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. The untercultural social movements that flourished the late 1960s clud the Gay Liberatn Movement and Lbian Femism. As the grassroots movement began to grow around the state, CSU provid the earlit opportuny for LGBTQ+ people to anize Fort Colls, wh the foundg 1971 of Stunt Organizatn for Gays, Lbians, and Bisexuals (SOGLB).
The stunt-n group, one of the first LBGTQ+ stunt anizatns the untry, met a private lotn at first but was regnized as a formal anizatn by the universy 1975 and emerged as the Fort Colls Gay Alliance, wh both stunts and muny members volved and an office the Lory Stunt Center. Frank Kameny of the Mattache Society also vised Fort Colls to give a lecture on gay employment issu the feral ernment.