QSaltLake, July 1 6–31, 2006

FREE

Utah’s Gay and Lesbian Newspaper July 16–31, 2006

Gym Raid Called ‘Gay Abu Ghraib’ Handcuffed men held face‑down by officers with semi‑automatic rifles

Would You Stop Loving Your Child if He Was Gay? New York homeless youth shelter starts ad campaign

EuroPride Draws 750,000 Online Service for People with HIV/AIDS Travis: Where’s the Intimacy?

QTips: Online Dating Q Agenda

J u LY 1 5 , 2 0 0 6 Q Q S A LT L A K E Q

Ben: Judge Marcellus K. Snow’s Indecency

Q Q S A LT L A K E Q J u LY 1 5 , 2 0 0 6

July 16–31, 2006

In This Issue Let the Gaymes Begin The seventh Gay Games begin this week and nearly 100Â Utahns are on their way to compete.

The Games in Chicago. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Team Salt Lake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Women’s Softball. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Gay and Lesbian Basketball. . . . . . . . . . . .

Q Sports Guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Page 14 Page 15 Page 15 Page 15 Page 16

On The Cover

Team Salt Lake heads to Chicago to compete in Gay Games VII.

News & Opinion World and National News. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Local and Regional News. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Editorial Cartoon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Letters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Guest Editorial — What’s Next for Gay Marriage in New York?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Arts Q Agenda. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 The 28th Saturday’s Voyeur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Q Buzz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Columnists

NEWS

Euro Pride Draws 750,000

Ruby Ridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Ben Williams. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 In Search Of.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Travis Labrum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

The Big Q Q Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Q Scene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Q Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Q Marketplace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Comics — Troy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Comics — Kyle’s Bed & Breakfast. . . . . . . . . . . 25 Sudoku . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Q Bar Guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

801-979-2163

Mark Thrash

419-9715

Saturday’s Voyeur turns 28

Copyright Š 2006 Salt Lick Publishing, LLC. Contributors All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be Kim Burgess, Angela D’Amboise, Troy Espera, reproduced in any manner, including electronic retrieval Matthew Gerber, Garth Gullickson, Tony systems, without the prior written permission of the publisher. One copy of this publication is free of charge to Hobday, Brek Joos, Scott Johnson, Chad Keller, Travis Labrum, Danny McCoy, Laurie any individual. Additional copies may be purchased for $1. Anyone taking or destroying multiple copies may be Mecham, Stuart Merrill, Ross von Metzke, prosecuted for theft at the sole discretion of the pubWilliam H. Munk, Blaine Osborne, Ruby Ridge, lisher. Reward offered for information that leads to the Mikey Rox, Nicholas Rupp, Kim Russo, Joel arrest of any individual willfully stealing, destroying or trashing multiple copies. QSaltLake and the QSaltLake Shoemaker, Mark Thrash, Darren Tucker, logo and the Q bug are trademarks of Salt Lick PublishJoSelle Vanderhooft, Ben Williams ing, LLC. Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of

QSaltLake is published twice monthly on or before the 1st and 16th by

the publishers or staff.

Salt Lick Publishing, LLC PO Box 511247 Salt Lake City, UT 84151-1247

(800) 806-7357

05",)3().'

3 ! ,4 , ) # + 0 5 " , ) 3 ( ) . ' # / -

J u LY 1 5 , 2 0 0 6   Q   Q S A LT L A K E   Q  

Editor Michael Aaron Arts Editor Tony Hobday Proofreader Nicholas Rupp Office Mgr. Tony Hobday Distribution Courtney Moser

Shane Sim

Ad Sales John Geertsen

ARTS

Q Q S A LT L A K E Q J u LY 1 5 , 2 0 0 6

WORLD Indian Prince Disowned After Coming Out

ScotsGay Magazine

WORLD AND NATIONAL

Front marchers at the EuroPride parade, including Sir Ian McKellan, rightmost holding the banner

London’s EuroPride Parade Draws 750,000 London — On a blisteringly hot, sunny July 2, London witnessed close to 750,000 revelers celebrating EuroPride, organizers said.

A Scotland Yard spokesman estimated 40,000 had turned out for the parade. As ever, there was a slight disparity between the police figures and anybody else’s.

Organizer Jason Pollock joked at the seemLondon Mayor Ken ingly moderate figures: Livingstone “40,000? In the parade?

On Dean Street? Down Bateman Alley?” he asked.

The sensational parade marked the end of a two-week European festival of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender culture.

Streets in central London were closed as marchers, floats, dancers and bands led the EuroPride procession.

“It shows to the world what London is the world’s most diverse, gay-friendly city,” Pollock said.

It was the first time in Pride history that the parade took over the shopping hell that is Oxford Street.

“I wish Oxford Street could be like this every day,” said one party boy, waving a pink union flag that matched his pink satin hot pants.

The pink flag, which a very entrepreneurial straight market trader ran up and sold for £10 (about US$18) proved to be the hit of the day — encapsulating World Cup patriotism, gay pride and most usefully, simply giving queens something to wave and flap about.

Angela Mason of the gay activist group Stonewall commented on the recolored flags, saying that as a community, we needed to put “the pink back into the Union Jack.”

Spectators cheered as the parade, including a giant rainbow flag, wound its way toward Trafalgar Square, where lawmakers

including Europe’s first transgender politician, Italian parliament member Vladimir Luxuria, addressed the crowd.

“It’s important to represent the whole community, to give them all a voice,” Luxuria said.

Ben Bradshaw, Labor MP for Exeter and Minister for Environment, Marine and Animal Welfare, who married his longterm partner last week, spoke of the homophobia that still exists even in central London.

“We have a lot to celebrate; we have come a long way in this country, but as the horrible murder of Jody Dobrovski shows, there is still a problem in this country,” Bradshaw said.

“There is still more to be done, especially at home and abroad where gays and lesbians are still suffering; they are ostracized and in some places executed,” he said.

About 40 uniformed Royal Navy personnel led the parade, a first at any Pride worldwide. Sadly, Army and RAF personnel were not given permission to take part in their official uniforms.

Stonewall members marched with placards demanding the dismissal of Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles over his use of the word ‘gay’ to negatively describe a ring tone.

The parade traveled along Oxford Street and Regent Street, then on to Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square, then Whitehall and Victoria Embankment.

London Mayor Ken Livingstone, who was at the front of the parade, said it was a chance to celebrate the lesbian and gay community’s contribution to the city.

“What this shows as we march through the city of London — one of the greatest cities on earth — is a city can be a wonderful place to live in with people of every race, religion and sexuality,” he said.

The streets were so busy that cleaners weren’t drafted until nearly 2 a.m., hours after their planned 8 p.m. start. Despite the enormous turnout, the trouble-free event got very little coverage in the mainstream media.

By Troy Espera New Delhi, India — An Indian prince was disowned by his family after publicly coming out of the closet, violating a nearly 150-yearold Indian ban on homosexuality. Reuters UK reports that Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil, who belongs to one of the country’s richest royal families that ruled the former Rajpipla principality in the western state of Gujarat, was disowned for “activities unacceptable to the society”, one disinheritance notice placed by his parents in a newspaper said. Last month, his parents issued notices in a Gujarati language daily withdrawing his right to the family property.

“Henceforth, no one must refer to my name as mother of Manvendra,” one notice signed by his mother said. “If any individual or organization dares to do so, it will invite contempt proceedings.”

But Gohil, 40, who announced he was gay this year, says he has found happiness among Gujarat’s gay community and is not interested in his inheritance. “I could not have lived a lie forever,” he told Reuters late last week. “I will not stake my claim to the property. I have found a family in the (gay) community and am happy working for the community,” said Gohil, who runs a nonprofit organization working on HIV/AIDS among homosexuals.

“As an activist, I thought it right to come out of the closet first. Otherwise, it would have been living a lie.”

Homosexuality is banned in India and punishable by up to 10 years in jail, but gay activists are trying to lift the veil of secrecy over the community in a country where public hugging or kissing even among heterosexuals invites angry stares, lewd comments and even beatings.

Gay support groups say the anti-homosexuality law — framed by British colonial rulers in 1861 — must be scrapped for an effective fight against HIV/AIDS because many homosexuals refuse to come out in the open fearing harassment by authorities.

UNAIDS says there are an estimated 5.7 million Indians living with HIV, many of them homosexuals.

India abolished princely kingdoms after independence from Britain in 1947, but many royal families continue to lead lavish lives in sprawling palaces.

NATIONAL Top Courts Rule Against Same Sex Marriage New York — The New York Court of Appeals ruled July 6, in a 4–2 vote, that marriage recognition for same-sex couples can only be granted through the state legislature, garnering a call to action from the state’s queer Democrats and their supporters to lobby legislators to enact pro-gay marriage laws.

“The decision by the New York Court of Appeals, which relies on outdated and bigoted notions about families, is deeply disappointing, but it does not end the effort to achieve this goal,” said Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, in a statement issued in response to the ruling.

“As that essential process moves forward, it is up to the State legislature to act to protect the equal rights of every New Yorker and for the debate on how to ensure those rights to proceed without the rancor and divisiveness that too often surrounds this issue.”

Legislation to grant such recognition to same-sex couples was authored by

Democratic State Senator Thom Duane, and is supported by the New York State Democratic Party. Democratic gubernatorial nominee and Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has vowed to introduce such legislation if elected this November.

“The majority of New Yorkers support marriage equality and we are now seeing a new generation of Democrats emerge in the Empire State whose leadership will help turn that support into law,” said Jo Wyrick, NSD Interim Executive Director, in a media statement issued by The Stonewall Democrats on Thursday. “Although Republican Governor George Pataki strongly opposes marriage recognition for same-sex couples, LGBT Democrats throughout New York will soon help elect a Governor who has vowed to lead his fellow Democrats in enacting legislation granting full marriage equality to same-sex couples.”

The New York State Democratic Party overwhelmingly passed a resolution in 2003 that calls for marriage recognition for same- sex couples in the state. Additionally, the majority of New Yorkers support marriage equality according to a recent poll released in April. Spitzer is one of a number of leading Democrats in New York who has pledged to work with the state legislature to pass legislation granting marriage equality to same-sex couples.

Matt Foreman, executive director of The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, called the decision “intellectually strained” and “insulting to gay and lesbian people.”

“It is an egregious departure from the New York Court of Appeal’s long and proud tradition of advancing liberty and dismantling discrimination,” said Foreman in the Task Force’s response to the ruling. “It is a disgrace to the constitution and the people of New York.” Republican New York Governor George Pataki, who appointed the majority of justices of the New York Court of Appeals, told reporters Wednesday that same-sex couples should be prevented from entering into civil marriages. “Marriage is between a man and a woman; that’s what it’s been in America, in New York, since the founding of this state,” said Governor Pataki, who is currently considering a bid for the Republican nomination for President in 2008.

Currently, the platforms of the state Democratic parties of California, Colorado, Iowa, Massachusetts, New York and Washington State call for full marriage equality for samesex couples. Numerous county and local Democratic parties have also called for marriage equality, as have Democratic organizations like the College Democrats of America and the Young Democrats of America. For the first time, 2006 will also see Democratic gubernatorial nominees champion full marriage equality in California, Massachusetts, New York and Oregon. — TE

Nomination of Gay Priest for Bishop in Defiance of Episcopalian Church Newark, N.J. — The Diocese of Newark, NJ defied the Episcopalian church’s recent decision to prevent LGBT clergy from becoming bishops by nominating a gay priest from San Francisco as a bishop candidate.

“By nominating an openly gay priest from San Francisco as one of four candidates to become their 10th Bishop, the Diocese of Newark has reaffirmed that our church does not discriminate against LGBT people,” Oasis President Rev. John Kirkley said in a media statement July 5.

Newark’s Standing Committee included the Very Rev. Canon Michael Barlowe, Congregational Development Officer for the Diocese of California, among candidates selected by Newark’s Search/Nominating

Committee. A North Carolina native, Cannon Barlow has been partnered for 23 years with the Rev. Paul Burrows.

Cannon Barlow’s nomination follows a bitterly contested resolution passed by the national Episcopal Church’s General Convention last week urging diocesan committees to exercise “restraint� concerning election of LGBT clergy as bishop.

On July 4 the Archbishop of Canterbury called for creation of a two-tiered Anglican Communion with national churches that welcome LGBT people holding a lesser place in that Communion.

The American Anglican Council, an orthodox umbrella group, told the New York Times, “We are shocked that just one week after the close of General Convention and one day following release of the archbishop of Canterbury’s statement on the Communion’s future, the Diocese of Newark has sent a clear and defiant message nationally and internationally that there will be no turning back.�

Newark is only the second, after the Diocese of California in San Francisco, to have gay nominees, said Jan Nunley, a spokeswoman for the Episcopal Church Center, the church’s administrative office, in the Times article. “We commend the Diocese of Newark for refusing to cave in to pressure to discriminate against nominees for bishop based on sexual orientation,� Kirkley added. “Unlike our General Convention, the Diocese of Newark refuses to lie about the Holy Spirit’s presence in the ministries of gay and lesbian clergy.

God can not and will not be restrained but continues to raise up leaders whose manner of life challenges the intolerance, bigotry, and fear now poisoning the Anglican Communion.�

The Rev. Susan Russell, president of Integrity, a gay and lesbian advocacy group in the church, told the Times that she praised the nominations. “For the Diocese of Newark to come out so quickly with a gay man in its list of candidates is a strong statement that this is not a church that is willing to be blackmailed into bigotry,� she said. — TE

Lesbian Mom Wins Visitation Rights Battle

Arkansas High Court Lifts Ban on Gay Foster Parents Little Rock, Ark. — The Arkansas Supreme Court unanimously ruled yesterday that there is no connection between a child’s well-being and the sexual orientation of a parent, deeming discrimination against gay households in foster care unconstitutional.

The ruling, which upholds a 2004 lower court decision against the ban, said the ban was “an attempt to legislate for the General Assembly with respect to public morality.�

Justices agreed with Pulaski County Circuit Judge Tim Fox’s ruling that the ban seeks to regulate “public morality.� And the high court said the state Child Welfare Agency Review Board in adopting the ban violated the separation of powers doctrine. “There is no correlation between the health, welfare and safety of foster children and the blanket exclusion of any individual who is a homosexual or who resides in a household with a homosexual,� Associate Justice Donald Corbin wrote in the opinion.

In 1999, the Arkansas Child Welfare Agency Review Board adopted a regulation barring private child welfare agencies and the state Department of Human Services from allowing gay and lesbian people to serve as foster parents. “Children in foster care deserve to be placed in good homes without discriminatory politics standing in the way,� said Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese in a media statement issued yesterday. “Every child welfare organization has said for years that sexual orientation has no impact on a person’s ability to be a good parent. We give enormous thanks to the plaintiffs in this case and the American Civil Liberties Union, which represented these families. Their stories and seven-year fight for fairness have likely resulted in hundreds of potential homes opening up for children in need.�

Arkansas Health and Human Services spokesperson Julie Munsell told the Associated Press the state has followed Fox’s direction not to use the ban and will continue to do so. “We still obviously maintain that we are operating in the best interest of the children who are in foster care custody, but we will follow the instructions of the court in the application process,� Munsell said. “Today’s ruling means that gay people will go through the same screening process as any other applicants, rather than be automatically rejected no matter how qualified they are,� said Leslie Cooper, a senior staff attorney for the ACLU Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Project, who argued the case before the court. — TE

PFLAG Makes History at the New York Stock Exchange New York — Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays made history Friday as the first organization for families and allies of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people to ring The Closing Bell at the New York Stock Exchange.

