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ISSUE 92

Utah ENDA Bill Goes to the Hill Rep. Christine Johnson works to include gay, transgender people

Utah Lesbian Mother’s Visitation Case Continues Herrera appeals October decision

Fabulous in Ogden OUTReach Resource Center Appeals to Ogden youth Utah Man, 7 Others Say Sen. Craig is Gay Conservative Glenn Beck Best Gay Spokesman?

Photo Exhibit Chronicles Gay Pioneers RCGSE’s Snowball Raises Over $6,000 Ruth Hackford-Peer Eats Her Pie, Too The Gay Agenda Qdoku, Comics

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Iran Hangs Man for ‘Anal Rape’ While 13 A 21-year-old man was hanged in Iran’s Kermanshah Central Prison on “anal rape” (ighab) charges Dec. 5 despite a November order from the nation’s chief justice, Ayatollah Syed Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, that stayed the execution and sent the case for a retrial. Shahroudi had determined that Makvan Mouloodzadeh’s sentence violated Islamic teaching, decrees of senior Shiite clerics and Iranian law, after Mouloodzadeh’s lawyer argued that there was no evidence of the alleged crimes and that several elements of the case violated proper procedure. Shahroudi’s retrial order, however, required review and assent from the Special Supervision Bureau of the Iranian Justice Department. According to the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, the bureau declined to assent, upheld the sentence and ordered the execution to be carried out. Mouloodzadeh was convicted in June of committing sodomitic rape when he was 13 years old despite the fact that, at his trial, his three accusers recanted their accusations, saying they had lied under duress. Mouloodzadeh likewise said his confession to the crimes had been coerced. “This is a shameful and outrageous travesty of justice,” IGLHRC Executive Director Paula Ettelbrick said after the hanging. “How many more young Iranians have to die before the international community takes action?” Meanwhile, in an e-mail circulated the day before the execution, Scott Long, director of Human Rights Watch’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights Program, suggested that press releases and news articles reporting on Shahroudi’s preliminary stay of Mouloodzadeh’s death sentence could, in fact, speed up the execution. Although Long’s e-mail did not name IGLHRC, it seemingly referred, in part, to a Nov. 14 IGLHRC press release titled, “Execution in Iran Halted: IGLHRC Cites Global Protest as Central.” The press release quoted Ettelbrick as saying, “This is a stunning victory for human rights and a reminder of the power of global protest.” In the e-mail, Long said: “[A]nnouncing publicly how international pressure has swayed Iranian authorities often backfires and makes different factions in the confusion of Iranian politics determined to show that international pressure hasn’t swayed them. Saying a ‘homosexual’ had been pardoned very possibly didn’t help.” Gay sex is punishable with the death penalty in Iran. “We should not be speculating willfully that — though he may be innocent of one crime — he’s guilty, before Iranian law, of another,” Long said. “What is the benefit in that? How does that help him? Please, please, think before acting, and let us not put our egos and our identity politics before a young man’s life.” In an interview, IGLHRC Communications Coordinator Hossein Alizadeh

responded that all of IGLHRC’s actions in Mouloodzadeh’s case were coordinated with, and approved by, Mouloodzadeh’s attorney, Saeed Eghbali. IGLHRC has become increasingly vocal in the past six months about Iran’s ongoing executions of teens and men accused of engaging in sodomy, even though in nearly all the cases that have been publicized, the individuals were accused of other crimes as well, such as rape. The organization has said it suspects that other charges often are tacked on to sodomy cases to prevent the public outrage that would accompany executions carried out solely for the crime of consensual adult gay sex. The group also believes executions solely for gay sex are taking place out of the public eye. “[O]ur suspicions [are] that their current practice really is to rid society of lesbians and gay men,” the organization said in July.

Thirteen gays and lesbians were arrested in Moscow Dec. 1 as they were voting at a polling place. The activists, including lead Pride organizers Nikolai Alekseev and Nikolai Baev, were later charged with staging an illegal demonstration. The detentions were an apparent response to a call by activists for gays to write “No to homophobes!” on their ballots. Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, who banned gay pride events this year and last, was scheduled to vote at the same location about an hour after the arrests occurred. The activists were taken to a police station and released several hours later after a representative of the city prosecutor’s office pointed out that it is illegal to detain someone for more than three hours without giving a reason. When Luzhkov banned the city’s first two gay pride parades, organizers responded by staging protest rallies, which were violently attacked by neofascists, skinheads, Christians and riot police. In January, 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.”

20,000 Party at Santiago Pride Some 20,000 people turned out for a gay pride celebration in Santiago, Chile, Nov. 16. The organizers, the Movement for Homosexual Integration and Liberation (MOVILH), said it was the nation’s largest pride event ever. MOVILH’s demands at the event included passage of anti-discrimination and civil union legislation. The festivities on Paseo Bulnes featured 22 DJs performing on three stages, go-go dancers and drag shows. “It was an incredible, emotional scene,” MOVILH said in a statement. “A real charge of energy to continue fighting against discrimination. A thousand and one times we will say that moments like these are unique — seeing thousands of people exercising, not just demanding, their right to free expression.” Chilean President Michelle Bachelet sent a letter to the festival supporting MOVILH’s goals. “Her Excellency is conscious of your sustained effort for the acceptance of sexual minorities and supports you in this act of integration of equality,” she said. “We express to you, and to all who

participate in this event, the best wishes for success and we send you an affectionate greeting.” A similar pride event in Santiago in July attracted some 5,000 people to the Plaza de Armas for seven hours of dancing, music and drag performances.

Brighton to Ban Anti-Gay Music Local authorities in the gay-resort city of Brighton, England, are set to ban music that bashes gays. The ban would apply to live music and to recordings played in bars, clubs and other venues. Reports named rappers Eminem and 50 Cent and Jamaican dancehall singer Buju Banton as likely targets of the law. An establishment that violates the ban would face losing its business license and being shut down. The ban also would extend to music that incites hatred based on religion or race. Councilor Dee Simson, chairwoman of the local council’s licensing committee, told the BBC the ban “will be used in really extreme cases to stop the playing of what’s loosely termed ‘murder music.’”

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Texas Baptist Church May Omit Gay Members from Directory Ft. Worth, Texas – Broadway Baptist Church is currently divided over whether to include photos of partnered gay members in a directory that will be published to celebrate the church’s 125th anniversary. So far, church members have debated three options: photos of gay couples, photos of gay members individually, or omitting photos of individuals entirely. They were to make a final vote after Sunday services on Dec. 2, but decided to wait for the church’s deacons to voice a recommendation on Feb. 24. “We will continue to discuss this issue together as a church family,” Kathy Madeja, chair of the deacons, told The Dallas Morning News. “We do not want to rush to make a decision, but rather to continue to listen to each other and for God’s leading for our church.” Although the church is well known as a moderate Southern Baptist church on a number of issues and has long welcomed gay members. Its members hold diverse opinions on a number of religious issues, including whether or not gay sex is sinful. “Broadway has for years had an amazing policy on including gay people. It’s not a policy that a committee came up with, or the staff or the deacons. It’s an unwritten policy that came out of the shared life of this congregation, a policy I believe was inspired by the Spirit,” Younger told the Baptist Press. “This church has for a long time included both gay people who are committed to Christ and members who aren’t affirming and who have serious questions, but who are willing to share the church. This has allowed us to be a congregation where the conversation can take place about being gay and being Christians.” However, the inclusion of gay-affirming and non-affirming members has lead to the current directory debate. Earlier,

in a church newsletter, Brett Younger, Broadway Baptist’s senior pastor, wrote that some members thought including gay couples’ photos in the directory would be an endorsement of homosexuality. Others thought that including gay members individually would be unfair to gay couples. Younger recommended that the directory omit pictures of individuals and families altogether, and focus instead on the church’s community activities, such as Sunday worship services and its various ministries in action. In recent years, the issue of homosexuality has divided world Christianity, and protestant denominations in particular. Since the ordination of an openly gay American bishop in 2003 the Anglican Church (a worldwide federation of churches including the Episcopal Church in America) has faced the threat of schism. The United Methodist Church and Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) have also faced much internal debate over how to treat their gay and lesbian members.

Ricky Martin Outed by Beautician By Bryan Ochalla

Hip-swinging Latin heartthrob Ricky Martin, the former Menudo member, has always refused to confirm or deny reports that he’s gay (despite the slew of photos that have shown up on line of Martin and various half-naked muscle men cavorting on the beach). According to E! Online gossip guru Ted Casablanca, skin-care expert Ole Henriksen was recently asked in an unnamed Swedish magazine who he’d like to vacation with other than his partner. Henriksen’s answer: “I’d go for Stig Tøfting (former Danish soccer player) but since he’s straight, I’d say my client Ricky Martin.” Martin has not commented.

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Huckabee Asked to Meet Ryan White’s Mother By Chrys Hudson

The Human Rights Campaign and The AIDS Institute sent a second letter to Republican presidential candidate Governor Mike Huckabee Dec. 12 to open a dialogue and facilitate a meeting with Jeanne WhiteGinder, the mother of Ryan White. The meeting is in response to Huckabee’s 1992 remarks, that he has refused to repudiate, saying people living with HIV and AIDS should have been “isolated,” even after it was determined the virus was not spread through casual contact. “We look forward to discussing our experiences and personal insight with you and your campaign,” the letter said. “This was not and is not an issue of ‘political correctness,’ as you have stated previously. Rather, this is an issue of valuing science-based evidence over unfounded fear or prejudice.” White-Ginder is the mother of Ryan

White, who was diagnosed with AIDS on Dec. 17, 1984, and captivated the attention of millions as he battled the disease and ultimately succumbed to it. As reported by the Associated Press, “Huckabee once advocated isolating AIDS patients from the general public, opposed increased federal funding in the search for a cure and said homosexuality could ‘pose a dangerous public health risk.’” In a FOX News interview over the weekend, Huckabee stood by his remarks. As a candidate for a U.S. Senate seat in 1992, Huckabee wrote: “It is difficult to understand the public policy towards AIDS. It is the first time in the history of civilization in which the carriers of a genuine plague have not been isolated from the general population, and in which this deadly disease for which there is no cure is being treated as a civil rights issue instead of the true health crisis it represents.”

Ariz. Considers Domestic Partner Benefits Phoenix, Ariz. — Arizona may soon join a handful of states that allow the domestic partners of state employees the same benefits as married people, regardless of sexual orientation. State Department of Administration director Bill Bell filed this proposal with the Secretary of State’s Office on Nov. 7. It was dully processed and published Nov. 30 in the secretary of state’s registry of proposed rules. If the Governor’s Regulatory Review Council, a board of six members appointed by the governor, approves the proposal, the gay and straight partners of state employees will have access to health care and other benefits married employee currently enjoy. Arizona currently employs 65,000 people in government and public universities. The change would also apply to the 9,000 retired employees who participate in the state health plan. Barbara McCullough-Jones, the executive director of gay rights group Equality Arizona, said that the plan is a step forward in treating all employees equally. “Throughout Arizona people work every day in state jobs that improve the lives of our residents, ensure public safety, protect the state’s interests in water and land, and many other functions,” McCullough-Jones said. “They work to create the “One Arizona” envisioned by Governor Napolitano.” “However, some of these people work under conditions that are not equitable from one employee to the next,” she continued. “Specifically, unmarried lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and heterosexual workers are not afforded

the same access to benefits as some of their colleagues.” A spokesman for Governor Janet Napolitano said that the governor supports the plan. “It’s something that most the other private corporations and large cities are doing and it’s time state government started doing it, as well,” Tim Nelson, general counsel to the governor, told the Associated Press. “It’s something the governor believes strongly is the right thing to do.” Opponents, however, have said that the proposal will threaten traditional marriage. If passed, the proposal will bring the state government in line with 13 of the state’s top 20 employers who offer domestic partner benefits according to Out Reach, a University of Arizona organization for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender staff, faculty and graduate students. These employers include Banner Health Systems, Intel, Wells Fargo, Target, Qwest and Home Depot. The public will have approximately a month to comment on the proposal before a hearing is scheduled. In Arizona, Pima County and the cities of Phoenix, Scottsdale, Tempe and Tucson already offer domestic partner benefits to city employees. Currently, 11 states offer domestic partner benefits to state employees: California, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington. In Massachusetts, same-sex couples have been able to legally marry since 2004.

