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Issue 160
August 5, 2010

My Last Shot
Jailed on Christmas Day,
a Man’s Battle to Overcome Meth
Utah’s Gay Lagoon Day Rally will Call for Park Silly
Community Reels Expected to Be Gay Community will be
over Suicides Largest Ever Evolvement Gay for a Day
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 FROMTHEEDITOR
first person
Tough Issues
Issue
by Michael Aaron
M
ichael Aaron thinks next
issue has to be all happy
stuff.
That was my Facebook
status as we were in the home stretch
getting this issue out.
The previous week I did a ton of work
on our website, some computer main-
tenance, cleaned the of-
fice, made phone calls
and developed our edi-
torial calendar for 2011.
All so I didn’t have to
‘In many
sit down and do a long ways we
story on recent suicides
in the gay community, don’t often
edit a feature on the is-
sue of meth in our com-
support our
munity, and work on a
follow-up to our “HIV in
own’
Utah” story with a for-
mer Utahn who has left
the state over his treatment here.
Yes, this is the “Tough Issues” issue.
I guess it can’t be unicorns and rain-
bows, as was suggested for our next is-
sue, all the time.
But these three topics should be, and
are, on the top of agendas of our com-
munity groups and leaders. In fact, next
week I will be attending a meeting where
all of these issues will be discussed.
And up-and-coming leader Turner
Bitton is right. [“Rally for Equality to
Build a Better Community,” page 11.] He
notes that members of the Church of Je-
sus Christ of Latter-day Saints take care
of each other. If someone’s garage burns
down, the local ward is there with ham-
mers in hand to help rebuild. When some-
one has a death in the family, out come
the funeral potatoes.
“In many ways we don’t often support
our own,” Bitton said. “If we draw on
the lessons from the LDS Church we can
learn something.”
Is our community capable of growing
into something like that? We bristle and
puff our chests if a business disses a fel-
low gay or lesbian person, calling for boy-
cotts and rallies. But do we do it for them,
or do we do it so we don’t have the same
issue when we walk in the same doors?
I suppose we may find out on August 13
when Bitton’s rally happens on the Utah
State Capitol grounds. His hope is to talk
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about developing a community that cares
for one another. And he’s talking on a
larger scale than you probably just read.
He wants families and friends of people
who come out to still love their son or
daughter or friend. He wants a welcom-
ing gay and lesbian community that isn’t
rife with high school bitchiness, name-
calling and judgmental
attitudes.
Yes, Bitton is 19. But
is he “just” an idealist,
or is he a visionary? He
makes the point that
most people in this com-
munity grew up in the
LDS culture. Where did
the compassion and cir-
cling-the-wagons mental-
ity go?
When a fellow mem-
ber of our community
finds that he or she has contracted HIV,
we as a community should be funneling
our strength to help him or her survive
— financially, emotionally, physically.
When one of us has his face bashed in by
a ’phobe, we should be more concerned
about the victim’s welfare than an angry
sound bite on the evening news. When a
friend finds himself addicted to a drug, we
should make ourselves available to help,
not to judge.
While driving to the liquor store yester-
day for my vitamins, I saw a woman get
hit by a car as she was crossing the street.
I pulled over and ran to her and found that
about two dozen people came out of the
woodwork to help out as well. That’s what
Utahns do. That’s what any civilized,
compassionate person should do.
That is not the story I’m hearing from
many people within our community.
How do we change that? How do we
evolve as a community to do the things
we should do as individuals?
That is your assignment for the next
week. Develop ideas and send them to me
at e
­ ditor@qsaltlake.com. I’ll bring them
up at my August 11 meeting and during
my speech at the Rally for Equality on
Aug. 13.
And, yes, the next issue is about happy
stuff — unicorns and rainbows. Or our
pets. One of those.
Until then.  Q
 national news
NJ Supremes Reject
Marriage Case
In a 3-3 vote, New Jersey’s Supreme Court
rejected a same-sex marriage case July 26,
saying it needs to be dealt with in a lower
court first.
Lambda Legal’s motion claimed that
New Jersey’s civil-union law for same-sex
couples violates a 2006 state Supreme Court
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❝❝ It’s just heroically hard
to do everything the average
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that it really amplifies the
challenges. As someone else
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ruling that ordered the state to treat gay and ‘gays interrupt the Mormon
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law was the eventual outcome of that ruling.
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to act and the Supreme Court’s decision to-
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Lesbian Mormons, commenting on
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where an entire people are thrown aside into
a profoundly inferior status, spit on, dumped ❝❝ He’s been dead a year
and still doesn’t have a Cahoots
on, utterly degraded, by hospitals and em-
ployers who mock the term ‘civil union,’”
headstone. At his funeral
his parents said ‘We just
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said Steven Goldstein, chair of Garden State feel he’s better off.’ How can

Equality.
Lambda Legal said it was “terribly disap-
pointed” by the decision.
“Our plaintiffs and the New Jersey Legis-
lature’s own Civil Union Review Commis-
sion documented the rampant discrimina-
tion same-sex couples face as a consequence
of civil union status, and this ruling now
relegates our plaintiffs to second-class citi-
zenship for even longer,” said Deputy Legal
Director Hayley Gorenberg. “Separating out
one group and relegating the people in it to
a lesser status, in this case to civil unions
in New Jersey, invites discrimination from
all quarters — the government, businesses,
schools, medical providers, individuals.”
County Pays $600,000
QSaltLake Offices
any parent say that? I just
don’t know.”
—Allison Black, founder of Ogden’s
PFLAG chapter, telling the Ogden
Off-Trax
All-day picnic at
Sonoma County, Calif. couple Harold Scull (left) and Clay Greene in one of few remaining photographs left in existence. Standard-Examiner about a young
gay man she knew who killed himself
Sonoma County to demand more oversight
Anti-gay Arizona Law
the Maple Terrace
when his LDS family rejected him
of the Public Guardian’s office. They need to
be watched.” Blocked ❝❝ The gay community has
lost three friends in three
Plaintiff Janette Biggerstaff, the executor Lambda Legal won a preliminary injunction weeks and I know of at
of Scull’s estate, said the domestic-abuse al- July 23 stopping Arizona from revoking do- least three others from this
legations amounted to “the county spreading
such terrible lies about Clay.”
mestic-partner benefits for state employees.
U.S. District Judge John W. Sedwick ruled:
year. It saddened me as I
stopped to talk to younger 4pm group photo at
the Maple Terrace
The lawsuit alleged elder abuse, elder fi- “(T)here is ‘an inherent inequality’ in allow- kids ranging in ages from
nancial abuse, breach of fiduciary duty, in- ing some employees to participate fully in the 19 to 27, if they knew of
tentional and negligent infliction of emotion- State’s health plan, while expecting other em- the resources available to
ployees to rely on other sources, such as pri- them when they felt they
al distress and false imprisonment, among
had reached the end of
vate insurance or Medicaid. ‘This back of the

Wear RED to
other things. their rope. On a whole, the
“Harold and Clay may have seen each oth- bus’ treatment relegates plaintiffs to a second-
answer was no.”
in Gay Couple Case class status by imposing inferior workplace

Sonoma County, Calif., will pay $600,000 to
settle a lawsuit with Clay Greene and the
estate of his late longtime partner, Harold
Scull.
According to the National Center for Les-
bian Rights, in 2008, after Scull suffered a fall,
the county separated the Sebastopol couple,
canceled their lease, auctioned their posses-
sions, took their cats, ignored their mutual
power-of-attorney documents, forced them
into separate nursing homes, and never let
the two men see each other alone again. Scull
died in August 2008.
The county said settling the case was the
cheaper option for disposing of the matter
and that officials’ actions had been based in
part on concerns that there was domestic
abuse in the relationship.
“What Clay and Harold lost can never be
replaced, but this settlement brings a mea-
sure of justice to their story,” said NCLR
staff attorney Amy Todd-Gher. “Even as
we celebrate this victory, however, we are
deeply troubled that the County of Sonoma
continues to refuse to take responsibility for
their egregious misconduct and violations of
the law in this case. We urge every citizen of
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er, by happenstance, once or at most twice
before Harold died — not in the context of
being able to see each other privately or in
response to either’s requests, but on one or
possibly two brief random public encounters
in the presence of county personnel,” said
NCLR Legal Director Shannon Minter.
The cats’ situation ended badly as well.
“County officials drove up to Clay’s home
one day and took the cats away, over his an-
guished protests, without explaining to him
what they were doing or where they were
taking them,” Minter said. “It was complete-
ly traumatizing for him, and he still talks
about it almost daily. The cats were taken by
county officials to Harold at (the) Hill House
(nursing facility), where one cat died short-
ly afterwards because of the trauma of the
move, and the other cat ‘ran away’ and was
never seen again shortly after Harold died.
So, the short answer is that both cats were
sadly lost as a result of the county’s callous
actions.”
Minter said he wasn’t sure if Scull had
been allowed to keep the cats in his room at
the nursing home or if they lived elsewhere
at the facility.
stand OUT
—Local drag personality Princess
treatment on them, inflicting serious consti-
Kennedy, in In Utah This Week
tutional and dignitary harms that after-the-
fact damages cannot adequately address.”
Arizona lawmakers eliminated health
❝❝ As a survivor of
depression and a gay LDS
man, I am here to tell all
care for gay state employees’ partners in a
of you that ‘gay’ is not at
budget bill signed by Gov. Jan Brewer last
September. the root of these deaths;
Lambda represents 10 state employees depression is. Depression
whose partners need the benefits.
is a deadly disease and I
admire those who survive it
as well as those who make
Gay Couples Sue Montana their best effort before
putting an end to their life.”
Seven gay couples filed suit against the state
—Commenter “Dan” to an
of Montana on July 22 seeking legal recogni-
LGBTQNation article about Ransom.
tion of their relationships and charging vio-
lations of the state constitution’s guarantees
of equal protection, due process, privacy,
❝❝ Todd attempted suicide
previously and we know
dignity and pursuit of life’s basic necessities. from that experience that
Since Montana’s constitution bans same- his manic depression was
a constant thorn in his side
sex marriage, the couples want the state to
and that there were other
implement a marriage-like domestic-partner-
ship law as several other states have done. factors that influenced his
“It’s unfair for same-sex couples who have suicide. Todd didn’t always
made commitments and formed families to
agree with us or want to
share his life with us, but he
be treated by the state like legal strangers,”
was loved by us. That is the
said Betsy Griffing of the American Civil
undeniable truth.”
Liberties Union of Montana, which is help-
—Ransom’s family in a post to the
ing with the case.
memorial website ToddRansom.org
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Reels from Recent Suicides

