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LGBT program for Longmont seniors gets $100K grant

In May, Project Visibility — a cultural competency training program aimed at administrators and staff of nursing homes, assisted-living residences, home care agencies and other senior service providers — landed a $100,000 grant from The Theodore and Chandos Rice Charitable Foundation to continue developing the award-winning program launched in 2004 to benefit LGBT elders.

Illinois civil unions become reality today

ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) _ Their half-century relationship has spanned 10 U.S. presidencies but also occasional…

Fo Co community leaders to host makeshift Pride celebration in lieu of official cancelation

A group of Fort Collins community members, coordinated by Mandi Lix, a local DJ, has…

Lesbian in runoff for Denver clerk and recorder

Debra Johnson, an out lesbian, is in the runoff for the position of Denver Clerk…

Fort Collins Pride in the Park cancelled

The Fort Collins Lambda Center has canceled its Saturday Pride festival due to financial troubles,…

Singer, devoted mother, culinary connoisseur

Lilly Duncan, a loving and talented friend, sister, mother and daughter, died May 14, 2011.…

Stuff Gay People Like: Copying lesbian haircuts

Stuff gay people like affectionately refers to these and all other hairstyles moving through a gender-neutral social phase as “bottom-tops.” Soon, each style will diverge into numerous manifestations as every kind of group adopts them differently; a slightly more restrained form of a hairdo will develop for straight men, a version with longer length will pop up for straight women and a $5,000-apiece highlighted adaptation will become popular in Hollywood.

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.

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.