there for them, and talk openly with them — about anything. “The most important thing you can do is be yourself and let them see who you are.” Q Parents Like Mine meets the first and third Saturday of the month at the Fairyland Preschool, and is free. utahpridecenter.org/youth-family-programs/

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Cardinal Raymond Burke

BY D’ANNE WITKOWSKI

Welp,

child sex abuse in the Catholic Church is in the news again and, gosh, wouldn’t you know it? The Catholic Church is trying to blame it on the gays.

Again.

A Pennsylvania grand jury report found sex abuse rampant in the church, something everyone who has ever delved into it has also found to be true. According to the report some 300 priests preyed on children for decades while church leaders turned a blind eye to the literal hell on earth they were letting fester.

There’s a reason why in every Hollywood depiction of prison there’s a child abuser, usually a sexual abuser, who gets shanked in the showers.

After all, it’s easy to hate that guy. I’m not condoning violence, just pointing out that

as a society we pretty much agree that child abusers are THE WORST. Unless they wear a black robe and a white collar. Then instead of going to prison, you just get transferred to a new parish with brand-new parishioners to terrorize.

There are many reasons why this is such a bad practice, but I would like to point out that by moving the priest away from his victim(s) the church is essentially saying that the victims are the problem. The priest is the innocent here, seduced by the tender flesh of wicked children, as opposed to a very sick person guilty of the worst kind of abuse.

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it keeps happening. All over the world. But the Catholic Church knows just who to blame.

In a 2018 interview with Thomas McKenna, the president of Catholic Action for Faith and Family, Cardinal Raymond Burke says, “It seems clear in light of these recent terrible scandals that indeed there is a homosexual culture, not only among the clergy but even within the hierarchy, which needs to be purified at the root.”

Now, it may sound like Burke is shining a spotlight on problems within the church itself, something that really needs to be examined more closely and would be examined more closely if the church stopped trying to cover up its sexual abuse epidemic. But, of course, that’s not what Burke is doing here.

He’s basically saying, “If we just get rid of all the gays who are mucking up each level of the hierarchy everything will be just fine.”

But, of course, it won’t.

Rather than spend a second examining the institution to stop abuse, the church once again seeks to change the subject.

Look, all organized religion requires a great deal of suspended disbelief and magical thinking, aka “faith,” in order to work. Critical thinking is pretty much the antithesis to religious doctrine. Which is why the church is seeking to capitalize on the gross mischaracterization that gay

people are pedophiles in order to absolve its own sins.

“I think it has been considerably aggravated by the anti-life culture in which we live, namely the contraceptive culture that separates the sexual act from the conjugal union,” Burke tells McKenna. “The sexual act has no meaning whatsoever except between a man and a woman in marriage since the conjugal act is by its very nature for procreation.”

Got that? Gays are a problem, but the whole thing has been made even worse by all of these whores on birth control having sex without making babies. Thank you for attending this TED Talk about sex by a man who supposedly has never had sex.

Burke calls homosexuality “disordered” and he’s not the only conservative Catholic calling for a purge of gays from the priesthood. However, Burke and the others are not making any distinction between “gay” and “pedophile,” a distinction that is, uh, really important because they are not one and the same. Unless, of course, your goal isn’t to keep kids safe from abuse, but is actually to CYF (cover your frock). Q D’Anne Witkowski is a poet, writer and comedian living in Michigan with her wife and son. She has been writing about LGBT politics for over a decade. Follow her on Twitter @MamaDWitkowski.

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Born this way?

BY DR. LAURIE BENNETT-COOK

The

cul-de-sac I live on is pretty neighborly.

Each month a different house takes a turn and hosts the neighborhood for a hearty potluck. Most recently it was my and my husband’s turn. The evening started off as it usually does — with lively conversation about various mundane aspects of everyday life. Very quickly though, as is also usually the case, the conversation took a deep dive into the latest of our local political scene.

On this particular evening the conversation drifted to the hotbed topic of conversion therapy. Being a publicly liberal person, it’s rarely a surprise to others where I stand on topics such as this one. What was (pleasantly) surprising to me, was how many in my neighborhood were as equally as opposed to conversion therapy as I am. But, as is the case with all groupings of people, not everyone agrees on all things all the time.

One guest began sharing with me she has a daughter who is going through the process of transitioning to male — all the while referring to her child by their birth-given pronouns and name. She told the story of her child’s gender journey and how she had failed as a parent for not catching it early.

According to her, conversion therapy would probably have worked if she had access to it before her child reached puberty. Also according to her, children are completely malleable before the age of 12 and nothing sex or gender is ever innate. When done sharing

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she heaved a big sigh and said: “But I know I just need to love her. After all, she was born this way.” To which I replied: “Him.” “Born this way.” I’ve heard the term often enough, especially over the past several weeks while the topic of conversion therapy holds its place steady in the forefront of our news headlines. But this time it triggered me. I found myself feeling insulted that “born this way” was being used as a qualifier for acceptance by a mother to fully love her child. Here before me, this mother somehow felt the need to justify the existence of her child, because some part of her felt they were not valid enough as they are.

Personally, I am of the mindset we need to remove it as a qualifier. Over and over we hear how we need to just love those who’s gender or sexuality fall outside of hetero or gender normative because, well, “they’re born that way” as if it’s a disability of some sort.

Descriptively using the term “born this way” puts people in a place of being considered “less than” and that shouldn’t be OK with any of us.

Why does it matter? Because words matter. Because using these words as a way to solicit acceptance through pity is something society has done to justify those who don’t fit neatly into hetero/gender-normative boxes. Being born however we are should be something to celebrate. Regardless of our individual expressions of sexuality or gender we are

still valid human beings with real feelings, dreams, goals, and fears. When will we, as a society, realize the validity of a person has nothing to do with who or how they love, how they dress, or what pronouns they use?

As for my dinner guest, I let her talk and get whatever she felt she needed to say out. Near the end of her sharing with me she stated she wished she had someone to talk to who understood all this “transgender stuff”.

Well, as the saying goes, be careful what you ask for. I introduced her to my husband, who happens to be a psychiatry fellow and medical director of a large transgender health clinic in Los Angeles. The two of them continued the conversation for a long time.

She left our home happy and

thanked us both for talking with her. I like to believe her mind was opened a bit that evening and that she gained a greater level of acceptance and love for her child, realizing that he doesn’t need her to be fixing him in any way, but rather for her to be supportive.

I like to believe that, but truly I don’t know. I’d also like to believe the harm being done to so many innocent children in the name of love will end soon.

But only time will tell.

I’d also like to believe that one day acceptance for those who are “born this way” or any other and everything in-between, will be void of pity and instead contain pure love. Q

Dr. Laurie Bennett-Cook is a Clinical Sexologist with a private practice in both L.A. and SLC. She can be reached at DrLaurieBennettCook@gmail.com

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Faeries at the Rainbow Gathering cushions, and blankets. The windows were draped and covered with decorative scarves. It seemed to me that the bus was a hippie harem, as there must have been 50 of us in various stages of undress, squeezed inside of Heaven.