Michael Aaron
A series of young gay men committing sui-
cide in recent weeks has members of Utah’s
gay community reeling and wondering what,
if anything, they could have done to possibly
have stopped them.
David Standley, 21 of Ogden, took his life on
June 30.
Weber State University student Tim Tilley,
20, killed himself on July 11.
Todd Ransom, of Salt Lake, killed himself in
Battle Creek Canyon on July 19, a week after
his 28th birthday.
viewed but left before it was his turn before
the camera.
“In Mormon culture, when one of these kids
commits suicide, you never know at first if he’s
gay because his sexual orientation won’t be in
the obituary and families will sweep it under
the rug,” he said. “But you hear from friends
that he is gay and that’s why he killed himself.”
Cowan urged gay Mormons, “until the mes-
sage changes, people should
stop going to the church.
It’s not healthy for them, so
stop going ... It’s time for the
ceremony with Jake Jacquez, his partner of
eight years, however he and Jake were both
welcome in our home.”
Statistics
Statistics are often thrown around about
the issue of suicide in Utah. Often they are
hyperbole, though the issue is recognized
by the state government, which organized
the Utah Suicide Prevention Plan, on which
Utah Pride Center Executive Director Val-
erie Larabee sits.
No statistics exist that show the problem
of suicide among gay and lesbian Utahns be-
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Reactions from the community were raw
and harsh, blaming everyone from the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to the gay
community to the suicide victims and their
families.
On July 15, gay Ogden activist and frequent
QSaltLake contributor Turner Bitton wrote an
OpEd piece, calling Standley and Tilley “lead-
ers” and “beautiful individuals.”
“The assassination of these beautiful souls
was not carried out by one man but at their
own hand. With one final act of self expression
these two individuals charged forward with
dignity and gave their life for the cause that
they so nobly fought for,” he wrote.
He called upon members of the community
to “raise your voice loudly by stating that you
are who you are and that ‘I am equal.’”
Within hours of Ransom’s body being found,
Salt Lake activist Eric Ethington wrote on his
blog, “Another life has been lost to the hatred,
bigotry and prejudice of the Mormon Church.”
“I don’t want to elaborate here much, dear
readers. Let me simply say that I place full
blame on the Mormon Church and their in-
tense bigotry and persecution of people like
Todd,” he continued.
The next day, Ethington called for a candle-
light vigil on the Utah State Capitol grounds.
Over 200 people attended, including Ransom’s
friends and family.
This writer’s reaction was a bit more per-
sonal.
“I just want to scream and cry and rant and
soapbox and tell people how hateful they are to
their friends and family for being so damned
selfish to do this. But I don’t. And I just did,” I
wrote in my “First Person” editorial. “I’m an-
gry, I’m hurt. I feel guilty. I hate myself; I hate
my communities; I hate my god.”
“Another Prince in Zion died recently of the
disease of self-pity and victimization,” wrote Con-
fessions of a Mormon Boy actor Stephen Fales.
“But I’m angry at the reaction. What did they do
here in Utah? They held a candlelight vigil in his
honor up at the Utah State Capital [sic]. His death
is being used as a political weapon. An opportu-
nity to create an enemy. Rubbish.”
The suicides caught the attention of 8: The
Mormon Proposition director Reed Cowan,
for which Ransom had signed up to be inter-
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exodus. Get out. It’s a deadly cates to Gastronomy restaurants. JoSelle Vanderhooft to be concentrated in one area. We want to
message.” Moab, Cedar City and Torrey are just a few work with communities across the state,”
“There is a body count to Taste of Square Dancing of several Utah municipal governments said Balken. “In the last six weeks we’ve
the bigotry. It’s real,” he fin- Temple Squares, Utah’s gay, now considering ordinances that would been reaching out to people in Southern No single retirement plan works for everyone. This
ished. lesbian, bisexual and transgender
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is especially true for individuals in the LGBT com-
Depression gay and transgender residents, according to
Family members of Ran- free evening of square dancing for statewide gay and transgender rights group Wasatch Front.” munity. My practice focuses on helping unmarried
som and Standley tell the beginners this August. The group Equality Utah. “Our population isn’t just in Northern individuals, including same-sex couples, with their
gay community not to jump
so quickly to the causes of
teaches “gender neutral” dancing
(meaning that people can dance in
At press time, Taylorsville is poised to
become the seventh Utah municipal gov-
Utah,” she added.
Balken stressed that efforts to pass ordi-
unique financial and estate planning needs.
their deaths. Tim Tilley, David Standley and Todd Ransom any position) set to pop music. It is ernment to bar housing and employment nances were also happening in the western
“David was loved and accepted by everyone cause no such data is collected. But the num- open to singles, couples and groups discrimination against gay and transgender and eastern parts of the state, in cities such
as Price and Tooele — though, she added,
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there were other factors that influenced his Balken said that talks are in progress with she said. “We had the opportunity to sit
cide rates than the rest of the nation. pridesoft or SL County Sports office,
suicide. Todd didn’t always agree with us or several Southern Utah municipalities, in- down and show them the ordinances and
Regardless, the issue of gay suicides is a 5201 S. Murray Park Lane, Murray
want to share his life with us, but he was loved cluding Grand County, Cedar City and describe what protections they’d provide for
by us. That is the undeniable truth. high priority of leaders of Utah’s gay commu- gay-friendly Torrey, which hosted the now- their residents and the importance of those
Ransom’s tribute site did shed some light at nity. The topic will be addressed in a monthly
Camping with sWerve defunct Southern Utah Pride Festival and is protections. We let them know we’d con-
the conflict the family had with his sexuality. meeting of many of those leaders on August 11. Lesbian social and civic group home to the Women’s Redrock Music Festi- tinue to reach out to their residents and to
“Our lives changed when Todd announced In the meantime, friends and family of sWerve will hold its annual camp val, a Utah Pride Center-sponsored program businessowners and people on the councils.
to his family in 2001 that he was gay. Thus Standley, Tilley and Ransom are searching out Aug. 20–22 at Blackhawk held annually in August. They were more than willing to listen and
began the difficult dance that takes place be- their hearts and minds for answers. Campground (off the Nebo Loop near “I’ve met with councilmembers and the they were gracious hosts.”
tween a faithful Mormon family and a much- “I know it’s a little late, but I wish you Payson Lake). The weekend includes mayor and now I’m presenting to the council “I think sometimes this is the first time
loved son and brother who chooses to live a would’ve given me another chance to change one meal, lawn games, children’s to take [the ordinances] under advisement,” people have engaged in conversations about
gay lifestyle. your mind,” wrote Ransom’s partner of eight events, hiking and a fireside jam. said Balken of Moab’s local government. LGBT people, and it’s important to create
“It was difficult for his parents to publicly years, Jake Jacquez. “I didn’t think I had to Info: swerveutah.com “They’ve responded very well.” open space to have that first conversation,”
acknowledge his homosexuality, and this hurt worry about you any more — I thought you Cost: $25 per camper 14 and over, As more Northern Utah governments Balken said. “I think sometimes we may mis-
Todd in ways that his parents did not intend. were managing. Instead you were hiding — $10 for campers age 3–13. Saturday warm to the ordinances, Balken said that interpret people’s actions; the first time we’re
On the other hand, in spite of his upbringing everything. I’m sorry you didn’t trust me to dinner is $10. There is also a $6 per Equality Utah will be concentrating its ef- approached with something it takes thought.
in the LDS Church, Todd insisted that family call that night or any night for the past several vehicle charge at the campground, forts in the south of the state. [It’s] giving people the access to language to
members affirm his sexuality in ways that put months.” Q so sWerve recommends that camp- “We don’t want this [these protections] talk about things they haven’t before.” Q
ers carpool.
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 LOCal news
Annual Sunstone Symposium
to Present Gay Panels
JoSelle Vanderhooft
Once again, several papers, panels and pre-
sentations about gay and lesbian Mormons
will be part of the Sunstone Symposium, an
annual event that explores the complexities
of LDS history, religion, culture, art and
politics on what its parent organization calls
“free and frank” terms.
Themed “Reflecting on a Mature Faith,”
this year’s symposium will be held, as in
years past, at the Sheraton Salt Lake City
Hotel, 150 W. 500 South, Aug. 4–7. The first
gay-themed panel will be held Aug. 6, 10–11
a.m. Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy of Monroe,
Louisiana’s Northminster Church will pres-
ent the paper “Same-Gender Marriage & Re-
ligious Freedom: A Call to Quiet Conversa-
tions and Public Debates” about the ways in
which society can shift the debate over gay
marriage from “a scriptural argument to a
religious liberty agreement,” which includes
the promise of equal rights under the U.S.
Constitution.
Later, from 2:15–3:15 p.m. Sunstone Maga-
zine news editor Hugo Olaiz will moder-
ate a panel on responses to 8: The Mormon
Proposition, Reed Cowan’s controversial
documentary about the LDS Church’s role
in passing California’s Proposition 8, which
re-banned same-sex marriage in the state.
Here, panelists Laura Crompton of Mor-
monsForMarriage.org and author Robert E.
Rees (No More Strangers and Foreigners: A
Christian Mormon Response to Homosexu-
ality) will discuss the film’s strengths and
weaknesses, and its influence on same-sex
marriage debates as well as the church’s be-
havior towards gay and lesbian members.
On Aug. 7, John D. Gustav-Wrathall, a
University of Minnesota history professor,
will present a paper titled “Church, Priest-
hood, and the Gay/Lesbian Journey Toward
Spiritual Maturity” as one of three papers
presented between 8:45 and 9:45 a.m. This
paper will examine the division between
gay and lesbian Mormons who have left the
church “via inactivity, excommunication,
or suicide” and the “minority” who have re-
mained and “subordinated their need for sat-
isfying relational intimacy to Church law”
which prohibits gay sex. Gustav-Wrathall
will argue that the path to spiritual growth
for gay and lesbian Mormons lies in engag-
ing with tensions such as these.
During the day’s 11:15 a.m.–12:45 p.m. ses-
sion, a trio of papers will be presented as
part of The Gay Mormon Literature Project:
Johnny Townsend’s “The Chosen Family in
Gay Mormon Literature,” about the families
gay Mormons create when blood relatives
reject them; Alan Michael Williams’ “Two
Paradigms for ‘Gay,’” a comparison of his
Ockham’s Razor and Jonathan Langford’s
No Going Back, both novels on gay Mormon
themes; and “The Family in Latter Days,”
by Gay Mormon Literature Project founder
Gerald S. Argentsinger, which is a study of
the popular gay movie Latter Days.
The short film Two Loves: Documenting
Gay Mormons’ Stories will be screened from
3:30–4:30 p.m. This is a 25-minute documen-
tary featuring interviews with gay Mormons
who have left the church, remained in the
church, and with author Carol Lynn Pear-
son, the ex-wife of a gay Mormon man who
has written several books about the church’s
treatment of gays and lesbians. English lit-
erature and film student Michelle Ripplinger
will present.
Following directly at 4:45 will be the panel
“Gay and Mormon on the Stage and Screen.”
This will include the talk “Mormon Moth-
Rally for Equality to Build
a Better Community
In the wake of the suicides of three young
gay Utah men, a local member of the gay, les-
bian, bisexual and transgender community
is putting together a rally to address ways of
keeping families with gay and transgender
members together.
Prompted by the July suicide of Todd Ran-
som as well as “the realization that one of my
friends is going to pass away from Lou Geh-
rig Disease,” Turner Bitton has scheduled
the “Rally for Equality” for Aug. 13, 6 p.m.,
on the south lawn of the State Capitol Build-
ing. At press time, the speakers for the event
included Bitton, QSaltLake publisher and
editor-in-chief Michael Aaron and Alison
ers as Devices (Key Change-Agents) Used toBlack, president of Ogden’s PFLAG chapter.
Reduce the Toxicity of LDS LGBT Inertia.” “I’ll be talking about the direction our
Here, actor Charles Lynn Frost will discusscommunity needs to head, focusing on
the insights he has gained into LDS familiesthings like nondiscrimination ordinances,
with gay children in the years he has per-gay-straight alliances in high schools, things
formed as Sister Dottie S. Dixon, a characterlike that that protect our community and
who is a Mormon mother with a gay son. Inbuild our community,” said Bitton, adding
the second presentation, “Coming Out Mor-that he thinks a big part of community build-
mon Style: Three Recent Plays, One by Me,”ing is creating a support network for gay, les-
playwright Eric Samuelsen will discuss re-bian, bisexual and transgender youth.
cent “coming out plays” with LDS themes. Black, said Bitton will speak about how
Sister Dottie will also appear in a special“she’s been able to draw parallels between
one-night performance Aug. 5 with Mr. De-two lives and reconcile” her membership in
ity, the star of a humorous webcast aboutthe LDS Church (where she serves as a Pri-
the life of the ruler of the universe and themary teacher) and with loving and affirm-
troubles of running the cosmos. Mr. Deity ising her gay son, who works for Equality New
played by Brian Keith Dalton.  Q York.
“She’s going to be speaking on the role of
Don’t Let Lines
Give Away Your Age
informed and actively fighting apathy.” Aar-
on’s July 22 editorial column in QSaltLake
urged readers and the community at large
to reach out to those struggling with suicidal
thoughts.
Bitton, who is a former member of the
LDS Church, also stressed that straight Mor-
mons can be allies in the struggle for gay and
transgender rights.
“If you look at LDS history, they’ve had
close to 200 years of discrimination against
them,” he said. “If we can build on these two
heritages — the fact we’re discriminated
against and at one point they were — we can
draw some similarities from these instances
of discrimination and prejudice.”
As a former Mormon, Bitton also said he
had seen the church take care of its mem-
bers. When his uncle died in 2009, he said
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transgender people reach out to one another
and support programs that support the com-
munity.
“The [Utah] Pride Center is a perfect ex-
ample of what I want to see happening in

QSaltLake Day at Lagoon

mothers and how being a mother as well as our community, but it’s only as good as its
a member of church shaped her to where she most active members, and unfortunately
could accept her son,” he said. we have people who believe that the Pride

Expected to Be Largest Ever
“I’m here for the hottie convention,” was
on about a dozen of the hundreds of red
T-shirts donned by lesbians, gay men and
friends at last year’s annual Q Lagoon
Day. Indeed, many park regulars won-
dered if there is a convention of sorts as
the park is awash in red.
This year, says QSaltLake editor Mi-
chael Aaron, looks to be shaping up to be
the largest turnout ever.
“Last year, we believe we had over a
thousand people join us at Lagoon Day,”
said Aaron. “The buzz this year is at a
much higher squeal.”
Usually held on the third Sunday in Au-
gust, Aaron chose to move the day off of
the KUTV 2-for-1 day.
“While it was fun to be in a huge crowd
and save a few extra bucks, it was also
nearly impossible to get on rides,” ex-
plained Aaron.
Sunday, Aug. 8 is the big day, beginning
at 11:00 a.m. The Maple Terrace, north of
Lagoon-A Beach and next to the Jumping
Dragon ride, is available all day for a re-
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“It’s a story you don’t hear all too often
because we like to criticize the LDS Church,
and while there needs to be public debate
Center doesn’t serve a purpose, or that ac-
tivities like FAYME [For Active Young Men
Everywhere, the Center’s group for gay and
spite or food break. Several communitywith the church, there also needs to be pri- bisexual young men] don’t do anything for
organizations are planning to have sched-vate conversations that take place between our community. But in many ways they
uled picnics in the terrace. Outside foodthe LDS Church and us.” teach us how to be healthy members of the
and drink is allowed in the pavilion area Aaron, he added, will speak about “being community.” Q
only.
The Maple Terrace will also be the ven-
ue for the annual group photo at 4 p.m.
The official after party will be held at Living
Club Try-Angles. The bar will be closed
until 6:00 p.m. to allow the staff to enjoy
the day at the amusement park.
Official T-shirts, in sizes ranging from
Coming Soon - Friday Nights on Monument Plaza in Sugar House!
small to XL, are available at the QSaltLake
offices, 1055 East 2100 South, Ste 206, for
a $5 donation to the QCares Foundation.
Discount coupons, good for up to eight
people, are available at Cahoots, Club
Try-Angles, Off Trax and the QSaltLake Your Neighborhood Farmers Market
offices. Coupons will get each person in
the park for $34.36 plus tax — a savings
of over $8.
July 9 - October 15, 2010
As with Gay Days at Disney and other
theme parks around the country, the La-
goon Corporation is merely the venue to
the day and does not sponsor or endorse it. www.sugarhousefarmersmarket.com – sugarhousefarmersmarket@gmail.com
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 LOC ALNEWS

