24 June
1895-An article
in the New York Times about intimacy between women stated that fidelity could
not exist between women because "there are no Davids and Jonathans among women."
The author claimed that fundamental antagonism existed between women, and it
was in woman's nature to lack humanity.
1969 Tuesday- -Florabel Muir’s Hollywood- William Friedkin who will
be directing Cinema Centers Film’s presentation of Mart Crowley’s off-Broadway
success, The Boys In The Band, held a first reading the other morning of the
playwright’s screenplay for the 9 male members of the original show’s cast who
will repeat their performances before cameras. The Boys In The Band will be
filmed entirely in New York ,
setting of the devastating birthday party attended by the “gay set” with one
unexpected “straight” outsider. The
party proves an emotional roller coaster for all, once the host, an embittered
wasp-tongue, ex-heterosexual turns on his guests and introduces a game of truth
that shatters and destroys”. (06/24/69 SLTribune Page 11)
1971-The Gay Activists Alliance held a candlelight march to
city hall in New York to support a bill which would have added sexual
orientation to New York City's Human Rights Law.
1973-Twenty-nine
members of Metropolitan Community Church New Orleans, including Rev. Bill
Larson, died in an arson fire, and twelve were injured. They were celebrating
gay pride day at a bar called The UpStairs.
1975-The Austin Lesbian Organization sponsored a panel discussion
of legal rights. Topics included lesbian experiences in child custody, and
confrontations with police and the FBI.
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1976-G Harrold Carswell was charged with soliciting an undercover
vice officer. He had been nominated to the US Supreme Court by President Nixon
but rejected by the Senate because of his record on civil rights. In 1976, Carswell was convicted of battery
for advances he made to an undercover police officer in a Tallahassee men's
room. In September 1979, Carswell was
attacked and beaten by a man whom he had invited to his Atlanta, Georgia, hotel
room in similar circumstances. Because
of these incidents, Keith Stern, author of Queers in History, alleges Carswell
to have been the first homosexual or bisexual nominated to the Supreme Court.
1977 The International Women’s Year’s state conference was held in
downtown Salt Lake City. The Mormon Church orchestrated a take over of the conference
by Conservation non-feminist Mormon Women. Conservative Mormon Bishop Dennis
Kerr organized anti-feminist, anti-ERA orientations to block support for the
ERA in Utah .
“Kerr and his group warned about Lesbian takeovers, unfair voting practices,
and being subjected to pornographic films. In the scheduled workshops the
conservative Mormon delegates shouted down women they identified as
“feminists”, sometimes calling them lesbians.
- New York Times: Mormon Turnout Overwhelms Women's Conference in Utah. SALT LAKE CITY—When representatives of the International Women's Year organization here began planning their statewide convention several months ago, they invited a number of Utah women's groups to participate in hopes of showing, as the coordinating committee put it, “that diversity does n't have to divide people.” They kept talking about outreach, trying to get as many women involved as possible,” recalled Esther Landa, the current head of the National Council of Jewish Women, who presided over the convention three weekends ago. One of the groups to which an invitation was extended was the Relief Society, the women's auxiliary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter‐day Saints. But none of the organizers, who had anticipated a crowed of perhaps 2,000, was prepared for the 12,000 or so Mormon women, responding to their church's call to insure the support of “correct principles,” who streamed into the Salt Palace auditorium in downtown Salt Lake City. As the convention staff struggled to print sufficient numbers of ballots and other materials to keep pace with the swelling demand, the Mormon women seated themselves on boxes and table tops and proceeded to reject by overwhelming majorities resolutions favoring the equal rights amendment, abortion on demand and more than a score of other women's rights proposals put forward by the I.W.Y. organizers. Mormon Delegates Nearly 14,000 women were ultimately registered by the Utah convention, more than twice the attendance at any of the other statewide meetings, and of the 14 delegates selected from an anti‐E.R.A., “pro‐life” slate to attend the I.W.Y.'s national meeting in Houston next November, 12 are members of the Mormon Church. “It was like a war, only they had atomic weapons and we had words,” said Maggy Pendleton, a college counselor and I.W.Y. organizer who is described by friends as the closest thing to a radical feminist as one can find in this fundamentally conservative state. The Mormon women, who she estimated