Metro, November 23, 2005

Utah’s Gay and Lesbian Biweekly Newspaper Volume 2 ■ Issue 24 November 23–December 7

Holiday Shopping Guide

Gay apparel to don, decor to deck the halls, but, alas, no fruitcake

World AIDS Day Activities Planned Monaco’s ‘Paint the Town Red,’ candlelight vigil and art exhibit

Mixed Election Results Nationwide

Gay candidates win, Maine says no to marriage ban

Cologne, Germany to Host 2010 Gay Games Team Salt Lake to send ‘over 100’ to Chicago

Laurie Asks the Gayest Thing You’ve Done Sarah Bettens in Salt Lake Gay Agenda

TRACY BAIM/WINDY CITY TIMES

WORLD AND NATIONAL

Sport Club Janus is joined by Federation of Gay Games site selection co-chairs Dennis Sneyers and Darl Schaaf, and FGG co-presidents Kathleen Webster and Roberto Mantgaci.

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Cologne, Germany, Announced as Host for 2010 Gay Games Chicago — Cologne, Germany, will be the host city for Gay Games VIII in 2010.

Cologne won the bid over Johannesburg, South Africa and Paris, France.

The Federation of Gay Games made the announcement Nov. 13 in Chicago, host of Gay Games VII in July 2006.

“Cologne will be a great place for LGBT athletes from around the world to compete in 2010 at Gay Games VIII. Each of the bid cities brought various strengths, and all were committed to seeing the legacy of the Gay Games continue to open doors for people everywhere through sport,” said Kathleen Webster, co-president of the Federation of Gay Games.

In addition to signifying a city’s inclusiveness, diversity and creative spirit, the week-long Gay Games brings tens of thousands of athletes, artists and their friends and families to the host city, which generates substantial economic benefit.

“We are thrilled the Federation of Gay Games selected Cologne,” said Michael Lohaus and Annette Wachter, co-directors of Sport Club Janus e.V., Cologne’s bidding organization. “As one of Europe’s most welcoming and diverse cities, Cologne welcomes the international LGBT community, their friends and families with open arms and promises one of the most exciting competitions in the history of the Gay Games.”

“There is a special bond between cities that have hosted the Gay Games,” said Suzanne Arnold, co-chair of Chicago Games.

“We offer Cologne organizers our best wishes and look forward to them becoming a part of the Gay Games legacy that has

brought together people around the world over the past 25 years.”

The Gay and Lesbian International Sport Association announced in September that Copenhagen, Denmark, was chosen to host the second World Outgames in 2009. The first Outgames will be held in Montreal, Canada, the week following Gay Games VII.

Team Salt Lake Launches with Nearly 30 Athletes Twenty-three people signed up Nov. 5 to be part of Team Salt Lake at a kick-off party at the Trapp Door, with several more signing up since. The team will go to Chicago in July, 2006 to participate in Gay Games VII. Over 100 people attended the event.

“While 23 is three times the number that competed in [Gay Games VI] Sydney, it is a fourth what we expect to actually show up,” said Doug Fadel, co-organizer of Team Salt Lake. “We could easily get over 100 athletes.”

Over 40 Queer Athletic Aquatic Club members are expected to compete in Chicago in water polo, swimming, diving, open water swim and synchronized swimming. Organizers believe 10–15 people will compete in the triathalon, 5–10 in track and field. Four bowlers have signed up to date.

A flag football team, volleyball team, softball team, basketball teams, golfers, tennis players, some cyclers are also expected to join up.

A deadline for a $50 discount for joining with Team Salt Lake is set for December 15.

For details, see their website at teamslc.org or call Doug Fadel at 294-7777 or 232-7961 or douglaskf@aol.com

Election Results 2005: Texas Says Yes to Gay Marriage Ban; Maine Says No

by Ross von Metzke

Austin, Texas — Texas voters this week overwhelmingly approved a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, making their state the 19th to take that step.

The same-sex marriage contest in Texas was a landslide victory; near-complete returns showed the gay-marriage ban supported by about 76 percent of voters. Like every other state except Massachusetts, Texas didn’t permit same-sex marriages previously, but the constitutional amendment was touted as an extra guard against future court rulings.

“Texans know that marriage is between a man and a woman, and children deserve both a mom and a dad. They don’t need a Ph.D. or a degree in anything else to teach them that,” said Kelly Shackelford, a leader of Texans For Marriage, which backed the ban.

Gay-rights leaders said they were dismayed, but not surprised, by the outcome. They vowed to continue a state-by-state battle for recognition of same-sex unions.

“The fight for fairness isn’t over, and we won’t give up,” said Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign. “These amendments are part of a

long-standing effort by the extreme right to eliminate any legal recognition for gay people and our families.”

In more uplifting news for the gay community, Maine voters rejected a conservative-backed proposal to repeal the state’s new gay-rights law.

The measure was placed on the ballot by a church-backed conservative coalition that would have repealed a gayrights law approved by lawmakers earlier this year.

Lawmakers also expanded the state’s human rights act to outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation, a step already taken by the five other New England states.

In near-complete returns, more than 55 percent of voters were opposing repeal of the new law, which is broadly worded to protect transsexuals as well as gays and lesbians.

“This is such a much-needed victory for our national community because we’ve experienced so many losses,” said Matt Foreman, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.

“We’ve got to press forward on nondiscrimination protection, and not let marriage continue to swamp the movement.”

Gay Candidates Win New Seats in Some Tough Territories day to ban legal recognition of same-sex relationships passed overwhelmingly, 33 percent of Houston voters supported Sue Lovell for an At-Large City Council seat, enough to propel Lovell to a December 6th runoff. Houston is the fourth largest city in the country.

“These candidates bring the skill, talent and passion that the LGBT community has to contribute to our political system and to society as a whole,” said Chuck Wolfe, president and CEO of the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund. “Winning races at the local level and striving for change within the political process is the surest way to achieve true equality for gay and lesbian Americans,” Wolfe added.

Anti-gay attacks against Norfolk, Virginia City Treasurer candidate Vivian Paige appear to have contributed to her loss. Last month, fraudulent flyers placed on cars outside an NAACP candidate forum proclaimed that Paige, a certified public accountant, is a “proud lesbian” and “doesn’t care what people think!” A group called Christian Leaders of Tomorrow went on television with an ad targeting Paige’s sexual orientation.

Full election results are available at www.victoryfund.org/election.

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Washington, D.C. — The Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund announced that of its 55 endorsements of gay and lesbian candidates in 2005, 35 won their races or performed well enough to proceed to a runoff. The Victory Fund, which works to elect qualified lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender candidates, noted that some of these wins were considered groundbreaking and that the 2005 election year was not free from gay-baiting and outright attacks on candidates’ sexual orientations.

In Ohio, a state that went for George Bush last year, four endorsed gay candidates won races. Three of the wins were for new seats, including Joe Santiago for Cleveland City Council, Nickie Antonio for an at-large seat in the Lakewood City Council and Joe Lacey for a new seat on the Dayton Board of Education. Mary Jo Hudson won a seat she was appointed to last year on the Columbus City Council.

In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Dan Miller garnered 22 percent of the vote, enough to secure a new seat on the Harrisburg City Council. This marks the first time an openly gay candidate was elected in that city.

In Texas, where a statewide vote Tues-

Philadelphia ‘Idol’ Cleared in Killing of Attacker LOCAL AND REGIONAL

105 Members of Congress Co-Sponsor Bill to Repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

by Michael Aaron michael@slmetro.com

Washington, D.C.—One hundred five members of Congress now support the Military Readiness Enhancement Act (H.R. 1059), a Congressional bill that would repeal the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Pursue” ban on lesbian, gay and bisexual personnel.

The bill, introduced in March by Rep. Marty Meehan (D-MA), is co-sponsored by Republican and Democratic lawmakers, including nine members of the House Armed Services Committee. Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) recently became the 100th co-sponsor.

No Utah representatives have signed onto the bill.

“There is historic, bipartisan progress being made in the fight to lift the ban,” said C. Dixon Osburn, executive director of Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN). “In just over six months, 100 elected representatives from both parties have come together to call for repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’ Public support for their effort is strong: 79 percent of Americans support allowing gays to serve openly, and clear majorities of conservatives,

church-goers and junior enlisted personnel believe the time has come to place national defense ahead of federal discrimination.”

According to the Pentagon, it has discharged more than 10,000 service members for being gay, including nearly 800 with skills deemed “mission critical” by the Department of Defense. Those who have been discharged include linguists, combat engineers, pilots, medical professionals and others.

According to statistician Gary Gates, the armed forces could attract as many as 41,000 new recruits by repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” in addition to the 65,000 lesbian and gay Americans already on duty in the active duty, reserve and National Guard forces.

“My husband is a Vietnam combat veteran who probably served with gays while defending our freedom,” said Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), a co-sponsor of the legislation. “In fact, one of the army nurses who cared for him after he was severely injured was a lesbian.

Did her sexual orientation make her or the guys who served with Dexter less qualified? Of course not. This is an unjust policy that hurts our preparedness.” Dexter Lehtinen is a former acting U.S. Attorney. He received a Purple Heart for his service in Vietnam.

Three other Republican lawmakers, Representatives Wayne Gilchrest (Md.), Christopher Shays (Conn.) and Jim Kolbe (Ariz.), have joined Ros-Lehtinen in co-sponsoring the legislation. “It’s increasingly obvious to Congress that the policy doesn’t work,” Rep. Kolbe said recently.

“Despite shortages in many specialties and a shortfall in recruiting during 2005, Pentagon leaders recently chose to lower academic standards, raise the maximum enlistment age and waive some criminal convictions for new enlistees while continuing to turn away qualified gay Americans who want to serve,” said Osburn. “The time has come to repeal ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’”

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For more information on the Military Readiness Enhancement Act, a complete list of cosponsors and SLDN’s work to repeal ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ visit www.sldn.org.

by David Nelson Philadelphia — In a hate-crime investigation that earned increasing national attention, municipal Judge Gerard A. Kosinski acquitted Lucas Dawson, 21, at a Nov. 9 preliminary court hearing of a voluntary manslaughter charge after Dawson killed Gerald Knight, Jr., 17, almost two weeks earlier.

Kosinski also freed Dawson from jail, where he had stayed since turning himself into police and was unable to afford a $300,000 bail bond. He faced a possible maximum sentence of 30 years in state prison.

The openly gay clerical worker and aspiring performer left the East Mount Airy suburban home that he shares with his mother, Lisa Dawson, and her partner, David Diggs, at about 10:30 p.m. Oct. 29 to travel downtown by city bus and meet friends. He had auditioned the day before in Boston through three rounds of competition for the FOX Television program American Idol.

