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A text, chat line for LGBTQ youth contemplating suicide gets a boost in Colorado
By Jennifer Brown Health Primary category in which blog post is published
Nicolais: More Republicans are concluding that equality is a political hill worth dying on
By Mario Nicolais Opinion
Opinion: For modern progressive liberals, love can win, but it will take some personal heroism
Opinion
From “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” to a comic book baron: Denver’s scene is a lesson in drag diversity
Yvie Oddly, 25, and Bettie Pages, 64, celebrate the liberating craft of self-expression that is drag, then and now -- everything from dirty street punk to classic glam
Colorado’s first openly gay governor signs two of state’s most significant LGBTQ measures into law since 2013
The legislation makes it easier for transgender people to change their birth certificates without surgery, a doctor’s note or a court order and also bans so-called “gay conversion therapy” for minors
While the Trump administration backtracks, Colorado is plowing forward on transgender rights
State reforms were propelled in Colorado by advocates who accuse the federal government of “erasing” trans people
Nicolais: Mark Kennedy’s journey on LGBTQ issues outweighs his congressional record
Judging the sole finalist for the CU president only on votes he took long ago would be antithetical to lessons I learned at CU
Opinion
Nicolais: By finally passing Jude’s Law, Colorado grows up a little
After advocating for passage of the birth certificate modernization bill, a 12-year-old girl made the state better for a friend I made a long time ago
Opinion
Colorado lawmakers for a fifth — and likely final — time will weigh whether to ban gay “conversion therapy”
House Bill 1129 would prohibit a licensed psychiatrist or mental health counselor from providing therapy to minors meant to “change an individual’s sexual orientation” or eliminate “sexual or romantic attraction or feelings toward individuals of the same sex"
The legislature denied them four times, so transgender people found another way to rewrite Colorado law on birth certificates
Current Colorado law -- the one transgender advocates have tried to change the last four years -- requires a person to have gender-reassignment surgery and prove it to a judge before asking to change the gender marker on a birth certificate