QSaltLake to Host Gay Day Utah Tahitian Dance

at Park Silly Sunday Market Troupe Starts Up by Brad Di Iorio
by Brad Di Iorio So You Think You Can Dance introduced traditional Ta-
Park Silly Sunday Farmer’s Market wel- hitian dance to the country at large this summer, when specific islands for their own, and continued the rivalry er paced drumming accompanying war or creation story
comes and celebrates Utah’s diverse gay Arizona contestant Lauren Froderman performed one of of the mostly peaceful island people until Queen Pomare lines and slower beats depicting sensuality and love.
and lesbian community during the first an- these dances on the hit program. But before that, Poly- accepted French protection of Tahiti and Moorea, another “I have competed with my old dance troupe Hitia O Te
nual Gay Day at Park Silly Sunday, Aug. nesian dance and music have been kept alive as an art island close by, in 1847. In 1957 all of the islands of Tahiti Ra in the San Jose Tahiti Fete, the Heiva i Honolulu twice
15, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. QSaltLake will have form and a competitive dance style by Polynesian artists were reconstituted as a French territory, called French and even the Fano Maohi competition here in Utah,” said
a large presence at the Sunday market of- throughout the world. Locally, Jimmy Jay Tonga has cre- Polynesia, and in 1998, French Polynesia began to self gov- Tonga. “In all competitions, we received first place hon-
fering ticket giveaways, a Miss Park Silly ated the Tagaloa Dance Troupe and is bringing his exper- ern with a president and an assembly. ors, particularly with the music I arranged and for me
Contest, and the tastes of Chef Drew Ells- tise in Tahitian dance and music to Utahns of all ages who In the early 1800s, when English missionaries en- being the best Ra’atira [storyteller].”
worth at the featured chef booth and as he might want to learn about the dance, its storytelling tradi- trenched themselves in the culture of the islands, all tra- The largest gathering of Tahitian dance and celebration
makes a presentation from the main stage. tions and its music. ditional dance, song and entertainment were banned, as is on the island of Tahiti each July. For 122 years, the an-
‘Paint Park City Pink’ is the theme for “My brother, sister-in-law and I were the main group the English found traditional Tahitian dances provocative nual Heiva Festival is celebrated, bringing tourists and
the third Sunday in August as the Park leaders of an award-winning Tahitian dance troupe in and offensive. Not until the beginning of the 20th century locals from all of the Polynesian islands to a grand festival
Silly Sunday Market will be decorated with Southern California,” said Tonga. “When we came to Utah did French authorities authorize dancing to celebrate the that features handmade crafts from artisans from each
rainbow flags, colored balloons, and table we looked for a dance group to join, but didn’t find one taking of the Bastille. Shortly after that, dancing became island, participation of island locals in ancient sporting
cloths. Local gay and lesbian non-profit with the level of commitment and discipline we were so part of all official Tahitian festivities. events, and recreations of dance performances — as well
organizations will have a chance to pres- used to back in SoCal. So we decided to start a brand new The dance (which include male-only, female-only and as dance competitions.
ent their programs and campaigns to Park dance troupe with a few other friends and create the group mixed) tells stories about Polynesian history, including “I was so happy to see my Polynesian culture portrayed
Silly Sunday attendees. that we knew we could be proud of and hopefully raise the how the gods formed the world, historic seductions, war in such a way,” said Tonga, referring to the So You Think
Nova Starr will host the 1st Annual Miss bar of commitment, structure here in Utah.” and the arrival of visitors to the islands. The dance also You Can Dance performance. “Te Au I Te Po [day and
Park Silly Contest from the main stage The Tagaloa Dance Troupe meets in a Taylorsville stu- conveys specific messages to a watching audience in a lan- night] was beautifully portrayed by dancers and the cho-
from 1–2 p.m. as contestants will present dio and classes are available for men, women and chil- guage created by the moves and hand positions. Some Ta- reographer, who is my friend.”
and compete in an evening gown competi- dren. The classes offer an opportunity to learn about the hitian dance also includes fire and acrobatics to enhance The Tagaloa Dance Troupe is just getting started with
tion, dance-off competition, and a question history of the culture and its songs and dances that have the story. Tonga, his brother, and sister-in-law sharing teaching du-
and answer interview. Park City elite will been passed down from generation to generation. “I was born and raised in the South Bay of Los Angeles ties of specific classes and music. Classes have grown and
judge the festivities and audience partici- “But be warned, this type of dance isn’t for the faint of in the city of Carson,” said Tonga, 37, and was raised LDS. more will be added as the business grows and word-of-
pation will play a large role in choosing heart ... physically and sexually.” explained Tonga, refer- “I came out in 2000 to my father, who in turn kicked me mouth spreads among Utah dance enthusiasts.
the winner. The Miss Park Silly Contest ring to the rapid hip movements and sensual swaying in back in and told me that he would find help for me. I was “We are currently working on our Facebook page Taga-
is open to anyone regardless of sexual ori- some of the dances, as well as traditional costumes that in reparative therapy during that time and I met several loa so that all who would like to learn more can e-mail and
entation or gender, and contestants are re- present female dancers in bikini tops and hula skirts. Men men who I became very close with but gave up the therapy
ask questions about us,” said Tonga. “I get a sense of pride
minded that it is a ‘G’-rated entertainment usually wear a hula skirt, which are made of straw, leaves in 2004 and came back out.”
when I see these little 5-year-olds practicing their tamaus
contest, where creativity and cleverness is and other organic greens. Tonga’s late mother was of Samoan and European de-
[hip sways] and when I speak of our people’s legends or
encouraged. Prizes and a Miss Park Silly “Tahitian dance is from the island of Tahiti and it is a scent while his father is Tongan. He moved to Utah in 2006,
when I sing our aparimas to each other because I know

noW oPen
sash will be presented to the winner. series of movements that were created by the Tahitians joining his brother and sister-in-law, and graduated from
that my people’s legacy will live on.”

tueSdayS
Chef Drew Ellsworth, from Ecole Dijon to tell stories of legends, wars and to entice a possible the Utah College of Massage Therapy last October. Tonga
Tonga hopes his students will appreciate the cultural
Cooking School and QSaltLake’s culinary suitor,” Tonga added. “I teach as much of the history of is also an accomplished drummer and arranger of Tahi-
on lower Main Street, behind the Kimball dance and continue learning the art form so he will be

g
and wine reviewer, will present cooking the movements of the dances that have been taught to me. tian music.

evenmin
Art Center, encompassing the town lift able to produce competitive dancers for local, national
and catering tips from the featured chef I’ve researched, learned songs, and listened to the tupuna “Our drums and drumming style are very different
plaza, and another section on upper Main and international Tahitian dance competitions. One day,
booth near the main stage, along with sam- [elders] about the history and meanings of our culture.” from other countries,” he explained. “They are hollowed
– dusk Street in the parking lot of the Park City one of his students may be competing on a level that may
from 4 p
ple slices of Chef Drew’s gourmet truffles. Historians believe that Southern Asian explorers mi- out logs of the rosewood tree, which is called Milo in our
Post Office. Parking is available on upper land them on a national television dance completion.  Q
uce-only From 3 to 4 p.m., Chef Drew will take the grated to the Pacific Islands located south of Hawaii and language. This log drum is called a To’ere, the bass drum,
for a prod Main Street, along Park Avenue, and in
ring the
main stage and prepare a summer bar- northeast of New Zealand as early as 4000 BC, establish- Tari Parau, and the snare drum, Fa’atete, and is made To learn more about classes with the Tagaloa Dance Troupe, con-
market du
public parking areas. Free buses still run
bequed duck entree offering samples and ing island colonies and kingdoms. Beginning in the 1500s, from the same wood covered in shark or calf skin.” tact Jimmy Jay Tonga on Facebook, call 310-400-4999, or e-mail
tiful
most boun ar!
in Park City and can carry bikes. Taxi
ideas for sides and wine pairings. both French and English explorers attempted to claim The drumming style depicts specific dances, with fast- jaymt73@gmail.com.
vans are available to pick up bikes and any
e ye
time of th
This is the fourth summer for Park Silly
heavier loads purchased at the market, if a
Sunday Market but the first year the non-
ride in a vehicle is needed.
profit organization will actively honor
The weather in Park City is about 10 de-
Utah’s gay and lesbian community with
grees cooler than the city of Salt Lake but
participation and recognition. The market
Saturday MorningS features local arts and craft booths, pro-
duce from local farmers, cheese, pastry,
during the summer, it is still very hot, so
sunscreen and plenty of liquids are sug-
at HiStoric Pioneer Park (300 South, 300 West) and specialty food product booths, as well
gested. Occasional summer rain storms
occur.
as bands and vocal entertainment, local
Join in the festivities of the day and re-
arts organizations, non-profit booths, and
member to paint Park City pink as Park
the weekly featured chef demonstration
august at the Market Invite Fresh, and presentations.
Park Silly has activities for children, a
Silly Sunday presents Gay Day.
Park Silly Sunday Market is 10 a.m–5 p.m. on
7 Clear the Air Challenge
Awards Ceremony
14 Farming at the Market
AgriAdvocates.org Local Flavors to free bike valet, and most Park City busi-
nesses, restaurants, and art galleries are
Sundays until Sept. 27. Gay Day at Park Silly Sun-
day Market is Sunday, Aug. 15, all day. For more
Dog Days of Summer —
Countdown to Winter
Viking Cooking School
21 Farm to Table Tour Toyota
Your Summer open. The market bills itself as an eco-
friendly, open air market and street festi-
information, visit parksillysundaymarket.com or
the Park Silly Sunday Market office at 2210 Mon-
Ski Utah 28 Viking Cooking School Barbecues val, with a goal to recycle as much of the
waste as possible.
arch Drive, Park City, or call 435-655-0994. Con-
testants interested in competing in the Miss Park
The Park Silly Sunday Market is located Silly Contest can call QSaltLake at 801-649-6663.
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 our views
Q on the
street guest editorial
❝❝What is the happiest
gay/lesbian thing that
has happened/will Salt Lake’s Gay Suicide was on my
happen in Utah this
summer? Community Has mind for years
Ann Kanrei Serious Issues
Clark by Adam Alder

E
I think that
ven though I’ve been in Washing-
Pride Festival as
ton for almost a year, I’ve kept up
a whole is the
most fun event with the community in Salt Lake.
all summer The last few weeks have been very
long, I just wish sad. With the news of losing three people
to acts of suicide because of ignorance
there were other big events like
and intolerance, [“By Our Own Hands,”
this all year long.
QSaltLake, Michael Aaron, July 22, 2010]
I look back at my journey over the last
Bradley S
three years in Salt Lake.
Hulett
I have many issues with the gay com-
The announce-
ment of Lady munity of Salt Lake. First and foremost,
Gaga’s concert I checked into the psych ward at the LDS
next year? Hospital back in May 2006 because I was
hahaha having serious issues with my antidepres-
sants and the fact that I am HIV-positive. I
struggled because I was always known as
“Adam Alder, your cousin told me about
Derek Snarr you” or “Ah, yea, you’re the one with HIV,
Marty Hood and your cousin told me about you.”
My cousin paved the way for me in
sought retreat at the MCC in Salt Lake.
There I saw this “roommate” as the audio
director. That same day, he gave a talk on
“being open minded and accepting oth-
ers.” What a huge slap in the face.
Soon after he came to realize that I was
harmless, but not before making me feel
like I was a piece of shit. I struggled with
my status, I also struggled because the
community in Salt Lake is so intertwined.
Last year, I chose to leave Salt Lake. I was
tired of being known as somebody who
was created by a community and not for
who I really am.
Suicide was on my mind for years. I
thought it’d be easier to leave this world
and not have to worry about being ac-
cepted.
Last year I was hospitalized because I
wasn’t on medications. I spent four days
at the University Hospital battling pneu-
monia. I couldn’t get medications because
the Utah AIDS Foundation constantly lost
the paperwork needed for the Health De-
partment and the Ryan White Program. I
spent countless hours searching for tax-
es, bank statements and pay stubs. The
UAF lost most of my paperwork, leaving
me to have to take time off work to try to
get help with meds. That all failed when I
was admitted to the hospital.
Four days, and many antibiotics and
shots later, I was starting to make a re-
covery. Upon checking out of the hospi-
tal, I was told to call and make an appoint-
ment with the doctor to get me started
on HIV meds. The next day I called and
was told there were no openings for six
months. So, I told myself that I’d try to
stay healthy until I could leave in August.
I’ve been here in Washington for nearly
a year. When I first got up here, I met with
a case worker. They had me fill out an ap-
plication for meds. I also met with my
doctor. Three days later I started my new
regimen; they also back-dated my medi-
cal billing to the first of August. They
didn’t even hesitate.
Since then, I’ve started volunteering at
the Lifelong AIDS Foundation. It’s helped
me tremendously to help other people
who are going through the same thing
I’ve been through. I’ve also met new, less
judgemental friends.
I’m glad I moved. I think if I had stayed,
I probably would have died. I just wanted
to get my story out there because I know
there are other people in Salt Lake strug-
gling for acceptance. I hope one day they
can find peace. I know I did.  Q

letters lems or feel like they do not have anyone ecution alone are meaningless in stopping Ryan Shattuck
made up, and the community. I hated being known by
to turn to. criminals unless people are also informed
are friends on those stereotypes. When I confronted him

David Suffered from Depression
Editor,
I am David Standley’s mother.
I just want everyone to know that David
did not take his life due to any conflict with
You are loved; you just need to reach out.
DeAnn Gallegos-Standley
Ogden
Best Defense is Complete Defense
Editor,
Utah gay-group leaders and government
guest editorial
and armed to defend themselves and to stop
twitter again.. about it, he simply said, “people should
criminals when they commit their crimes.
Up to 2.5 million crimes a year in the
know, I’m just protecting those I care
about.” It was especially hard when try-
United States are stopped with a firearm,
ing to make friends and meet new people.
Irate About ‘8: The
according to The Journal of Criminal Law
Maureen I was soon outted at work about my sta-
& Criminology published in 1995 by the Duffy-Boose tus because a co-worker, who was friends
Northwestern University School of Law in

Mormon Proposition’
his sexuality [“Raise Your Voice, I Am All the places with my cousin, decided to gossip to my
workers have repeated the script of the Chicago. where, at long staff. Not long after, I left.
Equal,” Turner Bitton, QSaltLake, July An individual is up to 2½ to 4 times more
advantages of preventing and prosecuting last, non-dis- I feel like the Salt Lake’s gay communi-
22, 2010]. David was loved and accepted by likely to avoid serious injury during a vio-
crimes against gay people (“Town Hall Sur- crimination by Todd Hess
everyone who knew him, regardless of his ty has some serious issues when it comes
vey and Meeting Discuss Gay, Transgender lent crime with a firearm than without one,

sexuality.
David had a very severe mental illness
his entire life where he experienced de-
pression that he was unable to overcome.
His biological father also committed sui-
cide, which increased his chances to 90 per-
cent that he would also do the same. David
had the same mental illness as his biologi-
cal father and his biological father’s father.
We tried everything we could to help Da-
vid, including hospitals, medication and
therapy, but in the end it wasn’t enough to
help him.
Safety,” QSaltLake, July 22, 2010).
Prevention helps us avoid and discour-
age criminals before they commit their
crimes, and prosecution helps us punish
criminals after they commit their crimes.
But, the script failed to advise us about
what we can do to stop criminals at the mo-
ment they commit their crimes.
Stonewall Shooting Sports of Utah pro-
motes the idea that prevention and pros-
according to the “National Crime Victim-
ization Survey” published annually by U.S.
Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Clearly, the best defense against crime is a
complete defense. Offering only parts of the
solution leaves people helpless at the mo-
ment that criminals commit their crimes.
David Nelson
Stonewall Shooting Sports of Utah
Salt Lake City
I
ordinances are to singling people out and using their
being or may yet HIV status as a way to “protect others.” recently saw a well put together just like the Mormons did. the results came in and we lost. Why? Be-
be passed. documentary titled 8: The Mormon I think that many people who are up- cause an organization rallied their people
I started hanging out with a guy named
Proposition. Though the movie point- set with the Mormon Church and their in a cause they believed in.
Brady a few years back. Everything was
Richard Cocks cool, we were never intimate or did any- ed out true and factual information
involvement in Prop 8 are those who Upon returning home to Salt Lake, af-
I love Q Lagoon thing like kissing. We hugged a few times.
about the Mormon Church’s involvement did nothing. They sat back and watched ter the election dust had fallen and been
Day — all those One night when he asked me to come
with California’s Proposition 8, I found it happen. I saw first hand the apathy in swept away, I received a text from a friend
Mallards with
watch a movie with him, his roommate the reaction by those that watched it that Castro those final days. Yes, there were telling me about the protest in downtown
their huge,
(who was also his ex) showed up and this night, including their energy, snickers, hard-working people in the campaign of- and asked if I wanted to come. Though I
sweaty bills;
other guy who knew me because of my jeers and hurrahs, appalling. fice, putting in sleepless days after sleep- have marched in many protests, I simply
and they’re
cousin. So, five minutes later, the room- Bottom line, the Mormon Church did less days to make sure people voted no on responded, “I used up all my energy fight-
oh-so aggres-
mate asked Brady to come upstairs to talk a damn good job of rallying its people to Prop 8; driven by the passion of wanting ing before the election, where it mattered
sive that it gives me rooster

