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This Utah LGTBQ+ activist aims to protect his community by breaking bread with GOP lawmakers

Since joining Equality Utah as its executive director nearly a decade ago, the LGBTQ+ rights activist has made unlikely allies as he has worked to protect his community.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Troy Williams, Executive Director of Equality Utah, poses for a photograph at the Utah Capitol on Wednesday, April 26, 2023. Williams talked about his success in getting anti-LGBTQ measures and proposals repealed and changed, and the unlikely connections he's built with some of Utah's most conservative figures in his efforts to protect the state's LGBTQ community.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Troy Williams, Executive Director of Equality Utah, poses for a photograph at the Utah Capitol on Wednesday, April 26, 2023. Williams talked about his success in getting anti-LGBTQ measures and proposals repealed and changed, and the unlikely connections he's built with some of Utah's most conservative figures in his efforts to protect the state's LGBTQ community.