Eric Ethington and PRIDEinUtah Named CNN's "Most Intriguing Person"
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:Eric Ethington (Author) | February 28, 2011
We’re back! After 30 hours of the site being down, PRIDEinUtah is back and better than ever! With our new host, our dear readers should be experiencing much less down time (if any!) than with the accursed GoDaddy. We may still be tweaking the next day or so, but here’s to our next chapter! Let [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | February 14, 2011
Whether it’s on a national level with the HRC and GetEQUAL or locally in Utah with PRIDEinUtah, the LGBT community is seeing a rapid and decisive shift in the way we handle the movement towards human rights. Bottom line… things will never be the same. The move towards equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | December 10, 2010
Salt Lake City, UT – Tomorrow there will be an all day non partisan training on how to be an effective activist and advocate in Utah! 3 workshops will run from 9am to 4pm at the City Library. This is going to be awesome! This looks like it will be an amazing event, which covers [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | February 1, 2009
Elaine and I spent the 31st knocking on 4 politicians doors in Utah County today. 2 senators answered their doors, Senator Dayton of Orem, and Senator Mark Madsen of Eagle Mountain. I wish I could say we received a warm reception, but such is not the case unfortunately. We took home-made brownies with us this [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | January 22, 2009
Senator Chris Buttars Eric Ethington and Elaine Ball Some of you may know that I am the founder of the group PRIDE In Your Community, a LGBTQ and ally group that performs community service projects in an attempt to bridge the gap between the LGBTQ community and the rest of Utah. This past Saturday, Jan [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | December 16, 2008
My name is Eric Ethington, and I am here for you. Our country is on the brink of an extraordinary moment, where people of all classes, ethnic groups, colors and identities come together at once to say, “Enough!” We have a progressive African-American President Elect waiting to take office; we have a Senate and House [...]
"Eric, trying to have this (civil rights) conversation with you is ultimately like trying to teach a pig to dance, it just annoys the pig. So Eric, sorry to annoy you."
-Paul Mero, The Sutherland Institute.