Dawson returned home just 15 minutes later and told his family that he’d been attacked on his way to the bus stop. He said five to seven teen-aged strangers started calling him “faggot,” so he crossed the street and ran another half block. They chased him, continued the harassment and stopped him. Knight grabbed him and threw him to the ground and, with others, started hitting, kicking and stomping on him. Dawson regained his footing and tried to warn them away by brandishing a small pocketknife that he’d bought after a previous attack. Dawson stabbed Knight twice and another attacker once. Knight was pronounced dead about an hour later at a nearby hospital. The unidentified attacker, 16, was wounded on his arm.

One of the attackers allegedly told Dawson before he left them, “You stabbed my man. Now, we gonna have to shoot you.”

Upon hearing of Knight’s death, Dawson contacted law-enforcement officers the day after his attack, led them to his knife and described what he and his attackers did.

“One of them punched me in my lip,”

Dawson told the officers. “Then, they all started punching me and knocked me to the ground. I was scared and I felt like if I didn’t get up they would probably kill me.

I felt a wave of strength and I got up.

I took out the knife and waved it. I didn’t think the knife went in because he kept punching me, so I stuck the knife in him again.”

Diggs told a Philadelphia Daily News reLucas Dawson and his mother Lisa porter that he believed Dawson was the victim of a hate crime. Knight’s family said they believed he was an innocent bystander and didn’t take part in the attack.

Assistant District Attorney M.K. Feeney told the Associated Press that a jury should have decided if Dawson’s actions were self defense or not. She hasn’t said if she’ll appeal his acquittal.

Defense attorney Kevin T. Birley testified that Dawson was in imminent danger of being killed or seriously wounded when he stabbed two of his attackers. “He did the only thing he could do, the only thing in his power to stop the attack,” Birley said.

After being released from jail, Dawson and his family feared more attacks and moved him immediately from their home to an unknown location.

“I mean, seven guys jumped me, and one guy died,” Dawson told the News. “There’s still six other people that want to hurt me.

I fear for my safety, and that’s why I’m moving away. I won’t carry a knife on me anymore, but I am considering getting a gun permit.”

Senate Committee Approves Marriage Protection Amendment Washington, D.C. — A Senate panel led by Kansas Republican Sam Brownback of the Senate Judiciary Committee voted today for an amendment to the Constitution that would deny lesbian and gay Americans equal rights under federal law and require states to discriminate against them.

The subcommittee on Constitution, Civil Rights, and Property Rights voted 5 to 4 to pass the Marriage Protection Amendment, which will be considered by the full Judiciary Committee next week.

The Marriage Protection Amendment would define marriage as a union between a man and a woman, effectively rescinding the Massachusetts law that made gay marriage legal last year.

“Today’s subcommittee vote shows that some senators will do the bidding of radical right activists on just about anything, in-

cluding amending the Constitution to treat some Americans as second-class citizens,” People For the American Way President Ralph G. Neas said. “It is appalling that this amendment is moving through the Senate.

It would actually require discrimination against a group of Americans and reverse our nation’s long march toward full equality for all Americans. Enshrining discrimination in the Constitution would be unconscionable and immoral. Our Constitution should not be tarnished with this measure.

The Judiciary Committee should stop this constitutional amendment in its tracks.”

A similar effort led by President George W. Bush failed in both houses of Congress last year. Conservative lawmakers are pushing for another vote to head off any decision in the federal courts that could legalize gay marriage.

Fales’ Confessions of A Mormon Boy Gets Off-Broadway Run New York City — Five years after it premiered to sold-out crowds in Salt Lake City, Steven Fales’ acclaimed one-man play Confessions of a Mormon Boy will finally land Off-Broadway in January 2006.

Seen on stages from New York to San Francisco to Miami, the actor-writer’s autobiographical show will begin an open-ended run at the newly renovated SoHo Playhouse with a preview showing Jan. 27, 2006.

The show will be directed by Tony Award winner Jack Hofsiss (The Elephant Man), the play officially opens Feb. 5.

“An inspiring true story told through humor, song and the Book of Mormon, Fales’ critically acclaimed solo play explores one young man’s captivating journey through excommunication, divorce, prostitution and drugs, as he struggles to reclaim himself, his children and his ‘Donny Osmond’ smile,” according to production notes.

Confessions of a Mormon Boy started as a stand-up comedy routine in Manhattan.

The full play first premiered to sold-out crowds in Salt Lake City in 2001.

Developmental stagings of the work

have played San Francisco’s New Conservatory Theatre, Miami’s Coconut Grove Playhouse, Chicago’s Bailiwick Repertory Theatre, San Diego’s Diversionary Theatre (where it broke box office records) and the Connecticut Repertory Theatre. The production received an Overall Excellence Award at the 2004 New York International Fringe Festival.

The production features set and lighting design by Tim Saternow (Squonk) and costume design by Ellis Tillman (Urban Cowboy). The running time is 90 minutes with no intermission. The producing team consists of Carlton Spalding, Brian Malk, James Fales and Kyle Kimoto.

Steven Fales is a sixth-generation Mormon born in Provo, Utah. He trained on scholarship at the Boston Conservatory before serving a two-year mission to Portugal for the Church of Latter-day Saints. He then transferred to Brigham Young University where he completed his BFA in musical theatre, and later earned an MFA in acting from the University of Connecticut.

For more information, visit mormonboy.com.

Recall Ballots Mailed to Spokane Voters tribunal. Nor have I been charged with misusing the Office of the Mayor. In fact, I have committed neither. Every citizen — even the Mayor — is entitled to due process. In America we are innocent until proven guilty.

I have used the office of Mayor to help the citizens of Spokane and to move the city in the right direction. … True, I have made errors in my private life, I apologized for those errors, and I’ve asked forgiveness. I continue to work for Spokane’s progress. Now it’s up to you. Vote ‘No’ on recall so we can continue to work to make Spokane a better place to live and work.”

Spokane County Auditor Vicky Dalton said if a majority favors West’s recall, the mayor would leave office when the ballots are certified Dec. 16.

Palm Springs to Host Gay Singles Weekend Palm Springs, Calif.—With plenty of sunshine and swimming pools when most of the country is freezing, Palm Springs is still a fun get-away during the holiday season.

This year, Palm Springs is host to a new “Gay Singles weekend—Palm Springs Style” hosted by the Desert Gay Tourism Guild and the Palm Springs Bureau of Tourism.

This weekend is all about single folks— gay men and women who are looking for a vacation and the chance to meet other singles before the rush of the Christmas season takes over.

The event will take place Dec. 8–11, Thursday through Sunday, and features events including a visit to the Palm Springs VillageFest street fair, shopping, hiking and exclusive group dining events. Activities are varied with wine-tastings, cocktail parties, “freshen up” make-overs, seminars on “How to Be the Person You Want to Date” and other opportunities to meet and mingle with other singles.

For more information visit: www.gaysinglesweekend.com

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Spokane, Wash. — Spokane County elections officials mailed ballots Nov. 18 to 110,500 registered voters to determine if Mayor James E. West should be recalled.

The mail-in ballots will be counted Dec. 6 in a special recall election that will determine whether West should be ousted halfway through his elected term in office because of a City Hall scandal.

“Between March 8, 2005 and April 9, 2005, Mayor James E. West used his elected office for personal benefit,” the ballot states.

“On March Spokane Mayor Jim West 21, 2005, he authored a letter intending to help obtain a student internship with the City of Spokane for a person he believed to be an 18-yearold high school student. During a series of internet conversations, before and after the letter, Mayor West sent a photograph of himself to the person, raised issues of sex, discussed dating, and urged the person to keep Mayor West’s identity a secret. Mayor West admits these conversations. Offering to help obtain a student internship with the City of Spokane under these circumstances was an improper exercise of an official duty.”

West was given space on the ballot to refute the charges: “I have never used my office for personal gain. One Supreme Court Justice asked the recall supporters to show where I had admitted offering anything to anyone for personal gain. They could not because it never happened. With all the newspaper stories it is hard for many citizens to remember that I have not been charged with any crime by any law enforcement agency or independent

Concert Being Held to Raise Funds For Jones’ Legal Fees

by Kim Burgess

kim@slmetro.com

LOCAL

Hotel Monaco to “Paint the Town Red” for Utah AIDS Foundation’s 20th Anniversary

by Matthew Gerber matthew@slmetro.com

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On World AIDS Day, Thursday, December 1 from 5:00 to 7:00 pm, the Salt Lake City Hotel Monaco, along with the National AIDS Fund and all Kimpton Hotels nationwide, will hold events to raise funds and awareness to fight HIV. The Salt Lake City event, Paint the Town Red, will honor the Utah AIDS Foundation’s 20 years of care.

This commemoration involves a tribute to those who live with and have died from HIV/AIDS, respect for those who serve or are served by the Foundation, a hope for medical and social advancements, and a renewed commitment to those who are affected by HIV/AIDS, as well as those at risk of becoming infected.

The San Francisco-based Kimpton Hotels, owner of Salt Lake’s Hotel Monaco, has been firmly committed to social responsibility since it was founded by Bill Kimpton in 1981.

This commitment is evidenced by partnerships with national organizations committed to such issues as protecting the environment, helping economically challenged women transition from unemployment to self-sufficiency, and raising awareness of HIV/AIDS. AIDS, in particular, has had personal significance to Mr. Kimpton, as the disease has affected many employees and friends of the company through the years.

Kimpton has made a pledge to donate a portion of proceeds from each reservation made at its hotels in November and December 2005 to the National AIDS Fund.

While the official collaboration between Kimpton Hotels and the organization is only entering its third year, many hotels within the chain have been involved in as-

sistance to local AIDS service organizations for some time. Through this unique partnership, Kimpton employees will be given the opportunity to learn about HIV/AIDS in special training sessions led by the staff of the National AIDS Fund.

“Kimpton Hotels’ commitment to HIV education and assisting people with the disease is one we take very seriously,” said Steve Pinetti, senior vice president of sales and marketing for Kimpton Hotels and Restaurants. “We understand that the AIDS crisis is not over and HIV service organizations are under tremendous pressure to serve an increasing number of people.”

Indeed, with over 40,000 new infections annually in the United States and 40 million infected worldwide, the AIDS crisis is not over. With flat-funding of the Ryan White Care Act and rolls for the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) swelling, there are no longer services to cut, just the number of people eligible to receive them.

Salt Lake’s Paint the Town Red party revolves around the color red, a hue commonly associated with HIV and AIDS. The lobby of the hotel will be decked in red décor the night of the party, with red beverages and hors d’oeuvres catered

by Bambara. Red-clad revelers will be delighted by the musical stylings of the Red Hot Quartet. The public is invited to dress in their best crimson attire and join in the celebration of life and a renewed commitment to fight AIDS. While the event is free of charge, there is a $5 suggested donation to the Utah AIDS Foundation. Guests are encouraged to RSVP to Celeste Barker at 801-990-9729. The Salt Lake Hotel Monaco is at 15 West 200 South.

