November 28
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| Charles S. Zane |
1885 Over 125 years ago a Salt Lake Chief Justice ruled that people had the right to privacy in their own homes in a case involving city prostitutes and federal officials. Mormon authorities had hoped to embarrass federal officials who were prosecuting Mormon polygamy by having them arrested for having sex with prostitutes. Mormon Attorney Mr. Williams argued for equal punishment for prostitutes and their customers. However Judge Zane ruled that the law did not apply to private conduct. Both the Tribune and Desert News were outraged. Lechery Upheld by Chief Justice Zane-He Says the City Ordinance is Valid- But deplores its force by declaring that acts to be punished must be committed before the public gaze and that the grossest lewdness
can be carried on under the guise of privacy.
The Lewd Deputy Marshal Goes Scot Free- In the Third District Court prosecutor Mr. Williams argued, “It would be strange if the city had the power to restrain and punish prostitutes, the female class and had no power to touch the obscene actions of the male element.” Deputy United States Marshal Vandercook was charged with lewd and lascivious conduct, with a notorious courtesan, or adultery. This decision also liberates Assistant Deputy Attorney Lewis, ex- United States Commisisoner Pearson, and W H Yearian “and permits them to indulge their lustful appitites to the fullest extent, if the two parties agree” and it is done in private. Ogden. Deseret News
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| Ernst Roehm |
1887 Ernst Röhm or Roehm was born in Munich, Germany. He was a charismatic homosexual, instrumental in the rise of Adolf Hitler and the dominance of Germany by the National Socialist Party of Germany, the Nazis. Ernst Roehm viewed homosexuality as the basis for a new German society based on a 19th Century Teutonic concept called the Community of the Special. Benedict Friedlaender founded the
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| Benedict Friedlaender |
homosexual organization called Gemeinschaft der Eigenen (GdE), usually translated as Community of the Special, in 1903. The GdE repudiated sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld's understanding of homosexuality as being in a transgender spectrum and instead emphasized the masculinity of male-male sexuality. Roehm asserted
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| Magnus Hirschfeld |
that male homosexuality was the foundation of all nation-states and that male homosexuals represented an elite strata of human society. The movement wanted men who "thirst for a revival of Greek times and Hellenic standards of beauty after centuries of Christian barbarism." This appeal of a martial masculine image naturally entailed contempt for everything effeminate and unsoldierly. From this "Community of the Special", homosexual eroticism and sexuality were cornerstones of German fascist male-bonding culture prior to 1934. In an article `Friendship or Homosexuality', published in 1925, Dr Karl-Gunther Heimsoth, a Freikorps comrade of Ernst Rohm and his chief astrologer, wrote `male homosexual eroticism' could be racially charged and employed against the `inferiority of feminism and Semitism'. Early German Fascist ideology, purposed by Roehm, purported to use the homosexual tendencies and homoeroticism of `the German eros' to secure the bonds of "a male-structured volkisch state." Rohm sought to impose these ideals on a post-revolutionary German society, primarily by means of a "brutal assault on the values and representatives of democratic political culture.Whether Adolf Hitler supported Roehm's homosexual fascist idealism, reportedly he told Hermann Rauschning, who would break from
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| Adolf Hitler |
the Nazi Party, in the early summer of 1933: `I won't spoil any of my men's fun. If I demand the utmost of them, I must also leave them free to let off steam as they want, not as churchy old women think fit ... I take no interest in their private lives, just as I won't stand for people prying into my own.' Ernst Roehm founded on August 3, 1921, the Nazi Sturmabteilung (Storm Troopers) commonly known as the SA (an acronym for Sturmabteilung). Roehm's recruits were to be the shock troops or street thugs of the Nazi Party. Under Roehm's leadership, the S.A. provided ample protection for Nazi party leadership and meetings.The SA was really nothing less than the Nazis own revolutionary army. Roehm's Storm Troopers became known as the Brownshirts for "wearing brown shirts which had been prepared for German colonial troops, acquired from the old Imperial army stores", as a type of uniform. Transformed by Roehm into a revolutionary force, the Storm
Troopers soon exceeded what remained of the German Army in numbers and power. By 1934, it had about two million members- twenty times more than the real army. They were mostly working class and many came from among the unemployed. Above all, they were firmly Socialist. That was one of the problems for the Prussian Army, Industrialists, and landowners. Ernst Roehm owed his successes not only to his efficiency but to his personnel policy. He assigned key SA positions to men of homosexual bent, and they, in turn, installed friends in certain posts. Roehm established a kind of gay network within the S.A., assigning prominent posts to gay friends and lovers.
