1950- Salt Lake
City Police reported that 30 people were arrested for disorderly conduct along
with two sex offenses during the month of September. Most disorderly conduct charges were for public homosexual encounters.
1966- Theater 138 at 138 South 200 East starts in Salt Lake City with “This Is The
Place?” The 27 musical selections had a 130 costume change for the 9 cast
members written by Ron Daum, Tom Carlin, and Ariel Baliff. Theater 138 founders
Ariel Balif, Tom Carlin, and Stu Falconer move their theater back to Salt Lake
City from Richmond, Virginia because Black people were segregated there (Daily
Utah Chronicle) Theater 138 History
1967 The first issue of the Los Angeles Advocate was published
under the editorship of Dick Michaels. It was the primarily source of Gay news
for Gays west of the Rocky Mountains. It began
as 8 ½ by 11, 2 column monthly publication of PRIDE (Personal Rights In Defence
and Education. PRIDE organized the Black Cat demonstration
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1967- Ernest Wilkinson received permission to ask Mormon Bishops at
BYU to provide the BYU Standard Office with lists of students who were
“inactive in the church” or who had confessed to “not living the standards of
the Church”. The first year of the new policy, Standards counseled 72 students
who were “suspected of homosexual
activity” The discovery of so many Gays
on campus spurred the administration into action in which security files were
kept on suspected Gay students, student spying was encouraged, and
suspensions increased.
1967 Salt Lake Tribune wrote that a proposed Salt Lake City ordinance to address sex offenses
was drafted by Asst. City Attorney Leon A. Halgreen who said it will include
the provision that ”It shall be unlawful for a prostitute, courtesan, lewd
woman, or any person, to solicit for immoral purposes, or make insulting or
licentious advances. The proposed law would have made it unlawful for homosexuals to proposition each other.
1970-An organization called Transsexuals and Transvestites was formed
by Judy Bowen in New York to help them better understand each other and the
challenges they face. It only lasted a few months. TAT did not want to be part of Gay Liberation or other radical changes but wanted male to female transsexuals to be accepted as women.
1971 New York City’s Gay Activists Alliance launched a letter
writing campaign against Johnny Carson because of the late night talk show
host’s anti-Gay humor and continual use of the word fag. GAA promoted the lambda as a symbol of the Gay rights movement
1972-A California Superior Court
judge ruled unconstitutional a law that made oral sex a felony.
1972- Disneyland guards prevented
a man from entering the theme park wearing a T-shirt with the words Groovy Guy
on it until he turned the shirt inside out.
1973 The American Baptist
Association, The American Lutheran Association, the United Presbyterians, the
United Methodists, and the Society of Friends (Quakers) launched the National
Task Force on Gay People in the Church to press for reforms in the National
Council of Churches of Christ.
1974- The scholarly quarterly
Journal of Homosexuality made its debut. The Journal of Homosexuality is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering
research into sexual practices and gender roles in their cultural, historical,
interpersonal, and modern social contexts.
1975 Salt Lake City’s Sun Tavern held its annual Labor Day picnic in City
Creek Canyon
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| Allen Bergin |
1976 Wednesday BYU and LDS church officials grew so alarmed about a
homosexual “ring” on campus that they established The Institute for Studies in
Values and Human Behavior with psychology professor Allen Bergin as director.
