Wally's Wiconsin Tavern - a Taste of Sheboygan in Downtown Denver!

The menu at Wally's Wisconsin Tavern is 100% inspired by owner James Weimann's Sheboygan upbringing. The white cheddar cheese curds are sourced straight from Wisconsin and the fish fry is walleye! 

Have a request for a favorite Wisconsin beer or dish? Let 'em know! The menu continues to evolve and grow. 

Travel: Tropical Heat Key West

The offbeat island of Key West, renowned for its year-round subtropical weather and lively celebrations, is to entertain revelers with a sizzling long weekend of all-male adult events Wednesday through Sunday, Aug. 15-19.

Tropical Heat features decadent diversions on both land and sea. The roster includes themed pool parties, snorkel and sandbar cruises, appearances by entertainers and late-night gatherings at the island’s LGBTQ bars and nightclubs. 

Tropical Heat all-access VIP passes are available for $99 per person, or attendees can pay individual cover charges for specific events.

Howard - Oh Dear Brother

 

Today, Howard share, “Oh Dear Brother,” the newest single from their forthcoming album Together Alone, out September 14th on Fashion People. “The song started more personally and gradually became more about the political state of affairs when things were coming to a climax around the election,” says guitarist/vocalist Howard Feibusch. “It is about our growing inability to listen to each other and the sense of turmoil that happens when our dialogue becomes a screaming match. It is not a topic I'm entirely comfortable writing about because I fear that it's just polluting the atmosphere with more noise on a topic too many people have an opinion about.”

Radio station, LGBTQ community to hold "Sausage Fest" in protest of Pence's visit to Kansas City

It is always a big deal when the President of the United States or the Vice President of the United States visit the Kansas City area.

Roads are blocked off and large amounts of security following their every step. However, Wednesday will be a little different.

The LGBTQ community in Kansas City and radio station 96.5 The Buzz are throwing a picnic of sorts for Vice President Mike Pence when he visits Kansas City to fundraise for Kansas Republican Congressman Kevin Yoder.

The station is calling it a "Mike Pence Sausage Fest."

Announced on Twitter, the station’s invitation to the event included a picture of Pence, with a sausage on a fork and a multi-colored flag behind him, representing the gay community.

The station tweeted, “Pence is not fan of the LGBTQ community and we’re no fan of his.”

The group argues the vice president encourages discrimination against their community and issues like spending government money on programs for conversion therapy, something Pence has denied, calling it "Fake News."

Hey Sports Nuts, Check Out the Greater Denver Area Sports Association1

Looking for a safe and positive atmosphere for the LGBTQA community through engaging social and competitive sports within Colorado?

Greater Denver Area Sports Association welcomes and encourages everybody to join and participate. And more leagues are coming soon!

House Appropriations Committee Passes Amendment Discriminating Against LGBTQ Families

Today, the House Appropriations Committee passed an amendment allowing taxpayer-funded adoption agencies to deny LGBTQ families the ability to adopt a child based on religious objection. In response, DNC LGBTQ Media Director Lucas Acosta released the following statement:

“House Republicans are pandering t0 their far-right base at the expense of LGBTQ people and children in need of a home. Rather than focusing on empowering families or uniting children with their parents, Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee voted to give child welfare agencies a license to discriminate against qualified potential parents.

“Across the country, LGBTQ candidates are running for office and taking a stand against the Trump-GOP agenda, which seeks to roll back the progress we have made. In November, voters will stand together in the face of this bigotry and hate and elect Democrats up and down the ticket.”

Rhein Haus: Serving Up Weiners Und Balls in Downtown Denver

Rhein Haus is a gay-owned, two-story, 14,000 square-foot Bavarian-inspired restaurant in Downtown Denver with house made sausages, pretzels, and other authentic eats, 24 German and local drafts, Bavarian-inspired cocktail list, and four indoor bocce courts.

Koelbel Urban Homes: The New Modern in Denver

Koelbel Urban Homes (KUH) has quickly emerged as a leader in creating urban neighborhoods that promote community and synergy by integrating life, work and play.

