This Day In Gay Utah History November 1st

November 1

Havelock Ellis

1897 Publication of the first English edition of Sexual Inversion by Havelock Ellis (1859-1939), the first book in English to treat homosexuality as neither a disease nor a crime.

1913  William Henry Payne age 39 year old resident of Salt Lake City, Utah was charged with “Infamous Crime Against Nature” for having sexual relations with Oliver Maxey.  William Payne pled not guilty

Natacha Rambova

1926-In the weeks following Rudolph Valentino's death, former father-in-law, Richard Hudnut found his home in France invaded by reporters and ghosts. Fearing that his chateau had become a house of the dead rather than the living, he called a halt to the seances held by his step-daughter Natacha Rambova, great granddaughter of Mormon Apostle Heber C. Kimball and her homosexual medium George Wehner.

1932-The New York Times reviewed the play "Incubator," which dealt with the consequences of homosexuality in an all-male school.

Joseph Fielding Smith

1942 In a biography of Joseph Fielding Smith the new Patriarch of LDS Church, the Improvement Era concluded with the statement that, ""We all feel sure that the new Patriarch will uphold the traditions of the Church, be a credit to his family, and magnify his calling in the spirit of humility, prayer and faith". He was later exiled to Hawaii for his homosexuality.

1945 Surveillance Work initially targeting polygamous groups expanded its scope to other “evil practices”. In 1945 Presiding Bishop LeGrand Richards launched a continued surveillance of church owned Belvedere Hotel and Temple Square Hotel to discover “evil practices” of tenants. About this time First Presidency C Ruben Clark asked former Bishop Gordon Burt Affleck to organize a similar surveillance in the men’s steam room of the Deseret Gym The

Belvedere Hotel

Temple Square Hotel housed underground, the International Bus Terminal which was a prominent “pick up spot” by homosexual men looking for service men cruising for sex.  The Belvedere Hotel was across the street from the then Twilight Inn, a bar where Lesbian and Gay people were tolerated. North of the Belvedere was also the Salt Lake Public Library whose men rooms were a notorious cruising area.  Coincidentally, the Belvedere Hotel was where it was rumored that Eldred G. Smith as Patriarch had a room where he “initiated” certain young missionaries with a “special endowment”.  The Belvedere also was where Charles Van Dam was interviewed while dying of AIDS claiming to supposedly had a sexually relationship with Gordon B. Hinckley.

1948-WMCA, a radio station in New York, broadcast a show in response to a letter from a man who was arrested after a police officer made advances. A judge who was a guest stated that the author of the letter had no right to complain about the entrapment and that police should use such tactics to weed out homosexuals.

1950 Delbert Smithe pleaded guilty in Second District Court in Ogden to charges of sodomy. Smithe allegedly committed the act October 17.

1950 The first issue of Athletic Model Guide's Physique Pictorial is issued. Cover "Havasu Creek" by Quaintance. No copies of this issue are known to exist.

1951 Los Angeles: Bob Mizer's Athletic Model Guild capitalizes on a successful mailing venture by producing Physique Pictorial, the first physique magazine for gay men. The cover date of the oldest known extant copy of Physique Pictorial Vol.1, No. 2. Cover painting of a nude man riding a white horse through the surf: "Dashing" by Quaintance.

1953 United Kingdom: historian and philosopher Dr. Jacob Bronowski says "homosexual" on a British Broadcasting Company radio program, “Behind the News.” This is the earliest documented instance of the words use in an English-language broadcast.

1955 Boise, Idaho: Three men are accused of having sex with teenagers, setting off a politically motivated, 15-month investigation of local gay male networks. Some 1,400 people are questioned in the Mccarthy Era witch-hunt that results. Dozens are arrested, nine men are imprisoned for as long as 15 years, and an untold number of gay men flee the city. The anti-homosexual witch hunt is later documented by John Gerassi in The Boys of Boise

1956 Thursday - Salt Lake City Police Chief W. Cleon Skousen, Wednesday held a preview of two motion pictures concerning child molestation and juvenile problems to spearhead a proposed school education in Salt Lake City.  The films which were produced in California carefully outlined the pit falls of children in theaters, on streets, from the police point of view. Chief Skousen said he would attempt to purchase the films if the school board agreed on their educational value. (SLTribune 11/01/56 Page 6C Col. 4)

Becky Moss

1957 Becky Moss born this day. Lesbian Activist and Comic; Producer of  Concerning Gays and Lesbians on KRCL from 1982 to 2003. Organized the First Thursday Women’s Group. 1991 Kristen Ries Award Ben,

• Becky Moss wrote I have retired from Concerning Gays and Lesbians, 20 plus years is enough for me.  I will help Stan with the show up to the end of the summer, Labor Day weekend.  I am still very active with the station. My retirement from the show was effective June 16th. No big deal, I want to do something else now. Becky
• Ben Williams wrote With all due respect, Becky Moss' retirement is a very BIG Deal! Salt Lake City has been fortunate to have her wisdom, talent, humor, and spunk for two decades. She was the longest continuous Lesbian radio host in the United States, and helped countless numbers of Gay and Lesbian people deal with their sexuality and provided valuable information to our community.  She was one of the earliest if not the earliest radio commentator to deal with AIDS and the only source of information about AIDS available for Gay men for several years. Their time commitment to producing a weekly radio is monumental and shows how much she loved the queer communities of Utah. “If you are or know someone who is Gay and Lesbian” was as familiar to KRCL listeners as any other slogan or probably even more so. In her early days she went by the alias of Mickey because her mischievous humor loved how it sounded with Moss- Mickey Moss (mouse) get it. When I was just exploring coming out of the closet I accidentally found KRCL at work and digging the music I almost fell out of my chair when I heard Concerning Gays and Lesbians come on the air! In Salt Lake City! Becky was interviewing people from the Salt Lake Affirmation and she gave out their phone number at the end of the program. I hastily copied it down for future reference. Becky and her co host at the time Mel Baker had a profound effect on my ability to come out of a heterosexual marriage and a religion I found stale and unresponsive to my life. If I have helped anyone in this community, thank Becky Moss first as of her courage she gave me the courage to start my path on the yellow brick road

1969 Eastern Region Coalition of Homophile Orgaizations Fall meeting held in Philadelphia November 1-2 was the scene of the 2^nd confrontation between Gay militant thinking and the old liner homophiles.

