19 June
1975-The American Medical Association passed a resolution
urging all states to repeal laws criminalizing homosexual acts between
consenting adults. -
1975 A judge in Catskill New
York awarded permanent custody of a 13-year-old boy
to his father, a gay minister. His reasoning was that the father does not abuse
the child in any way, contrary to what he sees out of many "so-called
straight people."
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| Jerry Falwell |
1988-Sunday- BEACH PARTY with Frankie Avalon and Annette
Funicello Look a Like Contest held at The Sun
1988 I went to Affirmation tonight and they had another
video on Phil Donahue. Nothing special. I just went to announce the Beyond
Stonewall Retreat and the Romanovski and Phillips Concert on Tuesday [Journal of Ben Williams]
1991 On Channel 7 KUED Peter
Adair’s "Absolutely Positive" was shown. Poor poor Gay people. We suffer so much,
and yet not only survive, but also keep our compassion and dignity. [Journal of
Ben Williams]
1989-The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force announced that
executive director Jeff Levi
would be leaving and he would be replaced by
Urvashi Vaid.
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| Urvashi Vaid |
1998-Governor Tony Knowles of Alaska vetoed a bill which
would have criminalized sex by anyone who was HIV positive, even if the virus
was not transmitted.
1998-A Superior Court judge in San Francisco ruled that a
regulation that bars gays and lesbians from serving in the California National
Guard was unconstitutional. The suit had been brought by Lt. Andrew Holmes.
2003 Ben Williams to Cathy Cartwright -I created
an archive at the old Utah Stonewall Center which surreptitiously was disposed
of and am very reticent to create another physical archives. Some of the material was saved and donated to
the U of U Marriott Library but all the artifacts disappeared. Chad Keller's idea is
more of a museum and my concept is more research librarianish! You are correct
about creating a quick "What to save and what not" List. Clutter is
the bane of every collection but then again people's garbage is an
archaeologist dream. Give me some time to think about what would be useful and
I will post it here. PS I travel so if your group would ever like a
presentation on historical subjects I would be happy to oblige. Best Wishes Ben Williams
2003 "Hard Times for
Man in OSH; Charges Pending By Cara Wieser Daily Chronicle A man was detained
in Orson Spencer Hall after allegedly exposing himself repeatedly while in a
state of sexual arousal. U Police were called, but the man was released after
the complainant asked for time to think about whether or not to press
charges."
2005 Dear Friends, Acquaintances, and Social Butterflies, You are
cordially invited to the GRAND OPENING of Room 32's Alternative lifestyle Gay
Night HOSTED BY PONYBOY, DJ TROIXx from
New York, New York and Myself MISS GAY UTAH 22 Legacy Vaughn. I very
excited to be a part of this event, and not just this one event but also every
Sunday of the the month. The New and amazing atmosphere, and group of people
who Own, Operate, and attend Room 32 you would think would be enough. But also
because, The Owners and I have decided to give every Sundays earnings at the
door to a Charity, or organization inside the GLBTQQ community or one that
might not be directly in the community but is also beneficial to helping us in
whatever positive way they can. This Sunday the Owners, along with my Partners,
and I have decided assist The GLBTQQCU, (The Center) and since The Royal Court
was one of the "Fore Fathers" ( or is that Fore Drag Queens? Hmmmm?)
I am asking you to assist me in keeping The Center and all of its assets alive
for future generations. As they are who we count on to keep our organization
alive after we have all retired. Not just that but for various other positive,
important, and beneficial reasons for our community. In Final, I have to ask for your help on my
own behalf. This awesome events and the Sundays to follow is a dream come true
for me, and it is the course of study I am taking in the spring of 06'. As I
hope to graduate with a diploma in Theatre and Events Management. I need your
help in supporting me and this Rockin Sunday night it would be most appreciated
as I hope to help others while expanding my horizons in education. So please
join me this Sunday and many more to
come, As Room 32, PONYBOY, DJ TOIXx, and I Miss Gay Utah 22 and Newly Queen of
Room 32 Legacy Vaughn present Sinners And Saints this Sunday and every Sunday
at Room 32. FREE BOTTLE OF CHAMPAGNE FOR ALL
PARTIES OF 5+ that RSVP before
Sunday!!!!!!'
