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Stonewall 40 Guest Editorial — Stonewall Inn Between. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Guest Editorial — Kate Clinton. . . . . 13 Stonewall — What a Riot!. . . . . . . . 20

Utah Arts Festival

Guide to the Festival. . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

News World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Quips & Quotes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Local. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Regional. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Qmmunity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Sports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Queer Gnosis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Snaps & Slaps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Gay Geeks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Who’s Your Daddy? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Ruby Ridge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

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Gay Tsunami Slams Obama

❝ ❝It ends up benefiting the employer. If you’ve got

You could fill 10 pages of QSaltLake with stories and essays on how upset the gays have become with Barack Obama. Where to start? What has he done that’s good? He issued a nice proclamation for pride month and he extended a few spousal benefits to federal employees’ same-sex partners — sick leave and long-term care insurance, for example, but not health coverage, which he said June 17 is not within his power. That’s the good news — all of it. What hasn’t he done? Anything about ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ anything about the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), anything about the Employment NonDiscrimination Act. He’s done nothing about any of the stuff he promised the gays before they rushed to the polls en masse last November to make sure he won that election.

Justice Department Brief

And, then, Mr. Obama’s Justice Department filed a brief June 11 in a federal same-sex marriage case that used nearly every nasty homophobic argument in the book to argue against letting gays get married. That was the straw that broke the camel’s back and unleashed a flood of harsh criticism from gay VIPs. “I hold this administration to a higher standard than this brief,” Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese wrote to Obama. “In the course of your campaign, I became convinced — and I still want to believe — that you do, too. ... (T)his brief should not be good enough for you. The question is, Mr. President — do you believe that it’s good enough for us? If we are your equals, if you recognize that our families live the same, love the same, and contribute as much as yours, then the answer must be no.” Sirius radio host Michelangelo Signorile wrote on his Facebook page: “Obama defending DOMA, throwing in the kitchen sink — every antigay argument we’ve seen for decades — which was not necessary even if they needed to file a brief. It’s a horrific and hideous attack on LGBT Americans.” National Center for Lesbian Rights Executive Director Kate Kendell on her Facebook page: “The filing by the Obama administration defending DOMA is shocking and unsettling. Clearly, our self-described ‘fierce advocate’ needs significant additional pushing and pressure from all of us.” Popular blogger John Aravosis: “A Democratic president of the United States of America, in the year 2009, and an African-American child of interracial parents no less, gave his lawyers

a sick family member who can’t afford health care, that’s going to decrease your job performance.” —Equality Utah Manager of Public Policy Will Carlson praising President Obama for extending health care benefits to the same-sex partners of federal employees

the go-ahead to compare our marriages to incest on the same day that 42 years ago the Supreme Court ruled in his parents’ favor in Loving v. Virginia. ... We demand our rights, and we expect this president, who promised them in exchange for millions of our votes and millions of our donations, to deliver. And so help me God, we will continue to hold this president accountable for his broken promises and his betrayals.” Lambda Legal’s Legal Director Jon Davidson: “What they need to be asked is why they gratuitously went out of their way to make the outrageous arguments they unnecessarily included such as that DOMA does not discriminate based on sexual orientation or that the right at issue is not marriage but an unestablished right to ‘same-sex marriage’ or that DOMA is somehow justified in order to protect taxpayers who don’t want their tax dollars used to support lesbian and gay couples (while it’s apparently fine to make lesbians and gay men pay the same taxes but be denied the benefits provided heterosexual couples). ... I am seething mad.” Top Clinton aide Richard Socarides: “It had such a buckshot approach to it, a veritable kitchen sink of anti-gay legal theories, that it seemed expressly designed to inflict maximal damage to our rights. Instead of making nuanced arguments which took into account the president’s oft-stated support for repealing DOMA — a law he has called ‘abhorrent’ — the brief seemed to embrace DOMA and all its horrific consequences.” Equality California Executive Director Geoff Kors: “ We ... call on President Obama to order the Justice Department to file a supplemental brief reversing its position and instead urging the repeal of DOMA.” National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Executive Director Rea Carey: “The malicious and outrageous arguments and language used in the Department of Justice’s marriage brief is only serving to inflame and malign the humanity of same-sex couples and our families.” Gay writer Dan Savage: “If this shit is ‘fierce advocacy,’ Mr. President, we’ll take benign neglect.”

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CBS News: “The anger from gay rights advocates toward President Obama is starting to boil over.” The Wall Street Journal called Solmonese’s letter to Obama “scathing.” The New York Times editorialized: “The Obama administration, which came to office promising to protect gay rights but so far has not done much, actually struck a blow for the other side last week. ... If the administration does feel compelled to defend (DOMA), it should do so in a less hurtful way. ... There was no need to resort to specious arguments and inflammatory language to impugn same-sex marriage as an institution.”

March on Washington

Plans apparently are shaping up for a gay March on Washington in October, spearheaded, it appears, by veteran activist Cleve Jones, the man who created the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. “The President is in serious danger of motivating a huge mass of gay people to stream into Washington for the simple joy of standing in front of the White House and giving him a piece of their minds,” wrote syndicated gay columnist Wayne Besen. “For what seemed like forever, Democrats told us that when the big bad Republicans went away, our lives would improve,” Besen said. “Well, the Republican nightmare is over, so why do I still feel like I’m in the middle of a political Friday the 13th movie? ... As far as I’m concerned, if the donkeys can’t deliver now, they can kiss my ass.”

Federal Employee Benefits

On June 17, when Obama “delivered” to federal employees a smattering of spousal benefits, via issuance of a “memorandum,” he did again denounce DOMA. “I think we all have to acknowledge this is only one step,” the president said. “Among the steps we have not yet taken is to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. I believe it’s discriminatory, I think it interferes with states’ rights, and we will work with Congress to overturn it. We’ve got more work to do to ensure that government treats all its citizens equally, to fight injustice and intolerance in

❝ ❝Who would’ve thought it would be in Salt Lake City? They were just ready here. And I think there is something to them [the members of the South Valley Unitarian Universalist Society] feeling like outsiders in the culture of Salt Lake City that made them have a different way of looking at me being different than the normal minister.” —Rev. Sean Dennison, a transgender man and minister of SVUUS, telling the Salt Lake Tribune about becoming the church’s minister seven years ago.

❝ ❝I suppose there is little one can do to change the Festival, after all, so many enjoy trolling Washington Square for new meat, and really, who am I to judge? So let’s just enjoy it. One weekend of drunken debauchery seems worth throwing away an entire year of work furthering the cause.” —SLCC Globe (Salt Lake Community College’s newspaper) columnist Spencer Nitz, a gay man, criticizing the Utah Pride Festival.

❝ ❝The University of Utah was well represented and had the most boisterous and enthusiastic marchers compared to its peers, Westminster and Utah State, who also took part in the event.” —Student blogger “PRAY4POW” writing about the Utah Pride Parade on RedThread, the University of Utah’s blogging and community Web site, and talking up the U’s Pride float.

all its forms, and to bring about that more perfect union. I’m committed to these efforts, and I pledge to work tirelessly on behalf of these issues in the months and years to come.” Obama also expressed support for the Domestic Partners Benefits and Obligations Act. “Under current law, we cannot provide same-sex couples with the full range of benefits enjoyed by heterosexual married couples,” he said. “That’s why I’m proud to announce my support for the Domestic Partners Benefits and Obligations Act, crucial legislation that will guarantee these rights for all federal employees. I want to thank Rep. Tammy Baldwin, who is behind me somewhere — there she is, right there — for her tireless leadership on this bill and in the broader struggle for equality. I want to thank Sen. Joe Lieberman — Joe is here — as well as Susan Collins for championing this bill in the Senate, and Rep. Barney Frank for his leadership on this and so many other issues.” Sounds good, but gay activists weren’t impressed. They want action. “We commend President Obama and his administration for taking this beginning step to level the playing field but we look forward to working with him to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, overturn ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ and guarantee the entire American workforce is free from discrimination,” said HRC’s Solmonese. The Associated Press said, “His (Obama’s) critics — and there were many — saw Wednesday’s incremental move to expand gay rights as little more than pandering to a reliably Democratic voting bloc.” Lambda Legal Executive Director Kevin Cathcart: “While ending any of the discrimination against gay and lesbian federal employees is a welcome step, today’s ... announcement falls far short of our hopes and expectations. President Obama clearly understands how important it is for people to have health insurance coverage to protect their loved ones and this plan does not provide that. Lambda Legal is representing Karen Golinskii, a federal employee who works for the judicial branch and who is seeking health insurance coverage for her same-sex spouse. A federal judge has already issued an administrative decision in that matter, concluding that, within the existing rules, the federal government can choose to provide health insurance for same-sex partners. We think they should. ... The day is long past for incomplete, piecemeal fixes that leave hard-working families uninsured and struggling.” People For the American Way President Michael B. Keegan: “Today’s presidential memorandum is a very small step in the right direction, but it’s a token, and tokens are no longer enough. DOMA stands in the way of real progress for same-sex couples now denied federal recognition and protection, and its repeal is long overdue. President Obama has a unique ability to provide

the moral leadership to ensure that all Americans are treated equally under the law, but so far he has failed to exercise it. We urge the president to live up to his own rhetoric about being a ‘fierce advocate’ for gay and lesbian Americans. Taking action on his pledge to repeal DOMA would be worthy of the vision that he held out to Americans during his campaign.” NGLTF’s Carey: “This presidential memorandum today will extend some selected protections to the same-sex partners and families of federal employees. ... This memo is one building block toward full equality, and much more remains to be done in order for the administration to live up to the promises of equality the president made as a candidate on the campaign trail. ... We also call on the president to take additional steps that will have a positive impact on our health, our livelihoods and our families’ safety that do not require legislative action. These include reversing the standing policy of the U.S. Census Bureau to manually un-marry any same-sex couple who lawfully states they are married on the 2010 census [the AP reported June 19 that this is now a done deal], extending employment protections to federal employees based on gender identity, and reversing the regulations that continue to throw roadblocks in the way of HIV-positive individuals who want to travel to this country.” NCLR’s Kendell: “The policy announced today by the president committing to a federal workplace free from discrimination is a step in the right direction but inadequate and long overdue. It leaves out millions of Americans who do not work for the federal government and fails to include key benefits including health insurance. When running for office, then candidate Obama called equality for LGBT people a ‘moral imperative.’ We will continue to demand this administration live up to the president’s promise of achieving ‘full equality for the millions of LGBT people in this country.’” The language is strong and the front is unified. The White House clearly is listening, but when will our “fierce advocate” act? Writing on his house.gov Web site June 16, gay U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, DColo., said: “I am a proud Democrat, as are many in the LGBT community, and I believe we must hold our leaders accountable. The Obama Administration made a huge mistake in the DOMA brief. If they keep making mistakes like this, they risk losing the support of the GLBT community forever, although I do not believe we are at that point yet. President Obama needs to honor his promise to repeal this ... hateful and divisive law. As the New York Times editorialized yesterday, ‘busy calendars and political expediency are no excuse for making one group of Americans wait any longer for equal rights.’”  Q Assistance: Bill Kelley

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Utah Common Ground Initiative Goes on the Road Equality Utah has begun its promised series of Town Hall Meetings around the state to increase public awareness around the Common Ground Initiative. Leaders are hoping that gay people and their allies will attend the meeting closest to them to help organize locally.

Initially the statewide gay rights group created the initiative as a set of four bills and one state policy change aimed at securing rights for gay and transgender Utahns. Touching on such things as fair housing laws and inheritance rights for same-sex partners, the Common Ground Initiative debuted during this year’s general legislative session. However, none of its bills reached the Senate or House floors for debate. Since the end of the session, Equality Utah has broadened the focus of the initiative to target businesses and local and municipal governments as well as the state legislature. The group is also in the process of hiring a new executive director to replace outgoing Mike Thompson. Lawn signs are also available for a $5 donation through the group’s Web site at equalityutah.org. The meeting locations and times are:

Taylorsville, Utah

Taylorsville Library 4870 South 2700 West, Taylorsville, UT 84118 July 16, 6:30 to 8 p.m.

Sandy City, Utah

Sandy Library 10100 South Petunia Way (1405 East), Sandy, UT 84092 July 20, 6:30 to 8 p.m.