Ariz. Man Says He Did Not Commit Hate Crime Scottsdale, Ariz. — A third anti-gay hate crime has been reported to Scottsdale, Ariz. police. On Nov. 17, a bouncer at BS West, a local gay bar, told police that a man in a white T-shirt, tan shorts and a baseball cap threw a beer bottle through the windshield of a gay man’s car. The man was later identified as 24-year-old James Randall Walker. In a police report, the victim, Christion Todd Smalley, said he and a friend saw Walker and two other men earlier in the evening and that Walker and the men made “derogatory comments” to him. Walker said he did not throw the bottle, and that police never told him that he

had vandalized a car or harassed two gay men when they arrested him. He told the Scottsdale Republic that police arrested the wrong man. “There were hundreds of people in Old Town. It could have been anybody,” he said. “I have friends who are gay,” he added. “I have a good career and a baby boy. I have better things to do than throw a bottle at someone.” Equality Arizona and other civil rights groups brought up the bottle-throwing incident as Scottsdale’s City Council considered passing an ordinance to prohibit workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. The ordinance passed Dec. 4 with a 4–3 vote.

Scottsdale, Arizona Extends Anti-Discrimination Law to Gays

Scottsdale, Ariz. — On Dec. 4 the Scottsdale City Council narrowly voted to extend the city’s employment nondiscrimination protection to gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people. The 4-3 vote came after three hours of emotional debate that included testimony from several Scottsdale residents, including many gay, lesbian and transgender employees who said that employees would be afraid to speak up about discrimination on the job without legal protection. Council members who voted in favor of revising the city’s employment code called the decision good leadership. “I see there is a need for doing this, absolutely,” Councilwoman Betty Drake, who was part of the majority vote told the Arizona Republic. Detractors said that the change would cost the city more money and mean more lawsuits. “This seems to be a solution in search of a problem,” said Councilman Ron McCullagh, who voted against the change. “I think this goes a long way to explain why Scottsdale is the West’s Most Overstaffed Town.” Others argued that homosexuality and transgenderism are choices which should not be protected by the law. “Homosexual behavior is not immutable or unchangeable,” said Peter Gentala, general council for the Center of Arizona Policy. “The city should not take sides in a cultural debate. This ordinance does take sides.” The policy change cheered a number of civil rights and faith-based groups who rallied in favor of the change outside the City Council building. The groups included the Arizona’s American Civil Liberties Union, the gay-rights group Equality Arizona and the Anti-Defamation League. “We congratulate the Scottsdale City Council for joining countless other

private and public sector employers in adopting a policy to ensure equal protection for their employees, regardless of sexual orientation and gender identity,” Equality Arizona Executive Director Barbara McCullough-Jones said after the vote. “Despite facing strong opposition, Scottsdale’s elected officials demonstrated leadership by putting into policy the inclusive practices of this diverse city.” The Scottsdale Human Relations Commission laid the groundwork for the proposal in September when they submitted a three-part ordinance that would prohibit city government, contractors and private businesses offering “public accommodations” from discriminating based on sexual orientation or gender identity. The commission drafted the plan in response to what they perceived as a growing climate of intolerance in Scottsdale. In the past few months, several gay couples were attacked outside of nightclubs. Commission Chair Michele deLaFrenier also brought a legal complaint against Tom Anderson, the owner of nightclub Anderson’s Fifth Estate, when Anderson banned her and several other transwomen over their usage of women’s restroom. The complaint was resolved last month. Originally, the Human Relations Commission’s plan included protection for gay and transgender employees in the private sector. But the council voted 5-2 to table that part of the proposal, with Mayor Mary Manross saying that forcing private businesses to comply could be “overreaching.” Manross, however, approved the idea of offering protection to gay and transgender city employees. The Scottsdale Area Chamber of Commerce is expected to issue a statement on the new law after board members have considered the code’s potential impact on local businesses.

Ore. Domestic Partner Law Faces Suit that there were not enough signatures to sustain the referendum,” the lawsuit reads. “... with 55,179 signatures required to carry the referendum, the secretary of state’s office initially determined that 55,063 valid signatures had been submitted, and that proponents had fallen 116 signature short of qualifying the referendum for the ballot.” “Because of the nature of processing of the statistical sampling employed by law, the proponents of Referendum 303 were short by only six sample signatures and had 18 days to review and rehabilitate only six signatures to qualify the referendum for the ballot by the Oct. 26 deadline.” The lawsuit also maintains that the signers of the excluded signatures were not contacted or provided an attempt to verify their signatures. The total number of signatures needed was 55,179. Opponents submitted close to 62,000. If the lawsuit fails, and opponents of the domestic partner law are unsuccessful in any other attempt to bring it to a vote, the law will take effect on Jan. 1, 2008.

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An Arizona-based group that was created to fight measures to legalize gay marriage filed a suit in federal court on Dec. 3 to put an Oregon domestic partnership law on the state’s 2008 ballot. In October, the secretary of state’s office ruled that a petition to put the domestic partnership law (which includes samesex couples) fell 96 signatures short of the number needed to go on next year’s ballot. The Alliance Defense Fund’s lawsuit contends that the petition’s supporters should have been able to demonstrate that disqualified signatures were actually valid. According to the suit, the petition’s supporters can prove that at least five of the disqualified signatures were legitimate, all that would be needed to put the measure on the ballot, because the secretary of state’s office used a sampling procedure to determine whether the initiative was valid. “Yet though the defendants lobbied for and had a full 30 days (through Oct. 26, 2007) to complete the signature verification process, the secretary of state publicly announced on Oct. 8, 2008 (only 12 days into the process) that the verification of signatures was complete, and

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Local News Utahn, 7 Others, Claim Encounters with Craig BY MICHAEL AARON

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Utahn Tom Russell has come forward, saying Idaho Republican Senator Larry Craig had flirted with him while Russell was working at an Idaho ski resort in the early 1980s. Russell and three other men came forward and agreed to be named in a story written by the Idaho Statesman. Four other men related experiences with Craig, but refused to be named. Russell, now Sen. Larry Craig 48 and living in Utah, worked as a food service manager at Bogus Basin Mountain Recreation Area near Boise, Idaho. He told the Statesman that his experience with Craig was likely during the 1983-84 ski season, soon after Craig married his wife Suzanne — which was also shortly after Craig held a press conference denying that he was gay and had any involvement in a 1982 page scandal that had yet to hit the media. “I was working for Northwest Food Services,” Russell explained in a taped interview with Statesman writer Daniel Popkey. “On a whim to see if he would respond, after I had heard the rumors, I sort of engaged in conversation and attempted to show a personal interest. Not in a suggestive way, but a personal way, to see if he would respond.” “I recall he was very delighted to talk with me, miling, happy, very delighted,” Russell continued. “And he suggested we get together sometime” for dinner. “Why would he have a personal interest in meeting me elsewhere?” Russell pondered. Popkey suggested that Craig has said he is simply friendly with people, to which Russell explained “gaydar.” “It’s there, you know it,” Russell said.

“You know when somebody is raising an eyebrow at you when it is a gesture to say hello or when they are subtly trying to send you a message that they recognize you as a gay person. Gaydar is there. It is real.” Russell said that, absolutely, Craig was expessing interest in him as a gay man. Russell said that the revelation that Craig is gay must be “quite painful” for him and his wife and children. “He’s caught in a tough spot. But I am disgusted that he would try to deny this,” he said. “Because it is hypocritcal and he is lying.” “No doubt in my mind he was attracted to me. He was basically giving me a flirtacious, engaging conversation” that ended with an invitation to dinner. Two of the men who came forward claimed actual sex with Craig. One of those, Colorado former escort Mike Jones, also claimed sex with the former Rev. Ted Haggard and is currently doing book signings for a book on that scandal. Jones claims Craig paid him $200 for sex in late 2004 or early 2005. Another, Washington D.C. computer consultant David Phillips, went into explicit detail about his alleged sexual encounter with Craig. The Statesman put audio tapes of that interview on their Web site. Craig has released a statement through his staff denying all allegations, saying the Statesman has an agenda against him. His statement read: “It is unfortunate that the Idaho Statesman has chosen to continue to lower itself to the standards of what can best be described as tabloid journalism. Like its previous coverage, these latest allegations are completely false and have no basis in reality. In fact, the paper itself states that these baseless accusations contain no definitive evidence yet they still decided to print them anyway. However, despite the fact the Idaho Statesman has decided to pursue its own agenda and print these falsehoods without any facts to back them up, I won’t let this paper’s attempt to malign my name stop me from continuing my work to serve the people of Idaho.”

Gay Bingo Changes Locations, Tours Valley The Utah Pride Center Gay Bingo with the Utah Cyber Sluts is moving from its home at First Baptist Church to better accommodate the increasing number of people who want to play each month. But before settling down in their new home, the Sluts are taking the monthly bingo game to several locations around the Salt Lake Valley. “We began simply with a game, and then worked together to build a defining fund raising effort for local charities and Pride Center programs over the past twoplus years,” Noal “Freyda” Robinson, newly-elected Madam Superior of the Cyber Sluts, said. “We have gone from a couple dozen to several hundred patrons, from a few hundred to several thousands of dollars raised each month.” Center adult programs director Jennifer Nuttall explained that internal issues within the organizations involved helped speed along the decision to spread bingo

around the valley. “We have had such a great year partnering with the First Baptist Church and appreciate the relationships formed, as well as the gracious and accepting atmosphere they provided,” Nuttall said. “We have long realized that most GLBTQ events are located downtown and have discussed facilitating moving events so a larger population can access them with ease. This proved to be the opportunity to realize that goal.” The South Valley Unitarian Universalist Society will host Gay Bingo on the second Fridays of the next three months, beginning with Friday, Dec. 14 at 7:00 p.m. All proceeds from Gay Bingo are divided between the Utah Pride Center and local charities. “Never be afraid!” Robinson exclaims. SVUUS is located at 6878 South Highland Dr (2000 E). For directions visit svuus.org.

Visitation Case Continues for Utah Lesbian BY JOSELLE VANDERHOOFT JOSELLE@QSALTLAKE.COM

It’s been a difficult year for Gina Herrera. On Feb. 16, the Utah Supreme Court handed down a decision that domestic partners who are not a child’s biological parents have no legal standing for visitation rights. Two days after the ruling, Herrera says her former partner of 14 years Hollii Whiting told Herrera she would not let her see their 5-year-old daughter Madison any more – a decision Utah law now allowed her to make as the girl’s biological mother. Sen. Larry Craig Ten months later Herrera, with her lawyer Lauren Barros, is still in court fighting to see the daughter she helped raise. “Honestly, I’m going in this with my eyes open to the fact that the laws here in Utah aren’t in our favor,” Herrera said. “It’s not like I’m going in expecting this miraculous ruling, but I have to try and fight to see my daughter. It’s been almost a year since I saw her, and I’m not going to give up that easily.” In May, Herrera pled her case before a state commissioner. He took the motion under advisement and spent the next several months determining whether or not Herrera had a case. In making his determination, he examined the former couple’s paperwork. According to Herrera this included a visitation agreement the former couple made after Whiting successfully petitioned to end their coguardianship agreement in November, 2006. Herrera previously told QSaltLake that she did not fight to keep guardianship of Madison, only to be able to make medical decisions for the girl. Herrera said Whiting violated this visitation agreement when she forbade Herrera from seeing their child. “In that agreement it stated that if either party wasn’t comfortable with [granting visitation], we’d give other person a week’s notice and then seek remedy with the court,” she said. In a June statement to the Deseret Morning News, Whiting’s attorney Bryant McConkie said his client decided to cut off visitation to keep Madison from being placed in a confusing environment. “I believe that any parent in Hollii Whiting’s position would do just as she had done,” McConkie said. “Essentially, if a parent were sending their child into an environment that undermined and damaged their relationship with the child, that parent would do all they could to change the child’s situation.” In October, the commissioner made his decision. “He found in favor of my ex, saying our agreement wasn’t enforceable,” Herrera said. Like many non-biological Utah parents in similar circumstances, Herrera says her predicament is the fault of the Utah Supreme Court’s ruling in Jones vs. Barlow. In this case, the high court overturned a Third Circuit Court decision granting Keri Jones (now Equality Utah’s Manager of Programs and Administration) visitation rights to a daughter she

