The Box Car
A gay bar in Colorado Springs that opened in November, 1975. The bar excluded women. It closed around 1979 or 1980. [1]
Photos
Ad in May 7, 1976 issue of Out Front
Photo of building that was at 5935 N Nevada in 2008. Building has since been demolished.
Related People
- Bob Neu, third place winner of Mr. Gay Colorado 1976
Key Dates
- November, 1975: The Box Car Opens. [2]
- November 21, 1976: The Box Car hosted the Ms. Gay Colorado contest. The event was sponsored by the Royal Sub-court of the United Court of Southern Colorado. According to Out Front, the event was the "first gay women's title event that this paper has ever heard of in the U.S."[3] The event was hosted by Shel Anderson and Mike Brown (Nikki Lee), the Count and Contessa of Southern Colorado.
Pikes Peak Gay Community Center. “Gayspeak, Vol. 4, No. 6.” Newsletter. Colorado Springs, CO, June 1982. PPLD Digital Collections. https://digitalcollections.ppld.org/nodes/view/998838. ↩︎
Pikes Peak Gay Community Center. “Gayspeak, Vol. 4, No. 6.” Newsletter. Colorado Springs, CO, June 1982. PPLD Digital Collections. https://digitalcollections.ppld.org/nodes/view/998838. ↩︎
OUT FRONT. “Newsfax.” December 2, 1978. Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection. https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=OTF19761202-01.2.7. ↩︎