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| Nurnberger Bratwurst Glockl |
- The Nurnberger Bratwurstglockl in Munich was an old-time Bavarian sausage restaurant and Beer Hall, a stone's throw from Munich Cathedral. It was also a homosexual meeting place therefore one could consider it an early 20th century Gay Bar. During the 1920's an upstairs room in the Bratwurstglockl was permanently reserved for private meetings between Ernst Roehm and his Storm Trooper lieutenants and favorites, all of whom were homosexuals. Occasionally even Adolf Hitler frequented the Bratwurstglockl to meet with Roehm to plan and strategize. Karl Zehnter was the landlord of the Nurnberger Bratwurstglockl, and belonged to Ernst Roehm's homosexual circle. He was was also a close and long-time friend of Edmund Heines, a favorite paramour of Roehm's. Zehnter made a habit of serving Roehm's homosexual inner circle himself and, so he inevitably overheard things -- not least about Hitler's sexual proclivities. Accordingly, that is why the Gestapo later murdered Zehnter because he knew too much.
- In the days following Germany's defeat in the First World War, a homosexual named
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| Gerhard Rossbach |
Gerhard Rossbach organized a Freikorps called Rossbach's Sturmabteilung (Rossbach's Storm Troopers) and also built the largest post-war youth organization in Germany, named the Schilljugend (Schill Youth) in honor of a famous Prussian soldier. Rossbach was, according to historian Nigel Jones, a "sadist,
murderer, and homosexual, [and] one of the most admired heroes of post 1919 German youth." The Schill-Jugend became Hitler-Jugend (Hitler's Youth. Historian Frank Rector records that, "the Hitler youth was so rampantly homosexuality that it became known among the German populace as the Homo Youth." Konrad Heiden, a contemporary of Hitler and a leading authority on Nazi history, wrote that the Freikorps "were breeding places of perversion" and that "Rossbach's troop...was especially proud" of being homosexual and spent its time brawling, smashing windows and shedding blood. Historian Samuel Igra agreed, "the Brownshirts started out as an exclusively homosexual and bisexual organization, and the leadership remained so." A homosexual art historian named Christian Isermayer recalled in an interview `I also got to know some people in the SA. They used to throw riotous parties even in 1933 ... I once attended one ... It was quite well-behaved but thoroughly gay, men only ... But then, in those days the SA was ultra-gay.'"
- One of Gerhard Rossbach's adjutant was Edmund Heines, a convicted murderer noted for his ability to procure boys for sexual orgies. "Heines belonged to Rossbach's organization before joining Hitler; then Rossbach and Heines formed a center with Roehm which took over and led the S.A." "There are indications that Ernst Roehm had a longish sexual relationship, at the beginning of the 1920s, with Lieutenant Edmund
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| Edmund Heines |
Heines, another of his `sweethearts'. Heines position as Roehm's lover made him a powerful figure in Roehm's S.A. Hitler approved of Heines efforts in the S.A. and wrote several letter of praise and thanks to Edmund Heines, stating, "The disciplining of the S.A.remains . . . above all, dear Heines, your achievement and that of your staff." Hitler went on to praised Heines, "for your services which have been above all praise," and said, "today I feel a special need to thank you most heartily for this and to express my full appreciation." Edmond Heines had bad reputation for the seduction of German youth. "In the spring of 1933 there was so much scandal about Heines and the youths in the upper forms of the schools at Breslau, that an attempt was made to transfer him under the pretext of a promotion, but, Heines simply refused to go." Historian William L. Shirer writes: And yet Hitler had
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| Nazi Aryan Manhood |
known all along, from the earliest days of the party, that a large number of his closest and most important followers were sexual perverts and convicted murderers. It was common talk, for instance, that Heines used to send S.A. men scouring all over Germany to find him suitable male lovers. These things Hitler had not only tolerated but defended; more than once he had warned his party comrades against being too squeamish about a man's personal morals if he were a fanatical fighter for the movement.
