November 15th
1636- A set of laws was enacted
for the Plymouth colony. Eight offenses were deemed punishable by death,
including sodomy.
1915 George Taintor charged with “Crime Against
Nature” and was sent to Utah State Prison for an “in determined sentence”.
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| Heinrich Himmler |
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| Frank Kameny |
1941-Heinrich Himmler
announced a decree that any member of the Nazi SS or the police who had sex
with another man would be put to death
1961 A
Washington, DC, chapter of the Mattachine Society is formed. Activist Frank
Kameny is elected president.
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1980- The Salt Lake Chapter of Affirmation hosted
the Affirmation National Conference In November a National Conference was held
by Affirmation in Salt Lake City. Officers and members attended the conference
from the Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Salt Lake City chapters. Sessions
began with a continental breakfast which set the informal but respectful
atmosphere for the conference. All who attended seemed to enjoy the opportunity
of becoming acquainted (or reacquainted) with those who were there from the
other chapters. Ideas and suggestions were exchanged openly. One of the major
points of discussion was concerning the future of the national organization.
Was it to survive? What were its purposes? How could it serve most effectively?
Was the constitution as now written accurate and sufficient? Elections were
held for national secretary. Dale Elam became successor to Paul Mortensen for
that position. All present expressed gratitude to Paul for the great job he had
done in his term of office. Other national officers were to be appointed by the
new secretary and Dale asked for suggestions for national newsletter editor and
took the suggestions home to deliberate. During December all chapters should
have received his choices for sustaining. The national offices as appointed by
Dale Elam are as follows: National Secretary:
Dale Elam (San Francisco) Assistants to Secretary: Ron Stevens (Salt Lake City) Ina Mae Murri
(San Francisco) Newsletter Editor:
Bill Blevins (Salt Lake City)
Correspondence Secretary: Kim
Everingham (San Francisco) Dale has listed the areas of responsibility for
these officers as follows: Secretary: a. formation of new chapters b. advertising c. council
communiqué Assistant (Ron) a. Church Communicator b. Director at large
(shepherding the individual members who do not have access to a chapter) Assistant
(Ina) a. Lesbian affairs Editor (Bill) a. compile and publish a monthly news
letter beginning January 1981 Correspondence Secretary (Kim) a. assisting
national secretary in communication with chapters. [Excerpts from the
December 1980 issue of Affinity,
page 1.]
1986 The Right Reverend George Bates, newly ordained
Episcopal Bishop of Utah spoke of those terminally ill with AIDS saying they
are among those who need ministering the most.
Jesus Christ was on earth to minister to the sick not to those who are
well.
1986-Salt Lake Tribune prints lengthy article-
“Homosexuals Endure at BYU Despite a Strict Code of Honor-All those interviewed
consented to be interview if their full names were not used. BYU spokesman Paul Richards acknowledged that
homosexuality is nothing new for BYU.
However he said the school’s treatment of Gays is changing. There is more of a “let’s talk about” about
it attitude now,” he said. “I would say
there is a more understanding approach used now.” During the late 1970’s BYU came under fire
for its use of aversion therapy in its treatment of homosexuals. Richards said
while there were other college campuses experimenting with the same thing, “BYU
did get a black eyes for that.” Several
ex BYU students remember the extremes that the school
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| Duane Dawson |
went to in what they
refer to as the “purge of 75-76”. During that period several homosexuals were
expelled some of them claiming they weren’t even allowed the chance to defend
themselves. Duane (Dawson) an employee
at a Salt Lake City hospital, who says he was expelled from BYU in 1983, said a
dangerous myth is being forced on many homosexuals BYU students by some church
leaders. ”They tell you ‘You’ll meet some sweet little woman, go to the Temple,
get married, and all your problems will be over,’ Well it just doesn’t work
that way.
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| Tony Feliz on the left |
1987- former prophet and founder of the Restoration Church
of Jesus Christ, Antonio Feliz spoke at Wasatch Affirmation on the subject of
guilt.
