Hi `n' Seek - Colorado Sprgs, CO - Gay dance plex that has weled the Village People and Donna Summer

Contents:

• COLORADO SPRGS INTRODUC NEW ‘GAY PIANO BAR,’ INS
• COLORADO SPRGS GAY MAP
• COLORADO SPRGS INTRODUC NEW ‘GAY PIANO BAR ‘ INS OUT FRONT
• GAY COLORADO
• HI `N' SEEK - COLORADO SPRGS, CO - GAY DANCE PLEX THAT HAS WELED THE VILLAGE PEOPLE AND DONNA SUMMER

COLORADO SPRGS INTRODUC NEW ‘GAY PIANO BAR,’ INS

Colorado Sprgs’ Premier Gay BarFeaturg a Staff of Profsnal Sgers providg Live Performanc at All Tim! The Sprgs was once home to the Gay and Lbian Fund of Colorado, a Pri Center, multiple LGBTQ nonprofs, and gay bars like Hi ‘n’ Seek, The Unrground Pub, and V-Bar.

Nearly every one of them has closed s doors, ceased operatns or, the se of the Gay and Lbian Fund, moved to Denver. Though Colorado now boasts robt anti-discrimatn protectns for LGBTQ people and n claim s first openly gay ernor, Jared Polis, as well as s first openly transgenr legislator, Brianna Tone, the state has not always been an in of progrsivism—nor has the cy of Colorado Sprgs. “It’s gotten much better sce [Amendment 2], and there are other stat that are much more homophobic than Colorado Sprgs is, so I feel like some regards, as a populatn we have reemed ourselv.

COLORADO SPRGS GAY MAP

“People want to support ICONS, whether they’re gay or straight or anythg between, ” Frankl says.

COLORADO SPRGS INTRODUC NEW ‘GAY PIANO BAR ‘ INS OUT FRONT

The cy’s send “official” gay bar is a small space wh a rabow flag and yellow logo pated on the glass door outsi. Josh Frankl, left, and John Wolfe at ICONS, the Colorado Sprgs gay piano bar they own together. “When we moved back here, there wasn’t a gay bar downtown at all, and that didn’t s right wh me, ” Frankl said.

“I wanted to make a space that jt did not apologize at all for beg gay and weled everybody here to see what ’s like to celebrate who we are.

Growg up the cy the 1990s, Frankl said homophobia was all too faiar to him.

GAY COLORADO

“I thk part of our missn is to sort of refe what means to be gay 2023 Colorado Sprgs, ” Frankl said.

But the g days and months, the bar stepped up to fill big sho as the only official gay space town. The newt addn the southern Colorado cy is the gay bar Ins, loted downtown at 3 E. This is not jt any gay bar, s a gay piano bar.

While Colorado Sprgs has the send-largt gay populatn(1, 144 married upl surveyed), Denver beg number one (4, 052 married upl surveyed), there is still work to be done. Club Q, the olst standg gay bar Colorado Sprgs, has been servg bnch wh a socially-distant show to make up for the lost revenue of COVID-19. Both havg experiencg homophobia the bs sector the past, Wolf and Frankl wanted to created a space for LGBTQ persons to exprs themselv eely, whout fear of slanr.

HI `N' SEEK - COLORADO SPRGS, CO - GAY DANCE PLEX THAT HAS WELED THE VILLAGE PEOPLE AND DONNA SUMMER

Photo by Chancey Bh “We uldn’t believe there still wasn’t a gay bar downtown, ” Frankl told The Gazette. Takg a break om the big cy and bright lights, are two former Broadway stars turned -owners of a new, gay piano bar Colorado Sprgs.

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