QSaltLake Magazine - November 01, 2007

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

ISSUE 89

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UofU Scientists Create Lesbian Worms Worms’ sexual orientation is hard-wired in their brains

SL Mayoral Candidates Debate ‘Gayborhood’ Potter’s Dumbledore Thrust Out of Closet Notable Speakers at Affirmation Conference Plan-B’s ‘Wacky, Ridiculous’ Show Gay Geeks The Gay Agenda Qdoku, Comics

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We’re Backing Becker

Norma Matheson, community leader and former First Lady of Utah Karen Shepherd, former member, U.S. House of Representatives Jenny Wilson, candidate, Mayor of SLC, Salt Lake County Councilwoman Peter Corroon, Salt Lake County Mayor Jim Bradley, Salt Lake County Councilman Joe Hatch, Salt Lake County Councilman Randy Horiuchi, Salt Lake County Councilman Rocky Anderson, Mayor of Salt Lake City Sim Gill, Salt Lake City Prosecutor Ted Wilson, former mayor of Salt Lake City Keith Christensen, candidate, Mayor of SLC, former City Council Member Eric Jergensen, Salt Lake City Councilmember Soren Simonsen, Salt Lake City Councilmember Jim Winder, Salt Lake County Sheriff Fred Fife, Utah State Senator Scott McCoy, Utah State Senator Ross Romero, Utah State Senator Patrice Arent, former Utah State Senator Karen Hale, former Utah State Senator and nominee for Lt. Governor Paula Julander, former Utah State Senator Jackie Biskupski, Utah State Representative Lynn Hemingway, Utah State Representative Christine Johnson, Utah State Representative

David Litvack, Utah State Representative Roz McGee, Utah State Representative Phil Riesen, Utah State Representative Jennifer Seelig, Utah State Representative LaWanna Shurtliff, Utah State Representative Carol Spackman-Moss, Utah State Representative Steve Urquhart, Utah State Representative Genevieve Atwood, former Utah State Representative Mary Carlson, former Utah State Representative Pat Larson, former Utah State Representative Joanne Milner, former Utah State Representative Scott Matheson Jr., candidate for Utah Governor, and Robyn Matheson Pete Ashdown, XMission founder and candidate for U.S. Senate Paul Van Dam, candidate for U.S. Senate Wayne Holland, Chairman, Utah Democratic Party Rob Miller, Vice Chair, Utah Democratic Party Megan Risbon, Treasurer, Utah State Democratic Party Susie McHugh, Salt Lake City Planning Commissioner Polly Hart, Chair of the Capitol Hill Community Council Chuck McDowell, Chair of the Kearns Community Council Weston Clark, First Vice Chair, Salt Lake County Democratic Party Richard J. Watson, Chair of the Davis County Democratic Party Rebecca Chavez-Houck, community activist

Kurt Bestor, composer, performer Terry Tempest Williams, Author, Environmental Activist Alexis Kelner, co-founder and board trustee of Save Our Canyons Frank Matheson, former chair of Equality Utah Michael D. Brehm, Brehm Environmental Loretta Gale, President, Infobytes, Inc. Bonnie Phillips, Phillips Gallery Planned Parenthood Action Council Democracy for Utah Equality Utah gayRMs Millcreek FIDOS Progressive Democrats of America, Utah Chapter Salt Lake County Hispanic Caucus Sierra Club, Utah Chapter Utah Black Democratic Caucus Utah Building Trades Council Utah Democratic Progressive Caucus Utah State Democratic Hispanic Caucus Utah State Veteran’s Caucus Utah Stonewall Democrats Young Democrats of Utah

“Ralph has been a champion for issues important to women. Stronger schools, open space, safe neighborhoods—Ralph Becker has a great vision for the future of our city, and the leadership record to back it up.�

Norma Matheson, former First Lady State of Utah “Ralph Becker is a man of impeccable integrity and vision. He understands that all social and economic issues are, ultimately, environmental issues. I am supporting him for mayor because I believe he has a deep understanding of not only how a city functions, but how a community thrives. His leadership is understated, steady, creative, and bold. “ Terry Tempest Williams “Ralph consistently advocates for equality. His support for hate crimes legislation in the Utah House extends back for years, and I enthusiastically endorse his candidacy. He will be a phenomenal mayor of Salt Lake City.�

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by Rex Wockner

Singapore MPs Keep Gay-Sex Ban Singapore’s Parliament decriminalized oral and anal sex for heterosexuals Oct. 23 but declined to also legalize gay sex.

Penal Code Section 377A punishes sex between men — “gross indecency� — with two years in prison. The law is rarely, if ever, enforced.

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong supported keeping the ban, saying Singaporean society is conservaSingapore Prime tive and he didn’t Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Photo: Chad J. McNeeley want to encourage

gays to start pushing for such things as access to adoption and marriage. “We do not approve of them [gays] setting the tone of mainstream society,�

Lee said. “They live their lives, that’s their personal space. But the tone of the overall society, I think conventional, it remains straight and we want it to remain so.� “We were right to uphold the family unit when Western countries went for experimental lifestyles in the 1960s — the hippies, free love — but I’m glad we did that because today, if you look at Western Europe, marriage as an institution is dead.�

About 50 people picketed Saudi Arabia’s embassy in London Oct. 19 in protest against the nation’s reported floggings and executions of gay men.

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About 50 people picketed Saudi Arabia’s embassy in London Oct. 19 in protest against the nation’s reported floggings and executions of gay men.

On Oct. 2, two Saudi men convicted of sodomy in the city of Al Bahah received the first of their 7,000 lashes in punishment, the Okaz daily newspaper reported. The whippings took place in public, the report said.

The London protest, staged just prior to a state visit by Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, was organized by the National Union of Students and the gay direct-action group OutRage!

“As well as flogging and executing gay people, the Saudi leaders are guilty of detention without trial, torture and the public beheading of women who have sex outside of marriage,� said OutRage! leader Peter Tatchell. “The country is a theocratic police state.�

Activist Brett Lock added, “Saudi leaders should be shunned until they stop their homophobic persecution and their many other human rights abuses.�

The activists delivered a protest letter to the Saudi ambassador, Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud.

Anti-Gay Polish PM Defeated

ILGA-Europe Meets in Vilnius, Mayor Blocks Rally

Anti-gay Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski and his Europhobic, homophobic Law and Justice Party lost control of the government in the Oct. 21 general election.

They were replaced by the center-right Civic Platform party, which apparently is slightly less hostile to gays and is much friendlier toward the European Union.

Although gay activists, newspapers and former President Lech Walesa reportedly have spread unsubstantiated rumors that the unmarried Kaczynski is secretly gay, Kaczynski has called gays “perverse,� and his twin brother, President Lech Kaczynski, has warned that if homosexuality “were to be promoted on a grand scale, the human race would disappear.�

Gay groups expect Civic Platform to be, at minimum, less overt in thwarting social and political progress by the nation’s gay population. “After two steps backwards, made thanks to the ruling party of Kaczynski twin brothers, the time has come for a step forward,� activists Pawel Walczak and Michal Minalto said in a posting at the gay Web site homiki.pl. “We may be glad that two years of irresponsible governing are over, two years of increasing threats and discrimination against lesbians and gays.

However, a lot of work is before us.�

The European branch of the International Lesbian and Gay Association was prevented by the mayor’s office from publicly displaying a 30-meter rainbow flag during the group’s 11th annual conference in Vilnius, Lithuania, Oct. 25-28.

Mayor Juozas Imbrasas also blocked an identical action in May when the display was planned as the centerpiece of the city’s first gay pride celebration.

He also banned the European Union’s traveling “anti-discrimination truck� from visiting the city at the same time.

City officials said the flag display could cause “riots.�

More than 200 people attended the ILGA-Europe confab, which was otherwise unmolested by the city government. “We are appalled that an EU member state repeatedly violates the right to a free and peaceful assembly,� said Deborah Lambillotte, co-chair of ILGA-Europe’s executive board. “LGBT people have the same right to express their views and concerns publicly and, as any other citizen of the European Union, to enjoy the rights guaranteed in the Lithuanian Constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights.�

Judge: Ireland Must Fix Trans People’s Birth Certificates Ireland must grant transsexuals amended birth certificates or face legal action in the European Court of Human Rights, Dublin High Court Justice Liam McKechnie ruled Oct. 19.

Postoperative transsexual dentist Lydia Foy, 60, who launched the court challenge in 1997, called the decision “a wonderful breakthrough after such a long, long time.”

Foy said transsexuals need new birth certificates because when the document doesn’t match one’s current name or appearance, “you can be outed and embarrassed” anytime a birth certificate is needed for paperwork requirements.

McKechnie said the state’s refusal to issue Foy a new document had subjected her to “stress, humiliation, embarrassment and loss of dignity,” and jeopardized her right to privacy.

Filipino transgender woman denied documents change The Philippine Supreme Court ruled Oct. 24 that a woman who had a sex-change operation cannot change her name and sex on her civil-registry record.

Rommel Jacinto Dantes Silverio wanted to change her name to Mely, identify her gender as female and marry her boyfriend.

The court said Silverio “succeeded in altering his body and appearance through the intervention of modern surgery [but] no law authorizes the change of entry as to sex in the civil registry for that reason.”

For what it’s worth, however, the court acknowledged “that there are people whose preferences and orientation do not fit neatly into the commonly recognized parameters of social convention and that, at least for them, life is indeed an ordeal.”

Brit Judge Who Opposes Gay Adoption Fights Back A family court judge in Sheffield, England, who resigned to avoid having to approve adoptions by gay couples, has launched an appeal to get his job back.

Andrew McClintock, 63, is claiming discrimination based on religious belief.

A lawyer for the government said United Kingdom law supports gay adoptions, and that a tribunal that refused to excuse McClintock from same-sex cases had acted correctly.

Moscow Pride Loses Slander Case

Over 16,100 UK Gay Couples Tied the Knot in 2006 ore than 16,100 same-sex couples M registered under the United Kingdom’s marriage-like civil-partnership law in 2006, its first full year of existence, the Office for National Statistics said on Oct. 11.

About 4,000 of the ceremonies took place in London. 90 percent of the unions were in England, six percent in Scotland, three percent in Wales and one percent in Northern Ireland.

The average age of men entering a partnership was 47; for women, it was 44.

Sixty percent of the unions were between men. A civil partnership carries the same rights and obligations as a marriage within the UK.

Thousands March in Taiwan Some 10,000 GLBT people hit the streets of Taipei Oct. 13 for the city’s fifth gaypride parade.

The procession ended at City Hall with a rally and a performance by pop diva A-Mei. The march’s demands included passage of anti-discrimination and same-sex-partnership legislation.

The parade, which also included parents and children of gays, is believed to be the largest such event in Asia.

Former mayor and current presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou attended the pre-parade kickoff and promised that, if elected, he would push to enact the marchers’ demands.

Istanbul Governor Tries to Terminate Gay Group The Istanbul governor’s office is trying to close down the Turkish GLBT rights group Lambda Istanbul.

The office claims the group’s objectives — and even its name — are “against the law and morality.”

The Provincial Associations Directorate of the Governor’s Office, which oversees nongovernmental organizations, says Lambda’s projects violate a Civil Code article that says, “no association may be founded for purposes against law and morality,” a constitutional clause that says “[t]he state shall take the necessary measures and establish the necessary organization to ensure the peace and welfare of the family” and a law that authorizes suspension of organizations that contravene “public morality.”

The office also says the name “Lambda Istanbul” is illegal because “lambda” is not a Turkish word.

A hearing on the matter was held Oct. 18 in the Beyoglu Sütlüce Court of First Instance No. 5, and the case was continued until Jan. 31.

The judge appointed a legal expert from Istanbul University to determine if Lambda’s claim that it is not violating any laws is valid. Q

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oscow gay pride organizers lost an apM peal of a slander case against Mayor Yuri Luzhkov on Oct. 11 and now plan to move to the European Court of Human Rights.

Nikolai Baev and Nikolai Alekseev sought a retraction of Luzhkov’s statement that gay pride parades are “satanic” and asked for 2,000 rubles ($80) in damages.

On Jan. 29, Luzhkov said: “Last year, Moscow came under unprecedented pressure to sanction the gay parade, which can be described in no other way than as satanic. We did not let the parade take place then, and we are not going to allow it in the future. Some European nations bless single-sex marriages and introduce sexual guides in schools. Such things are a deadly moral poison for children.”

The appeals court, the Moscow City Court, agreed with a lower court that Luzhkov had not attacked Alekseev and Baev personally, but only the gay parade in general. They also concurred that Luzhkov was expressing a personal opinion.

“We are planning to send a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights,” Alekseev said after the ruling. “It is absolutely clear that the aim of [the] Moscow mayor was not only to refuse the human rights event that we wanted to stage ... but also to show us, as organizers of this event, in [an] unethical and immoral light.”

Luzhkov banned the city’s first two gay pride parades this year and last. When organizers responded by staging protest rallies, they were violently attacked by neofascists, skinheads, Christians and riot police.

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National News

U.S. Senate Candidate Says He’s Gay

By Bryan Ochalla

Raleigh, N.C. — North Carolinians will be given the opportunity to vote into office an openly gay Senator next year, should the candidate in question follow through with his current plans.

Democrat Jim Neal, who says he will challenge Republican Senator Elizabeth Dole for the seat, surprised many on Oct. 20 when he outed himself during a discussion on liberal blog, BlueNC.com.

At one point, another participant in the discussion asked Neal if he was gay.

The former investment banker replied, “I am indeed. No secret and no big deal to me — I wouldn’t be running if I didn’t think otherwise.”

“I’m not running this race to make some social statement,” he added. “I’m running to lead in the Senate for the voters in North Carolina — something Sen. Dole has not done. When people meet me, they’ll see beyond the labels and into my character.”

The reaction to Neal’s announcement was largely positive.

“Good luck to Jim Neal on his quest, but having been born and raised in the ‘Ole North State’ I can testify that there will be plenty of opposition from homophobes, so-called Christians and hard-core conservatives,” one comment on the USA Today story about the chat

Philadelphia Raises Rent for Boy Scouts Over Gay Policies

By Bryan Ochalla

Philadelphia — The Philadelphia chapter of the Boy Scouts of America are facing a heavy price — in the form of $200,000 in rent per year — for its National Council’s stance against admitting gays.

Previously the Boy Scouts of America’s Cradle of Liberty Council paid $1 a year to locate its headquarters in a historic, city-owned building. City officials raised the amount charged to the organization because they can’t legally rent taxpayerowned property for a dollar a year to a private organization that discriminates.

“It’s disappointing, and it’s certainly a threat,” Jeff Jubelirer, a spokesman for Cradle of Liberty Council, told the Associated Press on Oct. 18 regarding the rent increase. The rent hike will go into effect

should the scouts stay in their current location past May 31, 2008. “[The money] would have to come from programs,” Jubelirer added. “That’s 30 new Cub Scout packs, or 800 needy kids going to our summer camp.”

The lease first came into question after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 2000 indicated that the scouts, as a private organization, have a First Amendment right of “expressive association” to set their own membership rules, which currently prohibit membership by anyone who is openly gay.

Years of discussions between the city and the Cradle of Liberty Council ended abruptly on May 31, when the City Council voted 16-1 to authorize ending the lease with Cradle of Liberty Council.

