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Singer Who Advocates Violence Against Gays Arrested On Drug Charges

December 14th, 2009

Buju Banton is known for his song “Boom bye bye” which is about shooting gays in the head.  Buju brought his tour of murder-music to Colorado last October with a concert in Denver and the other in Aspen.  The gay community here responded with several public calls objecting to Banton’s tour and although many of [...]

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Talk Like A Pirate Day – This Saturday

September 17th, 2009

I love how Wikipedia can take something so silly and describe it in such a dry clinical tone:
International Talk Like a Pirate Day (ITLAPD) is a parodic holiday created in 1995 by John Baur (Ol’ Chumbucket) and Mark Summers (Cap’n Slappy), of Albany, Oregon,[1] who proclaimed September 19 each year as the day when everyone [...]

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Westword features hot local traceur boys doing parkour.

June 4th, 2009

What’s all this traceur and parkour business about?  First let me explain what those are.  Parkour is sort of “freestyle walking” with moves that are so athletic it borers on gymnastics.  Parkour originated in France so that’s why the word looks unpronounceable.  People who do parkour are called traceurs (women are traceuses).
So like I said, [...]

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Sex in the recession

June 3rd, 2009

A hilarious and highly scientific chart from Vice Magazine.

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Free root beer floats at Sonic tonight

June 3rd, 2009

Find a Sonic near you on Google maps here.  For all the details Sonic’s press release can be found here.

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gayzette examines when marriage will come to Colorado

June 1st, 2009

Civil rights in this country move in one direction, forward, so it’s not a question of if but rather a question of when Colorado will legally recognize gay marriage.  Nic Garcia has an excellent two page article in the new issue of gayzette examining that question.

Could a court declare equal rights in Colorado?
How about the [...]

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Obama issues June Pride Month proclamation, fails to mention repeal of DOMA

June 1st, 2009

Update: The Advocate is reporting Obama’s proclamation contains a factual error claiming “I am proud to be the first President to appoint openly LGBT candidates to Senate-confirmed positions in the first 100 days of an Administration.” The Advocate notes Bill Clinton appointed Roberta Achtenberg as Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity on February [...]

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Sacha Baron Cohen's "Bruno" does um… something to Eminem

June 1st, 2009

I know this has nothing to do with Colorado but check out what happened at the MTV Movie Awards last night.

Towleroad has video of the full stunt.

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Denver queer Adam Kretz fired for being gay

May 31st, 2009

Those here familiar with Adam knew he was tremendously excited to be leaving Denver to take a teaching position at an English language school in Korea.  He was scheduled to leave on August 1st.
Adam wrote a diary on DailyKos.com about what went down so I’ll quote from that:
The Director [of the school in Korea] told [...]

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The Weekend Of May 29-31

May 29th, 2009

Friday night Tammie Brown (the scary looking one from RuPaul’s Drag Race) is joining Nina Flowers for “Drama Drag,” Tracks’ weekly drag show.  Cover is $10 and show starts at 10 PM in drag time which means 10:15-10:20 in reality.  Flyer here.

All weekend long the Starz/Tivoli film center is having a queer film festival.  Tickets [...]

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