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.?InLGBTQ 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 nations first openly gay governor.

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 Pe?as mayoral administration and later held senior communications roles at several civic and philanthropic organizations.

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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

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