Texas Race Involving Gay Candidate Takes Nasty Turn

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read. “This group is terrified that a ‘homosexual agenda’ (whatever the heck that is) will somehow compromise their precious moral high ground in spite of the ‘compassion’ and ‘judge ye not’ edicts directly derived from Christ’s teachings that they so glibly overlook.”

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Dallas — The gloves came off Oct. 25 in a supposedly non-partisan city council race underway in Fort Worth, Tex. Although six candidates are vying for an up-for-grabs seat that will be voted on Nov. 6, the spotlight turned to just two of them late last month when sitting councilman Chuck Silcox urged those attending a Fort Worth Republican Women’s Club meeting to vote for Chris Turner, a Republican political consultant, instead of Joel Burns, a city zoning commissioner.

“This is an excellent time to have Republicans get out and support a Republican: Chris Turner,” Silcox said, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

“We have two people of opposite partisan politics, opposite philosophical persuasions and opposite sexual orientations.”

“I didn’t tell you which one was homosexual,” Silcox continued through laughter from the audience. “He’s married to a female,” Silcox said while pointing to Turner, “and the other’s married to a male. You make your own mind up.”

Burns told the newspaper he was disappointed but not surprised by Silcox’s

comments. “We live in the state of Texas, and I have a partner that I live with, who is a partner of 15 years,” he said. “It is unfortunate that Mr. Silcox and Mr. Turner want to bring partisanship to a nonpartisan race.”

Silcox later attempted to apologize. “I’m not trying to be derogatory about the young man,” he said Fort Worth City Council about Burns. candidate Joel Burns “I’ve never even met him. From what I understand, he is openly gay. I’m not saying good, bad or otherwise. He has a different political philosophy and philosophy about life than most Republicans.”

Burns was endorsed by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, saying of all candidates, he “is the most knowledgeable about city issues and takes the wisest positions. He’s a good philosophical fit for District 9.”

Study Shows High Rates of Domestic Abuse Among Gay Men

By Dylan Vox

Los Angeles — It may not be called spousal abuse because gay marriage is still not considered legal in most states, but according to an Oct. 18 study in The Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of The New York Academy of Medicine, gay men experience partner abuse at almost the same rate as women in heterosexual relationships.

It’s a little documented area of abuse, but this new study, which looks at victims of intimate partner violence, found that 32 percent of gay and bisexual men have been abused by their partners.

Eric Houston of the Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago conducted research about the rate of domestic violence in the gay community and released his findings in a report entitled, “Intimate Partner Abuse among Gay and Bisexual Men: Risk Correlates and Health Outcomes.”

Houston based his study on a survey taken from 817 men in the Chicago area who have sex with men. Respondents included blacks (51.3 percent), whites (22.4 percent), Latinos (16.3 percent), Asian/Pacific Islanders and other ethnic groups (10 percent) who participated by filling out a 15-minute, anonymous, seven-page survey.

More than half of the respondents who were victims of intimate partner abuse reported experiencing more than one type of abuse (including verbal, physical and sexual). Rates of abuse did not significantly vary by ethnic group or among men who lacked or had a primary partner.

The study looked at not only the rate of abuse, but also examined the affects that such abuse had on the victims suggesting that “men in abusive relationships were more likely to report suffering from serious health problems such as heart disease, hypertension, depression and anxiety.”

The study also showed that “abused men were also more likely to report frequent use of substances before or during sex as well as having unprotected sex, leading to a higher risk of spreading or contracting HIV/AIDS and other STDs.” The study also suggested that victims of gay domestic abuse were much less likely to report incidents because of the stigma associated with male on male violence, leading them to turn to alternative and often unhealthy ways of coping with the problems.

With crystal meth use and sexually transmitted disease rates on the rise, it is important to address these issues as possible reasons for unsafe practices in order to help mitigate underlying causes.

Washington — A Mississippi millionaire convicted of seducing a plumber’s wife is taking his case all the way to the Supreme Court.

Jerry Fitch Sr. is contesting $112,000 in punitive damages the Mississippi Supreme Court ordered him to pay plumber Johnny Valentine after he had an affair with Valentine’s wife, Sandra Day. Day ultimately left her husband for Fitch after becoming pregnant with the businessman’s child. The damages are part of the $750,000 the court awarded the spurned husband under the “alienation of affection� law. The law dates from a previous definition of marriage in which a wife was considered her husband’s property. According to this concept, if a woman leaves her husband for a man with whom she had an affair, her husband has the right to

monetary compensation for his loss.

The law remains on the books in just seven states, including Hawaii, Illinois, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Dakota and Utah.

Fitch is not contesting the remainder of the settlement.

Additionally, Fitch’s lawyer Shelby Duke Goza has cited the 2003 Supreme Court decision Lawrence vs. Texas, in which the high court voted to overturn sodomy laws, to bolster his case. According to Goza, the punitive damages in Fitch’s case amount to a penalty on intimate conduct between consenting adults. “There is simply no rational basis for state sanctioned punishment of intimate association between consenting adults,�

Goza said in a filing asking the court to block payment pending Fitch’s appeal.

Gay Man Asks Supreme Court For Reinstatement To Second Amendment Appeal Washington — Despite rejecting almost 2,000 appeals during the summer, U.S. Supreme Court justices are considering whether to reinstate Tom G. Palmer and four other District of Columbia citizens as parties to an appeal about their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.

Palmer was in 2003 one of six plaintiffs who complained as Parker v. District of Columbia in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to invalidate district laws prohibiting ownership by its citizens of “functional� firearms in their homes.

Palmer testified that he was “assaulted by a group of men on account of his sexual orientation� in 1982 and “successfully warded off the assault with a handgun.�

He told the court that he “owns various firearms located outside the district� and wished to do so in the city “for selfdefense within his own home.�

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit judges published their opinion in September which invalidated the ban, but rejected all but one plaintiff, Dick Anthony Heller, from the case.

If the justices accept the appeal, they might also reinstate Palmer and the four other plaintiffs which could make the case the only gay-related appeal of the 2007 Court term. If the justices affirm the opinion, the right to keep and bear arms could

be applied as an individual right.

In other matters, the justices declined to review Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Albany v. Dinallo which affirmed whether religious organizations may be forced to pay the costs of workers’ birth control as part of their employee-health insurance.

The case was brought by Roman Catholic and Baptist groups, which argued that a requirement to offer contraceptives violated their Constitutional right to free speech.

The justices also declined to review Williams v. Pryor affirming an Alabama ban on the sale of sex toys. Sherri Williams, owner of Pleasures stores in Huntsville and Decatur, appealed the opinion that the state law wasn’t affected by the U.S. Supreme Court opinion in Lawrence v. Texas. The Associated Press reported that the appellate judges replied that the Texas sodomy law involved private conduct, while the Alabama law regulated commercial activity.

Oklahoma Department of Health attorney Tom Cross declined on Aug. 17 to appeal a U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit opinion which affirmed the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma invalidation of a state law which prohibited recognition of out-ofstate adoptions by same-sex couples. The 10th Circuit includes Utah.

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Affirmation Holds DC Conference Speakers include ‘Facing East’ playwright, Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson, cowboys

BY JOSELLE VANDERHOOFT JOSELLE@QSALTLAKE.COM

The country’s oldest support organization for former and current gay and lesbian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has celebrated several milestones this year, including its 30th anniversary.

It also managed to get an author, an Episcopal bishop, several political activists and even a troupe of gay dancing cowboys together under the same hotel roof.

Jonathan Rauch (author of Gay Marriage: Why It’s Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for America), Episcopal Bishop V. Gene Robinson, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Executive Director Matt Foreman and the DC Cowboys were just some of the keynote speakers and performers who inspired and entertained 267 Affirmation members at “Affirmation Conference 2007: A More Perfect Union,” held in Washington, D.C. Oct. 5–7. And Conference Committee Chairman Dave Melson couldn’t have been happier with

the speakers and entertainers.

“One of the advantages of [holding the conference in] D.C. is the plethora of speakers you don’t get to hear out West,” said Melson, who also resides in Washington, D.C. While several speakers addressed the state of gay rights in America, including such things as gay marriage, building a family through adoption and working with religious communities to counter anti-gay discrimination, others spoke on issues specifically related to Mormonism. Bridget Foster and her husband Will, who founded the Safe Space Coalition to address anti-gay rhetoric from LDS leaders, discussed the pros and cons for gay and lesbian Mormons interested in leaving or remaining in the church. Soulforce Riders Matt Kulisch, Emil Pohlig and Mike Cramer also talked about their experiences on the 2007 Equality Ride, during which they visited Brigham Young University to protest its policies towards gay and lesbian students. Utah playwright and

Openly gay Episcopal Bishp Gene Robinson addressed the Affirmation Conference 2007 in Washington, D.C.

author Carol Lynn Pearson also discussed her hit play Facing East, which deals with a Mormon family’s attempts to come to terms with their gay son’s suicide.

Notably, Bill Russell, a scholar and member of LDS “sister church” The Community of Christ (formerly the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) spoke about the strides his church has made in recognizing gays and lesbians as full members.

“The people I’ve talked to feel that the Community of Christ is going to accept same-sex unions soon,” said Melson.

The 2007 conference also gave attendees several opportunities to attend events outside of the conference, including a discussion about Native American culture and gender identity at the National Museum of the American Indian, and a walking tour of Capitol Hill.

Interestingly, the conference weekend coincided with AIDS Walk Washington, a benefit for the Whitman-Walker Clinic, which serves gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transgender people and people with HIV/AIDS in D.C. and northern Virginia. Affirmation partnered with the clinic, and attendees who signed up to walk received a discount from their conference fee.

“We wanted to help attendees get involved with a number of other gay organizations in the city,” said Melson.

The Whitman-Walker Clinic also partnered with the Elizabeth Taylor Health Center for a frank talk about sexual health in the Saturday workshop “Talking to Your Partner and Other LGBTI Health Issues.”

“We’re both a religious and an LGBT organization, and the issues both of those have in common need to be ad-

dressed,” said Melson. “Gay Mormons in particular are hesitant to discuss those issues [related to things like safer sex and sexually transmitted infections], especially if they live in, say, Utah or Idaho and it might be hard to come out to a doctor. This was a perfect audience for this type of talk. I think education is needed more in the LDS gay community than in the gay community at large.”

Ultimately, Bishop V. Gene Robinson was one of the conference’s most notable speakers for Melson. An openly gay man, Robinson was elected as New Hampshire’s Episcopal Bishop in 2003.

He has been at the center of heated debate in the Anglican Communion, the worldwide organization of churches to which Episcopal Church in the United States of America belongs, over the morality of same-sex unions and the place of gays and lesbians in the church.

“If you want someone to speak on gay religious issues, probably no one in the country is more qualified than he is,” said Melson. “Many issues he faced are similar to ours.”

According to Melson, Robinson’s address included the following quote: “The church is wrong if it tells you that you are going to hell because you’re gay. You are not going to hell, you are going back to the God that created you, and loved you from the moment you were conceived. God loves the fact that you are gay and loves your relationships.”

In closing, Melson said Robinson told all in attendance to witness to the world about the goodness of gay people and their relationships.

“Now, tell me that’s not an LDS message,” he laughed. Q

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Queer Lounge to Return to Sundance with GLAAD in Tow

By Chrys Hudson

When Queer Lounge returns to Park City, Utah, Jan. 18–24 for its fifth Sundance Film Festival appearance, it will bring along a new media partner: the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD).

“We are in an historic era of gay visibility in film,” GLAAD President Neil G. Giuliano said in a release. “As our community fights every day for equality before the law, Queer Lounge helps change hearts and minds by broadening the reach of independent films telling the

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Queer Lounge was founded independently in 2003 by former film executive Ellen Huang to build bridges between mainstream and queer-friendly films and professionals.

Through its educational programming and central location at festivals, Queer Lounge increases the crossover appeal of films with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) content. GLAAD Ellen Huang, Queer has licensed Queer Lounge founder Lounge as a media program to complement its ongoing entertainment media advocacy.

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has become a trusted advocate for queerfriendly films and filmmakers,” Huang said in a release. “Joining with GLAAD will take Queer Lounge to the next level and enable it to become an even more powerful resource for the industry.”

“Queer Lounge offers a vital opportunity to raise the visibility of films with gay content as a means of increasing understanding and tolerance,” GLAAD Senior Director of Media Programs Rashad Robinson said. “The addition of Queer Lounge to GLAAD’s programmatic efforts increases our capacity to ensure fair, accurate and inclusive representations of our community in the media.”

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Queer Lounge has previously had a successful presence during Sundance and at the Toronto International Film Festival. Panel discussions are held during each festival centering on thematic ties of LGBT films. During the 2007 festival in Park City, Queer Lounge hosted several panel discussions, including the panel “Gays, Faith & Film,” featuring the cast and filmmakers of For the Bible Tells Me So and Save Me, and the producer of A Jihad for Love. The panel explored how the three films navigated the reconciliation of religious faith with gay orientation, and was broadly declared by attendees as one of the best panel discussions they had ever attended during the festival.

At the 2006 Toronto Film Festival, Queer Lounge hosted an invitation-only industry brunch followed by a panel discussion entitled “Post-Brokeback: New Horizons in Financing LGBT Film.”

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PWACU Holds 19th Living with AIDS Conference

by JoSelle Vanderhooft joselle@qsaltlake.com

Westminster College’s Health, Wellness and Athletic Center hosted the People with AIDS Coalition of Utah’s 19th annual conference aimed at educating and empowering people with HIV/AIDS and their loved ones, caregivers and AIDS service providers.

The conference ran from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and included presentations from several AIDS service providers from around the country. From 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. Liliana Eagan, a Senior Community Liasion Specialist for Gilead Sciences, presented “Psychosocial Issues & HIV,” a discussion targeted at how to cope with an HIV diagnosis, maintaining emotional and mental health in the face of social stigma, and how to handle relationships and disclosing HIV status after diagnosis. In “HIV and Your Overall Health” pharmacist Deanna Merrill discussed the side effects of HIV medications and the diseases that people with HIV/AIDS can contract, including diabetes, hepatitis, herpes, clinical depression and risk factors associated with heart disease, such as elevated cholesterol levels.

“Although people may be infected with HIV, their overall health must be managed,” said Merrill. “We need to ensure that all conditions are evaluated and the entire person is being taken care of with relation to all of the risk factors people experience as they age.”

Social worker Sabrina Taylor, a Community Liasion for Johnson & Johnson’s Tibotec Therapeutics, presented a talk on important lab tests for people with HIV/ AIDS including not just viral load, CD4 (T-cell) and resistance tests, but panels to monitor lier function, cholesterol levels and blood pressure. Next, Laury Mckean, the program coordinator for Seattle’s Country Doctor Community

Clinic, engaged participants in a game of HIV Jeopardy, which included questions about HIV transmission, health concerns for older people with HIV/AIDS (such as lower T-cell counts), hearth health and what an HIV/AIDS patient should do if his or her cholesterol levels increase on an HIV medication.

Most importantly, Mckean stressed that people with HIV/AIDS should be aware that they can contract different strains of the virus. This can make treatment difficult, she said, because different strains of HIV are resistant to different types of drugs.

“Everyone should have a genotype test [a test that determines what type of strain a person has] to be sure you haven’t contracted a drug-resistant virus,” she said. She added that despite popular rumor, people who have been infected with one strain of HIV can still become infected with another, a condition which medical professionals refer to as a superinfection.