• The Origins of Gay Pride Day. Craig Rodwell of Homophile Youth Movement and Ellen Broidy of NYU Student Homophile League originate the idea of Gay Pride Marches and Rallies. The ERCHO held an “Annual Reminder Day” on July 4^th, commemorating the nation’s first Gay and Lesbian Picket Demonstration in Philadelphia. However the young Rodwell and Broidy wanted to make the Annual Reminder Day “more relevant” and to “reach a greater number of people” who embrace “the ideas and ideals of the larger struggle in which we are engaged; that of our fundamental human rights.” The new event was to include a “demonstration held annually on the last Saturday in June in New York City to commemorate the 1969 spontaneous demonstrations on Christopher Street and that this demonstration be called Christopher Street Liberation Day.” The resolution was passed by the conference and it was agreed to move the Annual Reminder Day both in time and location from Philadelphia to New York City.
• “Resolved: That the Annual Reminder in order to be more relevant, reach a greater number of people are encompass the ideas and ideals of the larger struggle in which we are engaged- that of our fundamental human rights- be moved both in time and location.  We proposed that a demonstration be held annually on the last Saturday in June in New York City to commemorate the 1969 spontaneous demonstrations on Christopher Street and that this demonstration be called Christopher Street Liberation Day.” A 2nd resolution established a committee to plan the demonstration with each homophile/homosexual group in the East sending a delegate to the committee. The committee was called the Christopher Street Liberation Day Committee. Rodwell and Broidy’s motion set off the Pride Day Parades and Rallys that are held annually around the world.
• ERCHO became the first association of homophile organizations to take a positions as homosexuals on non homosexual issues. The Radical youth element was able to overthrow the position successful liberal homophiles had successfully maintained since the beginning of interorganizational cooperation in 1966.
• Resolved that the Eastern Regional Conference of Homophile Organizations consider these inalienable human rights abouve and beyond legislation:

1] Dominion over one’s body

            a. through sexual freedom without regard to orientation

            b. through freedom to use birth control and abortion

            c. through freedom to ingest the drugs of one’s choice

2] Freedom from society’s attempts to define and limit human sexuality, which are inherently manifested in economic, educational, religious, social, personal, and legal discrimination.

3] Freedom from political and social persecution of all minority groups:

a. freedom from institutionalized  inequalities of the tax structure and judicial system

b. freedom and the right of self–determination of all oppressed minority groups in our society.

c. we specifically condemn the systematic and widespread persecution of certain elements of these minorities including all political prisoners and those accused of crimes without victims [e.g., homosexuals] The Advocate January 1970 “ERCHO Meeting Adopts Radical Manifesto” by Bob Martin

1973-Thursday U of U’s Daily Chronicle letter and response regarding homosexuality.  If homosexuals of Salt Lake City want to organize a religion, it certainly is their prerogative to do so but I am appalled that the Daily Utah Chronicle found that to be the most important news Tuesday that related to the University or its students-Wayne Bateman. Editor Note- We were certainly shocked to find this letter from Mr. Bateman, who as one of the founding members of the Cro-Magnon Journal has always stood against repression of the press. We are sorry if Mr. Bateman is offended by real life, but we feel that the article in question was not only of great interest to the majority of our readers, but that it filled a need for information about Gays that most members of the university community need and want, to understand concerning those who are “different.”

1976- Women Aware begin to organize. “Women Aware!” was formed at a meeting at the YWCA in Salt Lake City for the purpose of organizing Lesbians, women in transition, and feminists from the greater Salt Lake City metropolitan and Wasatch front area.  WA sponsored bringing Rita Mae Brown author of Ruby Fruit Jungle to Salt Lake. Rubyfruit Jungle is the first novel (1973) by Rita Mae Brown, remarkable for its explicit lesbianism. The term "ruby fruit jungle" is slang for the female genitals.

1976-The LDS General Handbook of Instructions dropped “homosexual acts” and added “homosexuality” to the list of sins for which a person could be excommunicated from the LDS Church.  This implied that Mormons could be punished for their homosexual orientation even if they were celibate.  By removing the burden of proof, this allowed overly zealous Bishops and stake presidents to excommunicate Mormons who admitted their homosexual orientation but denied accusation of sexual behavior.

1977- Salt Lake Gay Services Coalition Board of Trustees voted to close their account at the Bank of Utah after the bank refused a loan to Metropolitan Community Church to purchase their church building without a reason.

1977- An ad for an Underground Gay Conscious meeting for those who “dare not be conspicuously Gay as they might like” was placed in the Open Door by a BYU student working under cover for campus security.

1978- Dr. Wolf Szumness began to inject over a thousand young gays with a experimentalvaccine at the New York Blood Center in Manhattan, New York City during the period November 1978 to October 1979 as part of a Hepatitis B experiment. The first group of gay men was inoculated in November 1978 at the New York City Blood Center. The experiment continued until October 1979. Over one thousand men from Manhattan were injected with Szmuness' vaccine. Wolf Szmuness was awarded millions of dollars to undertake the Hepatitis-B vaccine experiment. Szmuness specifically wanted to use gay men to avoid "serious legal and logistical problems." For his study he did not want monogamous men, or men with lovers. He chose only healthy, young, responsible, intelligent, and primarily white homosexuals. The experiment was costly and he didn’t want any uncooperative or hard-to-find gays messing up his experiment. Involved in the experiment were the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Abbott Laboratories, and Merck, Sharp & Dohme. Szmuness’ experiment was hugely successful, and his vaccine was hailed as having tremendous global implications. According to June Goodfield: "In those (gay men) who received all three injections, 96% developed antibodies against the (hepatitis) virus. Overall, the vaccine was shown to be 92.3 percent effective in protecting high risk individuals against hepatitis B; these findings are of an order of magnitude that has never been equaled in any other vaccine trial, either before or since." The experiment could never have been so phenomenally successful if the gay men were infected with HIV before the experiment! The reason for this is now obvious. Recent studies have shown that hepatitis B vaccination is not very successful in immunodepressed people.

