This Day In Gay Utah History AUGUST 11th

August 11th

Utah State Prison 1903 Sugar House

1892 About 11:30 night before last Deputy Marshal W F Gill and one of the police officers arrested a fellow who gave his name at the police station as John Mack on the charge of sodomy committed upon a boy from California by the name of Frank Howard. Mack was placed in the custody of the United States marshal and arraigned before Commissioner Hulaniski at 10 o’clock and pleaded not guilty to the charge.  He was accorded a hearing and bound over to await the action of the grand jury in bonds of $3000. His inability to come up with the proper security forced the commissioner to issue a commitment and the fiend was taken to the penitentiary. Salt Lake Heral

•  1892 HELD TO THE GRAND JURY John Mack and other criminals go to  the pen. John Mack, whose arrest was consummated in the rear of the old iron works near the crossing of the Rio Grande Western and the Southern Pacific night before last by Deputy Marshal  W F Gill and Police Officer Sleeth on the charge of  Sodomy committed on Frank Howard a young California lad, (about 13 years old) was arraigned before United States Commissioner E T Hulaniski and had the audacity to plead not guilty to the charge when there was no question of doubt that he had committed the terrible crime.  The fiendish rascal was given a hearing and was held to await the action of the grand jury in bonds of $3000. Being of course a common ordinary tramp, he was unable to put up the necessary security and he was relegated to the care of the United States marshal and accompanied companied by Seth B. Stevens, the opium smuggler, and  C.H. Preston the Brunswick Hotel embezzler, was taken to the penitentiary last evening by Marshal Gill. Ogden Standard Examiner  page 1 
• Frank Howard when he was four years older about 17 was before the Ogden Court for Sodomy. Frank Howard is sentenced in 1896 in the Fourth District Court for a crime against nature.  He and Daniel Reynolds are sentenced to a year in prison however the Judge stated that if he could impose a sentence commensurate  with the offense according to his point of view, the sentence would be imprisonment for life. Both Frank Howard and Dan Reynolds were released in March 1897 Convicts released

Bebe Daniels

1921-The film "March Hare" opened in Salt Lake staring Bebe Daniels. It included several same-sex innuendoes, both male and female.

1968 Salt Lake City Police Chief  Dewey J. Fillis has ordered all persons arrested as suspects in sex offenses to undergo a health check before being released on bonds. (08/11/68 SLTribune A17)

1970 An Ogden Judge in Utah heard case of a Los Angeles firm mailing obscene printed material through the US Mails to Utah. Dale P. Ewing, doing business as Action Publications, was dealing material dealing in bondage, spanking, and wrestling.

1975 Pastor Michael England resigned form Metropolitan Community Church – Salt Lake City.  Rev. England left because of all the squabbling going on in the church.  He went on to serve as head of MCC’s Board of Campus Ministries.  Judi Whitely and Marshall Williams were appointed MCC/SLC co-worship coordinators for the interim period until Rev. Alice Jones and Rev. Candy Naisbett replaced England. Rev. Jones and Rev. Naisbett were the first team-ministry in the MCC church in the US. Candy Naisbett later resigned to move to Oklahoma City to have her own church.Pastor England

1984- A benefit for the Community Services Center and Clinic and Cabaret was held at Backstreet and on the 12th at Puss N Boots. Fred Matthews and Sherry Lee Hunt performed.

1987 Gay Activist Graham Bell spoke to Salt Lake Affirmation regarding Dr. Craig Nichols and the Utah Health Department neglect in providing AIDS information to the Gay community. Later Mike Anderson also led the meeting on the Topic of Coming Out To Family and he brought along his mother and sister to the meeting.

1987- Salt Lake City's progressive council unanimously agreed to pass a revision of city ordnance Sec 32-2-1 regarding sexual intercourse for hire and lewd acts to place the burden of proof on arresting officers and prosecutors rather than the defendants arrested and accused. Action was due to concerns of the Gay community to police's arrests of Gay men holding hands and members of the Gay community being cited for license plate violations at Memory Grove.

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1992-During a television interview President George Bush said that if one of his grandchildren were gay he would love the child but tell him homosexuality is not normal and discourage him from working for gay rights.

1992-The American Bar Association's house of delegates voted 318 to 123 to grant affiliate status to the National Lesbian and Gay Law Association.