Mckean added that it is important for people with HIV/AIDS to know that they can become superinfected, because such infections are increasing. She cited a recent study of LA youth age 18-24 in which 36% of participants were resistant to at least one kind of drug. Further, she said that her clinic in Seattle has seen “five or six” individuals who were resistant to all known HIV medications.

“It’s pretty scary,” she said. “You work hard to find and stay on a regimen that works for you and it only takes one encounter with someone who is resistant to those medications to undo all that hard work.”

The conference closed with a medical update from Dr. Harry Rosado, MD, an assistant professor at the University of Utah School of Medicine about current issues surrounding treatment. Q

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Municipal Elections Will Take Place Nov. 6 benefits to registered domestic partners and change the city’s retirement policy to allow employees to designate their domestic partner as their beneficiary.

“If we want to see changes such as these, we must be the change,” said EU executive director Mike Thompson in the email.

Utah Stonewall Democrats and Log Cabin Republicans Utah did not endorse in the nonpartisan race.

Utah’s three openly gay state legislators have all lined up behind Becker as well.

In other races, Equality Utah has endorsed Michael Clara in Salt Lake City Council District 2, both Nancy Saxton and Luke Garrott in District 4 and JT Martin in District 6 In the West Valley City Council races, the political action committee endorsed Adam Leffler in District 1 and Clint Child in District 3.

Polls will open at 7:00 a.m. on Tuesday morning, Nov. 6, and close at 8:00 p.m.

Registered voters in Salt Lake County can go to secure.slco.org/cl/elections/ to find their polling location or call 4683427. Others should call the office of their county clerk. Equality Utah has a full list of county clerk phone numbers on their Web site at equalityutah.org.

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Salt Lake City’s gay and lesbian community has been front-and-center throughout the mayoral race, which is now between Utah House Minority Leader Ralph Becker and Salt Lake City Councilman Dave Buhler.

Those who thought the gay rhetoric would die down after the primary election were wrong, as the candidates continued to respond to questions about gay rights in debates and other public appearances.

Equality Utah sent an email endorsing Becker Oct. 22.

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Neither candidate was quick enough on his feet to quip what a beautiful day it would be if Salt Lake City developed a “gayborhood,� but the exchange did show a difference between them when it comes to how their administrations would handle gay issues.

In a live debate televised by KUTV News and co-hosted by the Salt Lake Tribune on Oct. 30, gay issues took up about a fifth of the half-hour of questions posed

by Salt Lake City residents.

Host Rod Decker posed his own question: “QSaltLake Magazine has talked about a gayborhood over by Marmalade.

They have some gay-owned businesses, some gay bars and things like that. Are you for a gayborhood?�

Candidate Dave Buhler talked in general about discrimination: “You know, I haven’t read the article. But I think that we have a lot of people in our community.

It’s very diverse. We have people who are gay, we have people who are straight, we have people of all different races.

This is a very welcoming community, as it should be and there’s no reason that anyone should be discriminated against or treated any differently than any other person.�

Decker pushed, “Are you going to give them a little help over there in the

gayborhood?� “Well, we give help to small businesses all the time,� he replied.

Ralph Becker answered, “Well, I think as long as anyone comes forward in the city and wants to meet the standards of the city for building and housing and planning and zoning, then we allow that development to go forward. We’ve seen this in other ways in the city. I’m certainly not going to stand in the way. I think it’s healthy for the city, it’s healthy for the neighborhoods.�

When asked which candidate would ensure a gay person’s rights, Becker outlined his “universal human rights initiative� which includes a domestic partner registry, retirement benefits, a city hate crimes ordinance and an expansion of the existing nondiscrimination ordinance. “It’s the reason I’ve been endorsed by every LGBT elected official and by Equality Utah,� Becker explained. “Well, we should not discriminate against anybody and my record is very clear on that,� countered Buhler. “What Ralph is proposing really goes beyond that. I think that’s getting us into a whole new area. We do not provide vital records as a city ... I’m not sure if that’s just window dressing or if that really does something valuable.�

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U of U Scientists Make ‘Gay’ Worms University of Utah biologists have engineered worms to be attracted to worms of the same sex in a study that may shed new light on the nervous system’s role in sexual orientation.

For the study, scientists used roundworms (nematodes), tiny soil-dwelling worms often used as “models” for

sory” nerve cells the males develop in puberty, because of “core” nerve cells found in both sexes of worm, or both. They were surprised to discover that male attraction involved both types of nerve cells.

“We found instead that the brain — which is the same in young males and hermaphrodites — is rewired during the worm equivalent of puberty — the fourth larval stage — to make the males attracted to hermaphrodites,” said Erik Jorgensen, a University of Utah biology professor and the study’s leader. “What we show is that the shared nervous system [common between male and hermaphrodite] is broadly sexualized,” and sexual attraction can be changed by essentially The larger worm in the top image is a hermaphrodite — a worm with male flipping a genetic switch in and female organs — while the worm on the bottom is male. Biologists at the that common brain.

Brain Institute at the University of Utah genetically manipulated the brains In part of the study, of hermaphrodite worms so they were attracted to other worms of the same researchers “masculinized” sex. The study showed sexual orientation is wired in the worms’ brains. the female worms’ brains by humans in research. These worms lack activating a gene that makes the worm’s eyes, and use their sense of smell to find body develop male characteristics, such worms to mate with. One in 500 roundas the tail male worms use to copulate. worms is male and most are hermaphWith the gene active only in the brain, rodites, which have male and female sex the females’ brains were male while their organs. In the study, scientists referred to bodies remained unaltered. the hermaphrodites as ‘female’ because As a result, the altered worms crawled they could produce offspring — even toward other hermaphrodites to mate. without the help of a male worm. Male “People debate whether the brain is roundworms, on the other hand, must influenced by sexual hormones from find a female worm to reproduce. the gonads or whether the behavior is Researchers conducted the study to derived from the brain alone,” said Jordetermine if male worms are attracted to gensen. “In this case, it’s clear the brain females because of smell-related “accesis sexualized ... The surprise was that

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sensory neurons found in the hermaphrodite brain are involved in sexual attraction in males.”

Jorgensen’s team concluded that sexual attraction is wired into neurons both sexes of worm possess, and isn’t caused by adding cells to either type of worm’s brain.

“The reason males and females behave differently is that the same nerve cells have been rewired to alter sexual preference,” said Jorgensen.

He cautioned, however, that the study did not raise any conclusive evidence about sexual orientation in humans.

“We cannot say what this means for human sexual orientation, but it raises the possibility that sexual preference is

wired in the brain,” he said. “Humans are subject to evolutionary forces just like worms. It seems possible that if sexual orientation is genetically wired in worms, it would be in people, too.

Humans have free will, so the picture is more complicated in people.”

Jorgensen and Jaime White, a postdoctoral fellow and the study’s lead author, conducted the study with technician Jeff Gritton and three University of Utah biology undergraduates: Thomas Nicholas, Long Truong and Eliott Davidson. The study was funded primarily by the National Science Foundation.

The study was published online Oct. 25 in Current Biology, and will run in the journal’s Nov. 6 print edition. Q

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Utah’s Monte Stewart Testifies Against Gay Marriage in Vermont

by JoSelle Vanderhooft joselle@qsaltlake.com

Orem lawyer Monte Stewart flew across the country to testify against same-sex marriage before the second meeting of the Vermont Commission on Family Recognition and Protection, a government group designed to evaluate whether the state’s same-sex couples should be granted marriage rights.

“The law has clearly been decided in favor of marriage being between one man and one woman,” Stewart, the president of Utah-based Family Marriage Law Foundation, told the Vermont Press Bureau on Oct. 27. “There are clear reasons why this institution needs to be preserved.”

Stewart was the only opponent of gay marriage who testified at the commission’s second public hearing on Oct. 29. During the four hours of testimony,

the 11-member commission also heard from four law professors about the legal picture of same-sex marriage and civil unions in other states, including Vermont. Although the public was invited to attend, no questions from the audience were fielded.

The Vermont Law School, from which some of the testifying professors hale, the school selected Stewart to testify because of his research and publications on gay marriage. He said he has researched the legal questions around gay marriage since debate about the issue heated up in 2003.

Stewart was also a leader of the Yes on Three Coalition, which sought to amend Utah’s constitution to prohibit gay marriage. Utah voters overwhelmingly approved that amendment — Amendment 3 — in 2004.

The lawyers were each asked to answer five questions about the legal issues sur-

rounding gay marriage, including what state or federal benefits gay and lesbian couples could get if they were married, as opposed to being joined in a civil union.

At the meeting, Stewart told the commission that allowing same-sex couples to marry would dilute the institution of marriage.

“The man/woman marriage institution is in many ways child-centered and child-protective,” Stewart said. He added that while marriage doesn’t necessarily mandate procreation, cultures throughout history have still recognized it as the best way to nurture and support children.

“Is the institution perfect? No, of course not,” Stewart concluded. “But it is pretty good.”

When asked how allowing marriage between people of the same sex would threaten this kind of marriage, Stewart said gay marriage would create confusion, because it would give marriage two different meanings.

“Marriage … was never created to accomplish the purpose for which it is being called on now — to enhance the social and political status of a group of people formerly oppressed,” he said.

Stewart told the commission that if “genderless marriage” was legalized, it would undermine the benefits of traditional marriages between one man and one woman. He said traditional marriage is a vital social institution that keeps societies together and ensures that children grow up in a safe environment.

“You have the power to dissolve manwoman marriage by suppressing that meaning,” he told the commission. “By suppressing that meaning, you lose the social goods that flow from that meaning.”

The other four legal scholars in attendance argued differently, although all agreed that there would be no immediate change in benefits for same-sex couples if Vermont permitted them to marry.

Michael Mello, a professor at Vermont Law School, told the commission that the time to legalize gay marriage in the state had arrived, particularly as several gay couples had already testified that they considered civil unions to be inferior to marriage.

“Separate is inherently unequal,” he said.

“If the Vermont Legislature adopted gay marriage, the rest of the country and world would pay attention,” he said.

Another Vermont Law School professor, Peter Treachout, said that an advisory referendum could help determine if the time had come to legalize gay marriage in the state.

“If you involve the people of Vermont in this important decision, they will have a stake in the outcome,” he said. “I believe if Vermont people understand what is at stake, they will do the right thing.”

The commission has planned to hold six meetings on the issue of gay marriage. Q

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As in past years, the hotel’s living room-style lobby will be decorated in red, and red food and drinks provided by award-winning, on-site restaurant Bambara will be served. Red-clad drag queens will offer enticing auction items, including round trip airfare from American Airlines (to continental U.S. destinations), stays at other Kimp- Revelers at the Hotel Monaco Red Party in 2006 await the balloon drop ton hotel properties around the country and more. Additional their time, money and support to the drawings and prizes will be awarded, local fight against AIDS. We have seen including to the best dressed (in red). firsthand the devastation caused by HIV/ Kimpton hotels, which owns Hotel AIDS and we have lost many employees, Monaco, routinely host these fundraising customers and friends. Kimpton has been parties at locations across the counfighting HIV/AIDS alongside partner try. This year, each Kimpton region in AIDS service agencies for over two dethe country will sponsor a fundraiser cades and our fight continues.” to support a local HIV/AIDS charity.

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Polls Open for Early Voting Poinsettias for PWACU Utah residents eager to skip lines at the polls on Nov. 6 are in luck. They will be able to cast their ballots at a number of Salt Lake County locations until Nov. 2.

Voters who want to avoid the crowds should bring a photo ID and two documents showing their name and residence to any of the following locations:

• Salt Lake County Clerk’s Office, 2100 S State St. (South Building) • Utah Division of Natural Resources, 1594 W North Temple St. • Murray City Hall, 5025 S State St. #113 • Holladay City Hall, 4580 S 2300 E • Taylorsville Senior Center, 4743 S Plymouth View Drive (1625 W) • Taylorsville City Hall, 2600 W. Taylorsville Blvd.

• Chabad Square, 1760 S 1100 E • Sandy Fire Station #35, 8186 S 1300 E • Sandy City Hall, 10000 S. Centennial Parkway • West Jordan Fire Station #53, 7602 S. Jordan Landing (3900 W) • Draper City Hall, 1020 E. Pioneer Road • West Valley City Hall, 3600 S. Constitution Blvd.

• Riverton City Hall, 12830 S. Redwood Rd.

Utah law allows citizens to vote at any of these locations, no matter where they live. To find the closest voting location voters should contact their county clerk.

Equality Utah has provided a list of county clerks at equalityutah.org/CountyClerkList2007.pdf

RCGSE Prepares to Hold Events for PWA Christmas Fund

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QUAC Offers Water Polo Classes The Queer Utah Aquatic Club will offer free beginner-level water polo clinics every Sunday in November during their practices at the Fairmont Aquatic Center from 11:00 a.m. to Noon. Swimmers of all levels are invited to attend to learn about the sport, or to brush up on skills.

The Fairmont Aquatic Center is located at 1044 E. Sugarmont Dr. (approximately 2200 South).

Gay Republicans to Screen Film Utah’s Log Cabin Republicans chapter will screen the documentary Mr. Conservative, Goldwater on Goldwater about late Arizona senator Barry Goldwater at the Salt Lake City Library’s Conference Room 1 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 5.

A Republican presidential hopeful in the 1964 election, Goldwater was wellknown — and controversial — for his opposition to communism and liberalism and his championing of limited government throughout his 30 years as a U.S. senator. He is not well known, however, for supporting issues such as abortion and gay rights in his later years — a topic which Goldwater on Goldwater includes in its 90 minute run time.

The general public is welcome to attend. For more information about the documentary visit hbo.com/docs/programs/mrconservative/index.html.

Bill Clinton to Visit Utah Sen. Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign will bring “super surrogate” Bill Clinton to Utah for two events on Nov. 4.

The former president will speak at the University of Utah’s A. Ray Olpin University Union ballroom at 3:00 p.m.

Tickets are $50 and can be purchased at contribute.hillaryclinton.com/events/ saltlake1104.html.

Clinton will also attend a fundraiser in Park City. Tickets for this event will cost $500 or $2,300 for a VIP reception. To RSVP call (435) 649-2711, email jsi602@ comcast.net or visit contribute.hillaryclinton.com/events/parkcity1023.html.

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Over the next two months, the Royal Court of the Golden Spike Empire will hold several events as part of their annual fundraiser for people with AIDS. On Friday, Nov. 2 at 9:00 p.m., Empress XXX Krystyna Shaylee and Tiffany Roach will host “Red Devil Party & Scorpio Birthday Bash” at the Paper Moon, a private club for members. Prizes will be given for the best devil or goth costume.

Prince Royal XXXII Thomas Shaylee will host “Let’s Duet for PWA Christmas Fund” on Friday, Nov. 9 at 9:00 p.m. at the Paper Moon, a private club for members.

The Court will hold two Snowball Weekend Kickoff events in preparation for its annual winter dance. Prince Royale XXXII Thomas Shaylee and Princess Royale Systeen Syndrome will host the first on Friday, Dec. 7 at the Paper Moon, a private club for members and the second on Saturday, Dec. 8 at the Trapp Door, a private club for members.

This year’s Snowball “Wish a Masquerade Ball” will be held at the Rose Wagner Performers Arts Center (138 West 300 South) on Sunday, Dec. 9. Tickets cost $20 (and service fees) and will be available through ArtTix box offices or online at arttix.org.

The People with AIDS Coalition of Utah has announced its third annual poinsettia fundraiser.