QSaltLake welcomes
to him. Then Brady and I left. The room- donate time and money. We can all agree to have the same rights as others. These most.”
I appreciate the hand you are extending pimples, they’re the best ride in mate then called Brady and asked him to on that. However, many people don’t like same people, I saw brokenhearted, down- I am grateful for the movie, as it is a
to those in pain and hope that someone’s the park. how they did it. Many say, “Why should trodden, and lifeless on election night in stark reminder that any organization or
come home, then asked to talk to me and

your feedback
life can be saved through reading David’s people in Utah fight for an issue that is in the San Francisco hotel ballroom that was group of people can pool their resources
said, “I don’t know who you are, or what
story. I have always supported David and Gail Turpin you are, but you need to bring Brady back California?” This baffles me. When I flew meant to be a celebration. and win a battle. The makers of the film
all of his gay and lesbian friends that I Dottie as Grand home.” out to San Francisco to work in the ‘No on Many in California and around the and those portrayed in it tried. They put

Please send your

know. Marshall of the It was at that point my emotions sank. 8’ campaign office in Castro the weekend country thought there would be an easy in countless hours and millions of dollars.
I know about the struggles you all face Pride Festival. This guy didn’t even know me and be- before the election, was I breaking some celebration too. They did nothing. They They gave of their means and time to de-

letters to the editor to

and I hope, someday, everyone will be lov-
cause a person told him about my status, code? No, I went out there to fight with didn’t send in money to help fight for a feat Prop 8. They are entitled to speak out
ing and accepting of everyone regardless
he singled me out and threw me under the whatever I could so I might have the op- cause they actually believed in. They against the behemoth organization. Are

letters@qsaltlake.com
of their sexuality. I would also be willing
to talk to anyone who may be having prob- bus due to his own issues with people liv- portunity to marry some day; because I didn’t make calls. They didn’t put in time. you?
ing with HIV. So the following Sunday I believed in what they were fighting for, They did nothing. And they watched as