The Values Institute was charged with producing a manuscript “which would set
forth significant empirical evidence in support of the Church’s position on
Homosexuality. This book funded by the LDS church would be written for a “New
York Times type of audience” by Bergin and Victor L. Brown Jr., approved of by
at least one general authority, published by a popular eastern press, and made
to appear as though it had no ties at all to the church. The resulting book would be then available as
“secular
evidence” to back up the church’s anti-Gay position. " The Institute for Studies in Values and Human Behavior was established in
1976. Its sole director was Dr. Allen E. Bergin, with Robert K. Thomas
sometimes serving as Acting Director in Dr. Bergin's absence. The Institute
served as the experimental arm of the Comprehensive Clinic. The Institute was
also allied with the Dept. of Psychology. The Institute was also closely tied
to LDS Social Services. The Institute closed its doors in 1985. The Institute was established to gain an accurate understanding of how the
LDS people behave, and then to first prevent and second to change behavior that
leads LDS people away from eternal life. These behaviors included alcoholism,
crime, adultery, and, most heavily focused upon, homosexuality. The Institute
worked in conjunction with the Comprehensive Clinic as a place for
experimentation in psychotherapy as a means of behavioral reformation. The
Institute was also dedicated to establishing a therapeutic process rooted in the
Gospel. It worked to develop an institutional approach to therapy that utilized
the Patriarchy as its foundation. The Institute worked to produce scholarly
papers, present at symposiums and conventions, and conduct field research. Harold B Lee Library
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| President Jimmy Carter |
1977 Democratic Party President Jimmy Carter’s
administration ordered The Internal Revenue Service to drop a rule that required
Gay educational and charitable groups to publicly state that homosexuality is
“a sickness, disturbance, or diseased pathology.”
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The Payne Papers republished
as Prologue
by Affirnation |
1977- The Open Door began the serialization of “The Payne Papers” written anonymously by a BYU student named Cloy
Jenkins’ in response to BYU professor, Reed Payne’s, lecture on homosexuality. Later
is published as Prologue by Affirmation. In Spring of 1977 Dr. Reed
Payne touched on the subject of homosexuality in a lecture to his beginning
Psychology class, which set off a chain of events bringing the Church's and
university's dealings with homosexuals into public view. Apparently his
comments weren't taken well by those present who were gay, which led Lee
Williams to publish a 52 page letter explaining what it was like to be gay.
Williams, one of the principle authors, wrote the letter anonymously because at
the time he was an instructor at BYU. In the letter Williams et al asserted
that homosexuality was a state of being and not just a chosen pattern of
behavior; that it cannot be cured, and those claiming to have been cured might
have experienced modification of their sexual behavior but not their
preference. Wrote Williams, "No one knows what causes homosexuality.
However, we do know one thing that does not cause homosexuality and that is
free choice. Until the cause or causes are known it is grossly inappropriate to
moralize about it." Williams went on to give a warning. "As the
homosexual becomes less and less willing to submit to this damaging influence
[humiliation and discrimination from the Church,] and the rest of the world
comes to realize the plight of the Mormon homosexual, the Church stands to face
a very serious and embarrassing blow to its integrity." Prologue had been written
in the spring of 1977 mainly by
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Advocate's cartoon lampooning
Spencer W. Kimball |
Gay BYU student Cloy Jenkins, aided by Ricks College
faculty member Howard Salisbury. Jenkins wrote this paper in response to an
anti-Gay lecture he had attended on campus delivered by Dr. Reed Payne – at the
time, Jenkins’ remarks were simply known as “the Payne Papers”. Kenneth Kline
had gotten Donald Attridge to do a pencil sketch of the BYU campus for the
cover artwork, and published the Payne Papers, and then somehow had gotten the
pamphlet to be mailed out by the Church Office Building to all General Authorities,
plus TV and radio stations, and many BYU professors, etc. making it look as
though the pamphlet was a BYU publication and approved of by the Church. I
never knew Jeff, but his Gay brother, Lee Williams, was my boss for about a
year at the Sinclair gas station on the 6th So. Exit off the freeway in 1987.
Both Jeff and Lee were BYU students in the late 1970s who assisted Cloy
Jenkins, Howard Salisbury, and Don Attridge in rewriting and publishing what
was then (in 1977) called "The Payne Papers" and is now Affirmation's
seminal pamphlet, Prologue. It wasn't until after I quit working at the
Sinclair that I found out what important roles my boss and his brother had
played in the early stages of Affirmation.