- Another of Roehm's favorites was a former waiter, bell boy at a hotel, and bouncer at A Gay bar. Karl Ernst, who was nicknamed "Frau Rohrbein" for his intimate friendship with Captain Paul Rohrbein, Berlin's first S.A. commander. Rohrbein met Ernst at the `El Dorado', a favourite haunt of the German capital's homosexual community. In 1931 Rohrbein introduced `Frau Rohrbein' to his old
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| Karl Ernst |
friend Rohm. By April of that year Ernst was commanding SA Subgroup East, and a year later he was in the Reichstag. Hitler later appointed Ernst to command the SA's Berlin-Brandenburg detachment, "thereby investing an erstwhile `waiter' from the Homosexual scene with a rank roughly equivalent to that of general."The result of such wire-pulling was that the SA gradually acquired the reputation of a fraternity devoted to homosexual excesses.
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| Ruth Drake |
1926 Mormon-raised young lovers Ruth Drake age 19
and Sarah Lundstedt age 22 drank cyanide poison together in North Salt Lake
City in Davis County after being pressured by family to end their four-year
relationship and move away from each other. Their tragic love story, complete
with love letters, made national news. Sarah is buried in Kaysville and Ruth in
Ogden City Cemetery
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| Sarah Lundstedt |
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| Rita Mae Brown |
1944-Rita Mae Brown, author of "The Rubyfruit Jungle" was born. Rubyfruit Jungle was the first novel by Rita Mae Brown,
published in 1973. It was remarkable, in its day, for its explicit portrayal of
lesbianism. The novel is a coming-of-age autobiographical (some have suggested
picaresque) account of Brown's youth and emergence as a lesbian author. The
term "rubyfruit jungle" is slang for the female genitals.
1977-Aspen Colorado became the first city in Colorado to pass a gay rights ordinance.
1979- Women Aware planning meeting met at the YWCA in Salt Lake City with eight women in attendance to determine the function of the organization and to determine membership. Struggled with identity and purpose. “What do we want as an organization? Do members want a social, political, or some other focus? Who are we to the outside world? Are we to be known publicly as a feminist group, a lesbian group, a group of supportive lesbians and women in transition?”
1980-The National Coalition of Black Gays held its second national conference in Philadelphia.
1989- Jack Hampton, a judge in Dallas, Texas was censured for giving a light sentence to a teenager who murdered two men because they were Gay. He explained the sentence by saying that he couldn't give a life sentence to a teenage boy just because he killed a couple of homosexuals. ''Those two gays that got killed wouldn't have been killed if
they hadn't been cruising the streets picking up teen-age boys,'' Judge Hampton
said in an interview in The Dallas Times Herald. ''I don't much care
for queers cruising the streets picking up teen-age boys. I've got a teen-age
boy.'' Judge censured
1990 Wednesday Jim Hunsaker called me tonight to visit. He was the dispatcher who took the call on the Jerry Campbell murder although he didn't connect it with him at the time. He said that it was probably a drug burn more than a Gay related bashing.
1991 The Sacred Faeries and Unconditional Support hosted a a community Thanksgiving Dinner together with about 20 people in attendance
1993 Sunday- Michael A. Potterf age 50, died in Salt Lake City, Utah of AIDS. A native of Ohio, He graduated from Olympus High School and the University of Utah. Michael was the director of the Tokyo office of the Port Authority of New York.
1993 - Mike D. James, 40, of Payson, drove into Flying J Travel Plaza, 850 W. 2100 South, and asked for help. He had been stabbed in the left temple, and the blade went into his brain. He said he had been stabbed by a hitchhiker who had given him a lift. He apparently stopped his van after he was stabbed, and the hitchhiker fled on foot. Investigators are looking at other possible scenarios.He died at LDS Hospital on December 22 shortly after being removed form life support. Stabbing
