August 14th
1886-Dr
Randolph Winslow wrote of an "epidemic of gonorrhea contracted through
rectal coition" at a boys reform school near Baltimore. The outbreak
lasted from 1883-1885 and was brought under control by keeping a strict watch
on the boys and inflicting severe corporeal punishment on anyone caught in the
act.
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| Pyotr Tchaikovsky |
1892-Composer
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky wrote to Bob Davidov, "It had to be this little
incident which made me feel again how strong my love for you is. Oh God! How I
want to see you!"
1920-In Germany,
the Community of the Special publication included an article called
"Uranians of the World Unite!" which urged the formation of a
worldwide homosexual organization. Uranian was the prefered word for homosexuals.
1964 A Salt Lake
Tribune editorial was written against a Salt Lake City ordinance stating that all
employees of Salt Lake clubs or restaurants that serve beer must be fingerprinted and furnish photographs for the police department.
1966 Most
Despicable: Guard Against Child Molesters “Its better to have your child
thoroughly frightened about potential molest than to have him or her become a
victim, ” stated a Salt Lake police officer when warning parents to tell
children about the dangers of child molestation. Salt Lake Tribune
1969 Thursday
“Relating” was to become the goal of Gay Liberation Front activists. Relating
not simply in critiques that
followed protest excursions, but relating woman to woman, man to man, and man
to woman whenever members got together. GLFers sought self discovery in
encounter groups. Encounter groups were
tough to take. Gay activists Jim Owles contends that “in GFL there was a great
deal of love and understanding at the beginning. And then all of a sudden it
got into these encounter groups…which were not really meant to further love and
understanding but were used as weapons against political deviates… They would
get into sessions where you would tell them what was bothering you, talk about
yourself, and this in turn would be used against you.” Marty Robinson said, “they’d turn on you and
say, ”well, you’re kind of pushy, so if you’re an honest person, you might
examine yourself to see if you’re really interested in self improvement.’ Then
they’d get you to a point where you were ineffectual and non-aggressive.”
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| Jim Owles |
1974-After a three-year
battle, Gay Community Services Center Los Angeles won tax-exempt status.
1977- “Norman Is That You?” featuring comediennes
Redd Fox and Pearl Bailey who discovered their son Norman is Gay played at Mid
Town Trolley at 2:00 a.m. for the Gay
Community with the help of Steve Barker night manager.
1979- Undeterred by the violence directed at the MCC-SLC, three members of the Metropolitan
Community Church of SLC attended the 10th Anniversary General Conference of the
Universal Fellowship of the Metropolitan Community Churches.
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| Mel Boozer 1946-1987 |
1980- Mel Boozer was
nominated in 1980 for the office of Vice President of the United States by the
Socialist Party USA and, by petition at
the convention, by the Democratic Party. He was the first openly Gay person
ever nominated for the office. Boozer
spoke to the Democratic convention in a speech televised in prime time, calling
on the party to support equality for LGBT people. "Would you ask me how I
dare to compare the civil rights struggle with the struggle for lesbian and gay
rights? I can compare them and I do compare them, because I know what it means
to be called a 'nigger' and I know what it means to be called a 'faggot,' and I
understand the differences in the marrow of my bones. And I can sum up that difference
in one word: none."Boozer received 49 votes before the balloting was
suspended and then-Vice President Walter Mondale was re-nominated by acclamation.
In 1981, Boozer was hired by the National Gay Task Force as district director
and a lobbyist. NGTF executive director Virginia Apuzzo fired him in 1983,replacing
him with then-GAA president Jeff Levi.This had the effect of "leav[ing]
the nation's oldest gay organization even whiter"and drew protests from other
gay African Americans. Boozer died
of an AIDS-related illness in March 1987 at the age of 41 in Washington, D.C.
- -Gwen Craig, a delegate at the Democratic National Convention, carried a sign which read "Black Lesbian Feminist."
1984- The 2nd attempt at created a Gay community center was The Utah
Community Services Center and Clinic which was incorporated with the Lt. Governor’s
Office for the State of Utah
1985-Los Angeles
banned discrimination against people with AIDS in employment, housing,
education, and health care. It was the first US city to do so.
