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Nikki Kushner reports at the 2012 Colorado Gold Rush

Nikki Kushner reports at the 2012 Colorado Gold Rush

At the 14th Colorado Gold Rush Conference March 22-24, workshops and presentations carried a consistent theme: There is a positive future and positive change in the transgender community! [...]

One Colorado’s Alliance-Building Caucuses tackle more than ‘homophobia’

One Colorado’s Alliance-Building Caucuses tackle more than ‘homophobia’

The statewide LGBT advocacy organization has now created three “Alliance Building Caucuses” to address the issues brought forward by the community feedback: the People of Color caucus for LGBT people of color, the White Allies for [...]

Tackling trans unemployment: GLBT Community Center’s Courtney Gray

Tackling trans unemployment: GLBT Community Center’s Courtney Gray

Courtney Gray, a transgender community leader and the new Transgender programs Coordinator at the GLBT Community Center of Colorado, is eager to dive into a top issue facing many trans people: employment. “For obvious reasons there [...]

A fluid expression: building a better trans* narrative

A fluid expression: building a better trans* narrative

Many trans people prefer gender to be fluid, not just “A” and “B.” Transitioning is not becoming “something else” as much as removing the obstacles preventing them from expressing the identities they experience – whether male, [...]

Trans 101: the low-down on trans* basics

Trans 101: the low-down on trans* basics

Queer transman Mac Simon, Northern Colorado Organizer for One Colorado, gives us basics and the meanings of terms used to refer to trans people. Definition: Sex vs. Gender Sex refers to biology, while gender refers to [...]

Got work? Center helping elders, <br />trans find employment

Got work? Center helping elders,
trans find employment

Jobs are notoriously hard to come by if you’re trans or an elder. And in the current economic climate it can even be more difficult to find work. But the GLBT Community Center of Colorado is [...]

Most LGBTs aren’t out to doctors, Colorado survey shows

Most LGBTs aren’t out to doctors, Colorado survey shows

A survey of LGBT health care experiences found fewer than half of LGBT Coloradans and only 30 percent of transgender respondents report sufficient access to “friendly” health care providers. One Colorado, a statewide LGBT advocacy group, [...]

REPORT: Violence against transgender Coloradans increased by more than 100% in 2010

REPORT: Violence against transgender Coloradans increased by more than 100% in 2010

Reported violence against the Colorado transgender community increased by 135 percent in 2010, according to the latest report on hate violence by the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs. Nationwide the report showed the second highest murder [...]

Courgage Campaign video challenge asks for LGBT testimonies

Courgage Campaign video challenge asks for LGBT testimonies

When federal judges take office, they swear to uphold the Constitution impartially, “without respect to persons” according to their oath. But if you ask Oscar-winning Milk screenplay writer and LGBT activist Dustin Lance Black, “judges don’t [...]

Does Pride still matter?

Does Pride still matter?

The protest they called for would be born of the revolutionary spirit of 1960s America, and would become a tradition and evolve into today’s Pride parades and festivals. [...]