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| Bobbie Smith |
1993 ALTERNATE VOICES: DIVERSE PUBLICATIONS SHARE WORRIES ABOUT FUNDING, ADVERTISING, AUDIENCE.
By Jason N. Swensen, writes about Gay publications-The Staves: "We do have quite a few readers who are more comfortable receiving a pagan newsletter like STAVES at home," according to advertising director Robert Smith, who also helps edit a gay monthly - The Pillar. With a circulation of 5,000 readers, Smith believes The Pillar has helped to unify and establish a politically credible gay community in Salt Lake. "When the Pillar began, many people in and outside of our community did not take us seriously. Now they do," he said. The Pillar:Establishing trust between an alternative newspaper and its sponsors is a daily task, according to Robert Smith. "When our paper started about nine months ago, it was difficult to stir up advertising because many businesses had been burned by other (independent) papers," he said. "Over time, we've proven that we can put out each issue on schedule - and the advertisers have responded positively." The Pillar focuses on local happenings and issues of interest to Salt
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| Kathy Worthington |
Lake's gay and lesbian community. The Womyn's Community News Frustrated by a perceived indifference to gay issues in the local media, Kathy Worthington founded a monthly newspaper two years ago exclusively for homosexual women. "The Womyn's Community News ensures our community will receive the national gay news. The paper also informs people about events and concerts happening locally," she said. - The Pillar - Kim Russo - gay publication. Articles deal almost exclusively with local issues in the gay community. - The Womyn's Community News - Kathy Worthington - a monthly for the Salt Lake lesbian community. Attention focused on national and local news of interest to lesbians. Calendar of events is also listed. - Staves - Steve Turner - pagan paper. Articles discuss pagan beliefs, history and recipes. Eight issues per year - each issue preceding a pagan holiday.
1997 Page: B1 The Salt Lake Tribune Cleve Jones, founder of AIDS Memorial Quilt, fears that teens are denied vital facts about the disease; The AIDS Memorial Quilt now has more than 43,000 panels, representing 12 percent of all U.S. AIDS deaths. Cleve Jones on Aids: What teens should know could save their lives; AIDS Activist Says Teens Lack Vital Information Byline: BY LANCE S. GUDMUNDSEN THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE After Cleve Jones,
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| Cleve Jones |
founder of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, spoke at East High School last September, some of the 300 teen-agers queued up to inspect a panel from the quilt or chat with Jones. Among them was a diminutive girl, her all-American face framed by auburn hair in a ponytail. With a hint of nervousness, the girl approached one of the Utah AIDS Foundation volunteers standing with Jones. ``I want to get tested [for HIV, the virus that causes the deadly disease],'' she said. ``But. . . but do I have to tell my mother?'' No, said one of the women. Anonymous testing is available to everyone -- teens included-- through the Salt Lake City-County Health Department. ``Thanks,'' said the girl. ``I've been worried.'' Later, the bespectacled Jones, wearing an open-neck blue shirt and jeans, relaxed in the Utah AIDS Foundation offices before keynoting a People With AIDS Coalition of Utah awards dinner. Like the East High student, Jones is worried that teen-agers are being denied life-saving information about the disease that inspired the AIDS Memorial Quilt. The quilt now contains more than 43,000 panels -- representing 12 percent of all U.S. AIDS deaths. ``Young people really are interested in specific information,'' he explained. ``Like, `How did you get it?' `How did you tell your mom and dad?'`Did your friends push you away?' and `Are you afraid to die?' '' Two AIDS and HIV specialists from the State Office of Education sat in the rear of East's auditorium during Jones' remarks. All students had received written parental permission to attend. Their boss Bonnie Morgan, director of curriculum and instruction for the state office, prohibited either woman from commenting to The Salt Lake Tribune on the AIDS activist's appearance, they said. A longtime survivor himself, Jones is angry at the persistent myth that AIDS is a ``gay disease.'' According to the American Association for World Health, more than 70 percent of HIV infections were contracted through heterosexual intercourse. At age 12, the native of West Lafayette, Ind., was aware of his homosexuality. ``My father's library contained a lot of psychology books --and so I know there were other people who were gay. But they seemed to be portrayed as criminals.'' In 1970, Jones picked up a copy of Life magazine's ``Decade in Review.'' It devoted a four-page spread to the gay-liberation movement, the Stonewall Riot and photographs of gay activists. ``And that's when I made the decision to get the hell out of Arizona [where my parents were university teachers] and move to San Francisco,'' Jones said. There, he became an aide to Harvey Milk and was at his side in 1978 when the city supervisor and Mayor George Moscone were assassinated by Dan White, another city supervisor. Jones organized a candlelight procession when the city's large gay community responded en masse to White's conviction for manslaughter, rather than first-degree murder. White's attorneys successfully argued the killer's reasoning was impaired by a junk-food binge --now called the ``Twinkie defense.'' In 1980, Jones moved from street