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STONEWALL, AIDS AND GAY LIBERATN: ONE HISTORIAN SHAR HOW THE CULTURAL MOMENTS SHAPED UTAH’S LGBTQ MUNY

LGBT Rights Utah, Uned Stat: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * gay rights utah *

They troduced Senate bill 296, which created new hog and hirg protectns for gay and lbian rints while also offerg some relig exemptns, and 297, which enabled unty clerks who opposed same-sex marriage to signate someone to perform LGBTQ weddgs their place.

ABOUT USMISSN & VISNSTAFF & BOARDTRANSGENR ADVISORY COUNCILBS EQUALY LEARCONTACT USOUR WORKLEGAL VICTORI20 YEARS OF EQUALYWHAT'S NEXT?LEGISLATIVE SSNEVENTSPAC BNCHALLI GALAQTALKSRESOURCESELECTNSTRAGSVIOSAUD TOURREPORT DISCRIMATNNEWSROOMPRS RELEASNEWS COVERAGETAKE ACTIONDONATENEWSLETTERVOLUNTEERCONTACT YOUR LAWMAKERREGISTER TO VOTEDONATE202220212020201920182017201620152014201320122011201020092008200520041996QUICK LKS2023202220212020201920182017201620152014201320122011201020092008200520041996EQUALY UTAH THE NEWS2023IN GETTYSBURG, UTAH’S GOV. COX LLS FOR ‘SACRIFICE AND SELFLSNS’ TO PRERVE AMERIJULY8DSERT NEWSREAD NOWSALT LAKE CY POLICE VTIGATE AFTER PRI FLAGS CUT DOWN, BURNEDJULY3THE SALT LAKE CY TRIBUNEREAD NOWSUPREME COURT RUL WEB DIGNER CAN DENY SERVIC TO SAME-SEX COUPLJUNE30FORBREAD NOWA UTAH STATE AGENCY SHARED AN LGBTQ+ PRI POST ON SOCIAL MEDIA — A GOV. COX APPOTEE HAD REMOVEDJUNE27THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWANDY LARSEN: JT HOW BIG IS THE LGBTQ MUNY UTAH? HERE’S THE DATA.JUNE17THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWTHIS UTAH LGTBQ+ ACTIVIST AIMS TO PROTECT HIS MUNY BY BREAKG BREAD WH GOP LAWMAKERSMAY28THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWGOV. COX ANSWERS THE QUTN: WHAT MAK UTAH THE BT STATE THE UNTRY, ACRDG TO U.S. NEWS AND WORLD REPORT?MAY2DERET NEWSREAD NOWHOW UTAH GETS THGS DONE: BY BRIDGG DIVISMAY2U.S NEWS READ NOWHOME OF UTAH GOP STATE SENATOR IS VANDALIZED WH SPRAY PAT AFTER HE SPONSORED A BILL RTRICTG SEX CHANGE OPERATNS AND HORMONE THERAPY FOR TRANSGENR CHILDRENAPRIL23DAILY MAILREAD NOWUNIVERSY V SPEAKER WHO HAS ATTACKED UTAH LGBTQ? SOUNDS FAIAR, GEE PYLE WR.MARCH29THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWEQUALY UTAH LLS FOR ‘EEDOM OF EXPRSN’ AMID NTROVERSY OVER LDS APOSTLE’S PLANNED SUU SPEECHMARCH23THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWWHY THE G.O.P.’S ATTACK ON TRANS RIGHTS COULD BACKFIRE ON THE PARTYMARCH2NEW YORK TIMREAD NOWEQUALY UTAH REACH PROMISE OVER HB550, SAYS BILL IS NO LONGER 'DON'T SAY GAY'FEBARY24KSLREAD NOWUTAH LAWMAKER PROPOS STATE VERSN OF FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILLFEBARY23THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWUTAH CLOSE TO WRG CONVERSN THERAPY BAN INTO LAWFEBARY17ADVOTEREAD NOWUTAH LEGISLATURE DIFI BAN ON NVERSN THERAPY WHILE ADDRSG THERAPISTS’ NCERNSFEBARY17DERET NEWSREAD NOWUTAH LEGISLATURE UNANIMOLY PASS BAN ON LGBTQ NVERSN THERAPYFEBARY17FOX 13READ NOWHOE MTEE ADVANC NVERSN THERAPY BILL AFTER AL STCKFEBARY6FOX13READ NOWWHY LGBTQ ADVOT SUPPORT CLARIFYG UTAH’S BAN ON NVERSN THERAPYFEBARY6THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOW‘I SERVE A BODY TO FEEL PROUD OF.’ CROWDS RALLY FOR TRANSGENR HEALTH RE AT UTAH CAPOLJANUARY25THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWCOMMENTARY: WHO DO YOU WANT VOLVED YOUR FAY’S HEALTH RE?JANUARY25THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWLGBTQ ADVOT BLAST NEW NVERSN THERAPY BILL UTAHJANUARY18KUTVREAD NOWWHY GOP LAWMAKERS WANT TO STOP DOCTORS OM PRCRIBG GENR-AFFIRMG RE FOR UTAH’S YOUTHJANUARY18THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWBAN ON TRANSGENR SURGERI FOR KIDS, PUBERTY BLOCKERS HEAD TO UTAH SENATEJANUARY18DERET NEWSREAD NOW2022PRINT BIN SIGNS AMEND RPECT FOR MARRIAGE ACT WHE HOE CEREMONYDECEMBER13DERET NEWSREAD NOWSAME-SEX MARRIAGE ACT PASSED BY SENATE, MIKE LEE AND MT ROMNEY SPL THEIR VOTENOVEMBER29THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWCOLORADO SHOOTG SPARKS FIERY DEBATE INSI MORMONISM ON LGBTQ THEOLOGYNOVEMBER22NEWSWEEKREAD NOWMORMON CHURCH OUT SUPPORT OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE LAWNOVEMBER15AP NEWSREAD NOWTHEY ARE GROOMG OUR CHILDREN FOR IMMORAL SATANIC WORSHIP’: SOUTHERN UTAH POLICIANS TARGET DRAG SHOWSOCTOBER21SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWSAME-SEX MARRIAGE: UTAH POLL FDS 72% FAVOR LEGAL GAY MARRIAGESEPTEMBER30KSLREAD