1977 Anheuser-Busch-King of Beers, Coors, and Schlitz are first
beer advertisers to publish ads in The Open Door, a Utah Gay newspaper. The
Village Idiot head shop advertised ”poppers” RUSH and Locker Room “as something
for your head” and sold T-shirts saying “Let He who has not sinned cast the
first orange” and “ Anita Bryant
Sucks Oranges”. Also sold Bumper
stickers stating “Hurricane Anita”
1977- A former LDS Church president, Democratic Utah Congressman Gunn McKay answered a question about Gay
rights saying,“ I do not believe that the gay’s right to be free from
discrimination is greater than the right to live and work in a community whose
moral standards reject homosexual activity. People should not be compelled
against their will to hire, rent to, or have their children taught by
homosexuals.”
1977- The Salt Lake Gay Community began a blood drive to raise 100
gallons of blood as a Christmas Gift to Salt Lake City as part of a national
Gay movement public relations project.
Goal was to raise more blood than any other group and asked to donate to
the Red Cross under the name of ACTION Gay Community, METROPOLITAN COMMUNTY
CHURCH, or the Open Door.
1977- Salt Lake City’s Gay Bar owners shared their views on Disco
Music after complaints that the bars play too much disco: Joe Redburn of the
Sun: “I totally agree that disco is boring. We have had disco music at the sun
for 2 and a half years and I’m as tired of it as any one. When we try to break
out of disco we get complaints and loss of business. I understand the boredom
of disco...it is hard to dance to.”
- Larry White, Radio City Lounge bar
manager;” We find that music other than disco does not get people on the dance
floor. Here at Radio
City we have the juke box
and not a lot of requests for disco type music. We try to make available what
is requested. We must respect the majority. We have no choice but to go with
what people want. After all we are in the business to make money.”
- Mac Hunt
owner of the Club Comeback “I’m tired of disco music. However most of the
customers seem to request this type of music. We comply with requests and give
what is most requested. So we are forced to play the music that customers
request.”
- Rick Noblis, manager of Odyssey Records: Many facets are involved in
disco. One is that people were ready for something new and glittery. Disco grew
out of Soul music and people like to get funky. It is the beat that made disco,
more than anything else. A lot of rock has the same beat.”
1977-The Log
Cabin Republicans held their first meeting in California as a rallying
point for Republicans opposed to the Briggs Initiative, which attempted to ban
homosexuals from teaching in public schools. In addition to sanctioning the
termination of openly gay and lesbian teachers, the proposed legislation
authorized the firing of those teachers that supported homosexuality. While mounting his imminent presidential campaign, Ronald Reagan publicly expressed his opposition to the discriminatory policy. Reagan’s
contention of the bill—epitomized in an op-ed piece in a California
newspaper—played an influential role in the eventual defeat of the Briggs
Initiative. In the midst of this victory, gay conservatives in California created the
Log Cabin Republicans. The group initially proposed to name themselves Lincoln
Club, but found that name was already in use by another California Republican
organization. Thus, the name Log Cabin Republicans was chosen as an alternative
title. This designation calls attention to the first Republican president,
Abraham Lincoln. The Log Cabin Republicans suggest that Lincoln founded the Republican
Party on the philosophies of liberty and equality. These principles, Log Cabin
argue, are consistent with their platform of an inclusive Republican Party.
1978- Shirley Pedler, director of Utah’s ACLU stated her
organization is preparing a respond to
Gay harassment by Salt Lake City Vice squad.
1978-A gay man in Colorado Springs who was denied a discharge from
the armed forces unless he named other gay men showed up for lunch at the base
mess hall in full drag. He was soon given a discharge.
