This Day In Gay Utah History SEPTEMBER 4th

September 4th

Parish Church, Taxal, Cheshire, England

1707-In England, Hannah Wright and Anne Gaskill were married. They were one of two female couples whose marriages were registered in the parish of Taxal, Cheshire.

1984-A National Gay Task Force survey showed that approximately 10% of lesbians and 25% of Gay men had been physically assaulted because of their sexual orientation.

1986 A Clearfield Job Corpsman pleaded guilty in 2^nd District Court to a reduce charge of lewdness in connection with a July 29 incident at the facility. Andre G. Gay who turned 19 Wednesday pleaded guilty to a Class b Misdemeanor and was sentence to six months in jail. He originally was charged with forcible sexual abuse, a third degree felony.  Deseret News

1990 Lex B. Warburton age 34 committed suicide  in the Mountains of Utah. Lex was a sensitive man who loved nature. All the animals knew him well. He expressed his love in his art. His family is sad he is gone and will always love and miss him.Obituary

David Young

1994-Members of the Gay and Lesbian Utah Democrats (GLUD) assailed the judge in July after he handed down a lenient sentence to Nevada cowboy David Nelson Thacker, who murdered a gay man in Park City Last month, more than 100 people gathered at the state Capitol to protest Thacker's sentence and to demand Young's ouster. It is Young's latest sentencing -- of gay slayer Thacker -- that really puzzles people. ``I'm flummoxed on him cutting slack on the Park City case,'' says one attorney. ``That's not the Judge Young I know.'' Thacker was charged with shooting and killing Douglas C. Koehler after a night of drinking, drugs and a homosexual encounter in Park City. Thacker angrily kicked Koehler out of his apartment, telling a roommate Koehler had tried to kiss him. Thacker later tracked Koehler and shot him between the eyes.    Thacker said the shooting was accidental, claiming that he meant only to scare the victim. Charged with a first-degree felony, Thacker pleaded to a second-degree felony.    But Young said 1 to 15 years was ``too high'' a sentence and sent Thacker to prison for a maximum of 6 years. Referring to his three-month stint on the Utah Board of Pardons, Young said killers are the least likely to strike again. He also indicated the victim had precipitated events by providing the cocaine that night. Detractors are calling for the removal of 3rd District Judge David S. Young, The 51-year-old Young is accused of bias against women and gays, and civil-rights organizations are calling for his removal from the bench. The National Organization for Women (NOW) and a small network of concerned women in Summit County, where Young has presided the past six months, are outraged that the judge prevented a Park City mother of three from moving to Oregon with her children. Alicia Larson's children must stay in Utah so they can be reared in a proper Mormon environment, Young stated in a July divorce ruling. ``The move to Corvallis is not compatible

Luci Malin

with the religious training that has been provided to the children,'' Young wrote. Voters must wake up, says NOW's Lucy Malin. The group is organizing ``judge watches'' on Young and other jurists, asking volunteers to attend court hearings and take notes about conduct and rulings.  ``We have to start looking at them and their records,'' Malin adds. ``No one has been doing it.''  NOW also is helping women pay for transcripts of their hearings before Young, to bolster appeals or complaints against him. Two complaints have been filed, by Larson and GLUD.  ``He doesn't like females,'' says a woman who handles divorces.  ``It's nothing you can see from transcripts -- it's a tone of voice, body language and the general outcome of cases.'' By contrast, she claims, ``He has an open and friendly manner when men are on the stand.'' Lawyers and the Summit County women point to trends in different cases:  Young's refusal -- overturned by the Court of Appeals in 1992 -- to grant a protection order to a Tooele woman who claimed her husband had threatened to kill her if she served him with divorce papers. ``I can't take it anymore,'' the woman cried out in Young's courtroom. ``I can't. He's going to kill me. Nobody knows him.''    She claimed her husband had beaten her repeatedly during their eight-year relationship.  Young reasoned that the woman had previous protection orders and was not in imminent fear of danger. He said she did not qualify for a protection order, and advised her to file for divorce. Another judge granted her a protection  ``He wears his religion on his sleeve,'' a prosecutor says. ``If I were a defense attorney, I'd be sure and let Young know my client was Mormon.''  Young has declared in open court to be a descendent of former LDS Church President Brigham Young 09-04-94  Page: A1

