Bubbles Colorado Springs
Address: 1110 E Filmore St. Colorado Springs, CO. 80907
Founded: March 27, 2011
Closed: June 1, 2012
A gay club that was in Colorado Springs. It closed in June 2012, due to licensing issues. It was open until 4am Fridays and Saturdays. Programming included gogo dancers, drag, karaoke. Prior to being Bubbles, it was DJ's Bar and Grill.
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Community Impact
March 27, 2011. It’s the first time I really remember the feeling of pride. It’s the grand opening of a new LGBTQ+ nightclub, Bubbles, in the southern Colorado town of Colorado Springs. From the time a friend and I make the drive to the wait in a line that’s wrapped its way around the block, the journey there seems to take hours. Making the way there and then being so visible and outside in this small, largely conservative, military town is uncertain and scary. In line we can feel both the excitement at having a space of our own and the anticipation of getting inside. For me, it’s a time of many firsts: my first time at a nightclub, the first time I’m in a space with a lot of other queer folks, the first time I show my ID and my hand is marked by an X.
Bubbles as a nightclub closed shortly after its opening, but the experience of pride I felt there still lives in that empty lot on Fillmore. A first is not an ending.
References
https://clubfly.com/venue/1680/bubbles_colorado_springs.html ↩︎
Easton. “Tryst: Club Bubbles.” Tryst, June 9, 2011. https://trystcoloradosprings.blogspot.com/2011/06/club-bubbles.html. ↩︎
Jensen, Cat. “Reflections on a Personal History of Pride | History Colorado.” History Colorado, History Colorado, June 29, 2020. https://www.historycolorado.org/story/colorado-voices/2020/06/29/reflections-personal-history-pride. ↩︎