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Falcon Flight |
1986- Wasatch Leathermen Motorcycle Club hosted the 2nd
Three day Annual Falcon Flight `86 held in the Uintah Mountains. Wasatch
Leathermen Motorcycle Club (WLMC) According to an article written by Greenie
for her colors project that was written for the leather archives back in 1998
or 1999, the Wasatch Leathermen Motorcycle Club was a gay male SM motorcycle
club that was founded by ten original members. The organization consisted of a
1st Master, a 2nd Master and a 3rd Master. These titles were similar to what
groups would call an organization hierarchy such as a presidency. There was a
Pledge Master responsible for new recruits, a Record Master responsible for
various secretarial duties and a Bond Master responsible for funds and treasury
type duties. Membership was limited to only 15 Members at one time, but there
were associate memberships available with no number limitations. The Wasatch
Leathermen hosted a motorcycle run starting in 1985 called the Falcon Flight.
They would ride up Wolf Pass, Utah, which is 10,000 feet in elevation. The Club
Colors were designed by a cartoonist named Greg G[Garcia], who was the 2nd
Master of the Club and also a founding member. The six sides of the colors
signify: Brotherhood, Harmony, Leather, Discipline, Pride, and Charity. If a
member left the Club, they were required to return their member patch to the
club.
- EDITORS NOTES - The information herein has been compiled in 2002 and 2003 by Ronnie N from myriad information sources and many of the past and current members of the Salt Lake Leather Community by way of emails, questionaires, and personal interviews. All items included in this archive were donated by members of the Salt Lake Leather Community for the purposes of preserving the record of our local leather history. Ronnie donated three Items from the Wasatch Leathermen's Motorcycle Club: (1) A Falcon Fight T-shirt from one of the runs they hosted, (2) A Club Pin, (3) A book of matches from one of the Falcon Fight motorcycle runs. She has also donated a Power Play t-shirt, a Journeyman III t-shirt, one pin each from the Wasatch Leathermen's Association and the Wasatch Women of Leather connected together, a Wasatch Women of Leather Club Patch, a flyer from the first leather weekend produced by the Rocky Mountain Dragons and the Wasatch Leathermen Motorcycle club featuring the Mr/Ms Utah Leather contest, along with a blank form that the contestants had to fill out in order to compete in the contest (not pictured), a flyer for the Wasatch Women of Leather and the Wasatch Leathermen's Association Club Blue legal fund raiser (not pictured), and a copy of the first original flyer for Wasatch Women of Leather (which at that time had not been named yet) that was placed at the Gay and Lesbian Community Center introducing the group (not pictured). Christopher donated two of the original UPEX club patches and a bound copy of the UPEX by-laws (not pictured). An anonymous member of the Wasatch Leathermen's Association donated the Wasatch Leathermen's Association uniform shirt. Jodi donated the printing of a new banner for the Wasatch Women of Leather so that the original could be sent to the archives (not pictured). Also, much thanks must be given to Lady Athena for spellchecking and grammatical corrections throughout this document.
1987 The Wasatch
Leathermen Motorcycle Club hosted the 3rd annual three day Falcon Flight held
in the Uintah Mountains.
1989 Gary
Spanogle-one time Utahn and AIDS activist died of pneumocystic pneumonia in
Bakersfield, California. He turned 50 in March and was one of the first HIV
positive people in the country to appear on a nationally televised talk show
(The Phil Donahue Show) in the mid 1980's. A one time employee of the Sun
Tavern and a professional dancer who worked for both Arthur Murray and Fred
Astaire. Spanogle fought AIDS discrimination by appearing in local news
programs, through letter writing campaigns and in a precedent setting case, by
fighting in the court system of Bakersfield,California for the ARC status to be
defined as a disability under the law. He was a member of the AIDS Project Utah
and Bakersfield, Task Force. (Triangle Sept 1989)
1994 Multiply and
Replenish Mormon Essays on Sex and Family reviewed: Edited by Brent
Corcoran;
Rocky O'Donovan's ``The Abominable and Detestable “Crime Against Nature”: A
Brief History of Homosexuality and Mormonism, 1840-1980,'' uses the floridly
excessive language of the 19th century as an ironic comment on his research
that chronicles the prevalence of gay and lesbian relationships among early
Mormons. At the outset, O'Donovan concedes that while academically trained as a
historian, he ``[does] not subscribe to the theory of academic objectivity.''
Once a returned Mormon missionary, ``I was later officially excommunicated . .
