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Colorado LGBT community stories, leaders and voices
Growing up, I was not spared from being bombarded with advertising directed at young women. Products such as cosmetics – eyeliner, mascara and foundation – garments designed to enhance your breasts and diminish your waistline, crippling high heels, cancer causing hair removal products, are everywhere.
Many years ago, as a young adult, I thought I was alone with my experience of being a transsexual.
I called the Salt Lake City gay crisis line when I thought there was no other place to go: It was within the gay community that I found support – an experience that has been true for many other transgender people of my generation. I welcomed our inclusion in the LGBTQ movement. Even though our issues come from different orientations, we’ve had enough in common to be in solidarity with one another.
Take a look at any of the dozens of major religions today and it won’t be long before you find dead-ends of denial and repression. Some beliefs hoist this banner proudly, while others pay less lip service to their ancient texts commandments of who you are allowed to share your body with.
I used to be part of that life. Fashion Week is like the Oscars for fashion people – you spend days in advance planning your wardrobe. You make sure that you’ll attend every ‘important’ show or party. I packed two bags of black clothing plus amazing scarves, jewelry and shoes. Then I worried endlessly about those clothes, jewelry and shoes. I worried people would think I was no longer relevant since I’m not part of this life anymore.
When I first met Dan Landes he looked like an urban Marlboro man who just stepped out of a peyote sweat lodge.
It was 2008 and I was sitting down to interview Landes about consumer ethics. As the owner of a vegan bakery and two vegetarian restaurants that seemingly banned all corporate products, I was curious to pick his brain about Fair Trade products and factory farms. I was expecting a wildly idealistic, out-of-touch madman who would grill me with his black-belt veganism. Instead I found a practical businessman who’d simply figured out how to make his eccentricities work to his advantage.
Out Front’s ultimate guide to Holiday gift-giving: Gift suggestions, tips and ways to give back
Our season, ‘Many Voices, One Song,’ will consist of three concerts. The holiday concert, ‘Sing We Merry, Gentlemen,’ will be presented at 7:30 p.m., Dec. 20.
Obama won big and so did Colorado Democrats, but there were also big moments in down-ballot issues, not least being marriage equality. Here’s a recap of the 2012 election results we know so far:
It began, as all good things do, with chocolate chip cookies – in David Bondarchuck’s earliest days, sifting, mixing and baking in his grandmother’s kitchen.
As the story goes, Bondarchuck was something of a culinary prodigy, learning the basics of professional baking with his grandma and growing a passion of the culinary arts as far back as memory serves him. The story begins before his appearance on Martha Stewart and before catering the 2011 holiday party at the White House.
Back in 2010, I decided to run for a citywide seat on the Denver City Council, with more than 30,000 voters electing me to office. My volunteers and I sent mail to more than 70,000 households (sorry, trees!), and spoke to thousands of voters i
