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Gay Pride Breaks Records

Increase of 33 percent over last year

Orem Fundraiser Raises Hundreds of Thousands Bruce Bastian repeats successful HRC event

Transvestites Terrorize New Orleans Gay, Bisexual Men Urged to Immunize Against Hep A, B Shin: Shame on BYU

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In This Issue Marmalade Gets a Facelift The city’s gayest neighborhood is undergoing yet another transition.

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POWER UP’s Ten Amazing Women of 2006

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WORLD AND NATIONAL

Longtime Gay Activist Eric Rofes Dies Provincetown, Mass. — Eric Rofes, who made a 30-year imprint on queer civil rights and education, has died in Provincetown, Mass. where he was spending the summer.

“Words cannot express the loss we all feel. For more than 30 years, Eric was our movement’s visionary,” said Matt Foreman, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, in a Eric Rofes statement.

“He pushed us to be better, to never lose sight of what our movement for liberation is all about, and to love each other, fight for each other and celebrate our community.

He was an organizer without par, a brilliant thinker and writer, and above all else, a wonderful person and friend. Our hearts go out to his partner Crispin Hollings and all the members of his extended family.”

Rofes started his activism in the 1970s in Boston where he worked on Gay Community News. He was a founder of Boston’s first group for LGBT teachers, two of the first LGBT youth groups in the country and the first Bostonbased group focused on organizing gay and lesbian voters (Boston Lesbian and Gay Political Alliance).

He was a founding member of the Boston Men’s Childcare Collective, which provided childcare at women’s music concerts and shelters for battered women. He was an elected delegate to the 1980 White House Conference on the Family.

In the 80s he moved to California.

From 1985 to 1989, Rofes served as executive director of the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center, the largest gay nonprofit organization in the world.

During his tenure, the center initiated some of the nation’s first HIV prevention programs,

created a shelter for gay and lesbian homeless youth and opened the first and largest HIV testing site in California. In 1989, he became executive director of Shanti Project, a pioneering AIDS service group in San Francisco.

He served as a member of the Los Angeles AIDS Commission and the San Francisco Ryan White Council, and was a board member of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, the National Lesbian & Gay Health Association and the Funding Exchange’s OutFund for Gay Liberation. Rofes co-chaired the Southern California No on LaRouche Committee, which successfully defeated a statewide AIDS quarantine initiative. At the time of his death, he served on the board of the Woodhull Freedom Foundation.

He led the organizing of three national summits focused on the health and wellness of gay male communities, including the most recent summit in October 2005 in Salt Lake City.

From 1999 to the time of his death, Rofes was an associate professor of education at Humboldt State University in Arcata, Calif.

He was a major contributor to the Gay and Lesbian Task Force’s Creating Change conference, which he attended annually and where he presented some of the most challenging and stimulating material.

In addition, he published 12 books, including Reviving the Tribe: Regenerating Gay Men’s Sexuality and Culture in an Ongoing Epidemic (Haworth, 1996) and Dry Bones Breathe: Gay Men Creating Post-AIDS Identities and Cultures (Haworth, 1998).

Rofes was spending the summer in Provincetown on a sabbatical working on a new book.

“Eric Rofes was one of the most extraordinary voices in our community,” said Loren Ostrow, co-chair of the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center.

“He spoke — and suffused others — with the joy of being who we are. His leadership in the communities where he lived, and in the national community, contributed enormously to our understanding of the need for honest discussions about the LGBT community and its issues. Eric’s death is a loss to all of us, of a rare voice of truth.”

Pentagon Document Calling Gays Mentally Ill is Disputed Santa Barbara, Calif. — Several members of Congress have sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld asking him to review a recently discovered Pentagon Instruction classifying homosexuality as a mental disorder, along with mental retardation, impulse control disorders and personality disorders. The document, which was found by researchers at the Center for the Study of Sexual Minorities in the Military, a think tank at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is a Department of Defense Instruction that was signed by the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness in 1996 and recertified as “current” in 2003.

The letter, which was signed by nine members of the House Armed Services Committee, asks the Defense Department to update the classification. The letter notes that the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses over thirty years ago, and affirmed that homosexuality “implies no impairment in judgment, stability, reliability, or general social and vocational capabilities.” Last week, the APA, which authors the DSM-IV-TR, the definitive volume on mental health classification, wrote

its own letter to the Pentagon urging it to remove homosexuality from the Instruction and update it to reflect the current consensus of medical professionals. The letter states that the de-classification of homosexuality as a mental disorder is “a position shared by all other major health and mental health organizations based on their own review of the science.” The American Psychological Association followed suit with a similar letter.

Edwin Dorn, the former Under Secretary of Defense who signed the original Instruction, agreed the document might be out of date. “It is certainly time to revisit the issue of whether homosexuality should be considered a mental disorder,” he said this week.

Dr. Aaron Belkin, director of CSSMM, expressed grave concern that the military continues to list homosexuality as a mental illness. “It’s unclear why a DoD document would classify homosexuality as a mental disorder over thirty years after the psychiatric community acknowledged this is a mistake,” said Dr. Belkin. He described new research showing that military psychologists and chaplains lack the training needed to monitor and treat the mental health of gay and lesbian soldiers.

Sydney, Australia — Gay news organizations nationwide are lashing out at the announcement by government officials in Australia that an Australian Capital Territory law legalizing civil unions for gay couples will be overturned.

Local assembly in ACT approved the bill last month to allow civil unions. The original bill was watered down because it allowed gay marriage.

But days later the federal government vowed to overturn the law, then promised to reconsider. Attorney General Philip Ruddock said the bill goes against the Federal Marriage Act because its wording defines civil unions too closely to marriage.

“The ACT civil relationships ordinance has been disallowed,” Ruddock said in a statement, according to Pink News UK. That means, in effect, that the legislative amendments introduced to establish a civil arrangement for same-sex parties and others in the ACT will no longer be law.”

ACT Attorney-General Simon Corbell, who had attempted to rush the bill through law, told the Australian Daily Telegraph, “This is a homophobic decision, it is arrogant and undemocratic.”

The law was invalidated throughout Australia effective midnight, June 13. — DM

Portland Passes Resolution for Repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Portland, Ore. — Calling it “a civil rights issue,” Portland Mayor Tom Potter and the Portland City Council have approved a resolution urging Congress to repeal the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” ban on lesbian, gay and bisexual personnel.

The resolution, introduced by Commissioner Sam Adams, says in part that the Council “respectfully urges the Congress Portland Mayor Tom Potter to pass and the President to sign the H.R. 1059 (the Military Readiness Enhancement Act), thereby ending the discriminatory federal policy of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’”

Frank Dixon, president of the GLBT Caucus for the Democratic Party of Oregon, along with former Army First Lieutenant Fred Fox and Dr. Mary Ann HumphreyKeever, author of My Country, My Right to Serve, provided testimony in support of the resolution. The resolution was passed unanimously on June 14. The Military Readiness Enhancement Act, introduced in March 2005 by Rep. Marty Meehan (D-MA), would repeal the military’s ban and allow lesbian, gay and bisexual personnel to serve openly.

The bill currently has 115 co-sponsors in the House of Representatives, including Oregon Representatives Earl Blumenauer, Peter DeFazio, and David Wu. “Americans across the country value national security over discrimination,” said C. Dixon Osburn, executive director of Servicemembers Legal Defense Network. “Our national security is best protected when the most talented Americans, regardless of sexual orientation, are allowed to serve.

SLDN applauds the work of Commissioner Sam Adams and those who testified for passing the resolution. Congress must follow the lead of their constituents and repeal ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ once and for all.”

Resolutions supporting the Military Readiness Enhancement Act have been approved by city councils in New York, Chicago, St. Louis, West Hollywood, San Francisco and Cathedral City, Calif.

Indianapolis Starts “Would Jesus Discriminate?” Campaign Indianapolis, Ind. — First there were fullpage ads in the Indianapolis Star asking, “Would Jesus Discriminate?”

Then yard signs with the same message began appearing all over Indianapolis.

Then 25,000 door hangers were distributed with invitations to a Town Hall Meeting — one of which led to a lesbian’s Indianapolis home being defaced with a swastika.

Now, this week, major billboards across the city are also asking the question, “Would Jesus Discriminate?”

The $100,000 media campaign in Indianapolis is the start of a national effort to lower hostility and tension around homosexuality and religion - and to initiate a dialogue that can lead to greater understanding on the subject.

The campaign is a joint project of openlygay East Coast business leader Mitchell Gold, founder of Faith In America, and Dr. Cindi Love, a former senior executive with the Toro Corporation and executive director of Metropolitan Community Churches.

The campaign is being conducted in Indianapolis by Rev. Jeff Miner, Senior Pastor of the predominantly-gay Jesus MCC in Indianapolis. Rev. Miner, himself an openly gay clergyperson, is a graduate of the Christian fundamentalist Bob Jones University as well as Harvard University.

For more information, visit MCCchurch.org.

Meth Use Downplayed in Study San Francisco — The Gay and Lesbian Medical Association has released a statement expressing concern over recent media coverage of a study which downplays the extent of methamphetamine use in the U.S. A widely-published June 14 Associated Press article reported on a recent study which found that 0.2 percent of Americans are regular users of crystal meth. The study, “The Next Big Thing? Methamphetamine in the United States”, was carried out by the Washington, DC-based Sentencing Project.

Neither the study nor media coverage about it addressed methamphetamine use by gay and bisexual men, says GLMA. Studies have found that methamphetamine use among gay and bisexual men is up to ten times higher than in the general population. A 2003 study by the Chicago Department of Public Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that approximately 10 percent of gay men had used methamphetamine at least once in the previous year, compared with 0.7 percent of the general U.S. population. Of those gay men who reported using meth, 20 percent were using at least once per week. Another study found that 20 percent of young gay and bisexual men had used crystal meth in the previous six months, with 6 percent reporting daily use.

Methamphetamine has also been linked to high risk sexual activity. A study conducted in 2000-01 by the University of California San Francisco AIDS Health Project, the CDC, and the San Francisco Department of Public Health found that gay men who used meth were three times as likely to contract HIV as non-meth users. Meth use has also been linked to a resurgence of syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia infections.

“Meth use among gay and bisexual men is a public health crisis, and media attention about crystal meth should reflect this,” said Joel Ginsberg, GLMA’s Executive Director.

“HIV/AIDS didn’t get the attention it deserved early on in part because many people felt it wasn’t their problem. The result was a huge amount of avoidable suffering and expense. We can’t make that mistake again.” Q

Transvestite Troup Terrorizes New Orleans New Orleans — Robyn Lewis, owner of Dark Charm fashion and accessories for women, represents the first line of defense for the Magazine Street shop owners. She is the first to see them come strutting in their pumps down St. Andrew Street, the bewigged pack of thieves who have plagued the Lower Garden District since May. Like an SOS flare, Lewis grabs her emergency phone list and starts calling.