PFLAG’s says its trip to Wall Street to“ring the closing bell on homophobia,� was an opportunity for the group to discuss the exponentially growing reach of the buying power of GLBT Americans when coupled with the purchasing force of their families and friends. “The purchasing power of the GLBT community is estimated today to be a massive $641 billion, with projections reaching $1 trillion by 2012,� said Jody M. Huckaby, PFLAG’s executive director, in the organizations official media statement. “Add in the buying power of the millions of family members and friends who show fierce allegiance to fair-minded corporations and you get a message that no company can afford to ignore: equality is good for business.� “This economic clout and product loyalty

1 9É¢

is only going to grow. We are here to give the business world this wake-up call and to help companies compete.�

PFLAG leaders said they visited the New York Stock Exchange to drive this point home to corporations around the globe.

They brought new research to back their arguments that reveals that more than three-fourths of Americans personally know someone who is GLBT and those consumers are more likely than others to support companies that market to the gay and lesbian community. “Equality in corporate America is more than just a trend. It is a reality that companies both large and small need to support in order to remain competitive. This is about much more than just GLBT people themselves. This is about the families, friends, coworkers, and other supporters who will be loyal to companies who invest in fairness for their GLBT loved ones – and that translates into employee loyalty, consumer base expansion and big economic gains today and in the years to come,� Huckaby added.

The organization pointed to the expanding number of companies, including nearly half of Fortune 500 corporations, which embrace GLBT-friendly practices including domestic partner benefits, nondiscrimination policies, and financial support for organizations working to promote equality. “There are thousands of parents just like me who will shop and spend with companies who support equality for my lesbian daughter,� said Samuel Thoron, president of PFLAG who rang The Closing Bell. “This is our opportunity to make sure that these corporations know that we’re here, that we’re paying attention, and that we influence their bottom line.� — TE

1 9Én

1 9É¢w

3OMMELIER AT THE -ARKET )NDEPENDENTS 7EEK +ICK /FF 4HE #ITY ,IBRARY "OOK 3ALE WITH "UY ,OCAL &IRST .64*$ "5 5)& ."3,&5

,IVE MUSIC FEATURED EACH WEEK IN THE CENTER OF THE PARK

6ISIT

$/7.4/7.3,# #/-

FOR MARKET UPDATES

J u LY 1 5 , 2 0 0 6   Q   Q S A LT L A K E   Q  

Columbus, Ohio — A Columbus, Ohio judge ruled this week that the state’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriage cannot be used by a woman to deny her ex-partner visitation rights to a child they raised together.

The amendment, known as Issue 1, in addition to banning same-sex marriage, says the state “and its political subdivisions shall not create or recognize a legal status for relationships of unmarried individuals that intends to approximate Ohio Judge Carole Squire the design, qualities, significance or effect of marriage.�

Denise Fairchild wanted Franklin County Domestic Relations Court to cancel Therese Leach’s right to visit Fairchild’s 9-year-old son. Fairchild was artificially inseminated when she and Leach were together.

Last week, Judge Carole Squire signed Magistrate Darrolyn Krippel’s earlier decision that the constitutional amendment, approved by voters in November 2004, does not prohibit custody rights between a child and a nonparent or between two unmarried people. “It’s a great decision,� Camilla Taylor, Leach’s Chicago-based attorney, told the Columbus Dispatch. “It holds that you cannot use the constitutional amendment as a weapon to alter the relationship between a child and a cherished adult.�

Fairchild’s Columbus attorney, Keith Golden, argued that Leach was not considered a parent by Ohio law. She did not give birth to the child, did not adopt him and

the union between her and Fairchild was not considered a marriage. “Denise was disappointed, but we’re continuing with our position and we’re going to the next level,�

Golden said to The Dispatch.

He said he plans to file an objection to the magistrate’s decision and wants a judge to review the case.

It shows “you can’t use a constitutional amendment as a weapon to attack a cherished relationship between a child and an adult that that child considers a parent,� said Taylor, in an Associated Press article. “Therese raised that little boy since his birth, and he should be allowed to see her.�

At Fairchild’s request, the Franklin County Domestic Relations Court gave Leach parenting rights in 2001, saying the women “shall be treated in the law as two equal parents of their minor child.�

They sought the agreement so Leach could make medical decisions for the boy in Fairchild’s absence, Fairchild said.

Fairchild said she intends to appeal. She said that she is aware she is trying to use an anti-gay law for her own ends and admitted she voted against the ballot issue. — TE

Q Q S A LT L A K E Q J u LY 1 5 , 2 0 0 6

Opponents of Gay Marriage in Arizona Push for State Constitutional Amendment REGIONAL AND LOCAL

ACLU Probes N.M. Gay-Gym Raid Patron: “It was like the gay Abu Ghraib.”

by Larry Buhl

Albuquerque, N.M. — A July 1 raid by law enforcement officers of the gay Pride Gym in Albuquerque, N.M., that left patrons “bullied, terrorized and humiliated” has prompted the ACLU and other groups to inquire into possible civil rights violations there.

New Mexico state police and the Albuquerque fire marshal’s ofPride Gym manager Ron Cordova fice entered and secured the men-only gym about 10 p.m.

Saturday and arrested club manager Ron Cordova on suspicion of selling and dispensing alcohol without a liquor license, said New Mexico Department of Public Safety spokesman Peter Olson.

But gym patrons — who were forced to lie on the floor, handcuffed, with semi-automatic rifles pointed at them — say that if the raid was about an alcohol infraction, it was, at least, overkill.

Ronald, a 57-year-old gay man from Miami Beach who requested that his last name not be used, said he was visiting New Mexico looking for real estate opportunities when he heard about a “social event” at Pride Gym on Saturday evening.

“There were about 35 of us there, and most were older men, some in their 70s, eating tacos and chatting,” Ronald said.

“Most of us were fully dressed, because it’s a legitimate gym with a sauna, but not a bathhouse.”

“Suddenly, a SWAT team carrying semiautomatic weapons, plastic shields and late gloves burst through the door and told us to get on the ground. They kept saying, ‘We’re not here for you,’ but still they handcuffed us and kept us on the ground until they could run background checks on all of us. This took about an hour.”

At least one elderly man suffered a panic attack and was taken away by paramedics, Ronald said. A few of the patrons were in the sauna when the raid occurred, and, when their towels fell, they were forced to lie on the floor naked, he said.

Ronald claimed that police officers led one man into a separate room and took pictures of him.

“The guy was wearing a leather harness and a jockstrap. A female officer with a digital camera took him into a room; we saw about 15 or 20 flashes coming from there and heard lots of laughter. They (the officers) were having a good old time. It was like the gay Abu Ghraib.”

One customer was arrested on an outstanding warrant during the raid, and five other customers were issued alcohol-related citations, Olson said, adding that state and local authorities have been cracking down on alcohol violations to curb drunken driving ever since Gov. Bill

Richardson took office in 2003.

“The officers were serving a search warrant and the fire marshal was there to inspect the building,” Olson said. “Any time there is a situation with a large number of people, officers will employ whatever tactics they need to maintain control of the situation.”

The warrant, he said, arose from tips from locals that alcohol was being served at Pride Gym. “Any time agents find someone serving alcohol without a license, it causes concern because those proprietors are operating outside of the law.” He said it’s inaccurate to characterize Saturday night’s event as a ‘raid,’ and maintained that officers were not out of bounds.

Regarding allegations of a female officer taking pictures of a patron and laughing, Olson had no comment.

Community leaders are asking how such an incident could happen and whether gay men were unfairly targeted by law enforcement.

Alexis Blizman, executive director of Equality New Mexico, acknowledged the state’s aggressive alcohol-enforcement policy, but said the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups are investigating whether the raid went beyond protocol.

“The first question is, was it (Pride Gym) targeted because it caters to gay customers?” Blizman said. “Then we will take a very hard look to see if there were any civil rights violations, and if there were, we will be dealing with them.”

After the raid, the fire marshal’s office ordered the building closed, citing “numerous fire code violations.”

Peter Simonson, executive director of the New Mexico ACLU, said his preliminary research shows the raid was “extremely aggressive and reckless.”

“Our concern is the policy of cracking down on alcohol violations is giving police a pretext to target businesses they don’t like,” Simonson said. “There is a strong sense in the LGBT community that (law enforcement) was targeting gays and that it feels a little like a witch hunt.”

Simonson said the ACLU is urging the fire marshal to allow the gym to reopen after minor changes to its zoning certification with the city, and is determining if there was a significant violation of civil liberties.

“We were committing no crimes, and not one of us treated the police with any disrespect,” Ronald said. “If they (the police) were trying to prevent drunk driving, why didn’t they target the art gallery where I went earlier that night? They were serving wine.”

Olson said art galleries serving alcohol had been the focus of similar enforcement in the past, and now employ professional bartenders to serve wine.

However, he said he was not aware of incidents where gallery patrons were forced to lie on the ground at gunpoint.

Phoenix, Ariz. — Opponents of gay marriage in Arizona filed a petition July 6 to put a constitutional amendment on the November ballot that would deny domestic partner benefits to couples in the state and strip cities that already offer these benefits the right to do so.

Leo and Molly Godzich, founders of The marriage the anti-gay National Association Marriage Enhancement initiative would amend the Arizona Constitution to define marriage as a union between one man and one woman.

Though Arizona law already bans same-sex unions, supporters of the proposed amendment said more was needed to protect the sanctity of families by helping to prevent judges from overturning the prohibition.

“We are protecting the traditional definition of marriage,” said Leo Godzich of the National Association of Marriage Enhancement, to the Arizona Daily Star. “Marriage has value to society, and that’s why society ascribes value to marriage, so anything that is not a true marriage denigrates the original definition of marriage.”

It also would prohibit state and local governments from providing marriage-like “legal status” to unmarried couples. Phoenix, Scottsdale, Tempe and Tucson now offer domestic partner benefits to their employees.

“It hurts people,” said Kyrsten Sinema, a Democratic state lawmaker who is leading a campaign against the proposal, in a report from Tucson, AZ NBC affiliate KVOA channel 4. “It takes health benefits from unmarried couples and their children.”

Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese made the following comment in a media statement responding to the antigay efforts in Arizona: “The Arizona Constitution should protect citizens, not single out one group for discrimination. Domestic partner benefits are widely supported and this amendment would deny them this right in the very document that was written to protect all Arizonans.” The Human Rights Campaign is a strong supporter of Arizona Together, the coalition to fight the anti-domestic partnership amendment, and will stand side-by-side with them to support their effort through November. The Human Rights Campaign is committed to the coalition and has contributed more than $100,000 to fight this initiative. Sinema said her group will file a lawsuit next week to keep the marriage proposal off the ballot on the grounds that it violates the state constitution’s ban on including more than one change to the constitution in an amendment.

“This initiative was written anticipating that kind of a legal challenge from the opposition,” said Nathan Sproul, a consultant for the campaign for the initiative. “We are 100 percent confident that we will able to defend it.” — TE

Bank of America Stops Decades of Support for the Boy Scouts of America Atlanta, Ga. — The controversy over gays and Boy Scouts resurfaced this week in South Georgia when Bank of America stopped decades of financial support to Boy Scouts of America, stating that the organization’s practices violates the bank’s new non-discrimination policy.

In a letter denying a request for funding addressed to Scout Executive Matt Hart, with the Alapaha Area Council Boy Scouts of America, the Bank outlined its newly adopted non-discriminatory policy for charitable giving. The letter states, “under the non-discrimination policy, the Bank of America Charitable Foundation cannot provide funding to any organization that practices discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship or veteran or disability status.” The statement adds, “The Boy Scouts of America has a constitutional right to provide a youth organization for families who share those values. Other groups are similarly free and may follow a different path.”

“We believe these policies reflect and respect the diversity of beliefs among our associates,” Alex Liftman, spokesperson for Bank of America, told The Valdosta Daily Times, a Georgia newspaper.

The policy was implemented Jan. 1 of this year after the company merged with the Fleet Foundation and the two policies were reviewed and joined. The bank’s rejection letter added that if the Boy Scouts of America departed from its current “discriminatory practices,” placing the organization in line with the current policy, the request for funding could be reconsidered.

Hart responded to Bank of America’s denial letter, noting that the organization respects the Foundation’s right to adopt the new policy of non-discrimination. He also noted,

however, “every nonprofit organization serves a specific audience, as does Scouting. To open membership to those who do not share the values of the Scout Oath and Law would violate our constitutional rights to freedom of speech and freedom of association.”

Georgia’s Rep. Earl Ehrhart (R-Powder Springs) and Sen. John Wiles (R-Marietta) responded to Bank of America’s statement, saying that they will draft legislation that will bar state government from doing business with companies that cite such “nondiscrimination policies” when dealing with youth organizations. This ban would include Bank of America and its subsidiaries BA Merchant Services LLC, BA Venture Partners, Banc of America Investment Services Inc. and Banc of America Securities LLC. “Our duty as elected officials is to protect the constitutional rights of our citizens,” Ehrhart said to The Times. “When a large, out-of-state corporation tries to use its resources to stifle those rights and obligate certain behavior, we have an obligation to act. Georgians’ and scouting’s values are not for sale and should not be subject to extortion by any entity.”

“Bank of America, like any company, has the right to support whatever causes it chooses,” Wiles added. “However, the State of Georgia also has rights – the right to stop doing business with corporations who refuse to support organizations who exercise their right to freedom of association.”

Liftman said that the policy is not directed at any one organization, but records show that Bank of America has not yet withheld any funding from any other organization since the policy took effect early this year. In his response to Bank of America, Hart added that a number of Scout families and those associated with the area council closed their Bank of America accounts. — TE

‘Would You Stop Loving Your Children if they were Gay or Lesbian?’

New York homeless youth advocacy group starts ad campaign New York City —The Ali Forney Center, the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth homeless services center, launched a print and outdoor advertising campaign to ask a simple question: “Would you stop loving your child if you found out they were gay or lesbian?” The center is offering resources to families with questions or needing support if their child comes out or if they cannot provide a safe home environment.

Beginning last month, dozens of telephone kiosk ads appeared in Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan and the Bronx, followed by print ads in publications like the Caribbean Times, Hoy, Manhattan Times, Afro Times and New American Times sending a strong message to parents of queer youth during Gay Pride Week in New York City. In addition, over 1000 subway ads were placed June 26, the day of the annual LGBT Pride celebration and parade in New York City.

“This ad campaign speaks to a universal human experience, the love between a parent and a child,” said Carl Siciliano, Executive Director of the Ali Forney Center, “Our goal is to address the rising rate of LGBT youth homelessness, particularly in com-

munities of color,” he continued.

“The Ali Forney Center has provided services to LGBT youth for over four years, but we need to offer parents a place to turn when they want assistance or simply need someone to talk to when their child comes out,” Siciliano said. “Beginning this week, a message that there are people they can reach out to will appear in neighborhoods across New York City, from East Harlem to Morningside Heights, in Astoria and East Flatbush, we hope to reach millions of people with a thought-provoking but nonjudgmental message,” concluded Siciliano.

The Ali Forney Center was started in June of 2002 in response to the lack of safe shelter for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth in New York City. AFC is dedicated to promoting awareness of the plight of homeless gay youth in the United States with the goal of generating responses on local and national levels from government funders, foundations, and the gay community.

The campaign was created by Double Platinum, a marketing communications agency that specializes in messaging related to the gay community and for the gay and lesbian market.

Homeless youth advocacy group, the Ali Forney Center in New York City ad campaign for gay and lesbian youth.

J u LY 1 5 , 2 0 0 6 Q Q S A LT L A K E Q

Q Q S A LT L A K E Q J u LY 1 5 , 2 0 0 6

LOCAL

HIV+ Dating Site Offers Online Place to Meet

by Matthew Gerber

matthew@qsaltlake.com

Rick’s HIV-positive status has added an extra complication to meeting someone for dating and a relationship, particularly in Utah. (For professional reasons, Rick has asked that his last name be withheld).