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| Gordon Church |
1993 The U.S.
Supreme Court refused to consider an appeal by condemned murderer Michael Anthony Archuleta, who
tortured and killed Gordon Church a Southern Utah University student five years
ago. The top court's refusal sends the case back to 4th District Court in
Millard County, where prosecutors will request a new execution date for
Archuleta. Archuleta and Lance Wood, both of whom had been paroled from Utah
State Prison less than a month earlier, then took Church to a remote site about
75 miles north, where they beat him about the head with a tire jack and
sexually tortured him with battery-jumper cables and a tire iron. Wood led
investigators to the body the next day. An autopsy showed Church had suffered
severe injuries to the head and liver, a broken arm and jaw and a cut on his
neck. A
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| Michael Archuleta |
judge originally ordered Archuleta to be executed in February 1990, but
that order was stayed pending the outcome of an automatic appeal to the Utah
Supreme Court. In March, the Utah high court rejected the appeal, ruling that
the jury's conviction was supported by the evidence and that the death sentence
was justified and appropriate because the murder was "especially heinous,
atrocious, cruel . . . (and) exceptionally depraved. Lance Wood was convicted
of capital murder, aggravated sexual assault and aggravated kidnapping in March
1990 but was spared the death penalty, largely because of his young age at the time
of the murder. He is serving a life sentence in Utah State Prison but may be
paroled someday.
1994-Tuesday- Brad
Burton Weaver, 43, of San Jose, Ca formerly of Kaysville, passed away following
a courageous battle from complications of the AIDS virus. He was reared and
educated in Kaysville, graduated from Davis High and attended Weber State
University. He had lived in San Jose,
Calif., where he worked as an employment consultant. He was a Eagle Scout. He
held various positions in the Scouting program. At the time of his death he was
a
participant in the AIDS Foundation and involved with the AIDS Quilt Block.
Survived by special friend and companion, Steven Jordan, of San Jose, Calif.; Obituary
1994 NO GUN SO NO ABDUCTION? JUDGE UPHOLDS KIDNAPPING Byline: By Tom
Quinn THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Page: D1 OGDEN -- Because Weber State
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| Stanton Taylor |
University
administrator Phillip O. Austin did not use a gun when he propositioned a
passenger in his car, defense attorneys hoped to get his kidnapping conviction
overturned. Instead, 2nd District Judge Stanton Taylor Monday dismissed the
defense motions and set sentencing for Nov. 28. The jury's Sept. 13 verdict
found Austin, 43, WSU director of student advisement, was guilty of a lesser
charge of second-degree kidnapping, despite being on trial for first-degree
aggravated kidnapping. The jury found no gun was used. Colby Clifford, 20, of Davis County,
testified he was picked up March 12 by
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Austin in Clearfield, sexually
propositioned at gunpoint and escaped by leaping from Austin's car in Roy. At
last week's sentencing hearing, Austin's lawyer, Don Hughes, told the judge
that since no gun was used, his client could not be guilty of any kidnapping.
Hughes said the trial evidence showed there was no prolonged restraint by
Austin, and that Clifford was not exposed to serious bodily harm if there was
no gun used. Without waiting to hear Weber County Deputy Prosecutor Bill Daines
argue why the motions should be dismissed, Taylor ruled that the moving car was
the restraint and that the risk of serious harm came from Clifford's escape
from the moving car.
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is the Justice for Gay people in Utah? In 1994 Phillip O. Austin, a Gay
man and director of student at Weber State, was sentenced to 1 to 15 years
for the sexually motivated kidnapping of Colby Clifford of Ogden. He was
convicted of second-degree kidnapping based solely on the testimony of
Clifford who said he was picked up by Austin in Clearfield and sexually
propositioned at gunpoint, then escaped by leaping from Austin's car.