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 our views
Queer gnosis
Full Spectrum
Social Justice
by Troy Williams
I O
n our queercentric universe it’s be-
come standard to focus our political
capital on issues that mainly impact
the gay population. For example, in-
stead of fighting for universal health care
we’ve spent the past few years asking cor-
porations to provide partner benefits for do-
mestic partners. The argument goes to the
incrementalist, who proclaims that we need
to win little chunks before we win big.
This logic has flaws. When health reform
debates ignited across the nation, the na-
tional gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender
rights organizations were nowhere to be
heard. We were not organized in such a way
that could have assisted proponents of sin-
gle-payer and universal coverage. The battle
was over and we were left with an arguably
weak, industry-friendly bill that couldn’t
even muster support for a public option. Mil-
lions of underemployed Americans (many of
them queer) could have benefited from true
health reform, but for now that moment is
lost.
In our decision to work exclusively on is-
sues that only impact the queer population,
we are missing opportunities to channel our
activist energies into a true world changing
force. We know that all issues are intimately
interconnected. When feminists enjoy legis-
lative victories, queers are elevated. When
economic reforms that benefit the poor are
won, queers everywhere benefit.
But not all issues are equal. And in fact,
there are many social justice causes that are
— dare I say it — a greater priority than gay
issues.
Case in point: I contend that ending the
wars in Iran and Afghanistan is a greater
priority to the world than repealing Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell. We should be under no illu-
sion anymore as to our true motives for war.
The U.S. invaded the Middle East, devastated
Iraq’s infrastructure, eliminated their pub-
lic sector, and sold off reconstruction as well
as the country’s natural resources to multi-
national corporations. Our purpose was to
remake their economy into a free-market,
neo-liberal wonderland. Today, 64 percent
of all Iraqi oil reserves have been sold off to
multinational oil interests. Iraq’s tax and fi-
nance laws have been restructured to benefit
U.S. interests.
We’ve made Iraq our bitch. This is not a
cause any soldier should die for. I say bring
the troops home now and then let’s talk
about ending our military’s discriminatory
policies.
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Second: Climate change is a greater pri-
ority than gay marriage. The oceans and
earth are revolting against our constant ex-
ploitation. Over the past weeks new spills
have emerged in the Gulf, China, Michigan
and here in Salt Lake City. Temperatures
are heating up. Species are vanishing. Our
entire way of life may be lost. A gay bridal
registry at Target is going to be useless on a
scorched planet. As we work toward federal
protections for gay families, let’s also focus
on federal protections for Mother Earth. I’d
We know that
all issues are
intimately
interconnected.
love to see a carbon-neutral green Pride Pa-
rade next year!
Third: Fixing our economy is a greater
priority than passing the Employee Nondis-
crimination Act. Those paying attention rec-
ognize a coordinated assault to the successful
New Deal programs begun under Franklin D.
Roosevelt and advocated by queer economist
John Maynard Keynes. The ascendancy of
the Tea Party brings a familiar chorus that
we’ve heard from Reagan to Bush: govern-
ment is the problem. Cut social services,
“starve the beast,” deregulate corporations
and privatize every possible corner of the
planet. The safety nets that have become so
valuable to so many of the most vulnerable
populations are in great jeopardy.
This is why I have no patience for Log Cab-
in Republicans. I don’t care if you are gay; if
you hail to the god of free market capitalism
and are determined to undermine the very
social programs that provide public educa-
tion, HIV funding, libraries and social se-
curity, then we are not batting for the same
team. If you tell me you’re “socially liberal,
but fiscally conservative,” I will respond that
you are willfully naïve to the plight of the
poor and underprivileged. Passing ENDA
will be a great triumph for everyone. But
let’s also remember to preserve protections
for those with no employment whatsoever.
Fourth: Undocumented Latino immi-
grants are being terrorized by vigilante
groups, witch hunts and hostile legisla-
tion. They need our help. Arizona’s harsh
laws (which Rep. Stephen Sandstrom wants
to implement in Utah) will destroy more
families than Proposition 8 ever could. It’s
important to recognize the history of eco-
nomic “free trade” policies that have con-
tributed to this crisis. NAFTA and CAFTA
devastated the economies of small farms in
Mexico. Millions of farmers have been dis-
placed from their land. Desperate to provide
for their families, workers risk great peril to
cross the border. And when they arrive, our
free market is always ready to employ. We
exploit them in our shops, enjoy the cheap la-
bor they provide, and then sit back silent as
they are vilified by pundits and politicians.
Instead of challenging the policies that have
exacerbated our immigration problem, Tea
Party xenophobes and right wing militants
have focused their attacks on people, fami-
lies and communities. The same voices at-
tacking undocumented Latinos also attack
queer Americans.
All of these issues are connected. Social
justice is full spectrum. One cannot be iso-
lated from the other. As Equality Utah and
others begin their endorsement process we
should consider not only where a candidate
stands on queer rights, but also on broader
social justice issues. Just because some-
one might be “with us” on some gay issues
doesn’t mean that they are then ipso facto,
good for the state or country.
We mythologize Harvey Milk in gay cul-
ture. We laud his accomplishments but often
we ignore what he did. Harvey Milk prac-
ticed full spectrum social justice. He worked
with labor unions, ethnic communities,
churches and the elderly. He learned what
issues they were in need of, and then ral-
lied the gay community on their behalf. And
when queers were targeted by The Briggs
Initiative, the other justice communities ral-
lied to our defense.
The only way we are going to win equality
for queers is to fight for the emancipation of
all oppressed people. When we stand in de-
fense of the poor, the undocumented, the en-
vironment and those ravaged by war, we will
find that our own allies will grow. We will
finally have the numbers we need to mount
a sustained resistance to the corporate oli-
garchy that is dividing and plundering our
nation. We must imagine a world of justice
greater than our own. And we must stand to-
gether. The world is anxious for us to act.  Q
Troy blogs at queergnosis.com.
snaps n
slaps
SNAP: Rally for Equality
The suicides of several young
gay Utah men have rocked our
community this summer, raising
persistent questions not only about
the state’s alarmingly high suicide
rate, but the disproportionate num-
ber of gay, lesbian, bisexual and
transgender people who take their
own lives. To help queer Utahns
who are contemplating suicide, our
community is doing what it does
best: talking honestly about the
subject , as Turner Bitton’s Rally for
Equality will do later this month. As
we go forward, however, we also
need to seek solutions instead
of placing blame squarely on the
shoulders of the LDS Church. Even
though its anti-gay rhetoric has hurt
many queer Utahns, suicide is a
complicated subject with roots not
only in hostile religious rhetoric,
but in things like substance abuse,
trauma, poor emotional support
networks and mental illness. No
one person commits suicide for
exactly the same reasons, which
makes holding up any reason as the
cause is wrong, and actually just as
harmful. In order to stop suicides in
the community, we need to look at
all of the factors behind it.
SNAP: Sunstone Symposium
The Sunstone Education
Foundation’s annual symposium is
one of the best academic conferenc-
es in the state. Where else can you
find half a dozen non-judgmental,
non-condemning panels on gay,
lesbian, bisexual and transgender
Mormons (and often other faiths!),
the church’s treatment of gay and
lesbian members, and even queer-
friendly spirituality? Snaps to the
foundation for never forgetting, as
religious authorities of all back-
grounds often do, that their con-
gregations, synagogues, mosques
and temples aren’t populated by
straight, cisgender (non-transgen-
der) worshippers.
the straight line
Privileging Marriage
by Bob Henline
n July 8, 2010, ruling on two sepa-
rate cases, U.S. District Judge Jo-
seph Tauro ruled that Section 3 of
the Defense of Marriage Act is unconsti-
tutional because it violates the right of the
state of Massachusetts to define marriage.
What is most interesting about this deci-
sion is, of course, the backlash from the
religious right.
Please someone, anyone, explain this
statement by Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz
of Louisville, Ky. to me:
“Marriage exists prior to the state and is
not open to redefinition by the state. The
role of the state, instead, is to respect and
reinforce marriage.”
So, marriage exists prior to the state,
and is not open to redefi-
nition by the state. If we
take that at face value,
then there should be no Why does the
government definition
of marriage, nor should
state have a
there be any government duty to ‘privilege
support of it. This would,
of course, include all the uniquely’ a man
legal rights associated and a woman
with marriage, such as
inheritance, adoption, who choose to
tax policy, etc. — right?
If the state has no right
marry?
to define (or redefine)
marriage, then it’s a
matter that should between two people and
perhaps any religious authorities to which
they choose to affiliate themselves.
Now, for the second part. “The role of the
state, instead, is to respect and reinforce
marriage.” How does this make any sense
at all? Is the archbishop actually saying
that it is the role of government to support
an institution that exists prior to the state,
and one over which the state exercises no
authority whatsoever? Really folks, you
can’t have it both ways. America is a na-
tion founded upon the principles that all
of us are created equally, and are entitled
to equal protection under the law. That
means that no law of the this nation can
discriminate against any segment of soci-
ety, but that all apply equally to all citizens.
Defining (and “reinforcing”) marriage as
strictly between a man and a woman vio-
lates that premise.
Kurtz made the same tired arguments
that are made daily in support of bigoted
definitions of marriage — arguments that
have nothing real behind them.
“The fabric of U.S. society depends on
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sex just because marriage is defined as one
man and one woman. People are who they
are; it is our role as citizens, and the state’s
role, to respect the rights of all people to be
who they are.
The second part of his statement is even
better, “the exclusive and permanent union”
of husband and wife. Yes,
we all know that official-
ly the Catholic Church is
opposed to divorce, but
that doesn’t stop it from
happening. Heterosexual
couples divorce all the
time, the definition of
marriage notwithstand-
ing. In addition to the di-
vorce issue, there is also
the issue of exclusivity.
All one needs do is watch
the news to see how well
that is working out. How
many of America’s mar-
riage defenders have had their political ca-
reers destroyed by extramarital affairs?
Kurtz concluded with: “The state has a
duty to employ the civil law to reinforce —
and, indeed, to privilege uniquely — this
vital institution of society. The reasons
to support marriage by law are countless,
not least to protect the unique place of hus-
bands and wives, the indispensible role of
fathers and mothers and the rights of chil-
dren, who are often the most vulnerable
among us.”
Why does the state have a duty to “privi-
lege uniquely” a man and a woman who
choose to marry? Why should those people
have privileges denied to other couples that
wish to marry, or to those who don’t? What
are the “countless” reasons to support tra-
ditional marriage and to deny those rights
to others in our society?  Q
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 our views
lambda lore
The Gay Life
Is a Drag
by Ben Williams
I W
t’s a little known fact that Utah used
to love its drag queens. It’s true. The
Ogden Standard Examiner reported
in 1924 that female impersonator
Jeff Jones was one of the featured acts at
Weber County’s Old Folks Day Outing in
Lorin Farr Park. This event was for Weber
County Pioneers over the age of 70.
And if that is not proof enough for you,
in 1946 female impersonator “Madam
LaPura Devonovitch” (Herbert Osmond
Traynor) performed at the Deseret News
Old Timer Club in the Lion’s House. Two
Mormon Apostles, Elder A.E. Bower and
Elder Mark E. Peterson were in the audi-
ence. Can someone tell me when Mormons
became such sticks- in-the-mud?
Peruse the entertainment section of
Utah’s local newspaper for Vaudeville
shows from the 1890s to the 1920s and you
will find female impersonators as part of
almost every one. In 1902 the Deseret News
reviewer of the play The Country Fair sim-
ply gushed over Neil Burgess’ farewell tour
as “Abigail Prue,” the play’s elderly “spin-
ster.” He wrote that Burgess “has become
to be almost so much a household word
where ever theaters are known, that his
reappearance hardly needs describing. As
a female impersonator he occupies a place
all by himself, and he has for so many years
that it is impossible to think of him in any
other habiliments [clothes].”
Another female impersonator the crit-
ics raved over was Ray Lawrence who, in
1915, played at Salt Lake City’s Pantages
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Vaudeville. A Deseret News critic wrote,
“Ray Lawrence promises wonderful im-
personations and delinations of feminine
roles. He has an unusual falsetto voice with
his natural feminine cast of coutenances
and ability to wear stunning gowns with
the grace of a show girl enables him to
carry the deceptive role to perfection.” He
added in another review, “Ray Lawrence, a
female impersonator, looks stunning as he
parades in attractive gowns. Also he sings
a fair soprano. ”
As long as these cross-dressers kept
to the limelight they were praised and
adored, but they ran smack into the arms
of “Lilly Law” whenever they ventured
of stage as recorded in 1906. “Roy Bland,
one of the members of the Mahara min-
strels, was arrested last night by [Provo]
City Marshal Henry for masquerading as
a woman. Bland left a $10 forfeit which he
probably will not call for. He is a female
impersonator and has been in the habit in
other towns of carrying the impersonation
farther than his contract requires. He at-
tempted the same thing here and was ar-
rested by Mr. Henry at the back door of a
saloon and all his protestations that he was
a lady did not avail him. He gave a sprint-
ing stunt which would have been more ef-
fective in enabling him to escape from the
guardian of the peace, had he not run into
the arms of Officer Olsen, who was at the
end of an alley through which Bland was
making his exit.”
The tradition of men performing on the
American stage as female impersonators
can be traced back to Francis Leon or as
he preferred to call himself, “The Only
Leon.” Leon was born in 1844 and rose to
fame in the 19th century by performing in
minstrel shows. By the time Leon was 29,
his influence was such that every major
minstrel troop had its own “Leon” imita-
tor and eventually even Vaudeville shows.
Leon was said to have owned more than
300 dresses, which he refused to call “cos-
tumes.” Some of his gowns cost as much
as $400. But he could afford it because by
1882, Leon was earning more than any
other minstrel performer in America. The
press loved him and raved, “Leon is the
best male female actor known to the stage.
He does it with such dignity, modesty, and
refinement that it is truly art.”
In 1864, Francis Leon formed his own
minstrel troop with Edwin Kelly, who was
probably his lover. The pair began to fea-
ture theatrical elements using elaborate
scenery and refined songs from operas. In
three years Kelly and Leon were even able
to open their own theater company at Hope
Chapel in New York City.
But not all was well. Leon, who was
considered girlish and even effeminate off
stage, was being defamed by Tom Sharpe,
the brother of Sam Sharply [aka Sharpe],
another well-known performer who owned
a rival minstrel troop. On December 11,
1867 Sam Sharply stopped the pair as they
were leaving Hope Chapel and quarreled
with Kelly and Leon in front of the theater.
mountain
meadows
mascara
Driving While Canadian
by Ruby Ridge
At one point Sam attempted to strike the ell petals, the Arizona immi- ideological deep end (Cleon Skousen, Rus-
diminutive Leon, who the New York Times gration law (SB 1070) has gone sell Pearce, Carl Wimmer). But I want to
had reported weighed 100 pounds or less. into effect and the round up of talk to all of those disingenuous “get in line
Sam chased Leon while Tom Sharpe and wayward Canadians can now and immigrate the right way and we won’t
Edwin Kelly began to struggle. As soon asbegin. Now, I know what you’re thinking, have a problem with you” blowhards out
Kelly was pulled from Tom, he fired a pistoldarlings: “But Ruby, this law is just about there. They are stepping on my last nerve.
at Sharpe who fell to the ground. In a fit ofthe Mexicans.” But I beg to differ, and For them and for all of those Tea Party
rage Kelly then shot twice at the man as hehere’s why. commentators on the message boards of
lay in the gutter. Sam, seeing his brother Arizona’s law enforcement agencies are KSL and The Salt Lake Tribune who only
lying dead, fired off a round at Kelly, graz-stuck between a rock and a hard place. On see the world in brown and white, I dare
ing his head. Before Sam could get off an-one hand, they have to implement 1070 you to do this. Before you make any blan-
other shot a police officer seized him. Thewhich, despite protestations, was obvi- ket statement about legal immigration
body of Tom Sharpe was then taken intoously designed to target Latinos (seriously, and how everyone should go through the
the vestibule of the Hope Chapel Theaterhow many Norwegian Day Laborers are legal channels, just walk one applicant
to await an ambulance to take it to the cityclogging the streets of Phoenix, thereby through the immigration and naturaliza-
morgue. Edwin Kelly was arrested andnecessitating a massive rewrite of traffic tion process. Just one, that’s all I’m asking.
after a sensational trial he was found notordinances?). But on the other hand, every I’ll even make it easy for you and let you
guilty due to self defense. media outlet, the Federal Government, im- pick one from an English-speaking country
Kelly and Leon performed in Vaudevillemigration activists from both sides of the that can comprehend the byzantine forms.
houses across America for the next 10 yearsissue, and scores of civil liberties organiza- Walk them through the mind-numbingly
until 1878, when their company sailed fortions will be watching every police action exhaustive and expensive 10-year process.
Australia and opened at the Queen’s The-and police policy under a microscope, look- Wait with them while their paperwork gets
ing for grounds for litigation. That’s not a lost three times, or returned five times for
atre in Melbourne. During their first four
place any police chief or officers would vol- arbitrary technical problems and see how
weeks there they made $11,000. One mem-
untarily want to be in, and my empathetic it feels. For those of you who have never
ber of their troop was Thomas Dilverd, a
heart goes out to them. had any interaction with the agency, ICE
three-foot, one-inch tall African-America
But as a result of this hyper scrutiny, is about as user-friendly as a DMV staffed
female impersonator, who billed himself
there is going to be inordinate political by capricious IRS agents.
as “Japanese Tommy.” He popularized the
pressure to make the implementation Our church congregation sponsored a
expression ‘hunky dory’ in American cul-
of this law look color-blind. And so, I am refugee family through the immigration
ture.
guestimating that a white Canadian illegal process. After that fiasco our plans for a
Kelley and Leon ended their long re-
immigrant will have a street arrest value refugee program were promptly dropped.
lationship in Australia where Kelly re-
of about 200 Mexican illegal immigrants. No one had any idea how Kafkaesque and
mained and became lovers with a fellow
It’s only a matter of time before handcuffed completely illogical the process was. For
American actor named W.H. Leake. When
and shackled Canadians are paraded in every flag-waving, newly naturalized im-
Kelly died in Adelaide in 1899, he was bur-
front of the media for an obligatory slow- migrant thrust in front of KSL at the Provo
ied in the same grave as Leake.
motion perp walk of shame. Freedom Parade, there are thousands upon
Francis Leon’s career began to fade as he And knowing media whore and show-
reached middle age. In America he joinedboat Sheriff Joe Arpiao’s taste for the the- thousands who never make it through the
the famous Jack Haverley’s Mastodon Min-atrical, he will probably have Maple Leafs bureaucratic nightmare and red tape that
strels which had preformed in London. is “legal” immigration.
monogrammed onto their pink prison-is- Even if federal immigration laws change
Whether Francis Leon ever played insued underwear (seriously, he makes all
Salt Lake is unknown to me, but the Saltof his prisoners wear pink underwear and (don’t hold your breath in an election year,
Lake Herald reported that on June 30, 1882prison uniforms to A) humiliate them, and kittens), it won’t mean anything unless the
and August 12, 1882 Francis Leon and theB) show the taxpaying voters of Maricopa federal immigration bureaucracy is given
Haverley’s Mastodon Minstrels of SanCounty how tough he is.) Petals, I am no a major overhaul, a clear mandate to in-
Francisco were staying at the White Housefan of prison offenders and I’m a firm be- crease their capacity and decrease their
Hotel in Salt Lake City. But they may justliever in the correctional system, but this processing times, and an exponential in-
have been traveling cross country on aguy is just a populist douchebag. No sur- crease in their budget. Until then, states
train and laid over in Salt Lake, since theprise either, but 1070’s author and main like Arizona (and maybe Utah) will create
paper didn’t mention them performing inpolitical proponent is white uber-Mormon immigration policy with the nuance of a
a local show. bulldozer (which is probably operated by
Senator Russell Pearce, another law en-
The once world-famous Leon died inforcement show-boater who worked for a Mexican).
In the meantime, God help anyone in Ar-
obscurity. He is mentioned in reviews inArpaio. Rumor has it that he’s also jockey-
izona wearing an Edmonton Oilers jersey.
1900, so he survived Edwin Kelly but whoing for Arpaio’s job.
Ciao, babies!  Q
knows for how long. There are no notices Now, we could do an entire series of
in America’s media to mark the passing ofMountain Meadow’s Mascara columns You can see Ruby Ridge and the Matrons of May-
the “Only Leon,” but his legacy, that per-discussing the differences between elected hem in all of their polyester glory at Third Friday