Sarah Bettens, former lead singer of K’s Choice, will headline a benefit concert to support local mother Keri Jones’ legal battle. Bettens is now a solo star and will perform music from her new album Scream. The Dec. 2 concert will take place at the Paper Moon and also features opening act P.J. Olsson.

Concert organizer Staci Carlston said she’s hoping for a sell-out crowd. “They will do a second show that night if we sell out,” she said. All donations and a percentage of ticket sales will go toward Jones’ $80,000 in legal fees, which were generated by her fight to maintain visitation with her four-year-old daughter, Gracie. Gracie is the biological daughter of Jones’ former partner, Cheryl Barlow, who conceived her through artificial insemination during the relationship.

A custody dispute broke out between Jones and Barlow after their four-year relationship ended in November 2003. Following the breakup, Barlow renounced her gay life and did not want Jones involved with the child, though Jones states that she and Barlow had previously agreed to share custody.

In response, Jones sued, and in December 2004, she won visitation through a statute called “in loco parentis,” meaning that the court felt Jones had a valid parental relationship with Gracie. Barlow appealed and retained an attorney from the Alliance Defense Fund, an Arizona-based legal organization that claims to fight for “freedom of religion, guarding the sanctity of human life and protecting traditional family values.” Eventually the case reached the Utah Supreme Court, and a ruling is expected within the next few weeks. Jones is understandably nervous. “If it’s bad, I want to wait forever,” she said of the court’s decision.

Though the results of the case will be very personal for Jones, she also worries that other queer families could be negatively affected by the outcome. “If Cheryl wins on appeal, it makes that [in loco parentis] void for anyone who’s not legally tied to a child by marriage, adoption or biology. Most families like mine, you never think your family is going to split up, first

of all, but even then, if something were to happen to one partner and you didn’t have an adoption, you can’t stand ‘in loco parentis.’ It matters a lot to the cases that are below mine in the courts right now. There are other people waiting for this decision.”

The case has not been without controversy, even within the queer community. Jones feels much of this is due to misinformation about the nature of “in loco parentis,” particularly that teachers and neighbors could use it to claim parental rights over the children of queer couples. “That’s been clarified in the media,” Jones said. “Even in court that’s been clarified. You don’t need to worry about that. It’s ludicrous.”

A real threat to the queer community, Jones believes, could come from new legislation to stop “in loco parentis” from applying to queer couples. Utah State Rep. LaVar Christensen, R-Sandy, told the Deseret Morning News that he is considering such action because he believes Jones’ case could cause a “crisis” for parental rights.

“I don’t know how the legislation will be written, but it’s going to be hurtful,” Jones said. “It could even affect my case. Even if I win now, they could introduce legislation that would go back and mess up anything that isn’t standing.” Christensen is an outspoken opponent of gay marriage and was instrumental in getting Amendment 3 on the ballot in 2004.

Should Christensen introduce legislation, Jones intends to fight back. “I’ll be working with the [National] Gay and Lesbian Task Force and be proactive about it,” she said. Jones also expressed frustration at Christensen’s attitudes toward her. “Has he ever met anyone in a family like mine?

It bothers me that people can judge you without having a clue that you are a unit.”

For now, Jones and Gracie are a unit.

Every other weekend, Jones flies to San Antonio, Texas, where Barlow and Gracie moved in May. “The visits have been fabulous,” Jones said. “There are days when I don’t want to get back on the plane.”

Sarah Bettens will play at the Paper Moon on Friday, Dec. 2 at 8:00 p.m. Tickets are $15 or $20 the day of the show. For tickets, write to BringHerHome2004@yahoo.com or stop by the Paper Moon at 3737 S. State, Salt Lake City.

Holiday Shopping

KRCL 90.9 FM PROGRAMMING SCHEDULE

Join us for a special night of shopping at Fashion Place Mall December 9. By purchasing a $5 shopping ticket, you will receive a free gift, free gift wrapping, and special discounts from participating merchants. You will also be entered into a drawing to win a grand prize. Live entertainment, a raffle and refreshments will also be featured.

All proceeds benefit the Metro Cares Foundation to support local gay and lesbian organizations.

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METRO: Who are your best clients?

LANDIS: Straight men are my best clients. I play a different role in their life. I know they tell me things they don’t tell their buddies and don’t tell their wives, and it’s a great thing. We can talk about all sorts of dirt and they love it. Gay guys are way more fickle—they tend to be very picky, which is odd because many tend to have really bad hair.

METRO: Do you fret about your own hair?

LANDIS: I don’t have time to fret about my own hair! Honestly, it’s like the cobbler’s children have no shoes. It’s funny, but I’ll have other stylists go, “You need a haircut.” I think most people wouldn’t know I’m a hairdresser when I’m out because I don’t dress like a hairdresser; it’s always half-assed.

METRO: What are you looking forward to the most with the salon?

LANDIS: Just watching it grow. We’ve been open a week and I can’t believe the energy.

I’m looking forward to becoming a family with the other stylists and meeting new clients and people. A salon is a bit like a family. The great thing about this is we have a very diverse salon and the ideas playing with each other are like a bomb going off.

It’s exciting.

Each Christmas, Reconciliation, along with the Utah AIDS Foundation, provide Christmas for people living with HIV & AIDS. The group will get together Saturday, Dec. 17 at 6:30 p.m. Participants are divided into teams, given money to spend, and out they go to buy gifts, returning to wrap them with a bow. Call 294-0463 for more information.

“Breakfast Jam”

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Native American

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Public Affairs

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Roots n’ Blues

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Folk, Acoustic

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New Age New Electronic, Ambient Dimensions

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Alternative Rock, Roots, Alternative Country, Soul & More

Reggae

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Reconciliation Shopping Day for People With AIDS

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You or your organization are invited to participate in the Salt Lake Metro Merrytime Festival of Trees. Trees will be displayed at Trolley Square from Dec. 1 through 10.

Opening bids for trees will start at $1000.

Your charitable organization will keep 100 percent of the donation your tree receives.

For more information, call Mel at the Salt Lake Metro offices, 801-323-9500.

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Public Native Affairs American Calling

Women

METRO: What are the top five things gay men should not do to their hair?

LANDIS: The wet look—the gelled spiky wet look is Number 1! Number 2 is just a general rule: just get a haircut. Haircuts are like shoes; you buy a nice suit, you get expensive clothes and then you get a cheap haircut? It cheapens the whole thing.

Number 3, it’s not a hair thing, but gay men need to learn how to shave properly. And use better skin care products and shaving products. Four, those highlights. Those cheesy, cheesy highlights need to go! A more natural highlight or a better color helps. Number 5—and this has nothing to do with working in a hair salon—but quit shaving everything down there. Leave a little grass on the field.

Merrytime Festival of Trees

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Music All Night – Industrial, Jazz, Reggae, Gothic, Hip Hop, Trance, Rock en Espñol, Alternative Rock & More

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Every industry has its fair share of competition, but none can be as intense as hair salons. Between mass-market chain salons and numerous independent neighborhood shops, there seem to be more options than ever before for people looking for a ‘do.

And in the gay community, where there’s no shortage of gay-owned salons, it’s even harder to make your mark.

This is probably why Matthew Landis and Richard Surber were so excited about the large attendance at their Nov. 11 grand opening reception for Landis Aveda.

Located in the former Hale Bakery on 900 East and 1300 South, the redesigned 3,900 square foot space features the building’s original 15-feet-high exposed brick walls, a new center lounge area, modern lighting and sleek retro furniture. According to Landis, opening the doors cost about a half-million dollars, all in an attempt to attract a luxury-attentive, sophisticated clientele who loves being pampered. “We’re the Banana Republic/Pottery Barn of hair salons,” he says.

The salon is divided into two sides. The first is the “New Artist Salon” for stylists recently graduated from beauty school and currently going through Aveda training.

The other is the “Grand Salon,” staffed by senior and master stylists. Prices vary accordingly, but all customers, on either side, get a scalp and shoulder massage, hot towel facial, and hand massage—all with products from the environmental-friendly Aveda line. Gone are the days when it’s all about the hairdresser, Landis says. Now the focus is rightly on the customer.

Landis—most recently from Sanctuary in ZCMI—says he’s tried to bring to Salt Lake a salon that incorporates the best of what he’s learned from his training with top Aveda salons in New York, Atlanta and South Beach. He says that other successful high-end salons like Lunatic Fringe show there is a need and desire in Utah to have

more upscale, big-city salons.

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Matthew Landis and Richard Surber of Landis Aveda.

The Center’s Holiday Bazaar is a collection of local artists selling their wares just in time for the holidays. For those looking for that unique and fabulous gift, this will be the place to find it, and to support the queer artists in our community.

The event will take place in The Center’s Multi-Purpose Room December 3 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Artists wishin to sell at the bazar should contact Cathy at cdc8101@msn.com. A 6’ by 4’ space will rent for $25. All media accepted, in a variety of price ranges.

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Metro Shopping Night at Fashion Place Mall

From the Editor Why Metro?

Executive Editor Michael Aaron

by Michael Aaron michael@slmetro.com

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Our View

It’s Time to End Don’t Ask Don’t Tell It is time for Utah representatives to sign on to the Military Readiness Enhancement Act and kill “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.

The Pentagon has discharged over 10,000 service members for being gay in the past decade. This is the equivalent of two army brigades. What a waste of training resources that we, the U.S. taxpayers, are forced to bear. It is estimated that the U.S. has spent a quarter billion dollars training replacements for ousted gay personnel.

The Servicemembers Legal Defense Network estimates that there are over a million gay and lesbian veterans and that 65,000 gays and lesbians are currently serving in the armed forces. Imagine if each and every one of them were to “tell” today. But then, those who read the Salt Lake Metro story a few issues ago [“Out Gays Being Sent to Combat” Sept. 29] know that nothing would happen to those in active duty until those service members returned to face their discharge.

Twelve years ago, the government published the exhaustive Rand Report that concluded that the U.S. military could lift the gay ban without detriment to readiness. Twelve

years. Other government reports in 1988 and 1989 concluded that no empirical evidence existed that supported the gay ban or suggested that gays differed from non-gay service members on any performance measure.

Twenty-five nations allow gays in the military. Studies have concluded that lifting the ban in those countries have had no effect on military readiness or unit cohesion. In fact, American troops are serving with openly gay troops from 12 countries in Operation Enduring Freedom and 9 countries in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

According to national polls, between 63 and 79 percent of Americans support gays in the military.

It is time to end discrimination at all levels, including service in the U.S. military forces.

As then-General Barry Goldwater said over a decade ago, “You don’t have to be straight to shoot straight.”

Call your representatives and tell them to join the other 105 members of Congress in co-sponsoring H.R. 1059, the Military Readiness Enhancement Act, and kill Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.

(801) 323-9500 Fax: (801) 323-9986 President: Vice President: Secretary: Treasurer:

Michael Aaron Steven Peterson Steve Whittaker Larry Tanner

Support Salt Lake Metro, Support Our Advertisers

Recently we passed yet another landmark — we have surpassed $100,000 in sponsorship of ads for charitable causes. That gave us at the Salt Lake Metro office big warm fuzzies but, more importantly, reminded us of the reason we started this newspaper in the first place.

