Tuesday, May 29, 2018
Sofi Tukker - Baby I'm a Queen
Sofi Tuckker's debut album Treehouse is out now via Ultra Music. For the past two years, Sophie Hawley-Weld and Tucker Halpern have released a stream of adventurous and innovative music beginning with their Grammy nominated debut single “Drinkee”. Their bold take on dance pop explores joy, empowerment and liberation while seamlessly incorporating unexpected elements like contemporary Brazilian poetry, Japanese raps, and Andean string instruments.
Friday, May 25, 2018
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Nightlife Meets Wildlife at Denver Zoo
Proceeds from the event benefit “What We Do at the Zoo,” including providing exceptional care and enrichment for 4,000 animals; creating awe-inspiring experiences for more than 2 million visitors annually; bringing science education to life for more than 225,000 school children; and continuing our longstanding and critical work protecting wild animals and wild places in Colorado and around the world. In its 28-year history, Do At The Zoo has raised more than $13 million to improve Denver Zoo and support its various initiatives.
“Do At The Zoo supports all of the Zoo’s priorities, from animal welfare within our gates and the protection of wildlife globally, to educational programming and guest experience,” said Rob Kaufmann, who is co-chairing the event along with his wife, Jen Gilbert-Kaufmann. “The Zoo is a unique and exceptional venue for a dining and entertainment event, and it’s always exciting to see the community turn out to support such an important community asset.”
Masterpiece Case Decision Day is Coming!
The Supreme Court will announce their decision sometime between now and the end of June. Our nation decided more than 50 years ago that when a business decides to open its doors to the public, that business should be open to all. That core principle is at the heart of how we treat one another.
Recent findings show that 60% of Americans oppose allowing a small business owner in their state to refuse products or services to gay or lesbian people if providing them would violate their religious beliefs. Further, 70% of Americans favor laws that would protect LGBT people against discrimination in jobs, public accommodations, and housing. The results were published in a US News and World Report.
The stakes in this case are incredibly high. A loss would open the door to much wider ranging forms of discrimination and a wider array of people facing discrimination. Sign on in support of the OpenToAll campaign to stay updated. As a supporter, you can also share some of the resources over social media and include the #opentoall hashtag in your posts.
Gay Help Wanted: Assistant Director for Auraria LGBTQ Student Resource Center
The posting will only be available until June 4, so get your applications in!
Inklings - Deep Down
Inklings take aim at toxic masculinity with the new single and video "Deep Down." For Inklings, vulnerability has never been an option, and this song takes apart that conflict. Kier Kemp took on the Inklings alias following his departure from Fearless Vampire Killers in late 2016, and the journey has been a bumpy one:
“... I wasn't brought up in a world where men show weakness," says Kemp. "Push down any sign of the psychological toll and carry on. 'Real men' don't get anxiety. 'Real men' don't get upset. It’s that silence that is making some people vulnerable and it needs to change.”
Tanya Tucker Joins 'Concert for Love and Acceptance' Lineup During CMA Fest
“I am thrilled to welcome my wonderful and dear friend Tanya Tucker to the show. All her kids call me ‘Uncle Ty,’” said Herndon. “I have known Tanya’s heart for many years. She is truly one of the most talented, kind and generous souls on the planet. She is adored by all of us in country music, and we’ll all be watching to learn a little something about how it’s done.”
“My first ‘forty-five’ growing up in South Carolina was Tanya Tucker’s ‘Delta Dawn,’ so I have been a fan for a long time,” said Zeke Stokes, GLAAD’s Vice President of Programs and Executive Producer of the 2018 Concert for Love & Acceptance. “I’m so excited that we have reached a time when the country music community is standing up for love and acceptance for LGBTQ people, and young children everywhere who feel different can know that we’re all on their side.”
The inaugural Concert for Love and Acceptance was held in 2015 to kick off GLAAD’s Southern Stories Tour and the second iteration was held in 2017. The event has been supported by artists like Reba McEntire, and Dan + Shay, with a lineup of performances that has included Chris Carmack, Crystal Gayle, Billy Gilman, Dana Goldberg, Kree Harrison, Mickey Guyton, Levi Hummon, Runaway June, Ryan Kinder, Meghan Lindsey, Street Corner Symphony, and Trent Harmon. GLAAD's Southern Stories initiative tells the stories of LGBTQ people and their allies in the South to create a cultural shift towards LGBTQ acceptance and understanding in the region.
