JOINT STATEMENT FROM THE STONEWALL DEMOCRATS OF COLORADO & THE
COLORADO DEMOCRATIC PARTY
To end Pride Month, we saw two horrific attacks on the rights and dignity of queer and
trans Americans. Here in Colorado, the latest fundraising email from the Colorado
Republican Party was blatantly bigoted propaganda. Nationwide, we watched in horror
as an out-of-control and extremist Supreme Court declared that queer and trans people
do not deserve the same public protections as other Americans. Both of these assaults
on American values stem from the same kinds of lies and defamation that result in
attempts to eradicate not only our community, but all others outside the narrow
constituency of Trump’s MAGA-Extremists as represented by the Colorado Republican
Party. Both the Colorado Republican Party and the MAGA-right Supreme Court have
declared for all to hear that they would rather push hate, fear, and violence than protect
the rights of queer and trans Americans.
All of this comes at a time when Americans continue to struggle with rising costs of
living, a stagnating post-COVID economy, and an ever-worsening climate crisis. In the
face of these challenges, Republicans would rather promote hatred and discrimination
than propose real policy solutions to our greatest challenges. The world that MAGA
extremists wish to build protects only their own at the expense of every other American.
In the world they are trying to impose on us, queer kids live in fear of being publicly
outed, ostracized and bullied, and subjected to direct violence from peers and those
meant to protect them. If the MAGA extremists have their way, trans kids will die, by
their own hands, by violent mobs, or at the hands of a perverted ‘justice’ system.
Colorado Democrats will not give one inch to this hateful and genocidal rhetoric. We will
continue to develop and implement real solutions to the problems Coloradans face, as
our Party always has. We call upon Coloradans of all political persuasions, including
those affiliated with no party at all, to reject the cowardly scapegoating and craven lies
peddled by the Colorado Republican Party. We will never waver in our support for our
queer and trans community, and with the support of the people of Colorado, we will
continue to thwart every attempt to enact violence or to reduce the freedoms that every
Coloradan deserves.
The Colorado Democratic Party
The Stonewall Democrats of Colorado
