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As the world outside the dimly lit gay bars of the Mile High City evolves, the question bears asking: what are bar owners and managers doing inside to keep the kegs flowing as usual?
2011 anti-bullying law and activism of youth and families raise standards, but work still needed to make safe schools universal in Colorado
Denver’s LGBT leaders and activists, and the authorities are working through a fog of mistrust to find a formula to prevent bias–motivated crimes.
From around the nation come strikingly similar stories of fortitude despite discrimination – and a cautious optimism that more Americans are changing their views to favor equality.
The executive director of One Colorado, the state’s largest LGBT advocacy organization, has found himself sandwiched in time between his biggest political victory – the passage of the Colorado Civil Union Act – and an undetermined day, that, when it arrives, will set in motion a series of events that will solidify plans to usher in marriage equality here.
The Colorado Civil Unions Act was a monumental victory for LGBT equality in Colorado, granting state–level rights and benefits comparable to marriage. Yet there are significant shortfalls in protections for couples with a Colorado civil union, cemented by Amendment 43 and the federal Defense Of Marriage Act.
An unenforced discrimination crime in Colorado is likely coming off the books under a bipartisan agreement inspired by the civil unions bill.
This publication – founded in 1976 and 37 years old this month – was just a twinkle in founder Phil Price’s eye when the birth pangs of our Colorado community sounded out 40 years ago, in October 1973.
