Investigative journalist Eric Peterson recently uncovered a cold case murder that panicked Utah’s emerging LGBTQ subculture in the ‘70s and dealt a chilling blow to the area's newly organizing gay rights movement.
Investigative journalist Eric Peterson recently uncovered a cold case murder that panicked Utah’s emerging LGBTQ subculture in the ‘70s. Those who knew him say Anthony Adams was a rising star in Salt Lake’s newly organizing gay rights movement. When he was killed, police detectives called it “a bar pickup-turned-bloody,” and dismissed claims that it was an assassination. In either case, gay rights in the state were dealt a chilling blow. Peterson and local historian Ben Williams join us to talk about it.
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- Eric Peterson is the executive director of the Utah Investigative Journalism Project. His articles about the murder of Anthony Adams appeared recently in the Salt Lake Tribune.
- Ben Williams is an independent historian of Utah's LGBTQ community and a writer for Q Magazine, for which he has written about the Adams murder.
