This Day In Gay Utah History November 3rd

November 3

Warm Springs Bathhouse

1891 DETECTIVE DAGGETT Tells a Strange and Inconsistent Story AND IS ARRESTED FOR FELONY He Claims Hull made an Indecent Proposition for which He Wanted to Arrest and Yet Shield Him -The big sensation yesterday was the arrest of City Detective William Daggett on Sunday afternoon on a charge of assault with intent to commit a felony. The statements made are so conflicting that nothing less than a judicial inquiry will disclose the true inwardness of the matter. Mr Daggett version of the affair Is to the effect that on Saturday evening last he went out to the Hot springs to take a bath. There were but two men in the plunge when he arrived there and by the time he was ready to go into the water the other men were dressing. Daggett was at the lower end of the pool when the two men came out of their dressing rooms. One of them J H Murphy who is the foreman of the round house at the Union Pacific depot at once left the building while his

companion who turned out to be John J Hull the foreman of the Rio Grande boiler shop loitered in the room and finally called out to Daggett asking him if he wasn’t lonesome. The detective replied that it was a little lonesome and advanced through the water to the platform where Hull was standing. Daggett says that Hull then asked him to get out as be wanted to have some fun with with him. The detective who did not know what was coming, got out on the platform and at the invitation of the railroad man stepped into the dressing room. Then Daggett alleges Hull made an assault of the most infamous character. The detective repulsed the advance with a slap in the face and as he was naked and in no position to exercise authority at that moment jumped into the pool again. Just then Lee Pratt the manager entered the place and Hull skipped out. Daggett at once called Pratt to him and related what had occurred and expressed great indignation at the heinous assault. Mr Pratt was also indignant and said that it would have served the man right if he had been killed then and there. Daggett made up his mind to arrest the man on the charge of attempting to commit the “Crime Against Nature” and dressing quickly as possible went outside. Hull was there apparently waiting for him and as Daggett appeared he approached and renewed his proposition. At this the officer threw back his coat and displaying his star said, “I will just arrest you for this.” Daggett says that Hull then commenced to plead for leniency saying that he had only been married a few months and that this exposure would simply ruin him forever. “Let me go,” pleaded Hull “and I give you my word as a man that I

Bathhouses of the period

will never repeat this offense.” “You cannot give the word of a man,” answered Daggett, “because you are only a dirty cur.” Then says Daggett, he commenced struggling and finally struck at me “I was taking my handcuffs out intending to put them on him and when he commenced fighting. I struck him in the neck with them and quieted him. He offered to go along peaceably then, but a moment later renewed his appeals for mercy even taking off his watch and chain and ring and thrusting them Into my hand. I handed them back to him telling him that it was no use he would have to go along. Then his friend Murphy and another man came along and they commenced Interceding for Hull.  I refused to let him go and they then wanted to know what he was charged with? I began to feel a little sorry for Hull and not wishing to expose him to his friend, there,  said it was a girl scrape They finally prevailed on me to release Hull on his own recognizance which I did after getting the addresses of himself and his friends.  That was all there was to it and I returned directly to the City hall where I related to the officer what had occurred stating that I wished to put the charge against Hull who would have to appear on Monday at 10 o’clock to answer. In order that there might be no misunderstanding and to satisfy myself that Hull had given me the correct address I went down there.  He came to the door and I told him he must appear on Monday at 10 o’clock. I also told him that I had stated to his friends that it was a girl crape in order not to expose him to them.  He at once commenced making overtures to square the matter promising to give me a check for $100 on his pay day if I would let the matter drop. Once more I told him that he would be prosecuted and he then grow a little impudent and I informed him that I had a great mind to take him up to the hall then. He said All right I will get my hat.  With that he shut the doer blew out the lights and  skipped out of the back door.  Before I could follow him his wife came around the rear and wanted to know what the charge against her husband was.  “I couldn’t state It to you little woman,” I replied and shortly after wards returned up town. How he could bare the nerve to make a charge against me is something cannot understand.  However as he knew that I would not withdraw the charge against him he might I have thought that he could gain a point by anticipating me.  I am confident of the result however. Mr Daggett told his story unreservedly and frankly and seemed to have no doubt but that he would be fully exonerated. 

