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Justice Ruth Bader performs another same-sex marriage Wearing her black robe with her signature white lace collar, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg presided over the marriage of Michael Kahn, the longtime artistic director of the Shakespeare Theater Company in Washington, and Charles Mitchem, who works at an architecture firm in New York.

With a sly look and special emphasis on the word “Constitution,” Justice Ginsburg said that she was pronouncing the two men married by the powers vested in her by the Constitution of the United States.

This is Ginsburg’s third time officiating a same-sex wedding. She has previously said America is ready for nationwide marriage equality.

Jeb Bush says U.S. cannot succeed if same-sex marriage wins Jeb Bush says he cannot imagine the country being successful if same-sex marriage is allowed nationwide.

“To imagine how we are going to succeed in our country unless we have committed family life, committed child-centered family system is hard to imagine,” said Bush. ““So, irrespective of the Supreme Court ruling because they are going to decide whatever they decide, I don’t know what they are going to do, we need to be stalwart supporters of traditional marriage.”

He also said that businesses should be able to discriminate against LGBT people.

“A big country, a tolerant country ought to be able to figure out the difference between discriminating someone because of their sexual orientation and not forcing someone to participate in a wedding that they find goes against their moral beliefs. We should be able to figure this out. This should not be that complicated gosh it is right now.”

Federal judge tosses lawsuit over sex toy taped to luggage A federal judge has again thrown out a gay couple’s lawsuit against United Airlines alleging that a baggage handler removed a sex toy from their bag and taped it to the outside to humiliate them.

The judge said that both TSA and United employees had access to the luggage, and the couple could not prove to a jury that the airline was at fault.

The couple was returning from a vacation to Costa Rica in May of 2011 and

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intended to allow businesses discriminate against gays and lesbians.

Americans are split on whether the U.S. Supreme Court should rule in favor of same-sex marriage, with 50 percent saying the justices should rule that gay marriage must be legal nationwide; and 48 percent saying they should not.

Gambian president will slit gays’ throats

noticed the sex toy taped to their bag as it was put onto the luggage carousel.

“I knew exactly what it was when I saw it,” Martin Borger told NBC News. “I was absolutely and utterly shocked and embarrassed and humiliated and I didn’t even know what to do at the time.”

Onlookers began laughing when they saw the bag, causing the men severe emotional trauma, according to the lawsuit.

Bridgeman speculated an airline employee went through the bag — which was closed with a simple zipper — found the sex toy, saw that it belonged to a man and decided to humiliate the owner.

United said it conducted an investigation and found no evidence to support the couple’s claim.

“United does not tolerate discrimination of any kind,” David said. “We will vigorously defend ourselves and our employees.”

The Gambia’s notorious dictator Yahya Jammeh recently intensified his anti-homosexual rhetoric, threatening to slit the throats of gay men living in the small West African nation while seeming to claim that the West could do nothing to stop him.

“If you do it [in the Gambia] I will slit your throat — if you are a man and want to marry another man in this country and we catch you, no one will ever set eyes on you again, and no white person can do anything about it,” he said.

National Security Advisor Susan Rice condemned the remarks.

“The recent unconscionable comments

by Gambian President Yahya Jammeh underscore why we must continue to seek a world in which no one lives in fear of violence or persecution because of who they are or whom they love. We condemn his comments, and note these threats come amid an alarming deterioration of the broader human rights situation in The Gambia. We are deeply concerned about credible reports of torture, suspicious disappearances — including of two American citizens — and arbitrary detention at the government’s hands,” Rice wrote.

Poll shows religious rights top gay rights for most Americans

93 of 98 Texas GOP House members sign anti-gay marriage letter

Americans are more likely to say that religious liberties are more important for the government to protect than the rights of gays and lesbians, by a 56 percent to 40 percent margin, an Associated Press-GfK poll found. Just a quarter of Americans call gay rights a very or extremely important issue to them personally, while half call religious liberties a very or extremely important issue.

But fewer Americans — just 40 percent — think most business owners should be allowed to refuse service to gays and lesbians on religious grounds. That finding goes to the heart of the significant political fallout over Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which critics charged was

The Texas House Republican Caucus released a letter reaffirming its support of the state’s long-standing ban on gay marriage, calling marriage between a man and woman a “principle that is so dearly held

by Texans far and wide.”

“This letter provides legislative support and a legal foundation for the Texas constitutional provision,” Kelly Carnal, executive director of the caucus, said in a statement.

An anti-gay marriage bill aimed at undermining a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in favor of same-sex marriage died in the Texas House as Democrats, the minority party of the state, fillibustered other bills so that it couldn’t make it to the floor before deadline.

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Legalizing same-sex marriage will kill 900,000 unborn babies One hundred university scholars, including many from colleges across the state of Utah, signed onto an amicus brief penned by the lawyer hired by the state of Utah to defend its anti-same-sex marriage laws that said, if same-sex marriage is legalized, over 900,000 abortions will take place.

“On the surface, abortion and same-sex marriage may seem unrelated,” Gene Schaerr acknowledged in a post on the Heritage Foundation Web site in advance of a presentation he made to the conservative think tank Monday. But “the two are closely linked in a short and simple causal chain.”

Schaerr claims that legalizing same-sex marriage devalues marriage and causes fewer heterosexual couples to marry, which leads to a larger number of unmarried women, who have abortions at higher rates than married women. As a result, Schaerr wrote, “nearly 900,000 more children of the next generation would be aborted as a result of their mothers never marrying. This is equal to the entire population of the cities of Sacramento and Atlanta combined.”

Schaerr, however, freely acknowledged that he had no cause-and-effect proof when asked.

“It is still too new to do a rigorous causation analysis using statistical methods,” he admitted, saying that he had found only a decline in marriage rates in states that had legalized same-sex marriage. He neglects to note that marriage rates have declined overall, including in sates without same-sex marriage.

“The brief doesn’t even attempt to say conclusively that this reduction in marriage rates has been the result of adopting same-sex marriage,” Schaerr said, though there are “theoretical reasons” such causation might occur.

When Schaerr quit his law firm last year to take the Utah case, he wrote to colleagues that he was going to “fulfill what I have come to see as a religious and family duty.” Schaerr is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A colleague leaked his resignation letter to the gay rights group Human Rights Campaign.

Schaerr led Utah’s argument that legalizing same-sex marriage would lead to lower birth rates, pointing out that some of the states with the lowest birth rates, such as

Massachusetts, Vermont and Connecticut, had same-sex marriage, and some of the highest birth-rate states, such as Texas and Utah, did not.

But the national birth rate has been declining for years, from 14.2 per 1,000 people in 2006 to 12.4 in 2013. Texas and Utah actually had larger drops than Massachusetts, Vermont and Connecticut.

Heritage Foundation Ryan Anderson, appearing with Schaerr at a press conference, went even further than Schaerr’s conclusions in alleging that “every nation and every state that have redefined marriage have seen their marriage rates decline by at least 5 percent after that redefinition, even as the marriage rates in the rest of the states remain stable.”

But, those numbers are not correct.

The national marriage rate declined to 6.8 per 1,000 in 2012, from 8.0 in 2002, before Massachusetts became the first state to legalize gay marriage. The Massachusetts rate dropped from 5.9 in 2002 to 5.5 in 2011, while Connecticut went from 5.7 to 5.5 and Vermont went from 8.6 to 8.3. But Texas and Utah, free of same-sex marriage, dropped from 8.4 to 7.1, and from 10.4 to 8.6, respectively.

Fred Sainz, vice president of the Human Rights Campaign, accused Schaerr of “cherry-picking” his statistics. Sainz claims that Schaerr is trying to switch the debate away from same-sex marriage — on which public opinion is shifting decidedly against conservatives — and toward abortion, where positions are hardened.

LOCAL SIGNERS Several Utah professors and university leaders have come under fire for signing onto the brief. Though in small type, the brief states that titles and affiliations with universities were for identification.

One hundred employees of Utah Valley University criticized President Matthew Holland’s decision to sign onto the letter, wearing rainbow ribbons during graduation ceremonies and penning an open letter denouncing him.

“All of us, including our university president … have the right to speak publicly as private citizens on controversial issues,” the educators wrote in the op-ed to The Salt Lake Tribune. “However, as the public face of UVU to the larger community,

Gene Schaerr

Holland has a special responsibility to avoid public pronouncements that would harm his ability to carry out his duties as president of a state university officially committed to ‘diversity and inclusion.’ “ Holland is a former board member of the anti-gay marriage organization National Organization for Marriage. He left the group when he was chosen as president of UVU in 2009. He is also a former BYU president and son of a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

Holland has remained silent on the controversy, and many students, including members of the university’s gay group, “Spectrum” have said he has been incredibly fair and helpful to them.

At Utah State University, over 250 students and faculty signed onto a letter demanding two signers, Richard Sherlock, USU professor of philosophy, and Kay Bradford, associate professor of family, consumer and human development, to “refrain from using your university status” to speak out against homosexuality.

“We are a research institution, so we should promote good research that is scientifically sound,” Bret Nielsen, a USU senior who drafted the USU letter, said.

“Ultimately, they used their university title to perpetuate discrimination — that’s not OK, and that’s why we wrote this letter.”

“By using your university title, you send a clear message of intolerance to those LGBTQ students, faculty, and allies,” Nielsen wrote in the letter.

Sherlock denied he had any animus toward gay and lesbian people, and Bradford said his beliefs were misunderstood.

He has since said he will have his name removed from the brief.

The U.S. Supreme Court, to whom the amicus brief was delivered, has heard arguments in the same-sex marriage cases it agreed to take and is expected to rule sometime in June. Q

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Hitting all the wrong notes: HRC decries Mormon Tabernacle Choir involvement in World Conference of Families in Salt Lake The Human Rights Campaign strongly condemned the decision by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Utah Gov. Gary Herbert for their support of and possible participation in the upcoming World Congress of Families conference in Salt Lake City later this year.

In an event in Salt Lake City, WCF conference executive director Janice Shaw Crouse announced that the LDS Church will have an official representative attend their three-day gathering this October, and that the Mormon Tabernacle Choir will perform for the conference attendees.

Crouse was joined by Pamela Atkinson, an advisor to Utah Governor Gary Herbert, who attended and spoke positively about the group on his behalf.

“There’s a global network of anti-LGBT extremists who work tirelessly to put the lives of LGBT people around the world at risk, and the World Congress of Families is its nerve center” said HRC Global Director Ty Cobb.

“By associating with WCF, Gov. Herbert and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are sending a dangerous and deeply harmful message to LGBT people and their families, and are endorsing the exportation of anti-LGBT hatred abroad. We condemn their decision to be affiliated with WCF, and strongly urge them and all Utahns to reject this despicable gathering and its message of intolerance and discrimination.”

HRC calls the World Congress of Families is “one of the most dangerous groups in America, dedicated to promoting and coordinating the exportation of anti-LGBT

bigotry, ideology, and legislation abroad.” HRC’s scathing report on the group, Exposed: The World Congress of Families, says that the organization is “laser-focused on promoting policies and legislation that puts LGBT people and their families at incredible risk.”

Labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, WCF’s first-ever international convention on American soil will take place in Salt Lake City on October 27–30 at the Grand America Hotel.

Active across five continents, WCF has organized large international “pro-family” conventions that bring together a wide range of vehemently anti-LGBT activists. From holding conferences in Nigeria focused on denying rights to LGBT people to working to silence the Russian LGBT community, WCF’s tactics have put the lives of LGBT people around the world at risk.

Earlier this year, HRC strongly condemned WCF for hiring notorious anti-LGBT activist Crouse as the executive director for their Salt Lake City conference. Crouse’s record was highlighted in HRC’s report Exposed: The Export of Hate, in which she received a dishonorable mention. In the past, Crouse urged the Ugandan government to take a “biblical and cultural stand against the radical homosexual agenda” and traveled to Russia in support of the regime’s wildly anti-LGBT legislation.

At the May 19 press event, Crouse claimed that WCF does not “mean disrespect for anybody.”

Local organizations across Salt Lake City will use the time of the conference to share messages of love, hope and inclusion. Q

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New coalition formed to shed light on all families; rejects ‘counterfeit families’ label Responding to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints speeches at their semiannual conference that some families are, to them, “counterfeit families,” and to the upcoming conference in Salt Lake City of the World Congress of Families, Restore Our Humanity has collaborated with members of the community to create the All Mark VanZeben All Families Coalition director Families Coalition.

Launched on the steps of the Utah State Capitol Building on May 12, the All Families Coalition has brought together members from a variety of diverse communities in Utah.

“Amid all the rhetoric from religious fundamentalists defining a family as one man and one woman, All Families offers the message that there is more than one way to form a family. Love is the foundation of any family, and love transcends race, gender, sexual orientation, age, and national origin,” leaders said in a statement. “The All Families Coalition will be asking families from every background to share their story with the hope of showing that every family deserves respect and recognition.”

ROH director Mark Lawrence says that the group agrees that families are the cornerstone and “fundamental unit of society.”

“It is, however, short-sighted and even myopic to assume that this ‘fundamental unit of society’ only applies to a single, narrow perspective that these so-called profamily organizations and groups affirm,” Lawrence said in a speech announcing the group. “The very policies that some of these organizations promote are the ones that harm and dismantle families. These policies cause empty seats at the family dining room table. They drive a wedge of isolation and division into families. These often lead to the destruction of families.”

Lawrence said that the ultra-conservative organizations point fingers at same-sex couples and other nontraditional families to aim blame at the failure of the American family.

“Instead of focusing on the true maladies of family breakdown, such as poverty, spousal abuse, drug abuse and domestic violence they blame the epidemic of family collapse on loving couples in same sex marriages, families who live outside of their rigid standards and of those who favor women’s reproductive rights,” he said.

All Families director Tim VanZeben said that the coalition message is that “love makes a family.”

“As it becomes more likely that marriage equality will be the law of the land, voices opposing those families have become louder and louder,” VanZeben said. “This isn’t anything new, however. This country has a history of groups who wish to narrowly define what it is to be a family.”

“Families come in all shapes and sizes, and, while they might not all look the same, Utah families all have love in common,” VanZeben continued. “Love transcends race, gender, sexual orientation, age, and national origin.”

VanZeben then announced a web site that will be used to showcase families of various kinds, allfamilies.org. He invited people to record a video describing their

family and what makes it unique. Those stories will be shared on the group’s web site.

“I hope that by showing the world how all families actually look, we can change a few minds bring those families acceptance from everyone,” he said.

Salt Lake City mayoral candidate and former Utah legislator Jackie Biskupski spoke in favor of the coalition.

“My son was born in 2009, a time when openly gay people had to carefully navigate the system to adopt successfully. My sexual orientation was well known and made adopting a child in Utah a scary proposition,” Biskupksi said. “After I brought Archie home, we rarely left the house during the required six-month waiting period before his adoption could be finalized. I didn’t want people to see me with him in public until the adoption was final.”

“Those months were some of the most rewarding, frightening, and stressful of my life. That same fear creeps in even today as I tell you this story,” she recalled.

“When organizations like the World Congress of Families, that have a reputation for anti-gay rhetoric and who are classified as hate organizations by the Southern Poverty Law Center, propose to gather in Utah we need a leader who is not afraid to engage, ask questions, and stand up for equality,” Biskupski said.

“I’m standing up today as a mom and I pray we can engage respectfully when the World Congress of Families comes to Utah in October,” she said. “But I want the people of Salt Lake City and the people of the world who travel to Salt Lake to know: it is love that makes a family and all families are welcome here.” Q allfamilies.org

Utah Pride Center to hold monthly public forums The 15 minutes allocated to public comment at the beginning of Utah Pride Center board meetings has proven to be insufficient many months, and the board has expanded the ability for public comment to a one-hour meeting on a scheduled day before each board meeting.

Meetings will be announced on the group’s website and Facebook page..

Many meetings had groups of people wanting to speak during the 15-minute window, and the board accommodated well over the allotted time at several of them. Some were left without the opportunity to speak, and often the board meet-

ings had to go long or didn’t get through the entire agenda.

Community members are still welcome to attend regular board meetings, but no public comment section will be scheduled on the agenda. The next board meeting will be held Monday, April 27 from 6 to 8 p.m. A full schedule can be found on the group’s web site.

Many board members also welcome discussion of the concerns and needs of community members outside of scheduled meetings. Q utahpridecenter.org

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9th Annual Pink Party It’s pride time and time for another Pink Party, hosted

by Hotel Monaco. The event benefits the Utah AIDS Foundation with savory food

by Bambara Restaurant Salt Lake City, delicious drinks featuring Absolut Vodka and an opportunity drawing with over 20 huge certificates. A silent auction will have prizes like 2-night stays at a Kimpton Hotel and Resport, round-trip tickets on Jet Blue, and more.

WHEN: Thurs., June 4, 5:15–8pm WHERE: Hotel Monaco, 15 W 200 South COST: Packages Start at $25 at the door INFO: bit.ly/pinkparty15

VOA’s Run for Home Lace up your shoes and run in the first annual Run for Home, a 5K and 10K run to support Volunteers of America’s homeless youth programming.

The race will start and finish at Salt Lake City’s 9th South River Park and run along the Jordan River Parkway.

This family friendly event will include course support, t-shirts, finish medals, raffles and a breakfast block party!

Run, join the party and support our new Homeless Youth Resource Center.

WHEN: Sat., June 13, 7am WHERE: 9th South River Park, 1000 West Genesee (850 South) COST: $10–35 INFO: voaut.org/funrun

11th Annual HRC Utah Gala Gala Chair Dustin Schrecengost & the HRC Utah Dinner Committee have announced the 2015 HRC Utah Gala.

From marriage to healthcare to bullying, the progress toward

protections for LGBT people is is in need of focus on how we can help those neighbors who still experience injustice.

The group is accepting volunteers to beome table captains, who are the official recruiters and promoters for the Gala. Tables seat up to 10 guests and table captains work to fill their own table or tables. As a thank you, table captains are listed in dinner advertisements, invitations and program books. Email nick.hrc.utah@gmail.com.

WHEN: Sat., June 27, 5pm WHERE: Grand America Hotel, 555 S Main St COST: $200 per ticket INFO: hrc.org/utahdinner

Third Friday Bingo in the Park for Summer The Matrons of Mayhem take their bingo out to Sugar House Park during the summer months, so you can enjoy bingo, the fresh air, and seminaked athletes playing in the grass. The queens will fire up a grill and party in the Fabian Lake Pavilion right beside the lake. Just as the Pioneers did, this will be a pot luck food event. The Matrons provide hot dogs with all the fixins, paper plates, napkins, utensils, and you provide the rest, such as chips, drinks, salads, deserts etc... Last year the food was crazy good. We won’t be calling any party fouls because we don’t want to spill your food, or let it get cold. This month’s charity is QUAC, so we have forced several members to show up in Speedos. We’ll take ideas on what they’ll need to do to raise dollars.

WHEN: Fri. June 19, 7pm WHERE: Sugar House Park, 1350 E 2100 South COST: $5 first card, $3/addl INFO: facebook.com/matronsofmayhem.slc

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Autism-conference speakers look to LGBT community

BY DAVID NELSON

An international autism conference might seem an unlikely place to find a discussion of LGBT matters. But, at the 2015 International Meeting for Autism Research at the Little America and Grand America hotels on May 13 through 16, some researchers and advocates are looking to LGBT people for some answers in their work with autism.

Researchers at the Children’s National Health System in Rockville, Md., and The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., led by neuropsychologist John F. Strang, Psy.D., told IMFAR participants that they convened an expert international panel to achieve consensus for preliminary guidelines in the assessment and treatment of individuals with both Autism Spectrum Disorder and Gender Dysphoria. The full guidelines were presented at the meeting with opportunities for input, and will include the perspective of individuals with ASD and GD. The guidelines were developed using the results of three studies that showed that an overrepresentation of ASD among individuals with GD has been reported with rates of almost 1 in 10 individuals with GD meeting the diagnostic criteria for ASD, too. There is also evidence that gender-identity issues are more common among individuals with ASD. These results confirm other studies from the last few years.

University of Utah doctoral student Bradley Bloomfield presented a review of research on which he was the lead author and which also confirmed the results of previous studies which, while “very limited,” showed a likely connection between ASD and GD at “a much higher rate.” Further studies have been recommended.

Beyond research, comparisons to LGBT people were made

by autistic speakers themselves.

Autism advocate and author John Elder Robison (who began his first of several careers as a sound- and technical-effects engineer for concert musicians including KISS and Pink Floyd) described his life as “an Aspergian” during an IMFAR pre-conference keynote speech where, as a scholar-in-residence at the College of William & Mary in Virginia, he compared the developing autistic movement to the LGBT and civilrights movements, saying that “the movement for neurodiversity in college, particularly our program at William & Mary, has many parallels with gay rights.”

“In the ’70s, a fellow grew up gay, and he could not tell anyone,” Robison said. “Not his parents, not his pastor, not his friends. Then, he got to a progressive college where one or two faculty members were openly gay. They encouraged students to speak out. In the space of a few years, we had gay-student groups, and people began to feel pride instead of shame. It grew and spread. It expanded laterally to include lesbian and transgender individuals. So many movements start in college.”

“One big point is this: Thirty years ago, gay people lived hidden lives with shame. Now, they are out and proud. So many autistics are today where gays were then, hiding a secret that shaped every aspect of their lives; ashamed and anxious.”

“We in the neurodiversity movement are where the gay community was then -- at the just-coming-out stage. We should look at what they did, and what civil- and religiousrights activists did before them.

It’s time for us to speak out against discrimination and marginalization, and stand up for our rights and equality! And, of course, being gay and autistic, too … that’s a whole ’nother level.” Q

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Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act

I’ve thought about where Sal wound up. On “Mad Men,” what you think is going to happen doesn’t happen, but what does happen is wonderful in a sad way. It’s never really a happy ending. But I’d like to think that Sal had a happy ending, that he does realize who he is and moves on. Unfortunately he’d have to break little Kitty’s heart, but I think she had the clues by the end of the third season. I think his mother dies too.

His Italian mother dies and it was an impetus to go, ‘You know what? I’m pretending for you, for all these other people. I’m going to be who I am.’