1978- The Open Door ran the following classified Ad; “BYU Underground. Note: Community Voice-Persons interested in meeting other Gays going to BYU. All correspondence will go through The Open Door for safety reasons. Write The Open Doors Number 1004. The ad is actually placed by BYU security forces to entrap Gay students at the university. The Editor of the Open Door vouched for the ad in an editorial piece but when BYU admits that a student working undercover as part of a covert operation actually placed the ad, the editor lost the confidence of the Gay community sold the paper to Bob Waldrop. The Open Door began to charge 25 cents an issue with 40 % of the profits being returned to the community.  Affirmation, Integrity, and METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY CHURCH received 10% and the other 10% to be divided between the People’s Concern Fund of the Imperial Court of Utah and the Deacon Fund of METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY CHURCH and 10 % to the Tony Adams Political Rights Defense Fund and 10 % into a trust fund for the eventual establishment of a Gay community center for SLC. (20)

Spencer W. Kimball

1979- After having  coffee hour at Village Inn in SLC a Gay Coffeehouse is attempted by Lesbian and Gay Student Union to provide a complement to the existing sources of entertainment in Salt Lake as well as to spot light our own entertainers.

1980 Spencer W. Kimball, Church President November 1980, "President Kimball Speaks Out on Morality", Ensign, p. 97 and New Era, p. 39 "Sometimes masturbation is the introduction to the more serious sins of exhibitionism and the gross sin of homosexuality."

Ezra Taft Benson

1982 Ezra Taft Benson, Presiding Apostle November 1982, "Fundamentals of Enduring Family Relationships", Ensign, p. 59 "Today we are aware of great problems in our society. The most obvious are sexual promiscuity, homosexuality, drug abuse, alcoholism, vandalism, pornography, and violence. "These grave problems are symptoms of failure in the home—the disregarding of principles and practices established by God in the very beginning. "Because some parents have departed from the principles the Lord gave for happiness and success, many families throughout the world are undergoing great stress and trauma. Many parents have been enticed to abandon their responsibilities in the home to seek after an elusive ‘self-fulfillment'."  [These three paragraphs are quoted again by Benson verbatim in July 1992's First Presidency message. Connell O’Donovan]

1983- Lesbian Activist Becky Moss joined KRCL’s Concerning Gays as Mickey prompting the change of title of the show to Concerning Gays and Lesbians.  Becky Moss co hosted and produced the show for the next fourteen years outlasting all of her male co-hosts. Becky Moss joined The Concerning Gays program with co host Stan Aronson.

1984 Utah Senator Orin Hatch stated “Homosexuals cannot be classified as minorities like blacks or Chicanos.”

Clair Harward

1985, The excommunication of Clair Harward, [June 20, 1959- March 16, 1986]. a Gay man dying of AIDS by his Ogden Bishop makes national news. The negative press had little effect on changing the official position of the Church to excommunicate people with AIDS Clair Harward, an Ogden AIDS victim was excommunicated by his LDS bishop after seeking spiritual comfort.

1985- Eve Goldman former editor of Women Aware’s newsletter facilitates a speakers bureau called Contact Dyke.

1985- 1st Condom ad in any Utah newspaper was in the Best Source for “Trojan Naturallube Ribbed Rolled Latex Condom” “Don’t Leave Home Without One.”

1985- Jay E. Lambert M.D. was first physician to advertise in a Utah Gay publication. There was a major reluctant on the part of physicians to be advertised in a Gay publication with  one even stating “was already seeing more than a fair share of patients from the Gay Community “

1985- Pamela J. Calkins of Los Angeles became the first woman to be ordained a minister and given the LDS Melchezedick Priesthood in the Church of Jesus Christ of All Latter Day Saints where she was ordained an Elder by Elder Antonio Feliz. When She was excommunicated from the LDS Church she went before a High Court.

1985 -The Heterosexual Alliance was formed in response to a three part series about homosexual groups in the Utah Statesman, the Logan Utah University’s student newspaper.  The President, Nyle Stoddard, pre-law student, said his club will monitor valley publications and watch for further questionable, distasteful, or offensive material.  Members of the Gay/Lesbian Alliance who attended the first meeting of the Heterosexual Alliance characterized it as a hate group. Stoddard said the club also seeks answers to many questions about the spread of AIDS “Does society have a responsibility to stop it?  Does government? Do individuals?  I point at homosexuals because they comprise 75 % of the spreaders of the disease.” 

1986- Rick Cochran stepped down as director of AIDS Project Utah due to health reasons and

Ben Barr

over a rift in the Gay Community over AIDS Awareness Week. The APU Board of Trustees appointed former assistant director, Ben Barr to be Rick Cochran’s successor. Barr was originally affiliated with the group as an emotional support volunteer.  Barr’s famous sibling is comedienne Roseanne Barr.

1986- Associated Press wire service carried a story by Roger Young about Gay persecution at Brigham Young University.  “In spite of slight improvements, persecution of homosexuals continued to haunt many Gay students attending BYU.” The article recounted BYU’s zealous campaign against homosexuals in the mid-1970’s which consisted of tracing license plates from Gay SLC bars, taping phone conversations, “aversion therapy” which involved giving electric shocks to a student while exposing him to Gay pornography.

