King of Queens: Salt Lake's queer, Latino community
Being gay in Utah is hard enough.
By Stephen Dark
http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/article-11480-king-of-queens-salt-lakes-queer-latino-community.html (http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/article-11480-king-of-queens-salt-lakes-queer-latino-community.html)
When Juan Lopez found his brother, Javier, hanging from a rope in the backyard shed of the West Valley City house they shared, his brother, he says, "had a huge smile, as if he'd finally found happiness."
The brother had been dead for four hours, his nails turning black from pooling blood and his head almost separating from his body when Juan found him at about 10 p.m. on March 25, 2003. Hysterical, he cut the 31 year old down and laid him on the ground. The room was full of fabric that Javier—a brother, but also a transgender woman—had used to make dresses.
So very sad.
Very sad and unfortunate. It is not easy living in Utah because the predominant religion finds our lifestyle to be highly immoral yet THEY are the most unethical culture I have ever encountered.