Mike Thompson’s mission: To be a ‘change agent’

by YEVGENIYA KOPELEVA Imagine a beach covered with thousands of miles of starfish and an individual throwing them one by one back into the ocean. This is how Mike Thompson, executive director of Equality Utah, envisions his position. For him, it’s not about saving every starfish, it’s about making a difference to just that one. [...]

TEA of Utah

by JENNIFER MORGAN Teinamarie Nelson and Rebecca Wilder were having lunch one day and discussing an issue they heard about from the media regarding transgender people that they thought was unfair. The two women wanted to do something to help transgender people and those who interact with them so they didn’t make the news the [...]

Becker is backed by Equality Utah

by CLAYTON NORLEN With a donation of $7,500 and a commitment to volunteer involvement in mayoral candidate Ralph Becker’s campaign, Equality Utah is endorsing who it believes can advance its mission. Becker has proposed the adoption of a universal human rights initiative that is broken into three categories: Comprehensive Ordinances and Policies, Domestic Partner Policies [...]

Activists discuss Utah marriage ban

by CLAYTON NORLEN The passage of Amendment 3 in November 2004 to the Utah Constitution, which outlawed same-sex marriage, was widely debated at the time as an amendment that would protect traditional nuclear families. When the amendment passed by a two-thirds vote in 2004, gay activists said many voters forgot to consider how families in [...]