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1903 Frank Brown, sodomy, commutation from four years to two and a half denied. Deseret evening news. (Great Salt
Lake City [Utah])
1914 The Third District Court of Utah sentenced John Oscor for the
infamous crime against nature to three years in Prison which was the minimum
proscribed by Utah State law.
1966 Salt Lake City Police answered a call from the U of U Medical
Center that a drunk was running through the area “Have you go a description?”
the dispatcher asked “Other than the fact that he isn’t wearing clothes , no.”
the officer replied.
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1970-"What It Means To Be Homosexual," an article written
by
Merle Miller, was published in the New York Times. Miller described the
challenges he had faced throughout his life as a gay man. The article was the
first to be published in a mainstream newspaper written by an out gay man about
his experiences. The Times received almost 5,000 letters in response to the
article, 95% of them from gay men.
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| Merle Miller |
1981 Saturday Windows
were broken, a glass door was shattered, and a printed flyer calling for “death to traitors, Communists, race-mixers,
and black rioters” was posted Saturday night at the Salt Lake City
headquarters of the Socialist Workers Party 677 South 7th East.
Party spokesman, Bill Hoyle said vandalism was discovered Sunday morning about
11 a.m. He called the action “political harassment” and said the
flyer was similar to literature that has been posted in front of the office and
slipped under the door within the last year.
The flyer also included a picture of the lynching of a black man and the
statement “Its time for old fashion
American Justice.” Vandals also struck the office of the NAACP also
Saturday night. (01/19/19 SLTribune). [Tony Adams a black Gay man
murdered in 1978 was active member of the Socialist Workers Party]
1988 Wasatch
Affirmation held a rap group on “The Homophobic Homosexual”.
1988 Royal Court
of the Golden Spike Empire held Mr. & Miss Gay
Salt Lake
1988 Sunday I attended a Concerning Gays and Lesbians planning
meeting at Becky Moss’ home this morning. Becky and her lover Catherine Clark
fixed a brunch of omelets. It was wonderful and I brought over a fruit salad.
In all Bobbi Fouts, Antonia dela Guerra and her girlfriend Carla Gourdain,
Becky and Catherine, Dan Fahndrich and I were who showed up. Before brunch I talked seriously to Becky and
Catherine about the young Lesbians who have been coming to me and how
inadequate I felt to address their needs and concerns. Becky said that she might start a Thursday
night group for Lesbians after I told her the need of an open and out support
group. I love Lesbians and their energy but I’m not the one to give advice to
teenage Lesbians. Anyway after brunch we
discussed programming for the next three months. I also ended up having to do the show tonight
because Becky just had surgery on her mouth and no one else could do it
tonight. I did a program on Black
Awareness in the Gay community and it ended up being a good program. [1988
Journal of Ben Williams] Ben Williams attended a “Concerning Gays and Lesbians”
planning meeting with Becky Moss, Catherine Clark, Bobbi Fouts, Antonia dela
Guerra, Carla Gourdain, and Dan Fahndrich.
Ben Williams talked seriously to Becky Moss about the young Lesbians who
have been coming to Unconditional Support
and how inadequate he felt in addressing their needs and concerns. Becky Moss agreed to start a Thursday night
group for Lesbians.
1989 Allen
Peterson led the meeting for Unconditional Support mostly discussing what
people wanted to see happen in Unconditional Support for this year.
1991-The American Medical Association and the American Dental
Association recommended to health care workers who test positive for HIV that
they either disclose their status to patients or stop performing invasive
procedures.
1993-Jerry Falwell appeared on nationwide TV to urge opposition to
the inclusion of gays in the US military.
1995 Salt Lake Tribune Page: Z1
TAKING A CLOSER LOOK AT SEXUAL PREFERENCE
Byline: By Arlen Shepherd West Valley
City Editor's Note: The author is a
director of the Historical Study Group at the University of Utah, which is
sponsoring ``Healing Homosexuality,'' the seminar referred to in this
column. Who has an interest in what
causes homosexuality? Homosexuality will impact only one person directly, yet
its ripples will indirectly spread out to touch countless family members,
friends and relatives -- all of whom ask the question, why? Therapists who
frequently work with homosexual clients need all of the scientific evidence available.
Legislators asked to draw legal lines, where homosexual issues are concerned,
need the most accurate information to do so with proper perspective. Finally,
the general public has an interest to know what dozens of psychologists know.
This information comes from empirical research on the development of
gender-identity and the clinical evidence from psychotherapy with hundreds of
male homosexuals. The reality is that, for many men, ``the homosexual condition
is a developmental problem -- and one that often results from early problems
between father and son,'' according to Joseph Nicolosi, clinical psychologist.
