Snaps & Slaps
SNAP: PRIDE In Your Community
It takes balls (and ovaries, of course) to serve people who may not understand you, or who may even hate you. But that’s what PRIDE In Your Community does every time they offer to do yard work for or deliver treats to people in their neighborhoods —including, most famously, Sen. Chris Buttars, R-West Jordan, Utah’s most notorious anti-gay politician. And now, the group have gone one step further in volunteering for the Mormon Church’s welfare arm at a cannery in Murray—where they were welcomed, despite a few surprised looks, with open arms. Our own Troy Williams says that any movement needs its radicals as well as its moderates. We suggest that it also needs its relentless do-gooders. Sometimes, after all, the opposition will talk not only to the moderates, but to the people they have come to see as upstanding citizens.
SNAP: Protest at SUU
We have no idea what administrators at Southern Utah University were thinking when they asked Thomas Monson to be this year’s commencement speaker. To be honest, we’re not sure we want to, since we do like our hearts to remain happy and coronary-free. But our hearts are gladdened by the response his selection has been getting not only from queer students and their allies, but from students of all races, nationalities, ideologies and sexual orientations who say that Monson (and the governmental meddling his church endorses) does not speak for them. While this protest won’t make administrators or Monson have a change of heart, it is one more example of how Utahns en masse aren’t putting up with intolerance anymore. Hey, SUU? How about inviting Jacob Whipple or Elaine Ball next year?
SNAP: Our Most Faaabulous Utahns
Because you offer faaabulous services. Or faaabulous food or drinks. Or faaabulous adult toys. Or faaabulous theatre, music and art. Or you’re a faaabulous gay-friendly organization or ally. Or you say faaabulous pick up lines. Well, maybe not that last one. But you get the idea. Fabbies, thank you for supporting us, and for being your faaabulous selves. Yes, we’re not particularly upset about anything this issue. Can you tell?