“They’re coming,” she warns Eric Ogle a salesman at Vegas, a block down Magazine Street. Ogle, who was terrorized by the brazen crew two months earlier, alerts neighboring Winky’s where manager Kendra Bonga braces for the onslaught.

Soon every shop owner in the 2000 block of Magazine Street has been alerted.

Sarah Celino at Trashy Diva eyes the door, ready to flip the lock at the first sight of the ringleader’s pink jumpsuit and fluorescent red wig.

Down at Turncoats, where the fashionhappy gang once made off with more than $2,000 in merchandise, store manager Wes Davis stands ready.

Davis said it wasn’t supposed to be like this. They survived Hurricane Katrina’s Category 3 winds and the ensuing looters.

They reopened despite the long odds of doing business in a devastated city. The last thing the Magazine Street shop owners expected to threaten their survival was a crime ring of transvestites.

“They’re fearless,” said Ogle. “Once they see something they like they won’t stop until they have it. They don’t care, they’ll go to jail. It’s really gotten bad. You know it’s ridiculous when everyone on the block knows who they are.”

Scarce evidence The New Orleans Police Department investigated the Turncoats robbery but unless police catch a shoplifter in the act or in possession of stolen property there is little they can do besides take a report, said NOPD spokeswoman Bambi Hall.

“If store security states that someone took something, and then by the time we apprehend them they don’t have the property, then there’s really nothing we can do because it’s their word against the (suspect),” Hall said.

Lewis said she understands the understaffed NOPD has bigger priorities than to “catch a drag queen running down the street with an armful of clothing.” So the store owners created their own watchdog system unofficially known as the “Drag Queen Alert List,” a comprehensive phone roster of every business on the block with stars next to those who carry guns.

When one shop owner spots a gang member, they immediately warn everyone on the block and raise their defenses in unison.

When they enter Turncoats, Davis said he locks them inside the store, which “freaks them out,” and they leave.

Celino said she doesn’t even wait for them to enter the store.

“A couple weeks ago, a group of them was outside and one looked like the guy who came in here and ripped us off so I locked the door on them,” Celino said. “I know maybe that’s rude, if they really were innocent people, but there’s nothing else we can do. You look like the queens who ripped us off so I’m sorry but I have to lock the door.”

Ogle and Bonga say they regret being forced to resort to such profiling but they feel they have no other choice. The transvestites, Ogle said, appear to be drug-addicted and fearless in their lust for designer shoes, jackets and jewelry.

“The city’s not functioning the way it was and I’m sure a lot of them were getting some kind of government aid, which they probably aren’t getting any more so they’re incredibly desperate,” Ogle said.

And sometimes violent.

When Lewis co-owned Trashy Diva, they attacked one of her partners in the French Quarter location, throwing her to the ground and tossing a heavy mannequin on top of her.

“They’re kind of confused because they think they’re women so they don’t mind hitting women, but they’re dudes. If you get hit by one it’s like getting hit by a dude. ... Because the police are so poorly staffed, we’re kind of on our own but the system we have seems to be working. I haven’t seen them in at least a week but they’ll be back.

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Expensive tastes The transvestites first appeared in March when they raided Magazine Street like a marauding army of kleptomaniacal showgirls, said Davis, using clockwork precision and brute force to satisfy high-end boutique needs.

They first hit Vegas March 31 while Ogle was working.

“They come in groups of three or four.

One tries to distract you while the others get the stuff and run out the door. It’s very simple,” Ogle said.

Next door at Winky’s, Bonga heard people screaming inside Vegas, then saw a blur of cheap wigs and masculine legs in designer shoes streak past her door.

“All of a sudden our UPS guy dove out of the store and tried to tackle them and there’s little Eric from next door on the sidewalk with a bunch of stuff he managed to grab from one of the guys,” Bonga said.

“The other two guys took off down the street and jumped into a car driven by a real girl.”

Ogle gave police a description of the perpetrators — African-American males ranging in height from 6 feet to 6-5. They all wore the same midriff shirts and wigs with twisted, dreadnaught hair.

“They’re all very skinny and very flamboyant,” Ogle said.

Two hours after the police left, the transvestites returned to Magazine Street to storm Turncoats just a block away from Vegas, and made off with more than $2,000 in merchandise.

“They move like clockwork,” Davis said.

“Two thousand dollars is a lot for our store to lose, especially being in the slow summer season. It makes it so I can’t even mark my stuff down as much as I want to because I’m trying to make up for what I lost.”

In the ensuing weeks, the gang of transvestites continued their reign of terror. Sometimes they come dressed as men, though Bonga said it is obvious who they are based on their delicately plucked eyebrows. Sometimes they bring 2-year-old children to add to the level of distraction.

They once returned to Vegas holding an “infant” that really was a Cabbage Patch doll wrapped in a blanket.

“They’ll make themselves scarce for a few weeks and then one day you’ll be busy with a customer and all of a sudden there’s a whole slew of them in your store and there’s nothing you can do because you’re there by yourself,” Lewis said.

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REGIONAL AND LOCAL

Episcopal Legislative Meeting Ends With Mixed Message on Sexual Orientation Columbus, Ohio — Nevada Bishop Katherine Jefferts Schori beat the odds June 18 to be elected the first woman to lead a national church in the Anglican Communion, the world’s third-largest Christian denomination and one that largely does not accept women clergy. Schori now becomes the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, the Anglican Communion’s U.S. arm.

Many conservative members of the church don’t believe women should be church leaders and they don’t support gay priests or bishops as Schori does. Schori addressed the issue at the church’s convention in Ohio.

“I believe God welcomes all to his table, people who agree and people who disagree.

And the Episcopal Church has always been a strong voice, and all of the marginalized are most welcome at the table,” she said.

Delegates at the General Convention were then faced with voting on a moratorium demanding that the church “refrain” from ordaining gay and lesbian bishops and to stop conducting same-sex unions.

The moratorium, pushed forward by ultra-conservative foreign bishops, was seen as a backlash against the 2003 consecration of the first openly gay Episcopal bishop—V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, who visited Utah last week.

Liberal delegates were angry with the measure’s wording because it obviously targeted gays and lesbians. Conservatives, though, thought “refrain” was too weak and demanded that “moratorium” remain in the resolution.

On the last day of the convention, Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold presented a resolution to the moratorium, calling it a “compromise.” In his resolution, Griswold modified the moratorium into a request that dioceses “exercise restraint by not consenting to the consecration of any candidate to the episcopate whose manner of life presents a challenge to the wider church and will lead to further strains on the communion.”

The subject of same-sex unions, however, was not addressed in the modification.

Despite continued opposition from liberals, Griswold’s resolution passed with a two-thirds majority.

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Some of the over 800 people at the home of Bruce Bastian to raise funds for the Human Rights Campaign. Photo: Darren Tucker

Orem Event Breaks Records

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Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop-elect Katharine Jefferts Schori

to be a step backward may be called for in order to go forward,” Griswold said in an appeal to liberals.

In a press release issued by Rev. John Kirkley, president of GLBT Episcopalian ministry Oasis California in San Francisco, Griswold’s compromise was an attempt to prevent a schism in the worldwide Anglican communion, calling the document “unworkable” and “unworthy.”

“Once again, gay and lesbian Christians were sacrificed for the sake of the Communion,” Kirkley’s statement read. “Once again we see that no matter how great a sacrifice gay and lesbians make, we can never satisfy the ultra-conservatives who want to lead their own church.”

Still, Kirkley remains optimistic about the debacle: “The good news for LGBT Episcopalians is [that] the convention rejected this extreme demand. The truth is that the Episcopal Church, including our new Presiding Bishop, really does desire the full inclusion of LGBT Christians in its life and ministry,” he added “The other good news is that the entire deputation from the Diocese of California stood in solidarity with us. We are proud of our new bishop, who joined some 30 bishops in dissenting from this sacrificial compromise. Under his leadership, the Diocese of California will be a strong prophetic voice for justice.”

Utah’s Episcopal bishop, The Right Rev. Carolyn Tanner Irish, has long been a supporter of gays and lesbians and did not vote for the measure. She told local press, however, that she feels compelled to obey it.

“People are central—all people—not just these or those people, us or them people, other ‘categories’ of people, but people—human beings. As Christians, we respect the dignity of every one of them—human beings—not one side or another of issues, positions, and stances,” Bishop Irish reflected in the most recent issue of the church’s newsletter, The Diocesan Dialogue.

Orem — They said it couldn’t be done.

They said the Human Rights Campaign of Utah couldn’t raise more money at a gala dinner and silent auction than they did last year — after all, last year the National HRC was stunned when more than 600 people showed up at the event.

So this year, Bruce Bastian (who hosts the “summer chic” event at his beautiful Orem estate) and the hard-working members of the HRC of Utah Steering Committee did just that.

More than 840 people shared an evening of fine dining, rousing speeches and brilliant entertainment under the big, white tent on the grounds of Bastian’s home. Board of Governors member Michael Marriott called the dinner “a phenomenal event” and a “rousing success.”

The theme for the evening was RESPECT, and members of the steering committee, hundreds of volunteers and Bastian’s own staff did plenty to earn that. In fact, it seemed the only thing missing (but certainly not missed) were the protestors from last year’s dinner.

From the time Bastian rolled out the red carpet at a VIP reception until the last notes of Jennifer Holliday’s final number faded away over the swimming pool, guests were treated to an evening well worth the $150 each of them paid to attend. VIP ticket holders paid $300.

It was, as one speaker put it, “The biggest gay, lesbian, bi and transgendered party in America — and it was held right here in Orem Utah.”

Speakers for the evening included Bastian and Marriott, both of whom praised the crowd for their courage and determination in the face of an unprecedented attack on gay rights across the country.

Both did everything they could to encourage attendees to be even more generous and open their pocketbooks for the HRC. Bastian extended the same challenge he did last year and offered to match every donation made that night with his own money, and then upped the ante and declared he would triple every dollar raised.

Final dollar amounts were not available at press time, but planners expect a huge increase over last year.

National HRC president Joe Solmonese summed up the state of the gay rights

movement across the country, noting with pleasure the defeat of the national marriage amendment. Laying the failure of the amendment at the feet of the HRC, he pointed out the fight is just beginning.

Keynote speaker the Rt. Rev. Gene Robinson, the first openly gay, noncelibate priest to be ordained to the historic episcopate of the Episcopal Church, lauded the efforts of the HRC and the social change the organization has brought about.

And legendary vocalist and Tony-winner Jennifer Holliday added the crowning touch to what was for many a perfect evening.