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| David Chipman |
1979- Associated Press Newswire carried story of the arrest of a
BYU
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| David Newmann |
student named David Chipman, who
had been propositioned by a BYU Security office in Provo Canyon and then
arrested. David Newmann, posing as a homosexual, had previously written a letter which
appeared in a gay publication, expressing a desire to organize a gay
underground group at BYU. Chipman, a non-student, responded to Newmann's letter
and they arranged to meet at BYU. After meeting, they consented to go to Squaw
Peak for sexual activity. After sexual activity had been initiated, Chipman was taken to the BYU
Security office where he was placed under arrest. Upon learning of the account,
President Oaks put a halt to such tactics. However, Chipman was prosecuted and
convicted.
1979- Lee Baldwin director of Integrity of Salt Lake, an organization for Gay Episcopalians was
elected Vice President of the national organization of Integrity.
1979- The Metropolitan Community Church of SLC church suffered
broken windows and general annoyance from an “unusual hail of tomatoes”. Also
the church was broken into one morning by breaking down the back doors. Nothing
was stolen which fact was considered unusual.
1980- The first San Francisco AIDS case appeared in that city six months
after Dr. Wolf Szmuness’ Hepatitis-B experiment was started there. No one knew
what it was but symptoms were cancerous.
1980- Salt Lake Chapter of Affirmation Executive
Committee announced a policy change. Since the start of Affirmation several
years ago it “has been the practiced policy to discourage anyone from attending
Affirmations meeting that was not 18 years of age. In the future Affirmation
will welcome people of all ages to attend the Affirmation meetings.” Affirmation Executive members for 1980-1981 were
Chapter Director Lee Williams, Executive Secretary-Raymond King, Social
Chairman- Phil Foster, Treasurer Ray Paluso, Advisors Jim Dabakis. &
Communication Advisor-Van Summerhill. Affirmation's phone number is listed in the White pages
263-1518
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John Boswell PhD
1947-1994 |
1980- John Boswell published Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality, arguing that Christianity did not become
severely hostile to same sex relations until the second half of the 12th
century.
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| Mark E. Petersen |
1981 - Branch presidents at the Missionary Training Center in Provo
receive 21-point handout to help "both male and female" missionaries
avoid masturbation. Point 19: "In very severe cases it may be necessary to
tie a hand to the bed frame with a tie in order that the habit of masturbating
in a semi-sleep condition can be broken." In May 1995 article about
masturbation, national magazine "Details" publishes seventeen of the
recommendations and identifies Apostle Mark E. Petersen as author of
"Steps in Overcoming Masturbation: A Guide to Self-Control." In 1996,
spokesman at LDS headquarters denies that Elder Petersen authored this document
and denies that it was ever distributed. The supposed Masturbation Text
1981-The International Football League recommended that players be
banned from embracing or slapping each other's backsides because it is
offensive.
1981- Mary Morgan became the first openly lesbian judge in
the country when California Governor Jerry Brown appointed her to a Municipal Court judgeship in San
Francisco.
1981-The California Office of Post-Secondary Education
granted Los Angeles’ ONE Institute recognition as a Graduate School of
Homophile Studies able to grant master’s and doctoral degrees.
1982-President Reagan vetoed a bill which would have granted
$500,000 to the Centers for Disease Control to fight AIDS.
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| Mason Rankin |
1982- On the
evening of the Utah Primary election, Charles
Akerlow, Republican Party Chairman of Utah, Bob James, public information Officer, Mike Miller Democratic Party State Chairman and Gay Republican Activist Mason Rankin participated in a
discussion on KALL Radio 910 AM. The Republican platform contained the
statement that “homosexuality shall not be considered a right” with regard to the
platform plank supporting equality of rights.
1983-The University of Utah’s Lesbian and Gay Student Union was
granted funding for the first time by the ASUU Assembly after being denied
similar requests for the past two years. LGSU received $100 out of the $6000
requested. The money marked the first official recognition of the group by the
student government.
1983- The 20 Jacob Rue Lesbian experiment at being a collective in Salt Lake City ended. The
Rue reverted back to private ownership after a year of being run by collective
members. The coopt was located at 232 E 800 S Salt Lake City.