NOWTRANSGENR GIRLS UTAH N PETE AGA AFTER JUDGE GRANTS JUNCTN BLOCKG STATE’S SPORTS BANAUGT19SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWJUDGE WON'T DISMISS LAWSU CHALLENGG UTAH'S BAN ON TRANSGENR ATHLETAUGT10FOX 13READ NOWSCHOOL DISTRICT REMOV 52 MOSTLY LGBTQ BOOKS OM LIBRARIAUGT2LGBTQ NATNREAD NOWWE ALL AGREE LGBTQ KIDS SERVE SCHOOL LUNCH. SO WHY IS UTAH PICKG A FIGHT ABOUT , ROBERT GEHRKE ASKSAUGT2SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWWHERE DO MT ROMNEY STAND ON PROPOSED LAW TO PROTECT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE?AUGT1DERET NEWSREAD NOWA NDIDATE FOR UTAH COUNTY CLERK SAYS, IF ELECTED, HE WON’T ISSUE MARRIAGE LICENS TO SAME-SEX UPLJULY29SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWUTAH’S US HOE MEMBERS ALL VOTE FAVOR OF DIFYG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE THE UNED STATJULY20SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWPL C. BURKE AND JOHN W. MACKAY: TAKE PRI AND FEND THE UTAH WAYJUNE3SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOW2 UTAH FAI SUE OVER BAN ON TRANSGENR WOMEN AND GIRLS PETG SCHOOL SPORTSJUNE1CNNREAD NOWUTAH FAI OF 2 TEENS SUCCSFULLY SUE OVER STATE BAN OF TRANSGENR ATHLET SCHOOL SPORTSJUNE1THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWOPN: IF ABORTN RETURNS TO STATE LAWMAKERS, IS THERE A ‘UTAH WAY’ FORWARD?MAY3DERET NEWSREAD NOWREPUBLIN NDIDATE FOR UTAH LEGISLATURE MA TRANSPHOBIC MENTS ON A NSERVATIVE PODSTAPRIL29THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWWHY DID TUCKER CARLSON LL UTAH GOP GOV. SPENCER COX A ‘CUT-RATE GAV NEWSOM IMATOR’APRIL7DERET NEWSREAD NOWWT HIGH STUNTS STAGE WALKOUT PROTT TO UTAH TRANS ATHLETE BILLAPRIL6KJZZ 14READ NOWA ACH OF TWO TRANSGENR ATHLET SAYS UTAH’S HB11 WILL ‘SHUT THEM OUT OM THEIR ENTIRE INTY’MARCH29THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWUTAH LEGISLATURE OVERRIS GOVERNOR’S VETO OF TRANSGENR ATHLETE BILLMARCH25THE NEW YORK TIMREAD NOWSEN. DANIEL THATCHER STOOD UP FOR TRANS KIDS, EVEN THOUGH MAY END HIS POLIL REER, ROBERT GEHRKE WRMARCH25THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWOPN: UTAH’S TRANSGENR ATHLETE BILL DO NOT LIVE UP TO THE ‘UTAH WAY’MARCH24DERET NEWSREAD NOWGROWG LATTER-DAY SAT SUPPORT FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS TOPS THE NATNAL AVERAGEMARCH24SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWHOW ONE REPUBLIN ERNOR JT SHAMED HIS WHOLE PARTYMARCH23THE WASHGTON POSTREAD NOWGROUPS PLAN TO SUE AFTER EXPECTED OVERRI OF TRANSGENR BILL VETOMARCH23KSL TVREAD NOWUTAH LAWMAKERS TO MEET FRIDAY TO OVERRI GOV. COX’S VETO ON BILL TO BAN TRANSGENR GIRLS FEMALE SCHOOL SPORTSMARCH22THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWIN LAST HOURS OF SSN, UTAH LAWMAKER PROPOS BAN ON TRANSGENR FEMALE ATHLETMARCH4DERET NEWSREAD NOWBILL BANNG TRANSGENR CHILDREN OM SPORTS PASS UTAH LEGISLATURE, BUT COX WILL VETOMARCH4FOX 13READ NOWUTAH TO SCRAP BODY MEASUREMENTS OM TRANSGENR SPORTS BILLMARCH2THE WASHGTON POSTREAD NOWBILL ON TRANSGENR STUNT ATHLET UTAH MAY BE CLOSE TO PROMISEFEBARY24FOX 13READ NOWUTAH LAWMAKER PROPOS BAN ON TRANSGENR SURGERY FOR KIDS, LIMS ON GENR-BASED REFEBARY17THE SPECTM READ NOWPANEL WOULD EVALUATE WEIGHT, HEIGHT AND WGSPAN OF TRANSGENR STUNT ATHLET UNR UTAH BILLFEBARY14THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWBYU NCELS RE FOR TRANSGENR CLIENTS RECEIVG VOICE THERAPY AT S SPEECH CLICFEBARY10THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWBETTER MENTAL HEALTH FOUND AMONG TRANSGENR PEOPLE WHO STARTED HORMON AS TEENSJANUARY12STANFORD MEDICEREAD NOWHISTORIC SALT LAKE UNCIL MAJORY LGBTQ, PEOPLE OF LORJANUARY5FOX 13READ NOWA. STT ANRSON: TRIBUNE SHOULD GIVE LDS CHURCH MORE CRED FOR PROGRS ON LGBTQ ISSUJANUARY2SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOW2021BILLNAIRE MAK PUBLIC BREAK FROM MORMON CHURCHDECEMBER21THE NEW YORK TIMREAD NOWA BILLNAIRE AND THE TECH DTRY ARE TRYG TO SHAPE LGBTQ RIGHTS EPLY MORMON UTAHDECEMBER21WASHGTON POSTREAD NOWWEALTHIT UTAH NATIVE RIGNS OM THE LDS CHURCHDECEMBER20SALT LAKE TRIBUNE READ NOWSLC SHOWS MAJOR IMPROVEMENT, HS TOP MUNICIPAL EQUALY INX SRE FOR CLIVY TOWARDS LGBTQ+DECEMBER20ABC4READ NOWHOW 9 BOOKS STARTED A FIGHT OVER CENSORSHIP AND PORNOGRAPHY THIS UTAH SCHOOL DISTRICTNOVEMBER30SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWUTAH BILL WOULD REQUIRE TRANS ATHLET TO UNRGO HORMONE THERAPY FOR A YEAR BEFORE PETGNOVEMBER24METRO