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Photographs of Fort Collins Pride (1998)
A series of photographs of the first Fort Collins Pride, potentially called the Fort Collins Gay Pride Celebration, in 1998. The photographs were taken by J. David Eisenberg, a resident of California who traveled to the state of Colorado for work. …
"Kansas has no use for an unsexed woman in the governor's chair" (1897)
The Fort Collins Courier remarks on the supposed gender failings of the prolific Kansas agitator, political activists, and orator, Mary Ellen Lease. Charging women with being "unsexed" by their advocacy and rhetorical acumen was not uncommon during…
"not unsexed...But hungering and querulous and vexed..."
A poem that first appeared in the Christian Intelligencer, reprinted in the Fort Collins Courier in 1894. The poem recounts the lives of two fictional women who pursue different courses: one who "sought her 'rights'" and another who did not. The…
A "queer mistake" and the "He" and "She" Bibles (1897)
An account in the Fort Collins Courier of a series of misprints in Bibles. Of note is the so-called "He" Bible in which the biblical figured of Ruth is referenced using the masculine pronoun "He." Corrected versions are called the "She" Bible. A…
Laporte "Ministers to Gays: Die Faggots!" (1992)
A reprint of a story from the New York Native describing a pamphlet slipped under the door of the Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Alliance at CSU that called for the death penalty for gays. The pamphlet was written by a pastor at the Laporte Church of…
Houston newspaper: Fort Collins reject gays and lesbians "with a vengeance" (1998)
A front page story from the Houston Voice describing both the great advances made by some gay and lesbian political leaders in the 1992 election, as well as the stunning failures of lesbian and gay causes in some places like Fort Collins.
Text of Ordinance No. 22 (1998) of the Council of the City of Fort Collins
Text of the Ordinance No. 22 passed by the Fort Collins City Council on March 3, 1998. The ordinance finds that discrimination based on sexual orientation took place in the City of Fort Collins and amends the city code to limit the discrimination and…
Text of Resolution 98-80 (1998) of the Council of the City of Fort Collins
A resolution by the City Council adopting the ballot title and submission clause for a referendum on Ordinance No. 22, which banned discrimination in Fort Collins on the basis of sexual orientation. A special municipal election was held on the…
Proclamation Recognizing the Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado for 10 Years of Commitment to the People of Fort Collins (2006)
A Proclamation from the City of Fort Collins, recognizing the Gay & Lesbian Funds for Colorado for 10 years of the commitment to the people of Fort Collins.
City of Fort Collins Proclamations on Transgender Remembrance and Acceptance (2018-2020)
A series of annual proclamations recognizing transgender rights by the City of Fort Collins. One proclamation recognizes the Transgender Day of Remembrance; two others recognize Transgender Acceptance Month.