A heterosexual male, he discovered that disclosure to women he went on dates with ended things rather quickly. In 2000, he decided to do something about this dating disclosure dilemma, founding the site hivnet.com as a way for him, and others living with HIV, to meet other HIV-positive people for dating and friendship.

Rick readily admits that the site was started for “selfish” reasons. “I put it up because I couldn’t meet anybody,” he indicates. While he has not personally had a long-term relationship as a result of the site, he has met a couple of HIV-positive women he has dated. Rick indicates that other users of the site have had better success. HIVnet has introduced couples that have led to at least 15 marriages and hundreds of long-term relationships. “One man in Nebraska met someone on the site and drove 16 hours to Florida and they’ve been together ever since,” he relates. The site has dozens of testimonials and success stories of people who have found relationships with others they met on the site.

The site is described as a place for “HIV+ members seeking fun, friends and romance in a safe, secure environment.”

It is not a sex site; rather it is a place for HIV-positive people to make friends and relationships. It is unique from other personals sites for people living with HIV or AIDS in that one must be HIV-positive to post, view, or respond to profiles. A person submitting a profile must certify that they have been diagnosed as HIV-positive by a medical professional before being allowed to fill out a profile. Once the profile is completed, staff for the site reviews it to ensure that the profile meets the site’s standards.

Rick is very protective that only HIVpositive members join the service. If the profile seems alright to him, it is posted and the new member is allowed access to

the site. Rick notes that there are a number of profiles submitted, many by religious or anti-HIV groups, which are quickly sifted out during the screening process.

The security of the site allows members to maintain their confidentiality regarding their HIV-status and enjoy the safety of associating with others who are HIV-positive. Making the site only for HIV-positive people has removed disclosure from the equation, making it a moot point to others on the site.

When the site began in 2000, there were just 1500 members. Just six years later, the membership has grown to over 30,000 members with 1500 new enrollments each month. While Rick never imagined that the site would grow to be as popular as it is, he is happy that it has helped people make connections with others who live with HIV. He is particularly interested in seeing other Utahns with HIV utilize the service. As a lifelong Utah resident, Rick has decided to offer free lifetime memberships to hivnet.com to members of the People with AIDS Coalition of Utah. Those interested in this offer, should contact Toni Johnson of the People with AIDS Coalition of Utah at 484-2205.

Christmas in July Fundraiser Each year the Royal Court of the Golden Spike Empire raises funds to give the kind of gift a person with AIDS can truly appreciate over the holidays — in the form of $100 bills. The holidays can be truly taxing for someone already struggling to make ends meet. Cash can help them pay the increasing gas bill, buy gifts for those around them, or give themselves a nice gift just for them to help pick up their spirits.

The Christmas in July show at the Trapp Door Saturday, July 15 will raise money for this fund to help it get kick-started for this year.

Hosted by Emperor XXXI Kim Russo, Emperor XXIX of All of Alaska Eldon Kirby, Emperor XXII Portland Michael Norvell and Princess Royale XXIX Paris Brunner Montiel Childers, the show will start at 8:30pm (drag time) and a suggested $5 donation is requested.

LOCAL

/54 !4 4(% 0!2+

,!'//. $!9 35.$!9 !5'534

HIV+ Dating Site Offers Online Place to Meet

by Matthew Gerber

matthew@qsaltlake.com

Christmas in July Fundraiser Each year the Royal Court of the Golden Spike Empire raises funds to give the kind of gift a person with AIDS can truly appreciate over the holidays — in the form of $100 bills. The holidays can be truly taxing for someone already struggling to make ends meet. Cash can help them pay the increasing gas bill, buy gifts for those around them, or give themselves a nice gift just for them to help pick up their spirits.

The Christmas in July show at the Trapp Door Saturday, July 15 will raise money for this fund to help it get kick-started for this year.

Hosted by Emperor XXXI Kim Russo, Emperor XXIX of All of Alaska Eldon Kirby, Emperor XXII Portland Michael Norvell and Princess Royale XXIX Paris Brunner Montiel Childers, the show will start at 8:30pm (drag time) and a suggested $5 donation is requested.

/54 2!'% /53

2!').' 7!4%23 35.$!9 !5'534

4ICKETS FOR AT THE GATE

02)$!(/ 0/#!4%,,/ )$!(/ !5'534 n

2OSS 0ARK PRIDAHO ORG

&OR MORE EVENTS LOG ONTO PRIDE ORG

J u LY 1 5 , 2 0 0 6   Q   Q S A LT L A K E   Q  

Rick’s HIV-positive status has added an extra complication to meeting someone for dating and a relationship, particularly in Utah. (For professional reasons, Rick has asked that his last name be withheld).

A heterosexual male, he discovered that disclosure to women he went on dates with ended things rather quickly. In 2000, he decided to do something about this dating disclosure dilemma, founding the site hivnet.com as a way for him, and others living with HIV, to meet other HIV-positive people for dating and friendship.

Rick readily admits that the site was started for “selfish� reasons. “I put it up because I couldn’t meet anybody,� he indicates. While he has not personally had a long-term relationship as a result of the site, he has met a couple of HIV-positive women he has dated. Rick indicates that other users of the site have had better success. HIVnet has introduced couples that have led to at least 15 marriages and hundreds of long-term relationships. “One man in Nebraska met someone on the site and drove 16 hours to Florida and they’ve been together ever since,� he relates. The site has dozens of testimonials and success stories of people who have found relationships with others they met on the site.

The site is described as a place for “HIV+ members seeking fun, friends and romance in a safe, secure environment.�

It is not a sex site; rather it is a place for HIV-positive people to make friends and relationships. It is unique from other personals sites for people living with HIV or AIDS in that one must be HIV-positive to post, view, or respond to profiles. A person submitting a profile must certify that they have been diagnosed as HIV-positive by a medical professional before being allowed to fill out a profile. Once the profile is completed, staff for the site reviews it to ensure that the profile meets the site’s standards.

Rick is very protective that only HIVpositive members join the service. If the profile seems alright to him, it is posted and the new member is allowed access to

the site. Rick notes that there are a number of profiles submitted, many by religious or anti-HIV groups, which are quickly sifted out during the screening process.

The security of the site allows members to maintain their confidentiality regarding their HIV-status and enjoy the safety of associating with others who are HIV-positive. Making the site only for HIV-positive people has removed disclosure from the equation, making it a moot point to others on the site.

When the site began in 2000, there were just 1500 members. Just six years later, the membership has grown to over 30,000 members with 1500 new enrollments each month. While Rick never imagined that the site would grow to be as popular as it is, he is happy that it has helped people make connections with others who live with HIV. He is particularly interested in seeing other Utahns with HIV utilize the service. As a lifelong Utah resident, Rick has decided to offer free lifetime memberships to hivnet.com to members of the People with AIDS Coalition of Utah. Those interested in this offer, should contact Toni Johnson of the People with AIDS Coalition of Utah at 484-2205.

$ISCOUNT 4ICKETS AVAILABLE AT #AHOOTS -ISCHIEVOUS 4HE 4RAPP

1 0 Q Q S A LT L A K E Q J u LY 1 5 , 2 0 0 6

letters@qsaltlake.com

Hall of Fabulous Editor, Kudos to David Nelson for starting a “Gay Hall of Fame” for Utah [“Gay Hall of Fame Inducts 100s,” July 1]. In these days of us eating our own, it is nice to see someone take a step back and pat the collective backs of those who have worked hard and long enough to help build this community. What a great endeavor to ensure not one award is forgotten. Fabulous, fabulous, fabulous.

John Bishop Salt Lake City

Hip to Hep Editor, Thank you for the service you are providing in making gay and bisexual men aware of the need to immunize themselves against Hepatitis A and B [“Men Being Urged to Vaccinate Against Hep A, B,” July 1].

Eric Tierney’s death was a tragic loss to the arts community, the gay community and his vast group of friends and family.

TO think that it could have been avoided by a few shots makes the tragedy even greater.

I have been encouraging all of my gay male friends to go get the shots. I want to keep them around just as long as I can.

Dennis Kendell Holladay

Not in Our Town

a Jew / It read, “To Isaac, From Rebecca, I’m sorry this happened to you.”

by Michael Aaron

Have you seen the paper? Did you hear the news? / What kind of people are we? We thought we knew. / Can children primed in prejudice in peace together dwell? / If we look out through this shattered glass, do we see ourselves?

michael@qsaltlake.com

I was lucky enough to meet some of the people of the Seattle Men’s and Women’s Choruses over the last few weeks — once on the launch of their four-state tour and once on their final night’s concert. The men’s chorus performed one of the most moving songs I believe I heard called “Not in Our Town,” a true story about a town’s response to hate crime violence.

In 1993, the city of Billings, Mont., with a population of about 80,000, found itself the unwitting home to a sect of the Ku Klux Klan. At first, the song says, the group stayed fairly quiet, but in time, bricks began to be thrown through windows displaying the menorah. The town’s response: everyone put a menorah in their window.

When the Klan came to Montana, they made no grand parade. / No hooded knights on horseback, no banners boldly raised. / Spray paint and bomb threats, a voice on the telephone line: / “Kill the niggers, kill the homos, Jew bitch die.”

Five-year-old Isaac woke screaming in the gloom. / “Mommy, there’s a man at my window, looking into my room.” / “Son, there’s nothing out there but the shadows branches make.” / The little boy went back to sleep, his parents lay awake.

For Isaac’s bedroom window showed their faith for all to see / The candles of the menorah stood for hope and memory. / The next night, out of the darkness, a cinder block was hurled. / It shattered Isaac’s window, and the boundaries of his world.

One moment of conviction, one voice quiet and clear, / One act of compassion, it all begins here. / No safety now in silence, we’ve got to stand our ground. / No hate. No violence. Not in our town.

The cop was not unfriendly. He said, “Ma’am, if I were you, / I’d take down that menorah, the Star of David, too.” / Isaac’s mother Tammy said, “I’m sure that’s good advice. / But how then could I ever look my children in the eye?”

Then at their doorway a little girl did stand / A gift for her schoolmate in her outstretched hand. / A menorah drawn in crayon, from a Gentile to

Margaret McDonald called her pastor on the phone. / “This time the Jews will not face their foes alone. / We’ll make paper menorahs, display them from our homes. / We’ll show the bigots there are more of us than they have stones.”

Volunteers printed up menorahs by the score. / Children in their Sunday schools colored hundreds more. / Grocers and dry cleaners gave out the design, singing: / What’s a little broken glass when freedom’s on the line?

Now in the town of Billings live not 100 Jews, / But menorahs now were everywhere, on every avenue. / Thousands upon thousands, in windows rich and poor. / When a neighbor stands in danger, we will not close our door.

Through the drifting snow, Tammy drove her children round / To see all the menorahs in the windows of the town. / “Are all those people Jewish?” asked Isaac as they went. / “No,” his mother answered, “they are your friends.”

No hate. No violence. Not in our town.

The non-Jewish community risked their windows and safety to stand in allied defiance against the hatred perpetrated against their Jewish neighbors.

I was touched by the parallels of our struggle today for equal marriage rights. Where is the alliance of the community when the activist preachers spew hateful lies about us and our families? Why are there no rainbow flags in every window saying, ‘we won’t allow you to abuse our neighbors and friends for your political gains.”

Unfortunately, though our neighbors agree with us that we should be safe in our homes, they don’t yet agree that we should have the right to what they hold sacred in their own lives.

It is up to us to have the discussions with our neighbors and help them understand.

Then, and only then, will they say, “not in our town.”

Bored of the Gayborhood Editor, Gayborhood, shmayborhood [“It’s a Beautiful Day in the Gayborhood,” July 1]. Until gay men and lesbians can live anywhere and everywhere we want, we are not free to live our lives fully. Enough of the ghettoism and having to live within three blocks of Sugar House, 9th & 9th, the Capitol or Avenues Bakery.

I moved to West Jordan six years ago. I love my neighbors, they love me and my partner, and I love my house that’s nearly twice as big as I would have been able to buy downtown. My street is quiet, I have trees in my yard and listening to sirens is a rarity.

Come on, fellow fruits! Come on out to the ’burbs. The water is fine.

John S. West Jordan

DH? Editor, What’s with the Court bashing? Three issues in a row that shed a negative light on the Royal Court of the Golden Spike Empire. Back off! Are you just a drag-hater yourself?

Chris Parsons South Salt Lake

Care Now Open letter to all those living with HIV/AIDS in Utah: HIV/AIDS has, for many people, become “just another disease” similar to diabetes. The media blitz that HIV/AIDS has received recently is usually about the situation in Africa, India or China. Nothing to do with all of us HIV+ people here in Salt Lake City, right? We are in America … plenty of money to go around.

The overwhelming apathy that so many

people have towards HIV/AIDS and those who are living with it is amazing. Apathy runs deep in our society, and AIDS activism has come to a standstill in the United States. It is relatively non-existent in Utah, save for one or two lone voices who make it up to Capital Hill every year to secure funding for HIV/AIDS services. No longer do we hear about demonstrations and calls-to-action by AIDS activists. It’s not that there are not calls to action, we just don’t hear them anymore! Somehow, somewhere, AIDS became passé. And whose fault is that?

And now, I will say the inconceivable, the horribly, politically incorrect. It seems to me that the most apathy is from a lot of those with HIV/AIDS themselves. There are four organizations for the entire State of Utah to assist those with HIV/AIDS. The Utah AIDS Foundation, the People With AIDS Coalition of Utah, Campaign to End AIDS Utah and The Northern Utah Coalition HIV/AIDS Project. That’s a total of less than 20 people to provide services to well over 2,000 people across the entire State of Utah. And frankly, it does not seem if a lot of you folks living with HIV/AIDS gives a damn. Attendance

by HIV+ people at events sponsored by these organizations, geared to promoting health, advocacy, social outlets and information is dismal at best, and downright nonexistent at worst. And fund raising for these struggling agencies? That’s a whole ‘nother’ issue to be brought up with the GAY community as a whole.

It seems to me that a good portion of you positive folks are content to sit back and let someone else fight for you.

Some of you may be saying, “Well, I work, I have insurance, I am healthy. I don’t need any assistance or services”.

Well good for ya and God willing it will always be that way. But when you all come back to the real world, and realize how devastating living with HIV/AIDS for 20 or so years can be on body, soul and pocketbook, let someone know. When your insurance hits it’s max, or you are unable to work and have lost your insurance and are screaming for services that you feel you are entitled to, there quite possibly won’t be any funding left for you. Because if you who have this disease don’t care about funding and advocating now, why should anyone care about it later?

Name Withheld

QSaltLake welcomes letters from its readers.

Please email letters@qsaltlake.com or fax 1-800806-7357. Letters should be fewer than 400 words and must include your first and last name and the city and state where you live, all for publication. Anonymous letters are not printed. We may allow your name to be withheld. You should also include your e-mail address and phone number, only for verification purposes. Please be sure to reference in your letter the headline and date of the article about which you are corresponding (if applicable). All submissions may be edited for length and clarity.

Department of Corrections Photos of the Utah Arts Festival in our last issue were taken by Blaine Osborne. We apologize for misattributing them

The Next Stage

By Susan Sommer, Lambda Legal

Though lesbian and gay New Yorkers were dealt a setback in the New York Court of Appeals July 6, the fight for marriage equality is far from over.

The court delivered a disappointing 4–2 decision holding that the New York State constitution is not violated by denying same-sex couples access to civil marriage, a decision that will join Bowers v. Hardwick in the history books as a sad instance of a court ignoring its obligation to uphold the rights of a minority—a decision we can expect the court itself to regret.