This paper was conceived in the wake of a state constitutional amendment being passed by the Utah State Legislature. As I saw the need for our community to be aware of this and other important issues we are faced with, I recognized that nothing existed in this state to churn timely, well thought news to the gay and lesbian community. It was time for our political organizations to grow up — which they did in the well-orchestrated “Don’t Amend” campaign — and it was time for our ‘electorate’ to grow up. But the electorate needed tools.

Enter Salt Lake Metro. It took several months of planning, negotiating, and, most importantly, selling to get this newspaper on its feet.

We got an office up and running, phone lines ordered, a press relationship built, computers purchased and stocked with software, a mockup designed and started to build buzz. Chad Keller landed us a segment on KUTV 2 News, which in turn got us a good-sized article in The Salt Lake Tribune.

People seemed ready for a professional newspaper geared towards the gay and lesbian community in this reddest of states.

We know that, even when this paper is running at its best, we are not going to get rich off this endeavor. I will not return anywhere near my within-spittin’-distance-of-a-six-figure salary I once enjoyed in the advertising industry.

(Hell, at this point I’d be happy with a fivefigure salary!) That wasn’t our motivation in starting this.

Our motivation is to help build the Utah gay and lesbian community. We want to see it flourish and grow in sophistication that other cities our size and larger will marvel at. We want to help make this community so powerful that lawmakers will think twice about crossing us, that police departments cower at the community’s reaction when one of us is wronged, that news stations wouldn’t dare misrepresent or ignore us.

You can help us. In fact, without your help, we would be another statistic — another newspaper tried and failed in a long history of tried and failed newspapers in this community.

Read each and every advertisement in this paper and its online sibling. Determine if that advertiser can fit into your personal economy and, if so, start shopping there.

Tell the manager or owner or the person behind the counter that you are there because they advertise in Salt Lake Metro. Advertisers must know that their ads are working.

Encourage places you patronize to advertise in Salt Lake Metro. Tell them gay and lesbian people are loyal to those who support us with their advertising dollars.

Advertise in Salt Lake Metro. Know that your advertising dollar is well-spent in the gay and lesbian market, but also supports the growth of the community.

As you help build this paper into a media powerhouse, we’ll help build this community into a social and political powerhouse.

Letters

Salt Lake Metro welcomes letters from our readers.

Please email letters@slmetro.com or fax 801-323-9986.

We reserve the right to edit for length, suitability and libel.

Gay Side Unarmed Editor, Thank you for the “Our View” editorial that said it’s time the change strategies [“New Strategies for a Hate Crime Law,” Our View, Nov. 10]. You did a wonderful job articulating my frustration with how we handle anti-gay and pro-gay legislation in this state.

To put it crudely, the gay community comes to a political battle like a moron armed with a 3-inch blade, while the right comes like a moron armed with a 105-mm howitzer.

While our politically-active “leaders” argue about how often a gun-rights activist should write letters to the editor, no intelligent letters are being written to pursuade the masses or their representatives that we are their neigbors, their friends and their family. We deserve nothing less and nothing more than they do.

Robert Jones Salt Lake City

Transgender Success Story Editor, Congratulations on a great story about Jennifer Jackson [“From Sandy City Councilman to Transgender Activist,” by Joel Shoemaker, Oct. 27]. As someone coming to terms with my gender identity, it is great to read a local success story.

The courage Jenny displayed in ‘coming

out’ on the cover of your publication and the subsequent television appearances is heartening to those struggling.

Please keep up the great work. You are an invaluable resource to this community.

Carrie Taylor Midvale

Keyboard Activists Yes! When will our local gay politicos finally figure out that the way things have been done for the past twenty years just doesn’t work? [“New Strategies for a Hate Crime Law,” Our View, Nov. 10.]

You can’t make frantic last-minute calls and e-mails to “pack the house” and expect lawmakers to feel anything but ganged up on by their non-constituents.

Of course they know there are a lot of passionate queers that will drop everything to fly up to the capitol with their perfect coifs, their neatly-pressed slacks and indignant expressions. They simply believe they don’t represent us.

You can’t flood the email inbox of every senator and representative with form letters and expect them to care. They simply believe they don’t represent us.

Strategies to win take just that — a strategy. Fly-by-the-pants politics just doesn’t work.

Where is the work to fill the Republican precinct caucuses of Buttars’ and Christensen’s districts? It’s only a few months

away. Are we going to get frantic last-minute e-mails about that, too?

Are we in the process of writing progay legislation? The session starts in two months.

Have we hired proven lobbyists? Have we organized any think tanks? Is the volunteer and supporter list collected for the Don’t Amend campaign being updated, groomed and otherwise readied? Are donations being collected to do such work?

I guess the question is: Have we done anything yet? Or are we to expect more of the same: keyboard activists without a plan simply forwarding messages to us from other keyboard activists.

Name Withheld on Request Salt Lake City

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AberRant

Gay, Gayer, Gayest!

I told you about the idea I stole from some blogger who, like all bloggers, has since lost his place in my Favorites folder. He asked his readers to answer this question: “What is the gayest thing you’ve ever done?” The only response he received that I remember is the guy who was helping his friend get ready to open his new bar. His job was

sanding the glory holes, which, he noted, need to be REALLY smooth. So, I asked and several of you finally stopped procrastinating—which is pretty gay in itself—and sent me your merry little, er, little Mary tales.

Hi Laurie, Patrick and I were watching a “Law & Order: SVU” rerun on TiVo tonight (confidential to Christopher Meloni: Your sexiness is beyond compare; PLEASE let me call you Daddy!) when there was a sudden explosion and loss of life. Though relatively common on the show, this was particularly dramatic and both Patrick and I were a

little surprised. My boyfriend sat silently, taking in the drama as it unfolded. I, on the other hand, could only respond with, “Wow. Stephanie March’s bangs really need some help in this episode.”

Patrick looked over at me, shook his head, and said, “See this line?” indicating an imaginary space between us. “Over here, I admit it’s a little gay. But over there?

REALLY GAY.” Your under-worked proofreader, Nick Apparently another Metro staffer has had his gay moments: Blessing the gay hustlers working Broadway with my faerie wand. They wanted their crotches rubbed with the wand for potency and protection. Then we went behind the old Broadway Shoe store and had a power-raising ritual under the full moon and in downtown Salt Lake City. That was pretty gay ...

Ben Williams CL wrote: The gayest thing I ever did was wear buttless chaps all day at the Folsom Street Fair. Mercy! If Zelphia Lavern from Spanish Fark had seen us, and know what we done, she’da spun circles throughout the lovely but windy Spanish Fark cemet’ry. However, my ass looked great for pushing 45, and several hot leather men told me so—so there. Authenticity framed in tight black leather!

“See this line?” indicating an imaginary space between us. “Over here, I admit it’s a little gay. But over there? REALLY GAY.”

Karen emailed the following:

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I’m actually writing to you about Michael Aaron. He and I went to the University of Utah at the same time. We took some classes together, including Dr. Patty Reagan’s infamous Human Sexuality class, so we talked once in a while. Things were much different back then, and coming out was way more difficult than today. Anyway, young Michael decided to break out. On at least one occasion that I know of, he sucked it up and went cruising in Liberty Park. Picture our young hero driving his car (Chevy Impala?) about 2 miles per hour around the park, while blasting a song that involves the lyrics “I’m going on a manhunt.” I’m serious … and you’re welcome.

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Each year there was a game between the basketball team and the faculty. The aspect of the game that most captured my queer young imagination was that, instead of the regular squad, the cheerleaders were 9th grade boys in bad camp drag.

In those days, and in Carbon County, only girls could be cheerleaders, so the boys in drag got a lot of laughs, a fact which appealed to me greatly. In previous years, I had admired the 9th graders’ campy antics and came to see this cheerleading business as my only possible contribution to the school’s sporting program. So this year, on the big day, I brought makeup, a skirt and a wig to school. I had spent enough time in the bathroom making myself “pretty” that most of the school was already in the gymnasium by the time I emerged.

As I was walking toward the gym, I was stopped in the corridor by one of the girls from the real cheerleading squad.

“What the hell are you supposed to be?” she demanded, displaying the charm and compassion with which cheerleaders typically address nerds. I explained to her that I was going to be a cheerleader, and, oh, could I borrow a pair of pom-poms?

“What?! YOU can’t be a cheerleader!” Apparently, the boys who traditionally led cheers at this event were the stars of the football team. She seemed shocked at my effrontery, my sheer ignorance of the established order: “Didn’t you KNOW that?”

Well, no, I hadn’t guessed that from previous years. I didn’t even know who the “stars” of the football team in my own grade were, for god’s sake—I was bored to tears by the whole cult of personality that was school sports, and as far as I was concerned those jock types were indistinguishable from each other as the somewhat crude and inexplicably stupid boys who would occasionally and for no reason slam me up against corridor walls and issue unprovoked threats. But it was clear I was not going to be allowed my bit of campy fun. So I skulked back to the bathroom, changed back into my normal geekwear, and washed my face with gritty, powdered school soap. I’ve wondered what would have happened if I had made it all the way to the gymnasium and appeared before the entire faculty and student body wearing mascara, a skirt, and a wig—without having been a football player. Would the universe simply have imploded? Would I have been sent home, attacked, placed under protective custody?

Who knows. The whole episode, now, seems to have enough humor mixed with pathos that it seems very gay somehow, if you know what I mean.

[Editor’s Note: It was a cherry red Ford Mustang and the BoysTown Gang’s “Cruising the Streets” was my favorite, though Karen Kamon’s “Manhunt” was a close second. But I was NEVER there. Nuh-uh.

Not me. You must have me mistaken with someone else.]

And finally, former Salt Lake Metro editor Brandon Burt responded to my personal request: … for some reason this question reminded me of some of my odd, exploratory indiscretions in 9th grade—at a time when I knew very well I was gay and was not only eager to come out of the closet, but also desperate to be liked. These two motivations, particularly in the early ’80s, were more in conflict than I wanted to believe at the time.

Thanks for your entries! If this has inspired you, it’s not too late. I’ll be too busy to actually write my own column again in the future, I’m sure, so please, email me and tell me: What’s the gayest thing YOU’VE ever done?

Laurie Mecham is currently treading water in Portland, OR.

Ruby Ridge Living IKEA Cometh and Soon

Bagels and Lox? Anyone?