had with her former partner Cheryl Barlow from whom she separated in 2003. Under the common law doctrine of “in loco parentis” (Latin for “in place of a parent), the judge ruled that Jones had visitation rights and the responsibility to pay child support because she had acted in the role of a parent in the little girl’s life. Barlow, who had become an evangelical Christian and said she was no longer lesbian, did not want Jones to see her daughter in part because Jones still identified as gay. Herrera maintains that her agreement with Whiting makes this case different from Jones vs. Barlow, in which the couple had a co-guardianship agreement but no worst-case scenario visitation agreement as Herrera and Whiting later made. And yet, she says the specter of the case keeps coming up. “You can’t get away from Jones vs. Barlow,” she said. “Of course they try and bring it around to ‘in loco parentis’ all the time. But we’re not claiming ‘in loco parentis.’ This is a contract case because of our agreement.” Still, Herrera remains hopeful that a judge will determine otherwise. On Dec. 10 she and Barros went before Third Circuit judge Joseph C. Fratto. “The judge actually took our motion under advisement, which is good news,” she said. This means that Fratto will study Barros’ brief and get back to lawyer and client in writing. “He seemed very fair,” Herrera said. “He seemed neutral, and he kept trying to be clear. I guess we just wait now. We have no time table, so I’m not sure how long it’ll take before we hear anything back.” In the event that the judge rules against her, Herrera said she is uncertain how far to take her case. “I struggle, I’m conflicted about that,” she said. “I struggle because if I took it further and it didn’t go my way, I don’t want to set some negative precedent. I don’t want anyone else to go through what I’m going through.” “But then I think if I don’t choose to go farther, I have to think about this as a temporary setback. It doesn’t matter how many years it takes, I will be reunited with my daughter. Even if it takes until she’s 18 when she can make choices for herself, she will know everything that happened and why I suddenly vanished from her life.” She says that she is particularly upset because Whiting’s decision affects not only her, but other non-biological gay and lesbian parents who Jones vs. Barlow has placed in similar situations. “We have enough struggles as it is as a community,” she said. “My ex claims to still be a part of the gay community. But how can she realize that what she’s doing isn’t just impacting me but impacting the whole community?” And if that community wants anything to change, Herrera said that those gay and lesbian parents who have suffered what she and Jones have need to speak out. “I think it’s important that if there are more people — and I know there are — that are going through the same thing and are afraid to talk about it, these people need to make themselves visible if we want anything to change,” she said. “If people aren’t voicing their situations it’s never going to happen.” Whiting refused comment for this story. Q

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Anti-Discrimination Employment Bill to Include Gays, Transgender People By JoSelle Vanderhooft

In the 2008 general legislative session a Utah state Representative had said she will run a bill aimed at preventing workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. The bill, titled Antidiscrimination Act Amendments, was written by Rep. Christine Johnson, D-Salt Lake City. If passed in its current incarnation, the bill will make it illegal for Utah employers to refuse to hire, promote, demote or fire an employee based on his or her real or

perceived sexual orientation or gender identity. The bill also makes it illegal for employers to discriminate against otherwise qualified gay or transgender employees on the basis of wages and privileges and conditions of employment. Currently, Utah law prohibits discrimination on race, color, sex, age (if the individual is over 40 years old), childbirth or pregnancy status, religion, national origin and disability as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act. Johnson said a number of factors

influenced her decision to run the bill, of which she is currently the sole sponsor. These included the Employment NonDiscrimination Act which passed the U.S. House of Representatives last month (though without protection for transgender workers) and the case of Krystal Ettsity, a UTA bus driver fired for being a transwoman. In September, a 10th Circuit Court ruled that Ettsity’s firing was legal under Utah law. “We had an opinion from the 10th Circuit Court that their hands were tied and that it was the responsibility of the legislature to address the issue,” said Johnson, who is openly lesbian. Rep. Christine Johnson Johnson said that Equality Utah, the state’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights group, also approached her about running the bill. Keri Jones, the group’s Manager of Programs & Administration, said that Equality Utah is ready to give the bill “all the support they can muster.” “People should be judged on what counts — education, experience, work habits,” she said. “The law has held that other characteristics, like race and religion, are irrelevant and should not be considered by an employer. Sexual orientation and gender identity are also irrelevant to whether a person is qualified for a job. Passing this amendment will help ensure a fair and just Utah.” Although Johnson said that she expects the bill will reach the House floor for discussion, she anticipates that it will face a lot of opposition. “We’re going to hear similar arguments that we heard against hate crimes legislation,” she said. “I think we’ll see the other side dance around the issue. To explain why gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people shouldn’t be protected they’ll talk about morality and marriage equality, but there’s no way to really say discrimination is acceptable. There’s no valid argument.” One argument Johnson expects to hear is that being gay or transgender is a choice, and therefore should not be protected by law. “That’s not something I subscribe to,” she said. “But even if I did, I would say religion is a protected class, and religion is a choice. So I think it’s a moot argument, because in most cases people choose to be Mormons, or Lutherans, or whatever.” Although Johnson also anticipates that passing her nondiscrimination bill may take just as long as it took for a basic hate crimes law to pass, she said she remains optimistic. “I think this is a process that will take several years in Utah, but I’m glad to have that dialogue,” she said. “History is on our side and we will eventually prevail.” If passed, the bill will exempt religionowned businesses and businesses with less than 15 employees. It will also apply to training programs, labor organizations and vocational schools. Q

Fashion Stroll Offers Local Designers, Music, Fun Equality Utah to Offer will be held in early 2008, will grow “by 2008 Lobbyist Training another 50 percent.” Friday, Dec. 7 marked the third SLC By JoSelle Vanderhooft

Fashion Stroll, a seasonal outdoor bazaar on East Broadway for Utah fashion designers, jewelry makers and all who make the city’s fashion scene unique. But unlike previous Fashion Strolls, this one takes place on the same night as Salt Lake City Gallery Stroll, a monthly event for the city’s art galleries, and Holidays on Broadway, where merchants in the area of 300 South will be open late offering refreshments and fine holiday shopping. “We hope to see people show up for other events who may not know about Fashion Stroll,” said Matt Monson, Fashion Stroll’s coordinator. “It’s a great opportunity to reach people who we might not otherwise be able to reach.” As with Fashion Strolls past, this holiday Stroll will feature two runway shows allowing local designers to exhibit their work. The shows will be held outdoors in front of Henrie’s Cleaners (the open areas will be covered to keep out the blustery weather) and will feature work from local designers Spark Clothing, Lucky Pirate Denim Bar, Filthy Gorgeous and Peach Boutique. Local artist Frank Armstrong will be on hand to see to models’ hair and make up. The first show will be held at 7:00 p.m. and the second at 9:00 p.m. DJ Kevin Reece who Monson describes as having an “80s New Wave vibe” will be spinning tunes at both shows. Three local clubs will also host after parties beginning at 10:00 p.m. Artopia will host an afterhours candle light party and Club Orange (533 South 500 West) will offer drinks and a DJ performance. Circle Lounge (328 S State Street) will also host a late night mini runway show featuring the debut of two new local clothing lines. Like past Strolls, this Fashion Stroll will also feature live music before each show. Local band Scott Tokxic & The Electric Pubes will play at 6:00 p.m. and local Subrosa will play at 8:00 p.m. Monson and those from other boutiques on 300 South began Fashion Stroll this summer, and according to him succeeding events have doubled in size. He believes that the next Stroll, which

“The Broadway community has to be one of the greatest little streets in America,” he said. “There’s a younger energy here, and lot of younger businesses who want to try new things. There are also more established businesses with older clientele that also want to get involved. It’s a fantastic synergy.” Fashion Stroll Winter 2007 will run from 4:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. with many stores and merchants offering “early bird” discounts on merchandise from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. According to Monson, most shops on the block will likely be open until 10:30 or 11:00 p.m. to accommodate holiday shoppers.

Center Launches Pride in Pink Parties for Professionals With last month’s first ‘Pride in Pink’ party at Gastronomy’s Market Street Oyster Bar, the Utah Pride Center launched a new seasonal event for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender working professionals and their straight allies to meet, mingle and network. “We’ve been looking for adult programming opportunities for people in the working world, and the Pride in Pink party is what we’ve created,” said Marina Gomberg, the Center’s Membership & Public Relations Director. The first Pink party was held Nov. 14 at the Market Street Oyster Bar, which cosponsored the event. The restaurant provided complimentary food and $3 drinks. The evening also included a business card raffle for a gift basket, donated by Mountain Side Mortgage. The suggested donation at the door was $5. Gomberg said that approximately 100 attended the inaugural party, and she hopes more will attend the second, which she hopes to schedule “between January and March.” “Working with Gastronomy was so great,” she said. “I hope we can work with them again.”

Local gay rights group Equality Utah will once again offer its popular Citizen Lobbyist Training sessions for the 2008 Legislative session. The first training session will be held in Ogden on Jan. 10. A second session will be held Jan. 17 at the State Capitol building (RM W135) at 6:00 p.m. The sessions will teach gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender voters how to speak to political representatives about bills and political issues. In the past they have covered such things as letter writing, speaking at public hearings and how to speak to a senator or representative in person. To date, Equality Utah has trained over 500 people in six Utah cities. For more information, email Keri Jones at keri@equalityutah.org.

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Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a chilly December evening in downtown Salt Lake City. Outside Cuppa Joe, one of Downtownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hipper coffee and tea shops, the thick snow swirls and slaps the windows â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a dramatic contrast to the light, warmth and laughter behind them. For this bleak monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s duration the coffee shop has been turned into a memorial of the gay movementâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strength, courage and power. On its walls hang 15 black and white portraits of such gay icons as Radical Faeries founder Harry Hay, controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and poet and filmmaker Robert Broughton. Men who have one thing in common other than their incalculable contributions to gay rights in America: The powerful effect their lives and friendships have had on photographer and author Mark Thompson. The former editor of The Advocate calls this exhibit Fellow Travelers, or a collection of images of â&#x20AC;&#x153;like-minded companions.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;[These are] brave brothers who are building a community, moving forward together,â&#x20AC;? Thompson said in an interview with White Crane, the gay menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cultural and historical organization sponsoring the exhibitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tour. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is also a sly reference to the use of the phrase

during the early days of the Cold War when people who were accused of being communist sympathizers were dubbed â&#x20AC;&#x153;fellow travelers.â&#x20AC;? It was a coded word used pejoratively, so I wanted to redeem that and give it a more positive application for today.â&#x20AC;? Walking through the exhibit, Thompson shares stories about some of the portraits (some of which have appeared in his book Gay Soul, copies of which he signed at the Dec. 7 event) and the men behind them. As Thompson gestures to each portrait the first thing the viewer notices is the eyes, which Thompson says he has always paid special attention to when printing his photographs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s that old saying about the eyes being the windows to the soul,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re present with someone, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking into their eyes. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important to convey the essence of a person, not just their face.â&#x20AC;? Thompson stops in front of Broughtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s portrait, which is one of the first in the gallery. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was this timid gay boy volunteering at a gay film festival,â&#x20AC;? he says, recounting the day he first met the poet. â&#x20AC;&#x153;After his performance, there was a reception. He saw me and walked through the crowd towards me, and they parted like the Red

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Photographer and author Mark Thompson standing before a photo of friend Michael Callen