From now until Nov. 16, the organization will accept pre-orders for locallygrown red poinsettias at $10 per plant or $75 for eight plants. The popular winter plants are 9-12 inches in height and include a six-inch pot with an attractive pot cover.

While plant deliveries to locations in Salt Lake County require no minimum order, deliveries to Davis, Summit, Tooele and Utah Counties require a minimum order of eight plants. To date, scheduled delivery days are Nov. 27, Nov. 30, Dec. 4, Dec. 7, Dec. 11 and Dec. 14 (dates are subject to change).

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Opinion

Guest Editorial Harry Potter and the Gay Headmaster

by Ryan Jay, Co-host, PRIDE Radio

From the Editor I Like Ralph

by Michael Aaron michael@qsaltlake.com

I first met Ralph Becker in 1996 when he announced his plan to run for the Utah House seat that Frank Pignanelli was vacating. I was a member of the Capitol Hill Community Council and was at a meeting at the old firehouse just up the street from his house.

I found Ralph to be soft-spoken but firm and sincere in what he said. I immediately took to him, though I, of course, had wanted a gay or lesbian person to run for the seat since the district likely has the largest percentage of gay and lesbian voters in the state.

A few months later, Becker came to the Gay and Lesbian Utah Democrats caucus to seek our endorsement. He promised he would be good on gay issues, but we were concerned that he had no track record to point to. As other names surfaced and we talked to more potential candidates, it became very clear that Ralph would be our best voice on the Hill. He received a vast majority of the caucus votes and swept the convention. (GLUD was about 25 percent of the delegates in House District 24 at the time.)

Here we are more than a decade later and now we can look at a proven track record. While he is not the loose cannon ... well, perhaps not even a cannon at all ... and an outspoken mouthpiece on the Hill, he has played a very different role in his terms as State Representative. He has played the arbiter, ah-shuckswe-Democrats-aren’t-so-bad-give-this-bill-a-chance negotiator. He played the role that was needed to be played.

I was happy to hear when he announced plans to run for mayor. I secretly wondered, though, if he

could step into the shoes of a loose cannon, take the reins and do all the other cliches of being mayor of a liberal oasis in a vast desert of ultraconservatives.

Then he began to show his vision for Salt Lake City — his “blueprint.” In it, he drew bold proposals on a variety of issues. On gay and lesbian issues, he drew some of the most progressive plans that have worked in other larger cities.

As he has worked the campaign trail, I’ve seen a new Becker. One that was there the whole time, but he likely had to rein back in his role on the Hill. I saw a leader with principles and the backbone to never shrink away from them. I saw a nice guy who could point out the differences between him and the other nice guy, but be firm about them.

In the mid-80s I used to dream of a mayor who would stand up to the state, tell them where to stick their liquor laws and pious morality laws. A few years later, in steps Rocky Anderson and he was that mayor. It was a fun ride.

Now I have to wonder if it is time for a progressive mayor who can actually work within the system to make change. Where Anderson was the hammer and chisel, Becker can be the woodworker’s gouge who can finesse the system in a measured, deliberate manner.

I think it will be a great transition in the growth of our city.

We cannot forget, though, to actually cast our votes. Assuming Becker will sail through election night may be our largest mistake.

So get up Tuesday morning, Nov. 6, and make your first stop of the day your polling place. Then call and email a few of your closest friends and remind them to do the same.

If you have the day off or a few spare hours between now and Election Day, go to RalphBecker.com and see what help they can use. The final week is the busiest and I’m sure they’ll be more than happy for the extra hands and legs.

Then sit back and relax and know that the city will be in good hands. Q

I hope you believe me when I say that a few months prior to the publication of the final Harry Potter novel I actually thought to myself, “How disappointing that none of the series’ characters is gay! Maybe one will enter the Wizarding World in this last chance at the disco ... ” Alas, my wishes proved fruitless. After waiting nine hours in line with hoards of like-minded, festive friends and fans at a midnight release party, I devoured Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in 10 straight hours, savoring every page while not once giving thought to my hopes for a fairy among witches and wizards.

And so when J.K. Rowling announced that the beloved Professor Albus Dumbledore was gay to a packed crowd at New York’s Carnegie Hall on Oct. 19, I was initially overjoyed. The entire Harry Potter experience seemed, for me, to rise to new heights after the crash I and other fans felt upon completing the series. But the high did not last very long, and I was left with the question I pose to you now: were we cheated?

Why didn’t we get to celebrate this diversity over the years with Harry Potter? How dare the author make such a proclamation without any concrete examples in the books! Of course, some friends have said that Rowling could not have explicitly written in Dumbledore’s sexuality because that “wouldn’t have been appropriate” in a children’s series. To that I say: Excuse me, what is inappropriate about homosexuality? Gay is harmless. In fact, exposing children to the great diversity of sexuality would actually do the opposite of harm.

It would begin to desensitize young minds to our differences and dispel future fear and misunderstanding.

Yes, Harry Potter was initially intended for a young audience. However, as an adult, my adoration for the books and movies rivals that of anyone younger. I even have the Harry Potter pillowcase to prove it. And no children’s series alone makes its author a billionaire — a sizable fraction of grown-ups have paid her rent as well. So if we Potterheads could handle all the deaths, dark magic and (heterosexual) smooches in the books as we aged with the characters, certainly we could have dealt with a little man-love from Dumbledore. Yet, it plainly is not there in black and white. So what if Dumbledore’s closest friend, Gellert Grindelwald, was a guy? They got on instantly, exchanged letters via owl and even once — gasp!

— “[laughed] immoderately with their arms around each other’s shoulders.” That’s all fine and good, J.Ro, but I am still not convinced that this means anything.

That is, until I consider my awe and respect for the brain that birthed the phenomenon. No one knows better, nor can argue with, the woman who owns the series in her heart and soul. Before the release of book seven, there were rumors Rowling would pen an eighth Harry Potter book, this one an encyclopedia filled with back story, detailed history and passages edited from the original texts. She is the literal final word on everything Potter. And so, Dumbledore IS gay. Amen.

It is now safe to reread, assuming each and every subtle Dumbledore passage is tinted pink. Forevermore, we can enjoy the books all the more, contented with the fact we gays are represented. And that is significant to us. Just like everyone else, we find irresistible the opportunity to identify with our entertainment.

With the “mainstream” and majority of America still misdirecting prejudice our way, witnessing depiction and acceptance on the stage, screen or page validates us. And often that substantiation helps connect us. The closeted boy in Middle American feels less isolated when he catches a rerun of Will & Grace. Now the same can be said when he reads the Harry Potter canon.

For there lives a gay character within the Harry Potter series — and he’s not just any character. The wisest, most esteemed professor of them all is, in part, just like us. So thank you, J.K. Rowling. You’ve done your part.

And after all, it’s better late than never. Q Visit Ryan’s blog at ryanandcaroline.com, and listen to Pride Radio at prideradiodfw.com/cc-common/pride/RyanAndCaroline.html.

David Samsel Social Exclusivity = Viagra

by David Samsel

“I hear you,” rather than, “I understand you.” You can never truly understand another’s life experience. You see the world as it filters through what you know and have experienced. But attempting to understand another person, even if it is from your perspective on the world, is important. I think it helps us to become more authentic, and it validates the unique life experiences of both people involved.

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“When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.”

— John Ruskin In a recent nursing school clinical, I was interviewing a “client” in an effort to determine resources that might be helpful to her and her family. In response to my question about whether or not she had difficulty meeting her health care needs, she stated that sometimes she has to cancel her doctor appointments when she doesn’t have three dollars to cover the Medicaid copay. That reality in her life has stuck with me.

I’ve seen, first-hand, extreme poverty in both Russia and South America. I had multiple opportunities in these locations to witness just how unfair life can be. But this instance of poverty so close to where I live and work struck me in a whole different manner. These types of experiences, of which I feel lucky to have had a few, have made me consider the world in which I exist from a different perspective.

I’m currently in my psychiatric nursing rotation and the Psychiatric Advanced Practice Registered Nurse who teaches the class has emphasized the importance of using the statement,

Social exclusivity in the gay community is sort of like Viagra — far more people get their hands on it and lay claim to it than actually meet the requirements for its prescription.

I know that most of my energy in life is focused on myself: I feed myself. I go to the gym to workout. I go to school to get my education. I go to work to pay my bills. I don’t think my focus is different than it is for most of the people I know.

But because life requires that we exert so much energy on self-care, the time we spend focused on others becomes invaluable.

I believe that gay people are some of the most compassionate and considerate human beings out there. But I also know

Mountain Meadows Mascara Mad Cows

by Ruby Ridge ruby@qsaltlake.com

All told, we should raise over $25,000 this year, which is not bad for a bunch of chubby, hairy guys in dresses! bingo became — if you don’t mind the pun — “a cash cow.” For example, in September we made over $2000 in two hours. We have the best and most amazingly supportive audiences!

Half of the bingo proceeds automatically go to the Utah Pride Center to support their programs (I still want them to create a help line, but do they listen to moi? Noooooo! But I’m not bitter). The other half goes to a charity the Sluts choose. To make it fair, we each get a month for our charity. This year we have supported Intermountain Therapy

Animals (Chevy Suburban); South Valley Domestic Violence Shelter (me); Shriners Pediatrics (Freyda Snatchez) and others like the Trust for Open Lands, the Lupus Foundation, Amigos for Honduras, the Human Rights Network, the Multiple Sclerosis Foundation and the Baker Nevada School District.

I’m quite proud that our donations have gone so far and wide. All told, we should raise over $25,000 this year, which is not bad for a bunch of chubby, hairy guys in dresses!

Despite our sizeable donations to the Center and our support of the Utah AIDS Foundation and so on, we still take crap from people for not giving solely to gay and lesbian causes (especially national and political ones). I don’t understand why that is even an issue for people. Yes, the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community supports the Sluts, but so do our straight fans and friends. There shouldn’t be a fag litmus test attached to our giving.

If the Sluts put in the time and work as volunteers to raise funds (and trust me, it takes a lot of time to look that disheveled and tacky), then why shouldn’t they be able to say where it goes? It’s like the story of the Little Red Hen where everyone wants the end product, but no one is willing to do the work. Bitter, Ruby?

Oh, a tad! If the HRC wants new office furniture in Washington they have a multi-million dollar budget and an awesome fundraising apparatus to get that.

With our tiny but heartfelt contribution, we would rather buy toilet paper and laundry soap for the people with AIDS who live down the street. Ciao, babies! Q

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So there I was, darlings, perusing a back copy of Q when I saw the coolest thing. Awhile ago, local drag queen Nova Starr and her entourage were selling chocolate bars to finance their trip to Texas for the Miss USA at Large Pageant (apparently it’s like an episode of Fat March, but with better hair and it’s done in heels!).

“Good for them for doing something different and enterprising,” I thought to myself. “That’s showing some real initiative.” Then my mind drifted and I suddenly had a divine bovine revelation: “Hmmm, if they can send a heifer to Texas, why not send one to Africa?

You know, where they could really, really use one?”

To be honest, pumpkins, the cow idea had been percolating in my mind for a while, because the ladies at First Baptist Church have been raising funds for an actual charity called the Heifer Project (no, I’m not kidding!). It’s a fabulous, decades-old program where you can buy chickens, ducks, geese, goats, sheep and cows and send them to impoverished countries where they can feed, clothe and employ entire families. Pull up their Web site at heifer.org, muffins. Its fascinating.

Although the ladies of the Utah Cyber

Sluts raise funds for all sorts of charities, I must admit we have a fondness for those grassroots groups that can do a lot with a little. You know how some folks can make $500 stretch while others just look down their noses at any donation under $25,000? God, I hate that! The Sluts came up with a simple way of distributing our funds after our monthly

there is a lot of selfishness in the gay community: after all, great pleasure can be derived from the feeling that you are in some way superior to others. Social exclusivity in the gay community is sort of like Viagra — far more people get their hands on it and lay claim to it than actually meet the requirements for its prescription.

An acquaintance who reads my columns told me that before he’d met me in real life, I’d come across to him as an elitist. Now most of the time, I think that I smell better than other people, but that’s about the extent of the ways that I feel I’m superior to others. All human beings are worth the same, and although my mother might disagree, my life is no more valuable to the world than anyone else’s.

To conclude this very “off the cuff” column, I would like to share one more insight that has recently become clear to me: children are at the mercy of the situations that they’ve been born into.

They need people like you to advocate and fight for them. In whatever way you choose. It might be marriage equality, HIV/AIDS education or any other cause about which you are passionate. Of all those who suffer from the disparities in our world, children are the most innocent victims.

It’s my hope that, as a community and as individuals, we’re able to see beyond ourselves. That we can recognize when those who have less than we do are lifted up, the natural consequence is that it elevates all of us. It’s impossible to help another person without helping yourself. My personal experiences have led me to believe that when you give of yourself in any way, you always receive far more in return. Q

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In his first book, Confessions of an Economic Hitman, John Perkins described how he helped the United States swindle poor countries out of trillions of dollars by offering them huge loans that they couldn’t possibly repay. We then used that debt to manipulate their economies and exploit their resources. Perkins exposed how the World Bank, under the guise of alleviating poverty has actually been maneuvering developing nations into financial servitude. In his new book, The Secret History of the American Empire, Perkins goes deeper into the ways the American corpratocracy has manipulated the poorest of the poor in the pursuit of global empire.

TROY WILLIAMS: You were originally recruited by the National Security Agency and then you went to work for American corporations and the World Bank, ostensibly as an economist. You and your colleagues began to refer to yourself as “economic hitmen.” And like a modern day pirate, you would move into poor countries and plunder their treasure, correct?

JOHN PERKINS: That’s exactly what we did — I’m ashamed to say. We would identify a third world country that had resources that our corporations wanted, like oil.

And then we arranged a huge loan to that country through the World Bank. That money wouldn’t go to that country, but rather to our own corporations to build infrastructure projects that help a few rich people as well as the corporations that built them. These are things like power plants and industrial parks. And the country is left holding a huge debt. At some point we go back to the country and say, “You can’t pay us, so do us a favor, sell your oil really cheap to our oil companies, send troops in support of ours to Iraq, or vote with us on a critical United Nations vote.” And in that way, we’ve managed to funnel the world’s resources into us. In the process we’ve exploited a lot of people and created a tremendous amount of anger, resentment, poverty and terrorism.

TW: Our wealth often comes at the expense of people living in severe conditions of poverty. That’s difficult to accept.

JP: It is. There is slavery in the world on a much bigger level than ever before in history. We are seeing something around the world that is not unlike what was happening in the south in this country before the Civil War. But it’s hidden from us. It’s one of the reasons why our clothes and technology are so cheap. People in countries with tremendous amount of resources don’t get the benefit of those resources. We turn around and offer them foreign aid after we’ve exploited them. But even the foreign aid really goes to our own corporations. This is creating a destabilized world.

TW: We all talk about sweatshops. But the true cost of our lifestyle hasn’t really sunk deep into our cultural consciousness. But the people being exploited are very aware!

JP: They are very aware. We’ve got to get it. We need to understand this.

Democracy is based on the premise of an informed electorate. If our electorate is not informed, then we are truly not a democracy. It’s important that everyone take action. And if we decide everyday to bring our passion to bear on creating a stable, sustainable and peaceful world, we will get there.

TW: Talk about Nike in Indonesia. I was under the impression that they had turned things around.