1988 Gay activist Bob Waldrop ran for state office in House District 51 as a Libertarian. He received 212 votes and lost to Hugh Rush Democrat. Lesbian Activist Dorothy Makin ran on Libertarian Ticket for House District 23 and received 253 votes. She lost to Piganelli

1990-A Utah Chapter of Queer Nation is founded by Melanie Bailey, Curtis Jensen and Rocky O’Donovan.

1990 Thursday CEDAR CITY - Former Utah State Prison captain Albert A. Walles - sentenced to prison for coercing sexual favors from a male inmate - reluctantly told the Utah Board of Pardons Wednesday about several past episodes of  sexual misconduct involving young boys.   Walles, 41, Riverton, initially dodged the question when parole board member Don Blanchard asked about a prior criminal conviction "of a sexual nature" in Iron County. "You're putting me between a rock and a hard place," answered Walles. "That was expunged."   "No, you put yourself between a rock and a hard place," replied Mr. Blanchard, who then went on to suggest that expungement of a criminal act does not prohibit "acknowledging what happened."   Walles then admitted the 1975 Iron County conviction was "a sexual situation" involving "probably two or three "juvenile boys.   To further questioning, Walles also admitted using his position as a Boy Scout leader to take sexual advantage of two more boys.  Those events apparently occurred during a 1982 camping trip with a Kearns Boy Scout troop.   "Did you give hernia exams to an entire scout troop?" Mr. Blanchard also wanted to know. "Yes," Walles said. "Are you a qualified medical doctor?" "No," answered Walles, explaining the scouts "had to have physical examinations for a Scout-a-rama or something." The board denied Walles a parole date Wednesday. But he will appear again before them in April 1991, after serving12 months of his prison sentence. In the meantime, the board ordered Walles to submit to a full psychological examination.   Mr. Blanchard encouraged Walles to "be open and forthright" with the psychologists and therapists. "You will have to openly deal with them, and show us substantial progress before I can comfortably set a {parole} date," Mr. Blanchard said. Walles could indeed receive a parole date in April. His parole guidelines have been computed at 12 months, and a pre-sentence report prepared by probation and parole officers recommends Walles serve "the least possible amount of {prison} time," said board member Bill Peters.   Walles was originally charged with two counts of forcible sodomy - first degree felonies punishable by 5-year-to-life prison terms -  in connection with a July 1989 incident in which Walles and prison inmate Kyle Harding were discovered in a compromising position in Walles' office by another prison guard. According to a prison incident report, Walles did not have all his clothes on when the guard entered the room.   In a plea-bargain agreement, Walles pleaded guilty to one count of attempted forcible sexual abuse, a third-degree felony. He was sentenced to a 0-to-5-year prison term and fined $5,000.   Harding, 24, says Walles coerced him into having oral sex nine or 10 times over a three-month period. Harding is suing the Corrections Department for $1 million in connection with the allegations and an investigation by then-Inspector General Scott McAlister that concluded there was no wrong doing by Walles. Criminal charges were eventually pursued by the Salt Lake County Attorney's office after Harding appealed his case to them. Walles, a 12-year corrections veteran, retired for "personal and health reasons" three days after he and Harding were discovered together by the guard.   Now divorced, Walles asked the board to rescind his $5,000 court-ordered fine. Walles said his alimony payments and child support for five minor children totals $1,200 per month, and he also must pay outstanding bills and taxes. Board members said they would consider his request during his next hearing. 11/01/90   Category:   NW Ex-Prison Officer Admits Sexual Misconduct  Byline: Stephen Hunt Tribune Staff Writer  Page: B1 (Copyright 1990)  Pleads Guilty

1990 The Utah Gay Rodeo Association attended the Texas Gay Rodeo.

1991- A Tribune article stated that “Perhaps no group has done more to bolster visibility in Utah than Queer Nation, a radical organization that fights homophobia. Activists staged a kiss-in at a Salt Lake night club. As part of its Suburban Homosexual Outreach Program (SHOP), members don wild garb --army boots and pearls -- and walk through ZCMI stores. In November, members covered city buildings with posters: ``Heteros go homo,''``Dyke Power,'' and ``A queer was here.'' 

1991-Robert Perkins of the BWB Charitable Trust of Chicago, gave the Utah AIDS Foundation a $10,000 check.   Foundation executive director Ben Barr said he received a phone call from Mr. Perkins, asking what the Utah AIDS  Foundation was doing to support people with AIDS. Mr. Perkins liked Mr. Barr's answer. Perkins presented foundation board member Barb Barnhart and board president Ted Fairchild the check from the BWB Charitable Trust. Mr. Barr immediately made plans to allocate the money to five foundation programs that provide food, shelter and recreation for AIDS victims.  

1993 Timothy Michael (Tim) Chavez, died November 1, 1993 of AIDS. He died with the same courage, determination and dignity which he lived his life. He was born December 15, 1957 and graduated from Roy High School and spent his life in the Ogden-Roy area. His life dream was to breed, train, show and race Appaloosas. He pursued that dream to the end, and produced many fine horses.   Survived by his special friend Chris Trujillo.  

Spencer Condie

1993 Spencer J. Condie, BYU religion teacher & Quorum of the Seventy "A Mighty change of Heart", Ensign, p. 15 "I know another good man who was reared in a family without the blessings of the gospel. Through a series of unfortunate events in his early youth, he was introduced to homosexuality, and gradually he became a prisoner of this addictive behavior."

