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A Utah lawmaker says he has listened to ncerns om the LGBTQ muny and updated his bill to no longer be a “Don’t Say Gay” measure.

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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. Midway through 2021, the Cens add qutns about sexual orientatn and genr inty to the survey, to see how the panmic was impactg those people job, then, was relatively simple: I opened up those data fil, looked at what percentage of rponnts said they were lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr, and then averaged the monthly reports separately for 2022 and 2023.

For example, the behavral risk survey data clus people who dited they “don’t know” their sexual orientatn the LGBTQ group, while the other groups don’t clu those three of the sourc didn’t break their timat to separate tegori for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr, one source did: the Cens Bure’s Hoehold Pulse Survey.

And jt like wh the adults, we saw a big leap the percentage of teens reportg they were gay, lbian, bisexual, or jt didn’t 2019, 88. Utah’s laws currently prevent discrimatn employment and hog, but not public acmodatns, per the Movement Advancement also dite that a majory of Utahns (by a 56%-42% marg) oppose allowg small bs owners to refe products or servic to gay or lbian people for relig reasons.

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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.

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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.

“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. “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.

“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.

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”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.

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“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.

” 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.

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. 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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. 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”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. Williams said he noticed then that the gay muny was much like high school: When the senrs graduate, the new stunts have no clue what went on before them.

Williams said started as “gays and lbians” until the first Natnal Lbian Conference took place Atlanta 1991, where bisexualy cln was troduced. ”Williams says he still lls the gay muny, even though he’s aware ’s not polilly rrect, “I ll the gay muny, bee to me, gay is still all-enpassg. ”Bee of the time he grew up , Williams said, the issu the trans and gay munti face now are pletely different to “olr gay people” like him.

”(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. A Utah lawmaker says he has listened to ncerns om the LGBTQ muny and updated a bill that had been a close py of the law Florida natnally brand as the “Don’t Say Gay” measure. ”That mak the bill ls strgent and means words like “gay” or “lbian” are not off lims when someone, cludg an tor, speaks about relatnships — though, Stenquist said, discsns should still be age-appropriate.

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What percentage of Utah is gay, lbian, bisexual, or transgenr (LGBT)? .

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