David Nelson (Utah activist)

David Nelson
Unaffiliated candidate for Salt Lake City Council from the 3rd District
Election date October 8, 1985
Opponent(s)	Evan L. Baker Arthur W. Brothers Sydney Reed Fonnesbeck
Incumbent	Sydney Reed Fonnesbeck
Personal details
Born	April 7, 1962 (1962-04-07) (age 49) Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Nationality	American
Political party	Unaffiliated
Other political affiliations	Libertarian Democrat
Residence	Millcreek, Utah, United States
Alma mater	University of Utah
Occupation	Retired
Profession	Marketing and public relations
Committees	Hate Crimes Working Group for the U.S. Attorney for the District of Utah (1997-2001)

David Nelson is an American activist for the protection of equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people. He founded or helped found several LGBT-related non-profit organizations in Utah and helped direct others. His work with the Democratic Party encouraged many LGBT citizens to serve as party leaders. His work as a legislative lobbyist accomplished the adoption of several state and local laws, and the defeat of other legislation.

Personal

David Keith Nelson was born on April 7, 1962 in Salt Lake City as a member of the political Cannon family.^[1][2] He studied political science at the University of Utah from 1982 to 1984.^[3] He retired in 2001 from his professional career in marketing and public relations,^[4] and lives with disabilities in Millcreek, Utah.^[5][6]

Political

Nelson has been active in politics since 1982. Though he was most active during the 1990s in Utah, his work included helping to direct political groups in California and the District of Columbia.^[7] His work earned the attention of governmental and political leaders, and news reporters.

Deseret Morning News political journalist Frank Pignanelli wrote in 2006 that Nelson was a "political pioneer" and "one of the few Utah voices demanding basic rights for gay and lesbian citizens. Aggressive in promoting antidiscrimination measures, he assisted in passage of the first hate-crimes legislation. Although Nelson frequently generated disagreement among supporters (including me), no one can dispute the courage he exhibited in the early years of this movement."^[8]

Salt Lake City Weekly staff writer Eric S. Peterson wrote in 2009 that Nelson was "a pioneer of queer politics in the state who has carved a niche for himself in Utah politics for being a fierce advocate of his community since the early '80s while also fighting for the rights of gun owners."^[3]

Non-partisan work

As a gay activist since 1983,^[3] Nelson...

