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:Eric Ethington (Author) | September 27, 2012
In a not-yet released interview with a Nevada NBC affiliate, former Utah Governor and former presidential candidate Jon Huntsman Jr. told reporter Elizabeth Crum that it’s time to “take that journey” towards marriage equality. Back in February of 2009, just before leaving office as Utah’s Governor to become the US Ambassador to China, Mr. Huntsman became the [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | August 7, 2012
Yesterday, City Weekly reporter Brandon Burt penned an open letter to me, asking why protests against Chick-fil-A in Utah fizzled out, and how the LGBT community of Utah can move forward. Sheesh… talk about pressure. As Brandon mentions in his letter, the past year has been an exciting one for the LGBT community. For the [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | June 19, 2012
While defending a decision by the Davis County School Board not to let LGBT parents be added to a meeting agenda, District Spokesman Chris Williams may have inadvertently revealed an enormous violation of Utah governmental transparency laws. After the Davis County School Board refused to let LGBT parents add their grievance over a book mentioning gay parents [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | June 10, 2012
Needless to say, I was shocked this morning when I opened the paper and saw an article titled “Studies Challenge Widely Held Assumptions About Same Sex Parenting.” The shock shifted to outrage as I actually looked at the study myself and found it glaring with major flaws and bias. Every major and credible study performed [...]
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, 2012
Salt Lake City – Yesterday afternoon, Utah State Senate Republicans once again postponed the inevitable passage of a statewide Non-Discrimination law. But was there something a little screwy about the committee hearing? Non-Discrimination laws had big backing this year. A statewide survey, conducted by the highly respected Dan Jones & Associates, revealed that 75% of [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | December 6, 2011
It seems almost anyone even remotely interested in the Republican nomination for President this cycle has had their moment in the spotlight. Everyone, that is, except for Rick Santorum. Many are beginning to attribute his lack of public attention to his extremist anti-gay rhetoric. Now to be fair, there are other GOP candidates who also [...]
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 11, 2011
Once again it’s National Coming Out Day! And as always, I find myself thinking of all the teens out there who are going through what I did. To mark this day, I hope you’ll join with me in giving someone hope. Watch the video below. So many of us went through real horrors in our [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | September 30, 2011
Utah – Paul Mero, President of the anti-gay group Sutherland Institute jumped on his weekly “Mero Moment” recently to let everyone know what’s “really going on.” Gays and Pedophiles are “revolting” and sick. These weekly short-addresses are hilarious and laughable (only 18 people have actually watched this one, most of whom probably work for Sutherland), [...]
"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.