1993- Utah's AIDS prevention curriculum in schools is missing the mark, state officials say. A study published in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association found school-based AIDS prevention programs, in which students are taught to recognize and refuse risky behavior, play a modest but significant role in curtailing transmission of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Utah law requires all districts to include AIDS education in their curricula, but in practice that can mean anything from a 5-minute assembly to an entire chapter in health class. In the Journal of the American Medical Association study, New York City high school students participating in an education program were more likely than others to practice monogamy and to use condoms consistently. Jeannie Barlow, AIDS education specialist for the Utah AIDS Foundation, said. One of the most effective techniques for students is when teen-agers learn from someone with HIV or AIDS. The disease becomes more personalized, They realize it could happen to them. ``My biggest beef is that we don't have a lot of consistency. Our hands are tied from the perspective that this is a sexually transmitted disease. It's hard to talk about sex in classrooms,'' Ms. [Jeannie] Barlow [an AIDS education specialist for the Utah AIDS Foundation] said. (08/11/93 SLTribune)

1993-The Utah Department of Health reports 10 AIDS cases and 24 HIV infections among teen-agers in Utah since 1983. Health officials believe there are more teens infected, but they are either not tested or they are tested anonymously, which means they are not included in state statistics. The state began requiring AIDS education in 1988. But all 10 teens with AIDS were hemophiliacs and acquired the virus from infected blood transfusions.   Of the 24 teen-agers reported as carrying HIV, none of them were hemophiliacs. All received the virus from sexual contact or drugs. (08/11/93  SLTribune)

1996 Page: F1 Putting Money Where Your Morals Are; Investors Put Money Where Their Morals Are Byline: BY LILI WRIGHT THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE   When attorney James Dean lived in Sat Lake City in the 1980s, he kept his sexual orientation a private matter. Today, Dean is president of a money management firm in Georgia that puts gay ights at the forefront of its financial agenda. As president of The Stonewall Advisor, Dean only invests in companies whose management policies support lesbian and gay workers. Dean also monitors The Stonewall Index, an unmanaged index that measures the performance of 36 companies. Each company protects gay workers from discrimination and meets at least one of six other gay-friendly criteria, such as offering domestic-partner ship benefits or a gay-employee group. Dean started the index because he wanted to disprove the conventional wisdom that portfolios scanned for social causes are a losing proposition. ``When you make the workplace uncomfortable for talented employees, you are hurting the bottom line,'' says Dean, in an interview from his Atlanta office. ``The index was one way of proving that we are not second-class citizens. We help businesses, not hurt them.''   While cause and effect are hard to prove, the Stonewall Index has so far backed Dean's hunch. Since its inception in 1992, the Index has climbed 144%, easily beating the Dow Jones, Standard & Poors 500 and Nasdaq, which have grown 83%, 65% and 102%, respectively. Weighted according to market capitalization and degree of gay support, the index includes such diverse companies as IBM and Ben &Jerry's. Top performers such as Quantum Restaurant, Oracle, The Gap, Microsoft, Dayton Hudson, Cisco Systems and Starbucks grew by more than 34% in the first half of the year. Socially conscious investing is not a new idea. For generations, religious institutions have refused to trade in ``sin stocks'' such as tobacco, alcohol or gambling. The practice of ``screening'' stocks catapulted to the forefront in the 1970s and '80s, after the drive for divestment from South Africa. Soon universities, municipalities, foundations and individuals were using positive or negative screens. Some were pro-environment or human rights. Others were anti-nuclear power, child labor or arms. Perhaps because of conservatives' emphasis on free enterprise, most screens are geared to right-wing palettes. With the death of South African apartheid in1993, some experts predicted socially responsible investing would fizzle. But a study recently released by the Washington, D.C.-based Social Investment Forum reports the contrary. The nonprofit group identified 182 major investment institutions that make at least some socially responsible investments. Total investment dollars: $639 billion. That's a huge leap from $40 billion in the early'80s.``The movement is growing and will continue to grow,'' says Joan Shapiro, a founder of the Social Investment Forum. ``Certainly when we started doing this, the general response from Wall Street was quite negative, if not derisive. Now there is not any major brokerage house that if it does not include social screens, will not be able to talk about it.''   Good intentions are one thing. Money is another. Patrick McVeigh, a port folio manager in Boston, insists that socially responsible funds would not work unless investors made money. The bottom line, says McVeigh, is that most of the time, folks can have their cake and eat it too.   To be sure, not all money managers quiz CEOs about recycling or animal cruelty before buying a piece of the pie. Pundits argue that investors who screen for social causes are playing poker with half a deck. Their strategy: Invest for profit. Donate to charity.   McVeigh disagrees.  ``If you really believe tobacco is killing people, that it is a harmful product, then why would you invest in a tobacco company? You want more people to smoke, if you are an investor.''.--   This is not just an issue for the elite. Anyone with a bank account can verify whether the institution reinvests money in the community by asking for its Community Reinvestment Act statement.   Another branch of movement is what's called share holder activism, where stockholders send resolutions or vote their proxies on various issues.   Representing stockholders,  McVeigh convinced Johnson & John son to include gay   workers in its non discrimination policy. McVeigh point ed out it behooved the pharmaceutical company to protect gay workers as it was preparing to release an at-home AIDS test. There is a wide range of acceptance of homosexuality within corporate America. On one end is AT&T, which sponsors a Gay Awareness Week and workshops on homophobia. On the other is American Home Products, which pulled ads from TV shows with   gay characters or themes.   Of course, there is a danger in expecting too much from corporate America. Few companies are stellar in all areas. ``Investors need to prioritize their is sues,'' says Shapiro. ``There is no such thing as a pure company.''   As for Dean, he still is waiting for a client call from Utah. None of his roughly 150 private and public investors live in his former home state. Not that Dean is shy about placing a cold call to the Wasatch Front.   ``Utah is not a place where a lot of municipal governments are itching to appease gay voters,'' he concedes. ``We would be happy to manage money for the LDS Church, but we are not holding our breath.''

