11 April 11-
1891 James Hamilton about 23 years of age pleaded not guilty
to an allege “Crime
Against Nature”. The
defendant in answer to the judge said he was entirely without means and an
attorney was appointed to defend. Deseret News
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| Commerce [Regent] Street |
1908- Provo Utah Co July 6 was the time set apart
to hear the trial of Duane McCandless who was arraigned and plead not guilty to
the charge of murder in the first degree. This Is the cause in which Moses Jones of Lehi was hit over the
head with a beer bottle in the hands of
the said McCandless-[Deseret News] Note- Moses Jones had been sent to
prison in 1899 on a charge of Sodomy.
1933 The Daily Herald, Provo, Utah
1933 The Daily Herald, Provo, Utah
1976-“I had my Bishop Court today with President
Thompson, Lamar Perkins, and Mike
Nieder.
They interviewed me about Larry and my love affair. They asked me whether I had on my garments
and all kinds on embarrassing questions. I had admired Bro. Perkins so much and
it killed my soul for him to know how intimate I had been with Larry. The decision of the Bishop Court was that I
would be disfellowshipped for conduct unbecoming a Latter Day Saint and for
embarrassing the Church. I was also kicked out of my Branch because the Church
had made a policy that homosexuals were not allowed to attend BYU branches. President Thompson was kind enough to say he
would not turn in my court action to BYU until the term ends in another week.”
Writes a BYU student in his journal.
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| Larry |
1988- Our Place restaurant opened at 249 West 400 South at
Beauchaine’s former Aardvark Caberet.
1996- Frank Brunatti, born July 22, 1940 in Kemmerer,
Wyoming, returned to his Heavenly Father on April 11, 1996, after a valiant
battle with the AIDS virus. Moved to Salt Lake City at an early age where he
spent the remainder of his years. Graduated from Judge Memorial High School and
from Stevens Henager College, where he met and wed Marianne J. Fratto; later
divorced. Frank is the father of two children. During his lifetime he served in
the U.S. Army and earned a B.S. in marketing at Westminster College, where he
received a service award. Frank will be remembered for his willingness to
serve. He spent many active years in community services, Catholic youth
organization advisor, instructor of Confraternity of Christian Doctrine,
president of Poplar Grove Community Council and member of Salt Lake Community
Council. He also volunteered for the AIDS Foundation & PWACU. Served as
parish chairman for DDD, captain of Paint Your Heart Out Program, member of the
Earth Day Project and Neighborhood Housing Association and chairman of the
supervisory committee for Catholic Community Credit Union. Frank was employed
by Intermountain Traffic and served on the supervisory committee for Utah Oil
Workers, and president and vice president of Ogden Transportation Club. He also
was a member of the Westminster College Alumni Association and volunteered at
St. Vincent De Paul Center for the Poor. .Special
thanks to Dr. Ries, Maggie, Joyce Korologos and Marianne Fratto Loveridge and
many friends for their continued support.In lieu of flowers, please send
donations to the Utah AIDS Foundation or Catholic Community Services. Funeral
mass will be celebrated Monday, April 15th, at 10 a.m. at St. Patrick's
Catholic Church, 1040 West 400 South. Vigil services will be held Sunday, 6:30
p.m. at Neil O'Donnell & Sons Mortuary, 372 East 100 South, where friends
may call Sunday, 5-6:30. Committal, Mt. Calvary Cemetery, 4th Ave and T Street.
"Dad, you are a wonderful example of God's love and will be deeply
missed."
1996 NEWS from the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Teachers
Network (GLSTN) 122 West 26th Street,
Suite 1100 New York, NY 100001 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 11, 1996 GLSTN
HONORS UTAH TEACHERS WITH FIRST
ANNUAL GLSTN/WEST PATHFINDER AWARD NEW YORK -- The Gay, Lesbian, and
Straight Teachers Network announced today that four teachers who have led the
fight for equal treatment for lesbian and gay people in Salt Lake City Schools
would receive its first annual GLSTN/West Pathfinder Award, at its Second
Annual Western Regional Conference, to be held on Saturday, April 20 at the
Center for Early Education in Los Angeles.
Utah garnered national attention in February, when the Salt Lake City
Board of Education voted 4-3 to ban all extracurricular activities in the
school system rather than allow the student Gay-Straight
Alliance club to meet
at East High School. The Pathfinder Award was created by GLSTN in 1994 to honor
individuals was have created new paths for others to follow in the fight
against homophobia in our schools. The GLSTN/West honorees include: The
teachers to be honored include: * The supporters of the now-banned East High
School Gay, Lesbain, Straight Student Alliance, Camille Lee and Scott Nelson,
who teach science and special education, respectively; * Clayton Vetter, a
debate teacher at Skyline High School who became the first openly gay public school
teacher in Utah history when he came out in a
press conference on the State
House steps in February; and * Doug Wortham, a French teacher at Rowland Hall
High School, who is chair of the new Utah Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Teachers
Alliance. "We're proud to honor
teachers who have put everything on the line to fight for equality in their
schools," said Kevin Jennings, GLSTN's Executive Director. "Their work has galvanized national
attention as well as community support in Utah, and they deserve to be
applauded for their work." Bob
Riddle, co-chair of GLSTN/Los Angeles (which is hosting the conference), noted
the special courage of these teachers in the face of a new bill in Utah that
threatens job loss to any teacher who 'disrupts the educational climate.' "These folks have not allowed themselves
to be intimidated, even with the full force of the state legislature bearing
down on them," Riddle said.