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say, “amused” watching Rod Deckers’ breathless report on the KUTV 2 afternoon news. He was so excited he made it sound as if landing IKEA was akin to finding a cure for Alzheimer’s. In Rod’s eyes we have been validated because IKEA building in the Salt Lake Valley says

by Ruby Ridge, to the world that our little burg is just ruby@slmetro.com as hip and cosmopolitan as those other So, darlings, did you big towns with fancy furniture outlets. hear a really loud No, not towns like New York and Miami, straining sound about 7:30 last Wednesbut the other towns where IKEA has day morning? Well, fear not my precious already built stores, like Conshohocken, ones, it wasn’t an earthquake ripping Pennsylvania, and Paramus, New Jersey. along the Wasatch Front’s faultlines. It Yup, when you’re in the same league as was just the sound of my titties getting Covina and West Sacramento, you’ve hard and stretching my pink extrareally arrived, baby! If Rod’s reaction is grande Hillary Duff jammies until the anything to go by, then the alcohol-free buttons popped off. What would cause Champale must have flowed like water at such an awesome yet terrifying thing the Salt Lake Chamber you may ask? Well, of Commerce.

Munchkins, the reason Earth to Rod Decker for my engorged mamand the other local Jesus, Mary maries was tucked in media flunkies who get the Tribune’s business and Joseph, excited about the latest section. IKEA is coming megastores harvestto the Salt Lake Valley! someone get me ing Utah: The truth is, Jesus, Mary and Joseph, an Absolut and we have a booming someone get me an and young population Absolut and some some sensible (which is the polite sensible shopping shoes shopping shoes way of saying the het— pronto! eros are breeding like For those of you out and make it frenzied rabbits), great of the loop, IKEA puts demographics, a compronto! the FAB in pre-fab furpressed suburban area, niture. Its gigantic home cheap land and great furnishing stores are freeway access. All the destination shopping— sort of like a Cabellas for gay men—and I factors that make it possible for the strip-mining retailers like Home Depot for one can’t wait! Don’t get me wrong … and Wal-Mart to build every 5.5 miles I still adore Restoration Hardware, and are equally attractive to a mega-retailer my heart truly belongs to the Crate and like IKEA. Trust me, it’s not like the Lord Barrel in Chicago, but an IKEA within is pouring his bounty and favor upon us 15 minutes of the back door is just too, because we in Utah are somehow more too, too delicious. IKEA’s furniture is worthy in his eyes. No … that would functional, affordable and ever so sexy take a mega Apple Store. Oh my God … with those mysterious Nordic names we’re getting one of those at the Gatethat sound like Scandinavian porn stars way? Get Decker some oxygen … STAT! and vaguely kinky sexual positions. I Ciao Kittens! mean, if some big blond Viking offered to put his Strimmer next to your Skyer or Ruby Ridge is one of the more opinionated reposition your Fackla, wouldn’t you just members of the Utah Cyber Sluts, a Camp go weak at the knees and melt? I know Drag group of performers who raise funds and support local charities. Her opinions I would. Call me an easy tramp, but he are her own and fluctuate wildly due to wouldn’t even have to buy me a herring irritability and watching almost the entire dinner and I’d bring the protection and Einstein’s Bagels staff on 15th & 15th turn Lingonberries.

Hispanic in less than a month. Anyone But Muffins, as thrilled as I am about know what the hell the Spanish word is for IKEA moving to Draper, I was, shall we

“The people grew so evil, the men started to marry the men and the women married the women. This is the worst evil act you can do, next to murder. It is like murder. Whenever people commit that sin, then the Lord destroys them.”

—Prophet Warren S. Jeffs

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ast summer in Las Vegas, I visited an unsavory adult video bookstore. (So much for Las Vegas’ motto: “What happens here, stays here.”) At three in the morning, when getting back into my truck, I was approached by a young hustler. He was very scruffy, about 18 I suppose, and awfully young to be looking like a street person.

When I told him I was not interested, he asked me if I was Mormon because of my Utah plates. I said ‘no’ and he sounded disappointed. I asked him if he was from Utah and he said he was from Hildale. Because it was late and I really was not looking for company, I didn’t want to spend much more time talking to him, but now I wish I had. It would only dawn on me later that Hildale is the Utah half of Colorado City, the polygamous community of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

I have some experience with polygamists. In the mid-70s a man by the name of Musser ran a copy print shop in the basement of the Union Building at the University of Utah, near the bowling alley. He was a polygamist with ties to Colorado City. In 1976 he had tried to convert a U of U co-ed to being one of his wives; she even went with him to visit Colorado City. I married this co-ed in 1977 and learned a lot of this secret society from her.

I was not really interested in polygamy. I

didn’t really want to be married to one wife, let alone two or more. But over the years I met many who were of that persuasion. I once met some sons of Alex Joseph, founder of the Big Water, Utah polygamous enclave, while enjoying the luxury of the sauna in the U of U locker room. They told me of their life and beliefs while soaking in their own sweat. They were cute enough to make me want to convert, but I didn’t.

In the mid 1980s, after I came out of the closet, I met many more polygamists through my flirtation with the Libertarian Party of Utah. I swear that at one time every delegate to the state convention was either gay, a pothead or polygamous. Talk about strange bedfellows.

A brief sojourn with the Restoration Church of Jesus Christ also had me knowing my first lesbian polygamists. While many predicted that it would be the men who would first form polygamist unions in the church, it was actually the women. This arrangement of four women worked for about a year before they split and partnered off two-by-two.

I am the first to admit that I don’t believe homosexuals need to parrot the actions of heterosexuals and march onto an Ark two by two. I think gay people should be on the forefront of pioneering innovative relationships. But then I am from a hippie generation that believed in communes, open relationships, free love and Joanie Mitchell’s anthem, “We don’t need a piece of paper from the city hall keeping us tied and true.”

But I digress.

There are many, many, many “Restoration Churches” based on the teachings of an early

19th century man who used his charisma to convince people that men could have as many sexual partners as they wished as long as he gave them the authority to do so. This man was Joseph Smith, Jr. No matter what one’s personal feelings are about Smith’s character, it cannot be underemphasized that he was a genius — for good or bad.

Many of the good citizens of Utah are here today because their grannies were convinced that God wanted their husbands to spread their seed from pillar to post so that they, too, could become Gods and exalt their wives as baby-making Goddesses.

Eventually, with the full weight of the federal government ready to confiscate all the LDS Church property, church leaders caved and said God really didn’t mean everyone had to be a polygamist to get into heaven after all. Some Mormons objected to this line of thought, so today Utah — well, okay, most of Western North America — contains splinter groups, each with their own prophet interpreting Joseph Smith’s revelation on celestial marriage.

I once knew one of these prophets from the LaBaron group that lived in a trailer park. A gay friend of mine was completely convinced this man had the true keys of the kingdom to seal and bind on earth in the name of God. People were, and often are, killed for less. Think Rulon Allred.

Colorado City, Arizona and Hildale, Utah were established by the largest fundamentalist Mormon group in order to avoid lawmen from each state jurisdiction, mainly by adherents of the FLDS Church.

The FLDS sect, like most of its counterparts (except for the Community of Friends, formerly the Reorganized LDS Church, and the Restoration Church of Jesus Christ, formerly the Church of Jesus Christ of All Latter Day Saints), frowns on homosexuality as an impediment to God’s desire to have humans procreate for all time and eternity.

Strange, then, that homosexuality and male homosexual prostitution is often a common outcome for many of those ostracized from the FLDS faith.

In 2002, Warren Steed Jeffs claimed to be the Prophet Seer and Revelator and holder of the keys to the kingdom of God, inheriting the title from his father, Rulon Jeffs, after his death earlier that year. The younger Jeffs immediately married many of his father’s young wives (his step-mothers), and began to purge the church of dissenters and its excess male population.

Born in 1956, Jeffs has 56 known children by 40 wives, but court records allege that his sexual appetite goes beyond celestial heterosexuality. In July 2004, Warren Jeffs’ nephew, Brent Jeffs, filed a battery lawsuit, a child molestation lawsuit, a conspiracy lawsuit, a fraud lawsuit, and sodomy lawsuit against the prophet.

In another suit, filed in August 2004 in a Utah state court, more than a dozen young men alleged that Warren Jeffs and other FLDS leaders forced them to leave town to reduce competition for wives in that polygamist society. The suit alleges that Jeffs and the other leaders reduced the male population in the communities by “systematically expelling young males” from Colorado City and Hildale. Estimates of how many young men have been forced out of the communities range from 400 to 1000.

Warren Jeffs, in order to avoid the lawsuits, ordered the transfer of valuable church communal assets of the United Effort Plan, the financial holding company of the church, to FLDS insiders to shield the

land and property from possible monetary judgments, according to pleadings filed by lawyers representing Brent Jeffs and the young men expelled from the enclave.

Brent Jeffs, now 21, maintains in his July 2004 suit that his uncle, Warren Jeffs, began to sodomize him when he was 5- and 6-years old. He accuses Warren and two other uncles, Blaine Jeffs and Leslie Jeffs, of raping him repeatedly in the basement of Alta Academy, an FLDS school in Salt Lake City where Warren was then principal. The suit alleges: “On repeated occasions the Jeffs Brothers would enter the basement room where the children were located, find [Brent Jeffs], and instruct him to come to a nearby lavatory. While in the lavatory, the Jeffs Brothers confronted [Brent] and instructed him to remove his clothes.

After [Brent] undressed himself, one or more of the three defendants told him that it was God’s will that he submit to them. The Jeffs Brothers would take turns forcing their erect penises into [Brent’s] anus. Warren Jeffs told [Brent] that these sodomizing activities were a way for [Brent] to become ‘a man.’ Warren Jeffs admonished [Brent] that it was God’s will that [Brent] not tell anyone — particularly his parents — about said activities.” In fact, Warren Jeffs said Brent would be cast into hell if he revealed what was going on, the suit contends.

Despite Warren’s admonitions, complaints that Warren and his brothers were raping young boys did reach FLDS leaders, including Warren’s late father, then FLDS prophet Rulon Jeffs. The suit says these complaints were ignored, thereby allowing Warren to portray himself to the community as a “chaste” and “honorable” religious leader. According to the suit, Warren Jeffs had been committing assaults on young boys since he was 14 years old. Brent Jeffs, the suit states, decided to break his silence in the aftermath of the January 2002 suicide of his brother, Clayne, who also was sexually assaulted by the three brothers.

Boys who grow up in Colorado City and Hildale are also victimized in other ways, according to lawsuits filed the following month. They have come to be known as the “Lost Boys.” Apparently, since the polygamists have trouble attracting new female recruits to their lifestyle, they have a demographic problem. There are not enough young women around to marry, therefore the men who are richer, more powerful, or with more standing within the church are being placated by Jeffs. To secure wives for these “better” FLDS polygamists, teenage boys are being forced out of the community for offenses such as watching movies, talking to girls and celebrating national holidays. Lawyers for six of the Lost Boys accused Warren Jeffs of conspiracy to purge surplus males from the community.

Many of these “Lost Boys,” some as young as 13, have allegedly been dumped on the side of the road in Arizona and Utah by FLDS leaders and told they will never go to heaven or see their families again.