• Served from 1983 to 1984 as a vice president of the Lesbian and Gay Student Union at the University of Utah.^[3]
• Served in 1985 as a co-publisher of the Salt Lake City-based Community Reporter LGBT newspaper.^[9]
• Campaigned unsuccessfully in 1985 as an openly gay candidate for election to serve as a member of the Salt Lake City Council—the first such campaign in Utah.^{[3][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]}
• Wrote and lobbied unsuccessfully in 1986 for the adoption of a Salt Lake City Council bill to create a city human-rights commission and to prohibit discrimination—the first such proposal in Utah.^{[19][20][21][22]}
• Served from 1986 to 1987 as a co-publisher of the Salt Lake City-based Triangle Magazine LGBT news magazine.^[9]
• Lobbied successfully from 1986 to 1987 for the adoption of a Salt Lake City Police Department LGBT sensitivity-training policy—the first such policy in Utah.^[23]
• Served from 1987 to 1991 as the Utah field director for the Washington-based Human Rights Campaign Fund Inc. LGBT political action committee (PAC).
• Served from 1988 to 1989 as a member of the board of advisers of the San Jose, Calif.-based Bay Area Municipal Elections Committee LGBT PAC.
• Helped write and lobbied successfully in 1991 and 1992 for the adoption of two Utah Legislature bills to prevent and study hate crimes—the first such laws in the state.^{[3][8][24][25][26][27][28][29][30]} Nelson lobbied unsuccessfully from 1992 to 1999 for the adoption of various bills to improve the laws.^{[3][29][31][32][33][34][35][36]}
• Wrote and lobbied successfully in 1992 for the adoption of a Salt Lake County Commission bill to prohibit discrimination including that based on sexual orientation—the first such laws in Utah,^{[27][37][38][39][40][41][42]} and lobbied successfully in 1995 against the repeal of the "marital status" and "sexual orientation" protections.^[43][44][45] Leaders of the county Gay and Lesbian Employee Association were critical of Nelson and others who opposed the repeal, and said that he "did not speak for GLEA" "or for any of its members."^[46]
• Lobbied unsuccessfully in 1992 against the appointment of controversial former Phoenix Police Chief Ruben Ortega to serve as the chief of the Salt Lake City Police Department.^[47]
• Helped write and lobbied successfully in 1993 for the adoption of a Utah Legislature bill to provide for viatical settlements so that individuals who are terminally ill may sell their life-insurance policies before death to pay health-care expenses and improve their quality of life.^[48]
• Organized the lobbying of the members of the U.S. congressional delegation from Utah in 1993 by their constituents at the March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation.^[49]
• Lobbied unsuccessfully from 1992 to 1993 for the adoption of a Utah Textbook Commission administrative rule to allow the use of textbooks which mention homosexuality by public-school students.^[50][51][52]
• Lobbied successfully in 1993 and 1994 against the adoption of two Utah Legislature bills to require HIV testing.^[53][54]
• Lobbied successfully in 1994 for the amendment of a Utah Legislature bill to require DNA profiling of individuals convicted of violating the state sodomy law.^[55]
• Helped organize a protest of, and published a complaint to the Utah Judicial Conduct Commission against, Utah 3rd District Court Judge David S. Young in 1994 for reducing the sentence of David Thacker who was convicted of killing gay Salt Lake City businessman Douglas Koehler.^{[56][57][58][59][60][61][62]} Nelson helped organize the "No on Young" campaign in 1996 against the retention election of Young who lost election in 2002—the first judge to lose election in the state.^[63][64]
• Served from 1994 to 1995 as an openly gay member of a Social Services Block Grant allocation panel for the Salt Lake County Human Services Advisory Council.^[65]
• Lobbied unsuccessfully in 1995 against the adoption of a Utah Legislature bill to prohibit the recognition of same-sex marriages.^{[66][67][68][69][70][71][72][73][74]} Nelson was later sentenced by a Midvale Justice Court judge to pay a $50 fine and to serve a suspended six-day jail term for committing an act of civil disobedience in protest of the law.^[3][75][76]
• Received nominations in 1995 for appointment to serve as an openly gay member of the advisory board of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games of 2002 from 11 elected public officials and citizens in Utah.
• Lobbied unsuccessfully in 1996 against the adoption of a Utah Legislature bill to restrict LGBT-student clubs.^{[77][78][79][80][81][82][83][84][85][86][87]}
• Served in 1997 as a member of the board of directors of the Washington-based Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund Inc. PAC and as the chairman of its public-relations committee.^[7][88]
• Served from 1997 to 2001 as an openly gay member of the Hate Crimes Working Group for the U.S. Attorney for the District of Utah,^{[32][89][90][91]} and helped produce the "Changing Faces of Hate" conference in 1999 which was sponsored by the U.S. Attorney for the District of Utah, the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, Weber State University and the Utah Task Force for Racial and Ethnic Fairness.^[92]
• Lobbied successfully in 1998 against the adoption of a Utah Office of the Attorney General amicus curiae brief to oppose same-sex marriage in the Vermont Supreme Court case of Baker v. Vermont.^[93]
• Helped organize a memorial service and candlelight vigil in 1998 in Utah for the beating death on Oct. 12 of gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard.^[94][95][96]
• Helped develop in 1998 a legal and political strategy with the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah for the repeal of the state sodomy law.^[97]
• Founded GayVoteUtah.com in 2001 to offer the voter registration of LGBT Utah citizens.^[98][99]
• Served in 2002 as a member of the board of advisers of the University of Utah Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Resource Center and as the co-chairman of its public-relations committee.
• Founded Stonewall Shooting Sports of Utah in 2002 which became one of the largest LGBT firearm groups in the United States—the first such group in the state.^{[3][29][30][36][100][101][102][103][104][105]}
• Lobbied successfully in 2007 for the amendment of a Utah Legislature bill which would have restricted the possession of a concealed firearm at state institutions of higher education.^[106][107]
• Lobbied successfully in 2007 for the repeal of a Salt Lake County facility-management policy which restricted the possession of a weapon at two county convention centers, and required facility lessees to extend the restriction to their guests. The Utah Pride Center had extended the restriction to the guests of its annual student Queer Prom which was produced at the Salt Palace Convention Center.^[108]
• Lobbied successfully in 2007 for the amendment of a Utah Pride Festival policy which restricted the possession of a weapon at the festival events.^[109] Nelson was nonetheless detained, questioned and removed from the festival by a Salt Lake City Police Department officer after festival workers complained about his lawful possession of an unconcealed firearm. He filed a complaint and a $25,000 claim against Salt Lake City Corp., and received an apology from the police chief.^{[29][110][111][112]}
• Lobbied successfully in 2011 for the amendment of a Utah Department of Public Safety administrative rule which restricted the issuance of the state concealed-firearm permit to individuals who were ever convicted of violating the state sodomy law.^[104]

Partisan work

As a libertarian Democrat since 1980,^[3][29][36] Nelson...