HRC Utah also honored two local celebrities and the hard work of Rt. Rev. Gene Robinson the Utah AIDS Foundation with “Equality” awards during the evening.

Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson, a long-time proponent of gay rights and advocate for gay marriage was tabbed for his decades-long dedication to promoting equality for every American. Doug Fabrizio, popular radio host and News Director for KUER Radio earned the accolade for his dozens of broadcasts championing the GLBT community and its issues over many years.

Even the University of Utah Drum Line couldn’t stay out of the action this close to the home of their archrivals at BYU, leading the guests to dinner with a heart felt and warmly received selection of percussion numbers.

HRC is the nation’s largest gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender political organization, with over 600,000 members throughout the United States.

HRC envisions an America where gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people are ensured their basic equal rights and can be open, honest, and safe at home, at work, and in the community.

With a national staff, dedicated volunteers, and informed members throughout the country, the Human Rights Campaign provides a national voice on gay issues.

Gay Hall of Fame Inducts 100s As part of the Utah Pride365 Gay Freedom Day celebrations, the Utah Stonewall Hall of Fame, utahstonewallhof.org, published on June 28 the names of almost 600 Utahns who have been recognized for their service to and achievement among the state’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. “Our inductees have continued the fights and the victories of the Stonewall Inn rebels of 1969,� USHF founder David Nelson said. “Like them, our inductees ran to the sound of the fight and joined it. Considered collectively as well as individually, they’re the active, not passive, history of Stonewall in our state.�

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Men Being Urged to Vaccinate Against Hep A, B QSaltLake and the Utah AIDS Foundation have vouchers for Hepatitis A & B vaccinations for $10 per set. These vacinations normally run $47 per shot, so this is a savings of over $130.

It is important that all men who have sex with men be vaccinated against the deadly diseases. Arts Editor Eric Tierney died earlier this year of Hepatitis B during the production of Love! Valour! Compassion! His death has spurred local organizations and activists to step up efforts to inform gay and bisexual men of the risks of not being immunized. “Eric’s death was a tremendous personal loss,� said Michael Aaron, QSaltLake Editor. “His loss is also felt by his large group of family and friends and the art community.

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The Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender for that have been out of our reach when Community Center of Utah announced Pride was struggling to break even. For inthat Utah Pride 2006 was the largest and stance, we can start talking to entertainers most successful Utah Pride on record with more nationally recognized names, with an estimated 20,000 people attendor we can explore options that would ing. This is a one-third increase over the move the Festival to a larger and more previous year. accommodating space, or even expand to Although estimates in previous years a two day Festival.� have placed the attendance at the festival “I firmly believe Utah Pride 2006 was a as high as 50,000, local organizers and po- festival we can be proud of,� said Valerie lice doubt that this is logistically possible.

Larabee, executive director of The Center.

In 2005, when admission fees were in“Sure, we had hiccups (i.e., a shortage of troduced, organizers were able to obtain water and volunteers) that we will need to accurate counts for the first time. Other address for upcoming festivals, but most indicators, such as parade participation, of the challenges we encountered can be food and beverage sales, and overall traftraced back to the phenomenal attenfic density also supdance growth this port the claim that year and that’s not a the 2006 Utah Pride bad thing!� celebration is the It takes a sea Pride Participants largest held to date. of volunteers to “I think weather Moviegoers at Damn These Heels Film Festival bring Utah Pride and an aggressive to life each year. It marketing campaign also takes months Grand Marshal Reception Attendees made a big difference of planning and Pride Interfaith Service Worshippers this year,� said Jere organizing informed Keys, coordinator of by the valuable Dyke Marchers Utah Pride. “I also feedback from all inthink a lot of people volved and the comPride Dancers came out for the munity at large. An Floats/entries in the Pride Parade festival because they online survey is now were upset about available at www.

Vendors/exhibitors at the Pride Festival what was going on utahpride.org to help in Washington, D.C. collect thoughts and Contributors in the Circle of Pride program and at LDS Church opinions about the Utah Pride Sponsors headquarters around festival which will be the Federal Marriage useful in planning Amendment. For many, simply attending future Pride celebrations.

Pride is a show of support for the GLBT “I’m thrilled with the team of people community and in the same light an act who made Utah Pride 2006 happen and of political support for queer equality.�

I’d encourage anyone interested to volunAlthough it will be several weeks before teer with us next year!� said Larabee. “We all expenses are paid and accounts are can’t make it happen without you!� Q reconciled, organizers believe that this year’s event will again be profitable.

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In celebration of the anniversary of the For instance, Utah Pride wrote a check Stonewall Riots, largely attributed as the for $3,000 to Team Salt Lake. These beginning of the gay rights movement, Gay funds, plus an additional donation from Freedom Day was held at Harmony Park, The Center, were collected in the large drawing over 100 people for the inaugural event. To be held annually, the event is to rainbow flag which is carried at the end kick off each year’s events of Pride365. of the Pride Parade. Team Salt Lake is the The Utah Gay Rodeo Association had coalition of athletes and supporters plana barbecue, historian Ben Williams took ning to travel to Chicago this month to donations for Grandma’s Cookies and Single participate in the 2006 Gay Games.

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Alliance and sWerve. These donations dinner and overnight stay package. will be determined as a percentage of the In August, Pride365 will hold days at the profits based on the total number volunLagoon amusement park (Sunday Aug. 13) teer hours each community organization and Raging Waters (Sunday Aug. 20). supplied in support of Utah Pride.

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Conspiracy Theory Dear Editor: I write in reference to Ben Williams’ “Did AIDS Come from ’80s Hep Trials?” [June 16, 2006].

I am dismayed over a journalist who recycles reports from one year to the next (see Ben Williams’ “Lambda Lore, The Gay Hepatitis-B Vaccine Experiment,” Salt Lake Metro, January 2005). But, even more, I am angered by a historian who reports disputed ‘facts’ without noting they are disputed.

The idea that Dr. Wolf Szmuness is responsible for the introduction and spread of HIV/AIDS in the American gay population has long been considered a ‘conspiracy theory’ lacking credible proof. The theory was first postulated by Dr. Robert Strecker (1986), and later adopted by Dr. Alan Caldwell, Jr., though neither is an epidemiologist and neither provided evidence of: (1) the presence of the HIV virus in Szmuness’ laboratory; (2) how Szmuness introduced the HIV virus; or, (3) the existence of “Patient Zero.” [An aside: Gaetan Dugas, the Canadian flight attendant, was dubbed “Patient Zero” because at least 40 of the 248 people known to be infected by AIDS in 1983 had had sexual intercourse with him, or with someone who had sexual intercourse with him.]

How is it that members of the GLBT community on the one hand accept homosexuality as a natural occurrence, but on the other hand devise a conspiracy about nefarious bio-engineering of HIV/AIDS? What about correlating the condom usage — or lack thereof during 1970s circuit parties — with the unbelievably high infection rates of those involved in Szmuness’ Hepatitis B inoculation experiment? (Dare we create a new conspiracy theory that the mega-gazillion dollar condom industry developed HIV/AIDS and other STDs?) What about a Soviet newspaper report (in Literary Gazette, 1985) that claimed AIDS was the product of CIA and US military experiments in germ warfare? What of the Chicago Tribune’s report (01/31/00) that researchers from Northwestern University believe the AIDS pandemic began in central west Africa around 1930?

What about smallpox, polio and rabies — also bio-engineered? After all, despite the horrifying deadliness of AIDS, it has not been an isolated attack on homosexuals and it is comparable to other epidemics such as the bubonic plague and Spanish influenza. The former killed one million people, approximately one-third of Europe’s population, between 1347 and 1351; and the latter killed nearly one million Americans, and between 20 and 40 million worldwide, between 1918 and 1919.

Mr. Williams, please stick with history – not theory.

Jay Heuman Ogden, UT

Ben Williams Responds: The June 16th Lambda Lore column was to inform our community about Wolf Szmuness’ Hepatitis B Vaccination Trials and a possible way that AIDS may have been introduced into a small controlled population. I in no way implied that the virus was deliberately introduced into the Gay men communities in the late 1970s.

However it is a theory not just proposed by “conspiracy theorists”. Both Dr. Mathilda Krim and Dr. Cladd Stevens nationally

recognized epidemiologist held similar views that the virus may have accidentally been introduced during the Hepatitis trials from a contaminated batch of experimental vaccine.

Another theory written in the British Medical Journal THE LANCET in 1992, suggested that AIDS might have been transmitted to the gay community in the United States by use of the Sabin live-virus oral polio vaccine as a treatment for herpes, before the development of acyclovir. A weakness of that theory is that it does not explain why AIDS would have occurred in gay men, but not to any of the millions of children who also took the Sabin vaccine by mouth.

As to the notion that Gay men were somehow more “promiscuous” and thus spread the disease in 1970s through wild “Circuit Parties” is spurious at best and at worse homophobic. The much larger straight population was engaging in “free love” all through the 1960s and 1970s by means of Hippie Communal living arrangements, the Swinging movement of married couples, and yes even Straight Sex Bath House for singles.

I ask why did AIDS first appear exclusively in young, white, healthy Gay men, and not in straight men, woman, infants, the elderly and the immune deficient people with chronic diseases? Why when AIDS appeared in 1981, health officials reassured the general public that there was nothing to fear that “AIDS is a Gay disease”?

Anyone who has read the definitive account of the Tuskegee syphilis study “Bad Blood” by James H. Jones, would perhaps be as skeptical as I about governmental health agencies. The Tuskegee experiment was done on unsuspecting poor black Alabama farmers supervised by the CDC for over four decades to track the effect of syphilis even after penicillin was discovered and could have cured these men. Any one who lived through the Cold War understood that besides the known threat of nuclear annihilation there was a program to develop bio-weapons to kill people but not harm property.

Until someone can give a more convincing argument as to why AIDS appeared first in the Gay Men communities of New York City, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, I will remain skeptical about the “incredible coincidence” and will still hold that the best possible explanation of introduction to at the least the Gay Men community was through the Szmuness trials either by accident or by intent. People can make up their own minds.

Department of Corrections In the last issue of QSaltLake, Michael Aaron misspelled the name of the reigning Miss Gay Pride. The proper spelling, according to the RCGSE website, is Porchea Christie. He also said he’d heard Porchea holds the title of Bitch of the Year. While that may be true, Porchea claims she’s only been nominated for the award twice, but has never actually won. Aaron wishes her better luck next year.

QSaltLake welcomes letters from our readers. Please email your letters to letters@ qsaltlake.com. Letters, if published, may be edited for length and libel.

