The Utah Pride Center (UPC) is a tax-exempt nonprofit organization in Salt Lake City.
It provides services, events and activities to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBTQ) people in Utah.
The executive directors of the center were Craig Miller, Melissa Sillitoe, John Bennett, Renee Rinaldi, Michael O'Brien and Alan Ahtow.
On December 12, 2014, less than a year after his appointment, the Utah Pride Center announced the resignation of Steven Ha due to a recurrence of lymphoma.
[3][7][9][10][11][12] Additionally, the center provides meeting space, financial assistance and guidance to a number of smaller organizations known as affiliate programs, sponsors inter-organizational programs such the Utah GLBT Leadership Task Force, Utah GLBT Mental Health Task Force.
It was an integral part of the Utah Stonewall Center from its inception and was established as a community-based information center, dedicated to the promotion of Lesbian and Gay visibility and viability by means of the accumulation of Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian and Transgender archives, literature, music, film, art, history, culture, humor, education and fiction - and the dissemination of these materials to the public at large.
The selection criteria included authors, stories, characters or titles that are LGBT+ affirming or iconic figures that were influenced by the community.