1998 Owner calls the killing of ferret a hate crime By Dennis Romboy, Staff Writer Deseret News Published: Tuesday, Aug. 11, 1998 Kimberly Marsh considers the fatal beating of her pet ferret a hate crime. Two men police arrested for clubbing Bandit to death with a broom handle and a lawn chair early Sunday morning often harassed her because of her lesbian lifestyle, she said. Ironically, Marsh said, they're the same neighbors who sometimes returned her ferrets when they slipped away from her home at the Pebble Creek Apartments, 750 S. 650 West."I just think this needs to be put out," an angry Marsh said Monday. "What's going to be the next thing?"  Marsh believes the killing was malicious. She said the two men frequently made derogatory comments about her sexual orientation and laughed at her. Marsh thinks of Bandit, so named for his penchant to swipe and hide the TV remote control, and his housemates - Trouble, Chuckie and Gizmo - as her babies. She said she has a terminal illness and can't have children. Marsh also owns five cats. Two of the ferrets darted out of Marsh's second-story apartment as she returned home about 2 a.m. Sunday. She was in the middle of taking a head count of her pets when her downstairs neighbor, Tammy Kerkhoff, called. Kerkhoff said she was awakened by a disturbance outside her window. When she peered out, she said, she saw a man corner an animal behind a bush and strike it 15 to 20 times with a broom handle. Another man swung a lawn chair on the animal, Marsh. "They broke every bone in his little body," Kerkhoff said. After Kerkhoff's call, Marsh rushed outside to confront the men. A police officer who had been dispatched to the apartment complex on a disturbance call about an hour earlier arrived about the same time Marsh did. Bandit, whom Marsh owned for about four years, was still alive when she reached him. "He took a couple of faint breaths and died in my arms," she said. Police arrested two men in their 30s on suspicion of animal cruelty. A 32-year-old man was booked into the Utah County Jail on a class A misdemeanor while his 31-year-old friend was booked on a class B misdemeanor, according to jail records. Both posted bail and returned home Sunday. Marsh said it's difficult for people to understand the love she has for her pets. She said she was fired from her job because she wanted time off Monday to mourn and bury Bandit. "I don't have anybody to wake me up and give me kisses. This was my kid. Nobody understands that," Marsh said. Kimberly Marsh of Provo said the fatal beating of her pet ferret Bandit was a hate crime.  She said two men, Jose Martinez and Armando Sandoval, who were arrested for clubbing her pet to death with a broom handle and lawn chair had often harassed her because she was a lesbian. While killing the pet they chanted Kill the Dyke’s ferret.

1998-The Raleigh News and Observer ran an article on the ex-Gay debate. Dr. William Byne, a psychiatrist pointed out that after three decades of therapy, castration, hormone injections, shock treatment, and brain surgery, if it were possible to reverse sexual orientation it would have happened.

