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Officials from the Mormon Church are working with gay rights groups to create a bill that would protect the LGBT community against discrimination in Utah.

About 40 people who were partying at one of Salt Lake City’s most popular gay clubs on Thursday were attacked by flaming projectiles.

ACLU is challenging a Utah school district’s decision that restricts elementary school students from accessing a picture book about a lesbian couple raising children.

Even though Utah’s ambiguous hate crimes law does not include sexual orientation, local officials have condemned the recent spate of attacks against gay men in Salt Lake City and surrounding areas.

Newly-elected Utah Democratic Party Chairman Jim Dabakis last week became the first openly gay person to lead a state party in Utah, and he’s got a tough road ahead.

The Utah Democratic Party has voted overwhelmingly in favor of electing as its new chairman an art dealer believed to be the first openly gay leader of a political party in the state.

Activists in Utah, Virginia and Florida look to gain legislative victories in 2011 through new statewide employment protections, domestic partnerships and other non-marriage forms of relationship recognition.

My travel companions had no idea what a bundle of nerves I had become before heading west for a much-needed and truly invigorating culinary weekend at St. Regis Deer Valley. While they discussed vegetarianism, I prepared for gourmet overdrive.

When we were very young, the prospect of snow so excited us that we would stand at the window, waiting for the world to be blanketed in white - a scene we recalled one morning while at the brand-new, five-star St. Regis Deer Valley in Park City, Utah.

When we were very young, with the advent of winter, we were often so excited by the prospect of snow that we would wake in the early morning hours and hurry to the window - to see if the world had been blanketed in white.