Real lives: Sundance film echoes Utah same-sex marriage debate
Monday, February 17th, 2014 Posted in Arts and Life | Comments Off on Real lives: Sundance film echoes Utah same-sex marriage debateBy Katie Swain PARK CITY, Utah — In the midst of angry debates and hurt feelings on both sides of the same-sex marriage situation in Utah, Park City held a celebration in honor of the approximately 1,300 gay and lesbian Utah ...
The right to love and live free
Sunday, October 31st, 2010 Posted in Opinion | 3 Comments »By Satenik Sargsyan I don't remember when I decided to be heterosexual. It never occurred to me that I could choose my sexuality. All I remember was that as a teenager one day, I caught myself endlessly staring at the boy sitting ...
Gay and LDS: ‘Are there not very many people like us?’
Saturday, October 23rd, 2010 Posted in Arts and Life | 2 Comments »Filmmaker Reed Cowan’s Q&A plays to a packed, impassioned audience after screening of 8:The Mormon Proposition. Story by Satenik Sargsyan Photos by Alison Ostler LOGAN—The audience of more than 400 burst into applause when a girl with big eyes and long dark hair ...
USU filmmaker alum brings same-sex Prop 8 documentary to campus
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010 Posted in Opinion | 1 Comment »LOGAN—Amid national media attention over the LDS Church position on same-sex marriage, a Utah State University alumnus returns to campus next week for a screening and discussion of his award-winning 2010 Sundance documentary, 8: The Mormon Proposition, which examines California’s ...
JCOM alum’s film picked for Sundance Film Festival
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off on JCOM alum’s film picked for Sundance Film FestivalA controversial documentary film about gay rights in Utah by a USU broadcast journalism alumnus is slated for its world premier at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival in Park City in January. Reed Cowan's documentary, "8: The Mormon Proposition" (http://www.mormonproposition.com/), was ...