I imagine him walking through the West Village as Stonewall happens and getting swept up in it.”

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— Bryan Batt writing in Esquire to close the book on his character, closeted art director Sal Romano, who was written out of Mad Men during the third season

Without a doubt…

Hillary Clinton!”

—Bianca Del Rio when asked who should be the winner of this season’s RuPaul’s Drag Race

Queer history is often written as if it started June 28, 1969, the date of Stonewall. Yet, our story goes much deeper than that. A quick look and you can find some amazing things. What about Oscar Wilde [who] was sentenced to hard labor for “gross indecency”?

Or how about Magnus Hirschfeld, a gay, Jewish, left-wing occasional

transvestite, who developed the Berlin Institute of Sexual Research in 1919?

Hirschfeld had to flee Germany in the 1930s, watching as his entire library was set alight.

These sorts of stories run throughout our history.

Stories of pioneers and campaigners, and of movements that changed our society for the better.

Our history is far deeper and more varied than just what’s happened in the last 40 years.

— Simon Copland reminding people that the LGBT movement didn’t start with Stonewall

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first person

A billion shades

BY MICHAEL AARON, PUBLISHER

I woke

up the other morning realizing I’d just had a vivid and realistic dream that I was called on by an apparition of bright light to send a message to the world. I kid you not. I ran to the computer to write it down:

to see the world, I was: To be raised in privilege or disadvantage or one of a billion shades in-between; To live in luxury or poverty or one of a billion shades in-between; To be loved or abused or one of a billion shades in-between;

On the first day I took a breath in this world and shrieked my first scream, I was black or white or one of a billion shades in-between; I was male or female or one of a billion shades in-between; I had black hair or blond hair or one of a billion shades inbetween; I was gay or straight or one of a billion shades in-between; I had blue eyes or brown eyes or one of a billion shades inbetween; I was destined to be short or tall or one of a billion shades inbetween; I was destined to be skinny or obese or one of a billion shades in-between.

These are my truths. These are among the many things that make me me.

Your opinion of them means nothing.

Your approval or disapproval means nothing.

Your coaxing or pleading or demanding or wishing me to change mean nothing.

Your disdain or pride or judgment mean nothing.

These are my truths.

On the first day I opened my eyes

On the first day my blood pumped on its own, this was me.

While I didn’t have to take a hike up a mountain or use rocks to translate what I was to put to the world, I think my calling was equal to that of any other. Happy Pride! Q

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guest editorial Couple, married at the ‘Grammies,’ writes letter to LDS bishops threatening excommunication

BY TAYLOR KNUTH-BISHOP

To the Bishopric,

I have been fighting to find the words to adequately express my feelings about my potential disfellowshipment or excommunication from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and I must admit that it has been extremely difficult and heart-wrenching.

Because I feel that members of the Bishopric do not know me whatsoever–and have not taken the time to do so in my years spent within the boundaries of your ward–I will take a moment to explain to you who I am.

My name is Taylor Nathan Dakota Knuth, son of Jennifer and Nathan Knuth. I have lived in Utah all of my life, but currently live in New York City. I graduated in the top 2% of my class from high school in 2011, and Summa Cum Laude from Weber State University in 2014.

I am extremely passionate about the world of theatre. I love to create theatre in many ways through acting, singing, dancing, producing, and managing. I have three sisters, all of whom are incredibly successful in their own personal and professional endeavors. I have a nephew who lights up my world.

In August of 2011, I began my journey at Weber State University for a degree in Musical Theatre. This was also the time that I met Sean Bishop, who is now my lawfully-wedded husband. I find it necessary to explain our relationship to the disciplinary council because, after all, that is why we are having this discussion.

Sean became a quick friend for me. We attended classes together, sat on the board of the university’s theatrical production company, performed in shows, and worked together.

In January of 2012, we decided together to pursue a relationship that was more than friendship. We casually dated for a month,and in March of 2012 I introduced Sean to my family and close friends as my boyfriend. With time, my family and friends welcomed Sean into their lives as a friend, brother, son and even grandson.

On January 28th of 2013, Sean Bishop proposed to me in front of my dearest friends and family. I said yes.

On January 26, 2014, I lawfully married Sean Bishop in Los Angeles, California–along with 32 other couples on the Grammy Awards.

On September 14th of 2014, Sean Bishop and I held a small ceremony and reception for close friends and family in Ogden, Utah. Our ceremony was a spiritually-binding ceremony in which Sean and I promised to love one another for time and all eternity.

We currently reside in New York, New York, where we lease an apartment together.

We share finances, mutual living spaces and yes–even a bed. I share with Sean my greatest successes along with my downfalls, hardships, and my most interpersonal trials.

Sean Edward Bishop is the greatest thing that has ever happened to me.

On Sunday, April 26, 2015, I received a phone call from Bishop Roberts asking for my attendance at a disciplinary council hearing in regards to my status within the Church.

On the telephone Bishop Roberts repeatedly used the word “Choice” to describe his reason in calling the disciplinary council hearing, and that this choice could potentially lead to my disfellowshipment or excommunication from the Church. I have chosen to marry Sean Bishop. It was my choice to live the lifestyle I live. That was among the vocabulary used to describe my situation.

On Tuesday, April 28, 2015, I received a formal letter signed by Bishop Roberts stating; “[I] have participated in conduct unbecoming a member of the Church.”

While I no longer actively participate in the teachings of the Mormon faith, I still greatly value my foundational teachings of love, charity, kindness, hope, and faith– among others.

I do call into question this decision on the part of the Bishopric. I question the decision because I do not believe that I have “participated in conduct unbecoming a member of the Church.”

Do I love and value my husband? Yes. Do I participate in a monogamous relationship? Yes. Do I respect Sean? Yes. Do I have a spiritual connection with my husband? Yes. Do I responsibly share finances with my husband? Yes. Do I practice love, charity, kindness, hope, and faith in my day-to-day life? Yes. Do I love? Yes. Does my relationship with Sean Bishop actively demean or devalue your way of life?

The answer is No. I am not afraid of who I am or who I love in the eyes of God as I see them, nor will I deny that love. To me, Jesus preached love and acceptance–not exclusivity, perfection, judgement, or fear-mongering.

The Mormon faith has been wrong on countless occasions throughout their rocky history, both in revelations and prophecies through leadership of the church and within their own doctrine. An occasion very similar to my own would be the decision to allow people of African decent the priesthood in 1978 and allowing inter-racial marriage within the temple. Something that before

that time, was unheard of- even sinful. The Doctrine shifted through revelation, and I sincerely believe that the current interpretation of this issue is misguided. There are real dangers in this mindset of exclusion. I hold to hope and faith that revelation will provide another change in hearts and minds. Since it has happened before, then isn’t it possible that The Doctrine will shift again?

I firmly believe that this Church has come to a crossroads in regards to homosexuality.

I, along with my entire family and close friends, have chosen to stand on the side of love, equality, acceptance and celebration.

I do not believe that the members of the Bishopric (who are making this decision to single me out of a crowd of people in your congregation) is enlightened, educated or even Christlike. I also know with utmost conviction that anyone reading this would only need to look to his or her own immediate family to find at least one who identifies as something other than heterosexual in orientation. This has become an issue of family for each and every one of us.

I fully understand that the purpose of the excommunication process is one of repentance and forgiveness. Let me be perfectly clear in stating openly that I do NOT see anything in regards to my relationship with Sean Bishop that I deem necessary for the repentance process.

Am I perfect? No. Is my relationship with Sean perfect? No. We are merely two human beings who wish to create a life with each other, and yes, eventually bring life into this world to create an eternal family no different from yours. Can you honestly believe–when Sean and I die–that a loving and caring God, as we see them, would take our children from us?

Our marriage is not “Counterfeit,” our love for each other is not “Counterfeit,” and our life most definitely not “Counterfeit.”

In closing I would like to ask the members of the Bishopric to take a moment to reflect on their actions (whether intentional or otherwise) surrounding the road to this disciplinary hearing, as well as any with a similar conflict.

I would like you to take into perspective the following statistics for a moment: 1- The number one cause of death in teens and young adults in Utah is suicide.

2- Utah leads the nation in teen and young adult suicides.

3- A teen or young adult is four times more likely to attempt or commit suicide if their family, friends, or religious institution rejects or devalues them.

I was blessed in regards to my “coming out” story. I had family and friends who stood by

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Qhealth my side, accepted, understood, and even celebrated my identification of sexual orientation. My state of being.

I do, and always have, had a strong sense of self. Having a family who did not reject me, and having Sean by my side throughout my “coming out” process are the only reasons I am still on this Earth. Too many are not as fortunate as I am in this regard, and too many choose to take their own lives because of men like you and processes like this disciplinary council. too many feel excluded, rejected and devalued because of comments made in passing in General Conference, from their own family, and from men like you. Too many take a blade to their wrists, bullet to their brains, and pills down their throats to end their suffering because of something that they cannot control: a desire to live a happy lifestyle with someone of their own gender or sex.

I hope and pray to God as I see them, that anybody reading this letter can ask themselves the following: “What would Jesus do?”

Would Jesus devalue someone because they are living in a happy, monogamous relationship filled with trust, compassion, and honesty?

Would Jesus prefer that I marry a woman, have kids with said woman, and then leave said woman years later because of a lack of physical attraction?

Would Jesus prefer that I engage in unsafe sexual conduct with multiple partners?

The answer to all of the above is: absolutely not.

A truly “counterfeit” lifestyle would be to engage in a life that does not align with the being I was created to be. My true self.

Shame on you.

Shame on you for calling into question a relationship that is the cornerstone of my life–that I hold above all others. Shame on you for telling me that my “behavior” is “unbecoming of a member the Church.”

Shame on you for not honoring the promises that you made to your congregations to love, value, and respect each member. Shame on you for being so far away from the true lessons of Christ. And finally, shame on you for attacking me for engaging in a relationship that does you and the members of your congregation no harm whatsoever.

If you do not agree with Same Sex Marriage, then don’t have one. Q

Take PRIDE in your health There are

BY PETER STOKER

many different connotations of the word healthy; what it means to be healthy, how to get healthy, what healthy looks like, etc.

With June being PRIDE month, you should consider what it means to take PRIDE in your personal health.

This will look different for each individual so there are some key things to consider when thinking about your health. Let’s look at seven dimensions that create a sense of wellness.

EMOTIONAL — Depending on how you are feeling emotionally can determine how you handle certain situations and responsibilities. To be emotionally healthy means to balance sharing your feelings in a productive manner and using coping mechanisms to deal with life’s challenges. Some ways to help you become more emotionally healthy are to get enough sleep, reduce stress, see a therapist, etc.

FINANCIAL — Many people think financial health is something that they cannot consciously influence or change. If that is true there are still many options you have to become financially healthy. Some of those ways include living within your financial means, creating and following a budget and become a wise consumer.

SPIRITUAL — To be spiritually healthy does not mean that you identify with or belong to any given religion. Spirituality is generally considered to be the search for meaning and purpose in human existence. Leading you to strive for a state of harmony with yourself and others, while working to balance inner needs and being open to different cultures, religions and spiritual philosophies. Embark on your own spiritual journey to find out what gives you meaning and purpose. It will be a rewarding process and you may be surprised just how it will benefit your overall wellness.

INTELLECTUAL — This is associated with opening your mind to new ideas and experiences that you can apply to personal decisions. The desire to learn new concepts, improve skills and seek challenges in pursuit of lifelong learning contributes to your intellectual wellness. Join a club, be aware of current social and political issues, read books and journals, engage in satisfying conversation, etc.

ENVIRONMENTAL — This refers to your global environment, which includes your personal environment as well. Occupational health is an important component of this, meaning you enjoy your work in all aspects (duties, staff, culture, finance). This also refers to your individual impact on your surroundings; the ability to recognize your own responsibility for the quality of the air, the water and the land that surrounds you, the ability to make a positive impact on the quality of your environment, be it your home, your community or your planet.

SOCIAL — The ability to relate to and connect with other people in the world while being comfortable with and liking yourself as a person. You have the ability to establish and maintain positive relationships with family, friends and co-workers. Additionally these relationships can aid in the development of healthy bonding and boundary development.

PHYSICAL — This is the ability to maintain a healthy quality of life that allows you to get through your daily activities without undue fatigue or physical stress. The ability to recognize that your behaviors have a significant impact on your wellness and adopting healthful habits (routine check-ups, a balanced diet, exercise, etc.) while avoiding destructive habits (tobacco, drugs, alcohol, etc.). The physical benefits of looking good and feeling terrific most often lead to the psychological benefits of enhanced self-esteem, self-control, determination and a sense of direction. Sexual health is also included in this dimension. The sexually healthy beings accept their sexual orientation, engage in sexual relationships consistent with their values and development, and refrain from using sex to manipulate or influence others. In addition, they minimize unwanted consequences through communication and protection.

In order to have PRIDE in your health, a combination of the aforementioned dimensions of wellness must be adopted. Search ‘wellness wheel’ for more resources, information and an in-depth look at these dimensions. Q C. Peter Stoker, MPH, CHES, is a Community Health Educator and Medical Reserve Corps Coordinator at the Weber-Morgan Health Department. He works in the suicide prevention and healthy lifestyles programs of the department.

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who’s your daddy?

Pride Is...

BY CHRISTOPHER KATIS

When it

comes to being proud, I’ve always thought in terms of my own accomplishments or those of others. For example, I’m proud to have graduated from college and completed grad school. I’m proud my dad served in the U.S. Navy during World War

II. I’m proud that I won my age division in the last 5K I ran. Those are all events that I — or the person of whom I am proud — had some sort of control.

However, when it comes to attributes I possess over which I have no control, I’ve always been more weary to declare my

pride. I am not proud, after all, to be a brunette or righthanded. I just am. Since being gay is as much a natural part of me as are my hair color and my dominant hand, why would I be proud of that? With that logic, why be proud to be a gay dad?

As I thought about it, an important difference dawned on me. Sure, being gay is a natural, genetic part of me – and I couldn’t be any other kind of dad – but it’s also full of accomplishments that I’ve made only because I’m gay.

Therefore PRIDE is: BEING TRADITIONAL — It always cracks me up to hear some right-wing politician, religious leader or moral crusader talk about the assault on traditional families by gay and lesbian parents. Sure we’re a two-dad family, but that’s where our uniqueness ends. We do homework, schlep kids to sport practices and eat Sunday dinners at the grandparents just like all the other parents out there.

SCREWING WITH THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST EQUALITY — I’ve never understood why those opposed to marriage equality would base their arguments made to state legislatures and various courts on the well being of children.

(If marriage is about kids, then why are our straight, childless best friends still married after nearly 25 years?) Sorry to mess up the logic, but our kids are happy, healthy and well adjusted.

RAISING A SON WHO CALLS IT LIKE IT IS — Recently the parents of one of Gus’s friends refused to let their kid come to our house based

on their religious beliefs. Gus deemed their decision, “Just plain stupid.”

HAVING FRIENDS WHO AGREE WITH GUS — The number of people who proactively told us that they found the decision of those other parents outrageous was amazing.

The words of support from our Mormon friends reminded me that the bigots are the lunatic fringe exception.

RAISING ANOTHER SON WHO CALLS IT LIKE IT IS — Hearing something referred to as “gay,” Niko corrected, “Gay is when two men get married to each other because they’re in love.”

HAVING AN ACCEPTING, EMBRACING EXTENDED FAMILY — There is nothing that fills me with pride more than how incredibly accepting and loving my big fat Greek family is. Hell, my cousin Yvonne readily admits Kelly’s her favorite relative!

Of course, being gay has also afforded me some of those more tangible, accomplishment-based reasons to be proud. I am, for example, proud (and grateful) for the opportunity to share my experiences of raising kids in a twodad family, and to offer some insights to other LGBT parents and families, through this column and my blog (Christopher-whosyourdaddy.blogspot. com). And I am beyond proud

(and humbled) that QSaltLake readers honored me with a 2015 Fabby Award for Best Columnist. Thank you!

It ends up that being gay and being a gay dad are two of my greatest accomplishments. And I take a lot of pride in that. Q

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creep of the week

Rick Wiles

BY D’ANNE WITKOWSKI

Get ready

to hunker in your bunkers, everybody, because rumor has it that should the United States Supreme Court rule in favor of marriage equality for all, the results might be explosive!

According to Rick “End Times” Wiles, shit’s gonna blow up. Literally and figuratively.

“We are at the end of the road as a nation, and if the Supreme Court dares to defy Almighty God one more time, I’m telling you it will be the last time.

And I believe I am speaking under the unction of the Holy Spirit,” Wiles said April 30 on his Trunews show. “I’m telling you

there will be swift, sudden and devastating consequences for the United States of America.

America will be brought to its knees, there will be pain and suffering at a level we’ve never seen in this country.”

Oh, is that so? God is just saving up all the wrath to put the smackdown on America just in case gay marriage happens? So is that to say that everything else that’s been happening is just cool with Him? Because you don’t have to dig very far into a history book to see America brought to its knees, enmeshed in pain and suffering.

There’s this thing called “slavery” ... maybe you’ve heard of it. And white people in America like to think it’s over. A “whoopsie” in our past that black people should totally be over by now. Because racism is over.

Obama. Oprah. Beyoncé. Anyone who claims otherwise is just holding on to victim status. You make your own way in America, baby. Ain’t nobody gonna hand you shit for free just because your great-great-great-so-and-so picked cotton.

In fact, you don’t have to look

very far in the news cycle to see that all is not right in America, and it’s got nothing to do with a proliferation of gays and lesbians wanting to marry each other. Pick a week, any week, and you’ve got unarmed black men in this country shot, brutalized, destroyed by law enforcement officers who often go unpunished. All in a day’s work to shoot a 12-year-old. Just another day in the office to break a man’s spine.

So when Wiles laments, “The word that I hear in my spirit is ‘fire.’ I do not know if it refers to riots or looting or war on American soil or a fireball from space.

I simply know that a sweeping, consuming fire will come across the United States of America and this country will be charred and burned.”

Something tells me that this guy stays away from the “lame stream” media where you actually get a clue about what’s happening out in the world.

It is clear that this man and I do not live in the same America.

In his America, if SCOTUS makes marriage equality the law of the land, this guy is seeing “fire.” It could be a burning CVS; it could be a flaming meteorite hurling toward earth. Presumably that “fireball from space” would split into smaller fireballs on impact with the planet, and those junior fireball would seek out and find homosexers across the land as well as Ruth Bader Ginsberg.

Now, I don’t know much about “speaking under the unction of the Holy Spirit,” like Wiles is claiming, but I have heard about speaking under the influence of insanity or drugs and, judging what’s coming out of this guy’s mouth, I’m going to substitute “bath salts” for “Holy Spirit.” Because this is some straight up lunacy. Q

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lambda lore

The end of the Gay 90s

BY BEN WILLIAMS

After much

public criticism of the 1996 Utah State Legislature’s blatant invective against gay people, the 1997 legislative session was relatively calm.

An exception was Utah Senate President Lane Beattie’s defense of his vituperative colleagues. He claimed that the Utah Legislature was not anti-gay but “pro-heterosexual.” He stated, “I don’t believe we discriminate against anyone but I can say that we will do everything in its power to make sure that the ‘homo-sexual/lesbian lifestyle’ is not taught or condoned in any way in our public education system.” Talking out of the other side of his mouth he added, “we also believe that their (homosexuals’) civil rights shouldn’t be violated either.” No one believed that malarkey.

By November 1997, Salt Lake City Councilwoman Deeda Seed pushed for an anti-discrimination ordinance that included protection for all gay city employees. It was a fulfillment of a campaign promise she had made to the gay community. As chairwoman, she asked city attorneys to draft an ordinance similar to policies adopted by Salt Lake County and the University of Utah. Immediately she faced blow back from Councilman Keith Christensen, who was opposed to inserting “sexual orientation’’ in an anti-discrimination ordinance. He reasoned that “naming protected classes of people is offensive.’’

However, in December the council passed the ordinance on a 5-2 vote, which made Salt Lake City the first municipality in Utah to protect a person’s “sexual orientation” from discrimination. Those who voted for the ordinance were Tom Godfrey, Mary Mark, Lee Martinez, Deeda Seed and Joanne Milner. Those opposed were Bryce Jolley and Keith Christensen.

Upon learning the news, editors at the Deseret News went ballistic. They lambasted the Salt Lake City Council for “ramming the new ordinance through.”

November 1997 was an election year for Salt Lake City Council and Tom Godfrey, Mary Mark and Lee Martinez were re-

placed on the council with Roger Thompson, Tom Rogan and Carlton Christensen.

Jolley immediately spearheaded a move to repeal the ordinance. He solicited the newly elected councilmen Carlton Christensen and Thompson to join him and Keith Christensen in repealing the law.

Jolley said his main opposition was that it was passed by a “lame duck majority,” not that he was homophobic. As proof he said, “I love the theater and plays and movies …

I have many friends who are in that field.’’

Yes, people rolled their eyes then like you are now.

Councilwoman Milner was more forthright and said Jolley’s real motive was the fear that the ordinance could lead to benefits for the gay community including “legalize same-sex marriage.’’ Seed accused the Mormon councilmen of not being “entirely honest.”

“These men believe that homosexuality is immoral,” she said. “They won’t come out and say that. They’re hiding behind legal arguments.”

The councilmen however vigorously protested that they simply did not want to grant “special rights’’ to a new class of people.

In January 1998 the new Salt Lake City Council voted to repeal the anti-discrimination law protecting homosexual workers 4-3. In the end Jolley, Thompson, Carlton Christensen and Keith Christensen voted to repeal the law while Seed, Milner and Tom Rogan voted to retain the law. Discussions before the vote were so heated that Jolley even tried to throw some gay rights advocates out of the council meeting. University of Utah law Professor Terry Kogan said he tried to persuade several friends who work for the city to speak up but “to no avail.”

Too many were afraid that being honest would affect their employment. Kogan said that, in of itself, is discrimination. A PFLAG mother was so furious at the repeal that she vowed to “kick the bums out of office.” She stated, “They’re not leaders.

They’re moral cowards.’’

