Everyone has their own inner critics, shadows, and monsters. This piece explores dancing, creating, communicating, and providing loving awareness to parts of the self that we often shame and hide. This narrative highlights voice dialogue therapy, a modality of healing that unearths the various selves within the ego and promotes dialogue and awareness with those parts. Facilitators within voice dialogue help subjects reconnect with their awareness to learn how to use the selves for personal growth and healing.

First-generation graduates Jadon, Emily and Dylan reflect on the unique challenges they’ve faced alongside their classmates at Colorado State University. These are the insights gained from a historic year for a class that will be remembered for their adaptability and resilience. #CSURamGrad2021 | #CSUClassOf2021

From childhood into her college years, Mija Peak was a well-known, traditional Korean dancer in her community. She eventually left her home, Seoul, Korea, to pursue love in the United States. Decades later, she reignites her dream of dancing after several surprise encounters, who roped her back in.

A Gazette short documentary explores the LGBTQ community's path since the passage of Amendment 2 in 1992, then and now. In 1992, Colorado voters passed the contentious legislation that barred local governments across the state from making sexual orientation a protected class under the law — a startling outcome to many that gained Colorado national attention and an unwelcome nickname, the “hate state.” Video by Hannah Tran. Archive video courtesy: Colorado Public TV and KKTV11 News Read the full story: http://bit.ly/2LckPro View our portraits page: www.gazette.com/lgbtq/portraits

A bizarre art car parade took over the streets of Trinidad, Colorado, and several of the embellished entries are made by the hands of offenders. The ArtoCade festival and project has extended its reach beyond the community, remarkably making its way into Trinidad Correctional Facility.

Meet one of four Colorado-based athletes representing the United States Air Force in this year's Warrior Games in Colorado Springs. Master Sgt. Michael Christiansen, a protocol office superintendent at Peterson AFB: 21st Space Wing, lives with pain on a daily basis because of a fractured and shifted vertebrae of his lower back from an explosion in Iraq in 2004. Watch MSgt. Christiansen and his fellow wounded warriors from all over the world come together to compete.

The livelihoods of DREAMers in the Pikes Peak region

Daniel Giffin, a Colorado Springs boy fighting cancer, is also a unicyclist. He shares his thoughts on the importance of balance and faith in both the sport and his fight against cancer.