"It's time they're
recognized for the heroes they truly
are." Camille Lee expressed
surprise and delight when informed of the award. "We never expected any of
this to get as much attention as it has," Lee said, "and we're
thrilled to be given the award." Lee, Nelson, Wortham, and Vetter will
receive their awards at the conference's opening session at 9 a.m., which
features a keynote talk by Donna Red Wing, who led the successful fight to
defeat two successive anti-gay ballot measures in Oregon and is now Field
Director for the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. A full day of workshops will follow, with
closing remarks from actors Jamie Lee Curtis and Robert Guillaume. The Center for Early Education is located at
563 N. Alfred St. in Los Angeles. For
more information on the conference, call Lorne Zilkie at 213-651-0707. **** With over thirty chapters, and a
membership of over three thousand teachers, parents, and concerned citizens,
The Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Teachers Network (GLSTN) is the largest national
organization working to insure that schools are places where all people are respected
and valued, regardless of sexual orientation.
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| Clayton Vetter |
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| Doug Worham |
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| Camille Lee |
11 April 2000 The Salt Lake Tribune Page: B1 Students Sue
District Over Gay Clubs Two East High juniors say S.L. district violated their
rights when it denied requests to form clubs;
East High Juniors Sue District
Over Gay Clubs BY HEATHER MAY Two East High School students sued the Salt Lake
City School District on Monday, claiming discrimination because the district
will not allow them to form a club to discuss Gay and lesbian issues. Jessica
Cohen and Margaret Hinckley, both juniors, contend the district violated their
First Amendment rights of expression when it denied their requests to form the
Rainbow Club in 1999 and the PRISM (People Respecting Important Social
Movements) Club in January. The civil suit, filed in U.S. District Court, is
the latest attempt to create school-sponsored clubs that deal with homosexuality
in Salt Lake City Salt Lake
City School District Hinckley contend their
clubs would have an academic tie to history, sociology, government and biology
classes since they look at homosexual perspectives on all those subjects. The
clubs would be open to students of any sexual orientation. "What a cool
way to extend or enhance the curriculum in a way that's really meaningful to
them," said Stephen Clark, staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties
Union of Utah and lead counsel for Cohen and Hinckley. "You would think
educators would be rewarding that kind of initiative and creativity.
Unfortunately, because it deals with sexuality in some broad sense, it's
somehow off-limits." The New York-based Lambda Legal Defense and Education
Fund and the National Center for Lesbian Rights, based in San Francisco Hinckley have asked the court to force the district to
allow the PRISM and Rainbow clubs to meet as school-sponsored clubs and to pay
their attorney fees. The Salt
Lake City School District Hinckley believe Seidel is applying
district standards unfairly. She approved a humanities club, a problem-solving
club and Polynesian Club, the lawsuit says. The latter was created at East High
School Hinckley , a distant relative of Mormon Church President
Gordon B. Hinckley, believes the district denied the applications merely
because they contained the words "Gay" and "lesbian." Clark said the district is showing bias against Gay
viewpoints. He notes that under district policy, Gay and lesbian students would
be allowed to join other academic clubs and offer their opinions on homosexual
issues, "but for some reason Superintendent Seidel is prohibiting the
formation of a club that would sort of focus on the expression of that viewpoint,"
Clark said. "So it's like: 'You can
express this viewpoint, but not too much,' " Cohen and Hinckley
could convene the Rainbow and PRISM clubs after school under the Utah Civic
Center Act. The law allows community groups to rent space from schools as long
as they are sponsored by an adult and provide liability insurance. But Clark
said his clients want to meet "as full citizens in that community and not
be treated as second-class citizens."
2004 Subject: USHS
Activities It may appear that the
historical society has been dormant lately and it is true we have not had a
monthly meeting in a while. However the society has been active in several
projects helping community members. The Community Center had several
requests for information that were referred to USHS. A request was made by a U
of U student working on a Master Thesis needing criminal cases and vice squad
activities in Salt Lake City. The Utah Chronicle requested a time line of Gay civil right events in Utah for an article for the university paper. I
have been working closely with a pair of Austrian film makers and playwrights on
historical material on a film they are wanting to make placed in Salt Lake City
in 1986 involving a young Mormon coming to terms with his homosexuality. I have
been asked to write a history column for a new Lambda publication, the SL Metro
which is expected to come out around the first of May. We would like to begin
monthly meetings again if there is the interest. Feed back would be welcomed.
PS I went to see "Latter Days" finally with my new friends from
Austria who have received awards at the Toronto Film Festival for their work.
