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The Supreme Court will hear the appeal of a Colorado wedding website designer who says the state violates her free speech by requiring her to serve LGBTQ couples.

Apparently the nipple wasn’t even real.

Share this article BOULDER, Colo., May 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --  Bobos, the Colorado-based snack brand that puts love at the center of everything, has partnered with three talented artists from the LGBTQ+ community to design the limited-edition packaging of the brands third annual Pride Bar. Ludi Leiva, Shanee Benjamin and Cheyne Gallarde were handpicked by the brand for their unique and inspired artistic styles and were provided with Bobos Pride Bar packaging as their canvas to deliver their ...

Originally published on May 10, 2021 12:14 pm Western Oregon University announced Monday that it will be requiring vaccines for all on-campus students and employees this fall. WOU is the latest Oregon public university to make such an announcement. Last week, both Portland State University and Oregon State University made similar calls. WOU President Rex Fuller announced the vaccination requirement in a student town-hall meeting Monday morning. “Our decision for doing this really relates ...

Originally published on April 23, 2021 1:20 pm The board of trustees at Western Oregon University has decided to raise tuition for in-state undergraduate students by just more than 2%, going against an initial recommendation by a university committee to freeze tuition for that group of students. With the decision, WOU is the last of Oregon’s public universities to set tuition rates for the upcoming academic year. The university’s Tuition and Fee Advisory Committee, a group made up of vari...

Denver PrideFest is back with a hybrid event schedule for 2021 Evan Semón Posted at 2:44 PM, Apr 23, 2021 and last updated 2021-04-23 16:44:57-04 DENVER – After having to move to a virtual celebration last year during the pandemic, Denver PrideFest will be back this summer with a hybrid model that will allow people to celebrate one of the city’s favorite traditions together in person. This year’s PrideFest, hosted by The Center on Colfax, will take place June 26-27 and involv...

Denver Pride returns June 26 and 27, with a mix of in-person and virtual offerings. For the second year in a row, though, COVID-19 has forced the annual parade, which typically brings out 450,000 revelers, entirely online. The blockbuster gathering that normally takes place at Civic Center Park will be dispersed throughout the city in 2021. The hub locations include the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, which will be a family-friendly Pride destination with outdoor music, storytimes and booths...

Originally published on April 8, 2021 2:30 pm Oregon’s oldest public university, Western Oregon, in the small Willamette Valley city of Monmouth, will be cutting multiple programs and the equivalent of more than a dozen full-time faculty, hoping to get ahead of falling enrollment that’s only been worsened during the pandemic. Administrators say it’s a necessary move to protect the financial health of the university, and a way to keep the 165-year-old institution affordable for prospecti...

Cuts Hit Faculty, Philosophy at Western Oregon By   Western Oregon University has notified some faculty members of layoffs amid cost-cutting efforts that include the elimination of its philosophy major and minor, Oregon Public Broadcasting reported. The public university in Monmouth, in Oregon’s Willamette Valley, plans to lay off four tenured professors in the cuts, which will also affect the equivalent of 11 nontenured faculty members through layoffs or class reductions, according to Oreg...

Rejected by her family, this woman has been ‘Queer Santa’ for 22 years Sydney Page Linda Warren, 77, has been known as “Queer Santa” for 22 years. Each Christmas, she fundraises for The Center on Colfax in Denver to buy holiday presents for LGBTQ youths who feel rejected by their families. (Courtesy of Linda Warren) For the past 22 years, Linda Warren has called herself “Queer Santa.” Each December, the 77-year-old woman suits up in a classic Santa Claus outfit...