. for my stance in opposing the oppression of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual
people.'' For gays, O'Donovan understates, to heterosexually ``multiply and
replenish'' is ``not a realistic imperative.'' Salt Lake Tribune 08/14/94 Page: D5
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Connell aka Rocky O'Donovan |
1997-Members of
the American Psychological Association voted to limit attempts to cure
homosexuality and agreed to require the reading of a statement to Gay patients
affirming that being Gay is normal and healthy. Charles Socarides, president of
the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality, said it was
an attempt to brainwash people, and called homosexuality a purple menace which
threatens proper gender distinction. (His openly Gay son, Richard Socarides,
was the White House liaison to the Gay community.)
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| Charles Socarides |
1997- After
an 18-year-old man offered Qassim Ali Al-Raheemi a ride home, the Iraqi man,
brandishing a utility knife, forced the victim into his apartment, where he
tried to fondle and kiss him. The victim was cut twice on the hand as he pushed
Al-Raheemi away. The man fled and called police. [Salt Lake Tribune]
- MORE SEX CHARGES A
45-year-old man already in jail on sex charges was charged
Wednesday with forcible sodomy and sexual abuse for allegedly attempting to force two men to have sex. On Aug. 6, Qassim Ali Al-Raheemi grabbed a man from behind as he was walking by 135 S. State St., police said. Al-Raheemi purportedly dragged the man to a parking lot, forced him to the ground and pulled down the man's pants. The victim managed to escape. Salt Lake Tribune B2 29 August 1997
Qassim Ali Al-Raheemi - Attacker Gets Up to 30 Years For Trying to Rape 3 Men; Attacker Faces Up to 30 Years in Prison by STEPHEN HUNT Salt Lake Tribune February 5, 1998 An Iraqi man who sought political asylum in the United States from Saddam Hussein's regime went to prison for up to 30 years Wednesday for attempting to rape several men during separate attacks in Salt Lake City. Qassim Ali Al-Raheemi, 46, was charged with attacking three men in August 1997 -- one outside a Salt Lake City bar and two others inside his apartment. He cut one victim with a knife.
1999 Jim Dabakis,
owner of Club Axis stated in a Salt Lake Tribune Article, "I'm offering a
$10,000 reward to the person who stole the safe with all the money in it. All
they have to do is come forward and tell us who they are." About $26,000
in receipts after the club were stolen in July and when Dabakis told his
insurance agent about the theft, he learned, that his insurance policy did not
cover the theft and he also found out he was woefully underinsured. So he upped
the coverage and after a tornado bore down on Salt Lake City and the building
was left in shambles, the loss of $26,000 seemed almost providential.
"We've got to be the happiest people on the planet," Dabakis said.
Insurance agent Paul Allsop, who wrote the policy on the club, said he never
had seen a claim as big as the one for the Axis. And he could not remember anyone
changing a policy at a luckier time.
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| Jim Dabakis |
14 August 2000 UTAH Davis School
District Bountiful High School East High School
in Salt Lake City
students. "A couple of my teachers . . . indicated that
(the students) were interested in doing it," he said Homer, now the
principal at Davis High School, said he was first officially contacted about
the club by the local chapter of the Gay, Lesbian Student Education Network, or
GLSEN, a nonprofit organization that sponsors Gay-straight alliances around the
country. "They came to me along with a couple of teachers at East High and
said there were a number of students at Bountiful High who were interested in forming
a club," he said. Homer told them the district didn't have a school club
policy yet but that if everyone followed the school constitution and state
guidelines, it "would not be a big issue." And it wasn't, primarily
because GLSEN was considered by the school to be the club's sponsor from the
beginning, according to Michelle Beus, the Davis
2000 The Salt Lake Tribune Yes,
There Are Democrats From Utah By Greg Burton With no looming platform fights,
but sagging in the polls, Democrats gather in Los Angeles this week hoping to
rev up the troops -- even Utahns, who haven't sided with a Democratic president
since Lyndon Baines Johnson. Where better than in Hollywood? "We can still
hope," says Todd Taylor, executive director of the Utah Democratic
Committee. "It's a long way to November and at this point I'm not willing
to concede anything." If fact, Utah Democrats are encouraged by Vice
President Al Gore's selection of Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, a
moderate running mate and fearless morals crusader who has attacked Hollywood
for promoting violence and chastised President Clinton for having extramarital
sex in the Oval Office. That's just the sort of pious lip service that
resonates with Utahns of all political stripes, Taylor says. "The choice
was inspired," he says. "It was genuinely surprising, but an excellent
surprise." Aside from Lieberman,
Democrats have assembled a familiar list of speakers this week, beginning with
the Clintons on Monday, a couple of Kennedys, New Jersey Sen. Bill Bradley and
the Rev. Jesse Jackson on Tuesday, Lieberman on Wednesday and the Gores on
Thursday. Among the delegates are 33 Utahns, including four alternates. Of the
29 who will cast votes, there are 15 women, 14 men, one American Indian, one
African-American, two Latinos, two gay men and a lesbian. Nobody from Utah is
scheduled to speak, although San Juan County delegate Mark Maryboy has asked to
present a resolution from the Navajo Nation Tribal Council condemning recent
moves in some states to abolish tribal sovereignty. And while Laurie Noda, a
Utah assistant attorney general, is on the convention's platform committee, no
fights are expected over proposed language in the party's mission statement.
