LGBTQ Activism through Bridge-Building - with activist Troy Williams
Breaking Down Patriarchy
Amy McPhie Allebest
4.9 • 654 Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Amy is joined by activist and advocate Troy Williams to discuss his incredible coming out journey from the Eagle Forum to Equality Utah, plus how changing our perspective can help turn enemies into allies, and why people of all identities are needed in the struggle for equality.
For the past two decades, Troy Williams has been a community organizer playing pivotal roles in passing laws and protections for the LGBTQ community in Utah, including the historic Utah Compromise, a statute against LGBTQ and racially inclusive hate crimes, and a ban on LGBTQ conversation therapy. In 2010, he co-wrote the award-winning play, "The Passion of Sister Dottie S. Dixon" with the late Charles Lynn Frost, and has since worked on various movies and series centered around real-life stories and people from the Mormon faith. He became the executive director of Equality Utah in the fall of 2014 and was named one of the nation's 50 LGBTQ Champions of Pride in 2022 by The Advocate magazine.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Breaking Down Patriarchy. I'm Amy McPhee All the Best. In 2014, a poll was conducted in Utah to see what percentage of the population supported same-sex marriage. The results indicated that 40% of Utahans supported it. 10 years later, in 2024, the same poll was conducted again, and this time, 72% of Utahan's |
| 0:26.2 | supported marriage equality. How did this happen and how did it happen so fast? To talk about |
| 0:33.7 | this issue and other issues, I am so thrilled to welcome to the podcast, Troy Williams, |
| 0:39.3 | the head of Equality, Utah. Thank you so much for being here, Troy. Amy, it's my pleasure. I'm so |
| 0:44.6 | excited to spend some time with you. I'm so excited, too. This is fun to have a reason to spend an |
| 0:50.2 | hour together, but I'm really, really excited to hear more of your story, too, and also the |
| 0:55.6 | story of Equality, Utah and the changes that are happening. So, super excited to dig into that. But first, |
| 1:01.2 | I'm going to read your professional bio, and you get the task of just sitting and listening to me, |
| 1:08.0 | sing your praises while you just sit there in score, mock. |
| 1:12.7 | All right. |
| 1:13.2 | Take it away. |
| 1:14.9 | For the past two decades, |
| 1:17.3 | Troy Williams has been a community organizer for LGBTQingotons. |
| 1:19.7 | In 2003, he became the |
| 1:21.0 | Community Affairs Director of 90.9 FM KRCL |
| 1:24.8 | radio station and executive producer |
| 1:27.4 | of the talk show Radioactive. In 2010, the Salt Lake |
| 1:31.4 | Tribune dubbed Troy, the gay mayor of Salt Lake City. That's pretty awesome and that is a title. |
| 1:37.7 | I did not know you had. Try that. That's one for that office. I will confess. That's amazing. I want like I want a plaque. So I will confess. |
| 1:45.3 | That's amazing. |
| 1:48.7 | I want a plaque, so I want it on the door. |
| 1:57.5 | In 2010, Troy co-wrote the award-winning play The Passion of Sister Doddy S. Dixon with the late Charles Lynn Frost. |
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