West Valley City, Utah

West Valley Library 2880 West 3650 South, West Valley City, UT 84119 July 21, 6:30 to 8 p.m.

Park City, Utah

Park City Library 255 Park Ave Park City, UT 84060 July 23, 6:30 to 8 p.m.

Ogden, Utah TBA

For questions about the Town Hall Meetings, e-mail Lauren@equalityutah.org or call 801355-3479.

Cleve Jones’ March on Washington Call Receives Praise, Criticism In his speech at the Utah Pride Festival called on gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans to march on Washington, D.C. on Oct. 11 to demand federal protections. In doing so, he became the latest gay and transgender rights leader to support plans for a march in the nation’s capital. And while many people have met this call with excitement, not all gay and transgender leaders agree that it is a good — or even a workable — idea. Activist Michael Petrelis has criticized the proposed march on his blog the Petrelis Files. While Petrelis did not name Jones, he did criticize other parties who have called for the march — including the Courage Campaign (which produced several controversial internet ads against Proposition 8), San Francisco gay youth leader Kip Johnson and New York City gay leader Corey Johnson — for deciding on the march’s date and route without asking for the public’s input. “To recap: We’ve had no open meetings with march organizers, they’ve announced no plans for such meetings, it’s been decided we’re going to D.C., the date for it, the route of the parade, our single demand, and how the organizing committee will supposedly be structured,” Petrelis wrote on June 7. “I guess the only thing left for me, and thousands of other LGBT persons, to do is to get our poor ass to D.C. in October and be ready to act as spear-carriers in the grand opera being planned by our elite leaders.” Commenters on Petrelis’ blog also expressed concerns that the march route currently being discussed (from Union Station to the Lincoln Memorial) was too long to accommodate thousands of marchers, and whether the Lincoln Memorial would be free on the date marchers wanted. Since then, Jones has reported that march organizers have secured a permit. “We put in a request for the West Lawn of the Capitol, where the Obama inauguration took place, and we got it. Nobody else had applied for it,” Jones told blog Joe. My. God on June 12. He also noted that he knew the organizers of a breast cancer awareness rally scheduled to be held at the National Mall on the weekend of the march, and expected their support. Jones also said the march would keep costs to a minimum and have only a stage, sound system and portable toilets for the crowd. “This will be a two-hour march, then a two-hour rally, and then send everybody home to their congressional districts to organize for 2010,” he said. National organizations such as the Human Rights Campaign and the LGBT Task Force have responded coolly to calls for a march. Joe. My. God. posted the following statement from Task

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on June 7, Grand Marshal Cleve Jones Force Executive Director Rea Carey: “National marches can certainly have a community-building impact when energized participants return to their hometowns and get involved, but in an economic downturn — when resources are extremely limited for individuals and organizations, and critical work remains to be done locally — focusing on grassroots organizing at home is all the more critical. To make change, to be part of making history, one need go no farther than our own hometowns, our own dinner tables, our own places of worship, our own statehouses.” The blog also posted a statement from Joe Solmonese, executive director of HRC: “As we understand it, the purpose behind the call for a march is to organize grassroots representation from every congressional district in the country and encourage people to organize in their home districts. We encourage such efforts, but believe that organizing doesn’t need to wait until October, in fact, it can begin today.” Jones disagreed. “It’s just an endless state by state, city by city, county by county battle that could go on for decades at enormous cost,” he told Joe. My. God. “But if we could shift our focus and seize this historic moment and get federal legislation, get [the U.S. Supreme Court on our side], we could end it all at the federal level. People in leadership seem so invested in an incredibly long, local level, deeply impermanent struggle.” Other organizations praised the planned march, including Affirmation: Gay and Lesbian Mormons, a support organization for former and active gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender members of the LDS Church. In a statement issued June 18, Affirmation endorsed the 2009 March for Equality. “As the largest and oldest organization representing LGBT Mormons, we regret the actions of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to attempt to restrict the freedoms, rights and dignity of gay Americans and to try to impose the religious tenets of one faith upon all citizens,” wrote Affirmation Executive Director David Melson in a letter to organizers. “We feel that we have an obligation to speak out.” The statement also pledged to help with organization or to provide speakers if organizers so requested. It also noted that Affirmation took part in the 1979 March on Washington. The 2009 March for Equality’s Web site, nationalequalitymarch.com, consisted of only one page until late this month. On the weekend of June 20, organizers added testimony from a number of prominent gays and lesbians encouraging Americans to participate in the march. Lt. Dan Choi, an Arabic translator

and Iraq War veteran fired from the U.S. Army for publicly admitting he is gay, encouraged veterans of all races, orientations and ages to join the march to demand a repeal of the military’s ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ policy. “The ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ policy is immoral. It forces our soldiers to lie and hide for fear of being fired,” he wrote. “It infects our families, communities, churches, teams and units with the poison of half-truths, deception, fear and terror. No soldier serving our country in harm’s way deserves this crippling poison. Our country and its values are compromised every day this law stays on our books.” Other posters encouraged people to join the march to fight against the current illegalization of gay marriage in a majority of states and against the Defense of Marriage Act, which allows states not to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states or countries. Gay and transgender rights activists have recently criticized the Obama Administration’s Department of Justice for writing a brief defending DOMA, in which incestuous and child marriages were used to argue against legalizing same-sex marriage. Self-described “stay-at-home mother” Jennifer Rinkenberger protested this brief in her contribution to the site. “It isn’t so hard to understand how the schoolyard verbal abuse of LGBT youth, with taunts of ‘faggot’ or worse persists, when the Department of Justice can legally equivocate incestuous relationships with my 12-year monogamous relationship without so much as a whimper from the White House,” she wrote. Jones noted that the time in which such a march could be effective was drawing quickly to a close. “It’s so clear that Obama and the Democratic leadership are turning their backs on us. If we don’t go for it now, we’ll get nothing. It’s beginning to smell a lot like Clinton,” he wrote, referring to former President Bill Clinton’s signing of DOMA in 1996.  Q

Idaho Hot Spring Denies Lesbians Family Pass Lava Hot Springs is facing criticism for denying a lesbian couple and their foster children a family rate for entrance into a pool at the Idaho attraction located in the town that shares its name. Earlier this month, Amber Koger and Jeri Underwood took their three foster children to the pool and hot spring resort. There they said staff denied to sell them a $20 family pool pass because they didn’t fit the definition of a family. The couple has legal custody of the children, who are their nephews and niece. “We’re a family. We live together. This is our family and she [one of the staff] said, ‘No it doesn’t work that way. A family is a mom, dad and children.’ I was like are you kidding me?” Koger told Local News 8, an Idaho news program. Eventually, staff sold Koger a family pass for her and her nephews, but she had to pay a separate rate for her partner and niece. She said that the experience confused the children. “The 5-year-old asked, ‘Why did she say that, why aren’t we a family?’ And we had to explain to him that we are a family,” she said. “Not everybody accepts our lifestyle and that’s fine, we deal with that everyday, but don’t put our family down in front of the kids,” Underwood added. At the time the women made a com-

plaint. Mark Lowe, executive director of the Lava Hot Springs Foundation, the state-run entity overseeing the springs, noted that Idaho defines marriage as the union between a man and a woman. He also said that the foundation, which lacked an explicit definition of its family policy, would discuss the incident at its June 18 board meeting. After that meeting, the foundation updated the springs’ Web site, lavahotsprings.com, to include its family pass policy. It states that passes are available to adults who have “longterm legal responsibility for dependant children” and their spouses. Single parents are also eligible for the discount, as are individuals who are raising their younger siblings and single or married individuals raising foster children. Because the state runs the springs, Lowe also said that the facility has to abide by state law, which prohibits gay marriage. The state’s chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, however, said that the state does not have a legal definition of a family. Lowe also said Lava Hot Springs may discontinue the family discount pass because of this incident. The springs’ board of directors is expected to make a decision about the passes by the end of the month.

Anti-Gay Evangelical Preacher Marches in Boise Pride Parade For a number of years, various faiths, including several Christian denominations have marched in Gay Pride parades around the world to show their support for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. But shortly before Boise, Idaho’s Pride Parade, an evangelical Christian said that he had entered a float for an entirely different purpose: to show that homosexuals can change their sexuality. Tom Munds, a member of Canyon Springs Christian Church in Middleton, Idaho, told the Idaho Statesman on June 17 that he was joining the parade to show revelers that “We’re all sinners and Jesus loves us all.” “I just want to share that message,” he said. Munds said that parade organizers permitted him to enter without any question. He planned to hang a banner from his float featuring the URL of an

ex-gay Web site, out of which he also hoped to distribute water bottles. Brian Weatherhead, the president of Boise Pride, however, told Munds that one of the parade’s sponsors was already in charge of distributing water bottles. When asked why Boise Pride let Munds into the parade, Weatherhead said that the organization did not restrict anyone from participating, so long as they behaved non-violently. “He isn’t advocating hate speech, and as long as he is peaceful and nondisruptive, he’s welcome,” said Weatherhead. Sen. Nicole LeFavour, the state’s only openly lesbian legislator, told the paper that while Munds had the right to express his opinion, she was disappointed to hear that he had joined the parade. “I’m sorry that this group feels that we can’t have one place and one day that we could be ourselves and feel safe,” she said. Munds said his church was the first with an “oppositional” view of homosexuality to march in the parade, which has been going on in Boise for the past decade. The parade and other Pride festivities were held Saturday June 21 in downtown Boise without incident.

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Lava Hot Springs’ FAMILY DISCOUNT PASS POLICY Intent: The family discount is intended to help families afford the day out at a swimming pool or hot pool facility that they may not otherwise be able to afford. It is also intended to increase attendance at the facilities midweek when business is typically slower. Therefore, the discount is available Monday– Thursday except major holidays: New Years Day, Memorial Day, Fourth of July and Labor Day. Eligibility: In order to be as consistent as possible, families that are eligible for the discount are considered to be parents and children. The children must be dependant children of the parent, or parents, present at the time of entry, and under the age of 18. For the purpose of this discount, parent is defined as the person who has long-term legal responsibility for the dependant children. Discussion: The children need not be biological offspring of the legally responsible adult(s). Adopted children and foster children are considered part of the family so long as the stipulations listed above are met. Parents are defined as those adults who are either legally obligated to the care of the dependant children or are married to the adult who is the parent of the dependant children. Single parents and their children are eligible for the discount. Adults who are raising their siblings are eligible for the discount.

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Q mmunity Lisa Allcott for Council Local gay and transgender rights activist Lisa Allcott has announced her candidacy for the Avenues District 3 Salt Lake City Council seat. At the end of the month, her supporters will hold a fundraiser party for the Democratic candidate at the home of Rick and Natalie Moldover. Snacks and drinks will be provided.

Bastian Snubs Democratic Fundraiser Local gay philanthropist Bruce Bastian, a prominent Democratic Party donor, will not be atending the June 25 Democratic National Committee fundraiser in Washington, D.C. because of lack of action by the Obama administration on gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues. In fact, he no longer plans to donate anything to the Democratic Party as a whole. Bruce Bastian “I will continue to support certain congressmen, congresswomen and senators whom I believe will continue to fight for our rights,” he told the Washington Blade. “But I don’t think blanket donations to the Democratic Party right now are justified, at least not in my book.” Bastian said the recent brief filed by the Department of Justice was the “tipping point” in his decision not to attend the fundraiser. He e-mailed the DNC on June 17 saying he will not be attending the event “because of the remarks on DOMA.” He found the filing “very offensive.” “The administration has said they have to support the federal government’s stance,” he said. “But in the brief, they go way beyond where they need to go to just defend DOMA. They basically go to terminology and language that you would expect from the Bush administration, not the Obama administration.” Gay ad lesbian activists across the country have decried a brief written in part by W. Scott Simpson, a holdover from the George W. Bush administration and member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. “The LGBT community raised a lot of money in support for Obama, and, I think he has to have the courage — well, not just him — but, I think the Democratic Party now has to have the courage to fight back, and when they do, they’ll have my support,” Bastian said. Bastian said he may be compelled to change his mind on the donations and his attendance if there were action on passing hate crimes legislation in the Senate and movement to repeal DOMA and “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”

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Utah Pride Parade Winners Awarded Winners of the best floats in the Utah Pride Parade were announced at a ceremony at the Utah Pride Center Tuesday, June 16. Second- and third-place winners received their trophy at the event, and first-place and overall winners will be handed out at a Pride Thank You dinner on June 27. The traveling “Toast of Pride” trophy was delivered to Club Try-Angles and presented to David Willeitner, who was in charge of the design and execution of the float, which featured cutouts of people of all the colors in the rainbow as well as club regulars and staff. QSaltLake teamed up with Club Jam and won top honors as Best Overall Float with our red-bedecked float with staffers, Bud Boys and Girls and DJ Tidy dancing to tunes in the rain. Parade coordinator Logan Brueck said this year’s parade entries went above and beyond any previous year. He noted that there were 78 entries, making it still the second largest in Utah behind the Days of ’47 Parade. His goal is to eventually become the largest parade in the state and expand the parade route.

