Red states can have a reputation of being unsafe for LGBTQ+ folks, and that includes Utah. The Beehive State isn’t known as a champion of LGBTQ+ rights, but the community has mobilized to enshrine protections into local, state and even federal law. And it extends beyond the urban hubs. So, we hopped into the car and took off to a place you might not expect to have a vibrant LGBTQ+ population – rural Carbon County.
Guests:
- J. Seth Anderson, independent historian and author of LGBT Salt Lake
- Kylee Howell, owner of Friar Tuck’s Barbershop
Recommended Reading and Listening:
- For this queer barbershop, Helper, Utah, has ‘everything you need to be who you are’
- This family says Utah’s transgender care ban left them no choice but to ‘get out’
- For LGTBQ+ players in Utah, D&D offers a community where ‘gender doesn’t matter’
- Intermountain Health rethinks bottom surgeries for adult transgender patients
- An unofficial BYU Lavender Graduation lets LGBTQ students celebrate as themselves
- How the Eagle Forum and Equality Utah came to agree on a conversion therapy bill
- What a trans teen has to say about Utah’s care ban
- Utah Legislature approves ban on gender-affirming care for minors
- LDS Church voices support for same-sex marriage bill