Sea. He took my face, kissed me on the cheek and said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t worry, everything will be alright.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; It was a transferal of spirit from an older gay man to another.â&#x20AC;? Thompson stops next to the portrait of singer and early AIDS activist Michael Callen, a founder of the a capella gay group The Flirtations and one of the first Americans to speak to both houses of President Ronald Reganâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Congress about the importance of fighting this disease. Tenderly leaning close to the portrait of his deceased friend for just a moment, Thompson recounts the day he took this pensive and moving picture. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Michael moved to LA near the end of his days,â&#x20AC;? he remembers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One day I called him up and said Michael, I want to take your photo. Not to publish it anywhere. Just to take his photo.â&#x20AC;? Callen agreed and invited Thompson over. An excellent chef, Callen prepared his friend a sumptuous Italian dinner and the two talked for hours â&#x20AC;&#x201C; something Thompson said he typically does before taking a portrait. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The day was wearing on and finally I said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Michael, this is the moment.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; I wanted to take a beautiful picture of him. We tried a lot of different poses and finally I said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Okay. Just look at me and go like this,â&#x20AC;? and Thompson rests his head on his hand to demonstrate. Callen complied, and Thompson snapped the picture. His friend died only a few months later. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I was putting together this show, I thought, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to include Michael, he was such a lovely spirit,â&#x20AC;? Thompson says, adding that he has also been living with AIDS since the early 1980s. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There was something about him, his spirit of action, the way heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d say weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to get through this together.â&#x20AC;? A journalist by trade and study, Thompson said he has loved photography since high school, when he took a photography class with the grandson of legendary American photographer Edward Weston. But unlike the photojournalists of his time, Thompson only ever wanted to focus on subjects that had significance for him personally. But Thompson said he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think to much with his photographs, thousands of which he estimates he has taken in his lifetime, until 1995, when he retired from the Advocate. It was a tempestuous time for him, the year in which protease inhibitors were first released and also the year he lost his gay brother to AIDS. He

remembers wandering the beach asking God what he should do next â&#x20AC;&#x153;I said to God â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m tired of making sentences,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; and a voice came to me and said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The photos, dummy.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? After that transforming experience, Thompson pursued his photography diligently. He also went back to school to get a second degree in clinical psychology. Although he has taken some time off to work on a photography book featuring 200 of his color and black and white

Clyde Hall, author of Gay Soul, Living the Spirit, Two Spirit People, standing in front of his portrait.

images, he has worked in various AIDS clinics. He has also counseled youth at the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center, where he attempts to pass on a little of the encouragement Broughton gave him when he was a youth in need of support. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just want to get them to understand how precious they are, to make them think about what they have to offer the world,â&#x20AC;? he says. Ultimately, Thompson hopes that his exhibit will help gay men and women of all ages learn about their history, and use that knowledge to better their lives. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My motto with this show is youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to take care of yourselves if you want to last,â&#x20AC;? he says. Salt Lake City therapist and co-facilitator of the gay menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spiritual group Queer Spirit Jerry Buie says that his organization is thrilled to help bring Fellow Travelers to Utah audiences. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The idea of this exhibit was taking images from Gay Soul and seeing how we incorporate those into our identities as gay men,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gay men donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t consider that they have a history, but theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve all contributed in our own unique ways. To me thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what civil rights is about. Once I know what I am, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to defend it. I just am it.â&#x20AC;? Q The exhibit will run until Dec. 31 at Cuppa Joe (353 West 200 South Salt Lake City). It is free to the public.

Local Briefs Utah Pride Center Seeking Holiday Donations The Utah Pride Center in conjunction with lesbian service organization sWerve, the Homeless Youth Resource Center and the Utah AIDS Foundation is still seeking donations of items for families and community members in need this holiday season. Needed items include canned and boxed foods such as spaghetti, chili and soup, single serving microwavable meals, sleeping bags, coats, art supplies, batteries, hand warmers, men and womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s underwear, bus tokens and personal hygiene items. For more information contact Jennifer Nuttall at 539-8800 ext. 13 or email Jennifer@utahpridecenter.org. The Center is also seeking financial donations to help with its holiday work and its daily operations. Gift donations can be made out in the name of a loved one and include a complementary membership to The Center (along with all the benefits of membership). To make a donation, contact Marina Gomberg at marina@utahpridecenter. orgor 801.539.8800 x20. For a full list of needed items visit utahpridecenter.org.

Equality Utah Wants Employment Discrimination Stories In conjunction with Rep. Christine Johnsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s employment nondiscrimination bill, Equality Utah is seeking stories from employees who have suffered workplace discrimination because of their sexual orientation or gender identity to help show legislatures the current lack of workplace protections is having on gay and transgender Utahns. Those interested in sharing their stories may email Keri Jones at keri@equality. org. Contributors may remain anonymous. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At this point, we only want to gather information,â&#x20AC;? said Jones. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The media is being told by Republican representatives that this kind of discrimination simply doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t happen. But we know differently. If you will, please share your story. We would really appreciate any help you can give. After all, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s for all of us.â&#x20AC;?

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Center Needs 2008 Utah Pride Festival Director The Utah Pride Center is looking for a qualified candidate to coordinate all aspects of the 2008 Utah Pride Festival. The position requires skills in budgeting and financial management, festival operations, logistics, development, fundraising, media relations and marketing. Along with these duties, the festival director will need to supervise a part-time college student intern, vendors and suppliers, support corps and a large volunteer staff in preparation for and throughout the duration of the Festival. Eligible candidates need at least five yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; experience in event production or planning or equivalent experience. A bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree is also preferred. The position reports directly to the Utah Pride Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Executive Director. It is a contract position and the salary is negotiable.

To apply send resume and cover letter to apply@utahpridecenter.org (no phone calls). The position is open until filled. The job code is PRIDE08. The Utah Pride Festival is an annual festival lasting five days with the final day (Pride Day) attracting well over 20,000 to a wonderful downtown Salt Lake City location at Library Square. Most major activities for the 2008 Utah Pride Festival are scheduled for June 6-8, 2008. Each year the festival features performing and visual arts exhibitions, film screenings, a Pride Dance, Opening Ceremonies, a Pride Parade, a Grand Marshall Reception and musical entertainment as well as food, information and retail booths. For more information visit the Utah Pride Center at utahpridecenter.org.

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Belle Ringing by Ruby Ridge ruby@qsaltlake.com

So, darlings, if you see any typos in my column don’t be surprised as my fingers are almost worthless stumps due to frost bite. “What would cause such a horrendous and painful thing Ruby,” I hear you asking. “Were you camping out on the pavement in front of Lane Bryant for their door buster specials on leopard print bras?” Well petals, that is a definite possibility, but no, not this time. In a frenzy of Christmas spirit, I was volunteering as a bell ringer for the Salvation Army outside my local supermarket, and let me tell you it was freezing! The way I see it, my act of semi-charitable selflessness completely restores my karma balance for the year. Two hours of wearing an unflattering apron and ringing a bell more than makes up for all the times I aim at children in cross walks. So, weighed in the bal-

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From the Editor Reports of Gay Bars’ Death... by Michael Aaron michael@qsaltlake.com

A few months ago a story ran across my desk — an opinion piece by the Entrepreneur.com saying that, among other businesses, gay bars would find themselves the way of the dodo in ten years. “[A]round the country, gay bars have been going out of business as gay men and women have been gaining greater acceptance in society. What used to be a hangout for people who felt unwelcome elsewhere is becoming less necessary,” the article said. Bar owners and gay people around the country scoffed. Yes, many gay people feel more and more comfortable in selected non-gay bars. But there is a line which people will likely not cross while in mixed company. To some, that might mean not holding hands with or putting an arm around their partner. To others it might mean not kissing their partner. So now, we are in the midst of the holiday season and as I prepare ads for our local bars, I see that they are going on as if nothing has changed at all. They still hold Thanksgiving day dinners, Christmas day dinners and parties, and of course New Year’s Eve. For as many decades as gay bars have existed in Utah, these home-away-from-homes have served as surrogate families to our community. Those tossed aside by their biological families have found welcome in their local tavern. And what about New Year’s Eve? How many gay and lesbian people are going to do the tongue-dance at the stroke of midnight at a straight bar? What is New Year’s without spit-swapping?

Bars are, however, making changes as they lose business to their clientele widening their entertainment options. Many are sprucing up, installing better lighting and sound systems and opting against the all-black paint and low lighting of the past. Trapp Door is on a constant upgrade as they have painted the outside of the building, raided IKEA for fun lighting, added more TV monitors than the airport and have added more and more fancy lighting. Club Try-Angles has punched through the wall, opening up and swanking the bar serving area with brushed steel. They’ve also repainted with a steelblue, added about 400 urinals and are close to opening up a kitchen to offer up lunch, brunch and maybe even more beer-soaked weenies. Some of the larger bars open only on certain nights as predominantly gay. Club Sound has been gay only on Friday nights. They too will be doing some upgrades after the Trax line is completed in front of their building — and Trax is footing some of that bill. I’m hugely skeptical of the demise of gay bars, no matter what level of acceptance gays and lesbians find in society. The “birds of a feather” saying rings true to me. We like to surround ourselves with people we have something in common with. There are bars for students, music enthusiasts, cowboys, sports lovers, veterans and more. Yes, we as a community are all those things. And we’re also gay. When we want to be surrounded by our fellow cowboy friends, we’ll go to the cowboy bar. And when we want to be surrounded by our gay friends, we’ll go to the gay bar. Even Entrepreneur.com’s story admits that the gay bars’ odds of survival in 10 years are, “As with many industries, the very best of them will endure; the rest won’t.” To me, the best of the gay bars are those who treat you like family. And I think we have a good gaggle of those here in Utah. Happy Holidays. Here’s to spending them with people we love. Q

ance of cosmic justice, I think I must be about even. Most of the people were lovely and donated a little here and there, but while I was ringing my little hand bell into a percussive frenzy, I did make one interesting observation. Albertsons must make their entire corporate profits from beer! Holy hops and barley, cupcakes, I have never seen so much beer flying off the shelves as I did last Saturday. And it wasn’t a little six pack or two of Corona, it was those honking great cases that you can use as coffee tables. It was amazing! Oh, speaking of supermarkets, cherubs, do you ever use those frequent buyer programs at Smiths and Albertsons that track your purchases? I was always a little bit leery about them when they first came out, but eventually I recanted and let big corporate brother record the intimate details of my spending history. After all, lots of people buy Nyquil and Cheese Whiz in five-gallon jugs, so I have absolutely nothing to be ashamed of. But, kittens, I must tell you about the oddest ghost-in-the-machine moment I had a few weeks ago at Albertsons. I had just bought a cart full of groceries; you know the usual suspects: fruit, veggies, milk and meat, that sort of thing, and as I go through the checkout I get one of those coupon thingies printed on the back of my receipt. Now typically these coupons are for things that I purchase a lot, like ice cream, blue cheese dressing, tortillas and what have you, and if I could ever remember where I put them for safe keeping before they expire, I might actually use these coupons. However! Guess what the all-seeing, allknowing computers at Albertsons prints up for moi? A coupon for Always feminine pads. I KNOW! I KNOW! AS IF! I was so indignant at first and then I started getting weirded out. If something as benign as a shopping rewards program can get so demographically screwed up, then just what the hell is going on with the important stuff like insurance, mortgages, payroll, credit cards, etc. You know me, darlings, after a while I started to obsess (hmmm ... what are the odds?). Eventually I realized my angst was overblown and maybe some woman’s rush to the store for a pack of absorbent essentials with wings simply got transposed onto my records. But I will tell you this — come New Year’s I hereby resolve to watch all of my bank statements, bills and credit cards a whole lot closer. And mark my words, if I get a coupon for Midol at the market I will just FREAK! Happy Holidays, babies! Q

Guest Editorial Is Glenn Beck Our Best Spokesman? By David Neslon

I don’t think my gay friends are in rest stops or in airport bathrooms just hooking up for a quickie with a guy in the next stall. That’s not a gay issue. That’s a scumbag issue. I don’t want him around because I don’t want somebody who’s hooking up with people, gay or straight, in bathrooms.” But, Craig’s arrest wasn’t the first time Beck was quick to distinguish gay Americans from their infamous hangers on. In September 2006, he described how “The cover of this week’s issue of New York magazine has a picture of [New Jersey Gov. Jim] McGreevey on it, along with the headline, ‘Confessions of the Gay Governor.’ To me, that just means nobody in the media actually remembers or cares about the real story with this guy. Take out his sexual preference and even the fact that he was a governor, just for a second. When someone who has a wife in the hospital nursing his threeday-old newborn has adulterous sex with his employee, they’re a scumbag.” This blunt description, came just two months after Beck made the ultimate assessment of gay Americans. “All right. I want to know, as a gay man ... it must be a sweet life. Listen to me, and I mean this sincerely. If it wasn’t for the icky sex thing, I’d be gay in a heartbeat.” With ideas like these, could Beck be the first popular conservative to deal with gay Americans and issues fairly, or are popular liberals who do little else but pander to us slower to see us as families and friends, not just votes and dollars? Maybe both. While we wait for the others to catch up to him, Beck is teaching millions by example. For now, he might be our best national voice for equality. Q

