LGBTQ Denver 

A Celebration of Denver’s 2SLGBTQIA+ History with author Phil Nash 

Thursday, May 1st
6:00 pm MT at the Iliff School of Theology

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About LGBTQ Denver by Phil Nash, Foreword by Dr. Tom Noel

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 digital nomads from around the nations seeking a welcoming community where they can thrive. In LGBTQ Denver 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.

About Phil Nash

A Michigan native, Phil Nash made Denver his home in 1976 and launched a career in LGBTQ activism, journalism, and organizational leadership. He helped found, and was the first staff member of the Gay Community Center of Colorado (today known as The Center on Colfax). He later became editor of Out Front, Colorado’s leading LGBTQ publication in the early 1980s. He also wrote for The Advocate, Westword, and other local and national news outlets. He helped found and served as first board chair of the Colorado AIDS Project. As an out gay professional, Nash later worked in a series of senior communications roles in civic and philanthropic organizations, including as an advisor to Denver Mayor Federico Peña. In LGBTQ Denver, Nash documents more than five decades of Denver’s LGBTQ history, much of which he witnessed firsthand, reported, and photographed. “I wrote LGBTQ Denver as yet another way to help build a stronger community,” says Nash, “especially at a time when darker forces in our society want to turn back the clock and erase the evidence of our existence.”