2008
PlanetOut Travel Awards
- Canada, best country
- Buenos Aires, international city
- New York City, domestic city
- Provincetown, domestic gay resort town
- Royal Palms, Fort Lauderdale, gay resort
- Zoom Vacations, small tour operator
- Atlantis, large tour operator
- Celebrity and Norwegian, cruise lines
- Virgin America/Atlantic, best airline
22% of
high-ranking military officers support eliminating "don't ask, don't tell" as a means of increasing troop recruitment
58% of
high-ranking military officers support lowering education standards as a means of increasing troop recruitment
Under DADT two people every day are dropped from the military for being gay.
However, increasing numbers of high-ranking
military vets are pushing for a repeal of DADT. Read more here.
Center for a New American Security, a non-partisan, national
security think tank in Washington DC
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Monday, May 12
Colorado ManREACH
will host three gatherings in 2008: June, July and September. For more information email info@manreach.org or call Richard Rivers at 719-271-5865 or Charles Fletcher at 303-960-9323
"Get Your Heart On" |
Want to add your own announcement for an anniversary, marriage, union, birthday,
congratulations, or remembrance?
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I'm 16 and gay. I recently got into an argument with my parents over whether HIV is spread by saliva, or if you can be infected during oral sex...
—Good Gay Boy
For me and my muscle-bound bondage boy, Dan, a large part of the turn-on would evaporate if somebody were "within earshot at all times," per your advice last week... Dumb! When I leave my boy roped up and go to a movie, knowing that he's working fiercely, angrily, and uselessly to get free while I'm gone, well... I'd hate to be denied that pleasure because some moron left her husband tied and gagged for a whole damn day. I leave my helpless goldfish home alone. Why not my tied-up plaything? Can't an exception be made for those of us who actually have a brain?
—Mr. Roper
Dan Savage's response
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Appreciation and credit
for news to
The Advocate,
365gay.com,
NPR.org,
CNN.com,
CBS News.com,
Coloradoan.com,
People.com,
Time.com,
ACLU.org,
USA Today.com,
FakeGayNews.com,
Topix.net and
uk.gay.com; and
for history to
glbtq.com and
WikipediA
and the Yahoo groups at --gayhistory and Pridelets; and
for movies we mostly thank the posters at youtube.com
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Federal Court Rules For Gay Students In Button Case
: (Ponce De Leon, Florida) After a two-day trial in which a Florida high school principal testified that he believed clothing, buttons or stickers featuring rainbows would make students automatically picture gay people having sex, a federal judge today ruled that the school violated the First Amendment rights of students.
LGBT Rating System For Hospitals
: (New York City) Just over half of 88 hospitals got top marks under a new rating system created by two national gay-rights organizations which hope the standards will result in more compassionate treatment of gay and lesbian patients.
Lesbian Settles Bias Suit With NYC Restaurant
: (New York City) A lawsuit by a lesbian who was ejected from a New York City restaurant following last year's LGBT pride march when a bouncer thought she was too masculine to use the women's rest room has settled her lawsuit against the business.
Clinton Wins Large But Symbolic Victory In W.Va.
: (Charleston, West Virginia) Hillary Rodham Clinton coasted to a large, but largely symbolic victory in working-class West Virginia on Tuesday, handing Barack Obama one of his worst defeats of the campaign but scarcely slowing his march toward the Democratic presidential nomination.
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FortPride congratulates CSU's Lavender Graduates
Emily Elizabeth Atherton
Amanda Borin
Gabriel Case
Deb DeCovis
Claire Fleming
Katrina Gillette
Dani Long |
Meredith macKinnon
Michael Marceau
Stephanie McMahon
Michelle Meacham
Mandy M. Rasmussen
Kelsey Ray
Camden Yehle |
TOMORROW will be the last weekly print version of the Rocky Mountain Chronicle, Fort Collins' only independent
newspaper. The FortPride staff feels it's been a privilege for our wee, pseudo-liberal community to have enjoyed
their work. We thank the RMChronicle, its staff, and its insightful editor Sadie Moore for their fresh thoughts
and outside-the-box commentaries.
GLBTSS new David Bohnett CyberCenter opens this week 4:00pm-5:00pm Way_Out_West glbtq & allies youth group (13-17) meets every Wednesday at the Link, 1816 Central Avenue, Cheyenne |
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New York, 1997: State Senator Joseph L. Bruno announces his
plans to abolish rent protections for lesbians, gays and unmarried couples,
thus allowing the evictions of domestic partners, caregivers, or any
non-traditionally married partners if the primary tenant on a lease
agreement dies.
| Washington, DC, 1981: Ronald Reagan cancels the White House subscription to The Advocate. | | Canada, 1976: A "clean up" of Montreal begins in preparation for August's Summer Olympics, with the systemic ongoing harassment and/or closing of
the city's bathhouses and gay bars. Among the raids permanent casualties are the Club Baths' Montreal branch. | | Washington DC, 1974: In the US Congress, New York Democratic Representatives Bella Abzug and Edward Koch introduce the first bill proposing to broaden the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include protection against discrimination based on "sexual orientation, sex or marital status." | | New York City, 1970: Gay Liberation Front activists ZAP a special session of the American Psychiatric Association dealing with "sex problems." The activists protest an Australian doctor's paper on the use of electroshock aversion therapy to "treat" homosexuality. | Germany, 1897: The Scientific Humanitarian Committee is founded in Berlin by Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld (born this same day in 1868) to organize opposition to legal and social oppression of homosexuals in Germany and to fight for the repeal of Article 175 of the Imperial Penal Code which criminalizes "coitus-like" acts between men. It is the first of several pre-Nazi gay liberation organizations in Berlin. |
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Younger Gays Want Long-Term
Relationships & Kids
Penn State and NYU published their urban study in the Journal of LGBT Issues in Counseling.