JP: Nike would like to give the impression that they are doing a better job, but that’s not the case at all. In fact, things are getting worse. A few years ago, Nike announced that they had increased the wages of their workers by 70 percent, and in fact they did. But at the same time, the currency of Indonesia had devalued by 130 percent, which they didn’t bother to tell us. So actually, they were spending 60 percent less. The workers did get an increase, but they couldn’t buy anything with it on the international market. We were really hoodwinked. I want to wear the Nike swoosh with pride and say this is a company that represents creating a sustainable, stable and peaceful world, but right now Nike represents the opposite of that. We need to bring them around and let them know that we are never going to buy anything from them again until they do better. We have to look at every corporation that way.

TW: A common argument I hear is “The workers in China and Indonesia need the work, and if we didn’t have our factories there, these people would starve.” How do you respond?

JP: The same argument was used here over slavery. It was said that the people dragged out of the jungles were savages and were much better living here, learning about Christianity and living on our plantations. You can justify slavery in many different ways. A lot of [the Indonesians] were living on subsistence farms.

Nike came and offered them $2 a day and that seemed like a lot of money to them.

They left their farms, went to work for Nike, but in a few years, Nike would abandon their factories and go somewhere else where wages were even lower.

These people were out on the street.

They’d lost their farms. To justify things on that level is really sinister. Yes, I want to support the workers of Indonesia and China, but only if they are being supported with fair wages and health care — not if they are being exploited.

TW: How do we get people to recognize how our lifestyles might be hurting other people?

JP: We really need to understand that living in the United States, we are less than 5 percent of the world’s population, consuming 25 percent of it’s resources, and creating more than 30 percent of its pollution. That’s a nonviable system. It cannot continue. We must change. So let’s change in a reasonable way. Let’s do what we know we must do. Listen to your own passion. Use your individual talents to help us create a sustainable, stable and peaceful world. Q RadioActive airs Monday through Friday from noon to 1pm on KRCL 90.9 FM. Podcast the entire interview at queergnosis.com. Visit John Perkins at dreamchange.org.

Letters from IRCONU Candidates TIM BROWN, CANDIDATE FOR EMPEROR First of all I want to say thank you for supporting me as I campaign for the position of Emperor â&#x20AC;&#x153;8â&#x20AC;?. I have had some great role models and I have some big shoes to fill. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s from these people that I have learned what I have, and is one of the things that I feel makes me qualified for this job. The first year I moved here I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what the Imperial Court System was, and then Dominique, Ron Yeates, Russell Griffin and Dionna West appointed me as Count of the 4th reign.

I learned what the court was about that year. It made me feel good to be a part of an organization that feels the same way about the community as I do. Then I became Prince in reign 5 thanks to the help of Marquita and Steve Flint. I was able to get involved with the community a lot more and learn more about this organization. I was also on the board of directors for two years. These are just some of my qualifications; I also have many great ideas for the upcoming year if I am elected as Emperor. Please feel free to ask me any questions you have and I will answer them to the best of my ability.

Please take the time to vote on November 10, 2007 at the Ogden Marriott Hotel from 5:00 pm to midnight. If you vote â&#x20AC;&#x153;yesâ&#x20AC;? for me, I promise you I will fulfill my duties, I will do a great job, and I will have a great time doing it. My heart is in the right place, my head is in the right place and I know it is the right time, so vote â&#x20AC;&#x153;yesâ&#x20AC;? for Tim Brown if you want to have a great time and a fantastic year with me.

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SHERRY JESSOP, CANDIDATE FOR EMPRESS Hello my name is Sherry Jessop and I am running for the position of Empress VIII of the Imperial Rainbow Court of Northern Utah. I have lived in Ogden for the past 13 years. After meeting several members of the community and being a part of the general membership of the IRCONU I have grown so much in love with all of them and what they represent. I have enjoyed being part of a community that gives so much of themselves to help enrich, educate and help other people and their lives. I have grown to love the community as my own family.

I joined the IRCONU in 2003. I have held various positions in the IRCONU such as womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rep, historian, secretary, and ICP V. I have had a seat on the board since 2004. I have aided in raising money for the various funds of the IRCONU and help to get many donations for the IRCONU. I feel that my time has been well spent as I have grown as a person through this organization. As I look toward the future of the IRCONU I have a deep respect and love for all the past monarchs and they have accomplished for the IRCONU and feel that it is time for me in my life to help further the growth of the IRCONU as well as myself.

With this position I will bring commitment and support to our community and all of our causes. Leadership and dedication and encourage the continued growth of the IRCONU. I see many ventures for the future growth of the IRCONU and I am excited to become a part of it. I hope you will all come out and support me in my future endeavors, the community and the IRCONU, vote â&#x20AC;&#x153;YESâ&#x20AC;? November 10th.

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A Different Kind of Boy

Transman Ely challenges gender assumptions and what it means to be an individual.

By JoSelle Vanderhooft

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or someone so young, Ely Shipley has done a lot with his life. A doctorial candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Utah, he has taught creative writing, literature and women’s/gender studies courses at the university level and facilitated several workshops for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth. He is also a talented, awardwinning poet whose work has appeared in such prestigious publications as Prairie Schooner, The North American Review, The Greensboro Review and Haydens’ Ferry Review, among several others. His first poetry collection, the phenomenal Boy with Flowers, will be published by Barrow Street Press in spring, 2008.

I asked Ely to tell me a little about his work, and about his experiences as a transgender man living in Salt Lake City.

JoSelle Vanderhooft: Let’s start with a favorite question for locals: Did you grow up here?

Ely Shipley: I actually grew up in L.A. Before that I lived in Lafayette, a small town in Indiana, and going to grad school for my MFA in poetry at Purdue.

I’m at the University of Utah now getting my doctorate in poetry.

JV: Tell me a little bit about your transition.

When you were younger, for example, did you have the experience of feeling like a boy trapped in a girl’s body, as the cliché goes?

ES: I don’t think I had those words at that point, but I did have some experiences [along those lines]. When I was 12 I remember walking across campus and having someone shout, “Lesbian!”

I didn’t know what that word meant. I had to go and look it up in the dictionary. It just wasn’t something I was thinking about at twelve. But whoever called me that was reading my masculinity, because we assume that females who exhibit masculine traits must be lesbians.

I could also tell you countless stories about how lining up in the boy’s and girl’s lines during kindergarten. Even if my mom had made me wear a dress that day, I would just automatically line up with the boys and repeatedly have the teacher tell me that, “you know better, you’re a girl.” And I remember thinking to myself, “She doesn’t understand. I’m a different kind of boy.”

Even though I knew I wasn’t born with a penis, which is always thought of as this defining characteristic of maleness. Still, I don’t think the idea I was born in the wrong body occurred to me until I had the language to identify what was going on. I actually identified as a lesbian for a long time.

I didn’t actually start transitioning until about four or five years ago when I was in my MFA program. I actually thought only men could transition; I didn’t have any idea that it was possible for a woman to transition to being a man until I was about 24 or 25. When I thought of the word transsexual or transgender, I had this stereotype in my mind of this melodramatic episode of Jerry Springer, and drag queens. I think if I would have known earlier, then I would have been making plans to pursue transitioning, or at least thinking about whether that was right for me. When I was in Indiana a friend mentioned there was a transgender conference in Chicago, so I went to check it out. I had this experience of being in a room full of people where I felt more comfortable than I ever had in a room full of strangers. It kind of freaked me out at first.

I think the conference was where I figured out that my experience was similar to those of the people there. I think I was a very depressed person until that realization. It’s amazing to me now that I was that depressed and thought that was just normal to feel.

JV: So now you’re here in Utah. You’ve obviously lived in a small town before, and I know the Lafayette area can be pretty hard for a gay person. But how have things been here? How has it been different now you’ve fully transitioned?

ES: It’s sort of strange. This is the first time in my life where I haven’t stood out in a crowd. I don’t’ know exactly how people read me, but I think being a white man — even if I still exhibit feminine behaviors — I sort of blend in, in a way I didn’t as a masculine female.

Even though I had long hair in high school, I’d still get comments from people because I was riding a skateboard or the only girl in my little league. I just stood out and now I don’t. I think that’s been the biggest difference which has been good. I feel more comfortable now, I’m not a target in a way.

JV: Is there a downside to being able to blend in?

ES: The sad thing about my transitioning is my visibility in the gay community. I don’t have visibility as a transman.

I think, for example, this year at Pride, everyone just assumed I’m gay. Which, you know, I definitely identify as queer but that’s not exactly right. (I’m in a relationship with a woman now, for one thing.) It’s just an odd, almost ironic experience to have when you’re around other queer people. I can’t be out and proud without saying, “Hi, my name’s Ely, and I’m a transsexual,” you know?

But still, I think I’m always a little worried with most people about how out to be. I think that’s something I’m constantly negotiating, because it’s not

something anyone would assume unless I told them.

JV: You say you sometimes worry about how out to be around people. Is this because of the invasive questions cisgender, or nontransgender, people tend to ask about being transgender?

ES: I can almost anticipate the first questions someone’s going to ask me. I think I’ve come to a place where I think that people are genuinely curious and coming from a place of innocence when they ask things like “Have you had the surgery?” Things you’d never ask anyone else. For me that kind of question is a little bit troubling, because it goes back to what we talked about earlier — how being a man is equated to having a penis, and nothing else. But at this point I think I feel comfortable enough in myself so when that happens, I try not to take it personally.

JV: Hopefully this isn’t an insensitive question. How has having lived as both sexes influenced the way you live?

ES: I feel like everything has a double side to it. On the one hand I feel I bring a perspective to my classes that isn’t expected. Like this one time when someone made a sexist comment. I had this experience with a guy telling me, “Oh you know those women drivers!”

And I said, “What are you talking about?” He didn’t expect me to call him on that. I’m not saying that all men with XY chromosomes do this, but I feel like I’m the covert feminist where I can call people on their shit.

On the other hand, I can tell you without a doubt that I have way more authority than I ever had now that I’m in a perceived male body. My hope is to use that responsibly. I think that’s the great thing about being transgender, to highlight those moments. For me there’s just a kind of constant negotiation going on and an awareness of gender assumptions.

JV: Now that we’ve talked about the roles gender and politics play in your life, let’s talk about art. Your poetry book, specifically.

JV: So would you say then that the poems constitute a narrative?

ES: I think there is a narrative suggested, but the order of the poems doesn’t follow that. I wanted to resist this whole trope of, “when I was five I was a boy trapped in a girl’s body,” because I don’t think I had those words at that point. But I definitely have the memory of that, and I think memory’s kind of a funny thing because we always remember in the present. I was interested in portraying that by creating a narrative that wasn’t linear. Q

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by Ely Shipley

The neck of the guitar stretches out, every other fret painted with a sharp dot or dash, flash after flash of reflected light, marble or pearl, the shape of a fingerprint, the measure of each note trapped inside the instrument’s dark.

Outside, a hailstorm and the sound of crumpled up grade-school exams once smacking against my skull, paper fists thrown angry in torrents, and six-year-old laughter that fell all around me as I sat inside a classroom, in a warm pool of my own urine. I’d been ashamed to go to the girls’ room at recess because I was a boy,

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ES: Boy with Flowers has a lot to do with transgender issues. A lot of the poems in this book I started to write when I was thinking about whether or not I’d transition. It was unavoidable in a way because that question was so present in my mind.

I said earlier that even though I realized I was transgender as a child, I didn’t have that label to help me figure out if transitioning was possible for me. So I feel like my relationship to language has a lot to do with poetry specifically — with not using the language of every day speech to articulate my experience. I feel like the whole process of writing poems for me is an attempt to figure out how to use words so I can articulate that experience or be more aware of that experience.

Someone asked me once if I would still transition if I was stranded on a deserted island. I had to really think about that — because my issue then was that nobody saw me for who I am, everyone just saw this masculine female and made these assumptions.

But ultimately I had to say yes because even if from that day on I’d have been alone I don’t think I would have been happy with myself because I’ve ab-

sorbed so much about what our culture and society says about gender. I think in the poems there’s a lot of struggling with that, with what other people think. The speaker in a lot of the poems thinks about that, and there’s definitely a kind of — a perception of a world where things are more possible than they are in reality, which I think lyric poetry kind of lends itself to. Definitely, it talks explicitly about trans stuff and there are a lot of other threads that go through there, like what does it mean to be an individual, an “I” separated from “you.” There’s a lot of play on that concerning relationships with family and friends, as well as on an erotic level.

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Transgender Awareness Month Events The Transgender Education Advocates of Utah, the Utah Pride Center, the Human Rights Campaign and Equality Utah have teamed up to present several events in honor of Transgender Awareness Month.

Monday, Nov. 19, 12–2:00pm, University of Utah, Ben Lunine, Advice and Counsel Attorney from the Transgender Law Center will present a workshop for Utah’s lawyers and politicians on different laws that affect transgender people. Light refreshments will be provided. This event is free.

Monday, Nov. 19, 6:30–7:30 p.m., Salt Lake County Complex (2100 S State) Ben Lunine will present a workshop for parents of transgender minors. Light refreshments will be provided. This event is free.

Monday, Nov. 19, 8–9:30 p.m., Salt Lake County Complex Ben Lunine will present a workshop on the legal issues transgender people face when transitioning. This event is free.

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Friday, Nov. 16, 7–9:00 p.m., Salt Lake City and County Building Dr. Bowers will discuss the different health issues that transgender people face during and after transitioning and answer questions about gender reassignment surgery. Light refreshments will be provided. This event is free and open to the public.

Saturday, Nov. 17, 8–10:00 a.m., Café Marmalade, Utah Pride Center “Breakfast with Bowers” is an opportunity to socialize with America’s top gender reassignment surgeon. This event is a fundraiser for Transgender Education Advocates of Utah. Tickets are $25.

Transgender Resources Courtesy of Transgender Education Advocates of Utah, the following organizations and professionals have a good track record in the transgender community:

Groups Utah Brotherhood 4 Transmen groups.yahoo.com/ group/ub4t2006/ Utah Pride Center utahpridecenter.org

Local Doctor Dr. Nicola Riley, MD St. Mark’s Hospital East Medical Bdg 1250 E 3900 S 801-269-9939

Mental Health Professionals Shaun DeMers, APRN DeMers Mental Health 231 E 400 S 801-597-5686 shaundemers@msn.com Wilfred Higashi, Psychiatrist Holladay Family & Child Guidance Clinic 3236 Fortuna Dr., Holladay 801-278-0644

Tuesday, Nov. 20, 7:00 p.m., Utah Pride Center Day of Remembrance Candle Light Vigil with Reverend Sean Dennison of South Valley Unitarian Universalist Society will be followed by TEA of Utah’s annual “TEA Party.” TEA will present their Organization of the Year and Individual of the Year awards. Light refreshments and entertainment will be provided.

Tuesday, Nov. 27, 7:00 p.m., Salt Lake Public Library A special screening of You Don’t Know Dick, considered to be one of the most profound, compelling, and thoughtprovoking documentary ever made on gender identity. You Don’t Know Dick features honest and riveting portraits of a diverse group of six men who once were women. They are a diverse group: one gave birth to three children; another is a longtime mechanic and body-builder.

Each has lived within a body he didn’t accept; each has tried to adapt to social expectations he couldn’t fulfill; and each has experienced devastating personal pain that could not be obscured by denial.

All have embarked upon an enormous and transfiguring struggle to recover their dignity and an identity once denied to them.

For more information, visit teaofutah.org or the Utah Pride Center’s community calendar for more information at utahpridecenter.org.

