Michael Aaron
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How can this be my 40 year high school reunion? I’m not yet 40!
Forty years ago this month I was moving to Ballif Hall at the University of Utah. My first time living…
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The strength of Utah’s LGBTQ community lies in its creativity
When Utah was facing a constitutional amendment that was inevitable to pass, our LGBTQ leaders got creative and mostly moved…
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Mary Malouf laughed in the present
Utah has lost a beautiful, wild, and kind person. Salt Lake Magazine executive editor Mary Brown Malouf was swept to…
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The future of Utah Pride and our community is up to us
For a while there, it seemed Utah’s LGBTQ community was doing pretty well. Even in the age of an antagonistic…
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Painting a community with a broad brush
I often come across posts and people asking why Utah’s LGBTQ community is _fill in the blank_. Why are they…
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At what point should speech be censored?
Earlier this month, an event touted to be an LGBT conservative forum and drag show was canceled because the venue…
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Pride is a different riot than Stonewall
As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots at a little gay drag dive bar in Greenwich Village,…
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Dennis Rowley Gwyther was an unsung community dreamer who got things done
While actors and directors are showered in applause, the unsung stars of the theater are behind the curtain — the…
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People change
So many controversies are in the news about behavior people have done in their distant past. They are being vilified…
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We were marrying five years ago today
This is a condensed version of an article I wrote Christmas Eve 2013 when Judge Robert Shelby ruled Utah’s laws…
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