had outnumbered non‐Mormons by about 10 to 1, “could vote down anything they wanted to,” she said. “They ran the whole thing. I've never been so rudely treated in my life.” Although she and other organizers said they had had hopes of opening a “dialogue” with the Mormons that might begin to reverse the polarization that has existed in Utah between churchwomen and feminists for some time, the acrimony that prevailed at the convention overrode nearly every attempt at a thoughtful discussion of women's issues. In the middle of it all was Jan L. Tyler, a 34‐year‐old former professor of child development at Brigham Young University, who, though an active member of the Mormon Church, is also an ardent supporter of the equal rights amendment, something to which her church is officially opposed. A Foot in Both Camps As head of the Utah coordinating committee, Miss Tyler said, she had been “committed to do all I could to provide this kind of forum for Utah women,” and had hoped that, with a foot in both camps, she would prove to be a bridge between them. But for her, the convention produced a number of “unfortunate things that gave me personal pain,” among them her observation that many of the women “who were professing a tremendous concern for life” in their opposition to abortion “were very abusive in their actions toward others.” Don LeFevre, a spokesman for the Mormon Church, acknowledged that the Relief Society had encouraged its membership to take part in the convention “and vote for correct principles.” “The church,” he said, “has always been concerned with threats to the stability of the family and the home. We don't make any excuses for our women's participation. We're proud of them. Other women's groups could probably take a note from their book.” Although the Mormons place a heavy emphasis on early marriage and large families—birth control is frowned upon, Mr. LeFevre said, and abortion viewed as “one of the most revolting and sinful practices of this day” its opposition to the equal rights amendment is founded more on physiology than theology. “We recognize men and women as equally important before the Lord,” the church's leadership has declared, “but with differences biologically, emotionally and in other ways. E.R.A., we believe, does not recognize these differences.” Although none of the Relief Society members were given explicit instructions on what course to pursue at the convention, Mr. LeFevre said that church officials provided them with “informational material” on the mechanics of registration and copies of the church's positions opposing the equal rights amendment, abortion and other issues, “in case they had any questions.” Similar appeals for participation were sent by the Relief Society headquarters here to its representatives in several other states, Mr. LeFevre said, after the church decided that, based on the impressive turnout it had mustered in Utah, its women might be able to “help support correct principles” at some of the I. W. Y. conventions remaining to be held. In Washington and Montana, two of the states selected for action by the church, resolutions supporting the E.R.A. were rejected by conventioneers, about half of whom proved in both cases to be Mormons, according to I.W.Y. organizers. Mary Munger, the head of the Montana coordinating committee, said that all 14 of that state's delegates to the Houston convention had gone on record as opposing the ratification of the E.R.A. and that the convention there had produced “very little dialogue.” While various coalitions of conservative religious and political groups have played a role around the country in diluting the I.W.Y.'s advocacy of increasing equality for women, there is what Nikki Van Hightower, a Houston city official serving as liaison to the national convention, called “a very deep concern” over the involvement of the Mormon Church. Mormons Started Late “Nobody started out anticipating anything like this,” Mrs. Hightower said, “but it has grown and grown.” The effect of the church's involvement would ultimately be minimized, she said, only because it had not begun in earnest until after many of the state conventions had already been held. “But,” she added, “if they had gone on much longer . . .” Several of
the women who have worked on behalf of the I.W.Y. in Utah said they suspected the anti‐E.R.A. organization headed by Phyllis Schafly, the conservative Republican, might have had a hand in the Mormon Church's decision to influence the outcome of the conventions in Utah and elsewhere, but none of them was able to produce any evidence that such had been the case. However, a slate of anti‐feminist delegates, including several women prominent in Mormon Church affairs, was circulated on the floor of the Salt Palace under the auspices of the Eagle Forum, the organization that Mrs. Schafly heads. Most of those delegates were ultimately elected to represent the state. Despite their obvious disappointment at the turn of events in Utah, both Mrs. Landa and Miss Tyler cautioned against concluding from the I.W.Y.'s experiences there that no potential existed for a discussion of women's issues between feminists and the Mormon Church. Mrs. Landa noted that Barbara Smith, the president of the Relief Society, had maintained that the church's domination