After the vote to repeal, representatives from dozens of community organizations hoped to persuade Salt Lake City Mayor DeeDee Corradini to use her veto power.

“As long as you have the veto power, you can’t run away from it,” attorney Rocky Anderson told the mayor. David Nelson chimed in, “She’s charged with protecting the integrity of the work environment for her employees. She has a responsibility. I hope she takes it seriously.” The gay community was a strong backer of Corradini in her 1995 re-election by which she won by barely 400 votes, so we were confident she would support them. We were disappointed.

Mayor Corradini met with representatives of PFLAG, NOW, UAF, the AntiViolence Project, Utah Lawyers for Human Rights, the First Unitarian Church; and the Utah Progressive NetworkEducation Fund (UPNet), a nonprofit umbrella covering more than 25 citizen groups, the Utah Women’s Political Caucus, and the Utah Stonewall Center. She smiled and listened for one hour, but the mayor’s mind was already made up not to veto the repeal.

One reason the mayor did not use the veto was from counsel from city attorney Roger Cutler, who said, “The state and

everyone else seems to manage life without having such a policy.” Corradini assured

the angry and disappointed gay activists that she would personally intervene if any one brought a complaint to her over discrimination. Yeah, right.

After the repeal of Seed’s ordinance, the council had Cutler draft a new antidiscrimination ordinance, stripping out whole sections of offending text. Inclusion of “sexual orientation,” as far as the LDS councilmen were concerned, would give “special rights” to a new class of people, the wrong sort of people. The council continued to squabble over the language of the new anti-discrimination ordinance but eventually reached an uneasy truce.

As long as the words “sexual orientation’’ did not appear in a new law, ”there will be peace” said Keith Christensen. Legal

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experts, however, declared the proposal a dismal failure, but Keith Christensen said he was satisfied.

While Salt Lake City had struggled over language, on the federal level President Bill Clinton, in 1998, signed an executive order forbidding discrimination based on sexual orientation in the federal civilian workforce and urged Congress to pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. Even Stephen Covey’s Utah-based Franklin Covey Company changed the wording of its nondiscrimination policy to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation in 1998, but the measure was too extreme for Salt Lake City.

To the south of Salt Lake City, in Happy Valley, that summer of 1998, the Nebo School District officials had ordered Spanish Fork High School teacher, Wendy Weaver not to discuss her sexual orientation to anyone, even her own family, or she would lose her job. Utah was still one

of 20 states where sodomy was a criminal offense. This law allowed Utah policymak-

ers to justify discrimination involving gay people.

When some Spanish Fork residents learned that Weaver was suing her district for discrimination, they cited Utah’s antisodomy law as a reason to have her fired.

Arguing that homosexual relationships are illegal, Weaver was therefore unfit to teach. Weavers’ discrimination suit against Nebo officials sparked a firestorm of controversy and attracted the glare of national and media attention. Eventually, after several years of putting Weaver through hell, she won not only her suit, but also the right for all public educators to acknowledge being gay without being fired.

The struggle for civil rights in Utah took its toll on the citizen activists and institutional fatigue finally claimed two powerhouse organizations. The Utah Human Rights Coalition, which sought to amplify gay voices in education, politics and public policy was dismantled when Charlene Orchard and Debra Burlington called it quits.

The Gay and Lesbian Utah Democrats also folded with David Nelson’s loss of support in the Utah Democrat Party. A few vocal

Utah Democratic leaders had actually said that Nelson should be taken to “the

woodshed” for the proverbial whacking.

The one bright spot in 1998 was the election of Jackie Biskupski to House District 30. She became Utah’s first elected openly gay representative.

The Gay ‘90s ended with one last hurrah. In 1999 the Gay and Lesbian Political Action Committee [GALPAC], ACLU, and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force promoted actions in all 50 states “to focus attention on legislative battles over gay rights.” The national slogan was “Equality Begins At Home.” Gay activists rallied on the steps of the Utah Capitol where Weaver talked about discrimination in the workplace. Dave Jones, Rocky Anderson and Jim Bradley, all Democratic Salt Lake City mayoral candidates, also spoke out against discrimination based on sexual orientation, as did Jackie Biskupski.

Despite the rally, the Utah gay and lesbian, and by now, bisexual and transgender community was waiting for new people and new organizations to carry on the fight for equality. It was time to pass the torch. We were done partying like it’s 1999. Q

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queer shift

Movement — SHIFT

BY CHARLES LYNN FROST

The gay

civil rights movement has had the greatest success in the least amount of time of any previous civil rights movement. To that, many say it’s our time, our turn, our equality, but you’ve got to admit the “movement” is challenging to keep up with, particularly when change is so utterly breakneck and breathless in speed.

The 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York’s Greenwich Village, which began when patrons at a gay bar violently resisted a police raid, are considered the flashpoint of the modern gay rights movement.

Forty plus years is a considerable length of time fighting for equality within the movement.

In 1958, the Gallup Poll asked Americans whether they approved or disapproved of marriage between blacks and

whites. The response was overwhelming: 94 percent were opposed; a sentiment that held for decades. It took nearly 40 years until a majority of those surveyed said marriage between people of different colors was acceptable.

By contrast, attitudes toward gays and lesbians have changed so much in just the last 10 years that, as Gallup reported last week, “half or more now agree that being gay is morally acceptable, that gay relations ought to be legal, and that gay or lesbian couples should have the right to legally marry.” (In 1996, when Gallup first asked about legalizing same-sex marriage, 68 percent of Americans were opposed.)

You’ve got to admit that visionary planning and processes, passage of protective laws, compounded progress from the past, present and future are astoundingly favorable for queers. The last decade has

been a whirlwind of outcome for the gays.

Who can remain fully invested, at full tilt boogie with our history changing monthly, weekly, daily, if not hourly? It’s easy to become fatigued, overwhelmed, played out and exhausted.

Remaining highly engaged, invested, constantly informed and passionate takes a personal maintenance plan to prevent burnout or, and what I am lately calling, queer weariness.

I believe we all can learn to have more control over the way we survive the constant onslaught of the movement, all the while maintaining a steady passion for it.

So here are some suggestions, tips if you would, for maintaining the passion.

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1: LIVE A WHOLE, HAPPY AND HEALTHY LIFE The kind of passion I am referring to is fueled by a wellness lifestyle.

2: KNOW YOURSELF

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One of the things that is crucial to maintaining passion throughout your life is knowing yourself. The more you know about when and where to invest your skills, abilities and talents, the more you will remain fully engaged. Know what truly drives you, and you will most certainly stay driven.

3: ALWAYS DO WHAT YOU BELIEVE IS RIGHT FOR YOU Positive, enduring passion is fueled by purity of soul, purpose, and for what’s fair and right. Know your own true North in the movement.

4: KEEP A ROUTINE THAT HELPS YOU REMAIN ENTHUSED AND FOCUSED ON THE BIGGER GOAL Figure out the daily tasks, events and rituals that help you stay on task and motivated in the movement. Also consider life balance, and just how much time you can give to the bigger, ultimate goal.

5: LEARN FROM YOUR MISTAKES, DON’T DWELL ON THEM Learn from your history’s mistakes and you won’t repeat them.

6: ALWAYS HAVE A HEALTHY ESCAPE READY AT A MOMENTS NOTICE Know what are ‘healthy escapes’ for you.

Because when the walls start to feel like they’re closing in, you’ll be glad you have a healthy haven where to run.

7: ENCOURAGE OTHERS One of the great things about encouraging another human being is that you are almost always encouraged in the process.

When you are telling someone to never give up, to keep pushing forward, there’s a part of you that is saying the same to yourself.

8: ALWAYS LISTEN BUT DON’T ALWAYS BELIEVE

It’s very easy to disregard what people say. But in doing so we can miss out on some great advice. There are also a lot of negative ideas going on all the time that are just waiting to sabotage your passion and desire to succeed. So learn to distinguish between the constructive advice and the destructive nonsense that often spews from other people’s and organization’s mouths.

9: STAY INVOLVED, PARTICULARLY WHEN YOU DON’T FEEL LIKE IT Having interaction with others and involvement in critical movement activities is a great thing. A clear mind is essential.

10: KNOW WHEN TO THROTTLE BACK Sometimes it’s just better to back off a little and give yourself a break. When you start to reach your breaking point, slow down, give yourself a physical and emotional rest. Rejuvenate, recharge, re-engage in the movement. Q

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Welcome to the Utah Pride Festival

Pride is

one of the city’s favorite festivals, with all of the color and energy and entertainment and people-watching opportunities. Now in its 41st year, this festival brings in tens of thousands of people.

And, did you see what we did there? We started the first paragraph of QSaltLake’s Utah Pride Guide with the theme of the festival: Pride is...

“With all that has happened in the last year and all that still remains to be done, we know that Pride means many things to many people,” said Jen Parsons-Soran, co-director for the Festival. “It can be about fun, love, rainbows, and so many other things. We want to celebrate and embrace that diversity, because it is a huge part of what makes the Utah Pride Festival such a great event.”

The Utah Pride Festival steering committee chooses a theme each year based on community suggestions, relevant current events and what most resonates with what the Utah Pride Festival wants to bring to the community.

The 2015 Utah Pride Festival will be held June 4–7 primarily at Washington and Library Squares in downtown Salt Lake City, from State Street to Third West and Fourth South to Fifth South.

The Interfaith Service kicks off Pride on Thursday, June 4 at First Baptist Church.

The plans for the 2015 Festival include changes to the schedule and a massive revamping of the festival grounds. The new schedule of events includes moving the rallies and marches to Friday night along with a kick-off party and opening ceremonies to follow the Grand Marshal Reception.

Also rescheduled is the Pride Day 5K Fun Run on the Parade route on Sunday morning.

A new “East Village” will utilize more space on Library Square including the Pride Stage, the art zone and kid’s area. The East Village is the place to go to find a more quiet and relaxing time.

The Main Stage has moved to help with crowd flow and offer more space for people to enjoy the performances.

There are more vendors again this year and more food options as well.

Where the main stage once was is now the Dance Stage so you can get your groove on all weekend.

This section is a pull-out so you can fold it up and bring it with you. Happy Pride! Q

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Volunteer for Utah Pride Volunteers

are what make the Utah Pride Festival happen. The massive event takes the work of over 1,000 volunteers to pull it off, including approximately 100 festival planning committee leaders.

Volunteers are still needed to help with things like crowd control, vendor assistance, set-up and take-down, etc.

The Utah Pride Festival wouldn’t happen if not for the many volunteers. An application for individuals who would like to sign up for one or more three-hour shifts during the Festival. is available at: utahpridefestival.org/participate/volunteers/

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THURSDAY, JUNE 4

Pride Interfaith Service This year’s interfaith service is hosted by Christ United Methodist Church and begins at 7 p.m., Thursday, June 4. It will be held at First Baptist Church at 777 S. 1300 East.

The Utah Pride Interfaith Coalition is a piece of Utah Pride that helps the LGBTQ community practice their spirituality without judgment. The Utah Pride Interfaith Coalition believes that each person, no matter what culture or sexuality, should honor the divinity within themselves and are capable of holiness with their spirituality. The coalition’s mission is to be able to afford resources and opportunities for the LGBTQ community to express their faith regardless of personal preference or beliefs. In 2002, the coalition started holding services, and it has been a positive spiritual outlet for many participants at the Utah Pride Festival for 13 years running.

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Janet Mock,

32, first publicly came out as transgender in a 2011 Marie Claire article before publishing her bestselling memoir Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More last December.

In April of this year, she was interviewed on the season finale of Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday, where the former PEOPLE.com editor talked abouit her experience as a transgender woman.

“I still think that for most people the most interesting part about me is my transness,” Mock said in the interview, “There is a lot of power in saying I will proudly and unapologetically embrace that part of my identity for once. The one part of my identity that I was taught growing up to be silent and shamed about.”

“To own that label and to say that it is mine and I will stand here in that complicated-ness of existing as a trans woman, I think there is power in that.”

The transgender advocate also Tweeted

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her support for Bruce Jenner after he sat down with Diane Sawyer to reveal he is transitioning from male to female. “#BruceJennerABC confirms this truth: No matter our age/path, we’re all searching for authenticity, identity, acceptance & (self-)love,” she Tweeted on April 24.

Mock penned a new article for Marie Claire in April of this year as well, where she declared that trans* women are real

am the MAC girl!’ the poster proclaimed in its unabashed glory, as RuPaul—a gay man who waved the banner of gender diversity as a glamorous drag queen in a bright blonde bouffant—took a stance as the first face of MAC’s Viva Glam lipstick.”

Mock was 11 years old then and just beginning to exert her identity as a transgender girl.

“I knew that RuPaul was not a trans

women. In the article she talked about role models who paved the way for her journey.

“The first time I remember being struck by an ad campaign was in 1994. I was browsing the cosmetics floor of my local department store in Honolulu, clutching my beloved lanyard of Lip Smackers.

Those tween-targeted balms were the only makeup I was allowed to wear at the time,” Mock wrote. “But a floor-to-ceiling poster of a 7-foot-tall glamazon in red latex widened the boundaries of beauty for me and changed my brand loyalty instantly. ‘I

woman; he donned femininity as a costume for performance,” Mock wrote.

“Still, those posters held power, offering me — and any other kid struggling with her differences — a semblance of hope for the future.

Mock now hosts So POPular! on MSNBC and is the Utah Pride Parade grand marshal. She will be honored at the Grand Marshal Reception on Friday night, June 5 on Washington Square at 6:30 p.m. Q Tickets for the Grand Marshal Reception are $50 at utahpridefestival.org.

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There were no grand marshals at Utah’s first Pride Parades, as they were actually marches from the Utah State Capitol Building.

BRUCE BASTIAN, WordPerfect co-founder and philanthropist.

1995 DR. KRISTEN RIES, the first recipient of the community service award, now named after her, was the grand marshal of the first actual Utah Pride Parade in Utah.

1996 CHASITY BONO, the child of iconic duo Sonny and Cher, now known as Chaz Bono.

1997 CANDACE GINGRICH, the lesbian sister of U.S. Congressman Newt Gingrich.

1998

2005 Openly gay Utah Sen. SCOTT McCOY. TAUNICA CRUMP AND COURTNI COATS were youth grand marshals

2006 BOYER JARVIS, Ph.D., 83-yearold human-rights activist and ally to the gay community.

2007 JOHN AMAECHI, Utah Jazz player, first NBA player to speak publicly about being gay.

2008 RALPH BECKER, mayor of Salt Lake City and members of the SALT LAKE CITY COUNCIL.

DEBRA BURRINGTON and CHARLENE ORCHARD, founders of the Utah Chapter of the Human Rights Campaign.

2009

1999

2010

Gay actor DAN BUTLER, “Bulldog” from the Frasier, and GARY AND MILLIE WATTS were our local grand marshals.

SISTER DOTTIE S. DIXON, a beloved character portrayed by actor Charles Lynn Frost.

2000

Actress and activist ROSEANNE BARR.

Utah Rep. JACKIE BISKUPSKI, Utah’s first elected gay woman to the state legislature.

2001 Then-Salt Lake City mayor ROSS C. “ROCKY” ANDERSON.

2002 Utah Sen. ALICIA SUAZO, wife of Pete Suazo who championed queer-rights legislation, and STEVE KMETKO, host on E! Network entertainment news.

2003 KATE KENDALL, Utah native, executive director of National Center for Lesbian Rights.

CLEVE JONES, founder of the AIDS Quilt.

2011

2012 Academy Award-winning screenwriter and activist DUSTIN LANCE BLACK.

2013 DAVID TESTO is an openly gay soccer player and civil-rights advocate.

2014 Utah marriage plaintiffs MOUDI SBEITY AND DEREK KITCHEN, LAURIE WOOD AND KODY PARTRIDGE, AND KATE CALL AND KAREN ARCHER.

What was one 3 marches stepping off seperately is now a unified “Dyke, Trans*, Sexually Fluid and Polly Rally and March” that will gather at the Utah State Capitol and march to Library Square — the home of the Utah Pride Festival.

Beginning at 6 p.m., people will gather to make signs for the rally and march.

The rally will start at 7 p.m. and will include speeches from Ella Mendoza, for the trans* rally; Dani Hawkes and Bronwen Beecher (the UTAH STATE CAPITOL Fiddle Preacher), for the dyke rally; bisexual slam poet RALLY & MARCH 300 N K Lu Quibelle and 1-t0-5 Club founder Shauna Brock for the sexually 200 N fluid rally; and Isaac NORTH Furniss and Ford CITY CREEK Neville for the poly PARK rally.

N TEMPLE At 8 p.m., the march will head down State Street, turning at South S TEMPLE Temple to Second East, and into Library Square.

Surprise perfor100 S mances will greet the marchers when they enter the Pride Festival grounds.

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Utah Pride Festival announces community award winners

Each year during the Utah Pride Festival, three awards are presented to Utahns who have served and bettered Utah’s gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and ally community. These awardees will be honored, along with 2015 Grand Marshal Janet Mock, at the Grand Marshal Reception on Friday, June 5, 2015. The event will be held on the Utah Pride Festival grounds on Washington Square in downtown Salt Lake City. Awardees will also be honored during the Utah Pride Parade on Sunday, June 7.

involvement included local events, film festivals, pride celebrations, interfaith gatherings and discussions, panels at Utah State University to inform the university community about being in the LGBTQ community, its challenges and its success. Courtney was an active and vital member of Resurrection Metropolitan Community Church in Salt Lake City traveling the 90 miles for weekly Sunday services as well as Wednesday and Thursday gatherings. He, with his husband Pastor Kelly Byrnes, established and worked hard for the success of Bridgerland MCC in Logan. As part of Bridgerland, he also

Kristen Ries Community Service Award winner COURTNEY MOSER

Pete Suazo Political Action Award winner SEN. JIM DABAKIS

Kristen Ries Community Service Award: Courtney Moser, aka Petunia Pap Smear Courtney Moser, and his drag personae “Petunia Pap Smear,” has worked tirelessly to better the lives of the LGBTQ community for decades. As a volunteer community activist and community builder, thousands of people in Cache Valley were served by his dedication and love for community. His

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served on the hospitality committee as well as music for worship.

Courtney is the head matron of the Matrons of Mayhem and, as Petunia, he and the rest of the Matrons have raised tens of thousands of dollars for various causes within and without the LGBT community.

He is a monthly columnist for QSaltLake, a published author and is actively involved with the First Baptist Church, People With AIDS Coalition of Utah, the Salt Lake Men’s Choir, and much more.

His quiet dedication and service to the community exemplifies why the Dr. Kristen Ries Community Service award was established in 1987. This award was first presented to Dr. Kristen Ries for her humanitarian efforts in dealing with the AIDS crisis, and forever named in her honor. This award recognizes outstanding service to the greater Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer community in Utah and is given to individuals who are dedicated to continuing that legacy of service. The recipient is chosen by past awardees.

Utah Hero Award winner PAUL BURKE

Pete Suazo Political Action Award: Sen. Jim Dabakis Senator James “Jim” Dabakis is a Democratic member of the Utah State Senate representing District 2, which covers the east side of Salt Lake City. He was first appointed to the Senate in December 2012, when he was selected by party delegates to replace Ben McAdams, who resigned to assume the office of Salt Lake County Mayor. He was the first openly gay elected

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Past Kristen Ries Community Servicve Award Winners 1987: Dr. Kristen Ries, M.D. 1988: Rev. Bruce Barton 1989: KUTV Channel 2 1990: Chuck Whyte 1991: Nikki Boyer, Becky Moss, Ben Williams 1992: The College of Monarchs of the Royal Court of the Golden Spike Empire, Craig Miller 1993: Ben Barr, Val Mansfield, Kathy Worthington 1994: Kim Russo 1995: Bruce Harmon 1996: Clariss Cartier (Doug Tollstrup), Charlene Orchard, Barb Barnhart 1997: Rev. Kelly Byrnes, Jeff Freedman, Maggie Snyder 1998: LaDonna Moore 1999: Dr. Patty Reagan, Ph.D. 2000: Marlin Criddle 2000: Brenda Voisard 2001: Laura Milliken Gray 2001: Brook Heart-Song 2002: Kevin Hillman 2003: Doug Wortham 2004: Luci Malin 2005: Jane & Tami Marquardt 2006: Jackie Biskupski 2007: Doug Fadel 2008: Stan Penfold 2009: Walt Larabee 2010: Mark Swonson 2011: Michael Aaron 2012: Valerie Larabee 2013: Brandie Balken and Charles Lynn Frost 2014: Fran Pruyn, Mark Lawrence

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chair of the Utah Democratic 20, 2013. In his capacity as the Republicans, Human Rights Party, serving in that role from Campaign and the Utah Pride chairman of the rules commitJuly 2011 to April 2014. He Center chooses the recipient. tee for the U.S. Soccer Federaplayed an integral role in the tion, he helped shepherd through passage of SB296 that aims to a nondiscrimination policy that protect people in the LGBT protects more than 3 million soccommunity from employment cer players from discrimination Paul Burke is an exemplary and housing discrimination based based on sexual orientation or member of our community and on gender identity or sexual gender identity. the legal community at large. His orientation, while still protecting In 2013, Paul led a team of attenacity, zeal, and compassion religious rights. He also has his torneys, including former U.S. Athave made him a champion of the own caucus, the Dabakis Kakis, torney Brett Tolman, in Ô¨Åling underserved and most disadvanand holds weekly meetings to an amicus brief on behalf of the taged in our community. Paul keep people updated during the Pride Center in Windsor. Paul received the Utah Bar’s Pro Bono legislative session. His unique then traveled to Washington DC Lawyer of the Year award in 2012 perspective and sense of humor to attend arguments before the in recognition of his representaare highlighted in his “The DabaUnited States Supreme Court, tion of an underage lesbian in kis Factor” e-newsletters. where he gained national media southern Utah who was being Dabakis is a co-founder of attention for the Utah Pride abused by her custodians. Over both the Utah Pride Center and Center’s efforts. Since then, Paul the course of many months, Paul Equality Utah, and continues has authored numerous opinion waged a legal battle against the to work closely with them to articles in the Salt Lake Tribune girl’s parents, the anti-gay “theraextend LGBTQ rights and direct advocating marriage equality and pists” they had hired to turn their services to community members. equal rights for LGBT Utahns. daughter straight, and the guardHe has served as a talk-radio and Through his unwavering dedicaian ad litem who had inexplicably TV host in Salt Lake City, taught tion and service to our commusided with the parents and custobusiness at a Russian university, nity, he has exhibited exceptional dians. He helped rescue her from provided micro-loans to a variety service, support and dedication a terrible situation and protected of emerging Russian entrepreto the LGBTQ community in her legal rights during a lengthy neurs and started an art business.

