San Francisco signed Fair Workplace and Housing laws into effect with Harvey Milk and Mayor Moscone in 1979, now 30 years later Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker signs his name to the list of champions of human rights.
This afternoon, before a crowd of 50-100 people, Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker follow the recommendation [...]
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Mayor Ralph Becker Signs Anti-Discrimination Laws
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged anti, becker, bisexual, City, commision, discrimination, employment, evict, fire, francisco, Gay, gender, glbt, harvey, housing, human, jepsen, jon, Lake, law, laws, lesbian, lgbt, mayor, milk, ordinance, ordinances, prejudice, ralph, rights, Salt, san, SLC, trans, UT, utah, workplace on November 17, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Paul Mero Pushing Mormons To Ignore The Church?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged apostles, church, City, fair, Gay, gay rights, glbt, holland, housing, institute, jeffrey, Lake, LDS, lgbt, mero, Mormon, ordinances, paul, paul mero, Paul Mero Pushing Mormons To Ignore The Church?, quorum, Salt, SLC, state, sutherland, sutherland institute, twelve, UT, utah, workplace on November 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In a press release last night, Sutherland Institute President Paul Mero announced a special event taking place tomorrow night where he will address the relationship between Mormonism and conservative thought. Back-peddling much?
Since Sutherland Institute’s statements following the LDS / Mormon church’s support of SLC’s Fair Workplace and Housing ordinances, Paul Mero has been under some [...]
America Forever Responds to the LDS Church
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged america, church, City, eagle, fax, forever, forum, Gay, gay rights, gayle, homosexual, homosexuality, housing, institute, Lake, LDS, mero, Mormon, paul, picture, respond, response, rodrigues, rodriguez, ruzicka, Salt, sandra, SLC, sutherland, UT, utah, workplace on November 13, 2009 | 10 Comments »
You know how some people just don’t know how to shut up? Yeah…. for the Rodrigues family, aka “America Forever.” That time was just after they got out of diapers.
With their constant spewing against the LGBT community, they have now become virtually one of the biggest PRO LGBT groups around! With every other anti-LGBT and [...]
SLC Passes Pro-LGBT Measures. Will It Last?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged buttars, City, civil, equality, Equality Utah, Gay, housing, law, laws, LDS, legislature, lgbt, Mormon, place, protection, rights, salt lake, senate, session, SLC, UT, utah, work on November 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Last night, Utah took a big side-step and did a very un-Utah thing.. it passed 2 ordinances against LGBT discrimination. Uh oh… does Gayle know about this?
In a unanimous vote, Salt Lake City Council passed fair workplace and housing ordinances following an hour and a half of testimonies from concerned citizens on both sides of [...]
Big News Coming from the Mormons!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged announcement, big, film, Gay, Mormon, news, Prop 8, Proposition 8 on November 10, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Big news coming from LDS Hierarchy regarding the LGBT community!
From the production team of “8, The Mormon Proposition:”
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PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: STEVEN GREENSTREET (801) 580-3103
PRESS@MORMONPROPOSITION.COM
MORMON CHURCH LEADERS BEND UNDER SCRUTINY BROUGHT ON BY 8: THE MORMON PROPOSITION. IS THIS ANOTHER MORMON P.R. STUNT?
On November 10, 2009 several highly placed people featured in the upcoming documentary [...]
“America Forever” leader done in by a kiss
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged america, attack, forever, Gay, kiss, LDS, main, Mormon, plaza, protest, rights, rodriguez, sandra, street, Temple, utah on July 19, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Today marked the 3rd protest over the Mormon Church’s treatment of two gay men who were caught kissing on the church-owned main street plaza. But unlike the past two protests which were filled with song, smiles and overall good-feelings this protest turned ugly quickly with shouts of anger and arguments. What was the difference? “America [...]
More Trouble In Utah
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged battle, child, children, couple, custody, fight, Gay, legal, lesbian, utah on July 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Below is an article I copied from the Salt Lake Tribune (see here), written by Rosemary Winters. -Eric E.
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Gena Edvalson tried for years to be a mom. So when her partner of six years, Jana Dickson, became pregnant through artificial insemination and gave birth to a boy in March 2006, nothing brought her “instantly more [...]
2nd Protest on Mormon Plaza
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged arrest, Gay, kiss, LDS, Mormon, protest, salt lake city, SLC, Temple, utah, video on July 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The 2nd of two protests took place this morning at the LDS-owned Main St Plaza in Salt Lake City. The protest started off as a kiss-in, with roughly 200 people gathering in front of the plaza and posing for PDA photos. But with the Mormon-Fuzz (thank you Bill Maher) turning away everyone who was attempting [...]
1st Protest over Gay Kiss at LDS Plaza
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged arrest, Gay, kiss, LDS, plaza, protest, trespassing on July 11, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Tonight the first of 4 (scheduled) protests took place at the LDS-owned Main Street Plaza over the controversy of a gay kiss. Earlier this week a gay couple were asked to leave the LDS owned plaza due to a kiss, which LDS Church officials claimed was not allowed on their property. When the couple refused [...]
Prop 8 Arguments Conclude, Speculation Explodes
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 8, arguments, CA, California, City, courts, francisco, Gay, justice, Lake, marriage, murray, oral, prop, proposition, rights, Salt, san, SLC, UT, utah on March 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As the oral arguments on Prop 8 concluded in San Francisco today, viewers are semi-optimistic.
“It seemed as though there was quite a bit of focus placed on the existing marriages that took place over the summer, but not nearly enough attention placed on the Proposition itself” said Thomas Skeeler, a local Californian activist and Anti-Prop [...]