Guest Editorial A Christmas Gift

unconditional love can not be underestimated — having one place, just one place, where someone knows your name and speaks it without spite, a curse or a curling of the lip is often the difference between a person that thrives and one that becomes another sad statistic. The Utah Pride Center’s efforts extend beyond the goings-on at the Center’s campus by reaching out to the larger community; it provides GLBT cultural competency education to public health departments, newspapers, universities and colleges, public schools, local community agencies and public safety officials so that all of Utah knows how to best serve each of you. We cannot allow the Utah Pride Center to shrink in its capacity to help our community, and it is only through your advocacy and support that it can keep doing its job. The support of those who already endorse the Utah Pride Center must continue and indeed increase for the staff and volunteers to fulfill their necessary duties. The bulk of the GLBT and straight ally community also needs to be emboldened to step up and make the Pride Center and its precious charges a priority. I am writing to you today to ask that you join with me in support of the Utah Pride Center with a generous gift. In doing so we create a legacy worth remembering — one measured in the improvement of people’s lives and the betterment of our neighbourhoods and communities. Please make the Utah Pride Center your choice for a gift this holiday season, and when you do, call them up, talk to their committed staff and volunteers, and hear firsthand the stories of how your gift is making — and will continue to make — a difference in our community. Thank you and happy holidays. Q

EVENTS THIS MONTH AT THE

DEC 10

6:30p Partners ofTransgender Adult Group 8p Twelve Step: Gay Men’s AA

DEC 11

4p Public Safety Meeting 7:30p Men’s Support Group 8p Twelve Step: Live & Let Live

DEC 12

12p Men’s Sack Lunch 5p HIV Testing 7:30p Twelve Step: Sober Today

DEC 13

5p Ten Thousand Villages Community Benefits Shopping Night 5p Transgender Youth Group 7p Empowerment Workshops - Gender 7p Bisexual Community Forum

DEC 14

7p Gay Bingo 8p Twelve Step: Stonewall Group

DEC 15

10a Western Transsexual Support Network 6p Twelve Step: Free to be Me 7p Event 7p Community Holiday Party 7:30p Crystal Meth Anonymous

DEC 16

12p Rainbow Classic Car Club 3p Twelve Step: GLBT AA 7p LDS Reconciliation

DEC 17

6:30p DiverseCity Writing Group 8p Twelve Step: Gay Men’s AA

DEC 18

7p Film & Discussion 7p Women’s Support Group 7:30p Royal Court Meeting 8p Twelve Step: Live & Let Live

DEC 19

12p Men’s Sack Lunch 7p Sexual Violence Support Group 7:30p Twelve Step: Sober Today

DEC 20

By John Amaechi

I spent two great years in Salt Lake City — years when I found friends who became like family and a greater understanding of myself through those friendships. I would not replace those two years, the friends I made or the growth I experienced for any sum. I take every possible opportunity to return to Salt Lake to see my extended family and immerse myself in the good work of the Utah Pride Center that stands alone in its support, mentoring and advocating for GLBT people in Utah. They serve members of the community as individuals with unique needs and perspectives, and offer a variety of programs, services, events and groups to facilitate the growth of each member of Utah’s GLBT community. This includes support groups, social activities, an affirming place to go for the holidays, Pride, resources and referrals, databases of GLBT-friendly healthcare providers, educational workshops and much more. My last visit this year was an absolute inspiration; meeting with children, young adults, mentors, volunteers and staff was eye opening. As you can imagine, I have had a chance to see various organizations like the Utah Pride Center in other cities and states, but I have come to know that the Utah Pride Center is uniquely revolutionary. The power of providing a place where people can feel

8a GLBTQ Affirmative Psychotherapy Guild of Utah 4p Free HIV Testing 5p Parents of Transgender Youth Group 5p Transgender Youth Group 6:30p Transgender Adult Support Group

DEC 21

8p Twelve Step: Stonewall Group

DEC 22

5p Aspen Grove Yule Celebration 6p Twelve Step: Free to be Me 7:30p Crystal Meth Anonymous

DEC 23

3p Twelve Step: GLBT AA 7p Utah Polyamory Society Meeting

DEC 24

6:30p Partners ofTransgender Adult Group 8p Twelve Step: Gay Men’s AA

DEC 25

Utha Pride Center CLOSED for Christmas 8p Twelve Step: Live & Let Live

DEC 26

12p Men’s Sack Lunch 5p HIV Testing 7:30p Twelve Step: Sober Today

DEC 27

5p Transgender Youth Group 6p Utah Bear Alliance 7p Queer Reader

DEC 28

7p Latina Lesbianas Unidas 8p Twelve Step: Stonewall Group

DEC 29

6p Twelve Step: Free to be Me 7:30p Crystal Meth Anonymous

DEC 30

3p Twelve Step: GLBT AA

DEC 31

8p Twelve Step: Gay Men’s AA

Jan 1

7p Women’s Support Group 8p Twelve Step: Live & Let Live

Jan 2

12p Men’s Sack Lunch 7p Sexual Violence Support Group 7:30p Twelve Step: Sober Today

Jan 3

4p Free HIV Testing 5p Parents of Transgender Youth Group 5p Transgender Youth Group 6:30p Transgender Adult Support Group

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While Glenn Beck’s second book about American politics, An Inconvenient Book, debuted on Nov. 20 as the New York Times nonfiction best seller, the conservative Mormon talkshow host experienced the paradox of his popularity when the book sold out nationally and publisher Simon & Schuster Inc. wrote IOUs for about 10 days while it rushed up to nine more printings for immediate distribution. None of that seemed to matter to Beck or his 800 fans who gathered hastily at a Deseret Book store in Midvale, Utah the morning before the Salt Lake City performance on Dec. 8 of his annual one-man Christmas-production tour. He is the host of his self-named daily CNN Headline News program and nationally syndicated radio program. He publishes the monthly political comedy magazine, Fusion. His stage shows tour the United States twice a year. ABC Television just added him as a contributor to its Good Morning America program. And, he’s a frequent visitor to Utah. All of which puts him squarely under the lens of media watchdog groups like Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. Certainly, his books, magazine, television and radio programs, performances and other public statements would show us his true colors. One man can’t chatter that much without tipping his hand. In January, GLAAD leaders thought they found the smoking gun. Actually, they didn’t do much work to uncover the truth; he broadcast it for them. Beck described news reports about actor Isaiah Washington calling another actor a “faggot,” something that almost every news source in the nation including The Advocate, San Francisco Chronicle and Entertainment Tonight — and GLAAD itself — described, too. But, GLAAD leaders called out Beck. Beck said soon after, “It is a hate-filled word. It’s an ugly word. It’s a word that no one should ever be called. We as Americans — gay, straight, left, right, black, white — have more in common than we have that separate us. I wish GLAAD would focus their energies and attention on condemning true hate speech, true discrimination, true bigotry, and not on people who are simply and honestly trying to have a conversation about the appropriateness of a word in a news story.” If that’s the worst proof GLAAD has found out about Beck, maybe what else he says about us isn’t so bad. After Iran President Ahmadinejad claimed in September that his nation doesn’t “have homosexuals like in your country,” Beck responded angrily that Iran executes its gay and lesbian citizens and said that “if [President George W. Bush] was condoning a law that says you could kill a homosexual for being homosexual, he would be the biggest hatemonger alive and there would be people from the left marching in the streets like gangbusters. And, you know what? I’d join them! I have homosexual

friends. Just because you’re a conservative doesn’t mean you hate people who are different than you.” Beck responded also by inviting Iranian Queer Organization Executive Director Arsham Parsi to discuss being gay in Iran and its torture of gay Iranians. “Okay. I’m going to show you pictures here, America, and this — I want you to know — this is the lashing of two of [Parsi’s] friends. These pictures were taken a month after they were beaten, so you can imagine how severe this beating was. Now, there is also a picture — a few pictures here of people being hung. Please know that this is not stuff you want your kids to see. I just want you to see the truth of what’s happening in Iran and, again, ask where are all the special interests speaking out? “Let me ask an honest question: Where is the Gay and Lesbian Alliance [sic]? I know that life here in America is far from perfect, but compared to life in Iran, actually America is kind of perfect. I mean, we’re not murdering homosexuals in the streets. And, if some nut job does it, we arrest them. Why am I doing your job for you? I say you better speak up sooner or forever hold your peace. Otherwise, you’re going to be left with the truth of your silence, and that is that you’re nothing but a political machine to help politicians get elected. And, that’s a shame. Really, you should be ashamed of yourselves.” Earlier that month, Beck responded to the stereotypes that were described nationally after the arrest of U.S. Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, at the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport. “I don’t see it as a gay issue. I mean, I know gay people.

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Queer Gnosis Down & Dirty at the Blue Boutique By Troy Williams

Recently three stories have stirred up passionate debate in Utah. The conviction of polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, the relocation of Sugar House’s Blue Boutique and the recent report identifying Utah as the most depressed state in the nation. As a formerly depressed Mormon with polygamous ancestry (and who once hooked up with an employee of the Blue Boutique), I consider myself eminently qualified to comment on all three. At first glance, these issues may seem like isolated examples of Utah eccentricities. But I think upon closer examination you’ll see that they are interconnected. They each reflect poorly on the way Utahns view sex and ultimately how we treat women. Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, the company that funded the mental health report, no doubt wants to solve Utah’s problems with their own products. But instead, I’d like to prescribe a massive statewide dose of gender equality. Flip on any talk radio or cable news show and you will hear manly men delivering misogynistic rants about Hillary the “nut-cracker.” You can

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almost hear the foam gnashing between their teeth. Apparently, castration anxiety still abounds in the 21st Century. Honestly boys, is your masculinity really that fragile? How do you think your wives, sisters and daughters feel when they hear you disparage successful women? Get over yourselves. Men need to step aside so that women can share political, economic and ecclesiastical power. I’m no doctor, but I have a hunch that if we elevate the status of women, our depression rates will drop dramatically. And back to sex. It’s extremely difficult in our culture to develop a sex-positive worldview, and the moral crusaders attacking the Blue Boutique as it moves into its new location are certainly not helping. They are actually contributing to the larger problem of repression. Libidinal energy has to go somewhere. If you deny your sexuality it will inevitably manifest in all kinds of strange and destructive behaviors. Married men head to parks for sex with anonymous male partners. Husbands secretly spend hours addicted to internet porn. Religious leaders molest children. Republican lawmakers tap-dance in bathroom stalls. How the list goes on! And too often, gay people internalize all this religious antisex nonsense and end up wallowing in guilt, shame and self-loathing. Denying our sexuality by practicing celibacy or resisting our authentic desires is harmful to our mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing. Think Judi Dench in Notes on a Scandal. That’s the kind of crazy that

overcomes somebody when they don’t have healthy sexual relationships. And why are people still looking to patriarchal religion to determine sexual mores, anyway? People are rightly outraged that Warren Jeffs sealed a teenage girl to an older man. But where would he get such an idea? Try Joseph Smith. In Doctrine and Covenants section 132, Joseph is commanded to take multiple wives. OK. I myself am the product of Mormon polygamy, so I’m sympathetic — to a point. Until verse 54 when Jesus tells Emma Smith that if she doesn’t comply, “she shall be destroyed, saith the Lord.” Destroyed? Are you kidding me? Why would Jesus kill a woman for exercising her free agency? Sounds Talibanesque to me. Warren Jeff’s problem is that he believes this stuff literally (as do many members of the Utah Legislature). Have you ever talked to LDS women about gender and polygamy? You can almost hear their synapses misfiring as they struggle to defend why their God wants them to be subservient to men. There is so much pain in their words. And yet they remain obedient. Kind of like an abused wife who defends the actions of her violent husband. Any religion that worships a god who threatens violence against women does not have the right to dictate sexual morality to me or to the world. Period. So for those of you gay Saints who are still struggling with your relationship with the Church — please, for your own sanity and for the sanity of the people you date, get over it! The Mormon Jesus

is a homicidal misogynist who doesn’t deserve your worship, your fear or your obedience (same goes for you gay Catholics, Muslims, etc.). If you still need a god, I highly recommend any from the pagan pantheon. There are several to choose from, with a variety of genders. And they actually encourage sex. So have at it. Our whole society needs to foster mature attitudes toward sexuality. Humans are hardwired to be together. Our mental health and happiness depends on making positive sexual connections. It’s the same for people who are married, single, divorced, gay or straight. Nobody can escape this basic human need. It’s who we are. So how then do we contribute to the mental health of our state? I believe the first step is challenging patriarchy and championing gender equality. All of you gay boys — speak out for the ladies. Defend them, love them and be their best allies. And take a smart, optimistic, sexpositive attitude about life. Be responsible. Be safe. Make genuine connections with your lovers. Have pornstar sex. I believe these are the essential first steps in healing our statewide melancholy. And if by chance you are still feeling depressed — don’t despair. Get yourself over to the Blue Boutique and enjoy yourselves! And that goes for all you sister wives, too.