1994   MUSICAL GROUPS READY TO LAUNCH NEW SEASONS WITH YO-YO MA, `MESSIAHS' AND A MARSALIS  Byline: By Lance S. Gudmundsen THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE  

• Founding music director Jeff Manookian to conduct four concerts. Manookian was born in

  

  Jeff Manookian

  Salt Lake City, Utah, and is of direct Armenian descent. Manookian began his musical training at age 4 - winning his first piano competition at 14. He was always interested in composition and conducting as well. At age 12 Manookian wrote a Piano Concerto, and by age 15 a Violin Concerto and a Symphony. At 16 his early Flute Concerto was premiered with Manookian wielding the baton. At that point he began his conducting studies. He has since served as music director of the Utah Youth Symphony, Westminster Chamber Orchestra, and International Classical Orchestra. He has guest conducted the Pasadena Symphony, University Musical Society of Las Vegas, the University of Utah SummerArts Orchestra, the Salt Lake Symphony, the America West Symphony, Murray Symphony and the Oratorio Society of Utah.
• Lesbian and Gay Chorus. Entering its second year, the 30-voice Lesbian & Gay Chorus of Salt Lake City begins its season in December with a program of sacred and secular holiday music, said music director Meloni Gunderson.  The chorus plans a second concert in mid-June, coinciding with the annual lesbian and gay Pride Day festivities. It will spotlight Hollywood music, and include a special tribute to Judy Garland.Salt Lake Tribune Page: E3

1998- Affirmation’s 20^th International Conference was held in Portland Oregon. The conference included a variety of prominent speakers and some topic included Gay marriage, aging in the Gay community, how the LDS Church’s anti-Gay position creates a dangerous climate for both Gays and Mormon Families and criticism of Reparative Therapy.

2003 Dear Community; Emperor X Scott Stites in an official proclamation required that until AIDS is no longer a threat to our community that each October the Emperor shall host with members of the Royal Court of the Golden Spike Empire AIDS Awareness Week.  October 2003 the tradition continues in a series of activities, to be kicked off by Requiem a vigil and temporary memorial instillation in historic Memory Grove, hosted by Imperial Crown Prince XXVIII Chad Keller and His Most Imperial Majesty Mark Thrash. October 4, 2003 a candlelight vigil will begin at 7:00 p.m of music and spoken word on the grounds of the W.W.I monument at the south end of the Grove.  At dusk a temporary memorial instillation of over 4000 small flags will be illuminated.  One flag will be placed for each AIDS death or HIV infection in Utah since 1983 when records on AIDS/HIV begin.  It will remain illuminated each evening through the end of AIDS Awareness Week.  Flags as part of the instillation may be dedicated to love ones lost to AIDS.  The RCGSE is actively seeking more live performances through the various performance art mediums that is reflective of the great diversity of the community at large, making this truly a community activity.  If you or your organization would like to participate, or if you would like to dedicate flags to loved ones please contact Mark Thrash at thrashma@hotmail.com or Chad Keller at ckell2@jcpenney.com  Dedications can be full name, nick name, or first name.  Because of time restraints only dedications received by October 1 will be included.  Please pass this along to those you feel are interested in participating.  Special thanks and acknowledgment to the Salt Lake Parks Department, and the Memory Grove Foundation for their generous assistance in making this one of a kind instillation come to life. Sincerely, Chad Keller  Imperial Crown Prince XXVIII

2003 Fair enough, but as long as this is the Utah Stonewall Historical Society Yahoo! Inc. group, and we're discussing the political history of the current Salt Lake City mayoral candidates, we should be equally critical of Mayor Anderson's relevant past. In a July 9, 1996, Deseret News report, U.S. congressional candidate Anderson called equal marriage rights for same-sex couples an "irrelevant" and "minor" issue about "our most revered institution." Describing how he planned to vote against such marriages, he said that "on this sensitive issue, as a representative of all the people in the 2nd District, I'd vote my constituents' wishes" saying that doing so would be "the only responsible thing to do." In a July 9, 1996, Salt Lake Tribune report, Anderson called equal marriage rights "sensationalized" and that "these kinds of changes in our institutions are very difficult and sometimes take a while for us all to accept. Describing how he planned to vote against such marriages, he said that he'd "determine the wishes of residents and then 'vote accordingly.'" To my knowledge of the matter, Anderson never extended or revised these statements, nor expressed regret about them. While marriage rights aren't a matter for mayoral concern, Anderson's honesty seven years ago about voting against our interest in them makes me skeptical about his resolve to support our interest in matters that are for mayoral concern. Beyond adopting an city-government employment non-discrimination policy and appointing some openly gay and lesbian Salt Lakers to serve in his administration, I'm stumped to emphasize any other action which Anderson has accomplished for our benefit. Needless to say, I believe that former state Rep. Frank Pignanelli can and will do at least as much to help us as Anderson has. History tells this story. Anderson's history is clear. Pignanelli's history is just as clear: While we might not have his vote every time, at least he won't say one thing and promise to vote another. David Nelson Salt Lake City