2009 Diversity is an article of faith for Utah gay-friendly church
South Valley » Transgender minister leads flock of LGBT and straight
congregants. By Rosemary Winters The Salt Lake
Tribune Cottonwood Heights » The
Rev. Sean Parker Dennison knows how it feels to struggle to fit, to blend, to
belong. Now, Dennison greets a variety of people -- young and old, gay and
straight, Anglo and non-Anglo -- to Sunday services at the South Valley
Unitarian Universalist Society, a religious community that bills itself as
"intentionally diverse." On
the chapel's exterior hangs a giant rainbow flag with the label "hate-free
zone," a welcome mat for at least one sometimes-marginalized community
that has found refuge at the church: lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender
(LGBT) people. Dennison himself is transgender. As a young woman in Iowa , he "tried on
every single feminine identity" he could find, from "fundamentalist
Christian" high-school girl to "butch dyke," before realizing
his true self is a man, not a woman. Dennison, 43, had his epiphany when he
began attending a Berkeley ,
Calif. South
Valley church in Cottonwood Heights Salt Lake City ?"
he says. "They were just ready here. And I think there is something to
them feeling like outsiders in the culture of Salt Lake City that made them have a different
way of looking at me being different than the normal minister." Dennison's congregation has embraced the push
for civil rights for LGBT people in Utah .
Members of the church hoisted a giant rainbow flag in Salt Lake City 's pride parade earlier this
month. South Valley
signed onto Equality Utah's Common Ground Initiative -- a legislative campaign
crafted around LDS
Church LDS
Church South Valley Connecticut
a few years ago. A former Mormon who left his church and his wife of eight
years after coming out as gay, Adams felt a
"void." He missed having a community where he could talk about spiritual
things. He typed "gay-friendly church" -- intentionally avoiding
"gay church" -- into Google. He found the Unitarian Universalist
church in Westport , Conn. Cottonwood Heights Adams , 36. "That's a powerful thing
and something that didn't exist in my previous church." South Valley Cottonwood Heights South Valley Cottonwood Heights
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| Sean Dennison |
2010 McEntee: Jim Dabakis -- from talk radio to Russian art The
Salt Lake Tribune As a kid,
Jim Dabakis wanted nothing more than to be a radio
talk show host. So he hustled a nonpaying job at a little AM station in Salt
Lake City, working all hours at no pay to learn the fundamentals, and finally
made it to the mic. Such paid gigs would last 13 years, earning Jim the voice
he'd yearned for. He also developed a sideline there, leading tours to the
Soviet Union. He didn't make much money, but he scraped enough together to buy
a little stake in some stations. In the mid-1990s, Clear Channel swept through,
buying small stations. For the first time in his life, Jim was a rich guy. The
radio was passion No. 1. There would be many more to come -- travel, education,
LGBT rights and art. Specifically, Russian impressionism, made by hugely
talented, impoverished Russian artists who had never earned a shred of respect
in their homeland. Jim grew up in Springfield, Mass., and joined the LDS Church
there as a means of playing basketball, his partner, Stephen Justesen, told me.
He tried Brigham Young University, didn't last, and served a mission.
"When I got my patriarchal blessing, he told me I'd be called to serve
among my people," Jim says, laughing. "They sent me to San
Francisco." Later, he met Stephen,
and together they moved to Budapest, Hungary, and tore through Eastern Europe,
ending up in St. Petersburg, Russia. Jim met professors at a Soviet university
that was ditching its Marxist-Leninist curriculum for business education, and
they asked him to teach some classes. That led to a series of micro-businesses
involving Jim and the students, with operations that still exist in Europe and
Asia. But they retained roots in Utah, where Jim helped found Equality Utah and
the Utah Pride Center. Jim also played a role in last year's discussions with
LDS Church representatives, which resulted in the faith's endorsement of Salt
Lake City's ordinance protecting sexual minorities from job or housing
discrimination. Today, Jim and Stephen have a home in Holladay and an apartment
in St. Petersburg. Every year, they'll rent an apartment for four months or so
in, say, Mumbai, Shanghai or Tehran, and Jim writes long e-mails home about his
adventures. Like the time in China when a gaggle of hair stylists found Jim,
who emerged with purple hair, except for the orange-green streaks. Or in India,
where he fell in with a huge crowd of snake charmers ("Snakes everywhere
-- mostly cobras!" he wrote) protesting a new law banning snake charming.
Anti-animal abuse activists were behind it, Jim wrote, and had convinced the
government that snake charming is cruel to animals. Jim wound up on a four-day
cobra-hunting expedition and survived. He asked one of his new friends what he
thought about the people who pushed the law through. He reflected, and said,
"I wish they would all be reborn as cockroaches." For Jim and
Stephen, the Russian art saga began in 1990 in St. Petersburg, when a young
artist told Jim of an extraordinary collection he'd seen in a Moscow hospital.