The lead opinion, written by Judge Robert Smith, relied on unsupported arguments about the importance of marriage for heterosexual couples and their children while disregarding the importance of marriage to same-sex couples and the thousands of children they raise in New York state. In an ironic twist on an old stereotype, the opinion theorized that it is rational to channel only heterosexu-

1957

by Ben Williams

ben@qsaltlake.com

officials, including Attorney General Elliot Spitzer—front-runner to win the governor’s seat in November—and New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, have come out firmly in support of marriage rights and have vowed to help see marriage legislation passed in Albany. Major New York labor union leaders, hundreds of clergy, and organizations like the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund have lined up in support of civil-marriage rights. Our statewide LGBT lobbying and grassroots political organization, the Empire State Pride Agenda, is leading the way and working hard to win in the legislature the right to marry. It has effective plans already underway to make this happen. We will continue to work with Pride Agenda and others in a statewide coalition to take our fight to Albany.

A marriage victory would have been wonderfully sweet, but we should focus now on the unique opportunity in New York to use the momentum that has built over the past years to push for a victory in the legislature. It is well within our reach.

We can and will win marriage equality through our democratically elected legislators. We have come far along the road to full citizenship in this state. Q

created an outrage in the Intermountain West; linking the idea that all homosexuals and “other mentally-challenged people” were potential sex offenders.

The confession of a mentally ill Utah County man to the murder of a young girl, prompted Governor George D. Clyde in 1955 to order a study of Utah’s ability to protect its citizens against sex offenders. Gov. Clyde said that the first duty of the state was to guard the public and the second duty was “to provide the laws and facilities needed for sex criminal, especially those who pose a foreseeable menace,” such as homosexuals.

Utah’s governor named a committee to study the problem of sex offenders which however, after a series of hearings, came out against establishing a separate institution to incarcerate sex deviants.

The committee determined that improved diagnostic and treatment facilities at existing institutions would serve better to control the problem of sex offenders and was cheaper.

Out of these hearings came one of the reasons why state and city judges were “loathe” to charge minor homosexual offenses for the crime of lewdness “under the present law”. The superintendent of State Mental Hospital in Provo, Utah told committee members that under Utah state law all persons convicted of sex offenses had to be committed to the Provo institution and kept there until, in the opinion of the superintendent, they were unlikely to repeat their offenses. The superintendent claimed that the Utah law did not discriminate between minor offenders such as “peeping Toms” and those who committed serious crimes like rape and murder and thus the law was not “realistic.” He even explained how that under Utah law a person who told “a dirty story” could under strict application of the law be committed to the mental hospital.

One of the criminal offenses named by

the law for which one could be and was committed to the mental hospital was lewdness. Lewdness is defined in Utah’s legal code as “any of the following acts in a public place”, including sexual intercourse, sodomy, public exposure, masturbation and the catch-all phrase “any other act of lewdness,” which is left to the discretion of the arresting officer what is considered lewd.

In 1954, a more “enlightened” Judge J. Patton Neely had suspended a Bountiful man’s jail sentence after his arrest for “disorderly conduct” on payment of a fine and good behavior. The motive for Judge Neely’s more “liberal” approach is unknown. Perhaps the jails were full or perhaps Neely was part of the post World War II progressive movement that viewed homosexuality as a mental disorder rather the a criminal act. He was the first of many other judges who were ordering homosexuals to seek counseling as part of their sentencing rather then have them serve automatic jail time until Judge Snow put the brakes on in 1957.

Judge Marcellus Snow told the Salt Lake Tribune that because certain places in Salt Lake City were widely known as “Meccas for sexually maladjusted persons,” he was determined to hand out more jail time. The fact that Salt Lake City, the “Crossroad of the West” was well known for its large Gay population was bore out by a news account of a recent arrest in the city. A vice squad officer had arrested an Aberdeen, Idaho man for “disorderly conduct” who said he had been told in Spokane, Washington of a downtown Salt Lake City theater (State Theater) and tavern (Radio City Lounge) which were used as a “rendezvous for homosexuals”.

Months prior to Judge Snow’s pronouncement, according to the Salt Lake City vice squad, police had nabbed a half dozen men ages ranging from 21 to 57 years who “attempted indecent liberties with an under cover agent as he sat in the theater.”

Judge Snow told newsreporters his crack down was intended “to curb continuing

(homosexual) practices already in the city and keep others from coming here.” He feared that “sexually maladjusted persons” were “proselytizing our youth”, using the old trumped up story, that homosexuals were all pedophiles, as an excuse for his draconian directive, even when the police’s own files showed that the men being arrested were for trying to have sex with other men.

Judge Snow said he would now issue six- month jail sentences for all such “sexually maladjusted persons”, unless circumstances indicated otherwise, with a suspension of the sentence on condition the defendant leave the city for six months.

“If he returns within that time,” the judge said, “He will be subject to arrest in the city on sight.” Judge Snow also said he would retain jurisdiction in all homosexual cases to permit closer supervision and in event the defendant requested “psychiatric treatment”. It is interesting to note that Judge Snow used the term “unless circumstances indicated otherwise” which was his way of being able to discreetly deal with citizens from “good families” who would never be given jail time for their sexual indiscretions. Not in the City of the Saints. Q

Susan Sommer is senior counsel at Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund and was the lead attorney in Hernandez v. Robles.

*AMES (ICKS

J u LY 1 5 , 2 0 0 6 Q Q S A LT L A K E Q 1 1

As hard as it was for Gay people to meet one another in Salt Lake City, it became increasingly harder in 1957.

After years of a more lenient approach towards the sentencing of arrested homosexuals by Utah judges, Salt Lake City Judge Marcellus K. Snow (1914-1978) stated in an article for the Salt Lake Tribune that he planned “more use of the jail sentence to curb such offenses,” in an effort to stem an “alarming increase” in cases involving homosexuals.

Some three years earlier, in 1954 and for the first time, a jail sentence for “disorderly conduct” was suspended in lieu of payment of a fine in Salt Lake City. “Disorderly conduct” was a legalese word for a whole series of behaviors including public sexual deeds for which, before this, meant usually some serious jail time. The Utah legal code was written in a way that one could be arrested for “knowingly” creating a “physically offensive condition” or committing “any act which serves no legitimate purpose”… intending to cause public inconvenience, annoyance, or alarm”. Often but not always, “disorderly conduct” was a synonym for homosexual behavior and was used instead of the charge of lewdness due to the unrealistic penalty for lewdness in the state in the 1950’s.

Hysteria over the morals of the citizens of Utah was exasperated in the mid-1950’s by several public disclosures of sex crimes which created the impression in the minds of the general public that all “sex offenders” were predators. There was of course the national scandal involving a sex ring between men and male prostitutes in Boise, Idaho.

The homosexual nature of the Idaho crimes

als into marriage since they have “all too often casual or temporary” relationships in which they conceive children by “accident or impulse”—children who then need the stability of having their parents marry. According to the opinion, this was in contrast to lesbian and gay couples, who do not become parents by “impulse” but rather through the careful planning involved in adoption and assisted reproduction methods. Their children thus can count on a more stable family setting and are in less need of married parents.

Judge Smith also relied on “intuition and experience” for the proposition that “a child benefits from having before his or her eyes, every day, living models of what both a man and a woman are like.” Children whose parents do not conform to this view of appropriate “man” and “woman” “living models,” according to the opinion, legitimately can be denied the protections that come from giving their parents access to marriage. Even the defendants in the case did not advance such an argument, which, whatever a judge’s “intuition” may suggest, is contrary to what the American Academy of Pediatrics and other leading child-welfare experts have concluded on the subject.

The decision should be viewed as out of

step with the reality and dignity of lesbian and gay families and the clear direction in which our society is headed. In the words of the dissent by chief judge Kaye, “future generations will look back on today’s decision as an unfortunate misstep.” Her stirring opinion, joined by judge Ciparick, adopts exactly the legal analysis and arguments that the lesbian and gay plaintiffs advocated. If only it had been the majority opinion.

While this ruling is a blow, we have much to make us feel hopeful and motivated to continue our work for marriage equality here in New York and elsewhere. We have seen tremendous progress in this state in the past two and a half years since we started the Hernandez v. Robles litigation [one of the four cases the court ruled on jointly]. Though it will not happen overnight, we are now poised as we never were before to win the right in the state legislature for same-sex couples to marry.

Public opinion has clearly shifted in our favor over the past several years, with statewide polls now showing 53 percent of New Yorkers supporting marriage equality and only 38% opposed. The five committed couples who were plaintiffs in our case have received a tremendous amount of favorable public and media attention. They have been wonderful spokespeople, along with many other lesbian and gay New Yorkers who have been trained and energized to engage others in the state. Key public

1 2   Q   Q S A LT L A K E   Q   J u LY 1 5 , 2 0 0 6

AT OVER CAN BE FOUONNDS FROM LOCATI 'EORGE

,OGAN TO 3T LL INCLUDING A

Queen Flicks

by Ruby Ridge,

ruby@qsaltlake.com

Aloha, kittens! Am I the only person in North America that hasn’t had a chance to see any of this summer’s big cinematic blockbusters yet? I have just been busy, busy, busy — all the while, the box office has been chugging along with films like Superman Returns, Pirates of the Caribbean, Mission Impossible, and the wonderful gay documentary The Devil Wears Prada.

Actually, come to think of it, the last movie I watched in a theater was Moulin Rouge.

Hmmm, that can’t be good (note to self, you need to get out more!).

It’s not like I don’t enjoy the big screen, it’s just that I hate mortgaging the house for a bucket of popcorn and a medium-sized soda. Plus too many people complain that my bouffant blocks the IMAX, so what’s a well-coiffed girl to do but stay home with a DVD, a Buick-sized box of Raisinets, and a diet Snapple?

/4(%2 3%,%#4%$ ,/#!4)/.3 &ROM .ORTH TO 3OUTH

,/'!.

"ORDERS 5TAH 3TATE 5NIV /'$%.

"OOKSHELF 7EBER 3TATE 5NIV %GYPTIAN 4HEATER 'ROUNDS FOR #OFFEE 2OOSTERS "RASS 2AIL #,%!2&)%,$ 'ROUNDS FOR #OFFEE ,!94/.

"ARNES .OBLE 3!,4 ,!+% #)49 !LL ,IBRARIES ! #UP OF *OE !PPLE &ITNESS !3) 4ATTOO !VENUES "AKERY "AGELRY "ANGKOK 4HAI "IG #ITY 3OUP "REWVIES "ROADWAY #ENTRE #AFE 3HA 3HA #AFE 4RANG #AHOOTS #INEGRILL #LUB 4RY !NGLES #LUB 3OUND #LUB (EADS 5P #OCOA #AFE $ESERT %DGE 0UB %GGS IN THE #ITY %MIGRATION -ARKET &IRST 5NITARIAN 'REEN 3TREET (YATTS -AGAZINES *ITTERBUG #OFFEE +#07 3TUDIOS +NUCKLEHEADS

,AMB S 'RILL ,IBERTY (EIGHTS &RESH -AZZA -## -ISCHIEVOUS -O$IGGITY S .OSTALGIA /ASIS #AFE 0APER -OON 0INON -ARKET #AFE 0RIDE #OUNSELING 2ADIO #ITY ,OUNGE 2ED "UTTE #AFE 2ED 2OCK "REWING 2EGENCY 4HEATRES 2OYAL %ATERY 3, #OFFEE "REAK 3, #OMMUNITY #OLLEGE 3ORENSON -ULTICULTURAL #TR 3QUATTERS 0UB 3QUIRREL "ROS 3TONE'ROUND 4AVERNACLE 4HE "AKERY 4HE #ENTER 4HE /THER 0LACE 4OWER 4HEATRE 4RAPP 4RAPP $OOR 5NIV OF 5TAH 5RBAN "ISTRO 5RBAN ,OUNGE 6IRGIN -EGASTORES 35'!2 (/53% #OFFEE "LUE 0LATE $INER #OCKERS 3PARKS $ANCING #RANE &IDDLER S %LBOW &REE 3PEECH :ONE -ILLCREEK #OFFEE 3, 0IZZA 0ASTA 4EA 'ROTTO 7ESTMINSTER 7ILD /ATS

3/54( 3!,4 ,!+% !LL &OR ,OVE !LTERNATIVE %YEWEAR "AGELRY #AFE -ED #ENTURY ,AUNDRY ,A0UENTE -522!9 (OUR &ITNESS "UBBA S ""1 .ICK 7ILLIES 0IZZA 7%34 6!,,%9 #ENTURY ,AUNDRY 'RINGO S 3, #OMMUNITY #OLLEGE 7ISE 'UYS #OMEDY 4!9,/236),,% #OFFEE #LUB *UST !DD #OFFEE (OUR &ITNESS "EANS AND "REWS 02/6/ "ORDERS -/!"

"ACK OF "EYOND "OOKS #%$!2 #)49 "LUE +AT #AFE 34 '%/2'% +ALEIDESCOPE #AFE 8ETEVA 'ARDENS

.OT ON THIS LIST

7ANT TO BE #ALL

OR EMAIL TONY QSALTLAKE COM

My current interest in Hollywood has been piqued shall we say by the latest Court of Appeals ruling against Clean Flicks and their self righteous ilk. Hopefully this ruling drives a stake through the heart of censoring other people’s films in the name of “Family Values.� Yes, darlings, you know it’s coming, so brace your tender little selves, I’m about to rant.

Ever since I was a young fresh thing skipping through the halls of Brigham

Young University I knew something in the universe was amiss. The Wilkinson Student Center had a theater that showed commercial box office hits. The thing that always struck me about their films was that they were always edited. No not just edited — that’s too polite a description —they were hacked to pieces as if they had been attacked by vikings on a meth binge.

Case in point (and yes I know this dates me horribly) — I remember when they showed one of the Beverly Hills Cop movies, which originally was rated for

Come on, this is BYU, if the athletic program has away games, you’re not going to offend any minorities anyway! language and sex, etc., that had been sanitized to meet BYU’s moral standards.

It was essentially a silent 23-minute film about a black man recklessly despoiling white society. The movie was unrecognizable and completely out of context.

Why bother even scheduling and screening it, I thought to myself? Why not just

go straight to the source and show D.W. Griffith’s, 1915 Birth of a Nation complete with all of the KKK undertones. It’s nowhere near as offensive as some of BYU’s hate-filled, anti-gay devotionals and, come on, this is BYU. If the athletic program has away games, you’re not going to offend any minorities anyway! Oh, I kid, I kid ‌ sort of.

But seriously, it’s not surprising that some overly-zealous Mo decides to edit, repackage and sell someone else’s films and think that no one will notice.

It’s basic role modeling — monkey see, monkey do. The LDS church edits, cleans, and repackages its doctrine about every other day and keeps releasing new and sanitized versions for its members, hoping that nobody remembers the earlier edition (remember polygamy or when blacks couldn’t hold the priesthood? They sure hope you don’t). I think the Book of Mormon must be at least on Version 8.2 by now. Its probably bundled with the Doctrine and Covenants version 2.3, the Pearl of Great Price version 5.0, a Jericho Road screen saver and a sound file of Gladys Knight signing “Midnight Train to Georgia� underwater at her baptism.

So why wouldn’t some entrepreneurial Utah County hack think God was on his side, and the law and courts of the land be damned? It’s something to ponder pumpkins.

Ciao!

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 watching IHC and Envirocare’s new cosmetic name changes and charm offensive PSAs.

EXPIRES 8/30/2006

Online Dating

L. Drea Strasser, bellaonline.com You’ve decided to join the world of online dating. You’ve checked out several lesbian and gay sites and decided to create a profile about yourself. So what do you do when someone contacts you?

somebody would give you their personal info so quickly. Is it because they can only check email at the library every two weeks?

Do they say their computer is so slow and they can text faster than trying to have a conversation online? Not all motives are bad, just be cautious.

1 2

7

3

8

Don’t panic. Be excited that someone sees you for the gem that you are.

Read their profile. Learn more about the person who has reached out. Do they fall in line with the criteria you’ve set? If not, why? Is your criteria too lofty?

Respond to their message. Decide whether you’d like to get to know this person or not and reply accordingly. It’s proper etiquette to send a message saying you’re not interested if that’s the case.