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Human Rights Campaign hrc.org Intersex Society of North America www.isna.org National Center for Transgender Equality nctequality.org

Transgender Law Center transgenderlawcenter.org Transgender Law & Policy Institute transgenderlaw.org

Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund transgenderlegal.org Transparentcy (Support for Transgender parents and their children) transparentcy.org

Coming Out as Transgender The Human Rights Campaign Coming Out Project and the National Center for Transgender Equality have developed a guide to help transgender people meet the challenges and opportunities that living authentically can offer to each of us. Here is an excerpt of the guide, available as a free download at: nctequality.org/Resources/Coming_Out_as_Transgender.pdf

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rom the earliest age, children are taught that there are girls and there are boys. But our history books are rich with individuals who have blurred — or even crossed — those lines.

While gender is presented to us as a mutually exclusive pair — male and female — the truth is that gender is a rich, broad spectrum that comes in as many forms as there are people.

For many people, expressing gender is an unconscious action. It’s as simple as styling your hair or tying a tie. It causes no angst or uncertainty.

But for those whose gender identity, or innate sense of gender, doesn’t match with the one they were assigned at birth, it can be a complex and difficult undertaking.

Many of these individuals come to identify as transgender, an umbrella term that describes a wide range of people who experience or express their gender in different, sometimes non-traditional, ways.

Transgender people must make deeply personal decisions to be open and honest about who we are with ourselves and others — even when it isn’t easy.

We express that openness by being our full and complete selves among our friends, our family, our co-workers and,

sometimes, even strangers.

Each of us meets this challenge in our own way and in our own time. Throughout the process of coming out and living ever more authentic lives, you should always be in the driver’s seat about how, where, when and with whom you choose to be open.

Being Open with Yourself From birth, most of us are raised to think of ourselves as fitting into a certain mold.

Our culture and families teach us that we are “supposed” to look, act and carry ourselves in certain ways.

Few of us were told that we might have a gender identity that differs from the body into which we were born or that we might feel compelled to express our gender in ways that aren’t traditionally associated with the gender we were assigned at birth.

That’s why so many of us are scared, worried or confused when facing these truths in ourselves. We can spend a lifetime attempting to hide it, hoping against hope that it’s not true or that it might someday simply go away.

There is no one moment when it’s “right” to be open with oneself. Some transgender people have long battled with living lives they think they’re supposed to live instead of the lives they know they were meant to live. And some come to question their gender identities and expressions suddenly.

Transgender people come out during all stages and walks of life — when they’re teens, when they’re seniors; when they’re married, when they’re single; when they have children, when they don’t.

Some transgender people come out simply by having the courage to be different.

This can range from women who express themselves in traditionally masculine ways to men who do things that are generally considered feminine. For many of these people, coming out is never a question. They are out simply by being themselves.

Deciding to Tell Others Some transgender people who are coming out to others have reached a breaking point in their lives where it’s too difficult to hide who they are any longer.

Whether it’s the cross-dresser burdened with a secret he’s hidden from his spouse or it’s a young lesbian who feels she doesn’t fit into a traditional gender role, transgender people feel compelled to share who they are so as to have stronger and more authentic relationships with those closest to them.

After coming out, many people feel as if a great weight has been lifted from their shoulders. In the process of coming out, they may also break down stereotypes and other barriers as they live more open lives.

While there are benefits, there can also be serious risks and consequences involved in coming out. The decision is yours and yours alone. It’s important to weigh both risks and benefits before making a choice to tell others.

A Note On Transitioning It’s important to remember that transgender is a broad term describing many different people who express gender in many different ways, each as authentically as the next.

For many transgender people, transitioning — the period of time when a person changes from living in one gender to living in another — is the time at which coming out becomes critical to our lives.

Transitioning does not always involve medical treatment. By dressing in preferred-gender clothing, changing their bodies through exercise, adjusting mannerisms and speech patterns or requesting that friends and family call them by their preferred names, transgender people often use non-medical options to live their gender identities.

Others who are transitioning pursue hormones and sometimes surgery to bring their bodies more in line with their gender identities.

In many parts of the world, the accepted treatment protocol for those who undertake a medical transition is known as “Standards of Care.” These standards are developed by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (formerly known as the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association).

Some of us may confront the issue of coming out again, after transitioning, among new friends, family and co-workers.

Some transgender people choose to lead “stealth” lives. While they may disclose their transgender status to healthcare professionals, they do not discuss their transition or gender assigned at birth with others, unless necessary.

Many others find that, like for many gay, lesbian and bisexual people, living authentically means telling those with whom they are close about their transitions.

Still others are confronted with the challenge of coming out more publicly by being personal advocates, whether they do that through the pages of a newspaper article or by discussing their personal journeys in front of classes studying transgender issues at local colleges or universities.

Download the full guide at nctequality.org/Resources/Coming_Out_as_Transgender.pdf

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Geeky ones, I have indeed heard the wonderful news that Harry Potterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Albus Dumbledore is playing for the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s auxiliary of my team (the-leaky-cauldron. org/2007/10/20/j-k-rowling-at-carnegiehall-reveals-dumbledore-is-gay-nevillemarries-hannah-abbott-and-scores-more if you havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t). But Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m interrupting a series, and as Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be plenty to talk about in mid-November, you can catch my reaction in the issue after this one.

So far in our series, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve discussed how to identify cyberpaths and how to get out of the virtual webs of lies and emotional abuse in which they can tangle you. But tossing an abusive friend or lover out of your life is only the first step. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been closely involved with a pathological abuser, you will likely need some time to heal. Depending on many things, including personality and the nature of your relationship with your cyberpath, this could take a few hours, a few months, maybe even more than a year. No matter how long it takes, you should be honest with yourself about feelings of grief, anger and betrayal, and consider seeking professional counseling if these feelings start to feel unmanageable. In this final installment, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll explore the road to recovering from a cyberpathâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sick games.

First, letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s go back to the story at this seriesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; crux: that of Patty and her cyberpath, Alex, who turned from charming friend to mortal enemy when Patty confessed her love to her. The abuse Alex dished out following that admission â&#x20AC;&#x201D; including libelling Patty and convincing several mutual friends to sever contact with her â&#x20AC;&#x201D; took an enormous toll on my friend. Patty had nightmares, panic attacks and several episodes of what I would later recognize as post-traumatic stress disorder. And as Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve said before, Alexâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s betrayal was the main reason behind Pattyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s near-fatal suicide attempt a few months later. Some people can walk away from a cyberpath emotionally unscathed, and their ability to do so amazes me. But for those who have a harder time moving beyond the lies and emotional abuse, I recommend the following.

Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t minimize what happened because it took place online I suspect that people are often reluctant to talk about the hurt a cyberpath has caused them â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or even to admit that hurt to themselves â&#x20AC;&#x201D; because of the still-pervasive myth that online interaction is somehow â&#x20AC;&#x153;not real.â&#x20AC;? You know, â&#x20AC;&#x153;why are you so upset? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just the internet! Now go out and make some real friends!â&#x20AC;? Quite frankly, this is bull. The fact that you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see or touch people

on the other side of the computer screen doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean that the things you say and do to them donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have an impact. In fact, given recent research into the sociology of online interaction, the internetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s text-based, anonymous nature can often make relationships that start there even more intense and intimate than offline relationships. If you allow others (or yourself) to dismiss any pain you feel as trivial or unreal, you will not be able to address it.

Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t deny your feelings This may seem obvious, but given the emotional baggage a lot of us have about â&#x20AC;&#x153;badâ&#x20AC;? feelings like anger and sorrow, I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good to repeat this in any column that deals with grief. Now, at first you may have to push away memories of what your cyberpath has done to you because they are just too raw and painful to process. If your experience with a cyberpath was traumatic (involving, say, death threats, cyberstalking, public humiliation or, well, anything that greatly disturbed you), not being able to deal with the emotion immediately may actually even be healthy.

After all, the nervous system can only take so much upset before it will start blocking things out for your protection. But suppressing or denying a painful or â&#x20AC;&#x153;badâ&#x20AC;? feeling or memory wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t work forever. Doing so for a protracted period of time will actually cause you more harm.

Suppressed trauma may manifest as a recurring nightmare, a compulsive behavior, or even a destructive coping mechanism.

Facing trauma in the long run will save you a lot of grief.

Understand that it isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t your fault Again, you are not stupid, weak or a lesser human being if you are taken in by a cyberpathâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s charm. Cyberpaths are practiced manipulators and can fool even the smartest and most emotionally intuitive people â&#x20AC;&#x201D; indeed, you were likely tricked because you are a good person, one who has the willingness and ability to trust and love. You are also not to blame for the way a cyberpath treats you any more than a target of domestic violence is to blame for being beaten.

A common technique cyberpaths use is blaming their targets for â&#x20AC;&#x153;makingâ&#x20AC;? them lash out: â&#x20AC;&#x153;You made me do this because you provoked me/stalked me/lied about me/gossiped about me.â&#x20AC;? Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe it.

If you feel overwhelmed, seek professional help For reasons I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t understand, many people still consider seeking a therapistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s help to be a sign of weakness or a source of shame. As someone who has benefitted from four years of therapy, I can safely tell you that it is neither. In fact, if the trauma your cyberpath caused you leads to thoughts of self-harm or suicide, seeking professional help may not only ease your discomfort, but save your life. Although Patty had already gone through enough physical, emotional and sexual abuse to give her a pretty severe case of post-traumatic stress disorder without Alexâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;helpâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, people can develop anxiety, or even PTSD from any severe trauma, even if no physical violence was involved. This is especially true, again,

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EVENTS THIS MONTH AT THE

Hollywood Buzz

By Ross von Metzke

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Los Angeles — Well folks, there’s good news and there’s bad news.

The good news is that Brokeback Mountain is still the highest grossing gay movie of all time. The bad news is that in the two years since

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the flick raked in $175 million at the box office, the only gay film that has threatened to take its crown is a movie about two firefighters who reluctantly play gay for benefits. Yeah.

I wasn’t too keen on seeing Adam Sandler and Kevin James swap spit, either.

So what happened? Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger both scored Oscar nominations for their role in the epic gay love story. You’d think others in Hollywood might be keen to jump on the bandwagon. And yet, nothing.

A killer new article in Entertainment Weekly (posted at ew.com/ew/ article/0,,20153963,00.html) suggests that while movie-going audiences are undoubtedly ready to see same-sex stories on screen, film executives (who, the article suggests, tend to be stuck in an old way of thinking) are not.

Brokeback screenwriter Diana Ossana said that when the movie was vying for the best picture statue, she was told that some Academy voters refused to see the flick based solely on its content.

How unbiased of them!

So Crash takes home the prize while Ledger, Gyllenhaal and Michelle Williams all see their Hollywood stock go up and vaults filled with gay scripts everywhere stay locked! What the fuck? While TV brings us Ugly Betty, The Wire, Brothers & Sisters, nip/tuck and The Tudors, the big studios give us ... I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry? Lame!

But it’s not all terrible news. If things go according to plan, Gus Van Zant will step behind the camera in January to direct Sean Penn in Milk, the story of “Mayor of Castro Street” Harvey Milk, who worked wonders in securing rights for San Francisco’s gay residents in the ’70s. From a script

by Big Love’s Dustin Lance Black and including Matt Damon as Milk’s assassin, the film will beat a proposed Bryan Singer project on Milk to production.

Assuming it’s on schedule.

Also on tap is the Brad Pitt project Dallas Buyer’s Club in which the actor would fulfill many a gay man’s dream by playing for our team — albeit as a

gay man dying of AIDS in the ’80s who supplies pharmaceuticals not approved for use in the United States to fellow patients. It’s bleak, but it’s something.

Let’s just hope Hollywood gets its head out of its ass one of these days.

In other gay news, can you believe Terry McMillan is still talking to anyone who will listen about how her gay Jamaican husband screwed her over and supposedly used her for a green card?

I mean, for Christ’s sake, they’ve been splitsville for more than two years.

You’d think she’d have moved on by now.

Well, she hasn’t. She’s called her ex a faggot on live television, said that his being gay was just an excuse to get out of their sham of a marriage and pleaded with Oprah (even after admitting she had shared a bubble bath with him following their separation) to help her show Jonathan Plummer as a fake.

Now, she’s claiming she’s spewing hate to protect gay men everywhere.

Say what?

Here’s an excerpt: “I’ve done more and shown more support for the gay community over the years than Jonathan will ever do. What is it he’s doing besides getting a tell-all book published to draw attention to himself with the hopes of making money and once again all by pimping my fame? What has he done? Nothing. The gay men and women who are still suffering in Jamaica have not benefited one iota because of him. Quite the contrary. He gives gay men a bad rep as far as I can see.”

Alright, Terry. If you call threatening to kill the faggot via voice mail a charitable contribution to the gay community, mark that off your list of things to do for others in 2008.

Well, at least she’s not in jail.

Which is more than we can say for Foxy Brown who, like Lil’ Kim before her, plans to release a new album while she’s behind bars.

Foxy is currently serving a year at Riker’s Island prison for violating probation from a 2003 assault charge.

While Foxy issued a statement at the time saying, “I made my bed and I have no problem lying in it,” she has since lost said bed after getting tossed into solitary confinement over a dispute with a fellow inmate.

What’s that mean? Her own cell with no window, an hour outside of her room each day and absolutely no interaction with other inmates for at least two months. Spend that time writ-

ing apology cards to every bitch you’ve fucked over, Foxy. Maybe by the time they let you out, you’ll have realized you passed Naomi in the “people I’ve managed to piss off” department.

At least Topenga from Boy Meets World isn’t mad. Well, at least not at Lance Bass (she may be mad about her career).

Danielle Fishel recently dropped

by The Tyra Banks Show to talk about her relationship with Lance pre People Magazine cover. They went to prom together, made out and went to a Celine Dion concert. Oh, and Lance bought her a Skipper doll on one of *NSync’s world tours.

Yeah, she was totally snowed.

But at least he didn’t take her virginity. She claims she was ready to give it up, but because he was leaving on tour the following day, he didn’t want to leave her alone on what should be the most special day of her life. Awww.

That’s so sweet. Never mind the fact that he probably just couldn’t get it up.

Later in the show, Tyra had to prove she’s a hot piece of ass by asking if Lance had ever crushed on her, and then insisting the two kiss to see if there were any sparks.

My TV pretty much blew a fuse. You can see the cheeseball mess here: youtube.com/watch?v=ibFSF6exD2M. For those of you still wondering about Marie Osmond, she’s fine. No uppers or downers to blame, folks, just these nasty So Cal fires that have everyone ruffled. I must admit, I’m coughing a bit just sitting at my desk. I can only imagine how I’d feel if I were trying to samba. Still, glad as I am that Marie’s OK, I could watch that video (at youtube.com/ watch?v=T9wWtSarGzU) of her passing out on Dancing with the Stars over and over again! In fact, why don’t we do that now?

And for those of you still holding out hope for Christina Aguilera’s big announcement about her baby, word is she’s actually carrying twins. Don’t expect confirmation, though. She’s still content with the world thinking she’s about six months gassy. I gotta say though, good for Christina keeping things on the down low. Maybe if Britney had stayed out of the public eye a bit, she wouldn’t be attending mandatory parenting classes in Beverly Hills with her ex once a week.

And that, my friends, is all the dirt we’ve got for you this week. Join us next time, and until then, remember: Take the time to stop and smell the gossip! Q

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The Gay Agenda YOUR CALENDAR OF ARTS, ENTERTAINMENT & IMPORTANT EVENTS

I’m the least photogenic person in the world.