The L.A. Times featured a story on the Lost Boys, calling them teenagers who are ostracized on trumped-up charges from the culturally-isolated FLDS polygamist sect because they provide competition for wives of older sect members. The Phoenix Republic ran a story back in 1999 on young boys from the FLDS community coming to Phoenix to work as male prostitutes just a few rundown blocks from downtown. In an area known as ‘‘Boys Town’’ near Margaret T. Hance Park, young men, aged 14 to 21, —Continued on page 17

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sible. It’s hard to imagine that he would wind up in something like that.”

After the pair were taken to jail, the Ford Excursion was impounded in Pueblo, Colorado, where a dog trained to smell narcotics indicated the presence of drugs in the car.

The sheriff’s office released the pair with a summons and no drugs were found. What was found excited the sheriff even more.

Inside the vehicle, police found $142,000 in cash, seven cell phones and several envelopes containing thousands of dollars of prepaid credit cards and phone cards, as well as a cash-filled donation jar bearing Warren Jeff’s picture with a label that read “Pennies for the Prophet.” It was the same photo used on wanted posters circulated by the FBI. When the sheriff realized they had just released the brother of a wanted fugitive from jail, they contacted the FBI to assist in the investigation and obtained a warrant to open Warren Jeffs’ personal records. They recovered several hundred letters addressed to Warren from church members “relating to a variety of personal and FLDS matters.”

Several hours after his release, Seth Jeffs telephoned the sheriff’s office regarding the vehicle and its contents. He agreed to return to Pueblo from Castle Rock, Colorado, to discuss the status of the investigation.

When Seth Jeffs arrived at the sheriff’s department to talk about retrieving his car, Jeffs consented to a voluntary interview with the FBI and was subsequently arrested on the federal charge, according to an affidavit filed by Special Agent J. Andrew Stearns. Jeffs admitted to the FBI that he is Warren Jeffs’ younger brother and that he is aware that his brother is a federal fugitive.

He claimed, however, to have no knowledge of Warren Jeffs’ whereabouts. Seth also told officers that neither he nor other church members would assist the search because, “It would be stupid to tell anyone where he is because he would get caught.”

Seth Jeffs was arraigned Oct. 31 in U.S. District Court in Denver and charged with concealing his older brother from arrest.

The charge could bring a maximum of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. The local prostitution-related charges still stand.

Seth Jeffs’ lawyer says his client was just taking the items in the car to a bishop of the FLDS church at the YFZ Ranch near Eldorado, Texas, where members of the church are building a huge, four-story temple.

As for the Lost Boys, legislation billed as a way to help youths evicted from polygamous homes died in a Utah Senate logjam last year. However, on Nov. 9, Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff told Utah lawmakers that a bill that would allow a judge to emancipate a minor at age 16 is among his top priorities. Shurtleff told of hundreds of young men needing help after being cast out by their polygamous families in the towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz. “I’ve had kids in my office who have been kicked out of the community on trumped-up charges,” Shurtleff told Utah lawmakers. Rep. Roz McGee, D-Salt Lake City, stated that these youths have no way to finish school, get medical care, or live and work independently without permission from parents, who often refuse it.

While archconservative Gayle Ruzicka said her conservative Eagle Forum group is concerned the bill to emancipate teenagers might allow youths across the state to sever ties with their parents at times when they need parental guidance, the bill passed out of the committee anyway.

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—Continued from page 12 mostly homeless, perform sexual acts in alleys and back seats for as little as $5.

It seems that a lot of male prostitutes in Las Vegas are former members of polygamist communities. This news has made it to media outlets in the Las Vegas area, because with few skills that are marketable in the 21st century, the Lost Boys gravitate toward Las Vegas (the closest metropolitan area), where many devolve into prostitution.

Named as a defendant in these 2004 suits, the Prophet Jeffs did not respond to their allegations. His Salt Lake City attorney, Rodney Parker, withdrew from the cases last December. Jeffs’ failure to defend himself led to his removal as president of the United Effort Plan trust last June. That is when the Utah state court appointed Bruce Wisan as special fiduciary of the trust.

In June 2005, the Mohave County Attorney’s Office of Arizona obtained indictments against Warren Jeffs and seven other Colorado City men on charges of sexual misconduct for marrying underage women to much older men in spiritual but non-legal marriages. Warren Jeffs was stripped from the board that controls more than $100 million of property in Colorado City and neighboring Hildale and has been kept on the run

by FBI agents. He has gone underground, last seen in Texas at his reclusive ranch.

Warren Jeffs is a slippery fellow because of the physical similarities among the many men in the Jeffs family. FBI agents in Salt Lake City thought they had Jeffs cornered at the city’s airport, but it turned out to be one of his nephews. Later, a surveillance photo from a Lehi, Utah sporting-goods store appeared to be a dead-ringer for Warren Jeffs.

But it turned out to be his brother. However, the arrest of Warren’s brother Seth Jeffs in October marks the biggest break for law enforcement since the FBI placed fundamentalist Mormon prophet Warren Jeffs on its most-wanted list in August.

At three o’clock in the morning Oct. 28, a Colorado citizen telephoned the Pueblo Sheriff’s Office to report a suspected drunk driver traveling in a car straddling two lanes. A deputy responding to the tip spotted the late-model Ford Excursion going slowly through a stop sign and coming almost to a stop on U.S. 50. The deputy thought the driver might be lost and pulled the car over. The two men in the car, Seth Jeffs in the passenger seat and Nathaniel Steed Allred driving, told the deputy conflicting stories about where they were going. Now here comes the weird part.

After questioning the occupants, Seth Jeffs and Allred were arrested for misdemeanor solicitation of prostitution and prostitution.

While no account confirms that Seth Jeffs and Allred were having sex while driving, the inferences are clear that they were. While the pair were initially stopped on suspicion of intoxication, Allred quickly told the deputy that Seth Jeffs, his uncle, was the vehicle owner and had paid him $5,000 for “sexual services.” The deputy had probably caught them in the act, which explains why the car was weaving, but why Allred admitted to accepting money for sex is mystifying. However, Colorado City historian Ben Bistline stated, “It’s not like we’re talking the brightest bulbs here,” referring to Jeffs and Allred.

Jeffs and Allred are 31- and 27-years old, respectively. An anonymous FLDS member, after hearing that Nathaniel Allred was accused of prostitution, wrote on an email site, “I knew Nathaniel Allred to be a fine young lad — one to be decent and respon-

THE GAY AGENDA 24THURSDAY The miracle is, I believe, that you and I and everyone else are simultaneously experiencing the phenomenon of living, together, at this very moment. And that, if nothing else, is something to be thankful for. Come and give thanks for the

by Eric Tierney, eric@slmetro.com

miracle of being alive today at the Center Thanksgiving Celebration—food, games, movies, and general good times will be had by all. Call the Center if you’d like to contribute a dish.

THE BACON BROTHERS See Dec. 4

1–5pm, The Center, 338 N. 300 West. No charge, information at 539-8800.

25FRIDAY Ah, Deano, that bloated, misogynist alcoholic. Ol’ Blue Eyes, that mob-connected, misanthropic alcoholic. And Sammie, that, well, tap-dancing, falsetto-voiced alcoholic. Morally bankrupt, the lot of them, but man, they put on a hell of a show! Remember the golden age of American popular entertainment, when men wore hats, women wore gloves, and absolutely everyone, including your oncologist, smoked. Desert Star Playhouse is thrilled to present Rat Pack Remembered, a rat pack tribute show that blithely exploits your sense of nostalgia while plying you with liquor. Now that’s my kind of entertainment!

9:45, Saturday matinees at 12:30pm and 3:30pm through Dec. 31, Desert Star Playhouse, 4861 S. State. Tickets $11–16, dinner option available. Tickets and information at 266-2600 or desertstar.biz.

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26SATURDAY It’s hard to classify the Wayfaring Strangers, and mentioning that they’re playing tonight with the Utah Symphony might give you the wrong idea. The concept here is fusion: a little folk, a little jazz, a little rock. Nine musicians, all virtuosi. Would it do any good to mention that Rolling Stone—a magazine that employs people who actually know what they’re talking about—loves them? Well, how about this: check them out, and if you’re disappointed, I’ll buy you a lolly.

[Editor’s note: The Gay Agenda is not empowered to offer lollies to disappointed concertgoers. Disgruntled emails, however, are encouraged: please write to eric@slmetro.com] 8pm, Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple.

Tickets $20 –48 at 533-NOTE or arttix.org

28MONDAY In conjunction with World AIDS Day (Dec. 1), Art Access, the Utah AIDS Foundation and the Palmers Gallery have created an astonishing exhibition. The

Faces of AIDS, curated by Art Access/ VSA Arts of Utah, features commentary on the pandemic and those who live with the disease. The work is by eight Utah artists, some of whom are living with HIV/AIDS. Vibrant, curated by the Palmers Gallery, is a body of work by four young South African artists as well as juried work from workshops for adults who are HIV positive.

10am-6pm, Mon.–Sat. through Dec. 3, Palmers Gallery, 378 W. Broadway. Admission is free, information at 359-4632

29TUESDAY Christmas has come early to the Agenda, as this is the kind of show that a snarky bastard like me dreams of getting to write about. Salt Lake, get ready to welcome, for one night only, one buttrockin’, ass-kickin’ double bill: together at last, it’s Skid Row and Quiet Riot. I jest because I love, kids. These guys played a pretty big hand in the Metal Revolution of the eighties, and I guarantee that upon leaving this show you will have two things: 1) temporary but debilitating deafness, and 2) a sense that you have indeed been rocked.

7:30pm, University of Utah Olpin Union Ballroom, 200 S. Central Campus Drive.

Tickets $25 at 355-2787 or arttix.org. Free to U of U Students.

1THURSDAY Today is World AIDS Day. In addition to stopping by the Hotel Monaco’s commemoration of the Utah AIDS Foundation’s 20 years of care (see page 6), take a moment to reflect on the millions who suffer—many of them without the hope of treatment—around the world.

Honor the memories of those who have died. Celebrate those around you who live with, but refuse to suffer from, the disease. Take it upon yourself to do something about the plague. Volunteer opportunities abound, but here are two exceptional resources: Utah AIDS Foundation: 487-2323 People with AIDS Coalition of Utah: 484-2205

 I was going to write something clever about The Forgotten Carols, but in the end I decided that anyone who’s spent Christmas in Utah in the past million years already knows what it is, and anyone who hasn’t probably knows someone who does know. How’s that for absolute dereliction of duty? Not to mention syntax? Spiking that big bowl of eggnog in the Metro office has, incomprehensibly, proven to be an enormous mistake.

treasured holiday operetta, which means that it’s in English and the proverbial horned-helmet woman is nowhere to be found. Take the kiddies—this is the first time the piece has been mounted professionally in more than ten years, so they may not have another chance to see it until they’re past the age of not believing.