As the newest division of legendary developer Koelbel and Company, KUH is focused on in-fill properties, designing and building innovative homes tailored to each unique site.

Offered homes run the gamut of detached single-family homes to svelte modern attached designs featuring today's popular spaces, such as rooftop decks and open-plan concepts. All KUH homes, of course, are designed for optimum living and with respect for the surroundings.

Do You Want To Reach Denver's Gay Community? Advertise With Denver's Best Gay Blog!

Do you want to advertise to Denver’s gay community? Of course you do, it’s the 7th largest in the United States! And the best way to reach them is with MileHighGayGuy – Colorado’s Best Gay Blog.
 
Just click the Advertising page or email sales@milehighgayguy.com to get started today.

BIRD – Comfort Food with a Creative Twist

Farm to plate from local suppliers and using the freshest possible ingredients, BIRD is refined American comfort food with a creative, upscale twist.

OUT in Theaters (and on Amazon): Gay Hollywood Dad

Margin Films has announced the festival premiere and digital debut of release of Quentin Lee's Gay Hollywood Dad. Originally developed as a web series, the latest film from Quentin Lee (White Frog, The People I've Slept With) follows Lee's journey to fatherhood in the City of Angeles. The feature-length version of Gay Hollywood Dad will premiere August 2nd at the New York Asian American International Film Festival before launching on Amazon Instant Video on August 3rd.

As Lee launches his most personal project yet, his first film, 1997's Shopping for Fangs will screen as a retrospective at Outfest 2018 and Comedy InvAsian, the first Asian American stand up television series he produced and directed, will stream on Hulu.

Volunteers Needed for AIDS Walk Colorado: Festival for Life

AIDSWalk Colorado is on the hunt for amazing volunteers this summer! One of the events they still need help with is CHN’s Beer Bust at The Triangle which will take place on Sunday, July 15. This is a fun and accessible way to get the word out while mingling with just about everyone!

Sign up here to volunteer for Beer Bust at The Triangle!

On Saturday, August 18 at CHN’s AIDS Walk Colorado- A Festival for Life & 5K Walk and Run will take place at Cheesman Park. This is where YOU come in. Volunteer slots include:

Set/Up Route Monitor: Help with final set up of all areas of the park before attendees arrive. Set up Timeline Banners - Ensure the safety of all the participants along the route, motivate and cheer on all walkers and runners, move barricades, maintain road closures, clean up route area following the last walkers. Must be able to lift 25 pounds.
Pedestrian Monitors: Provide assistance to all runners and walkers along the route. Ensure that attendees follow the correct, marked path.

Registration Tent – Walkers: Help set- up – Be the first face that participants see on the morning of AIDS Walk Colorado - Welcome attendees to the event, accept donation envelopes and pledge forms, distribute fundraising incentive awards.

Traffic Control: Secure the roads into the park, maintain barricades, and assist in directing traffic for afternoon drive-on for sponsors, vendors, teams, and volunteers. This is a very quiet shift that is necessary to maintain the event’s safety but involves a lot of sitting. Reading materials are encouraged.

Each of these positions come with mingling and networking with fellow volunteers and CHN staff, volunteering for the Rocky Mountain region’s oldest HIV/AIDS one day fundraiser event, and yes, a t-shirt (Because everyone loves a t-shirt!).
 
To read about more volunteer opportunities and to sign up, click here. And after you sign up, invite your friends and family to volunteer!

Tall Heights - The Deep End

 

Amidst a summer of touring across both North America and Europe, Tall Heights today announce the forthcoming release of their new album Pretty Colors For Your Actions this Fall via Sony Music Masterworks. The album's debut will set into motion a huge fall for the group, who will celebrate the release with a string of headlining tour dates across North America.

"There's something flesh and blood about Pretty Colors For Your Actions. This album, more than anything we've made to date, really feels alive. It's living, breathing music," says Tall Heights about their latest project. "We've always been influenced by the electronic instrumentation of drum machines and synthesizers, but we approached this album with a renewed respect to the breadth of human performance. So you won't be surprised to learn that we're beyond pumped to finally share these songs live with our fans all over the world this fall."