WEEKLYREAD NOWVIDEO: UTAH AL PROMOTED AS NATNAL MOL FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS, RELIG LIBERTYOCTOBER22THE WASHGTON BLAREAD NOWAFTER UTAH SUPREME COURT LG, LAWMAKERS MT NOW CI HOW TO FE SEX ON BIRTH CERTIFITSEPTEMBER15SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWUTAH SCHOOL BOARD REPRIMANDS MEMBER NATALIE CLE FOR SHOWG ‘PREJUDICE’ LGBTQ MENTSSEPTEMBER3SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWUTAH SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER NATALIE CLE ULD FACE CENSURE FOR SOCIAL MEDIA POST ABOUT LGBTQ SEMARY STUNTSAUGT25SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWEQUALY UTAH WILL TAKE S GALA ONLE BEE OF COVID SURGEAUGT17SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWEQUALY UTAH MENDS SUPREME COURT CISN THAT BALANC RELIG BELIEFS WH EQUAL PROTECTNJUNE17FOX 13 SALT LAKE CYREAD NOWCHARL LYNN FROST, UTAH THPIAN WHO BROUGHT SISTER DOTTIE S. DIXON TO LIFE, DI AT 67MAY20SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWUTAH SUPREME COURT L ON TRANSGENR RIGHTS AND BIRTH CERTIFITMAY6FOX 13READ NOWUTAH AFFIRMS TRANSGENR RIGHT TO CHANGE BIRTH CERTIFITMAY6AP NEWSREAD NOWBAGLEY CARTOON: GREATER STATE SEALMAY6SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWMEETG THE MIDDLE ON RELIG AND LGBTQ RIGHTSMAY4DERET NEWSREAD NOWADVOT SAY TRANSGENR DAY OF VISIBILY IS ONE FOR CELEBRATN AND EDUTNMARCH31KUERREAD NOWLETTER: TARGETED MORY MUNI STAND SOLIDARY WH THE ASIAN-AMERIN MUNYMARCH28SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWTROY WILLIAMS: AFTER 50-YEAR STALEMATE, 'S TIME TO PASS FERAL LGBTQ NONDISCRIMATN LAWMARCH24THE HILLREAD NOWPARK CY STUNTS FIGHT ONLE FILTERS FOR LGBTQ SEARCHMARCH21U.S. NEWS, WORLD REPORTREAD NOWPARK CY SCHOOL DISTRICT PUTERS BLOCKED LGBTQ AND BLACK LIV MATTER SEARCH TERMSMARCH18TOWNLIFTREAD NOWEXCLIVE: HOW THE UTAH JAZZ GOT VOLVED THE BATE OVER THE TRANSGENR SPORTS BILLMARCH16SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWEQUALY ACT IS CREATG A HISTORIC FACE-OFF BETWEEN RELIG EXEMPTNS AND LGBTQ RIGHTSMARCH16THE WASHGTON POSTREAD NOWSTATE GROUPS SEEN AS KEY TO WNG OVER UNCID SENATORS ON EQUALY ACTMARCH3WASHGTON BLAREAD NOWUTAH SENATE MTEE TABL BILL BARRG TRANSGENR GIRLS OM FEMALE K-12 SPORTSFEBARY24SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWBILL THAT WOULD AFFECT HEALTH OF UTAH’S TRANSGENR YOUTH STALLS STATE LEGISLATUREFEBARY19SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWGOV. SPENCER COX SAYS HE WON’T SIGN TRANSGENR SPORTS BILL AS NOW WRTENFEBARY18DERET NEWSREAD NOWSHOULD TRANSGENR GIRLS PLAY ON GIRLS SPORTS TEAMS? UTAHNS SHARE OPNS NEW POLLFEBARY18DERET NEWSREAD NOWROBERT GEHRKE: ANTI-TRANS BILLS POSE TT FOR UTAH’S SPENCER COXFEBARY17SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWUTAH TRANSGENR ATHLETE BILL: A ‘FAIR PLAYG FIELD’ OR DISCRIMATN AND HARMFUL?FEBARY11DERET NEWSREAD NOWEQUALY UTAH ON LGBTQ POLICY CHANG AND PROPOSED LEGISLATNFEBARY7ABC4READ NOWBAGLEY CARTOON: PLAGUE RATSFEBARY5SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWSHOULD TRANSGENR WOMEN BE BANNED OM WOMEN’S LLEGE, HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS?FEBARY5DERET NEWSREAD NOWUTAH BILL WOULD BAR TRANSGENR GIRLS OM FEMALE SPORTS LLEGE, GRA SCHOOLFEBARY4SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWPETN TO REMOVE UTAH SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER C MENTS ABOUT LGBTQ STUNTS, BLACK LIV MATTERFEBARY1SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWUTAH LAWMAKER WANTS TO PROHIB DOCTORS OM OFFERG GENR REASSIGNMENT TREATMENT TO MORSJANUARY31DERET NEWSREAD NOW LET LISA BARLOW OF REAL HOEWIV BE YOUR GUI TO FABULO SALT LAKE CYJANUARY31QUEERTYREAD NOWTROY WILLIAMS: MT ROMNEY N HELP FD MON GROUND ON PROTECTG LGBTQ AMERINS OM DISCRIMATNJANUARY25SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOW2020DEA WANTS TO SURVEIL PATIENTS. TRANS MEN STOPPED THEM ONCE BEFORE.NOVEMBER16FILTERREAD NOWCENS: UTAH IS THE MARRIAGE STATE — FOR STRAIGHT AND LGBTQ UPL ALIKESEPTEMBER16SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWOPEN HEARTEDNS: FIVE QUTNS FOR TROY WILLIAMS OF EQUALY UTAHSEPTEMBER9EDC UTAHREAD NOWEQUALY UTAH TRAS BS LEARS HOW TO BE MORE LGBTQ CLIVEJUNE12SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWGUT EDORIAL: 5 YEARS AGO, UTAH SAVED MY LIFE BY PASSG LGBTQ NONDISCRIMATN PROTECTNSJUNE4STANDARD-EXAMERREAD NOWEQUALY UTAH HOSTS GOP NDIDAT FOR ERNORMAY21KSLREAD NOWINSTCTURE