Editor, When my family and I moved to Utah about three years ago, I was amazed at the amount of ignorance and bigotry being spewed concerning (what I consider to be a relatively easy-to-understand equal protection of the laws) secular equality issue. I constantly asked myself, how can obviously intelligent people devolve into a pack...
read moreAn open letter to Mr. Boyd Packer: Sir, you are living in the past. The world is changing, and you don’t like it. There are changes in the world I don’t like either. The difference between you and I in this respect is that I know that even though there are changes taking place that I don’t like, some of them are beneficial to...
read moreEditor, 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...
read more‘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...
read moreH. 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...
read moreMany 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 we do not march. We fear being ostracized...
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