The Queer Utah Aquatic Club has seen close to 3,000 swimmers in its fifteen year history, who have participated in everything from beginning level classes to the group’s annual Ski-n-Swim, to the group’s water polo team, which took first place at the International Gay and Lesbian Aquatics Championship in 2008. Chances are,...
read moreWhen Foundation for Reconciliation, a group of straight Mormons and their friends of all sexual orientations, delivered a petition to LDS Church headquarters earlier this month that asked the church to seek forgiveness and dialogue with gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, they were joined by a group of mental health...
read moreJoni Weiss has only been back in the state of her birth four years, but based on the service she has given to Utah’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community, you would think she had never left. At present, Weiss is a member of the Pride Interfaith Council, the organization that puts together gay and transgender-affirming...
read moreA list of Utah’s most talented writers working throughout its 113 year history would not be complete without Julie Jensen, Salt Lake Acting Company’s resident playwright and the mind behind such critically acclaimed plays as The Last Lists of My Mad Mother, Wait! and, perhaps most notably, Two-Headed, about the Mountain Meadows...
read moreOn Sunday evening, David Nielson is busy with rehearsals for Affirmation: Gay and Lesbian Mormon’s choir. But when QSaltLake calls him up, he ducks out of the room to talk. Now is the best time for it, he says, because as soon as the last note is sung, he’ll be busy stuffing program packets for this weekend’s Affirmation...
read moreBetween juggling a full-time marketing job, creating above-par theatre from a “woman’s perspective,” booking utah pride festival entertainment and taking care of five horses, one burro and three dogs, Fran Pruyn rarely finds time “to do laundry.” Holding a Bachelors of Arts in theatre and a Masters of Fine Arts in Arts...
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