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

Contents:

• WELE TO GAY DENVER!
• THE 5 BEST DENVER GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS DENVER
• GAY DENVER
• DENVER GAY SNAS

WELE TO GAY DENVER!

Saturday night is a great time to check out Denver's most happeng gay nightclub, the always-packed Tracks (3500 Walnut St. Tracks is one big gay party.

The extent of queer nightlife Colorado ed to be ltle more than a few unrground nightclubs for gay men, but now the scene has expand to clu optns for jt about everyone. Its bnch shows (wh $15 bottomls mimosas available) are a rollickg good time, but be warned: Gay bars do not water down their mimosas. But still has plenty of strong signature cktails and live entertament, makg an ial spot for people who want to have a gay old time outsi of a nightclub environment.

THE 5 BEST DENVER GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS DENVER

Opened Augt 2020 and loted on East Colfax the heart of Denver's Gayborhood, 's advertised as "Denver's Dis Lounge.

Tra is kd of a throwback to when the gay nightlife scene was mostly unrground, before beme wily mercialized to draw a straight dience. Tra's Facebook page explas, "While we are a gay men's bar, we are welg to all the queer and kk muny. #VYBE offers s own versns of all the ual gay bar entertament, like drag bgo wh a Lat twist (Lotería), Karaoke wh Sexy J, and equent drag shows om rints Kat Danger, Lala Queen and Krystal Towers.

2036 BroadwayToday's Triangle is a rurrectn of a legendary Denver gay bar of the same name, loted the same historic triangular buildg as the origal. Click to enlarge Tight End is Denver's first (and only, officially) gay sports bar. Tight End, owned by Steven Alix (-owner of the Squire Lounge) and Sudy Kudva, is Denver's first (and only, officially) gay sports bar.

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Denver fally has s own Eagle — the gay bars poppg up across the untry spired by New York Cy’s leather jot that was origally lled the Eagle’s Nt (now Eagle NYC). 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.

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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. Wh s mythil two-step lsons early the eveng, go-go boys, cheap sloshy beer, and an entire room for s equent drag shows, this staple of the Denver gay scene has somethg for everyone.

Frequent Charlie’s-goer Sean Doyle ced the “be-yourself vibe” as one of the thgs that keeps him g back and ghed that, as Denver don’t have a ncentrated gayborhood the way, say, Chigo or San Fran do, Charlie’s is one of the “few plac that the gay muny n own as one of theirs. Denver’s olst gay bar, R&R Bar is a Denver staple. If you’re lookg to see some queer entertament outsi of the regular gay bar circu, you n ually fd somethg out-of-the-ordary gog on at the Clocktower Cabaret.

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. Search bs (above) for an LGBTQ-iendly place Gay Denver. Cabarets, Featured, and Gay Bars.

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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). 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.

By the 1980s, Denver was dubbed the gay oasis of the wt. 1973: Gay Coaln of Denver works wh Denver's Cy Council to abolish anti-gay laws.

1982: The Colorado Gay Roo Associatn is formed. Soon after, Denver hosted s first gay roo. 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. 2018: Colorado elects Jared Polis, the first openly gay man to be a U. The 10 pot-tour clus Cheman Park; Charlie’s, home of the Colorado Gay Roo Associatn; and Sey’s Lndromat, a muny landmark which generated tense bate about historic prervatn and muny inty.