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Here is the full list of winners for 2009 Pride Parade:

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Righteously Outrageous Twirling Corps of Salt Lake City 2nd Queer Utah Aquatic Club 3rd Wells Fargo

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1st Wooden Roses of Utah 2nd Salt Lake City PFLAG 3rd Anchor Blue

Emcee Award — Best Over All QSaltLake/Jam

Summer Square Dancing Temple Squares, a gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender-friendly square dancing group, will hold “A,” the first of its three summer ABC dances, this month. Singles, couples and people of all skill levels are invited to attend. Comfortable clothes (such as jeans and a T-shirt) and comfortable shoes or boots should be worn. Each of the three nights are designed to teach different calls — or dance steps. Experienced dancers and callers (the person who announces the steps) are also welcome. When: June 25 7–9 p.m. Where: The Columbus Center, 2531 S 400 E Info: Ross Lopton at ­slcsquaredancing@gmail.com

2009 Utah Pride Survey The Utah Pride Center is asking attendees of this year’s Utah Pride Festival to take a survey to let organizers know what was liked at the festival and what attendees would like to see in coming years. Those who take the online survey will be entered into a drawing for prizes including a round trip pass on Jet Blue Airlines, hotel stays, and a bed and breakfast getaway. To take the survey visit utahpridecenter.org.

So. Utah to ‘Bust’ AIDS The Tri-State HIV/AIDS Task Force, which offers free HIV testing on the second Saturday of every month in St. George, is inviting people to a Pizza & Beer Party at the home of Claudia Bradshaw to “Bust” HIV/ AIDS. The event will begin at 6 p.m. with a social hour. A guest speaker from the Aid for AIDS of Nevada will speak at 7 p.m. WHEN: Saturday, June 27 WHERE: 853 Harrison, St. George INFO: 435-673-3356

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A data table released by two Columbia University professors indicates that Utah has been slower to accept the idea of gay marriage than all other states. The dataset was assembled by Jeff Lax and Justin Phillips, and posted on political analysis Web site FiveThirtyEight. com by Columbia statistics and political science professor Andrew Gelman. The two men analyzed responses on national opinion polls about gay rights collected from 1994 through 2009 and made predictions on how support for gay marriage would increase in the future. “In the past 15 years, gay marriage has increased in popularity in all 50 states,” wrote Gelman in the post, dated June 11. “No news there, but what was a surprise to me is where the largest changes have occurred. The popularity of gay marriage has increased fastest in the states where gay rights were already relatively popular in the 1990s.” These states, Gelman noted, were California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont, where support for gay marriage barely surpassed 30 percent of those surveyed in 1995. Gelman said that, in 14 years, support for gay marriage in these six states had jumped by about 20 percent. “In contrast, support has increased by less than 10 percentage points in the six states that in 1995 were most anti-gay marriage,” Gelman wrote. These states are Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Utah. After seeing the data table put together by Lax and Phillips, Gelman said he was “stunned” to find that favorable opinion of gay marriage was increasing more slowly in some states rather than moving towards a common number in all states, a statistical observation referred to as regression to the mean. “But that’s not what’s happening at all,” he said. To explain the data, Gelman suggested several ideas, including the idea of a tipping point — that is, more gay, lesbian and bisexual people come out as their home states become more accepting of gay rights. And as more gay, lesbian and bisexual people come out, straight society’s acceptance increases as more straights realize they have gay friends, family and colleagues. “Conversely, in states where gay rights are highly unpopular, gay people will be slower to reveal themselves, and thus the knowing-and-accepting process will go slower,” Gelman observed.

In studies conducted independently by the Salt Lake Tribune, the Deseret News and statewide gay rights group Equality Utah earlier this year, over 50 percent of Utahns were found to both know someone who identified as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. All three polls also found that a majority of Utahns — in some cases well over 50 percent — supported basic protections for gay and transgender people, including workplace and housing non-discrimination laws and hospital visitation rights. Gelman also noted that politics may play a role in the statistics. “As gay rights become more popular in “blue states” such as New York, Massachusetts, California, etc., it becomes more in the interest of liberal politicians to push the issue,” said Gelman. “Conversely, in states where gay marriage is highly unpopular, it’s in the interest of social conservatives to bring the issue to the forefront of public discussion. So the general public is likely to get the liberal spin on gay rights in liberal states and the conservative spin in conservative states. Perhaps this could help explain the divergence.” In Utah, often referred to as the most conservative-leaning state in the Union, this latter model would seem to bear out. Nearly every gay-related bill put forward in the past decade, from 2004’s constitutional ban on gay marriage to 2009’s Common Ground Initiative, has been a reaction to legislators’ attempts to curtail legal protections for gay and transgender Utahns. The Common Ground Initiative was a set of four bills that sought to give gay and transgender Utahns such protections as inheritance rights and workplace non-discrimination protections. Three failed in committee and one, the most controversial bill which sought to strike the constitutional ban on other forms of civil partnerships, was withdrawn by its sponsor to give the other bills a better chance. Gelman encouraged further study of the questions raised by Lax and Phillips’ findings. On the subject of gay rights he suggested examining such things as survey responders’ age and religion and noting in which groups opinions “are changing the fastest.” “To study the “tipping point” model, we could look at survey data on ‘Do you know any gay people?’ and ‘How many gay people do you know?’ over time and by state,” he said. “To study the role of

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politics, we could gather data on the involvement of state politicians and political groups on gay issues.” ”I’m sure there are lots of other good ideas we haven’t thought of,” he concluded. Commenters on the post came up with some possibilities. “It’s simple social influence,” wrote a poster using the name Jeff Sherman. “Influence spreads through a population exponentially. As the proportion of supporters increases, the numbers of people knowing supporters increases. That’s how social influence spreads. Doesn’t have to be a tipping point — just standard accumulation of influence.” Poster “nikip5555” also noted that support for gay marriage reflected a shift among gays, lesbians and bisexuals unseen 15 years ago, when the idea of “marriage for same-sex couples [seemed] unachievable.” “What you’re seeing in the numbers you’re looking at is that a lot of people who have always backed gay rights but used to say ‘why should we give a flip about marriage when job discrimination is still legal,’ or ‘marriage is a heterosexist patriarchial [sic] institution, who needs it,’ are now saying ‘yes, we support gay marriage!’ Of course, this doesn’t happen in conservative states where not many folks are concerned about heterosexism. ... It’s a shift in the priorities and agenda of the ‘movement’— nothing more — thus it is extremely unlikely to generalize to any other issue.” A few posters also commented on Utah’s poor performance. “As long as Mormons dominate the state I’d expect gay marriage to have a tough go there, though I think Mormons are surprisingly tolerant of gays,” wrote “dennisS.”  Q More information is at ­FiveThirtyEight.com.

The Utah Pride Center will present The Breast Dialogues, a one-night performance of monologues about breasts, in July. The performance, modeled after Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues seeks monologues from breast cancer patients and survivors as well as “humorous, touching, tragic and engaging stories of all genres and in any language” about breasts. Lesbians, bisexual women, transgender men and transgender women of all ages are invited to participate. The performance is supported by a grant from the Salt Lake City Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, a breast cancer research, prevention and education foundation. Info: Jennifer Nuttall at (801) 5398800 x 13 or J­ennifer@utahpridecenter.org.

Center Golf Classic Registration is open for the Utah Pride Center’s 10th annual Golf Classic Tournament, which serves as a fundraiser for the Center. The tournament will be held Aug. 30 at the Stonebridge Golf Course. Info: utahpridecenter.org

Team Try-Angles Fundraiser A gay and transgender-friendly cycling team sponsored by Club TryAngles will participate in Harmons’ MS Best Dam Bike Tour to raise money for the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Utah. Riders may still join the team, which accepts people of all skill levels, sexual orientations and gender identities. While team members must raise $250 to participate in the ride, Try-Angles owner Gene Gieber will pledge $50 to each rider. The ride will be held on mostly flat terrain in Logan, and cyclists may bike 40, 75 or 100 miles each day. The ride is fully-supported with frequent rest stops and relief wagons along the route, which travels up Blacksmith Fork Canyon. The canyon will be closed to traffic on both days of the ride. The team is also still accepting donations and hopes to raise $5,000. At press time, it has raised $4,340. When: June 27 and 28 Info: tinyurl.com/teamtryangles or Adam at teamtryangles@gmail.com.

Petition Calls for Softening of LDS Stance Against Homosexuality Reconciliation, a group of current and former members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at odds with the church’s position on gay marriage and its political activism to ban it, has launched a Web site asking the First Presidency to soften its stance. The site, ldsapology.org, includes a petition calling for an end to what it says are hurtful anti-gay policies and its involvement in anti-gay politics and fundraising. Site organizers Cheryl Nunn and Janeen Thompson of Santa Cruz, Calif. say the petition is a direct reaction to the church’s involvement in the passage of Calif. Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage in their state constitution. The site also includes personal stories of men who were counseled to submit to electro-shock and other therapies to rid them of homosexual feelings by Mormon leaders, obituaries of men and women who have committed suicide because of their sexuality and a discussion of the LDS’ call for celibacy for its gay members. Church spokeswoman Kim Farah said the church had no comment on the site. The petition reads:

“We the undersigned, in the spirit of love and peace, earnestly seek to create a climate for reconciliation between the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and gays and lesbians who have been affected by the policies, practices and politics of the Church. We recognize that issues surrounding sexuality and gender orientation are complex; that understanding of these matters has evolved, especially over the past several decades, and are continuing to evolve as scientists, therapists, theologians and others continue to explore and ponder their meaning and significance; We believe that people of good will may have differing views about homosexuality, while maintaining amicable relationships. True reconciliation requires that parties on both sides of this issue be willing to honestly examine their attitudes, behaviors (including

past behaviors), policies and practices—and be open to understanding, forgiveness (both asking for and accepting), and apology. For individuals who have suffered or been forced to watch a loved one suffer mistreatment, misunderstanding, or demonization as a consequence of the LDS church’s official policies, actions, and teachings regarding sexual orientation, we understand that true reconciliation will require rejecting redress through hostility, will take time, and be a difficult process. For Church leaders, reconciliation requires examining ways in which official statements, rhetoric, policy and practice have been injurious to gays and lesbians and their families and friends; have caused unnecessary pain and suffering, rejection, psychological and spiritual damage and even death. This

means scrupulously acknowledging such practices as “reorientation”-- reparative, revulsion, and shock-therapies; such teachings as homosexuality being an evil perversion, a condition that is chosen and changeable and one that can be overcome through fasting, prayer, sacrifice and heterosexual marriage; and using scriptures that are taken out of context, mistranslated or that are highly selective to condemn homosexuality. It also means to repudiate publicly circulated articles, essays, books, speeches, and conference addresses that have stereotyped or demonized gays and lesbians. We believe that the time is right for healing over this issue to begin, for those on both sides to manifest forgiveness, magnanimity, and especially, love. We believe reconciliation requires us to strive for open hearts and minds so that we might live together in peace and mutual respect. It is long past time for those on both sides to begin treating one another with greater dignity, respect and understanding.