Austin claimed that while he did propositioned Clifford he did not have a
gun nor had he ever owned one. This same year David Thacker, who was
convicted of the shooting death of a Gay man, Douglas Koehler, was given a
reduced sentenced by Judge Young of a total of just zero to five years
with a one-year penalty enhancement because a gun was used in the
commission of a crime. I wonder if the institutionalized homophobia that
is fostered by the dominate culture in Utah could have affected the
"judgement" of these justices! Ben Williams
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| James E. Faust |
1994 James E. Faust, Apostle in a BYU address,
"Trying to Serve the Lord Without Offending the Devil"; reproduced as
the First Presidency Message in the September 1995 Ensign under the title,
"Serving the Lord and Resisting the Devil," pp. 2-7. "There is
some widely accepted theory extant that homosexuality is inherited. How can
this be? No scientific evidence demonstrates absolutely, 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 sexual orientation denies to repentant souls
the opportunity to change and will ultimately lead to discouragement,
disappointment, and despair." (emphasis in original)
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| Mary Tebbs |
1996 SL Tribune Page: E10 Laughter rang out. As the members of Sweet Loretta
gathered together for brunch, Mary Tebbs threw an insult at the band's latest
addition, keyboard player Mark Ricker. ``Just breaking him in,'' said a
grinning Tebbs, band leader, guitarist and main songwriter. As the other four members chuckled, Ricker
joined in. He didn't have much of a choice. You can't join a group without
enduring a bit of playful harassment.
Bassist Ken Critchfield then offered his take on the Salt Lake City
band's personalities and political leanings: ``We're all neurotic as hell.'' ``You
should see us in the decision-making process,'' added drummer Adam Sorensen.
``We had secret ballots for the songs on the CD.'' The CD is ``Taste Your
Kiss,'' the first from Sweet Loretta. It captures the melodic pop, funk and
groove that makes this Salt Lake City-based six-member group among Utah's most
popular. While the musicianship within
the band is first rate, what separates Sweet Loretta from the pack are the lead
vocal dynamics and harmonies of Tebbs and Michael Hessling. Hessling, a native of
Lander, Wyo., spent her youth singing in church choirs. That influence is
clearly heard in her emotional and energetic vocals. ``They're probably one of the premier local
bands,'' said Sam Callis of the Zephyr. ``I love them. They have a style of
their own when they begin singing like that.'' When Hessling was invited to
join the band last year, her audition didn't last long. ``The decision was made
halfway through the first verse,'' said Critchfield. Sweet Loretta unveils the 12-song album
tonight at the Zephyr Club and Saturday at the Ashbury Pub. Also on Saturday, the band performs at 3
p.m. at Blockbuster Music at 2107 S. 700 East, Salt Lake City. ``It feels weird,'' said Tebbs about the
long-awaited compact disc. ``Now, we have to be responsible to the
product.'' ``It was mixed to keep a
live feel,'' said Hessling. ``But it's
not just a reminder of how the band is live,'' added guitarist Page McGinnis. Come December, Sweet Loretta will attempt to
build its fan base outside Utah. The group has already played at several
influential festivals, including the 1995 North by Northwest Music and Media
Conference in Portland, Ore., the Gay and Lesbian Music Awards in New York
City, and, closer to home, the Utah Arts Festival and the 2002 Olympic Bid
Party. Sweet Loretta has opened for national touring acts Luscious Jackson,
Weezer, X and The Samples during the bands' Salt Lake stops. Now, Sweet Loretta is set for a tour of its
own, planning performances on the West Coast from San Francisco to Portland. ``We want to see how far we can take this,''
said Hessling. Considering the starts and stops it has experienced since its
inception, Sweet Loretta is finally on the right track. The band began as
MaryMonique with Tebbs teaming with vocalist Monique Lanier. McGinnis and
Critchfield were impressed watching a performance of MaryMonique at the Lazy
Moon Pub in Salt Lake and approached Tebbs about forming a band. ``We were blown away and half drunk,'' said
McGinnis. ``It put me over the edge of courage. ``I was wondering who this nice
gentleman was,'' Tebbs said.
MaryMonique's new friends sat in for a performance the next week. The
partnership clicked, and new members were billed as MaryMonique and the Trip. ``I looked over Mary's shoulder and followed
along,'' said McGinnis. Later,
Critchfield and McGinnis introduced Sorensen to Tebbs as a drumming
replacement. The old drummer wasn't ``subtle enough for Mary.'' ``When Adam is not in his [other] band, he's
subtle and Mary likes him,'' said Critchfield with a laugh. In 1995, Lanier left the band. ``When Monique left the band, I didn't know what
we were going to do,'' said Tebbs. ``I didn't even know if we were going to
have another singer.'' Enter Hessling,
who added a different texture to Tebbs' music. Where Lanier was soft and smoky,
Hessling had fire. The new lineup was a hit with Utah listeners, as the band
was selected Salt Lake City's Best New Band of 1995 and Best Original Band of
1996, in a Private Eye readers poll.