I would have liked to used the facilities, I was not about to do my business hanging over a log with ten other guys and gals.

Besides the aroma of food, the air at the Radical Faerie camp was perfumed with scents of pine, sage, patchouli, and pot.

After eating and introducing ourselves as the Sacred Faeries of Salt Lake, Morningstar and I wanted to go back down to our tent by the truck to spend the night. So we located “Heaven” which, luckily, was going back down to the parking meadow.

The shirtless, long-haired driver took us up the steep and narrow winding dirt road that had some turnouts but mostly the one side was a sheer drop off. The bus jerked and rolled back some whenever the hippie driver shifted into lower gears. I thought for sure I’d be going to heaven in Heaven.

At 10,000 feet we arrived at the top of the mountain plateau and there we disembarked. Every imaginable granola head, New Age practitioner, Wiccan, EST follower, old and young hippie, and counter culture devotee were in multitudes. Once off the bus, we learned that it was another three-mile hike to a tribe of Radical Faeries’ kitchen station.

We finally made it to the Faerie camp where large pots of lentils, rice, beans, potatoes, and kettles of soup were being distributed. We were also told that a huge communal latrine had been dug about a half mile from the campsite for both men and women to use. No thanks. As much as

When we arrived, we learned — to our great distress — that there were two designated parking meadows and we were on the wrong side of the mountain.

Although I was with Morningstar, Gillian, Popcorn, and Moonfire, the prospect of being hungry, tired, and lost was not appealing. We found a cute granola guy driving a Jeep, who said he was going back up the mountain and over to the other side. He said we could hitch a ride with him if we didn’t mind hanging on.

His Jeep probably was meant to hold five people at the most, but at least ten people were riding in it and hanging onto the side of it. Of course the guy was loaded and it was dusk out.

It was one of the most harrowing rides of my life as the dude maneuvered around other vehicles coming up as we were going down. Talk about it being a “Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride” as we were zooming down the dark mountain side with a million stars above us.

BY BEN WILLIAMS

Over the

4th of July, 1992, several members of the Sacred Faeries decided to join the gathering of the Rainbow Family that was being held in the Gunnison National Forest in Colorado. The Rainbow Family is a counter-culture, hippie group, which since the 1970s has put on yearly primitive camping events on public land.

Known as Rainbow Gatherings, they are held all over the United States.

The Sacred Faeries of Salt Lake was a pagan group of gay men and lesbians loosely based on the principles of the Radical Faeries. Since the Rainbow Gathering was to be held in Delta, Colo., in relatively close proximity to Utah, the faeries decided to caravan to the camp.

The faeries used aliases such as Gayflower, Gillian, Morningstar, Popcorn, Asparagus, Moonfire, and Red Coyote whenever they attended ceremonial gatherings and those are the names I will refer to in this account.

As Morningstar and I wearily arrived at the long-sought-out destination, we were held up by hundreds of other cars waiting to park. Popcorn, who had arrived before us, spotted us. Harried and frantic, he ran over to us saying, “This is your worst nightmare!” And so it would seem.

Then this refugee from 1969 says to us “Welcome to Woodstock.” He said we had to park and unload our pickup in a meadow, where as far as you could see, were all types of vehicles; from jalopies to BMWs; from Jeeps to converted school buses, all parked in a makeshift parking lot. We then were dismayed to learn that the Rainbow Gathering was still another seven miles up the mountain where cars were not allowed.

We joined other colorful people, waiting in line, to take this converted old school bus up the steep mountain road.

Outside in psychedelic bubble letters, the name of the bus, “Heaven”, was painted.

We climbed aboard Heaven. All the seats had been removed and we sat on pillows,

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I dared not close my eyes as he careened around the edges of the road. It was apparent to me, if not to the madcap motorist, that the single lane road was far too steep and winding to be cruising at a high speed. Only by the grace of Providence did we make it back to the meadow where we pitched our tent by the gleam of the pickup’s head lights.

The next morning we roused ourselves from a miserable night sleep. The morning dew was dripping on us through the tent. We woke stiff and not feeling rested. We slept in our Faerie garments so we didn’t have to change as we went to find transportation back up the mountain for the Great Peace ceremony.

Climbing out of the tent we found ourselves in a sea of vehicles. This one guy in charge said there were over 3,000 cars parked in the meadow. We also found that there were hundreds of folks waiting to head up the mountain.

People climbed or were pulled into several large Ryder packing trucks, cramming 50 people or probably more into standing-room-only spaces.

The trucks had no ventilation once the doors were shut. I told Gillian I would walk up before I’d climb into one of those vehicles. I am adventurous but not that adventurous because I’m extremely claustrophobic.

Other shuttle drivers also carried folks hanging onto hoods, roofs, sides, and tailgates of packed pickups.

We found the same pothead Jeep driver who said we could ride again with him. In the daylight, the trip up to the top of the Overland Mountain was not as harrowing.

Once on the plateau, we hiked over to the Radical Faerie kitchen and joined the rest of our tribe for breakfast.

After, I heard that the actual drumming and sacred “oming” ceremony was to be held in the Great Meadow about another four miles away. I was exhausted and, at 41 years old, I felt too old for this crap until I saw several old hippie women in their 60s using hiking sticks to make the trek.

It was a continual pilgrimage of thousands of old and young, male and female, straight and gay, long haired and dreadlocks, some totally nude and some fully clothed, all in an array of tie-dye.

At the Great Meadow, thousands of people formed a huge circle to “om” for peace, love, and respect for Mother Earth and all her creatures within her bosom. I must say it was one of the most powerful rituals I have ever experienced.

Over 20,000 Rainbow folks were drumming, shaking rattles, dancing, singing, and chanting. It was magical.

When the circle dispersed, after about two hours, we trekked back to the Radical Faerie kitchen to regroup.

Morningstar and I caught a ride down the mountain to our pickup, packed up the tent and gear and headed on home.

We were both miserable from the number of mosquito bites we endured. We had no campfire to cover us with smoke, so we were juicy USDA primegrade for them bloodsuckers.

I told Morningstar that, with the 20,000 up there, the Overlook Mosquitoes will be talking about the great blood fest of 1992 for years to come. Q

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Urban Arts Gallery, The Gateway, 116 S. Rio Grande St., hours vary through April 28, with a gallery stroll reception on April 19, 6-9 p.m. Free

BY TONY HOBDAY

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In honor of Earth Day, URBAN ARTS GALLERY presents “Pale Blue Dot”, an exhibit of local art celebrating our wondrous home planet. The talented group of local artists has created a collection of work that showcases the beauty of nature, as well as pieces made from found objects and recycled materials. This evocative exhibit is designed to uplift, inspire, and remind us of our all-important relationship with our planet and our environment. Featured artists include: Alice Bain Toler, Brian Hennesy, Brooke Neilsen, Cathy Cash, Chelsea Ekberg, Christina Levi, Emily Nicolosi, Horacio Rodriguez, Jada K. Hughey, James Joel Holmes, John Larsen, Josie White, Julie Fesko-Penman, Justin Moore, Kurt Beswick, Paola F. Bidinelli Giusti, Sarah Larsen, Sarina Villareal, Steve Stones, Thomas Burdett, and Todd Powelson.

