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Denver Nuggets’ Kenneth Faried and his two moms for Colorado civil unions
Here’s Denver Nuggets star Kenneth Faried, appearing in a video speaking out for civil unions in Colorado. Faried grow up in a household with two loving parents — his moms.
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Civil union bill gets inital approval from Colorado Senate committee
A bill to establish relationship recognition for Colorado same-sex couples passed its first legislative test today. The Colorado Senate Judiciary Committee gave initial approval to The Colorado Civil Union Act 3-2 on a party line vote.
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Colorado Senate poised to give initial approval to civil unions bill Wednesday
A proposal to allow civil unions for gay couples is set to breeze through the Democratic controlled Colorado state legislature. Senate Democrats stand poised to give initial approval to a civil unions bill Wednesday as the plan comes before a legislative committee for the first time this session
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Anti-gay pastor: Government must ‘remove homosexuals from society’
LARKSPUR, Colo. — The pastor of an independent Presbyterian church in suburban Colorado Springs, told a local television station that he equates homosexuals to child molesters, cannibals, and rapists. Pastor David Beuhner of Christ the King Church in Larkspur, Colo., has called for discrimination against the LGBT community as Colorado lawmakers revisit same-sex civil unions […]
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Colorado governor calls for passage of same-sex civil unions bill
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, in his third State of the State address, called for civil union legislation to be passed this year.
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Colorado House appoints Ferrandino speaker, first for gay man in state
DENVER — When the Colorado General Assembly opened for business on Jan. 9, a transition of political power from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party established one the most diverse political bodies in the state’s history — including eight openly gay and lesbian lawmakers — and the closest thing to a guarantee in politics […]
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Colo. civil union licenses expected to begin being issued in May
Colorado gay and lesbian couples should be able to legally form civil unions May 1, after a bill creating them here is expected to be signed by the governor no later than mid-March.
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Democratic majority in Colo. legislature means fast track for civil unions
They say third time’s a charm. And for Colorado’s gay and lesbian couples eager to have their relationships validated by the state, that just might be the case.
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First openly LGBT person to hold speaker’s gavel in Colorado House
DENVER — State Rep. Mark Ferrandino, an openly gay Democrat from Denver, was nominated to be the incoming Speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives by his fellow state legislators on Thursday.
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Openly gay congressman Jared Polis cruises to re-election in Colorado
Jared Polis, an entrepreneur and philanthropist, won re-election Tuesday to the U.S. House. He first won election from Colorado’s Second District in 2008, becoming the first openly gay man to be elected to Congress.