History & Education Saturdays: LGBTQ+ History in Colorado from 1500 to 1860

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Join the Colorado LGBTQ+ History Project for Education Saturdays. Our June 2025 lecture will focus on the LGBTQ+ history of the Colorado region from ancient times to the 1860. It is part one of a two part lecture developed in partnership with the Golden History Museum in 2024. This lecture will discuss Indigenous history dating back several thousand years, look at LGBTQ+ history in Indigenous cultures, talk about the American West, and how the landscape of gender and sexuality changed. The majority of the talk will focus on the 19th century but also look at the frontier period from 16th century New Mexico to trappers, miners, and queer cultures of Colorado by the founding of Denver in 1859.

The lecture will run 12:00 - 1:00 PM and the education workshop will run 1:00 - 2:00 PM. Meetings will be held in-person at The Center on Colfax unless otherwise stated.

Dates: Third Saturday of each month

Time: 12:00 - 2:00 PM

Location: The Center on Colfax - 1301 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, CO 80218

2025 Meeting Topics

  • February 15: Black LGBTQ+ history in Colorado and the U.S.
  • March 15: History of women loving women (WLW) in Colorado
  • April 19: LGBTQ+ history in Muslim cultures
  • May 17: LGBTQ+ history in East and South Asian cultures and Jewish LGBTQ+ history in the Western Hemisphere
  • June 21: LGBTQ+ history in Colorado from 1500 to 1860
  • July 19: Colorado LGBTQ+ disability history, with an emphasis on the stories of Laura Hershey and Gregg Vigil
  • August 16: Transgender History in Colorado
  • September 20: LGBTQ+ history in pre-Columbian cultures and in Latin America
  • October 18: LGBTQ+ History in Colorado from 1900 - 1990
  • November 15: LGBTQ+ history from Indigenous North American Heritage from 1500 - 2000
  • December 20: LGBTQ+ Health History - Trans Youth, HIV, and Psychology
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