More than 90% of young lesbians and more than 80% of gay males expect to be partnered in a
monogamous relationship after age 30. Two thirds of females and more than half of males expressed
likelihood that they would raise children in the future; of these,
58% of males and 54% of females expect to be raising their own biological children.
The mainstreaming of lesbian/gay youth will significantly impact culture and politics.
Denver PFLAG has worked to compile this list
of GLBT-friendly congregations
If you have any additions or thoughts, please contact Chuck Willis at chuckwillis@comcast.net. Our thanks to him for this enormous effort.
for HS graduating seniors
Be aware of a new Larimer County service for businesses and organizations that provides inservices on
techniques to let your clients know you are culturally competent in GLBT issues
For example, it is distressing to realize that thousands of gay people live in nursing homes and assisted living facilities without any staff or other residents knowing critical parts of their lives. These elders are deprived the opportunity to be themselves and to tell their story. They miss out on true inclusion in their own community because they have to be guearded about what they say. As a result, staff and residents never get to truly know them. Finally, they are deprived the life review process necessary for a good death.
Contact: Tina Barker, Larimer County Long-Term Care Ombudsman at 498-6803 or email tbarker@larimer.org
the Sylvia Rivera Law Project —
" SRLP works to guarantee that all people are free to self-determine gender identity and expression,
regardless of income or race, and without facing harassment, discrimination or violence."
The project is named for civil rights pioneer
Sylvia Rivera,
veteran of the 1969 Stonewall uprising and
a tireless advocate for all those who have been marginalized as the "gay rights" movement has mainstreamed.
Be an ally...
- As in Boston, NYC, SF and DC, work to push the homeless shelters to place residents according to gender identity
and safety rather than birth gender.
- To prevent harrassment and foster safety, establish gender-neutral bathrooms where you work, shop, go to school,
eat or get services.
- support inclusion of trans health coverage in the benefits package at your job, school, or state Medicaid program.
The Human Rights Campaign offers its
Buying for Equality 2008
[pdf download]. It's a guide to companies, products and services that
support glbt equality, a way to vote with your business and purchasing practices.
RainbowShoppingNetwork.com also has
gay-friendly and gay-owned recommendations as well as discounts and money-saving coupons.
Ten percent of the site's revenue
goes to GLBT non-profit organizations, currently donating to national PFLAG.
Employment Non-Discrimination Act
≡≡ 13 states have ENDAs that protect sexual orientation as well as gender expression
≡≡ 7 states have ENDAs that protect sexual orientation but not gender expression
≡≡ 30 states
have no laws to protect GLBT workers
Meet Betsy Markey
who is likely running alone in 2008
against Marilyn Musgrave to represent our 4th Congressional District.
Betsy has 174 days left to garner your respect and engage your support.
Visit MarkeyForCongress.com,
and check her Wikipedia entry.
There are an estimated 65,000 lesbian and gay servicemembers currently in the U.S. military.
Gays serve openly in the mililary in 23 of the 26 NATO countries. The United States, Turkey and Portugal
are the exceptions.
10,870 gay military personnel have been discharged under the “don't ask, don't tell” policy since
it was enacted in 1993.
Human Rights Campaign
publishes its 6th Annual
Corporate Equality Index showing
significant improvement in employers' treatment of glbt employees, consumers and investors.
Violence and Suicide
A new study from the Univ of CA at Davis
reports that Nearly four in 10 gay men and about one in eight lesbians and bisexuals in the United States
have been the target of violence or a property crime because of their sexual orientation. Survey respondents
had an average age of 39. Most had attended some college. Two thirds were white, 16% black and 13% Hispanic.
Data collection for the study was supported by a grant from the
Gill Foundation.
The FBI announced that hate crimes against gays make up 16% of total documented hate crimes in the United States in 2006, up from 14% in 2005.
The American Academy of Pediatrics reported last year that
47 percent of gay and lesbian teenagers have seriously considered suicide and that
36 percent have attempted it. The National Institute for Mental Health
notes that this number may be low, because some teenagers who commit suicide may not be
out to their families or friends.
Transfusion complication risks from Poudre Valley Hospital data
| allergic reaction |
1:100 |
| bacterial contamination |
1:38,000 |
| Hepatitis B |
1:137,000 |
| Malaria |
1:250,000 |
| Hepatitis C |
1:250,000 |
| HIV |
1:1,900,000 |
"Transgender" &
"Transsexual" —
from ABC News 20/20 in April 2007
Gay & Lesbian Medical Association — "GLMA"
Human Rights Campaign resources
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World
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United States
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Colorado
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| Pop. |
6,667,659,145 |
Pop. |
304,083,683 |
Pop. |
5,026,746 |
| GLBT |
333,382,957 |
GLBT |
15,204,184 |
GLBT |
251,337 |
Note that there are more GLBT persons in the World
than there are residents in the United States.
Population statistics are based on U.S. Census Bureau clocks
for the U.S. and the
World.
Colorado estimates are from the
Colorado Health Info Dataset.
GLBT estimates use the conservative 5% portion of adults who self-identify as gay or lesbian.
Updated hourly.
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