In recent years, country music has become a more affirming environment for the LGBTQ community with chart toppers like Luke Bryan’s “Most People are Good” following in the footsteps of Garth Brooks, Kasey Musgraves, and The Dixie Chicks sharing inclusive messages through their lyrics. In January 2017, CMT host Cody Alan came out publicly in People magazine with the help of GLAAD and received an outpouring of support and love from the country music community and his fans. Stars like Carrie Underwood, Toby Keith, and Dierks Bentley all voiced their support on social media. Ty Herndon, a Grammy nominated and Dove Award winning artist with album sales of more than 4 million, was the first major male country music star to come out, when he shared his story with the world in 2014.
Thursday, May 24, 2018
Denver Pride's Pink Party: Party with a Purpose
Pick up your tickets TODAY starting at $50. Tickets are $60 at the door.
Featuring an open bar, music, a photo booth, plenty of entertainment, and lots of special guests, this year’s Pink Party is the place to celebrate pride in Denver this summer!
Every ticket purchase goes towards our work to elect pro-equality candidates – so get your tickets now and come party with a purpose!
And don’t forget to RSVP on Facebook to get all the updates!
Study: 55% of Americans OK with LGBTQ Coworkers
To
coincide with 2018 gay pride, Bospar teamed up with Propeller Insights
and asked over 1,000 American adults with whom they preferred to work.
Here’s the breakdown representative of the entire
country:
·
55% - No preference
·
31.6% - Straight women
·
31.1% - Straight men
·
9.8% - Gay men
·
8.0% - Lesbian women
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4.7% - Transgender men
·
4.6% - Transgender women
“This
is an amazing milestone,” said Curtis Sparrer, a principal of Bospar.
“I remember coworkers citing my sexuality as a reason why I shouldn’t be
hired or promoted. To see a majority of
Americans now shrug and basically say ‘so what’ to their coworkers’
sexuality or gender expression is extraordinarily satisfying. But
before we get smug and say, ‘You’ve come a long way, baby,’ we have to
admit that these numbers show there is a lot of progress
yet to be made.”
Bospar
and Propeller drilled down by gender, political party, race and age and
discovered a trend that bucked conventional wisdom: the older Americans
were, the more accepting they were of
sexuality and gender identity. A majority of 75-year-olds and older
(60 percent) were the age demographic most likely to not care about the
sexuality or gender expression of their colleagues, followed by
Generation X (35 to 54-years-old) at 59.3 percent.
Next came Millennials (18 to 34-years-old) at 56.7 percent. Baby
Boomers were the least accepting, with 47.9 percent saying they had no
preference.
While
most Americans said they had no preference on who they worked with,
they did show a preference for working with people of their same
orientation. For example, while 54.3 percent of heterosexuals
said they had no preference regarding with whom they worked, their next
favorite group to work with was heterosexual men and women. There was
one exception to cohorts favoring their peers, and that came with men:
while 47.3 percent of men said they had no
preference with whom they worked, their second preference was straight
women (39.6 percent), followed by straight men (38.2 percent), lesbians
(10.3 percent), gay men (9.3 percent), transgender women (5.3 percent),
and transgender men (4.8 percent).
Democrats
were the most likely not to have a preference with whom they worked, at
61.9 percent versus Independents (59.4 percent) or Republicans (41
percent). The higher the level of education
completed, the more accepting people were. That was also true with
high income earners: a majority of people making over $200,000 per year
(66.7 percent) said that sexual orientation or gender expression was not
important to them. Latinos were most likely
not to have a preference, (63.3 percent), followed by Caucasians (54.9
percent) and African-Americans (48.1 percent). Americans with children
in the house were slightly more likely to be more accepting of LGBTQ
coworkers (58.5 percent versus 53.5 percent).
“It’s
exciting to see the growth in tolerance within the workplace,” said
Gabrielle Ferdman-Ayala, Principal of Propeller Insights.
“While
the overall numbers by political party point to expected differences
between liberals and conservatives, there is hope in youth. Just under
50 percent of Millennial Republicans say they
have no preference about with whom they work, while their political
elders collectively fall below 40 percent.”
Survey Results
Work Preference by Gender: http://surveys.
Work Preference by Age Group: http://surveys.