forming in drag is indeed an American artvs. appointed sheriffs, or why so many
form, lives on.  Q Mormon law enforcement types go off the
Bingo (every third Friday of the month at 7 p.m.)
at First Baptist Church, 777 S. 1300 East.
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round of applause for Rick San-
torum, everybody. What a brave,
brave man.
In his July 14 Philadelphia In-
quirer column, Santorum congratulates
himself for being such a courageous and
relentless fighter against marriage equal-
ity.
“Political consultants warn candidates
to stay away from (cultural) issues be-
cause they are so personal and emotion-
ally charged,” he writes.
A weaker man might’ve taken such ad-
vice. Not Santorum. Take abortion, for
example. “I simply could not square vot-
ing to permit the killing of an innocent
baby in the womb with the Constitution
I swore to defend, the God I try to obey,
or the people I pledged to
serve,” he writes.
Nor could he stand by
and watch marriage be ‘Silence is
destroyed by homos.
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on Craigslist you can hire a guy to “pri-
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the plank,” if you know what I mean. (Do
you? I don’t. It just sounds dirty.)
Sexual predilections aside, the reason
for Santorum’s sense of urgency was the
2004 Massachusetts Supreme Court ruling
legalizing marriage for same-sex couples
in the state. Marriage was clearly under
attack, yet nobody seemed to care!
“The response from Congress was scant
and predictable,” he writes. “Almost ev-
ery member of Congress said he or she
personally supported the definition of
marriage that had existed since the coun-
try was founded. But they expressed
about as much commitment to righting
the judicial wrong as those who say they
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complacency by the Defense of Marriage
Act. Santorum knew better.
And yet, the federal marriage amend-
ment didn’t pass. And Santorum was vot-
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has ruled that DOMA is unconstitutional.
DOMA was passed in a panic after Ha- Jane & Tami Marquardt
waii’s Supreme Court ruled in 1993 that
gays should be allowed to be married
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and Salt Lake City Human Rights Commission
back marriage while eagerly awaiting the
day when judges will take this issue out for their unparalleled efforts to secure a fair and just Utah.
of their hands. In this case, silence,” he
writes, “is not golden; it’s yellow.”
What a bunch of gay-marriage-loving
pansies. Sickening. GUEST SPEAKER
Incidentally, “golden showers” are also
yellow, not golden. Q Dustin Lance Black
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2003. She’s a freelance writer and poet (believe
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My Last ‘Shot’ with Meth
by Chester Knight
My name is Chester Knight. I originally wrote this story earlier this year while incarcerated in the Salt Lake County Jail on a six-month sentence for at-
tempted drug possession. I was approved for early release to a drug treatment program. Traditional rehab programs and 12-step recovery hadn’t worked
for me and, while in jail, I discovered a somewhat controversial point of view on addiction and recovery. Despite a minor setback when
temporarily homeless after being released from jail, I’ve since received loving support from the good people at the Veteran’s Ad-
ministration and my forgiving father and friends. For their timely and critical support I thank them. For the wisdom to makeby JoSelle Vanderhooft
the choice and the courage to truly love myself I thank, well, me. To demonstrate my commitment to recovery, I share my story n the last decade, crystal meth has be-
candidly and hope it will help even one other queer pioneer like myself get “real” about the effects of sexing and illicit drugs. come not only one of the most popular drugs
I
had believed that I could flood my veins and brain with 50 cc’s
of a honey-thick mixture of crystal meth and recover in time for the
day after Christmas. So, on Christmas Eve, I headed to my dealer’s
house, alone. My odds of keeping to my plans of spending Dec. 26
with my two teenage sons would be better if I didn’t turn Christmas Eve into
a “party.” Usually the sexual rampage which followed “slamming” crystal
carried on for hours, if not days, if I had guests involved. So, I’d spend my first
Christmas without family pleasantly checked out socially, but well-connected
sexually, albeit with my PC and over 100 gigabytes of bootlegged porn. I wasn’t
expecting Santa Claus.
As I pulled up in front of my dealer’s house, the long driveway was full. I reminded
myself that I would grab a bag and leave. I reminded myself that I wouldn’t overdo it
if I did it alone.
I walked past the cars to the garage behind the house that most of its
frequenters call The Pleasure Dome.
The Pleasure Dome was an ongoing project, regularly upgraded,
tweaked and rearranged to accommodate the open-door policy
which brought a growing number of new faces, and other
body parts, each week. Facing in from the garage door
was a huge solid-state TV with a substantial porn
library on the adjacent bookcase. Across from the
TV, in the corner, sat a queen-size bed with an
easy-to-clean leather sofa at its foot. In the
next corner, a black leather sling
hung from chains with a
system of pulleys and
hoists to adjust
the height and
canter quickly
and conve-
niently.
Pants,
underwear, a
couple of large
cans of Crisco and
the odd needle or glass
pipe littered the room. A
dangerously-full basket of con-
doms sat on a lone side table.
Sadly, the best use I had ever put
those condoms to came from tying
them into a constriction ring with my
“morally straight” Eagle Scout square
knot.
I had resorted to tying rubbers into cock
rings after a series of expensive ones had van-
ished from my bedroom during three years of hang-
ing with tweakers. (Not to mention my digital camera,
jewelry and, once, my entire wallet.)
Though a Boy Scout, return missionary, Brigham Young
University graduate and ex-Mormon divorced dad, I had
become an over-sexed, unprotected, unemployed, deadbeat
meth-head.
Back in the garage, I knew most of the faces. They asked if I would
stay and how much “stuff” I needed. Naked, or clad in jock straps
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Crystal These qualities make the drug not only church and media, and believe that being gay “Yes, yes and yes,” said Buie, when asked
Meth and popular among people who frequent high-
energy environments like clubs, but also highly
addicting. Given that it’s easy to produce and
means “that you drink, you use drugs, and you
shouldn’t expect stability or monogamy.”
“The common denominator is ‘I don’t know
if meth users had a high relapse rate. “In our
community it’s highly socialized, so [one’s] circle
of friends are doing it, the club kids are doing it,
Utah’s Gay
less expensive than similar drugs like cocaine, who I am and this drug helps me feel accepted,’” it’s everywhere” — to the extent that giving up
it’s also accessible to people of all incomes. But Buie agreed. the drug means giving up socializing.
Community
while the price may be less than a lot of street Although MSM make up the bulk of meth “For a lot of people, there’s a sense of isolation
drugs, meth’s side effects are just as strong. In users visiting Utah’s clinics, Bonner pointed out and loneliness,” he explained. “[They] know who
the short term, it can cause dangerous spikes in that he sees “a significant number of women” [they] are at the club and parties, but without
I
body temperature, convulsions, hallucinations in therapy — many of whom are lesbian and those circles [they] have to reinvent [themselves]
and paranoia. If used long term, it can destroy bisexual. These users, he said, are more likely to and that takes a lot of energy.” For this reason,
vital organs like kidneys and lungs, repress the get into meth because of relationships over an Buie said that he supports group therapy for meth
among men who have sex with men (MSM), immune system and even kill. The risky sexual interest in sex and partying. users as well as other forms of therapy that can
but also a problem facing gay communities behavior that it encourages can also expose “Often times, early on, they got into a relation- help them seek “healthier socialization.”
or leather, most of them were already high or had been or soon would be. The rope
across the country, and particularly in Utah. In users to a number of STDs, including HIV — STDs ship with a male who introduced them [to meth]. Still, even a good therapist and a supportive
lights dimly lighting the “Queer Eye for the Meth Guy” space put a twinkling touch on
2000, the Utah Substance Abuse & Anti-Violence that then spread at what Beltran calls “sex par- Then they got hooked and their addiction was social circle aren’t enough.
the festive evening. Still, no Santa Claus.
Coordinating Council estimated that the Beehive ties” where the drug is present. perpetuated outside the context of that relation- “Unless something has happened to them in
I considered staying, and likely would have were it not for an attractively distant, yet
State takes in meth users for treatment at three “We know that many HIV-positive men are ship,” he said. He added that women who get their life to force them to make the change, they
masculine, sweet, 18-year-old guy who asked if he could return home with me. We’d
times the national average — or 82 per 100,000 using [meth] and they’ve developed very strong into relationships with female meth users can
hung out once before and “partied and played.” often don’t,” said Beltran. “They may go to the
people versus 29 per 10,0000 nationwide. sex networks,” she said. “A new person [outside find themselves picking up the habit, too.
PnP first meeting and they’re done, or they may not
Statistics on how many Utahns use meth, on that network] will come along and suddenly Bonner has also counseled transgender
PnP — that’s the acronym for getting high and enjoying a gay orgy for hours and hours the other hand, are not only unavailable, but im- show up. It has to come from them, and most
they’ve got it, and they’ll bring it back to their women who inject meth. One of these clients, he
— usually without protection. These events are not the norm in the gay community, are aware of the options.”
possible to pin down, said Lynn Beltran, STD/HIV network which isn’t positive men.” said, has faced “significant discrimination” be-
they’re easy to find online or through other gay meth users. And right now, the options for treatment —
Program Manager of the Salt Lake Valley Health Meth can also damage more than physical cause of her gender identity and worries about
especially programs that receive public funds
My initial, and last, experience with the 18-year-old was stifled by his then-boyfriend. Department whose department often counsels health. being able to “pass” as female. And fears about
— are swamped. And some, like the Utah AIDS
I’d thought of him several times since and hoped I’d have an opportunity to “hook-up” HIV-positive MSM who use meth. The reason, “I had a client who two years previously was facing anti-gay and anti-trans discrimination and
Foundation’s short-lived Utah Tweaker project,
with him without the boyfriend. And there he was! Maybe there is a Santa Claus. she said, is largely because health officials have making $200,000 a year. When he came into violence aren’t the only things queer meth users
are long gone.
After telling him he’d have to be gone by the morning of the 26th, I blew part of my no choice but to rely on meth users to report that my office after being hooked on meth he was have in common.
“[Salt Lake County] has poured a lot of money
sons’ Christmas money on a bag of dope big enough for the two of us and we headed they use — which many deny. down to $30,000 a year,” recalled Buie. “He’d “I don’t wish to stereotype or over-generalize,
into trying to effect change, but the resources
to my place. “Whenever you’re dealing with an issue rely- destroyed his career and lost his savings. He’d but I do see with queer female clients as well
can’t seem to keep up with the demand,” Beltran
Did I mention I spent two hours earlier that evening in a pawn shop during Christmas ing on self-reporting data, it’s never going to be done some brain damage and contracted HIV. as with MSM [that] there’s often an abuse his-
continued. “So if today I felt like I was ready to
Eve rush to hawk my $1,800 multi-media PC for $400? I then went home and prepared reliable,” she said. “It’s also true as a state and His life, in a very short period of time, was tory — particularly a sexual abuse history,” said
take the step, if I had to wait a week to talk to
my needles so I could settle in for a long winter’s night sex party. a community that we and our legislature don’t destroyed. I see that story over an over and over Bonner. Often, he added, clients have also expe-
someone, by the time that week rolls around I
The rest of the details that led to my arrest on the following “jolly” day are sordid and want to acknowledge this [meth use] is going again. I see it personally and professionally.” rienced emotional, verbal and physical abuse as
might be back using in someone’s garage.”
probably best left for another time. Suffice it to say it wasn’t as easy to outwit the team on. We say these are the throwaway members of “People think they can handle it and they well as exposure to substance abuse by family
“I think we’ve almost come to an acceptance
of sheriffs as it was to outwit myself and my ‘smart’ original plan of making my night a society, so we don’t need to talk about it.” can’t,” he continued. “I have never seen a good members during childhood.
now that it’s just rampant,” she added.
less eventful pity party. So without permission to enter my basement apartment and Regardless, Beltran said that meth use is an story come from it.” Meth use can also be a coping mechanism
Ultimately, said Buie, the only way to stop
without warrant, they cuffed me in my own living room and hauled me to jail on my un- issue that divides the gay community, often for any number of mental illnesses, including
Anatomy of a Meth User
merriest Christmas ever — my first without my family gathered around. polarizing MSM on lines of those who use and clinical depression, a symptom of which is often meth use in Utah’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and
Energy and great sex aren’t the only reasons that
those who do not. It is, she added, also a prob- substance abuse. transgender community is for the community to
My Own Personal Rehab people — and MSM in particular — get caught up
lem in Utah’s gay club scene. For years, Utah has led the nation in mental stop treating the drug as acceptable.
Jail ironically became my own, personal rehab. The first few weeks without access to in the drug.
“Cocaine and meth seem to be like party health diagnoses. In 2008, a study by Mental “I don’t think collectively we have been willing
drugs were like a makeshift detox. I decided to focus on getting past the daydreams John Bonner, a licensed clinical social worker
favors,” agreed Jerry Buie, a gay therapist who Health America ranked Utah as number one in to embrace more profound stories of who and
and nightmares of wanting to shoot up and sex it up. Day and night I fought the con- who counsels meth addicts through Volunteers of
what we are, so we settle for this club existence
scious and subconscious patterns of addictive thought within the walls of my cell. I was primarily counsels MSM. “I think people go into it America of Utah, said that meth addiction, like ad- the country in cases of diagnosed depression.
determined to find freedom in jail and blessings in its hell. underestimating the power and addictive quality “In Utah, in general [mental illness] is not and this really superficial way of existing that
diction to any drug, often has psychological roots.
Each day I reinforced constructive habits and structure in my life. My mini-day plan- of meth, and so one time turns out to be this great something that’s talked about openly enough,” leaves a lot of permission for drug use,” he said.
“They’re self-medicating, and I think it’s a symp-
ner (an idea from my Mormon mission days) for each day had a busy list of reading, party time and then they keep resorting back to it. said Bonner, noting that Utahns are also more “I would love for our Pride events to really
tom of the real cause which is underlying stress,
writing, working out, etc. We’ve integrated it into our social scene.” likely to abuse prescription drugs than residents focus on what it means to have Pride in who we
grief and loss issues, family issues,” he said.
Prior to jail Native American sweat lodge ceremony was one practice that had helped “If I were to take the three top mental health Bonner, who is gay himself, noted that of many other states. “I think it’s a state that’s are,” he continued. “But even [the Utah Pride
me, so I walked circles in the rec yard — one for each of the seven Native American issues in the gay and lesbian community to be several of the MSM he counsels come from LDS often overmedicated, and that’s something we Festival] is a big beer party, if you think about it.
directions — before prayer and meditation. I learned origami and taught English to dealt with, the first would be substance abuse,” backgrounds. While noting that he did not want don’t like to discuss.” Everything is centered around going to the clubs
undocumented immigrants and worked to redevelop meaningful relationships with my he continued. “I think it’s highly prevalent and to put the blame for meth use squarely on the “If I were a betting person I’d definitely say and having that beer garden, and I think on
children and an ex-boyfriend through letters and insanely expensive phone calls. very, very problematic and destructive.” church’s shoulders, Bonner noted that many yes, there is a correlation between mental illness many levels we’re communicating permission to
I read and studied brilliant books on recovery by Stanton Peele. I’ve schooled myself Having Sex With God MSM who use meth have faced rejection from diagnoses and meth use,” said Beltran. not take care of ourselves in that way.”
in ethics, evolution, the Tao, yoga, Nietzsche and geology. And I became a vampiry Meth, short for methamphetamine, is a powerful their Mormon families because of their sexuality. Kicking the Habit And while meth programs are strapped for
goth fan of Kat Richardson and Stephanie Meyer — rediscovering that the joy and gift of stimulant derived from the class of drugs known And when these men lose their communities of Although meth is highly addictive, it isn’t as hard funds and staff, Buie insisted that a change in
reading, and now writing, are wonderful therapies. (In retrospect, putting this story on as amphetamines. As a stimulant, it creates a faith, Bonner said that they often turn to destruc- on the body or as hard to give up as drugs like attitude will go a lot further than dollars in sav-
paper and it’s acceptance by QSaltLake proved un-measurably healing.) feeling of energy and euphoria and also speeds tive behaviors. heroin, which often require medical assistance ing lives.
Perhaps the most fantastic accomplishment of all is that I’m doing this all for myself up metabolism. “I see a trend where a lot of gay men who come to quit. The difficulty many users have in giving it “It’s about having dialogue on issues that are
— for me. Plagued by the incessant need to please and garner my worth from others, “The biggest percentage of meth users are gay out from orthodox religious backgrounds, includ- up, said Beltran, has more to do with psychologi- relevant to our lives,” he said. “But we seem to
I’ve started to break free from my emotional unintelligence. I’m reconstructing my life men and housewives who want to lose weight,” ing LDS, often act out in myriad ways,” he said. cal addiction than physical dependence. have this reluctance to talk, and that reinforces
while I have the time and focus to acutely examine it, and my habits and patterns. I’m said Beltran. “They go to excess with substance use and sexual “I think with meth use they get addicted to the these narratives of ‘poor me, I’m a victim.’”
mindfully striking anything that “just isn’t me,” finding more freedom while locked up Along with weight loss and increased energy, behavior. They don’t have a framework for what lifestyle and the sex activity that seems to ac- But the good news, said Beltran, is that SLVHS
(and since) than you can imagine. meth can also increase pleasure during sex. healthy development of a gay man looks like, or company the meth use,” said Beltran. “They can and other health organizations can give referrals
I take my inspiration from my optimistic mom on “the other side of the veil” and One of Beltran’s clients, she said, described the what [gay] relationships look like because they recognize that it puts them at risk for HIV and for meth addiction treatment for those who want
Peele, who says “addiction can be beaten. People do it all the time. There is no reason experience of having sex on meth as “having sex don’t have a lot of role models for that.” other issues, but many of my clients say they to quit.
to take the government’s or Alcoholics Anonymous’ word that people are lifetime slaveswith God. And once you’ve had sex with God, Worse, Bonner said that many of these men can’t get away from [meth] because even if they “It’s never too late to change,” she said. “It’s
to addiction. It simply isn’t true.”  Q why would you want to go back to the other?” have internalized anti-gay messages from try to, the guys will pull them back into it.” worth stopping.”  Q
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gay agenda
What the Flip!
by Tony Hobday
Last weekend I attended my friend Jake’s 30th Birth-
day Bash. It was interesting to say the least; though
there was enough alcohol to destroy Godzilla’s liver,
some partygoers felt it necessary to hide beer under
rocks; a Spanish-speaking-only neighbor dropped
in, dropped his pants and one partygoer dropped to
his knees; Richard Cocks hooked up with bedazzled
twin flamingoes ... lucky bastard! But the best part
was we all got to listen to Kylie Minogue all night
long ... always a wonderful treat. Love you Jakey Poo!
5 8
thursday — Art has the ability to take on a power-
ful role within a community to evoke emotion and
raise awareness. Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company
addresses this topic of Arts and Social Change, with a
short dance piece by renowned choreographer Bill T. Jones
who has promoted topics on homosexuality and AIDS in his
choreography. The preview will be followed by a discussion
panel surrounding the topics that Bill T. Jones exposes in
his art, and will feature several local community members.
5:30pm, Black Box Theatre, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. Broad-
way. Free, 801-297-4213 or ririewoodbury.com.
6
friday — Well silkscreen my butt and call me Andy
Warhol, it’s the 41st annual Park City Kimball Arts
Festival. This really is a fabulous festival, though
the past three years I’d spent too many hours on the Wasatch
Brewery patio, had been detained by police officers for my
not-so-concealed sterling silver-handgun belt buckle and had
been hit on by a burly, straight-acting biker in the No Name
Saloon ... what the flip!
6–9pm today, 9am–6pm Saturday & Sunday, Historic Main St,
Park City. Donations suggested for Friday’s entrance, Saturday &
Sunday $10 entrance fee, kimballartcenter.org.
QQ Event organizers Utah Rox and Master Tiger bring the