The announcement arrives alongside a new visual for the group's latest release and the album's lead single, "The Deep End," which premiered on Culture Collide. The vibrant visual finds the duo navigating the rollercoaster energy of a full-blown party and its aftermath, mirroring the emotions of the track itself, which the guys describe as, "sad and terrified, but still smiling lots and bumping to the beat."

Civil Rights Leaders Discuss Supreme Court Nomination

Following President Trump’s announcement of his intent to nominate Brett Kavanaugh to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States today, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, Alliance for Justice, and People For the American Way hosted a telephone press briefing with other civil rights leaders to discuss the significance of his pick and the need for an independent and fair-minded justice. The speakers emphasized what’s at stake with this nominee who will overturn Roe. v. Wade and undermine the Affordable Care Act.

A recording of the press briefing can be found here.

“Brett Kavanaugh is a direct threat to our civil and human rights and is unfit to serve on our nation’s highest court. Earning a spot on this list of anti-civil and human rights all-stars required satisfying the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society and passing Trump's ideological litmus tests,” said Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference. “Trump promised that, if confirmed, his nominee would overturn Roe v. Wade, and undermine the Affordable Care Act, which would have a devastating impact on those with pre-existing conditions, people of color, women, people with disabilities, and millions of others for decades to come. Access to health care is a civil and human rights issue of profound importance. Our civil and human rights hang in the balance with this Supreme Court nomination. Senators must put country over party to protect their constituents, the Constitution, and civil and human rights by rejecting this extreme nomination.”
“Tonight, we will not accept the Donald Trump vision of America or his plan for the Supreme Court, with the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh. We will not accept a vision of America in which women, and people of color, and LGBTQ Americans, and people with disabilities, and workers, and immigrants, and people of all faiths do not enjoy full participation in our society and full and equal rights. We know this fight will be hard, but it’s a fight we can win, because the values of this country are on our side,” said Nan Aron, president and CEO of Alliance for Justice (AFJ).

“Confirming Judge Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court would roll back the clock on rulings that protect women, people of color, workers and the LGBTQ community,” said Michael Keegan, President of People For the American Way. “We’ve already seen far too many rulings designed to protect the interests of corporations and the wealthy above the rights of all Americans. Giving a narrow-minded elitist like Judge Kavanaugh a lifetime seat on the Supreme Court would open the floodgate to more and worse.”

“With this nomination, women’s freedom to make decisions about our own bodies is at stake. Judge Kavanaugh voted to allow religious beliefs to override an individual’s right to insurance coverage of birth control. He also issued a ruling to allow the government to continue blocking a young immigrant woman from accessing abortion care. And it is no small matter that it was after this decision that his name first appeared on Trump’s short list of potential Supreme Court nominees. Too much is at stake for the Senate to just allow this nominee to go through,” said Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of National Women’s Law Center.

“The National Disability Rights Network shares the concerns of the civil rights community about the nomination of Judge Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court,” said NDRN Executive Director Curt Decker. “Disability is a condition that can affect all Americans, across all races, genders, sexual orientation, religion, and economic status. Any weakening of the laws that protect Americans from discrimination and ensure equal opportunity would negatively affect individuals with disabilities as well.”

“We have litigated racial discrimination issues at the Supreme Court since 1940, and Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation could transform that institution in a way that we have never seen before, jeopardizing the progress we have achieved over the last 78 years,” said Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. “The very integrity of our justice system and the rule of law are at stake—and we cannot afford to approach this nomination as business as usual. Senators must critically evaluate Judge Kavanaugh’s record to determine whether he would defend the hard-won rights of African Americans, women, and members of the LGBT community or rollback critical civil rights protections.”

“With his nomination of Judge Kavanaugh, President Trump has doubled down on his rhetoric and policies that tilt our country further towards billionaires and greedy CEOs, and away from all working people, whether they are white, black or brown,” said Mary Kay Henry, president of Service Employees International Union (SEIU). “He has sided time and again against working people, including upholding Department of Defense regulations that stripped collective bargaining rights from thousands of employees, and criticizing rules protecting workers from dangerous conditions as ‘paternalistic.’ Our healthcare is not safe either, as Judge Kavanaugh's nomination was pre-approved by an extreme group that wants to repeal our healthcare with no replacement. For these reasons and more, SEIU members are going to rise up, just as we did during the healthcare debate, to make clear that we are watching and will hold accountable anyone who supports this nomination.”

