• state of Colorado repeals its sodomy law

• Boulder County Clerk marries six same-sex couples before she is ordered to stop

• Boulder becomes the first city in the nation to include sexual orientation
  in its anti-discrimination ordinance

• a group of CU-Boulder faculty (Campus Lambda) began to meet for monthly pot lucks off campus as a way to build community.  The group did not have bylaws, rather existed solely to provide a social network for its LGBT participants.  Campus Lambda only had membership dues to cover mailings (which were discontinued with the advent of email).  The monthly brunches were very well attended in the early to mid-1990s, but ceased altogether around 1997.  An attempt to bring them back 2001-02 was met with limited attendance.

• Colorado voters pass anti-gay bill, Amendment 2
• Chancellor James Corbridge forms a committee (Chancellor’s
  Committee on GLBT Issues) to assess climate on the Boulder campus for
  LGBTQIA faculty, staff, and students.  The Committee devises a series of
  recommendations (Report of the Chancellor’s Task Force on Gay,
  Lesbian, and Bisexual Issues, 1993).  Using a 1991 Sexual Orientation Survey
  and other means of data collection, the task force concluded that:
  • [H]omosexuals are frequent targets of both harassment and discrimination.  As a result, lesbian, bisexual, and gay members of this community are forced to lead limiting and constrained lives and are effectively denied full participation in the academic and social life of the University.  (University of Colorado, June 1993, Report of the Chancellor’s Task Force on Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Issues, p. 29)

• Chancellor’s Task Force on LGBT issues assembled statistics and anecdotal evidence demonstrating a hostile climate for LGBTQIA people at UCB
• First Annual Lambda Rising Conference features scholarship of CU faculty and students

• Chancellor Corbridge approved $60,000 to the GLBT Resource Center. In April, 1994, the Board of Regents conduced a closed session with the Chancellor, after which he withdrew funding and said that no general funds would be used to the support the GLBT Resource Center.
• Fundraising efforts, led by Karen Raforth of CU’s Multicultural Counseling Center, yielded enough money to open the center for one year.
• Second Annual Lambda Rising Conference

• Joanna Duenas hired as half-time director of the GLBT Resource Center, which opened its doors in Willard Hall room 304.
• students’ insurance company adds same sex partners
• creation of the GLBT Issues Committee of the Boulder Faculty Assembly
• creation of the LGBT Studies Certificate Program
• Third Annual Lambda Rising Conference
• Professor Joanne Arnold first Faculty Associate to the GLBT-RC

• Supreme Court overturns Colorado's Amendment 2 in Romer vs. Evans, 6-3
• Fourth Annual Lambda Rising Conference
• Faculty Council forms a GLBT Issues Committee with two faculty from each of the four campuses
• Professor Tom Riis Faculty Associate to the GLBT-RC

• The Center added transgender to its title to become the GLBT Resource Center.
• GLBT Resource Center traffic grew to 200-800 contacts / requests per month.
• Joanna Duenas and the GLBT-RC received Student Affairs Diversity Recognition Award
• Beverly Tuel was hired as .75 FTE director of the GLBT-RC
• Fifth Annual Lambda Rising Conference went statewide in 1997, with participants from Denver, Pueblo, Ft. Collins, Greeley, and Colorado Springs, in addition to presenters from as far away as California, New York, and Maine
• SAS Jim Davis-Rosenthal Faculty Associate to the GLBT-RC
• GLBT Resource Center moved to Willard Hall room 334, doubling its space and size.

• The GLBT Resource Center moves to Willard Hall room 227, adding additional space.
• “Out on Campus” program brings 9 GLBT high school student to CU to meet with university staff and students
• creation of the CU LGBT Alumni Association
• Sixth Annual Lambda Rising Conference
• Graduate student Ian McGillivray Faculty Associate to the GLBT-RC

• City of Denver City Council approves Domestic Partner Registry
• approximately 1000 people attended 15 LesBiGayTrans Awareness month (October) programs put on by the GLBT-RC
• “Out on Campus” program brings 9 GLBT high school student to CU to meet with university staff and students
• Seventh Annual Lambda Rising Conference
• First Lavender Graduation ceremony held at the Women’s Studies Cottage, honoring the first five students to complete the LGBT Studies Certificate Program
• Graduate student Ian McGillivray Faculty Associate to the GLBT-RC
• GLBT Resource Center receives $32,000 in scholarship money from the Gill Foundation. This money was later matched through fundraising.  (year?)

• 2 February 2000 the Boulder City Council becomes the first in Colorado to extend civil rights protections to the transgendered.  Gender variance is defined as "a persistent sense that one's gender identity is incongruent with one's biological sense."
• Colorado Legislature passes state law banning same-sex marriage
• CU Board of Regents vote for the inclusion of "sexual orientation" in CU's nondiscrimination policy
• Eighth Annual Lambda Rising LGBT Studies Conference in 2000 attended by 80 individuals
• approximately 600 people attended 12 LesBiGayTransQueer Awareness month programs put on by the GLBT-RC
• GLBT-RC library in Willard Hall has grown to approximately 900 books and 130 videos, with nearly 100 books and 10 videos added each year
• Leadership Growing Beyond 2000:  GLBT Student Leadership Conference.  This 2-day, statewide conference for LGBTQIA students was attended by 15 CU students, including several who gave presentations.  CU student presentations included formation of LGBTQIA students of color group (Bridges?)
• Assoc. Professor Bud Coleman Faculty Associate to the GLBT-RC
• budget for GLBT-RC is $106,500 for 2001-02

• CU Regents vote to extend Domestic Partner Benefits to faculty and staff (state attorney general’s office rules classified staff are not eligible for DPB.)
• Bruce Smail hired as the FTE director of the GLBT-RC
• LGBTQ Awareness Month - over 40 programs and major co-sponsorships
• Assoc. Professor Bud Coleman Faculty Associate to the GLBT-RC
• budget for GLBT-RC is $106,500 for 2001-02

• first Reception for Parents and Families of LGBT students during Parents Weekend.
• GLBT-RC recipient of the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Multicultural Affairs Award.
• budget for GLBT-RC is $109,436 for 2002-03

• Empowering Multiple Dimensions of Identity – year long program
• GLBT-RC provides training and consulting around transgender issues.  Our efforts impacted the creation of the family/unisex restroom in the Rec Center, Wardenburg Health Cente, and launching of Student Affairs’ Transgender/Gender Queer Environment Scan Committee.

• Spectrum, a floor for GLBT & Ally students opens at Hallett Hall

• Steph Wilenchek new director of the GLBT-RC
• Colorado Legislature passes two bills, one adding “sexual orientation” to the state’s non-discrimination policy and another which adds homosexuals and the disabled to the states’ hate crime statues.  Gov. Owens signs into law only the hate crimes bill

2006

• Multi-stall gender neutral bathroom created in Willard Hall, 2nd floor
• First campus Transgender Symposium

• Colorado Governor Ritter signs law to allow same-sex couples and non-married
• pairs to adopt children and also signs a non-discrimination in the workplace law that includes sexual orientation.