TUESDAY— PALE BLUE DOT

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DONNA MISSAL’s debut album, This Time, released September 2018, is a fiery, blues-rocking, soul-inflected platter that’s put the non-binary performer square in our sights. “Keep Lying” rages with old-school grit while “Girl” doubles down on neo-soul.

SAMIA is a 22-year-old New Yorker who has already begun to make a name for herself with her highly acclaimed lyrics and raw, electric energy. She has an amazing ability to turn painful experiences into something relatable and transcendent — becoming an influential voice for the younger generation.

Live at the Eccles presents HOWARD JONES ACOUSTIC TRIO — an intimate strippeddown trip through Jones’ 30-year music career. Featuring Jones on electric piano, Robin Boult (Roger Daltry, Dave Stewart, Fish) on acoustic guitar and Nick Beggs (Kajagoogoo, Belinda Carlisle, John Paul Jones) on chapman stick, the show delivers a fresh take on Jones’ best-known hits and more.

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Soundwell, 149 W. 200 South, 7 p.m. Tickets $15 Adv/$18 Day of, smithstix.com

THURSDAY — HOWARD JONES ACOUSTIC TRIO TOUR

Delta Performance Hall, Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main St., 7:30 p.m. Tickets $30-75, artsaltlake.org

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Utah’s newest commercial dance company JUNCTION DANCE COMPANY, in their second season, debuts Rebirth. Through explosive dancing, a unique artistic voice, diverse presentation of music and variety of styles, this spiritual journey of shedding the old in order to create room for transformation will have you at the edge of your seat — possibly with your feet up in stirrups!

FRIDAY — REBIRTH

Black Box Theatre, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 8 p.m., through Sunday. Tickets $17, artsaltlake.org

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The OGDEN DOWNTOWN ALLIANCE presents the 2nd annual Spring Beer Fest which celebrates the gritty side of O-Town pride, all the while making efforts to restore the Ogden Union Station. The 2019 libation lineup includes, but not limited to: Roosters Brewing Co., Mountain West Hard Cider, Talisman Brewing Co., Red Rock Brewing, New World Distillery, Proper Brewing Co., and Toasted Barrel Brewery.

SATURDAY — SPRING BEER FEST Ogden Union Station, 2501 Wall Ave., Ogden, 5-9 p.m.

Tickets $10-20, eventbrite.com

SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS

Local performing artists and self-proclaimed “weirdos” are gathering again to celebrate the old vaudeville tradition of the Weirdo Act. GONZO RISING ALL-WEIRDO REVUE returns to trace the history of the weird and experimental acts historically used to clear the theaters.

Performances include the Puppets in the City adult puppet theatre; the Paralysisters; kiddie pools full of avarice; The Swear Bears; the Quiet Lodge; Uncle Dizzno; Dinosaur Ballet; three apocalypses; comedy sex therapist Famke Roumstead; and features international experimental music sensation and performing artist, Mx Darling Fitch of Berlin, Germany. The show is not age-restricted, but weird means weird, and parental guidance is suggested.

Out-and-proud actor, comedian and master storyteller KEVIN ALLISON is a founding member of legendary comedy troupe The State whose MTV series remains a cult classic. He is also the creator and host of RISK!, the award-winning live show and podcast where stories range from hilarious to provocative to heartbreaking. RISK! features Kevin and area storytellers who will tell true, personal tales “they never thought they’d dare to share.”

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FRIDAY — KEVIN ALLISON’S RISK!

Metro Music Hall, 615 W. 100 South, 6 p.m. Tickets vary $22 Adv/$25 Day of, metromusichall.com

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A ‘murder mystery’ social change film based in Utah needs a kickstart A local new movie is in the Kickstarter stages and is looking for funding. The film, City of Salt: A Murder Mystery With A Greater Purpose, is described as a movie that speaks up for the LGBT community and addresses other issues such as teen suicide and opioid addiction.

The Kickstarter page calls City of Salt a murder mystery feature-film about a popular high school girl who goes missing in the midst of her father‘s political campaign. Authorities and those close to her attempt to unravel the mystery surrounding her disappearance from Salt Lake City.

The page continues: “City of Salt is not just a murder mystery film; it’s so much more. This film is all about impacting positive social change. The story speaks up for the LGBTQ community while addressing many other issues we have going on today, such as gun violence, opioid addiction, suicide/mental illness, and other cultural issues. It is so important that we talk about these issues and make a positive social change through narrative and cinema.

“The director[s] and producers are so passionate about this story that they have put up their own money and resources to make this film happen. However, there are so many costs associated with making a film and as for any project, the more funding we can put into it, the higher quality of a film we will be able to produce. Many of our cast and crew are working pro bono to get this story told, but there are many other expenses like sound/lighting equipment rental, props, location, film festival submission fees, feeding the cast/crew, (the list goes on and on). With your help and generosity, we will be able to get this story out there so hopefully it will help give a voice to those who are affected by these cultural issues every day.”

Director Alicia Oberle Farmer has been in the entertainment industry since she was 11 years old. In 2009, her passion for filmmaking began on the set of The Cell 2.

In 2016, she founded the film production company Zepstone Media. City of Salt is Alicia’s feature-length screenwriting and directorial debut. She is looking

forward to writing and directing on a feature-length scale.

Co-director John D. Farmer (Alicia’s husband) is an award-winning director and is known for his work on Attollo (2018) and Quaestio (2018). In addition to his work in independent films, he has also been in the music and entertainment industry for almost 30 years, having founded several independent and local radio stations in 2008. In July of 2018, John won multiple awards at the 48 Hour Film OUT Festival for Quaestio, Audience Choice Award and Best Use of Prop

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eyes open as you move through the colorful vignettes designed to change the way that you experience art.

EGYPTIAN THEATRE COMPANY AND ZIEGFELD THEATRE PRESENT:

Mamma Mia!

MARCH 22–31 EGYPTIANTHEATRECOMPANY.COM EGYPTIAN THEATRE, PARK CITY

A GALLERY/ALLEN+ALAN FINE ART PRESENTS:

Nicholas Coley Artist Opening Reception & Exhibition MARCH 21–APRIL 20 AGALLERYONLINE.COM A GALLERY

For 20 years Nicholas Coley has been painting full time, almost everyday, and is currently living in the San Francisco Bay area; “Twenty years later, I still paint on location, finding myself in relation to a place and seeking unity with my surroundings.

More recently the matter of composition has played a prevalent role in my work, as I experiment with less conventional dynamics to arrange the urban and natural environments. I see no end to the possibilities of painting out in the world.”