The Old Union Pacific

HULLS STATEMENT- As before stated Hull is the foreman of the Union Pacific boiler shop. He is a young man and was formerly a resident of Laramie where he held a responsible position. He came here from Evanston about a year ago and has been married but five months. Responsible men give him an excellent character and from his appearance one would think that he is the last man who would make an assault of the nature he is charged with.  He resides in  a neat cottage at No 415 West First North street and a HERALD reporter called there on Tuesday evening to get his statement. The reporter thundered away on the door for about ten minute s and getting no response went to the other end of the  house which is occupied by Mr Taylor. That gentleman came to the door and stated that Hull was away from home. The reporter met Mr Hull at the office of W C Reilly his attorney yesterday morning and he was in a cheerful and satisfied frame of mind. He says that on Saturday evening he went up to the Hot Springs with his friend Murphy. When  they left the pool Daggett went in and after dressing Murphy went outside while Hull remained inside for a short time walking around the platform.  Mr Pratt entered and Hull then went out. While he was standing outside Daggett came up to him and asked if he was going to the city. He replied that he was and walked down to the end of the station. When he turned around he faced Daggett who had a gun in his hand and demanded Hull’s watch and chain. Hull retreated but Daggett followed him into the waiting room when Hull shouted for Murphy.  Just then the detective struck him a heavy blow in the neck with his pistol dazing him for the time At this juncture Murphy came up and asked Daggett what he was doing. The detective according to the statements of the others replied that he was arresting Hull on a case of long standing.  Then followed a talk in regard to releasing Hull on his own recognizance and the officer after taking the names of the parties let Hull go.  In regard to the call made by Daggett on Hull after the trouble the latter says that when the detective appeared at the door he said he came to notify Hull that he had gotten himself in a boat over the affair and must have money with which to get out. Hull replied that he had no money and Daggett then demanded his watch and chain. Hull refused to give the jewelry to him and the officer thereupon notified him that he would have to go to jaiL The railroad man offered no objection to this but asked permission to get his hat. This was granted and on getting into the house Hull ran through the back door jumped over a fence and hid. His wife who had heard some of the talk went to Mr Taylors rooms in the same house and told him that a man had been at the house to arrest her husband. Taylor went over to Hulls where be met Daggett and according to the statements made the detective informed Taylor who he was and stated that Hull bad got  a girl in a fix and money was wanted to square it. He then added “If Hull had acted square with me today I could have covered the whole business up  for him” 
THE ARREST On Sunday Hull and his friend hunted up Commissioner Moyer and stated their side of the case to him. Upon this information a complaint was sworn out charging Daggett with assault with intent to commit a felony.  A warrant was placed in the hands of Arthur Parsons who arrested Daggett on the street at about 5 p m. Commissioner Moyer promised that he would wait in his office until 6 p m but when the officer and his prisoner arrived there at about  5 o’clock the court had disappeared and all efforts to find him failed. This action of the commissioner was roundly and deservedly criticized and some of Doggett’s friends intimated that it was all a part of a scheme to get Daggett into jail.  The defendant went before Commissioner Greenman however and gave bonds in the sum of $1500 to secure his appearance for examination at 10 a m yesterday. The case was called up at that time. W C Reilly representing the prosecution and Powers  & Hiles appearing for the defendant. The hearing was continued however until today. THE HERALD has no desire to influence anyone for or against either party. The facts as far as they are known are given above and from them the public can draw its own conclusions. If Daggett’s statement is true then he was justified in doing all that he claims he  did,  his only mistake being that he did not take his prisoner to jail without any talk and without making any attempt to screen him.  On the other hand If Hulls statement is true a very serious offense has been committed and it is to be hoped that the offender will reap the full reward for his conduct.  Both parties have many friends and each side insist that neither of the men could have committed the offenses charged against them respectively.  Salt Lake Herald

• None of the principle players in this incident are listed in the 1890 Polk Directory for Salt Lake City. All probably were single men newly arrived in the City. There is only one Daggett listed in the city in 1890. Interestingly there is a saloon listed at the Warm Springs on Beck Street operated by Martin Murphy and Frank Egan as Martin & Co.. John J Hull states that he just married in 1891 and was a young man. He was listed in the 1893 Salt Lake City Polk Directory as living at 167 North 3rd West in SLC and occupation  boilermaker for the Union Pacific Railroad.  William H. Daggett is no longer listed as a detective but as a miner living at 210 C Street in the Avenue. John Murphy who had gone to the Bath House with Hull is listed as a roundhouse foreman for the Union Pacific railroad. He resided at 349 West North Temple.  By 1896 William Daggett left the city while John Hull was still a boilermaker for the UP RR but had moved to 6 Carter Terrace. Carter Terrace was approximately 537 West starting at 1st South to 2nd South in the area that would be known as Greek Town in the 1910's and where the Stockade was built to house SLC's prostitutes.  Interestingly John H. Murphy also moved to 10 Carter Terrace and owned a Law Firm with James E. Cochran called Cochran & Murphy. By the 1897 Polk Directory John J. Hull is no longer a resident of Salt Lake City.  William Daggett is probably the William H Daggett buried in Roosevelt Utah 8 November 1923.

