Concert Proceeds Benefit the Volunteers of America, Utah’s Homeless Youth Resource Center.
Next Monday, September 21, there is an incredible benefit concert in Salt Lake City. The lineup of performers is amazing and the cause is an important one.
Home at Last is presented by the Foundation for Reconciliation, a group whose ultimate goal is to foster better understanding between the LDS Church heterosexual majority and Church members who fall within the category of sexual minorities: gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender.
The choice of organization to benefit from the proceeds is not accidental. Gay and lesbian Utah teens are thrown out of their homes and/or commit suicide at alarming rates for such a family-oriented state. Suicide is the leading cause of death for Utah males ages 15 to 19, who die at a rate nearly double the national average. Suicide is the leading cause of death for teen boys in Utah. That shameful fact, in and of itself, should be a wake-up call. But apparently the call of statistics falls on deaf ears when it comes to Utah parents whose children come out to them. Volunteers of America is too often left to pick up the pieces of damaged youth who took their families’ unconditional love for granted and suddenly find themselves out on the streets. So the joint effort between the homeless youth resource center and the Foundation for Reconciliation is appropriate and wise.
The all-star performers include:
| -Carol Lynn Pearson | -Barlow Bradford |
| -Leraine Horstmanshoff | -Michael Chipman |
| -Bill Green | -Emily Pearson |
| -Shane Jackman | -Peter & Mary Danzig |
| -St. Paul’s Choir (St. Paul’s Episcopal Church) | -Leopard in the Temple (Salt Lake City’s only Jewish chanting group) |
Get details and purchase tickets online at http://pdbookstore.com/tickets.html. Besides being a worthy cause, I promise this will be a concert you will never forget.
Carol Lynn Pearson, Barlow Bradford, Leraine Horstmanshoff, Michael Chipman, Bill Green, Emily Pearson, Shane Jackman, Peter & Mary Danzig, Leopard in the Temple