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Unitarian Universalists to Host Prom for BGLT Community The Marriott Hotel Grand Ballroom will be the venue for an all-inclusive prom, with a special invite to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. The Unitarian Universalist Association is hosting “A Prom for All” Friday, June 26th from 10 p.m. to midnight. The dance, which will take place the same weekend as the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, is a welcoming event open to the local gay community of Utah. Attendees are invited to come alone, with a date, or in a group of friends. Dress may be formal, casual, or anywhere in between. Music will be provided by DJ Pauly and non-alcoholic beverages will be available for purchase. Free tickets are available from the Utah Pride Center and from the following UU congregations: Cache Valley UUS in Logan, First Unitarian Church and South Valley UU Society in Salt Lake City, and UU Church of Ogden. “We are pleased to host a prom where all people—including those who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, heterosexual, and transgender—can celebrate their

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lives as whole human beings,” says Keith Kron, director of the UUA Office of BGLT Concerns. “Our religious tradition values diversity and wholeness.” The dance coincides with UUA’s annual General Assembly, which takes place June 24–28 in Salt Lake City. A liberal religious association of over 1,000 congregations, the UUA has been a longstanding supporter of BGLT rights and marriage equality. The UUA hosted a similar dance the last time GA was held in Salt Lake City, in 1999. The prom is open to all ages, and Unitarian Universalist teenagers have played an important role in organizing the dance. GA Youth Caucus leader Will Delphia explains that “the Unitarian Universalist youth movement is proud to collaborate on this event in support of radical inclusion, queer rights and an end to oppression.” Joe Gayeski, the GA Youth Caucus’s special events coordinator adds, “We’re all thrilled to invite the Salt Lake City BGLT community to party with us.” For more information email kkron@uua.org

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1970s? Not the baths and discos, but those bagel restaurants all over New York City, where you could get soups, salads, herbal tea and, of course, bagel sandwiches. One of my favorites of these restaurants was Bageland, located at 53 Christopher St. One day I ate there with a friend, not long after my “official” coming out. We sat on an upper level, overlooking the rest of the place, and with a view of the sidewalk and Christopher Park. My friend told me how Bageland was an important former site in the gay community because it used to be the Stonewall Inn. I knew something of the riots that had taken place a number of years earlier, but I wasn’t sure where the bar actually stood. There was no real trace of it anymore. If imagining Bageland as once being a gay bar was difficult back then, it must be boggling to picture the many transitions the space has gone through. Who would think the space had started out as

a mid-19th century stable? The space was renovated into a restaurant in 1930 and had flourished for over 30 years before being destroyed in a fire in the early 1960s. The building was again revamped a few years later, and when the Stonewall Inn opened on March 18, 1967, it was the

Who would think Stonewall Inn had started out as a mid-19th century stable?

largest gay establishment in the United States. Widely believed to to have been Mafia run, Stonewall Inn welcomed the somewhat marginalized members of the gay community: transvestites, effeminate men, hustlers, homeless youth and, yes, even gay Mafia members. But also among the clientele were wealthy Wall Street execs on the DL. It’s 12  |  QSa lt L a k e  |  issue 131  |  June 25 , 20 09

rumored that some of these men were blackmailed with the threat of exposure and it’s also rumored that the local police had a particular disdain for the bar for this reason. Not because of the blackmailing, but because they received no kickback money from it. I was surprised to hear that Stonewall Inn closed shortly after the riots in 1969. It wouldn’t then be reopened as a gay bar for nearly 25 years. The block of Christopher Street where the riots took place was renamed Stonewall Place in the late ’80s by then mayor Ed Koch. The building was split into a restaurant on one side and a clothing store aptly named Stonewall on the other. Gay groups were on hand to protest the event. Not really the renaming of the street, but Koch himself. They felt he hadn’t done enough in the fight against AIDS, and found the gesture a bit patronizing in comparison. The Stonewall bar did resurface a few years later. A newspaper clipping hung on the wall of the entrance into the bar, telling of how a straight man decided to restore the landmark. Well, at least half of it. But the bar closed, once more, in 2006 when the owner lost his lease. However, almost like a serial cliffhanger, Stonewall Inn was saved by the owners of the popular gay-owned Duplex down the street. I’ve touched briefly on the rich, colorful background of this famous landmark, but we don’t always realize it even has one. As we celebrate the 30th anniversary of Stonewall, it’s interesting to know of the life she has lead.  Q

Yes, we all froze our ass off standing around waiting for the parade to begin, thanks to Utah’s unusually chilly June weather (who says climate change doesn’t exist, again?). Yes it was miserable, yes our boas were ruined and our costumes were drenched, and yes some of the floats looked a little bedraggled (You should’ve seen the sag in the plastic trim of QSaltLake/Club Jam’s entry). But when you think about it, the first stormy pride in recent memory was actually kind of a blessing. Ways in which it was awesome: 1) No scorching, skin-frying heat. 2) An excuse for cover-ups for people who complain Pride-goers show too much skin. 3) Perky nipples for those who showed skin. 4) A lack of protesters (all of three) and their tacky signs. 4) A chance to show off a sea of rainbow-colored umbrellas. 5) Good business for Café Marmalade, the only hot beverage vendor. And 6) Showing Utah that even rain can’t “stop the beat,” as Hairspray! puts it. Not a bad silver lining, huh?

SLAP: Obama’s DOMA Brief The Obama Justice Department’s brief supporting the Defense of Marriage Act, which allows states not to recognize gay marriages performed in other states is by far the most disastrous legal move in the administration’s first six months. Memo to the Chief: If invoking incest and child marriage as reasons for letting DOMA stand is being a “fierce advocate” for gay and transgender rights, please don’t ever show us what being a fierce enemy is like. We just might start thinking you only talked pretty to us queers to get our votes last November, or something.

SNAP: October March on Washington, D.C. Honoring the memory of Harvey Milk while demanding full equality from Congress and the honoring of campaign promises on DADT and DOMA from Obama? ROAD TRIP TIME!

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Orlando, after appearing at the 19th Annual Gay Days at Disneyworld, I was “sirred” twice by a cab driver and a flight attendant ... all before 7 a.m. I would have thought the brand new faux leopard Croc flats I was sporting would have thrown them off. Or that the “Gay Day” banners everywhere would have heightened their threat levels to rainbow. Usually I find mistaken identification an embarrassment or irritant. In past years I would correct quickly with “That’s m’am not sir,” and then try to lessen their discomfort. But this 40th anniversary of Stonewall, I wear the gaffe as a badge of pride. I stare them down. Even if they seem remorseful, I don’t help them through their moment. In solidarity with the unsung butch lesbians who were with the fags and drag queens at the Stonewall Riots in Greenwich Village in 1969, I have been doing my own version of butching it up. It used to be hard to find a gay NY person of a certain age who did not claim to have been at the Stonewall Riots. I am a New Yorker of that certain age, but I most certainly was not at the Stonewall Riots. In 1969 I had just graduated from a small Jesuit college in upstate New York. Insert “Class of 69” joke here. I was a member of the Gay Resistance. I was trying not to come out. Because of that resistance, I could not and then would not hear the news of gay liberation spreading upstate from Greenwich Village. Though pre-internet, the Stonewall message quickly reached upstate gays in the anti-Vietnam war, women’s liberation and civil rights movement. Before long even my little town in upstate New York had out gay activists organizing, educating and agitating. And they had the best parties. At one I met a brilliant lesbian Political Science professor, fired from her tenured job because of her anti-war activism. Hesitantly, I invited her and her partner over for dinner in the apartment that by then I “shared with a teacher friend.” While on the apartment tour, before I could point out my bedroom, she gleefully yelled to her partner,

“Here’s the fake bedroom!” Perhaps it was my cinder block bed with the Indian bedspread that tipped her off. With my don’t ask, don’t tell cover blown by my out and outrageous new lesbian friends, I slowly began to come out. First to my girlfriend at the time, to more friends and then to family. Finally, to make up for lost time, I have just grabbed a microphone and yapped about it for 28 years. Of course there had been gays and lesbian activists in the in the 1950s and early ’60s: The Mattachine Society, The Daughters of Bilitis, The Society of Individual Rights, the North American Homophile Organization. I am in awe of their courage. The rage and outrage of the Stonewall Inn fags, butch dykes and drag queens, who had finally had enough, kicked the courage of early gay activists to another level of visibility. Back in the day, only 25 percent of my generation came out before the age of 18. It was 31 percent in the generation after me. Today 57 percent come out before the age of 18. Our challenge today is certainly to transform gay visibility into LGBT action. The reaction to Prop Hates promises a new generation of rage and outrage that will pass trans-inclusive ENDA, overturn DOMA, abolish ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ and enact federal marriage equality. But just as Stonewall and the gay liberation movement came from anti-war, women’s liberation and civil rights activism, we will only succeed if we reinsert ourselves into those activisms. To pass ENDA we must be part of the labor. To overturn DADT we must work for peace. To repeal DOMA and attain marriage equality we must work with women and people of color. Think of it as Stonewall rebooted. It’s a size 14 and one-half stiletto. Today in honor of my butch forebears, I’m wearing only two items of women’s clothing.   Q

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corporate media shares culpability. Why? Kd: There are a lot of reasons this issue doesn’t get covered. First of all, some of these news outlets are concerned that any reporting on gay sexuality might offend some of their readership. Some of these news outlets are owned by large corporate entities that do a lot of business on Capitol Hill. And they think, “What’s the upside of going after a powerful congressperson?� I’ve found it’s not the reporters themselves. They’ve been wanting to report on this for many years. This film is really built on the reporting of the gay press. They’ve been trying to get this message out — to report on hypocrisy wherever it is. tW: I think the heart of your film is really summed up by Al Pacino, playing Roy Cohn in Angels in America, “The homosexual has zero clout.� In our culture, through religion and through politics we are conditioned to believe that some people are chosen to rule and others are not. Some have privilege and some do not. In our culture, if you are white, male and of certain economic standing, you have ultimate power and privilege. Until suddenly, through some quirk of whatever, you are marked as a menace. As a gay man, you must go into the closet to obtain power.

people like Charlie Crist, I’m certain, who doesn’t want to offend anyone. He’s the most bland politician ever. But there are rumors out there, so he has to vote against the way he really wants to vote. Again, that’s the importance of the media. For a long time, people thought the media will give us a pass on this hypocrisy, so I’ll be able to pull off a career in the closet. But now, with the discussion going on around this film, I think a lot of people are going to rethink that. tW: What have been your reactions to the recent coverage of the Mark Foley and Larry Craig scandals?

Kd: They sensationalize but they don’t go deeper. I conceived of the film before either of the Foley and Craig reports, so I was interested to see how the media would cover these stories. But I was surprised that they didn’t go deeper. The issue of hypocrisy was very rarely approached with Larry Craig. One of the reasons Mark Foley isn’t in the film is because, for the most part, he voted pro-gay. He wasn’t a hypocrite.

‘When george W. Bush came into ofďŹ ce, the gay escort business spiked dramatically.’

Kd: That’s a very astute observation. People are brought up to be Republican before they know they are gay. When I interviewed everyone in my film I was astounded, because they all said they wanted to go into politics by the time they were in first grade. They are being groomed by their families to take over their father or grandfather’s seat in Congress. And suddenly they find out they’re gay. So they box it off. They treat it like any other political problem and they choose to live their life in the closet. I think there are two kinds of politicians. Some like Charlie Crist, who I think is very comfortable with who he is sexually. And then you have others, perhaps like Larry Craig, who thinks it’s wrong every time he does it. tW: These politicians are willing to viciously go on attack against people who are just like them. Kd: It’s a political calculation, too. The closet is perhaps their greatest vulnerability and they’ll do anything to protect it. This is how the closet contorts the American political system. You have

tW: The thing that struck me as I was listening to the Larry Craig audio — is that this was a sting operation targeting gay people. And that is something that we don’t talk about.

Kd: You are absolutely right. He was flirting. There is nothing illegal about flirting. It shouldn’t have happened.

tW: Are there other politicians that you wanted to explore but didn’t have enough information?

Kd: We looked at a number of others, but we couldn’t get enough to be certain about having them in the film. What we did encounter was a great deal of fear in talking to sources. I would get on the phone with a source, talking about a certain representative, and they would want to talk, but when I would call them back, they wouldn’t want to do it. They were afraid of repercussions.

tW: Has there been resistance from people like Charlie Crist? Have you had any official responses or challenges from people who you are featuring?