1999- Preston Grant, of San Francisco, Ca wrote to the Deseret News “In your editorial, "A church's right to opine," you assert the right of churches to speak on moral issues.  This is obviously valid.  The role of religion is to provide guidance to people seeking to find their most righteous path through life. The current debate in California is not about morality.  It is not even about Gay marriage.  It is about legal recognition of existing relationships.”

1999- The San Francisco Frontiers Newsmagazine featured an article on Salt Lake City activist and former Mormon Kathy Worthington who is blowing the whistle on the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints' (LDS)fundraising campaign for state Sen. Pete Knight's Definition of Marriage Act(DOMA). 

UTAH ACTIVIST REVEALS ORGANIZED CAMPAIGN BY MORMON HIERARCHY San Francisco Frontiers Newsmagazine Salt Lake City activist and former Mormon Kathy Worthington is blowing the whistle on the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints' (LDS)fundraising campaign for state Sen. Pete Knight's Definition of Marriage Act(DOMA). If passed in the 2000 election, the initiative will ban California recognition of same-sex marriages performed in other states. State law already limits marriage to a man and a woman. According to documents released by Worthington to SF Frontiers on Aug. 4, and a National Public Radio (NPR) news report the same day, LDS church officials in California are engaging in a systematic DOMA fundraising effort, while denying there is any such campaign underway. SF Frontiers columnist Jerry Sloan had previously revealed a May 11 letter urging Mormons to support the Knight initiative in any way they could. A May 20 letter sent to SF Frontiers by Worthington and reported on by NPR reveals evidence of "explicate instructions to state presidents on church fund-raising plans" to support the initiative, Worthington said. "To me it seems that the church is going way overboard on this issue. It is an obsession for them," said Worthington. "No other church is involved or impassioned about this issue the way the Mormon church is. When I saw how furtive they were being about their efforts I felt it was important to expose their organized plans for fund-raising." Worthington said the May 20 letter "outlines a fund-raising strategy, including a recommendation that churches target affluent Mormons and suggests an appropriate contribution." The letter is on official church stationery from Elder Douglas Callister of the North America West Area which according to Worthington, was sent to all stake (equivalent to a Catholic diocese)presidents in California and reveals a nine-point plan of attack to get the initiative passed. (An LDS source confirmed that Callister is responsible for the North America West Area, Area 70, which covers Hawaii, Alaska and all of California.)Callister's letter states that he has been asked to supervise fund-raising assisted by Church Elders Merrill Higharm and Floyd Packard. The letter contends fund-raising is to be voluntary, restricted from church property and will concentrate on "affluent members" first. It also offers advice on how topspin the issue, saying, "An education process will be required so that those approached will understand this is a moral issue, rather than political, fully justifying the support of LDS families." Another document sent to SF Frontiers by Worthington indicates specific fund-raising targets for LDS officers to reach in supporting the Knight initiative. In an Aug. 4 release, Worthington stated she has firm evidence that at least one LDS bishop (roughly equivalent to a Catholic priest) is being assessed for $4,000 worth of fund-raising. NPR also reported a letter was circulating in California asking some members to donate specific amounts of money ranging from $30 to $250. Other documents sent to SF Frontiers state that church supporters should send money to the "Definition of Marriage Committee" at a post office box in Glendale. The nature of that committee and who runs it is unknown at this time. Lance Whitman, described as a high- ranking church spokesman, side-stepped the issue on NPR, saying, "Anything like that...has been rare and exceptional...The church is trying to be a good member of the coalition to pull its share of the responsibility there, but ultimately it comes down tithe feelings and good will of the individual members of the church, and what contributions they want to make." But Worthington retorted that she has a signed statement from an individual officer who overheard an LDS official asking another "how fund-raising was going and that he should get on with the fund-raising." She also has three separate reports from Anaheim, Hesperia and Oxnard about LDS fund-raising letters telling people to send donations to the post office box in Glendale. The May 20 letter from Callister indicates the church will be making an accounting of who donated how much, which to Worthington, "means they must have access to checks and forms in that post office box. If they are doing accounting, they must have access to checks coming into the box. My assessment is that post office box belongs to someone in the church." Bud Alexander, an LDS volunteer public affairs representative for the Oakland LDS Temple covering Northern California, said he was not familiar with the May 20 letter. He was asked by SF Frontiers if the church is politically involved in the DOMA campaign, or if there is a coordinating fund-raising campaign, to which he replied, "Not that I know of," and then said, "It is my understanding they are not politically involved. I have a very clear understanding of that." Alexander, who lives in Merced, hastened to clarify he was speaking only individually and not as a representative of the church. But he also stressed that he sees a clear distinction between individual and church activities and moral and political activities that other observers may not see as quite so clear-cut. "I am familiar with the DOMA issue, and as an individual I am supportive of the passage of that act and am working to encourage friends to support funding for that act. But I am not doing that as a representative of the LDS church. I am doing that strictly as individual." As far as the letter goes, when provided with a copy, Alexander said, "It would appear to me that he is doing this as individual, not as a general authority." But he did allow, "I see this is on church letterhead. I would be concerned about that, but I would not answer for that individual and what he is doing. I personally take a pretty strong position on the issue. But I don’t see a problem with the lay members of church or priesthood [saying this]. They [should] have the right to lead on any moral issue they would like to do. Some may see that as strictly political. I see it strictly as amoral issue." Not so, contends Worthington: "They are using church membership lists and church stationery to do fundraising. This is not just a few individuals who are deciding to organize this. This came down from the church. [Callister]says, number one, I have been asked to supervise the raising of the funds. Someone above him has asked him to supervise raising of funds. That tells you this did not originate with him. How far up it originated is another matter; we don't have any proof of that." Records filed with the California Secretary of State for the funding period ending June 30, 1999 show many of the small contributions made to the committees in support of the initiative lacked a date of receipt by the committee and the employment of the contributor, which is required for all contributions of $100 or more. The lack of a date of receipt by the supporting committees makes it more difficult to determine if the original letter read in California Mormon church’s during the last week of May generated a rush of contributions. The law requires political committees to furnish the information within a certain time or face fines from the Fair Political Practices Committee. Those interested in joining Worthington's letter-writing campaign urging unhappy Mormons to ask the church to remove their names from the record can contact her at 801/963-7922.--Jerry Sloan and TK(San Francisco Frontiers is a bi-weekly celebration and examination of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered communities of Northern California and the Bay Area)