1994 Joe Redburn, owner of the Trapp and considered the founder of talk radio in Utah, returned to the KTKK station

James E Faust

1995 James E. Faust, former lawyer  and 2nd Counselor in First Presidency November 1995, "First Presidency Message: Serving the Lord & Resisting the Devil", Liahona, Nov. 1995, p. 3 (see Faust, Nov. 15, 1994). "Satan is only interested in our misery, which he promotes by trying to persuade men and women to act contrary to God's plan. One way he does this is by encouraging the inappropriate use of sacred creative powers." "There is some widely accepted theory extant that homosexuality is inherited. How can this be? No scientific evidence demonstrates absolutely that this is so. Besides, if it were so, it would frustrate the whole plan of mortal happiness. Our designation as men or women began before this world was. In contrast to the socially accepted doctrine that homosexuality is inborn, a number of respectable authorities contend that homosexuality is not acquired by birth. The false belief of inborn homosexual orientation denies to repentant souls the opportunity to change and will ultimately lead to discouragement, disappointment, and despair."

Renee Rinaldi

1995- Renee Rinaldi, a founding member of Queer Nation Utah, was hired as executive director of the Utah Stonewall Center. She was the center’s first full time executive director.  Hired by Nikki Boyer

1995 The Salt Lake Tribune Lesbians, Gays May Call on McKeown By Jay Baltezore If he is elected Salt Lake City mayor next week, Rich McKeown has a promise to keep. And at least one gay and lesbian group likely will hold him to it. Earlier this month, the Gay and Lesbian Utah Democrats (GLUD) received assurances from McKeown that he would take immediate steps to protect gays and lesbians from any kind of discrimination in city employment. "We asked him for an executive order 

David Nelson

that prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation in city personnel hiring and city services," said GLUD founder David Nelson. "He said he would sign that executive order the first week he is in office. Then he also said he would work with the City Council to draft an ordinance to make it law." The next day, October 15, GLUD issued a news release endorsing McKeown's candidacy, although it made no mention of the proposed executive order. But McKeown's campaign promise is not sitting well with Salt Lake City Council members. Among the four councilmen who  are not standing for election this year -- Keith Christensen, Tom Godfrey, Stuart Reid and Sam Souvall -- none expressed support for amending the city's employment and hiring policy to include specific protection for sexual orientation. "That kind of conduct from a mayoral candidate is irresponsible," said Christensen. "The City Council is responsible for the legislative side of the city. If [McKeown] wants to get along with the City Council he had better get straight on the role of the mayor." The city needs no change in its ordinance, says Chairman Stuart Reid because there have been no cases of discrimination in hiring. "Our present policy is fair and adequate to prevent discrimination against any single group in our community," he says. "For Rich McKeown to issue an executive order his first week as a mayor would be inappropriate, and I will oppose it." The current city ordinance prohibits discrimination in such things as hiring and promotion based on an "individual's race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, mental or physical disability, unless based on job-related or bona fide occupational qualifications." In May 1992, says Nelson, GLUD asked Salt

Deedee Corradini

Lake Mayor Deedee Corradini if she would sign a similar executive order and then work to include sexual orientation as a specific protected category in city's ordinance. Corradini eventually turned down the request, says Nelson. But Corradini says the request came at a time when the city was examining employment in general and possible cases of discrimination in the community. "After I came into office I wanted to make sure our anti-discrimination policies included everyone, and we determined that they were covered," says Corradini. "However, the gay and lesbian community was having problems in the police department with their handling of hate crimes, so we went right to work on that and got sensitivity training for police officers." Salt Lake City's police department now has an officer who acts as a liaison to the gay community. On Tuesday, McKeown's spokeswoman Kim Wirthlin clarified McKeown's position on the discrimination issue. "This is not a response to any specific problems, but it is proactive approach. Some communities have enacted these provisions," she says. "When [GLUD] came to him and asked him if [this order] was possible, he said it should be a matter of human decency. Then if the City Council wanted to change the city ordinance, Rich McKeown would support that." Reid says he sees a broader motive behind GLUD's request for an executive order and revised city ordinance: a legal endorsement of gay and lesbian relationships. "If government recognizes gay and lesbian relationships as ones that need to be protected, then there is a question as to whether [employment] benefits would have to be extended to companions,"  says Reid. "And I'm opposed to an attempt by Rich McKeown and the homosexual community to get special recognition from city government for particular hiring preferences, and also for the homosexuals to gain special benefits for their companions."

• November 2, 1995 The Salt Lake Tribune McKeown: I Never Promised Gays By Jay Baltezore In October, Salt Lake City mayoral candidate Rich McKeown cut a deal with a gay and lesbian political group. If Gay and Lesbian Utah Democrats (GLUD) would endorse his election bid, he would sign an executive order within a week of taking office prohibiting discrimination in hiring and city services based on sexual orientation. On Wednesday, McKeown disavowed the promise. Never had he used the term "executive order," he said. "When I spoke with Gay and Lesbians Utah Democrats I used the word memo, not executive order," said McKeown during GLUD's annual fund-raising event. "And then, if and when the City Council supported a change in the ordinance to include sexual orientation, I would join in supporting that." Corradini, however, recalls a more specific presentation. "He started out talking about how he met his first black in junior high school in Virginia, then said that within one week of becoming mayor he would sign an executive order which would include sexual orientation as a category of job protection and would work with the City Council to pass an  ordinance to that effect." In fact, during two KSL radio appearances --  last Friday evening and Wednesday afternoon -- McKeown, an attorney, contradicted himself. On Friday, when asked by Corradini, McKeown confirmed he used the term "executive order." But on Wednesday, McKeown said his intention was "really a memo dealing with my own personal philosophy on the way we ought to deal with people." McKeown's campaign on Wednesday also issued a three-point statement with McKeown's position on homosexuality: --"I do not believe that gays and lesbians should be given preferred treatment or granted special status. --"I do believe that all people should be treated with dignity, compassion, respect and evenhandedness, regardless of race, religion or sexual preference and when elected I will issue a statement from the mayor's office to this effect. --"I will not issue an executive order carving out special status." GLUD founder, David Nelson, said Wednesday he remains satisfied with McKeown's intentions and would not rescind his group's endorsement. "I talked with Rich McKeown's campaign and they said to me there is no retraction or backpedaling from that position," said Nelson. "If he wants to believe that an executive order is not needed at this time it is fine with us, just as long it conveys the message that there will be no discrimination against gays or lesbians." McKeown's comments have raised some concern among Salt Lake City Council members who felt McKeown's use of a proposed executive order on job protections usurped the council's authority as a legislative body. Salt Lake City's employment and hiring ordinance does not include sexual orientation as a category protected against discrimination. However, Corradini and City Council members argue the ordinance provides sufficient safeguards and insist no cases of discrimination in hiring or promotion have occurred. Council Chairman Stuart Reid, who appeared on KSL Radio Wednesday afternoon with McKeown and his campaign strategist David Owen, said McKeown is changing his story because his promise to GLUD created a controversy. "The issue is he made a commitment to a group. Now he's saying he did not say that," said Reid.