Work Preference by Political Affiliation: http://surveys.
Work Preference by Sexual Orientation: http://surveys.
Work Preference by Ethnicity: http://surveys.
Work Preference by Marital Status: http://surveys.
Work Preference by Level of Education: http://surveys.
Work Preference by Household Income: http://surveys.
Work Preference by Children in HH: http://surveys.
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LGBTQ Candidates Make History in Democratic Primaries Across U.S.
Last night was a huge night for Democrats, and an even bigger night for the LGBTQ community. Texas Democrats nominated Lupe Valdez, who could be the nation’s first openly lesbian governor and the first openly LGBTQ person of color to hold any statewide elected office. Additionally, Texas Democrats nominated Gina Ortiz Jones and Eric Holguin who, if elected, will become the first openly LGBTQ Asian American woman and Latinx in Congress, respectively. Here’s a snapshot of some of the new LGBTQ candidate successes so far this primary season:
LAST NIGHT
TEXAS
Lupe Valdez: Lupe Valdez became the first openly lesbian gubernatorial nominee of any major party. If elected, she would also be the first openly LGBTQ person of color to serve as governor and the first Latinx to serve as governor of Texas.
Gina Ortiz Jones (TX-23): If elected, Ortiz Jones would be Congress’ first openly LGBTQ woman of color and first openly LGBTQ Asian American woman.
Eric Holguin (TX-27): If elected, Holguin would become Congress’ first openly LGBTQ Latinx congressman and the first openly gay Latinx man in Congress.
Lorie Burch (TX-3): If elected, Burch would be among the first LGBTQ congresswomen from Texas.
ARKANSAS
Tippi McCullough (HD-33): Facing no Republican opposition in November, McCullough will become the only openly LGBTQ person in the Arkansas state legislature. McCullough’s win comes 5 years after she was forced to resign her teaching job because she was LGBTQ.
GEORGIA
Matthew Wilson (HD-58): If elected, Wilson will join numerous openly LGBTQ officials pushing back on Georgia Republicans’ anti-LGBTQ legislative agenda. Georgia’s LGBTQ caucus is among the most diverse LGBTQ caucuses in the nation, including:
Park Cannon (HD-58): first openly queer woman of color elected in Georgia
Sam Park (HD-101): first openly gay Asian American elected in Georgia and first openly gay man elected to the state legislature
Renitta Shannon (HD-84): first openly bisexual woman of color to serve in Georgia.
Karla Drennan (HD-): first openly lesbian member of the Georgia House of Representatives
PREVIOUS PRIMARIES
INDIANA
J.D. Ford (SD-29): If elected, Ford will become the first out member of the Indiana state Senate.
Indiana Democrats have also nominated 3 candidates for the Indiana state House, who would all make history together as the first openly LGBTQ members of the body:
Thomasina Marsili (HD-46)
Joe Lannan (HD-63)
Sarah Stivers (HD-70)
ILLINOIS
Lamont Robinson (HD-05): If elected, Robinson will become the first openly gay African-American state legislator in Illinois history.
Maggie Trevor (HD-54): If elected, Trevor will become the 2nd openly LGBTQ woman in the Illinois General Assembly, joining Kelly Cassidy.
OHIO
Rick Neal (OH-15): If elected, Neal will beocme the first openly LGBTQ person elected to Congress from Ohio. Neal will be challenging NRCC Chairman Steve Stivers.
Nickie Antonio (SD-23): Antonio became the first openly LGBTQ candidate elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in 2010. If elected, she will also become the first openly LGBTQ person elected to the Ohio state Senate.
PENNSYLVANIA
Malcolm Kenyatta (HD-181): Kenyatta overcame an overtly bigoted smear campaign and if elected, will become the Pennsylvania House’s first openly LGBTQ person of color. Kenyatta also served a delegate to the 2016 Democratic National Convention hosted by the DNC.
Kristen Seale (HD-168): Seale is the first openly queer Democratic nominee in Pennsylvania. If elected, she will be the first openly LGBTQ woman in the Pennsylvania state House.
Daniel Smith Jr. (HD-12): Smith is challenging Republican Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, one of the most anti-LGBTQ state legislators in Pennsylvania, who sued to prevent a gay couple from marrying, introduced legislation banning same-sex marriage and said openly gay Rep. Brian Sims was a “lying homosexual” and “in open rebellion against God’s law.”
