Speaking Sex to Power by Patrick Califia

Author:Patrick Califia
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cleis Press
Published: 2012-03-02T00:00:00+00:00

NOTES

1 Devout Mormons are expected to give 10 percent of their income to the church. This is in addition to labor donated to the church welfare program, volunteer work in church programs or the temple, and a monthly donation on Fast Sunday, when everyone is also supposed to forgo one or two meals and contribute an amount equal to what one would have spent on food, to be distributed to impoverished church members.

2 Mormons believe they are a chosen people, just like the Biblical Israelites, and so they often refer to Utah as Zion. For those readers under 30, I will add that this is a pun on the so-called Iron Curtain that once cut the Soviet Union off from its former World War II allies.

3 Paula Houston’s real title is Obscenity and Pornography Complaints Ombudsman. To be fair, she has drawn the wrath of Utah legislators by reminding them that mere nudity in fine art cannot be banned. But she is also a fierce advocate of obscenity prosecutions on a state and local level. See Jay Evensen, “Opponents of ‘Porn Czar’ are Ignoring Huge Threat,” Salt Lake City, Deseret News, March 17, 2002.

4 Lawrence Wright, “Lives of the Saints,” New Yorker, Jan. 21, 2002, 40–57.

5 Ibid.

6 Richard Goldstein, “Love That Dare Not: Why We Should Support the Right to Marry Plurally,” Village Voice, posted May 26, 2001, on www.villagevoice.com

7 Wright, op. cit.

8 Paul Reed, “Utah Seeks to Clean House of Polygamy,” posted Dec. 12, 2000, on www.law.about.com

9 Wright, op. cit.

10 Polygamy page.com, “Polygamy on Trial,” www.btinternet.com/~familyman/ontrial.htm

11 Jeff Jacoby, “Just Another Nontraditional Family?,” Boston Globe, May 17, 2001. Downloaded from www.bigeye.com/jj051701.htm

12 Associated Press, “Utah Polygamist Found Guilty of Child Rape,” June 24, 2002. Downloaded from www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0624news-crime-polygamy-dc.html

13 John R. Llewellyn, “Tom Green and Wives,” posted April 15, 2000, on www.utahbooks.com

14 Ibid.

15 Polygamy page.com, op. cit.

16 Llewellyn, op. cit. Beagley’s family was part of a group in which husbands were selected for girls. She married Tom at the age of 16 in defiance of their wishes. She had been with him for fourteen years at the time this was written and had seven of his children.

17 Polygamy page.com, op. cit.

18 Ibid.

19 Ibid.

20 Lawrence Wright, op. cit.

21 Associated Press, “Head of Mormons Condemns Child Sexual Abuse in His Church,” April 8, 2002. Downloaded from www.boston.com/globe/spotlight/sexabuse/related/040802_mormons.htm

22 Sheila R. McCann, “Clergy Ignores Victims, Allege LDS Plaintiffs,” Salt Lake Tribune, Oct. 17, 1999, downloaded from America Online news, June 28, 2002.

23 Deborah Petersen Swift, “Suicide Prompts Protests About Police Raid,” Hartford (Conn.) Courant, Feb. 1, 2002.

24 Ibid.

25 Jonathan D. Rockoff and W. Zachary Malinowski, “Johston Officials Defend ‘Sex-Act’ Arrests of 7 Men,” Providence (R.I.) Journal, Jan. 27, 2002.

26 Matthew Waite, “Police Beat: 24 Men are Cited in 3-day Park Sting,” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Jan. 30, 1998, B2. Downloaded from library.ardemgaz.com/LibrarySearch.asp

27 Don Romesburg, “Suicide in Little Rock,” Feb. 10, 1998. Downloaded from gaytoday.badpuppy.com/garchive/events/021098ev.htm

28 Don Romesburg, “Arkansas Paper Covers Up Suicide,” Feb. 23, 1998. Downloaded from gaytoday.badpuppy.com/garchive/events/022398ev.htm. See also “Suicide in Little Rock,” Feb. 6, 1998, www.glaad.org/org/publications/alerts/?record=1395

29 Seth Blomeley, “Seven Sue to Void State Sodomy Law,” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Jan.

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