1996 Page: E5 It's Elementary  A no-nonsense documentary of schools that teaches kids about gay life. The most telling thing about the documentary ``It's Elementary,'' a look at how some schools can teach about homosexuality, is the scary way the children often are more rational than the adults.   The film made a splash in Utah in September, when pro-gay activists set up screenings for state legislators -- who didn't show. A subsequent benefit show packed the Tower Theatre, so the management there brought it back for a regular run.   Director Deborah Chasnoff and her co-producer, Helen S. Cohen, never broach the argument of whether gay and lesbian  issues should be taught in schools. Their goal is to show that, in these instances, such lessons can be effective -- and without infringing on the parents' rights and responsibilities of teaching their morals. As an eighth-grader at the Manhattan Country School says, ``School needs to give us all the facts, so we can decide on our own what to think and what to do.''   The film looks at six schools across the country that have made gay and lesbian awareness part of the curriculum. The reactions are thought-provoking:   -- At New York's P.S. 87, fourth-graders try to identify the traits associated with gays and lesbians. They turn out to be well-versed on the subject, thanks to talk shows and movies (they all know the scene in ``Ace Ventura, Pet Detective'' where Jim Carrey reacts to kissing a guy). -- At Hawthorne Elementary in Madison, Wis., third-grade students already know the word ``homophobia,'' but are surprised to learn that Elton John is gay -- though the information doesn’t affect their appreciation for his music from ``The Lion King.''   -- At the Manhattan Country School, an independent school in New York, eighth-graders talk about the controversy of having a gay-lesbian lesson. They dismiss the excuse that students would ``freak out'' and therefore the subject should be omitted. ``The reason they freak out is because they haven't seen it [in school],'' one student says.   -- At Luther Burbank Middle School in an   Francisco, members of the eighth-grade social-studies class talk about stereotypes --then have their stereotypes about gays and lesbians shattered when they meet two of them in person.   -- At Cambridge Friends School, a Quaker school also in Cambridge, a Gay Pride Day is celebrated throughout the school. The filmmakers stack the deck a bit, intercutting these thoughtful kids with news reports of anti-gay panic: scared parents, demagogic politicians and violent  gay-bashers. But the central message of ``It's Elementary'' (unrated, but probably PG for mature themes) -- one that would be an education for every Utah legislator – is expressed by one third-grader, who asks simply and sagely, ``What's the big whup?''

1996 Page: B6A group of Cottonwood High School students has applied to form a gay-straight alliance club, but that petition joins several others in the Granite School District in limbo.   Granite spokesman Kent Gardner confirmed Thursday that Cottonwood students were the latest to request the gay-straight alliance. Petitioning students declined to talk about the club.   In a special session in April, Utah lawmakers passed legislation enabling school districts to deny access to clubs that ``encourage criminal or delinquent conduct, promote bigotry or involve human sexuality.'' The action followed several months of discussion about a gay and lesbian club proposed at East High School in Salt Lake City.   On Friday, the State Board of Education was to consider a rule that reportedly strips authority from school districts in applying state and federal laws that govern student organizations.   Education attorneys said the proposed state rule is intended to make the state the main defendant in any court test of the issue, not an individual school district.

1996- The Barony of Northern Utah elected Carlos and Dominique as Baron and Baroness IV

1997  BYU student Samuel Clayton presented the results of a survey

addressing tolerance for Gays and Lesbians at a session of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion in San Diego, California. Clayton, a Gay man, revealed that of 420 BYU students randomly surveyed; 69% knew someone who is Gay or Lesbian, 12% knew of a family member who is Gay, 24% would avoid befriending a fellow student who was Gay, 44% believe Gay and Lesbian students should not be allowed to attend BYU even if they follow the honor code. Official BYU policy permits Gay students to attend the university so long as they obey the honor code which includes being chaste.

1998 Conservative Kink was founded in November of 1998, by Sandra B and Phillip G. It was founded as a special interest group to meet the needs and interests of the Male-Dom/fem-sub component of the Salt Lake BDSM community. Conservative Kink existed for nearly three and a half years, but was surrounded by too much controversy and too little interest from most of the community to make its existence viable. This group disbanded in August of 2001.

Marshall Brunner

1998 Long time Salt Lke Gay activist Marshall Brunner retired as general manager of The Sun.

1998 6^th Annual Barony Ball “Sapphire Illusions and Magic” held in Ogden by the Barony of Northern Utah. Connie Lingus crowned Baroness VI

1999-Ally McBeal (Calista Flockhart) enjoyed a prolonged kiss with her office nemesis, Ling (Lucy Liu). Seventeen million viewers were tuned in, the show's largest audience to date.