Shame on you BYU

by K. Ian Shin

The recent decision not to rehire part-time instructor of philosophy Jeffrey Nielsen as a result of his dissenting editorial on gay marriage in The Salt Lake Tribune reiterates issues of intellectual oppression at Brigham Young University and in higher education generally.

Four years ago, in the fall of my senior year of high school, BYU brought me to its Provo campus on a recruitment trip along with a number of other high-achieving applicants. Even before that trip, I had become familiar with “the Y” on my many family vacations to the university to see my cousins and brother off to college. In high school I ranked in the top 5% of my class at a competitive public preparatory high school, earned a near 5.0 GPA by BYU’s weighted standards, played on the varsity tennis team, won league and state championships in speech, and served on the board of education of my local school district. I was a seminary graduate, an Eagle Scout and senior patrol leader of my troop, and a former president of the deacons and teachers quorums of my ward; my bishop’s ecclesiastical endorsement, it

Stephen Holbrook

by Ben Williams

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Holbrrok that none of Utah’s radio stations would allow a counter position to the government’s stance on the war. Holbrook and others, including Joe Redburn, brought people together to discuss forming a public sponsored radio station where different points of views , especially the disenfranchised voices of Utah’s minorities, could be heard. He called this concept: “Listeners Community radio”.

Holbrook arranged a meeting with then apostle Gordon B Hinckley of the LDS Church to discuss the need for a music and information station for minorities.

Holbrook was able to persuade Hinckley that this was a good idea and Bonneville International Corporation, which is owned by the LDS Church, then donated used radio equipment for Holbrook’s project. KRCL FM 90.9, also known as “Radio Free Utah,” was thus born. Holbrook served as first general manager of the radio station which operated out of a space located in the old Blue Mouse Theater on 100 South. While not identified publicly as Gay, Stephen Holbrook as a Gay man was committed that the Gay community was to have a voice over the KRCL airwaves. For over 26 years KRCL has provided the Lambda communities of Utah with local informational programming.

In 1996 KRCL name their Annua Award “Thel Stephen Holbrook Visionary Award” in his honor. I, myself, as probably did 100’s of others, came out of the closet while listening to Concerning Gays and Lesbian on KRCL. KRCL has served as a friend to many closet men and women whose only contact with the Gay Community has been through the supportive voices heard over its airwaves for nearly three decades.

As Holbrook became less involved in KRCL and with being a politician, he sought

talent in this country. Their most brilliant and dedicated scholars young and old will never achieve their full potential. And the members of their community who recognize and oppose this system of heteronormative oppression will continue to regard the university as a miserable confining place. That is not the way the Lord imagined schools, and that is surely not the way the Lord envisioned education.

I know full well that I do not have the academic or professional credentials to make some grandiose claim about the philosophy of education. I write only as a recent college graduate who loves education and enlightenment, who has experienced firsthand the pain of a fascist and misguided “moral” policy, and who cringes at the thought of the two being combined in a university. The BYU administration’s response to Professor Nielsen’s editorial as well as the reception given the Soulforce Equality Riders in spring 2006 demonstrate just how unwilling supposedly “Christian” colleges and universities are to at least listen to, if not engage in, any real dialogue about the discrimination that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer students face.

Scholarship at “Christian” schools has hidden long enough under the intellectual squalor and hypocrisy of bad religion.

It is time for the disguise of academic respectability to finally give way to real learning.

to make beneficial changes for all citizens of the Wasatch Front by working within the “establishment.” In 1995 Stephen Holbrook, became the executive director of the Coalition for Utah’s Future where he worked “behind-the-scenes”, bringing together a who’s who of Utah leaders of widely differing viewpoints to seek consensus on issues facing the state. Holbrook’s Coalition for Utah’s Future was a springboard for two highly recognized visionary organizations; the Utah Quality Growth Public/Private Partnership and Envision Utah. The Utah Quality Growth Public/Private Partnership, was co-chaired by formerGov. Mike Leavitt and businessman Larry H. Miller. As Executive Director of Envision Utah, Holbrook brought developers, local political leaders, and environmentalists together to develop

building codes to discourage sprawl and to increase public transit to within one half mile of every resident along the Wasatch Front. Holbrook retired from Envision Utah in 2004.

Stephen Holbrook has donated an important collection of documents of his work to the Utah State History Archives which reflects the many important and controversial issuesof Utah from the 1960s through the 1980s. It is the first of its kind in State History’s holdings. Utah activists Stephen Holbrook as a championer of civil rights for all people as well as other important causes truly is an over looked and unsung hero within Utah’s Lambda Community. All of Utah, Gay and non Gay owe Stephen Holbrook a “thank you for a life well lived.”

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In the early 1960’s Stephan Holbrook was a young Republicans who worked for Rep. Sherman P. Lloyd (R-Utah), but later “was radicalized” when he became involved with black voting rights in Mississippi.

Upon returning to Utah he became “an offand-on political science student and one of the self-styled “radicals” during the 1960’s” that was raising hell with the establishment. As earth ecology began to become part of the anti-establishment movement, Holbrook helped organize Utah’s First Earth Day Rally in 1970.

Stephen Holbrook was also an anti war activist and he seized upon the free-speech atmosphere at the University of Utah as a forum to challenge the war in Vietnam.

Holbrook in addition to leading antiwar marches in Salt Lake City, founded and managed agencies to serve the homeless, and became a vocal political activist.

Having shaken off his Republican roots, Holbrook was elected a delegate to Democratic National Convention from Utah in 1972 and in 1975 was elected to the Utah House of Representatives from Salt Lake City’s District 2, where he served three terms in the Utah House of Representatives. He was instrumental in bringing together diverse elements from the Latino community, African American community, the Gay community, the Feminist Community and other members of Utah’s counter culture.

As an anti-war activist it bothered

is fair to say, was glowing and unabashed.

I received my offer of admission from BYU only two days after I submitted my application online: The letter was dated November 22, 2001, and I had submitted my application on November 20.

Along with the offer came a Millennium Scholarship from the university, which was a very attractive package considering my family’s financial situation at the time.

Nevertheless, I passed on BYU. Over my last four years at Amherst College in Massachusetts, I have come to the conclusion that it was the best decision I could ever have made and the same decision that I would recommend to hundreds, if not thousands, of other students.

You see, even when I was visiting BYU, I already knew that one thing about me would never fit in (besides the fact that BYU’s predominantly blond-haired, blueeyed student body made me feel racially marginalized as an Asian-American): I am gay, and I am not ashamed of it. In the field of history and American studies that I have decided to pursue, nothing is more important than the ability to engage evidence critically and analytically. History and humanities in general require a healthy dose of skepticism and, implied in that skepticism, a degree of toleration for the viewpoints and lived experiences of other people.

This was a kind of progressivism that I knew I would never find at BYU, and thus BYU was the least academically attractive of all of the schools I applied to. To confirm this point I needed only to look at the school’s “Honor” Code: “Advocacy of a homosexual lifestyle (whether implied or explicit) or any behaviors that indicate homosexual conduct, including those not sexual in nature, are inappropriate and violate the Honor Code.” Aberrant behavior includes, among other things, cross-dressing. Would BYU then shy from working with William Shakespeare’s The Twelfth Night because of its gender-bending themes?

Academics at “Christian” institutions like BYU will never be challenging or serious enough because it cannot be a real pursuit of knowledge until the administration is willing to relinquish its stodgy control over what is and is not a kosher interpretation of the world. Writ large, institutions such as BYU cannot truly advance until all of their students are allowed to live and learn in the full creative energies endowed them

by God. True education requires at least a minimal degree of acceptance and liberalism; it requires room to make and learn from mistakes. These institutions allow no such room for intellectual curiosity and experimentation, and they suffer for this narrow-mindedness. These universities will continue to produce theoretically second-rate work. They will continue to lose out on the best secondary academic

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by Robin Forbes

Going out on your first date or meeting a person for the first time can be a bit of a nerve racking experience, especially if your one of those shy types.

Let me tell you something; I’m one of those shy guys. But, this is one shy guy who decided that, unless he did something about it, he was never going to get laid or have a boyfriend if he didn’t get out there.

Here’s my short list of the things that I have done or used in order to get over shyness, meet interesting guys and have a “successful first date�.

But first, I’ve got to tell you, that I consider every date that I’ve ever gone on a success. Why? For starters, I’m still alive to talk and write about it. And because every date, no matter how lousy or dull was a learning experience and one more date that I DID go on.

The important thing is to get out there and start meeting guys; start making friends and get off the couch or out of your bedroom.

6 Tips for Your Successful First Date

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Have confidence in yourself, your abilities and that the date will go well.

People are attracted to those who have or exude confidence. Confidence is about knowing who you are, what you want and knowing that you’ll get it.

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Don’t think of it as a date, think of it as meeting someone interesting, for lunch, dinner, drinks, coffee, or whatever it is you plan to do. By throwing away the “date� label you can get down to just having a pleasant outing with the person with no “date expectations�.

3

Relax and just be you. Trying to conjure up some sort of false persona is pointless, you might impress yourself for a second or two and maybe even the other person for a moment; until they figure out its all hype or “bull�.

It’s OK to be you and, if the other person isn’t interested in you, it’s no big deal, because there’s thousands and thousands of gay men and women out there.

4

Arrive a little bit early. I like to arrive at places a little early for a variety of reasons, but I’ve found it a helpful habit if I’m feeling a bit nervous or shy too.

When you’re going out to a restaurant or a coffee shop, if you arrive a bit early you can go to the washroom without deserting your date, compose yourself, fix your hair, wash those sweaty palms and relieve yourself if necessary.

Arriving a little early or exactly on time also means that you won’t be rushed and you won’t be puffing out excuses as to why you were late. It just makes things easier and less stressed initially.

5

Dress for the occasion and location.

You don’t need to look like a Queer Eye for the Straight Guy/Gal makeover, but if you dress nicely and appropriately for the occasion and the location, you’ll not only look great, you’ll feel great. You’ll be confident that you’re in the right attire for wherever it is you’re going out to.

And now, for my ultimate not-so-secret dating tip for shy types...

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Wear your “power underwear� when you go out on a date, especially your first date. If you don’t have a pair of “power underwear�, get some. The idea is to get something that makes you feel incredibly powerful and sexy.

I find that thongs in purple, red or black, fit the bill for my power underwear. They allow you to feel and be powerful, sexy, flirty, and confident; all the things you need on a date.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t end up in the sack or on the floor later on in the evening. Power underwear is something that can give the shy guy that extra little edge.

Wishing you joy and dating success!

Robin is the shy queer guy who made GayDatingTips.com for other shy gay guys. Visit his site for more tips, and resources.