Utah — characteristics of a Utah child welfare process.

He and his husband Stephen Hero. Q Paul also helped Michael Justesen were legally wed by Salt Ferguson and Seth Anderson Tickets for the Grand Marshal RecepLake City Mayor Ralph Becker become the first Utah same-sex tion are $50 and can be purchased from at the Salt Lake County Clerk’s couple to marry, and then officithe Utah Pride Festival website. For Office on December 20, 2013, just ated the first lesbian wedding in more information about the Utah Pride hours after a federal judge ruled the state of Utah on December Festival, visit utahpridefestival.org. the state’s same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional.

The Pete Suazo Political Action Award was established in 2001 in honor of Senator Suazo’s tireless attempts to pass Hate Crimes legislation in Utah. This award is presented annually to an elected official The 2015 Utah Pride Festival’s annual drawing worth over $11,000 in prizes, who has demonstrated with a grand prize of two Tiffany & Grand Marshal Reception will be an exceptional comCo rings. held on Friday, June 5, beginning at mitment to equal Daniel Day Trio will provide enter6:30 p.m. Once again this year, the rights for the LGBTQ tainment for the evening. reception will take place on the festicommunity of Utah The grand marshals will be there to val grounds near the new location of through legislation, address the crowd and awards will be the Main Stage: the southeast corner policy or declaration. presented to the Kristen Reis ComA committee includof Washington Square. Light hors munity Service Award and Pete Suazo ing leaders of Equaldoeuvres and desserts and a cash bar Political Action Award winners. ity Utah, Stonewall will be available.

Democrats, Log Cabin New this year is an opportunity Tickets are $50 available at utahpridefestival.org

Utah Hero Award: Paul Burke

Grand Marshal Reception honors award winners

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SATURDAY, JUNE 6 Main Stage, Saturday at 8p Dev is an American rapper, singer and songwriter. She was discovered by the record label, Indie-Pop, and The Cataracs after her friend Shane Crislip, posted her singing to some beats. Dev’s song “Booty Bounce” was sampled in Far East Movement’s hit single “Like a G6” which reached number 1 in the U.S. and sold over four million downloads in the country.

Dev was signed to Universal Republic in October 2010, and released her debut single “Bass Down Low” in November 16, 2010. She was scheduled to release her debut album The Night the Sun Came Up on September 5, 2011. The album was pushed back and was released in the United States on March 27, 2012. The second single, “In the Dark”, peaked at number 11 in the US chart, making it her most successful solo single to date. Dev in 2014 released two EPs, Bittersweet July and the second part as a follow up to part one.

Dev is currently working on a new album which is scheduled for release this year.

Dev’s electro style and “sing-talk” vocal style have been compared to fellow pop singer Ke$ha. Idolator wrote that “Dev’s beats come off a bit more mellow and her songs a little bit more electro than pop.”

Much of Dev’s music is inspired by rap music, as she believes that fans respond to “pop music but with rap roots”. She said, “I’ve always been into hip-hop. Eminem changed my life when I was younger.” The Hollywood Reporter compared her “futuristic” and “pulsing” sound to underground electroclash musicians Peaches and Yelle. Dev’s musical genres have been cited as electro-crunk and electropop. Q

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Saturday Stage Schedule 3pm

DJ CENTRIPETAL DANCE STAGE

Born and raised in Utah, DJ Centripetal (AKA Andrew Andreasen) is by no means low-key; his love and energy of electronic dance music permeates every moment of his downtime. His latest deep question: Why is there no more elevator music? Have we advanced so far as humans that music while moving directly vertical is irrelevant?

3pm

KARAOKE KARAOKE STAGE

Karaoke will be performed at the Karaoke Stage, onn the west side of the CItyCouinty Building, all day long. Come sing along!

3:15pm

UTAH REPERTORY THEATER MAIN STAGE

3:30pm

CHILDREN’S BOOK READING — DR. SUESS LIBRARY STAGE

3:30pm

LEO CODY PRIDE STAGE

A well rounded sound-rock, pop, diva a memorable vocalist

3:45pm

MY FAIR FIEND MAIN STAGE

Hauntingly soothing vocal over instrumental diverges into melancholy discordant rock an intense fragility that is uniquely theirs

4:30pm

VAGABLONDE PRIDE STAGE

A 4-piece band playing accoustic/alternative originals and covers of disparate artists.

4:35pm

OPEN MIKE LIBRARY STAGE

Make us laugh, make us cry. Say something

6pm

VOODOO PRODUCTIONS MAIN STAGE

Unusual, top caliber circus, cabaret, and specialty act production, guaranteed to inspire and awe.

7:15pm

MAIN STAGE

4:55pm

MAIN STAGE

7:30pm

Gypsy music with a persistent, driving brass bass, and a dazzling array of instrumentation, voices and dance moves.

5:15pm

CHEER SALT LAKE PRIDE STAGE

Salt Lake’s own precision cheer team.

Marvel at their athleticism and grace

5:40pm VCR5

PRIDE STAGE

MARY TEBBS GETUP PRIDE STAGE

Mary Tebbs put a band of her favorite local performers together and the result is the delicious Vinegar & Pearls.

DANCE STAGE

Will be a thrilling surprise, could be stand up, could be long boarding, could be music.

5pm

8pm

The Friday night Planet Z mixer and mix director for 97.1 KZHT.

6:05pm

WASATCH WORDSMITHS POETRY SLAM TEAM COMP. LIBRARY STAGE

Youth & College Poetry Slam Team Competition.

VINYL TAPESTRIES PRIDE STAGE

An experimental psychedelic trio of synthetic frequencies and dynamic percussion.

DEV MAIN STAGE

American rapper, singer and songwriter.

She was discovered by the record label, Indie-Pop

P, ,   I love selling homes and meeting people as I do my job.

Text Dana omspon to 35620 for a free real estate seach app.

DJ FLASH FLARE DANCE STAGE

Beet farmer, DJ, producer, promoter and party animal

9pm

DJ ERIK FLOYD MAIN STAGE

PRIDE STAGE

Famed NY, Manhattan DJ rocks the house

It is not Pride without The Court, showcasing drag performers.

Ogden to North Salt Lake and Park City since 1991

9pm

6:30pm

RCGSE

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COREY BOLO

8:35pm

DANCE STAGE

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7pm

Ultimate Techno 6 Panasonic video cassette recorders, a variety of A/V mixer and pedals, 100+/vhs tapes and an operator.

DJ PANAMA

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MUSCLE HAWK They do DiscoThrash—is there any other kind?

JUANA GHANI

BRIDES AND PRIDE IN THE SAME MONTH...

11pm

FESTIVAL GATES CLOSE

Dana L. ompson

Senior Real Estate Specialist, e-Pro, GRI

801-540-0219

OgdenRealtor@hotmail.com

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Pride Day 5K Fun Run

The Pride 5K is back again this year with a brand new course — through downtown Salt Lake along the Utah Pride Parade route, kicking off an hour before the parade starts.

START LINE AND REGISTRATION LOCATION The race begins at 9 a.m., and packet pickup begins at 8 a.m. Participants will start the race on the side street — Edison St — facing north (across from Bar X on 200 S).

Day-of registration and packet pickup will be located near the starting line area.

FINISH LINE LOCATION The route takes runners west along Second South to Third West, back to Second West for a loop up to First South and back, east to Fourth East and a loop down to Third South, east to Third East, and return to Second South to head back to Edison Street.

CATEGORIES AND AWARDS Pride leaders are welcoming anyone who wants to run, walk, dance or be pushed in

a stroller to the Fun Run. Costumes are encouraged, with prizes going to the best dressed. Team costumes are considered amazing. Age and gender are obsolete in this high fashion competition.

BOISE, IDAHO MAY 30 JUNE 05 JUNE 11 JUNE 12 JUNE 13 JUNE 14 JUNE 15 JUNE 16 JUNE 17 JUNE 18 JUNE 19

PRIDE AUDITIONS | 6PM-9PM | OPERA IDAHO | $5 ALL AGES | YOUR CHANCE TO BE ON THE MAIN STAGE PRIDE BINGO | 7PM | BALCONY CLUB | $5 PER CARD 21+ | OVER $1,000 IN PRIZES | ALL PROCEEDS TO PRIDE

BOISE AIDS WALK | 6PM | FLYING M COFFEEHOUSE $25 INDIVIDUAL OR $20 EACH (GROUP OF 4 OR MORE) LIPSINC! | 830PM | BALCONY CLUB | $20 RESERVATIONS RECOMMENDED | (208) 368-0405 LIPSINC! | 830PM | BALCONY CLUB | $20 BGMC | 8PM | BSU SPECIAL EVENT CENTER | $15 BGMC | 4PM | BSU SPECIAL EVENT CENTER | $15 TICKETS | WWW.BOISEGAYMENSCHORUS.COM LIBERATING SPIRIT MCC | PICNIC/AWARDS | 6-830PM ANN MORRISON PARK | OLD TIMER’S SHELTER | $5 DRAG BINGO | 7PM | BALCONY CLUB | FREE WITH MINERVA JAYNE AS YOUR HOST BGMC MOVIE NIGHT | 7PM | FLICKS | $10 DJ DAN | 10PM | BALCONY CLUB | $5 COMMON GROUND | BOISE’S VOICE XTRAVAGANZA 8PM | HUMPIN’ HANNAH’S | $5/$25VIP/$20TO COMPETE FASHION SHOW | 8PM | BALCONY CLUB | $5 MIX 106/ADAM & EVE PRIDE KICKOFF CONCERT DIRTY LOOKS | 9PM | LUCKY DOG | $10/$15

JUNE 20

PRIDE PRIDE PRIDE PRIDE

JUNE 20

KISS FM 103.5/BOISE WEEKLY PRIDE AFTER PARTY ERIKA GAGA IN CONCERT | 9PM | LUCKY DOG | $10/$15

RALLY | 11AM | CAPITAL STEPS | FREE PARADE | 1130AM | FREE FESTIVAL | 12PM | FREE HEADLINER | C&C MUSIC FACTORY | FREE

AID STATIONS Water will be provided at the mile 1 and 2 aid stations. Water and other drinks, and food, will be available at the finish area.

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Look for the NEW 2015 QPages

Available at Pride, at over 300 locations across the Wasatch Front and qpages.com

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UTAH PRIDE AT A GLANCE ENTRANCE

EXIT

EXIT

VODKA GARDEN

NW BOOTHS

NE BOOTHS

ATM

BIKE VALET GENDER

DANCE STAGE

PET AREA

50+

HEALTH

BEVERAGES

HISTORY

BEVERAGES WINE

WN LOOP BOOTHS

EN LOOP BOOTHS

WS LOOP BOOTHS

BEVERAGES

FOOD TRUCKS (F BOOTHS)

A BOOTHS BEVERAGES FIRST AID

EAST V

ES LOOP BOOTHS

PRIDE STORE BEVERAGES

WS BOOTHS

VIP LOUNGE

ART DEMONSTRATION

FOOD TRUCKS (F BOOTHS)

DININ AREA

L BOOTHS

ENTRANCE THE LEONARDO

PLAY ZONE EXIT

SALT LAKE CITY MAIN LIBRARY

COFFEE

SALT LAKE CITY & COUNTY BOILDING

KARAOKE STAGE

EXIT ENTRANCE

ATM

YOUTH

EN BOOTHS

WN BOOTHS

1-5 BISEXUAL

BINGO/GAMES

VOLUNTEER VILLAGE

MAIN STAGE

SE BOOTHS

FREE SPEECH

THURSDAY, JUNE 4

8pm

7:00pm

CITY CREEK PARK, STATE & NORTH TEMPLE

INTERFAITH SERVICE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH

FRIDAY, JUNE 5 6:30pm GRAND MARSHAL RECEPTION W/ DANIEL DAY TRIO MAIN STAGE

8pm

DYKE RALLY & MARCH UTAH CAPITOL BUILDING

TRANS* RALLY & MARCH

9pm

OPENING CEREMONIES PRIDE STAGE

10pm

MINX PRIDE STAGE

SATURDAY, JUNE 6 3:00pm

FESTIVAL GATES OPEN

3pm

DJ JARVICIOUS DANCE STAGE

3pm

KARAOKE

4:35pm

OPEN MIKE

KARAOKE STAGE

LIBRARY STAGE

3:15pm

4:55pm

UTAH REPERTORY THEATER CO. MAIN STAGE

3:30pm

CHILDREN’S BOOK READING — DR. SUESS LIBRARY STAGE

3:30pm

LEO CODY PRIDE STAGE

3:45pm

MY FAIR FIEND

JUANA GHANI MAIN STAGE

PRIDE STAGE

MAIN STAGE

6pm

9pm

VOODOO PRODUCTIONS

DEV

DJ FLASH FLARE DANCE STAGE

11:00am

FESTIVAL GATES OPEN 11am DJ PANCHO DANCE STAGE

11:30am MISS CITY WEEKLY

11:00pm

MAIN STAGE

7:30pm

FESTIVAL GATES CLOSE

11:45am SISTER WIVES MAIN STAGE

PRIDE STAGE

SUNDAY, JUNE 7

12:15pm BAILE DANCE

7pm

9:00am

PRIDE STAGE

DANCE STAGE

6:05pm

DANCE STAGE

CHEER SALT LAKE PRIDE STAGE

5:40pm VCR5

PRIDE STAGE

5pm

DJ PANAMA

VAGABLONDE PRIDE STAGE

LIBRARY STAGE

4:30pm

8pm

RCGSE

DJ ERIK FLOYD

5:15pm

WASATCH WORDSMITHS POETRY SLAM TEAM COMP.

MAIN STAGE

6:30pm

MAIN STAGE

9pm

7:15pm

MAIN STAGE

MUSCLE HAWK MAIN STAGE

MARY TEBBS GETUP

COREY BOLO

8:35pm

VINYL TAPESTRIES PRIDE STAGE

PRIDE DAY 5K START: 300 E 200 S

10:00am

UTAH PRIDE PARADE

2ND SOUTH, 4TH E TO W TEMPLE

12:45pm SHOW ME ISLAND MAIN STAGE

12:55pm YES MA’AM PRIDE STAGE

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Gifts

Lube ENTRANCE

EXIT

SPOKEN WORD

Underwear

VILLAGE

BEVERAGES

DINING AREA

NG

Books PRIDE STAGE

S

KIDS ZONE

EXIT

Housewares ATM

Adult Toys 12pm KARAOKE

2:35pm

4:45pm

KARAOKE STAGE

LIBRARY STAGE

PRIDE STAGE

1pm DJ HARRY CROSS

2:45pm

4pm

DANCE STAGE

PRIDE STAGE

1:40pm

SALT LAKE ACTING COMPANY MAIN STAGE

OPEN MIKE SCENIC BYWAY

3:15pm

SPAZMATICS MAIN STAGE

3:45pm

MARK DAGO

WASATCH WORDSMITHS - YOUTH & COLLEGE POETRY SLAM TEAM COMPETITION LIBRARY STAGE

1:50pm

BARBALOOT SUITZ

ROCKIN’ JUKES

PRIDE STAGE

PRIDE STAGE

3pm

XELLE

DANCE STAGE

5:45pm

2pm

WRITING COMPETITION WINNERS

JESSE WALKER

5:10pm MAIN STAGE

3pm

SHASTA AND THE SECOND STRINGS

LIBRARY STAGE

MAIN STAGE

PRIDE STAGE

2:10pm SALIVA SISTERS

4:10pm

7pm

MAIN STAGE

MAIN STAGE

PARADE WINNERS JUSTIN UTLEY

FESTIVAL GATES CLOSE

OPEN DAILY 10am–9pm 878 East 900 South (801) 538-0606

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SUNDAY, JUNE 7

Pride Parade

Kick off the Sunday celebration of the Utah Pride Festival by going to the the Pride Parade. Be blown away by the floats, the marchers and the diversity as our entire community converges on Salt Lake to celebrate our allies and ourselves. This moment is for all of Utah. You will not catch a more exciting, fun-filled, joyous, or gigantic parade in Utah than the one on Sunday, June 7 at 10 a.m., but get there early! This is a celebration,

BOOTHS

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CHILE VERDE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-F3 CHRIS MADSEN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-21 CHRIST UNITED METHODIST. . . EN-11 CITY WEEKLY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . SE-20,21 CLEMENTINE DESIGN & PROMO. WS-5 CONGREGATIONAL UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST OGDEN. . . . . . . . . WS-8 CONTEMP. BODY ART . . . WN LOOP-4 COSTCO WHOLESLE. . . . . . . . . .WS-21 COTTON FLOOZY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L-10 CRAFT LAKE CITY. . . . . . . . WS LOOP-4 DAWGS N WHISKERS . . WN LOOP-19 DELTA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ES-15,16 DEREK KITCHEN CITY COUNCIL. . SE-5 DISCOVER FINANCIAL SERV..EN-28,29 DISCRETE CLOTHING. . . . WS LOOP-9 DOULA HOUSE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WS-10 DRUG POLICY PROJECT. . WS LOOP-1 DYE-NAMICS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WN-20 EARTH SCENTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -19 EMC CORPORATION. . . . . . . . . . WN-14 EQUALITY UTAH . . . . . . . . . . . SE-36,37 EVENT SALES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SE-8 FACE PAINTING DREAMS. . . . . . . . K-2 FARMERS INSURANCE — NICK J HALES AGENCY. . . . . . . K-4 FEMINIST MAJORITY LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WS-33 FIDOBIOTICS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WN-12 FINISH LINE. . . . . . . . . . . . . EN-16,17,18 FINISH LINE. . . . . . . . WN LOOP-11–13 FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. . . . . . . . SE-6 FOOD CARTEL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-F8 FOREGEN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WS-9 FRIENDS IN NEED. . . . . . . . . . . . . WN-6 FRIENDS OF ANIMALS. . WN LOOP-21 FULL CIRCLE DREAMS. . WN LOOP-15 GARYDOESTHINGS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-8 GEEKERYMADE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-15 GENDERBANDS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . WN-23 GENERAL ELECTRIC. . . . . . . . . . . . SE-1 GIRL ON GIRL CONCEPTS. . WS LOOP-5 GLOBAL TRAVEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . WS-18 GLOBAL TRAVEL NETWORK. . . EN-19 GREEN URBAN LUNCHBOX. . . . 200 E HAPA HAOLE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-F6 HEALTHY PETS MTN WEST . . . WS-11 HEATHER MOONEY STATE FARM.ES-22 HERBS FOR HEALTH. . . . . . . . . . WN-13 HIMLAYAN ARTS. . . . . . . . WN LOOP-1 HIS & HERS WAXING. . . . . . . . . . . SE-2

and you’ll want a prime spot to watch the festivity. Afterward, continue the celebration at Washington Square for a day of fun and entertainment on the festival grounds.

HIVE GALLERY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ES-5,6 HOME TOWN TIE DYE. . . . . . . . . WS-4 HOMEGROWN UTAH. . . . . . . . . . NW-3 HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN. . EN-23–25 HUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH. . NE-11&12 HUMANISTS OF UTAH. . . WS LOOP-2 IDAHO CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WS-24 IMPERIAL RAINBOW COURT OF NORTHERN UTAH . . WS LOOP-16 INNA TURCHENKO. . . . . . . . . . . . . A-23 INTERIM HEALTHCARE SLC. . . WS-13 JACKIE BISKUPSKI. . . . . . . . . . . . . NW-8 JACKIE’S STUDIO. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L-7 JAMAICA’S KITCHEN. . . . . . . . . . 16-F16 JENNSEELEYART . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-5&6 JOKESANDMAGICCENTER. . . . . EN-20 KAMI KAHLER. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-10 KHAN CURRY HOUSE. . . . . . . . . 11-F11 KITCHEN CASE PRODUCTIONS. . . EN-33 KUED CHANNEL 7. . . . . . . . . . . . WN-16 KUER 90.1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NW-9 LAW OFFICES OF KELLY ANN BOOTH. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NW-5 LECROISSANT CATERING & EVENTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ES-3,4 LEGACY INITIATIVE. . . . . . . WS SCH-26 LEWIS BUS GROUP. . . . 200 EAST-N/A LGBT RESOURCE CENTER. . . . . . . . . . . .