• Lobbied unsuccessfully in 1986 for the inclusion of LGBT speakers by Democratic National Committee Policy Commission Co-Chairman and former Utah Gov. Scott M. Matheson Sr. at the commission meeting in Salt Lake City.^{[113][114][115]}
• Founded Gay and Lesbian Utah Democrats in 1989 to affiliate with the Utah Democratic Party—the first such group in the state. The group combined the work of a party caucus, a fund-raising PAC and a lobbying group. The group became one of the largest caucuses in the party.^{[3][27][116][117][118]} The group stopped its fund-raising and lobbying work in 1997, but remained a party caucus.^[119] Nelson retired in 2001 from the group leadership. The group was renamed in 2002 as Utah Stonewall Democrats.
• Campaigned unsuccessfully in 1993 as an openly gay candidate for election to serve as the secretary of the Utah Democratic Party—the first such campaign of a major party in the state.^{[120][121][122]}
• Lobbied successfully in 1993 for the appointment of openly gay Utahns to serve as members of the Utah Democratic Party standing committees—the first such appointments by a major party in the state. Nelson served from 1993 to 1997 as the chairman of the party Membership and Credentials Standing Committee, and as a member of the party Platform and Policy Standing Committee.^[123][124]
• Lobbied unsuccessfully in 1995 for the adoption of a Utah Democratic Party censure of Utah House of Representatives Democratic Whip Rep. Kelly C. Atkinson after he described LGBT Democrats as a party "fringe" group in an op-ed commentary which was published by a local newspaper. Atkinson said later that he regretted his use of the description.^{[125][126][127]} The attempt to censure Atkinson was a primary reason that legislative Democrats and party leaders were critical of Nelson and asked Gay and Lesbian Utah Democrats leaders in 1996 to stop describing the group as Democratic.^{[128][129][130]}
• Created an online national network of LGBT groups which were affiliated with the Democratic Party in 1995 to re-establish the communication between the groups that existed with the former Washington-based National Association of Gay and Lesbian Democratic Clubs, and helped found the Washington-based National Stonewall Democratic Federation in 1996 at the Democratic National Committee.^[131] U.S. Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts developed the federation further when he incorporated the Washington-based National Stonewall Democrats in 1999.
• Lobbied successfully in 1995 for the adoption of a Utah Democratic Party resolution to support the adoption of the federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act.^[132]
• Lobbied unsuccessfully in 1996 against the promise by Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives Ross C. "Rocky" Anderson to oppose same-sex marriage and "vote my constituents' wishes" if he were elected to the Congress despite supporting equal marriage rights. Anderson was critical of Nelson and others who opposed Anderson's change of opinion, and said that he couldn't "believe some of them were hiding in waiting to take pot shots at me now."^[133][134]
• Served in 1996 as an openly gay delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago^{[27][118][135][136][137][138][139][140][141]} and as the Utah LGBT-outreach director for the Clinton-Gore presidential campaign.^[118][142]
• Served in 2000 as an openly gay delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles^{[143][144][145][146][147][148][149]} and as the Utah LGBT-outreach director for the Gore-Lieberman presidential campaign.^[150]
• Served from 2003 to 2004 as an openly gay Utah coordinator for the Wesley Clark presidential campaign.
• Helped staff a National Rifle Association of America Inc. exhibit in 2005 at the Utah Democratic Convention.^{[151][152][153]}

Recognition

For his work in politics, Nelson...

• Received in 1988 a Gay and Lesbian Community Council of Utah Inc. encomium.
• Won in 1990 the Gay and Lesbian Utah Democrats Board of Directors' Award.
• Won in 1993 a Utah Stonewall Center Diversity Is Great Award.^[154]
• Received in 1994 a People with AIDS Coalition of Utah Community Award In Politics nomination.
• Received in 1995 a Utah Stonewall Center Diversity Is Great Lifetime Achievement Award nomination.
• Received in 1995 a Salt Lake County Board of Commissioners encomium.
• Received from 1997 to 2003 Utah Pride Festival Dr. Kristen Ries Community Service Award nominations.
• Won in 1998 a Democratic National Committee Lawrence O'Brien Award.^{[27][28][118][155]}
• Received in 1999 a U.S. Department of Justice for the District of Utah encomium.
• Received in 2003 a Utah Stonewall Historical Society Milestone Award nomination.
• Received in 2006 a Deseret Morning News "Pignanelli & Webb" encomium.^[8]
• Won in 2008 the Salt Lake City Weekly Best of Utah "Best 'Cold dead hands'" Award.^[112]

See also

	LGBT portal
	Politics portal
	Utah portal

• Cannon family
• LGBT rights in Utah
• Libertarian Democrat
• List of LGBT rights activists
• Utah

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External links

• Stonewall Shooting Sports of Utah
• Utah Democratic Party
• Utah Stonewall Democrats

Persondata
Name	David Nelson
Alternative names	David Keith Nelson
Short description	Utah LGBT activist
Date of birth	1962-04-07
Place of birth	Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Date of death
Place of death