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Colorado Springs Police Department

CSPD has had many run-ins with the Colorado Springs LGBTQ+-community.

1970's

There are multiple accounts of the Colorado Springs Police Department harassing the LGBTQ+ community through the 1950's to the 1970's.

The Gay Liberation Front and Police Brutality

In 1973, the gay and lesbian communities in Colorado Springs and Denver started to encounter increased instances of police oppression. Gay men were frequently being harassed outside of the gay bars in town.

In Spring, 1973, the Front held a protest at Colorado Springs City Hall to address the police harassment that had been going on outside of the local bars. The organization referred to it as the "1973 Witch Hunt." The media refused to cover it, and the more moderate gay men in the community found the move too controversial.

Quote from Judy in Gaysweek, published in 1979

...the only positive aspect of the community is that the police department here is very 'laid back...If there's an incident at a gay bar, for instance, it's not all over the newspapers, and people with military ID's aren't turned over to the Military Police."

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References

  1. Morris, John A. “Colorado.” Gaysweek 3, no. 109 (1979): 16-. Archives of Sexuality and Gender. https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/XYGRRH706001510/AHSI?sid=bookmark-AHSI&pg=16&xid=8a44ed86. ↩︎



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