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH. . . . . . NE-13 LGBTQ AFFIRMATIVE THERAPISTS GUILD OF UTAH. . . . . . . . . . WS-32 LILAHV. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SW-42 LOTUS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WN LOOP-2 LUKE FOR MAYOR. . . . . . WN LOOP-22 LUNA CREATIONS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -20 MARK MILLER SUBARU. . . . . . . ES-MM MELISSA HUGHSTON. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MEN IN THE KITCHEN. . . . . . . . . NW-4 MORMONS BUILDING BRIDGES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WS-13 MOUNTAIN MEHNDI. . . WN LOOP-6&7 NOVA OBSCURA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -22 OGDEN OUTREACH. . . . . . . . . . . SE-29 OLD NEWS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L-16 ONE OF A KIND TIE DYE. . . . . . . SE-15 OVERSTOCK.COM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . EN-1 PAINT MIXER, THE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-3 PEACH TREATS,LLC. . . . . . . . . . . . . NE-1 PETCO. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WN-PET PETCO. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SE-11

PIE PIZZERIA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F-16 PJ’S SNO SNACKS. . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-F19 PLANNED PARENTHOOD. . . . . WS-22 POUTINE YOUR MOUTH. . . . . . 10-F10 PRANNO LAW. . . . . . . . . . . PLLC WS-15 PRIDE SOCKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . EN-26&27 PROGREXION. . . . . . . . . . . . . SE-24&25 PROVO PRIDE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NE-7 PUBLIC SAFETY PRIDE ALLIANCE. WS LOOP-11 PWA COALITION OF UTAH. . WN-29–31 QSALTLAKE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ES-1&2 R&R BBQ. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-F13 RAINBOW GIRLS SOCIAL CLUB. . . WN-22 RANDY LAUB PHOTOGRAPHY. A-11&12 REAL CARING INTEGRATIVE THERAPY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SE-31 RECREATION OUTLET . . WN LOOP-17 RED NATION TACOS. . . . . . . . . . 14-F14 RESTORE OUR HUMANITY. . . . . EN-32 ROCKSTAR TUTU. . . . . . . . WN LOOP-5 RODENT BONZ BINDERY. . . . . . . . C-8 ROYAL COURT OF THE GOLDEN SPIKE EMPIRE. . . . . . WS LOOP-17 SALT LAKE ACTING CO. . . WN LOOP-3 SALT LAKE CITY CORP. . . . . EN-30&31 SALT LAKE CITY POLICE. WS LOOP-10 SALT LAKE CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY. A-1 SALT LAKE COUNTY LIBRARY. NW-12 SALT LAKE CTY YOUTH SERV.. . WS-7 SALT LAKE FILM SOCIETY. . . . . . SE-10 SALT LAKE TRIBUNE. . . . . . . . . . . SE-19 SANDRA WILLIAMS. . . . . . . . . . . . . L-14 SANDY PARSONS, ARTIST. . . . . . A-2&3 SARAH MAY PHOTOGRAPHY. . . . L-18 SCOOPOLOGY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-F20 SCOOPOLOGY 2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L-15 SEAN BREINHOLT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-14 SEARS HOME SERVICES . . . . . . . . SE-4 SECOND CHANCE FOR HOMELESS PETS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WN-19 SHAUNA SCOTT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L-14 SHOWGEAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SE-35 SIERRA WHOLESALE . . . WS LOOP-15 SIMMYS CRAFT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NW-6 SISTERS OF THE ZION CURTAIN. . . . . . . . . . . WS LOOP-20 SKEWERED THAI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -F4 SL,UT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SE-39 SLC HEMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . WN LOOP-16 SLC POST MORMONS. . . . . . . . . . EN-21

SLCC COMM. WRITING CTR. . . . SE-23 SNOWBIRD RESORT. . . . WN LOOP-18 SORRY CLEMENTINE. . . . . . . . . . . A-17 SOULPRO. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EN-22 SPOOX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WS-1 STACEY JO RABIGER. . . . . . . . . . . . . A-7 STARBUCKS COFFEE COMPANY.SE-28 STATE FARM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EN-12,13 STEAMPUNK BIJOUX. . . . . . . . . . . L-13 STEPHANIE SAINT-THOMAS . . . . A-13 STRONGEST LINK . . . . . . . . . . . EN-3&4 SUMMIT COMM. COUNS.. . . . . WS-23 SUN TREASURES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ES-8 TATT BLING COLOR ENHANCERS. . . SE-9 TEA OF UTAH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NE-6 TEAM THF. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SE-3 TEMPLE SQUARES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . NE-5 TESTICULAR CANCER AWARENESS FOUNDATION . . . . . . . WN LOOP-8 TREVOR PROJECT . . . . . . . . . . . . . SE-38 TYPSY GYPSIES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-16 UBER. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NE-15 UNIVERSITY OF UTAH. . . . . . . . . SE-14 US BANK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ES-14 UTAH AIDS FOUNDATION. . . NE-8–10 UTAH BEARS. . . . . . . . . . . WS LOOP-19 UTAH COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SE-17 UTAH DEMOCRATIC PARTY. . . . . NE-4 UTAH FACES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WN-15 UTAH GAY AND LESBIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. . . . . . . . . . . . ES-13 UTAH LIBERTARIAN PARTY. . . . . NE-14 UTAH POLYAMORY SOCIETY. . WS-28 UTAH REPERTORY THEATER. . NW-11 UTAH TENNIS ASSOCIATION. . WS-14 UTAH VETERINARY CENTER . . WN-11 UTAH’S FAMILIA: . . . . . . . . . . . . . WS-29 VALLEY BEHAVORIAL HEALTH. . WS-27 VEGAN BOUNDARY. . . . . WS LOOP-6 VINTAGE SILVER WEAR CO. . . . . . . L-8 WAYFAIR.COM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ES-9,10 WE THE PEOPLE CLOTHING . NE-2&3 WIGS AND EXTENSIONS. . . . . . . WS-2 WINDER FARMS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . WS-16 XFINITY COMCAST. . . . . . . . . ES-12,11 YETI SHAVED ICE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . L-5&6 YOGURT STOP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L-8&9 YOUNG AUTO. . . . . . . . . . . . WN-1,2,3,4 YOUNIQUE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SE-16 ZOMBIE NATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L-3

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A road trip to Prides There are 13 prides happening this summer within a six-hour drive from Salt Lake City.

Thirteen! Fourteen if you include Denver, which is an 8-hour drive. Here is your guide:

June 26–27 POCATELLO, ID pocatellopride.org Pocatello puts on a fun Pride every year. While over the years it has been a bit disorganized and leaving people wondering if it would happen, it shows up every year.

June 4–7 SALT LAKE CITY utahpridecenter.org Of course, we start with our own Pride, which is the first of the year in our region. For some, a 10-minute drive. We’re off to a good start!

July 13–20 FOUR CORNERS CAMPOUT campout.moonfruit.com The Four Corners region also puts on a fantastic campout, the highlight of which are the people you will meet. Held at a campground of McPhee Reservoir, each year has a theme. This year’s is Christmas in July. Shirtless Santas!

June 12–13 ELKO, NV elkonvpride.com Elko is about to pull off its first Pride ever. Held at the Lions Campground in Lamoille Canyon, Elko is bringing in Yara Sofia of Ru Paul’s Drag Race, DJ Jessica the Ripper from Cincinnati and will host a parade on Saturday.

June 19–20 BOISE, ID boisepridefest.com Boise will hold a month of activities leading up to their Pride weekend, which will begin with a concert featuring Dirty Looks and then a rally on Saturday at the Capitol Building, a parade and then a day-long festival. Erika Gaga closes the festival with a concert Saturday night.

June 20–21 DENVER, CO glbtcolorado.org/pridefest Denver’s Pride brings 365,000 people to the mile-high city, according to organizers and is supported by the city’s convention and visitors’ bureau. Three stages and 200 vendor booths.

June 24–28 FOUR CORNERS PRIDE, DURANGO 4calliancefordiversity.org If you want a small-town Pride, head to Durango where the LGBT community from cities in four states gather for an annual Pride.

A film, cocktail reception and dance party kick are followed by the largest event — the Animas River Float Parade & Pride Festival Family & Friends Picnic. Yes — a float parade.

July 25 RENO, NV northernnevadapride.org August 1 OGDEN PRIDE ogdenpride.org Ogden is hosting its first Pride this year with the theme “Love Within Reach.” Watch the website for details.

August 5–9 WYOMING EQUALITY RENDEZVOUS wyomingequality.org 5-day campout at Medicine Bow National Forest, between Laramie and Cheyenne Wyoming. The Rendezvous Event provides a friendly, safe, LGBT affirming environment for everyone, from everywhere.

September 8–14 LAS VEGAS lasvegaspride.org September 11–12 IDAHO FALLS idahofallspride.org September 19 PROVO, UT provopride.org This will be the third Provo Pride and this year’s theme is “This is Family.”

September 25–27 MOAB PRIDE moabpride.org Moab’s Pride is actually a week long with their Gay Adventure Week and nightly parties. On Saturday, they kick off with a “visibility march” through downtown Moab, ending at a day in the park. Q

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SUNDAY, JUNE 7 Main Stage, Sunday at 5p

You’ve

heard of XELLE. They’re that girl group that threw an illegal dance party on a moving NYC subway train for their debut video, Party Girl. They’re the indie band whose songs and videos are lighting up TV shows, radio stations and dance floors around the world. They’re those sexy girls with huge voices who rocked the stage at your favorite club last night. They are XELLE, and you’ve been waiting for them to come along.

Fronted by dance floor divas JC Cassis and Rony G and produced by international hitmaker Zach Adam, XELLE makes megapop music that the world can’t get

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Sunday Headliner: XELLE enough of. With over 1.5 million views on YouTube, their incredible music videos have whipped the international press into a frenzy.

With a fresh sound that mixes the fun of The Spice Girls, the swagger of Ke$ha and the gorgeous vocal harmonies of ABBA, XELLE is an exciting addition to the pop music landscape. The girls have brought their high energy live show to fans around the USA, and they’ve shared the stage with legends such as Joan Rivers, Lil’ Kim, Salt ‘n’ Pepa, Mya, Dev, Mo’Nique, Aubrey O’Day, Blu Cantrell, C&C Music Factory and Deborah Cox. XELLE promotes a strong message of self acceptance, empowerment and kindness to others. This message inspired

the band to collaborate with the nonprofit Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network, which works to provide safe school environments free of bullying for students and teachers of all backgrounds.

XELLE released the hit single, “Invincible,” and donated the proceeds of song sales to GLSEN. To protest anti-LGBT crackdowns around the world, XELLE unleashed the powerful human rights anthem, Red Flag.

In conjunction with this release, they also started the #iRaiseARedFlag online protest, which aims to inspire everyone who cares about equality to make their views known and raise their voice against oppression.

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Sunday Stage Schedule 11:00am

FESTIVAL GATES OPEN

11am

DJ PANCHO DANCE STAGE

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2:10pm

SALIVA SISTERS MAIN STAGE

The Saliva Sisters are an unnatural act. Who would have supposed a girl group singing parody songs about fiber, bidets and bras would have survived, let alone flourished in Utah? Gay-Oh!

He lights all the Salt Lake clubs on fire, as they should be

2:35pm

11:30pm

Say it with verve, passion, sorrow but be heard.

MISS CITY WEEKLY 2015 MAIN STAGE

OPEN MIKE LIBRARY STAGE

See what a straight magazine thinks are the most beautiful, talented and outrageous drag personalities in Utah as they compete for the title.

2:45pm

11:45pm

MAIN STAGE

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3:45pm

SISTER WIVES Ranging from soulful blues to fiery rock to all-out dance band, the Sister Wives not your typical set for all-women bands

SCENIC BYWAY PRIDE STAGE

A sextet playing electron hip hop

3:15pm

SPAZMATICS

DANCE STAGE

JESSE WALKER

Direct from Sugar House, they dance for fitness, for fun, for the love of dance

As a celebrated DJ, designer, artist, Jesse has helped shape underground dance music, design, art and culture in Utah for two decades.

SHOW ME ISLAND

3pm

Salt Lake City SKA band

MAIN STAGE

PRIDE STAGE

Great String band playing New Orleans Jazz, Cajun, Country

12pm

KARAOKE

KARAOKE STAGE

PARADE WINNERS

4:10pm

JUSTIN UTLEY MAIN STAGE

Emmy Award winning, singer, song writer and activist

4pm

Always on the cutting edge, the Saturday resident DJ at Jam, this is Harry’s fifth Pride

WASATCH WORDSMITHS YOUTH & COLLEGE POETRY SLAM TEAM COMPETITION LIBRARY STAGE

1:40pm

5:10pm

SALT LAKE ACTING COMPANY

XELLE

MAIN STAGE

MAIN STAGE

Funny bits from Saturday’s Voyeur.

You’ve heard of XELLE. They’re that girl group that threw an illegal dance party on a moving NYC subway train for their debut video

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Rap influences by Public Enemy, Run DMC, EMPD, BPD, NWA and other acronyms for politically incorrect stage names

Who can sing? Usually no one, but you can try.

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Pride Is...

We asked QSaltLake readers to answer this year’s theme: Pride is...

Standing Up

BY AIRMAN 1ST CLASS JOSHUA MURILLO, 92ND LOGISTICS READINESS SQUADRON

When we think of pride, what are we talking about? As children we are taught that if we always do the right thing, we will be praised for our actions. Eventually, this emotion turns into pride. Pride is something that we as a society feel about our inner self.

I remember in my youth, I was always praised to the highest standards for anything that I accomplished or I attempted to do, but no matter what I succeeded in I always felt as something was missing, and I felt different. I wasn’t a whole person because I was being dishonest within myself and those around me.

At the age of 21, I realized I was gay. I didn’t want to be gay, but I was and there wasn’t anything I could do to change it. I was a gay man in the military and I was concerned about the reaction of my fellow Airmen and the whole persona that society has when it comes to military life.

Eventually, I came to a realization that my sexual orientation does not define me as a person. Loyalty, honesty and integrity do and I quickly informed my family of my sudden epiphany dealing with my life, and, like many times before, their reaction was unconditional love and support.

So today when I think about what gay pride means to me; it is an inner feeling, felt so deeply internally, that I can only describe it as, “accepting of one’s self.” It is a feeling that cannot be bought or earned; it is a feeling of happiness for who you are. It is a realization that being gay does not make you different, or an outcast of society. It is a feeling, however, that let’s others know that no matter the person, you are completely satisfied with the way your life is turning.

I am very proud of whom I am and proud of being able to be honest with others. And more than anything I am proud to be a part of an organization that has an immense impact on other’s lives. LGBT Pride fights for rights and equality for the gay and lesbian communities. They are our voice behind truth and take a stance on issues pertaining to our rights. And we do have rights; every man and woman in the gay community should have the same rights as anyone else.

That’s what gay pride means to me, its standing up for what we believe in, its being the best person you can be and it’s being proud of who you are and living up to the best of your abilities.

A Chapter CORBYN STINCELLI

Pride is a trait we must embrace to overcome the difficulties we’ve all faced.

Wither we’re alone or side-by-side you’ll always feel it buring bright, yearning to never give up the fight.

So keep your heads held high and your fists clenched tight because this is another chapter in our plight.

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Old Friends DANNY THOMAS

Pride is a weekend that we can all get together downtown with old friends to just enjoy each other. Some of them you only see this time of the year. Check out the booths, Enjoy the entertainment and have a great day!

Just Scott SCOTT PERRY

When I was young. There was a huge part of me that really didn’t fit in. All I knew about “the gay thing” were the stereotypes—and I possessed none of them ...well maybe the show tune gene ...oh, and interior design.

I struggled to see myself in that world and didn’t dare make the leap. One day in the Fall of 1983, I did.

I walked into a gay bar and finally found my tribe. I met some like-minded guys who became good friends. We could openly talk about things I could never talk about before.

I didn’t need to speak in a whisper. I could hug a man in public. I joined organizations, marched in parades and attended rallies. I became proud of who I was.

Thirty years later, I have become proud enough that I no longer need the sanctuary of the community that I once depended on.

And I no longer need the validation of the straight community. I am comfortable living in both worlds at the same time. No labels.

I’m just Scott.

And proud to be so.

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Pride parking guide Trax Utah’s commuter train provides two stops near the parade route and festival grounds. Parking is free at the Trax stations on 2100 South and 1300 South in the well-policed parking lots. Also, Club Try-Angles, at 251 W. 900 South, is offering free parking in its lot, as festivalgoers can take Trax from the 900 South station to the grounds. The Trax fare is $2.50 for a one-way ticket or $5 for round trip. To arrive at the festival grounds on Saturday, ride the Red Line-University of Utah to the Salt Lake City Library stop. This will put you on the northeast corner of the festival. The trains will run until 1 a.m. On Sunday morning, in order to arrive at the parade route, take the train that will arrive at the 2100 South station at 9:20 a.m. and get off at the 200 South stop. You’ll arrive around 9:30 a.m., plenty of time to find a spot to watch the festivities. For full scheduling information, go to RideUTA.com.

Parking Meters Salt Lake City has more than 2,000 metered parking spaces along the streets, including many that are near the festival grounds and parade route. Saturdays and Sundays are free. However, on Saturday there is a two-hour time limit from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday parking is free all day, but spaces will fill up extremely fast. New parking meters now accept credit cards, cash and coins.

Parking Lots There is a huge selection of pay-to-park lots throughout the city and while rates may vary, expect to pay between $7 and $10 for the entire day. Here’s a list of some of the most conveniently located parking areas: AMPCO PARKING, 45 E. 300 South, 133 E. 200 South, 270 S. West Temple KILOWAT COMMONS, 175 S. West Temple REGENT STREET, 150 S. 50 East PIERPONT STREET, 163 W. Pierpont Ave., 150 W. Pierpont Ave.

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History of Utah Pride Celebrating

Pride in Utah is part of a directive originated in 1969 when the Eastern Regional Conference of Homophile Organizations adopted the motion to hold “parallel demonstrations on the last Saturday in June to commemorate the rebellion on Christopher Street.” The reference to the rebellion, of course, refers to the Stonewall Inn riots in New York City. Utah has celebrated Pride nearly 40 years.

PRIDE IN THE 1970s A “Beer Bust Kegger,” sponsored in 1974

by Joe Redburn, owner of the Sun Tavern, was the first attempt at bringing people together to celebrate the emergence of an openly gay community in Utah. More than 200 gay men and women celebrated Gay Pride along the shores of the Great Salt Lake at, what was once known as, Bare Bum Beach.

The first official community-sponsored Pride celebration was called Gay Freedom Day and was held June 1, 1975. Sponsored by the Gay Community Service Center, it was held in City Creek Canyon where festivities included free beer, food, soft drinks, volleyball, an all-day talent revue and sing-along, games for prizes, and a white-elephant auction. A shuttle service from local gay bars provided additional transportation.

Over the next three years, Gay Freedom Day was promoted mainly by the Gay Service Committee and the Salt Lake Coalition of Human Rights. The most ambitious promotion was a festival and conference held in 1977, which featured Sgt. Leonard Matlovich as keynote speaker. Matlovich was an ex-Air Force sergeant and recipient of the Bronze Star and Purple Heart, and also a gay Mormon.

As the heady gay power days of the 1970s began to wane, a fragmented community ravaged by the onslaught of a conservative backlash tried to hold scaleddown celebrations. Without widespread support, the spirit of Pride was kept going by individual groups such as the Tavern Guild and Affirmation.

PRIDE IN THE 1980s In 1983 members of the Royal Court of the Golden Spike Empire met to revitalize the true concept of a Pride. Tim Leming, Marshall Brunner, Larry Pacheco and Mel Rohland, among others, formed a committee and put together an event billed as a Basket Social held in Fairmont Park.

This Pride Day committee had sponsored the event over the next three years, and was the first to adopt a national Pride Day committee’s theme. The chairs were Marshall Brunner, Nikki Boyer and Michelle Beauchaine.

Beauchaine was the last chairman during these years and held Gay and Lesbian Pride Day in Pioneer Park in 1986.

In 1987 the newly formed Gay and Lesbian Community Council of Utah took over the responsibilities of Utah’s annual event. Donnie Eastepp, Emperor XII of the RCGSE, was elected chair of the Pride Day Committee. He created a community service award, which was presented to Dr. Kristen Ries for her efforts treating AIDS patients when no other doctors in Utah were willing to do so. The award was established to recognize outstanding service to the gay and lesbian community. Eastepp also moved the location of Pride to Sunnyside Park - where it remained until 1989.

Floyd Gamble, Steven Lloyd, Julie Pollock, Curtis Jensen, Kevin Hillman, Deborah Rosenberg, Antonia Dela Guerra, Kyle Kennedy, Kathy Matthews and Julie Hale were the chairs and co-chairs of GLCCU’s Pride Day Committee over these seven years. They provided Utah’s gay community a consistently successful event celebrating Utah’s sexual minorities.

The Kristen Ries Community Service recipients were Rev. Bruce Barton, KUTV Channel 2, Chuck Whyte, Nikki Boyer, Becky Moss, Ben Williams, the College of Monarchs of the RCGSE, Craig Miller, Ben Barr, Val Mansfield, Kathy Worthington and Kim Russo.

PRIDE IN THE 1990s In 1990, on the 21st anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion, the Salt Lake City

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queer community held its first Gay and Lesbian Pride March. Nearly 200 people gathered on the steps of the state Capitol and heard speeches from Connell “Rocky” O’Donovan, Becky Moorman, Angela Nutt and Robert Austin. The Pride festival was held at the Northwest Community Center.

Under the direction of Kevin Hillman and his co-chairs, Pride Day expanded, and in 1991 it was moved to the Salt Lake County Fairgrounds in Murray. The 1991 Pride committee added to the festival a pride guide, an art show and contest, sponsored by Angela Nutt and David Thometz, and a Utah Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, created by Marlin Criddle.

They also brought in a nationally syndicated columnist, Dell Richards, as keynote speaker. For entertainment, Lynn Lavner, a lesbian singer performed, with interruption by a contingency of neo-Nazi skinheads who marched into the celebration and were met by Anti-Violence Project founder Michael Aaron. While no violence occurred, it was a tense situation. Dozens of festivalgoers surrounded the skinheads and turned their backs on them, making them invisible to the crowd and, thus, negating the reason they were there. They left after 10 minutes.

O’Donovan’s second Pride march was also disrupted by neo-Nazis who stood on the east steps of the City and County Building taunting the marchers rallying at Washington Square.

The tradition of an annual pride march and rally ended when O’Donovan left Salt Lake City in 1992. No one came forward to organize a third, and it would be two years before Bruce Harmon and Rev. Bruce Barton, along with then-Pride chair Jeff Freedman, stepped forward to reinvent the march and rally, transforming it into something even greater: the Pride Parade.

Pride Days under the direction of the GLCCU transformed the celebration from simply a day in the park to a major annual event where Salt Lake City’s politicians began to attend, and the quality of entertainers and speakers increased.

With the election of Freedman as chair of the GLCCU’s Gay Pride Day committee, the organization began its transition from being simply a committee to being GLCCU’s sole entity when the organization collapsed in 1995. Freedman and co-chair Julie Hale were the last formally elected chairs of the Gay Pride Day committee under the direction of GLCCU. Freedman, a former emperor of the Royal Court, served longer than any other Pride volunteer in Utah. His vision of Pride

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encompassed the entire spectrum of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and straight allies communities. The Pride events of the latter half of the 1990s were thus stamped indelibly with Freedman’s concept that Pride was a community party. He brought professionalism to the job as he endeavored to ensure gender parity. Freedman’s co-chairs were Hale, Carrie Gaylor and Kim Russo.