Phyllis Schafly
of the Utah convention should not be interpreted as a complete rejection of women's concerns and had spoken in favor of equal pay, legal protection for women in divorce actions and assistance to working women with family. responsibilities. Some of her recent mail from Mormon women who had attended the Utah conference, Mrs. Lands said, had contained expressions of embarrassment over the behavior of the more strident opponents of the equal rights amendment and had described the event as a positive experience that had permitted them to learn directly, in some cases for the first time, what the women's rights movement was really about. Dealing With Issues Miss Tyler concurred, saying she had concluded, based on her telephone calls and letters, that many Mormon women were “thinking about things they've never thought about before. A lot of them are beginning to transcend their own conditions and say that there are other women in the world who find themselves in circumstances very different from mine.” She remained convinced, she said, that despite the “political”
Barbara Smith
positions taken by the Mormon Church on such issues as the E.R.A., it was not impossible to reconcile at least some feminist concerns with the church's theology. “That doesn't mean that there isn't some pain and introspection that goes on, dealing with issues you might otherwise have ignored,” she said. “That isn't to say it's an easy thing.” One unfortunate aspect, she said, was the sentiment among many Mormon women that “if they don't buy, the whole package” of women's rights issues, “they're somehow shut out” of the movement altogether. “If the women's movement is going to define itself as just another part of society that's exclusive, then it's really in trouble.”
1978 The Salt Lake Coalition of Human Rights sponsored
the Gay Pride Celebration again in 1978. At one event they encouraged all Gay
people to wear green on “Gentle Thursday” as part of Gay Pride Week. On June 24th, a Gay Pride Fair and Seminar was held at the Northwest
Multipurpose Center. Seminars included
conscious raising sessions such as “The Church and the Gay Person,” “Coming Out
Seminar’, “Lesbian & Feminists” “Political Action & the Gay Community”.
Also a rally in support of rights for homosexuals was held on June 25th at the
Soldier Memorial in Memory Grove. An
ecumenical worship service also was held at the memorial sponsored by the
Metropolitan Community Church of Salt Lake, Dignity, Affirmation, &
Integrity. A Softball Game & Cookout along with a Candlelight Vigil was held at Memory Grove.
- 1978 A Gay Pride Fair will be held Saturday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Northwest Multipurpose Center 1300 West 300 North. Also a rally in support of rights for homosexuals will be held Sunday at 8:30 p.m. at the Soldier Memorial in Memory Grove. An ecumenical worship service also will be held at the memorial at 11 a.m. The Rev. Robert Waldrop, Metropolitan Community Church, 2555 Highland Dr. and spokesman for the Salt Lake Coalition for Human Rights said that, “Gay people have been forced to come out visibly in order to defend themselves against the slander, abuse, and discrimination of straight society” The Salt Lake Coalition for Human Rights believes that Civil Rights and human rights are absolute-that they cannot be denied to one minority without endangering the rights of all he said.” (Salt Lake Tribune page B7)
1980-The
Democratic party adopted a gay rights policy to its platform.
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1984- The 1984 Pride Day Committee was made up of
Marshall Brunner, who served as Chairman, Mel Rohland, Sara Smith, Gyll Huff, Bob
Coyle, Bette Lewis, and Larry Pacheco. The committee adopted for the first time
the National Pride Day Committee’s Theme
“We Are What We Are” . The happening was held on June 24, 1984, again at
Fairmont Park. Pride Day was still called A Day In The Park and attendance
nearly tripled from the previous year. Larry Pacheco emceed Gay Pride Day ’84
and held a moment of silence for victims of Gay Bashing and for the first time
AIDS. Joe Redburn booked The Saliva
Sisters to performed at Pride Day for the very first time.
24 June 1987-
Performers Hunter Davis and Nanci Griffith sang at the Utah Arts Festival.
Brought to the concert by Babs DeLay. (155)
1989 I was able to participate in a re-enactment of the first Stonewall Riot
at the Stonewall Inn on Christopher
Street which led to a second
"riot/celebration" in and of itself alone! Sequence of events: I was up by 5:30 this morning. I kept waking up early for some reason.
