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:Eric Ethington (Author) | October 24, 2011
Midvale, Utah – Alan Anderson is an openly gay man running for City Council in Midvale District 3. But despite the fact that he’s running against an opponent who’s on probation after pleading guilty to fraud this year, there are still some voters who say on camera they won’t vote for him because he’s gay. [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | October 21, 2011
Midvale, Utah – The Midvale City Council race for District 3 is drawing some interest around the state, as the frontrunner candidate plead guilty to defrauding his company last February. In the last few years, Infobase Media Corp, the parent company to LDS Audio, says that candidate Paul Hunt was stealing money from them, using [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | March 9, 2011
Ogden, Utah – Last night we reported that although the City Council passed housing and employment Non-Discrimination ordinances, Mayor Matthew Godfrey has pledged to veto them and the council doesn’t have a super majority to override. But the veto has been delayed by a week! Going against the clear will of the citizens of Ogden, [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | March 8, 2011
Ogden, Utah – After almost 3 hours of public testimony and debate tonight, the Ogden City Council actually passed the proposed employment and housing non discrimination ordinances. But with Mayor Godfrey pledging to veto, the council is 1 vote shy of a veto proof majority. Mayor Godfrey pledged at the beginning of the night to [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | March 8, 2011
Ogden, Utah – Following the debate last night on the proposed city Non-Discrimination ordinances, the Ogden City Council is set to vote tonight both on whether or not to adopt the law, as well as whether to exempt Christians. Get the details below and call/email now! The time is now! Ogden has been debating whether [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | February 4, 2011
Port Phillip, Australia – The City Council and Mayor decided that they would honor Pride Day the same way they honor other special events, they hung the rainbow flag out front of city hall. Now conservative Australians are flipping out. City hall traditionally has 3 flags out front. The highest is the Australian flag, followed [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | January 25, 2011
Asheville, North Carolina – A religious coalition known as the People of Faith for Just Relationships are pushing hard for the city to do more for LGBT equality. Quoting acts of discrimination, they have just released the following press announcement asking for 4 specific protections. The group is led by the Reverend Joe Hoffman and [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | January 11, 2011
Ogden, UT – The City Council may take up a debate and/or vote on non-discrimination laws for LGBT residents tonight! The meeting starts at 6pm local time, show up if you can! If you can’t make it, I’ll be live blogging it at facebook.com/prideinutah and twitter.com/prideinutah If you haven’t yet, email the council members! Bart [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | November 29, 2010
Warsaw, Poland – The European country has elected its very first openly gay elected official. Mirroring Harvey Milk, Krystian Legierski was elected to the Warsaw City Council. He’s also one of the first black elected officials in the country. Well done and congrats to Poland! Gay activist and club owner Krystian Legierski was elected to [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | November 23, 2010
Columbus, Ohio – The city council has approved a new law which will give domestic partners, including same-sex partners, of city employees access to the same health benefits as legally married spouses. Woot! Fantastic news, even if it’s just for city employees and their partners (gay or not), it’s most definitely a step in the right [...]
"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.