{"id":1312407,"date":"2019-07-14T21:24:01","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T03:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/just-pure-love-gay-for-good-rocky-mountains-celebrates-one-year\/"},"modified":"2019-07-15T07:48:19","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T13:48:19","slug":"just-pure-love-gay-for-good-rocky-mountains-celebrates-one-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/just-pure-love-gay-for-good-rocky-mountains-celebrates-one-year\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Just pure love\u2019 \u2014 Gay for Good Rocky Mountains celebrates one year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery p402_hide\" readability=\"6.715625\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-983961-348\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/07\/G4G-gpi-071519-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/07\/G4G-gpi-071519.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Provided | Gay for Good was one of the organizers and had a big presence in the Carbondale Pride Parade that took place as part of the May First Friday events.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>Gay for Good was one of the organizers and had a big presence in the Carbondale Pride Parade that took place as part of the May First Friday events.<\/strong><br \/>Provided<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/07\/G4G-gpi-071519.jpg\" alt=\"Gay for Good was one of the organizers and had a big presence in the Carbondale Pride Parade that took place as part of the May First Friday events.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/07\/G4G-gpi-071519-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/07\/G4G-gpi-071519-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"John Stroud\/Post Independent | Wendy Kennedy, foreground, and Stacey Baldock play a game of cornhole at the Gay 4 Good Rocky Mountain chapter first-year anniversary celebration picnic Saturday at Crown Mountain Park in El Jebel.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"0\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"11\">\n<p><strong>Wendy Kennedy, foreground, and Stacey Baldock play a game of cornhole at the Gay 4 Good Rocky Mountain chapter first-year anniversary celebration picnic Saturday at Crown Mountain Park in El Jebel.<\/strong><br \/>John Stroud\/Post Independent<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/07\/G4G-gpi-071519-1.jpg\" alt=\"Wendy Kennedy, foreground, and Stacey Baldock play a game of cornhole at the Gay 4 Good Rocky Mountain chapter first-year anniversary celebration picnic Saturday at Crown Mountain Park in El Jebel.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/07\/G4G-gpi-071519-2-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/07\/G4G-gpi-071519-2.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"John Stroud\/Post Independent | Directors of the Gay 4 Good Rocky Mountains chapter, from left, Colin Marshall, Janet Gordon, Jason Hodges, Natalyn Cumings and Steve Mills, at the group's first-anniversary picnic Saturday.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"2\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"15\">\n<p><strong>Directors of the Gay 4 Good Rocky Mountains chapter, from left, Colin Marshall, Janet Gordon, Jason Hodges, Natalyn Cumings and Steve Mills, at the group&#8217;s first-anniversary picnic Saturday.<\/strong><br \/>John Stroud\/Post Independent<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/07\/G4G-gpi-071519-2.jpg\" alt=\"Directors of the Gay 4 Good Rocky Mountains chapter, from left, Colin Marshall, Janet Gordon, Jason Hodges, Natalyn Cumings and Steve Mills, at the group's first-anniversary picnic Saturday.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/07\/G4G-gpi-071519-3-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/07\/G4G-gpi-071519-3.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Provided |\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/07\/G4G-gpi-071519-3.jpg\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/just-pure-love-gay-for-good-rocky-mountains-celebrates-one-year\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/just-pure-love-gay-for-good-rocky-mountains-celebrates-one-year\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">This weekend, Gay for Good Rocky Mountains celebrated its one-year anniversary of bringing LGBTQ community members together for humanitarian projects in the Roaring Fork Valley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">However, as chapter leader Steve Mills explained, bringing Gay for Good \u2014 or G4G, as it\u2019s known in social media branding \u2014 to the Western Slope was no easy task.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cAll of the other chapters are in larger, metropolitan areas,\u201d Mills said of the nonprofit organization, which from Los Angeles to New York City has 15 chapters across the U.S.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cThey didn\u2019t have any track record to know if a rural chapter would be successful and so they had some hesitation approving our chapter. Ultimately they did, and we have completely wowed them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Each month, Gay for Good Rocky Mountains partners with an area nonprofit for a community service project. Recent and upcoming events included picking up 170 pounds of trash in Carbondale, as well as building homes alongside other Habitat For Humanity volunteers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIt\u2019s kind of a two-fold approach,\u201d Mills said. \u201cWe can bring the LGBTQ community and its allies together to meet each other and build synergy, but then also partner with nonprofits that have a need for volunteers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIt was a win, win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Today, the local chapter, which welcomes lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and straight residents of the greater Roaring Fork Valley area, has over 200 members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Born and raised in Los Angeles, Mills previously volunteered for the City of Angels\u2019 Gay for Good chapter. Inspired by the philanthropic work the L.A. chapter performed, Mills was further motivated to get a chapter up and running in the Roaring Fork Valley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIt\u2019s a great way to give back and it\u2019s a great way to meet new people,\u201d Mills said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Formed shortly after the Lake Christine Fire\u2019s outburst last summer, one of Gay for Good Rocky Mountains\u2019 first projects included beautifying Basalt High School\u2019s grounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIt didn\u2019t have any bells and whistles. It didn\u2019t have anything super shiny,\u201d Mills said. \u201cIt was just something very subtle to just ease them into coming back to school after a pretty horrific summer with the fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWe didn\u2019t want to make a big deal out of it because we don\u2019t need a pat on the back,\u201d he added. \u201cWe\u2019re not looking to gloat. We just wanted to make it very subtle and just having something nice for when the kids arrived that day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Between 10:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. July 28 at Carbondale\u2019s Mountain Fair, Gay for Good Rocky Mountains will staff the beverage tent as part of its annual fundraiser. All tips collected will go toward the nonprofit organization\u2019s mission of bringing the LGBTQ community together to give back to the local communities it calls home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Mills hopes that, in Gay for Good\u2019s second year, it could further ewngage the local Latino community as well as partner with more Colorado River Valley nonprofit organizations in New Castle, Silt and Rifle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cPositive interactions,\u201d Mills said of what Gay for Good is all about. \u201cAt Gay for Good anyone is free to be who they want to be. And they know that there is no judgment, just pure love.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Tagline\"><a href=\"mailto:mabennett@postindependent.com\">mabennett@postindependent.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/just-pure-love-gay-for-good-rocky-mountains-celebrates-one-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gay for Good was one of the organizers and had a big presence in the Carbondale Pride Parade that took place as part of the May First Friday events.Provided Wendy Kennedy, foreground, and Stacey Baldock play a game of cornhole at the Gay 4 Good Rocky Mountain chapter first-year anniversary celebration picnic Saturday at Crown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1312407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 17:07:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1312407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1312409,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312407\/revisions\/1312409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1312407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1312407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1312407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}