Discover LGBTQ+ history at History CO's new exhibit, open today!
"I started an exhibit in 2015 and it got pretty far — I had an advisory board going, I was at PrideFest that whole weekend doing audience testing, and then History Colorado had some financial difficulties, and basically every exhibit that was in development just stopped," recalls Marcus.
When Marcus, a Denver native, took on the associate curator role two years ago, the LGBTQ+ archive had fewer than 100 items, a fraction of most History Colorado collections. After being named a Champion of Pride bymagazine in 2020, Marcus received an influx of donations for the collection. Mostly through word of mouth, he has now built up the collection to include nearly 500 items.
The 1950s is when the documented history of Colorado's LGBTQ+ community really starts to surface, with the rise of the, one of the first national gay rights organizations in America."The fact that Denver had a chapter of the Mattachine Society is pretty great," Marcus says. "It was very important, because it was the first visible gay organization that did protests. In 1959, the Mattachine Society held their first and only convention outside of L.A.
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