LGBT peopleinBoulder. ThisisBoulder’s story. known aboutthepathtowardequalrightsfor place onnationalandstatestages.Muchlessis and advancesinLGBTrightsthathavetaken small andlarge.Muchisknownaboutthestruggle have beenadvancedinmanywaysandplaces lesbian, gay, bisexual,andtransgenderpeople Since theStonewallriotsin1969,rightsof LGBT History A Timeline ofBoulder Out oftheShadows: Designed by Sponsored by Glenda Russell&ReneeMorgan Compiled by
Stonewall Riots NYC 1969 1969 national colorado boulder 1970s 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
1974 1970 1978 Referendum: Boulder Gay Liberation Lesbian Caucus and Sexual Orientation Front is formed at CU Boulder Gay Liberation is removed from create stir with Boulder’s Human Gay Blue Jeans Day Rights Ordinance
Recall election: Tim Fuller is recalled and Pen Tate barely survives recall effort
Same-sex couples are ejected from down- 1976 town bars for dancing Gay and Lesbian together; protests follow class is taught Monthly dances at Jack Kerouac School at CU Hidden Valley Ranch Maven Productions of Disembodied draw hundreds produces its first Poetics is formed at concert, Cris Naropa Institute Williamson at Tulagi’
1979 After evicting same-sex couples dancing, Isa- dora’s picketed; their sign zapped 1971 Boulder Gay Liberation Front publishes first issue of monthly newsletter, Gayly Planet 1973 Boulder City Council adopts Human Rights Ordinance, including sexual orientation
1975 Boulder County Clerk 1972 Clela Rorex grants Boulder Community marriage licenses to Women’s Center is same-sex couples founded Boulder Socialist-Feminist/ Feminist-Socialist Collective is formed
1971 Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) of the Rockies is founded
Colorado repeals sodomy laws—first state in the west, third in US 1976 GLBT Community Center is founded in Denver
1972 Big Mama Rag, lesbian feminist publication, is founded in Denver
1973 American Psychiatric Association declares homosexuality is not 1976 1970 a disorder Rene Richards is First Gay marches; barred from NYC, LA, San Francisco competition in 1978 women’s tennis Rainbow flag becomes symbol 1972 of Gay Pride First gay person, San Francisco Jim Foster, addresses Bisexual Center National political opens convention 1979 1974 First national Ithaca Statement on Elaine Noble Gay Rights March Bisexuality is issued becomes first openly takes place in DC by Quakers gay person elected to state-wide office National Coalition National Bisexual (Massachusetts) of Black (later Liberation Group Lesbians and) forms Gays formed 1977 Harvey Milk is elected Supervisor in SF
Dade County FL Human Rights ordinance is enacted and repealed (Anita Bryant) 1980s
1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
1985 Boulder County AIDS Project is founded 1989 Weekly Friday Afternoon Clubs for LGBT 1987 community are held at local 1983 Boulder voters restore Boulder Public Health restaurants Informal community Dept. starts HIV testing sexual orientation to networks care for men and public education Human Rights Ordinance infected with HIV/AIDS Campus Lambda Boulder’s The Web (monthly potlucks CU Regents reject for LGBT faculty motion to add sexual explores gay and lesbian spirituality and students at orientation to CU) forms non-discrimination 1980 policy Teacher of CU’s Human Protesters ignite stink Sexuality class comes out “Hand” bomb in theater showing Poetry Readings The Lesbian Connection to broad media coverage the film, “Cruising” of queer poets formed begins
1984 Informal community networks care for men infected with HIV/AIDS 1986 Feminist-Socialist/ Socialist-Feminist Collective makes international news with its “Sodomy Patrol”
Vox Feminista is founded
Walnut Café, venue for important LGBT community-building events, opens
Slide show on lesbians, “Dykes of Our Lives,” shown for first time
1982 First person in CO is diagnosed with GRID (later called AIDS) (not a gay 1988 man) Colorado passes hate-crime law
1981 Gay Rodeo Association is founded in Denver
1984 1980 Berkeley becomes Democratic party first city to adopt 1986 endorses homosexual domestic partner US Supreme Court rights platform benefits for city upholds constitutionality employees of sodomy laws 1988 Harry Benjamin 1989 (Bowers v. Hardwick) First Bisexual International Gender Jazz musician 1982 newsletter Dysphoria Association Billy Tipton dies First Gay started is founded Games are 1983 and is revealed held Gerry Studds to be FTM becomes first 1987 1981 openly gay member ACT UP holds first First known of Congress major demonstration reports of GRID, later known as Boston Bisexual AIDS, appear Womens Network is founded
Barney Frank comes out
North American Bisexual Network (BiNET USA) is founded
Second Gay March on Washington
1990s
1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
1993 1995 Boulder County PFLAG GLB resource center is established opens at CU
