In the final episode of Hate State: The tactics behind 1992’s Amendment 2 never went away, and next week’s votes on a trans sports ban and a ban on gender-affirming care for minors could make Colorado the first blue state to pass such measures.
Historian Bryant Simon writes on a century of bathroom panic, from gay entrapment campaigns to Jim Crow to today’s anti-trans bills, and why he thinks single-user stalls are the fix.
Protect Kids Colorado is pushing two ballot measures in the name of children. The young people they would govern say their voices have been left out.
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In Episode 2 of Hate State: Amendment 2 heads to the U.S. Supreme Court, and how Colorado went from a battleground over gay rights to a testing ground for a new generation of anti-LGBTQ+ legal challenges.
In 1992, Colorado became known as the “Hate State” after voters approved an amendment targeting LGBTQ+ rights, setting the stage for a political playbook that continues to shape the fight for equality today.
Tim Mooney has spent years turning contentious political fights into ballot questions. Now, his operation is targeting transgender rights in the southwest.
Propositions 134 and 135 revive a 30-year-old fight in Colorado over whether the rights of a politically vulnerable LGBTQ+ group should be put directly to voters.
The Tucson attack generated widespread coverage, but an analysis shows how quickly national attention faded as the community confronted its aftermath.
After Tucson Pride collapsed amid debt and years of questions about accountability, queer groups are charting different paths forward.
Four days after Tucson mourned two men killed in a hate-related shooting, hundreds of LGBTQ+ people gathered to celebrate, and to grieve.
Survivors of Club Q in Colorado Springs say Tucson’s LGBTQ+ community can draw on lessons from the years of grief, solidarity and division that followed their own tragedy.
After a raid, a seven-hour standoff and the felling of four cottonwoods, activists say they’re staying put. Overnight, agents moved on the last tree-sitter in Mexico.
Border Patrol agents arrested people protecting the tree Monday morning, ending a months-long protest.
A whistleblower says the warden didn’t make a federally required disclosure. Now the company is turning the Arizona prison into an ICE jail.
The report shows a highly detailed plan of attack against gay men, and a manifesto that planned to kill as many of them as possible.
The state’s official tally says 677 young people lack housing. Advocates say that number misses thousands living on couches, moving between shelters and trying to stay hidden.
When the libraries close and the cooling centers shut down, there’s nowhere left to hide from the heat. Six Phoenix residents told us how they survive the night on the streets.
Council makes sweeping restrictions on harm reduction outreach and food distribution at city parks — a move critics say will cost lives.
At a public hormone injection event in Tucson, participants challenged stigma and growing political attacks on gender-affirming care.
Una ola de letreros en el área metropolitana de Phoenix afirma que los demócratas apoyan a Andy Biggs. La letra pequeña apunta a un grupo de activismo conservador.
Una carta de CBP obtenida por LOOKOUT revela planes para una estación de la Patrulla Fronteriza de 87 acres en el sur de Arizona que, según la agencia, ayudará a aumentar los arrestos.
En Venture-N, amigos de Cameron Capara y Vincent Siqueiros regresaron para llorar, recordar y recuperar el lugar que consideran su hogar.
Más de 1,000 personas llenaron Catalina Park el miércoles para recordar a Cameron Capara y Vincent Siqueiros y llamar la atención sobre la violencia contra las personas LGBTQ+ y la violencia armada.
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