7:30pm, McKay Events Center, 800 W University Parkway, Orem. Tickets $13–19 at 467-TIXX or smithstix.com

 In honor of World AIDS Day, AIDS activist Stuart Merrill is a candlelight vigil on the east steps of the Salt Lake City/County Building. A photo opportunity a half our before the vigil is set up for those living with the disease.

2FRIDAY There’s nothing more exciting than seeing something new and unexpected arise in an artist with whom you’re already well acquainted. Sarah Bettens wrote some of the 90s’ most memorable songs as part of K’s Choice (does anyone not know the chorus to “Not an Addict”?) and has recently released her first solo album, proving herself to be a first-rate singer/songwriter. She performs tonight in the City by the Pestilent Sea™ as a benefit for our beloved Center.

8pm, Paper Moon, a private club for members, 3737 S. State. Admission is $15 in advance, $20 day of show at 713-0678.

The Paper Moon is a private club for members.  Everyone loves Christmas music, but who wants to spend another year listening to Neil Diamond’s flashy rendition of “O, Holy Night” or that infuriating Bare Naked Ladies version of “God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen”? For those of you who prefer a dirty martini to a cup o’ cheer, Dan Waldis will present “A Little Jazz with Your Mistletoe,” an evening of satiny jazz takes on your holiday favorites.

Something nice to think about when Burl Ives makes his annual assault on your ears.

7:30pm, Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, 138 W. Broadway. Tickets $12 at 3552787 or arttix.org

 The majestic tones of the Hallelujah Chorus will soon be as ubiquitous in Utah as Salvation Army bell ringers, but the Utah Symphony offers you a choral alternative tonight: the Chorus Gloria program will feature music by Poulenc, Handel himself, and Beethoven’s souldestroying Mass. Halleujah indeed.

3SATURDAY While the Quilted Bear may sound like a bar devoted to hirsute and crafty gay men, you’re more likely to find your boyfriend’s mom shopping there. The Center offers you a great alternative to get your glue-gun fetish on: the Holiday Bazaar.

Arts, crafts, goodies and eye candy, all furnished by members of your other, extended family. Endless possibilities!

11am–5pm, GLBT Community Center of Utah, 355 N. 300 West. Admission is free.

Information at 539-8800.

 Creepy black and white film adaptation aside, Babes in Toyland is a delightful,

7:30pm vigil on the east steps of the Salt Lake City County Building, 400 South, 200 East. 7pm photo of those living with the disease. To RSVP for the photo, call Aaron Garrett at 949-4388 or email aaroncgarrett@yahoo.com.

4SUNDAY The Bacon Brothers, at first glance, sounds like the worst kind of vanity act: uber-actor Kevin Bacon and his composer brother, Michael, perform a set of folksy/bluesy rock. Thing is, though, that the boys can actually play and sing, so if you’re going with a mind toward makin’ fun, you’ll be disappointed. On the other hand, here’s your chance to tell Kevin in person that he was robbed of an Oscar for Murder in the First.

7:30pm, Eccles Center for the Performing Arts, 1750 Kearns Blvd, Park City. Tickets $15–50 at 355-2787 or arttix.org

6TUESDAY The only proof I have that anyone at all reads the Agenda is that last year I made fun of Kurt Bestor and he called me on it. So Kurt, if you’re paying attention this year: Merry Christmas! For anyone else, here’s your chance to take in yet another Utah holiday tradition: A Kurt Bestor Christmas returns tonight.

8pm tonight through Friday, 2pm Saturday, Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple. Tickets $17.50–32.50 at 355-2787 or arttix.org

UPCOMING Saturday, December 10, Royal Court of the Golden Spike Empire’s SnowBall at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center.

Sunday, December 11, Salt Lake Men’s Choir’s holiday concert, “A Hard Campy Christmas.” Tickets at 355-ARTS. Saturday, December 17, Royal Court of the Golden Spike Empire’s Leather and Lace Ball at the Trapp Door.

The Gay Agenda is also online at slmetro.com

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8pm tonight and Saturday, Abravanel Hall, 123 S West Temple. Tickets $12–42 at 552787 or arttix.org

2pm and 7:30pm, Ellen Eccles Theatre, 43 S. Main Street, Logan. Tickets $10–18 at 3552787 or arttix.org.

Sarah Bettens Plays Paper Moon for a Cause Close to Her Heart kim@slmetro.com

Sarah Bettens has a sexy voice. Fans of rocker K’s Choice or Bettens’ new solo album, “Scream,” would surely agree with that statement. And the same husky passion that drives her impressive singing extends to her speaking voice, as I discovered while interviewing her from her new home in Tennessee. Though a native of Belgium, Bettens’s accent is more down-home bluegrass than Old Europe, which is probably due to her time in the States playing with Indigo Girls, Garbage, Alanis Morissette and the Lilith Fair. Her upcoming West Coast tour will also include a stop at the Paper Moon on Dec. 2, where she will headline a benefit concert for Keri Jones.

Salt Lake Metro: Are you looking forward to touring in California and Salt Lake?

Sarah Bettens: It should be good. We were on the West Coast a couple of months ago.

We opened for the Indigo Girls, and we’re going to some of those same places. We just also did the Yellow Umbrella Tour to raise awareness about cervical cancer with Duncan Sheik. We just did that a week ago.

Metro: Have you ever been to Salt Lake City before?

SB: Yeah, I remember playing with a full band, and this time it’ll be quieter; it’ll be me and a guitar player. We’ve been enjoying that.

Metro: What interested you about Keri Jones and her situation?

SB: I can just so relate. Fortunately I’m not in that situation, but I have a partner

KIM TYBURSKI

by Kim Burgess

Sarah Betten opening for the Indigo Girls in Seattle last July.

and she has kids and I’ve lived with them for four years and they’re not even my kids, they’re my step-kids, but I can’t imagine what it would be like if someone was telling me you could never see them again or you have to have supervised visitation rights or whatever. Being gay and not having rights the way heterosexual couples do, it’s something that is close to my heart.

Metro: You’ve lived in Europe and the States. Do you feel that it’s easier to be gay in Europe?

SB: Easier in Europe for sure. Gay marriage is legal in Belgium. Obviously it’s very different in the States. I feel a lot more free in Belgium to hold hands or do things that we might not do in public here.

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Metro: Have you been following the fight for gay marriage in the U.S.?

SB: Yeah, my girlfriend and I are always very interested. We just have to power on and hope that some day this area comes to its senses, too.

Metro: To change gears a little, how does it feel to be solo after fronting a successful band for years?

SB: It’s been fun. It’s been challenging in many ways, which is what I wanted. It has been eye-opening to work with other musicians and have to make all these decisions myself. I really feel like I got out of it what I wanted to get out of it. It’s definitely been difficult at the same time, too. It’s a constant adapting. I like change and I like the concept of change, but that doesn’t make it easy. It’s still something you have to learn to deal with. But I really have been loving it—writing the songs myself and having a bigger role in the production. Not that I ever felt confined in K’s Choice, but having that added freedom and responsibility has been really fun.

Metro: How do you feel that your solo music is different from K’s Choice?

SB: I think the sound is a lot more voice driven and more direct than K’s Choice, but the style of music is still the same. I wrote half the songs for K’s Choice, and I just sit at home and write songs on acoustic guitar and never really give too

much thought about what style they are or if they fit into a certain format. That hasn’t changed. I did a couple of co-writes for this record, which was different--my brother and I, for K’s Choice, always wrote alone. But overall I think it has elements of rock, pop and some elements of folk. I still just write the songs that I want to write.

Metro: Your website says that your lyrics for your solo album are more political.

SB: I think that being in your 30s, you think and write about different things than when you’re in your early 20s. I came out four years ago, and I feel happy and balanced right now. The more space you have in your own life, the more space you have for things other than yourself, the outside world. I think I was so wrapped up in trying to find myself and not really succeeding that there was less space in my head to think about other things and care politically. I always cared, but now it’s more deeply rooted, and I’m part of a minority group now and I feel I have to contribute.

Metro: Are there any particular political issues that you’re thinking about?

SB: It’s always the war that makes me so sad. People are losing brothers and sons and dads everyday. I’m such a pacifist, and to think that we went over there for the wrong reasons, it’s very depressing to me.

Metro: Are you planning on staying solo for now?

SB: It’s a difficult question. I was in South Africa with my brother a couple of months ago and did a little K’s Choice thing down there. We felt like we want to work together again; but at the same time, we have our solo records and we have high expectations and we’re getting used to doing this by ourselves. We just don’t know yet. We’ll do something together again to be sure, but where and how remains to be seen.

Tickets for Sarah Bettens’ show at the Paper Moon are $15 or $20 the day of the show. For more information, write to BringHerHome2004@yahoo.com or stop by the Paper Moon.

Campbell Scott, Patricia Clarkson and Peter Sarsgaard in The Dying Gaul

The Dying Gaul Starring: Campbell Scott, Patricia Clarkson, and Peter Sarsgaard Written and directed by Craig Lucas 105 Minutes R for strong sexual content and language

by Gabriel Shanks

The Dying Gaul is scheduled to begin screening Dec. 9 at the Broadway Centre Cinemas, 111 East 300 South.

A Hard Campy Christmas The Salt Lake Men’s Choir will perform “A Hard Campy Christmas” on Sunday, December 10 at 7:30pm in the Jeanne Wagner Auditorium, Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center.

This will be the 23rd annual holiday concert performed by the choir, which was formed in 1982 by 13 men with a vision to sing and unite in comeraderie of music.

Holiday classics will begin the concert and lighter contemporary favorites will be sung after the intermission.

Holiday concerts are the most popular that the choir performs. It is suggested that you get your tickets early.

Tickets are available for $15 or $10 for students or seniors through ArtTix at 355-ARTS and www.arttix.org.

SLAC By

THE SALT LAKE ACTING COMPANY

Tracy Letts

Ken Carpenter is having a crisis of faith. Somewhere in his happy life; something inexplicable has crept in... a question. After nearly sixty years he suddenly finds he no longer understands the stars at night and cannot find God at the end of his prayers.

A moving, sublimely human look at the evolving psyche of America’s fabled heartland.

Recommended for Mature Audiences.

Nov.15-Dec.11 For Tickets call 363-SLAC or 355-ARTS www.saltlakeactingcompany.org

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Craig Lucas, the award-winning playwright and screenwriter of Longtime Companion, The Secret Lives of Dentists and The Light in the Piazza, has crafted a sensational directorial debut in The Dying Gaul, about a peculiarly nihilistic love triangle that slowly and tragically becomes a circular firing squad. Adapted from his own play, Lucas’ intimate drama comes across as a mannered exercise in restraint — until the e-mails literally start flying through the air. Set against the convolutions of Hollywood at its most Babylonian, The Dying Gaul follows Jeffrey, a studio executive (Campbell Scott) and his gorgeously disaffected wife Elaine (Patricia Clarkson). Jeffrey, a closet bisexual, has just cozied up to Robert (Peter Sarsgaard), a novice screenwriter whose HIV-positive lover has recently died. The trio becomes fast friends, but as the transparent lies begin to bleed real blood, the alliances take a wholly unexpected and eviscerating turn. Rarely has a film exposed the tender and brutal line between love and cruelty so magnificently ... certainly more than last year’s similarly-minded Closer, and perhaps not since Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris.

