So, here it is time for the Utah Legislature to once again inflict their moralistic views on the residents of Utah, whether we like it or not. Hopefully they will not do any ill toward the gay community, however, it’s unlikely they will do us any good. No matter how awful this year’s 45-day session may be, it will never...
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Holy hell! The Advocate named Salt Lake City the Gayest City in America based on nine arbitrary criteria, and you would have thought we had pissed in everybody’s Cheerios! I couldn’t believe the rants on why it was so wrong to consider Salt Lake City the gayest city. What really ticked me off was that so many of the negative...
read moreOn Dec. 4, 1986, Salt Lake City’s last remaining bathhouses, Club 14 and Jeff’s Gym (Club Baths), received cessation notices from Salt Lake City attorney, Roger Cutler. Cutler contended, “Salt Lake City believes each business constitutes a brothel as a place of lewdness assignation or prostitution.” Cutler assigned Bruce...
read moreThe first gay-themed workshop retreat held in Utah for both men and women was called Beyond Stonewall. It was the result of hard work by myself and John Reeves, who helped plan and coordinate a “gay summer camp.” The idea occurred to me on a train trip home from the 1987 March on Washington. Feeling empowered by the...
read moreIn June of 1989 I made a pilgrimage to New York City to place a rose on the steps of the Stonewall Inn. It was the 20th anniversary of an event which was the catalyst for a paradigm shift in what it meant to be homosexual. Once there, I discovered that the nondescript brick building across the street from Sheridan Square was now a...
read moreI was talking to a young friend who didn’t know who Matthew Shepard was. Taken aback, I realized that this man was born in 1989 and was only 9 years old when Shepard was beaten and left to die on a cold October day near Laramie, Wyo. We are failing our youth by not teaching about the significance of Stonewall, or Harry Hay, Frank...
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