Tag: Gay

  • Colorado Needs Dan Baer

    Connert Media fully supports Dan Baer.

    Dan Baer is running for US Senate for Colorado. 1

    Dan Baer

    Daniel Brooks Baer is an American politician and former diplomat from Colorado. Baer served in the Obama administration’s State Department, first as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (2009-2013) and then as United States Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (2013-2017). In 2018, Governor John Hickenlooper appointed Baer as the executive director of the Colorado Department of Higher Education. 2

  • George Takei – A Proud Gay American

    We were fortunate to meet George Takei and his partner Brad Altman at the HRC dinner this past March, 2014, in Phoenix, Arizona. A handshake, a hug and a word of encouragement from George and Brad helped make our same sex marriage fight here in Arizona, just a bit easier.  But our struggle pales in comparison to the personal story of Mr. Takei during World War II. Take sixteen minutes of your time to learn about his struggle and how he now fights for equal rights throughout this great land we call home, a land we call America.

    As a child, George Takei, his siblings and parents, all United States citizens, were forced into an internment camp for Japanese-Americans, as a “security” measure during World War II. Seventy years later, Takei looks back at how the experience shaped his surprising, personal definition of patriotism and democracy.

    Our brief encounter with George with his husband, Brad:

    George Takei

    George Takei with two of the Plaintiffs in the Arizona Marriage Equality Lawsuit. 
    (L to R) Joe Connolly, George Takei and Terry Pochert

  • AZ Ruling on Gay Marriage Ban Expected Soon

    Attorney Heather Macre

    [Story originally appeared August 4, 2014]

    Jason Barry from CBS 5 in Phoenix, Arizona, writes, “A major ruling on same-sex marriage in Arizona is expected any day now.

    A lawsuit challenging the state’s gay marriage ban is making its way through federal court.

    Terry Pochert and Joe Connolly, of Maricopa, are one of seven couples leading the charge to give same-sex couples the right to marry in Arizona.

    “To me, it’s very simple,” said Pochert. “Two people love each other, and are committed to each other for a lifelong relationship.  We just want the same rights that any other couple in a long term relationship would have.”

    In 2008, Arizona voters amended the state constitution  to include the definition of marriage as only between one man and one woman.

    Other states did the same. …”[1]

    References:

    1. KPHO

  • Arizona Wins For Marraige Equality

    New Times - October 23, 2017References:

    1. New Times, October 23, 2017, Ashley Cusick – Cover (PDF)