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Pride Issue 2025 IntroductionUtah gay history chronicler Ben Williams notes that the struggle for rights has always included triumphs and setbacks. Ben WilliamsOur 2025 Pride Issue guest editor, historian Ben Williams, has documented the history of LGBTQ+ people in Utah for decades. LGBTQ people have always lived through turbulent times. In the 1950s, homosexuals were seen as subversives and national security risks. If discovered, people could be arrested and lives ruined.