slider
Civil unions in Colorado mean that LGBT relationships are more out in the open than ever before, but we were getting ‘married’ in the eyes of each other and our communities long before the state recognized same-sex relationships. Out Front will highlight a series of LGBT couples who have jumped the broom, tied the knot, got hitched or took the plunge – Danielle Jordan and her wife Cyndi Adams tell us their story first.
As the scientific community becomes more invested in green technology, Schroeppel is also hoping for cultural and social change, including around built environments and transportation – which means re-thinking certain aspects of the American Dream for a suburban family home with a white picket fence, two cars and a big green lawn.
Somewhere between the steak and the soufflé lies Forkly, the sometimes cousin of Instagram, twice removed from Twitter, and half-brother to Yelp. Its face may be new, but its concept is a deft merging of technologies we already know and love. It is the chance to create a photo journal of our gustatory lives.
Sergeant First Class Luiza Fritz, an Army veteran who served in Iraq twice before being discharged under Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, has finally overcome a long personal and bureaucratic battle for the opportunity to serve in uniform again.
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.
Be prepared. For anything.
That’s the advice from half a dozen gay rights activists from across the nation who have been where Colorado’s gay and lesbian community is about to find itself: on the winning side of a long-fought political battle for relationship recognition.
Gov. John Hickenlooper is expected to sign into law the Colorado Civil Union Act. The new law, which will go into effect May 1, will establish most of the rights and responsibilities of marriage for same-sex couples.
Colorado now joins a growing number of states offering stronger relationship recognition to same-sex couples – from strong domestic partnership laws and civil unions, to full marriage equality.
They said it’s not as much about the specific legal benefits a civil union will provide as it is the recognition the bill represents – recognition for relationships like Steadman and Misner had, for same-sex couples across the state, and for themselves
In this culture, evidently it’s the idea of the career or life that would be risked by this sort of expressive freedom – not the digital record that would put it at risk – that feels like ‘baggage.’