Anyway John Reeves and I wanted to be down at the Greyhound bus terminal in Boston by 7:30 a.m. to
catch the 8:00 bus, which we did. It was
a four and a half hour bus trip into New
York City . The
NYC terminal was located at about 42nd
Ave. and 8th
Street . We were pretty weary from the bus ride but
John wanted to drag me around to see some of the sights. I suggested that we
get our rooms first. We planned on
staying at the Sloan YMCA which was located on 34th and 7th street and although it was big and
dirty, it was also cheap. A single room
with shared showers was about $33 with a
$5 key deposit. For New York City this was mega cheap because
most rooms are $75 or more a night. The Sloan YMCA is an international youth
hostel and in the lobby all types of Americans and hundreds of foreign students
traveling abroad were swarming about, bustling about their business with
backpacks in tow. It took what seemed
forever to check in, about 45 minutes, but with that taken care of I was relieved
to get on with things. We ate a bite and made our way to Central Park. We
originally started on down towards Greenwich Village but I saw a poster stating
that the Gay Pride Day Rally was being held in Central Park. We made an about face and I took my first
"real" subway ride up to 60th Ave and 7th Street at the end of
Central Park. Central
Park was huge and we had no ideal where the Great Lawn was. The Great Lawn was where the rally was being
held. I was more single minded in
purpose than John and it slightly annoyed me that he wanted to stop and listen
to the different musicians in the park and such, while I had this pressing
feeling of urgency to get to the rally.
I felt something was going to happen tonight which I needed to be a part
of. The rally was half over by the time
we finally found it but it was still huge and yet not what I really
expected. I thought there would be more
of a carnival atmosphere but there wasn't.
There was a large stage with a huge rainbow of colored balloons
surrounded by thousands of people sitting on the grass and listening to the
speakers. We stopped and listened to a
woman's comedy team who was really funny, along with a Lesbian singer before we
realized that Harry Hay
was going to address the crowd. I was amazed that the founder of the modern
Gay Liberation Movement had identified himself with the Radical Faeries and
addressed the crowd while wearing a pink tutu!!
Harry Hay gave a brief history of the Mattachine Society but mostly
dwelt on the topic that Gay people collaborate in their own oppression by their
silence! I had come to hear Harry Hay
and after he was finished, fatigue caught up with both of us. We were tired, hungry, and perhaps even
exhausted from walking so much yesterday in Boston, so John and I decided to
take the subway back to our rooms, take a nap, get some dinner, and then head
on down to the Village. However back at the YMCA, I was too keyed up to sleep
so I went and took a long shower in the communal bathroom. I wanted to wash the New York slime off of me and check out the
view. It's so humid in NYC and
dirty. I feel sticky all the time but
one does kind of get use to it. Anyway after I finished my shower and John
awoke from his nap, we ate at TAD's, which is a steak place. Since I'm a Summer vegetarian I just had corn
on the cob and some New York Cheesecake.
Yummy. After eating we caught the
subway train down to Christopher
Street on 7th Ave and as we emerged from the NYC
intestines we saw thousands of people milling around in the warm evening
air. It was electrifying! I spotted the faded black and white STONEWALL
sign in front of Sheridan Square and saw that the area was surrounded by a
large crowd of fifty people or more. I
hurried John over to see what was going on.
It was about 8:30 p.m. by now and some one in the crowd said that a mock
re-enactment of the raid that set off
the Stonewall Riot was taking place.
By now hundreds were jammed along the front sidewalk and in the street
in front of what was the Stonewall Inn and they were yelling at the fake cops
who were pretending to haul off patrons and drag queens. From the steps of the old Stonewall Inn my
adventure began! The crowd was handed foam yellow bricks to throw at the cops
while calling them names like "Pigs!"