BE UTAH'S FIRST CERTIFIED BS EQUALY LEARMAY19UTAH BS INSIRREAD NOWUTAH'S REPUBLIN NDIDAT FOR ERNOR WILL APPEAR A FOM ON LGBTQ ISSUMAY18FOX 13READ NOWSENATE STRIK DISCRIMATORY LANGUAGE OM SURROGACY LAWFEBARY26SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWPOLL: 57% OF UTAHNS SUPPORT BANNG ‘NVERSN THERAPY’ FOR MORSFEBARY18SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWUTAH’S "NVERSN THERAPY" BAN IS A MAJOR TIPPG POT FOR LGBTQ RIGHTSJANUARY31VOXREAD NOWUTAH IS LATT STATE TO BAN LGBTQ 'CONVERSN THERAPY'JANUARY23NPRREAD NOWUTAH IS LATT STATE TO BAN CONVERSN THERAPY FOR CHILDRENJANUARY22THE NEW YORK TIMREAD NOWFOR YEARS UTAH'S LGBTQ CHILDREN WERE SUBJECTED TO CONVERSN THERAPY. THAT'S ABOUT TO ENDJANUARY21NEWSWEEKREAD NOWPOLL: UTAHNS SUPPORT RATIFYG THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENTJANUARY18SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOW2019WHY THE LDS CHURCH SUPPORTS UTAH'S CONVERSN THERAPY BANNOVEMBER29TIMEREAD NOWGOVERNOR HERBERT ANNOUNC NEW LE TO BAN LGBTQ+ NVERSN THERAPY ON MORSNOVEMBER26ABC4READ NOWMORMON CHURCH OPPOS UTAH'S 'NVERSN THERAPY' BANOCTOBER16APREAD NOWUTAH’S ATTEMPT TO BAN NVERSN THERAPY LEADS TO EMOTNAL PLEAS OM ADVOT AND OPPONENTSSEPTEMBER26SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWUTAH POISED TO BEE NEXT STATE TO BAN NVERSN THERAPY ON MORS AS AGENCY WEIGHS LE CHANGESEPTEMBER26KSLREAD NOWPEOPLE UTAH SUPPORT LGBTQ RIGHTS MORE THAN NEW YORKERSJULY25LGBTQ NATNREAD NOWUTAH RANKS 2ND NATN FOR SUPPORTG LAWS THAT PROTECT LGBTQ MUNYJULY22SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWLGBTQ CELEBRATN LOVELOUD ‘FLYG UNR S OWN WGS’ THIRD YEAR, SAYS FOUNR DAN REYNOLDSJUNE27SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWSALT LAKE COUNTY URG UTAH LEGISLATURE TO PASS NVERSN THERAPY BANJUNE25KSLREAD NOWA RABOW REVOLT | COVER STORY | SALT LAKE CYJUNE5CY WEEKLYREAD NOWBAGLEY CARTOON: UTAH LGBEETQMAY24SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWLDS CHURCH REVERS POLICI ON LGBT APOSTASY AND CHILD BAPTISMAPRIL4NPRREAD NOWUTAH ERNOR SIGNS LONG-AWAED HATE-CRIM LAWAPRIL2APREAD NOWADULTERY, SODOMY NO LONGER ILLEGAL UTAHMARCH25FOX 13READ NOWUTAH IS ABOUT TO GET A TOUGHER HATE CRIM LAW AFTER FAL LEGISLATIVE OKMARCH13SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWPOSTS BY UTAH LAWMAKER NVERSN THERAPY BATE DRAW IREMARCH8APREAD NOWEQUALY UTAH DIRECTOR RIGNS OM ERNOR'S SUICI PREVENTN TASK FORCEMARCH7KUTVREAD NOWEQUALY UTAH’S TROY WILLIAMS QUS A STATE TASK FORCE ON YOUTH SUICI OVER CHANG TO NVERSN THERAPY BILLMARCH6SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWCOLLAPSE OF NVERSN THERAPY BILL BRGS RIFT BETWEEN GAY ACTIVISTS AND ERNORMARCH6DERET NEWSREAD NOWUTAH LAWMAKER WARNS AGAST UPSETTG LITE BALANCE OF PROPOSED NVERSN THERAPY BAN — ONE THE LDS CHURCH HAS AGREED NOT TO FIGHTMARCH1THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWEQUALY UTAH BACKG BILLS ON HATE CRIM AND BANNG NVERSN THERAPYFEBARY24ABC4READ NOWCHURCH WILL NOT OPPOSE HATE CRIM LEGISLATN, CLARIFI PREV POSNJANUARY23DERET NEWSREAD NOWUTAH ANTI-TRANSGENR BIRTH CERTIFITE BILL WHDRAWNFEBARY14THE ADVOTEREAD NOWSPONSORS OF PETG TRANSGENR BILLS AGREE TO HOLD BILLS THIS SSNFEBARY14ABC4READ NOWLGBTQ PROTECTNS REMA THE STICKG POT UTAH’S HATE CRIM BATEJANUARY6SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOW2018UTAH LEGISLATORS MAY REPEAL ADULTERY AND SODOMY LAWSOCTOBER31SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWBELIEVER BRGS LOVE AND ACCEPTANCE TO SUUSEPTEMBER24SUU NEWSREAD NOWUTAH IS FALLY ADDRSG ITS EPIMIC OF YOUTH SUICIAPRIL26THE ADVOTEREAD NOWUTAH LT. GOV. HOP CEREMONIAL SIGNG OF 8 MENTAL HEALTH-RELATED BILLS SPURS NVERSATNS FAIAPRIL24DERET NEWSREAD NOWIMAGE DRAGONS’ DAN REYNOLDS HOP LDS LEARS WILL SEE ‘BELIEVER,’ HIS FILM ABOUT MORMON LGBT YOUTHSJANUARY28SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWTASK FORCE ANNOUNCED TO RCE TEEN SUICIJANUARY18KUTVREAD NOWUTAH GOVERNOR TASK FORCE TO ADDRS TEEN SUICIJANUARY17CHURCH NEWSROOMREAD NOW2017LAWSU IS SETTLED AFTER THE END OF A PROHIBN OF TALKG ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY IN SCHOOLSOCTOBER12UPRREAD NOWEQUALY UTAH, STATE SCHOOLS SETTLE LAWSU OVER ANTI-GAY SEX-ED POLICIOCTOBER6SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWCASE OVER LGBT TALK SCHOOLS SETTLED AFTER UTAH LAW CHANGEOCTOBER6THE WASHGTON POSTREAD NOWA HAPPY END TO UTAH’S NO PROMO HOMO LAWOCTOBER6HUFFPOSTREAD NOWPLATIFFS LEGAL BATTLE OVER ‘NO PROMO HOMO’ LAW UTAH SPEAKOCTOBER1FOX13READ NOWLOVELOUD FT WAS AN IMPORTANT CHANCE TO ‘CHANGE THE DIALOGUE’ BETWEEN LGBT AND MORMON MUNI, IMAGE DRAGONS ONTMAN SAYSAUGT26SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWUTAH SCHOOL BOARD VOT TO REPEAL 'NO PROMO HOMO' POLICYMAY5FOX13READ NOWUTAH SAYS NO TO 'NO PROMO HOMO' LAW, BUT OTHER STAT LAG BEHDAPRIL10THE DAILY BEASTREAD NOWUTAH JT REPEALED A LAW THAT BANNED TEACHERS OM TALKG ABOUT GAY PEOPLE CLASSROOMSMARCH21VOXREAD NOWTHE END OF “NO PROMO HOMO”: UTAH ULD BEE THE FIRST REPUBLIN STATE TO STRIKE DOWN ANTI-LGBT LAWMARCH15SALONREAD NOWUTAH LEGISLATURE STRIK SO-LLED 'NO-PROMO HOMO' LAWMARCH8SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWSENATOR: 'WHO 2017 ULD BE OPPOSED' TO RATIFYG EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT?FEBARY27DERET NEWSREAD NOWEQUALY UTAH SAYS BILL SPONSOR 'ACKNOWLEDGED MER' OF LAWSU AGAST STATE SCHOOL BOARDFEBARY22DERET NEWSREAD NOWJUDGE STAYS LAWSU OVER UTAH'S 'NO PROMO HOMO' LAWS ANTICIPATN OF LEGISLATIVE FIX FEBARY21SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOW2016FIGHTG FOR LGBTQ EQUALY THE MORMON CHURCH — TROY WILLIAMS, GAY MISSNARYAUGT22MEDIUMREAD NOWA (VIRTUAL) WALK DOWN SALT LAKE CY'S HARVEY MILK BLVD.MAY19THE ADVOTEREAD NOWIN THE HEART OF MORMON UNTRY, A STREET IS RENAMED FOR HARVEY MILKMAY12THE LA TIMREAD NOWAS ANTI-LGBT LAWS SWEEP U.S., HOW DID GOP-LED UTAH PASS A LANDMARK NONDISCRIMATN BILL?APRIL19DEMOCRACY NOWREAD NOWMY VIEW: UTAH'S HATE CRIME LAW ISN'T WORKG. HERE'S HOW WE FIX FEBARY16DERET NEWSREAD NOW2015JACKIE BISKUPSKI BE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAYOR OF SALT LAKE CY NOVEMBER18NBC NEWSREAD NOWBAGLEY RTOON: NEW STATE OF THE STATENOVEMBER14SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWWE ALL MAKE MISTAK AS HUMANS,' UTAH FOSTER MOTHER SAYS OF JUDGE'S RCD ORRNOVEMBER13SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWUTAH JUDGE ORRS LBIAN COUPLE TO GIVE UP FOSTER CHILDNOVEMBER12THE NEW YORK TIMREAD NOWUTAH AND MORMONS WALK A COMPLITED LE ON GAY, RELIG RIGHTSNOVEMBER10WALL STREET JOURNALREAD NOWFAY HOMO EVENG BRGS SOLIDARY WAKE OF MORMON SAME-SEX-POLICY CHANGENOVEMBER9SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWLGBT MUNY GATHERS FOR 'FAY HOMO EVENG' REACTN TO NEW LDS POLICYNOVEMBER9FOX13READ NOWEQUALY UTAH AT THE 2015 UTAH GOP CONVENTN (VIO)AUGT16UTAH POLICYREAD NOWSURVEY RANKS SALT LAKE CY'S LGBT POPULATN 7TH AMONG TOP 50 METRO AREASMARCH20SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWUTAH — Y, UTAH — PASS LANDMARK LGBT RIGHTS BILLMARCH12THE WASHGTON POSTREAD NOWUTAH PASS ANTIDISCRIMATN BILL BACKED BY MORMON LEARSMARCH12THE NEW YORK TIMREAD NOWUTAH SENATE PASS LGBT ANTI-DISCRIMATN BILLMARCH6AL JAZEERAREAD NOWLGBT ANTI-DISCRIMATN BILL PASS UTAH SENATEMARCH6APREAD NOWLDS CHURCH, LGBT ADVOT BACK NONDISCRIMATN BILLMARCH5DERET NEWSREAD NOWLAWS SHOULD PROTECT PRACTICE OF FAH, REJECT LGBT DISCRIMATNFEBARY22DERET NEWSREAD NOWIN MAJOR MOVE, MORMON LEARS LL FOR STATEWI LGBT PROTECTNSFEBARY8SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOW2014A YEAR LATER: SAME SEX MARRIAGE “SHOCKED THE NATN” DECEMBER20DERET NEWSREAD NOWCONTROVERSIAL ACTIVIST NAMED HEAD OF EQUALY UTAHSEPTEMBER27SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWBRANDIE BALKEN TO LEAVE EQUALY UTAHJULY16Q SALT LAKEREAD NOWEQUALY UTAH CELEBRAT PROGRS, VISIBILY, HOPEMAY11ST. GEE NEWSREAD NOWNOTABLE UTAHNS FORM GAY MARRIAGE ADVOCY GROUPMARCH18SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWUTAH LAWMAKER APOLOGIZ FOR TRANSGENR JOKEFEBARY14LA TIMREAD NOWGAY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS ARRTED UTAH AFTER STATEHOE S-FEBARY10RTERSREAD NOW13 GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS ARRTED AT UTAH STATE LEGISLATUREFEBARY10FOX13READ NOWBILL WOULD BAN TRANSGENR RTROOM E SCHOOLSFEBARY1SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOW2013A FERAL COURT BRGS GAY MARRIAGE TO UTAHDECEMBER20THE NEW YORKERREAD NOWFERAL JUDGE STRIK DOWN UTAH BAN ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGEDECEMBER20SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWCOMMENTARY: MARRIAGE EQUALY WILL ARRIVE UTAH SOONOCTOBER12SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOWROBERT REDFORD TELLS UTAH THAT DISCRIMATN IS ‘UN-AMERIN’SEPTEMBER13FORBREAD NOWEQUALY UTAH BRGS NON-DISCRIMATN PROJECT TO PROVOJUNE26DAILY HERALDREAD NOWDT LANCE BLACK HEADL ST. GEE EQUALY CELEBRATNMAY19ST. GEE NEWSREAD NOWSALT LAKE COUNTY CREAT REGISTRY FOR VARIETY OF FAY RELATNSHIPSJUNE5SALT LAKE TRIBUNEREAD NOW2012FIGHTG FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS IS MORE THAN JT MARRIAGEOCTOBER25VOIC OF UTAHREAD NOWJON HUNTSMAN JR. 