The Kristen Ries Award recipients during Freedman’s era were Bruce Harmon, Clariss (Doug Tollstrup) Cartier, Charlene Orchard, Barb Barnhart, Rev. Kelly Byrnes, Jeff Freedman, Maggie Snyder, LaDonna Moore and Dr. Patty Reagan.

In 1994 the first parade was organized as the kick-off event to Pride. The late Emperor XV, Bruce Harmon, assisted by his partner Rev. Bruce Barton, established the annual parade that continues to this day.

Bruce Barton nearly single-handedly, on his own sewing machine, created the 100-foot rainbow flag that is carried annually in the parade.

In 1996 Freedman, Gaylor and Harmon invited Chastity Bono, daughter of Sonny and Cher and spokeswoman of the Human Rights Campaign’s National Coming Out Project, to be the first grand marshal of Utah’s Gay Pride Parade.

Freedman and his committees also invited Candace Gingrich, Deb Burington, Charlene Orchard and actor Dan Butler to serve as grand marshals.

Freedman was instrumental in getting corporate sponsorships for Pride and moving it to downtown Salt Lake City – first to the Gallivan Center and later to Washington Square. Freedman’s last act of the period was organizing Pride Day, Inc. as a separate entity from the defunct GLCCU.

PRIDE IN THE OUGHTS With the new millennium came controversy as Pride Day began to expand exponentially. Kim Russo became director of the new corporation for two years, assisted by co-chairs Adam Frost and Billy Lewis.

During the Russo years, Utah State Rep. Jackie Biskupski and Mayor Rocky Anderson served as grand marshals for the parade, and Marlin Criddle, Brenda Voisard, Laura Milliken Gray and Brook Heart-Song were honored with the Kristen Ries Award.

Unfortunately without the community’s oversight, fiduciary problems surfaced during 2001.

Pride Day 2002 was run by a committee headed by Sherry Booth, with Chad Keller as chair of the parade. Steve Kmetko, host of E! News Live, was grand marshal and the

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tradition of a Grand Marshal Reception was started. Additionally in 2002, the Community Volunteer, Organization of the Year and the Pete Suazo Political Action Awards were created to recognize contributions to the community. The Utah Pride Interfaith Service was also added.

The 2002 committee tried to rebuild the image of Pride Day, but because Pride Day, Inc., had found itself in serious debt, the committee elected to be absorbed by the Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Utah, a move that generated much controversy in the community because of the secrecy surrounding the move.

The Utah Pride Center has provided direction for the event for the past decade and even changed its name to reflect this.

Under the auspices of the former Gay and Lesbian Community Center, the volunteer position of director of Pride Day, Inc., became salaried for the first time in 2003. The same year a Dyke March was added to the annual Pride Day Parade. Donald Steward was the parade coordinator for three of those years.

In 2004, the Salt Lake City Film Center was asked to curate a series of films during Pride week that reflected the best in gay cinema. The Damn These Heels film festival was held annually thereafter.

2005 saw Pride Day organizers charging a first-time $5 admission fee for the events on Library Square and Washington Square.

This move generated considerable discontent, but eventually provided for higher quality performers at the celebration.

In 2009, Cleve Jones, during a rally at the Utah Pride Festival, called for a March on Washington to coincide with National Coming Out Day and kick off a grassroots campaign for equality in each of the nation’s 435 congressional districts to launch a new chapter in the gay-rights movement.

The grand marshals chosen under the direction of the Center were Kate Kendall, Bruce Bastian, Utah State Senator Scott McCoy, J. Boyer Jarvis, John Amaechi, Mayor Ralph Becker, Cleve Jones, Sister Dottie S. Dixon, Roseanne Barr and Dustin Lance Black.

The Kristen Ries Award recipients were Doug Wortham, Lucia Malin, Jane and Tami Marquardt, Utah State Rep. Jackie Biskupski, Doug Fadel, Stan Penfold, Walter Larabee, Mark Swonson, Michael Aaron and Valerie Larabee.

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Pride across the country Still deciding on where to go for your summer vacation? Here are Pride celebrations across the country for you to enjoy. In blue are driveable from Salt Lake City in 6 hours or less. There are 13 within a day’s drive! New this year: Ogden, Utah and Elko, Nevada.

May

7 Birmingham, AL centralalabamapride.org

22–25 Chicago: Mr. 7 Conway, AK Leather imrl.com conwaypride.com 22–26 Puerto Vallarta 7 Queens, NY Pride vallartapride.com queenspride.org 30–June 1 Ferndale, MI 7–14 Ontario, Canada ferndalepride.com

June 1 Asbury Park, NJ jerseypride.org

1–7 Buffalo, NY buffalopridefestival.com

2 Pine City, MN eastcentralminnesotapride.com

3–7 El Paso, TX epscp.org/pridefest.html

3–7 Washington, D.C. capitalpride.org

4–7 Salt Lake City, UT utahpridecenter.org

5 Dallas MetroBall razzledazzledallas.net

5–13 Indianapolis, IN indyprideinc.org

5–14 Boston, MA bostonpride.org

5–14 Edmonton, Can. edmontonpride.ca

5–14 Winnipeg, Can. pridewinnipeg.com

5–15 Pittsburgh, PA pittsburghpride.org

5–7 Kansas City, KS facebook.com

5–7 Milwaukee, WI pridefest.com

5–7 Orlando: Black Pride orlandoblackpride.com

5–7 Orlando: Magical Weekend onemagicalweekend.com

6 Albany, NY

thunderpride.ca

10–14 Key West, FL keywestpride.org

lgbttboqueron.org

12–13 Elko, NV elkonvpride.com

12–13 Kalamazoo, MI pride.kglrc.org

12–14 Des Moines, IA lgbtshirts.com

12–14 Los Angeles Pride – WeHo lapride.org

12–14 Los Angeles Pride lapride.org/index.html

12–20 Omaha, NE heartlandpride.org

13 Albany, NY capitalpridecenter.org

13 Albuquerque, NM abqpride.com

13 Baton Rouge, LA brpride.org

13 Brooklyn, NY brooklynpride.org

13 Huntington, NY lgbtnetwork.org/pride

13 Long Island, NY lipride.org

13 San Mateo, CA facebook.com/ SMCPrideEvent

13 Spokane, WA outspokane.com

13–14 Portland, OR pridenw.org

blackandlatinogaypride.com 14 Philadelphia, PA phillypride.org alaskapride.org 15–21 Oklahoma City honolulupff.org

6 Sacramento, CA sacramentopride.org

6 San Juan, Puerto Rico facebook.com/PRGayPride

6–7 Detroit, MI motorcitypride.org

6–7 Kingston, NY lgbtqcenter.org

capitalcitypride.net

19–21 Scottsdale, AZ facebook.com/GayDaysArizona

19–28 Toronto, Can. pridetoronto.com

20 Providence, RI prideri.com

20 Salisbury, NC

salisburypride.com 11–14 Boqueron, Puer.

20 Syracuse, NY Rico

6 Anchorage, AK 6 Honolulu, HI

19–21 Olympia, WA

okcpride.org

19–20 Boise, ID boisepridefest.com

19–20 Louisville, KY kypride.com

19–21 Bisbee, AZ bisbeepride.com

19–21 Columbus, OH stonewallcolumbus.org

19–21 New Orleans gayprideneworleans.com

dddynasty.wix.com/ cnypride

20–21 Denver, CO glbtcolorado.org/pridefest

21 Huntsville, AL rocketcitypride.info

21–28 Houston, TX pridehouston.org

21–28 New York City Pride nycpride.org

22 Bend, OR centraloregonpride.org

22–22 Chicago Pride chicagopride.gopride.com

24–28 Four Corners Pride, Durango 4calliancefordiversity.org

26–27 Pocatello, ID pocatellopride.org

26–27 Auga, GA prideAuga.org

26–27 Nashville, TN nashvillepride.org

26–27 Norfolk, VA hamptonroadspride.org

27 Cincinnati, OH cincinnatipride.org

27 Cleveland, OH clevelandpride.org/home

27 Fayetteville, AK nwapride.org

27 Flagstaff, AZ flagstaffpride.org

27 Lexington, KY lexpridefest.org/site

27 Santa Fe, NM santafehra.org

27 St. Petersburg, FL stpetepride.com

27–28 Minneapolis tcpride.org

27–28 San Francisco sfpride.org

27–28 Seattle, WA seattlepride.org

27–28 St. Louis, MO pridestl.org

28 Mexico City, Mex. worldguide.eu

28 NYC: Dance at the Pier nycpride.org/events 2–8 Orlando: Disney Gay Days

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2 Laguna Beach, CA

Rendezvous gaydays.com wyomingequality.org 28–July 5 Victoria, BC, Can.victoriapridesociety.org 8 Eugene, OR eugenepride.org

July 4 San Antonio, TX pridesanantonio.org

5 Surrey, Canada surreypride.ca

10–18 Tacoma, WA tacomapride.org

11 Green Bay, WI newpridealive.com

11–19 Provincetown Bear Week ptownbears.org

12–13 Bellingham, WA bhampride.org 13–20 Four Corners Campout campout.moonfruit.com

16–26 Halifax, Can. halifaxpride.com

17–19 San Diego sdpride.org

18–20 NYC: Sand blast Weekend sandblastweekend.com/ Home.html

18–29 Colorado Springs cospride.org 20 Bremerton, WA kitsappride.org

20–31 Pittsburgh, PA pittsburghblackpride.org

24 Deming, NM gogaynewmexico.com

25 Reno, NV northernnevadapride.org

25–26 Baltimore, MD baltimorepride.org

10–16 Montreal, Canada fiertemontrealpride.com

10–16 Montreal, Canada fiertemontrealpride.com

13–16 Key West, FL tropicalheatkw.com

14–23 Ottawa, Canada capitalpride.ca

15–16 Charlotte, NC charlottepride.org

15–21 Provincetown Carnival ptownchamber.com

22 Lansing, MI michiganpride.org

22–23 Toledo, OH toledopride.com

22–30 Austin, TX austinpride.org

27–Sept 1 New Orleans Southern Decadence gayeasterparade.com

28–Sept 7 Calgary, Canada pridecalgary.ca

30 San Jose, CA svpride.com

familyequality.org

folsomstreetfair.org/ upyouralley

Aug 1 Ogden Pride ogdenpride.org

1 Dover, DE delawarepride.org

1 Orange County, CA prideoc.com

1 Rehoboth, DE delawarepride.org/ wordpress

1 Santa Ana, CA prideoc.com

1–9 Charleston, SC charlestonpride.com

22–27 Orlando: Bear Bash orlandobearbash.com

24–27 Sedona, AZ sedonagaypride.org

25–27 Moab Pride moabpride.org

26 Durham, NC ncpride.org/pride

26 Melbourne, FL spacecoastpride.org

26 Memphis, TN midsouthpride.org

26–27 SF: Folsom Street Fair folsomstreetfair.com

Oct 2–5 Anaheim, CA gaydaysanaheim.com

3 Miami Hispanic LGBT Pride celebrateorgullo.com

3–4 Jacksonville, FL rivercitypride.com

10 Oceanside, CA northcountypride.com

10 Orlando Pride comeoutwithpride.com

10–11 Atlanta, GA atlantapride.org

1–11 Fort Worth, TX tcgpwa.org

30–Sept 7 Black Rock, 12 Oswego, NY oswegopride.com NV queerburners.com 16–17 Winston–Salem, NC

Sept

pridews.org

3–7 Quebec City, Can. 17 Pasadena, CA arcencielquebec.ca

4–6 Fire Island, NY ascensionparty.com

25–Aug 1 Provincetown 8–14 Las Vegas Pride Family Week lasvegaspride.org 26 SF: Up Your Alley

19 Provo, UT

facebook.com/WestStreetprovopride.org Beach 19–20 Wichita, KS 2 Vancouver Gay Pride wichitapride.com vancouverpride.ca 20 Dallas Pride 5–9 Wyoming Equality dallastavernguild.org

11–12 Idaho Falls idahofallspride.org

11–13 Lincoln City, OR oregoncoastpride.com

12 Chula Vista, CA southbaypride.org

12 Richmond, VA vapride.org

12 Savannah, GA savannahpride.com

12 Worcester, MA worcesterpride.org

12–13 Roanoke, VA roanokepride.org

13 Burlington, VT pridecentervt.org

13 Oakland, CA oaklandpride.org

sgvpride.org

17 Las Vegas World Interpride interpride.org

17 Tucson, AZ tucsonpride.org

31 Chicago Halloween Parade northalsted.com

31 LA / WeHo: Halloween Carnaval visitwesthollywood.com/ halloween–carnaval

9–11 Fort Lauderdale Pridefest pridesouthflorida.org

Nov 15–Dec 1 Fort Lauderdale Gay Days gaydays.com

6–8 Palm Springs pspride.org

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Gear Up For Pride The Utah

Pride Festival is only a week away, making it the perfect time to rock a pink boa, leather harness and platforms while sashaying with a full-size rainbow flag down Main Street. But finding the glam and glitter gear necessary to bedazzle and amaze during the most fabulous weekend of the year can be such a chore! No need to fret, because QSaltLake is recommending some the best shops, boutiques and gift stores to stock up on everything from jewelry and T-shirts to tutus and rainbow collars for you and your animal companions.

Cahoots: This adult store and gift shop is a staple in the Utah gay community, conveniently located in one of the queerest areas of town, the 9th & 9th District. From rainbowcolored socks to coffee mugs and all the gay magazines, Cahoots is a one-stop shop for all your Pride gear. The Pride selection is available all year, but is really beefed up during the early summer months. Feather boas, T-shirts, adult toys, lube, bracelets, belt buckles, beer

cozies and other trinkets are available at this queer-affirming store.

Cahoots is located at 878 E. 900 South. It’s open daily, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Cabin Fever: This eclectic store has an enormous selection of gifts, cards and other fabulous items. Pride flags, pins and other items are available. Located in Trolley Square in the building next to Whole Foods, Cabin Fever is one of the best options for rainbowshopping in Utah.

Cabin Fever is located at 700 East and 600 South. It’s open Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-9 p.m., and Sunday, noon-5 p.m.

Pride Clothing: Nothing says pride like a rainbow T-shirt or a “Legalize Gay” tank top. While shopping for all the other gear, stop by Hot Topic in the Gateway

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or Fashion Place malls, American Apparel in Trolley Square, and Our Store in downtown Salt Lake for all the queerthemed clothing.

Unhinged: The local boutique-style clothing and vintage store for men and women will transport you out of Utah and into a place where well-dressed individuals are the norm and the stores aren’t all corporations. Think Urban

Outfitters, with a shop-local Utah twist.

Stop by for bright-colored jeans and other adorable handmade and locally made items. It’s located at 1121 E. 2100 South.

Underwear: Nothing says Pride like strutting around in a pair of low-cut Andrew Christian briefs or a rainbow-colored pair of Calvin Kleins. For a great pair of undies to show off your “pride,” visit Spark/ Cockers and Mischievous Pleasures. From jockstraps to wrestling singlets and all the latest designer briefs and swimwear, these two locally owned stores are just chock full of pride.

They’re both great for stocking up on lube, condoms and other pride necessities.

Spark/Cockers is located in Trolley Square at 700 East and 600

South.

Mischievous Pleasures is located at 559 S. 300 West. Q

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11 songs to pimp your Pride playlist

BY CHRIS AZZOPARDI

You don’t

have to part with your Madonna.

You can keep your Diana Ross, your other divas and all the queer classics that stoke your Pride playlist. But is your rainbow losing its luster? Is “We Are Family” really still your go-to? Splash some new color into your celebratory mix with these notancient anthems.

“DANCE WITH ME,” KELLY CLARKSON

“WE EXIST,” ARCADE FIRE

“ALL KINDS OF KINDS,” MIRANDA LAMBERT

There’s no ignoring us now, but still – it never hurts to remind non-queers that we have a place in the world too. On this feisty rally cry directly inspired by the LGBT movement, these Canadian allies stand up with us, rocking their way through an ’80s-inspired call for equality.

Leave your right-wing angst at the door and douse yourself in the shimmering sounds of Miss Independent’s neon-bright dance delight. No crying. No fighting. No shaming. Kelly Clarkson won’t have any of it … unless it involves body bumping. And glitter, because obviously.

“Thomas was a congressman with closets full of skeletons,” the country superstar sings, before delivering the real kicker: “... and dresses that he wore on Friday nights.”

With compelling character vignettes and a wise assessment of ignorance, Lambert’s guitar-guided ditty celebrates every color of the rainbow.

“UNBELIEVERS,” VAMPIRE WEEKEND Capturing unification in all its magical hearthappy glory is this Vampire Weekend groove. As it playfully bounces about, just you try not to get wrapped up in the evocative adorability of the NYC hipsters’ sweet sentiment – love – dedicated to the world’s nonconformists.

“LOOKING HOT,” NO DOUBT A declaration of fierceness, Gwen Stefani struts her stuff all over this ska-flavored synth song, urging anyone in her path to “go ahead and stare, and take a picture please.” It’s how you’ll feel when you join that sexy sea of gays, wearing your “clothes.”

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“TOGETHER YOU AND I,” DOLLY PARTON To make much headway, we gotta do it hand in hand, right? Dolly knows, and she’s preaching it on this bit of buoyant, pop-country inspiration. “Paint a pretty rainbow with love across the sky,” the Country Queen sings, as if they’re not already painted across every sky, and above every gay.

“BURNING GOLD,” CHRISTINA PERRI Pop singer-songwriter Christina Perri is done waiting and hoping for change to just magically happen. So, with a thundering drum beat behind her, she stops wishing and starts realizing, igniting the flame that’s been right there in her hands the whole time.

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“THE FIGHT,” SIA Don’t even bother trying to stand in Sia’s way. The Aussie is one of the world’s most soughtafter songwriters, but even before she was swinging from her chandelier, Sia was bigger than life itself on this cartoony romp – and that’s exactly how she makes you feel too.

“QUEEN,” PERFUME GENIUS Who runs the world? You! Mike Hadreas (aka Perfume Genius) gives you permission – not that you needed it – to own the crown that was already yours, bestowing it upon all the “cracked, peelin’” queers who are “riddled with disease.” Haters gon’ hate, but as Hadreas warns: “No family is safe when I sashay.”

“TAKE ME TO CHURCH,” SINEAD O’CONNOR Nothing compares to you. No, really – you’re the best. “Set me on the floor; I’m the only one I should adore,” the Irish icon declares, waxing poetic about finding love in a place where it’s sometimes seemingly impossible – from within.

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Tony’s Gay Agenda

BY TONY HOBDAY

ANNUAL EVENTS

CONCERTS

PRIDE is upon us, and what it means is Proudly Reaching Inebriation During Every-blooming-thing; and, according to Michael, if it involves a hot tub and the sun rising, then the meaning is definitely true. Plus, throw in a fabulous arts festival and PRIDE is Pot-

PRIDE is pussycats, stylish eyeglasses, Rob Thomas (naked in our dreams), pop punk, physically trying to figure out what Toad the Wet Sprocket means without feeling like a slut, and vodka tonics.

TUESDAY — SMASH MOUTH, TOAD THE 30 WET SPROCKET AND TONIC Snow Park Amphitheater, 2250 Deer Valley Dr. S., Park City, 7pm. Tickets $40-75, bigstarsbrightnightsconcerts.org

DANCE PRIDE is dads-in-drag and other fairy tales. And Broadway is synonymous with PRIDE, so pull out your tap shows you proud homosexuals and enjoy these fabulous works from SB Dance Circus and Utah Dance Artists.

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Black Box Theatre, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 7:30pm, weekends through June 20. Tickets $19.50, arttix.org

— BROADWAY BOUND 12 FRIDAY

Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Cir., UofU, times vary, through Saturday. Tickets $12.50, arttix.org

MOVIES

tery, Rusty lawn art, Inkblots, Dizzying wind wheels and Erin Harpe & The Delta Swingers … pfff, thank god for acronyms.

— QUINTRON & MISS PUSSYCAT 3WEDNESDAY

— UTAH PRIDE FESTIVAL 4 THURSDAY

— INGRID MICHAELSON 19 FRIDAY

Library & Washington Squares, 210 E. 451 South, times vary, through June 7. Grand Marshal Reception tickets $50; Festival pass $20 (excludinf GMR); indvidual tickets $12, utahpridefestival.org

— UTAH ARTS FESTIVAL 25 THURSDAY

Library Square, 210 E. 400 South, times vary, through June 28. Tickets $8 online through June 19, $10-12 at the gate, or $30/4-day pass, uaf.org

Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East. Tickets $10, 24tix.com

The Complex, 536 W. 100 South, 7pm. Tickets $28, 24tix.com

THURSDAY — ROB THOMAS AND 25 PLAIN WHITE T’S Red Butte Garden Amphitheatre, 300 Wakara Way, UofU, 7pm. Tickets $49-64, redbuttegarden.org

So I can’t say there is much PRIDE in just an inch, particularly if it’s angry, but you can take it in the cult classic flick, as part of the Salt Lake Film Society’s Summer Late Nights film event. Also included in the SLFS’s mix is a little spice … named Scary, Baby and Ginger.

Hot! PRIDE is also back in fashion this year with the help of Yves Saint Laurent, one of Ellen Degeneres’s favorite designers … I assume.

— HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH 5 FRIDAY

Tower Theatre, 900 S. 876 East, 11pm through Saturday and Noon on Sunday.

Tickets $5, saltlakefilmsociety.org

19 FRIDAY — SPICE WORLD

Tower Theatre, 900 S. 876 East, 11pm through Saturday and Noon on Sunday. Tickets $5, saltlakefilmsociety.org

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— SAINT LAURENT 19 FRIDAY

Broadway Centre Cinemas, 111 E. Broadway, times vary. Tickets $6.759.25, saltlakefilmsociety.org

SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS PRIDE shouldn’t be an illusion, but this septet of renowned magicians will give you the belief that your angry inch is a happy millimeter … I’ve got a front-row seat.

