Gay Boulr the ’80s – Boulr Daily Camera

Contents:

• A BOULR GAY BAR FALLY EMERG
•  COLORADO LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• PLANNG A ‘GAYTN’ BOULR
• WELE TO GAY IENDLY DENVER-BOULR METRO AREA
• HOW DV8 DISTILLERY HAS EVOLVED TO THE BT GAY BAR BOULR

A BOULR GAY BAR FALLY EMERG

Ever sce the Yard of Ale closed 2009, there hasn’t been a dited gay bar Boulr.

Enter DV8 Distillery which is somewhere between a gay bar and Burng Man. However, DV8 wants to strs that they aren’t exclively a gay bar.

Whether ’s a gay bar or a queer bar, don’t really matter, sce they wele anyone. It don’t matter if you’re gay or straight; they want to be the spot where people om different backgrounds n e together and form lastg bonds and memori at an enuragg place that’s ee om judgment. In many ways, the attu of DV8 is that of European techno clubs, where many started out as gay bars, but wele anyone who accepts that what happens wh s walls is not only accepted but protected (not to mentn the hoe and techno that emanat om their sound system).

 COLORADO LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS

Some may say that ’s surprisg that Boulr hasn’t had a gay bar, nsirg how progrsive is towards LGBTQ policy. Between The Yard of Ale closg and DV8 announcg that they were a dited queer space, the clost thg there was to a Boulr gay bar is the Facebook group, Boulr, CO Guerilla Gay Bar, which tak over bars for a night, once a month. Upg happengs clu the return of DV8’s Big Gay Wet and Wild event June, a fundraiser that rallied funds last year for Out Boulr County, and a Halloween party July featurg Dirty Circ, a seven-year anniversary bash that will rporate fire and flow and aerial shows and other performanc.

Meet the Man Behd Tight End, Denver’s Only Gay Sports Bar. So might seem shockg that Boulr didn’t have an official gay bar until somewhat recently, when DV8 Distillery opened 2016. (Some say there was no signated gay bar Boulr bee every bar Boulr is a gay bar — as well as a straight bar, a transgenr bar, an everyone and anyone bar.

If you’re gay and head to Colorado (or you live here and you’re lookg for spo), here’s how to plan a fun “gaytn” Boulr.

PLANNG A ‘GAYTN’ BOULR

Before you leave: Jo the Facebook group Prop Gay. You don’t have to be gay to attend, though.

Keep your ey and ears open for big special events, like the Rocky Mounta Regnal Roo July, hosted by the Colorado Gay Roo Associatn. Don’t miss the Big Gay 5K every September. If you like to go to church on Sundays, the First Congregatnal Church UCC of Boulr has been openly welg to gay people for more than 30 years.

Friday: On Friday, venture outsi of the Boulr bubble to a gay bar Denver. Tra is one of Denver’s newer gay bars. The Mile High Cy has long been a hot spot of gay culture.

WELE TO GAY IENDLY DENVER-BOULR METRO AREA

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.

HOW DV8 DISTILLERY HAS EVOLVED TO THE BT GAY BAR BOULR

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.

You’ll fd an LGBTQ-iendly muny of alli that have supported gay rights for s, along wh ways to enjoy Boulr’s queer culture year-round. In 1975, Clela Rorex, the Boulr County Clerk and Rerr at the time, was asked by a gay uple for a marriage license. Colorado Governor Jared Polis, who is om Boulr and is the first openly gay man to serve as a state ernor, celebrated the honor sayg, “It’s so excg to acknowledge Boulr County’s role the history of the equaly movement.

DV8 is Boulr's gay bar, dance club and distillery, for a self-scribed "queer, kky, island of misfs.