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GAY AND LBIAN FUND FOR COLORADO
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The town had to display a plaque acknowledgg the money me om the Gay and Lbian Fund of Colorado.
GAY & LBIAN FUND FOR COLORADO
The Gay Lbian Fund for Colorado, a program of the Gill Foundatn, provis fancial support to nonprof anizatns Colorado. Current grant makg through the Gay Lbian Fund clus STEM tn, safe and clive schools and programs (like this grant to the Colorado High School * gay and lesbian fund denver *
The ensug quarrel generated letters to the edor wh headl such as “Gays cleverly advance agenda” and “Homosexualy is an abomatn to God. The gay scendant of a long le of ranchers and farmers, Gill ed the profs om the sale of his software start-up to bee the untry’s largt dividual donor to efforts fightg for the rights and cln of LGBTQ people. Twenty-five years after g his money to tablish the Gill Foundatn, he has vted more than half a billn dollars to polil mpaigns and philanthropic efforts to secure LGBTQ equaly across the untry and watched Colorado grow om “the Hate State” to a place where the rabow gay pri flag hangs om the Capol.
After g out llege, he volunteered wh a mp gay rights group. “On a chairlift once, I wonred, ‘Is this guy gog to ph me off the chairlift if I say he’s stg next to a gay guy?
2010 GAY & LBIAN FUND GRANTS
The Gay & Lbian Fund for Colorado, a program of the Gill Foundatn, * gay and lesbian fund denver *
In 1996, the foundatn created the Gay and Lbian Fund of Colorado, which gave money to librari, symphoni, statue prervatn funds and other cultural mastays wh the veat that the anizatns state who gave them the money. “But fascatgly, money om the Gay and Lbian Fund for Colorado was a polil thg.
Part of the goal was to have enough Democrats to stop anti-gay legislatn and ph for more protectns. Along wh the 2018 electn of Polis, the natn’s first openly gay ernor, and Brianna Tone, Colorado’s first openly transgenr state legislator, the state’s mastream culture has shifted. Durg Denver PriFt last month, a rabow gay pri flag hung om the state Capol for the first time.