1897 Judge Dusenberry today sentenced Frank Smith, charged with a “Crime Against Nature” to the Industrial School until he becomes 21 Provo Daily Enquirer

1897 Advertised for the Provo Music Company was “All Coons Look Alike to Me” and Sousa’s Stars and Stripes marches. Provo Daily Enquirer

1955 The Idaho Statesman of Boise ran an editorial under the headline "Crush the Monster". In it, the editors called homosexuality everything from "moral perversion" to a "cancerous growth...calling for immediate and systematic cauterization". The Statesman then called for "the whole sordid situation" to be "completely cleared up, and the premises thoroughly cleaned and disinfected" using "the full strength of county and city agencies”. The editorial increased the panic among Boise citizens, who decided that if the normally-staid Statesman was so alarmed at the situation then there must be good reason to be alarmed.

Bella Abzug

1970-Bella Abzug was elected to the US House of Representatives. She would become the first to introduce a gay rights law in Congress.

1971 Jake Garn elected Mayor of the Salt Lake City would become State US Senator in 1974. Last Republican mayor of Salt Lake City.

Ken Storer
1940-2010

1975 With the announcement of the resignation of Billie Hayes, director of Gay Community Service Center, the board of trustees of the center appointed Kenneth Storer as director. Storer, was an organization consultant and authority on organizational development and has a degree in Organizational Behavior as well as extensive training in psychology counseling and group training. Storer  had recently returned to Salt Lake after a year in New England, Washington DC, and Georgia working with Gay organizations.

1975-A front-page article about the success of the gay newsmagazine "The Advocate" appeared in the Wall Street Journal. "Sign of the Times A Homosexual Paper, The Advocate, Widens Readership, Influence At First Printed Secretly, Its Fast Growth Reflects Increased Gay Activism  Sign of the Times: A Homosexual Paper Attains New Status By By STEPHEN J. SANSWEET Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, The Wall Street Journal, Nov 3, 1975 SAN MATEO, Calif. Many of the paper's 50,000 or so readers wouldn't be caught dead reading a copy in public. National advertisers shy away from it despite impressive demographics. Newsstands that carry it are few and far between, especially in America's heartland.

1976 Wednesday The Gay Student Union was placed on the University of Utah’s Register by the Committee on Student Affairs making it an official campus club.  The first student Gay club in the state.

1977 Ariel Ballif, Tom Carlin and Stu Falconer's Theater 138 performs a three week run of Equus, a play by Peter Shaffer written in 1973, telling the story of a psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological religious/sexual fascination with horses. The play received a Tony Award for Best Play in 1975. The play featured male nudity.   DN's Theater 138

John Glenn

1983-Presidential candidate Democrat US Senator John Glenn and former Astronaut told the National Gay Task Force that he does not support Gay rights legislation and will not do anything which might be considered advocacy or promotion of homosexuality. He would later add that Gay people should not be allowed to teach or join the military.  Gay activist Allen Roskoff publicly questioned aspiring 1984 Presidential candidate Senator John Glenn about his refusal to support Federal Gay Rights legislation. His stunning public performance drew national attention to Glenn's anti-gay bigotry, resulting in the resignation of his New York State campaign coordinator, then New York State Senate Minority Leader Manfred Ohrenstein. Glenn's campaign shortly thereafter came to an end.

1986-The Lesbian and Gay Student Union elected Richard R. Hefner as president replacing Jim Hunsaker.  Curtis Jensen, and Daniel Humphrey were elected co-vice presidents.

1987- The Salt Lake Chapter of Affirmation voted to disband after ten years of operation and was replaced by a secular organization called "Unconditional Support for Gays and Lesbians".  Its first officers were Ben Williams, Randy Olsen and Ken Francis. Wasatch Affirmation’s director Russ Lane had discussed with his officers that he was going to ask the SL Chapter to not use Affirmation’s name as a part of the group.  David Malmstrom stated that after a heated discussion Russ Lane was told not to pursue it. The emergence of Unconditional Support made Lane’s request a moot point.

