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To celebrate the diversity of faith and spirituality in our community, Out Front met with local LBGT members of many traditions to hear their stories
There are an estimated 7 million LGBT people in the United State’s private sector workforce.…
2011 anti-bullying law and activism of youth and families raise standards, but work still needed to make safe schools universal in Colorado
Should we remain distinctly defined, sacrificing none of our rituals and traditions for the sake of “belonging” to society as a whole? And what should that distinct community, perfectly envisioned, look like? Or, should we, as some wondered, strive to be assimilated into the mainstream culture – fully part of greater society and equal?
‘A lot of people, even including those in the gay community, still see HIV as a gay disease, which ads stigma both ways – to HIV-positive people and gay people,’ said Andrew Hickok, Prevention Manager at the Denver Colorado AIDS Project.
Photos by Chad Chisolm
Art at RedLine Denver gallery and the Center For Visual Art, Metro State University of Denver
Story by Denee Pino
Interviews by Matt Pizzuti
From around the nation come strikingly similar stories of fortitude despite discrimination – and a cautious optimism that more Americans are changing their views to favor equality.
The executive director of One Colorado, the state’s largest LGBT advocacy organization, has found himself sandwiched in time between his biggest political victory – the passage of the Colorado Civil Union Act – and an undetermined day, that, when it arrives, will set in motion a series of events that will solidify plans to usher in marriage equality here.
‘BUTCH’ in their own words: Linda Cox, Jennifer Fossen, Kyle Simmons and Sara Friden.