Like my staff photo, I frequently end up looking like I was just shot out of a cannon and slammed into the camera lens ... but fucking giddy about it. So I’m worried about the government approving my Passport application solely on my demented face shot. Keep your fingers crossed for me, for tomorrow I may be bound nude to a table in a cold room with a bag over my head.

2FRIDAY Q It is said audiences will delight in the youthful enthusiasm of the brave heroes, the sudden twists and turns in the action and the story’s swashbuckling romance and nostalgia of Ballet West’s The Three Musketeers. Sounds like a night on the town with my peeps Justin and Shane; of course, less the bravery, more backroom action and screw the romance.

7:30pm, Tonight & Saturday and Oct. 7-10, Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South. Tickets $17–65, 355-ARTS or arttix.org.

Q Racial slurs and other defaming name-calling are just plain cruel. No faggot would ever go so far, would he? Anyhoo, N*W*C* The Race Show, written and performed by three UCLA graduates, is a hilarious, provocative and emotional look at the impact these words have had on their lives and on our culture today. Blending theatre, hip-hop, stand-up comedy, slam poetry and true-life stories, the performers take on racial slurs, stereotypes and the concept of race itself.

7:30pm, through Saturday, Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, UofU. Tickets $24.50–29.50, 581-7100 or kingtix. com.

Q Pioneer Theatre Company presents the Utah premiere of the Pulitzer Prize-

winning drama Doubt, by John Patrick Shanley. This compelling story of faith, religion, sexuality and fear is set in the early ’60s, but its impact is uncomfortably felt even today. Don’t miss this intriguing play and its extraordinary cast.

7:30pm, through Nov. 17, Pioneer Theatre, 330 S. 1400 East, UofU. Tickets $21–39, 581-6961 or pioneertheatre.org.

3SATURDAY Q The Lambda Hiking Club’s next leisurely stroll is four miles up Black Mountain, the tallest peak in the northern hills just above Salt Lake City.

Sounds pleasant. But for the love of Hannah Montana, stay with the group and don’t rely on your cell phone if you get in a pinch — especially if it’s a Cricket.

10am, hikers meet at Chevron, corner of 700 E. 200 South. For more information call 583-7064 or visit gayhike.org.

Q The Salt Lake Symphony is the the wind beneath the wings of Stephen Beus, the winner of the 2006 Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition.

Tonight’s program includes Brahms: Hungaran Dance #1, Liszt: Totentanz for Piano & Orchestra and Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances.

7:30pm, Libby Gardner Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, UofU. Tickets $8, 581-7100 or kingtix.com.

5MONDAY Q Have you ever gotten that one stuff in your eye? Well ... it burrrns! Anyhoo, the Utah Pride Center’s Just Q — a youth social group — is screening Hedwig and the Angry Inch tonight in celebration of Transgender Awareness Month. Join in this rock ’n roll sensation.

6–9pm, Youth Activities Center, Utah Pride Center, 361 N. 300 West. Free, 5398800 or utahpridecenter.org.

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7WEDNESDAY Q The Salt Lake Acting Company presents the world premiere Billion Dollar Baby. This one-woman play is a funny and clear-eyed chronicle of a day in the life of distinctly atypical grandmother Polly Parchment as she survives the unrelenting entertainment and celebration of her “Azure” grandchild.

The calamitous day culminates in a birthday party to rival Fellini’s most fevered dreams.

7:30pm, through Dec. 2, Salt Lake Acting Company, 168 W. 500 North. Tickets $13–34, 363-7522 or saltlakeactingcompany.org.

Q Four local up-and-coming young filmmakers present their fervent works at Spy Hop Prodctions’ PitchNic Premiere. The short films are: Two Loves, a documentary on three different perspectives of homosexuality and the Mormon religion; Neighbors, a dark mystery about social responsibility; Jerry, a humorous zombie-esque flick; Big Bad Wolf, a documentary exploring fears and phobias, and how they’re perpetuated by the world around us.

7:30pm, Broadway Theaters, 111 E. 300 South. Tickets $5.50–8 at the theater, 5327500 or spyhop.org.

Q The University of Utah Department of Theatre’s senior show takes on William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale.

This pseudo-comedic romance involves a jealous king, a banished queen and a newborn royal daughter saved from death and raised by a shepherd.

Sounds like the morning after a night on the town with my peeps Justin and Shane; of course, less the newborn unless you consider Shane’s incessant whining.

7:30pm, through Nov. 18, Babcock Theatre, 330 S. 1400 East, UofU. Tickets $6–12, 581-7100 or kingtix.com.

8THURSDAY Q Now on over to Westminster College where its theatre department takes on Moliere’s Tartuffe. This satiric play will have audiences rolling with laughter as the wealthy and gullible Orgon invites Tartuffe, a Rasputin-like priest, into his home with catastrophic consequences. While Tartuffe’s duplicity is obvious to all, Orgon will not be persuaded that he’s a charlatan. The

playâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s appeal and slapstick entertainment is Moliereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gentle reminder not to take ourselves too seriously.

7:30pm, through Nov. 17, Courage Theatre, Westminster College, 1840 S. 1300 East. Tickets $8â&#x20AC;&#x201C;12, 832-8457.

9FRIDAY Q Inspired by pagan ritual, the pulsing drama of The Rite of Spring stirred up a violent riot when it premiered in 1913. Sounds like any given day at Q Towers under the helm of that tyrant Micael Aaron. Check out Utah Symphonyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interpretation of Tchaikovskyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Suite No. 4 in G major, Op. 61 (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mozartianaâ&#x20AC;?) and Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33, and Stravinskyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Le Sacre du Printemps this weekend and react accordingly.

8pm, through Saturday, Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple. Tickets $12â&#x20AC;&#x201C;48, 355ARTS or arttix.org.

10SATURDAY Qâ&#x20AC;&#x201A; The Jewish Art & Food Festival offers over 50 art vendors; performing artists; art demonstrations including glass blowing, papercutting, and challah baking; art workshops including Jewish chanting, readers theatre, and Israeli martial arts; childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s art yard and bookfair.

6:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;9:30pm & Sunday 11amâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;5pm, Jewish Community Center, 2 N. Medical Drive, UofU. Admission $10, 581-0098.

15THURSDAY Qâ&#x20AC;&#x201A; Based on the book by Martin McDonagh, the University of Utah Department of Theatre presents The Cripple of Inishmaan, a dark comedy linked to the real life filming of the documentary Man of Aran. Set on the Aran Islands off the coast of Ireland, circa 1934, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the tale of a crippled orphan who gets a part in the film, much to the dismay of the townspeople.

7:30pm, Studio 115 Theatre, 330 S. 1400 East, UofU. Tickets $6â&#x20AC;&#x201C;12, 581-7100 or kingtix.com.

UPCOMING EVENTS

SAVETHEDATE Nov. 3â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4 Body Erotic class, bodyelectric.org Nov. 6 Election Day Nov. 17 Imperial Rainbow Court of Northern Utah Coronation, irconu.org DEC. 7â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 Salt Lake Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Choir 25th Anniversary Holiday Concert, First Baptist Church, ­ saltlakemenschoir.org If you would like your event considered for this list, email tony@­qsaltlake.com.

By Tony Hobday

This holiday season, Plan-B Theatre Company â&#x20AC;&#x201D; favored for intriguing, socially and politically conscious dramas including but not nearly limited to And the Banned Played On, Facing East, The Laramie Project and most recently (a sold out run), Exposed â&#x20AC;&#x201D; lightens ... or cheeses things up with the regional premeire of the off-Broadway hit Plan B Theatre Company Gutenberg! The Director Jerry Rapier Musical written

by Scott Brown and Anthony King.

Jerry Rapier, who directed the musical comedy, says of the show: â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I saw it in New York, I never laughed so hard.â&#x20AC;?

It was likely then that Rapier felt it had to be brought to Salt Lake City.

Luckily but not astonishingly, Plan-B quickly landed production rights to become the first company to produce the musical since the original closed last summer. Regardless that Rapier jokes â&#x20AC;&#x153;the show is as dumb as it sounds,â&#x20AC;? it will become the longest running Plan-B production since their opening in 1991.

He feels this to be a risk, but obviously worth it.

The story is size-40-pants-on-size28-waist-loosely based on Johann Gutenberg, inventor of the printing press in the 1400s, and his â&#x20AC;&#x153;girlfriend,â&#x20AC;? suspiciously named Helvetica. More accurately, a pair of musical theatre enthusiasts, Doug and Bud, create what they earnestly believe is a great musical about one of the most influential inventions for mankind. And now they must sell it. However, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not great; Dougâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s badly written script, inconsistencies and Budâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s amateurish lyrics build

Gutenberg! The Musical opens Nov. 16 and runs through Dec. 30 at Studio Theatre, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. Broadway. Tickets $10-18, current Pride Center member 2-for-1 discount tickets available for November performances, 355-ARTS or planbtheatre.org/ gutenberg (code: PRIDE).

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roadblocks as the pair attempt to get the musical produced and staged through a series of â&#x20AC;&#x153;backerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s auditions.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;They [Doug and Bud] believe all great musicals must address an important issue,â&#x20AC;? says Rapier. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So they talk about the holocaust ... a 1930â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s event in a script about a 1400â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inventor ... itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s absolutely ridiculous.â&#x20AC;?

Also when one of the creatorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; homosexuality comes to light, this â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;odd coupleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; face additional challenges. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Really, this show is for any one who loves musical theatre,â&#x20AC;? Rapier continues. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sweet and funny. The kind of show youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll want to drag your friends to.â&#x20AC;?

Starring Plan-B favorites Kirt Bateman and Jay Perry, Gutenberg! The Musical is a light-hearted, wacky alternative to the holiday staples.

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Her look might invoke a dentally enhanced Amy Winehouse, but MEGAN MCCAULEY’s debut release, Better Than Blood, is all her own. Drawing inspiration from the late, great Janis Joplin — who the 19-yearold native Ohioan calls “glamorous and sexy in her own right” — McCauley defies pop-music conventions and challenges tradition on this unapologetic and unabashedly angsty album. From first single “Tap That,” a radio-ready rock-rap that turns the table on who’s hooking up with who, to “Porcelain Doll,” a piano-driven piece about the fragility that we all feel, Better Than Blood is tart, untamed and to the scissorsharp point. Add this to your iTunes: “I’ll Pay You To Shoot Him.” Give it up for ANGIE STONE. Despite a bout with congestive heart failure last year, the bronze beauty returns with her latest album The Art of Love & War, a 14-track tribute to the forefathers (and mothers) of soul. Powerful, playful and coy,

Stone attempts to restart her stalled career with this record, which aptly shows off every nuance of her vocal range. While the internationally known artist beams on songs such as “Happy Being Me,” a heavenly, harmonica-hinged spiritual about finding satisfaction, featuring Paulette Washington, she simply radiates on tracks like the Co-T produced single “Baby,” featuring gospel great Betty Wright.

Releasing Stone from the plateau that imprisoned her career over the past few years, The Art of Love & War rightfully gives this diva room for rebirth. Add this to your iTunes: “Play With It.” Though faux pas princesses THE PIPETTES lack creativity when it comes to costuming, they more than make up for the mishap on their debut disc, We Are The Pipettes. Drenched in the sunny sounds of the 1950s, the album takes the beats of the bygone era and updates them with a independent attitude that’s very here-and-now. On “One Night Stand,” RiotBecki, Rosay and Gwenno sing about skipping out after sex while leaving the sad sap “without a stitch to wear.” But that’s nothing compared to the beach blanket bingo-style “Your Kisses Are Wasted on Me,” which politely asks a paramour to “get out of my face!” Sure, We Are The

Pipettes might have the makings of a wholesome mouseketeer, but Frankie and Annette it’s not. Add this to your iTunes: “Dance and Boogie.”

Paying homage to the area of Manhattan where most of its songs were written, Heroes and Thieves — piano prodigy VANESSA CARLTON’s third studio album — is a thematic fairy tale of a record, the songs of which reveal themselves like chapters in a book. Beginning with the syncopated and appropriately titled “Nolita Fairytale,” ironically about the disenchantment of fame, Heroes and Thieves plays through the past few years of Carlton’s life, starting at a point where she says she “nearly lost her faith in music.” But thanks to songwriting godsend Stevie Nicks and a little help from hip-hop producer Irv Gotti, the 26-year-old Grammy winner is finally back to what she does best — putting her all into pensive tracks such as “Hands On Me” and belting out captivating ballads like “Home.” While Heroes and Thieves won’t deliver Carlton a happily ever after, the disc proves that her talent isn’t once upon a time. Add this to your iTunes: “The One.” Who is Mikey Rox? Who gives a fuck! But you can find him at www.myspace.com/roxmikey.

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Q Sports Salt Lake to Host Gay Bowl VIII Gay Bowl VIII, next year’s national tournament for gay flag football leagues, will be hosted in Salt Lake City by the Mountain West Flag Football League and the Salt Lake City Gay Athletics Association from Oct. 10–12.

The games will feature several teams from around the country including two-year champions, The New York Warriors. Additionally, Salt Lake City will have the option of fielding two teams in next year’s game, an option always granted to the host city.

Over 250 players in 20 teams from around the country are expected to participate.

The first Gay Bowl, was played as a challenge match in 2000 between the Los Angeles Motion and the San Fran-

cisco 69ers. In 2002, Outsports’ Cyd Zeigler and Jim Buzinski reached out to other cities to see if they would like to come to L.A. for a tournament. Robert Saurer from Boston said yes. Since then, the tournament has continued to grow.

During the ’08 games, the MWFFL and SLCGAA will be looking to partner with other organizations. They will also need several volunteers to prepare for and host the event. Those interested in sponsoring the games or volunteering should contact Mark Barr at mbgallery42@xmission.com Currently, the games are planned to take place at the Murray athletic fields.

The Red Lion Hotel Salt Lake City is planned to be the host hotel.

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SLC Avalanche Places 8th in New York Salt Lake City’s gay flag football team, SLC Avalanche, placed 8th among 16 teams at the seventh annual Gay Bowl in New York City, held Oct. 5–7.

SLC Avalanche opened the tournament by beating the Boston Bulldogs 34-14. In their second game, Avalanche lost to the NY Warriors 38-20.

On Oct. 6, Avalanche beat the Texas Bulls 47-6 to move into the winner’s bracket of the tournament. Here, Salt Lake was over-matched by the San Diego Sharks 42-19. In the game for seventh

place, Salt Lake lost to Washington Monuments 40-21. They finished eighth in the tournament with a record of 2-3.

Avalanche finished 6th in 2006 and 11th in 2005. Kacey Wilson was the team’s MVP with a total of 30 points for the tournament.

OutSports’ Cyd Ziegler, who was also the tournament’s director, said of the SLC Avalanche, “For my money, they were one of the best teams in the tournament this year. My guess is they’ll be very, very tough in the thin air of Utah a year from now.” Q

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Amaechi Stars in GLAAD PSA

By Chrys Hudson

Retired NBA player John Amaechi is the star of a 20-second public service announcement released today by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation to mark the beginning of this year’s professional basketball season.

The PSA is the fifth installment of GLAAD’s new public education campaign that encourages viewers to “Be an Ally & a Friend.”

