Gay rights director reflects on first year

When news broke a year ago that One Colorado, the mysterious new LGBT advocacy organization…

Student hopes sit-in will yield GSA at private-religious high school

Like most of his fellow seniors at Regis Jesuit High School, Shea Dietz is preparing for finals. Anxious for graduation. Day dreaming of summer. His future. But there’s something else: Dietz is planning a sit-in at his school after the administration has refused to allow the senior to form a Gay-Straight Alliance.

Gay high school senior Shea Dietz plans sit-in protest at Denver Catholic high school for right to form Gay-Straight Alliance

  Like most of his fellow seniors at Regis Jesuit High School, Shea Dietz is…

One Colorado director Brad Clark opens up in interview with Out Front Colorado

When news broke a year ago that One Colorado, the mysterious new LGBT advocacy organization…

Landmark Supreme Court case Romer v. Evans from Colorado may have spearheaded the movement toward same-sex marriage

A groundbreaking judgeship, a state senator introduces a bill to establish civil unions and a…

Lesbian couple, one of thousands, torn apart by DOMA, immigration policy

When Coloradan Inger Knudson committed her life to Philippa, an English woman, atop Lookout Mountain in 2009, the last thing she feared was her family would be ripped apart by the United States government.

Anti-bullying bill expected to clear state senate, become law

An anti-bully bill is expected to clear the Senate before the 2011 General Assembly session…

Livin la vida leather: Brent Heinze, Mr. Leather Colorado

If anyone would have told Brent Heinze – 18 years ago – that he would be half-naked, suited up with a harness, tight leather pants, whips, chains and bulging muscles, posing for a photo shoot, not even he would have believed it. After shedding nearly 100 pounds and molding himself into the hunky spectacle that represents the leather community of Colorado, Heinze is the epitome of empowerment and true leather style.

Andrea Gibson: performance poetry inspiring change and hope

The words comprising Andrea Gibson’s poems are only a component of what you get when you experience her performance. There is power in her voice, a vehement enunciation of language that transforms into a rhythmic dance. Her body language engages the audience, as she becomes the poem; her vocal echoes scratching at the human core. Yet she is able to remain quite humble. “I only hope that my poems are heard … hoping they might change some things for the [greater] good.”

Colorado’s Democratic chariman is only second gay man to hold state party title

After four years in Washington, Rick Palacio was elected chairman of the Colorado Democratic Party March 5. Only one other out-gay man has ever achieved that office in U.S. history. In this interview he talks Mexican food, the Tea Party and LGBT rights.