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Utah's Gay Community Reels Over Suicides Lagoon Day Expected To Utah’s News & Entertainment Magazine for the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Community | FREE salt lake Issue 160 August 5, 2010 My Last Shot Jailed on Christmas Day, a Man’s Battle to Overcome Meth Utah’s Gay Lagoon Day Rally will Call for Park Silly Community Reels Expected to Be Gay Community will be over Suicides Largest Ever Evolvement Gay for a Day Q staff You NEED a publisher/editor Michael Aaron assistant editor JoSelle Vanderhooft ISSUE 160 • Aug 5, 2010 arts & entertainment Bigger Audience editor Tony Hobday graphic designer Christian Allred ... and we NEED YOU crystal meth contributors Chris Azzopardi, Lynn My Last ‘Shot’ with Meth ......... 27 Beltran, Turner Bitton, Dave Brousseau, Brad Di Iorio, Chef Drew Ellswroth, Greg Crystal Meth in Utah ............. 27 Fox, H. 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M That was my Facebook He wants families and friends of people status as we were in the home stretch who come out to still love their son or getting this issue out. daughter or friend. He wants a welcom- The previous week I did a ton of work ing gay and lesbian community that isn’t on our website, some computer main- rife with high school bitchiness, name- tenance, cleaned the of- calling and judgmental fice, made phone calls attitudes. and developed our edi- Yes, Bitton is 19. But torial calendar for 2011. ‘In many is he “just” an idealist, All so I didn’t have to or is he a visionary? He sit down and do a long ways we makes the point that story on recent suicides most people in this com- in the gay community, don’t often munity grew up in the edit a feature on the is- LDS culture. Where did sue of meth in our com- support our the compassion and cir- munity, and work on a own’ cling-the-wagons mental- follow-up to our “HIV in ity go? Utah” story with a for- When a fellow mem- mer Utahn who has left ber of our community the state over his treatment here. finds that he or she has contracted HIV, Yes, this is the “Tough Issues” issue. we as a community should be funneling I guess it can’t be unicorns and rain- our strength to help him or her survive bows, as was suggested for our next is- — financially, emotionally, physically. 4 sue, all the time. When one of us has his face bashed in by 5 But these three topics should be, and a ’phobe, we should be more concerned are, on the top of agendas of our com- about the victim’s welfare than an angry munity groups and leaders. In fact, next sound bite on the evening news. When a week I will be attending a meeting where friend finds himself addicted to a drug, we all of these issues will be discussed. should make ourselves available to help, And up-and-coming leader Turner not to judge. Bitton is right. [“Rally for Equality to While driving to the liquor store yester- Build a Better Community,” page 11.] He day for my vitamins, I saw a woman get notes that members of the Church of Je- hit by a car as she was crossing the street. sus Christ of Latter-day Saints take care I pulled over and ran to her and found that of each other. If someone’s garage burns about two dozen people came out of the down, the local ward is there with ham- woodwork to help out as well. That’s what mers in hand to help rebuild. When some- Utahns do. That’s what any civilized, one has a death in the family, out come compassionate person should do. the funeral potatoes. That is not the story I’m hearing from “In many ways we don’t often support many people within our community. our own,” Bitton said. “If we draw on How do we change that? How do we the lessons from the LDS Church we can evolve as a community to do the things learn something.” we should do as individuals? Is our community capable of growing That is your assignment for the next into something like that? We bristle and week. Develop ideas and send them to me puff our chests if a business disses a fel- at [email protected]. I’ll bring them low gay or lesbian person, calling for boy- up at my August 11 meeting and during cotts and rallies. But do we do it for them, my speech at the Rally for Equality on or do we do it so we don’t have the same Aug. 13. issue when we walk in the same doors? And, yes, the next issue is about happy I suppose we may find out on August 13 stuff — unicorns and rainbows. Or our when Bitton’s rally happens on the Utah pets. One of those. State Capitol grounds. His hope is to talk Until then. Q 4 | QSaltLake | issue 160 | August 05, 2010 NatIONAL NEWS BY REX WOCKNer Quips & NJ Supremes Reject Quotes Marriage Case ❝❝It’s just heroically hard to do everything the average In a 3-3 vote, New Jersey’s Supreme Court Mormon believes he or she rejected a same-sex marriage case July 26, is supposed to do in the saying it needs to be dealt with in a lower course of a day. If you throw court first. being gay right on top of Lambda Legal’s motion claimed that that it really amplifies the New Jersey’s civil-union law for same-sex challenges. As someone else couples violates a 2006 state Supreme Court said better than I could: ruling that ordered the state to treat gay and ‘gays interrupt the Mormon straight couples the same. The civil-union plan for heaven.’” law was the eventual outcome of that ruling. —George Cole, assistant execu- “Because of the Legislature’s inability tive director of Affirmation Gay and Discount coupons Lesbian Mormons, commenting on Official T-Shirts to act and the Supreme Court’s decision to- now available at: day, New Jersey continues in a caste system recent suicides of gay Utah men where an entire people are thrown aside into ❝❝He’s been dead a year a profoundly inferior status, spit on, dumped and still doesn’t have a Cahoots Available NOW on, utterly degraded, by hospitals and em- headstone. At his funeral ployers who mock the term ‘civil union,’” his parents said ‘We just at the QSaltLake Offices said Steven Goldstein, chair of Garden State feel he’s better off.’ How can Club Try-Angles Equality.
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