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‘Queer Eye’s’ Tan France is a hit with hometown fans in Salt Lake City — from jokes to serious talk about racism and homophobia

Perhaps the most poignant chapter in Tan France’s autobiography is the last one he wrote; the one he added at the last minute.

The one titled “9/11,” about racial profiling and the lingering effects of the 2001 terrorism attacks on “brown people.”

It was “the one chapter I knew I wanted to write,” he told a sold-out crowd at Salt Lake Community College’s Grand Theatre on Wednesday night, a stop on his national book tour sponsored by The King’s English Bookshop. “I thought if I’m going to do [the book], that’s the reason I want to do it.