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Anti-LGBTQ bills doomed to die. Advocates say they still take a...

A year ago, Jaida began taking medicine to block her hormones and increase her estrogen levels in her transition from male to female. The...

Colorado’s youth suicide rates are rising. A new effort seeks to...

On Tuesday morning, in a fourth floor conference room of History Colorado in downtown Denver, 14-year-old Aimee Resnick stood behind a lectern looking out...

Republicans commit to funding Civil Rights Commission, but have changes in...

Democrats took the granite steps of the state Capitol on Tuesday demanding that the GOP fund the Colorado Civil Rights Commission after three Republicans...

Republicans withhold funding for commission fighting same-sex wedding cake case before...

Republican state lawmakers are effectively shutting down a state agency that is at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court case involving the rights...

The gay wedding cake, the baker who wouldn’t make it, and...

Jack Phillips wants to talk. “But I can’t, not without my lawyers here,” laments the Masterpiece Cakeshop owner whose refusal to make a cake...

Colorado’s transgender students will still get to use the bathrooms they...

Colorado students shouldn’t have to worry about new guidance from the Trump administration that rescinds federal protections for transgender students because of existing state...

A 10-year-old champions trans rights. Lawmakers let her down.

On her tenth birthday, Jude read Colorado lawmakers an essay she wrote for her Fourth Grade class. She spoke about her experience as a...

Ballot initiatives aim to roll back Colorado LGBTQ rights

The anti-same-sex marriage initiatives are coming. Gene Straub and D'Arcy Straub filed two ballot measures last Thursday — barely a week after the Supreme Court's historic ruling...

Colorado gay rights group honors Boulder Clerk Hall, other allies, celebrates...

Boulder County Clerk Hillary Hall on June 25 began marrying same-sex couples. It was simple, really, is how she makes it seem.

Another AG request for delay on marriage equality bites the dust

District Court Judge C. Scott Crabtree issued an order this morning allowing Denver County Clerk Debra Johnson to continue issuing same-sex marriage licenses despite a request from Attorney General John Suthers for an emergency injunction that would have stopped her.