Sports
Learn to Square Dance with Temple Squares
Utah’s non-profit, gay and lesbian square dance club, the Temple Squares, will offer Beginning Mainstream Square Dance classes starting Sept. 10. Held each Friday night at the Columbus Community Center from 7–9 p.m.; all singles and couples are welcome to join the group and learn square dancing basics. No experience is encouraged. Dancers should wear [...]
Goodtime Bowling League Scores 20
Celebrating its 20th anniversary, the Salt Lake Goodtime Bowling League rolls into gay-friendly Bonwood Bowl with league play starting Sunday, Sept 12. Anyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, age or ability is invited to participate in this season’s bowling fun. J Fraga is the newly-elected president of the league after many years of planning and [...]
Tahitian Dance Troupe Opens in Utah
So You Think You Can Dance introduced traditional Tahitian dance to the country at large this summer, when Arizona contestant Lauren Froderman performed one of these dances on the hit program. But before that, Polynesian dance and music have been kept alive as an art form and a competitive dance style by Polynesian artists throughout [...]
Jazz’ Amaechi Warns Athletes of Coming Out Too Soon
Gay former Utah Jazz player John Amaechi has said that gay sportsmen and women should not feel rushed to come out if they do not feel ready. Amaechi, who came out in 2007 — four years after retiring from the sport, said that coming out too soon was like “being born prematurely” and urged those not [...]
Countdown to Cologne
Twenty-seven gay, lesbian, bisexual and straight Utah athletes are registered to attend Gay Games VIII in Cologne, Germany. From July 31–Aug. 7 they will represent Utah in swimming, water polo, cycling, bowling, women’s fast-pitch softball and basketball. Currently, Gay Games VIII has over 9,000 registrants from 70 countries participating in 35 sports and five cultural [...]
Cyclist With Most Medals Returns To Games
In the past seven Gay Games, one Utah athlete has acquired more medals that any other participant from the state. Cyclist Margaret Douglass, 51, has brought home seven medals from the 1994 Gay Games in New York and the 2002 Games in Sydney. And now, Douglas is attending Gay Games VIII, which will be held [...]
Gay Kickball Team Joins Murray League
A new team of gays, lesbians and their friends has been stirring up the dust on the kickball field this spring. Team Brighton has just joined the City of Murray Parks and Recreation Adult Kickball League. The team, which has members of all sexual orientations, is having a great time playing the other teams in [...]
Hardwood Heads to Cologne
Team Harwood, Salt Lake City’s gay men’s basketball team, will represent Utah at Gay Games VIII in Cologne, Germany, July 31–Aug. 7. Players who will represent the team at the Gay Games VIII are Clark Cutler, Stewart Ralphs, Greg Perkins, Jeffrey Sanchez, Ralph Ingersoll and Tracy Taggart. Although the economic downturn has made it hard [...]
Hiking Hard Core
Power lifting takes weight lifting to the next level. And now, Utah has power hiking thanks to the Gay Men’s Advanced Hiking group, with spring and summer hikes beginning in May. “This is a group hike. Our average hike time is eight to ten plus hours,” said Edwin Delaney Pederson, hike coordinator and group leader. [...]
More Spring Sports
Lambda Hiking Club Salt Lake City’s longest running gay and lesbian hiking group has planned its spring and early summer hikes and is encouraging anyone to join for a weekend hike or participate in the moonlight hike on Black Mountain.
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