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The Drag Days of Summer

by Ruby Ridge,

ruby@qsaltlake.com

Hola, Muffins! How are you enjoying this fabulous summer weather? Isn’t it just sensational? In the spirit of the season, the Cyber Sluts had a wonderful pot luck brunch this morning on our girl Iona Maximas’ covered patio. Because of my appalling culinary skills and past history with dangerous hot appliances, I brought fresh fruit on pointy sticks. Ummmm, yummy! With our girls I didn’t have to fear for my life, but with some of our local drag queens in their frenzied current state of heightened drama, sharp objects may not have been a good idea.

Oh my God have you been following this latest soap opera about drag haters, blah, blah, blah? As if the Royal Court doesn’t have enough work to do holding itself together and remaining relevant, without declaring a fatwa on some of its members. Jesus, girls!

Don’t even get me started about their whining and gossip before Pride that the Pride organizers don’t respect or work with drag queens. It’s no wonder people dread dealing with local drag “entertainers” because they are just too much drama, too much work, and for far too

little in return.

Every year you seem to hear the same griping and moaning about how Pride is a lesbianfest that “hates” drag, and every year the organizers go out of their way to program diverse acts and invite local drag performers from the Royal and Imperial Courts, Latino community and local clubs to appear at Pride. It is usually a disaster.

So if some overweight drag queen that looks like an alien extra from ‘Babylon Five’ moans to you about Pride, take it all with a huge grain of salt.

a sailor blush. My advice ladies … If you want to be treated with respect, then be respectful, it’s not rocket science, girls!

Let me walk you through this year’s Pride ordeal, peaches. After all of the local and national performing acts at Pride (except the drag queens) signed their contracts and confirmed their appearances months before the event, our local divas never could get their act together.

The organizing committee tried to be accommodating and held valuable space on the stage schedule for them. Of all of the drag queens invited to perform only one returned a contract (and she still noshowed). At least the Ogden drag queens bowed out five days before the event, while the Salt Lake girls just no-showed Pride Day, which was incredibly tacky!

As someone who watched the spectacle first hand I have to tell you, darlings, the

volunteer members of the entertainment committee busted their asses trying to be cooperative with the “serious” drag queens and they still got screwed over.

So if some overweight drag queen that looks like an alien extra from Babylon Five moans to you about Pride, take it all with a huge grain of salt, because no one is that self important to be that disrespectful and that unprofessional.

Ciao, sweeties!

Ruby Ridge is one of the more opinionated members of the Utah Cyber Sluts, a Camp Drag group of performers who raise funds and support local charities. Her opinions are her own and fluctuate wildly depending on mood swings and proximity to the primary elections.

Either they don’t show up, show up late (or drunk), won’t leave the stage, or use the microphone to throw out inappropriate language to what is still, at its core, a family-friendly event. Now pumpkins I am not a prude (trust me on this!), but I remember an obscenity laden act by a local diva a few years ago that could make

Seattle Men’s Chorus and Seattle Women’s Chorus The world’s largest gay and lesbian choruses

Libby Gardner Concert Hall University of Utah Saturday, July 8 • 7:30 pm

A benefit for Utah AIDS Foundation

Join us for a night of uplifting and fun entertainment as we sing about our lives, our loves and our land.

Tickets: 801.581.7100 or www.kingtix.com

ASL interpreter at all performances This Land is Our Land is sponsored by Subaru of America

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With a pioneering spirit, we’re touring through our neighboring states for the first time in history! We’re not looking for a place to settle, just friendly folk who share our passion for beautiful music and social justice.

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Artist rendering of The Marmalade — a multi-use project at 300 West ebtween 500 and 600 North.

West Capitol Hill ‘Gayborhood’ Is Getting a Facelift

by Michael Aaron

michael@qsaltlake.com

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est Capitol Hill is called “the Gayborhood” by many real estate agents savvy enough to know the signs — rainbow flags, HRC bumper stickers, gaggles of gay boys and girls mowing their lawns. There are many gayborhoods in the Salt Lake Valley, but this one is arguably the “gayest” of the gay.

This writer found that out in the early 80s when David Nelson ran for City Council. After color-coding and analyzing the votes and thinking the lower Avenues would have been his strongest supporters, the darkest of dark purples were in an area labeled “Marmalade” on the map.

Nelson’s support there was double that of any other.

Estimates range up to 35 percent of dwellers in certain blocks are gay and lesbian.

The area was known for being fairly run-down before the 80s. It was then that the gay men and women, hammers and brushes in hand, ascended to the hill, buying up homes at very below-market prices and fixing them up.

Today, walking tours take you through the district to view the renovated historic homes.

Enter the Salt Lake City Redevelopment Agency. In 1996, the agency took notice of the transition and wanted to encourage further development of the area. They targeted the remaining boarded-up houses, an empty lot of weeds where a Safeway once stood and empty lots. Low interest loans were offered, often matched by the Utah Heritage Foundation, for homeowners to invest into their houses.

They also sought developers to take over the large empty lots along 300 West.

Artist rendering of The Marmalade looking north on 300 West.

The street had taken on a blighted, industrial feel. Many proposals were drawn up, many feasibility studies were conducted, but the projects never came to fruition.

Then, as the area around Gateway began to draw people to live downtown and as developments sold out way before they were completed, interest turned to the Marmalade neighborhood.

“There are nine projects in the area being completed in the next 18 months,” said Salt Lake City Planning Commission-

er and Urban Utah Homes and Estates owner, Babs De Lay. “It’s part of [Salt Lake City Mayor] Rocky Anderson’s call for 15,000 new residents in ten years.”

De Lay has been brought on by HOWA Capital to market a development they are calling “The Marmalade.” HOWA bought the lot where the Safeway once stood, at 500 to 600 North and 300 West, as well as some across 300 West and drew up a proposal that satisfied the RDA, the Capitol Hill Neighborhood Council and the Salt Lake City Historic Landmark Commission. The Landmark Commission oversees all construction in the area, because it is within the Capitol Hill Historic District.

The developer is calling the project “a historic revival.” “A hundred years ago,” their promotional material says, “Marmalade Hill was the fashionable place to live in Salt Lake City. Streets were lined with orchards of fragrant apricot, quince and almond. Architectural styles ranged from ornate gothic revival to stately Victorian.

The area’s close proximity to downtown surrounded the warm, inviting neighborhood with the excitement of city life.” The developers claim to return the neighborhood to — or even surpass — its former charm.

The mixed-use project will bring 87 condos and townhouses and 65,000 square feet of retail space to the neighborhood.

“We are talking with a local grocer who is looking to expand his business,” De Lay said. “So there will finally be a mid-sized grocery store that you don’t have to leave the neighborhood to visit.”

Indeed, a grocery store has been sorely needed in the area. Some health officials have been concerned about seniors and low-income families since no fresh fruit or meat is available within walking distance of their homes.

“In order to make progress toward a walkable community, a grocery store is a critical element,” says Dave Oka, executive director of the RDA. “We’ve felt for a very long time that that is a missing component in the West Capitol Hill area.”

“We are really looking for gay-owned businesses to fill up our retail spaces,” De Lay says. “We’ve had 80 proposals for a coffeeshop, so that’s out, but we would love a local pizza restaurant, a bookstore, maybe even one of those bird and backyard stores.”

“We are staying away from chains. We want this to be local businesses,” De Lay continued. “We want heavy involvement with gay business owners.”

Four hundred people have expressed interest in the 87 condos and townhouses in the project. “These units will cost about ten percent ore than your typical downtown condos,” said De Lay. “This is the first residential LEED-certified project in Salt Lake.”

LEED, an acronym for “Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design,” is a “Green Building Rating System” developed by the U.S. Green Building Council for developing high-performance, sustainable buildings in an environmentallyresponsible way.

“We expect the residential units will sell for about $400 per square foot,” said De Lay. For comparison, condos are currently selling for $380 per square foot at the Dakota Lofts and $390 per square foot at Uffens Marketplace.

Condos will range in size from 800 to 2,500 square feet and in price from about $300,000 to $800,000.

De Lay plans to target people in their late twenties to early fifties, 35 percent gay, 75 percent single, and those with one child or less.

“Our largest units have only two bedrooms, which puts a natural limit on families with children,” explains De Lay. “These are people who take public transportation, or they may own small, energy-efficient cars like a Mini Cooper or a [Toyota] Prius hybrid,” said De Lay. “It was important [in developing the project] that you don’t have to leave the neighborhood to go grocery shopping, do your dry cleaning, grab a cup of coffee or get your hair done.”

Another project expected to be completed in the next year is a complete renovation of the 100-unit Marmalade Square Condominiums, located at 650 North 300 West. Built in 1960, the buildings were starting to show their age.

The project is still working with the Landmark Commission, which has raised some concerns about architect Ken Milo’s design. Milo’s first project in Salt Lake was Uffens Marketplace, which features concrete, metal and brick in a highly-industrial looking style. The commission staff is largely concerned with the use of corrugated metal to sheath parts of the building. The commission says the metal is not “compatible with the masonry, stucco and

wood building materials found historically in the district.” Milo is working on a revised plan.

Current residents are “heavily gay” said Meredith Williams, community office manager for the Square.

The condos will be completely reworked, said Williams. “They already have hardwood floors, which we will be fixing up. We’ll also have granite tile, new appliances, stainless steel countertops and wireless internet,” she said. “It will have a modern appearance inside the units.”

Williams sees young professionals as her key target audience.

“We will advertise mostly to the general community, but will definitely be putting some ads in QSaltLake and the Pillar,” she promised.

Another project being considered by the Landmark Commission are a development of 19 single-family units between West Temple and Victory Road at 700 North. The project is running into friction from neighbors, who are concerned the development will contain a cul-de-sac, making in more similar to West Valley than a historic district, and the buildings are too tall for the character of the area.

Now that all of this attention is being placed on the West Capitol Hill area, property values are climbing quickly, making it difficult for some to get in on the action.

“Rose Park and Poplar Grove are the next popping areas,” De Lay hinted. Q

“We are really looking for gayowned businesses to fill up our retail spaces.”

Arial view of West Capitol Hill and three of the nine projects scheduled over the next 18 months, courtesy of Google Earth.

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POWER UP Names ‘10 Amazing Gay Women’ Hollywood — POWER UP, the only non profit, all volunteer run, gay studio has announced their 2006 List “10 Amazing Gay Women in Showbiz” and its awardees. The award recognizes Amazing Gay Women who are working, creating and changing lives as they continue their way up the ladder of success. The recipients will receive their award at the 6th Annual Power Premiere Celebrity Gala November 12 at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

POWER UP’s main purpose has been producing films though its film grant program. POWER UP’s successes include having a film as an Official Selection of the Sundance Film Festival and winning the PlanetOut Grand Prize Short Film Award for four years in a row.