UTAH ARTS ALLIANCE PRESENTS:

dreamscapes MARCH 21-APRIL 15 SHOWCLIX.COM THE GATEWAY

A world of pure re-imagination, where immersive physical and digital artworks take you on an ethereal journey. This pop-up immersive art experience manifests the surreal nature of the subconscious in a 14,000 square foot labyrinth suitable for all ages to play, explore and of course, dream.

The “Dream Makers” include more than 50 Utah artists and builders working with reclaimed materials donated by local partners.

It’s Utah’s first environmentally sustainable immersive art attraction. Don’t miss this limited opportunity to dream with your

On the eve of her wedding, a daughter’s quest to discover the identity of her father brings three men from her mother’s past back to the island they last visited 20 years earlier. And it’s all done to the fabulous music of ABBA. Dreamscapes

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UTAH MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART PRESENTS:

Claire Taylor: Transcendence

by Observation MARCH 22-APRIL 20 UTAHMOCA.ORG UMOCA

In attempting to explain sublime experiences in words, one feels inadequate or pretentious. Perhaps this is why landscape painters have taken on depicting the sublime. Claire Taylor follows this tradition by visually expressing her ineffable encounters and conversations with what humans refer to as “the natural world” — a named distinction for wildlife and landscapes as if we are separate from them. Taylor challenges the construct of the nature/culture divide.

While the exhibition is currently on display, the opening reception is on March 22.

UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS PRESENTS:

Curtain Up! An Evening Broadway MARCH 25 UVU.UNIVERSITYTICKETS.COM NCPA SMITH THEATRE, UVU

Enjoy some of the greatest songs and scenes from the American Theatre and beyond as UVU students and faculty perform such classics as Gypsy, West Side Story, and Fiddler on the Roof, alongside modern favorites such as Phantom of the Opera, CATS, Les Miserables, Wicked, and Dear Evan Hansen.

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ECCLES CENTER PRESENTS:

Parsons Dance

MARCH 30 ECCLESCENTER.ORG ECCLES CENTER THEATER, PARK CITY

The legendary, award-winning contemporary dance company returns from international tours, to our stage. Their brand of energized, athletic ensemble work is the signature of founders David Parsons and Tony Award-winning lighting designer Howell Binkley.

UOFU DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE PRESENTS:

The Rivals

APRIL 5-14 KINGSBURYHALL.UTAH.EDU BABCOCK THEATRE, UOFU

The Rivals is a tightly woven farce of aristocratic and bourgeois love rivalry in the city of Bath. Sheridan’s comic masterpiece spins its tale around two couples who are thwarted on their way to matrimony. Featuring some of theatre’s great comic characters, the windbag Sir Anthony Absolute and the foolish Mrs. Malaprop — The Rivals is an uproariously funny feast that satisfies many a lusty appetite all while poking good fun at our superficial, narcissistic, preening times.

PLAN-B THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS:

…Of Color

MARCH 28–APRIL 7 ARTSALTLAKE.ORG STUDIO THEATRE

Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center Short plays by and about people of color from the Theatre Artists of Color Writing Workshop. Driver’s License, Please by Olivia Custodio (a dark comedy about bagels, rental cars, and rednecks); American Pride

by Iris Salazar (an even darker comedy about making America great again); Roar by Darryl Stamp (a dramedy about stand-up comedy); The Frailest Thing by Bijan Hosseini (a drama about the difference between wanting to live and not wanting to die).

friends to her family home where Olga’s fiance, Lensky, introduces his friend Onegin.

Tatiana falls in love with him, even dreaming of him, but her love is not returned.

UTAH REPERTORY THEATER PRESENTS:

Love and Sex in the Digital Age APRIL 5-28 ARTTIX.COM STUDIO THEATRE

Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center From the team that brought Straight and Afterglow to URT, the title says it all.

COMPLEXIONS CONTEMPORARY BALLET PRESENTS:

Star Dust: A Tribute to David Bowie APRIL 5 KINGSBURYHALL.UTAH.EDU KINGSBURY HALL, UOFU

Combining technical precision, power, and passion, Complexions Contemporary Ballet transcends tradition in a groundbreaking mix of styles ranging from ballet to hip hop.

Founded by former members of Alvin Ailey, Desmond Richardson and Dwight Rhoden, the company has been featured several times on the hit show So You Think You Can Dance. This season, the company performs an exhilarating program full of glitter and glam featuring Star Dust, an “utterly transfixing” tribute to the life and music of David Bowie.

UTAH SYMPHONY PRESENTS:

Ben Folds with the Utah Symphony BALLET WEST PRESENTS:

Onegin

APRIL 5–13 BALLETWEST.ORG DELTA PERFORMANCE HALL

George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Theater A Utah premiere, Onegin follows the story of Madame Larina and her daughters Olga and Tatiana. Excited for her upcoming birthday, Tatiana welcomes family and

APRIL 9 ARTSALTLAKE.ORG ABRAVANEL HALL

Ben Folds is back by popular demand after several sold-out performances of his genre-bending music with the Utah Symphony. Don’t miss this incredible evening featuring one of the major music influences of our generation performing his greatest hits with a live symphony orchestra.

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overwhelmingly popular LoveLoud Festival returns this summer in its third installment. Festival founder Dan Reynolds, lead singer of the Grammy Award-winning band Imagine Dragons, today made the announcement.

The festival seeks to progress the relevant and vital conversation about what it means to unconditionally love, understand, accept, and support LGBTQ+ youth in our communities.

Through music, performance and an inspiring message, LoveLoud and AT&T share vision of a future where LGBTQ+ youth are wholly connected to love and acceptance.

The LoveLoud Festival will take place at USANA Amphitheatre in West Valley City on Saturday, June 29, 2019; a significant date that coincides with the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising. On the day of the event, the Festival will be streamed live in its entirety on AT&T’s social media handles.

The festival will feature a headlining performance by multi-platinum-selling pop star, Kesha, as well as a star-studded lineup of other artists that includes Martin Garrix, Tegan & Sara, Daya, Grouplove, K. Flay, PVRIS, Dan Reynolds, and Laura Jane Grace. Additional performers and speakers will be announced in the coming weeks.

“LoveLoud is back again this year and stronger than ever,” Dan Reynolds. “We are excited to celebrate our LGBTQ youth through music and spoken word. My hope is that they feel loved, accepted and perfect just the way they are. I invite all the political and religious leaders of Utah to join us as we show our LGBTQ youth that they are not just loved, but truly accepted and appreciated.”

Tickets go on sale Friday, March 15 at 10 a.m., and an exclusive pre-sale offer for previous attendees of the festival will be available today at 10 a.m. Festival goers may purchase tickets at LoveLoudFest.com.

