Barack Obama

Colorado LGBT news stories and features mentioning President Barack Obama

Obama accepts nomination, defends rights of minorities

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.

DNC delegates and guests arrive in Charlotte

On the eve of LGBT history, delegates arrive for DNC and let loose.

Democratic convention will highlight LGBT and progressive issues

Thousands of delegates, party activists, politicians and party officials will convene in Charlotte for the 2012 Democratic National Convention in September.

LGBT people and feminists have the same dream

Women have been our defenders and allies, our best friends, our most pro-gay politicians and our celebrity icons who embraced and played up their gay fans when male celebrities wouldn’t.

Amy Ray of The Indigo Girls on gay rights, Pride and the president

Out Front Colorado interviewed Amy Ray, who spoke in her signature throaty voice about touring, gay marriage, relationship “merit badges” and what she is looking forward to about her Colorado trip.

SpeakOUT from Mayor Michael Hancock: Liberty and justice for all

It’s impossible to miss the winds of change sweeping across America and Colorado in recent days. From the White House to our Statehouse, the clarion call to extend basic civil rights to same-sex couples has never been louder.

President Obama: Promise kept to gay Iraq Vets

By Luiza Fritz I learned not long after I joined that there’s much more to…

Obama ends gays in military ban

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has formally repealed the ban on gays serving openly in…

Pressure on Obama as NY considers gay marriage

Activists say Obama got off to a slow start as president on their priority issues, but he won many over by repealing the ban on gays serving openly in the military and by instructing the Justice Department to stop defending in court a federal law defining marriage as between a man and a woman.

Colorado’s Democratic chariman is only second gay man to hold state party title

After four years in Washington, Rick Palacio was elected chairman of the Colorado Democratic Party March 5. Only one other out-gay man has ever achieved that office in U.S. history. In this interview he talks Mexican food, the Tea Party and LGBT rights.