LGBTQ Denver

by Phil Nash, Dr. Tom Noel (Foreword by)

Overview

Denver is the Mile High City, the Queen City of the Plains, and the Gateway to the West. Today, the city attracts thousands of new residents each year, including the LGBTQ people from the rural West and digit nomads from around the nations seeking a welcoming community where they can thrive.

In LGBTQ Denver Phil Nash showcases how the city evolved from its pre-1970s history of rebuking gay people to a magnet for LGBTQ residents and the capital of the first state to elect and reelect the nation's first openly gay governor.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781540262233
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	04/22/2024
Series:	Images of America Series
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
File size:	51 MB
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About the Author

Phil Nash has called Denver home since 1976, and here he helped found and later became the first director of the Gay Community Center of Colorado. When AIDS reached Colorado in the early 1980s, he helped found and chaired the Colorado AIDS Project. In the early 1990s, he served as an openly gay appointee in Federico Peña's mayoral administration and later held senior communications roles at several civic and philanthropic organizations.

Editorial Reviews

CBS News Denver interviews author Phil Nash about upcoming Denver Pride event.

Early leader in Denver's Pride movement publishes book

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"Fifty years ago, clandestine gay and lesbian bars were some of the only safe spaces for LGBTQ+ people, and even then, the threat of a police raid loomed over the patrons, said Phil Nash, who served as the first coordinator of The Center on Colfax and is the author of the visual history book "LGBTQ Denver," which was published in April this year."

-Natalie Kerr, Denver North Star

"Nash's new book is an excellent and comprehensive history of the LGBTQ+ community in the city, and he'll be selling and signing copies at the Center's booth at PrideFest. He's witnessed much of that history, too, having moved to Denver in 1976 with his now-husband."

Emily Ferguson, Westword

"When Denver celebrated its first Pride 50 years ago, about 50 people took part. Now that number is 500,000. On a special Colorado Matters, we share "A Half Century of Pride Stories," reflecting on the past while looking forward to the future. Our guests are LGBTQ+ historian Phil Nash, Denver comedian Kate McLachlan, and PhD student and advocate Lex Dunbar. We met in front of an audience at the Center on Colfax in Denver."

Chandra Thomas Whitfield, Colorado Matters, Colorado Public Radio

"In 1976, when Phil Nash arrived in Denver with his then-boyfriend, now-husband, the pair were unaware they were about to witness and participate in a profound transformation of the city's LGBTQ community."

Eden Lane, CPR News

"Phil Nash bore witness to the progress and setbacks the LGBTQ community has made over the last 50 years—so much so, he decided to write a book about it."

Estaban Hernandez, Axios Denver

"Nash's book uses historical images to document this history as part of the 50th anniversary celebration as a direct challenge to people who are trying to suppress LGBTQ+ history and education across the country, he said."

-Natalie Kerr, Life on Capitol Hill

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