1996 ACT UP Byline: BY BARBARA J. SHAW   Recent comments by The Salt Lake Tribune(editorial, ``Offensive AIDS Demands,'' Oct.22) were contradictory and misleading. While criticizing ACT UP, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, The Tribune attempted to cover a wide range of issues related to health care, research, chronic and terminal illness and state and federal welfare programs.   In any social movement, some will adopt more extreme forms of protest. The women’s liberation movement gained public attention only when some women burned their bras. The Vietnam antiwar movement was fueled by burning draft cards. The civil-rights movement didn’t explode until Rosa Parks sat down on the bus and others ``sat in'' at lunch counters across the South.   ACT UP grew out of frustration as government and private research facilities ignored increasing numbers of deaths from a mysterious illness among America's gay men. When ``acceptable'' means of change went unheeded

Barbara Shaw

, those most impacted knew they had to become more dramatic in their approach, and ACT UP was born.   The sadness of The Tribune's editorial stand is not the criticism of ACT UP, but that it chose to highlight one small segment of an event dedicated to the memory of over 350,000 Americans and hundreds of thousands more around the world. More than 2 million people viewed The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt during the three days it was displayed on the Capitol Mall.   Ten thousand volunteers helped unfold and fold over 40,000 panels containing 70,000 names of friends and loved ones lost to HIV. Families and friends of 2,000 more came touring new panels and lovingly dedicate them to the Quilt.   Volunteers walked softly among the panels offering support, helping find the panel of a love done, explaining the meaning of the Quilt, lending an ear and a shoulder to mothers silently viewing a child's panel, to children gently touching a panel dedicated to their mother's memory, to partners and spouses finally finding the freedom to release long pent-up grief.   No, it was not ``radical AIDS activists’’ who unfolded the mile-long Quilt, it was Utahns. It was staff and volunteers from the Utah  AIDS Foundation; it was high school students who wrote essays on the Quilt display's theme, ``Not All Battles Are Fought With a Sword''; it was young men, middle-aged women, children, mothers, fathers, grandparents, husbands and wives, your neighbors, your co-workers, your friends.   The figures quoted in the editorial are real but meaningless without context. The 40 million Americans lacking health insurance were not left wanting because those with AIDS got too much. There is no need for additional animosity toward those living with HIV disease.   There is no cure for HIV.  There are great advances in medicine to prolong and improve the lives of those already infected. And there is prevention. We know how to prevent the spread of HIV in Utah.   We should be working together to prevent the spread of HIV and support those impacted by it. The Utah AIDS Foundation is dedicated to preventing the spread of HIV and ensuring compassionate service to those impacted by it. Will you help?   Barbara J. Shaw is executive director of the  Utah AIDS Foundation. 11/03/96 AIDS Page: AA4Keywords: Guest Column on 