The LoveLoud Foundation will again aim to raise more than $1,000,000 from this year’s event, a goal that was surpassed at last year’s festival. Proceeds will benefit past beneficiaries The Trevor Project, GLAAD, the Human Rights Campaign, Tegan and Sara Foundation, and Encircle, as well as other vital organizations that proudly serve our LGBTQ+ youth. Q

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REPERTORY DANCE THEATRE PRESENTS:

RED BUTTE GARDEN PRESENTS:

Tatiana Varela Batik Art Exhibit APRIL 19-MAY 26 REDBUTTEGARDEN.ORG RED BUTTE GARDEN

Tatiana Varela was born in Colombia and immigrated to the United States 20 years ago. Before immigrating to America, she took up Batik art, an Indonesian discipline involving the production of dyeing colored patterns using beeswax onto a canvass.

Her patterns depict the flora and fauna of her native South America, with beautiful images of plants, flowers, and especially tropical birds.

SAMBA FOGO PRESENTS:

Fogo Vivo

APRIL 25-27 ARTSALTLAKE.ORG JEANNE WAGNER THEATRE

Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center Fogo Vivo (Living Flame), an evening of live music and dance ON FIRE. Drawing on rich Brazilian culture and mythology, Samba Fogo ignites the stage as they weave traditional and contemporary dance forms, fire spinning, and diverse live music. The live band for this year’s concert includes vocalists Solange Gomes and George Edgar Brown, backed by horn players, a string quintet, and the largest drum line Samba Fogo has ever featured on stage — a diverse and dynamic orchestra, providing a rhythmic and musical backdrop inspired by traditions from Cuba, Africa, and Brazil.

EGYPTIAN THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS:

Voices

Park City Follies

APRIL 11-13 ARTSALTLAKE.ORG JEANNE WAGNER THEATRE ROSE WAGNER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

APRIL 26–MAY 5 EGYPTIANTHEATRECOMPANY.COM EGYPTIAN THEATRE, PARK CITY

Four choreographers examine what makes community: how we communicate, organize and socialize; how we voice our opinions and solve our problems. RDT will present Tatiana was born in Colombia and immigrated to the United States 20 years ago. Before immigrating to America, she took up Batik art, an Indonesian discipline involving the production of dyeing colored patterns using beeswax onto a canvass.

Her patterns depict the flora and fauna of her native South America, with beautiful images of plants, flowers, and especially tropical birds.the Doris Humphrey masterpiece Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor (1938) alongside a restating of Danielle Agami’s 2016 work, Theatre. In addition, Voices will feature two world-premieres by the renowned Bebe Miller, and Bryn Cohn, winner of the 2018 REGALIA competition.

The annual lampoon of all things Park City, starring an all-local cast.

PYGMALION PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS:

Sweetheart Come

MAY 3-19 ARTSALTLAKE.ORG LEONA WAGNER BLACK BOX THEATRE ROSE WAGNER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

Emma Hauck realizes that her husband’s political ambitions are changing him — and their marriage. She finds refuge in her writing, and in the unexpected friendship of a new servant. As both relationships grow more complex, Emma must face difficult truths about herself that she never knew existed. Inspired by a heartbreaking true story, this new play explores the intersection between marriage, illness, and the power of a pencil.

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UTAH REPERTORY THEATER PRESENTS:

Angels in America Part One: Millenium Approaches

MAY 31-JUNE 15 ARTSALTLAKE.ORG STUDIO THEATRE ROSE WAGNER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

Tony Kushner’s two-part epic historical drama captures the lives of the HIV-positive Prior; Louis, his lover who abandons him; Joe, a closeted gay Mormon; his Valium-addicted wife Harper; Roy Cohn, a notorious lawyer from the McCarthy hearings, dying of AIDS, and others. Kushner summons a restless pastiche of the historical and the supernatural, the theological and the political — all told with surging theatricality.

APRIL 26-27 SMITHSTIX.COM PEERY’S EGYPTIAN THEATER, OGDEN

Based on the book by Frances Hodgson Burnett, with musical score written by Kurt Bestor, performed by Chamber Orchestra Ogden, and choreography by Raymond Van Mason.

GRAND THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS:

West Side Story

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PIONEER THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS:

Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is transported to 1950’s New York City as two young lovers find themselves caught between warring street gangs. Their struggle to survive in a world of hate, violence and prejudice is one of the most innovative, heart-wrenching and relevant musical dramas of our time.

Grease

MAY 10–25 PIONEERTHEATRE.ORG PIONEER THEATRE, UOFU

They’re back — Danny and Sandy, the Pink Ladies and the Burger Palace Boys — dancing and singing their way through

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Becoming a patron of the arts

BY ROCK MAGEN

Art is

an acquired interest.

However, if you’re asking this question in the first place, then the chances are that you already enjoy art in some way. I’m going to take a guess and say that you are looking for reasons to identify with the greater art community and share your interest. I still remember when I was first invited to an art gallery and my instinctive reaction was a feeling of apprehension. It was a strange feeling as I have always loved art, so why the anxiety?

It dawned on me that I was not worried about experiencing the art, but rather, how to react and not look like a complete moron to my friends.

This month, I want to focus on demystifying the process

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ARIES March 20–April 19

Friends from the past will appear in a quick and surprising manner. Welcome or not, there are memories attached to these people. Buried emotions will rise to the surface. Evaluate your feelings carefully and tread lightly. The past is remembered differently from others.

Misunderstandings could result in conflict.

TAURUS Apr 20–May 20

Priorities of equal importance flood your agenda.

Discouragement ensues without a clear first step, and progress is stalled.

Career woes should be handled lightly, while relationship and family matters demand a direct approach. Patience is good, but don’t delay. Draining the pressures of life will provide immediate relief.

GEMINI May 21–June 20

The future seems unclear and a path undefined. This would be fine if you knew the general direction things were going. A normal sense of

of enjoying art through a few simple considerations.

Start by making it a habit to observe and appreciate art. In order to understand your own specific interests and inclinations in art, develop a habit of observing any art object that you come across. We often overlook art objects sitting right in front of us. How many of us honestly take time in our office to look at the paintings on our walls? As we spend time observing and appreciating the art that we are exposed to in our everyday life, then we begin to understand more clearly our likes and dislikes in art.

Once you have spent some time in examining your own preferences in art, you can move towards understanding the forms of visual art that connect with you most. For adventure is notably missing, but do not fret. Life continues moving forward and will eventually show its cards.

Now is not a good time to gamble, so some caution would be wise.

CANCER June 21–July 22

You’ve kept a big secret for a while. However, everyone already knows what the secret is! Don’t fear to let friends know what defines you, as it will make the world much easier to deal with. Being out of your comfort zone could take time to adjust to, but being exposed can be very liberating. Freedom is a gift to yourself.

LEO July 23–August 22

A helping hand comes from a family member. A humble nature will emerge as a result, and a new perspective will shape your outlook.

Spend time with those close to you, and don’t let a moment of anger overcome your sensibilities. Staying calm when things heat up is encouraged.

The last thing needed right now is deep regret.

VIRGO August 23–Sep. 22

A big change is coming, so be prepared. Nothing is more frustrating than feeling like everyone is too busy. But it’s a good time for reflection and personal expression.