Just think how you would feel if you had a big crush on someone, but they never ever responded to your “hello” message. Be nice but send an FYI.

4

Have a conversation. Spend some time having a conversation online (via email) to learn more about this person. Ask questions to keep the ball rolling. Remember a conversation isn’t one-sided. Tell about yourself. What do you like to do for fun? Do you have pets? How do you make a living?

5

Don’t give out your phone number right away. Allow some time to pass so that you can build up a sense of trust with the other person. Nothing says “desperate” or “psycho killer” like exchanging phone numbers too soon.

6

On the flip side, if you receive a phone number immediately, think about why

Have fun. Always remember that dating is supposed to be enjoyable. If you’re not having a good time with the conversations, you will end up feeling like you’re trying to fill an open position, rather than looking for love and romance.

So you’ve decided you’re ready to meet in person. Meet somewhere public for the first time! No matter how many conversations you’ve had, until you meet you can’t be sure that “cuteandfunny78” is who she appears to be.

9

Enjoy your date! Remember that this person is already attracted to what you’ve told her you are about. Relax and go with the flow.

10

Call her within two to three days, unless the two of you arranged something sooner. Too soon, unplanned, seems desperate; longer seems uninterested.

The moral: Enjoy yourself. Be yourself. Be your own best seller … you are unique and you should explain why. It’s a sales pitch!

BE HONEST! The world is your oyster. Good luck!

BellaOnline.com is a community of women who live all around the globe, who support each other, train each other, and together strive to offer the highest quality content we can to our visitor audience.

Announcing the Opening of Our Fully Decorated Model Units Beginning Saturday, July 8th This event marks the beginning of the first phase in the masterplan development of an exciting new cosmopolitan retail, residential, and commercial experience unlike anything the area has ever seen. Don’t miss the opportunity to invest in one of these handsomely appointed condominiums. Open floorplans and thoughtfully planned amenities have gone into the design of each unit.

Make the connection – The Residences at Central Pointe.

Sales currently underway!

80

State St.

2100 So. TRAX Central Pointe

Main St.

15

Future Development

N

Make the connection.

Starting from the $185s

801-466-2600 ResidencesCP.com

Residences at Central Pointe is an equal opportunity community, and is a registered trademark of SLC Development Partners I, LLC. Models do not reflect racial preference. Pricing, terms and availability subject to change prior to sale. Rendering is artist interpretation. Map not to scale. Professionally marketed

by One Eighteen Advertising. www.OneEighteen.com

RESIDENCES AT CENTRAL POINTE

J u LY 1 5 , 2 0 0 6 Q Q S A LT L A K E Q 1 3

1700 So.

1 4 Q Q S A LT L A K E Q J u LY 1 5 , 2 0 0 6

“By the games’ nature, it is inclusive; everyone is welcome. Part of our mission is to reduce stereotypes based on sexual orientation,” Boyer said.

County Commissioner Mike Quigley — a straight man who represents a sizable gay and lesbian community on Chicago’s north side — plans to play ice hockey at the Games with Chicago team, the Blackwolves.

“You only have to ask me once to play hockey,” Quigley says. “And as an elected official, I want to send a message that we all have more in common than we have differences. The whole spirit of sports is to put those differences behind us. And just as importantly, it’s going to be fun.”

Heterosexuals won’t be the only group in the minority among athletes. Only about 10 people who identify themselves as “transgender” are expected to participate.

Donna Rose, known as David Rosen before her sexual reassignment surgery in 2000, plans to wrestle in the Gay Games. A former college champion in Canada, Rose is heading back to the mat for the first time as a woman.

“Some [transgender people] don’t see the gay and lesbian community to be a welcoming place. I daresay I don’t expect more than a handful of us there,” she said. “But I see [the Gay Games] as a way to be a face for transgender people.

When you talk to someone and know them as a person, you overcome barriers and become more comfortable.”

Protests Not everyone views the Gay Games as a winner for Chicago.

The Glen Ellyn-based Illinois Family Institute has been the most vocal Gay Games basher — arguing against the federal government’s decision to allow HIV-infected Gay Games participants to travel here from other countries.

There was controversy in suburban Crystal Lake before the park district board voted to allow the Gay Games to hold rowing events in town.

Cook County, Chicago commissioner and Republican board president nominee Tony Peraica said he pulled his name from the resolution because he didn’t want to be associated with the Gay Games.

“As a matter of public policy, I did not want to celebrate or encourage that kind of a situation,” he said.

T

By Mark J. Konkol housands of gay, lesbian, transgender and straight athletes will kick off Gay Games VII on July 15 by marching into Soldier Field — Chicago’s lakefront home of major sporting events since 1924 — with their hearts set on breaking stereotypes and maybe even some records.

With the MetLife blimp hovering over the stadium, dancers, acrobats and musicians — including rock star Andy Bell of Erasure — are set to perform in what’s being billed as an opening ceremony “full of surprises.”

And it will be broadcast live to the world on Sirius Satellite Radio.

“Chicago is a great gay and lesbian destination, but it’s never been seen globally the same way as San Francisco or Amsterdam or New York,” said Gay Games Chicago spokesman Kevin Boyer.

“The Gay Games puts in the minds of the international traveling public that Chicago is a great gay and lesbian destination.”

More than a sports competition, the Gay Games has always been a statement — peaceful demonstration even — aimed at breaking down stereotypes, bigotry and hate aimed at homosexuals.

Back in 1982, the late Olympic decathlete Thomas Waddell founded the games in San Francisco as a way of countering the stereotype of “men with lisps who cross their legs like women, mince down the street and have wrist drop” by showcasing athletic homosexuals.

What started with 1,350 athletes competing in 17 events now boasts about 12,000 participants from about 65 countries in 30 events, including about 800 people taking part in cultural events.

Gay Games VII ambassador Esera Tuaolo, a former NFL nose tackle who played for the Atlanta Falcons in Super Bowl XXIII, says he’s participating in flag football and volleyball to help carry on the message.

“It’s exactly what we’re striving for, continuing [Waddell’s] work and eliminating the stereotypes of gay athletes

across the board,” Tuaolo said. “I never thought in a million years I would participate in such an event and be out and proud. It definitely breaks down stereotypes of who we are as a culture.”

Records count Make no mistake, the Gay Games isn’t for “sissies.”

“Don’t sugarcoat it. This is no piece of cake. There will be world-class athletes, and if you break a record, it counts,” Tuaolo said. “So you get people who also compete in the Olympics or the highest level of college sports.”

You’ll find those athletes participating in top-tier competitions including figure skating, diving, bodybuilding, wrestling, bicycling, running events and the triathlon.

The Gay Games even has adopted the World Anti-Doping Agency list of banned substances and policies to discourage drug use among participants. Drug tests are required for athletes participating in physique and powerlifting and are optional in wrestling.

But many more folks will take part in events designed to interest the weekend warrior or barroom regular: flag football, softball, darts, billiards and the like.

There will be singing, dancing and cheerleading competitions, plus nighttime celebrations of gay culture.

“The point is to provide people a way to perform at their personal best while at the same time being inclusive. By definition, the Gay Games are not only about elite sports played at elite levels. You need sports people are used to competing in. It’s the very nature of the Gay Games, and that’s different from the Olympics.”

Softball, for instance, is the runaway favorite event, with more than 1,300 signed up to play.

“The Gay Games reflects the nature of community-based organizations. That’s why darts and billiards are events,” Boyer said. “You can play while enjoying a few brewskis.”

Straights welcome, too While most of the participants will be gay or lesbian, organizers expect a handful of straight participants. At Gay Games VI in Sydney, Australia, in 2002, about 6 percent of the athletes said they were straight, organizers said.

History After the Gay Games’ inaugural San Francisco event in 1982, the number of participants doubled to 3,500 at Gay Games II four years later.

And during the height of the AIDS epidemic, the 1990 Gay Games in Vancouver, Canada, became an even bigger international affair with participants from 27 countries — about 7,300 athletes competing in 27 sports.

The 1994 games in New York City drew record crowds because it coincided with a celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall rebellion, a civil rights protest of a police raid on a gay bar.

But the last two Gay Games, in Amsterdam and Sydney, respectively, had some financial trouble, failing to draw expected crowds and getting bailed out by the host cities.

Gay Games VII organizers said similar financial problems won’t affect this year’s games, which have a different, “more diversified financial model.”

Parties and cultural events that drained resources have been cut back. Organizers started early in promoting opening and closing ceremony headliners, including Cindy Lauper and Erasure’s front man Andy Bell, leading to steady ticket sales. Compared with the 40 or so sponsors for the New York City Gay Games, this year’s games have about 340 sponsors that have donated $2.4 million in cash and $7.5 million worth of in-kind contributions.

And for Chicago, the Gay Games is expected to generate an impressive $80 million in tourism dollars. About 20,000 hotel rooms reserved for Gay Games participants and fans are nearly sold out.

The apparent financial success comes despite a rival gay-centric competition — the World Out Games — later this month in Montreal, originally proposed as a site for this year’s event.

Contract negotiations with Montreal fell apart, and the event was moved to Chicago. Montreal leaders decided to create and host the World Out Games instead.

Gay Games organizers admit that the competing games were a cause for worry two years ago, but with opening ceremonies a few days away, there’s no reason for concern.

“What we want to get focused on is welcoming participants from these 70 countries and to experience these games,” Gay Games board of directors co-chairman Sam Coady said. “Our ceremony lineups are pretty dang impressive.” Q

Swooshing to Chicago

By JoSelle Vanderhooft

William Munk

joselle@qsaltlake.com

Team Salt Lake brings in the huge gay flag at this year’s Utah Pride Parade

Team Salt Lake Gears Up for Gay Games joselle@qsaltlake.com

Visit Team Salt Lake on the web at www.teamslc.org and the 2006 Gay Games at http://www.chicago2006.org.

Homo Hoops at the Hall

by Kim Burgess

kim@qsaltlake,com

Stewart Ralphs(left) and Jeffrey Sanchez.

Coach Stewart Ralphs crosses his arms and winces. “Set up. Set up,” he orders. On the court, a player runs to the outside and shoots the ball gracefully to the basket.

“Nice, nice,” Ralphs says with a smile.

It was the last basketball practice before the Gay Games in Chicago, and Team Utah was looking good. The action was fast and furious, moving quickly from one end of the court to the other.

The team has come a long way from pick-up games in the Rowland Hall gym, which is how they started in January of 2005. Now everyone still has fun, but it’s clear they’re all business, working on strategy and honing their game.

“These players are dedicated. That’s why they’re here every Sunday,” team organizer Jeffry Sanchez said. On this weekend, the team was giving up watching the World Cup final, a pretty large sacrifice for sports fanatics.

While competition is the team’s main focus, community and friendship are a close second. “It’s an alternative to the bar scene,” Ralphs said. “This group gives an —Continued on page 16

J u LY 1 5 , 2 0 0 6 Q Q S A LT L A K E Q 1 5

When Team Salt Lake enters the 2006 Gay Games’ opening ceremonies on Saturday, July 15 co-coaches Doug Fadel and Mark McGowan are about to see a year of hard work pay off. Not only have they put Salt Lake City on the map for the seventh Gay Games, they’ve done so by finding almost 100 athletes to attend. At Sydney’s Gay Games in 2002, Team Salt Lake was only seven strong.

“Between the swimming and the water polo teams that are going, we’ll have almost 50 people from QUAC [the Queer Utah Aquatic Club], which is awesome. They always correlate the Gay Games with their yearly national events, so it’s a good turn out from them,” said McGowan. Along with aquatic sports, Team Salt Lake also includes four teams, men’s basketball, women’s basketball, women’s softball and a flag football team of ten members (including three women). Team Salt Lake also includes athletes competing in individual events such as the marathon and triathlon, cycling, bowling martial arts, darts and golf, a sport in which McGowan will also compete.

“I think it’s going to be really fun on Saturday night for the opening ceremony, having about 100 people from Salt Lake marching together in matching t-shirts and Team Salt Lake banners,” said McGowan. “It’s going to make a statement, I think.”

While the team couldn’t stay at the same hotel largely due to some members’ late sign ups, more than half of the athletes will be staying at Chicago’s Palmer Hilton, the location which will serve as the team’s headquarters.

“Everyone is welcome from all sports to join us each morning there for breakfast, and we will also have a location within the hotel to let everyone know where our team and individuals are participating each day and also a record of the results,” said McGowan. This set up will tell team members when they have down time and enable them to attend other members’ events to offer moral support.

“For instance, basketball starts on Sunday because of how many teams they have, while no one else from Team Salt Lake starts until Monday,” McGowan explained. “So, I would expect to see lots and lots of Team Salt Lake going to the basketball games.” The team will also walk to the opening and closing ceremonies together and will be able to socialize at several informal events throughout the week-long games, such as a mixer on Friday, July 14.

While most athletes would love to bring home a gold, silver or bronze medal, McGowan said the “large majority” of the team want merely to play their best and have fun.

“Basically, the Gay Games was founded on the principles of participation, inclusion and personal best,” McGowan explained. “That’s more important than going out gung-ho to win a battle… [For example], our football team. We’re going with the full intention of playing our best and winning, but we know realistically that’s probably not going to happen. A lot of our all-stars were not able to make it due to just not planning in advance or financial reasons, which

we’re hoping we can help more people with in the future.”

Ultimately, McGowan hopes that Team Salt Lake’s strong showing at the Chicago games will encourage more gay and lesbian Utah athletes to play sports, or even to form their own teams and leagues. Since the creation of Utah’s Gay Athletic Association in 2005, he says doing so is easier than ever before.

“We’re also seeing a lot more participating in our local sporting groups and leagues here in SL which is great, that’s really part of our goal as well. It’s a great alternative for members of our community to go out, participate and play sports and meet people.”

He also hopes that athletes competing in Chicago this year will sign up for the 2010 Gay Games, to be held in Germany.

“If you haven’t been to a Gay Games before you just don’t realize the enormity of it, and just what a great experience it is,” said McGowan. “Even though in four years it’s going to be in Germany so many people will have gone [this year] I think they’ll start making plans right when they get back from Chicago to basically say you know what? I’m going to make it to Germany as well.”

As for his own goals as a competitor, McGowan hopes to do his best in flag football. Of course, he wouldn’t mind taking home a medal in golf, either.

“As for golf, within my division there’s no reason if I don’t play well that I shouldn’t win a medal,” he said.

Kim Burgess

By JoSelle Vanderhooft

Though the members of Team Swoosh have played together since 2002, the possibility of competing at the international Gay Games didn’t come up until the middle of last year’s season. Before that, the team played locally, doing better with each passing year.

“I think we placed first in our league pretty much in the past two years,” said Sarah Burton, Team Swoosh member and one of the twelve players (ten players, two alternates) heading to Chicago.

Then someone on the team suggested that they take their game to a higher level.

“We’d been getting better and better as a team,” recalls Burton. “This opportunity came up and we decided that it would be something that’s fun. [The Gay Games] come to the states not very often, it’s only every four years, so we thought, hey lets do it.”

Though making the decision to go was easy, getting ready to go was a different story. Taking a twelve member team across stateliness is no small feat, and the athletes had only a few months to raise enough money to cover expenses like air fare, hotel rooms and food. To do this, they held a letter writing campaign and several fundraisers in local clubs like Mo Diggity’s and the Trapp Door, including drag shows and silent auctions, over the last six months.

But their efforts literally paid off.

“As a team we probably raised about 12,000 dollars, so that was kind of a big undertaking in six months to raise that,” said Burton.

Team Swoosh will arrive in Chicago on Friday, July 14 and will march with the rest of Team Salt Lake at the opening ceremonies on Sunday. Although they won’t know who they’re playing until they get there, the team has a game plan for their down time.

