Rep. Christine Johnson is stepping down from her seat in the Utah House at year’s end. But she’s not backing away from her role as a gay-rights advocate. “I’m not leaving because I’m giving up on the fight in Utah,” the two-term Salt Lake City Democrat said Thursday after announcing she won’t seek re-election. “We have so many budding leaders [in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community] that I’m anxious to see who’s going to step up next.”

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