McNichols Building Hosts ‘Queer City of the Plains’
Pride month may be over but we can always take a moment a reflect on how far the LGBTQ community has come. We can’t go forward without looking back, and Denver’s McNichols Civic Center Building is providing a space to highlight the progress and give a unique narrative to the specific journey of queer folks in Colorado.
At the McNichols building, which is located in the heart of downtown, is exploring current and past narratives of Denver’s LGBTQ communities through the free exhibit Queer City of the Plains: An Artistic Look at Denver’s LGBTQ+ History.
With an invitation to immerse yourself in the five contemporary art installations which focus on storytelling, camp, resistance, and the queer experience in Denver, these installment focus on looking back all the way to 1859 to the present day.
In partnership with local historians David Duffield and Genevieve Waller, and artists Jonathan Saiz, Adri Norris, Steven Frost, Secret Love Collective and Brian Corrigan, Queer City of the Plains is designed to unlock and illustrate the community’s understanding of the unique LGBTQ history and narrative through art, sculptural installations, interactive video and innovative local programming. Blending important milestones in Denver’s LGBTQ culture with contemporary art-making, it derives these stories from focusing on a diverse set of queer identities.
Additionally, the exhibition held in the beautiful McNichols Building draws on histories of struggle for self-determination which in turn can help us imagine a more inclusive future.
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Through presenting personal, artistic expressions in response to the LGBTQ movement over the past two centuries, the opinions expressed give voice to the progress, and the hardships, that the community members individually as well as the community at large, have previously and continue to face.
The free exhibit runs through August 30 and groups of eight or fewer can reserve a two hour time slot at The McNichols Building’s website.
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