activist to political insider as legislative consultant to the speaker of the California State Assembly. After two years in Sacramento, he became an aide to Art Agnos, an assemblyman who later was elected San Francisco mayor. He was a prominent figure in the late journalist Randy Shilts' And the Band Played On, a 1987 best seller that helped frame the national debate on AIDS. The book was translated into seven languages and became an HBO docudrama. Jones was a linchpin in organizing volunteers to fight the disease -- then even without a name. The organization eventually evolved into the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. He conceived of the AIDS Memorial Quilt during the seventh annual candlelight vigil honoring Milk. He asked each of his fellow marchers to write on placards the names of friends and loved ones lost to AIDS. As the procession ended, Jones and others stood on ladders and taped the placards to the walls of the San Francisco Federal Building. To him, the wall of names, bathed in a sea of candlelight below, looked like a patchwork quilt. A year later Jones sewed the first 3-by-6-foot panel in memory of his friend Marvin Feldman. The idea captured the public's imagination. Soon, thousands of individuals – many heterosexual -- and groups shipped panels to the project's Castro Street headquarters to be included. Jones is the first to admit that ``many kids in my audiences do not approve of homosexuality. But they want to know the truth.'' Parents, educators and clergy ``have a right and a responsibility to communicate their values to their children and young people.'' But, he added, adults ``do not have the right to deny them factual information that can save their lives.'' Jones has no patience with ``the politicians and adults who deliberately exploit people's fears and hatred to advance their own careers . . .who move in with their own agendas which have nothing to do with public health or education.'' ``This was clearly going on in the controversy of the Gay/Straight Alliance at East High School,'' he said. ``And who suffers by so-called grown-ups exploiting fear and bigotry?'' Last year, the Salt Lake City Board of Education banned all extracurricular activities rather than accept the club's existence, requiring it to rent school space for its evening meetings. Jones, who turned 43 last month, learned he was infected with HIV in 1985. ``If I hadn't been tested, I wouldn't have a clue that I was ill until 1993.'' Three years ago, during about with pneumocystic pneumonia, he developed an allergic reaction to his intravenous medication. He weighed 120 pounds. He had prepared a will and made a list of people who were to receive his personal belongings. Jones bounced back after starting a new drug regimen -- before the introduction of protease inhibitors. One was AZT, ``which most people hate . . . but I liked because it made me hungry.'' Today, ``I'm fat,'' Jones said, slapping his stomach. At 168 pounds, he doesn't have washboard abs, but contrary to his claim, isn't portly either. Jones is writing a memoir about the quilt. He has finished 230 pages of manuscript. And he has lined up a New York agent. ``Next year, I hope to be on the road, promoting the book. I'd like to take a break. Now that my folks are getting on in age, I need to make some money,'' he confided. Reflecting on the friends he has watched die of AIDS, Jones said, ``There comes a point when they all ask, `What have I done with my life?' '' ``I'd like to think you can say I helped fight an epidemic . . . helped fight bigotry and was part of a tiny and persecuted minority that experienced great suffering -- but through that suffering achieved freedom.''
1997 Page: B4 Utah AIDS and the Quilt by the Numbers Here are a few statistics about the AIDS Memorial Quilt: Number of panels: 42,357, each 3-6 feet. Number of acres: 18 without walkway between sections; 27 with walkway. Number of football fields: 16 without walkway; 25 with walkway. Total weight: 49 tons. Volunteer hours last year: 1,228,340. NAMES Project chapters: 46; international affiliates: 38. Some famous names in quilt: Arthur Ashe, tennis player; Michael Bennett, director/choreographer; Roy Cohn, attorney; Brad Davis, actor; Easy E, rap artist; Perry Ellis, fashion designer; Rock Hudson, actor; Halston, fashion designer; Liberace, performer; Rep. Steward McKinney (R-Conn.); Rudolph Nureyev, ballet dancer; Anthony Perkins, actor; Robert Reed, actor; Marlon Riggs, filmmaker; Max Robison, ABC news anchor; Jerry Smith, Washington Redskins player; Ryan White, AIDS activist; Ricky Wilson, guitarist with B-52's; Pedro Zamora, AIDS activist featured on MTV's ``The Real World.'' Some materials in quilt: afghans, Barbie dolls, bubble-wrap, car keys, champagne glasses, condoms, cowboy boots, cremains, credit cards, first-place ribbons, flags, jeans, jockstraps, Legos, love letters, merit badges, tennis shoes, wedding rings. Here are some facts about AIDS and HIV as of Nov. 7, 1997: U.S. AIDS cases: 626,334. U.S. AIDS deaths: 388,327. Utah AIDS cases: 1,485. Utah AIDS deaths: 838. Utah HIV positive: 795 (not including people tested anonymously). Highest categories of U.S. AIDS cases: ages 30-39, 284,527 (45 percent); ages 40-49,156,050 (25 percent); ages 20-29, 111,052 (18percent). Highest categories of Utah AIDS cases: ages 30-39, 697 (47 percent); ages 40-49, 358 (24percent); ages 20-29, 290 (20 percent). Highest categories of Utah HIV positive: ages 20-29, 339 (43 percent); ages 30-39, 324(41 percent); ages 40-49, 78 (10 percent). Utah AIDS cases and deaths in past five years: 1993, 247 cases, 103 deaths; 1994,150 cases, 97 deaths; 1995, 158 cases, 130 deaths; 1996, 187 cases, 80 deaths;1997, 120 cases, 33 deaths.
