By Kastalia Medrano, Thrillist -- Utah’s first Gay and Lbian Pri March, 1990, drew maybe 250 people. It went more or ls unopposed. The biggt issue ran to was that the route took marchers past a bunch of parked horse rriag, the sort tourists ri around the downtown. “We were marchg by, chantg and screamg,” says Connell
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Some attempted to raise important social msag by remdg those the LGBT muny, particularly the youth, that there this is help available for those havg suicidal has been the se all week durg gay pri events, about a dozen prottors holdg large signs nmng the gay muny, maly on the grounds of relign, stood along the para route and yelled at participants as they walked by, sayg thgs such as, "You should be ashamed. "While many of the prottors wore shirts and rried signs statg "Fear God, " "J Sav" and proclaimg homosexualy a "s, " Shua fired back by cg Bible vers of his own, statg, "Thirty-seven tim mentns you should not pass judgment on your fellow man. "Others, however, simply tried to give the prottors flowers as they marched by and told them that they loved everyone, even protts e ls than 24 hours after anti-gay prottors gathered outsi Club Jam, 750 N.
Chris Wharton, an openly gay ndidate for Salt Lake Cy Council District 3, said Pri is an important and visible remr that Utah is not as homogeno as some may thk. "The movement has been cricized for beg too foced on the 'L' and the 'G' — the lbian and the gay — and not enough on our bisexual muny, our transgenr muny and our genr queer muny, " Wharton said. Eddie Blast said he traveled om Washgton state to take a stance agast "the homosexual agenda" Salt Lake Cy and beyond.