Subject: LGBT Issues

• Not-So-Funny Business

  Are gays fair game for jokes on Denver radio?

  June 6, 2002

• Best toilet paper

  June 29, 2000

• Best realtors for gays and lesbians

  June 29, 2000

• Follow That Story

  November 27, 2003

• Second-Best Political Challenge

  March 25, 2004

• Letters to the Editor

  April 28, 2005

• Closet Concerns

  June 24, 1999

• A House Divided

  When Reverend Benjamin Reynolds opened his church to gays, some called it a sin. He calls it a mission from God.

  April 14, 2005

• The Doctor Is Out

  Trinidad's transgendered sex-change surgeon knows what her patients are going through.

  July 22, 2004

• Giant Steps

  The Global Walker returns to Colorado

  June 24, 2004

• Flick Pick

  January 15, 2004

• A Rainbow of Smiles

  Comedy Gay-la thrives in its ninth year.

  May 15, 2003

• The Coors of History

  A brief look at the brewer's past.

  January 23, 2003

• A Brewing Disagreement

  An anti-Coors ad gets canned by a local publication.

  June 27, 2002

• A Gay Day

  The annual PrideFest parade mixes frolics with politics.

  June 13, 2002

• Don't Cheer, Don't Tell

  Two bits, four bits, six bits, a dollar! All for gay rights, stand up and holler!

  July 27, 2000

• Nobody Gets Out of Here Alive

  Patrick Gourley has seen enough death from AIDS. Now it’s time for rebirth.

  March 2, 2000

• The Gay Nineties

  Since Amendement 2 passed seven years ago, Colorado Springs has learned a lesson in Family Values.

  November 25, 1999

• Feature

  November 25, 1999

• Candy Corn

  Better Than Chocolate overdoses on the sweetness factor.

  September 2, 1999

• The Other Coors Spokesman

  September 2, 1999

• Off Limits

  July 15, 1999

• Savage Love

  July 8, 1999

• Telling Truths

  May 27, 1999

• Out and About

  March 4, 1999

• Savage Love

  January 21, 1999

• Off Limits

  November 5, 1998

• Fact or Friction?

  The ex-gay movement has its straight man--but ex-ex-gays may have the last laugh.

  October 1, 1998

• Sex Machine

  Dr. Stanley Biber has made 3,500 women--and 300 men.

  August 27, 1998

• Tim Gill

  Get With the Program

  January 29, 1998

• Free Willy

  As part of his never-ending fight against gays, car dealer Will Perkins gets himself "arrested" in Vail.

  October 2, 1997

• Slay It With a Smile

  Paul Cameron's mission to stop homosexuality is hard to swallow

  October 3, 1996

• Letters

  May 16, 1996

• Disturbing the Piss

  May 9, 1996

• COME TO JESUS

  THE LOVE THAT DARE NOT SPEAK ITS NAME...IN KEVIN TEBEDO'S PRESENCE.

  November 22, 1995

• LETTERS

  November 1, 1995

• LETTERS

  October 25, 1995

• FOCUS ON THE FRACAS

  JAMES DOBSON URGES A LETTER-WRITING CAMPAIGN AGAINST A DPS GAY-HEALTH POSTER.

  October 11, 1995

• STRANGE BREW

  COORS TAPS INTO LIBERAL "DOMESTIC PARTNER" BENEFITS, STUNNING ITS GAY CRITICS.

  June 21, 1995

• LAST RIGHTS

  COLORADO SPRINGS' HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION SUFFERS A MELTDOWN.