1997 Page: B4 Services to Mark AIDS Day Monday Byline: BY LANCE S. GUDMUNDSEN THESALT LAKE TRIBUNE Events across the state Monday mark the 10th observance of World AIDS Day in Utah. Candlelight vigils are expected to attract thousands of Utahns in several cities. In Salt Lake City, a candlelight vigil is planned from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the State Capitol Rotunda. Also, an Interfaith Service will be at 7 p.m. at St. Vincent's Catholic Church, 1375 E. Spring Lane (5150 South). It features musical selections and speakers focusing on the commitment to fight the AIDS pandemic, paying tribute to those living with HIV or AIDS and remembering those who have died from the disease. In Logan, the Metropolitan Community Church-sponsored vigil begins at 7 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church, 12 S. 200 West. In Ogden, the Weber State University's Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Club is sponsoring a 7p.m. slide presentation on the history of quilting and its place in the AIDS Memorial Quilt featuring English professor Judy Elsley. The event is in the Wildcat Theater in the WSU Shepherd Union. A candlelight vigil will be at the WSU clock tower. In Provo, a plaque remembering those who have perished will be dedicated at 2 p.m. at the AIDS Memorial Gardens on the grounds of the First Congregational Church, 175 N. University Ave. In Tooele, an educational seminar on HIV and AIDS in Utah will be presented at 7 p.m.in Tooele City Hall, 90 N. Main St. In Cedar City, an information booth will be open all day and several panels from the AIDS Memorial Quilt will be displayed in the Southern Utah University Student Center. A formal presentation on AIDS/HIV is planned at 7 p.m., also in the student center. In addition, free, confidential HIV testing is available in the Salt Lake City-County Health Department. The annual ``Day Without Art'' will be observed at 16 galleries in Salt Lake City. One or more pieces of art will be shrouded to emphasize the number of people in the creative-arts fields who have died during the epidemic. Galleries participating in the three-hour free ``stroll'' from 6 to 9 p.m. include the Art Access Gallery, Very Special Arts Utah, Art Works, Arts of Utah Gallery, Atrium Gallery in the Salt Lake City Public Library's main branch, Brushworks Gallery, Cordell Taylor Gallery, Dolores Chase Fine Art, Finch Lane Gallery, Gallery 56, Glendinning Gallery, Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake Art Center, Southam Gallery, Tivoli Gallery and Williams Fine Art. This year's theme is ``Give Children Hope in a World With AIDS,'' said Lara Lockwood of the Utah AIDS Foundation. Organizers ``want to emphasize that even persons under the age of 18 are affected --directly and indirectly -- by HIV/AIDS,'' she said. Despite a decline in the death rate from AIDS-related illness, due primarily to new drug therapies, the epidemic continues to grow steadily in the United States. Last year saw an estimated 10 percent rise in infections, which struck 40,000 to 60,000Americans. One in four new HIV infections occurs in people under 22. Half of all new HIV infections are in people under 25. The fastest-growing HIV-positive population in the United States is women and teen-agers, Lockwood said. By 2000, some American children will have been orphaned due to AIDS By 2000, world health experts anticipate between 60 million and 70 million adults will be infected with the virus. And since the start of the global epidemic, more than 9 million children under age 15 have lost their mothers to AIDS -related diseases.
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