Other delegates to the Democratic
Convention are: Lisa Ashman,
administrator; Fae Beck, homemaker; Trisha Beck, legislator and travel agent;
Jacki Biskupski, legislator and insurance agent; Kelly Ann Booth, health-care
worker; Michael Dunfield, businessman; Donald Dunn, congressional candidate;
Nick Floros, county worker; Andy Gallegos, UTA marketing manager; Ken Gardner,
Utah AFL-CIO; Neil Hansen, legislator and heavy equipment operator; Dana Senit
Henry, retired judge; Jim Humlicek, director of the Farm Service Agency; Rod
Julander, professor; Meghan Zanolli Holbrook, state party chair; David Jones,
legislator; Russell Kennedy, campaign manager for S.L. County mayor candidate
Karen Crompton; Mark Maryboy, San Juan County Commissioner; Ed Mayne,
legislator and AFL-CIO president; Karen Mayne, teachers'
assistant; Julie
McAdams, student; David Nelson, U. of U. Credit Union marketing manager; Laurie
Noda, attorney; Bill Orton, gubernatorial nominee; Dan Peay, mechanic; Jill
Sheinberg, mediator; Sherrie Swensen, S.L. County clerk; David Thometz, graphic
designer; Jeanetta Williams, president of NAACP; Beverly White, Corrections officer;
Debbie White, Granite Education Association; Nancy Jane Woodside, Utah County
Democratic Party chair; David Yocom, S.L. County district attorney.
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| David Thometz |
2002 Chad Keller to Donna Maldondo: Subject Leadership Forum: Dear
Donna, First I want to congratulate KRCL
on its outstanding presence in Salt Lake, and Utah. Wow!
It is a diverse savior on long days at work! Todd Daley, publisher of
the Pillar and I extend an invitation to you to participate in the Pillar's
G/L/B/T Community Leadership Forum. I have attached the press release from the
August Pillar to provide to you information. We will also be announcing another
group for the business community that you may also find interesting as a
prominent local non profit. Our purpose is to help the many G/L/B/T organizations
get training, and to help them grow and flourish. KRCL would be a great partner in this much
needed G/L/B/T community organization/service.
We will be meeting again September 12, 2002 7:30 at Angles coffee shop
located at 544 West 200 South (in the ArtSpace Bridge Project) Meetings by design are limited to 1.5
hours. Most important its free and we
try to make it Fun! Also, I would like to schedule an appointment with you to
discuss the possibility of a once a week on air G/L/B/T community calendar. We see this as a great incentive for the
members of, or to regularly attend the G/L/B/T Community Forum. We would be happy to seek a donor to pay
expenses, and attend any training that you might require. I think you will find the concept very beneficial
to your G/L/B/T listeners. Of course we
would see that it was most beneficial to KRCL with out any burden. I would be happy to meet with you when ever
you have time. Coffee and cake will be
on me!! Thanks! Chad Keller Facilitator G/L/B/T Community Leadership
Forum The Pillar
2002 Chad
Keller to Diane Hartz Warsoff Subject Community Service Day : Diane We are
approaching the second annual GLBT Community Service Day, hosted by the
Pillar. The service day at this point is tentatively scheduled for
October 12. This year many GLBT organizations would like to really get in
to the spirit of the Day by doing a community service project of their
own. As the Pillar is the coordinator and the biggest community sponsor
of the service day we would like to be able to suggest organizations that a
group could come and volunteer some time or assist in some manner though
service beginning the weekend before and the week leading to the big project at
Memory Grove. Do you have any suggestion or know of groups in your nonprofit
group that could use up to 5 hours of service that would not normally have a
large volunteer base from the GLBT community? Any info will be appreciated
Thanks! Chad Keller
- Diane Hartz Warsoff to Chad Keller Subject Community Service Projects: Chad- I am a little confused. Who is the Pillar, and what is the project at Memory Grove? Also, what kind of service projects are you looking for? I could think of various things you could do, but I need more information on purpose, etc. please advise- Diane.
