Denver has grown populary as a travel statn for LGBTQ visors. Fd out what the Denver gay scene has to offer & what LGBTQ events are happeng.
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DENVER GAY DISTRICT
Lookg for gay-iendly activi to do Denver? VISIT DENVER has the top 10 thgs to do for the LGBTQ muny, rangg om art mms to bars! * denver gay pride *
Also, don’t fet to check out Volleypalooza right before — the Colorado Gay Volleyball Associatn’s annual Pri grass volleyball tournament. 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. #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. Denver’s celebratn and support for the LGBTQ+ muny spans beyond the month of June wh welg neighborhoods, queer-iendly shops, rtrants and bars such as Pie Queen, Blh and Blu, Ra’s Law, Third Culture and Mozart’s Denver jt to name a few, and events such as the CemaQ Film Ftival and the Colorado Gay Roo.
In 1990, Denver beme one of the first municipali the natn to adopt an anti-discrimatn policy, cludg gay and lbians, and 2014, Colorado legalized same-sex marriage, honorg love across all muni. 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.
Denver Gay Pri sh on at s absolute ft over the urse of two days. The day after the race, Denver Gay Pri nclus wh a para downtown, where there are hundreds of floats and even more dividuals who march the streets, creatg an explosn of lor and love to take over Colorado's pal.
Lookg for gay-iendly activi to do Denver? VISIT DENVER has the top 10 thgs to do for the LGBTQ muny, rangg om art mms to bars! * denver gay pride *
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. 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.