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TRENDS Podcast: Boulder County’s LGBTQ+ Community – Progress Made, Challenges Remain
The TRENDS podcast is a collaboration between the Community Foundation of Boulder County and KGNU. It dives deep into the community’s most pressing issues and explores the changes happening throughout Boulder County through the experiences of community members, especially those often rendered invisible by commercial media, to shed light on community challenges, solutions, and pathways forward for the county and the country.
Listen to the LGBTQ+ TRENDS podcast episode below:
https://objects-us-east-1.dream.io/kgnu-news/2020/07/6-18-20_TRENDS-Podcast-LGBTQ.mp3
Subscribe to TRENDS on iTunes to get new editions automatically. Also on Spotify and Stitcher.
June is Pride Month, a time to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community. It is celebrated in June to honor the 1969 Stonewall riots, the beginning of a movement to outlaw discriminatory laws and practices against the LGBTQ+ community.
One of multiple vehicles in the 2020 Longmont Pride parade supporting the LGBTQ+ community and Black Lives Matter
In June of 1969, patrons and supporters of the Stonewall Inn in New York City staged an uprising to resist the police harassment and persecution. One of the activists at Stonewall was Marsha P. Johnson, a Black Trans woman.
Today on TRENDS we look back at the history of LGBTQ+ rights here in Boulder County — how far have we come? How far do we still need to go? We’ll look at the intersection of the Black Lives Matter movement and LGBTQ+ rights and highlight voices of all ages from the community here in Boulder County.
In January 2019, a ceremony took place at the Boulder County Courthouse to recognize the County for some of the first efforts in the nation that advanced rights for the LGBTQ+ community.
A plaque at the Boulder County Courthouse proclaims the spot is listed in the National Register of Historic Place in recognition of the civil rights significance of same-sex marriage licenses issued in 1975
In 1975, Boulder County Clerk Clela Rorex issued a marriage license to gay two men. Rorex later said, "in a way it was a very easy decision for me.”
Rorex went on to issue five more same-sex marriage licenses in Boulder before the Colorado Attorney General forced her to stop. What Rorex did in 1975 was seen as revolutionary.
Although it wasn't known at the time, another important event in LGBTQ+ history taking place in 1975 was the birth of the current Governor Jared Polis at Boulder Community Hospital. Forty-three years later Polis became the first openly gay man to be elected as a governor of a U.S. state. In his election night speech, Polis said he stood on the shoulders of those who came before him.
Ollie Kampert Abajo
LGBTQ+ Pasa La Voz Show en Español:
* Presiona aqui para escuchar la entrevista sobre identidad de genero y orientacion sexual. Leticia Abajo, trabaja para WIC dentro de Servicios de Salud en Boulder County y es una educadora de relaciones familiares y Ollie graduada de New Vista que ha participado en Justicia Restaurativa.
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The TRENDS podcast is a collaboration between the Community Foundation of Boulder County and KGNU. It dives deep into the community’s most pressing issues and explores the changes happening throughout Boulder County through the experiences of community members, especially those often rendered invisible by commercial media, to shed light on community challenges, solutions, and pathways forward for the county and the country.
Listen to the LGBTQ+ TRENDS podcast episode below:
https://objects-us-east-1.dream.io/kgnu-news/2020/07/6-18-20_TRENDS-Podcast-LGBTQ.mp3
Subscribe to TRENDS on iTunes to get new editions automatically. Also on Spotify and Stitcher.
June is Pride Month, a time to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community. It is celebrated in June to honor the 1969 Stonewall riots, the beginning of a movement to outlaw discriminatory laws and practices against the LGBTQ+ community.
One of multiple vehicles in the 2020 Longmont Pride parade supporting the LGBTQ+ community and Black Lives Matter
In June of 1969, patrons and supporters of the Stonewall Inn in New York City staged an uprising to resist the police harassment and persecution. One of the activists at Stonewall was Marsha P. Johnson, a Black Trans woman.
Today on TRENDS we look back at the history of LGBTQ+ rights here in Boulder County — how far have we come? How far do we still need to go? We’ll look at the intersection of the Black Lives Matter movement and LGBTQ+ rights and highlight voices of all ages from the community here in Boulder County.
In January 2019, a ceremony took place at the Boulder County Courthouse to recognize the County for some of the first efforts in the nation that advanced rights for the LGBTQ+ community.
A plaque at the Boulder County Courthouse proclaims the spot is listed in the National Register of Historic Place in recognition of the civil rights significance of same-sex marriage licenses issued in 1975
In 1975, Boulder County Clerk Clela Rorex issued a marriage license to gay two men. Rorex later said, "in a way it was a very easy decision for me.”
Rorex went on to issue five more same-sex marriage licenses in Boulder before the Colorado Attorney General forced her to stop. What Rorex did in 1975 was seen as revolutionary.
Although it wasn't known at the time, another important event in LGBTQ+ history taking place in 1975 was the birth of the current Governor Jared Polis at Boulder Community Hospital. Forty-three years later Polis became the first openly gay man to be elected as a governor of a U.S. state. In his election night speech, Polis said he stood on the shoulders of those who came before him.
Ollie Kampert Abajo
LGBTQ+ Pasa La Voz Show en Español:
* Presiona aqui para escuchar la entrevista sobre identidad de genero y orientacion sexual. Leticia Abajo, trabaja para WIC dentro de Servicios de Salud en Boulder County y es una educadora de relaciones familiares y Ollie graduada de New Vista que ha participado en Justicia Restaurativa.