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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.
If there is such a thing as Purgatory, in the afterlife, I know what my Purgatory will look like. If it is like the Catholics describe it; a place of suffering inhabited by the souls of sinners who are expiating their sins before going to heaven, then I can tell what it looks like.
My personal purgatory will be spent wandering around the prepared foods department of a Whole foods.
Hours are spent with me dazed and confused moving from one bar to the next. Approaching the soup bar to squish the ladle down in over-cooked chicken noodle soup, or white bean chili. Then, to the deli counter to gaze upon the chicken wraps. Starving for something, yet not sure how the normal people of the world make a decision in a sea of choices.
Last night, I approached the area with the intent to pick up dinner. The boyfriend quickly made some healthy choices, and disappeared. Leaving me to fend for myself. I had the look of an eight-year-old, who after hiding in the middle of a clothing rack full of women’s blouses, emerged to find his Mom, gone. I was alone in Hell Foods. I entered the Whole Foods convincing everyone around me that it was a “soup night.” Only to find none of the eighteen dozen soups to be quite right. Maybe salad…..? no. It was either malaise, or my fear of food commitment that sent me into the desert for a plastic-boxed food vision quest. What seemed to be hours later the boyfriend called out from the edge of the desert. “Ready?” He asked munching on kelp-kale fun crisps. I left with a tiny container of tomato soup. My soul still hovering over the olive bar.
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.
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Give OUT Day is coming up on April 19 and it's the ONLY national day of giving for the LGBTQ community – a 24-hour online fundraising event that unites donors and nonprofit organizations from across the country to raise critically needed funds.
LGBTQ
nonprofits power our movement for equality and justice and are critical
to making sure that LGBTQ people have access to the support and
services that they need. For decades and decades, from bar fundraisers
and penny jars to gala fundraisers and major gifts, individual donors
have funded progress at every step.
Give OUT Day follows and
builds on this great tradition. Throughout this day-long event,
thousands of people make gifts to support a vast array of LGBTQ
nonprofits across the country, ranging from the arts to social services
agencies, advocacy groups to sports leagues, community centers to health
care nonprofits. Monetary donations are the most direct way to help a
nonprofit make an impact: they allow nonprofits to allocate funds where
they are most needed. Since its inception in 2013, over 33,000 individual donors have contributed more than $4 million and supported more than 600 different organizations in every part of the country. These funds have translated directly into services, advocacy, and programs that help tens of thousands of LGBTQ people. Participating nonprofits also receive trainings and marketing support, and a chance to win bonus prize money.
I have written about being in recovery. The fellowship in recovery saved my life, and adds so much to my life. I want to make this clear as I share that recently I have had to listen to sexist bullshit from men attending meetings. Making sexual comments about women, women there to get sober. This is not new, I just haven’t personally heard it in a while.
I keep thinking about it. I keep thinking about the need to create safe spaces for women. If a woman who is trying to get clean and sober does not feel safe at a meeting where others are gathered for the same reason, well that is simply a fucked up situation. Then I think of others, like people of color and members of the LGBTQ communities, but that’s another post.
Alcoholism and drug addiction kill people. In fact, they are killing more people today than ever. We must ensure everyone coming to a meeting to get clean or sober doesn’t experience harassment. We need to talk about it. We need to call it out.
Yes, this is a rant. If you work the twelve steps and are familiar with the program, rest assured I am working my program around this.
Thanks for reading.
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The Denver Center for the Performing Arts announces today the addition of more seats for The Book of Mormon at The Ellie. Due to popular demand, performances for the fourth Denver engagement of The Book of Mormon will begin June 13 and now run an additional week through July 7, 2018. The Book of Mormon has played three previous sold out runs in Denver starting with the national tour launch in 2012 and return engagements in 2013 and 2015.
Tickets for the upcoming engagement start at $35 and are on sale now at denvercenter.org. There will be a lottery for a limited number of tickets priced at $25 each for every performance. Lottery details will be announced closer to the engagement.
FX has set the premiere date for its new dance musical series
Pose, which will debut on Sunday, June 3, 2018.
Pose
was co-created by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Steven Canals, with
Murphy
directing the first two episodes. The series is executive produced by
Murphy, Falchuk, Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, Alexis Martin Woodall and
Sherry Marsh. Canals is a co-executive producer, and Janet Mock, Our
Lady J and Erica Kay also serve as producers.
The eight-episode first season is produced by Fox 21 Television Studios
and FX Productions.
Set in the 1980s,
Pose explores the juxtaposition of several segments of life and
society in New York: the ball culture world, the rise of the luxury
Trump-era universe and the downtown social and literary scene. Evan
Peters and Kate Mara play New Jersey couple “Stan”
and “Patty,” who get sucked into the glamour and intrigue of New York
City in the 1980s. James Van Der Beek plays Peters’ financial kingpin
boss “Matt.”
