<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Gay and Lesbian Fund for Colorado Awards First Grants of 2002 - $148,000 Awarded to 45 Community Nonprofits in 15 Colorado Counties -<P>COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., March 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gay and Lesbian Fund for Colorado, a fund of the Denver-based Gill Foundation, today announced it made more than $148,000 in grants to Colorado nonprofit organizations during its first two granting cycles of 2002. The 45 grants illustrate the support gay and lesbian philanthropists make to a wide-range of mainstream community organizations in Colorado. The Gay and Lesbian Fund for Colorado awards the majority of its grants during three cycles each year, but also currently awards grants every calendar month.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P><a href=http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/020319/latu110_1.html target=_blank>More</a>

I am pleased but surprised by this award. Didn't Colorado vote down some ballot initiative a couple of years ago which would outlaw discrmination agains gays...? Or am I mis-remembering? Maybe it was Oregon. Well, regardless, I am pleased by this support.

Sorry to say it, Trina, but Colorado voted to support the initiative. It required the courts to declare it unconstitutional.