civil unions
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Veteran LGBT advocate Brad Clark takes reins at Denver-based nonprofit Gill Foundation
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Brad Clark, a veteran advocate for gay rights in Colorado and around the country, takes over as president and CEO of the Gill Foundation after the first of the year, the Denver-based nonprofit announced Tuesday. Clark succeeds Courtney Cuff, who left the foundation in October after four years at the helm to work at the…
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One Colorado to honor Pat Steadman, Jean Dubofsky, Rathod Mohamedbhai and Kaiser
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Twenty-one years after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Colorado’s Amendment 2, One Colorado Education Fund is honoring two attorneys who played key roles in the case – former Colorado Supreme Court Justice Jean Dubofsky and former state Sen. Pat Steadman, D-Denver – at the LGBT-rights organization’s annual Ally Awards fundraising event. Dubofsky, the first woman…
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Hickenlooper delays decision on special session for transportation funding, other topics
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Gov. John Hickenlooper hadn’t yet decided on Monday whether to call a special session to come up with more funding for the state’s transportation needs, among other topics he said were left unfinished in the General Assembly’s 120-day regular session. While Hickenlooper called it “the most productive legislative session” since he took office in 2011,…
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Lundberg: Hot Sheet missed the point on civil unions bill
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The Statesman’s June 9th “Hot Sheet” completely missed the point of Senate Bill 150. The article leads one to think the bill automatically turned all civil unions in Colorado into marriages. It also makes it sound like the Legislature has accepted the Supreme Court’s ruling that completely redefined the meaning of marriage. Nothing could be…
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Hickenlooper: Special session would only come as a result of a ‘different type of compromise’
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?The talk began almost the minute the legislative session ended May 11 and it has grown ever since. Gov. John Hickenlooper, frustrated by the fact that lawmakers failed to pass a proposal to reclassify the state’s hospital provider fee and add hundreds of millions of dollars to the general fund, was going to call them…