Splurge a little, but don’t venture too

some it is the lifelike representations in sculpture and for others it is the ability of a painter to depict a memory in vivid colors. To many of us, all art forms are a treat for the senses and a tribute to the efforts of the artist. As you organize your own reactions to different forms of art, you will learn to recognize small differences and minor variations of colors and shapes that make a painting likeable or not so appealing to you.

The last and most significant tip in the art appreciation process is to keep your mind open and receptive to new art experiences. One of the disadvantages of spending time developing a definite pattern of likes and dislikes is that you tend to get trapped in this pattern of defaulting to your preferences. One of the most difficult things to do is to confar from the familiar. A neat friend will make a surprise appearance. However, be aware of some romantic intentions.

LIBRA Sept 23–October 22

tinue this journey and remain open to new and totally different creations and art forms.

The whole purpose of art appreciation is to open your subconscious mind to be receptive to new experiences and creations. You will be amazed as time passes and you begin to see your tastes change to different themes and styles.

Always remember that the objective of art appreciation is to recognize and understand your own love of art and artistry. In time you will be able to react to art and not fear being seen as ignorant. Like most good things in life, these things just take time. Q spawns from coziness, especially in matters of the heart.

CAPRICORN Dec 21–Jan 19

Dreams can be frightening if the truth is mistaken for logic.

Don’t blow things out of proportion without measuring the extent of reality. Family members take advantage of insecurities, so avoid a tragedy before it starts. If things don’t feel right, make the necessary adjustments.

Small changes make the biggest of differences.

There is no such thing as a perfect life, but perfect moments are possible. Great moments will occur during this time, especially in business matters. An intriguing opportunity will be a powerful lure. Be cautious with individuals who seem too willing to give. Open arms could be a trap. Set restrictions and stand firm.

SCORPIO Oct. 23–Nov. 21

Running away feels good from time to time. This will ring true during this time, Aquarius. Personal entanglements are bound to get sticky, but a little distance will help in overcoming the mess. Eliminate one problem at a time, and free time will flow your way. Relax with a clear head.

A good cry could also be cleansing.

A period of intense emotional strain will lead to an increase of desires. Give in to temptation with a sense of modesty, and satisfaction will be more abundant. An increase in finances will come available, but conservation would be wise. Save for something you really want while being aware of hard times ahead..

SAGITTARIUS

Nov. 22–December 20.

The path to freedom appears in the form of passion and good spirits.

It’s amazing how good someone makes you feel when things get a little tough.

Don’t grow dependent on others for happiness, but if an opportunity for it exists, take advantage of it. Strength

AQUARIUS Jan. 20–Feb. 18

PISCES Feb 19–Mar 19

It could be hard learning skills needed to overcome a problem. Don’t fear asking for help from a buddy. Learn new ways to accomplish goals. A financial situation takes a toll. Spend wisely during this time. Luckily, your wish list is on the light side, so hold off on big purchases until later.Q

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cold-weather grooming essentials to get your skin Spring-ready

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winter’s drying effects at bay with these moisture-packed pick-me-ups. While you can’t avoid winter’s skin-damaging effects altogether, you can fortify your grooming routine with a vitamin-, mineral-, and moisture-enriched regimen that keeps your skin supple and soft despite the elements for that summertime silkiness even when it’s snowing out. Here are nine new products to add to your arctic arsenal.

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2.Eraclea Daily Bamboo Exfoliant

For a face “as smooth as a baby’s tush,” as one reviewer put it, use this exfoliating micro-scrub every couple days (it says daily on the packaging, but you can chill a bit on the micro-scrub when the mercury is low) to remove impurities, oil and dead skin cells for a youthful glow that’ll look even more radiant when basked in the flames of a ski-lodge blaze. eracleaskincare.com, $45

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The importance of anal HPV screening

BY AIMEE STEINLY

Human

papillomavirus is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States and approximately 90 percent of all anal cancers are attributed to HPV infection. HPV is a virus, like the common cold but, unlike the cold or flu, it can be present without any symptoms.

Some HPV strains can cause genital warts and are considered low risk, with a small chance for causing cancer.

Other types are considered high risk, causing cancer in different areas of the body including the cervix and vagina in women, the penis in men, and the anus and oropharynx (throat) in both men and women. In fact, more than 80 percent of sexually active adults are believed to have been infected with at least one strain of the virus by age 45.

In a 1927-29 study, Georgios Papanicolaou and Aurel Babeş determined that cancer can be detected by inspecting cervical cells. Called a Pap test (named after Papanicolaou), it was the first screening widely used for identifying cancer.

In July 1943, Dr. Papanicolaou published a paper explaining how to use the Pap test to screen for cellular changes that could be cancerous. Within the decade, annual screenings with Pap smears began, and the cervical cancer rate in the U.S. dropped to approximately 50 percent of what it was at the turn of the century.

Pap smear screenings have saved count-

less lives by providing early detection and intervention; allowing for treatment early in the process, when the treatment is least invasive and more successful.

While the HPV virus has been a source of screening for over 70 years for women, HPV is also common in men and can be similarly transmitted through sexual activity and/or anal intercourse. Cervical cancer and anal cancer are both associated with the HPV virus, which can easily spread from person to person through sexual intercourse (anal or vaginal), fingers or toys.

What does this mean to you? It means that each time that you have a new partner, you have the potential of exposing yourself to a new strain of the HPV virus; just because you tested negative a month ago, does not mean you weren’t recently exposed. Often, our bodies fight off the virus, but occasionally, it becomes persistent and changes the mucosal cells into precancerous ones.

Additionally, with the increasingly dynamic nature of adult sexual activity, often with changes in participant anatomy, enhancing agents and sex toys, the likelihood of transmission has increased. Quite frankly, sex is a sloppy sport and anywhere bodily fluids may land, even unintentionally, may result in an infection.

This is important to know because the HPV virus is mostly asymptomatic. Some may have anal bleeding or pain, but most

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will not show signs until the cancer progresses. While you know what to look for to identify skin cancer, without screening for cellular changes in the anal mucosa as a result from the HPV infection, you will not know if you are infected.

Approximately 7,000 cases of anal cancer are diagnosed annually in the US each year; an anal Pap will certainly decrease this prevalence. Furthermore, gay and bisexual men with HIV are even more at risk because they are dramatically more susceptible to a persistent HPV infection, which leads to a 40 fold increase in the risk of anal cancer as compared to the general public.

In prevalence studies, anal HPV infection among HIV-positive MSM, reported prevalence estimates between 87 and 98 percent. Individuals with multiple sex partners, those who have a history of HPV infection (men or women), and those who have compromised immune systems (such as organ transplant) also have a higher risk. However, anyone engaged in sexual activity is at risk for exposure.

Due to the infectious nature of the HPV virus, it is extremely communicable.

New evidence suggests that anal HPV can be transmitted among women with cervical HPV, simply by wiping from front to back.

