Later this year, the United States military is poised to repeal the policy known as Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. Since its inception in 1992, critics have called it discriminatory, forbidding gays, lesbains and transgender individuals from serving their country openly, as they are. This June, led by the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, Colorado LGBT veterans will march as grand marshals in the PrideFest parade.
To them, the gay-rights lobby has morphed into a relentless bully, pressuring companies and law firms into policy reversals, making it taboo in some circumstances to express opposition to same-sex marriage.
The Testimony: Take A Stand Video Challenge will be a collection of videos from LGBT people across the country talking about their own personal truths. It can be about how you identify or how you’re getting there, and the challenges you still face, or about the ways that specific laws have affected you personally.
It is now our time, to realize the magnificence of who we are, to take our rightful place in society, to lead the way in further uniting humanity by openly embracing diversity and rejecting fear and discrimination. To offer a very simple definition for enlightenment, that maybe it means helping to realize our next evolutionary step from the conscious “I am” to the awareness of “We are.”
The sun is going to be bright this weekend. But it won’t be the only star in town during PrideFest weekend. Take a look at some of the celebrities taking the stage at PrideFest and making appearances around town at local bars!
What makes Out in America worthwhile is that every LGBT individual will identify with something – or someone – in the film. There is considerable talk about simple pleasures, such as dancing together, eating together and sharing a life, as well as the painful struggles for self-acceptance. When country super-star Chely Wright explained she came out so she could live “in full light,” and not in “the dark of a small closet,” or when a transwoman experiences a happiness that her mother acknowledges, the film is inspiring.
About a third of Denver’s 300,000 registered voters had cast ballots by late Tuesday, and unofficial, early totals showed Hancock leading Romer 57 percent to 43 percent, or 49,957 votes to 38,290.
Speaking to a crowd of about 45 people on the west steps of the Capitol, Wendy Alfredsen said she wants her daughter back home, with her, in Colorado and wants to see state, federal and international laws changed so no one has to endure the same heartache she’s experienced.
The winner of the all-mail election will be sworn in July 18, replacing interim Mayor Guillermo “Bill” Vidal. Denver’s last full-term mayor, Democrat John Hickenlooper, became Colorado’s governor in January.
ATLANTA (AP) _ Gay and bisexual high school students are more likely than their heterosexual…
