{"id":62,"date":"1999-11-25T06:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-25T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-06-21T23:57:21","modified_gmt":"2006-06-21T23:57:21","slug":"the-gay-nineties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evanravitz.com\/vote\/the-gay-nineties\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gay Nineties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><small>Westword 11\/25\/1999 (a Denver weekly)<\/small><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I often say at fundraisers and different events, &#8216;Can we have a big round of applause and thanks to Colorado for Family Values!'&#8221; says Sue Anderson, who recently left the state after directing the gay-rights organization Equality Colorado for six years. &#8220;The silver lining to the whole Amendment 2 cloud is that there&#8217;s a queer organizational infrastructure in this state.&#8221; Anderson remembers the days of Amendment 2 as &#8220;an amazing time &#8212; having gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues in the news for 94 days nonstop. We don&#8217;t get that kind of coverage, or hadn&#8217;t until that time. The American public didn&#8217;t want to talk about those things &#8212; that was brought on by Amendment 2. It changed history in many ways.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><small>Westword 11\/25\/1999 (a Denver weekly)<\/small><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I often say at fundraisers and different events, &#8216;Can we have a big round of applause and thanks to Colorado for Family Values!'&#8221; says Sue Anderson, who recently left the state after directing the gay-rights organization Equality Colorado for six years. &#8220;The silver lining to the whole Amendment 2 cloud is that there&#8217;s a queer organizational infrastructure in this state.&#8221; Anderson remembers the days of Amendment 2 as &#8220;an amazing time &#8212; having gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues in the news for 94 days nonstop. We don&#8217;t get that kind of coverage, or hadn&#8217;t until that time. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.evanravitz.com\/vote\/the-gay-nineties\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-researches-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evanravitz.com\/vote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evanravitz.com\/vote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evanravitz.com\/vote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evanravitz.com\/vote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evanravitz.com\/vote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evanravitz.com\/vote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evanravitz.com\/vote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evanravitz.com\/vote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evanravitz.com\/vote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}