Tag Archives: Salt Lake City

Via the Associated Press: A Salt Lake City police officer who rejected an assignment riding a motorcycle at the front of last weekend’s gay pride parade and was put on leave has now resigned. Salt Lake City police officials said Tuesday they received written notification of the officer’s resignation. The officer, whose name is being withheld, was put on leave …

There’s more to this story. Via the Salt Lake Tribune: A Salt Lake City police officer says the department defamed him and violated his rights when he was put on leave after a conflict over his assignment at Sunday’s Utah Pride Parade. “He feels that the same protections that afford individuals to participate in a parade like we had yesterday, …

Via the Associated Press: A Salt Lake City police officer has been placed on leave after refusing an assignment to work at a gay pride parade. The officer was among about 30 officers assigned to provide traffic control and security for the annual Utah Pride Parade on Sunday in Salt Lake City, said department spokeswoman Lara Jones. “We don’t tolerate …

The Salt Lake Tribune reports: Days of ’47 Parade organizers have denied a float application from Mormons Building Bridges, saying an entry from the group founded to improve relationships between Latter-day Saints and the gay community would be too controversial. “The parade is very specific in its requirement that no float can enter that will create controversy,” Executive Vice President …

From the editors of the Salt Lake Tribune: Same-sex attraction, far from being unnatural, has been around since the dawn of time, and in recent decades mainstream America has come to accept it as something other than deviant. The American Psychiatric Association has considered homosexuality a normal sexual variation, not a mental disorder, since 1973. The Supreme Court in 2003 …

Note the rainbow kerchief. Source.

Salt Lake City’s Fox affiliate is live-streaming their news.

From the Salt Lake Tribune: From his embrace of the party’s radical right wing, to subsequent portrayals of himself as a moderate champion of the middle class, Romney has raised the most frequently asked question of the campaign: “Who is this guy, really, and what in the world does he truly believe?” The evidence suggests no clear answer, or at …

Hundreds of straight Mormon allies marched yesterday in Salt Lake City’s gay pride parade. Before the drag queens in heels danced across Main Street, more than 300 members of the LDS Church left Utah Gay Pride Parade spectators in tears Sunday morning. One Mormon father turned to the crowd and thanked people for forgiving him. The group, Mormons Building Bridges, …

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Inspired by Singapore’s event of the same name, yesterday Salt Lake City residents gathered for their first Pink Dot celebration. [Photo credit: Steve Griffin/Salt Lake Tribune]

After seeing JMG posts about Singapore’s now-annual Pink Dot event, activists in Salt Lake City are throwing their own Pink Dot. Very cool.

Thousands of protesters gathered in Salt Lake City’s Temple Square last night to denounce remarks by LDS Apostle Boyd Packer, who called gay people “impure and unnatural.” Packer’s speech, delivered during the LDS Church’s 180th Semiannual General Conference, hit a nerve, protesters say, because it came after a string of gay teen suicides in the national news. Boys as young …

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Salt Lake City’s new anti-LGBT discrimination law exempts churches and religious groups. The Sutherland Institute wants that exemption extended to anybody who believes in God, which would effectively gut the law from having any use at all. The ordinances protect gays and lesbians from discrimination in housing and employment. Sutherland Institute president Paul Mero says churches and some organizations have …

In February of this year, Utah state Sen. Chris Buttars was booted from a Senate judiciary committee after he made incendiary anti-gay comments that were caught by the crew filming 8: The Mormon Proposition. Today he says he has nothing against gay people and actually supports Salt Lake City’s recent move to add LGBT protections. But just so you know, …

Today the anti-gay right-wing group America Forever faxed 80,000 members of the Mormon Church a message attacking the LDS’s recent support of Salt Lake City’s new LGBT right law. It is an outrage that The LDS Church was placed in this position by the gays from Utah and their movement; it is a shame to all the people of the …