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- WELE TO GAY IENDLY DENVER-BOULR METRO AREA
- MOVG TO LGBT DENVER, COLORADO? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
- COME OUT AND PLAY GAY DENVER!
- DENVER GAY DISTRICT
WELE TO GAY IENDLY DENVER-BOULR METRO AREA
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But, there’s a park the heart of the cy, and not far om Denver’s inic gayborhood Capol Hill, that has more than pop-up volleyball urts and hammocks.
In May 2019, openly gay Colorado Governor Jared Polis (the send LGBTQ person elected to such a posn and the first openly gay parent to serve as a Congrsman back 2008) signed a statewi ban on the reviled, cel, and effective practice of "nversn therapy, " while the state se many outstandg protectns and rourc for LGBTQ people, cludg youth. Much of the LGBTQ nightlife scene is found and around the Capol Hill "gayborhood, " while other parts of town wh signifint queer prenc clu Cherry Creek and RiNo (a. This beg wboy untry, Denver's annual events lendar typilly se at least one event om the Internatnal Gay Roo Associatn.
In 2019, Denver lnched a Frge Ftival and featur an eclectic, LGBTQ-clive le-up of shows (2020 saw Multus, a one-person show about inic gay poet Walt Whman).
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Plant yourself the Capol Hill "gayborhood" to start an LGBTQ bar and club crawl.
Suated about a dozen blocks east on Colfax, a new gay sports bar, Tight End, was opened Sprg 2021 by X Bar's owner and featur two turf-vered pats, TV screens, and of urse, pchers of beer.
Denver hold a very e-as-you-are attu: we helped to vote the natn’s first openly gay ernor, after all.
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Bee of this, numero gay clubs Denver have flourished over the years. For bar-hoppg purpos, you n’t go wrong wh headg over to Colfax Ave Cap Hill – Denver’s historic gayborhood, where Pri flags hang om balni and even outsi church on nearly every block. Here you’ll fd numero other gay spots.
Across the street is Charlie’s, a untry-themed gay bar wh a glterg wboy-boot dis ball and bartenrs that don wboy hats. Take a Lyft a few blocks up the road (Denver is very much a Lyft town) to Tight End, a relatively new gay sports bar where you n drk and eat pizza while watchg WNBA or NFL gam on any given day.
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DENVER GAY DISTRICT
Come back July, and you might also tch the Rocky Mounta Regnal Roo, where the Colorado Gay Roo will keep you on your to wh some bull ridg and lf ropg. The Mile High Cy has long been a hot spot of gay culture. By the 1980s, Denver had been dubbed the gay oasis of the wt.
Gay men and women the prev had anized and tablished themselv as a smart, cultured and polilly active muny. 1973: Gay Coaln of Denver works wh Denver’s Cy Council to abolish anti-gay laws.
1982: The Colorado Gay Roo Associatn is formed. 1983: Denver’s gay and lbian muny mobiliz to elect Feri Peña, Denver’s first Lato mayor and executive ally to the muny. 1990: Denver be one of the first municipali the natn to adopt an anti-discrimatn policy cludg gay and lbians.