After an extensive six-month nationwide search helmed by award-winning casting director Alexa Fogel (Atlanta), Murphy and his collaborators are making television
history by assembling the largest cast of transgender actors in series regular
roles ever for a scripted series, as well as the largest recurring cast
of LGBTQ actors ever for a scripted
series. The transgender cast includes Mj Rodriguez, Dominique Jackson,
Indya Moore, Hailie Sahar and Angelica Ross. Also co-starring are
Tony Award winner Billy Porter, Charlayne Woodard as well as newcomers
Ryan Jamaal Swain and Dyllon Burnside.
Disobedience is the new film from the Academy Award-winning director of A Fantastic Woman, Sebastián Lelio. It follows a woman as she returns to the community that shunned her decades earlier for an attraction to a childhood friend. Once back, their passions reignite as they explore the boundaries of faith and sexuality. Written by Lelio and Rebecca Lenkiewicz and based on Naomi Alderman's book, the film stars Rachel Weisz, Rachel McAdams and Alessandro Nivola.
Disobedience had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, and will screen as part of the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, followed immediately by a theatrical release in New York and Los Angeles on April 27, and a national rollout in May.
Chipotle Give Back Day is a delicious way to make a difference for Denver's homeless pets. Visit any Greater Denver Chipotle location, and 50 percent of your total bill will be donated directly back to the Dumb Friends League. Customers simply need to mention the fundraiser to the cashier before payment to support the Dumb Friends League and the homeless pets and horses in their care.
Amazon yesterday announced that over 60 official selections feature films from Outfest are now available on Prime Video. The collection of films are made available through the Prime Video Direct (formerly Amazon Video Direct) self-publishing program which enables rights holders, from filmmakers to distributors, to make their content available to Prime members and earn royalties based on customer engagement.
"These are challenging times for many and reports of violence against LGBTQ citizens are on the rise,” said Christopher Racster, Executive Director of Outfest. “I still believe though in the power of our stories to change that narrative be it for a young teen in Iowa can watch a fully developed LGBTQ character to see a path forward for their own life, to a parent turning on the TV to better understand their child, to the millions who have attended any of our Outfest film festivals over the past 35 years who want to relive a favorite Outfest moment or see something they missed. It is a relationship like this with Prime Video Direct that will carry our stories across the widest network and reach the most individuals."
The official selections from past Outfest Film Festival’s currently streaming on Prime Video include: • A Sinner in Mecca, winner of 2015 Outfest Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary • Open, the first American film to win the Teddy Jury prize at the Berlin Film Festival • The Gymnast, winner of 2006 Outfest Grand Jury Award: Outstanding American Narrative Feature • GBF, Outfest Screenwriting Lab script and 2013 Outfest Los Angeles Closing Night Film • Women Who Kill, nominated for Film Independent's 2018 Best First Screenplay
If a discriminatory law like this were on the books, my partner, Greg, and I could have been denied the adoption of our daughter, Lila. This bill is not only an attack on my family, but every LGBTQ person who wants to adopt or foster a child. If Senate Bill 241 passes, Colorado adoption and foster care organizations would be allowed to claim their religion gives them the right to deny children a loving family just because the prospective parents are LGBTQ.
Seven states across the country currently have religious exemption laws that legalize discrimination against LGBTQ people in the areas of adoption and foster care. Under these laws, over 21,000 children have been kept in foster or group homes, rather than be adopted by loving parents who don’t pass an agency’s religious test. With your help, we can make sure Senate Bill 241 never reaches the Governor’s desk.
This month's Washington Post Magazine features Mitchell Gold, Co-Founder and Chair-man of Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams home furnishings (in Denver at the Cherry Creek Shopping Center), and his important activism in the beautiful rural community he calls home to his company headquarters. Based in North Carolina, Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams is one of the largest employers in Alexander County. Gold moved to the area nearly 30 years ago and has often attended town meetings and civic functions during that time. For more than a decade he has made it his personal mission to educate well-meaning people about the harm caused to LGBT people.
Gold often shares his own story of the struggles he went through as a gay teenager. “I am proud to make sure in this community every child knows there is somebody out there that does not believe they are broken,” says Gold. “I want to educate people” and “What I want to educate them about is the harm that they’re causing.” LGBT teens are four times more likely to suffer immense mental anguish, have suicidal thoughts and even take their own lives. If they live in a highly rejecting environment, they are a staggering eight times more likely than their straight peers.
Alexander County, which many locals call the “Buckle of the Bible Belt,” only legalized the sale of alcohol countywide in 2016, and the article cites this as proof of its conservatism. “The county and the company forged a partnership, spurred on by economic need as much as anything else. Early on, Gold’s message was, on the whole, a tough sell in Alexander County. His business success gave him the platform and ability to reach members of this community.
Gold sees progress in the number of people who have changed in Alexander County, including the several ministers who support LGBT rights and the local high school’s P.R.I.D.E. Club, as well as the small but growing national contingent of evangelical leaders who support same-sex relationships.
Gold, whose company motto is “Comfort for All,” applies this to all aspects of his life, and especially strives to make a difference for LGBT teens. His book, Youth in Crisis: What Everyone Should Know About Growing Up Gayhas helped thousands of young adults during their discoveries of who they are and let them know that they are not alone, and that they are perfect just the way they are.
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