Dr. Kristen Ries

1996 AIDS patient Kim hopes to ``live along life.'';  Thanks to a combination of anti-AIDS drugs, Kim, 33, is walking into a brighter future and talking about finishing college. New Drugs Bring New Hope to Utahn with AIDS;  AIDS Drugs Keep Hope, Utahn, Alive Byline: BY LEE SIEGEL THE SALT LAKETRIBUNE    Battling AIDS for the past six years, Kim never thought much about the future. She figured the disease would kill her, just like it ended the lives of her infant daughter and the bisexual former boyfriend who infected Kim.   But a powerful new combination of antiviral drugs has given the 33-year-old Utah woman her first real hope she might live years, and eventually beat a disease once considered a death sentence.   Since August, Kim has been taking AZT, 3TCand indinavir, which belongs to a promising new class of AIDS drugs. Two months later, Kim was told the amount of AIDS virus in her blood had dropped to undetectable levels. Blood counts of her T-cells -- the disease-fighting white blood cells destroyed by   AIDS -- had climbed to the highest levels since she was diagnosed.   ``They called me at work. I was in shock and I started bawling, crying with joy,'' recalled Kim, an administrative assistant at a Salt Lake City investment firm. ``I didn't believe I was cured. But all of a sudden all sorts of things came rushing to me, like I really could finish college, and maybe I should be putting my money in an IRA.''   The promise, however, comes at an enormous price. Triple-drug therapy for a single AIDS patient costs $12,000 to $16,000 a year, depending on which three drugs are used. Insurance companies, Medicaid and other programs that cover AIDS patients are being walloped by the cost.   Further, the most effective AIDS treatment yet is not available to most patients because they cannot tolerate side effects, will not take pills diligently or lack insurance or some other way to pay for the expensive treatment. Some AIDS patients who work must quit or plunge themselves into poverty to get Medicaid to pay for the medicines.   ``Live poor or die -- that's exactly the choice ''for some patients, said Kristen Ries, the doctor who directs the University of Utah's AIDS center. ``Many people have decided to just quit taking medicines and die.''   Ries added: ``Finally, we have drugs that work better than anything else before, but we don’t  have the money to pay for the drugs. . . . If you told me three years ago we suddenly were going to have great new medicines, I never would have dreamed they'd be here and we couldn't get them for a lot of people.''   Kim is able to get medicines because she qualified for Utah's AIDS Drug Assistance Program, which uses federal and state funds to pay for treatment for patients who lack insurance and cannot qualify for Medicaid.   She swallows 14 antiviral capsules daily. She must take them religiously to reduce the possibility that whatever AIDS virus remains in her body will develop resistance to the triple-drug combination and resume its attack of her immune system.   Every 12 hours, she swallows one capsule of3TC. Every eight hours, she takes two doses of AZT and two capsules of indinavir.   ``It's the first thing I do when I get up and the last thing I do when I go to bed,'' she said.   The treatment gives Kim a bad taste in her mouth and sometimes makes her nauseated -- a common side effect of indinavir, which is sold by Merck & Co. under the brand name Crixivan.   AZT and 3TC are older AIDS drugs. They reduce the deadly virus' ability to make copies of it self, then take over and destroy the body’s disease-fighting T-cells. Indinavir belongs to a hot new class of AIDS drugs named protease inhibitors, which attack the AIDS virus in a different way to keep it from replicating.   The Food and Drug Administration has approved three protease inhibitors since late last year. Studies showed they reduce viral counts and boost T-cells in many AIDS patients, especially when combined with one or two of the older anti-AIDS drugs.   ``It's a time of great optimism in terms of prospects for treating and controlling AIDS,'' said Andrew Pavia, who is Kim's doctor and clinical-research director at the University of Utah's AIDS center. ``We're making much faster progress than we thought we would just a few years ago. We're whispering the word `cure' as something we can work toward, but we certainly don't have the cure in sight.''   Pavia cautioned that long-term effectiveness of two or three-drug combinations remains uncertain because patients have been on them no more than 18 months. Also unknown is whether patients will develop resistance to multi-drug therapies, especially if they miss doses. Such medicines also seem ineffective for patients who already have too much AIDS virus and too much damage to the immune system.   Daughter's Birth & Death: Kim was born and reared in Chicago. But as a troubled teen-ager, she was sent to live with relatives in Utah by her divorced mother. She graduated from Bountiful High School, then returned to Chicago, where she lived from 1985 to 1989 with a bisexual boyfriend who infected her with the  AIDS virus.   She did not learn that until 1991 -- a year after returning to Utah and marrying an old friend. They had a baby girl, Haley, who was born sick. Because of Haley's poor health, doctors determined the baby and her mother were infected with AIDS. Kim's husband remains uninfected, although they had unprotected sex until Kim and Haley were diagnosed.   Kim's old boyfriend died of AIDS in 1992.Haley died in late 1993 at age 2 1/2. She is buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery.   ``My grave is right next to hers,'' Kim said.   Kim refused to surrender to dismay -- even though her T-cell count at times dropped as low as 90. Anyone with a T-cell count below 200 is considered to have AIDS.  Despite the immune-system damage, Kim never has suffered ``opportunistic infections'' -- ailments that afflict   AIDS patients and ultimately kill them. She got a job and fought her disease, participating repeatedly in clinical trials of experimental  AIDS drugs.   Last January, The Salt Lake Tribune profiled Kim, the first Utah patient to participate in a nationwide clinical trial of indinavir. In the original story she was identified by her full name. Now, however, Kim asked that her last name not be published because her family is sensitive to the stigma of AIDS.   