Denver's bt gay bars: LGBTQ and queer clubs to check out Colorado

Contents:

• THE 5 BEST COLORADO GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS COLORADO
• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE
• A HNTED GAY PIRATE SHIP-THEMED TIKI BAR LANDS LODO

THE 5 BEST COLORADO GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS COLORADO

It don’t intify self as an explicly gay bar, but ’s a popular hangout for olr gay men occupyg the former Barker Lounge space. Its owners have claimed ’s the cy’s olst gay bar, havg opened the 1950s and gone openly gay the 1970s, acrdg to Wtword, wh s stantly regnizable, rabow-pated door.

Although ’s not an overtly bear bar — owners scribe as Denver’s queer, unrground fetish bar — ’s a favore of the beard, equently mcle-bound class of gay men who scrib themselv as such (particularly the absence of the late Denver Wrangler). Tra also helps fill a blank spot that particular area’s Denver’s gay scene, wh a perch along Santa Fe Drive and diverse programmg that rang om drag shows and DJ nights to leather nights and beer bts. The name stretch back to the 1970s when the slim brick buildg hosted a gay club lled Triangle, and was a tryout spot for var, unsuccsful bars and craft rtrants after the origal Triangle closed the early 2000s.

Like Lucid, #Vybe featur a b more diversy than many gay bars, wh drag queens of lor and top tourg queens like Adore Delano swgg through regularly, addn to stand-up edy, game nights, Denver Brons parti (the cheerlears even stopped for a show recently) and lots more. At least five people are ad and 18 wound after a mass shootg at Club Q, a Colorado Sprgs gay bar. The Don’t Say Gay law is stillg fear Florida kids and classrooms.

WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE

Both former Broadway performers, Frankl and Wolfe opened Ins late 2020 as a gay piano bar staffed wh profsnal sgers, posng their bs as a laidback plement to the boomg mic and technilor lights of Club Q.

Over two s old, Club Q was Colorado Sprgs’ only gay bar or club for several years before Ins opened s doors.

While var venu the cy—cludg Hi ‘n’ Seek, once the longt-standg gay bar the wtern Uned Stat—shuttered between 2005 and 2018, Club Q stood strong.

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Wh Club Q still temporarily closed, the Ins owners hope to see more gay bars open the Sprgs to form a proper queer neighborhood. Case pot: Mayoral ndidate Yemi Mobola ntacted Ins to host a meet- and-greet there late January—the first time, to Frankl and Wolfe’s knowledge, that a lol ndidate has worked wh a gay venue to engage wh the LGBTQ+ muny. ”The killgs rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people.

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