For what it is worth, they enjoyed Latter Days for the genre it was and the
only technical compliant was maybe it was a bit too long and had too many
distracting side characters. However it was definitely not this "poor
quality" film that Madstone used as an excuse to not distribute it. It
does depict a Mormon family in a harsh light but while perhaps not
stereotypical-it's one that anyone who has spent time in the Mormon culture has
experienced.For myself, because I am a hopeless sentimental romantic, I
really liked it and am not ashamed to say made me tear up in parts. Ben
Williams
2006 Rally hears experiences of gays connected to
the LDS Church By Todd Hollingshead The Salt Lake Tribune Salt Lake Tribune
PROVO - Soulforce followed up their visit to BYU's campus Monday with a rally
at nearby Kiwanis Park featuring gay BYU alumni and LDS mothers of gay children
as speakers. More than 200 people gathered for nearly two hours and listened to
personal stories of individuals who struggled as gay members of The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. "Jesus still wants me for a
sunbeam," said Robyn Murphy, a gay woman who told listeners she has been
excommunicated from the LDS Church three times. The rally was disturbed
somewhat by some close-range horn honking and a vocal protest from three
individuals yelling "Shame on Soulforce. You are intolerant," but
speakers continued through the heckling. "Now Queer This!" producer
Troy Williams, a
BYU alum and returned LDS missionary, proclaimed as he told
the crowd he chose to be gay, and it's something he shouldn't have to apologize
for. "It's a blessing, a privilege and a gift from God," Williams
said. Even one current BYU student spoke during the rally, detailing his
experience as a gay member of the LDS Church. The group finished the rally by
singing the LDS hymn "I Am a Child of God," but with the lyrics
slightly altered by Murphy, a former seminary teacher and young woman's
organization president. Soulforce plans to march from the Provo LDS Temple to
BYU's campus today4/11 as their last organized event of their Provo visit.
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| Troy Williams |
2014 Utah AG denies ‘sinister motives’ at rally in
favor of marriage ban Utah Capitol rally • Reyes tells supporters
he won’t apologize for “standing up for the laws.” BY ERIN ALBERTY
THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE At a rally in support of Utah’s ban on gay
marriage, one message stood out as a common refrain: “We aren’t ‘against’
anyone.” “We’ve been accused of being motivated by
hate,” Attorney General Sean Reyes said Friday, one day
after he and outside
counsel appeared at the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver to defend
the state’s same-sex marriage ban against claims that it is driven not by public
interest, but by animus against gay people. “We are not [acting] out of animus or any
sinister motives against individuals or families in Utah,” Reyes said.
“Whenever people suffer or are hurt, I feel sorry. ... But I will not apologize
for standing up for the laws of the state of Utah.” While multiple speakers against gay marriage
professed compassion for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals and
their families, the rally brushed against the concurrent “National Day of
Silence” recognizing LGBT victims of bullying. Speaker
Cherilyn Eagar focused on that
celebration, decrying it as “pro-gay” and urging judges, schools and elected
officials to stop the anti-bullying event. “Our voices are being silenced,” Eagar said,
arguing that such anti-bullying initiatives stifle gay-marriage opponents’
speech. “Stand up today and speak out courageously.” Eagar warned that same-sex-marriage advocates
“wish to redefine the institution for their own selfish purposes.” She also
warned that her Sandy-based group, American Leadership Fund, would seek the
removal of any federal judge who finds Utah’s ban on gay marriage
unconstitutional — as U.S. District Court Judge Robert J. Shelby did on Dec.
20, prompting a rush of same-sex weddings at county clerks’ offices across the
state and leading to Thursday’s appeal arguments in Denver. “Should this panel of three judges declare
[the ban illegal], they will be defying their own court’s standard of ‘rational
basis,’ and we will petition to have them, and all other judges in the federal
courts who are defying or redefining their own rules, removed from the court,”
Eager said to cheers from a crowd of about 100 people in the Utah Capitol
Rotunda. Several speakers addressed what the state is
claiming as its “rational basis” for the ban — that gay marriage harms children
by facilitating families comprised without a parents of both sexes. Mary Summerhays, representing the Utah
Celebration of Marriage, held up a photograph of two gay men holding their
newly adopted children and smiling alongside their birth mother. “These children will have two very doting
fathers,” Summerhays said. “But no matter how loving, two fathers can never
replace a mother.” The children, she said, would eventually be
left to wonder why their mother is not in their lives, how much she was paid to
create them, whether that compensation was appropriate, and other difficult
questions. “These questions will trouble mother and children throughout their
entire lives.” Summerhays argued that proponents of gay
marriage have “endorsed the lifestyle that puts adults’ needs before children’s
needs.” Eleven-year-old Heather Ells said she
represents Utah’s children when she wonders, “Why should recognizing
relationships of choice be more important than recognizing children’s
biological relationships with their parents?” Ells, who lives in Springville, elicited loud
applause when she argued: “It isn’t right to purposely create a fatherless or
motherless child. “Judge Shelby has created a second class of
citizens: Children.” Thursday’s hourlong hearing in Denver
precedes a similar case before the 10th Circuit on Thursday, when Oklahomans
will present cases for and against their state’s same-sex marriage ban. In
reviewing Utah’s case, analysts observed, the three appellate judges appeared
to be split on the matter.
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