Kd: Ed Koch said he was “outraged by Outrage.� I was very appreciative that he mentioned the name of my film twice in his response. Q

Outrage is currently playing at the Tower Theatre. Podcast the entire interview at queergnosis.com.

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eaches, there are a few things

so controversial in our community that one dares not bring them up in mixed company. No, I’m not talking about fisting, anonymous group sex or the bizarre names lesbians call their dogs. I’m talking about something far more shameful. Namely, who gets to speak on behalf of our community? It sounds like a simple question, right? But the issue of who represents our diverse demographic, interests and political goals rarely gets discussed out loud. I think it’s hurting us, and in some forum, somewhere, we need to hash it out. Ask 10 different “leaders� in Utah’s GLBT communities what “our� goals are. What are our short term objectives? What’s our long term goal? Where do we want to be five, 10, 20 years from now? Will shoulder pads for women ever come back? Chances are you will get 10 completely different, rabidly passionate answers, depending on their personal objectives. “Well, Ruby, I won’t be happy until I can marry my boyfriend in the temple wearing my grandmother’s wedding dress and ass-less chaps.� Or another might say, “I would be happy with a civil union and the legal rights that come with them.� Or someone else might say, “I simply want to be left alone.� These individual views are all completely valid in their own right, but ... and as you all know, I always have a big BUT (wait... that didn’t come out right); we live in an interconnected, speedof-light and media-saturated age that doesn’t deal well with nuance or ambiguity. And that’s where we run into message problems. If the local media is going to run a formulaic story on gays and lesbians, chances are it’s going to have an attention-grabbing headline designed not to educate and inform, but rather to inflame opinions and generate traffic on the media’s Web site (best bets — include the words Mormon, gay, schools, Buttars, Miss California or any combination therein). Because of decreasing attention spans, space constraints and tight budgets in newsrooms, most articles won’t be long-form or extensively researched. They are essentially news-

room hit-and-runs that portray us as a monolithic mass. They really can’t capture the broad context and diversity of our GLBT communities. It’s no wonder, then, that Valerie Larabee, as executive director of the Utah Pride Center, ends up being the default poster child for everything gay. The media has her number on speed dial, so any GLBT story on any issue (hate crimes, adoption, marriage, school bullying, and so on), is accomplished in two phone calls. One to Valerie and the other to Gayle Ruzicka. There, throw in a rainbow flag and a Book of Mormon graphic and it’s done. Both ends of the spectrum are covered, and the reporter still has time to edit the piece on the squirrel on water skis. Well, that may work fine for the media, but it really does a number on us, and ignores all of the people in the middle (the very people we need to move legislation). Our issues are reduced to simplistic sound bites, and if Valerie ever gets hit by a Trax train, we’re screwed. Now, before you think that I am hating on Valerie, I’m not. She has a thankless job herding cats, where she has to be all things to all people and work under incredible scrutiny. I would last all of three minutes in that job before I bitch-slapped someone into a parallel universe. Anyway, cherubs, my point is this: We need to get more gays and lesbians out there in the media to tell our stories. We need to put a human face on what nonGLBT folks just see as distant, wonkish politics that don’t concern them. Yes, we need knowledgeable specialists who can throw-down on family law, employment discrimination, immigration, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, transgender issues. But equally important are the “ordinary� GLBT people who can relate to our neighbors, co-workers and family members. It may take a few awkward Rod Decker moments where he has to say, “and you are?� But in the long run, personal experiences and personal stories will be the best way to change public opinion. Something to think about, cherubs. Ciao!  Q

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Niko is finally starting to put simple sentences together. This is both good and bad. It’s good because he can now communicate with us better — telling us when he’s hungry or declaring his love for various family members. But it’s bad because he can talk back and voice his opinion (like deeming the quite-ripe peach he was eating recently as “disgusting”). We’re just grateful that he’s stopped constantly saying “mama.” Obviously it didn’t refer to his mother, it was more like “aloha.” It meant hello, goodbye, look, dog, pineapple. Everything. I am convinced the word’s omnipresence in the mouths of babes has led to its use by nearly every language in the world to refer to the female parent. And not the other way around. It’s also the bane of every father’s existence. And it’s made all the worse by a surprisingly large, often older female population that believe dads are clueless custodians of their children, forced to fumble through a morning alone without the guidance and support of a mom. I think part of the problem stems from women being the primary caregivers of children for millennia. Maybe hearing a kid yammer “mama” when it’s alone with dad triggers some sort of instinct that causes them to proactively offer advise or commentary to complete strangers. You would seriously be amazed at the comments dads — straight and gay dads — alone with the kids get. I was clued in to this phenomenon when my son, Gus, first moved in with us. There was this dad at the gym with whom I became friendly. One morning he told me he was going to give me a little advice: be prepared, he warned, to have total strangers assume you are an incompetent idiot incapable of caring for your own child. Say what? Every Saturday morning this guy took his kids to breakfast to give his wife some time to herself and to give himself some time with the kids. On one of the first breakfast Saturdays, the waitress brought their plates, then turned to my friend and asked, “So, do you want me to cut the kids’ meat for you?” He didn’t know how to answer, but finally mumbled that he had it under control. My favorite personal experience happened at an airport. Gus and I were travur son

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Ignore them — Our friends Peaches and Herb (sadly nicknames given to them by Kelly that stuck) are in the process of becoming dads to two beautiful little boys. Recently, Herb and the baby were running some errands. The baby kept saying “mama” over and over. Eventually an older lady stopped and said, “I bet you can’t wait to get home to let mom take over!” Herb silently put the baby in the car and drove off.

Be nice but non-committal — Another trip through airport security with both boys found me trying to get Gus’ shoes back on, Niko in the stroller, and schlep our bags. The guy behind me offered, “Hey, buddy! Where’s your back up help?” I laughed and replied, “At home, where we’re heading.”

Shock and awe — A social worker friend of ours told us about two guys with whom he had placed a baby. One day at the grocery story, a nice older man asked “where’s mom?” and one of the guys snapped. “Mom’s in rehab! My homosexual lover and I have adopted this kid. Got a problem with that?”

I remain amazed at the number of people who freely offer their sympathies to me for being stuck with the kids. I love my kids, I like being with them. And I’d wager most other dads out there feel the same. So I’d humbly like to suggest a Father’s Day gift from everyone out there to all the dads in the world. The next time you see some guy out alone with his baby, look the kid squarely in the eyes and ask, “Can you say Daddy?”   Q

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then shouldn’t Swailes be making the Also they are the anti-Christ. case for never letting two people with And pedophiles. And bes- matching genitalia be alone together? tialiacs (I don’t know if that’s And how do amputees fit into all of a word and while I could probably do this? a Google search and find an official equally enlightening is his explaterm for “one who practices bestial- nation of how homosexuality is pedoity,” no thanks, I just ate). philia. “What is pedophilia?” he asked. how do I know homos are all of “It’s when your deception is Adam these things? Because I watched Min- and Adam, Eve and Eve, and you’re ister Leroy Swailes testify before the going to look into the eyes of a child Washington, D.C. Board of Elections and you’re going to tell a child that and Ethics on June 10. No, I wasn’t sex is between Adam and Adam, Eve actually there, I saw it online. Now, and Eve, you become a pedophile.” got that? Being a pedophile has there’s a lot of weird shit on YouTube, nothing to do with but Swailes really sexually abusing chilgives his all to top it dren and everything (no pun intended). swailes, who wore to do with simply tella shirt that read, ing children that ho“Lesbian, Gay, Bisexmosexuality exists. ual and Transgender Thank God Swailes Morals are Worse isn’t against Santa Than Animals,” Claus. spoke in favor of a refswailes is in the erendum proposed by wrong business. He Bishop Harry Jackshould totally be a son that would undo a professor of logic. recent D.C. law recogBecause he is wicked nizing the marriages awesome at it. of gays and lesbians but lest we miswhen they legally understand him, I wed in one of the sevshould make clear eral places they can that he isn’t against —Leroy Swailes do that now. human rights. “Evneedless to say, erybody should have people are freaking human rights. But out because if D.C. you have to be hurecognizes, say, two guys who tie the man. Human means you deal with the knot in Iowa as a legally married cou- opposite sex,” he said. ple, it can only mean the end of days. remember? Penis+penis+leg+ Or whatever. leg+leg+leg = beast. Beast = homolistening to Swailes speak is educa- sexual. Beast < human, therefore hotional, if not entertaining. I learned, mosexual < human. It’s simple math. for example, that homosexuality is a swailes ended his comment before form of bestiality. “Because a beast the council by saying, “We as a city, has four legs and one gender. If you D.C., we’ve got to realize that you’ve put two men together, they have four got to discriminate against somelegs and two penises, still one gender, thing that’s inhuman. Thank you that’s a form of bestiality,” he said. “If very much.” with a guy like Swailes on their you put Eve and Eve together, two vaginas, that’s still one gender, that’s a side, it’s hard to imagine how the antigay D.C. folks can go wrong. Q form of bestiality.” oK, so wait. If two guys are together D’Anne Witkowski has been gay for pay since they automatically change from men 2003. She’s a freelance writer and poet (beinto beast? Like the Transformers? Do lieve it!). When she’s not taking on the creeps they have to be together sexually? Can of the world she reviews rock and roll shows it just be two strangers in an elevator in Detroit with her twin sister and teaches ignoring each other? If that’s the case, writing at the University of Michigan.

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Gay Geeks THIS! by JoSelle Vanderhooft

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I’ve said this, so it definitely bears repeating: I love B movies. Unhealthily so. The trashier, campier and all around more laughable, the better. Especially if they’re the kind of B movies that aren’t trying to make some kind of “gee, aren’t I smart!” postmodern comment on B movies (trust me, that kind of thing never goes well coughcough-Snakes on a Plane-coughcough). Especially if they were made before 1990 and take themselves oh so seriously. Especially if the scriptwriting, direction and all-around execution is so bad it actually defies bad and enters the realms of catastrophic. In short: I love B movies, and I love This TV. It may be the only thing I love about this much-hyped and — in my somewhat Luddite opinion — completely unnecessary digital TV switch over. Unless losing one PBS station, channels randomly cutting out and equally random cell phone-style interference are likable things, in which case, yay progress! But I’m getting off-topic. This TV was apparently designed with geeks like me in mind. I suspected as much upon discovering the channel a few days after the exiling of all analogue signals to the salt mines (OK, I really will stop now). I flipped the station and found myself in the midst of Attack of the Puppet People, one of my favorite B movies of all time. The plot involves a lonely widower doll maker whose hobby is shrinking people down to Barbie-size and then ... um, basically holding dance parties for them and making them perform Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde alongside marionettes. Hell if I know. I just know that the acting is so wooden, everyone might as well be marionettes. Also, there’s really no attacking to speak of, unless you count some funny business with a snarling rottweiler late in the film. As far as dramatic structure is concerned, there’s really no ending, either. The truly masochistic can view the trailer here: tinyurl.com/puppetppl. At first, I thought this was all some fluke. Maybe a few months ago, whoever puts the programming for the station together looked at the schedule and went, “Oh crap! There’s a big gaping hole here. We’d better find some filler STAT! Quick, get me something so bad nobody wants to fess up to a copyright claim.” And then Daughters of Satan came on. The 1972 movie about how scary women are that Tom Selleck (mustached and looking pretty much the same then as now) would really love

to forget. Just these two things, geeky ones: lesbian whipping scene, lesbian whipping scene in the middle of a satanic prayer. OK, three things: The witches attempt to kill Selleck by drugging him, putting him in a car parked on a downward slope into a ravine with blocks of ice under the wheels. Yes, really. In the past few weeks, This TV has also aired Mars Needs Women, Frogs (about ginormous amphibians invading a posh resort), Cry of the Banshee (a Vincent Price vehicle; need I say more) and K-9000 (about a robot police dog). Of course, I haven’t watched all of these, seeing as I actually have 1) a job and 2) a desire to keep some of my brain cells functioning, but it’s nice to know that I won’t have to hunt down B movies on VHS or cheap ass DVD anymore. Oh, but lest you think that This TV is only about the bad science fiction, rest assured: It has plenty of crappy made for TV dramas as well, most of which seem to star Mary Steenburgen. Need I say more? And lest you think that the channel has only camp and shlock, I should add that it also airs episodes of The Outer Limits. The old classic ones, not the 1990s/early 2000s incarnation that was sometimes really awesome and sometimes really pathetic. And really, any station that airs Paddington the Bear for the kiddies (and geeks like me who never did grow up) can’t be entirely tasteless. Still, thank god for its tastelessness. Because while you can see a bad movie anywhere at any time, it’s hard to find that special kind of bad movie that makes you alternate between laughing and repeating “OMG, WTF” every five minutes. While I’m still unimpressed with the whole digital changeover I have to say: If This TV keeps the puppet people attacking, the lonely Martians invading and the daughters of Satan ... uhh ... pushing Tom Selleck down a ravine, then I can deal with the haphazard reception and the pixilation meltdowns. I won’t be happy about it, but I can at least deal. Want to see what’s up on This? Check out this.tv. For some reason, the movies and shows listed on the site don’t quite match up to what actually plays on Utah’s affiliate, so be sure to also consult your favorite local television guide, just to make sure that a Steenburgen vehicle iisn’t really airing during At the Earth’s Core or Scream Blacula Scream. Yes, that movie is exactly what you think it is, and yes somebody once thought this was a good idea.  Q

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by Ben Williams

Stonewall:

What a Riot!