Ruth Hackford-Peer The Cost of Bigotry

her and our sinful lifestyle behind me, take the children away from her terrible influence, and start anew. For a church that touts the importance of family, this seemed just a little too hypocritical for me. Maybe it was when I was denied domestic partnership benefits at my former place of employment despite two years of assurances that they were looking into it. There’s another year without a dentist for Kim. Maybe it was when I was speaking with a state legislator, explaining why “in loco parentis” was so important to my family, sharing the many ways that my (innocent) son is unfairly treated under the law because of who his parents are. She couldn’t hear any of it. She couldn’t even see us as a family. The only chord we struck was financial. She didn’t think it was fair that when I lost my job I had to apply for CHIP to cover the boys on insurance, even though there was a willing and able other party (she couldn’t even say “second parent”) who wanted to pay those insurance premiums but wasn’t allowed because — after all — we’re not a real family. I am not sure of the exact moment it happened. The moment isn’t important, the resolution is. I decided my family can be made invisible, treated like secondclass citizens and ignored on forms, on television and while walking down the street. We can be discounted. But it’ll cost the citizens of Utah. Get out your pocketbooks, taxpayers. It’s time to fund your bigotry. See, because if we aren’t a family, then my boys are being raised by a single mom. A single mom who — unemployed right now — struggles financially to make ends meet. Who cares how much the “other mother” makes? It’s irrelevant. The “other mother” isn’t part of the family, is she? And for a single mother struggling to raise two children on her

own, there are food stamps. There’s WIC. There’s Medicaid. CHIP. HEAT. There are a lot of services designed to help those of us who struggle. Make sure you put the cars and the house in the “other mother’s” name, keep the credit cards and other debts in yours. Then, at the end of the month, calculate how much money in public assistance you received, and make sure to write the checks to the Utah Pride Center. Equality Utah. The Utah Aids Foundation. See, I’ve uncovered a way essentially to make tax dollars go to the organizations of my choice and it’s by fitting the mold the legislature created for me. All it would take to save these hardworking Americans their tax dollars is to recognize my family. Until then, it’ll cost the citizens of Utah. Oh, it’ll cost them plenty. I am ready to finally take my share of the pie that has been systematically denied to us historically and continues to be yanked from our grasp. I’m not going to be able to draw on my partner’s social security. I don’t get the more than 1000 benefits of marriage. My boys suffer daily because of this two parent — man/woman — Christian system we live under. If the legislature won’t listen to our pain when we talk about our families not receiving the protections they need ... if the legislature won’t allow my partner to adopt the child she loves and raises ... if the legislature just wants to talk dollars, then let’s give them what they want. Let’s talk about all the dollars we’re requiring from the state because they won’t let us get it from each other. Sure, I’d be willing to trade it all in for ENDA, marriage, co-parent adoption and health insurance. But until then, I’m eating pie. Oh, and the legislature gets another chance this session to take the cohabitation clause out of the Utah adoption law. Until this happens, I’d sure like to see as many of you in the welfare line as are eligible.

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The legislature has spoken. Utah’s voters have spoken. In 2004 they made it clear that my family was not to be considered “valid.” My partner and I shouldn’t be afforded the same rights as married couples. We shouldn’t even be afforded rights that might be a little bit too similar to those given married couples. I was disappointed in 2004 when Constitutional Amendment 3 was voted into law. But then, sometime between 2004 and now, my disappointment dissipated and I got really pissed off. Maybe it was when I had to file my income tax and mark single because no other box described my family. Even though there are actual financial benefits to filing separately for my family’s structure, it still irks me. Maybe it was because I got tired of reading notes sent home from school addressed “Dear Mom and Dad.” Maybe it was because I got sick of hearing strangers ask my son where he got his red hair. Maybe it was because solicitors kept calling my house and asking for my husband. Or maybe it was when the Mormon missionaries cornered me outside a local community center and asked me if I would like to hear the gospel of Jesus Christ. I asked them what I’d have to do to convert to their church, explaining that I was a lesbian and my partner and I had two children together. Their response was that I would have to leave

Troy Williams is the producer of RadioActive on KRCL 90.9 FM. He blogs at queergnosis. com.

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GIVING TREE By Mikey Rox AND QSALTLAKE STAFF

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Dammit, geeky ones. How long does a girl have to wait for the next season of South Park? Yes, I know itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just a matter of months, but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like a decade in fangirl time. And right now Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m doing what all newly-minted fangirls do: burning through the DVDs of seasons 1 through 11 with a fury that only rabid Star Trek fans can match when you give them a Next Generation box set and a DVD player at a convention. I mean, I think I watched all of Season 4 on one lazy Saturday prompting my girlfriend to remark, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dude! Slow down or you wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have any left!â&#x20AC;? How helpful. At this rate I may do the unthinkable. I may actually attempt, in 2008, to watch a television show as episodes air instead of waiting for the DVDs. I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stand that kind of behavior, you guys. But I really canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help myself. South Park is brilliant: well-written, drop-dead hilarious, incredibly poignant, and most of the time politically and culturally spot-on. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also the most gay-positive show Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever seen, and the gayest. The fact that South Park addresses queer issues frequently and (for the most part) sensitively while being written and produced by two straight men makes it requisite viewing for gay geeks who can handle the scatology, violence and mature humor (which often deals with the taboos of racism, sexism and just about every other â&#x20AC;&#x201C;ism out there). Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let copious use of words like â&#x20AC;&#x153;faggotâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;gaywadâ&#x20AC;? (mostly from the potty mouths of children who use every curse word in existence) fool you. Creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are on the side of the angels. The guys have been making a case for gay rights since South Parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first season, with the infamous episode â&#x20AC;&#x153;Big Gay Alâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Big Gay Boat Ride.â&#x20AC;? Big Gay Al first appeared on Comedy Central back in 1997. You remember: just two years after the East High Gay-Straight Alliance debacle when sodomy was still illegal, gay marriage wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a hot-button issue and you had a lot more to risk being out (particularly in Salt Lake) than you do now. By todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s South Park standards, its premise is quite tame. Third grader and recurring character Stan Marsh discovers that his dog Sparky is gay, incurring much mockery from his friends Kyle, Cartman and Kenny. Eventually, Sparky runs away to Big Gay Alâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Big Gay Animal Shelter. When Stan finds him, the shelterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s owner treats him to a boat cruise on the virtues of same-sex love (complete with a delicious parody of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a Small World After Allâ&#x20AC;?). At the episodeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s end, Stan announces to a bewildered crowd that â&#x20AC;&#x153;Being gay is OK!â&#x20AC;? The episode rightly scored the duo a GLAAD Media Award nomination. In just about every season since, the guys have stressed that being gay isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a big deal. Season 3 brought us â&#x20AC;&#x153;Two Guys

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Naked in a Hot Tub,â&#x20AC;? which used a sexual hot tub incident between Stan and Kyleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dads to skewer straight male homophobia; in season 5, anti-gay scout leaders toss Al out of the Boy Scouts and replace him with a heterosexual child molester in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cripple Fightâ&#x20AC;?; and season nineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Follow That Eggâ&#x20AC;? was a much better take on gay marriage than The Simpsonsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; cowardly and rather offensive â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Something about Marrying.â&#x20AC;? Season 11 also brought us my favorite episode of all time, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cartman Sucks,â&#x20AC;? which treated the phenomenon of Christian ex-gay camps an the damage they do to children with more thoughtfulness and panache than most news reports. Oh yeah. And implied pretty clearly that Cartman might be gay or at least bi-curious. In every season, Parker and Stone have been progressive voices for gay rights by, ultimately, treating gays and lesbians as people and not issues. There are noble gay people in South Park and gay people (like school teacher Mr. Garrison) who are stupid and revolting. My brilliant girlfriend put it better than I could have, which happens with epic regularity, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Their message is that when you say being gay is OK, it isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t followed up by this idea that gay people are in any way special or different, really.â&#x20AC;? And really, isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t that how most of us want to be treated? Now if only the guys could get a clue about transgender issues. The only South Park episode Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve truly hated was â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mr. Garrisonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fancy New Vagina,â&#x20AC;? which features Mr. Garrison randomly deciding to get a sex-change operation. Of course, Garrison is an idiot and not a real transperson (do you know any transwomen who think sex-change surgery will give them the ability to get pregnant?). But the showâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s message, that sex and gender are fixed and surgical alterations donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make you a man or a woman, really galled me. I mean, come on, dudes! Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re way too smart for that bullshit cisgenderist thinking. Because I always give people the benefit of the doubt, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m hoping they didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean it, that they were trying to comment on the stupidity of thinking that a drastic change such as sex reassignment surgery will make someoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life perfect. Or, at the very least, just trying to make a funny episode and failing miserably. Sadly, I guess that even the smartest and most talented of writers sometimes royally, hideously and embarrassingly screw up. My frustration with their one transgender episode aside, I think South Park is a truly brilliant show that all queer people should watch. To be clear, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just about children swearing and making politically incorrect jokes. Parker and Stone use that shock humor to skewer human stupidity. Think Jonathan Swift in â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Modest Proposal,â&#x20AC;? wherein the Gulliverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Travels author proposed the eating of Irish babies to satirize the 18th centuryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s litany of easy solutions to problems like world poverty. Satirically speaking, Parker and Stone are Swiftâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great-great-great grandchildren. They use the absurd and grandiose too because much of human behavior is absurd and grandiose in its stupidity. And I gotta love them for that ... even if I think someone needs to send them a DVD of Transamerica, STAT. Q

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YOUR CALENDAR OF ARTS, ENTERTAINMENT & IMPORTANT EVENTS

In the spirit of the Holiday Season, I’m giving myself a gift — some free time. So you’ll notice that several of the following events have been regurgitated, but they’re ones I highly recommend. However, I’m not leaving you high-n-dry, there are also some great new events happening during the rest of the month. Be sure to check out as many as possible, and have a safe, fabulous holiday.

Q Plan-B Theatre Company lightens ... or cheeses things up with the regional premeire of the off-Broadway hit Gutenberg! The Musical written by Scott Brown and Anthony King. This twoman show is absolutely freakin’ hilarious. Jay Perry and Kirt Bateman are simply superb. 2pm Sundays & 8pm Fri.–Sat., currently running through Dec. 30, Studio Theatre, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. Broadway. Tickets $18, 355-ARTS or arttix.org.

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Q The Academy of Performing Arts presents a production of C.S. Lewis’ fantasy story The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe. Take a trip to the land of Narnia with four little brats, a plethora of ‘Chatty-Cathy’ animals and a cranky old ice bitch ... I mean White Witch who’s cast a spell on Narnia where it’s always winter, but there’s no Christmas. Well, who pissed in her fruitcake? 7:30pm, currently running through Dec. 22, Academy of Performing Arts, 3188 S. 400 East. Tickets $10–12, 486-2728 or academyofpa.org.

Q The first annual ZooLights! holiday event at Hogle Zoo will feature over one million twinkling lights and over 150 colorfully lighted animal sculptures, most of which are animated. Food will be provided such as deepfried s’mores, gooey brownies and steaming hot chocolate. Also, live entertainment from various local performers will be offered every night. 4:30–8pm, currently running through Dec. 31, Hogle Zoo, 2600 E. Sunnyside Ave. Tickets $3–6 at the gates, 584-1750 or hoglezoo.org.

17MONDAY Q I think we all would feel what George Bailey felt in It’s A Wonderful Life because we all have something extraordinary to offer, especially to those who love us. Ahhh ... I’m so uncharacteristically tender right now and feeling slightly nauseous. Anyhoo, Odyssey Dance Theatre opens their creative production of the holiday classic film tonight. Definitely don’t miss it. 7:30pm, currently running through Dec. 22, Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, UofU. Tickets $20–40, 581-7100 or kingtix.com.

