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City Weekly’s 2026 Pride Issue celebrates the outsiders who built Salt Lake’s counterculture.
Pride Issue 2026
Derek Kitchen Benjamin Wood Carolyn Campbell Catherine H. Christman Arica Roberts Brandi Christoffersen Andrea G. Hardeman The Outsiders Who Built This City By Derek Kitchen 2026 Pride Issue Guest Editor Pride in Utah has always been a strange proposition—equal parts defiance and homesickness.
The defiance is the part others see: courtroom fights; legislative skirmishes; rainbow flags going up faster than they come down. The homesickness is the quieter half, the personal reasons why a lot of us, who could have left and lived somewhere easier, didn’t.
I want to start with a confession.
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