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Specifilly, Williams, 71, has bee the chronicler of the history of Utah’s LGBTQ+ muny — much of which he has experienced as a young Brigham Young Universy stunt who was kicked out for beg gay, and later durg the AIDS epimic of the ‘80s when he cid to e the box, he rri bs and piec of the history he’s kept. And there’s a dty block, a lifetime achievement award the Utah Pri Center gave him ’s the 2015 certifite, for outstandg ntributn, given to him by the Utah State Historil Society — which, Williams said, was the “first acknowledgment of [the existence] of a gay muny om a state agency. “I always felt that there’s gog to be a time where Utah’s gog to rewre history and say how much they loved gay people, Black people, people of lor and everythg else, ” Williams said.

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“Very few ci n trace the orig of their gay muny, not only the origs, but who the people volved were, ” he of those journal entri have been chronicled Q Salt Lake Magaze and on his blog “This Day Gay Utah History. In high school, he said he remembers beg love wh a boy named John who didn’t love him heartbreak, and the general shame associated wh homosexualy at the time, ma life difficult.

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“I had to fort her by not tellg her that her son was queer, ” he 1973, he started attendg Brigham Young Universy — the Provo llege owned by The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats — but was kicked out 1976, when the school learned he was his time at BYU, rerds show, the universy was performg shock therapy on stunts as a “gay cure” — somethg Latter-day Sat apostle Dall H. Williams eventually was kicked out of BYU, whout gettg his teachg 1977, Williams did what many gay men the Latter-day Sat fah had done at the time: He got married to a woman, to “get back to the good grac of the church.

”Instead, Williams says all me om grassroots anizatns that the lol gay and lbian muny “we were dyg left and right, ” Williams said, he cid to chronicle the epimic. “I had some kd of epiphany sayg the reason I was so unhappy all my life was bee I was rejectg this gift that God gave me, that my homosexualy was not a curse. ”Stonewall to Salt Lake CyWilliams said gay liberatn me to Salt Lake Cy October 1969, only a few months after the rts at the Stonewall Inn New York Cy, seen generally as the begng of the gay-rights rippl om Stonewall were felt natnally, mostly through llege mp, Williams said.

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In Salt Lake Cy, there were also people wh progrsive iologi — such as Ralph Place, the founr of the state’s first gay anizatn; Joe Redburn, the rad host who found two of Salt Lake Cy’s inic gay bars, The Sun and The Trapp; and Lda Huntgton, whose bohemian store Mother’s Earth Thgs anchored the funky 9th and 9th bs muny Salt Lake Cy started small, wh ls than a hundred active members 1970, Williams said. ” The psychelic rock band Country Joe and the Fish, which had played at Woodstock jt two months earlier, performed the 1973, Redburn opened The Sun, which Williams lled the first real gay bar Utah. The mastream news outlets Utah wouldn’t publish anythg about gay liberatn meetgs, Williams said, but the Daily Utah Chronicle, the stunt paper at the Universy of Utah, did wre about them.

”The growth Utah’s LGBTQ+ activism stalled the late 1970s, Williams said, after a seri of vlent murrs of gay men, cludg social activist Anthony Adams, shut the muny down and forced people to go to Utah’s LGBTQ+ muny evolvedWilliams was one of the founrs of the Gay and Lbian Communy Council of Utah, which started 1986. He also was a equent speaker on KRCL’s “Concerng Gays and Lbians” started by Donna Maldonado (who died September) after Williams beme a schoolteacher, he said, his volvement the muny was on the down low, bee he would have lost his job otherwise.

”(Francis Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Ben Williams says the ternalized shame he faced as a gay man eventually spired him to bee an activist and the AIDS epimic is what spired him to e out at the age of 34.