Dr. Nicolosi will be speaking on ``Healing Homosexuality'' -- a presentation of
the causes and treatment of male homosexuality -- Jan. 23 at noon in the Olpin
Union Building Ball Room at the University of Utah. This presentation is for non-gay homosexuals
as well as the attentive and general public. Non-gay homosexuals do not
identify with gay ideology. Obviously, those with the greatest stake in
``Healing Homosexuality'' are homosexuals themselves. But within the homosexual
community, there is a dichotomy -- one that separates gay homosexuals from
non-gay homosexuals, gay affirmative therapists from reparative therapists.
Non-gay homosexuals are not part of the gay community. You will never see them
at a gay pride parade. They will never reveal their sexual orientation to
others in order to ``come out of the closet'' as a necessary part of therapy.
They don't want to come out of the closet and into the popular gay culture.
Homosexuality, for them, goes against their religious and moral values. Dr.
Nicolosi calls such men ``non-gay homosexuals.'' Therapists who deal with
homosexuality and homosexuals themselves can be divided into two separate ideologies.
The one side of the dichotomy wants a schism where clients can choose their own
value system for their therapists to accommodate. The preceding is a
description of gay homosexuals, and the therapy -- coming out of the closet, a gay affirmative
one, prescribed by gay affirmative therapists. The other side wants a forced
unanimity -- one that requires a rejection of both pluralism and the free flow
of scientific discovery. This rejection necessitates that only one type of
therapy be practiced and that science is relative. Non-gay homosexuals have
chosen a different road from gay homosexuals. Whereas gay homosexuals have
chosen the goal of transcending the closet by declaring and acting out their
sexual orientation, non-gay homosexuals have chosen the goal of transcending
homosexuality by staying in the closet and waging a two-front-war. Their fight
is an internal battle against unwanted feelings, and an external one against a
popular culture which neither values nor understands their struggle. The therapists
who help non-gay homosexuals with this goal are called reparative therapists.
The battle lines for the gay and non-gay world, however, are drawn on the
ethics for treating homosexuality. Reparative therapists and non-gay
homosexuals believe it is ethical for homosexuals to choose whether to be gay
or non-gay. They therefore believe it is ethical for therapists to choose
whether to practice gay affirmative therapy or reparative therapy. Many gay activists and gay affirmative
therapists, however, believe it unethical for reparative therapy to be
practiced as well as morally coercive for patients to seek it. This is why last
spring the Gay and Lesbian Caucus within the APA (American Psychiatric
Association) submitted a measure for the APA to declare reparative therapy
unethical. The measure might have passed were it not for the protests of former
gay men who had successfully changed -- or who were in the process of changing
-- from homosexuality to heterosexuality. The goal of changing from homosexuality
to heterosexuality, considered irrational and immoral by the gay community, is
never taken at face value or deemed legitimate by gay activists. If a
homosexual states this is his goal, gay activists will say to him: ``It is the
effect of a frenzied mind; and this derangement of your mind comes because of
the traditions of your parents which lead you away into a belief of things
which are not so.'' It is time for gay activists to get rid of their hypocrisy
and hubris. Stop demanding that reparative therapists discontinue therapy which
caters to their patients' values. Stop attempting to deny patients the ability
to choose their own therapists by emotional, non-scientific appeals to the APA.
In short, stop saying that reparative therapists -- and their patients' -- have
none of the rights, that in the same breath, are demanded for gay affirmative
ones without a blush! The time is long overdue for state universities to be
open laboratories of learning, not controlled studies where politically correct
emotions pre-decide the outcomes. For
non-gay homosexuals as well as for the general public, ``Healing
Homosexuality'' is a good start and renders a great public service. The
Historical Study Group is a student organization at the University of Utah
which presents conservative political, social and economic viewpoints. They
welcome comments at: 232 Union, U of U, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112.
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2006 Tuesday- Was It Just a Dream? Imagine the outrage from the
entire community if Larry H. "Rough ’em up if you don’t like the
question" Miller had reneged on showing a long-awaited film about Martin
Luther King, Jr. because … well, he never says why. Imagine the outrage if,
even though the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People had
called a boycott of all Larry H. Miller’s businesses, the gay community had
Miller speak at a gala luncheon while offering up a pittance of a scholarship.
The sting of the slap in the face would take years to soften. The gay community
would be called insensitive at best; racist at worst. I’m outraged. I, along
with many other gay and lesbian activists, worked side-by-side with leaders of
the NAACP on hate crime bills, on legislation to rename "Human Rights
Day," on protests against the execution of William Andrews for his role in
the horrific Hi-Fi Shop murders. While I was chair of Gay and Lesbian Utah
Democrats, we were an instrumental part of a campaign to place an NAACP-chosen
candidate for the state Senate. Gay and lesbian people have strongly supported
Rep. Duane Bourdeaux in his election efforts. Then, while watching for the
daily "where’s Larry?" news segment, we find him joking at a luncheon
about his "business decision." And the joke was met with laughter.
