Issues

The issues that The Center is so greatly involved in educating the community are people’s rights and laws that were imposed in Colorado for the LGBT people. One of the biggest once I believe is a Super Campaign to Educate people on Colorado Law. The Super Campaign or, as The Center calls them the Rights 5, are five laws that defend and enhance the lives of LGBT people. Those rights might seem not as important to non LGBT or straight people because they grew up having them, they were born with them and never had to stop and think of them. Straight people never had to fight for all those right.

But LGBT people did. They were discriminated against when they were trying to get a job, they were discriminated against when trying to rent or buy housing. Some LGBT people suffered from hate crimes, and probably could never even dream of adopting a baby. A baby that someone probably just dumped at the orphanage, possibly unwanted child. LGBT people were refused a right to adopt that possibly unwanted child, and make him feel loved; create a family for that child. Create a home, a safe environment. And last but probably the most important is the right to be able to benefit from your loved one. LGBT people are now able to provide those benefits to their loved once, they have right to prove support to their loved one. All these right are being taking for granted by most of the straight people. We just got used to them, stopped paying attention to them, we do not even notice them anymore most of the time.

One of the ways, which I think is absolutely genius, that The Center came up with in order to educate Coloradans on those five state laws was to create five superheroes. Not just any super heroes, they are five superheroes with the unique capability to enlighten, inspire and protect all Coloradans to embody the Right 5. Enlighten and educating people is huge for the Center, because we all know that knowledge is power. In order to make educational process easier for all Coloradans the Center have set up an individual web site that will provide all information on all the laws and the campaign itself.  Here is a link to their web site with all five super heroes - http://therightsfive.com/index.php

Looking at these super heroes, and all the work, all the progress that was made by the center I think that they did absolutely great job in educating people about the issues. All education and information is provided to all people. It presented in a very creative way, and it is completely free of charge.  

However I noticed that all that information is there only if you know where to look. What I mean by that is that I would probably never looked, and never found out about those five super heroes if I did not volunteer with The Center. On their web site I saw I little, tiny link to the super heroes page. Almost did not notice it, but I was looking for it, so I found it. What is you never worked with The Center, or had a great teacher such as mine? You probably would never even know that such a thing as The Right 5 existed.  There are no sings anywhere about the Right 5 anywhere, no commercials, and never hear about them in m daily life. I guess if I wanted to learn I would learn everything that is going on in Colorado regardless of if I heard of it or not. But from my point of view there need to be a little better and bigger bridge between the communities.