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In his <a href=" target=_blank>remarks</a> at the Universy of Virgia, he hailed the virtu of relig eedom and the importance of LGBTQ nondiscrimatn laws like the trailblazg one LDS lears, lawmakers and LGBTQ activists worked to pass 2015. Known as the “Utah promise,” bans discrimatn agast LGBTQ people hog and employment while rvg out exceptns for relig reasons.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“I eply regret that the two groups have been drawn to nflict wh one another,” Oaks said of advot for relig liberty and LGBTQ rights.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">To Williams’s amazement, Oaks then went on to quote Williams — a longtime activist who 2009 led kiss- ralli at the major temple Salt Lake Cy and 2014 was jailed after a s-<b> </b>at the state pol — a posive way. Dpe both havg worked on the promise, the two have never met. (An LDS spokperson said Oaks was not available for ment.)</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-image" class="hi-for-prt"><div style="m-height:358px"></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">LDS lears and elected officials Utah see the state as a role mol for balancg what seems to many like petg rights a eply divid untry. So far, Utah is the only state that has such a law on s books, and efforts to replite on a natnal level have so far failed.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Many supporters of LGBTQ rights are ls enthiastic. They ce glarg gaps the state’s protectns for LGBTQ people and argue that relig eedom protectns, which were tegral securg nservative support for the promise, were already strong the state. For example, Brigham Young Universy prohibs LGBTQ stunts om datg and n ny hog to same-sex upl.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Williams still believ engagg wh lawmakers and Mormon lears as he did six years ago. But he has a new source of potential leverage: the state’s tech dtry. While start-ups were already sprgg up between Salt Lake and Provo before the promise, observers cred the law — and the absence of measur such as a ban on genr-affirmg health re or bathroom bills — wh helpg Utah stay petive the fight for talent. And now, wh newly built fortun, some tech entreprenrs want to unter the fluence of the LDS Church on social issu.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Upon reachg a<b> </b>penthoe sue, Williams was greeted by Jeff T. Green, who found the onle advertisg pany lled the Tra Dk. Green is one of the wealthit Mormons the untry wh a worth of about<b> </b>$5.7 billn. He had been skeptil the promise had changed the state’s culture and had agreed to meet Williams to hear his group’s plans to advance LGBTQ rights.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Durg a two hour-nversatn, they trad stori om their Mormon missnary days. Green, who now liv California, explaed that he was preparg to leave the church soon. And he wanted to know: What uld Equaly Utah do wh more money?</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><h3 data-qa="article-hear" class=" pb-sm pt-lgmod" id="A7ZTCFDKNVALPKAWQDM65QSSZA"><div>Common ground</div></h3></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-image-group"><div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Sce 2015, the state has taken other LGBTQ-iendly steps. In 2017, Utah overturned s “No Promo Homo” law, which prohibed discsn of LGBTQ issu classrooms. In 2020, the state banned nversn therapy. And this year, the Mormon ernor regnized Pri Month. A queer<i> </i>bookstore recently opened wh walkg distance to the LDS temple Salt Lake Cy, and at least twice a month Provo, Utahns n attend a drag show.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The promise was also a regnn of chang that were already happeng Utah, now the natn’s fastt growg state. The year the promise passed, <a href=" target=_blank>Gallup</a> reported Salt Lake Cy was home to more people who intify as LGBTQ per pa than New York Cy or Los Angel. The followg year, Salt Lake elected s first openly gay mayor, and the majory of s cy uncil is now LGBTQ.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">While LGBTQ advot often view the enormo fluence of the LDS church as an obstacle, some observers say n be an advantage, too. Mormons make up about 86 percent of the state legislature, acrdg to the <a href=" target=_blank>Salt Lake Cy Tribune</a>, while about 60 percent of Utahns are Mormon, acrdg to the latt figur available om the LDS Church. Once Mormon lears and lawmakers got behd anti-discrimatn protectns for LGBTQ people, they were able to get them through a Republin-ntrolled legislature, a rare step, acrdg to Lambda Legal, a nonprof group that tracks LGBTQ rights legislatn.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-image" class="hi-for-prt"><div style="m-height:358px"></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">How much further are they willg to go? LGBTQ rights advot want the state to ban discrimatn agast LGBTQ people public acmodatns. For example, a Mormon ke baker n legally cle to provi servic for a same-sex weddg.<b> </b>But some who helped craft the 2015 promise feel they went far enough.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">State Senate print J. Stuart Adams played a key role the passage of the legislatn. On a Friday November at the state pol, Adams, who is LDS, said his support for the law was spired by a biblil passage<b> </b>where J spoke about the importance of lovg one’s neighbor as onelf.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“I realized I need to live my relign rather than protect my relign,” Adams said. “Risg ti lifts all ships, and you fd a way to protect everybody’s rights, you fd your rights are protected wh others.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">He said he unrstands not everyone is satisfied wh the rult, but how me to be is still signifint. Adams says he has Williams on his cellphone’s speed dial. When asked about new protectns for public acmodatns, he rpond that Utah already has a culture of nondiscrimatn, fostered part by the promise. In the six years sce the law passed, no one has filed any plats unr the law for hog or employment discrimatn, he said.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Many Utahns expect the issue of banng transgenr girls and women om petg girls’ and women’s sports will e up durg the next legislative ssn. If do, Adams says he will rely on the same strategy that produced the promise: “One of the objectiv is to be able to have a fair petn and not be discrimatory.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><h3 data-qa="article-hear" class=" pb-sm pt-lgmod" id="A7ZTCFDKNVALPKAWQDM65QSSZA"><div>Silin Valley valu</div></h3></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-image" class="hi-for-prt"><div style="m-height:358px"></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">For Derek Kchen, a Democratic state senator, would be a step backward if the legislature even nsired an anti-transgenr bill. Kchen, who -owns a Lebane rtrant where he holds a monthly queer poetry night, sued the state of Utah 2015 a se that legalized same-sex marriage there. He is proud of where Utah has e but wants to see Mormon legislators go even further and pass more anti-discrimatn protectns.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“If we’re so proud of the Utah promise,” Kchen said, “maybe we should flex that mcle once aga.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">He has a vol and sympathetic dience “Silin Slop,” the nickname for the start-up-rich area between Provo and Salt Lake Cy. Many of the tech entreprenrs are Mormon and attend BYU. Some have been fluenced by Silin Valley’s more libertarian culture and are sendg money to a recently lnched <a href=" target=_blank>tech polil actn mtee</a> that<b> </b>will attempt to offer more progrsive views on social views than the<b> </b>LDS Church state polics.