Backstreets
Google street view of the building where Backstreets was.
Address: 2125 E. Fountain Blvd.
Incorporated: February 4, 1998
Dissolved: June 1, 2001
Founder: Rickie Nelson
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A restaurant that tailored itself to a gay male clientele. Joined as a as part of the PPGCC in 1999. [2]
According to a letter to the editor in New Phazes, June, 1998, the restaurant may have been unfriendly toward lesbians.
The restaurant was the venue of a gay youth Halloween dance on October 31, 1998. [1:1]
Key Dates
- February 4, 1998 - The restaurant, named part of the Pikes Peak Gay Community Center, opens at 2125 E Fountain Blvd. #key-date
- October 31, 1998 - Backstreets Restaurant hosts a Gay Youth Halloween Party.
- June 1, 2001 - Backstreets Restaurant dissolves. #key-date
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References
“Colorado Springs Pride Center Scrapbook - Floral.” Scrapbook. With Jane Williams, Pride Center, PPLD Special Collections, Box 8. ↩︎ ↩︎
“Home Page.” The Pikes Peak Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual &Transgendered Community and Their Friends Website, 2 Feb. 1999, https://web.archive.org/web/19990202065340/http://members.aol.com/PPGLCC2/. ↩︎
“New Phazes Vol 11 Issue 8.” Newsletter. Colorado Springs, CO, June 1998. Pride Center Collection - Floral Scrapbook. PPLD Special Collections. ↩︎
“Colorado Springs Pride Center Scrapbook - Green.” Scrapbook. With Jane Williams, Pride Center, PPLD Special Collections, Box 8. ↩︎