Q Voice Male brings their trademark vocal sound and stage antics to Abravanel Hall once again on their annual Voice Male Christmas tour. For over a decade, they have been entertaining audiences with shows filled with singing and fun for the whole family. 7pm, Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple. Tickets $8–15, 355-ARTS or arttix.org.

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Q The Trapp Door wishes you to bring a white elephant gift to this year’s Christmas Party (No Ross, don’t take a live albino elephant!) and get in free for a wild night of dance mixes by Dj DC. 9pm, Trapp Door, a private club for members, 615 W. 100 South.

Q The Cultural Center Winter Concert Series features Los Hermanos de los Andes performing Christmas in the Andes (FYI Chelle, this is Peruvian), a traditional holiday conert with an Andean twist. Hear the story of the Nativity and others through the majestic sounds of Andean pipes and drums. While there, visit the Trees of Diversity gallery exhibit. 7pm, Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 W. 3100 South. Free, 965-5100 or culturalcelebration.org. Q Local musician John Allred’s acoustic music has a swaying sultry sound and he’s not bad on the eyes to boot. Along with local bands Mury, The Lionelle and Self Conclusion, this could make for a different kind of evening at Kilby Court. 7pm, Kilby Court, 741 S. 330 West. Tickets $7 at the door, kilbycourt.com.

19WEDNESDAY Q She’s extremely cute, has a lovely voice, and after uploading her song “Bubbly” to her MySpace page, Colbie Caillat became an instant star. The 22-year-old Californian began singing 11 years ago, and took her first acoustic guitar lesson and started writing songs two years ago. Now that’s dedication and talent! She’s promoting her debut album Coco tonight, check her out. 6pm, In The Venue, 219 S. 600 West. Tickets $20.50, 467-8499 or smithstix.com.

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Q In every version of the magical tale of Peter Pan I’ve seen, it’s all about the Hook. Egyptian Theatre Company’s production of the story is certainly no exception. The boisterous, flamboyant Captain Hook played by Mark Gollaher is soooo funny. ETC’s production is worth the trip to Park City. 7:30pm, currently running through Dec. 29, Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main Street, Park City. Tickets $17–36, 435-649-9371 or egyptiantheatrecompany.org.

21FRIDAY Q Since it’s now holiday shopping season, I’ve decided to include the Kimball Holiday Glass Ornament Display in Park City. Uniquely handcrafted glass ornaments will be for sale, and you can never have too many ornaments. Just ask my mother; if I had to guess, I’d say she has upwards of 200. No shit! Hours vary, through Jan. 7, Kimball Art Center, 638 Park Avenue, Park City. Free, 435-649-8882.

22SATURDAY Q Utah’s own Snow Queen, Sheneka Christie hosts The Lying Bitch and Her Wardrobe. Is this a self-titled event? Ha! Just kidding Sheneka, you know I luv ya more than my drag queen bowling shoes. No, really ... you’re fabulous! Check out the show in your best winter whites. I have a feeling there’ll be a lot of packaged undies. 9pm, Trapp Door, a private club for members, 615 W. 100 South. Tickets $7 at the door.

23SUNDAY Q Author/photographer Mark Thompson, who has scribed a trilogy of gay spirituality books, displays 14 images of gay liberation pioneers in his Fellow Travelers Exhibit. All proceeds/donations and sale of books will go towards scholarships for those interested in attending Queer Spirit Retreats. Regualr business hours, through Dec. 31, A Cup of Joe, 353 W. 200 South. Free, donations appreciated, 363-8322 or queerspirit.org.

4pm Today & 8pm Sunday and Monday, Eccles Center, 1750 Kearns Blvd., Park City. Tickets $20–125, 435-655-3114 or ecclescenter.org.

31MONDAY Q Not to toot my own horn, but did you know the whole world celebrates my birthday? It’s true ... OK, so it’s also New Year’s Eve, but give this hot old man his delusions. And wherever you are on this the largest celebratory day, have a drink to me.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Jan. 11 — Suzanne Westenhoefer, Rose Wagner Center Mar. 6 — Matchbox Twenty, E Center Mar. 11 — Bette Midler, Las Vegas Mar. 15 — Rufus Wainwright, Park City

24MONDAY Q I hear Gene will have mistletoe glued to his navel and everyone who walks through the door has to kiss his elf. Well this should be a packed Christmas Eve Party. Oh yeah, I also hear Stan will be playing Frosty — he tried being Santa one year, but apparently people thought he wasn’t jolly enough. Hmmm ... Frosty is probably a better fit for him! 7pm, Club Try-Angles, a private club for members, 251 W. 900 South. Free to members, 364-3203 or clubtry-angles.com.

25TUESDAY Q If you’ve been more naughty than nice this year and you ain’t gettin’ no gifts, then be even naughtier at any one of our local bars/clubs on this Christmas Day. The Trapp and Club Try-Angles are offering Christmas buffets and Trapp Door is holding a fund raising party. All listed establishments are private clubs for members.

Q We all know the hits “Sweet Caroline,” “Heartlight” and “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers” — well, at least those over the age of 30 — by the incomparable Neil Diamond. Unfortunately he’s not coming to Utah, but his music is. One of his greatest cover bands Super Diamond will be “Touching You, Touching Me” tonight. 8pm, The Depot, a private club for members, 13 N. 400 West. Tickets $10, 456-2888 or depotslc.com. Q Pushing the boundaries of gravity, the Frequent Flyers combine original and magical low-flying trapeze with aerial dance to create uniquelythrilling performances weighted with extremely complex and physically challenging movements.

JAN. 8 Jazz Brunch equalityutah.org JAN. 17 Citizen Lobbyist Training equalityutah.org JAN. 24 Rally at the Capitol equalityutah.org FEB. 8–17 WinterPride slcwinterpride.org JUNE 6–8 Utah Pride Festival utahpride.org JUNE 13 Salt Lake Men’s Choir “SLMC Does Hollywood” 25th Anniversary Concert saltlakemenschoir.org AUG. 7–10 PWACU River Trip pwacu.org OCT 10–12 Salt Lake City GayBowl VIII mwffl.org

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By Hugo Salinas

The University of Iowa has just announced the production of 14, a new play about the so-called “ reparative therapy” experiments Brigham Young University officials allegedly performed on gay students in the mid-1970s. The play was written by John Cameron, who as a BYU student was once subjected to these experiments. Cameron is now head of acting at the University of Iowa. “I had spent much of my life trying to forget and minimize [my experience with reparative therapy],” says Cameron. “I had somehow convinced myself that most people would find it more disgusting than interesting… [But] thanks to the cast and my colleagues, I have been able to develop a healthier distance from the subject matter and really focus on the structure of the work. It is emotionally challenging, but exciting and invigorating. We have a great cast and wonderful support.” As part of these well-documented experiments, gay male students were exposed to male pornography and delivered shocks of up to 4.5 miliamperes of electricity in hope of “curing” them of their “condition.” The play will be staged at the David Thayer Theatre on January 31 and February 1-3, 6-10. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit www.uiowa. edu/~theatre/season/index.html.

Conversation with John Cameron By Hugo Salinas

If Brigham Young University has an infamous reputation in the GLBT community, it is, in part, because of the so-called “reparative therapy” experiments performed on gay students in the mid-1970s. As part of these experiments, Max Ford McBride, then a graduate student in psychology, exposed gay male students to male pornography and delivered shocks of up to 4.5 miliamperes of electricity in hope of “curing” them of their “condition.” These procedures, deemed today both ineffective and barbaric, are documented in several sources, including a documentary called Legacies, a published account written by Affirmation member Don Harryman, and McBride’s own 1976 dissertation. Fourteen students completed the experiment that earned McBride his Ph.D. — hence 14, the title of John Cameron’s new play.

HUGO SALINAS: In the mid 1970s, you were one of the subjects of Max Ford McBride’s experiments on so-called “reparative therapy” at BYU. Why did you decide to write a play about what must have been a very painful experience? John Cameron: The decision to write the

play was a very long time coming. In the 25 years before I began work on the script, the idea never crossed my mind. To begin with I was not overly proud of my decision to do the therapy and told very few people about it. It wasn’t a subject that I wanted to share. Also, I had spent so much of my life trying to forget and minimize what I had done that I had somehow convinced myself that most people would find it more disgusting than interesting. I thought the subject matter just wasn’t worthy of attention. Then two things happened that changed everything. I stumbled onto the Affirmation website by total accident and read Connell O’Donovan’s History of Homosexuality at Brigham Young University. I was stunned by what I read. I learned that my experience belonged to a much larger community. I learned about the

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purge. I learned that my therapy was not an isolated event, but simply one of the more visible elements in a long history of abuse. It really shook up my very safe, insulated life. I made brief contact with Connell to thank him. That led to the second event. I was contacted by a journalist who Connell had referred, asking for an interview. At first I was very skeptical of doing it, but when I learned of Merrill Bateman’s denial I was infuriated. So I agreed to it, but had no idea what I was getting myself into. As we talked by email and phone over a period of a few weeks I was forced to relive the experience in detail for the first time in over two decades. The result was a three-year depression. I finally began to deal for with what I had done to my life and it was pretty hard to face. Writing the play was a way for me to work though my anger and isolation.

What kind of emotional or spiritual scars did those experiments leave? Did you ever go to therapy to undo the damage the BYU experiments may have caused? I’m going to be very honest with you, so I hope I don’t offend anyone. I’ve only recently begun to realize that I have completely shut down my sexual life for the last 25 years. I have never been able to maintain a long-term relationship with another man. Instead I have substituted a number of ill-advised and emotionally destructive relationships with women. Looking back I can honestly say that I was afraid of gay men. I felt true resentment and disgust for the gay community while simultaneously wishing I could somehow participate. The recognition of this and my efforts to change it have only begun within the last two or three years and I am still struggling. I recently began to make some gay friends and make my first steps into this new world. Ironically, one of my new friends was raised LDS and served a mission. He is the music director for this production. I don’t think the experiment was the sole cause of my dysfunction, but I think it’s fair to say it was a major contributor.

Have you ever met other “reparative therapy” subjects? How did you research the topic for your play? No, I’ve never met another one of the 14. But I do know two men who went through similar therapy. I’m ashamed to say that I know them because I referred them to McBride shortly after my own experience was completed. It was during

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Fabulous People Ogden Man Reaches OUT to Teens by Joselle Vanderhooft joselle@qsaltlake.com

It’s a busy night at Ogden’s OUTReach Resource Center for teens. The minute director Gary Horenkamp answers the telephone, 25 youngsters march into the drop-in center’s space at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Ogden in search of something fun to do on a cold December night. “That’s a lot for the center. Usually we get about 10 or 12. Let’s see ... four or five are playing pool next door. Some are singing and dancing, a couple are playing the X-Box and I think arts Gary Horenkamp and crafts are about to break out,” says Horenkamp, designated this particular Wednesday for making Holiday decorations. “It looks like they’re making snowmen, wreaths, maybe some green and red stuff.” Seconds later, a teen wanders into Horenkamp’s office in search of a cheese grater. “I’m guessing he wanted to make chili,” Horenkamp laughs. The center has many kitchen utensils and a lot of snacks for noshing, but unfortunately no grater, so the teen will have to try something else. It’s all in a night’s work for Horenkamp, who has worked with the resource center since its founding in September, 2004. As Horenkamp explains it, OUTReach, while not a religious program, was the brain child of the Unitarian Universalist church that houses it. Three years ago, the church’s social action committee decided that they wanted to provide a service for the city’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender teens. Although a number of resources existed to serve Ogden’s 60,000 young people, such as The Boys and Girls Clubs of America and Youth Impact, Horenkamp said none at the time existed specifically for queer youngsters. “Don’t get me wrong, the other organizations don’t discourage them from coming, but this is the place that is always in tune with their issues and needs,” he says. The Unitarian Universalist organization and the United Church of Christ (both of which have reputations for being gay-friendly) liked the idea and awarded the church enough grant money to house the space and to bring Horenkamp on part time. Two church members, Roxanne Taylor and Evelyn Bertilson, serve as OUTReach’s co-chairs and Horenkamp’s bosses. They, along with a 10-member board of community members, church members and one teenager from the Resource Center give Horenkamp feedback on the center’s operations and suggestions for how services can be improved. Horenkamp, who also volunteers at the Teen Suicide Prevention Taskforce in Utah, holds a Master’s degree in counseling and interned at a juvenile corrections facility. Between this work and serving in the U.S. military for 20 years, he says working with youth has become his calling.