Ricker, previously with Band and His Dog, was the final piece of the
band's puzzle. ``I wanted this gig,'' he said. ``I hung out until they were
ready for me.'' ``Mark's keyboards
change how some of the stuff sounds,'' said Tebbs. ``It changed Page's approach
to what he does.'' ``It gives me room
to be more melodic,'' added McGinnis.
All of that is captured on ``Taste Your Kiss.'' It is the start, the
band hopes, to something bigger. ``Our
ultimate goal is to make a living as a band,'' said Tebbs. ``I see the band's [versatile] music and
realize that we don't have to worry about turning 30 like Pearl Jam and having
to do a Christmas album,'' said Sorensen.
More laughter. Sweet Deal Sweet Loretta performs Friday at the Zephyr Club,
301 S. West Temple, and Ashbury Pub,22 E. 100 South, Salt Lake City, on
Saturday. Both performance times are 9:30 p.m. with a $3 admission. Anyone
wearing a Sweet Loretta T-shirt gets in
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| David Litvack |
2005 Hate Crimes Law: When a
crime against one is a crime against many Salt Lake Tribune When the law in
America not only allowed, but compelled, the violence of racial bigotry, it was
called segregation. The law no longer supports or tolerates such behavior, but
when individuals commit acts of violence that terrorize whole groups of human
beings, they are called hate crimes. Hate crimes are a particular kind of
violence that need their own treatment by the law. Not because they victimize a
person due to race, religion or sexual orientation, but because they victimize
all persons of that race, religion or sexual orientation. That is why Utah
needs what most other states have, a constitutional and enforceable hate crimes
statute that expresses the state's intolerance, not just for acts of violence,
but for acts of terrorism that send waves of fear through whole communities. After
years of trying to pass such a law, state Rep. David Litvack has consulted with
legal experts and law enforcement officials in order to bring a new approach to
the next session of the Legislature. Previous attempts ran up against a
legislative Catch-22. In order to have legal teeth, previous versions sought to
mete out additional punishment to criminals who selected victims due to their
race, religion, sexual orientation or some other definable qualities. But that
raised red flags among those who openly worried that "The List," as
it was known, was discriminatory in itself, and those who not-always-so-openly
feared that it could be read as giving gays and lesbians some kind of special
status. Those objections were always unfounded and, with their new bill, Litvack
and his allies have brushed them aside. First, the bill will contain no list.
It will target illegal acts that were intended to, or obviously do, instill
fear among a larger community of those who share characteristics with the
victim. Second, it will not make a hate crime a different class of crime than
the same action carried out for other reasons. It will instead follow the
common legal practice of listing it as an aggravating factor that could justify
a harsher sentence if, in the opinion of the judge or the Utah Board of Pardons
and Parole, it was an act that caused fear and conflict throughout a wider
community. Acts that victimize many have always deserved harsher punishments than
acts that victimize one. That's the wisdom of Litvack's bill. That's why it
should become law.
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| Donna Rose |
2006 • Guest Speaker, Donna Rose Transgender in the Workplace: A Survivor's
Perspective 3:00p.m. – 4:00 p.m. and 7:00p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Please join
nationally renowned expert Donna Rose as she speaks about her personal
experience in the workplace and why transgender- supportive practices and
policies make good business sense. The afternoon session is tailored towards
HR, diversity and business managers, but is open to everyone. The evening
session is tailored towards transgender individuals, GLBT business groups,
community groups, and others interested in learning and sharing more about
transgender issues and experiences in the workplace. Light refreshments will be
provided at this event. Location: Room 315, Council Chambers, City & County
Building, 451 S. State Street
2008 10:30AM WEST COAST, 11:30AM MOUNTIAN TIME ZONE, 12:30PM
CENTRAL TIME ZONE, 1:30PM EAST COAST, PRINT OUT THE SIGNS - TAKE THEM TO THE
PROTEST Prop 8 Protest: A Call to the LGBTQ Community, Friends, & Family
I’m sure all would agree that with the election of Barack Obama, this week has
been one of amazing wins in the world of equality! Still, Tuesday night was a
bitter-sweet celebration. We came together to witness the first black man who
will become our president, yet watched in sadness as Florida, Arizona,
Arkansas, and California all voted down equal rights for all citizens. Pundits
and bloggers alike have put their focus on Proposition 8, trying hard to find
an explanation for the anti-gay wins in the face of a huge swell of support for
equality elsewhere. Some have blamed the voters, others blame religious groups,
and even others blame the LGBTQ community for not being able to mobilize on a
larger enough scale. And you know what? There is truth in each argument. As a
community, we have to admit to the fact that we are polarized in various ways.
