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Glen Warchol
I've been a newspaperman for nearly three decades and have done hard time at United Press International; small dailies and nasty alternative newspapers, including the Observer in Dallas. In some bizarre convulsion of fate, I joined a few other twisted gentiles at the Deseret News for a few years. Along the way, I reproduced twice. I live in Salt Lake's historic refinery district with my current wife Mary Brown Malouf, another journalist. Now, I'm on a new adventure on the Internet-where the best things in life are (mostly) free.
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Published on Aug 19, 2010 05:25PM
California's Proposition 8, bankrolled in large part LDS Church members, has been overturned by a federal judge. The battle over gay marriage will, of course, continue on up to the U.S. Supreme Court, but Utah gays celebrated an important victory in the heart of Mormondom last night (the Jam bar offered karaoke and $1 draft beer).

Tribune photog Steve Griffin captured the moment in a panorarmic and eye-popping photograph that, for gay-rights advocates, must rank with Joe Rosenthal's "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima." If there's such a thing as gay patriotism--Steve captured it.


LDS Church said it "regrets today's decision."

Simultaneously, and closer to home, Taylorsville voted to protect gay and transgender residents from discrimination on the job and in housing -- making it the lucky seventh Utah government to adopt the protections. It all started, it must be noted, with the LDS Church's formal support of Salt Lake City's anti-discrimination ordinances.

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