“We’ll be sight seeing [on Saturday],” said Burton. “Apparently the games run from eight o’clock in the morning to six o’clock at night, so we’ll also have time afterward.

Then they have events planed throughout the whole week, like different parties. You can also go see events that are going on, like swimming. So we’ll be supporting other team members and just hanging out.”

While many athletes competing at the 2006 Gay Games may dream of bringing home a gold medal, Burton says she and her team mates are trying to maintain a realistic attitude about competing.

“We may not win because there are a lot of teams in the league, but we don’t want to go and play five games and be out,” she said. “We want to go and be competitive and go as far as we can.”

Still, it’s the team’s cohesion and skill that ultimately matters most to Burton. “[During the 2002 Gay Games] we weren’t at a place with our team where it was something we could have done. But the team we have now and kind of the — I guess where the team is as people and as a team as a whole — is perfect.” Q

1 6 Q Q S A LT L A K E Q J u LY 1 5 , 2 0 0 6

Homo Hoops —Continued from page 15

added dimension to the gay community.

I see it as a way to motivate people to get involved with the gay community, especially politically. I am very involved with issues like Don’t Amend.”

Sanchez agreed. “I moved here when I just got out of the army. When I moved here, I didn’t know anyone. I didn’t have family; I didn’t have friends. I just jumped off this cliff and moved to Utah because I fell in love with Salt Lake City….. I went to the Center and they told me about Pride softball. That transitioned to football and then to basketball. That’s how I know everybody. I made connections.”

The team is looking forward to making new connections in Chicago when their ten players join 12,000 other athletes in 30 sports.

“I’m going to have fun. I don’t care if we win or lose,” player Jonathan M. Bailey said. A Seattle native who recently moved to Utah, Bailey has never visited the Mid-West. “This is the furthest [west] I’ve been,” he said. “I’d like to see Chicago.”

With fundraising efforts not yet in place, Bailey and the other players are paying for the trip out of their own pockets. However, they do get several perks,

Sports

The Team Salt Lake basketball team plays their final warm-up game at Rowland Hall

like free attendance to games and the opening and closing ceremonies, which will feature Margaret Cho, Megan Mullally of “Will and Grace,” Andy Bell, Cyndi Lauper and musical “Avenue Q.” Ralphs is particularly looking forward to watching water polo, while Sanchez won’t miss bodybuilding. “Those guys are so sexy,” he said.

After their return from Chicago, Team Utah will prepare for the Rocky Mountain Tournament and other games on the West

Coast. Ralphs is already looking ahead to the next Gay Games, four years from now, and hopes to have more players involved, eventually forming three teams at different skill levels. Both he and Sanchez are eager to get the word out about the team and sign up more guys, both gay and straight. “This is a good group of guys,” Sanchez said. “We’re very inclusive.” Q Individuals who would like to join Team Utah can visit www.ngba.us for contact information.

Team Salt Lake is a multi-sport organization promoting LGBT sports in Utah and supporting those teams in their competitive efforts in attending the Gay Games. teamslc.org Frontrunners/ Frontwalkers Salt Lake City is a walking and running club for the GLBT community and our gay and lesbian affirming friends. ­frontrunnersslc.org Lambda Hiking Club. Providing friendly, safe, and fun outdoor activities for Utah’s GLBT community 532-8447 gayhike.org Utah Gay Rodeo Association. PO Box 511255 SLC, UT 84151 ugra.net PRIDE COMMUNITY SOFTBALL LEAGUE plays Sundays at Jordan Park, 1050 S. 1000 W. through the summer. ­pridesoftball.org Queer Utah Aquatic Club invites swimmers and water polo players of ANY skill level. QuacQuac.org.

Salt Lake Women in Action is a recreational club for women in the community and other liberal minded women. ­slwomeninaction.com

Salt Lake CITY GLBT BASKETBALL hosts open play at the Rowland Hall Gym, 843 S. Lincoln St (945 East). Two available Courts. One court hosts a women’s game and one court hosts men’s game. Sunday Mornings 10:30 am ­ngba.us Utah Gay & Lesbian Martial Artists seeks to bring our community together so that we may share in experiences and activities. We would like to eventually organize events such as tournaments, fund raisers, community service, seminars, etc.uglma.org Mountain West Flag Football League will open their fall season Aug. 3 – Sep 14 at Sugar House Park. The Gay Bowl will be held in Dallas, Texas on October 6-8th. mwffl.org Stonewall Shooting Sports of Utah. Firearm advocates and owners in Utah, promoting self defense for gender and sexual minorities. stonewallshootingsportsutah.org

Sing with the Salt Lake Men’s Choir!

It’s that time of year again — time to dust off the old vocal chords and start singing with Utah’s OTHER Choir.

Join us Thursday, Aug. 17 and 24 at All Saints Episcopal Church, 1700 South Foothill Blvd.

See saltlakemenschoir.org

Kim Russo snaps photos at the Pride365 Gay Freedom Day

Kim Russo also catches you at Investitures at Paper Moon

J u LY 1 5 , 2 0 0 6 Q Q S A LT L A K E Q 1 7

1 8 Q Q S A LT L A K E Q J u LY 1 5 , 2 0 0 6

Kenny G See July 22.

by Tony Hobday

tony@qsaltlake.com

Michael says naked camping is good for the soul. So I tried it out last weekend, and I must say that naked camping is good only for road rash on your ass and making your balls look like an eighty year-old man with terrible acne from all the damn mosquito bites.

17MONDAY Q There has been nothing short of a surge of plays and movies that have used, at least in some way, the premise of You Can’t Take It With You. The 1938 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart was first to dabble in nonconformity to social, intellectual, and

economical standards. Alice Sycamore comes from a long line of bohemian artists and whose “Grandpa” is more than a bit on the eccentric side. She is engaged to Tony Kirby, starch-bred from a scrupulous family of snobby bankers. When the families meet, mayhem erupts into a three-ring circus.

7:30pm, Tonight through August 19, Hale Center Theater, 225 W. 400 North, Orem.

Tickets$10.50-16.50, call 226-8600 or visit haletheater.com.

18TUESDAY Q Walt Disney was a genius. He created the sexually confused estrogen-enriched Mickey Mouse. He created the little boy with a well-endowed appendage. He created a twirling singing diva surrounded by

SLAC SATURDAY'S VOYEUR THE SALT LAKE ACTING COMPANY

picnic Bring a e fun. th & join

CLOSE0th!

T S U M T2 AUGUS kets Now! ur tic Buy yo

2006

by Allen Nevins & Nancy Borgenicht

June 6 - August 20

This year the VOYEUR gang goes to “Bendover” your destination family resort town where the natural family is protected, life is elevated to brand new heights, and nothing is quite what it seems.

VOYEUR audiences are saying: “We’re having so much fun, do we have to go home?”

“We couldn’t wait to come back a second time.”

“It’s everything I was hoping for.”

“Loved, loved, loved it!”

m 0p 7:3 pm t a t8 ay a rsd rday 7pm u h & T tu For Tickets call 363-SLAC or 355-ARTS y & & Sa t 2pm a www.saltlakeactingcompany.org esd ay y a dn Frid nda 168 West 500 North, SLC We Su

an entourage of bitchy little men. He created the Mickey Mouse Club, which bore gay icons like Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake. I don’t know why nobody had thought of this before, but Quantum NLP is now offering a free seminar Learning from Genius: Walt Disney. Attend the seminar and learn how to apply Walt Disney’s genius strategy in your own life and be really, really gay.

7pm, Sprague Library, 2131 S. 1100 East.

Free, call 979-4799 for more information.

21FRIDAY Q Park City Performing Arts Foundation presents Etta James in concert. The legendary multi award-winning recording artist looks like a refined Rosie Perez after losing some 200 pounds, but her vocal ability still has fire and ingenuity after five seemingly insurmountable decades. The bitch even has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. When do I get a piece of the pie?

7pm, Deer Valley Resort, 2250 Deer Valley Drive South, Park City. Tickets $28-53, call 355-ARTS or visit arttix.org.

22SATURDAY Q If a refined Rosie Perez don’t blow your skirt, maybe a dish-water blond Carrot Top will do the trick. (The analogy doesn’t make much sense, but I’m tired.) Don’t get me wrong, I wish somebody knew how to handle me like Kenny G handles a saxophone. I mean I do like spit on the

lip. But if he starts in on the holiday tunes, I’ll just spit.

7:30pm, Deer Valley Resort, 2250 Deer Valley Drive South, Park City. Tickets $30, call 355-ARTS or visit arttix.org.

Q A little folk (no, not tiny people), a little rock (no, not drugs), a little mellow (no, not yellow) and a lot of rockin’ (no, not the bed) equals Stevens Party. (No, not from that other gay paper.) As part of the Summer Concerts on the Lawn and presented by Timpanogos Singer/Songwriter Alliance, tonight’s concert is only one of many free events lined up this summer.

The show opens with the works of Glenn Ryan Gilliam.

7pm, The Homestead Resort, 700 N. Homestead Drive, Midway. Free, visit homesteadresort.com or timpanogos.org for more information.

23SUNDAY Q So, if you don’t mind your balls being bitten by mosquitoes, the guys reading this might want to do that naked camping Michael was talking about. He says there’s no better way to celebrate Pioneer Day than joining the Utah Male Naturists on their Naked Days of 47 Campout ... or ­Pionekkid Day, as some are calling it. Camp all night or come just for the evening. It’s just a 45 minute drive.

6pm. For details, go to umen.org.

24MONDAY

30SUNDAY

Q I’m at a loss here because, unfortunately, Panic! At the Disco with Dresdon Dolls and Hush Sound is apparently sold out—and I had such witty comments lined up for the snippet. Now, I’m limited to, ugghh…I hate to say Pioneer Day. Hell, just go get sloshed at a bar. I bet Bishop Gene will have his ward crawling with boy toy missionaries slash bartenders. Or maybe Joe will be putting on a gay porn re-enactment of the Work & Glory-hole.

Or maybe David will be handing out green Jell-O shots…oh, wait his is only a lowly beer bar.

Club Try-Angles en route to The Trapp en route to Heads Up or any combination of the three. Please don’t yell at me.

Q For the gay golf enthusiasts, if there are any, The Homstead Resort hosts Swing, Slice and Cheese Golf Social. At first glance, I assumed they were talking about erotic foreplay, but then again I am a horn-dog. Anyway, participants have the option to play 9 or 18 holes. I usually only play two. Once they flip a few birdies, pick out some bogies and finish hard, par none, appetizers and a wine/beer cash bar will be waiting.

10am-7pm, The Homestead Resort, 700 N. Homestead Drive, Midway. $25-40 including carts, call 1-888-327-7220 to reserve tee times.

Q If you don’t already have an inkling about your palms and fingers, perhaps you should consider signing up for TAO Institute’s Integral Palmistry class.

Learn about the positions and meaning of each part of the palm, fingerprints, mounds, and shapes of hands, as well as, how palms change and evolve every six months and how to interpret the information correctly. I do suggest, however, that you shave the palms of your hands beforehand. No pun intended.

10am-6pm, Today and tomorrow, TAO Institute, 150 S. 600 East, Suite 2C. Tuition $200, call 521-0055 for more information.

Q “My name is Luka, I puked from the second floor…”, sorry I am digressing through my friend Blaine’s warped sense of humor while changing the lyrics to songs. Anyway, I am ecstatic to inform you that Suzanne Vega is in concert tonight. Take a couple of bottles of wine, blankets, and an appetite because she’s at one of my favorite venues.

7pm, Red Butte Garden, University of Utah, 300 Wakara Way. Tickets $26-30, call 325-SEAT or visit ticketmaster.com.

26WEDNESDAY

Q He may look like a dirty hippy, but the dude belts out some sardonic, emotionally astute songs including one of my favorites, Strange Condition. You guessed it, I’m referring to Pete Yorn, a force that is sure to break the barriers of indie poprock.

7pm, In The Venue, 219 S. 600 West. Tickets $20, call 359-3219 or visit smithstix.com.

27THURSDAY

Q A dynamic duo of over twenty years, Gene and Dean Ween (thankfully these are aliases) blast their unusual atomic sound tonight at In The Venue. If you want to be a Weener, then go see this concert. And as a side note, I must say that this venue is making a name for itself. You go girls!

7pm, In The Venue, 219 S. 600 West. Tickets $20, call 359-3219 or visit smithstix.com.

28FRIDAY

Q Tonight Snowbird kicks off the twoday Rock & Blues Festival with the Rock segment featuring Jerry Joseph & The Jackmormons, Chris Duarte, and Los Lobos. A spread of Cajun food will be available and local artists will have booths at the Rhythm Street Market. Snowbird is a great escape from the blistering summer heat. Unfortunately, outside alcohol and coolers are prohibited.

6pm, Snowbird Ski & Summit Resort, Little Cottonwood Canyon. Tickets $35-90, call 933-2200.

29SATURDAY

Q Maybe my friend Blaine is using telepathic powers forcing me to make up silly lyrics to otherwise fabulous songs.

That bitch. I should consider taking TAO Institute’s Remote Viewing-Advanced Telepathy class and teach him a lesson.

Oooh, and maybe I can locate my virginity, too and say ‘thank you’.

6-9pm, Today and August 7, TAO Institute 150 S. 600 East, Ste 2C. Fee $85, call 5210055 for more information.

Q It’s back and that ain’t jack. Plan-B Theatre Company once again proudly presents one of its finest shows, And the Banned Played On. This fourth install celebrating the First Amendment garners a brilliant list of performers including Debi Graham, Aaron Swenson, Mayor Rocky Anderson and many more. Don’t miss out on this one-night only performance.

7pm, Jeanne Wagner Theatre, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. Broadway. Tickets $30, call 355-ARTS or visit arttix.org.

Upcoming Events Steph Taylor, August 3, MoDiggity’s The Rebellion, August 5, Club Try-Angles Gay Lagoon Day, August 13, a Pride365 event sponsored by Q Salt Lake

by Tony Hobday

tony@qsaltlakecom

Mormon-bashing is a way of life in Utah even for many Mormons. It may be because Mormonism deters Utah’s transcendence. We truly could have a ‘pretty, great state’ and have ‘life elevated’ if inane counteractions to those who do not necessarily share the beliefs of the Church of Latter-day Saints ceased, including but not limited to the subject of the political satire Saturday’s Voyeur 2006 — Bendover: A Tale of Two Cities. Once again, the audacity of the church has provoked another irrational controversy over an insignificant matter; the battle of Wendover, Utah-Nevada.

In years past, the show has prevailed as one of the most controversial of its kind installing sexual innuendos, political back lashing, social and moral atrocities, racial remarks, and crass language.

Allen Nevins’ and Nancy Borgenicht’s 16th production of the popular long-running show certainly holds true to this standard by offering another uninhibited, humorous, yet not all that insightful look at the ins-and-outs of Utah’s stagnant social evolution. The story lines lack cohesiveness (especially in the first act), some of the musical numbers are tepid at best, and albeit true to nature, the overuse of the expressions “deal or no deal” and “that’s so gay” is particularly nerve-wracking.

With minimal exception, the cast share a certain comical rapport which awards the show its endearing quality. Joshua Black and Richard Lopez (who gives a hysterical performance) as “greenie” LDS missionaries with innocent, sexually obtrusive demeanors are sweet and innocuous until the striptease during the final scene when they bare more than their garments (in fact, they aren’t wearing gar-

ments). In truth, both of these actors have potentially successful “stripper” careers to fall back on, but long-term acting is sure to be in store for them.

Joe Welsch bestows an eerily realistic performance as Gayle Godzika (duh!), but the entourage of mindless robotic “Eaglets” fluttering about is like an irritating rash.

Ali Bennett gives a fine performance as a naïve impressionable girl wrought between her mother’s moral indiscretions and her own sexual desires.

Rock H. White plays, with such superb gaiety, the local stake president who befalls the evil spells of alcohol and adultery.

