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by Arthur RaymondThe Deseret NewsThe theme of the 2008 Utah Pride Festival, "Come Together," was in full evidence Sunday as thousands gathered along the event's parade route, and tens of thousands were expected to attend the final day's festivities at the downtown Library Square/Salt Lake City-County Building site.
Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker sported a hot-pink feather boa as he led more than 65 floats, marchers and dancers through downtown in a celebration of diversity and a call to tolerance and inclusive community spirit.
Yana Walton, director of communications for the Utah Pride Center, the event's programming body, said this year's version was the biggest yet.
"Last year we had about 25,000 in attendance, and this year we're expecting to far exceed that," Walton said. "We had more groups in the parade, 50 more vendors here at the grounds ... and over 2,700 people went to our concert on Saturday ... way more than last year."
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Just two weeks before Ariana Losco became the first openly transgender person to speak to the Utah State Legislature, she was fired from her job. Her task on January 25 was to tell the conservative state’s legislators why Utah’s transgender workers needed protections against employment discrimination. The rights denied her under Utah’s law allowed her employer the legal upper hand in firing her without just cause.
Losco spoke on behalf of Equality Utah about House Bill 89, which would amend the current anti-discrimination law -- which now protects against discrimination based on ethnicity, national origin, sex, age, and disability -- to include sexual orientation and gender identity.
”You have to pass House Bill 89,” she told the Legislature. “The gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community of Utah is suffering needlessly without it.”
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