Honestly, I’m not sure what community isn’t and I believe that our polarization
is proof to our humanity - we are no different than anyone else, regardless of
color, creed, or sexual orientation. Still, our polarization has hindered us
from mobilizing as one strong voice. We all come together in the month of June
to celebrate Gay Pride, but few of us are even aware of why Gay Pride exists
.
Gay Pride is a celebration to commemorate the Stonewall Riots of 1969. Many say
that the Gay Rights Movement began in 1969, which means that we are still a
young movement and have accomplished a great deal in such a short amount of
time. The generation that fought for us in 1969 deserves our gratitude and respect.
This is a generation of amazing people who fought for our ability to hold hands
in the street, to speak out against hate, to dance to our own “thumpa thump”,
witness television shows with a queer cast, and come together in the streets
celebrating for an entire month! This is the generation that opened the doors
for us to even have a conversation about gay marriage, and this is the
generation that deserves our help and our voices now. On June 27th, 1969, this
generation came together in protest, jumping from closets, taking to the
streets, and mobilizing in ways this country had never seen before! And what
happened? The country was forced to respond. The Queer identity was forced onto
the front pages and coffee tables of people’s worlds and people had to once and
for all accept that we are human too! Now, almost 40 years later we NEED to
come together again. We need to show this nation that we are ONE LOUD VOICE
THAT DEMANDS TO BE HEARD! We need to be one organized unit. Our gay pride
shouldn’t be something we celebrate one month out of the year. Our gratitude
towards the ones who came before us shouldn’t be ignored and wasted away with
one party after another. We beg to be given a right that requires
responsibility and commitment, yet we, as one strong community, have not proven
to this nation that we deserve to be taken seriously! The gay pride parade has
become a great party, but it has lost the memory of Stonewall and therefor
given the nation another reason to cast us aside as irresponsible. It’s time we
come together for debate, for public recognition, and for LOVE! Let’s move as
one full unit, on the same day, at the same hour, and let’s show the United
States of America that we too are UNITED CITIZENS EQUAL IN MIND, BODY, SPIRIT
AND DESERVING OF FULL EQUALITY UNDER THE LAW! On the steps of your City Hall on
November 15th at 10:30am PST / 1:30pm EST, our community WILL take to the
streets and speak out against Proposition 8 and all of the other pro-equality
losses that we have faced in our lifetimes, in our parents’ lifetimes, and for
many generations before us. WE CAN’T DO THIS ALONE! WE NEED YOUR HELP! We need
organizers in every major city to work with us and get out the protest! I know
you’re all tired from all of the work you’ve done for this great election year,
but I’m asking for one more push! Let the country hear our voices together. Let
them see that we are a strong, adamant, and powerful community that deserves
equal rights, and CAN’T BE DEFEATED!
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| Brandi Glines |
2009 Transgender community pushes for acceptance, awareness
Discrimination » Many who come out worry about reaction of family and work. By
Rosemary Winters The Salt Lake Tribune :11/15/2009 Brandy Glines has felt the
sting of being referred to as "it" by her co-workers. Jesse Fluetsch
thinks about becoming a special-ed teacher, but he worries whether a Utah
school would hire a "transgender boy." Joni Weiss kept her gender identity secret
for 50 years, fearing the rejection of family, friends and her employer.
Awareness of transgender people has grown in the past decade, advocates say,
but the community still struggles to secure widespread acceptance and gain
legal protections. The "T" on the end of LGBT -- the lesbian, gay,
bisexual and transgender -- is a minority within a minority that faces distinct
challenges. "Trans-awareness is a decade or so behind gay-lesbian
awareness," says Terry Kogan, a University of Utah law professor who sits
on the board of Equality Utah. "If one looks at the arc of
the rights of gay and lesbian people in our country," he adds, "as
more and more people realize they
know [family or friends who] are gay or
lesbian ... the knowledge makes that particular difference less threatening,
less something to be afraid of."