I, remembering a scene from the Black Cat cafe in San Francisco , began yelling "God Save
the Nelly Queens!" A magical
combination of high energy levels and the spirit of Gay Liberation worked its
way through the crowd of taunting and booing Gays and Lesbians. Its seemed like a time capsule to me. It was magical and somewhat intoxicating and
I felt so fortunate to be here where it all began, acting out my own Gay
Liberation in front of the very building that twenty years before had seen a
true miracle. After about twenty minutes
of enthusiastic yelling and taunting I was the first to shout out "GAY
POWER!" I wanted to agitate the
crowd and focus the circus like atmosphere into what this night was truly
about! Then others raised the chorus of
Gay Power and some one yelled out, "Let's take back 7th Avenue and almost spontaneously a
crowd of several hundreds including myself converged into the intersection of Christopher Street
and 7th Ave. Myself along with about seven others lifted
up the police barricade, holding it aloft, so that the crowd could move on down
to the next intersection. Almost
immediately the NYC police arrived on the scene but just cautiously watched as
the crowd almost magically swelled to over several hundreds. We all started shouting to the police which
became a chant "Arrest US! Just Try it! Remember Stonewall was a
Riot!" Tonight Years of Gay
oppression and frustration over AIDS was letting off steam and the NYC police
had the common sense to keep a respectful distance as we danced in the streets,
chanting our slogans "Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Homophobia's got to go!",
"We're here because we're Queer!", and "Gay Power!". The crowd was now more than a thousand strong
and with the increased numbers the playfulness of the earlier revelers turned
more serious. There was a completely different air about us now. The thousands
of marchers now in the street were basically saying "this is OUR night and
we are going to howl!" I stayed up front with the young radicals who were
carrying the confiscated police barricade, stopping traffic, and working up the
crowd. Definitely the event was taking
on an life of its own. Young and old,
Gay and Lesbian, taking to the streets to scream, "Gay Liberation!" What a trip! At one intersection, which was
blocked off by our marching, this rich,
macho dude (probably to impress his rich cunt), tried to run down some of us in
his car. I witnessed it and some of the
others who did also were so outraged that a chase began. Someone copied down his license number
(RWR349) which became our rallying chant as thousands more streamed over to the
6th Precinct Police Department, angry that the police had let this guy get
away. People demanded that the police do
something. The crowd had turned militant
at this point, angry at the police for not doing anything . Some of the hot heads began jumping on the
police cars parked out front and banging on the police station's front doors
which the cops had locked in case the crowd really turned ugly. Several American flags were set on fire in
front of the police station and finally the cops came out with a bull horn to
address the crowd that had filled the street.
Some self appointed spokespersons stated that Gays in the Village were
also outraged over the recent killings of
two Gay men but when the police officer said that the murders were not
Gay related, a chorus of "Bull Shit!" interrupted him. The crowd began to shout "No more lies!" but finding that they were
getting no where with the police, they retreated after pelting the police
station with condom packages. We left
the Sixth Precinct then and headed for West Ave which runs along the Hudson River down to the area where the Gay men were
murdered. Practicing civil disobedience
we sat down in the middle of the Highway and blocked Saturday night traffic
along this major thorough fare. We
declared our sit down space "Queer Nation" and we sang out "hey,
hey Ho, Ho Patriarchy has got to go!" and "Not the Church! Not the
State! We alone decide our fate!" and "Keep your laws off my
body!" The police came out in full
force for the sit down demonstration and while I was slightly fearful that I was going to get arrested for disturbing
the peace, the police faced with a volatile situation, just re-routed traffic
rather then take on a crowd of Gay
Radicals who were screaming and taunting, "Arrest us just try it Remember
Stonewall was a riot!" I have to
praise the New York Police on how swiftly they redirected traffic and took the
wind out of our sails. With no more traffic to hold up we left the West Highway and
went back to the streets where the Gay
Bars 7th
Ave. It
was late and I was thinking that anything else tonight would be pretty
anti-climatic however I was wrong.
