Utah Gay Ski Week

Contents:

• STTO’S LATT: TUCKER, GAY, SUMNER, NOEL
• LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY
• STONEWALL, AIDS AND GAY LIBERATN: ONE HISTORIAN SHAR HOW THE CULTURAL MOMENTS SHAPED UTAH’S LGBTQ MUNY
• GAYT PLAC IN UTAH FOR 2020
• MOVG TO GAY UTAH? THG TO KNOW BEFORE RELOTG HERE AS AN LGBT PERSON.
• GAY DATG UTAH
• ONLY LADS : EE GAY DATG & GAY CHAT SOCIAL WORK
• GAY UTAH TRAVEL GUI
• UTAH GAY RODEO ASSOCIATION

STTO’S LATT: TUCKER, GAY, SUMNER, NOEL

Free agent forward Rudy Gay, who was recently released by the Thunr, is drawg tert om several potential playoff teams, acrdg to Stto.

The Warrrs, Lakers, Mavericks, Bulls and Pelins have all registered tert Gay, per Stto. Gay will be 37 by the time next season starts and while his role has dimished each of the past three seasons, he’s still a seasoned veteran wh 17 years of NBA experience.

Each team lked to Gay has at least one roster spot open and uld offer him a one-year, veteran’s mimum which, for a player wh 10+ years of experience, is worth roughly $3. For the first time four s, gay and bisexual men will be allowed to donate blood Utah. Durg a prs nference Wednday afternoon, ARUP Blood Servic ma the announcement, makg the first donor center the state to accept donatns om the gay muny.

LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY

“The are excg chang to the guil that have historilly impacted gay and bisexual men for four s.”. Acrdg to Michael Stto of HoopsHype, the Lakers are among several teams who uld potentially have tert Rudy Gay.

Veteran forward Rudy Gay is expected to draw tert om several playoff-liber teams, cludg the Goln State Warrrs, Los Angel Lakers, Dallas Mavericks, Chigo Bulls, and New Orleans Pelins, league sourc told HoopsHype. Perhaps this is a role and avenue that Gay n also provi value like he did for a young Jazz team. While his on-urt productn certaly isn't where ed to be at this stage of his reer, Gay still do posss the reque size and strength to pete.

Standg at 6’8” and sportg a 7’3” wgspan, Gay has the exact type of proportns the Lakers lacked their seri agast the Denver Nuggets particular.

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

The se agast Gay is simple — he would not shore up the Lakers’ glarg need at center.

Gay put up reer lows 3-pot shootg (25%) and eFG% (43%) wh Utah this past year. Dpe the limatns and drop-offs that e wh age, there is potentially a role for Gay somewhere the league as he has proved to still be a steady ntributor when given the chance.

GAYT PLAC IN UTAH FOR 2020

9 pots better than their opponents wh Gay on the floor (1689 posssns) this season acrdg to Cleang the Glass. While remas to be see if that role is found Los Angel for Gay, probably behoov the Lakers to look elsewhere to fill what is an obv need or at least swg for upsi wh a younger player. ” Cox and Polis are eager to set off on an odd uple roadshow, the former Mormon missnary om ral Utah and gay multilnaire om Boulr.

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.

MOVG TO GAY UTAH? THG TO KNOW BEFORE RELOTG HERE AS AN LGBT PERSON.

“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. “I look back now on and was mostly to overe my homosexualy, ” Williams said of his nversn. 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.

“I was fairly relig and I thought, ‘This is not what God wanted me to be, ’ and everybody I knew that was gay California were Mormons. Homosexualy wasn’t somethg his fay talked about.

GAY DATG UTAH

Once, he relled, he was upset about tellg a different boy that he was gay. Williams said his mother tried to fort him, whout knowg he was gay, and the nversatn got awkward.

ONLY LADS : EE GAY DATG & GAY CHAT SOCIAL WORK

“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’s time at BYU, he said, was a “homophobic wch hunt perd” — and he said he knew of two “purg” of homosexuals om mp. 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.

GAY UTAH TRAVEL GUI

… The church at that time was tellg you that marriage was a cure for homosexualy.

… They preached homosexualy was a s next to murr.

“I never would have e to Utah and been a Utah gay historian if I hadn’t found the Mormon church, ” Williams said. The gay muny, stricken by grief, rallied together. “The state wouldn’t do anythg, they wouldn’t allote om the health partment a dime for the gay muny, even for tn.

UTAH GAY RODEO ASSOCIATION

”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.

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.