— THE ILLUSIONISTS 23 SATURDAY

Capitol Theatre, 50 W, 200 South, times vary, through June 28. Tickets $35-70, arttix.org

THEATRE PRIDE is in making fun of Utah, as only the Salt Lake Acting Company can do. Plus, Alexis Baigue has unusual PRIDE in that muff on his face that make certain gals giggle in pleasure, as well as in being derived a female on Facebook. Damn, to have his unwavering PRIDE ...

WEDNESDAY — SATURDAY’S 24 VOYEUR 2015 Salt Lake Acting Company, 168 W. 500 North, times vary, through Aug. 30. Tickets $39-55, saltlakeactingcompany.org

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N O O P S R E H REESE WIFTIA VERGARA ness ANifDe, LSesObians and the Pursuit of Hot

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BY CHRIS AZZOPARDI

Legally…

lesbian? Well, not exactly.

To the delight of their queerlady fans, Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara may kiss up on each other, but it’s all just part of their Hot Pursuit. In the film, Witherspoon portrays Officer Cooper, a by-the-books cop assigned to protect the ultra-fashionable widow of a drug dealer (Vergara of Modern Family) – at one point faking lesbian to escape a potentially sketchy situation.

This isn’t Witherspoon’s first on-screen kiss with another woman, of course. And even though the Oscar-winning actress couldn’t recall her pre-fame woman-on-woman debut during our interview – 1996’s Freeway, when she and Brittany Murphy made out – how could we forget?

“I don’t think I’ve kissed another girl on screen,” Reese says, as we’re asked to move onto the next question.

Here’s what else the budding BFFs had to say about lesbians, Legally Blonde and female liberation during this gay press exclusive.

Dealing with homosexuality in comedy can be delicate, and some people take offense to pseudo lesbianism. As actors, how do you know when not to go too far? Is there a “too far”?

Reese: I think gay people are able to play straight roles; straight people are able to play gay roles. The whole point of being an actor is to transform. If people don’t understand that we need to be malleable in our sexuality, then I think they need to lighten up.

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Sofia, you’re on a gay-loved TV show. Reese, you famously taught us the “bend-and-snap.” Looking back, when were you both first aware that you had a gay and lesbian following?

Reese: For me, probably Legally Blonde, or Cruel Intentions.

Sofia: I’ve never really thought about it. I’ve always had a lot of gay friends as very close friends. I don’t know! My [Modern Family] character, Gloria – they like her!

Reese: Her attitude. And the way she dresses – yeah!

Reese, what did the bend-and-snap do for your gay cred?

Reese: Um, well, hopefully legitimized my dance moves! I have a strong dance game.

Sofia: She does, she does!

Reese: And now I’m working on a Latino audience with my dance game.

Sofia: Oh, the Latino audience adores her!

Reese: (Laughs) Sofia’s taught me how to Latin dance.

Sofia: You didn’t need me to teach you anything – you knew already.

Reese: I had a beat in my heart.

How much of the “nuzzle Reese’s face in Sofia’s bosom” scene was improvised?

Sofia: Oh, it was half and half.

Reese: Yeah, it was in the script, and then Sofia decided she’d yank my ponytail.

Sofia: Yeah, she smelled very good!

I don’t have to tell you that your makeout scene in Hot Pursuit is already getting a lot of lesbian buzz. How accustomed are you to attention from lesbians at this point in your career?

Reese: I have a ton of lesbian friends, and I think any kind of woman who relates to us or enjoys the movie – that’s awesome!

Sofia: Half of the time I don’t know if they’re lesbian. It’s just normal. It’s not like they’re like, “Hi, I am a lesbian and I am a fan!”

Reese: (Laughs) The whole movie is: It doesn’t matter where you’re from, what your sexual orientation is, what you do for a living, what your ethnicity is – women are women, and we all have a lot in common.

I’ve loved watching the evolution of female actors in the action genre. How does it feel being a part of “the girls can be just as bad as boys” movement in Hollywood?

Reese: I think it’s great. It’s liberating because it’s not all about our characters’ romantic lives or that we’re chasing men – it’s that we’re running for our lives and we have to figure out a way to get along so that we survive.

How do you feel about it, Sofia?

Sofia: About her lesbian followers?!

Sure! Let’s talk some more about Reese’s lesbian followers.

Sofia: (Laughs) No, like I said, I didn’t really notice. I think the thing with movies is to entertain everybody. You don’t have to be anything special to enjoy the entertainment of what we’re doing. We’re doing it for everybody.

How do female-led films like Hot Pursuit – directed by a woman, Anne Fletcher, and featuring strong female leads – contribute to the feminist movement?

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The 5th Annual Reese: Anything where two women are relating to each other – and we’re the leads of the movie, and it’s directed by a woman – it’s kind of a new thing. So, we’re excited. But it’s actually a really exciting summer for women’s films with Pitch Perfect 2, directed by a woman (Elizabeth Banks), and Spy with Melissa McCarthy, and Trainwreck with Amy Schumer. Last summer was not good for women’s films. I mean, I kept going, “What am I gonna see this summer?” And there weren’t any good movies last summer for women. I think this is the summer for women.

Hillary Clinton would be happy to hear that. I bet she’d dig all this Hot Pursuit girl power.

Reese: We hope everybody likes it!

So, Reese, you get to dabble in

drag. You make a cute boy, by the way.

Reese: Thaaaanks!

How was it determined what kind of boy you’d be for your drag debut?

Reese: It was really interesting! Like, obviously I was José Bieber, the Latin Bieber, in this movie. As soon as I put on the clothes, my whole personality changed. You know, I was talkin’ to the honeys!

Sofia: Actually, I have to say, it was one of my favorite scenes, because to see her like that was so odd. I wasn’t prepared.

She suddenly showed up like that to the set and it was so hilarious. I mean, if you see the movie, at the end there are some bloopers of me not being able to control myself.

Reese: Because she thought I was hot.

Sofia: No. I thought you looked ridiculous! Q

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Into the Woods Throughout her longstanding career as Acting God, Meryl Streep has used her cinematic superpowers to, on occasion, expertly polish turds, turning them into beautiful pieces of holy excrement. But even The Streep has her limits. Mamma Mia! was a scenic snafu no matter what notes the actress nailed; Rob Marshall’s film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods, luckily, extinguishes the leftover fumes from that ABBA stinker.

This musical is not the Streep Show, however. Though she maintains a godly presence as the morphing witch, the dark magic is more than just Meryl’s. The actress, of course, gives heft (and some seriously solid singing) to the film’s heart, but praise is due all around – to Anna Kendrick as Cinderella, to Chris Pine as her Prince, and to the fantastically paired James Corden and Emily Blunt, the baker and his wife. What’s lost in the translation from stage to screen – a minor gripe – is redeemed by way of transformative sets and Disney’s surprisingly faithful retelling of Sondheim’s upturned “happily ever after.”

Deeper in the woods, there’s a fair array of supplements on the Blu-ray release, though none of them will change your life more than this one: “She’ll Be Back,” the Streep number not seen in the final film.

Selma Martin Luther King Jr, we’re sorry. We’re sorry that your life was spent standing for racial equality, and yet here we are a half century later, black people still violently targeted on the basis of skin color. In light of recent events, then, the Oprah-produced MLK story, Selma, resonates with painful truth: strides still need to be made. The drama harrowingly depicts the civil rights movement in full swing, as MLK relentlessly pushes for the

screen queen end to legalized segregation through demonstrations such as the historical Montgomery-bound march of 1965. A watershed cinematic experience, Selma is a galvanizing portrait of a fearless leader, brought to life with spirited authenticity by a spellbinding performance from English actor David Oyelowo. More than a mere by-the-book history lesson – and under the meticulous direction of Ava DuVernay – it’s a moving masterpiece, from the gut-punch beginning to the heart-healing conclusion. Among the bountiful extras are a featurette called “Recreating Selma,” centered on adapting a true story for film, and two commentaries, both with insight from DuVernay.

Maude: The Complete Series Before wisecrackin’ her way into the hearts of every homo as Dorothy Zbornak on Golden Girls, Bea Arthur was already earning her queer icon cred on Maude.

Playing the classic TV comedy’s namesake for six years in the mid ’70s, the Broadway actress earned affection (and Emmys) by proving she could dial up the sass simply by flashing her iconic stone-cold stare. Bold, prickly and politically liberal, Maude epitomized the qualities worthy of gay worship, and the character – in all her button-pushing brilliance – busted the doors down on topical, controversial political and social issues: race, homosexuality and abortion, to name a few. Arthur infused the hard-hitting commentary with her iconic comedic genius and sharp, acerbic wit, all while showcasing her signature real-life speaking voice. All 147 half-hour episodes of Maude are finally culled for the first time on DVD in this vast collection that includes never-before-seen footage, featurettes (among them: “And Then There’s Maude: Television’s First Feminist”) and Maude-centric episodes of All in the Family, the series that launched Bea into queer-culture stardom.

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Interstellar The mindbending ways of Christopher Nolan (don’t pretend you’re still not trying to figure out Inception) return to exhaust your mental capacity during this dense, time-twisty behemoth.

Forget details, though. Screw logic. You’re gonna erupt into a geyser of waterworks even if you can’t make sense of it all. Nolan goes all out, grounding his flashy CGIprettied space odyssey with the emotional heaviness of a hero torn between leaving his family and saving the world – you know, just everyday problems we all have.

Technical concepts and heady philosophical affirmations express a relatively simple antithesis to the hard science on hand: the enduring power of love. Poignancy comes courtesy of Matthew McConaughey, who radiates a deep emotional bond with his daughter (the always-radiant Jessica Chastain) that only strengthens as the three-hour epic culminates into a dizzying display of wondrous speculation about life on earth … and beyond. An entire supplemental disc delves into the film’s key scientific observations; the 50-minute, McConaughey-narrated feature on the visuals, theories and science behind Insterstellar is particularly intriguing.

Dear White People The black people of Dear White People want you to know that, no, they aren’t all into Tyler Perry movies, and yes, they like, even love, Taylor Swift. Justin Simien’s funny and frank directorial debut wryly spotlights an astounding number of stereotypes and cultural misappropriations pertaining to a group of “don’t call us African-Americans” at a white-heavy Ivy League. As individual stories thread through a satirical narrative – one arc involves an aspiring gay journalist – race issues in post-Obama, 21st-century

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America are exposed by blowing the lid off “weaved” black chicks and black guys with big, thick... . Even the film’s classical chestnuts – the whitest of white music – have something profound to say about the racial divide that Dear White People blasts.

The sneers don’t end there; “The More You Know” offers six minutes of stereotype debunking via PSA-style segments, and “Racial Insurance” is essentially black eye for the white guy. Outtakes, deleted scenes and a making-of are also included.

Also Out THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING Whether he’s Marilyn Monroe’s boy-toy, the real-life physicist Stephen Hawking or, in the forthcoming The Danish Girl, a trans woman, Eddie Redmayne’s versatility is as alluring as the shiny, happy actor himself. And now he has an Oscar to prove it. Winner of Best Actor for his spot-on portrayal of Hawking in the magically moving The Theory of Everything, Redmayne fully embodies the shatteredbut-inspiring life he depicts, perfectly capturing the charming sincerity, undying humor and gradual physical impairment required of someone afflicted with motor neurone disease. Special features are few: a director commentary, a brief behind-thescenes and a handful of deleted scenes.

BIRDMAN The ego is a screaming nuisance in Birdman, an insane acid trip starring Michael Keaton as a washed-up actor who hangs out in the deep, dark corners of his own head. It’s messy in there, and for someone whose career has taken a nosedive – he’s aged out of “Birdman,” the superhero role that earned him notoriety – Riggan Thomson is plagued by being, well, Riggan Thomson. Keaton excels as a neurotic narcissistic whose hallucinations get the best of him as he attempts to reclaim

his heyday glory with a Broadway production, unraveling in the process. Adding to the insanity is Emma Stone as his delirious daughter and the technical zippiness of the seemingly-but-not-actually ceaseless shot. Besides a peek into the making of Birdman, there’s also a striking exchange between actor and director during “A Conversation with Michael Keaton and Alejandro G. Iñárritu.”

OLIVE KITTERIDGE Just in case you somehow forgot that Frances McDormand is one of the greatest living actresses of our time, Olive Kitteridge is here to remind you. As the titular protagonist in this beautifully bleak four-part HBO miniseries, the Fargo dynamo is a despicable monster, bound to a graceless existence due in large part to a mentally unstable lineage. Why do you still feel so deeply for someone who’s so intolerable? Because McDormand. The masterclass mines the mind and heart of someone suffering mental illness, scaling her every emotion and experience to full effectiveness. At once dreary and life-affirming, Olive Kitteridge is television at its most poetic. Extras are nonexistent, but with four hours of McDormand’s brilliance, it hardly matters.

THE BABADOOK Real-life horrors are, oftentimes, more horrific than the madeup yarns of the cinematic frights creeping our psyche.

Paralyzed by her own, Amelia, a widowed mother (a sympathetic Essie Davis), falls into a psychological fit on the anniversary of her husband’s untimely death. The trigger? A children’s book called The Babadook, an ominous pop-up that devours Amelia’s mentally unstable, grief-stricken mind.

The demon within is often the worst kind, as we learn in this clever and surprisingly touching nail-bitter about the toll tragedy can take, and the unbreakable bond between mother and child. Director Jennifer

Kent’s original concept, the short film Monster, is included among a haunting heap of bonus features.

WILD Reese Witherspoon leaves the pink resume paper at home in Wild. Based on Cheryl Strayed’s memoir, the Legally Blonde bend-and-snapper steps into Strayed’s hiking boots, packing her bags and the shattered bits of her heart for a trek through the Pacific Crest Trail. The hope of healing her grief-stricken wounds and abating her recklessness follows her through this 1,000-plus-mile stretch of enlightenment and renewal. Jean-Marc Vallée directs a standout performance from Witherspoon, who acts alongside the also-compelling Laura Dern (as her mother in flashbacks), during his raw, picturesque followup to Dallas Buyers Club. Strayed relates the movie to her own life during the extras, which also include a Vallée commentary, deleted scenes and a look at the rustic Oregon shoot. Q

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1675 E 1300 S 801-581-0809 Breakfast or lunch in a friendly, warm and hip environment.

The converted garage is now a stylish, enticing eatery. Try the eggs Benedict, French toast, custom-tailored omelets, huevos rancheros or cheese blintzes for breakfast.

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VERTICAL DINER 2280 S West Temple 801-484-8378 Vegan diner serving down-home comfort food and breakfast all day. Specialties include fried faux chicken, blueberry pancakes, and hand cut french fries. Also serving fair trade coffee, tea, chocolate, and more.

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BY SAM KELLEY-MILLS ARIES March 20–April 19 There is nothing more satisfying than being right. Even so, it doesn’t feel good to make someone feel wrong. Family and friends are most important to you, and getting your way could mean hurting some of them. Find the satisfaction of compromise and the joy of receiving. It can feel more amazing than anything!

TAURUS Apr 20–May 20 Harvest a good crop of good feelings and share them with everyone around you. It’s not easy being the voice of reason, but something you do best. A career matter weighs heavy but is easily resolved with a little bit of reasoning. There is bound to be some revelations coming this month, solely from of your actions.

Orientation Identification ACROSS

1 Lie beside 5 Gold Olympic award for Megan Rapinoe 10 “My stars!”

14 Kelly McGillis’ The Monkey’s ___ 15 Shelley in Popeye 16 Stow, as cargo 17 Start of a quote from 32-Across 20 Be in the hole 21 Mishima, for one 22 Like notebook paper 23 Title woman in a 1925 Broadway hit 25 Novelist de Balzac 26 Prefix for da Vinci’s land 27 Got naked and wet 29 Records, to Lambda Legal Defense 30 Bundle up 32 Movie about an overprotective parent 37 One that reproduces without sex 38 Shrinking sea 40 Desperate Housewives lane 44 Hull section

45 Words after honey 46 Customer on Six Feet Under?

48 Cathedral of Hope topper 49 Hindu master 51 Alternate sp.

52 End of the quote 55 Pasolini’s bone 56 Writer Wystan Hugh 57 Barely gets, with “out” 58 They wave their sticks at Citi Field 59 Fourth Estate 60 Where a co. can bet its bottom dollar

DOWN 1 Smelling salts ingredient 2 Jaason Simmons was a lifeguard in this TV show 3 Tammy Baldwin’s body?

4 WBA decision 5 Excited 6 Interior designer de Wolfe 7 Merrill who played with Dick Sargent in Operation Petticoat 8 Shakespearean stream 9 Give the green light 10 Noble or Valby

11 “I Will Survive” singer Gloria 12 Stick fast 13 Signed over 18 Western defense gp.

19 Look from Judi Dench in _Notes on a Scandal_ 24 Carrier to Tel Aviv 25 Hang around 27 Mapplethorpe’s “Dark ___ Rose” 28 Type of crime 30 Bernstein manuscript, e.g.

31 Native American tongue 33 Male deliverers 34 Despina, in Cosi fan tutte 35 Allen Ginsberg partner Peter 36 Captains of industry 39 A Girl Thing director 40 Smarts 41 Make obligatory 42 Most bashful 43 Trunks of sculpture 44 Inconsequential upturn 46 Bars of soap 47 Black pussy cats, e.g.

49 Epithet 50 Like some bad shots

by Mauresmo 53 Ben Vereen forte 54 Adverb for Lord Byron ANSWERS ON PAGE 78

LIBRA Sept 23–October 22 A drowning feeling will be consuming, and it is apparent too much is going on. This is supposed to be a fun time, so eliminate unnecessary burdens. The time has come to put quality above quantity in all matter of the heart. A fantastical encounter will lead to the amazing conclusion that no one cares if you juggle or not.

SCORPIO Oct. 23–Nov. 21 Feel your way through an insane situation involving a work associate. The chaotic nature of your professional life leaves you exhausted, but give your mind a break. The practical solution would be a show of compassion and understanding to someone who causes you stress. A grudge may lead to a great one-on-one session.

GEMINI May 21–June 20 Big news is on the horizon, and likely to be good. A refreshing change of pace and perspective will ensure old wounds will start healing.

A taxing relative or overbearing friend needs to be dealt with. Don’t worry about dismissing the negative influences in life. There is no need to hurt anyone, but put your self first.

SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22–December 20.

Time has come for a change.

Being fed up with someone close to you isn’t healthy, so express your feelings. A strang reaction may come from someone who thought they were being helpful.

Tread firmly but be gentle. Being a little hard is a defining aspect of your nature, and the last thing you want is guilt by being firm.

CANCER June 21–July 22 The dissipation of your energy is due to a serious matter.

Therefore, a nice laugh and a good romp will do the spirit good. Spend time with friends that make you laugh. Financial matters require a second look, but money won’t buy you happiness this time. The most important source of bliss will be your friendships.

CAPRICORN Dec 21–Jan 19 Experiment to find desired results in a relationship matter.

Doing the same thing is likely to bore you and those around you. Shake things up a bit and introduce new dynamics to the routines. The little things make all the difference, something that is well understood, Capricorn. Feeling better entails getting wild

LEO July 23–August 22 Troubles are bound to keep you questioning your self worth, especially when spending time with family members. But a good friend or partner will lift you up with an impromptu adventure. Getting out of the house or spending an afternoon in bed with this person will confirm your worth. Have a good time! Lose the self-pity.

AQUARIUS Jan. 20–Feb. 18 The anger you feel after a frustrating personal interaction could lead to physical pain. The obvious action would be to spend time away from other people. To avoid unwelcome questions, keep a low profile for bit. A partner or lover will understand your need for space. You will feel fine in time for the fun to start.

VIRGO August 23–Sep. 22 There is something bothering you and it is hard to identify. Things are going to good, leaving little to complain about. The therapeutic method of fixing things is notably absent, but looking for trouble isn’t the answer. Instead, work on yourself and have a good time doing it. You will find you have a sweet spot within you.

PISCES Feb 19–Mar 19 Hold onto your feelings and examine your friends. The nature of some of your relationships changed gradually. You may find you’ve lost a few friends over time. Don’t fret!

Continue to form deeper bonds with those closest to you. A matter involving a partnership or romance will lead to rocky waters. This will soon pass. Q

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Mother knows best.

Long before you were old enough to complain, for instance, she knew when you were uncomfortable or ailing and she fixed it. She told you to ignore detractors.

She helped you follow your heart. She reminded you to take a sweater. Mom always knew best – except as in the new memoir “Dangerous When Wet” by Jamie Brickhouse, when her counsel could derail your life. Brickhouse “had no business being a child.”

Then again, he never was a child, really. Starting at age 5 (an age his mother wished she could freeze him, Peter Panstyle) he was his Mama Jean’s sounding board, fashion adviser, and cheering squad. He recalls the fascination of seeing her put on makeup; his days were spent watching her sew and going to downtown Beaumont, Texas, to shop and visit the beauty parlor. He also dimly recalls his first drink at age 5.

Though his mother warned him that others would never love him like she did, his first grade teacher came close. Brickhouse adored that woman who shared school gossip with him and invited him into her home.

Later, after a playground friend became his “first boyfriend,” that same teacher warned Brickhouse that the boy was a “sissy.”

By junior high, he realized that he was, too, but since Mama Jean had had a fit when

Brickhouse’s older gay brother came out and had offered a psychiatrist to Brickhouse if he was “like that,” Brickhouse denied his sexuality.

Years later, he also denied his HIV status to her, just like he denied his alcoholism.

From the time he was a toddler, Brickhouse had had an obsession with sex. His love of drink also came early and the two intersected when he went to college. Even after he found the love of his life, he couldn’t let go of either vice: many nights after work as a book publicist, he drank until he could barely function and often woke up in the arms and homes of strangers.

His boyfriend knew what was going on.

Brickhouse hoped Mama Jean never would…

For some reason, I’ve been awash in mother-and-gay-son memoirs lately. “Dangerous When Wet” is the newest one, and only a little different than the others.

Don’t get me wrong, this wasn’t a bad book, but it doesn’t really stand out a lot.

The author is a funny guy, but I would say that charm is more prevalent in this book than are laughs. That may be, perhaps, because his thumb-sucking, profane, force-to-be-reckonedwith Mama Jean is ultimately like so many other moms: an exasperating reason for eye rolls to their children, but adorable to others.