“Planned Parenthood is unambiguously opposed to the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh. We already know how he would vote when it comes to upholding the precedent of Roe v. Wade, because Donald Trump told us.  Judge Kavanaugh has already ruled to restrict access to safe, legal abortion. Just last year, he used his judicial power to prevent a young undocumented woman in US custody from accessing the safe, legal abortion she wanted.  That’s why we will be mobilizing all 11 million of our supporters. We know millions of people will join us to protect these fundamental rights. We refuse to live in an America where our children and grandchildren have fewer rights than we have today,” said Dana Singiser, vice president of public policy and government affairs, Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA).

“Trump is picking the fight that even Mitch McConnell warned him against,” said Chris Kang, chief counsel of Demand Justice. “Brett Kavanaugh has criticized Chief Justice Roberts for upholding the Affordable Care Act and praised then-Justice Rehnquist’s dissent in Roe v. Wade. He believes that the president is above the law and the full extent of his views on executive power are hidden behind more than a million documents from his time at the White House. A majority of the Senate can—and must—oppose this extreme nomination.”

“Kavanaugh would bring all of Trump’s worst qualities to the Supreme Court for decades to come. In a disturbing echo of Trump’s policies toward immigrant families, Kavanaugh tried to force a detained immigrant woman to carry her pregnancy against her will, using anti-choice activist code of ‘abortion on demand’ in his official written opinion. Kavanaugh has proven himself to be a political operative when it comes to undermining the Affordable Care Act through frivolous cases and opinions. He has also written with shocking deference to presidential power and immunity, which raises the alarming but wholly legitimate question of whether this is one more effort by President Trump to obstruct justice for himself and his associates. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was right: Kavanaugh’s paper trail is a horror show and flatly disqualifies him,” said Miguel Rodriguez, senior vice president for government affairs of the Center for American Progress.

“Donald Trump's nomination of Brett Kavanaugh is irresponsible and dangerous. He will undermine LGBTQ equality, women’s reproductive rights and affordable healthcare,” said HRC Legal Director Sarah Warbelow. “This is not the fair-minded constitutionalist worthy of replacing Justice Kennedy. The U.S. Senate needs to exercise its constitutional responsibility and reject this nominee.”

NCLR Responds to Trump’s Nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to Fill Supreme Court Vacancy

National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) Legal Director Shannon Minter issued the below statement in response to President Trump’s nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Minter, a transgender man who has been litigating LGBT legal cases for more than 20 years, is one of the lead attorneys working to stop Trump’s transgender military ban in Doe v. Trump and Stockman v. Trump and was part of the team of attorneys to win national marriage equality in the Supreme Court case Obergefell v. Hodges.

“For decades, the Supreme Court has recognized the fundamental equality of LGBT people under the law. The Court’s landmark decisions in cases such as Romer, Lawrence, and Obergefell are deeply rooted in the Court’s jurisprudence and have been relied upon by millions of LGBT people and others. Any backtracking on those precedents would be unthinkable.

At the same time, the potential for decisions that cause lasting harm to LGBT people and their families is real as new issues and cases come before the Court. We urge the Senate to explore these issues carefully and to ensure that any person who sits on our nation’s highest court understands the realities facing LGBT communities and others for whom our Constitution’s promise of freedom and equality is not yet fully realized. To date, there is nothing in Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s record to indicate that he understands the real-world impact of discrimination on LGBT people or the importance of construing our nation’s laws to enable them to participate fully and equally in society. The Supreme Court must be a court for all, not just for the privileged few.

  

It is sobering that a president who has shown disregard for many of our nation’s most cherished rights and freedoms has an opportunity to appoint a second justice to the Supreme Court. This moment is a wake-up call to LGBT people and others about the critical importance of elections and the need to vote this November.”