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Connell is a genealogist, historian, biographer, and bon vivant. Originally from Syracuse, he lived for 20 years in Santa Cruz, California and is currently residing in the Marmalade. For the final project of his Latin class at UC Santa Cruz, he translated Pink Floyd's "Money" into Latin ("Pecunia"), taught his housemate to pronounce the Latin lyrics, and they sang it as a duet accompanied by a karaoke version of the song. He received a standing ovation from classmates and Dr. Gildas Hammel. A radical LGBT activist since the late 1980s, he is most proud of getting the University of Utah to add "sexual orientation" to its non-discrimination policy and leading the first two Gay and Lesbian Pride marches in Salt Lake in 1990 and 1991. Although single, he is head over heels in love with his neighbor Pepper, an Australian shepherd-poodle mix.