The small bit of humor lies with her antics at any rate. The alcoholism, the blackouts, the promiscuity: not so much.

I do think this book is worth a try. I enjoyed it enough, but if you’re drowning in similar memoirs, too, you could just as easily skip it. “Dangerous When Wet” isn’t the worst book of this genre, but it’s not the best, either. Q

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positive thoughts

Crossing the viral divide DIANE ANDERSON-MINSHALL

It was

little surprise when HBO’s Looking – a critically acclaimed but poorly rated TV series about gay men in San Francisco – introduced an HIV-positive character in season two.

After all, the city was once the epicenter of the AIDS crisis and now has one of the nation’s highest rates of HIV-positive gay and bi men.

The real revelation, though, was that Eddie, the character Daniel Franzese (already popular from his influential role in Mean Girls) plays, is poz, proud and body positive.

People with HIV are rarities on TV (the last series to have one was Brothers & Sisters in 2011), and when they exist there’s usually a lot of stigmatizing, handwringing and self-loathing around them, with singular storylines that play like a “very special episode.”

But Looking (and the season finale of How to Get Away With Murder, in which Conrad Ricamora’s character Oliver finds out he has HIV) broke the mold with an ordinary gay man who just happened to have HIV. Moreover, it was the first scripted television series to talk about PrEP, or Truvada, as pre-exposure prophylaxis.

“The brief conversation that we have in the Halloween episode happens in a way that I’ve heard PrEP come up amongst my friends… not too preachy,” Franzese told Plus magazine. “I really like the way that it’s handled.”

So did I. Eddie is sexy, healthy and – this is important – romantically pursued by an HIV-negative character. So that the pair can have sex without either of them worrying about transmission, the love interest begins a regimen of PrEP, the daily HIV prevention pill that the iPrEx study proved can reduce HIV infection by up to 99 percent when taken properly.

The fact that Looking handled PrEP in this manner may mean the tide has turned on PrEP, a prevention method initially debated – and actually lobbied against – by some gay men (notably AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s Michael Weinstein, who ar-

gued it was a “party drug” that would make users ditch condoms).

Today in many gay communities, on TV or otherwise, we’re increasingly hearing one thing about PrEP: It’s changing everything.

Both the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have begun recommending PrEP to gay and bi men and transgender women, in hopes of stemming the tide of the 50,000 new HIV cases each year in the United States.

It’s not the numbers, though, that are interesting. It’s the sociocultural changes we see from PrEP. The social dynamics among gay men are changing. I’ve talked to dozens of men who are dating across the viral divide: poz and negative guys dating each other, marrying each other, becoming what romantics call “magnetic couples.”

(The rest of us call them serodiscordant couples, partnerships in which one is poz and one isn’t.)

Between “treatment as prevention” (a method in which someone with HIV suppresses the amount of HIV in their blood, or their viral load, to “undetectable” levels and thus can no longer transmit HIV) and PrEP, many gay men are now having sex without the fear that they can transmit, or acquire, HIV, whether or not there are condoms involved.

My friend Alex Garner, who conducts HIV awareness and prevention programs across the country, says this has impacted how gay men now relate to each other because it’s eliminated a key emotional obstacle to love that gay men have had since the late 1980s: fear.

Like a lot of guys, Alex used to almost exclusively date other HIV-positive men, but PrEP has changed that. He told Plus magazine that the possibility of having a real relationship with someone who is serodiscordant seems much more realistic now because PrEP is available – and it changes the relationship too.

Despite Weinstien’s rants, PrEP really doesn’t seem to be used by wanton sluts

who want to man-whore about town.

(But, if it is, more power to the users, I say; the LGBT rights movement was built on sexual liberation, and PrEP is to gay men in 2015 what birth control was to feminists in 1970, but I digress.)

In fact, when someone is considering PrEP because their partner has HIV, it’s very often a sign that they love and want to build a future with that person, the exact opposite of one-night stands popular in hookup culture.

Weinstein’s ditching condoms theory seems inaccurate. At least one study from Brown University found that many HIVnegative men in relationships already ditch condoms because they want more intimacy in their relationship (and they do so even when one or both of the guys are having sex outside of that relationship).

Over half the men in that study said they’d go on PrEP, which is good because we know from another study out of Emory that nearly 70 percent of all new HIV transmissions for both gay and bi men and transgender women occur in a primary relationship. But the Brown researchers are quick to note: These men and women are willing to go on PrEP, not to suddenly ditch condoms once they’re on PrEP, but to protect themselves because they already ditched those condoms long ago.

Today, PrEP is appearing in dating profiles and on apps like Grindr and Scruff.

Even sites aimed at HIV-positive men, like BarebackRT, report that HIV-negative men are now posting profiles there and touting that they are on PrEP. For generations of men and trans women who’ve lived in fear of HIV, suddenly having a prevention pill is a godsend. That it’s mired in controversy is no surprise; birth control was once as well for many of the same concerns.

But the bottom line is that Truvada as PrEP is one option, one of the best we have available today. Like birth control pills, though, it isn’t for everyone. Soon we’ll have a rectal microbicide, injectable pre-exposure prophylaxis, vaginal rings and more. And when we do, I hope the writers of Looking get at least a tiny footnote in history for breaking ground on TV and for having helped destigmatize PrEP for a generation of LGBT viewers. Q Diane Anderson-Minshall is editor in chief of Plus magazine, the HIV Plus Treatment Guide mobile app, and HIVPlusMag.com. This column is a project of Plus, Positively Aware, POZ, The Body and Q Syndicate.

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the frivolist

Six gay places to kick off the best summer ever

BY MIKEY ROX

MIAMI BEACH

Palm Springs, forget Fire Island and put P-Town on hold. This year, you’re headed to a new LGBT-friendly destination for an unexpected getaway with all the perks to which you’re privy. Time to get packin’.

Sure, the LGBT community has been flocking to Miami for decades, but now that marriage is legal in Florida, you can have the best of both worlds while hitting the sand to say “I do” this summer. Eden Roc Miami Beach offers an affordable

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middle of a bustling metropolitan city. From your home base in the heart of the trendy Condado neighborhood filled with shopping, international cuisine and nightlife, embark on adventures like ATV, horseback riding and zip lining at Haciendo Campo Rico by day, then let loose at night in Old San Juan at La Factoria. Santurce and La Placita of Santurce, the arts and culture center, is just a short taxi ride away, as is the El Yunque Rainforest. Seems like a lot to see and do, but there’ll be plenty of lazy beach time with your boo, too.

ST. MAARTEN Although the Caribbean is breathtaking in landscape, some islands have ugly views

HOUSTON, TEXAS Texas isn’t the first state that comes to mind when you think “progressive,” but its traditional shade of Republican red comes with a few tinges of pink. Houston, specifically, embraces its LGBT community, thanks in part to openly gay mayor Annise Parker, who will vacate her office at the end of the year. MyGayHouston.com, a popular source for LGBTspecific news and happenings, will celebrate its fifth anniversary this year, and Pride Houston will be held June 27.

The fourth-largest city in the United States – it’s true – also boasts a budding art scene and culturally diverse cuisine, which was singled out by Community Marketing’s LGBT travel study last year.

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First, the stunning hotel waives the ceremony fee – freeing up about $1,500 for other activities, like a luxurious spa day on the grounds – along with discounts on food and beverage and complimentary breakfast in bed. And so you can concentrate on enjoying your big day, Eden Roc will have its social media concierge – fancy, huh? – available to capture all your memorable moments. Up until the boomboom begins, anyway; you’re on your own with that AV.

SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO Like playing the odds?

They’re in your favor at the San Juan Marriott Resort & Stellaris Casino, a stunning island property nestled in the

toward the LGBT community (we’re looking at you, Jamaica!). St. Maarten, however, takes pride in its LGBT community, and several resorts, including Sonesta Ocean Point and Sonesta Great Bay Beach Resort, Casino & Spa are now registered with the International Gay & Lesbian Travel Association (IGLTA), the leading global resource in LGBT tourism. Both locations offer same-sex wedding ceremonies – if you want to tie the knot in flip-flops – with a Gay Wedding Institute-certified in-house wedding coordinator.

Spend your first few hours as a legally bound couple canoo-

dling in a private gazebo or partying down at an unforgettable reception at Ocean Point’s Azul Rooftop Bar.

ST. PETE BEACH, FLORIDA Not to be outdone by some of the flashier Florida cities, sunny St. Pete Beach allows for a different kind of vacay – one void of thumping techno music and throwback boardwalk body builders. The Spanishinfluenced Hotel Zamora features a destination restaurant and rooftop lounge serving a locally sourced menu of creative tapas entrees; a marina; fresh-water pool; fitness center; and access to white, sandy beaches. Zamora also will offer a Beachside Pride package this summer in celebration of St. Pete Pride, June 26 to 28.

NORFOLK, VIRGINIA Step out of the box this summer – and into a boat – during the country’s only Pride boat parade, in Norfolk, Va. Part of PrideFest, June 26 and 27, the celebration by sea is open to all maritimers with access to a vessel. The Norfolk Waterside Marriott offers a PrideFest Hotel Package for the weekend, which includes a buffet breakfast for two guests daily, a $25 food and beverage credit per night at Shula’s 347, and selfparking. After you drop your bag, head out into Hampton Roads for waterfront activities, a thriving dining scene, and unique arts and culture. Q

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Neon Trees releases new single Neon Trees released their new single “Songs I Can’t Listen To” today on neontrees.com. The new song was written by front man Tyler Glenn, who came out publicly last year and who sang at the Utah State Capitol Building during the legislative session.

“This song idea came to me at a pivotal time in my life,” said Glenn. “My best friend didn’t want me in her life anymore, and a few weeks later I started seeing someone that excited me, and music was a central part to both relationships. Now neither people are in my life, but all those songs are...And I’m instantly transported to intimate moments with those people whenever those songs come on.”

The band will kick off their new tour, “An Intimate Night Out With Neon Trees,” June 6th in Seattle, and will be in Utah June 13 at 5 Star Legacy Foundation’s Summer Bash featuring Neon Trees with guests Big Data, Fictionist, Alex Winston, The Strike, Blue Aces, Yes No Yes, and Two Nations at the Brent Brown Ballpark on the Utah Valley University campus. Tickets available here.

Neon Trees — Tyler Glenn (lead vocals, keys), Chris Allen (guitars), Branden Campbell (bass), and Elaine Bradley (drums, vocals) — released their third album Pop Psychology in April, 2104. The album, recorded in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Los Angeles, CA, and their hometown of Provo, UT with longtime collaborator Tim Pagnotta spawned the RIAA platinumcertified single “Sleeping With A Friend,” which won a BMI Publishing Award in 2014 and charted in the Top 15 of the Billboard Hot 100..

Pop Psychology is the follow up to Picture Show, which featured the RIAA double platinum single “Everybody Talks,” which charted in the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100. Neon Trees’ debut album, Habits, was released in 2010 and featured the double platinum smash single “Animal.” The band has toured with Taylor Swift, The Killers, Maroon 5, Duran Duran, Flaming Lips, My Chemical Romance, and more

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Cheers to summer 2015: Partystartin’ drink recipes to sip in the sun

BY MIKEY ROX

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hot-and-sweaty season is upon us — and it’s time to throwback a few cold ones.

From pick-me-up coffee concoctions to a cocktail that’ll tickle your pickle, these are the must-make recipes of summer 2015.

1 pint fresh blueberries Rim martini glass with raspberry chipotle sea salt and serve.

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Summer-staple sangria takes the backseat when you break out Black Box Pinot Noir to serve as the base of this fun-and-fruity cocktail. Chilled red wine meets citrus and sparkling wine for a fizzy-fresh drink with zip, designed by Cocktail Guru Jonathan Pogash.

1½ oz Black Box Pinot Noir ¾ oz crème de cassis ½ oz honey syrup 1 oz fresh grapefruit juice Sparkling wine Strawberry slice, garnish Shake all ingredients (except for sparkling wine) with ice and strain into a chilled champagne flute. Top with sparkling wine. Garnish with strawberry slice on rim of glass.

If you missed the iconic Cherry Blossom blooms in the nation’s capital this spring, have a taste of the next best thing from the AC Hotel Washington D.C. in Maryland (eh, it’s close enough), which boasts a beverage-first culture that we all can agree is pretty boss.

1½ oz Sloop Betty Vodka ¼ oz St. Germain ¼ oz simple syrup ¼ oz cherry brandy ¼ oz Oloroso sherry 1 oz lemon juice 1 mint sprig, garnish Add all ingredients into a cocktail shaker. Add ice and shake 10 to 20 times.

Double-strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with mint sprig. For added flavor, rim glass with vanilla sugar. To make, split one vanilla bean in half, remove seeds and whisk in a bowl with ½ cup of sugar.

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Garnish with orange twist.

3. ANCHO BERRY MARGARITA All bets are off when the blender comes out — hello, margies! — but it’s easy to go green this summer with this made-by-hand margarita-on-the-rocks recipe born at the Living Room Bar and Fireplace at the Inn & Spa at Loretto in Sante Fe, N.M. 1½ oz. Roca Patron Silver Tequila ½ oz Cointreau ½ oz fresh lime juice Macerated Blueberries: 6 oz Ancho Reyes Chile Liquor Tbsp sugar

Spicy, sweet and a little bit sour, this recipe courtesy of Del Frisco’s Grille is just what the doctor ordered when you want something a bit more sophisticated than a so-last-year shandy. ½ oz Nolet’s Gin 4½ oz ginger beer Red grapefruit slices, garnish Mint sprigs, garnish Fill wine glass ¾ full with ice. Add gin and ginger beer. Place grapefruit slice in glass and top with mint sprig.

6. INK BOMB Arguably the most innovative cocktail on this list, this squid-ink shot from Death Ave. in NYC isn’t for the weak of stomach.

Cocktail enthusiasts can harvest their own ink by cleaning store-bought cuttlefish at home.

1 oz Tsipouro grape pomace brandy ¼ tsp cuttlefish ink Splash of sour mix 1 tsp fresh lime juice Serve with grilled seafood.

7. SENOR SCOTT Hot, sweet and salty simultaneously, this sparkling collins cocktail — created by

Southern Wine and Spirits of Nevada — is the perfect pairing for an outdoor summer meal derived south of the border.

2 oz quality silver tequila 1 oz. Aperol Blood Orange DRY Slice of lime Paper thin strip of bell pepper Cinnamon salt Rim half a collins glass with lime and cinnamon salt and fill halfway with ice.

Add tequila and Aperol and stir. Top with Blood Orange DRY and stir again. Garnish with red bell pepper and slice of lime.

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2 oz Eagle Rare Bourbon 6 blackberries 3 mint leaves 1 lemon wedge ¼ oz maple syrup Serve in rocks glass.

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1½ oz Bombay Sapphire gin 1½ oz POM Wonderful 100% Pomegranate Juice ½ oz fresh squeezed lime juice ¾ oz agave 3 basil leaves, muddled Top with Perrier or other sparkling water Sliver of lime, garnish Pomegranate seeds, garnish Serve in short glass or wine glass.

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2 oz VDKA 6100 ¾ oz lemon juice ¾ oz simple syrup 1 oz sour pickle brine 1 oz Australian lager beer Combine all ingredients (except beer) in a shaker with ice. Shake and strain into a tumbler glass. Top with a heavy splash of lager beer. Stir gently, garnish with skewered mini pickles and dust with cayenne pepper. Q

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gay writes

Our universal language

BY APPIO HUNTER

I recently

had the great honor and privilege of participating in Intersections: Performance Readings from the Writings of LGBT Adults and Their Allies, which was a joint project between SAGE Utah and Art Access. I can honestly say that Intersections counts as a major crossroad in my life, because I have been greatly impacted for the better. I not only got to read, but also to listen to powerful stories that encompassed virtually the entire LGBT experience in Utah. I got to work with two wonderful actors — Nell Gwynn and Chris Lemon — who are consummate performers and first-rate storytellers. Our director, Charles Lynn Frost, masterfully and lovingly guided us so that we could bring these vital stories to life.

By far, the most humbling part of my experience came from interacting with the writers and the audience members. I loved seeing their faces as they connected to the

stories. I smiled at their joy, soared with their laughter, and shared in their tears. I felt their reverence and experienced their gratitude. I have been deeply touched by every individual I got to know in person or through the stories they told. My thanks and affection go out to each of you.

As I reflected on my experience, I realized that every story, every experience, has laid the foundation for the changes taking place around us. The institutions of fear and hate are crumbling, and in spite of headlines that would have us believe that the world is falling apart, I see a world that is becoming more generous, kind, and inclusive. Love isn’t an idea that is merely expressed in song. It is practiced and experienced every day by each of us.

Yes, there are those who still face bigotry and violence, but we needn’t look far to experience their opposite. For me, I see the “barriers” of culture, labels, language, race, or religion as illusions because when we aren’t taught to fear or hate each other, we

instinctively love. Love is as automatic and natural to us as breathing. It is an action as much as it is a feeling, and it is woven into the very fabric of who we are.

This is what made Intersections so special to me. The stories bridged many themes, but I found that one theme unified them all: Love. Love of self, love of spouse, love of children, love of friends, love of adventure, love of life. Even those stories that spoke of the loss of love still had the beautiful memories of love at their core.

Mathematics may be the universal language of science, but the universal language of everything is love. Let us remember that as we go about our daily lives. Let us remember that as we let go of our fears and anxieties, and as we allow ourselves to simply experience our lives, we will discover that love will always find us and unite us. Q Gay Writes is a DiverseCity Series writing group, a program of SLCC’s Community Writing Center. The group meets the 2nd and 4th Monday of each month, 6:30-8pm, 210 E. 400 South, Ste. 8, Salt Lake.

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the perils of petunia pap smear

PUZZLE SOLUTIONS

As always, these events leave us with several burning eternal questions: 1. In Idaho, how many sheep are required to live in a town before the town can incorporate?

2. Were the neighbors alarmed when they saw me measuring their houses in the dark of night?

3. How many scented candles can you light in a bathroom before the house catches fire?

4. If the candles sucked up all the oxygen in the room, resulting in my asphyxiation, would the obituary read, Death by Scentsy?

5. Where the hell is that “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” button when you really need it?

6. If a queen screams in a bathroom and no one hears it, do you end up making a hot meatball sandwich with the buns and balls?

These and other important questions to be answered in future chapters of The Perils of Petunia Pap Smear. Q

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but was still in working order.

Undaunted by his warning, we proceeded with the acquisition of our dream home.

On move-in day, later that evening, when I had finally located the soap and towels, I decided to treat my poor aching body to an initiatory soothing soak in the jetted tub. I went into the bathroom and flipped on the light switch.

Nothing happened. No light.

Shit! Well, a resourceful queen such as myself could certainly bathe using the braille method.

So I proceeded with my spa preparations. Expecting a torrent of steaming hot water to gush forth, I turned the hot water faucet on full bore. I was shocked at what happened next.

There came from the tap what could only be described as a minuscule dribble of tepid water, flowing ever-so-slowly under no pressure, into the tub.

I got a food thermometer to measure the temperature of the water. It was an underwhelming 90 degrees, right from the tap. I waited and waited, hoping for better results. Forty-five minutes later, the tub was finally full enough to be able to turn on the massaging jets, but by then, the tap was spewing forth nothing but cold water.

I again measured the temperature and it only reached 80 degrees. It was so cool that I did a quick sponge bath and called it good. Since that day, while impatiently waiting for the tax refund us to replace the water heater, we suffered for 10 months with that pathetically, slow, lukewarm shower, with much less pressure than most queens’ teardrops after the season finale of Downton Abbey.

Then last month, Mr. Pap

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to big city sophistication is fraught with danger and excitement.

Many of you might realize that Mr. Pap Smear and I are approaching the one-year anniversary of taking the plunge and purchasing Chateau Pap Smear, right in the heart of metropolis. I was born and raised on a farm with 5,000 sheep in a small Idaho town of 250 people, so you can imagine what a lifechanging event moving to the capital city might be to this ol’ country girl.

Being the size queen that I am, I was excited to see that Chateau Pap Smear is slightly larger than all her neighboring bungalows of the same vintage.

The bathroom even includes a garden-size jetted bathtub.

Before we even purchased the house, I had dreamy visions of this tired old queen filling the bathroom with scented candles and rose petals, resting her beehive hair against a silk pillow, and relaxing in the steaming hot, swirling, regenerative waters. “Oh Calgon, take me away”!

This private luxurious bath experience would be much preferable to an excursion to Crystal Hot Springs, as I would avoid the horrified, yet well-meaning, onlookers as they ceaselessly keep trying to push “the Great White Beached Whale” back into the pool. It wouldn’t be such a bad experience, if they would only stop using 10-foot poles to do it.

We hired an inspector to give the house the once-over before the purchase. He informed us that the water heater was 35 years old, and was in desperate need of being replaced soon,

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The road

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BY PETUNIA PAP SMEAR

little might be left of the family jewels, I slipped and fell, tearing down the shower curtain in the process, this time with my ass directly in the line of fire. The only thing missing from this familiar scene was the screeching sound track and N-N-Norman’s plunging knife from Psycho.

Smear got extremely painful blood clots in his leg. The only way to relieve his pain was to soak in a tub of hot water. So there I was, at 2 a.m., heating up huge pots of water on the stove, to fill the huge garden tub with water that would not freeze the man. We ended up repeating this laborious scenario every night for about one week. I complained bitterly about my water woes to anyone who would listen.

In frustration, I ventured one night into the basement to see what size water heater we should be shopping for, and in the glow of my flashlight, I could see the temperature dial was set to almost off. I nudged the dial one quarter-turn to the left, to the hot setting, and I heard the heater flame jump into action.

With much anticipation, the next morning I stepped into the shower and turned on the hot water faucet full force as usual.

It was still a pathetic dribble.

So with low expectation, I stepped into the dribbling stream of water. I screamed as loud as if they had canceled my membership to the Sequins of the Month Club, when the hot water made contact with, and immediately par-boiled, my testicles. Scrambling to escape this torture and to preserve what

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The tale of a silent scream

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