2004 Michael,  Regarding articles sent to the Metro it would be nice if there was some sort of feedback or acknowledgment about them. As you know I don't want compensation for articles but last issue I sent in four articles, two reviews, a news article and my column. I don't expect the paper to print all unsolicited material but since they were time consuming to write and I am not a paid staff member a simple "Thanks we can use them, or Thanks but tighten them up, or No Thanks no space or No Thanks they suck" would be appreciated. I sent Brandon, before the paper was even began, five historical columns as he requested and he only used one. I labored to make the information fit within his 700 words guide line so it was discouraging to see that effort wasted. I am sure Jere Keyes is a crackerjack editor and the paper will prosper under his watch, still I think an acknowledgment of material sent in is important. At least to me. Hope you had a fun Halloween Ben Williams Ben, 

• Thanks for the feedback. I agree wholeheartedly and apologize that important things like that get missed in the hubbub of all this. I'll get with Jere to make sure we get it fixed. Oftentimes it's the simplest things you could be doing that contribute to your success or failure. I'll also mention the existing articles to Jere. I doubt he knows about them. I sincerely appreciate the effort you put into this paper as well as the community at large. It is so helpful especially as we develop this into something that can pay a few people. -Michael 

2004  A Young man's Reflections on Life in 2004 SLC UT  I've been reviewing my life....and I've gotten to view closely other peoples lives....I hear the phrase.... I feel so old...when people hear I'm only eighteen...nineteen...twenty...yet alone...fourteen...fifteen...sixteen.....I think to myself....how could anyone survive ten more years or twenty more years of what I've been through already... It's as if people need a resume when they meet people for their first or second time..in order for them to even clasp my reality.... I've been attracted to older people...and I think to myself ...why? The older the wiser right? Some one also asked me....what are you up to this week? I replied, "Ask me after election Day!" We often tend to ask ourselves if our life is accomplished...or worry about being satisfied with our lives....I once read a cover of a Youth Zine stating "Today's Youth Are Out of Control and They Simply Don't Care." I care about how my life is perceived...and stress out about not dying happy.....I'm use to people criticizing my life and time.....and I look at my life at twenty...and how many others their are out there......Today's youth are the adults of yesterday....children are becoming teens by the time hit eight or nine.... My life at 20~ I volunteered for more than ten different organizations leading over to five years of youth activism -youth volunteer work....dedicating hundreds plus hours of volunteer service to the community and to myself.....I've done two years of culinary training at a tech school...where I was kicked out and brought back in...Spoke out on my issues with men and life... and then being asked to tone it down....and with my response being....these girls will learn more about men...through me...then they ever will in their entire life -times four.. I also experienced the truth about the Utah Culinary scene...and experienced how homophobia can play in a technical trade yet alone a work force......I've was harassed and driven out of school not twice...but four times........ I lied about my age and who I really was especially between the ages of thirteen through almost sixteen....then coming clean about lies.. and my real life..to my fellow friends, cliques, family, co-workers...mentors..... I've seen my friends at school get pregnant and listened to their issues with men...drugs...and sex.... I've written and interviewed people...that have been raped, confused with their sexuality, romance, had their baby killed by a fiancé, youth prostitution, and most of all the ideal love life and reality on love of a gay teen...and then gave a reading about their life...and mine... I've slept with more than 90 people...and have spoken to people that have slept in triple digits..being only seventeen or eighteen.....and feeling...they aren't bragging.....they're frustrated about men...how badly younger people are viewed as sex objects when they are wanting more..so am I ..and realizing men will say anything to get a lay...... I've traveled across the map...Loneliness is the worst feeling.... I've been asked to be in Porn....never did I or would I....you tell me though the difference between Hollywood today and a porn...and I say..better acting... I've modeled for artists for about two years...and have had hundreds of photo images taken of me....yet haven't appeared on a cover or in a magazine for modeling...I've prostituted myself a couple times....being strapped for cash...even though I had the thought and views...I'd never do this to myself...and yet I did... I've spoken out about Political Causes and gave workshops on Youth in Activism and Youth in War...Why get involved and Why be an Activist! I've been in two magazines about my life and activism...yet interviewed by the same person Mike Glatze Got kicked out of my house three times...once for a week.. when I was twelve/thirteen..once for a few months.at fourteen...and then permanently at eighteen....due to my fathers issues with rebelling and being gay...I came out to my few friends when I was thirteen then to a conservative community and my family at fourteen...to the church at fifteen...Have spoken out about why youth need positive role models and mentors...in their life...At fifteen I spoke out about my views on love....to a girl that was so lost about a guy....after I described my view...I had her in tears......she's not the only one....I've had four phone relationships/friendships....with people I never saw....with the longest one...ending fully after three years.. I've worked jobs from working Concessions at the Zoo...to taking a three hour total bus ride up to snowbird and hitchhiking down...to working retail ...one Job in specific I remember having leaving for a couple hours for sushi and sake....coming back popping breath mints..while trying to remain good composure even though we couldn't leave the restaurant with out a friend picking us up because they'd served us so much alcohol....and breaking out into a sob story with how badly I'm mistreated out work...being called Fucking faggot...and Fucking queer...etc...even though that wasn't true..and getting paid the full paycheck..if not more...I've had four relationships with guys that were fourteen, sixteen, seventeen, and twenty four.....I've dated guys in their thirties and forties.....most of all...I had a guy that lied to me about his age being thirty six...and then telling me he was really forty six...I knew my karma with lying in the past was in affect of this situation....it was an issue I accepting of and still wanted to still see the guy....unfortunately he did not...and still hasn't seemed to get over it....I've viewed the life of a mother...that is really true and dear to her faith......and got frustrated when three teens went bad.....meaning...having her oldest turn to the whole wannabe gangster scene....to a daughter that was meeting guys off a phone chat and going to yeha clubs....to a son she had a lot in common with....and he decided to speak out about being gay.....and praying to God her two other sons would turn out so called "Normal".....A mother that has taken a lot of criticism and suffered pain through her Husband's Stubborn Air force Military Behavior....turning more Miserable and Stubborn once he retired and ruined his back and decided to move to a beautiful place called Bountiful Utah....I've had my freedom taken away for 9 months....with two of those months being in a Juvenile Delinquent Center....for Aggravated Assault and Assault with a deadly weapon...due to a fight that broke out between me and my sister...over an animal rights issue..that broke out into bringing up a lot more issues....I've been scarred by my sis....a slap on the face...and a death threat involving a Knife....being quite a few feet away...resolved with me being hand cuffed on a rainy day...yelling out Animal rights will never be deliberated.....or liberated...and then finding out it was the other word around...ruining my whole glam movie moment....The list goes on.....and then again...that's it......I've always I looked up to people in movies how their life was perceived....I even remember writing down some thoughts I thought people would say if I had died....."I will be famous...I'll make it that way.." "I thought my sex life was amusing...Jeremy made mine seem dull yet comforting after baring his life with sex and men.." "He took modeling for art classes seriously.....he was baring out his beauty....and did it rather well.." " What a fighter...what combo" "He was a boy always wanting to be loved....and found love through the wrong people..." " The most straight ...straight forward guy you could meet...I mean..before getting me off in the car...he told me ..."I'm sorry, I know girls don't do it for me...and I think you are way hot!!! Is it okay if I just go down on you?"....because he couldn't get aroused...." "He's really photogenic.....in interesting ways.....he didn't have the perfect body...or teeth....yet he had these eyes and these teeth..with a gap...and semi bold lips...and a body that flowed more like a woman in his poses....which made him so great....none of the other twinks...wannabe Abercrombie and Fitch Models in Utah got that!" "Who ever knew a boy who mislead people believing and thinking he was a ditz....proved to be rather mentality stimulating..." "Sandra Bernhard BABY!!!" I always wanted my life to be like a movie....and would often compare my life to movies...you know how you review a person's life and get all emotional at the end....It was so beautiful and breath taking.....My life is better than any movies I've seen.....I review my life quite frequently...sometimes I forget how entertaining life is....and was....It's rather weird....the past two years...I've been I've been speaking out more about my life.....and I think ...aren't I suppose to be doing this before I die...or when I'm like fifty or sixty......My goal in life is to die in love.....I've stressed that out with sometimes the wrong meaning....I'm a romantic...I see the over all picture....and I have loved...I have loved people who have brought so many interesting view points into my life.....I've been blessed......I know I may die with a week or year or who knows.....I'm still trying to make the most out of my life.....and I think gull....If I'm saying this at twenty.....what will I be saying at forty or sixty if I make it there... Thanks for reading.... Jeremy...