1983- Empress Aunti De and Beau Chaine began the process to create
a community center for “the under the bar age, for those not into the bar
scenes, for counseling, for medical aid, and many other worthwhile causes.
1984- The First Board of Directors meeting adopted by-laws for the Utah
Community Service Center and Clinic.
1984- A Reagan Administration proposal for a list of Americans exposed to
the AIDS virus drew fire from Gay and civil rights leaders. The proposal was
dropped. Scientists created a clone of the AIDS virus. They considered this an
important step toward developing a vaccine against the disease.
1985- Father Don Bramble, a priest/chaplain for
the Gay Catholic organization Dignity formed a support group for AIDS patients
in Salt Lake City.
Purpose of the group is not to ease the participants out of life but “to
enhance the present process of living.” Support group admitted openly people
who have been diagnosed as having AIDS.
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| Bruce Harmon |
1986 [The following is taken from Taylor, Mark A., "The Love
That Dares Not Speak Its Name: A Day in the Life," Utah Holiday, September
1986, pp. 35-51.] [Bruce] Harmon says job
discrimination can be devastating, but when a person's family turns away, it's
tragic. "A couple of years ago, a young man called our hotline and told us
his name. He said he had just told his parents he was homosexual. There was
hollering and an argument going on in the background. The father said, 'I'd
rather see you dead than be gay,' and then the line suddenly went dead. Someone
hung the telephone up. The young man didn't give us a telephone number, so we
had no way of calling back. One week later, we read his obituary."
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| Dr. Patty Reagan PhD |
1986- Financial troubles beset the Salt Lake AIDS
Foundation. The Foundation was staffed by three unpaid volunteers, a director
and two health educators. Dr. Patty Reagan director. The State health department refused to provide
any financial help to the foundation. Reagan had submitted a grant proposal for
$88,000 to produce video tapes and public service announcements about the risks
of contracting AIDS from CDC money given to the state for AIDS prevention.
Grant was refused. Reapplied for money to pay for the phone information line
and was also refused. During the first year the SLAF answered over 500 calls
and gave over 25 speeches. Reagan
claimed that the state health department questioned her credibility because she
promoted condom use. “They said if I’m promoting condom use, I’m promoting
homosexuality.”
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| Greg Garcia far left |
1986- Greg Garcia elected master of the Wasatch Leathermen
Motorcycle club replacing Les Emmett.
1986- New Zealand decriminalized homosexual activity and set
the age of consent for Gay at 16, the same as for heterosexuals.
1987 - Beau Chaine’s Utah Community Services Center and
Clinic, Cabaret Corporation, Cabaret
Catering, Gingerbread House Café, Aardvark Café, is joined by La Morena Café a
non profit organization to raise funds for the Guadelupe Educational Programs.
The Aardvark Café was established to raise funds for Concerning Gays and
Lesbians, MCC building fund AIDS -Project Utah, and the Gay Help Line. The Gay Help
Line became permanently installed at the Aardvark Café.
1987-Satu Servigna takes over the publishing of the Triangle transforming it into the Triangle
Community Digest “Idea was to make
the digest a community oriented information line. A source where monthly our
community as a whole can find out what is going on, when and where.”
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| AZT |
1987- Salt Lake County Health Department proposed a budget
for 1988, which included $500,000 for AZT. 40 people had been treated with
AZT through Utah’s Medicaid program and currently there were 6 people being
treated with AZT. Annual cost per patient was $8,000-$10,000. Thirty new cases
of AIDS projected for 1988.
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| Ben Williams |
1987-Salt Lake Affirmation met with about 30 people in
attendance. Director Ben Williams gave the Lesson on John Alan Lee's Book The Color
of Love. John Alan Lee is a 20th century Canadian psychologist who proposed the
idea that there are six types of interpersonal love (three primary and three secondary).
In his 1973 book entitled, The Colors of Love, Lee explains the six love types
and assigns a color to each.
