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Denver Pride and Juneteenth Music Festival Join Forces
Both celebrations occur during June each year and they re making the most of it.Angela Ufheil •
For decades, the third weekend of June heralded complicated identity-juggling for Colorado’s Black LGBTQ community. Denver Pride, the celebration of queer liberation run by the Center on Colfax since 1977, attracted 450,000 revelers in 2019. Yet some of those attendees were missing another important observance. Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, falls on June 19, so festivities including the nine-year-old Juneteenth Music Festival, which brought in 90,000 celebrants in 2019 usually coincided with Denver Pride. “We wanted our community to be able to attend both,” says Joe Foster, the center’s vice president of development and communication. So when city officials suggested moving Denver Pride one weekend later, Foster’s team happily complied. Tha
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