The same is happening with transgender people, he says. Kogan points to
the inclusion of gender identity in addition to sexual orientation in Salt Lake
City's newly minted anti-discrimination ordinances as a sign of progress.
Congress also is considering a law that would protect transgender people from
employment discrimination. And President Barack Obama recently signed a
national hate-crimes law that covers acts against transgender people. Increasingly, transgender individuals are
coming out at younger ages. Society's gender norms have become less rigid, and
gender-bending behavior is more acceptable. Transgender youths are more likely
to learn the term that describes what they are experiencing -- a sense that
their gender identity does not match their assigned sex. "We didn't have
the Internet," says Kerry Bell, a 42-year-old Bountiful police
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| Kerry Bell |
officer who
recently transitioned from female to male. "We didn't have role
models." Joni Weiss, who came out as transgender five years ago, agrees.
She lived her first 48 years as a man, vowing to take her desire to live as a
woman to the "grave." She realized her "bigger and bigger"
closet was suffocating her so she finally stepped out. "I thought I would
lose everything," recalls Weiss, a Salt Lake City woman who serves on the
Utah Pride Center's board. "I thought it would be a death." To her
surprise, coming-out proved a "rebirth." Family, friends and her
employer supported her decision to switch to a female identity. "The world
is different" now for transgender youths, she says. "Kids, by and
large, are much more accepting. Being different
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| Joni Weiss |
is not the stigma that it
was." Jesse Fluetsch, a 23-year-old University of Utah student, came out
as transgender when he was 18, dropping the female identity he was given at
birth. As a child, he hated pink and wanted to be Luke Skywalker, not Princess
Leia, when he watched "Star Wars." At 15, he came out as a lesbian
because he knew he was attracted to women. Later, he realized it was more than
that. "I was taught: There are men, and there are women," Fluetsch says.
"It took meeting people who kind of don't fit into those categories to
become OK with who I am and to realize that gender diversity is a beautiful,
positive thing in our world."
The Utah Pride Center,
celebrating November as Transgender Awareness Month, serves 150 to 200 transgender
people a month. "There's a huge, huge need for services for transgender
people," says Jude
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| Jude McNeil |
McNeil, the center's director of youth programs. The
Salt Lake City center offers social activities, support groups and referrals to
therapists and doctors. Having medical treatments to alter your sex requires a
letter from a therapist. So does changing your name and sex on a driver license
and other government-issued identification. The center also educates employers
about how to treat transgender workers. (Employees want to use the restroom
that coincides with their gender identities.) It offers support to parents and
other relatives of transgender people. Even as a lesbian mom, Bonnie Bills was
stunned to learn her "little girl" was transgender. "Why didn't
I even see it? I was blindsided," she says. "I gave birth to a little
girl who was never really a little girl. ... I tried very hard in his life to
make him a little girl. That didn't work." One of the hardest things for
Bills, was giving up the name she had waited nine years to give a daughter:
Stacia. But at age 19, Stacia chose a new name, Tylar. He let his mom and her
partner pick out his middle name. They chose Braxton. Tylar Bills, now 20, says he is "happy"
with his transition and the calming effect that hormone treatments have had on
his body. He also is pleased by the support of his mother, grandmother and
other relatives. "It's just brought our family closer," he says.
Brandy Glines, a Salt Lake City transgender woman, came out at age 40. Nine years
later, she says she still grapples with the judgments of others each day. She
is attending Salt Lake Community College to switch from the health-care
industry to accounting. In a past job, she says, co-workers would call her
"it" instead of "she." At job interviews, she has been told
she should move to San Francisco, because she won't be accepted in Utah.
"People have a real tendency to discriminate against people they don't
understand," she says. "Hopefully, in another 20 years, we'll see
more progress."
Glossary Gender identity » One's internal, personal sense
of being a man or a woman or in between. It is different from sexual
orientation, which pertains to whether a person is attracted to men, women or
both sexes.
Transgender » An umbrella term for individuals whose gender
identity or expression differs from the sex they were assigned at birth. The
term may include people who identify as transsexual or gender queer or who
cross-dress.
