Sometimes it takes just sitting at a wedding ceremony, watching two people profess their love to a crowd of friends and family, to remind you what may be right in this world. As many, including myself, who had spent the night with their eyes glued to news reports of a catastrophe halfway across the globe, two men were fretting...
read moreWhen we started this little venture back in 2004, we planned big. We hired an editor, a sales manager, three salespeople, a full-time designer, several freelance writers who were paid the same rate as the Salt Lake Tribune, an office manager, and me as publisher. As the years went by, we realized that, no matter how hard we tried...
read moreIn this issue, the one that covers Valentine’s Day, we are announcing the winners of our same-sex wedding giveaway. We, of course, know that we aren’t able to legally marry the two men who won, but we can throw them a great party, a lavish ceremony, and a trip away from home to celebrate — honeymoon style. But these two men...
read moreSalt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker and Utah Lt. Governor Greg Bell recently held a press conference at Memorial House to launch an initiative on civility (see related story on page 10). Days later, a troubled young man went on a shooting spree in Phoenix, killing many and ruining the lives of many others. Leaders across the country...
read moreChristmas means widely-different things to people within the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community of Utah — from those with life partners who host both sides of the family for Christmas Eve to those who just left a marriage after coming out and will spend their first holiday alone to the throw-away gay kids who will...
read moreAs a great singer-songwriter-philosopher says: I want your love and I want your revenge You and me could write a bad romance She couldn’t be more right. We live at a time and in a state where there are deep chasms between groups of people with differing views, with differing ethnicities, with differing sexual orientations. The...
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