LGBTQ+
Creature Feature: Chartreuse
“A lot of people don’t feel like [cis] girls shouldn’t be doing [drag], as females performing as females. I feel I should be able to perform as my own gender if that’s what I want.” … read more
Princess Kennedy: Memories On Main
I recently got a documentary from the library titled Salt Lake City in the 1950s. The best part of the doc was the segment on Main Street. I remember hearing stories from my parents and grandparents about the grandeur that was our modest Downtown. … read more
Mestizaje en Microcosmos
A December 2013 graduate from the University of Utah in Art History and Latin American Studies, Olmedo-González gravitates toward self-portraiture in fine art. He acknowledges, furthermore, that more pedestrian (nonart) forms of self-portraiture permeate our psyches as digital simulacra via Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. … read more
Art | Art and Fashion | LGBTQ+
Dear Dickheads – September 2014
I respect your decision to identify as and call yourself a tranny … but … it is not O.K. to lambast other people who take issue with the word as it’s used against them, and it is especially offensive that any person would define someone else’s identity against their own repeated public insistence otherwise. … read more
Creature Feature: Tony C Berrow
With the amount of bling already bedazzled to his body, it’s no wonder that Tony received the crown. “To win the pageant was shocking,” Tony says. “The pleasure of the whole pageant is that you get to meet so many other creative minds that are the same level as you, as far as being artistic in their different ways, which is fun.” … read more
Review: Mad Caddies – Dirty Rice
Mad Caddies = The Expendables + Left Alone + Authority Zero … read more
Review: Masked Intruder – M.I.
Masked Intruder = The Queers + NOFX + Morning Glory … read more
Princess Kennedy: Tranny’s Now a Slur
SLUG, SLUG Magazine, Princess Kennedy, Tranny, Laverne Cox, Orange is the New Black, transgender, LGBTQ, trans*, Salt Lake City, Carmen Carrera, RuPaul … read more
Dear Dickheads – August 2014
Dear Dickheads,
So I just read your review of the SLC Punk 2 concert on the SLUG website, and while it’s adequate (if a bit dry), I’m a lot more upset by the actions of Ben Weasel than your reviewer seemed to be. … read more
Desire Will Set You Free: Interview with Director Yony Leyser
Yony Leyser’s new film, a feature-length narrative that mixes autobiographic and docu-fictional elements, follows a cast of outsiders through a subcultural landscape that is uniquely outsider—Berlin. SLUG spoke with Leyser about writing, directing and acting in the film, and the Kickstarter campaign that he hopes will help bring the film to Utah’s film festival circuit. … read more