Lambda Rising queer studies conference begins 1991 Boulder Queer Collective Hundreds protest Bill First Boulder Pridefest forms; first Q Town McCartney and the Promise is organized 1997 1999 meeting is held Keepers at Folsom Field Poet and part-time Boulder adds First edition of CU’s Boulder resident gender identity/ LesBiGay Noon Hour CU Standing Committee on “Out–n-About” Allen Ginsberg dies transgender sta- Series is established at LGBT Issues is established newsletter is published tus to city Human CU by Counseling and Rights Ordinance Psychological Services Queers in the Park, summer socials at Chautauqua, begin Boulder District Gulf War protests feature 1996 Court rules in Ladies in Support of the Boulder Voices is published Open Door Fund is favor of issuing President (LISP) established to fund birth certificates First CU faculty coming out LGBT projects identifying two panel is held same-sex parents
1990 1994 CU Lesbian LBGT alliance is Caucus is founded at CU founded Sound Circle, a Boulder women’s a capella National ensemble, is founded City of Boulder adopts Hundreds pro- Coming Out Domestic Partnership test Fred Phelps’ Day is founded Boulder Valley School registry Westboro Baptist District adds sexual Church’s visit to orientation to its non- Four endowed scholar- Boulder discrimination policy ships are created at CU 1992 for LGBT or ally students CU Coach Bill McCartney CU’s GLBT Alumni or students living with endorses Amendment 2 Association is AIDS from CU podium chartered 1998 GLBT Studies Certificate Boulder Valley Safe CU hosts first gay studies Word Is Out Womyn’s Program is approved Schools Coalition is conference, opened by Bookstore opens at CU formed Goddess Theatre CU President Albino in a bullet-proof vest begins Boulder Gay and Boulder County Health starts Lesbian Film Festival OASOS for LGBTQ youth is created
CU institutes Chancellor’s Task Force on Sexual Orientation
1995 Video “Inner Journeys, Public 1990 Stands” about heterosexual CO legislature legalizes allies during Amendment 2 limited anonymous is shown on PBS stations nationwide HIV testing 1992 1998 Colorado voters pass Rainbow Alley opens in Denver Denver voters block anti-LGBT Amendment 2 to provide support for LGBTQQI repeal effort and youth, their families and allies uphold city’s gay LGBT groups initiate rights law national boycott of CO ($40 million lost) 1994 CO State Supreme Court rules Amendment 2 unconstitutional
1991 Sam Gallegos is discharged from 1996 National Guard for US Supreme Court rules being gay Amendment 2 unconstitutional (Romer v. Evans)
Denver initiates domestic partner benefits for city employees
1992 World Health Organization removes homosexuality 1994 from ICD-10 AMA denounces supposed cures for homosexuality 1991 Red Ribbon is first used as 1996 1998 symbol for HIV The AIDS Memorial Quilt, Matthew Shepard the size of 43 football fields, is murdered FTM International covers the Washington Mall. is formed An estimated 1.2 million people 1999 come to see the memorial CA adopts domestic The “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” partnership law policy banning military service by openly gay personnel is implemented
1993 Brandon Teena is raped and murdered 1997 Ellen Degeneres comes out
Third Gay March on Washington happens
Intersex Society of North America is founded
National Advocacy Coalition on Youth and Sexual Orientation is founded (later becomes National Youth Advocacy Coalition – NYAC) 2000s
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
2003 Campus Crusade for Queers is founded 2007 Boulder Valley School Bent Lens, Boulder’s District adds gender LGBT film society, identity/expression to its is created non-discrimination policy 2001 CU Regents vote to include CU Trans-form is 2009 sexual orientation in founded St. Vrain nondiscrmination policy Safe Schools Bridges is founded Coalition is launched Hinton’s The Way Things Ought To Be about 1970s gay 2005 Boulder is published CU’s Gather is founded
LGBT and straight ally students protest Boulder High School’s withdrawal of photo of same-sex couple’s kiss from yearbook
2002 CU Regents vote to provide 2008 domestic partner benefits Jared Polis of Boulder for faculty and staff becomes first openly gay non-incumbent “Resonance: Women’s elected to Congress Chorus of Boulder” is founded 2000 Word Is Out becomes CU School of Education’s a virtual bookstore Gay-Straight Alliance is founded
2007 CO passes law allowing same-sex couples to adopt
CO nondiscrimination 2005 protections include sexual CO legislature amends orientation and gender 2009 2001 hate crimes to include identity/expression Fred Martinez sexual orientation First murder prosecution under Jr. is killed CO passes Designated hate-crimes law in Cortez in a Beneficiary law hate crime involves transgen- der victim
2006 Proposition i (domestic partnership bill) defeated by Colorado voters 2008 Angie Zapata is killed in Voters pass constitutional hate crime in Greeley amendment: Marriage is only between one man and one CO passes housing and woman public accommodations anti-discrimination law
2002 2008 MTV’s Real CA Supreme Court legalizes World casts 2004 same-sex marriage Pedro, gay man Massachusetts with AIDS Supreme Court Proposition 8 passes, legalizes same-sex eliminating same-sex 2000 marriage in California Prop 22 passes marriage (CA) 2006 US Senate fails to Small Business pass Federal marriage Administration amendment gives LGBT people access to Connecticut Supreme Court business loans 2003 legalizes same-sex marriage US Supreme Court strikes down sodomy laws (Lawrence v. Texas)
2009 Iowa Supreme Court and Legisla- tures in Vermont, Maine, and New Hampshire legalize same-sex marriage