The Stonewall Inn after the 1969 Stonewall riots.

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June 28, 1969 the natural order of the world was turned on its head while most people were a sleep. A paradigm shift took place without heralding trumpets, or even references in the national media. The day before, Canada had repealed its sodomy laws. But on that date in America, all homosexual acts were still criminal. Draconian laws prohibiting homosexuality varied from state to state and often city by city. In America’s largest city, New York, it was illegal to serve alcohol to homosexuals. Dancing with a same-sex partner was illegal. It was also against the law to not be wearing at least three pieces of gender-specific clothing that matched the sex you looked like. Homosexuals even did not have the right to congregate peacefully as guaranteed in the Bill of Rights. Homosexuals did anyway, and were regularly punished for it with official approval from the federal government down to the local mayor’s office. On June 27, 1969, there were less then 50 organizations nationally with fewer then a couple thousand members striving for gay civil rights. In the ’60s these organizations were known as the homophile movement, and were dedicated to seeking heterosexual approval. They managed to gain the support of some liberals by arguing that homosexuality should not be viewed as a criminal act but as a mental illness; homosexuals, they said, should not be beaten and jailed but referred to psychiatric professionals for treatment. The bolder of these homophile organizations also held pickets and small rallies to protest the federal government’s policies of firing gays from government jobs as security risks. All-in-all, these groups were struggling to overcome the notion that homosexuality was somehow un-American — foreign and alien to our national identity. But during the last weekend of June 1969, times were not only “a-changing,” they actually changed. Judy Garland’s massive funeral in New York City had set a somber tone among many homosexuals who sensed an era had passed. Many were also remembering the earlier brutal beating of homosexuals by New York’s “finest” at the East River pier. Some of these homosexuals were in a bar called the Stonewall Inn across the street from Sheridan Square in Greenwich Village. Many others were outside on Christopher Street and in Sheridan Square because their apartments in greater New York City were hot and muggy from the oppressive summer heat. Around 1 a.m. on Saturday June 28, knowing the bar would be packed, Detective Deputy Seymour Pine led police officers from the 1st Division and the 6th Precinct into the Stonewall Inn. Interrupting the night’s revelry, the cops n the early hours of

ordered the music turned off and called for the patrons to line up for ID checks and a check for gender-specific clothing. They then ordered the bar to be shut down. As some of the campier patrons emerged single file from the front entrance, they found an unexpected crowd of onlookers. These patrons took the opportunity to strike poses “starlet style” to appreciative whistles, shouts and applause. However, when the police wagon pulled up and officers emerged from the bar with prisoners, the mood turned somber. A few people started to “boo” the cops and others pressed up against the waiting van. The police near the wagon yelled for the crowd to move back, as “people were getting really, really pissed and up tight.” As the cops loaded the drag queens, (who weren’t wearing the requisite three gender-appropriate garments) into the van they prodded one named Tammy Novak with a billy club. Novak told the officer to stop pushing. When he didn’t, Novak started swinging. The cop then hit him in the head, knocking him to the ground. Craig Rodwell, the founder of the first gay and lesbian bookstore in America, was an eyewitness to the arrests. He later stated: “A number of incidents were happening simultaneously ... a flash of group mass anger.” The throng, now in full fury, began pelting the cops with coins and screaming “Pigs” and “Faggot Cops.” And then Rodwell shouted, for the first time “GAY POWER!” Inside the paddy wagon, another drag queen kicked a policeman in the chest, throwing him backwards while another queen opened the door and jumped out, allowing several other prisoners to escape into the crowd. An arrested teenager started kicking at a cop as the officer held him at arm’s length, and a queen mashed another officer with his high heel, knocking the cop to the ground. The queen then grabbed the officer’s keys, freed himself and passed the keys to all the arrested homosexuals behind him. By now the angry crowd had swelled into a furious mob. People were throwing bottles, cans and bricks at the police, who quickly retreated inside the bar. A kid then threw a wire mesh garbage can through the plate glass window and people began throwing lighted matches inside. The police were stunned by the crowd’s unexpected fury. Deputy Pine later stated, “I had been in combat situations before but there was never any time I felt more scared than then.” With the police barricaded in the building, the militant homosexuals were now in control of the street and “they bellowed in triumph and pent-up rage.” Wanting to beat the crap out of those they saw as oppressors, the mass of enraged homosexuals tried to smash down the bar’s door. Deputy Pine shouted at them, “We’ll shoot the first

motherfucker that comes through!” Unfazed by this threat, one group of livid men uprooted a parking meter to use as a battering ram while others tried to burn the place down. The crowd only dispersed after the arrival of police reinforcements. A newspaper article the next day simply stated “Four Police Hurt in Riot.” On the second night of the riots, thousands of faggots and dykes gathered outside the Stonewall Inn to stare at the burned and blackened building. The walls of the bar had been graffitied and now declared “Drag Power,” “They invaded our rights,” “Support Gay Power” and “Legalize Gay bars” — along with accusations of police corruption. The homosexuals were giddy over their new-found power and began halting cars going near Waverly and Christopher Streets to ask if the occupants were gay or supported gay rights. When the drivers told them to “fuck off,” the homosexuals smashed their windshields. Other militants burned trash cans and threw bottles and rocks at people who catcalled at the sight of homosexuals kissing openly on the streets for the first time in modern history. As news quickly spread of another militant homosexual uprising, New York’s Police Tactical Force units, fortified with shields and batons, poured into the area shortly after midnight on June 29 to route the angry protesters, who were now shouting slogans like “Gay Is Good.” At one point a group of campy men formed a chorus line and began doing a cancan routine in front of the Tactical Force while singing:

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We are the Stonewall Girls, We wear our hair in curls … We roll our dungarees Up to our Nelly knees … We don’t wear underwear. We show our pubic hair. We are the Stonewall Girls, We wear our hair in curls … The police charged and dispersed them. When police did manage to capture demonstrators, whom the majority of witnesses described as “sissies” or “swishes,” the rioters surged to save them. However, some of the unlucky homosexuals who were caught were beaten bloody by the police. Christopher Street and Sheridan Square were battle zones in the early morning hours. In the alleys handprints, dipped in the blood of homosexuals, began to appear with the words “Gay Power” also written in blood. The taunting of the police by militant homosexuals went on into the early hours, and by Sunday morning’s sunrise Christopher Street was calm again, but never the same. After viewing the rebellion at Stonewall, Beat poet and longtime Greenwich Village resident Allen Ginsberg declared: “You know, the guys there were so beautiful — they’ve lost that wounded look that fags all had 10 years ago.”  Q

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Guide to the

Utah Arts Festival You Gotta Have Art by Tony Hobday

The culturally-rich 33rd annual Utah Arts Festival showcases varied visual arts, vibrant musical performances, delectable food and fun, art-oriented activities for children. The arts festival is known as the biggest in the state, which is contributed to its overall event attractions, including the Fear No Film Festival, the Wasatch IronPen writing competition and the Mayor’s Artist Awards, among several others. This year, with its 137 artist booths, more than 100 performing groups and 20 culinary vendors, the festival should again draw in some 80,000 people over its four-day run. Artists from around the nation and Canada include painter Trent Call, mixed media artist Melissa Behr, photographers Jeff Beck and Greg Gawlowski, jewelry maker Margaret Regan, wood carver David Levy, sculptor Mark Breithaupt, ceramics by Brian Jensen and clay artist Kevin Frazier — just to name a very few. The Fear No Film Festival’s theme this year encourages festival guests to deconstruct the who-what-where-whenwhy-how? of each short film. From “who made this short film and does it change my experience sitting here today?” to “when does it reference and does it represent a public or personal zeitgeist of some sort?” to “how did they make it, the production itself?”, the film selection should encourage viewers to ponder these questions. Films include The Young & Evil (Who? selection), directed by Julian Breece, a drama about a defiantly promiscuous young man who finds eros in self-destruction through the roots of homophobia, faithlessness and the need for human connection; Fun with Condoms (How? selection), directed by Jay Sheldon, a comedy about a father who talks with his son about growing up; Heart in the Wound (Where? selection), directed by Lisa Kessler, a documentary about the Catholic Church sexual abuse crisis in Boston; and the fabulous local hit Vapid Lovelies (Best of Other Fests selection), directed by Frank Feldman, a hilarious comedy about two gay guys on a quest for the perfect Sundance Film Festival outfit. At the Big Mouth Café on the festival grounds is a long list of wonderful lit-

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erary artists who will share their readings, including Lynn Kilpatrick, “Fiction Mistress,” Diane Fouts, “Cherry Mouth Poet,” Mike McLane, “Jumping Morphine Poet” and Jacob Paul, “Fiction Maestro.” Also on hand at the festival is the SLCC Community Writing Center, offering workshops and performances — workshops on writing poetry, writing responsible lyrics and conducting personal interviews; interested writers may register to enter the Wasatch IronPen Literary Marathon, a 24-hour writing competition (registration closes Friday, June 26 at 6pm); community readings from local writers will also be held. Each year at the festival the Salt Lake City mayor honors artists and organizations with a Mayor’s Artist Award. This year Mayor Ralph Becker recognizes Joel Long with the Literary Arts Award, Keven Myhre with the Performing Arts Award, Heart & Soul and The 337 Project with Service to the Arts Organization Awards, and Sam Wilson with the Visual Arts Award. Joel Long is a poet and high school creative writing teacher. In 1997, he founded the Lake Effect Writer’s Conference; it has grown to be one of the largest and most distinguished high school writer’s conferences in the country. Keven Myhre is a theatre artist with over 27 years of experience — namely at the Salt Lake Acting Company — in areas including set design, costume design and directing. His directing skills have most recently been seen in The Clean House and Moonlight and Magnolias. Heart & Soul is a collection of musical performers who bring music to people in isolated circumstances, such as rehabilitation centers, prisons and homeless shelters. The 337 Project is an organization that creates art appreciation and art education in nontraditional contexts. A few of their accomplishments include the 337 Project Building in downtown Salt Lake City, the Present Tense art show at the Salt Lake Art Center and the Ur-

ban Gallery benefit for Neighborhood House. Sam Wilson is a prolific painter and professor of Art at the University of Utah. One of his most lasting artisitc contributions is his installations of the “14 Stations of the Cross” at the Cathedral of the Madeleine. A few of the musical performances taking the stage during the festival are Band of Annuals (Folk), Kate Macleod (Folk), Sister Wives (R&B/Blues), Saliva Sisters (Satire), Big Gun Baby (Pop/ Rock) and Traveler (Ethnic/World). Repertory Dance Theatre and RirieWoodbury Dance Company will also be performing. Street artists will be showcasing some fabulous street theater, such as improv rock and performance belly dance by No Blood to Spare, juggling by Marcus Wilson, Brazilian fire dance by Samba Fogo and traditional Flamenco dancing by Bien Flamenco. For all those lovely, talented kids darting through the festival is their very own Art Yard, where they can touch, make and create. They can make their own planet, comet or star in the Celestial Cave; they can make a personalized cloud in the Cloud Mountain Range; they can help build stellar spacecrafts at Spaceship Central; they can create and paint colorful butterflies under the Dancing Moose net; they can learn the art of kite-making from Japan Cultural Heritage Foundation. New this year at the festival is Steamroller Printing. Saltgrass Printmakers will demonstrate the art of big woodcut prints. Artists carve images into wood, apply ink to the raised surfaces and then print them with a 1.3-ton steamroller. How fabulous! Q

The Utah Arts Festival runs from noon to 11pm, June 25–28. Tickets are $5–7 in advance or $10 at the gate. Between noon and 3pm on Thursday and Friday, tickets are only $5. Four-day passes are also available for $30. For additional information and full event scheduling call 801322-2428 or visit uaf.org.