Some patients in the experiment got indinavir and D4T, an older drug. Others got one drug or the other, but not both. Because the experiment was ``double blind'' to prevent biasing the results, neither Kim nor Pavia knew for sure what she was getting.   The experiment started in May 1995. But a year later, Kim was pretty sure she was receiving a worthless placebo instead of indinavir. She also was pretty sure she was getting D4T instead of a placebo, mainly because she was suffering neuropathy, a common side effect of D4T.   ``It felt like zillions of needles going to my feet and calves,'' she said.   Five months ago, Pavia pulled her off the pills she had been taking and put her on AZT and3TC. In August, he added indinavir to the mix. Within two months, Kim's T-cell count climbed to 367 -- normal is 800 to 1,200 -- and the  AIDS virus could not be detected in her blood, although some probably exists.   ``This is the first time I've ever had real hope that we're working toward a cure,'' she said. ``I look at it as real hope that I could live a long life.''   Still, she is not quite convinced. At another point during a long interview, she declared, ``I'll probably die before I'm 40.''   Said Pavia: ``I don't believe we can use the word cure for a long time yet, but we can say her disease is controlled.''   Kim will stay on the triple-drug treatment indefinitely, switching to newer drugs if she becomes resistant to the $12,000-a-yearmedicines she now takes. (Drug companies say they must charge high prices for the drugs to pay the bill for years of research and development.)   After Kim's daughter died in 1993, she applied for Social Security disability payments. Social Security classified her as disabled, but did not pay her benefits because she had gotten a job. She qualified last year for Medicare, which pays for doctor bills and hospitalization, but not for medicines.   Because she qualified for Medicare, she lost her private insurance. She did not worry about it because her medicines were paid for while she participated in clinical trials.   Now Kim no longer is considered disabled, so she cannot qualify for Medicaid. Even if she could, she would have to quit her job or spend all but a few hundred dollars of her monthly income on medical treatment before she could be poor enough to get Medicaid.   Other AIDS patients ``with limited incomes may not be able to get on Medicaid because it will leave them with so little cash they can't meet their living expenses,'' Pavia said.   Kim thought she would be able to buy insurance through her employer under a new  Utah law expanding access to coverage for  people with pre-existing conditions. But she was ruled ineligible because she qualified for Medicare, even though Medicare does not pay for medicines.   ``If we had a normal health-care system, she would be able to pay for insurance and be covered, but our system is crazy,'' Pavia said.   Of almost 560,000 Americans diagnosed with full-blown AIDS, more than 350,000 have died. As many as 800,000 Americans are believed to be infected by HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Drug companies hope that bymid-1997, between 100,000 and 300,000HIV-infected Americans will be taking the new drugs.   Recent estimates indicate Utah has as many as 4,000 HIV-infected people. By late October, 1,598 people in Utah had been diagnosed with AIDS -- including 965 who have died -- and another 812 were infected by the virus. Ries said the majority of her patients are on three-drug combinations, but many of the rest cannot pay for them, particularly middle-income AIDS patients.   ``Not everyone is going to be able to go on triple-drug combinations, even if they want to,'' said Edie Sidle, director of the Utah Bureau of HIV/AIDS.   After leaving the clinical trial of indinavir, Merck paid for Kim to get the drug in August and September. Since then Kim's medicines have been financed by the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) -- a source of last resort for AIDS patients.   AIDS patients who once shied away from treatment because of unpleasant side effects no ware seeking the new drugs, driving costs even higher, said Jodie Quintana-Pond, who runs ADAP for Utah's Department of Health.   ADAP's monthly spending for AIDS drugs rose from $198,819 for the year ending last March 31 to a projected $616,907 for the year ending next March 31. The program now finances drugs for 58 AIDS patients.   To help control costs, ADAP probably will tighten eligibility requirements in January. Kim still will qualify, but will have to make co-payments for her medicines.   Utah's Medicaid program also faces rising costs. The number of Medicaid patients on three-drug AIDS therapy rose from six in January to 38 by October. Protease inhibitors for those patients will cost about $450,000annually -- excluding the costs of other anti-AIDS drugs -- and the cost will keep rising, said Blake Anderson, the Medicaid official who oversees such payments.   Raedell Ashley, Utah Medicaid's pharmacy director, expects Medicaid will cover 200  AIDS patients -- most of them on the new drugs -- by next July. She hopes the new drugs will keep AIDS patients healthy enough to reduce hospitalization and other costs of caring for them.   Private insurers also are being hit by the high cost of new AIDS drugs, although ``it's not breaking the banks of insurance companies,'' said Knox Fitzpatrick, main medical consultant and a retired vice president for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Utah.   Ries complains private insurers often will not pay for the best new AIDS drug -- just the cheapest -- and require absurd amounts of paperwork before paying for treatment.   ``All I do all day is fight with these [insurance]   people,'' Ries complained. ``They are there to make money. . . . They don't care about anything but money.''   Fitzpatrick agreed insurance paperwork is ``crap'' to doctors such as Ries. But rapid proliferation of expensive new drugs prompts insurers to say, ``We've got to put a lid on,'' and sometimes deny payments until the insurers are convinced they are medically necessary. John T. Nielsen, president of the Utah Health Insurance Association, said insurers cannot pay out more in benefits than they collect in premiums ``or they are going to go out of business and nobody is going to have any insurance.'' AIDS Page: A1Treatments-TechniquesCaption: Lynn R. Johnson/The Salt Lake Tribune Jump pg A6: Lynn R. Johnson/The Salt Lake Tribune