fifth year of Rebellion, which draws hundreds of leather,
BDSM, power play and other enthusiasts to Club Try-Angles
for a three-day festival of kink. TitanMen performers Tony
Buff and Derek da Silva are the special guests; great prizes
will be raffled off; and demonstrations will be shown in
Flogging ... been there, done that, never again!, in Mum-
mification ... what the flip!, in Rope Bondage ... please girl,
I wrote the book!, and more.
Hours vary, through Sunday, Club Try-Angles, 251 W. 900 South.
For full event schedule visit utahrebellion.com.
QQ “This year Heidi Fleiss will be opening the Stud Farm,
her all-male brothel outside of Las Vegas. This is for women
to find men. If you’re a guy looking for a guy, you still have
to find it at the airport bathroom.” The Belvedere vodka-
swilling hussy really does love her gays. Chelsea Han-
dler whoops it up tonight with a guest performance by
Heather McDonald.
8pm, Abravanel Hall, 123 S. West Temple. Tickets $65, 801-355-
ARTS or arttix.org.
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sunday — It’s that time again to paint Lagoon red.
QSaltLake’s Gay Lagoon Day (the Gay is silent,
though) returns with another raucous group of
homos screaming bloody mary on the Log Flume and in the
public bathrooms. Ah, good times, good times! Don’t forget
there will be bingo and a group photo around 4pm-ish. Red
Q Lagoon Day T-shirts, that Michael slaved over, are for
sale for $5 at the Q Towers office.
11am–10pm, Lagoon, 375 Lagoon Dr., Farmington. Tickets $35
with discount coupon, call 801-649-6663 for coupons.
9
monday — In the German lesbian film Four Min-
utes, Traude, an elderly music teacher who gives
piano lessons to prisoners, finds an unexpected
prodigy in Jenny, a brooding young inmate, and devotes
herself to developing Jenny’s talent in the little time they
have together. But while Traude teaches Jenny valuable les-
sons about music, Jenny herself inspires Traude to examine
her own past and the meaning of her life — and what might
have passed her by.
7pm, Tower Theatre, 876 E. 900 South. Free, 801-359-5158 or
slcfilmcenter.org.
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thursday — I feel slightly ashamed of includ-
ing this and the photo ... but, what the flip, it’s
all about hot guys right? The Twilight Saga:
New Moon is being screened outdoors for free. Need I say
more! Well, beyond Robert, Taylor, Jackson — ooolala!
9pm, State Capitol, 350 N. State St. Free, 801-746-7000 or
slcfilmcenter.org.
13
friday — This event is definitely scary enough
for Friday the 13th. The Egyptian Theatre
presents an interactive, improv show The Awe-
some ’80s Prom. The audience becomes the characters
as the show unfolds. Reminisce about all your favorite ’80s
movies with the characters you loved from the snot-nosed
geek to the hottie quarterback. What would Prom be with-
out a king and queen? The audience will decide who that
honor goes to, all while break dancing ... really!?! ... to all
the retro ’80s hits you love.
8pm, through Aug. 22, Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main St., Park City. NOV 26-29 The Rockettes, Maverick Ctr
Tickets $18–25, 435-649-9371 or parkcityshows.com.
save the
date
August 20
Cyndi Lauper, Wendover, Nev. ­
wendoverfun.com
August 22
Utah Pride Center Golf Classic ­
utahpridecenter.org
August 22
Gay Day at Raging Waters ­
facebook.com/simplysocial
September 12
AquaAid ­
utahaids.org
September 18
14
saturday — Led Zeppelin were a hard rock sWerve’s Oktoberfest ­
band of the 1970s, with Jimmy Page and Rob- swerveutah.com
ert Plant. You may remember them by their hit September 18
single “Stairway to Heaven.” Anyhoo, the Utah Symphony
Walk for Life, Bike for Life ­
presents The Music of Led ZeppElin. All that brass and
utahaids.org
horns playing classic rock songs like “Heartbreaker,” “The
September 25
Song Remains the Same” and “All My Love” could be really
ROTC Military Ball ­
flippin’ groovin’. Larry Baird conducts.
rotcslc.com
7:30pm, Snow Park Amphitheatre, 2250 Deer Valley Dr., Deer
September 25
Valley. Tickets $30–85, 801-355-ARTS or arttix.org.
Wanda Sykes, Wendover, Nev. ­
QQ Toronto-based alternative rock band The Cliks is wendoverfun.com
led by transman Lucas Silveira. Their Guts ’n Glory tour
September 28
lands in Salt Lake City tonight. With pop hooks lacing the
Equality Utah Allies Dinner ­
rock spines the band is known for, their songs inhabit the equalityutah.org
specificity of the circumstances under which they were
October 9
written, all the while appealing to broader audience. Hunter
National Coming Out Day Breakfast
Valentine and Killola open.
utahpridecenter.org
7:30pm, The Complex, 537 W. 100 South, Tickets $8, 801-467-
8499 or smithstix.com. October 16
sWerve’s Halloween Bash
15
sunday — Paint Park City pink with QSaltLake swerveutah.com
at Gay Park Silly Day. Along with the weekly
October 16–20
arts & crafts booths and locally grown produce
Living With AIDS Conference
and of course, beer gardens, this Sunday will include a
pwacu.org
cooking demonstration by Q’s own Drew Ellsworth and a
Miss Park Silly Drag Contest, hosted by Nova Starr. Did you October 18–22
UofU Pride Week
know pink is my favorite color ... well, next to mulberry.
emanzanares@sa.utah.edu
What the flip, Could I be any gayer!
1–5pm, Lower Main Street, Park City. Free, parksillysundaymar- November 25
ket.com. Thanksgiving Dinners at the Utah Pride
Center, Club Try-Angles and The Trapp
UPCOMING Events December 10–11
AUG 20 Cyndi Lauper, Wendover, Nev. Salt Lake Men’s Choir Christmas Concert
SEP 25 Wanda Sykes, Wendover, Nev. saltlakemenschoir.org
OCT 16 Spencer Day, Rose Wagner January 20–30
Sundance Film Festival, Park City
APR 11 Lily Tomlin, Kingsbury Hall sundance.org
Jake Shears
Works Hard
by Sean Johnson
T
o promote the new Scis- ing is what got me into performing in the first
sor Sisters album Night Work, place. It was a great way for me to get up in
the band’s front man Jake front of a bunch of people, shake it and not
Shears placed an ad, including be shy. When I started getting bored with it, I
erotic nude photos, on the male escort site, wondered how I was going to make it more in-
Rentboy.com. He lists his talents as “go-go teresting for me. That’s when I started singing.
dancing and stripping” and his out rate as
Has your go-go past helped you in your
$11.99, the price of the new album. I chatted
career today?  There’s not a huge difference
with Shears as he prepared to embark on a
to what I did then and what I do now on stage.
26-city world tour to promote the album.
How do you feel about today’s party
Do you have a fascination with rent-
scene?  I think it’s a great time right now for
boys?  Rentboys and sex workers oper-
dance music. There’s so much good stuff
ate outside the lines of our society.
coming out, and I feel like it’s a great time for
They make their living through
people to really dive in.
sex and showing
people a good time. “Invisible Light” is a particular standout
We, in the band, feel on the album.  It’s a magical, mystical dance
we’re on the same song with overtones of Gandalf, Lord of the
team. Rings and Pink Floyd. It’s about tripping the
light fantastic. I wanted to make a song that
Except you’re
brought you to the edge of a void. It really
not selling
takes you to Mars. It’s like just staring into a
sex.  There
should be storable light.
no shame in
Has your singing style changed with this
using sex as
third album? I hear less falsetto — which
self-employment.
you are known for — and more passionate
I have an incredible mid-range singing.  I wanted to rely less on
amount of respect for the falsetto, to give people an idea of what
sex workers. I think it’s a kind of range I can really do. I wanted to
fully valid profession that de-
sound a bit sexier this time around.
serves to be treated as any other.
And Ana Matronic appears more on the new
The Night Work album cover is a photograph
album.  Ana’s on this record more than ever
of a ballet dancer’s butt by artist Robert
and has also co-written more tracks than ever
Mapplethorpe.  Mapplethorpe was someone
before.
who relentlessly explored pushing his own
limits. Tell us about your new musical based
on Amistead Maupin’s Tales of the
According to Patti Smith’s memoir Just
City.  Everybody’s a ho in Tales! No, really. It’s
Kids, Mapplethorpe worked as a street
a very sex-positive show, and there is plenty
hustler in New York City to support
of gay action. In a lot of ways it’s a really
himself as a struggling artist.
queer musical, though I think it will accessible
Reportedly, he loved the mys-
to just about anybody. It’s co-written by Jeff
tery and glamour of the hustler
Whitty of Avenue Q fame.
lifestyle.  He was a fascinating
man. By all means an outsider Do you have a final message you’d like to
who was turned on by very dark relay to the thousands of rentboys around
stuff. He was able to turn those the world?  Fight for your rights and never
influences into something incred- let anybody make you feel less than the truly
ibly beautiful. beautiful person that you are.  Q
Is it true you worked as a go-go Visit Jake Shear’s Rentboy profile at www.rentboy.
dancer in New York City?  Go-go danc- com/Nightwork.
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Plan-B Theatre Co: Celebrating hear me out
Locally Grown Theatre for 20 Years
In celebration of 20 years of fine, original, award-winning works by local playwrights, Plan-B Theatre Company is offer-
ing five ‘free’ anniversary events. And, as in seasons past, Plan-B partners up with the Utah AIDS Foundation to bring you
the first of the five events — a free ‘reading’ of Larry Kramer’s ground-breaking play The Normal Heart, Aug. 14. Then,
in October is Radio Hour: Marathon, a rebroadcast of the five previous Radio Hours, 2006-2010; in December, in
partnership with KUER, there will be a free reading of David Sedaris writings; and, dotted throughout the sea-
son, the Script-in-Hand Series, readings of new plays-in-progress by Utah playwrights, will be showcased.
by Tony Hobday
P
lan-B’s Artistic Director Jerry Rapier
talks about the company’s 20th anni-
versary productions; the relevance of a
25-year-old AIDS-topic play in today’s
society; and the company’s continuing mission to
support local artists.
Explain how the ‘reading’ of a play works — is it like a
table reading, raw and unrehearsed?  Raw yes, unre-
hearsed no. A reading can have just as much impact as
a full production if presented correctly. The actors will be
seated with scripts in their hands. But the show will be lit,
with sound. My goal is to execute things in such a way that
the audience forgets about those scripts! We will rehearse
for four days prior to the reading. And, it’s meant to feel a little
more adrenalin-propelled than a full production, much like our
reading of The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later...An Epilogue at
Kingsbury Hall last fall.
And the actors involved: Kirt Bateman, Matthew Ivan Bennett,
Daisy Blake, Joe Debevc, John Graham, Doug Fabrizio, Jay Perry
and Christy Summerhays, are fantastic.
Give a brief synopsis of The Normal Heart.  It chronicles the rise
of the HIV/AIDS crisis in New York City between 1981 and 1984.
It was literally written in real time by Larry Kramer as he docu-
mented what was happening to himself and his friends before
anyone knew what HIV was.
How relevant today is Kramer’s play to its premiere in
1985?  The complacency over HIV/AIDS; the increasingly
frustrating access to health care; the difficulty our community
sometimes has in truly coming together as a community — all of
these make The Normal Heart feel as if were written for us, now,
rather than 25 years ago.
This reading is, I guess, a precursor to Plan-B’s 2010-11
season, its 20th season. In what ways does this reading
mark the future endeavors of the company?  To launch our
20th anniversary we wanted to do something free to thank
those who support us. And we wanted to highlight our com-
munity partnerships. Meanwhile, the Utah AIDS Foundation
approached us about working with them on an event for their
25th anniversary. Since we have a history of partnership (The
Laramie Project, Hedwig and The Angry Inch, Patient A, Facing
East, The Tricky Part) it made perfect sense to partner with
them on a joint anniversary event. And once I realized The
Normal Heart is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year as
well — well, the stage was set!
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By Chris Azzopardi
Scissor
Sisters
Night
tory single — a dynamic disco downer that’s
powerful and devastating and one of the
year’s best — from the first chapter in this
three-part Body Talk series. The song’s so
Work revolutionary — such a smart piece of sad
Since rolling dance-pop that unites rejection and self-love
out the high- — that it rivals her wonderful “With Every
Heartbeat.” Cued from cuts on its predeces-
camp glam on
their six-year- sor, this tease of a disc — at only eight tracks
old debut, — would’ve fit snuggly on her comeback LP:
Scissor Sisters have been irresistibly cheeky. she spits some slick verses over the electro
squiggles of the inescapable “Fembot;”
Seriously — check out that clenched ass
close-up on the cover of the New York four- monotonously intones word repetitions over
a booming bassline on “Don’t Fucking Tell
some’s disco-new wave third album, their
Me What to Do;” and, with the ska-flavored
ebullient follow-up to 2006’s Ta-Dah. It’s set
This project speaks to Plan-B’s future in a couple of ways. We in motion with the robo-strobing total club “Dancehall Queen,” gets fantastically funky.
will continue to partner with community organizations with each cut “Night Work,” a positive ode to ... prosti- Robyn’s no binary machine, though. Her feel-
production (we’ve helped 33 non-profits raise funds via our Benefit tution? Who knows, but it doesn’t really mat-
ings are all human: the hooky pop pleasure
“Cry When You Get Older” is a wise-up an-
Performances Program over the last decade). And we will continue ter since it’s a hoot-and-a-half — drenched
them and “Hang With Me” is a lonely, heart-
to stage at least one production of special interest to the LGBT com- in frontman Jake Shears’ falsetto and electric on-sleeve lament. Piano, swelling strings
munity each season as part of our mission to “develop and produce guitar doodles. The party keeps hoppin’ with and lots of vulnerability — the latter makes
the flirty, psychedelic punch of “Whole New
unique and socially conscious theatre.” Robyn’s heart talk as loud as her body. How
Way,” dropping smutty innuendo about rub-
Any plans to do a reading or full production of The Normal Heart’sbers and “big surprises;” and “Any Which can you not show her love?
Way,” a sharp, siren-started partier with Grade: B+
sequel The Destiny of Me?  We initially considered a marathon
reading of both plays on the same day but we decided that focusing some menacing laughs, shrieks and a frisky
on The Normal Heart HEART was the best way to focus on the work spoken-word bit from groupie Ana Matronic.
Also Out
of both Plan-B and UAF and our anniversaries! Elsewhere, they go for big, uplifting ballad-
As mentioned above, our mission is to develop and produce
turned-dance anthem on “Fire with Fire,” Kelis
unique and socially conscious theatre. We’re currently accomplish-
perhaps the most mainstream they’ve ever Flesh Tone
sounded; give Sir Ian McKellen a spot on
ing that through new plays by Utah playwrights. So, producing The the dark, atmospheric lead single, “Invisible Her “Milkshake” brought all the boys to
Normal Heart isn’t possible. However, the reading gives us a great Light,” and offer a homicidal sequel to their the club, and now all these R&B-free jams
opportunity to share a fantastic play that has never been staged in last LP’s “I Can’t Decide” with the thrusting should do the same. But even though there
are razzmatazz beats booming and bop-
Utah. second-best “Sex and Violence.” Elton John,
ping with their techno tone, there’s only so
Out of the upcoming season’s productions: She Was My Brother, Erasure and maybe even Cyndi Lauper (hey, much Chicken Soup for the Dance Soul a
aren’t those her trademark hoots on “Skin
Mesa Verde, Borderlands — which do you think will have the person can handle — songs “Brave” and
Tight”?) sound like main players on this slut-
strongest impact on the audience/community, and why?  Wow, “Emancipate” pretty much say it all. Many of
ty throwback project, but actually, if Scissor
that’s a hard question. I would hope they would have equal impact Sisters become as big as they deserve to be the nine though, especially the Madge-made
since they each deal with issues germane to our community. “4th of July (Fireworks),” are undeniably
with this, a career best, co-producer Stuart
Julie Jensen’s She Was My Brother (Oct. 28-Nov. 7) follows two hooky without trying to be the next big thing.
Price is the man to thank. And, yeah, maybe
Victorian anthropologists into their relationship with a two-spirited that ass.
Zuni leader in this exploration of love, gender identity. The play Grade: B+ Indigo Girls
kicks off Transgender Awareness Month. Staring Down the Brilliant
Mesa Verde (Feb. 24-Mar. 6), the latest by our resident playwright Robyn, Dream
Matthew Ivan Bennett, explores the relationship between two es- Body Talk Just as they hit the road again, the duo
tranged sisters and their late mother. It’s a play about facing family. Part 1 releases their second live album — a deluxe
Eric Samuelsen’s Borderlands ( Mar. 31-Apr. 10) explores the pro- 31-song set that gleans from several recent
No one lately
cess of coming out — just not in the usual sense — within Mormon years on the road. Many ditties are culled
does down-
culture. What does one do with questions within a faith that doesn’t from the last decade, but they don’t ditch fan
in-the-dumps
faves like “Closer to Fine,” given a new spin
allow for them? It’s a journey into unexpected honesty. dance better
with some guest vocals. They even throw in
Those who’d like to attend the free reading of The Normal Heart than Robyn –
a wonderful reading of the Rolling Stones’
(general admission; cash bar), please rsvp to Jerry Rapier at jerry@ the Swedish
“Wild Horses” to close out the collection. As
planbtheatre.org by August 13. Walk-ups will be seated after those “Show Me Love” singer who beat the
cool as they come, the Indigo Girls live is just
who have RSVPd.  Q one-hit-wonder odds with her finest work,
how they were meant to be heard.
2005’s self-titled synth-pop CD. And now
You can subscribe to the whole season (including And the Bannedcomes “Dancing On My Own,” the introduc- Reach Chris Azzopardi at chris@pridesource.com.
Slammed On, Plan-B’s annual fund raiser) at planbtheatre.org — click
‘tickets & giving’ for just $87. Single tickets are $20 to each of the plays
and $40 for the fund raiser. The QSaltLake staff congratulates Jerry and
Plan-B on 20 outstanding years!
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Syphilis:
Beware and Be Tested!
by Lynn Beltran
S
o, it has been awhile since I
have talked about one of the fast-
est spreading infections in Utah:
syphilis.
Interestingly, syphilis was once
thought to be eradicated. It had its time
back in the 1930s and 1940s and was so
noteworthy that it generated one of the
first public health interventions at the
hands of the U.S. Public Health Ser-
vices. Syphilis cases were so endemic
in many communities in the United
States that at one point in the ’40s, an
estimated on- in-four black men in the
South were infected. Syphilis was also
behind one of the worst moments in the
history of U.S. public health services:
the Tuskeegee syphilis experiments, in
which health workers withheld penicil-
lin (which can cure syphilis) from black
people with the disease who were par-
ticipating in a study.
Syphilis is an infectious disease that
drives fear in many clinicians. It is a
bacterial infection that is very infec-
tious in its early stages and is trans-
mitted through sexual contact, which
includes any intimate, skin-to-skin con-
tact (even oral sex!). The bacteria can
penetrate intact skin and tries to work
its way into the central nervous system,
where it can cause neurological dam-
age or sudden death. It has long been
referred to as the “great imitator,” as
its symptoms are somewhat generic or
often mimic those of a long list of other
diseases. Many physicians and medical
providers were not trained to diagnose
syphilis because it was so rare. As a
result, many cases are either misdiag-
nosed or undiagnosed.
Why is all of this important? Well, cur-
rently, we’re in what can be considered
a syphilis epidemic here in Salt Lake
County. The majority of cases — if not
all recent cases — are among men who
have sex with men. Worse, well over50
percent of the diagnosed cases are
within the HIV-positive community —
which means the epidemic has permeat-
ed many networks of HIV-positive men
who are having unprotected sex. As a
result, many people getting syphilis are
also being infected with HIV. Dual infec-
tion with HIV and syphilis can be very
serious and can allow cases to rapidly
progress to neurological disease.
Symptoms of early stage syphilis of-
ten present as sores or lesions, usually
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wine review
Are There
Two Areas of
France Called
Champagne?
by Chef Drew Ellsworth
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es, indeed, there are two places
in France called Champagne. The larg-
est and most prominent is the ancient
province of Champagne in the north
of the country. This is the one that’s famous for
the elegant and pricy sparkling wine of the same
name. The lesser is two small grape-growing ar-
eas in the South of France, just above Bordeaux,
which are a part of the Cognac. These areas are
called Grande Champagne and Petite Cham-
pagne — who knew? Cognac, by the way, is what
is thought to be the finest brandy in the world
— a spirit distilled from a particular wine using a
time-honored process.
Anyway, I was recently in Washington, DC
at the French Wine Society where I tasted over
100 wines from all of France, plus six excellent
Cognacs. Let me tell you about them.
First of all, I’m hoping my editor will print a
small map I was given that shows the Cognac
region. Even though I’ve lived and traveled all
over France, this was an area I knew nothing
about. There is, actually, a town called Cognac
right in the center of the area. It is on the north
end of the district known as Grande Champagne
along with another town called Ségonzac. (The
suffix “-ac” in this part of France, means “of”
or “coming from,” so many town names end in
“-ac.”) The eastern edge of the Cognac is flanked
by the city of Angoulȇme, and on the west by the
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cities of La Rochelle and Rochefort, which are
situated on the Atlantic coast. Coastal breezes,
salt air and proximity to the Gironde River out of
Bordeaux, all influence the grapes. Cognacs are
made, most importantly, from grapes called Ugni
Blanc — pronounced “oon-yee.”
Hopefully, you can see from the map that the
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bought and sold by many makers. There are
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Salt
A Drag Race in Heels
See and Be Seen
E
600 N.
Michael Aaron couldn’t pass up photographing a drag race — especially when the
Lake rules required 3-inch heels and it was put on by the Salt Lake City Gay Athletic Associ-
by Hunter Richardson
City ation. Max Martinez (first photo, left) was the winner and ran as if he were barefoot.
Of course, he has the legs of a horse, so the outcome may have been predetermined.
Temple
Square