Lucas’ masterful screenplay and measured direction are complemented by an impeccable production design by Vincent Jefferds; the sprawling luxury of the Hollywood Hills contrasts sharply with the starving artist studio, and makes The Dying Gaul as much a study of class warfare as one of romantic fidelity. The performances are uniformly superb.

Campbell Scott gives Jeffrey the stiff, assured swagger that comes with power ... and then allows it to dissolve into a puddle of self-doubt and confusion.

Peter Sarsgaard, who is quickly joining Philip Seymour Hoffman as the finest actor of his generation, is even better than Scott; his woeful indecision and limitless grief are rendered with tenderness and compassion. It is Patricia Clarkson,

however, who emerges as the stunning life force of The Dying Gaul; her fans will be happy to know that the tremendous work she has delivered time and time again, in films like Far From Heaven, The Station Agent and High Art, is surpassed here in a career-topping performance.

If there is a God, and if that God likes textured and unclassifiable roles like that of Elaine, Clarkson will win her long overdue Oscar.

The statue which gives The Dying Gaul its name is a famous Roman work from the 4th century BC, and the film shares its sense of classicism and emotionality. Lucas has made the most intense romantic thriller in years, wrapped in a cool veneer that disguises the little earthquakes waiting below its surface.

The Dying Gaul is mesmerizing, fiercely original, and tantalizingly entertaining, but be forewarned ... its dark heart beats without compromise or, even in the end, compassion.

Koko Kitchen

by Vanessa Chang, vanessa@slmetro.com

702 S. 300 East, SLC, 364-4888 Mon.–Fri. 11:00 a.m.–9 p.m.

Sat. 11:30 a.m.–9 p.m.

Sushi is not the end-all of Japanese cuisine.

When grey clouds set in and heavy sweaters start making a comeback, cravings turn to things that sustain and comfort. Something like thick udon noodles in a bowl (as big as my head) of piping-hot broth.

Or even a generous bowl of steamed rice topped with a big ladle-full of curry. Curry, you say? Yes, but more on that later. There’s a place where Japanese food isn’t presented in a chic, high-gloss package. It’s a place where people, normal folk, come to eat and leave happy. It’s called Koko Kitchen.

At first glance, you won’t be blown away by the ambience. The main dining room is

Dining Guide Bangkok Thai

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Rated “Best Thai” 1992–2005 by local and national press.

Café Med

420 E. 3300 S. / 493-0100 HOURS: SU-TH 11AM-9PM F-SA 11AM-10PM CUISINE: MEDITERRANEAN PRICE: $ CARDS: TC AE D MC V

Persian, Greek, Italian, Turkish and Vegetarian in a warm, relaxing atmosphere.

a series of benches flanking the wall, under harsh lighting. The kitchen is in full view, just behind the counter where you order. A lot of people opt for take-out. But it’s worth it to stay in and soak up the ambience — because there is one. Lunchtime sees the convergence of neighborhood regulars and office folk communing over ramen with pork, yakisoba (stir-fried noodles) and tempura. It’s noisy, it’s bustling, and it’s reminiscent of the working-class joints in Japan and Los Angeles that offer affordable and deliciously filling food. There’s another big room in the back, where the feel is more serene and the radio station more 97.9 The Breeze than the techno/jazz/NPR in the front area. And between, a microscopic sushi bar, where two, maybe three can straddle up for fresh sushi on evenings and weekends.

My friend looked longingly at it during one lunch. “So, no sushi here?” he asked.

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SLC’s buzzing java shop with a diverse crowd.

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Dine in or take-out. Call ahead and we’ll have it ready. Albertsons Shopping Ctr.

Orbit Cafe 540 W. 200 S. / 322-3808 orbitslc.com HOURS: SU-TH 11AM-10PM F-SA 11AM-3AM CUISINE: AMERICAN ECLECTIC PRICE: $ CARDS: TC AE D MC V

I shook my head no, not right now, and pressed him forward in line. You walk up to the counter, order, pay, and they call your name when it’s ready.

It’s a place where cautious co-workers can tag along and relish the chicken teriyaki. The ubiquitous dish (second only to sushi in renown) runs the hazard of being too sweet. But at Koko, there’s a good presence of salty soy to balance the sauce.

Meanwhile, the adventurous can traverse the extensive dry-erase board to find their meal. There’s the beloved udon— thick wheat noodles you slurp up (seriously, you need to slurp them, it is tradition and considered rude if you don’t) from a curry, miso, or traditional fish udon broth.

Chunks of chicken or tempura shrimp round out the big bowl of carbs. It’s hearty and heartwarming. Strangely aromatic, it’s light but still quite filling.

Bento boxes are filling and aesthetically pleasing. As the name implies, you get your lunch compartmentalized in a lacquered tray with a choice of protein, steamed rice, veggie and some side dishes. It was versatile yet non-threatening enough to convince my sushi-intent friend to order.

But the real joys of Koko are the more obscure items on the menu. There’s a slew

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of potato croquettes, coated in panko crumbs (a deliciously unique style of Japanese bread crumbs) and deep fried. They come stuffed with veggies, chicken, or beef, and sometimes are even curry flavored.

The tonkatsu is something even meat and potato fans can enjoy without hesitation. Pretty much the Japanese version of Homer Simpson’s favorite food—the pork chop—it’s a juicy little pork filet coated in that wonderfully crunchy panko and fried.

Then there’s the curry. It has more or less become Japan’s national food. Much the way hamburgers have become the food of the American working class, curry, or “kare,” is in Japan. The aromatic things you know from Indian and Thai cuisine are muted down for the Japanese palate. It’s about heft. It’s thick, brown, studded with lots of vegetables and beef, chicken, or tofu. It fills up the working man, cheaply, and has just enough piquant kick to keep your belly warm. For something really different, pair it with kimchee�that potent mélange of cabbage and chiles indigenous to Korea, but so perfect with this Asian stodge.

Tonkatsu, croquettes, curry, and udon— comfort food in another language. But no matter how you say it, it’s quite clear how good it can be.

by Beau Jarvis beau@slmetro.com

Editor’s Note: Beau has his hands full at the moment and will return next issue.

This column produced many inquiries, so we are showing it to you one more time.

Web logs, or “blogs,” are slowly oozing into the mainstream. If you are not an ultra-mega-geek like me, chances are you’ve never heard the word “blog,” let alone actually seen one. Blogs are simply online journals kept by web denizens on a variety of topics. Many are incredibly inane; a few are quite interesting. Personal and political blogs have been the kings and queens of blogdom for some time. Yet, lucky for us hedonists, wine and food blogs are multiplying like rabbits.

There are literally thousands of culinary blogs now hopping down the information highway. If you are a blog virgin, it’s easy to get lost in all the fluff (Had enough bunny analogies yet?). Allow me to present you with a mini-guide of my favorite food and wine blog offerings.

FOOD BLOGS ACCIDENTAL HEDONIST www.accidentalhedonist.com Managed by Kate in Seattle. This blog is part cookbook, part culinary history textbook, and part social commentary. Aside from offering mouthwatering recipes such as Pollo Trifolata, Kate explains the history behind each recipe. The Hedonist also offers commentary and links for those interested in being socially conscious while stuffing their pie holes.

CHOCOLATE & ZUCCHINI chocolateandzucchini.com C&Z is named after the author’s two favorite baking ingredients. It’s a blog written by Clotilde, a young Parisian, and it is offered in both English and French.

Not only does it offer a window into the kitchen of a French foodie, but it also provides lovely photographs of Clotilde’s culinary creations.

TOO MANY CHEFS www.toomanychefs.net Too Many Chefs is a group food blog. Six amateur chefs from around the world contribute several recipes each week.

Healthy vegetarian folk should visit this blog. One of the contributors, Barrett in Chicago, is a veggie. If your diet consists mainly of rice, beans, and tofu, his recipes will definitely spice up your kitchen.

WHO WANTS SECONDS? whowantsseconds.typepad.com This blog is more food photo art gallery than recipe journal. Moira, the host and resident artiste, offers sublime photos of such kitchen standards as pancakes and bagels. She also serves up bizarre, yet tasty, creations such as a Twinkie Torte and Black-bottomed Cupcakes.

FOOD PORN WATCH foodpornwatch.arrr.net It’s not what you think, so get your mind out of the gutter! FPW is a handy-dandy food blog aggregator. It links to dozens of blogs from all over the planet. In addition to offering links, it indicates the date of each blog’s most recent entry. Think of this site as a food blog freshness indicator

WINE BLOGS THE CAVEMAN’S WINE BLOG thecaveman.blogspot.com Bill has to be the most sophisticated

caveman around. He owns a hoity-toity French restaurant in Montreal, Canada.

He’s also a Sommelier, with vast wine knowledge. The blog is written in a downto-earth style. You’ll read about wine and food pairings that will make you want to sprint north of the border just to get a taste.

TURN THE SCREW www.lechai.com/weblog This blog hails from a “wine gallery” in Savannah, Georgia. In addition to wine reviews and tasting notes, Turn the Screw offers blunt, well-written criticism of much of the silliness that abounds in the wine industry. I guarantee you will never find wine writing this good and this honest in any glossy wine magazine.

LENNDEVORS lennthompson.typepad.com Lenn is a wine writer from Long Island.

He writes almost exclusively about Long Island wine. Were you aware there is a bustling wine industry right next to Manhattan? Perhaps this blog will inspire the wine folks at the DABC to offer a few L.I. wines (hint, hint).

SPITTOON www.spittoon.biz Are you a fan of British humour? Perhaps Monty Python is your thing. Spittoon is a U.K. wine blog that doesn’t take itself too seriously. You’ll be able to read about wine and bone up on your Brit slang. Any idea what the word “naff” means? Hop on Spittoon to find out.

BASIC JUICE basicjuice.blogs.com This is quite possibly the world’s best wine blog. Ok, it’s quite possibly Utah’s best (and only) wine blog hosted by little old me. Here you can read independent wine reviews about wine you will actually be able to find in state liquor stores. The blog also offers recipes and, occasionally, the odd bit of enticing errata drifting through cyberspace.

Pick a blog, any blog. Discover recipes and wine reviews written by friendly web citizens. Like me, you probably surf the Internet daily. Now you’ll be able to surf with a full belly and glass of wine. Cheers to wine and food blogging.

Beau Jarvis is a sommelier and wine educator. He operates basicjuice.com, a wine review and info website. He also runs basicjuice.blogs.com

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SUNDAY, NOV. 27 SUNDAY TEA DANCE at Club Try-Angles.* Food, fun and DJ Dennis.

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