Phil Nash

Phil Nash made Denver his home in 1976 and launched a career in LGBTQ activism, journalism, and organizational leadership. He helped found and was the first staff member of the Gay Community Center of Colorado (today known as The Center on Colfax), then became editor of Out Front, Colorado's leading LGBTQ publication in the early 1980s. He also wrote for The Advocate, Westword, and other local and national news outlets. He helped found and served as first board chair of the Colorado AIDS Project. As an out gay professional, Nash later worked in a series of senior communications roles in civic and philanthropic organizations, including as an advisor to Denver Mayor Federico Peña. In his book LGBTQ Denver, Nash documents more than five decades of Denver's LGBTQ history, much of which he witnessed firsthand, reported, and photographed.