OREGON
Jamie McLeod-Skinner (OR-02): McLeod-Skinner was the first out lesbian elected to the Santa Clara City Council and will be taking on Congressman Greg Walden, former chair of the NRCC. If elected, McLeod Skinner would become the first openly LGBTQ person elected to Congress from Oregon.
NORTH CAROLINA
North Carolina Democrats have nominated a candidate in every single legislative district this year, including more LGBTQ people than ever, including:
Brandon Anderson (SD-45)
Cecil Brockman (HD-60)
Deb Butler (HD-18)
Linda Bennett (HD-26)
Allison Dahle (HD-11)
Marcia Morgan (HD-19)
Dan Whitten (HD-15)
Lauv Adds Two New Tracks to Playlist Project
Independent singer, songwriter and producer Lauv adds two new tracks “Bracelet” and “Paranoid” to his ongoing playlist project, titled I met you when I was 18. The collection of songs were all written by the singer, songwriter during a significant period in his life as a student at New York University, and follow a theme of young love and self-actualization. The playlist will continue to evolve as Lauv periodically adds new songs.
Get Your Tissues Ready! Queer Eye Season Two Debuts June 15
It’s been fifteen years since the Emmy Award-winning series Queer Eye for the Straight Guy revolutionized reality television. The series returned to Netflix in 2018 going global and introducing audiences around the world to a modern aesthetic, diverse perspectives and a brand new Fab Five: Antoni Porowski (Food & Wine),Bobby Berk (Interior Design), Karamo Brown (Culture), Jonathan Van Ness (Grooming) and Tan France (Fashion).
This season, the Queer Eye Fab Five return to the Georgia heartland, forging connections with communities from a wide array of backgrounds and beliefs often contrary to their own, touching on everything from self-love and faith, to immigration and how to make the perfect homemade poke bowls and more!
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights: Extremist Judicial Nominees Threaten Civil Rights
Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, issued the following statement after the Senate Judiciary Committee voted along party lines to approve U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit nominee Andrew Oldham, Louisiana district court nominee Wendy Vitter; and Texas district court nominee Michael Truncale:
“By advancing Oldham, Vitter, and Truncale to the full Senate, the Senate Judiciary Committee is directly threatening the protection of basic civil and human rights in the Fifth Circuit. The nominees’ refusal to agree that Brown v. Board of Education was correctly decided demonstrates their lack of fitness to fill lifetime seats on the federal judiciary.
"All three nominees have records that reflect a hostility to civil and human rights. Oldham has worked to restrict and undermine voting rights, immigrant rights, women’s access to reproductive care, environmental protection, and gun safety. Vitter’s embrace of fringe and discredited views about reproductive care, her history of hostility to immigrant rights, and her failure to disclose these views to the committee are extremely troubling. Truncale is a partisan, conservative ideologue whose past statements show a hostility to immigrant rights, voting rights, women’s access to reproductive care, workers’ rights, LGBT rights, campaign finance limits, environmental protection, gun safety, and the role of the federal government.
"None of these nominees are capable of serving as fair-minded jurists, and the Senate must oppose their confirmations.”
The Leadership Conference has written to the Senate urging opposition to the confirmations of Oldham, Vitter, and Truncale.
“By advancing Oldham, Vitter, and Truncale to the full Senate, the Senate Judiciary Committee is directly threatening the protection of basic civil and human rights in the Fifth Circuit. The nominees’ refusal to agree that Brown v. Board of Education was correctly decided demonstrates their lack of fitness to fill lifetime seats on the federal judiciary.
"All three nominees have records that reflect a hostility to civil and human rights. Oldham has worked to restrict and undermine voting rights, immigrant rights, women’s access to reproductive care, environmental protection, and gun safety. Vitter’s embrace of fringe and discredited views about reproductive care, her history of hostility to immigrant rights, and her failure to disclose these views to the committee are extremely troubling. Truncale is a partisan, conservative ideologue whose past statements show a hostility to immigrant rights, voting rights, women’s access to reproductive care, workers’ rights, LGBT rights, campaign finance limits, environmental protection, gun safety, and the role of the federal government.
"None of these nominees are capable of serving as fair-minded jurists, and the Senate must oppose their confirmations.”
The Leadership Conference has written to the Senate urging opposition to the confirmations of Oldham, Vitter, and Truncale.
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