With the Soviet Union having collapsed, Jim sent search teams throughout the
region, looking for that art and other artists and their work. The undertaking
spanned years, but ultimately, Jim obtained the Hospital Collection (one
ballerina piece remains at the McCune Mansion in Salt Lake City) and much more.
On Friday, I joined Jim at the Thomas Kearns McCarthey Gallery in Park City,
which features dozens of Russian paintings, drawings, lithographs and the most
ornate matryoshka, or Russian nesting dolls, that I've ever seen. The work is
incomparable. I was taken most by Grigoriy Leontievich Chainokov, who sought
out the villages that over time were abandoned by everyone but the old people.
In one painting, a man sits in a rough, tiny home and sharpens his scythe. I
came back to it time and again.I asked Jim about how he and his
partners got the paintings out of Russia. Working through the bureaucracy, he
said. No one wanted any questions about the validity of the acquisitions. "Every painting we've ever gotten out of
Russia we've done officially ... and sometimes we haven't gotten pieces
out," he said. Jim and his working partners have made money on the art,
but that wasn't the only point. "The big deal about all of this is, we
were so lucky to happen to stumble into Russia in the 1980s and be part of the
discovering of a whole genre of art that the world didn't know about," he
said. But the American critics and experts were dismissive, Jim said, until the
paintings began selling at European auctions. "When the prices went up,
suddenly those critics said 'Wow, maybe there is something to this.' " Jim
said. Well, I'm certainly no art expert, but I think so. Jim has opened another
set of eyes to the artists who, as he put it, "were painting for their
souls." Peg McEntee is a columnist
2017 (KUTV) Dr. Kristen Ries was on the forefront of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Utah. She was the first doctor who would treat patients with the disease. Ries moved to Utah in 1981, the same day the disease was described. Her specialty just happened to be infectious diseases.
"I said, 'I think this is an infectious disease. I better follow this carefully because it's going to be big," Ries recalled.
As the disease progressed in the state, Ries saw her fellow doctors turn away patients with HIV. "Even one of my friends and colleagues told me, 'Your patients deserve it,'" said Ries. But Ries would treat them and wasn't afraid to touch her patients. By 1985-1986, she saw her first 50 patients.
"We really believed that every person deserved care, no matter what," she said.
Ries also witnessed a social bias against the people who contracted HIV. Many of her patients were gay, but they weren't the only ones who had HIV.
Ries also treated drug users, transplant patients who got it from blood transfusions, and more.
"I just thought of them as people because I think all people were people first and foremost," she said. "It doesn't matter what group they belonged to."
Ries says it was a "miracle" that she arrived in Utah when she did, although she describes it as "being in the right place, at the right time, with the right training."
She looks back on her career and her time with patients with great emotion.
"I feel really good about what we were able to do and where we are now," she said. "I'm really glad to have met people from all walks of life. And they've made me a better person."
But that time can also be painful for her to remember. Ries worked virtually alone for the first 10 years of the epidemic until Maggie Snyder, a PA, joined her.
"She says I promised her we'd be done every day by five and weekends off," Ries laughed. "But it turned out we were both working 24/7."
Snyder eventually ended up becoming her wife as well.
"Once we retired, I think it took us two years to realize we probably had post-traumatic stress," said Ries. "We feel really good about what we did and wish we could do more even now." Ries' upbringing was a great influence on her. She grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania, where her family was "quite poor."
Her parents were Quakers.
"My mother, my father, they were always looking out for other people. And I think it just becomes a part of you," she said.
Ries has no doubt saved many lives, and nearly every week she meets one of her patients or a family member of a patient who thanks her for her work.
"It makes you feel almost inadequate, like you should have done more," she said. "I think many people would be much happier if they gave more to other people."
2017 Charles Frost facilitated a meeting at Gay Men Aloud on The Epidemic of Gay Loneliness at the downtown Salt Lake Library.Because of construction at the Baptist Ward, the meeting was held at the Salt Lake Main Library
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| Jim Dabakis |
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| Dr. Kristen Ries |
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| Charles Frost |
2017 Charles Frost facilitated a meeting at Gay Men Aloud on The Epidemic of Gay Loneliness at the downtown Salt Lake Library.Because of construction at the Baptist Ward, the meeting was held at the Salt Lake Main Library
- Ked Kirkham Thank you for this thought provoking topic and discussion. There is no way that all its nuance can be covered in on meeting, or with one outcome. I have some feelings about the short mention at the beginning. Professionally I am required to have 2 CEU hours each license period on suicide prevention. I wonder if any of you has the DOPL approval to lead such a discussion, or barring that, know of a qualified course that would be GLBT specific. Again, thank you for last evening's discussion.
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