Plus, he is all that and a bag of Doritos as Wendover Will.

Dee Macaluso is victorious as a transsexual meat delivery … umm, person.

Morgan Lund’s overly boisterous portrayal of a Las Vegas “mobster” is so annoying that you will grit your teeth and shudder in your seat every time he steps on stage.

The casting of Colleen Baum as Enola Gay is the only redeeming factor to an annoying bitter-swelled character.

Regardless of the shortcomings that pebble this year’s Saturday’s Voyeur, the show, in its 28th season, has earned a respectable place in performing arts.

Mormon bashing seems all too common, but it is always entertaining; and boy does this show know how to bash.

The performance runs WednesdaysSundays through August 20, 2006. Tickets may be purchased online at arttix.org or by calling 355-ARTS. The “crack house staff” (somebody actually referred to it this way, take it as you will) of SLAC allow you to bring alcohol and food to enjoy while watching the performance, but house bouncer John will scold you if you get too loud. Q

J u LY 1 5 , 2 0 0 6 Q Q S A LT L A K E Q 1 9

Q Night two of the Rock & Blues Festival features, you guessed it, the Blues portion of the event. Tonight’s artists are Andrew Goldring & the Rosedale Power Company, Lil’ Ed & the Blues Imperials, Walter Trout, and Johnny Winter. All the same amenities are available, however, outside alcohol and coolers are still prohibited.

5pm, Snowbird Ski & Summit Resort, Little Cottonwood Canyon. Tickets $35-90, call 933-2200.

Q The music combination of jazz, blues and swing screams Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. And I want seven men who make me scream, “Bring it my big bad voodoo daddy”—but I digress. Don’t miss out on some classic N’Orlins music.

7:30pm, Deer Valley Resort, 2250 Deer Valley Drive South, Park City. Tickets $30-50, call 355-ARTS or visit arttix.org.

31MONDAY

SLAC’s 28th ‘Voyeur’ Takes a Gamble, Doesn’t Lose its Shirt ... Until the End

The biggest news of the day is that JLo won her bid to keep her ex hubby Ojani Noa from writing a tell-all about their marriage – at least for the time being.

Jenny from the Block’s first spouse (who she was married a whopping 10 minutes – I shudder to think of the yarns he could weave) had made it quite clear he intended to write a tell-all about his relationship with Lopez, which ended around the time she exploded to A-list Hollywood status with films like Selena and Out of Sight.

La Lopez countered with a lawsuit in April, saying if Noa wrote the book he’d be breaching a nondisclosure, “non-disparagement� pact between the two.

She then obtained a temporary restraining order to prevent him from going ahead with the proposed book. Earlier this week, Lopez scored a temporary injunction which keeps Noa from “criticizing in a negative light or otherwise disparaging�

Lopez until the two settle their dispute or a non-jury trial determines whether or not the court order will remain permanent.

The injunction also prevents Noa from talking about the intimate details of the actress/alleged singer’s life. Noa first announced plans to pen the tell all in an interview with the New York Post.

At the time, he claimed Lopez carried on an affair with now hubby Marc Anthony while he was still married to his ex-wife, Puerto Rican model Dayanara Torres.

Now I’m not suggesting I’m really looking forward to the drivel this bitter ex has to offer. I mean, let’s face it — he’s probably out for a quick buck since I can’t imagine he gets much in the way of alimony from Jen, who still lived on the block when they parted ways. But I will admit I’m one of the many who would be all too thrilled if a book were to surface putting the final nail in the coffin

that’s become JLo’s career.

Not that I’m so petty I actually wish ill on people, but come on. We’ve heard from far too many people that Jenny’s a bitch for it not to be at least partially true. And after the piss poor work she’s subjected the American public to lately (starting with Gigli, peaking with that atrocious telenovela duet she did with her hubby at the Grammy’s and tapering off with last year’s embarrassing work in Monster-in-Law), she could use a Hollywood hiatus.

I say bust out the typewriter and write that shit anyway, Ojani. Maybe you can dig up Cris Judd and compare notes.

Another sad Hollywood hussy is speaking her mind on family fallouts – again. Now, former drunk/druggie/Oscar winner Tatum O’Neal claims her father hated her for winning an Oscar.

Previously, Tatum had said father Ryan O’Neal was neglectful, broke up her marriage, even caused her substance abuse.

And now, in an interview with the UK’s Stella Magazine, she claims that rather than praised her for her big win when she was just 10 years old, O’Neal took out his own career frustrations on her. “Things with my dad were pretty good until I won an Academy Award,� she told the magazine. “He was really loving to me until I got more attention than he did. Then he hated me - literally hated me. Forever!�

Of course, this is the woman who previously blamed John McEnroe for her heroin addiction in the mid ’90s, and her father for being such a messed up adult and for her now nearly non-existent acting career. Now I’ve never walked a step in Tatum’s shoes, and I don’t doubt that, like half the kids in Hollywood, she had a pretty tragic upbringing.

But it just seems to me that every time the girl dips out of the press for more than a year or so, she finds something new to blame her father for.

I just wonder why

bar guide $ELTA #ENTER

#ROSS ROADS -ALL

#,5" (%!$3 50

./24( 4%-0,%

3 34!4% s . + s #,5"(%!$350 #/-

#,5" 3/5.$

:#-) #ENTER

7 3/54( s $ 0 8

3/5.$3,# #/-

3

#,5" 429 !.',%3

3

3

#ITY (ALL

3

3

4RAX ,INE

3

3

" $ & + , .

0 4 8

-/.$!93

45%3$!93

7%$.%3$!93

4(523$!93

&2)$!93

3!452$!93

4HEME +ARAOKE

+ARAOKE

3TEINS +ARAOKE

3HOW 4UNE +ARAOKE

+AMIKAZE +ARAOKE

"REAKDOWN (EADS 5P

+RAZY +ARAOKE

'OSSIP

"EER 3OAKED

"EER 3OAKED 7EENIES #YBER 3LUT "INGO TH -ONDAYS

$RAFTS

"%!2 ,%!4(%2 $!.#% &//$ +!2!/+% .)'(43 -/34,9 ,%3")!.3 -/34,9 '!9 -%. .%)'("/2(//$ "!2 02)6!4% #,5" !2%!

-)8%$ '!9 342!)'(4 /2 '!9 /.,9 #%24!). .)'(43

'AY NIGHT

7 3/54( s 0 8

&REE POOL n $ART 4OURNAM T PM +ARAOKE 0OOL 4OURNAMENT &REE 0OOL .ATTYS "LOODY -ARYS .ATTYS +AMIKAZES

4!6%2.!#,%

$RAFTS +ARAOKE PM

$RAFTS 'UITAR 0IANO $UETS

4(% 42!00

""1 PM

+ARAOKE

,ATIN .IGHT .O COVER BEFORE

#LOSED

% 3/54( s + 0 8 \ 4!6%2.!#,% #/-

35.$!93

-9.4 ,/5.'%

0!0%2 -//.

7

Alrighty, folks, that’s all she wrote this week.

Until next week (or until Star makes a major ass out of herself again) don’t forget to stop and smell the gossip.

Which brings me to my final comment – on a recent episode of Passions.

I probably should be offended, perhaps leading a boycott of one of the crappiest shows on TV, but what I saw was so damn funny, so poorly executed, I couldn’t help

7 3/54( s . $ - 0 7EENIES $RAFTS

""1 PM #,5"429 !.',%3 #/-

3 34!4% 342%%4 s + 0 7

4RAX 3TATION

3OUTH 3ALT ,AKE

And since we’re on the topic of soap operas, it seems like a perfect segue into one of the hottest guys on daytime TV right now – All My Children’s Jacob Young. As JR Chandler, Young has been through it all — alcoholism, abandoned by his mother, losing his child to a serial killer. And the actor is one of the finest on the show. But also consider his resume as a recording artist, Broadway star (he’s currently Lumiere in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast) and soap veteran (he won an Emmy for General Hospital before he was old enough to drink). Bad boy appeal with JCrew good looks. Not bad. Not bad at all!

$RAFTS

$* "OY4OY

"EER 3OAKED 7EENIES

$* "OY 4OY

0OLES #AGES AND HOT CHICKS

3EXY 3ATURDAYS 7OMEN

7OMEN 7OMEN

$UELING 0IANOS PM

$UELING 0IANOS PM

-/$)'')49 3

%!34

34!4% 34

-!). 34

3

but watch ‌ over and over again.

Any of you who watch Passions already know exactly what I’m talking about — lesbian Simone, played by Cathy Jeneen Doe. The current plotline is far too convoluted to explain, but suffice it to say it’s a DaVinci Code rip off that culminated earlier this week with an all-out riot, orchestrated by super-villian Alistair Crane, in the house of God. The good guys are trying to fend off the bad guys, but their time is numbered. So off runs Simone to a place where “I’m always welcome.� A dyke bar, where an extremely butch-looking lesbian asks how they can help.

Cut back to the riot, where hope is all but lost. Cue the song “Bad Boys� and 15 of the hottest, butchest, buffest ladies you’ve ever seen outside the ring at the WWF, marching through the doors, waving a pride flag and ready to rumble.

Needless to say, they win, to which someone replies, “Thank God for the lesbians.�

It’s one stereotype after another and features some of the worst acting I’ve ever seen on television (and bear in mind, I watched seven seasons of Full House), but somehow, it was fitting, and I loved every minute.

3 34!4% 342%%4 s + 0 7

-/$)'')493 #/-

3

3

34!4% 34

7

4RAX 3TATION

7

3ALT ,AKE #ITY

7

3

'ATEWAY -ALL

4EMPLE 3QUARE

3ALT 0ALACE

7

*ORDAN 2IVER

7%%+,9 %6%.43

4RAX ,INE

buzz@qsaltlake.com

4RAX ,INE

2 0   Q   Q S A LT L A K E   Q   J u LY 1 5 , 2 0 0 6

By Ross von Metzke

the girl couldn’t get it all out in her book, or one big, in-depth interview. Why does she have to stockpile accusations? It’s like she’s stringing them over a lifetime as an attempt to pay bills – ‘If I blame my dad for crystal meth in July, some mag will give me 50K and I’ll have the mortgage paid through X-mas.’ It’s all quite sad, really.

In a another sad twist of fate, Desperate Housewives was shut out of this year’s Emmy nominations.

No Teri Hatcher (frankly, Susan bugs me). No Eva Longoria (whose Gabrielle really came to life this season). No Felicity Huffman (who already has an Emmy for playing Lynette Scavo and scored an Oscar nomination last year). And the biggest crime of all? No Marcia Cross (who is, simply put, brilliant as Bree Van de Kamp).

The show didn’t even get a best series nomination.

Buzz around Hollywood suggests a few possibilities. Growing frustration with the increasing number of characters Marc Cherry has been trying to cram down our throats? That’s all well and good, but it doesn’t explain the fact that Alfre Woodard managed to score the sole acting nomination for one of the most underwritten parts in TV history.

Perhaps it’s over-exposure, probably a tad more likely.

But the real answer, I’m afraid, is that Emmy doesn’t feel like rewarding the divalike antics of one of television’s most talkedabout ensembles. From Teri and Marcia throwing down at the Vanity Fair shoot to Eva showing up at the opening of a hat box, the tabloids had a field day with these ladies from day one, and while gossip-hungry America ate it up, the voters might now equate publicity with award worthy work.

Perhaps the only ones who will ever know just what happened are the ladies and gentleman who cast the votes. I just think it’s a crying shame this talented group of ladies was almost entirely overlooked.

3 7%34 s + . 0 \ 4(%42!00 #/-

42!00 $//2

7 3/54( s $ + 0 \ 42!00$//2 #/-

+ARAOKE PM

S .IGHT #OUNTRY .IGHT 3HOTS 0IZZA $RAFTS -ARGARITAS 3EX ON THE "EACH $RAFTS $UELING 0IANOS PM +ARAOKE

#LOSED

+ARAOKE

$UELING 0IANOS PM

$ART 4OURNAMENT PM

$* &ABRICE 3KARAOKE !LL REQUEST NIGHT )NFERNO (OUSE 0ARTY DRAFTS PITCHERS #OSTUME KARAOKE .O COVER BEFORE .O COVER BEFORE .O COVER BEFORE .O COVER BEFORE

J u LY 1 5 , 2 0 0 6 Q Q S A LT L A K E Q 2 1

2 2 Q Q S A LT L A K E Q J U LY 1 5 , 2 0 0 6

In Search of...

Pioneers

by Mark Thrash & Chad Keller

InSearchOf@qsaltlake.com

In the aftermath of the nation’s Independence Day, we find ourselves pondering pioneers and wondering if our forefathers knew the can of worms they were opening when they gave birth to a nation 230 years ago. Signing the Declaration, setting in motion their legacy and our freedom has more twists and turns than a Judy Collins novel. Not since the infancy of this nation has there been such camaraderie and initiative. That has led us in search of nuevo pioneers...

CHAD: When I wrote a letter to the editor of The Salt Lake Tribune suggesting we dismantle Pioneer Day and celebrate the Mormon dead on Memorial Day, all hell broke loose.

You would think with their passing, we could get on with building a diverse city, but oooohhhh no … it’s still about the Mormons. This time of year, Mormon accolades abound, but where are the rest of the pioneers?

The blacks? The Jews?

The Asians? The Native Americans? And the gays?

community’s Days of ’47 Parade entry with our pioneers — people like Dr. Kristen Ries, Joe Redburn, David Nelson, Ben Barr, Patty Reagan and for a touch of glamour, Clariss Cartier. All of these people and many more have sacrificed as much as any Mormon handcart company. Don’t get me wrong, trekking for four months across undeveloped territory is a big deal, but in terms of today, it is a walk in the park.

MARK: Wow Chad, I can usually find a loophole in your banter to use as fuel for my response, and instead I think you’ve actually formed a complete thought that I agree with completely. Where will our column go if this keeps happening? So, let me return to our original search. Beyond the gay forefathers, who are our nuevo pioneers?

CHAD: Before we can determine who nuevo pioneers are, let’s define who people will mindlessly follow. A pioneering leader must have integrity, character and clout and be well-versed. They’re the type of person who spurs others to action. I think we’re lacking true pioneering leadership in our community.

“I’d gladly sacrifice Ruby Ridge on the steps of the Salt Lake Temple for a carte blanche entry into the Days of ’47 Parade.”

MARK: Well, I suppose that’s why we’re here searching. I don’t think it is a question of where are the rest of the pioneers, I think it is more a question of why we as a minority group … all the ones you’ve listed and omitted … do not embrace our own history and pay homage to the forefathers who paved the way for us today.

CHAD: Truly you have to give the Days of ’47 credit. With persistent prompting from people like Mayor Rocky Anderson, they did start a cultural celebration. It was the best way to appease the masses and partly acknowledge the diversity of our state. Utah gay history is full of how we are a unique and contributing culture of our own.

MARK: I agree that “our” history is full of examples of how we’re unique — even a valid sect of society — but it sounds like you’re expecting the Mormons to embrace us when celebrating “their” culture. That isn’t going to happen. Nor do I think it should. We must take this task upon ourselves and make a sacrifice today. It has been shown what progress can come of blood, pain and tears.

CHAD: Blood atonement? I’d gladly sacrifice Ruby Ridge on the steps of the Salt Lake Temple for a carte blanche entry into the Days of ’47 Parade. Rocky has been told they would consider us if we met the theme, some family-oriented Mormon clauses and no go-go boys. Ruby, could you meet me on the Main Street Plaza this July 24? I’ll be waiting.

MARK: Why do you care if the Mormon Church accepts us in their celebration? I think mutual respect, not acceptance nor inclusion, is more important. Besides, I’m not sure Ruby qualifies as a pioneer or worthy sacrifice. I’ve never talked with her much personally, but I can’t imagine even she’s that delusional. I’ll leave that one to you, Chad, since you’ve been in much closer contact. Is that restraining order still valid?

