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Colorado Springs-based Family Research Institute tagged as hate group

By | 11.22.10 | 1:10 pm

In its most recent Intelligence Report, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) announced that it will designate the Colorado Springs-based Family Research Institute as a hate group for “pumping out religiously motivated… demonizing propaganda aimed at homosexuals and other…

Lunchtime links: Catholic students not OK with Church gay bashing

By | 11.16.10 | 11:50 am

In Minnesota, some smart Catholic school kids at Benilde-St. Margaret’s took issue with the anti-gay propaganda sent out by their archdiocese. They picked the propaganda apart in a school website editorial, which they posted alongside a personal essay

Udall urges legislative route to DADT repeal

By | 11.09.10 | 3:58 pm

Colorado’s U.S. Sen. Mark Udall urged members of the Senate to pass– or at very least to agree to debate– the nation’s Defense Authorization bill, which includes an amendment that would repeal the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell rule barring gays from serving openly in the military. Udall, a champion of DADT repeal, is so far not endorsing the so-called Truman option, where Pres. Obama would issue an executive order repealing the controversial policy the way Pres. Harry Truman in 1948 by executive order repealed rules racially segregating the military after a similarly drawn-out legislative battle.

Gay rights group One Colorado endorses Hickenlooper in guv race

By | 09.13.10 | 12:05 pm

In its first election season campaign endorsement, One Colorado has come out solidly for Democrat John Hickenlooper in the three-way governor’s race.

“As mayor of Denver, Hickenlooper has created an environment that emphasizes equality and fairness,” said One…

Michele Bachmann will either love or hate the queered census

By | 03.16.10 | 11:56 am

The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force is aiming to “queer the census” by handing out stickers Americans can paste onto the outside of their census envelopes to indicate their sex preference and gender identity. “We’re here. We’re queer…

Gay Task Force to Obama: Don’t say it; do it

By | 01.27.10 | 10:03 pm

A little more than an hour into his State of the Union speech, Obama glancingly addressed the fact that he has done nothing notable in the past year to expand the rights of gays. He said he was committed to…