The individual success stories that have sprung from the group include writer/director Angela Robinson (Herbie: Fully Loaded), writer/director Jessica Sharzer (untitled Dustry Springfield project), writer Cherien Dabis (story editor L Word).

“We have modeled POWER UP after the studio system with all of the benefits of an independent production company,” Founder and Executive Director Stacy

Codikow stated, “bringing together the best of the best. We are extremely proud of POWER UP’s many accomplishments and feel that including the 10 Amazing list allows us to recognize many more women in our community.”

2006 Ten Amazing Gay Women in Showbiz: Diane AndersonMinshall, executive editor, Curve Magazine A founder and former editor of Girlfriends and Alice magazines, her writing has appeared in dozens of publications including Film Threat, Bust, Bitch, Venus, Teenage, and Utne.

Stephanie Gibbon, executive vice president of marketing and promotions, FX Networks Stephanie is responsible for the creation and implementation of all print and electronic marketing and advertising campaigns for the network. Prior to join-

ing FX, Gibbons was senior vice president of advertising and promotions at Showtime.

Cherry Jones, actress Awards include two Tony Awards, two Obies, two Joseph Jeffersons, three Drama Desks, three Outer Critics Circles, the Sidney Kingsley, two Lucille Lortel Awards, the Elliott Norton and the Drama League.

Meredith Kadlec, vice president of original programming, here!

Networks Meredith was Infront’s longtime director of development, nurturing numerous pilots and features for a host of industry giants, including NBC, ABC, Fox, Warner Bros, DreamWorks and Paramount, among others.

Dina LaPolt, entertainment attorney at LaPolt Law, P.C. Dina teaches “Legal and Practical Aspects of the Recording and Publishing Industries” in the Entertainment Studies Department at UCLA Extension and

speaks regularly on panels at entertainment industry conferences all over the country.

Rosie Lopez, head of international A&R, marketing and new media at Tommy Boy and co-founder of Silver Label, Tommy Boy, B9s gay label.

Initially forging the way by producing and releasing Queer As Folk and The L Word soundtrack albums, Rosie rapidly expanded the scope of the label to include, nurture and celebrate gay artists.

Kirsten Schaffer, senior director of programming and operations for Outfest Previously she was the co-executive director of the Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. She has been programming film festivals for over 12 years and has championed the work of many queer filmmakers.

Jenny Shimizu, actor/ producer/model Jenny began modeling after being discovered by Calvin and Kelly Klein. She worked with many top designers including Versace, Prada, Yohji Yamamoto, Jean Paul Gaultier, and Donna Karan.

Lisa Thomas, Berkeley-based entrepreneur/activist Lisa is the co-founder and former CEO of Clif Bar and executive producer of both the Grammy Award-winning album Sacred Ground — a Tribute to Mother Earth and the award-winning documentary, Homeland: Four Portraits of Native American Action.

Sarah Warn, writer/editor/entrepreneur After several years managing online marketing campaigns for large corporations, Sarah founded AfterEllen.com, a lesbian entertainment website which is now the largest lesbian site online.

Past recipients of the award include: director Jamie Babbit, Law & Order’s Wendy Battles, L word’s Ilene Chaiken, actress Jane Lynch, Showtime’s Gwen Marcus, Logo’s Eileen Opatut, writer/director Angela Robinson, Planet Out’s Jenny Stewart, Advocate’s Anne Stockwell, director Rose Troche, and actress Guinevere Turner.

For more information on POWER UP, visit power-up.net.

See more Pride Pics at UtahPride.org!

Heads Up

Kim Russo catches you out on the town.

Trapp Door

Paper Moon White Party

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Urinetown the Musical.

See July 7.

by Tony Hobday

tony@qsaltlake.com

I’ve come up with a slogan for the Q Agenda, it’s creative and took me hours to come up with, so you better like it bee-atch!

“Like sand through the hour-glass, these are the gay days of our lives.”

1SATURDAY Q I fell off the turnip truck on this one; now every time I run into a Utah Bear, I’ll have to drop and play dead so as not to be mauled.

Bear Ruckus, hosted by, you guessed it, the Utah Bear Alliance starts today. The 3-day event offers oodles of fun like bear baiting, taxidermy lessons, and bear-back rides. No, really, festivities include volleyball, horseshoes, hiking, tubing, and meals; the stoic Elijah Black performs at Charly’s.

Today through Monday, July 3, McCammon, Idaho (just a hop and skip away from Lava Hot Springs). Registration fees $50/UBA members and $60/non-members.

Visit utahbears.com to register.

2SUNDAY Q For the non-hallucinogenic-induced party fiends out there, the Clark Planetarium’s Entranced Cosmic Light Show may be a fun alternative to schlepping with bulimic lollipop-sucking kiters floating about the dance floor to techno, rave and trance music.

10pm, Friday & Saturday nights through September 14, Clark Planetarium, 110 S. 400 West. Tickets $5-8 at the door.

3MONDAY Q When things happen prematurely it can be kind of a downer. Do you concur? But the July 3rd Celebration Concert: Disco Drippers at The Canyons Resort will keep you loose upright and full-throttled until you feel the fireworks, literally.

7:30pm, The Canyons Resort, 4000 The Canyons Resort Drive, Park City. Free, call 435-649-5400 for more information.

4TUESDAY

Q Independence Day or what I like to call Power mongering-Self-righteous-On a Need to Know Basis-Blindfolded Americans Day. But then again it’s a good reason to get stinkin’ drunk. Last year, at the 4th of July Sugar House Arts Festival I won a puke-green Utah’s WB network t-shirt, learned origami (but I’ve already forgotten), tagged the walk with colored chalk and got stinkin’ drunk.

Who could ask for anything more.

9am, Sugar House, 2100 S. Highland Drive

5WEDNESDAY Q X96 and the Gallivan Center present the 4Play Concert Series, which actually started two weeks ago. Every Wednesday four local bands compete for a spot on stage at the X96 Big Ass Show coming in September.

Tonight’s line-up consists of The Heaters, Dead City Lights(formerly Salt City Bandits), Subrosa and Screaming Condors.

7-10pm, Wednesdays through August 2, Gallivan Center, 239 S. Main Street. Free Admission. Visit ci.slc.ut.us/PublicServices/ Gallivan/events2006/comealive.htm for weekly line-ups.

6THURSDAY Salt Lake Men’s Choir is seeking an Artistic Director.

The Artistic Director will work with the Board of Directors to provide overall artistic leadership to the Chorus, including long-range program planning. He or she will also program, prepare and conduct four to five full-length concerts per year, and preside over weekly Thursdsay night rehearsals.

Interested parties are asked to send a resume to Wesley Brady at president@saltlakemenschoir.org.

Q Join the downtown bustle this weekend during the 6th annual Salt Lake City International Jazz Festival. Artists include Arturo Sandoval, Hiroshima, Jack Wood Quartet, Eddie Daniels, Patti Austin, Groove Society and of course the Utah Symphony among many others.

4-11pm, Today through July 9, Washington Square and other venues. Free but tickets are needed. Call 277-2056 or visit slcjazzfest.com for more information.

7FRIDAY Q If you happened to miss the incomparable lineup of Friday Night Flix at the State Fairgrounds, perhaps you should take in the less intriguing series of the Sundance Outdoor Film Festival. I’m sensing sarcasm.

In its ninth year, the festival offers free summer screenings of provocative, illuminating and classic independent and mainstream films. This year’s lineup includes Camp, the homoerotic version of Fame showing July 24 at the Gallivan Center. I’m sensing irony.

Sunset, Mondays at Park City’s City Park, Wednesdays at Gallivan Center, Fridays at Sundance Resort’s Eccles Outdoor Stage.

Visit http://institute .sundance.org for more information.

Q I’m not sure if two guys will want to swing their ding-a-lings together at a swing concert and free dance lesson, but just taking in the cool jazz & blues of Tad Calcara Quartet during Utah Swing Dance Association’s First

Friday Swing Dance should appease any man’s need to swing. No, I don’t mean from the rafters, you sluts.

8pm-Midnight, Church of Religious Science, 870 E. 7145 South. Tickets $10, call 466-4330 or email info@swingutah.com for more information.

Q “Yep, urine Utah.” That was the first thing my dad said as we hopped the border into Utah some 25 years ago in search of a better life. What the hell were we thinking? Where the hell am I going with this? Oh, I remember…Urinetown The Musical, the 2002 Tony Award winner opens tonight. Set in a fictional Gotham-like city on the brink of a catastrophic water shortage, the city government bans private restrooms replacing them with public amenities at a hefty charge.

Pshaw…like we all haven’t whipped it out on the side of a highway or squatted behind a dumpster a time or two.

8pm, Wednesdays-Saturdays through August 19, Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main Street, Park City. Tickets $27-32, call 435-6450671 or visit egyptiantheatrecompany.org.

8SATURDAY

Q The Utah Symphony presents Symphony at the Cinema as part of the Sundance Summer Series. During the screening of Charlie Chaplin’s silent film, The Kid (1921), Scott O’Neil conducts the symphony through the movie’s soundtrack. A movie and concert rolled into one. Now there’s a cheap date.

9pm, Sundance Theatre, North Fork, Provo Canyon. Tickets $20-40, call 355-ARTS or visit arttix.org.

12WEDNESDAY Q Seemingly one of the most influential mixers in the music industry, and wholly deserved for that matter, Paul Oakenfold visits Salt Lake City promoting his new album, A Lively Mind. Kenneth Thomas and Diggabeatz will join Paul on stage. Be prepared for a cosmically hedonistic night of electrodance, baby.

8pm, In the Venue, 219 S. 600 West. Tickets $20, call 359-3219 or visit smithstix.com.

Q The Utah Festival Opera Company opens its 2006 season with a production of Marriage of Figaro. Albeit an all too typical tale of infatuation, betrayal and forgiveness, the story is saved by witty, hilarious banter swung about the characters. Much like Gilmore Girls—I digress, but that is the most well-written show on television today. Cast through Mozart’s music, this operatic favorite shines a comic light on sexual harassment in the workplace.

Show times vary, Today through August 12, Ellen Eccles Theatre, 43 S. Main Street, Logan. Tickets $17-55, call 355-ARTS or visit arttix.org. For season passes, visit ufoc.org.

13THURSDAY Q Night two of the Utah Festival Opera season unveils one of the most inspirational and beloved shows, The Music Man. Based in the Hawkeye State of Iowa, a musical instrument salesman attempts trickery and charm to make a buck (that should be easy in Iowa). And of course he inadvertently falls in love with a homely librarian. Aww…my heart strings.

Show times vary, Today through August 12, Ellen Eccles Theatre, 43 S. Main Street, Logan. Tickets $17-55, call 355-ARTS or visit arttix.org. For season passes, visit ufoc.org.

