Grand Valley’s Radical Poets—Making Resistance Sound Good—1894 to Club Q
Poetry and song have always been a part of resistance movements, verse seems to have the power to strengthen one’s resolve—to move people…
Peoples History of the Grand Valley
Poetry and song have always been a part of resistance movements, verse seems to have the power to strengthen one’s resolve—to move people…
In 1979, Paul Freitas re-opened Quincy’s Bar and Grill as Grand Junction, and by default the Western Slopes first ‘gay bar.’ But Quincy’s…
In November 1976, the Mesa State Criterion broke the long silence, running a series of articles about Grand Junction’s ‘gay community.’ The articles…
The Ute people have called this region home since time beyond memory. Like most native cultures, the Utes held space for the gender…
Edna Ainsworth was just seventeen years old on August 13th of 1920. The young women had recently had a fight with her sweetheart.…
Why should all the men have all the fun? Bessie Belvins, better known around the west as “Silver Tip Bess” certainly didn’t think…
“That was so f@%$ing Scooby-Doo,” I said to no one in particular. I had just gotten off the phone with a local woman…
This project really began in 2006, I was writing for the short live radical paper, “The Red Pill.” Grand Junction was celebrating its…
Derek Brunner was just 31 years old, when he died of AIDS, in December of 1990. He may have been the first Grand…