Anal HPV screening is available and accessible in Utah. The screening is done through an anal Pap smear, a procedure that is quick, painless and simple. Then the sample is then sent to pathology for evaluation. The anal Pap provides early identification of high-risk anal HPV strains, so further evaluation and treatment may be determined through a high resolution anoscopy. Early diagnosis allows for less invasive, in-office treatments, while later diagnosis often requires chemotherapy, radiation and even surgery resulting in a colostomy.

Recent HPV vaccinations provide protection against some high-risk strains of HPV, along with the strains that cause warts; however, they offer the most protection to someone who has never engaged in sexual activity. So, for those who have been exposed, a simple screening could save lives. Q Contact the LGBTQ friendly providers listed in the QPages directory for a local anal HPV screening facility.

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REVIEW BY TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER

Jimmy Neurosis

BY JAMES OSELAND C. 2019, ECCO, $27.99, 305 PAGES

Back then, you were a chameleon.

Like most teens, you spent time blending in through different personas.

One day, you were this kind of kid; another day, you were that kind; next week one, then another, as if you had a rack full of roles to try on and years to do it. In the new memoir Jimmy Neurosis

by James Oseland, punk rock helped.

Moving again should have been no surprise for young Jim Oseland.

His father had always been somewhat of a nomad; in each new town, just as the family settled in, it seemed as though the first plan was to move again — although this time was different. This move was to California, and Oseland’s dad said he no longer wanted a family. Dad was staying in Minnesota.

Just 13, Oseland hoped to fit in with his new ninth-grade California classmates at San Carlos High, but he realized on the first day that it wouldn’t happen. Still, over time, he managed to make friends with a boy who dealt weed; and with a tall Marilyn-Monroe-ish exchange student who invited Oseland to explore the world of punk rock.

The music, the moshing, and the clothing were all things he’d seen on TV in Minnesota, but the culture was attainable in California. In club after club, 15-year-old Oseland was

welcomed for his uniqueness; not fitting in seemed to be the whole point. He even felt comfortable enough to admit, out loud, that he was gay.

It was something Oseland had known since he was very small, but he couldn’t articulate it until he was welcomed into the world of punk rock.

And he blossomed.

“Gone,” he says, “was the shy, awkward boy, to be replaced by someone with sharper edges.”

He gained a “boyfriend” who was more than twice his age and, after the boyfriend moved to New York, Oseland followed. When that relationship soured, the 17-year-old returned to California, with a germ of an idea.

California had changed.

Punk rock had changed. And so, again, did Oseland.

Though it may at first seem like just another memoir, Jimmy Neurosis has three things that set it apart — the most obvious being that it’s a look at punk rock. That’s a story told not merely from its beginning but also from the perspective of two coasts. Author James Oseland was there to see both.

The second and third things go together: told from the point-of-view of an awkward, desperately-wanna-be-worldly teenager, this memoir is mostly set in a time before the AIDS crisis, but only just. Oseland was highly promiscuous in those days and he’s very open in his recollections; AIDS is never mentioned but readers may not be able to avoid feeling an edge-of-your-seat fear, not because of what’s written but because we know too much.

For that, and for readers who like memoirs of the coming-ofage type, this book is an easy choice. It’s also a great memory trip for old punk rockers. For fans of both, Jimmy Neurosis is the perfect blend. Q

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For the love of hot pilots, stop doing these 19 things on an airplane

BY MIKEY ROX

Human

beings do disgusting, dirt-nasty things while traveling in an airplane. DO NOT BE THESE SLOBS. Here are 19 in-flight no-nos to remember the next time you’re flying the friendly skies.

1.

Removing footwear

This is your captain speaking: The first person to take their stank shoes or socks off on this plane will be ejected at 35,000 feet. Even if you think your feet don’t “stink,” somebody else probably will. But besides that, what kind of adult person thinks it’s appropriate to kick their footwear off in tight quarters among strangers? Somebody didn’t raise you right, number one, and number two, if your feet hurt or your shoes are too restricting, buy more comfortable shoes. Please don’t act a fool at everyone else’s expense.

2.

Using electronic devices without headphones

Here is the total number of scenarios where it’s appropriate to use your electronic devices on a plane without headphones: ZERO. In zero scenarios is this appropriate.

Whether you’re watching a movie, browsing cooking demonstrations, letting your children play games, listening to music, or engaging in the other hundreds of things you do that go beep, boop and screech, please do it with headphones on. If you forgot them, ask your flight attendants for a pair; they have them and they’re generally free.

3.

Watching adult movies

Watching porn that other passengers can view is probably illegal. In fact, I’d even suggest that you steer clear of R-rated films — even those with the most innocent nudity — while traveling on a plane. It sounds prudish, yes, but you never know how someone else is going to react to seeing those images these

days, and you don’t want to get caught up in a #MeToo moment because a bare ass flashed across your screen for a split second.

4. Putting your feet between seats

Where do your feet belong on a plane? Repeat after me: On. The. Floor. (with your shoes ON.)

5. Letting your kids run amok

Fair warning to all you moms and dads out there: If you’re letting your out-of-control kids run screaming up and down the aisles of the plane, there’s a good chance they could get drop-kicked.

By accident, of course. My general life rule about children is that if the parents don’t discipline them, I should be able to take a stab at it. Literally. It takes a village, right?

your germs 6. Blowing all over the place

Sneeze and cough into the bend of your elbow. Use tissues and discard them properly. You know, like somebody with common sense.

7.

Constant rustling

When you board the plane and find your seat, this is the time to start getting comfy. Get out everything you’ll want for the flight — magazines, devices, snacks, medications (whatever you need to be happy for the next few hours) — and sit your ass down, buckle up and relax. Once you’re in the air, avoid the temptation to move around. Chill, wait for your free soda, choose the movie you want to watch, and stay in your space.

a window seat if 8. Taking you like to get up a lot

If you like to move around or have to use the bathroom frequently, don’t opt for a window seat. You belong in an aisle seat,

and that’s the seat you should choose.

If you have the window seat by circumstance, do the passengers in your row a solid and let them know that you will need to get up frequently. If they choose to stay put, it’s not your problem anymore.

9. Reclining the seat

You’re not getting that much of a recline — about 5 degrees in economy — so why not do the courteous thing and stay upright? It’s really not fair to the person behind you who can barely move when you recline, especially considering that there’s only about 30 inches of pitch between seats to begin with. Lean against the window or your tray table for a nap, or buy a neck pillow so you can sleep upright more comfortably.

10. Excessive flatulence

I get it — sometimes a little toottoot sneaks out. But if you’re excessively gassy, go to the bathroom and do some business to help alleviate the issue. Or just hold it in until you explode. That’s better than toxifying the recycled air for hours on end.