1988 Police Probing Homosexual
Rape Salt Lake Police are investigating a report of homosexual rape Sunday. A
19 year old man accepted a ride from a
male, Lt. Tom Brown said Sunday. The driver who was described as a 22 year
old white man drove to 6th North and 12th West where he sexually assaulted the victim, Brown
said. Deseret News
1995 - Ensign magazine publishes LDS First Presidency message by
second counselor James E. Faust which denounces "the false belief of
inborn homosexual orientation."
- Next month's Ensign contains what
appears as one apostle's direct challenge to First Presidency's
unequivocal statement. In his October article "Same-Gender
Attraction," Dallin H. Oaks writes: "There are also theories and
some evidence that inheritance is a factor in susceptibilities to various
behavior-related disorders like aggression, alcoholism, and obesity. It is
easy to hypothesize that inheritance plays a role in sexual
orientation."
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| Nikki Boyer |
1995- Nikki Boyer
succeeds Clare Coonan as Chair of Board of Directors of the Utah Stonewall
Center after the board asks for Coonan’s resignation. The Utah Stonewall
Center had been operating
without an executive director since July due to Coonan’s reluctance to hire a
replacement.
1999 Wednesday, Defendant
escapes hate-crime charge By Derek
Jensen Deseret News staff writer One of
three men charged with a felony hate crime will spend no more than one year in
jail. Scott Presley, 23, 8669 S. Altair Drive,
pleaded guilty Wednesday to two counts of assault, a class B misdemeanor, for
beating a man he allegedly believed to be homosexual. Prosecutors dropped one
count of a hate crime, a third-degree felony and criminal mischief, a class B
misdemeanor, in exchange for Presley's plea. Presley faces up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine for each
charge. Third District Judge William Barrett will sentence Presley Oct.
18. Brian E. Hitt and Jason Millard, both
25, were with Presley the night of Feb. 7. All three "verbally taunted the
victims for allegedly being homosexual," charging documents state. Hitt and Millard both face one count of a
hate crime, a third-degree felony; one count of criminal mischief, a class B
misdemeanor; and two counts of assault, a class B misdemeanor. According to
charging documents, Hitt, Millard and Presley approached one victim outside the
Sun Club at 200 South and 700 West and asked if he was homosexual. The victim
did not answer but got into his car and locked the doors. Hitt, Millard and
Presley pounded on the car, and the victim fled his vehicle and ran into the
club to call police, charges state. Thirty minutes later Hitt, Millard and
Presley drove up to a car with two men inside and threatened them, according to
charges. Fifteen minutes later Hitt, Millard and Presley approached two men as
they were leaving the Sun Club, charges state. "Presley assaulted (one of the
victims) by striking (him) several times in the chest and face," charges
state. © 1999 Deseret News Publishing
Co.
2005 Hey, Country
dance lessons Thursday nites at the Paper Moon. $1 drafts $1.50 nats. The
police have backed off targeting the gay bars for pull overs. Hope to see you
there. Steve
2006 Friday The Trapp Door* Along with Sheneka Christie and
Krystyna Shaylee: Would like to invite you all out to the Luau at the Trapp
Door Friday September 1st @9pm. There will be Polynesian Dancers, limbo contest
and a whole Polynesian feast, pig included. So if you have nothing to do or are
looking for something to do his Friday, come down to the Trapp Door have some
fun and maybe get LEI'D Polynesian style!!!!!!!!
2015 Stand For Queer Lives: An Interview with Adrian
Romero By Alex Vermillion SLUG magazine Members of Stand For Queer
Lives hold up signs for their upcoming rally on Sep. 3. At 5:30 p.m. on Dec.
