YOUR DEFINITIVE SOURCE FOR ALL THINGS GAY DENVER

Gov Bill Ritter is expected to announce later today (Denver Post) that he will not seek re-election later this year.  Scott McInnis, Ritter’s expected Republican challenger, currently leads in early polling.
In his single term Gov Ritter has been a champion for gay rights in Colorado having signed bills regarding second parent adoption, designated beneficiaries, employment [...]

I knew Colorado had lots of queers but this graphic from The Economist (source) still surprised me:

hat tip Joe.My.God

Last Friday Focus On The Faggot Family announced James Dobson would step down as host of their flagship daily radio program in February.
Not all of our readers follow activism so I’m going to be straight forward here – Dobson stepping away from the daily radio program is only a small step in a highly planned [...]

The Advocate posted this story a few days ago:
A high school football coach allegedly made two players hold hands and run together as punishment during a recent practice, and is coming under fire for the action.
Officials from the Aurora Public Schools say they are investigating the claims that Coach Grant Pippert told freshmen Rafael Merced [...]

Blogger Joe.My.God has found and posted a bizarre anti-gay music video featuring the Heene family children.  The song is called “Not Pussified,” according to Joe:
they rap about the “pussification” of American men and boast “I hate gay faggots, I (kill? hit?) ‘em with a bat.” Or something like that. You judge at the 2:40 mark. [...]

Wow this has been a slow news week around gay Denver so I’m going to throw a bunch of random things at you in this post.
Last Thursday OutFront announced the winners of their cover model contest and posted videos of the festivities yesterday.  Hopefully we’ll get to see the winning couple shirtless in the next [...]

The Beauvallon, that building on Lincoln that looks like it was taken from a French themed amusement park, is undergoing major repair work to the leaky exterior walls right now. Westword is reporting several cafes and restaurants on the ground floor of the building are noticing a slowdown in business. Since many of Element’s [...]

Every year ABC 7 does it’s “A List” where Denverites vote on their favorite local businesses in 111 different categories.  Here’s a number of gay businesses in the running that I found.  If I happened to miss one feel free to leave a comment and I’ll update the post.
(These aren’t endorsements necessarily, I’m just pointing [...]

Pictured above is Huffington Post Denver editor Ethan Axelrod, the son Obama advisor David Axelrod.
Oh but about the Huffington Post, the new Denver edition can be found at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/denver/

HRC sent surveys to the 1000 largest publicly traded companies and top 200 grossing law firms in the nation.  Those businesses which return the surveys are included in HRC’s report.  The finished report is available as a 64 page PDF but I’ve gone ahead and assembled just the data for Colorado based businesses into something [...]