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Fact or Friction?

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

By Ward Harkavy
Oct 1, 1998

John Paulk's life has really changed. A few years ago he was nobody, just another former drag queen. But that was before he started going public with his "conversion" from homosexuality, before he became the straight man for the "ex-gay" propaganda campaign. That campaign kicked into high gear this summer...
Collect Calls

Did US West install a party line for Bill Owens?

By Ward Harkavy
Sep 17, 1998

Is it time for one of Colorado's gubernatorial candidates to hang it up? The only way to explain Democrat Gail Schoettler's recent financial relations with US West is that she must have dialed 303-BADKARMA. In the latest campaign-finance reports filed with the secretary of state's office, Bill Owens, the Republican...
Making Book on Bill Owens

Questions about the religious right are this GOP candidate's cross to bear--or is that bare?

By Ward Harkavy
Aug 6, 1998

Bill Owens was a most confident man and, as always, a cordial host when a reporter entered the air space of his gubernatorial campaign headquarters at I-25 and Colorado Boulevard last week. "We've got cold water and some warm wine--some of that wine-in-a-box," he offers. Jesus Christ. Wasn't he the...
They Came From Denver!

What's really going on at those Denver Post "town meetings"? Westword investigates.

By Ward Harkavy
May 21, 1998

I diddled the Denver Post. If I were Governor Roy Romer, maybe I would explain that nothing more than "deep affection" made me want to go undercover to the Post's Snapshots of Colorado town meeting last week in Colorado Springs. But there was no affection. Just diddling. Find 'em, fool...
Life of the Party

Winning the Governor's Mansion could be a religious experience for the GOP.

By Ward Harkavy
Apr 9, 1998

You take your chances walking into a political rally with no stickers on your body. You feel like the first sailor off the boat stepping into a gaggle of prostitutes. Smiling people move toward you, seeking to press your flesh and slap names on your chest. Hands come out of...

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