“Between paid and volunteer work, I’ve been doing this kind of stuff since I was 18, whether it’s teaching or trying to keep kids out of trouble in the military,” he says. Today OUTReach shares space with the church’s youth group and has built up an impressive store of activities and items to keep its youth busy. Currently, the program boasts such things as an X-Box video game system, an internet-accessible computer, a karaoke machine and plenty of board and card games. A fridge and microwave are also on hand, as is a library with approximately 200 books and a handful of DVDs gleaned from generous donors, the Utah Pride Center’s overflow and Weber State University’s gay-straight alliance who gave Horenkamp permission to store and lend out their books until they find a new space in which to store them. Although teens are allowed to check out materials (including more mature titles such as gay love stories and edgier doccumentries if they have a signed permission slip from a parent), Horenkamp says the library is also a resource for adults. Indeed, the only one the Resource Center currently offers. “We tried to do an adult night for about

a year, but we only got about two people,” Horenkamp explains. “So we had to abandon that.” Although the number and names of teens can change weekly thanks to the Resource Center’s drop-in status, one thing Horenkamp hasn’t abandoned is OUTReach’s annual winter service project, which he and the teens have undertaken in January, when the giving spirit of Christmas has vanished but need is still great. Last year, the teens collected much-needed food items for the Utah Food Bank, like canned tuna, chili, beef and other meat products which are always in short supply. Horenkamp says he’d like to do more service projects with the teens, but several factors have so far prevented this. Along with OUTReach’s ever-changing population — which makes signing up a definite number of teens difficult — the Resource Center currently lacks transportation insurance, and thus a way to get teens to and from their projects. Nevertheless, Horenkamp managed to get nearly 20 OUTReach teens together to march in September’s Southern Pride at Zion parade. And he has plans to create a leadership and life skills program for his

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that time in which I chose to believe that the therapy had been successful. The result was that I deceived myself and them. The research was slow. I had to educate myself and rebuild memories. I was surprised at how much has been written regarding the church and homosexuality in the time since the experiments. Books by Michael Quinn, Carol Lynn Pearson and others were very helpful. Connell O’Donovan’s article was also significant. Other articles and the memorials at the Affirmation website helped. But the best source was a copy of the McBride dissertation that I acquired. As I read it, memories came back almost faster than I could process. It was amazing. Additionally, I had kept a diary during my years at BYU. I dug it out of a box and read it for the first time. Why is there so much violence in the play? The violence is there for many reasons. Here are just three: (1) The therapy itself is violent. It didn’t happen in our heads, it happened to our bodies. It was not a logical event. It was visceral and painful. I don’t think you can just talk about it and make the experience clear. I didn’t want to reduce it to an intellectual discussion. (2) I have put myself through a lot of emotional abuse in the last few years. The main character is based on me, and I felt it was important to physically manifest that abuse on the stage if people were to understand the scope of the therapy’s effects. A picture is worth a thousand words. (3) There is a murder in the play. I can’t easily explain that out of context. But for what it’s worth, the killing is a symbolic and metaphoric rite of passage for the main character. It is something he must do to begin his journey to freedom from his past. It was very difficult to write. There are actually many more reasons for the violence, but I think they’re probably too numerous to cover in this interview.

Was it hard to get approval to stage the play? Did the Theatre Arts Department express concerns or suggest changes to your draft? No. Not at all! It wasn’t my idea. I did a public reading of the play last year, and many of my colleagues attended. A few

weeks later they proposed that we do a production. They felt it was an important topic that deserved to be heard. I was flabbergasted and thrilled. I work with some amazing artists here and I’m very proud of them. Those who are familiar with the University of Iowa know that it has a long tradition of developing new and controversial work. If anything, they have encouraged me to take the truth of the topic as far as I possibly can.

Several LDS hymns are interpolated at different parts of the play. What is their function? Two reasons. First, the hymns are there in the role of a Greek chorus. They comment on the action rather than advance it. For example, the main character must decide if he should agree to an interview about the experiment. When he learns that President Bateman claimed that he could find no evidence that the experiment ever took place on campus, the cast of fourteen sings “Oh Say, What is Truth?” Secondly, for so many ex-Mormons, the hymns remain a powerful memory that keeps us connected to our past. I don’t think I could have written the play without them.

Ron, the main character, struck me as a cynical and bitter atheist. Would it be fair to characterize the play as an angry and bitter statement against all organized religion? Yes, I think Ron is cynical and bitter. At the end of the play he is only at the beginning of his healing journey. His anger is very present. I didn’t want him to appear to be the good guy or the victim, and so we frequently see him as the abuser and the victimizer. That was intentional. As an audience member, I don’t like characters who are too easily definable or neatly drawn. I love the flaws of our humanity. It would be unfair to call Ron the protagonist or the antagonist. He is both. Most of us are. Whether he’s an atheist or not is up for debate. I think of him as an agnostic who rejects the silliness that most organized religions present as the work of God. He loves rationality because he feels that his emotionality is weakening him in so many ways. I think his attacks on God are the acts of a terrified man. But I don’t think the play is a statement about

teens in 2008 using strategies from a number of books, including Sean Covey’s The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens. Like most worthy projects, OUTReach is, in Horenkamp’s words, “constantly chasing after funding” to stay open and to better serve its teens. Although Taylor’s grant writing skills and previous fund raisers have stabilized OUTReach’s funds until March, Horenkamp says he has to think about the future. In 2008 he plans to continue the center’s popular fund raiser breakfast and hopefully to initiate an additional fund raiser in summer or fall. But even when money is tight, Horenkamp says he’s happy on the nights when 25 teens show up to play video games, dance and make chili without the use of a grater. And while the Resource Center started specifically to serve the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth in Ogden, Horenkamp says their straight friends are welcome, too. “We were born out of the need to fill a space for LGBT kids, but we’re willing to welcome anyone as long as they’re open-minded,” he said. “We’re happy to have kids until we burst the walls of the church.” Q organized religion. I think it’s about a journey that has been radically impacted by organized religion.

How is the process of rehearsing the play? Is it emotionally taxing on you and the actors? It’s great. We’re workshopping and developing all the time. The script is now in its fourth rewrite and has changed substantially. Thanks to the cast and my colleagues, I have been able to develop a healthier distance from the subject matter and really focus on the structure of the work. It is emotionally challenging, but exciting and invigorating. We have a great cast and wonderful support.

McBride wrote a 100-page dissertation documenting his experiments, yet in 1997 then-BYU Present Merrill Bateman claimed that he was “unable to verify” that electroshock was ever used on gay and lesbian students at BYU. Do you think BYU will ever admit that it once sponsored these experiments? How long can you tell a lie? A mighty long time when you’re afraid of the truth. They may admit to it, but I would pass out if they ever apologized.

Do you believe in forgiveness? Do you think there’s a place for forgiveness in the process of healing from abuse? You bet. I’m in the middle of it now. I don’t think forgiveness is an event. It’s a process, and I don’t know if it ever ends. Sometimes I think it is too easily said. I don’t believe in complete closure. Q

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OK, I have to admit I surprised myself when I suddenly decided to feature this next stud as our hottie of the week. Why? I mean, he’s certainly hot enough, and deﬁnitely worthy of the title. I just somehow thought he was a good decade younger than he is. When typically we gaze upon the lovely mug of 41-year-old AJ HAMMER (head Anchor on CNN’s Showbiz Tonight), he’s reporting on the ins and outs of Hollywood while dressed head to toe in a suit. He had gigs on VH-1, and Court TV came before this stop, but wouldn’t you know it — AJ got his start as a ﬁtness model. And who knew the package beneath that suit was so damn delicious looking? AJ’s a different breed of hottie because we know he’s smart. With a double major in journalism and psychology, AJ has been working for AIDS charities for nearly two decades. A selfprofessed book worm, he’s on college campuses with public speaking engagements when he’s not working or volunteering. Somehow, that makes these pictures that much hotter. Alright, folks, we’ve heard of the paparazzi chasing

celebrities, but it takes a ballsy celebrity to chase the paparazzi. And with three kids and the big 4-0 under her belt, apparently, JULIA ROBERTS is feeling bold. Apparently pissed that the paps tried to snap some shots of the kiddies, the Oscar-winning momma chased the photogs down the wrong side of the street before pulling her car over, getting up in their window and demanding that they turn off their camera. Conveniently, they got this part on tape. I never quite saw Julia as a menacing creature — even in Erin Brockovich, I found her more funny than in-your-face. But I suppose the thought of Julia speeding through L.A. like a bat out of hell to catch the bad guys does have a certain appeal. Especially when you consider that, in the end, the photog kind of cowered in fear, turned off the camera and moved his car along. I have a new found respect for Miss Roberts. Maybe her offer to move BRITNEY SPEARS into the guest room and teach her a thing or two about parenting really is a good idea. After all, if Life & Style Magazine is to be believed, she’s gonna need it. The magazine is reporting that Brit is nearly two months preggers with producer J.R. Rotem’s baby. Britney is vehemently denying the rumors via text messages from her pal Sam Lutﬁ. On her way home early from a video shoot, dodging paparazzi who were trying to kill her (or so the text from her BFF said) all the way, a text was sent to RYAN SEACREST claiming that Britney found the pregnancy rumors to be hilarious — and completely untrue. But the magazine quotes Rotem as saying they are true. Who’s right? I’d like to think the one with the

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Clydesdales to pull that behemoth. As it was, the Toyota is light enough that even a geriatric drag queen in four-inch heels could push it, although today I was fortunate to be wearing flats. So I went into Checker Auto with much trepidation fearing that they would not have an antique fuel filter for a 28-year-old â&#x20AC;&#x153;rice burner.â&#x20AC;? Low and behold, they did and it only cost $4.95. Fearing that I might chip a nail, I asked if they could help install it. The not-so-helpful gentleman behind the counter declined. So I threw manicure to the wind and raised up the hood to locate the offending part. Just then a truly-beautiful specimen of humanity pulled up next to me and got out of his car. He decided to be chatty with me while his friend went inside the store. There truly is a lack of words in the English language to adequately describe this Adonis. He had blonde hair in a military style cut, wearing a skin-tight fitted T-shirt with bulges in all the right places, with biceps that could â&#x20AC;&#x153;move a Buickâ&#x20AC;? and a very well-packed pair of jeans. It was all I could do to keep attempting to fix the car while he watched and chatted about the virtues of Toyota. I could have swooned right then and there. He was perfect to play the part of my â&#x20AC;&#x153;Knight in Shining Armorâ&#x20AC;? there to rescue me, the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Damsel in Distress.â&#x20AC;? However he was content just to watch. Wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you know it Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m only lucky enough to get a voyeur not a doer. After I got the new part installed and the engine running again, I cleaned the engine grease off my hands in the store with their industrial-strength soap, then waved a sad farewell to â&#x20AC;&#x153;My Knightâ&#x20AC;? as he disappeared in my rear view mirror and I hurried to choir. Of course I was late for choir but I got there. And people say they are worried about me driving so much. Ha ha ha. Any farm boy from Idaho wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even be worth his potatoes if he couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t handle a little problem like that. So this story leaves us with big questions: 1. Will Diet Coke taste the same in a new mug? 2. Do I lose or gain â&#x20AC;&#x153;Princess Pointsâ&#x20AC;? for fixing my own car? 3. What kind of industrial moisturizer do I need to use on my hands? 4. If I had swooned, do you think â&#x20AC;&#x153;My Knightâ&#x20AC;? would have caught me? 5. If I promised to feed and take care of him, do you think my husband would let me keep â&#x20AC;&#x153;My Knightâ&#x20AC;? if I was to bring him home? 6. Is it just my imagination or did the car run much better on the way home? 7. Do you think I should start to carry more duct tape and bailing wire with me in the car? 8. If the Pope found out that Sister Marilyn sold her â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nun Mobileâ&#x20AC;? to a couple of â&#x20AC;&#x153;sistersâ&#x20AC;? do you think she would not be eligible for sainthood? 9. Does this mean that I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t/shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have sex in this car? These and other important eternal questions to be answered in future chapters of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Perils of Petunia Pap-Smear.â&#x20AC;?

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