Gotta love livin' here -- homophobia central
Sometimes I love living in Utah -- we have Moab, great mountains, a really salty lake, the Sundance Film Festival, a few wonderful people -- among other cool things.
Sometimes it's very embarrassing. We just passed a regressive law in 2004 to forbid marriage to gay couples, one of our state politicians is trying to ban gay/straight alliance clubs in Utah high schools (again -- Utah lost money defending this policy a decade ago), and now a commercial mega-plex, Jordan Commons, is buckling to pressure from the homophobes that live in the state, banning the film "Brokeback Mountain" from its theatres. What ever happened to letting the market determine what is shown? This film is selling out or near selling out at the Broadway Theatre (part of the non-profit theatre group, the Salt Lake Film Society) downtown every night. It's stuff like this that makes me wonder why I'm still living in such a backward and bigoted state.
Sometimes it's very embarrassing. We just passed a regressive law in 2004 to forbid marriage to gay couples, one of our state politicians is trying to ban gay/straight alliance clubs in Utah high schools (again -- Utah lost money defending this policy a decade ago), and now a commercial mega-plex, Jordan Commons, is buckling to pressure from the homophobes that live in the state, banning the film "Brokeback Mountain" from its theatres. What ever happened to letting the market determine what is shown? This film is selling out or near selling out at the Broadway Theatre (part of the non-profit theatre group, the Salt Lake Film Society) downtown every night. It's stuff like this that makes me wonder why I'm still living in such a backward and bigoted state.