ADL pair of human rights welcomes models
As a boy, Tim Gill was taunted at school, cites the name of his fellow age as a gay and had hurled bottles of beer on his head.
As a young daughter, Lucia Guzman, the daughter of a Mexican worker and farm workers, railways geschuftet side of workers of Japanese internment camps, saw the prejudices of his father and other minorities to bear.
It would be impossible not to join the experience of childhood and Gill Guzman on their role as defenders of human rights and their recognition as a last Anti-Defamation League’s Civil Rights Award laureates 2006.
Gill was a success for entrepreneurs as the founder, President and Chief Technology Officer of Quark Inc., office and Internet, the software giant.
Even after it was a success, some industries would not use computer, because its software was “gay”. He received death threats after the fight against Colorado’s Amendment 2, which prohibits laws protecting gays and lesbians against discrimination, but was approved by the U.S. Supreme Court
After the passage of Amendment 2, Gill Gill, the Foundation launched in 1994 on the struggle for equal opportunities for all human beings regardless of sexual orientation or gender expression. The foundation and its Gay & Lesbian Fund financial support for gays and lesbians and HIV / AIDS, charities and other causes in Colorado and beyond, including the Colorado chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union and the American Red Cross.
Guzman has never forgotten the pain and suffering serious injuries to their parents because of his Hispanic heritage.
During the year 1994 was Rev. Guzman began his five-year term as the first Mexican-American to serve as Executive Director of the Council of Churches of Colorado, where he was an advocate for international relations. In 1999, she was in Denver School Board, where he fought and won an offer of a dual language Montessori school for Hispanic and Anglo children in the north-west of Denver, at the national level is recognized as a unique model of education.
In 1994, she was director of Denver’s Agency for Human Rights and Community Relations, where she promotes equal opportunities for all regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age or disability.
Mayor John Hickenlooper, Guzman, designated according to their role agency, set up Guzman Gill and more than 375 trailers, gave them Standing Ovations a lunch in Denver Marriott City Center.
Others at the presentation ADL Mountain States Region President Marvin Levy, announced that its prices honoured; ADL Mountain States Regional Director Bruce DeBoskey, Civil Rights Committee Co-Chairman James Kurtz-Phelan and Scott Levin, the priest and Dr. James Ryan, the Council of the Churches of Colorado, lunch, asked the guests to remember two other leaders of civil rights, Rosa Parks and the late Coretta Scott King.
Another positive impact on human rights is a new resource, positive effects! Tools for safeguarding differences, a free guide to the ADL and Mizel Museum, which was set up for customers of the party. It offers ideas and activities of man can be at home, in schools, churches, workplaces and municipalities to improve interpersonal relationship.
The guide encourages ADL mission to fight against anti-Semitism and all forms of intolerance and hatred, defending democracy and the protection of the rights of every man.
Luncheon invited dignitaries and political support ADL’s mission and contain Gill’s honorees partner, Scott Miller, Consul General of Mexico, Juan Marcos Gutierrez, the state members of the Senate, whose president Joan Fitz-Gerald, Majority Leader Ken Gordon and Local Government Committee chairman Deanna Hanna; state Representatives. Alice Borodkin, Terrance Carroll, Alice Madden, Anne McGihon and Nancy Todd, municipal councillor Rosemary Rodriguez chairman and members of Carol Boigon, Michael Hancock and Doug link drive, and Congress elections aid David Hiller (Senator Ken Salazar) Greg Diamond (Rep. Diana DeGette) and Matt Henken (Rep. Mark Udall).
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