Transsexual » A person whose gender identity is other than his or
her biological sex. Transsexuals may alter their bodies through hormones or sex
reassignment surgery to align their anatomy with their self-perception.
Cross-dressing » To occasionally wear clothes traditionally associated with
people of the other sex. Cross-dressers usually are comfortable with the sex
they were assigned at birth and do not wish to change it.
"Cross-dresser" should not be used to describe someone who has
transitioned to live full time as the other sex or who intends to do so in the
future.
Gender queer » A person who rejects the traditional two-gender system.
It is an evolving concept, but generally refers to those who do not consider
themselves solely masculine or feminine. Transition » A complex, long-term
process of altering one's birth sex. It can include coming out, changing one's
name and sex on legal documents, hormone therapy and, possibly, surgical
alteration of the chest and/or genitals. Some forgo surgery because of the cost
and risk. Not all transgender individuals wish to transition to the other sex. Source: The Utah Pride Center and the Gay
& Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Transgender Awareness Month events Day
of Remembrance » Candlelight vigils, honoring transgender victims of homicide,
at 7 p.m. Friday at three locations: South Valley Unitarian Universalist
Church, 6876 S. Highland Drive, Cottonwood Heights; Unitarian Universalist
Church of Ogden, 705 23rd Street, Ogden; Community United Church of Christ, 175
N. University Ave., Provo.
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| Stan Roberts |
2011 Stanley "Stan" Dean Roberts, Age 78,
passed away on November 15, 2011. As bishop of the San Francisco Singles Ward
(1984-1989), he pioneered a more open attitude toward LDS LGBT people, who were
in the 1980s a significant percentage of his ward. Stan is remembered for his
support of the San Francisco Singles Ward LDS AIDS Project and a ward home
evening group for LGBT people unofficially known as The Far Side. "I think
it's far more important to be a pastor than be[ing] an administrator because
pastoring is really what touches people's lives," Stan said in an
interview with Sunstone magazine in 1990. "We need to be trained to be
better pastors. It's interesting, if you have a pastoring problem it takes a
long time to get help. But if there's a mistake on your tithing report you get
faster reaction. We need immediate reactions on pastoring people, too." Stan
was born and raised in San Mateo, CA, graduated from San Mateo High School,
attended the College of San Mateo and Brigham Young University. With his
entrepreneurial spirit he founded and ran a number of companies, including
Roberts Spray and Roberts Industries. He served his community as a member and
President of the East Palo Alto Rotary Club, and as a member and President of
the Belmont Unified School District. He was an active member of the LDS Church,
and served in several leadership and teaching positions, including Bishop of
the Belmont Ward, Bishop of the San Francisco Singles Ward, and as a Seminary
and LDS Institute Instructor.
2014
Genderevolution
is the pinnacle event of Trangender Education and Awareness Month.
The
purpose of the Genderevolution is to: Foster
community building among trans* folk and allies alike, to help create a strong
and safe space to push gender boundaries in the Salt Lake City area. Educate
employees, cisgender/non-trans* folk, trans* folk, health and mental care providers,
and allies about the myths and realities of gender. Celebrate
trans* identities in an inclusive, healthy and positive way. Pat
Manuel, also known as "Cacahuate(Peanut)" is a transmasculine QPOC
who has shaped his masculine identity in boxing gyms around Los Angeles, CA. A
5x national amateur champion, Pat was a participant in the first ever Women's
Olympic Boxing Trials and was the only vocally out queer fighting in the
history of USA Boxing's Olympic Box-Offs. Medically disqualified after the first
fight of the tournament, Pat struggled with ways other than visibility to aide
his community. Since joining the Brown Boi Project in 2013, he has decided to
use his knowledge as a trainer and athlete to empower other through physical
fitness. Pat created Buffbutch.com, a website intending to fill the void of
queer fitness interests. When he isn't training, Pat is usually fond of
enjoying cookies and dreaming of becoming a giant robot pilot. At
the 6th Annual Gender Conference, we aim to deconstruct gender mythology,
explore the implications of socially constructed gender norms, and integrate
our many intersecting identities. When:
November 15th Where:
Rowland Hall - 843 Lincoln Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84102
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