2003 Top 3 SLC mayoral candidates discuss social issues By Heather May the Salt Lake Tribune Mayor Rocky Anderson said Wednesday that he is looking into whether Salt Lake City can give preferences to potential contractors who offer their employees a "living wage" and health insurance. He may also consider favoring companies that ban discrimination against gay and lesbian employees. Speaking in front of the Utah Stonewall Democrats  --  which voted to endorse the mayor for a second term  --  Anderson said he is investigating the possibility of an executive order to that effect. State law forbids cities from requiring contractors to provide a wage higher than the

federal minimum wage. Anderson said state law requires that cities award contracts to the lowest bidder that is "responsible and dependable." He wonders if the city can look at the contractors' histories to see if they have provided better benefits than required by federal law. “It doesn't say you can't give some preference in evaluating responsible and dependable employers," he said. The Stonewall caucus, which focuses on gay and lesbian issues, also quizzed Frank Pignanelli and Molonai Hola. Another gay and lesbian group, Unity Utah, also has endorsed Anderson.   Both of Anderson's challengers said they are concerned about employers and housing agencies that are biased against gays. Pignanelli said he would support a "statement of action to send out the signal . . . this is a comfortable place, a secure place for our friends, neighbors and relatives to live.  "I live [with], I work [with], I love these people and I

Rocky Anderson

do not want them discriminated against," Pignanelli said. Hola and Pignanelli also said they support Anderson's executive order protecting city employees from discrimination based on sexual orientation.    They would also like to have someone in the mayor's office focus on gay and lesbian issues. Anderson appointed a lesbian woman in the minority affairs office, angering some ethnic minorities. Pignanelli said he wonders if the gay and lesbian focus would be better in community and economic development. All three said they believe gays have contributed to the city in significant ways. Hola tried to relate by sharing his experiences as a Tongan in Utah. He said people touched his skin like he was a "leper." "I am sensitive to people who are minorities," Hola said. "Perhaps you view yourself as a minority group. I can sympathize with what you're going through." The audience delved into issues no mayor can have power over, like gay adoption. Hola said he does not "accept" adoptions of children by gays. Pignanelli, who adopted his daughter, said after the meeting that a judge should decide "what's in the best interest of the child." He also said prejudices against adoptions might fall if the city shows gays are accepted. Anderson said he would further the cause of such issues by creating community. "We can't call ourselves compassionate unless we all do everything we can to afford respect and dignity on an equal basis, and understand it's not for any one of us to judge." F. Irish and Lawrence Rey Topham did not attend Wednesday's event. SL Tribune Page: B5 