- Chad Keller to Diane Hartz Warsoff Subject Memory Grove Clean Up Project: The Pillar is the local Gay and Lesbian Paper. Memory Grove Clean Up was the first clean up project the GLBT Community Service Project took on. It resulted in the monuments being adopted by GLBT organizations. We felt that as Memory Grove has a history with the community it was appropriate to spend another day up there as there is still much work to be done on hiking trails to City Creek and up to the Avenues. Plus it would let the adopting organizations get some great help in keeping their commitment to the City and the Memory Grove Foundation. We would like to see individual groups get out and do one thing on their own. But we want to make suggestions and guide them to organizations that will be appreciative of the help, and won’t have too much of a problem with the diversity of the volunteers. I have found that we have to be careful where we send people on large public projects like this. Not only for some safety factors but so that the entire GLBT community gets excited and gets out to participate. You know how this enjoinment can be at time when dealing with my community. Things that will get exposure, but not enough to spark the Eagle Forum too much. The Purpose of the day, and of the combine individual projects are to give a week of 1) exposure for the diversity of volunteerism 2) Get Local GLBT organizations interested in volunteering outside the GLBT community. 3) Educate not only the GLBT community but the mainstream community on issues that face all of us. 4) Combined Civic Pride with the GLBT community and Other organizations. Hope that helps.
- Diane Hartz Warsoff to Chad Keller One nonprofit that immediately comes to mind is TreeUtah. They are always looking for volunteers to plant trees in various locations throughout the state, and it is a wonderful group project. I have done it several times myself, and it is great! Meryl Redisch is the Executive Director and her number is 364-2122. Another place to look is at the SL County website, they have a volunteer opportunity "bank" which may provide ideas that could help. Another place could be Habitat for Humanity, but the Christian component of the organization could be problematic (maybe, maybe not...). Stella Allen is the Ed in SLC and Yasamina Roque (an alternate thinker for sure) is the ED in Summit County... Let me know if this helps. Diane
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| Willy Marshall |
- “A big Howdy and hugs to Ben and everybody at USHS, Yep, strange but true. I hope to get up to SL sometime when you are having a meeting. I don't mind small town life so much, but I do miss being around gay people! So I get out of town as often as I can to go to SL or Phoenix or anywhere! A reporter was here from the SL Tribune yesterday and is going to do a story on me and the town, so watch for that in the Trib within the next week. Actually, I'm not the only gay mayor that I've heard of in the West, but I haven't met any of the others yet. The recent mayor of Tempe AZ was openly gay, named Giuliano, I think. He didn't run for re-election. And I've heard the mayor of the little town of Mancos, in southwestern Colorado, is gay, but I haven't been over there to meet him yet. [Willy Marshall]-
- “In the "western states"??!? California, Oregon, and Washington have several LGBT mayors, including my own town of Santa Cruz; our mayor is a very out bisexual woman. John Laird, who lives two blocks from me, was the first openly gay person to be elected mayor in the US, here in Santa Cruz in the early 80s. John is now in the House of Representatives, doing a great job fighting for Queer rights. And he's about the nicest, most honest person I've ever met! [Connell O’Donovan]
- “By Western states I meant the Desert and Mountain States as in the old Desert and Mountain Conference: Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Idaho and Utah. I believe Oregon Washington and California are considered as part of the Pacific Conference. Thanks Willy for clarifying that there are indeed more than just you! [Ben Williams]
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| Gail Turpin |
2013 Restore Our Humanity received the State's and the Counties' response to our lawsuit. They are both available on our website.
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