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Colorado voters will play a decisive role in relationship recognition rights when they decide who will represent them at the state Capitol. On the same ballot, Coloradans will choose between President Barack Obama who says he still has work to do, and his Republican challenger Gov. Mitt Romney who thinks Obama’s wasted four years.
Colorado has eight out state legislative candidates on the ballot this year – five new faces and three incumbents. Colorado’s other out legislator, Sen. Lucia Guzman, D-Denver, is not up for re-election this year. Two of the candidates, Democratic Sen. Pat Steadman, the incumbent, and Republican Michael Car, in a race for the first time, are running against each other. If 7 of the 8 candidates win, 8 of Colorado’s 100 seats in the General Assembly will be held by out LGBT candidates, giving Colorado one of the top 3 most LGBT-inclusive legislatures in the U.S.
With their new album “Collide and Conquer” coming out October 23, McCloskey and Hunter Valentine will get to see what kind of boost their connection to the popular reality show has given them.
President Barack Obama and his GOP opponent Gov. Mitt Romney exchanged blows on domestic issues during the first presidential debate in Denver.
Colorado LGBT community members and allies who made a difference in 2012
Aligning with a broader anti-racist movement, many people of color in the LGBT community point out the trickiness of their work: Racism can be subtle, even invisible, to all but those who it’s directed at – and sometimes even to them. Racism can be in the attitudes of partners, acquaintances and friends. It can be in people of your own race. The challenge of drawing awareness to racism where it exists within the LGBT community itself is steep.
Out Front, Colorado’s largest and oldest LGBT media organization and network, will honor 11 individuals and organizations who created change and gave back this year Oct. 6 at its inaugural Power Party.
Obama stressed the importance of economic recovery without hurting working Americans. “You can choose a future where we reduce our deficit without wrecking our middle class,” he said.
For the longest time, only gay men were considered fashionable, the LGBT community’s women relegated to cargo shorts and ill-fitting menswear.
Like Persephone’s journey to the Underworld, DJ Lisa Pittman invites you to a girl party in the dessert – this time it’s in Sin City. Are you ready for decadence on a new level? Are you ready for Shedonism?