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“Dpe the fact that the church is makg more efforts on LGBTQ inti, ’s not enough for tech culture, which don’t have tolerance for discrimatn of any kd," said Taylor Petrey, a relign profsor at Kalamazoo College who has wrten a book on Mormonism and LGBTQ issu. "[The tech lears] want to assiate to broar Ameri, and this isn’t the issue they want to be intified wh.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Josh Jam, CEO of the software pany Domo, is among the tech dtry lears railg agast anti-transgenr legislatn and <a href=" target=_blank>liquor laws</a>. He and Apple CEO Tim Cook have donated to Encircle, a drop- center for LGBTQ youth loted across the street om a LDS temple Provo.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-image" class="hi-for-prt"><div style="m-height:358px"></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Jam has also put up LGBTQ clive billboards and donated more than $1 ln to related . Jam, a Mormon, said an terview that he hop the LDS Church chang s doctre on LGBTQ people. The church do not regnize same-sex marriage and says marriage “between a man and a woman was stuted by God and is central to His plan for His children and for the well-beg of society.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“Mormons have been different for a long time,” Jam said. “There’s a regnn you need to accept other people who are different.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><h3 data-qa="article-hear" class=" pb-sm pt-lgmod" id="A7MHBAQHIRA4VEX2JGHJWIO5SM"><div>The lims of promise</div></h3></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-image" class="hi-for-prt"><div style="m-height:358px"></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Some of the ph to go beyond the Utah promise has grown out of disappotment wh what the legislatn has been able to acplish for Mormons who are gay, several people si the LDS Church said.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Stunts at BYU Provo say the school is a microsm of the ntradictns that many LGBTQ Mormons Utah experience.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">A lot has changed at the school where s earlier, “universy approved”<b> </b>electroshock therapi were performed on gay stunts,<b> </b>acrdg to the book “<a href=" target=_blank>Gay Rights and the Mormon Church</a>.”<b> </b>BYU eventually end the practice, and 2016, lears nounced “any therapy that subjects an dividual to abive practic.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">In November, a group of about 80 staff and stunts met for a workshop<b> </b>on how to support LGBTQ stunts and stunts of lor where people n ask qutns, such as what do the word “genrqueer” means.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">For Calv Burke, though, the treatment of LGBTQ stunts has phed him out of BYU entirely. The senr English major is planng to transfer next semter after years of difficult teractns.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">When Burke me out at BYU, his roommate moved out while Burke was class. A profsor enuraged him to go to nversn therapy. The Utah promise did not broan the legal spe to protect LGBTQ employe a place like BYU. Burke has worked the feteria and as a rpet cleaner, and his employment uld have also been jeopardy if he had chosen to be a relatnship.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The tippg pot for Burke me this year when a popular profsor on Twter lled him a term om the Book of Mormon that is associated wh the anti-Christ. The profsor apologized, but Burke received public ath threats and other attacks om the DezNat social media movement, which clus the alt-right. The school did not addrs the issue publicly.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“While this issue was addrsed ternally, BYU do not discs disciplary matters publicly,” said a statement.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“I fear for a lot of the stunts that are still at BYU that don’t have the support or the abily to fd a different way,” Burke said. “I ma the mistake of believg BYU uld be safer.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">BYU said rponse to Burke’s experience: “We are eply ncerned about the safety and welfare of our stunts. Stunts not only have accs to our universy police and our stunt unselg center, but we also have an Office of Stunt Succs and Incln that offers support for stunt ncerns and needs.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><h3 data-qa="article-hear" class=" pb-sm pt-lgmod" id="QAM5PFCNFNA2LOMJBXDLSSHOJQ"><div>Gay thg</div></h3></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-image" class="hi-for-prt"><div style="m-height:358px"></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The sun was settg behd the mountas as Green went to his plans to subm his formal rignatn om the LDS Church on Dec. 23, the birthday of Mormonism’s founr and an important day for the fah. He ced his tratns wh church learship, pecially over LGBTQ issu. Also rigng are his brother, an executive at Amazon; a , a vice print at U.S. Bank; his sister, as well as several of their children.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Green and his siblgs grew up a nservative Mormon fay of five children Salt Lake, where he remembers standg le for ernment assistance wh his mother.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">His journey away om the church began over a ago when Mormons raised lns of dollars for Proposn 8, a 2008 ballot proposn that once banned same-sex marriage California. The LDS Church faced natnwi backlash, cludg om s own members. Around that time, Green had been dog his own rearch to Mormonism and nclud had been on the wrong si of history on issu like women’s rights, civil rights and polygamy. Now Green, who liv California and returns to his birthplace of Utah to ski, spends his Sundays studyg philanthropy stead of attendg servic.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Before he met wh Williams, Green said he was not sure the promise was evince the LDS Church has evolved enough. But he saw Oaks’s speech the night before as major progrs om LDS lears.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“I had my doubts. Is really effective to try diplomacy wh the church?” Green said.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“I see progrs as a wdy, curvy road. It’s never a straight le,” Williams replied. “I always celebrate the ws when we n.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“The Mormon learship is olr than ever, and change the world happens faster than ever,” Green said. (The LDS Church is led by a 97-year-old prophet, and his eventual succsors are 89 and 88.)</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Mormons are expected to give one-tenth of their e to the LDS Church as a the, and Williams said that whenever the church do somethg that upsets the LGBTQ muny, Equaly Utah receiv donatns that he lls “gay thg.” The latt wave of donatns me Augt after one of the 12 Mormon apostl, Jeffery R. Holland, gave a <a href=" target=_blank>speech</a> at BYU where he urged “mket fire” on issu cludg “fendg marriage as the unn of a man and a woman.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“We’re happy to take your thg,” Williams told Green.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">At the end of the meetg, the billnaire was still unsure exactly how much he was gog to give to Equaly Utah. (He would later donate $600,000, the send largt one-time<b> </b>donatn the group has ever received). But he was won over by Williams’s diplomatic approach.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“I know there’s an attu that we had this great Utah promise and somehow we make work, but we haven’t ma work yet," Green said. "We n. We’ll get there.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="rrectn-disclaimer" class="wpds-c-lgLEQx"><div data-ttid="disclaimer-headle" class="wpds-c-kAVFVG">rrectn</div><p data-ttid="disclaimer-scriptn" class="wpds-c-joLgjs">An earlier versn of this article misstated the amount of money donated by Josh Jam to LGBTQ . Jam has given more than $1 ln. 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