CHAD: Based on ancient Aztec law, virgins will score you big brownie points, but any human will do. I would fill the gay

MARK: That reminds me of a passage from one of my favorite poems.

When speaking of civil movements, the author wrote that action came when leaders we’re finally sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Not the kind of tired that makes you want to sit down, but the kind of tired that makes you want to stand up. When will our community stand up?

CHAD: I would say that our current leadership is just tired — as in worn out. Our present community hasn’t had the nuevo pioneering dawn yet. We’re still individual tribes vying for power and control over the sacred fire of Stonewall.

MARK: Then it is time to teach our young faglings and little dykelets about the struggles of the past. When our community as a whole — young and old alike — learns to appreciate the strengths of both and value the presence of both, then we can move beyond the infancy state where we currently crawl.

CHAD: It has been proven that we have no respect for our collective past. We see no importance in sharing the lore and the truth of our history with the next generation. As a result, they whine and wait for the problem to be corrected by someone else. As a community, we’re just wandering the desert waiting for those leaders to take us to the Promised Land.

When searching for nuevo pioneers, it seems that none exist within the current gay structure. It has been said that there will never be another Harvey Milk, but we don’t need a martyr in order for change to occur.

Others have power because they’ve embraced their pioneering history and learned to work together. They also protect, cherish, defend and indoctrinate their past.

The gay community is a conglomerate of at least four distinct sects. As with other movements, each sect must put forth their own leader with the spirit of independence combined with the understanding of camaraderie for our community to prosper. Then we will be able to find the nuevo pioneers who will ultimately lead us into a new dawn. Q

1 ½Ê* "4HIS AIN T NO SISSY LOUNGE ACT 4HIS IS A FIST POUNDIN FOOT STOMPIN GOOD TIME /UR h!LL 2EQUESTv PIANO SHOWS WILL LEAVE YOU SORE FROM ALL THAT SMILING AND SINGING #OME SEE OUR NEWLY EXPANDED %AST SHOWROOM #ALL AHEAD FOR RESERVATIONS

UÊ-Õ ]Ê Ê> `Ê7i`Ê >ÀÊ À>vÌÃ UÊ Ài>ÌÊ- V > Ê `Ê Û> >L i UÊ - }

%.4%2 4!

3UN 4 ).-%.4 3#( % UES +A RAOKE $5,% -ONDA PM YS 7EDn4H 'UITARS 0IAN n AM URS O &RIn3AT $UELING 0IANOS $UET

$UELING 0IANOS PMn AM PMn AM

! 0RIVATE #LUB FOR -EMBERS

J u LY 1 5 , 2 0 0 6 Q Q S A LT L A K E Q 2 3

%AST 3OUTH 3ALT ,AKE #ITY 54

WWW TAVERNACLE COM

2 4   Q   Q S A LT L A K E   Q   J u LY 1 5 , 2 0 0 6

Bitch in Heat Whores and Prudes

by Travis Labrum

travis@qsaltlake.com

A couple years ago I took a class on gender roles where I was first exposed to the concept of sexual liberation. It’s pretty self explanatory and the idea is that we all have various sexual desires but often don’t act on them because of social stigma and internalization of cultural mores. Those who dare to be exploratory, experimental and unapologetic with their sexual desires are revered as courageous liberated heroes or, as I call them, lucky whores.

A few months ago I reflected on this perspective and realized that, according to it, I’m an emaciated prisoner of war who’s forced to live off of shoe leather and despondency. The issue was brought up when my friends upgraded my party name from Mary to Virgin Mary.

But once I started thinking about it I became convinced that my penis would shrivel into a little black knob and fall off any day now. It had been far too long since blood enthusiastically filled my nether veins and it only made sense that they were progressively collapsing. I found this unacceptable. I love my penis and refuse to be considered a prisoner of social conventions (I’m one of the gayest men I know!).

Determined to prove my liberation and whoredom, I removed the gunnysack from my bony back, stopped picking lice from my shaved head, and went to get a couple well deserved orgasms.

And I did.

I went to the occasional bar, did the online thing, and sprayed my scent every time I left the house (a combination of lavender, vanilla, and desperation). All in all, I found that alot of gay men really are as sexually liberated as the Christian Coalition claims and, luckily for me, not terribly choosy. I give you kudos.

However, I couldn’t help but notice that while you are whores when it comes to sex, many of you are hardcore prudes when it comes to intimacy. I didn’t expect much, and wasn’t surprised when no one wanted to play with my hair all night while purging highly emotional memo-

ries. But a smidge of intimacy and sweet affection wouldn’t have hurt.

I think this whole sexual liberation thing probably has a kernel of truth to it.

I remember feeling guilty about having sex or even just wanting to have sex. Now when I look back, those times were silly.

We deserve to be comfortable getting our sexual needs met.

The same thing can be said about intimacy and affection. Being sexually uninhibited is a wonderful goal, but why stop there? A more fabulous goal is to be uninhibited with regard to both sexuality and affection/intimacy. Being intimate and affectionate takes balls and I noticed that many gay men don’t have ’em. Go on take a risk!

For those of you raised by wolves (or Republicans) and who don’t have a clue as where to start, here are some basic pointers.

Let’s start off by talking about eye contact with concurrent smiling. If you’re trying to woo a man, don’t stare at him with contempt.

Newsflash: sneering at me doesn’t get my pants wet. I don’t care if you’re looking for rough and raunchy bathroom sex, smile when you’re trying to lure someone! Even if they’re not hot, no one deserves those cold merciless looks but Gayle Ruzicka.

Next, conversation. I understand that to some of you the most important thing about a potential partner is the size of his penis, but there’s no reason you can’t ask him about other things too. So after you’ve discovered the size of his penis and are still interested, ask about work, home life, hobbies, hell even favorite foods. Just make sure that by the end of the night you’ve said something other than “lick the balls�.

And finally, there’s nothing wrong with cuddling and other forms of physical affection that don’t involve erogenous zones. It strikes me as strange that in the city of fags you can find someone to toss your salad in five minutes but will have to wait a lifetime to get someone to hold your hand. We need to work on this.

Again, there’s nothing wrong with cuddling and the like so stop acting like it’s comparable to farting during sex!

Being intimate and affectionate takes balls and I noticed that many gay men don’t have ’em.

3ALT ,AKE #ITY 0ROVO /REM /GDEN &IND YOUR NUMBER

#/$% 4EXT #(!4 TO MIN )NTERACTIVE-ALE COM

Travis is an aspiring clinician, Sudoku player, and whore. Since you’ll now be asking, his hobbies are telling lesbians he’d like to eat their pussies, pretending he’s a member of the Pussycat Dolls, and chasing after men who just aren’t that into him.

ď ąDr. Pheel

Get Past Your Past

by Dr. Pheel

drpheel@qsaltlake.com

Hello again readers, I thought that I would share another poem with you before I get into my recent letter to Dr. Pheel.

I have traveled many roads Seen many by-ways Curious of which road or by-way Is mine The realizations come through That they have all been mine I have learned and grown From them all I have just recently Turned down the road That is my destiny My new life Beginning of love Responsibility Action Conquering I am aware I am strong I have learned from my mistakes I am moving forward with knowledge I am inserting this poem because of this letter that I received recently.

Dear Dr. Pheel, I have finally met the man of my dreams. I am scared, though. I do have a past. I have made many mistakes, been irresponsible and not faced my many obligations by placing my wants before my needs. I know that this relationship is truly the one that I have been looking for my whole life. Like I said, I am scared because of all that is in my past. I need advice.

Signed, Where to Go from Here.

Please share your concerns, questions and stories with Dr. Pheel. We, as a gay community, can help one another through our daily lives. Thank you in advance for writing to Dr. Pheel.

%ACH 3UDOKU HAS A UNIQUE SOLUTION THAT CAN BE REACHED LOGICALLY WITHOUT GUESSING %NTER DIGITS FROM TO INTO THE BLANK SPACES %VERY ROW MUST CONTAIN ONE OF EACH DIGIT 3O MUST EVERY COLUMN AS MUST EVERY X SQUARE -%$)5-

%6),

J u LY 1 5 , 2 0 0 6   Q   Q S A LT L A K E   Q  2 5

Dear Where to Go from Here, Having already acknowledged the fact that you have made mistakes and are aware of your obligations is a big step in itself. I commend you for that. Now, the next step is to physically write down what you want to accomplish.

Dredge up the past and your many mistakes. Write goals for yourself and include your partner in this. By doing so, you will strengthen and build a solid foundation for your newfound relationship.

A relationship is about sharing everything together.

It’s about sharing the good with the bad. Talk with your partner and share your past. I am sure there are mistakes in his life as well.

Working together on building a new life and resolving mistakes will help you both and start you on a road of success in your relationship. Always communicate by sharing your thoughts, your failures, your successes and your goals.

You can start fresh by facing your obligations by taking responsibility for your past. Many times in life we give up what we want for tomorrow for what we want right now.

It is time to change that way of thinking, though I know that is hard. I have been there.

Remember, you can do anything you want to if you just put your mind to it.

Readers, again thank you for writing in to Dr. Pheel. I look forward to many more letters and hope that many of you can learn from this one letter today. I am sure that many of you can identify with this situation. Maybe not about a new relationship, but at least wanting to take control of your life and face your past to assume a new and better way of living.

Take care until next time.

2 6 Q Q S A LT L A K E Q J u LY 1 5 , 2 0 0 6

ROOMMATES West Valley. Very

HELP WANTED Aesthetician or permanent makeup artist wanted. Private rooms for rent at $100-125 per week.

Utils. included. Clients available. 5822 S. 900 East, Murray. Call 268-1983 or 355-8690.

Delivery Driver for QSaltLake. Two Thursdays a month. Hourly plus mileage.

856-5655.

gay neighborhood near

Landscaper/Yard

Outside Sales peo-

Maintenance. Must

ple needed with high energy, Valley Fair Mall. Pool, sepself motivation for upstart arate bath, cable, internet

have own transportation.

Flexible hours. Part or full

QSaltLake Classifieds for

newspaper. Have a reason to available, W/D, pet friendwake up and get to work in ly. $375 includes util. the morning: you are helpScott 759-2104. ing Utah’s gay and lesbian community! Scaled commis- ROOMMATE ads are

just $10. Call 1-800-806-

sion to 35%. Email resume

time available. Pay based on experience. 455-2497.

Advertise in the

just $5! Call 1-800-806-

FOR RENT

Room 4 Rent in Summit Park, PC. Live with prof.

9th&9th, Main flr re- lesbian in nice home. $700 incl. all util. garage space, stored flat. 2bdrms 1bath, some storage, own bath, 1400 sq ft. New cherry spa Call 435-901-2537 kitchen. Granite counters.

New stainless appl. Central A/C, new carpet & paint, wood flrs, fireplace, formal dining. 2 car parking No smoke/pets. $1100 mo,

7357 or go to qsaltlake.com to michael@qsaltlake.com

7357 or go to qsaltlake.com $1100 dpst. Call for appt.

today to get set up.

to place yours today.

or call 856-5655.

531-8584

FOR SALE

Sell Your House with a real estate agent that cares about and understands your needs. Julie Silveous know the market and will work diligently to get you the best deal possible. Call her at 502-4507 or email ­nycslc68@­yahoo.com

WIRELESS EQUIPMENT Commercial wireless access points, antennas, and more at residential prices. Our loss is your gain.

856‑5655.

MASSAGE Massage Kneads.

Full body massage tailored to your “kneads” 983‑4906 or visit me www.­ hourofknead.com.

Dennis Massage4Men Utah’s only physique print model & massage therapist.

583-8344. ­ dennismassage.com Pride Massage Your preference male or female therapist. Individuals, couples, groups. Warm, friendly, licensed professionals. Call 486-5500 for an appointment. Open late 7 days a week. 1800 S West Temple.

MISC.

Advertise in the Q Classifieds!

Starting at just $10 1-800-806-7357 qsaltlake.com

TIRED OF THE BAR LIFE? Pride Counseling is offering a Gay Men’s Therapy / Support Group. Gay men often find that their options to socialize limited to clubs and bars. Most insurance companies billed, sliding fee scale. For information call Jerry Buie LCSW at 595‑0666.

ARE YOU HIV+? Pride Counseling has restarted a Therapy/Support Group for men who are HIV infected and seeking support from others in similar situations. For information please call Jerry Buie LCSW at 595‑0666 Queer TV. Comcast not giving you what you need?

Sign up for DirecTV through this gay-owned and operated business and a $20 donation will be made to a gay charity.

UtahSat.com Seeking a Date? UtahGayDate.com has free chat, an interactive webzine, Dating Advice, and free profiles. Join the thousands of members at utahgaydate.com.

VOlunteers Needed to help with Gay Freedom Day. Servers, organizers, helpers of all kinds.

Be a part of the first Gay Freedon Day. 856-5655.

Volunteer Illustrator needed for QSaltLake. WIll translate to paying job once the magazine is making more money. Great portfolio builder.

856-5655.

Support Quality news in Utah’s gay and lesbian community. Advertise in QSaltLake and help build this valuable Utah resource.

801-856-5655.

J u LY 1 5 , 2 0 0 6 Q Q S A LT L A K E Q 2 7

DENNIS MASSAGE Dennis is Utah’s only physique print model & massage therapist.

See why he is so well liked at ­­www.­dennismassage.com (801) 598-8344

utahgaydate.com Some say all the good ones are married or gay.

They’re right. Chat room. Match profile.

DirectV Is Queer TV Comcast refuse to give you the gay channels?

Massage Kneads

Full body massage tailored to your “kneads” 983-4906 or visit me online www.hourofknead.com owned and operated business and a $20 Sign up for DirecTV through this gay-

SUBSCRIBE UtahSat.com TOGetQSaltLake a full year – 24 issues –

donation will be made to a gay charity.

MEET GAY SINGLES UtahGayDate.com

Be Your Own Fluffer!

Your own porno made in the comfort of your own homo. Professional production crew will come out make you a star.

We film anything ... within reason.

801-255-2007

GET A FREE LAPTOP or deskop PC. Totally Free!

TotallyFreePC.com

of QSaltLake for just $25 or 6 months for $15.

Go to QSaltLake.com/subscribe or call 1-800-806-7357 today!

FREE 19” LCD MONITOR Get a free 17” or 19” flat panel monitor.

As seen on CNN, MSNBC, Wired Magazine.

www.freeLCDsite.com

CUSTOM VACATIONS TO

GAY DESTINATIONS

~ Atlantis & Olivia Cruises ~ ~ Disneyland & Disney World ~ ~ Gay Pride Festivals Worldwide ~ ~ R.S.V.P. Vacations ~ ~ SUPERCLUBS ~ ~ Hedo II & III in Jamaica ~ Plan your perfect vacation with “Holly!”

(Certified, Independent Travel Specialist)

485-8358 holly@cruiseandtravelmasters.com

Best therapists, best price, best place, Best Hours.

Pride Massage 486-5500 1800 S. West Temple # A224

UtahM4M.com Tired of Lame It’s free to be a member!

It’s free to...

Receive and reply to e-mail from other members, ­Signal other members you’re interested, Browse the vast TangoWire worldwide network.

Upload up to 5 Photos (or we’ll scan them for FREE). Fast and Easy Registration. Be Online in Minutes!

Join Utah M4M Now!

Lesbian Porn?

Lesbian production crew filming real lesbian porn with real lesbians!

We need confident actresses.

801-255-2007

TRY NETFLIX Q PERSONALS FOR FREE Find the love of your life, a

roommate, someone to see movies with, or just have some fun at

Netflix — Only $9.99 a month.

Over 60,000 Titles. More queer titles than any other service. No Late Fees.

Try it for Free!

QSALTLAKE.com/NETFLIX