2004 Thank you for your interest in this year’s Southern Utah's pride festival. This year we will be holding the festival September 4th & 5th, in Springdale, Utah. This year we have many different events to make this year’s festival for everyone who either attends or participates in it. All funds raised during pride will go to the Southern Utah GLBT Center, so that they may continue to stay open, and hopefully open a building in the Southern Utah area. The Calendar Of Events are as follows: Saturday September 4^th: Southern Utah Pride Film Screening, presented by Technophiliax....Location TBA "Experiment" 6:00pm & Max" 8:00pm   Southern Utah Pride Launch Party, presented by New Wave Entertainment.... Location TBA, Doors open 10:00pm till 1:30am With DJ Dega & DJ Boi, $5.00 Cover (Proceeds will go to the Center) Sunday September 5^th Southern Utah Pride March, 10am - Zion Park Blvd in Springdale. We will start at the park and march to Springdale Town Park Pride Softball Game Presented by the Southern Center.... 11am - 2pm Springdale Town Park Softball Field, Southern Utah Pride Festival..... 3pm - 9pm Springdale Town Park,9pm - 1am Pride Dance - Dance is Free Admission, in the center of pride.... with DJ Dega & DJ Boi This year we are offering FREE Booth Space at the park... We ask that everyone is set up and ready to go at least by 2:30 pm Sunday Afternoon. The City has given us limitation on how soon we are able to set up at the park, we can start setting up as early as 6 am and everything must be gone by 3 am monday. If you need help finding anything for your booth, please let me know... Please Don't Park in the Parking Lot of the Park, we will be using that space for the stage and dance area. Please park along Zion Park Blvd, or the empty lot west of the park. Also if you are planning to attend Pride, we suggest that you make hotel/campground reservations ASAP!! It is a holiday weekend, and we will be holding pride in a National Park Resort Town, so they may run out, the closet towns to Springdale are: Rockville, Virgin, La Verkin, and Hurricane, St George is 45 miles away..... We suggest Red Rock Inn B&B, Desert Pearl Inn, which are gay friendly hotels.... New Wave Entertainment will also possible be renting charter busses from Salt Lake to Springdale/Hurricane. For this to happen we would need to know ASAP, so we can make sure we rent, or schedule the correct amount of buses. The cost per person would be $32.00 per person (Round Trip Service), if you a (Round Trip Service), if you are also interested please let me know, ASAP.... Thanks Again, We Hope to see you there.... Thank you, Christopher Bradshaw, Southern Utah Pride "Stonewall was a riot. What we need now is a revolution!" I saw it on a sign at the Portland, Oregon Pride Parade

Springdale, Utah

• ARE YOU READY FOR SOUTHERN UTAH PRIDE 2004? ROOMS IN SPRINGDALE ARE NOW SOLD OUT! WHEN: SEPTEMBER 4TH AND 5TH, 2004 WHERE: SPRINGDALE, UT CALENDAR SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4TH, 2004 6pm — OPENING NIGHT WELCOME FILM ($6) “THE EXPERIMENT: GAY & STRAIGHT” with short “FOXHOLE” 8pm — ($6) PIXIE FLIX WINNING FILM: “MAX: A CAUTIONARY TALE” with short “FAIRIES” 10pm — OUT IN THE PARK dance party, Springdale Park SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5TH, 2004 Morning? -3PM — TAILGATE RELAY MARCH!!! Route (by car): Kayenta, Ivins, Santa Clara, Green Valley, Bloomington, Bloomington Hills, River Rd, Bluff Street,  St. George Blvd, Red Cliffs Dr, Tonaquint Dr, Washington HWY 91, Hurricane HWY to La Verkin, Springdale to Riverside Park, BY FOOT: to Springdale Park. 3pm-9pm — PRIDE IN THE PARK, Springdale Park. 9pm - 1am — PRIDE FOAM PARTY, with special performance by U S of A drag  winners, Springdale Park.
• Hey everyone, Southern Utah Pride Festival is just around the corner, so I wanted to let
  
  you know we have a website for you to look at that gives the rundown of what is happening for pride. Also, for those of you who don't know...Lucie Blue Tremblay Amie Marie, and many others will be performing for our Pride!!! Also, I just read this "letter to the editor" in the deseret news, and think we need to reply...here is the link to the letter...let's do research and make our responses good!!!
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Aimee Selfridge

My name is Aimee Selfridge. I am the Chairperson of The Southern Utah Gay & Lesbian Community Center, and I would like to thank those envolved in The 2nd annual Southern Utah Pride Festival. This years organizer was Chris Bradshaw and his company New Wave Entertainment, and I would like to offer a huge Thank You to him for all of his hard work to make this years Pride come together.  Last years total numbers for the event was 150 attendees and this years total for both days was about 250. I do not want the numbers to be over exaggerated  as I would like honest representation for our community. Each year we will only get bigger and better and I am proud of our numbers so far.  I would like to thank our sponcers, The Hampton Inn of Cedar City, Technophiliax, ERA Brokers of St. George, The Town of Springdale, The Springdale Police Department, Q Vegas, Out Las Vegas, The Pillar, Salt Lake Metro, Womyn4Women, Griffin Design Studio, PlanetOut.com, Gay.com and the many others who supported us. If I missed anyone, please let

