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Contents:
- UTAH POLICE INVTIGATG ATTACK ON GAY COUPLE AS HATE CRIME
- WHAT UTAH N TEACH THE UNTRY ABOUT GAY RIGHTS AND RELIGN
- STONEWALL, AIDS AND GAY LIBERATN: ONE HISTORIAN SHAR HOW THE CULTURAL MOMENTS SHAPED UTAH’S LGBTQ MUNY
UTAH POLICE INVTIGATG ATTACK ON GAY COUPLE AS HATE CRIME
SANDY, Utah (AP) — Police said on Wednday that an attack agast a gay uple suburban Salt Lake Cy is beg vtigated as a hate crime. * utah news gay *
SANDY, Utah (AP) — Police said on Wednday that an attack agast a gay uple suburban Salt Lake Cy is beg vtigated as a hate crime.
A vio rerd by Metlf and posted on social media shows young men g homophobic slurs while Christian Peack mands they altertn ensued and a strike n be heard on the vio. No charg have been filed and the spect was not named bee he is a charg are filed, Mofft said police planned to supplement a mismeanor asslt charge wh a hate crime enhancement bee “ was very obv that the spect knew (Peack) was a gay man and he was targeted for that. As Congrs weighs feral gay rights legislatn, Utah lears are celebratg their own work on LGBTQ issu over the past six years.
WHAT UTAH N TEACH THE UNTRY ABOUT GAY RIGHTS AND RELIGN
A new vio, released Friday by Equaly Utah, explor how the state has worked to protect relig eedom and gay rights at the same time.
The 2015 bill laid the groundwork for other important legislatn, sce helped gay rights activists, nservative policians, fah lears and others feel fortable workg together, Williams says. In the past six years, Utah has passed LGBTQ-clive hate crim laws and a ban on nversn therapy, among other gay rights-related measur. A Utah teen attacked Augt for beg gay got jtice urt Wednday as a judge sentenced his assailant.
In Utah, the state’s ban on gay marriage had been overturned by a feral judge and several ci and towns had passed new protectns for gay rints or relig groups. 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. “In the aftermath of (same-sex marriage legalizatn), we don’t need addnal laws protectg gay and lbian Amerins.
STONEWALL, AIDS AND GAY LIBERATN: ONE HISTORIAN SHAR HOW THE CULTURAL MOMENTS SHAPED UTAH’S LGBTQ MUNY
They want to grow support for the ia that ’s possible to protect gay, lbian and relig Amerins at the same time. 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.