Colorado LGBTQ History Project
2023 Annual Report

In 2022, The Center on Colfax received a grant from The National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Telling the Full History Preservation Fund, with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. This grant allowed The Center to work with a state program, Colorado Virtual Library, to permanently archive our collection of 115 oral histories and make them publicly searchable and available to researchers nationwide via our website. The grant also allowed us to begin creating our first digital catalog for the Terry Mangan Memorial Library, making the LGBTQ+ books in our physical collection accessible to a wider audience.

In 2023, we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Denver Gay Revolt with a screening at the Sie Film Center. A full panel and theater gave way to colorful discussions about the history of the LGBTQ+ community in Denver and the role the community plays today in shaping the future. We additionally continued to work on our online historical archive and our digital library catalog. We hope to bolster these resources so they will be user-friendly, easily searchable, robust sources that educate the community on LGBTQ+ history and share the work of LGBTQ+ authors. We will also continue our collection efforts of LGBTQ+ oral histories, with special focus on hearing the stories of more black, brown, Indigenous, and gender diverse people.