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Contents:

• 6 GAY-FRIENDLY COFFEE SHOPS IN DENVER
• WHEN THE PS WEREN’T AROUND, GAY BARS LIKE DOWNTOWN’S COURT JTER OFFERED SAFE SPACE A HOSTILE CY
• THE 5 BEST DENVER GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS DENVER
• GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS DENVER
• GAYT PLAC IN COLORADO FOR 2020
• QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL
• GAY SAN DIEGO
• DENVER GAY SNAS
• WELE TO GAY IENDLY DENVER-BOULR METRO AREA

6 GAY-FRIENDLY COFFEE SHOPS IN DENVER

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).

WHEN THE PS WEREN’T AROUND, GAY BARS LIKE DOWNTOWN’S COURT JTER OFFERED SAFE SPACE A HOSTILE CY

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.

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

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. 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. And Nash n hardly believe , as he remembers what was like to be gay Denver nearly four s ago when he worked at the Gay Communy Center the cy.

GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS DENVER

Denver's "cur and fascatg" LGBT history was recently chronicled by Out Front, a Denver-based onle magaze that "foc on gay pri, LGBT news and gay edorials.

” 1975: Marriage licens issued to gay upl Clela Rorex, who served as Boulr County Clerk & Rerr the 1970s, stands outsi the clerk's offic Boulr on July 2, 2014. " 1992: Amendment 2 In 1992, voters passed Amendment 2 -- a ballot measure that barred any Colorado muny om passg laws to protect homosexuals.

If you’re the Denver area, you’re luck bee there are que a few gay-iendly ffee shops where you n easily go and set up shop for the day to get through your to-do list. Whether you’re lookg for a quick boost or a place to hunker down wh your laptop, we’ve round up seven of our fave gay-iendly ffee shops Denver. It’s a gay bar that offers Sunday bnch, and at bnch, you n get everythg om sweet creme blee ench toast to classic eggs benedict and even breakfast burgers!

GAYT PLAC IN COLORADO FOR 2020

DAZBOG COFFEEBelieve or not, Dazbog Coffee, which has many different lotns throughout the cy, is also gay-iendly. The one on E 9th Avenue is specifilly known to be credibly gay-iendly, so try to go to that one if you has some of the bt ffee Denver.

QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL

We polled our rears about which letter “C” subject file we should explore, and you voted for the “Court Jter, ” a gay bar that once stood on Court Street downtown. A short passage om a 1981 issue of OUT FRONT says opened 1963, was one of the olst gay bars town and was molished that year. “Yeah, probably, when you look at the edifice of other gay bars wh maybe five to ten blocks of that area.

” While sexual “crim agast nature” were agast the law as early as the 1600s lonial Ameri (see page 5), Duffield said the natn found new tert banng homosexualy 200 years later. View of Mir O' Bar, a gay bar loted the Riche buildg at 410 15th Street Denver's Central Bs District.

Others, like the Brown Palace’s Ship Tavern, beme secret pickup spots, quietly regnized by the LGBTQ+ muny but never explicly a “gay bar.

GAY SAN DIEGO

” Noel said Terry Mangan, a gay rights activist and historian who first brought him to the Jter, was prent for one of those raids. “Magnan remembers this as the only gay bar which was raid when he was there, ” Noel read om his not.

In 1950, gay rights activists Los Angel found the Mattache Society, which aimed to prent their stggle as a parallel to Ameri’s ongog civil rights movement. In 1972, both men, along wh Lynn Taml, Jane Dune and Mary Sassatelli, me together to found the Gay Coaln of Denver. Gerald Gerash (left to right) wh Mel Boozer, Don Shadwick and Lucia Valka at a receptn for the Natnal Gay Task Force, a June 11, 1982 issue of OUT Nash/OUT FRONT/Hisoric Colorado Newspapers Gerash said the group was “very non-hierarchil, ” and found learship through a system of rotatg chairs.

DENVER GAY SNAS

The aln filed their first lawsu October 1973, and ed the procs to accs police rerds that showed gay men acunted for nearly every arrt over “lewd nduct” the cy.

” That office would later morph to the Gay, Lbian, Bisexual and Transgenr Communy Center of Colorado, known today as the Center on Colfax. The Court Jter is prent the llectn, mentned a 1965 Denver Post vtigative seri lled “Homosexuals Denver.

WELE TO GAY IENDLY DENVER-BOULR METRO AREA

Origally, Marc planned to end on a dour note, the passage of Florida’s “don’t say gay” bill this year.