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ately, I have found myself (along with many — wants some form of attention, whether it’s being Arena
Salt
others) staying in from the heat, and until this noticed for being at every event, party or BBQ, or Palace

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S R 100 S.

300 W
Gateway
moment I haven’t been able to figure out the through winking at the bartender pouring your vodka- Mall
200 S
cause of this “rut in my gut,” if you will. Redbull. Personally, I think the concept of “see and be
Intermodal
200 S.
“So I don’t go out every night.” No big deal, right? seen” works in a lot of ways here: You’re single and Hub V
But the more I said this, the more I realized that it was seek attention of others; you’re in a relationship and 300 S.

600 W
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end” turned into “Wait, why am I not going out?” tion of both! City

900 W
It was a strange thought to have — that I went from 500 S Hall

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What I have seen lately (and think is a wise promo-

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going out nearly every weekend to barely once a week.
tional and marketing ploy) is creating evenings with an 600 S
It wasn’t until this past weekend (known as Mormon
inclusive language marketing campaign. This draws in
Mardi Gras in some circles) that I finally got out into
a sense of commonality and in some cases camara-

300 W
the nightlife world, and I must say I have missed it.
derie for those without either a group or someone
So many great people were out in full force enjoying
special to venture out with.
themselves, relaxing as we near the end of the month.
Ultimately, we all go out to see and be seen regard- 900 S

Trax Station
This truly reminded me why, regardless of the estab-
less of who we’re with, where we are or what we’re T
lishment, it is the people that make a night worth-
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out. What was your experience? Was it positive? Was it dolled up as we head out into the evening.
negative? Now ask yourself why. I’m willing to bet your I leave you with this: Dear Weekend, I, like many
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answer will be positive, negative or indifferent based Salt

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on the people you surrounded yourself with that night. ing the past few weeks. I wish you to open your arms
Lake K
The lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender com- as you once did, shielding us from the long week we
City 2100 S
munity is inherently social — it’s truly a borderline endure. I look forward to the familiar faces, places and

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obsession with some people, but social nonetheless. new adventures to come. P
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the
climacteric should tell John about the mishap with ... the
other John, because of how embarrassed you
still are over it.”
would stay up into the wee morning hours swap-
ping charms and idiosyncrasies of our respective
boyfriends, sharing where we thought our cur-

Brotherly Love
“Oh,” John jumped in, “I saw the coverage on
TMZ late one night, and I said to myself ‘I need
to meet this guy, he’s a celebrity who’s as dirty-
By A.E. Storm minded as I am!’”
“Shut up.” JB heartily replied, followed by his
oddly infectious train-screeching-halt of a laugh.
Later in the evening we readied ourselves for
rent lives were leading us, and reminiscing. One
night, we were so involved in conversation, we
had forgotten about a bubble bath we were run-
ning to share, like gay brothers do; we laughed
hysterically when we found the bathroom floor
skimming with Mr. Bubbles bath water. Vance

J
B lives in West Hollywood, a gay mec-
ca in Los Angeles County, for the last seven
years. I met JB, through a mutual friend,
eight years ago — not much time to come to
video in Jane’s sports bra and boxer shorts!”
Though it had been a year since JB’s unfortu-
nate break into ‘reality tv,’ he’s occasionally still
pestered by TMZ cameras hoping to catch him in
a night in Boys Town. I realized, as I looked my-
self in the large mirror of the pink-and-turquoise
tiled bathroom, that no matter how much one
may look like Jason Stackhouse ... OK, maybe
and John woke at our wailing mirth, not amused.
Vance pointed out that we had boyfriends, and
therefore it would be inappropriate for us to
take a bath together. I then suggested to JB that
that was another one of Vance’s idiosyncrasies.

Come get Hunky with Ben

know each other before he moved away; but on
that first day the bond was brotherly — like we had
grown up together. That bond, despite the hun-
dreds of miles and a time zone apart, has thank-
another compromising position. This news had
made me initially wary to accept JB’s invitation to
stay with him for a few days, so I asked if I could
bring my boyfriend Vance, who enjoys “making
I’m giving myself too much credit ... but, a per-
son from Utah always seems to only fit in in Boys
Town as a muscle boy-repellant from the sticks,
especially at the age of 40. So I was quite thank-
ful that I’d have Vance by my side, and decided
Again, not amused.
By the time we arrived at the Long Beach
airport the next afternoon, Vance and John had
forgiven our idiosyncratic brotherly love. I sat
quietly in my seat, holding Vance’s hand in my

Every Sunday night

fully grown only stronger over the years. When we
do find the rare chance to see each other these
days, the hours to days are spent in deep conver-
sation as well as in laughter and brotherly antics.
JB had moved to California to pursue an
love to the camera,” to which he agreed.
Vance and I arrived in Long Beach a week
later; we deplaned onto the tarmac and while
waiting to retrieve our luggage from the baggage
return located in the breezeway of the single-
to not give anymore of a damn about it. lap, and pondered the reaction I was feeling — a
The next three nights were spent much like sort of aching — for a friend that, for all intent
that of the first; we hit all the clubs along Santa and purpose, should be considered a ‘distant
Monica Boulevard, from shooting pool at Trunks friend.’ I realized, with much tenderness, that

at The Tav
acting career — shocking! It didn’t pan out —
more shocking! Not to say he isn’t talented; the
boy could make Michael Landon blush. But, I
suppose the cards were stacked against him,
and through the years he’s moved on to dog
trainer, dog walker, car wash attendant, pole
dancer and John Lithgow’s personal assistant
— this being his favorite job, JB once told me,
because “John’s a silver-haired fox!” JB likes
his “daddies.” But the job had been termi-
nated after merely six months — after JB was
caught, by a paparazzi outside John’s bedroom
window, rifling through his underwear drawer.
terminal airport, I bought an Orange soda for to watching showering go-go dancers at Rage to over the last eight years we had seen each other
Vance and a Dr. Pepper for myself. We waited bumming it at Gold Coast to paying outrageous maybe a dozen times and yet I love him beyond
a short time, in balmy thick August air, at the tax- prices for The Abbey’s infamous martinis. Each measure. It seems that absence does make the
ing area in front of the airport, before JB’s black night, returning to JB’s apartment, he and I heart grow fonder.  Q
Ford Expedition pulled to the curb.
In the passenger seat was a man I didn’t rec-
ognize, but looked uncannily like John Lithgow.
Vance and I placed our bags in the back of the
truck then hopped in the backseat. JB and I
kissed each other, in that gay brotherly way.
“This is Vance,” I started the introductions. Then
when I tipped the Dr. Pepper to my lips JB said,
“Tommy, this is John,” referencing the Lithgow

KARAOKE
A 45-second segment of JB, half-naked, sniffing
and caressing several pairs of white briefs was
repetitively aired on TMZ.
To his perceived great fortune though, JB
quickly learned that Jane Lynch was in the mar-
look-alike to his right, and I immediately spat-
tered the prune-flavored cola across the back of
John’s seat.
Sufficed to, say the hour-ten-minute, 18-mile
drive to JB’s apartment was spent in awkward

SUNDAYS AND TUESDAYS
ket for a personal assistant, but then to his dis-
may he wasn’t even invited through the door for
an interview; apparently John Lithgow had had
pleasantries, less the randomness of Vance’s
disappointment in not having witnessed a
high-speed freeway chase. It took little time,
him blacklisted in the industry. I said to JB, in thankfully due to a few beers between us, for

DOLLAR DRAFTS that brotherly way, when he gave me the terrible

news, “Honey, think of it this way, you’re saving
the awkwardness to subside and I revealed the
reason behind my sticky impropriety in the back
Sundays, Mondays and Wednesdays yourself the embarrassment of being caught on of JB’s $30,000 Expedition: “I wasn’t sure if I

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