1999 A freak tornado ripped through the downtown area of Salt Lake City, killing one person and doing millions of dollars of damage. Especially hard hit was the Delta Center, The Out Doors Trade Show, and Memory Grove. Gay Bars near the Gate Way Project were also damaged with The Sun Club building destroyed. The Axis sustained considerable damage but was able to repair its building. On owner Sharon Strickler's 51st birthday, as she was planning a birthday bash, at the landmark popular dance bar on Salt Lake City's west side, the SUN was blown apart by a tornado. The Sun was one of the first victims in the tornado's path. The funnel cloud hurled bricks and wood from the Sun's roof, hundreds of yards to the west. The Sun was condemned from destruction by the tornado. Employees were trying to salvage what they could out of the mess. Most of the contents of The Sun survived the tornado, including their sound and lighting systems and a lot of furnishings, supplies, glasses etc. Cars were parked tin front of the Sun when the tornado hit were covered and smashed by bricks and debris. Kathy Worthington took pictures of the damage.

• 1999 Todd Dayley, Editor/Publisher of the Pillar wrote of the Tornadoes damage: THE SUN: (2nd South and 700 West) The damage at the Sun is significant. It brought tears to my eyes to see such a landmark in our community in this state. A big X on the front door probably stands for condemned. The patio fence is totally gone and the cars were still sitting in the parking lot surrounded by police tape. The fence to the patio is flat on the ground with the roof sitting in the middle of the patio. Standing to the side nearest the patio you can see there is not much left of the second floor. The back brick wall is gone. Standing on 200 South and looking through the second floor windows you can see the sky. There will be a lot of work to be done in clean-up. When the club is rebuilt it should be a completely new experience. We all have fond memories of the Club. Like myself, and for many of us, the Sun was the first Gay club we went to. Best wishes to the Sun owners and staff in rebuilding and continuing the Sun's legacy.
  
