Commentary: 2019 Pride: With persistence, hope can replace hurt

The modern gay rights movement was launched at the Stonewall uprising only weeks before Apollo 11 landed on the moon. Fifty years later, the theme of this year’s Utah Pride Festival -- Exist, Resist, Persist -- captures the moment and encapsulates the challenges ahead for LGBT Utahns. Their journey of progress has seen both small steps and giant leaps.The Utah Pride Festival celebrates a group of Utahns whose very existence was at first ignored and even now remains devalued by powerful for