How can the gay and lesbian community not feel betrayed? Did the NAACP not
disinvite him because he waved a huge check in their face? No. Miller has
donated a paltry $1000 for twelve consecutive years. I tried to do the math on
my computer’s built-in calculator, but the percentage of Miller’s net worth
that $12,000 comes to is so small it shows something like 2.5e-4. Did they not
disinvite him because they hadn’t heard about the controversy or the boycott?
Please. The only explanation I can think is that they simply don’t care. That
stings. How insensitive. When the issue of
gay marriage entered our living rooms through our television sets as gay men
and lesbians paraded to the San Francisco City Hall, a parade of another kind
immediately followed: that of black religious leaders saying that gay rights is
not a true civil rights issue. Did Utah ’s
black community distance themselves from those statements? No. Where would the rights of racial minorities
be without gay and lesbian people? Where would we be without Bayard Ruston?
Would Dr. King have had that dream? Would the civil rights marches have been so
successful without the faces of gay white men and lesbians amongst them? Would Utah still call the
third Monday of January "Human Rights Day" because Pete Suazo — who
was elected because of the efforts of the gay and lesbian community (his words,
not mine) — wouldn’t have been around to demand a name change? The NAACP has offended me to the core of my
being in a way that only outright betrayal can do. While this newspaper and
this community demands an apology from Larry H. Miller for his hurtful
action.-Michael Aaron
2006 Did everyone see Larry Miller's tantrum on the news last
night? Apparently the pressure has gotten to him, he looked like he was going
to cry at the Martin Luther King event he was attending yesterday. He acted
like a little boy instead of man...I agree Ben regarding the Straight jacket
and their damn religion....Mark Swonson
2006 KSL replayed it again this morning. It was one of their radio
reporters. It might be easier just to answer the question, but then there is
the obvious hypocrisy (vis-a-vis Hostel) question that he probably shamefully
wants to avoid. Better for him and all his cheerleaders to maintain the
illusion of half a story.-Ruadhan [Kevin Waren]
2006 I'm sure you folks are tired of hearing from me. But... here I go again with my thoughts, just
hit delete you think it's too much for your mind to grasp. I was reading the
Opinion page Saturday and realized that people in Utah equate immorality with homosexuality.
What I discovered was the simple fact that if you are heterosexual you have
moral values. If you’re homosexual, you
are immoral. In Utah Murder is Not Immoral, Murder is illegal. In Utah selling illegal
drugs is illegal but not immoral. In Utah
prostitution is illegal but not immoral, unless you are gay then it is both
immoral and illegal. People in Utah
have chosen to interchange the word morality with heterosexuality and
immorality with homosexuality. Larry H. Miller did not show this film because
he felt it was immoral meaning it was too gay.
In his mind there is nothing wrong with showing "R" rated
movies depicting illegal acts. As long
as those acts don't contain a strong reference to immorality or should I say a
strong gay theme. In his mind and others
like him, people who commit illegal acts can serve time in prision with the
chance of being reformed. There are
those out there like Chris Buttars and Gayle Ruzicka who would like to see
homosexuality become an illegal crime. It's the same argument they use when
they say that gay people are addicted to being gay. After years of torture via LDS Evergreen I
learned they simply don't understand that being gay comes from the inside out
it's who we are, just like your skin color, or eye color. They claim that being
gay is the same as being addicted to alcohol or drugs, if you can break the
addiction of gay sex then you can become straight. They we will then give you all the
"rights and blessings" of heterosexual righteousness. What a crock of shit! I tried to discuss with
many of my Evergreen colleges the fact that alcohol was something you drank,
drugs were something you took into your body which changed your mind-set. All these things were external chemicals that
changed who you were. I tried to explain
to them that I don't remember every drinking, eating, or taking anything to
make me gay. Trust me they really don't
get it. "An interesting concpet is the fact that if homosexuality was
illegal, then perhaps Larry would have showed the movie in his theaters?"
Most people can not grasp even this simple concept. -James Hicks
2009 Utahns split about post-Prop 8 temple
protests Utah's religious divide shows up in a new poll: Most Mormons approve
of their church's push for California's Proposition 8 and disapprove of
protests outside their temples in response. Non-Mormons tend to feel the
opposite. The Salt Lake Tribune poll finds that 69 percent of Utahns overall
see the LDS Church 's
backing of Prop 8, a ballot measure that eliminated gay marriage in the Golden State
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| Jacob Whipple |
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