Tell me Boulder's not that lame!

August 23, 2007 12:24 PM

Are there really no good gay bars in Boulder, CO?

One of my best friends just moved out to Boulder for graduate school, and the last time I spoke to him he complained that there was only one gay bar in the whole town. Now, I don't really believe that, considering what I've heard of Boulder, but he couldn't find any info online. He's recently out and looking for a good place to have fun and meet people. Any suggestions?

posted by you're a kitty! to Sports, Hobbies, & Recreation (5 answers total)

I'm not in Boulder, but why would that be so surprising? It's a small city, it's liberal but more in a hippy-folk songy kind of way than in a specifically gay friendly hipsterish kind of way, and there's Denver right nearby, where there's probably more going on...

I dunno, I'd bet folks at the one gay bar in town that he's been to would know if there were others. My cousins are from Boulder and it seems plausible to me - it comes off as hippy dippy in a sort of naive and old-fashioned kind of way. It ain't where Stonewall would take place.
posted by mdn at 12:59 PM on August 23, 2007

Perhaps the local gays go to Denver? I'm sure I would, if I lived there.
posted by Robert Angelo at 1:09 PM on August 23, 2007

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posted by craven_morhead at 2:09 PM on August 23, 2007

There is a bookshop in Boulder called Word is Out located at:

2015 10th Street
Boulder, Colorado 80302

One block west of
the Pearl Street Mall
in downtown Boulder

This is GLBT bookshop and will best know the answer to this question.
posted by fieldtrip at 6:11 PM on August 23, 2007

I don't know of any, although I joke that the Trilogy lounge is a gay bar. I don't actually think it is.

My sociology professor always talked about a few specific bars in Denver, but I don't know the names. I think there's quite a few.
posted by jstef at 8:01 PM on August 23, 2007