Letters
Pride Festival Praise
Editor, Along with its accompanying rallies, marches, parade, entertainment, and Grand Marshal reception, the 2010 Utah Pride Festival was nothing short of exceptional. Observing the way our community and it’s allies successfully pulled together to throw Utah’s biggest and best celebration of diversity is breath-taking and fills me with immense PRIDE. The almost 800 volunteers [...]
Raise Your Voice, ‘I Am Equal’
‘If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door in the country.” These immortalized words of Harvey Milk are quoted within our community with a sense of reverence. Having been born after the days of the infamous police raids, high-profile beatings and the HIV/AIDS epidemic’s zenith, I scarcely know the [...]
Guns Aren’t Ridiculously Mormon
H. Rachelle Graham wrote that “Salt Lake Valley residents have bongs on dressers while Happy Valley has shiny guns inside dresser drawers” (“Lipstick Lesbian: Salt Lake Valley vs. Happy Valley,” QSaltLake, April 15). Judging from her litany of comparisons, Utah County citizens who own firearms are ridiculously mistaken and too Mormon for her taste. While [...]
An open letter to the facebook generation
Many of us younger members of the gay community are just itching for an opportunity to spread our activist wings and become full fledged member of the flock. How do we do it? Many of our parents and families would be ashamed to see us marching down main street in our brightest colors, and so [...]
Time for Understanding
Editor, For over 15 years, I was married to the love of my life. I was unaware that he was gay. When we divorced, the process was more excruciatingly painful than the awful kitchen fire that disfigured me for life. We had four children and had been best friends. He was trying desperately to honor [...]
Show Same Respect
Editor,I see that the “Christians” have taken to writing directly to QSaltLake to complain that we are hurting their feelings when we call them “bigots” and “haters”. [Letters, QSaltLake, Aug. 6, 2009] Gee, I’m sorry. I agree with the “Christians.” They do deserve our respect. We should show them the same respect they show us [...]
Vote for Allies Too
Editor, I don’t know Stan Penfold. I have no doubt he’s a great guy [“UAF Director Seeks City Council Seat,” QSaltLake, Aug. 20]. I do, however, know Lisa Allcott. The reason I know Lisa is because I have been fighting to get Democrats, progressive individuals, and gay friendly candidates elected to all areas of government [...]
Talk WITH Voters
Editor, Salt Lake City Council candidate Stan Penfold said that he “enjoys talking to voters and hearing ‘their ideas and thoughts and concerns’” [“UAF Director Seeks City Council Seat,” QSaltLake, Aug. 20].Those of us at Stonewall Shooting Sports of Utah wouldn’t know how much he enjoys talking to voters. After contacting him four times, he [...]
Cool to Bullying
I’ve heard a statistic: that approximately three percent of Americans are openly gay. How true this is, I haven’t a clue, however, allowing for a reasonable margin of error that still leaves us as a feeble minority in accordance with size. It is a fact of life we all live with and sometimes don’t even [...]
Memo to Pride
Memo to the board of the Utah Pride Center and the organizers of the 2009 Utah Pride Festival—prominently labeled as a “program” of the Utah Pride Center: 1) Efficient nonprofits don’t charge their clients for the “programs” they offer. 2) “Programs” are not generally listed on your website as an “event” alongside other fundraisers. 3) [...]
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