2006 You are cordially invited to attend The Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender  Resource Center’s Open House In celebration of our New Office location (Union Rm. 409, 4th Floor) On Wednesday, November 1, 2006  From 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM University Union Panorama East Room (200 S. Central Campus Drive) Refreshments will be provided

2008 Transgender Awareness Month The Utah Pride Center will kick off its annual month devoted to transgender people with a performance by Coyote Grace, an acoustic band fronted by a transgender male singer. Events throughout the month will include socials, film discussions, candle light vigils and discussion sessions.  Where: Café Marmalade, located in the Utah Pride Center’s downstairs (361 N 300 W) 

2017 Why I Spend Every Sunday at a Homeless Youth Shelter by Lucas Horns

As dancers, we tend to find ourselves in a bubble—the dance bubble. We become consumed by our art-form, eating and breathing it every moment of our lives. Don't get me wrong, dance is incredible and deserves our admiration, dedication and even obsession. But we are also people and can contribute to the world in many different

A selfie with other volunteers after making breakfast

ways.  Shortly after beginning my career in dance, I started to feel like an incomplete person. It really was a dream-come-true to be a professional dancer, but I knew I was more than that.  One day, I got an invitation to a gala for the Human Rights Campaign. I couldn't afford a ticket but I figured I could volunteer for the event, so I did. I was hooked. I started helping at every HRC event I could make it to. LGBTQ advocacy became my outlet to the world outside the dance bubble. In the coming years, I saw Utah pass an LGBTQ non-discrimination ordinance, then legalize same-sex marriage. I was a very, very tiny part of the work that brought about these victories, but it still felt good to know I was involved in some capacity. While I was still working away on my career in dance, I felt like a more complete person knowing I also had an impact outside of the dance world. That advocacy turned my interest to homeless youth, since nearly 40 percent of the homeless youth in Utah identify as LGBTQ. When I found out that Volunteers of America was opening up a brand new youth shelter, I contacted them about volunteer opportunities. I started off occasionally making meals, but after meeting the shelter's clients and hearing their stories, I was drawn to do more. I now go there every Sunday to work the front desk and run an LGBTQ support group. It's my version of church, and has taught me more than I could have imagined. Hearing the clients' stories of hardship and tragedy is eye-opening, heart-breaking and makes me grateful for my middle-class upbringing. But I'm also continually inspired by their perseverance and determination. Watching a client get a job, go to school or move into their own housing fills me with joy and admiration. After my weekly visits to the shelter, I go back to work each Monday excited to dance. The shelter makes me grateful that I have a job at all (let alone one where I dance all day), but more importantly, the shelter reminds me what it means to be human and gives me a broader perspective on life—ultimately making me a better artist. Today, I want to urge other dancers to to step outside the dance bubble and explore the world around you. I'm not going to tell you to go find your nearest youth shelter and start volunteering. But I encourage you to involve yourself in your community somehow.  Wherever you find yourself helping out, you will be good at it. Dancers are incredible people. We're hard-working, timely and creative. We learn quickly, pay attention to detail, can respond to criticism and can work in a team. We don't always give ourselves enough credit for our non-dancing skills, but these skills will allow you to do almost anything you want.  So what do you want to do? Dance, of course, but is that as far as you want your impact on the world to go? You already have the skillset to do so much more. Step outside the dance bubble and see how else you can make an impact on the world and how it can make an impact on you.