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Mormon church donates to Utah LGBT community center
The Utah-based Mormon church has given its first-ever charitable donation to an LGBT community center in Salt Lake City.
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For 2nd year, Mormon LGBT group’s bid to join parades is denied
Organizers of the Days of ’47 Parade in Salt Lake City and the Freedom Festival Grand Parade in Provo have again denied the bid by Mormons Building Bridges to take part.
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New Girl Scout troop starts at Utah LGBT pride center
The Girl Scouts are opening a troop at an LGBT pride center in Salt Lake City that officials say will welcome transgender youth and children from LGBT families.
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Utah’s lone openly gay lawmaker to run for mayor of Salt Lake City
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah’s Democratic state Sen. Jim Dabakis, the state legislature’s only openly gay lawmaker, announced Monday that he will run for mayor of Salt Lake City this year.
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Top Mormon leaders vow to be leading advocates for marriage exclusive to a man and a woman
Mormon leaders vowed to be a leading advocate for the belief that marriage is an institution exclusive to a man and a woman during the religion’s biannual conference in Salt Lake City this weekend.
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Cop who objected to riding in gay pride says he was unfairly branded a ‘bigot’
A former Salt Lake City police officer who was put on leave and later resigned after he objected to riding in the motorcycle brigade at the front of last year’s gay pride parade is speaking out against what he believes was a violation of his religious liberties.
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Plaintiff in Utah same-sex marriage case to make city council run
One of the plaintiffs in the court case that overturned Utah’s ban on same-sex marriage is planning to run for Salt Lake City council. Derek Kitchen says he plans to formally announce his candidacy on Tuesday.
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Gay rights advocates assail TLC special ‘My Husband’s Not Gay’
GLAAD says the show sends the wrong message and is a sad reminder of so-called gay conversion therapy, often faith-based efforts designed to change sexual orientation that can be emotionally scarring.
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Utah prosecutors weighing hate crime charges in beating of two gay men
Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill says he takes seriously allegations that the two men were attacked because of their sexual orientation, and is reviewing the assault case.
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Salt Lake Tribune names same-sex marriage plaintiffs ‘Utahns of the Year’
“Because of these Utah plaintiffs — who bravely made public their most private lives — the state took an unlikely position among the vanguard in the biggest civil rights movement of the day.”