Faerie magick was not through with me yet. Exhausted
I sat down in the middle of the intersection of Christopher Street and 7th Ave along with this Gay man I met
named Michelle. He was the first one hit
by the car but he said he was okay. We
sat in the middle of the street with our arms around each other and just drank
in the scene of thousands milling around on this warm June night. Michelle looked about 30 but must have been
closer to 40 because he echoed the same sentiments that I was having at the
moment. We both felt lucky and grateful
to have taken part in the Second Stonewall Riot and able to re-enact the magick
of 1969. It was like being given a
second chance to be apart of the most significant event in Gay History. Michelle said he was living in the Village in
1969 having just arrived from Minneapolis . However he also said he was too young at the
time to appreciate the importance of the riots of 1969. I was living in Garden
Grove California , having just
graduated from Rancho
Alamitos High
School Sheridan Square I
saw that the Radical Faeries had a wonderful poster on a wall which had a
picture of a screaming, in your face, drag queen with the caption: We're
Revolting! Stonewall Rebellion 1969. The
poster went on to say that the Radical Faeries were hosting a tour of the
Stonewall Inn to commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the riots. I went over to where the Stonewall Bar use to
be and found out that the Radical Faeries had rented the basement of the building
that once housed the Stonewall Inn and they were hosting a walk through guided
tour of 20,000 years of Gay History in 5 minutes. It was wonderfully farcical. They started off by paying a tribute to Judy
Garland, whose death I was to learn, precipitated the Stonewall Riots. They had the mock coffin of Judy and a shrine
of Mabeline nail polish on a type of an altar.
The tour was a shamatic experience.
I saw Gay cavemen painting Gay graffiti on their cave walls, Gay Greeks
in togas sporting Dorian capstones as headgear, the burning times when Gays
were used as Faggots, and then jumping right to the 20th Century- Gay Go-Go
Boys. We got to throw foam yellow bricks
at the "pigs" and then before being ushered out we formed a Faerie
circle and was sprinkled with Faerie dusts.
We were taught a song to help end patriarchal suppression and then
shooed out the door! However in that
brief tour of the basement of the Stonewall Inn I experienced a life
transforming experience. A conversion of
the soul if you will by the Gay Spirit.
That basement was hot and humid and I sweated like a pig but it was also
wonderful and I laughed and had fun and I knew that my Spirit was telling me
that I was at the Holy Shrine of Stonewall.
I came to place a rose on the doorsteps of Stonewall Inn in
remembrance but it was me who was given
a rose in my heart. Outside in the cooler night air I began to hawk the merits
of the Radical Faerie Tour and got several people to come on inside and at one
point this Faerie came out and saw what I was doing and he asked if I would do
the Faeries a favor. He said that they
were dying of thirst in the sweltering building and asked if I would take the
$10 he gave me to go across the street and buy an assortment of pop for
them. I looked at the guy and said,
"You picked the right person
because I will do it. You can trust me. "
and he smiled at me and said, " I knew I could, that's why I asked
you." So after coming back and
giving him his change he tapped me on the head with his Faerie wand and said,
"For your good deed, I dub you an
honorary Faerie." I don't think he
realized how much I took that symbolic gesture to heart. Later about 1 in the
morning, hundreds who were still left in the streets gathered in a huge circle
formed by the radical Faeries in the middle of the intersections of Christopher
and 7th Ave.
The Radical Faeries led us in songs, and we danced, and we hissed (which I
learned that Faeries do when they are happy), and the Faeries sang "WE ARE THE STONEWALL GIRLS-WE WEAR OUR
HAIR IN CURLS- WE DON'T WEAR UNDERWEAR- WE SHOW OUR PUBIC HAIR! WE WEAR OUR
DUNGEREES BELOW OUR NELLY KNEES" To
close the circle we sang, some 300
voices, "Somewhere Over The Rainbow". My soul was fulfilled. A spiritual longing
for home was satisfied. True enchantment enveloped my being. True liberation
from the chains that bind the captives and the mending of the broken hearted
could now begin. Thank God I am who I
am! I sacrificed to be here this night
and my sacrifice was rewarded. This wonderful nights of all nights! John, I
learned later, had left earlier then I did and about 1:30 a.m. this tired
little Faerie boy walked the darken streets of NYC all by his brave little
self, truly liberated and in tune with his Gay soul. Fairy dust and enchantment all around me!