Utah Arts Festival Schedule Thursday June 25

2:30–3:15pm

4–5:30pm

Noon– 12:45pm

Rock’n’Roll Academy (Pop/Rock) Plaza Stage

“What?” (Selection of short films)

Paul Green School of Rock (Pop/Rock) Plaza Stage

1:15–2pm Wasatch Music Coaching Academy-Funk Band (Pop/ Rock) Plaza Stage

2–3:30pm

Fear No Film @ Library Square

“Who?” (Selection of Short Films)

3:30–4:30pm Mini Workshop: Positive Hip-Hop for Teens—Writing Responsible Lyrics

Ctr Literary Arts

5:15–5:45pm Absolute Pravda

6–7pm Off Broadway Theater Improv

Fear No Film @ Library Square

Earth Garden Stage Pop/Rock

Big Mouth Café Stage Literary Arts

4:30–5pm

5:30–6pm

6:15–7pm

Lynn Kilpatrick Big Mouth Café Stage Literary Arts

Hector Ahumada

The Underpaid Professors

Big Mouth Café Stage Literary Arts

Festival Stage Jazz

Lou Borgenicht

5:45–6:30pm

Big Mouth Café Stage Literary Arts

Michael Dowdle

Red Rock Hot Club

Plaza Stage

5–6pm

4–4:30pm

Mini-Workshop: Personal Interviews, Personal Narratives

6–7:30pm

3:45–4:30pm Fictionist (Pop/ Rock)

Joel Long Literary Arts Big Mouth Café Stage

5–5:30pm

SLCC Comm. Writing

Plaza Stage Jazz

Best of Other Fests (Short films) Fear No Film @ Library Square

6:45–7:30pm Park Stage Jazz

6:45–7:15pm Al Lampkin City & County Stairs Street Theatre

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Please join us for the 10th annual Utah Pride Center Golf Classic Sunday, August 30, 2009 Stonebridge Golf Club Please register online at www.utahpridecenter.org $110.00 per person registration MUST be received by August 14th Sponsorship opportunities available! Contact Marina at 801-539-8800 x 20 Join us for more fun

Friday, August 28, 2009 for a Party on the Patio Club JAM (751 N 300 W) ~ $10.00 per person Food, Prizes, and Entertainment ~ All proceeds benefit the programs and services of the Utah Pride Center The Utah Pride Center is a community-based organization that provides support, education, outreach and advocacy for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer individuals and their allies, through programs, services and resources.

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Utah Arts Festival Schedule Continued from page 22

7–7:30pm Guy Benson Earth Garden Stage Folk

7–7:30pm Amie Tullius Big Mouth Café Stage Literary Arts

7–8pm

10–11:30pm

7:15–8pm Kate MacLeod (*Heart & Soul Performer) Plaza Stage Folk

7:30–8pm Deseret Tribal Dance City & County Stairs Dance

8–8:45pm Kate LeDeuce & The Soul Terminators Park Stage R&B/Blues

8–9pm

5–5:30pm

8–8:30pm

2–2:30pm

Felicia Olivera

Scimitar Dance Co

Stella by Starlight

Big Mouth Café Stage Literary Arts

The Round Street Theatre

5–6pm

8–9:30pm

Earth Garden Stage Country/Western/ Bluegrass

Plaza Stage Pop/Rock

Friday June 26

Plaza Stage

Celtic

1:15–2pm Theta Naught Plaza Stage Pop/Rock

Mini-Workshop: Utah Short Shorter than Short: Film of the Year Writing MicroCompetition Fear No Film @ Library Fiction

5:30–6:30pm

Doug Wintch Band 2–3:30pm

Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company

8:30–9:30pm Park Stage Folk

Festival Stage Dance

8:45–9:30pm

5:45–6:30pm

Amphitheater Stage Country/Western/ Bluegrass

Charley Jenkins

Marvin Payne & the Seed “When?” (Selection Gifted 8:45–9:30pm Plaza Stage of Short Films) Folk Oh! Wild Birds

2:30–3:15pm Stereotype Plaza Stage Pop/Rock

3:30–4:30pm

6–6pm, Sat 6/27

Plaza Stage Pop/Rock

Wasatch IronPen Literary Marathon 9–9:30pm and Ultramarathon The Lab Dogs (*Heart & Soul SLCC Comm. Writing Ctr Literary Arts Performer) Earth Garden Stage

8–9:30pm

SLCC Comm. Writing Ctr Literary Arts

Utah Short Film of the Year Competition Fear No Film @ Library Square

8pm

3:30–4:30pm Parents’ MiniWorkshop: Write Your Way through Parenting SLCC Comm. Writing Ctr Literary Arts

6–7pm

Street Theatre

Off Broadway Theater Improv

9:45–11pm

Big Mouth Café Stage Literary Arts

Infamous String Dusters

6:30–7pm

Festival Stage Country/Western/ Bluegrass

Terence Hansen (solo)

Composer Earth Garden Stage Pop/Rock Commission for Chamber Orchestra 3:30–4:30pm 7–7:30pm Kids’ MiniFestival Stage Desert Gypsy Classical Workshop: DaDa Dance Co. Poetry--Playing with 8:30–9:30pm City & County Stairs Words Street Theatre Abraxas Amphitheater Stage Pop/Rock

SLCC Comm. Writing Ctr Literary Arts

7–7:30pm Rachael Marston

8:45–9:30pm

3:45–4:30pm

Jeremiah Maxey & The Bad Habits

Gabriel

Big Mouth Café Stage Literary Arts

Plaza Stage Classical

7–8pm

Plaza Stage Pop/Rock

9:15–10pm Big Gun Baby Park Stage Pop/Rock

9:30–10:15pm Samba Fogo

10–11pm The Soul Survivors Amphitheater Stage R&B/Blues

10–11:30pm “How?” (Selection of short films) Fear No Film @ Library Square

4–5:30pm

SLCC Comm. Writing Ctr Literary Arts

Saturday June 27

“Why?” (Selection of short films)

10–11pm

4:30–5pm Radius

Amphitheater Stage Ethnic/World

Earth Garden Stage R&B/Blues

10–11pm

4:30–5pm

Festival Stage Pop/Rock

Park Stage Folk

Big Mouth Café Stage Literary Arts

Diane Fouts

Fear No Film @ Library Square

Saliva Sisters

Band of Annuals

10:15–11pm

The Round Street Theatre

Salsa Brava

10–11pm

Community Reading: Shorter than Short--Micro Fiction

4–4:30pm

Iris Moulton Big Mouth Café Stage Literary Arts

Multi-cultural Storytelling for Kids: Nino Reyes

Square

2–3:30pm

Fear No Film @ Library Square

2–3pm

SLCC Comm. Writing Ctr Literary Arts

The Round Street Theatre

Al Lampkin

Festival Stage Jazz

10:15–11pm

6–7:30pm Country/Western/ Kids’ MiniBest of Other Fests Bluegrass Workshop: (Short films) Someone 9:30–10:15pm Fear No Film @ Library Mentioned—Visual Square Samba Fogo The Round Art and Poetry

8–8:30pm

Kristie Arnold Jazz Ensemble

Street Theatre

Red Bennies

Jazz

1:15–2pm

Fear No Film @ Library Square

Community Reading: Personal Noon-12:45pm Interviews. The Wailing Personal Narratives O’Sheas SLCC Comm. Writing Ctr Literary Arts

5–5:30pm

“Where?” Marcus, Funny Man Jazz Commission (Selection of Short Who Does Tricks Band City & County Stairs Festival Stage Films)

7:15–8pm

Elizabethan Report Plaza Stage Pop/Rock

No Blood to Spare The Fabulous Flinderns (*Heart & Roaming the Festival Grounds Soul Performer) Park Stage Country/Western/ Bluegrass

7:15–8pm John Henry Plaza Stage Jazz

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SLCC Comm. Writing Ctr Literary Arts

Square

2–3:30pm

Literary Arts

5:30–6pm

Plaza Stage Ethnic/World

Literary Arts

Sara Caldiero-Oertli 8:30–9:30pm Big Mouth Café Stage Zivio Ethnic Arts Literary Arts

5:45–6:15pm Cori Connors (*Heart & Soul Performer) Earth Garden Stage Folk

6–7:30pm “What?” (Selection of short films) Fear No Film @ Library Square

Amphitheater Stage Ethnic/World

8:45–9:30pm Afro Omega Plaza Stage Ethnic/World

8:45–9:30pm Mana Poly All-Stars Park Stage R&B/Blues

9–9:30pm

Classical

Pizzicato Strings & Company

6:15–6:45pm

Samba Fogo

City & County Stairs Ethnic/World

City & County Stairs Street Theatre

2:30–3pm

2:30–5:30pm Magic Century The Round Street Theatre

3–3:45pm

Bien Flamenco

6:30–7:15pm Two and a Half White Guys Plaza Stage Ethnic/World

Beehive Statesmen 6:45–7pm Chorus Great Basin Street Festival Stage Band Vocal/Choral

3:30–4:30pm Parents’ MiniWorkshop: Write Your Way through Parenting SLCC Comm. Writing Ctr Literary Arts

3:45–4:15pm The Fuller Boys / Rootbeer Reunion Earth Garden Stage Country/Western/ Bluegrass

4pm

Festival Stage Jazz

7–7:30pm Alex Caldiero Big Mouth Café Stage Literary Arts

7–8pm

4:15–4:45pm Pizzicato Strings & Company

City & County Stairs Literary Arts

7:45–8:15pm Pacific Generation

8–9pm

Noon-12:45pm

Festival Stage Dance

5–5:30pm

Festival Stage Ethnic/World

10–11pm That One Guy

Magic Century City & County Stairs Street Theatre

3–3:45pm Slim Chance & His Psychobilly Playboys Festival Stage Country/Western/ Bluegrass

3–4:30pm “Why?” (Selection of short films)

Earth Garden Stage Ethnic/World

4–4:30pm Harold Carr Big Mouth Café Stage Literary Arts

4:30–5pm Mike McLane Big Mouth Café Stage Literary Arts

4:45–5:45pm

Park Stage Pop/Rock

Repertory Dance Theatre

10–11pm

Festival Stage Dance

The Diamond Xperience Amphitheater Stage Pop/Rock

10–11:30pm “Who?” (Selection of Short Films)

Sunday June 28

4:30–5pm

4:45–5:45pm

Traveler

7:30–8:15pm

The Round Street Theatre

Big Mouth Café Stage Literary Arts

10–11pm

Plaza Stage R&B/Blues

City & County Stairs Ethnic/World

Rebecca Lindenberg

The Round Street Theatre

SLCC Comm. Writing Ctr Literary Arts

Composer Park Stage Ethnic/World Commission for Chamber Ensemble 7:30–8pm Library Auditorium No Blood To Spare Classical

9:30–10:15pm

Fear No Film @ Library Community Square Reading: DiverseCity Writing 10:15–11pm Jake Dreier Trio Series

Zion Tribe

2:30–3pm

No Film @ Library Cool Hand Lucarelli Fear Square Trio (*Heart & Soul 3:45–4:15pm Performer) Earth Garden Stage Revideolized

Big Mouth Café Stage Literary Arts

Children’s Dance Theatre

Festival Stage Folk

Fear No Film @ Library Square

6:45–7:30pm

Mini-Workshop: Wasatch IronPen John Flanders & 8:15–8:45pm Beat Brain Block: Winners Reading at Double Helix Festival Stage Get Started Writing James Shook & The Big Mouth Stage Jazz SLCC Comm. Writing Ctr Big Mouth Café Stage Resolutions

“Where?” (Selection of Short 6–7pm Films) Off Broadway Fear No Film @ Library Theater Improv

