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Colorado LGBT community stories, leaders and voices
Though we’ve all heard the joke that a 30th birthday means ‘gay death,’ Bobby Gates knew better. For Gates, 73 years old meant daily breakfasts at Panera Bread, regular cocktail hours at Charlie’s and weekly dinners and movie nights with groups of his countless friends and acquaintances.
Michael Carr, Jen Schumacher, George Gramer and ‘Shanida Lawya” weigh in on this week’s question.
What drives the connection between LGBT people and their individual desires to entertain?
Over the years, I have fondly, yet with a straight face, shared with my friends that I am writing a book called I have a Dream…and you’re not in it. No one really believes I will do it, but the impetus for me even saying it is something that I struggle with each day – when will we have a community with a coordinated dream where everyone is included?
The 26-year-old out musician has been making heads turn in the Denver music scene with her almost haunting lyrics and guitar chords.
Feb. 6, 2013 Cover Story – Real local stories from Colorado LGBT couples in love
Growing up in a large Catholic family, my mother was very in tune with keeping the household in some sort of organized chaos, assuring that everyone had her or his chores in mind. One of her more common phrases was, ‘“everyone is doing something.’
Her jokes are timely and universally relatable. Laughs are often sparse through the first minute of her set, many suburban straights writing her off initially, assuming there’s no common ground for a joke to take root. But in no time she’s won them over, succeeding in a double duty of cracking up an audience (a task in itself) and perhaps educating some patrons who’ve only heard about transgender people through Focus On The Family pamphlets.
Stacey Lei Krauss and Jennifer Schumacher – partners in business and life – are co-owners of willPower FIT STUDIO, located inside the Spray Coffee Building at 2110 Market Street in Denver, where they train patrons who range from fitness beginners to professional athletes on Stacey’s willPower Method – all of it barefoot.
It survived court challenges and a close election; how President Obama’s defining achievement, The Affordable Care Act, will impact LGBT health care.