  June 15, 1994

• Opening the Closet

  January 12, 1994

• Baseball, soccer, gay-marriage rally: one Denver nine-year-old's Saturday schedule

  Ethan lays it out for Sen. Michael Bennet. Meet Ethan. He's nine and in Mr. Kimmal's third-grade class at the Montclair School of Academics and Enrichment in west Denver. He likes soccer, football, baseball, basketball, swimming and skiing. But his favorite thing to do after school is read, especially the Harry Potter books. Oh, and tomorrow at noon -- in between baseball, soccer and a graduation party -- he's throwing a rally in support of gay marriage on the steps of the state Capitol. "They

  May 15, 2009

• Prop 8 protest today at 3 p.m. on Colfax

  A Flickr photo.A Prop 8 protest in San Francisco. In case you haven't heard, the California Supreme Court issued a ruling hours ago upholding Proposition 8's ban on same-sex marriage, which that state's voters approved in November. (Read all about the ruling in this Los Angeles Times story.) Gay-rights groups everywhere -- including those in Colorado -- are calling the ruling a disappointment. And in Denver, some activists plan to showcase their frustration with an act of civil disobedience to

  May 26, 2009

• Seven unanswered questions about the trial of Angie Zapata's killer

  May 28, 2009

• Video: Five people arrested during yesterday's Prop 8 protest

  Soulforce in Colorado, a Denver-based nonprofit dedicated to ending oppression against gays, lesbians, bisexual and transgender people, has posted a YouTube video of yesterday's protest of the California Supreme Court ruling upholding Proposition 8, which bans same-sex marriage. (For more about the protest, check out our blog previewing the event.) The most dramatic part of the video is when a straight couple -- perhaps unknowingly? -- stops by to pick up a marriage license at the city clerk'

  May 27, 2009

• Focus on the Family launches more anti-gay tirades

  Focus on the Family's Tom Minnery and Stuart Shepard. James Dobson's February decision to step down as chairman of Focus on the Family doesn't mean the organization is abandoning its ideological agenda. Indeed, his minions are as busy as ever attacking governmental actions that don't represent Focus on the Family values, including pretty much anything having to do with homosexual rights. Today's implementation of designated beneficiary agreements in Colorado, which grant unmarried couples -- in

  July 1, 2009

• Focus on the Family: Gay people still can be fixed

  Focus on the Family's James Dobson.​The American Psychiatric Association's rejection of therapy intended to turn gay people straight, announced yesterday, is unlikely to change the views of Focus on the Family, the Colorado Springs-based organization, founded by James Dobson, that's made "reorientation" one of its most prominent missions. Indeed, the outfit has long been defensive about criticism of this practice, as is made clear by the following introduction to a website section entitled

  August 6, 2009

• Democratic HQ window-smashing: Health care, gay rights and Maurice Schwenkler's other identity -- Ariel Attack

  Maurice Schwenkler, aka Ariel Attack.​When news first broke yesterday that eleven windows had been smashed at Colorado Democratic Party headquarters in Denver, initial speculation pinned the blame on conservative anger over Democratic heathcare reform efforts. When it emerged that one of the two suspects arrested in connection with that crime, 24-year-old Maurice Schwenkler, had once canvassed for Democratic candidates on behalf of a liberal political fund, the theories got weird. Could

  August 26, 2009

• Wake-Up Call: Is Kenny Be the worst in the world?

  ​The Best and Worst of National News for July according to GLAAD, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, is out, and Kenny Be -- yes, Kenny Be,Westword's sensitive and insightful staff cartoonist -- is on the hit list. Here's the story from GLAAD's website: THE WORST The Denver Westword Prints Anti-LGBT Slur; Allows Abusive Commentary to Follow In a July 22 comic, The Denver Westword published a cartoon in its 'Kenny Be' series that used the anti-gay slur f*g. The comic depicts

  September 15, 2009

• Wake-Up Call: Matthew Shepard, eleven years later

  ​ This past weekend the largest gay-rights demonstration in close to a decade descended on Washington, D.C., where lawmakers may finally approve the Matthew Shepard & James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, a measure that would add sexual orientation and gender identity to the categories covered by federal hate crime legislation. (Rather than the stand-alone measure approved by the House, though, the Senate opted for making it an amendment to the defense appropriations bill -- a maneuv

  October 12, 2009