•  "It was my birthday, and we were planning a birthday party that evening at the club. I was home immediately after the tornado. One employee called me saying, "You've got to get down here; a tornado hit the building." I said, "Yeah, right." I thought it was a ruse to get me down there early because it was my birthday. I turned the news on, and Channel 2 was beginning to have some coverage. I approached the building from the west, and I'm still telling myself, "Oh, it can't be that serious," until I got that first look of the building and realized that the whole second floor on the west side was gone. Then it really came home to me, that it was serious, that it wasn't just a few bricks falling, that it was devastating. -- Sharon Strickler, owner of the Sun Club, which was a total loss Feb. 13, 2000 Deseret
  
  News... Only a few small businesses around the Delta Center sustained irreparable damage. Among those, Sun Club owner Sharon Strickler said the building on the corner of 200 South and 700 West, valued at about $300,000, was a complete loss. She also suffered an additional $80,000 in property damage and about $240,000 in six months of lost revenues, she said. Twenty-eight employees were also left without jobs. Immediately after the tornado destroyed her building, she rushed to the site thinking the damage could not be that serious "until I got that first look of the building and realized the whole second floor on the west side was gone," she said. "Then it really came home to me, that it was serious, that it wasn't just a few bricks falling." Fortunately, Strickler said, "We did have insurance coverage, and (the damage) will eventually be covered by insurance."Deseret News Feb 13, 2000 

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  Axis

  AXIS: 108 South 500 West I spoke with the guys at Axis and was able to tour the inside of the club. The damage was heartbreaking considering how beautiful the club was. The club opened last fall and has been a favorite since them in our community. They were just beginning a new promotion for the Gay community on Thursday nights. Most of the damage to this building came from the collapse of the neighboring building to the north of them. They will also be rebuilding their club.
• BRICKS: 579 West 200 South I spoke with Gary at Bricks. They had some damage to their tent on the patio as well as having some of the patio furniture shuffled and scuffled a little. Otherwise they are fine and are open for business.
• THE TRAPP: 102 South 600 West Joe at the Trapp said they only experienced some damage from trees. One
  
  of his employee's car had a tree come down on it. They were without power on Wednesday afternoon, but were all ready to open up again when the power came on. Utah Power was working on the electrical lines outside of the Trapp on Thursday evening.
• ZIPPERS: 155 West 200 South Zippers experienced some damage to their patio furniture, but otherwise the tornado did not damage the building or the inside of the club.
• MEMORY GROVE: Thursday we drove up by the Capitol building and stood above Memory Grove and looked down into the canyon. It was devastated. There are torn up trees and branches everywhere. The buildings were not damaged, but the park will never be the same again. Although the damage from the
  tornado is a blow to some of the businesses in our community, they are fortunate to have insurance coverage and they will rebuild and be even better than they were. We will rally to support them as a community and they will rise from the rubble and shine again! The Pillar has taken some incredible pictures that will be included in the September issue of the paper. 
  
• The tornado ripped out three trees on Temple Square by the roots and inflicted substantial damage to many others. Two windows were knocked out of the "Christus" rotunda in the north visitor center, together with some windows on ground level. There was some minor window damage to the Tabernacle. "We're fortunate that the damage wasn't more severe," Bills said. Had the tornado chosen a path more to the east it might have inflicted significant damage to that most revered of LDS symbols, the Salt Lake Temple. Shortly after the tornado the block's gates were closed and about 90 Temple Square missionaries, along with tourists, were escorted out (after the missionaries were all safely accounted for). Bills wasn't sure how long it might take to clean up and reopen Temple Square. The Family History Library and Museum of Church History and Art, to the west of Temple Square, were not significantly damaged, though they were without power for a while. Deseret News
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2009 From: David Alder Subject: Queer History Project: Requested information Brandon, Thank you for the good news today!  We're definitely excited to get this going.  We've got interest from the Center for Documentary Arts, KUER and the Deseret News.  Our proposal will be updated with that information. As per your request, our intention with UHC funding is to do a minimum of 20 hour-long interviews during the month of September. Assisting us in this process by providing us historical context is Ben Williams, a local elementary school teacher who has spent countless volunteer hours compiling the history of the LGBTQ community here in the Wasatch Front.  These records, photographs and timelines will be tremendously helpful in the project. Please find attached meeting notes from our first council with Ben Williams, which also contains a preliminary list of interviewees. Should you need anything further, please feel free to contact me. Thank you again for your vote of confidence in our project! David Alder The Queer Oral History Project Queer Oral History Project

• David Alder To: "Ben Edgar Williams" FYI... We were given another $2,000 from the Utah Humanities Council!  We're on our way!  :) D
• "Ben Edgar Williams" To: "David Alder" Excellent