Nova Starr

me know so that I can fix it.  I would also like to thank our performers for coming to such a small venue to do your stuff, Kelexia Davenport from TX, Dena Cass from Iowa,  Nova Starr from Salt lake, Kitty Litter from Las Vegas and the other girls, DJ's Dragon Boy and Jester. Also a big thank you to acoustic singer/songwriter Amie Marie, and to French Canadian singer/songwriter Lucie Blue Tremblay, you both hypnotized us with your sultry voices and sweet guitars.      Thank you to all who attended and to all the non-profits for coming both years, and thank you everyone for your patience, your friendships, your pride, and all your love. We are already planning for next year, so to be involved, sponsor  perform or have a booth, please contact Aimee via email at suglbtcc@yahoo.com or call #'s below, I would love next year to be a celebration of our diversity, so I want our artists to come and have booths, and our musicians to come perform. I would like to see this pride to be a music, movie, and art festival, as well as having all the non-profits and print media's there!!! We need volunteer's to be on the planning committee  we will have a meeting at the end of this month to start organizing for next year, so if you want to help, please call.

2018 The LGBTQA+ Coalition of Cache Valley would like to invite all Queer Folx and Allies of Cache Valley to attend our general assembly. We will be discussing the resources available from all over the valley and then asking YOU for feedback. Please spread the word far and wide! Light refreshments will be served. Mission Statement: The LGBTQIA+ Coalition of Cache Valley brings together representatives from affinity groups to focus on the common goals of enriching our community through sharing resources and solidarity. If you are from an organization in the valley that would be interested in being a member of the coalition, please contact Macy Keith 

2018  Why is Mia Love hammering on same-sex marriage? Politics is politics and Love is love.By Robert Gehrke Salt Lake Tribune There was a widely used slogan for the same-sex marriage movement a few years back: Love is love. It’s less clear if that’s true in the eyes of Mia Love. The 4th District congresswoman sent out a fundraising email last week hammering her Democratic opponent, Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams, for being a closet liberal. It read like it could have been written by President Donald Trump during one of his early morning Twitter rants, ridiculing her opponent’s “Moderate McAdams” image and accusing the press of going easy on him. One of the issues where she says McAdams has shown his true liberal colors is same-sex marriage. “McAdams,” it says, “was ‘pleased’ with the Supreme Court legalizing same-sex marriage.” McAdams fired back, saying Love’s “efforts to divide us over equality is shameful.” “I’m proud of my work to build bridges,” he said on Twitter. “She should apologize, disavow [the ad] and return any money.” I’m sure the Love campaign team is getting right to work on that. There was a time when this issue was a surefire winner for Utah Republicans, but times have changed and it could be a mistake for Love to count on the marriage issue. Statewide, 54 percent of Utahns now support the right of LGBTQ couples to wed, according to a poll conducted last year by the Public Religion Research Institute. That’s double the support measured in the state in a 2011 poll by Public Policy Polling. Given the demographics of Utah’s various congressional districts, support is likely even higher in the 4th District, which tends to skew slightly more moderate than the rest of the state. A second problem for Love is that it’s not entirely clear that there’s much daylight between her and McAdams on same-sex marriage. Remarkably, I was able to find only one statement from her on the issue, a Facebook post from June 2013, after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down part of the Defense of Marriage Act, where she said it was wrong for a court to invalidate an act of Congress. “I am committed to join with Utah voters to continue the fight,” she said. Since then, it’s been crickets. There wasn’t a word from her after the Kitchen v. Herbert decision made marriage legal in Utah, or after the Obergefell decision that made it the law nationwide. Love’s campaign manager, Dave Hansen, said he doesn’t know what Love thinks about same-sex marriage or what, if anything, she would like to see Congress do on the issue. Hansen said he suspects Love accepts the court’s ruling and considers it to be settled. The mention of marriage in the fundraising email “was not in there to attack” same-sex marriage, Hansen said. “This was a liberal position at the time” the court ruled in Obergefell (in 2015) “and that’s the position he took.” It’s not really clear what Love or Congress could do to roll back same-sex marriage. Would they seriously attempt to dissolve the thousands of unions around the country and face that backlash? Seems unlikely. It also seems that, at its core, this is nothing but a dog whistle, targeted at Love’s hardcore Republican base, trying to get them fired up and scrambling to contribute. And when the checks clear and the campaign comes to an end, they won’t hear much about that gay marriage boogeyman for at least two years, when it gets trotted out again. And it probably will if she wins, because, as they say: Love is Love.