Short history of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, & Queer history Fort Colls and related historic s.
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WELE TO GAY IENDLY FORT COLLS/GREELEY AREA
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Acrdgly, the first crimal Colorado, which remaed place until the 1920s, tablished that “sodomy” as a same-sexual behavr was illegal, although distct om homosexual inty. Denver’s first gay bar, The P, opened 1939 on Seventeenth Street.
In 1953, Colorado passed a psychopathic offenr law that allowed for fe stutnalizatn of anyone who mted an act fed as a sex crime, which at that time clud homosexual acts. Dpe wispread discrimatn and anti-gay vlence, LGBTQ+ muni grew along wh the populatn of major ci around the unty, cludg Denver, bee they served as regnal refug for queer culture and created a cril mass of dividuals seekg muny wh each other.