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Colorado Democratic U.S. Sen. Mark Udall joined with Connecticut Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman and eleven co-sponsors to introduce legislation this morning to repeal the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, which bans lesbian, gay and bisexual service members from serving openly.
“In a time of two wars, any policy that leads to the discharge of [...]

U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, D-Boulder, introduced legislation in the House of Representatives yesterday that would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. Opponents of the repeal, including U.S.Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colorado Springs, are asserting that the bill’s passage represents an infringement on state’s rights, maintaining that it would force states to recognize same sex-marriages, even where [...]

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The Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act passed the House by a wide margin in the spring. Debate included a rousing short speech by Democratic U.S. Rep. Betsy Markey, who referenced the fact that Shepard died at the Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, in her 4th District. Shepard had been attacked in Wyoming, [...]

Members of Colorado’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community are hosting a Unity Dance Aug. 23 to welcome convention visitors to Denver.

This strange story has, as they say, staying power.
Since March, reams and reams have been written about the ongoing saga of the Rev. Don Armstrong and his breakaway Grace Church and St. Stephen’s Parish in Colorado Springs. Among the highlights: a near-pieing, illegal parking and accusations that the anti-gay Armstrong misappropriated hundreds of thousands [...]

Thousands flocked to the Rev. Jerry Falwell’s funeral, including the Fred Phelps gang of God Hates Fags fame from Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas, and a Liberty University student with a set of napalm-like bombs allegedly designed to greet the aforementioned protesters.

Reportedly absent were every single Republican candidate for president. Falwell’s good friend James Dobson, [...]

Here are a few statistics, courtesy of Zogby and Rear Admiral Alan Steinman, to give people an idea of just how well the United States military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy is working.

Paul Cameron may be a dinosaur. But as exhibited during the recent debate over Colorado’s second-parent adoption bill – which allows gays and others to adopt children – the chairman of the Colorado Springs-based Family Research Institute is still stomping around, brandishing his long-debunked “scientific research.” 

Through the years Cameron has claimed that gay people die [...]

The elusive “homosexual agenda” has reared up again – the alert this time coming thanks to Sen. Scott Renfroe, a Republican from Greeley, talking about the second-parent adoption bill.

“This bill is about the homosexual agenda, and it’s not about what’s best for children,” Renfroe was quoted, by The Denver Post.

And to the Rocky Mountain [...]

Feel like spitting your coffee across the room? Read Wikipedia’s official biography of one of the most powerful lobbyists at the Capitol: 
Steve Durham is a lobbyist and former Colorado state Senator. Though a Republican, Durham is known for being a “maverick” due to being one of the relatively few homosexual members of the Republican Party, [...]