Wendy Weaver

1997 Coming Out In Salem By Christopher Smart  Comparisons to the Salem Witch Trials not withstanding, coming out of the gay or lesbian closet in the hamlet of Salem, near Spanish Fork in ultra-conservative Utah County, can be dicey. That is exactly what 40-year-old Wendy Weaver found.  The former coach of the girl's Spanish Fork High School volleyball team won't be coaching the team, and according to a memo from the Nebo School District, she won't be discussing her sexual orientation, either. On or off campus. "This memo is to place you on notice of the expectations the school district has for you and may jeopardize your job and be cause for termination," the document reads, in part. Not that Weaver ever did discuss her personal life with her students. As she says, she's a private person. But keeping a secret from your students in any small town would be tough if you divorced your husband — also a school staffer — and later coupled with a lesbian partner. Naturally, word of Wendy's new sexual orientation spread like wildfire through Salem and Spanish Fork. When Weaver telephoned to remind students of an upcoming volleyball camp, one girl asked the teacher if it were true that she is a lesbian. "I answered truthfully," said Weaver. And the race was on. Nebo District officials, in a July 22 memo, admonished Weaver not to discuss her sexual orientation with students, staff nor parents. And that, says Weaver, means she can't talk to some of her best friends about her personal life — even at home. She has been at the school over 17 years. During her tenure, Weaver has led the girls' volleyball team to four state championships, eight regional championships, retained an overall record of 263 wins against 78 losses, and in 1994 was named Utah's 4-A "Coach of the Year." As an educator, too, Weaver's credentials are impeccable. But suddenly, the district and school administration were looking askance at her: "... I have determined that it will be in the best interest of the students, the school and the district if I assign someone else to the task" of coaching the volleyball team, wrote principal Bob Wadley. Weaver filed suit in U.S. District Court for Utah, alleging that the Nebo School District is violating her rights of free speech, privacy and equal protection under the U.S. Constitution. Although determined to have her free speech restored, the controversy isn't any fun, says Weaver. "I am a fairly private person. This is not the most enjoyable place for me to be. I just want to live my private life as I choose." Kevin Jennings, the executive director of the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network (GLSEN) said Weaver's issue goes beyond homophobia. "It's mind-boggling to me that any employer can go

Carol Gnade

beyond the workplace into your home. This is not a gay/straight issue. It is an issue that employees be judged on what they do in the workplace." The story of Weaver's suit went out on the Associated Press national wire. The Utah Affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union, which is aiding Weaver, has been deluged with telephone calls from around the country interested in the story, said Carol Gnade, executive director. Among them, were NBC's Dateline, The Today Show, CNN News, CNN Sports, National Public Radio and Newsweek magazine.

1998 Tuesday Wasatch Mountain Bears Just wanted to make sure you know that the cut off for registering for the Bear Invasion (Nov. 13-15) is this Friday the 6th and the fee is now $35.00. Now registrations can be accepted after the 6th. 

Aaron McKinney

1999-A jury found Aaron McKinney guilty of felony murder and second degree murder in the death of 21-year-old gay college student Matthew Shepard.With the consent of the parents of slain gay student Matthew Shepard, Wyoming prosecutors agreed to let Aaron McKinney serve two consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole — and thereby avoid the death penalty.

2018 The RCGSE and the College of Monarchs present Transgender Awareness Week's Annual Monarch Show. Come see the RCGSE College of Monarchs as they put on a show to raise funds for the RCGSE Transgender Fund and Transgender Awareness Week. The Event Held at the Sun Trapp