14FRIDAY Q If you’re not absolutely burned out on operas or you have yet to enjoy the grandeur of the art form, then I highly recommend this next install from the Utah Festival Opera. La Boheme is simply fantabulous. Set in 1830s Paris, Puccini’s beautifully depicted story follows four artsy-fartsy friends as they struggle financially, romantically and personally. I think I love it because it hits so close to home.

Show times vary, Today through August 12, Ellen Eccles Theatre, 43 S. Main Street, Logan. Tickets $17-55, call 355-ARTS or visit arttix.org. For season passes, visit ufoc.org.

15SATURDAY Q Okay, one last diatribe about the Utah Festival Opera. Not only are they presenting such fine operas this season, they are also screening four classic movies during the month-long engagement. Up first is El Cid(1961), starring Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren in powerful roles. It’s a historical drama about Rodrigo Diaz, a military hero who crumbled the Moorish kingdom of Valencia, Spain.

Show times vary, Today and August 1, Ellen Eccles Theatre, 43 S. Main Street, Logan. Tickets $6 general admission at the door. Visit ufoc.org for more information.

Q What has a scream that will make your blood curdle and that will spit on you if you piss it off? It’s my friend Shane. No, just kidding…it’s a llama. These unique-looking creatures are, in reality, charismatic, entertaining, friendly and like to show off. Hence the Llama Fest, where llamas and their handlers compete in an obstacle course, show rings and races. Plus, there are other fun activities for the whole famn damily.

4-9pm, Krishna Temple Amphitheatre, 8628 S. Main Street, Spanish Fork. Tickets $3/adults, $1/children. Call 801-798-3559 for more information.

Upcoming Events

Yorn, July 26, In the Venue Ween, July 27, In the Venue Suzanne Vega, July 30, Red Butte Gardens

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Horoscopes For the Month of July

ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 20) What is it about your home situation that gives everything a rose-colored hue this week? Proud Rams will kick their hooves up and relax with a few bosom buddies or spend their downtime decorating their domicile. For those with a few family matters to get off their chests, it’s time to say what needs to be said. You’re more sensitive to the reactions of others‌for a change.

TAURUS (APRIL 21 - MAY 21) Queer Bulls are eager to explore and introduce themselves to new faces in town while reviving friendships with old ones. Find a new hangout, sample a new restaurant or throw a block party! You never know who you’ll meet or where. There’s something very likeable about you right now and it attracts all sorts of interesting characters into your life. Don’t just fan the air with idle chit-chat, though—at the very least, share the gossip.

GEMINI (MAY 22-JUNE 21) You’ll find money comes easily this week—you barely have to lift a finger! Other items of value seem to flow your way as well when The Sun ambles into Cancer, but is it all effortless comfort? It sure seems that way, but everything has a price—sometimes it’s just hidden. Rest assured, though: the cost of your present windfall will be revealed once the glitter fades. Ain’t that rich?

CANCER (JUNE 22 - JULY 23) The Sun in your sign heralds a time of reward for all the hard work and planning that been taking up your time. What’s that? You haven’t been working much? You haven’t been planning? Eh, no matter—enjoy it while you can, gay Crab, because pretty soon it’ll be time to ante up and pay the piper. Until that time, though, strike up the tarantella and “work� it on the dance floor.

LEO (JULY 24 - AUGUST 23) Been feeling a bit claustrophobic lately? Well, this week it’s time to bust out. A light is turned on in your dark and dismal closet. See all that garbage and dust? Now’s the time to kick that trash to the curb! Don’t allow yourself to become encumbered by old wet secrets; you’re better off trying to start a fire by rekindling things with a few old flames. Start by rubbing two sticks together‌ VIRGO (AUGUST 24-SEPTEMBER 23) Queer Virgins needn’t feel alone now, nor should they allow themselves to become shut-ins curled up on the couch. The Sun in Cancer offers you an abundance of social activities from which to choose. Gather your pals and make merry, mary. Friends provide the fun if you can provide the venue. Don’t volunteer your home, though! Get out of there, already.

LIBRA (SEPTEMBER 24 - OCTOBER 23) Instead of toiling in the backroom for pennies, use the opportunity provided by The Sun in Cancer to break from the general herd and get in front of the pack. Pitch a few of your well-guarded but great ideas to the powers-that-be and see how favorably they react. Proud Libras deserve more than they’re getting and can get more than they expect now. Or so I’ve been told‌ SCORPIO (OCTOBER 24 - NOVEMBER 22) What is it that stirs your interest? Whatever it is, pursue it now while The Sun lolls in Cancer. Proud Scorps have more bounce than a bag of Jumping Beans this week and can hop across all sorts of terrain. If you have the means to travel, do so—you can count on having an especially memorable adventure. If time and money are tight, satisfy your wanderlust with a few lusty wanderers‌

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SAGITTARIUS (NOVEMBER 23 - DECEMBER 22) The Sun in Cancer brings out the beast in you. About time! Look your best. You have an earthiness and passion now that can change the course of human events‌or something like that. Gay Archers aren’t generally known as animals, but there are a few bucking broncos eager to tenderize your ground round this week. Ride ’em, cowpoke!

CAPRICORN (DECEMBER 23 - JANUARY 20) Partnerships take on greater intensity this week. Pink Caps can and should turn their attention to their significant others and think about ways to figure them more prominently in future plans. For those still on the hunt, find ways of making yourself more available. Late nights at the office won’t do it. Neither will lunches with your aunt—unless, of course, you’re into aunties.

AQUARIUS (JANUARY 21 - FEBRUARY 19) Make good use of your time at work this week, Aqueerius. The Sun in Cancer gives you an opportunity to accomplish important tasks around the office. Well‌maybe not anything earthshaking or monumental, but something you can point to and call your own nonetheless. Well‌okay, maybe it’s more like a nicely written memo‌or a clean desk‌or perfect attendance. Eh, whatever the case, be proud of your accomplishments!

PISCES (FEBRUARY 20 - MARCH 20) Guppies can kick back and have fun this week when The Sun swims into Cancer.

You’re inspired with creative thoughts now. Try something—or someone—new and see how artistic you really are. (Body paint, anyone?) Don’t let this precious time slip away without throwing at least one great ship-shape party. Get all hands on deck. Hey—I said deck!

regardless, further support for the gay community’s obsession with Angie.

“It’s a life-changing decision to adopt a child, and to be honest, it was a relief when she wasn’t diagnosed with HIV,” the actress told reporters at the BBC. Now that Jolie and Brad Pitt are balancing career with the raising of three kids (both Zahara and Maddox had their names legally changed to Jolie-Pitt when Pitt adopted them earlier this year — new baby Shiloh is a Jolie-Pitt as well), the focus turns from the birth of their child to just how long insiders think the duo will last. Both have said they have no intention of getting married, while Jolie’s ex-lover, model Jenny Shimizu, insists there’s no way Pitt could possibly keep her satisfied in the bedroom.

Now, a source has told E! Online, quote: “By the time that child learns to walk, she’ll be on to somebody new.”

Yikes. That’s putting it pretty bluntly!

Could it be that, when all is said and done and Angie’s had her fun, Jennifer Aniston might indeed be having the last laugh? Now I don’t profess Vince Vaughn to be any big prize, but odds are he’ll at least be there in the morning. For now the pair are holed up back in the States as Brad prepares to shoot Oceans Thirteen with his new “rat pack” later this summer.

In other mommy news — only this one seems far less qualified to be dishing out any sort of parenting — Britney Spears (who has driven around town with her baby on her lap, let him ride around slumped over in his car seat and almost dropped him while trying to balance a cocktail with her other hand in the 9 short months son Sean Preston has been on this earth) now tells reporters her son gets a kick out of watching her dance — provocatively.

Whether she’s shimmying her ta-tas at the camera, balancing a snake over her head or rolling her all too tan (and now preggers again) body at the crowd, Brit says Sean “lights up” when he sees her dance.

Wonder if that’s how she snared KFed into her web too?

The world is still all abuzz over her Dateline sit down with Matt Lauer last week, in which the star insisted she do her own make-up an hair. The result. She lost an eyelash midway through a cry-fest and her extensions look like they were glued on with Elmers Paste. Her publicist claims that Britney’s a big girl, so the look was her call, but I’m thinking: Even the messiest celebrities can get through life without the media catching their every mistake. How long did Whitney pull off the sobriety sham before the press caught up? JLo convincing people she was actually nice? Maybe Brit needs to head out in search of a new publicist — one who’ll warn her to get the baby out of her lap before the camera comes straight for the car window.

And now, just a quick shout out to Nicole Kidman in anticipation of this week’s nuptials to country crooner Keith Urban.

For starters, though Tom Cruise is certainly worth more money and one of the biggest stars in the world,

chester’s United of England team. The 6’1”, 21-year-old stud is known for being a bit of a primadonna on the field (and a bit metro, if you catch that diamond stuff in his ear). The second highest scorer in the history of World Cup qualifications, Ronaldo scored an astounding $18 million (12.5 million pounds) for his Manchester contract in 2004. While some suggest a scoop in the neighborhood of $25 million is in the cards, for now, Ronaldo is doing his career best to Manchester at the top. Lord knows if I were on the field, I’d stay out of this guy’s way. Or maybe I’d just tackle him to see what he feels like.

And so, we reach the end of another countdown. We’ve dished on dueling divas, a Hollywood supercouple, a slightly less super couple, a soon to be super couple and a man who doesn’t need to be part of a couple to be considered smokin’ hot. Until next time, remember — stop and smell the gossip.

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By Ross von Metzke Leave it to a diva!

Just when things couldn’t be going better for Madge (sold out world tour, hit album, killer new look), she opens her big mouth, this time in an attack on long time rival Mariah Carey (not so sold out world tour, bigger hit album, and suddenly skinny again).

Word is Madonna burst into hysterics upon hearing the recent news Mariah would have to cancel stops on her U.S. tour because of lagging ticket sales.

Madonna reportedly laughed “hysterically” after being told her pop rival Mariah Carey had to cancel several tour dates due to poor ticket sales. According to a reports in New York’s Daily News, “Madonna laughed hysterically. She has been asking her tour promoters to email her Mariah’s sales.”

Not that the feud is really anything new.

Madonna has allegedly been mad at Mimi for years (though a spokeswoman for the singer insists there is no bad blood), dating back to a mid 90’s interview in which Mariah said she listened to Madonna “growing up” but that era of music was behind us. Mariah has also made allusions to Madonna’s less than stellar singing in live concert.

Who among us wouldn’t pay big bucks to see Madge and Mimi face off in a smack down?

In one corner, Yogi, Kabbalah aficionado, avid fencer — The Transplant Brit. And in the other — the woman with a high note that can shatter glass and tits that could crush a small village — Manhattan by way of Long Island.