Amaechi made history in February when he became the first former NBA player to come out publicly. Over a six-year period, Amaechi played for the Cleveland Cavaliers, Orlando Magic and Utah Jazz. In his New York Times bestselling autobiography, Man in the Middle, he describes his journey from being an overweight kid in England to a revered Penn State Basketball player to his years playing professional basketball — all while discovering his sexuality and being a closeted gay man.

“John has experienced firsthand how homophobia in the sports world can prevent athletes from living their lives honestly and openly,” GLAAD Director of Sports Media Ted Rybka said in a release. “John’s message has the power to awaken people to the realities of what it’s like to be a lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender athlete.”

GLAAD’s “Be an Ally & a Friend” PSA campaign features 22 public figures from television, film and sports. The spots encourage people to be allies to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and to help combat homophobia, directing viewers to resources at GLAAD.org.

GLAAD is releasing a new 20- or 30second version of the PSA approximately every two weeks to be aired through broadcast collaborations with Access Hollywood; national cable networks such as Fox Reality, GSN, IFC, Lifetime, The N, Sci Fi Channel and Sundance Channel; local cable systems and network affiliates; online at LiveVideo, YouTube, AOL Video and MySpace; and others to be announced.

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It started over a decade ago when openly gay basketball player Sheryl Swoopes became the first WNBA player to sign up for a team. The league housed eight new teams as counterparts to the NBA powerhouses.

Although the league has struggled, it has been growing, and this week the city of Atlanta announced that it would welcome the league’s 14th new team and second expansion franchise since 2002.

Atlanta business man and CEO of Trammel Crow Residential, Ron Terwilliger has wanted to own a sports team for a while, and even made a bid to buy out the Atlanta Braves when television mogul Ted Turner decided to sell the team a few years back.

This week, however, his wish came true as the WNBA awarded him a bid to begin a women’s basketball franchise expansion team in the southern city.

WNBA president Donna Orender, who made the official announcement, told CNN that “the league just completed its 11th season and how we did it without Atlanta I don’t know.”

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Health Va. MRSA Death Sparks Concern

by Lynn Beltran

lynn@qsaltlake.com

If you have been reading or watching the national news in the last two weeks, you may have heard about the high school student in Virginia who died from a bacterial infection. After his death, officials closed his school and several others in the same district to clean them. But concern over this death still lingers in the student’s community. Even all the way out here in Salt Lake, the health department’s phones have been ringing with questions about the probability of it happening again and who is at risk.

This particular student died as a result of an infection from a common bacteria called Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or MRSA. In his case, the infection was resistant to antibiotics and progressed to his kidneys, liver, lungs and heart.

MRSA qualifies as a “staph” infection, surely a term you have all heard before. But MRSA goes further than a run of the mill staph infection because it can resist common antibiotics, which can result in a more serious illness.

MRSA has been in the news a lot these past few years because of the increased number of cases being diagnosed in health care settings. Although it first appeared in the ’80s among a cluster of intravenous drug users, MRSA is now the most common cause of hospital E.R. visits for skin infections. The difficulty doctors have in treating MRSA makes it stand out from a typical staph infection. As with any bacterial infection that goes untreated, there is an increased risk of developing a more invasive disease (when the bacteria spreads from one site through the body) or death.

MRSA usually appears as a skin infection and often look like a boil, a spider bite, an abscess or impetigo, a bacterial skin infection that manifests in itchy blisters on the face and hands. As part of the treatment, boils or abscesses may be filled with fluid and require draining. The skin around the infection is usually raised or swollen and somewhat painful to touch. The majority of skin infections due to MRSA remain localized, and people often think they’re just boils or abscesses. While some infections may actually resolve without treatment, many people find that the infection reappears throughout their lives, most commonly when their immune systems are compromised due to something like a cold or stress. This infection is sometimes accompanied by feelings of general flu-like symptoms or malaise.

Other infections become more severe, particularly when they are untreated or are not responding to treatment. They may involve things like cellulitis (inflammation of tissues under the skin) or necrotizing fascitis (bacteria attack the sheath around muscle tissue), where the skin and soft tissue affected by the bacteria actually die. These cases make for some nasty scarring. Other cases may develop into blood infections allowing for a condition called sepsis to occur. With sepsis, organs like the heart, liver and lungs may become infected, or the infection may even cross the blood-brain barrier and cause meningitis.

Once the infection has spread from a single area of the body, it can spread through the body quickly. When it has spread this far it is called an “invasive” infection. The very old, the very young, and the very ill are more likely to develop an invasive infection if exposed to MRSA. But as with the student in Virginia, it can happen to anyone.

MRSA is usually transmitted through direct contact with infected skin which, of course, includes sexual contact. You can also get it by touching an object or surface such as a door handle or a table that has the bacteria on it, by sharing sports or hygiene equipment, by not maintaining good hygiene or by sharing needles with an infected person.

Remember how the first outbreak of MRSA occurred in a group of intravenous drug users? With MRSA increasing so dramatically in Salt Lake City and around the country, we are seeing a significant rate of infection in our drug-using community. Our clinic also saw several men over the summer with what were suspected to be MRSA skin infections on their genital areas and penises — places where you definitely do not want to get a serious skin infection. Worse, these infections may be misdiagnosed as herpes or syphilis and get the wrong kind of treatment.

So what can you do to protect yourself? First, practice good hygiene. Wash your hands often, use antibacterial soaps and disinfectants to wipe down surfaces before using them, don’t share personal hygiene items, cover wounds or abrasions and avoid direct contact with someone’s skin infection. Because we know that these infections can be spread though sexual contact, always use a condom — the latex barrier may save your life in more ways than you may expect.

If you have any unusual skin infections, the Salt Lake Valley Health Department recommends that you seek care from a medical professional immediately. Q

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Alcohol/Drug Detoxification Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363-9400 Alcoholics Anonymous . . . . 484-7871 utahaa.org Sunday 3pm — Acceptance Group, Utah Pride Center Monday 8pm — Gay Men’s Stag Utah Pride Center Tuesday 8pm — Live and Let Live St Pauls Episcopal Church Wednesday 7:30pm — Sober Today 4601 S 300 W, Washington Terrace Friday 8pm — Stonewall Group St Pauls Episcopal Church, 261 S 900 E Alternatives, Inc.. . . (800) 342-5429 alternativesinc.com alternativesinc@att.net Center for Women and Children . . . . . . . . . . . . 261-9177 Crystal Meth Anonymous . 859-4132 crystalmeth.org Saturdays 7:30pm — Utah Pride Ctr Discovery House . . . . . . . . 596-2111 discoveryhouse.com First Step House 411 N Grant St . . . . . . . 359-8862 Harm Reduction Project . . 355-0234 ihrproject.org The Haven . . . . . . . . . . . . 533-0070 Metamorphosis, Ogden Clinic, 536 24th St, Ste 6-A . . 622-5272 Salt Lake City Clinic, 339 E 3900 S . . . . . . . . 261-5790 breakaddiction.org Serenity House uafut.org Substance Abuse Day Treatment Program . . . . . . . . . . . . 355-1528

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EDUCATIONAL Information & Referral Ctr 978-3333 informationandreferral.org UofU Women’s Resource Center sa.utah.edu/women . . 581-8030 UofU LGBT Resource Ctr . . 587-7973

HEALTH & HIV Camp Pinecliff . . . . . . . . . 518-8733 City of Hope, Utah . . . . . . 531-6334 Gay Men’s Health Summit — Village utahgaymenshealth.com Northern Utah HIV/AIDS Project Walk-Ins Welcome. Every other Monday 5–7pm 846 24th St, Ogden . . . 393-4153 People with AIDS Coalition of Utah 1055 E 2100 S. Ste 208 . 484-2205 SL Valley Health Dept. HIV/STD Clinic 610 S 200 E . . . . . . . . . 534-4666

HOMELESS SERVICES Center for Women and Children . . . . . . . . . . . . 261-9177 Homeless Youth Resource Center Youth ages 15-21.

655 S State St . . . . . . . 364-0744 The Road Home . . . . . . . . 359-4142 theroadhome.org YWCA, 322 E 300 S . . . . . . 537-8600

POLITICAL American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521-9862 acluutah.org, aclu@acluutah.org Disability Law Ctr . . (800) 662-9080 info@disabilitylawcenter.org EQUALITY UTAH . . . . . . . . . 355-3479 equalityutah.org, info@equalityutah.org Human Rights Campaign . . . . . . . . . . . . . (202) 628-4160 Human Rights Campaign, Utah hrc.org, HRCSaltLakeUT@aol.com Log Cabin Republicans, Utah lcrutah.org, lcr@lcrutah.org Utah Stonewall Democrats utahstonewalldemocrats.org info@utahstonewalldemocrats.org 455 S 300 E, Ste 102 . . 328-1212

RELIGIOUS & SPIRITUAL Affirmation — Salt Lake Chapter affirmation.org. . . . . . . 486-6977 Cache Valley Unitarian Universalists 596 E 900 N, Logan435-755-2888 First Baptist Church of Salt Lake firstbaptist-slc.org, office@firstbaptist-slc.org 777 S 1300 E . . . . . . . . 582-4921 First Unitarian Church, slcuu.org 569 S 1300 E . . . . . . . 582-8687 Glory to God Community Church 375 Harrison Blvd, Ogden . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394-0204 Holladay United Church of Christ 2631 Murray-Holladay Rd 277-2631 Inner Light Center . . . . . . . 268-1137 innerlightcenter.net Integrity/Utah - St. James Church . . .

566-1311 Lifebreath Center/Interfaith Ministry 363-9229 Metropolitan Community Church – Bridgerland, 1315 E 700 N, Logan . . . . . . . . (435) 750-5026 Provo Comm. United Church of Christ 175 N University Ave, Provo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375-9115 Reconciliation (Gay Mormons) ldsreconciliation.org . . . 296-4797 Restoration Church of Jesus Christ 2900 S State St . . . . . . 359-1151 Sacred Light of Christ Metropolitan Community Church 823 S 600 E . . . . . . . . . 595-0052 Salt Lake Center for Spiritual Living spirituallyfree.org 870 E North Union Ave. 307-0481 South Valley Unitarian Univ. Society 6876 S Highland Drive . 944-9723 Unitarian Universalist Church of Ogden 705 23rd St, Ogden . . . 394-3338

SOCIAL Affirmation — Salt Lake Chapter affirmation.org. . . . . . . 486-6977 Best Friends Animal Sanctuary strutyourmutt.org . . . . 483-2000 Bisexual Community Forum . . . . . . . . . . . . 539-8800 ext 14 Meets the 2nd Thurs each month at 7pm at the Center.

Utah Gay and Lesbian Ski Week communityvisions.org . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 877-429-6368 Utah Gay Mountain Bike Riders sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/ utahgaymtnbike

UNIVERSITY & COLLEGE Gay and at BYU groups.yahoo.com/group/gayandatBYU/ Gay-Straight Alliance Network gsanetwork.org/ University of Utah Lesbian & Gay Student Union utah.edu/lgsu/ Salt Lake Community College Coloring Outside the Lines . . . . . 957-4562 coloring_outside_lines@yahoo.com

YOUTH Homeless Youth Resource Center Youth ages 15-21.

655 S State St . . . . . . . 364-0744 Gay LDS Young Adults, glya.com Youth Activity Center Drop-in hours: Wednesdays: 3 – 9 pm, Thursdays: 3 – 9 pm Fridays: 3 – 10 pm, Saturdays: 5 – 10 pm 355 N 300 W . . . . .539-8800 x14

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University of Utah Department of Family and Preventative Medicine uuhsc.utah.edu/dfpm . 581-7234 Utah AIDS Foundation . . . . 487-2323 utahaids.org, mail@utahaids.org

Body Electric — Celebrating the Body Erotic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 699-7044 thomasconnor1@hotmail.com Camp Pinecliff . . . . . . . . . 518-8733 Coloring Outside the Lines 957-4562 Delta Lambda Sappho Union Weber State Univ. . . . . 627-1639 Engendered Species engenderedspecies.com320-0551 Gamofites gamofites.org . . . . . . . 444-3602 Gay and Lesbian Parents of Utah glpu@hotmail.com . . . 467-9010 Gay Men’s Health Summit — INVENIO utahgaymenshealth.com Imperial Rainbow Court of Northern Utah, irconu.org Kindly Gifts by Stitch & Bitch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487-7008 P-FLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) pflagslc.org Polyamory Society . . . . . . 309-7240 1st Tue 7-9:30pm at the Black Box Theater at the Center qVinum gay & lesbian wine group www.qvinum.com Retired and Senior Volunteer Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779-1287 Royal Court of the Golden Spike Empire . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531-1115 rcgse.org, chairman@rcgse.org Southern Utah GLBT Community Center . . . . . . . . (435) 313-GLBT groups.yahoo.com/groups/suglbtcc, suglbtcc@yahoo.com STRENGTH IN NUMBERS (SIN) SALT LAKE health.groups.yahoo.com/group/ SINSaltLake sWerve swerveutah.com U of U Women’s Resource Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581-8030 sa.utah.edu/women U of U LGBT Resource Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587-7973 UTAH BEAR ALLIANCE utahbears.com . . . . . . . 949-3989 Utah Families Coalition, utahfamilies.org . .539-8800 Ext 23 admin@utahfamilies.org Utah Gay Pride . . . . . . . . . 539-8800 utahpride.org Utah Male Naturists www.umen.org Utah Power Exchange . . . . 975-0346 utahpowerexchange.org Membership@UtahPowerExchange.org UTAH PRIDE CENTER utahpridecenter.org, thecenter@utahpridecenter.org 361 N 300 W . . . . . . . . 539-8800 Toll-free . . . . . . . . 888-874-2743 Utah Queer Events groups.yahoo.com/group/ UtahQueerEvents Western Transsexual Support Group .

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I thought that was a cool philosophy, so I wrote a letter to Governor John Huntsman, Jr. saying I think Utah should remove the laws restricting adult polygamy.

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I knew nothing about Utah Constitution and Utah Code, so I googled them and read everything they say about sex and marriage.

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Fourth, the parts of Utah Code dealing with marriage prohibit marriage when either partner is already married: Marrying a married person voids your marriage. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hmm,â&#x20AC;? I thought. That means if I marry two unmarried women at the exact same time, I could be the first legal Utah polygamist ­â&#x20AC;&#x201D; both marriages would be legal in Utah, because there would be no pre-existing marriages to void the current marriage.

I reread all the sex and marriage parts of the code, and they really donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem to prohibit group marriages, as long as theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re between males and females, no one is already married, and they happen at the same time.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d have to marry two women at the exact same minute and probably the same second. I could file for marriage licenses in two different Utah counties and do the whole group marriage over the internet.

I bet I could get on talk shows and write a book, making a couple thousand bucks in the first few months, before Utah legislators convened an emergency session to figure out how to illegalize my legal Utah polygamy.

I need to check with my lawyer on all this, and my future marriage counselors, because marrying two women at the same time might not be the best idea.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ridiculous thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a loophole in the polygamy laws in Utah, but thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no loophole in the same-sex marriage laws: the code flatly prohibits and voids marriages between persons of the same sex.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also ridiculous that a 65-year-old man can legally marry a 15-year-old girl, a child, in Utah, as long as judge and parents say itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s OK. But two 40-year-old women who love and consensually care for each other, knowing full well what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re getting into, canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get married.

The same section of the code enacts both.

Section 30-1-2 seems to jeer at the queer community in a singsong playground voice, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We can marry children! And you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t marry who you love!â&#x20AC;?

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