Hisssssssss! (168)
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1990 Sunday- The first co-chairs of Pride Day came in 1990 when
“gender parity” was the buzz word in the Gay and Lesbian Community and
political correctness was paramount in GLCCU meetings. Julie Pollock of the
Knights of Malta and Curtis Jensen of Desert and Mountain States Conference
were elected chairs of the ’90 Pride Day Committee. Pride Day with the
beginning of the “Gay 90’s” was returned to the month of June after council
members insisted that Utah’s Pride Day be celebrated in conjunction with other
Pride Day celebrations nationally. This
year’s celebration was held at Sunnyside Park on June 24, with the 4th
Kristen Ries Community Service Award given to community activist Chuck
Whyte,. He was honored as creator of the annual Unity Show and founder of the
Salt Lake AIDS Foundation’s food bank.
Salt Lake County commissioner candidate, Jim Bradley attended Pride Day
’90, soliciting votes from the Gay community. It was the first time a
Democratic candidate attended Pride Day to appeal for the homosexual vote. Gay
activist Bob Waldrop sold snow cones at Gay Pride Day to support his
Libertarian campaign for Utah Senate District One. Approximately 1200 people
attended in 102 degree weather.
- Gay Pride Day at Sunnyside Park. I was up at 8:30 a.m. because I knew it would be a busy day. I went over to Carla Gourdain’s first to pick up two card tables, one for the National Lesbian Conference and the other for the Stonewall Town Meeting. From Carla's I went to the park and helped Garth Snyder (Ruby Slippers) put up the booths by draping curtains with Justin Webber. I also made sure that the National Lesbian Conference and Stonewall Town Meeting booths were next to each other. Debbie Rosenberg, I had heard, won Ms. Gay Pride at Backstreet’s last night, singing a love ballad she wrote her self. She is so talented and I'm glad she is my friend. Later I spotted my political nemesis David Nelson making out with Dale Sorenson!! Well! Well! Well! A new item? How convenient! Anyway I left the park and went to pick up Robert Erichsson and Rocky O'Donavan but I was back by 11:30. Everything for Pride Day was going extremely well. Willie Marshall was a little late getting us our buttons but we did sell 125 of them for a buck each. Greg Hamilton registered 55 people to vote at our booth and Jim Bradley a Democrat who is running for County Commissioner appeared at Pride Day to shake hands. That's a first! The most outstanding talks came from Chris Brown who called for rebellion against the homophobic capitalistic patriarchal and sexist establishment! And from Debbie Rosenberg too who also fired up people! Why are my friends so radical? I was real low key this year at Pride Day and was not on the program. All in all Gay Pride Day was quite successful. I'd say about 1,500 people altogether came, even better then last year's although I heard from Bobbie Smith that the Pride Day Committee didn't make any money at selling hot dogs and drinks. In fact Julie Pollack, one of the chairs of Pride Day came unglued when she heard that other people then the Knights of Malta were selling food items because it cut into their profits. It was a real scorcher today 102 degrees and we are all burned out and frazzled by the heat and with the business of putting on Pride Day. Bob Waldrop sold snow cones at Gay Pride Day to support his campaign for Utah Senate District One. Julie Pollock and Curtis Jensen Co-Chairs of Pride Day held at Sunnyside Park in SLC. The Dr. Kristen Ries Community Service Award was given to Chuck Whyte. SLC County commissioner candidate Jim Bradley attended. Approximately 1200 people attend. in 102 degree weather. I had the distinction of having a pie thrown in my face at Gay Pride Day 1990 by Sorenson as a fundraiser for the Youth Group. Seems people were willing to pay to throw a pie at me. Someone bid $10 to throw a pie at me. [memoirs of Ben Williams]
1990-ACT UP held
a demonstration at the Sixth International Conference on AIDS.
1990 The Daily News Magazine on New York City's Gay Cops
1990 The Daily News Magazine on New York City's Gay Cops
1991 Film festival
documents gay, lesbian experience
Byline: Terry Orme Salt Lake
Tribune Page: A5 The Utah Gay and Lesbian Film Festival is not for an exclusive
audience. In fact, getting past the idea of sexual preferences is what the
festival is all about. "I would be
pleased if there were others besides gays and lesbians in attendance,"
said Marlin Criddle, a Gay and Lesbian Pride Week volunteer and festival
director. "My goal is to make people aware of gays and lesbians in Utah,
and to show they don't conform to the stereotypes
many people have. By seeing
films like this, they will begin to see gays and lesbians as real people."