28, 2014, Leelah Alcorn’s suicide note was automatically posted to her Tumblr,
hours after her death. This note shared Alcorn’s grievance she felt as a trans
person, who so often fall into self-loathing and hopelessness due to society’s
treatment towards trans and queer people. Alcorn is only one of many
trans/queer persons to have died from either suicide or murder in the last
year, and the numbers are rising. Utah resident Adrian Romero was outraged by
the rising statistics and also with how little the media was concerned about
raising awareness for trans and queer lives. In January of 2015, Adrian founded
the group Stand for Queer Lives, a support and activist group dedicated to
aiding the lives of LGBTQ+ people, especially the youth who have the highest
risk of LGBTQ+ suicides, such as that of Alcorn. “I took [her death] really
personally,” says Romero, who has dealt with the depression and frustration
that many trans and queer people experience. “These terrible circumstances have
inspired me in a positive way because somebody needs to do something about it,”
Romero says. Stand For Queer Lives typically has eight dedicated members who
regularly attend meetings. Though they are small, they are mighty in their
passion and dedication to fighting for LGBTQ+ rights. So far, they have hosted
a trans vigil for youth that have either taken their lives or had their lives
taken from them. During our interview, Romero and Stand For Queer Lives members
were making signs for their upcoming rally this Thursday, Sept. 3 at 6 p.m.
This rally is an outcry and a promise to not be silent while trans women are
killed. The number of trans women reported murdered in the U.S. was 19 for this
month—which surpasses the record of 14 women for 2014—and most recently, three
black trans women died in a 24-hour period. The signs for the rally read “Say
Her Name,” “Not One More,” and, appropriately, “Fuck the cis-tem.” “A lot of
people still don’t even understand what trans is,” says Romero. “There’s a huge
intersectionality being a trans person of color. There’s a different culture
between white trans and trans people of color, and it’s extremely dangerous to
be a trans person of color.” The National Coalition of Anti-Violence found in
2013 that almost 90 percent of LGBTQ homicide victims were people of color.
Seventy-two percent were transgender women and 67 percent of these women were
women of color. The stats, the news, and our queer youth are screaming the
statistics, and SFQL will not stay seated politely and make excuses while lives
are diminishing at increasingly rapid rates. Romero hopes to amplify the number
of consistent SFQL members and has many plans for the future of Utah LGBTQ+
residents. “We want more gender neutral bathrooms throughout the state, Romero
says. “We want greater awareness of trans and queer lives, education, and
understanding throughout the state. And we want to break the gender binary!”
Romero is especially going to be seeking out more help from the LGBTQ+
community in Utah itself. “[The community] is so caught up in celebrating who
they are—i.e. gay marriage—that they don’t think about the community as a
whole, and it is the communities that need the most help.” Stand for Queer
Lives has been growing steadily and expects to contain more members after the
rally on Thursday. It is always refreshing to see inspired groups dedicated to
enhancing the lives of their community members, and this group has not stopped
the momentum since it found its legs in January. If there is one message Romero
wants Utah citizens to hear, it’s “Get involved in your community! People are
dying! If you think it doesn’t concern you, it will.” Though SFQL is small,
nearly 200 are said to have committed to joining their march in the rally. The
more we come together as a community, the easier it will be to accomplish our
goals of abolishing hatred and intolerance and the closer we will be to living
in an inclusive, safe environment for members of the LGBTQ+ community. Stand
For Queer Lives will be hosting a rally at the Wallace F. Bennett Federal
Building on Thursday, Sep. 3 at 6 p.m.
2019 The Utah Queer Historical Society restructured
the Society's committees. An Education Committee was added under which the
monthly Oratories will go and a Pride Participation Committee. Archival
Committee - Daniel Cureton, Education Committee - Connell O'Donovan (assisted
by Becky Moss and Willy Palomo), Exhibition Committee - Roy Zhang, Landmarks
Committee – Open, Oral History Project - Owen Edwards, Pride Participation
Committee - Roy Zhang and Cristi Hebert, Publications Committee - Daniel
Cureton and Cristi Hebert (assisted by Willy Palomo), Writing Committee -
Cristi Hebert
1954-Police in Miami Florida began a series of nightly raids on
over a dozen Gay bars. The special squad was known as the "fruit
pickers." Chief William Headley of the 
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