11. Carrying on loud conversations If I can hear you more than three rows in front of me, you’re being too loud. The person to whom you’re speaking is literally right next to you. Library voices, please.

your phone 12. Using during takeoff

I was once on a flight with a guy who gave the person on the other end of his call a play-by-play of takeoff until we were too high in the air for the signal to continue. Frankly, I was surprised at how long he was able to keep talking. It was pretty annoying, but it also was a source of anxiety — I’m a nervous flyer — because the airlines have convinced me that if a cell phone is on during takeoff or

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landing, it probably means certain death.

I survived, but he was still a D-bag.

13. Wearing powerful scents

Given that everyone on a plane sits extremely close to one another and the air is recycled on airplanes, please save your pungent colognes and perfumes for alone time with the one person who thinks you smell amazing dipped in flowery toilet water.

to board strange 14. Trying ‘support animals’

Don’t hold up the flight for hundreds of other people because you’re trying to pass a two-headed dragon off as a support animal because you don’t want to pay the fee for it to travel separately. Dogs and cats are support animals. Ligers, peacocks, alligators and whatever else you’re dragging through the airport on a leash are not.

15. Arguing

Save your lovers’ quarrel for where it belongs — your honeymoon. Don’t engage in an altercation with other passengers, either. If you’re squabbling about something on an airplane, you shouldn’t be on it.

odorous 16. Bringing food on board

Cold turkey sandwich, sure. Freshly prepared salmon, no! Honestly, even more innocuous foods like pizza and fried chicken can be offensive to others.

Eat your meal before you board and then snack on the plane if you need to.

up to deplane as soon 17. Standing as the seatbelt light goes off WHERE ARE YOU GOOOOING?!

There’s no reason to jump out of your seat and start removing bags from overhead storage as soon as the pilot parks the plane. You don’t need to push and elbow

other passengers, either. Just sit calmly until it’s your turn, get up, grab your belongings and exit.

Manners 101, folks.

Taking up overhead bin 18. space for things that can fit under your seat Don’t take up space in the overhead bins with backpacks and shopping bags if those items can fit under your seat.

a mess in 19. Making the bathroom

A hundred and 50 people have to use that tiny space. Keep your bodily functions in the toilet and paper towels in the trash.

If you’ve made a mess in the bathroom doing you-know-what, try to clean it yourself, otherwise alert a flight attendant discreetly. Q Mikey Rox is an award-winning journalist and LGBT lifestyle expert whose work has been published in more than 100 outlets across the world. He spends his time writing from the beach with his dog Jaxon. Connect with Mikey on Instagram @mikeyrox

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A tale of the Great Dane rescue

BY PETUNIA PAP SMEAR

The road

to Third Friday Bingo is fraught with danger and excitement.

Last month, we set a new record for funds raised at Third Friday Bingo with the Matrons of Mayhem. Doing so nearly killed me. Let me pontificate.

The charity of the month was Rocky Mountain Great Dane Rescue, typically our most-attended bingo of the year. There was much excitement and enthusiasm in the air, as we had been receiving many more than usual requests to reserve tables.

In anticipation of the big night, I arrived early to set up the hall. I stood in the doorway and quickly surveyed the empty room.

It was going to tax all my faculties to have it all set up in time. I summoned my childhood training (if there’s one thing I learned as the Deacon Quorum President, it was how to set up tables and chairs for a “ward” party) and prepared to get down to business. I rummaged through my purse (a gigantic blue IKEA cargo bag) and donned some sensibly low-heal sequined shoes with good traction and opera length gloves to protect my manicure, and then went to work.

Luckily for me, the Mule of Mayhem, Terry showed up to help. Had I been left to my own devices, it most likely would have taken my girdle-free gluttinus maximus at least three days to accomplish the task. In the process of dragging tables and chairs around, my breasticles impeded the efficiency of my labors and I started to sweat.

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school that a queen never sweats, she glows. Therefore, in order to facilitate this mantra, I removed the double “P” nipples I usually wear on my breasticles and replaced them with twirling propeller nipples, so as to facilitate the circulation of air to keep me cool.

And of course, all the heavy work was done by the time the rest of the Matrons arrived.

My overly fluffy tummy started growling, and I began to feel feint, as it had been more than 15 minutes since I ate anything.

So, I sent the Mule to fetch me a snack.

Bless his heart, the Mule brought me a six-foot-long hoagie. Surly enough to tide me over for another 45 minutes until the concession hot dogs were ready.

Eventually all was prepared. I re-applied my hoagie-smeared lip stick and the Matrons were ready. The players arrived.

The room was exceptionally crowded to standing room only. The would-be bingo players were brimming with excitement.

To their delight, the charity brought four Great Danes to show off. And the festivities began.

During the first bingo game, I instructed Cherri Bombb to make up a party foul against one of the most attractive men in the room for being too handsome. When he got up to dance his party foul, we asked him take off his shirt, knowing that a shirtless hunk brings in at least double the tips for the charity as a fully clothed guy. Come to find out, he was a fireman. Be still my fluttering heart and heaving breasticles.

Later in the evening, I moved over by the dogs, which were as big as Paul Bunyan’s Ox Babe, to pose for a photo.

Moeisha Montana (Mo-Mo) couldn’t tell the difference between me and the dogs by stating, “All you bitches look alike.”

In an act of righteous indignation, I took the propeller off my left breasticle and threw it at her like a Chinese throwing star. My lack of ability to accurately throw things at a target was apparent as my projectile missed Moeisha by at least 10 feet, and hit Cherri Bombb smack in the crack of her “asset.”

She whirled around, saw Mo-Mo, thought that Mo-Mo assaulted her and yelled something about “losing a cherry” and “you bitch” and advanced in classic drag queen attack posture, nails drawn like cat claws and purse swinging. Mo-Mo, not to be outdone, kicked off her heels and assumed the classic “Crouching Tiger Hidden Drag Queen” defense posture.

At first, I felt I ought to intervene and stop the inevitable carnage, as this was all happening inside a house of God. But then my devilish side wanted to watch this “cat fight at a dog show.” What better entertainment could possibly be had on a Friday night in Salt Lake City? Eventually, guilt took over me, notwithstanding the fact that I didn’t want to mess up my hair, and I quickly acted by calling a dueling party foul on both seething queens which stopped them in their tracks.

I challenged them to prove their superiority over each other by collecting the most tips. My breasticles swelled with pride as I beheld the genius of quelling two queens with one swoop. Look at me: peacemaker and master fund raiser all in one. At the end of the foul, they were too winded to continue pursuit of each other and I was left blameless and angelic in the eyes of everyone. Blessed be Petunia, mother of all peace and pure as the driven on snow.

This story leaves us with several important questions: 1. Could I make a living bedazzling IKEA cargo bags and selling them as couture purses?

2. Could the air circulating breasticles be considered getting a blow job in the church?

3. Should I apply for a patent for Air Cooled Breasticles?

4. Could calling a party foul on a handsome fireman be considered a sincere form of flirting?

5. When Cherry Bombb yelled “you bitch” was she referring to me or the dog?

6. Are “real women” jealous of my interchangeable nipples?

These and other eternal questions will be answered in future chapters of The Perils of Petunia Pap Smear. Q

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