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:Eric Ethington (Author) | October 4, 2012
Salt Lake County Mayoral Candidate Mark Crockett REALLY doesn’t like people who post unfavorable tweets, apparently. When I got home this evening, I was greeted by a “Cease and Desist” letter from his attorneys. Back on October 1st, local blogger and host of The Left Show JM Bell posted a blog with copies of the [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | February 23, 2012
Welcome to the new look of PRIDEinUtah! The site has been given an overhaul, with a new look, feel and theme, to more accurately reflect our posts over the past year and the year to come. What do you think? As my long-term readers know, the site got its kickoff just before the passage of [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | February 4, 2011
The National Organization For Marriage, the offically-designated hate-group by the SPLC, has a long track record of twisting facts and research to their own nefarious ends. But this time they messed with the wrong blogger and ended up with a pro-equality message on their site. Zack Weiner, the enormously talented comic at Saturday Morning Breakfast [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | November 1, 2010
Thank you so much to all our readers for making October our biggest month ever! We had 60,000 visitors from 47 different US states and 129 countries checking in to see what’s going on in local, national and international LGBT news. Thank you thank you! This tops our previous record set in June of 2010 [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | October 11, 2010
Wow… we’ve been around for 2 years?? PRIDEinUtah has evolved quite a bit since the beginning (remember the original name ethingtoneric.wordpress.com?). What started as a place for me to rant about Prop 8 back in October of 2008 has grown into Utah’s only full-time LGBT news blog. Back in October of 2008, I got the idea [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | October 1, 2010
Update – PIU reader Robert Moore tipped us that the Detroit News has printed a correction to this story. Andrew Shirvell was not suspended, but took a voluntary leave of absence. Mr. Shirvell will face a disiplinary hearing when he returns to his job at an undetermined date. Michigan- Finally! Anti-gay Assistant Attorney General Andrew [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | September 29, 2010
Michigan – Assistant Attorney General Andrew Shirvell has a vendetta, he is out to attack a candidate for being openly gay in any way he can. But wait, the candidate he’s attacking – is a college student who ran for student body president? What the hell? Watch the video here. This is just nuts. Chris Armstrong is [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | January 6, 2010
Hey everyone, ethingtoneric.wordpress.com has now been rolling for over a year and is the single largest private LGBT blog in Utah! This calls for an upgrade I say, so please welcome the all new: PRIDEinutah.com!! That’s right, new title, new domain name, new skin and bigger/badder posts. Thank you so much to all of our [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | February 18, 2009
The information in this blog post was provided by Reed Cowan. All current copywrites apply and are in place. Content posted with written consent from Reed Cowan. The following audio clip is from Reed Cowan’s documentary, prior to the start of the interview. It, along with the accompanying signed release from the Senator is proof [...]
"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.