Films and videotapes about the homosexual experience will be shown Monday and
Tuesday in the Salt Lake Art Center Auditorium, 20 S. West Temple. The festival
is presented by the Gay and Lesbian Community Council of Utah and is part of Salt Lake
City's Gay and Lesbian Pride Week, which continues through Thursday. "Her
Giveaway: A Spiritual Journey With AIDS," a short video documentary, and
the feature film "Out of Our Time" will be shown Monday. "Her
Giveaway," directed by Mona Smith, tells of Carole Lafavor, a Native
American activist, mother, registered nurse and AIDS survivor. In the video
portrait, Ms. Lafavor tells how she has come to terms with AIDS by combining
traditional beliefs and healing practices with Western medicine. The film was
produced by the Minnesota American Indian AIDS Task Force. "I wanted to bring up the issue of
women and AIDS," said Mr. Criddle about his reasons for programming the
video in the festival. "But I
also wanted to bring out the fact that gays and lesbians exist in all aspects
of society, including the Native American population. I want to show something
about a minority within a minority, to show that we are everywhere." "Out
of Our Time" contrasts relationships between women in two different
generations. Directed by Casi Pacilio and L.M. Keys, the film tells of a
contemporary lesbian couple who discovers 1930s correspondences between one of
their grandmothers and another woman. "Running Gay," a video produced
for Great Britain's Channel Four television, tells about the participation of
lesbians and gays in sports and includes scenes of Gay Games III in Vancouver,
British Columbia, an international event involving 700 athletes. It shows
Tuesday and is followed by the French feature film "We Were One Man," winner of the Silver Hugo Award at
the 1980 Chicago Film Festival. "People don't think gays participate in
sports very much," said Mr. Criddle about "Running Gay."
"It's important to know that gays and lesbians participate in all aspects
of our society." "We Were One
Man" is set in 1943. A French farmer finds a wounded German soldier and
nurses him back to health. In the process, both men question their commitments
- one to his fiancee, the other to his political leaders - and an intense sexual
relationship begins. Gay and Lesbian
Pride Week takes place every June to celebrate the "Stonewall Riot"
of 1969. The Stonewall Inn in Manhattan's Greenwich Village was the site of a
confrontation between gays and police and is regarded as a turning point in the
gay movement, when gays stood up and fought against police harassment. "As
I see it, gays and lesbians have a past in which they were oppressed and put
down, and frankly we feel there is no reason for that," said Mr. Criddle
about the motivation for Gay and Lesbian Pride Week. "We feel that it is
just as good to be gay as it is to be straight." Both art-center film programs begin at 7 p.m.
Tickets will be available at the door for $6.
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| Marlin Criddle |
1998-A group of 24 Hasidic rabbis gathered at New York City
Hall to invoke a biblical curse on New York legislators & Mayor Rudolph
Giuliani in response to the passage of a law that same sex couples be granted
rights equal to those enjoyed by married couples. The bill had been announced
by Giuliani. Rabbi William Handler refused to reveal the way in which the curse
would materialize, but said it was possible for Russia
or China
to launch an atomic attack.
1998-President
Clinton sent a letter to congress urging the passage of a federal hate crimes
bill which would make it easier for federal prosecutors to pursue hate crimes
convictions.
2005 Empress 30 Krystyna Shaylee & Emperor 30 Peter
along with the Board of Directors would like to invite you to a show for the RCGSE
People Concern Fund. It will be on Friday June 24th at 9pm at the Trapp Door
all proceeds will go the people concern Fund. The performers will be performing
POP songs from the past year. We will be having two "guest" MC's:
Michael Jackson & Martha Stewart since these two individuals made some head
lines over the past year. We will be having some trivia questions of current
events over the past year for some little prizes as well.
Please join us for some fun current events and entertainment. XOXO
Krystyna Shaylee
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| Bruce Bastian |
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| Jennifer Holliday |
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| Michael Thompson |
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| Jacob Whipple |
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