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May 29, 2005

Gays With Guns Welcome

In an update to a post I put up a couple weeks ago about the Utah Pride Parade organizors not welcoming legally armed gays, there's been a change for the better. David Nelson writes:

UTAH PRIDE DROPS BAN, WELCOMES GAYS WITH GUNS

SALT LAKE CITY -- A week after the leader of a gay firearms group
challenged a controversial policy from organizers of the state's annual
gay- and lesbian-pride events which would have banned legally concealed
firearms from most of the events, GLBT Community Center of Utah Inc.
Executive Director Valerie Larabee, who is also a lifelong shooter,
said on May 27 that organizers will instead welcome people who choose
to take their legal firearms and instead prohibit only those who
violate laws.

Stonewall Shooting Sports of Utah founder and owner David Nelson said
that the change is an encouraging reiteration of the 2003 and 2004
pride-events rules when organizers agreed that people with legally
concealed firearms could not be denied admission to the events.
Nelson's challenge of the policy which led to the change won the
attention of state and national news media including 365Gay.com,
Alphecca.com, Connexion.org, DaveKopel.org, DeanEsmay.com,
Feeds4All.com, FortPride.org, Free-Press-Release.com, Funender.com,
GayGuideToronto.com, GayLinkContent.com, GayMonkey.com, GayWired.com,
HellInAHandbasket.net, JohnRLott.com, KCPW Radio, LatinoGLO.com,
LesbiaNation.com, LostTarget.com, PeskyApostrophe.com, RobThurman.com,
UtahConcealedCarry.com, UtahIndependent.com, WisconsinGayNews.com and
The Michelangelo Signorile Show on OutQ Sirius Satellite Radio among
others.

"Despite an unnecessarily bad start to the upcoming events, the
organizers understand now that people with Utah Concealed Firearm
Permits aren't the disruptive or illegal parts of their events," Nelson
said. "No one who has met every legal requirement including daily FBI
criminal-history investigations should be arbitrarily denied the legal,
responsible and safe exercise of our human right to defend ourselves if
we choose and need to do so."

The blogosphere gets results! Anyway, this is a good thing.

Posted by Jeff Soyer at May 29, 2005 08:08 AM

Comments

A good thing? It's an excellent thing.

Posted by: Ken Summers at May 30, 2005 10:51 AM

ZendoDeb at TFS Magnum mentions that their change of policy came about because it violated Utah State Law. I did not see that mentioned in your piece.

Posted by: GrampaPinhead at May 30, 2005 04:53 PM

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May 29, 2005

Gays With Guns Welcome

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