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Utah’s Hopes Of Keeping Sundance Film Festival Threatened By Anti-Pride Flag Bill On Governor’s Desk
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| March 12, 2025
| Dominic Patten
Posted on 03/16/2025 12:55:59 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
By the end of April, the new home of the Sundance Film Festival should be public knowledge with the Salt Lake City/Park City combo, Boulder, Colorado or Cincinnati bid picked as the host for the next decade. However, a bill heading toward Utah Gov. Spencer Cox’s desk that would ban the Pride flag in schools and other state government buildings might be an eleventh-hour obstacle to the Beehive State’s hopes of keeping the Robert Redford-founded shindig past 2026.
“What are they thinking?” a Sundance insider said late Tuesday of the bill to ban the LGBTQ+ flag after a virtual meeting between united Utah leaders and members of the festival’s selection committee. “Utah is Utah, but this goes to the heart of the community Sundance has worked years and years to develop.”
“It is a terrible law, a terrible look for the state,” the insider added of the Republican legislation that was passed by the state Senate on a 21-8 vote last week…
Having put forward a pitch to shift the focus of Sundance from its longtime base of Park City to Salt Lake City starting in 2027, the Utah bid is led by Gov. Cox, with SLC and Park City mayors onboard along with regional business and civic leaders. The festival’s current decade-long contract with Park City expires after Sundance 2026. Even before Sundance made it public in April that it would take bids for a new home, almost everyone acknowledged something had to change after 40 years in the once-sleepy resort town. While broad questions of Sundance’s future in a fast-changing media environment and the finances of the festival certainly loom large in the search for a new home, Utah has been a homecourt front-runner in the drawn-out selection process since it was announced almost a year ago.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: film; groomers; grooming; indiefilms; lgbtq; netflix; redford; subsidy; sundance; utah
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
Send the fags somewhere else. Coke dealers hurt most.
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posted on
03/16/2025 12:57:18 PM PDT
by
OldHarbor
To: CondoleezzaProtege
Progressives commonly weaponize economics in order to subsidize their radical social agenda.
This is more of the same.
It is worth the cost to be woke-free. IMHO.
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posted on
03/16/2025 12:58:56 PM PDT
by
ProgressingAmerica
(We cannot vote our way out of these problems. The only way out is to activist our way out.)
To: CondoleezzaProtege
Oh, whatever shall we do?
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posted on
03/16/2025 1:01:16 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
To: CondoleezzaProtege
Sundance Film FestivalAll the movies are about gay cowboys eating pudding, according to Eric Cartman.
To: ProgressingAmerica
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posted on
03/16/2025 1:01:43 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
To: CondoleezzaProtege
How did the world get to the point where sexual deviance has its own flag
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posted on
03/16/2025 1:04:55 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
03/16/2025 1:05:41 PM PDT
by
Kudsman
(Democrats' brand is FRAUD. Elections, biology, climate, journalism, auto pen, peace, life and God. )
To: OldHarbor
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posted on
03/16/2025 1:05:43 PM PDT
by
gundog
(The ends justify the mean tweets. )
To: CondoleezzaProtege
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posted on
03/16/2025 1:08:54 PM PDT
by
Dr. Franklin
("A republic, if you can keep it." )
To: ProgressingAmerica
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posted on
03/16/2025 1:12:13 PM PDT
by
No name given
( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
To: Dr. Franklin
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posted on
03/16/2025 1:12:36 PM PDT
by
No name given
( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
To: BenLurkin
The Flag......
Pride is all about symbolism. Pride consists of symbolism over substance.
Last week another great symbolism over substance icon was destroyed. The Black Lives Matter yellow letters on pavement in Washington DC was ripped up, destruction was begun.
When one searches for images or video, there are none. The slaves remaining on the BLM plantation won’t allow the photos to be posted. Symbolically, there is no visual tragedy allowed as the road and the despicable racist effort is ripped asunder.
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posted on
03/16/2025 1:12:49 PM PDT
by
bert
( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
To: BenLurkin
It all started when we kicked God out of the public square.
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posted on
03/16/2025 1:13:27 PM PDT
by
No name given
( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
To: Kudsman
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posted on
03/16/2025 1:13:45 PM PDT
by
No name given
( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
To: gundog
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posted on
03/16/2025 1:13:59 PM PDT
by
No name given
( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
To: BenLurkin
Good question - it's because the Dark Principalities and Powers in the Heavenly Realms never sleep nor rest
(ban the LGBTQ+ flag)
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 Pride goes before destruction - Proverbs 16 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 Pride goes before destruction - Proverbs 16 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
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posted on
03/16/2025 1:16:07 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
To: CondoleezzaProtege
“What are they thinking?” a Sundance insider said Hmmm... Maybe it has something to do with the thought that the value of getting rid of pride flags in grade schools is worth the loss of cash flow from the likes of you?
Maybe the people of Utah don't consider your presence such an unadulterated blessing.
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posted on
03/16/2025 1:17:05 PM PDT
by
Carry_Okie
(The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
To: No name given
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posted on
03/16/2025 1:19:34 PM PDT
by
gundog
(The ends justify the mean tweets. )
To: CondoleezzaProtege
(the LGBTQ+ flag)
(transgender woman)
DELUSIONAL - NO SUCH THING EXISTS
ANYWHERE ON PLANET EARTH 🌍🌎🌏 Satan used Democrat Barack Hussein Obama and
Democrat Joe Biden to deceive many
HOW could so many idiots believe in DEMOCRAT
Manchurian Candidate Barack Hussein Obama?
HAS to be the spirit of antichrist DEMOCRAT JOE BIDEN and DEMOCRAT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA
ARE UNREPENTANT GODLESS REPROBATES PREACHING SATAN'S LIES
FROM THE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 FIERY PITS OF ETERNAL HELL 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥DEMOCRATS prove every single day of the week that they
are at War with Reality, Biology and Almighty GodAll according to SATAN'S plan. Rainbow White House happened on June 26, 2015
Do NO harm, Christians, but reject this Godless Reprobate Agenda. (For the thread)

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posted on
03/16/2025 1:20:13 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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