Street Theatre

Haun’s Mill Massacre

5–6pm

Noon-12:45pm Ben Johnson Festival Stage Pop/Rock

1–2:30pm

5–5:30pm Jacob Paul Big Mouth Café Stage Literary Arts

5–6pm Mini-Workshop: Does it Have to Rhyme?: Playing with Poetry SLCC Comm. Writing Ctr Literary Arts

5–6:30pm “How?” (Selection of short films) Fear No Film @ Library Square

5:30–6pm

1:15–2pm

Lenny Pickett with Guitarras Latinas the Crescent Super Festival Stage Folk Band

Folk

5:45–6:30pm Ken Critchfield’s Seraphim Plaza Stage Jazz

Earth Garden Stage Pop/Rock

Off Broadway Theater Improv

2–3pm

Big Mouth Café Stage Literary Arts

Melissa Bond

8–9:30pm

Big Mouth Café Stage Literary Arts

Utah Short Film of the Year Competition

Multi-cultural Storytelling for Kids: Tommie St. Cyr SLCC Comm. Writing Ctr Literary Arts

Teresa Jordan Big Mouth Café Stage Literary Arts

7:15–8pm Gross National Product Plaza Stage Jazz

8–8:45pm Blue Haiku Festival Stage Folk

8–8:30pm Harry Lee & the Back Alley Blues Band Amphitheater Stage R&B/Blues

8–8:45pm Sister Wives Park Stage R&B/Blues

8–8:45pm Blue Lotus Dance Collaborative The Round Street Theatre

8:30–9:30pm Deborah Coleman Amphitheater Stage R&B/Blues

8:45–9:30pm M. Sartain Plaza Stage Pop/Rock

9:15–9:45pm Zentherstick Earth Garden Stage

New Age

9:15–10pm Laserfang Park Stage Pop/Rock

9:30–10:15pm Samba Fogo

9:45–11pm

8–10pm SLCC Comm. Writing Ctr Literary Arts

7–7:30pm

Big Mouth Café Stage Literary Arts

2–2:30pm

Wasatch IronPen Judging

Park Stage Pop/Rock

The Round Street Theatre

Festival Stage Jazz

AJ

Andrew Goldring

Joe Totten

“When?” (Selection 5:45–6:15pm Charley Simmons of Short Films) Earth Garden Stage Fear No Film @ Library Square

6:45–7:30pm

6–7pm

6:30–7:15pm Salt Lake Capoeira The Round Street Theatre

Ruthie Foster Amphitheater Stage R&B/Blues

9:45–11pm Vieux Farka Toure Festival Stage Ethnic/World

10:15–11pm TR Ritchie Plaza Stage Folk

More information about the Utah Arts Festival can be found at their Web site at uaf.org

Q A&E Gay Agenda Active Voices of Our Allies

Plushgun, see July 2

by Tony Hobday

An update on areas of my personal life: I quit smoking a while back, but have since started again because I have as much self control with not smoking as dogs do with not sniffing butts; I recently chopped my shoulder-length hair off, and now I look like Elder Chaz Bono; someone dinged the side of my soccer-mom car and didn’t leave a note, so I called in a favor to the Salt Lake City police to put a BOLO out on any vehicle driven by iPhone-texting drivers who never use their turn signal — it had to be one of them.

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THURSDAY — Utah Arts Festival 2009: Nearly 140 artist booths, Fear No Film Festival, Utah Art Attack 5K run, poetry readings, steamroller prints, food, booze and youth art yard; with musical performances by Andrew Goldring, Deborah Coleman, Sister Wives, plus many more. Noon–11pm, through June 28, Library Square, 210 E. 400 South. Tickets $7/ adv–$10/at the gate or $30/four-day pass, visit uaf.org for more information.

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FRIDAY — On the weekend of the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, the Unitarian Universalist Association will host A Prom For All, a free dance for people 14 and older, celebrating our local LGBT community. Certainly no better reason to dance your little tukis off. 10pm–midnight, Grand Ballroom, Marriott Hotel, 75 S. West Temple. Free, but must have a ticket to attend. Contact Jude McNeil for tickets and more information at 801-5398800 ext.14. QQ Once again Club Try-Angles is turning tricks ... wait, I mean spokes to raise $5000 during the MS Best Dam Bike Tour. Well, if Ms. Ross and Brenda are going to be straddling bicycles for this fundraiser, Gene may have to actually turn tricks to raise that kind of money. Tehehe! The event also includes a tire-changing contest, volleyball and live music. Hours vary, through Sunday, Hyrum City. Visit bikeutu.nationalmssociety.org for more information.

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SATURDAY — Michael Aaron, editor of QSaltLake, lover of many Latin guys and avid nekkid camper celebrates his 46th birthday today ... I think he’s turning 46. I mean it’s hard to tell with all that gray hair and his sagging moobies. Anyhoo, I want to wish him a happy boofday and I hope his wishing willie ... I mean wishing well gives him all he desires this year.

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SUNDAY — Honestly I’m not a golf fan, but I did spend Father’s Day watching the U.S. Open with my parents ... yes, I do lead an envious life. Sufficed to say, it kept getting rained out ... I thought Mother Nature only hates Utah. Anyhoo, I don’t know if the Utah AIDS Foundation Golf Tournament will be as wet, unless of course the damn queens start shoving each other into the water hazards. That’s freakin’ hot! 10:30am, Stonebridge Golf Course, 4415 Links Drive. Registration fee $60, 801-4872323 or utahaids.org.

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TUESDAY — Twin siblings, Jessica and Lisa Origliasso, comprise the electro pop-rock duo band The Veronicas. Plus, they are both active proponents for gay rights. Tonight they’ll be bringing down the house with such smash hits as “Untouched” and “Take Me On The Floor.” 7pm, In The Venue at Club Sound, 615 W. 200 South. Tickets $15, 801-467-8499 or smithstix.com. QQ The acclaimed French documentary film Beyond Hatred is the story of a hate crime’s aftermath. In 2002, three skinheads were roaming a park in Rheims, France, looking to “do an Arab,” when they settled for a gay man instead. Twenty-nine-year-old François Chenu was beaten unconscious and thrown into a river, where he drowned. With remarkable dignity, Chenu’s family fights to transcend hatred and the inevitable desire for revenge. 10pm, Channel 7, PBS television.

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WEDNESDAY — In a new art exhibition, the series describes something or someone that embodies the characteristics and traditions that define us as a nation. Whether with patriotic pride or cautious skepticism, the contemporary artists in All American: DefinIng Ourselves in a Time of Change incorporate history, symbolism, ideology and their personal insights to explore what it means to be an American. Opening reception & BBQ, 4–7pm, exhibit runs through Oct. 31, Main Gallery, Salt Lake Art Center, 20 S. West Temple. Free, 801-328-4201 or slartcenter.org.

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tions directly through living life, free from subjective ‘morality.’” 6:30pm, SHO Utah, 4969 S. State Street. Tickets $10 at the door, 801-654-6678.

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Poseidon and the Bitter Bug By Tony Hobday

Don’t be left out! will be moved to more engaged feelings because of this song: “I got bitten by the bitter bug, and now I just can’t get enough of ill will and my own conceit. I’m weary of the world it seems.� The song is only more enjoyable with the soft, yet twangy banjo. “Ghost of the Gang� is a moving and misty song of long-lost friendships. Too often, friends drift apart and because they never forget each other, they often suffer regret for it. “So feel my hand reach across and don’t forget where we come from baby ’cause there’s truth in it.� Though Poseidon is classic Indigo Girls, with its nibbling bluegrass and boot-stomping folk-rock, there’s a little R&B thrown into the mix, and Ray experiments with vocal range and style — both of which, at first, are a bit startling — but by the end of it, it feels perfectly nice. However, it’s somewhat disappointing that Ray and Saliers don’t sing rounds quite as much — where they harmoniously sing the same lyrics at different intervals — which is a popular signature, if you well. This is the Girls’ first independentlyreleased album since 1987’s Strange Fire, and it’s pleasantly noticeable. It may be one of their more sombering releases, but it’s by far one of their most heartfelt; honesty just seeps through the speakers. It’s heard deeply in Ray’s wrenched voice in the final track “True Romantic,� a brilliant end to a beautifully expressive album. Q

July 31–august 2, 2009 Utah Rebellion utahrebellion.com

September 9, 2009 Pride in Pink: After Hours utahpridecenter.org

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June 29–Oct. 17, 2009 Utah Shakespearean Festival, Cedar City bard.org

august 7–8, 2009 Redrock Women’s Music Festival, Torrey redrockwomensfest.com

September 18–20, 2009 Affirmation Annual Conference affirmation.org

July 8–aug. 8, 2009 Utah Festival Opera, Logan ufoc.org

august 16, 2009 QSaltLake Lagoon Day, qsaltlake.com

July 18, 2009 The Breast Dialogues swerveutah.com

august 19, 2009 Equality Utah Allies Dinner equalityutah.org

July 24–26, 2009 Utah Bear Ruckus utahbears.com

august 30, 2009 Center’s Golf Classic utahpridecenter.org

October 10, 2009 National Coming Out Day Celebration utahpridecenter.org October 17–21, 2009 PWACU Living with AIDS Conference pwacu.org

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a new and honest dialogue originated. Gay and lesbian people of all ages went to the production initially with friends or alone, wondering if the show would offend their Mormon or conservative parents, and returned with large family groups opening new and accepting conversations of love and better understanding of GLBT — as well as other familial and Mormon — issues. Many non-Mormons who attended the production indicated that it given them a fuller understanding of not only the religion, but the complexities of GLBT issues when juxtaposed against it. “The play just had an amazing impact, all the while being a hilarious comedy, sprinkled with timely poignant and illuminating moments,” one audience member offered. Not only did The Passion receive tremendous audience approval and an outcry for it to return, it also received much critical praise. Scott Renshaw of Salt Lake City Weekly said, “A oneman/woman show is an opportunity either to crash or to soar, and Frost soars. But what’s truly surprising is how smartly constructed this play is.” Kelly Ashkettle of IN This Week wrote, “Thank goddess for Sister Dottie S. Dixon. Her one-woman show is a sparkling comedy featuring a wacky, 50-something Mormon woman who’s funny to a Utah audience. The production details were meticulously crafted.” Critics from the online media also praised Sister Dottie. Mike Bonifer of The Huffington Post described Dottie as “a game-changer of the highest order. The Passion of Sister Dottie S. Dixon, which chronicles her experiences as the activist Mormon mother of a gay son. Her show, a comedy with what she describes as ‘moments of poignancy,’ addresses the controversy of Sister Dottie’s stubborn refusal to accept the Mormon church’s anti-gay positions.” And, Janice Dickinson Dirt from SLC Dirt.com said, “All fuss and pretense aside, I was incredibly moved by the performance. Mormon or not, you’ll laugh, you’ll love, you’ll feel things and you’ll probably wish your own mother would do half the things Dottie does for her gay son.” The Passion of Sister Dottie S. DixonThe Second Coming will be directed by Pygmalion’s Fran Pruyn, although the original production was directed by Utah native Laurie Mecham. The show opens Oct. 2 and runs through Oct. 25, tickets go on sale August 2009 and will be available through arttix. Group rates are encouraged and available; there will be great discounts for groups on Monday and Wednesday performances.  Q

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too. I’ve infused gin, rum, tequila and whisky with different fruit, vegetables, herbs and spices; all to good effect. If you want more flavor to come out of the material faster, use a higher proof spirit like Skyy 90 or Absolut 100, both of which are stronger than standard 80 proof vodkas. You can infuse almost anything edible into alcohol, but there are a few things to keep in mind. Some of the ingredients that give up flavor the fastest include dried herbs and spices and anything hot and spicy like peppers and horseradish. Fresh herbs, flowers, and grassy and delicate produce can also start to taste like dead vegetation quickly and must be carefully monitored. Slower going are infusions of citrus peels and non-juicy fruits and vegetables. Use organic produce when possible and thoroughly wash everything first. Remove anything that has a bitter taste such as the white pith of citrus peel, stems of mint, cucumber skins, and anything woody like pits or seeds. Select a container made of glass, with a tight-fitting lid, that’s not much larger than you’ll need so there’s not a lot of

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