Utah HRC Celebrates Women

This month, 35 U.S. cities will observe Her HRC, a celebration of women sponsored by the Human Rights Campaign, a national gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization. The event will celebrate the diversity of women and their contributions to the broader movement for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender political and social equality.

Salt Lake City will be among them.

“HRC Utah always wants to reach out to the ladies,” said Marina Gomberg, Events Co-chair for the HRC Utah steering committee. “The steering committee in Salt Lake City wanted to embrace the broad definition of women, whether that’s lesbian or bisexual women, someone who wants to dress like a woman for one night, or transsexual women, or genderqueer women. We wanted to celebrate the diversity of women, including [straight] allies.”

Most Her celebrations, including Salt Lake City’s, will be held Jan. 17. Participating cities include Austin, Tex., Boston, Cleveland, Ohio, Denver, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York City, Phoenix, Ariz. and Washington, D.C. (a handful of cities, however, will hold their Her events later in the month). The event in Utah will be a social featuring prizes, refreshments and a short video presentation about HRC’s work by openly lesbian comedians and performers including Lea Delaria, Judy Gold, Dana Goldberg, Mimi Gonzales, Lori Michaels, Vicky Shaw, Sandra Valls, Suzanne Westenhoefer and Karen Williams. Tickets are $35 and include a year’s membership in HRC. They can be purchased at the door or online at hrc.org/HerHRC. The event will be held at Club Jam, 751 N. 300 West.

“Everybody who celebrates women in different forms is encouraged to come and celebrate,” said Gomberg.

Her HRC is preseted nationally by Tylenol PM and sponsored by Harrah’s Entertainment.