They’d slap. Madge would get a good jab in, Mariah would head butt her right where the hernia operation has finally showed signs of healing. You think the WFF is fun shit, picture this crap.

Of course, a couple months ago, I’d have given toned Madonna the edge… Mariah was dangerously close to busting the seams on every rhinestone covered mini dress she has stashed in her closet. But now, after rumored pressure from her record label to drop the weight or cover up, a shockingly trim Mariah is ready to hit the road. Get a load of this pic they snapped of her arriving at an event in LA last week. That’s down right “Honey” thin, though her boobs do look like two water balloons ready to burst at the sight of a pin.

For the record, Mariah’s publicist denies any tour dates were canceled due to slow ticket sales: “Her tour is selling well. She’s cancelled a few dates so she can add shows in larger cities.”

Show us the extra cities, we’ll back down. For now, Bitch of the Week is a draw. Madge for this one, Mariah for 10 years back!

The recent, very un-diva like behavior of Angelina Jolie hasn’t kept the actress / humanitarian/ mother to the world’s children out of the headlines. Jolie recently announced she was relieved when tests revealed baby Zahara was HIV negative. Jolie declined to get her tested until the adoption was final because she says she “would have adopted her”

I’m sure most of you will agree with my saying Kidman traded up.

Secondly, the fact that you beat Tom to the altar (and managed to keep your pants on and a bun out of your oven til the ‘I do’s’ were said) is certainly a big ole, much deserved slap in his face.

And finally, Ni … you look happy. I know Moulin Rouge, The Others and The Hours marked the kick in the pants your career really needed and scored you the critical acclaim you so richly deserved all these years, but something tells me you drowned yourself in work to forget about a personal life. Now, that side of things seems to have worked out, and we couldn’t be more happy.

So Nic, three big wedding cheers from us to you. And if anyone in Tom’s camp is reading, no public statement wishing her the best. No surprise gift at the reception. Just stand on the sidelines and let her have her moment. This whole last summer was yours and look where it got you. (Note: Mission Impossible III grossed 40% less than II did five years ago).

And now that we’ve gotten the wedding out of the way, a toast… to our Hottie of the Week, in honor of the World Cup, Mr. Cristiano Ronaldo, the mega hot Portuguese-born football (soccer) player who is currently tearing up the field for Man-

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PHOTOS: TONY HOBDAY

Utah Arts Festival Celebrates the Big 3-0

by Tony Hobday

tony@qsaltlake.com

Art is subjective, it’s either celebrated or shunned. But arts festivals in general are just plain fun. Whether or not one enjoys the art, there is plenty of entertainment.

This year’s Utah Arts Festival was no exception to the rule. Beyond the 130 artists peddling their handmade “treasures�, the festival hosted poetry readings, artistic performances, live music of differing genres including the idyllic Saliva Sisters, a nontraditional fashion show presented by Filthy Gorgeous Clothing, an urban arts booth where artists wielded spray paint cans, and several children’s crafts booths including the Mad Hatter. And of course there’s plenty of beer, wine and food to purchase.

For hardcore art lovers, many may have felt disappointed by the abundant regurgitation of jewelry, bedewed flower photographs, obscure landscape paintings, hand-blown glass ornaments and various environmentally-safe lawn decorations of arts festivals long past. Within a vast mecca of artists, one would certainly hope to find more than just a smattering of avant garde pieces.

A few of the artists at this year’s event worth mentioning boasted, at the very least, penetrating and stroll-halting works. They include Sandee Parsons (Salt Lake) with her vivid contemporary feministic paintings; Dale

Walters (Milton, Wash.)—“wet prints�; John Sumners (Glen Allen, Calif.)—humorous cartoon-like watercolors of cats and dogs; John O’Connor (Salt Lake)—designer titanium jewelry; Jill Wagoner (Fuquay-Varina, NC)—“marbled� silk scarves and ties; and Scott Roach (Salt Lake)—aesthetically pleasing and fragile “serpentine� home furnishings.

The Utah Arts Festival caters not only to those who are solely seeking some unadulterated fun like perfecting their hula hoop technique or socializing with friends and family accompanied by tasty food and expensive beer. There is also a slight chance for those who hope to redeem a phenomenal one-of-a-kind piece of art that leaves them saying to themselves, “I feel good about spending more on it than a month’s worth of groceries.�

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In Search of...

Balls ’n Such

by Mark Thrash & Chad Keller

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Did you enjoy the wieners? It was just something to ponder when you’re in a hurry or on a budget pinch. Meat substitutes are more enjoyable than you’d think.

CHAD: I still haven’t recovered from the indigestion.

MARK: Next time you should remember to wash all the wieners you put in your mouth.

Summer is here, and this is typically the time when the gays lose their minds. We don’t know if it is the heat, or just an excuse to tear off their clothes. Either way, the rise in temperatures also seems to bring out a rise in activity. So, let’s get physical.

MARK: Physical? I don’t like to run unless I’m being chased, but there is a new group coordinating volleyball on Sunday afternoons, 2:30 p.m. in Fairmont Park, 1044 E. Sugarmount Drive (2200 South). Just leave it to the gays to find another excuse to have balls flying in the air above their heads. My doctor said I can’t participate in any more activities where balls fly at my face. I wonder if they’ll practice catch and release.

CHAD: Even I know catch and release is fishing.

Going to Fairmont Park means I’ll have to leave my prime location — wrangling the balls for the frat boy games at Liberty Park. Well, as long as I’m getting the same action. Man-onman, fighting over a ball, eating sand, slapping asses … count me in! At least with this group it might develop into something more emotional, not a one-afternoon fling.

MARK: I know the coordinators are serious about keeping the games going. So, you’re guaranteed more than an afternoon fling

with this group. Let’s go play this Sunday and see if they’re serious. At least we’ll have some shade at Fairmont. I’ve already got my tan for the summer.

CHAD: Shade, I’ll give you shade … let’s go hiking. Lambda Hiking Club has been around for years and every summer has great hikes in our local canyons. To spend a day beyond the hellish heat of Salt Lake City, it is a rejuvenating experience — cool air, boys in the woods.

MARK: Frolicking fags in the bushes? I thought our kind didn’t like bush? Hell, at least this shrubbery is a better alternative than the “Bush” available at the moment. I’ll definitely have to find out more about this club. I recently heard about Doughnut Falls in Cottonwood Canyon.

Maybe they’ll plan a hike there?

CHAD: Great, a lone black man roaming the hillsides. I can hear KSL’s misinformation now. And now back to you, Dick.

MARK: No worries, it’s daylight … so you’ll be able to see me.

CHAD: So, no matter where these boys may roam, you’ll find them every weekend, hiking a hillside that is heavily vegetated. Who wouldn’t want to be out of the city and on the hill for some peace of mind? Join them every first and third Saturday morning, 10:00 a.m. in the parking lot of Chevron, 700 E. 200 South. This definitely won’t be a romp through Memory Grove … bring lots of water.

MARK: Piece? Did you say, piece? I was just thinking of flag football. Where are those boys this season? Have you heard anything about their plans? Did they go into hiding,

or are they just limiting the involvement to only a select few? Hey boys … come out, come out … wherever you are.

EDITOR: Boys, Team Avalanche is practicing for the Games at Sugar House Park on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6:30 p.m. and will start their Fall season Aug. 3. Both the practices and the season are open to all.

CHAD: Don’t get me started on limiting involvement to only a select few. Remember, we had that conversation and one about A.D.D. in our first installment. However, not being sports-minded, isn’t it round, white leather balls until Labor Day and pointy, brown pigskin until New Years. Question to all, why just stop at flag football? Where’s the tackling?

MARK: Oh, we don’t limit ourselves to certain balls at certain holidays. I’m hoping the flag football group is still going strong after the success of their first year. Hopefully they didn’t lose their shorts in San Diego last summer.

No luck on the tackling, but at least you have group showers offered by QUAC. CHAD: Who could not enjoy Speedos poolside? I, for one, would prefer their water polo. It’s a cross between volleyball and treading water with the anger of rugby. Too bad it’s done inside. At least in the summer we could sit poolside with a blender and enjoy the view. I hope they have a great view at the Gay Games this July in Chicago from the gold medal stand.

MARK: I wonder if they’ll offer group showers at the Gay Games too. Maybe that’s one of the unofficial team sports? Hmmm … could you imagine the preliminary, qualifying events? Either way, be sure to join the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, straight … hell, why didn’t they just say “all inclusive” swimming team on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, 7:00 p.m. or Sunday mornings,

My doctor said I can’t participate in any more activities where balls fly at my face.

11:00 a.m. at Fairmont.

CHAD: See, here you go again getting me started on inclusion. You’re just dangling that topic in front of me. I promised I wouldn’t go there. Instead, I’ll go play softball with one of gay Utah’s oldest sports clubs, the Pride Softball League — every Sunday, 11:00 a.m. at Jordan Park, 900 S. 900 West. Just picture me standing at bat, bases loaded, screaming a drag queen’s name as the pitch is thrown, and I might just hit the ball. Otherwise, I’m out, and the inning is over.

MARK: I don’t know much about softball. Just give me the bat, and I’ll find something to hit.

CHAD: We’re not talking about hate crimes, coming from a black man. Some of us could use a whack to the side of the head, even if by accident. Now I’m not one to condone the use of violence, but…

MARK: Are you talking about the Stonewall Shooting Group? Thinking back to my days growing up in Arkansas, please don’t judge me for being hesitant around pigmentchallenged people with guns. Okay, okay…

I won’t allow the mistakes of the past to continue to haunt me in the present.

CHAD: At least they teach you to use a gun responsibly. As for recreation, the group facilitator has been seen gathering multiple copies of legislative headshots. Now that’s target practice. We could really make progress with a loaded gun in every gay hand, but you’ll have to go to their website at stonewallshootingsportsutah.org to find what time they meet.

MARK: A loaded gun in every gay hand? Are we talking about team sports again, or is that just wishful thinking? Either way, any kind of progress is welcomed. I guess it isn’t so different than the South, gun club meetings were held in secret there too.

We’ve offered just a few suggestions for physical activity this summer. There are tons more to do. The important thing is to get out and get active — either on the sidelines with Chad, or playing the field with Mark. Q

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Gay and Lesbian Families

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Utah Aids Foundation.

Helping with the complex issues of HIV/AIDS. 487-2323 utahaids.org Political

American Civil Liberties Union. Fighting for individual freedoms since 1958. 521-9862 acluutah.org Code Pink, a ­women-initiated peace, social justice movement. codepinkalert.com

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Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Community Center of Utah. Activities, Pride, meeting space for groups. 539-8800 glbtccu.org

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