Denver Communists

Join the Denver Communists for some IRL socializing!

📅 Saturday, June 20 at 2 pm
📍Sunken Gardens Park

When you get there, look for the red flags! 🚩🚩🚩

Thanks to the good news, this has turned into a celebration of the US/Israeli loss against Iran.

We will have food, drinks, and burning hatred of imperialism and Zionism to share, but feel free to bring your own too.

Q***r as in: Abolish ICE! Free Palestine! Radically Pro-Transgender! Hands Off Iran! Bash Back!
🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏴🚩🇵🇸

Walk with us in the Pride parade on Sunday, June 28
📍
Meet at 9 am in the SE corner of Cheesman Park
1800 E 8th Ave, Denver

The parade route takes 2 hours and covers 3 miles one way. It goes north on Franklin St, then west on 17th St before ending on Broadway at the Pride Festival.

🪧 Pride means fight back!

After 20+ years of protest, disruption, and direct action targeting imperialism, militarism, war profiteering, the police, trans exclusion, Israeli genocide, and apartheid in the West Bank and South Africa, the local left has pushed Denver Pride to commit to:

— no cops in the Pride parade
— divestment from Chevron, HP, Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems, and SAIC
— no cooperation with ICE

This is not the end of the struggle, but a reminder that when we fight we can win.

🌈 Organized and sponsored by:

Jewish Voice for Peace
Colorado Palestine Coalition
US Palestinian Community Network .denver
Denver Students for a Democratic Society
Denver Communists
Bread & Roses Legal Center
Trans Rescue Network
Freedom Road Socialist Organization
May Day Club
Denver Anti-War Action .anti.war.action
Democratic Socialists of America
Aurora Unidos CSO
Cuba Sí Colorado
Revolutionary Communists of America
Denver Labor Against ICE
Sanctuary For All

Walk with us in the Denver Pride parade! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏴🚩🇵🇸
Sunday, June 28 at 9:30 am
Starts at 17th & Franklin

Q***r as in: Abolish ICE! Free Palestine! Radically Pro-Transgender! Hands Off Iran!

After a successful multi-year struggle to kick cops and war profiteers out of the Pride parade, we’ve been invited to walk in it as an official contingent!

Details TBA • DM us if your org wants to cosponsor!

Organized and sponsored by:
Bread & Roses Legal Center
Trans Rescue Network
Freedom Road Socialist Organization
US Palestinian Community Network .denver
Denver Communists
Jewish Voice for Peace
May Day Club
Denver Anti-War Action .anti.war.action
Democratic Socialists of America

Drag defense was an easy win this morning. No opposition, just good hangs with Parasol Patrol and passersby, all of whom were supportive of the drag queen story time.

On Friday, we celebrated three years of monthly protests against Drip Café, the homophobic “café evangelist” project that has tried to smuggle their backward ideology into the art district under cover of an innocent coffeeshop. (See the slideshows pinned to our Instagram profile for more.)

We got *extra* love from the *extra* crowd since it’s Pride month.

Drip supporters amped up their sealioning tactic — diverting our attention with relentless bad-faith questions and feigned earnestness and curiosity. But after years of dealing with these fundamentalist numbskulls, we know they only talk to us to waste our time, convert us, or satisfy their humiliation fe**sh.

It seemed like we were the subject of a field trip for young adult protest-tourists fulfilling their religious duty to confront q***r people during Pride.

One Drip supporter claimed to be a transmasc le***an until she received conversion therapy directly from Jesus Himself during a near-death experience.

A couple of Drip supporters zeroed in on an intersex comrade of ours, alternating between lovebombing her and invalidating her gender. They used faux science to justify their transphobia, insisting that chromosomes are all that matters. Shocking that biblical literalists would spew bigoted pseudoscience, right?!

We turned away dozens of potential customers. A few that we missed exited before buying anything after hearing the bad Christian music and realizing the place was a weirdo cult-café. One gay couple didn’t catch the vibe until after they bought drinks — then came outside, got the scoop from us, and decided to pour their drinks out.

Notes of Dissent played “Bella Ciao,” Chappell Roan, Lady Gaga, and Rage Against the Machine to drown out Drip’s dreadful Christian rock.

Denver Police mostly kept their distance, but kept an eye on us. They were curious about our mystery guest dressed in black, but didn’t get too far in questioning us about them.

See you next month to KEEP THE ART WALK GAY!

Join us to show support for a drag queen story time with Zarah Misdemeanor, which is under threat from the vile reactionaries with Libs of TikTok.

Monday, June 8 at 9:45 am
Belmar Library
555 S. Allison Parkway, Lakewood

Once just a fringe ragebait twitter account, Libs of TikTok has metastasized into a powerful political force directly impacting legislation and encouraging threats, harassment, and terrorism against q***r people.

According to Ari Drennen, LGBTQ program director for Media Matters, the progressive media watchdog group, “Libs of TikTok is shaping our entire political conversation about the rights of LGBTQ people to participate in society. It feels like they’re single-handedly taking us back a decade in terms of the public discourse around LGBTQ rights.”

Those who oppose drag claim to be protecting kids, but they actually seek to criminalize and oppress trans and all q***r people — especially trans women, who are central to the right’s fear-mongering.

We will be lining up alongside our comrades in Parasol Patrol outside the library to visibly and vocally support drag, and to counter any right-wing opposition.

Join us! Drag defense is anti-fascism!

Join the Denver Communists for some IRL socializing!

📅 Saturday, June 20 at 2pm
📍Sunken Gardens Park

When you get there, look for our flags! We will have food, drinks, and politics ready to share.

When we committed to protesting against Drip Café every month at the First Friday Art Walk, we thought we could run these bigots out more easily.

Drip Café opened three years ago in the q***r-friendly Santa Fe Art District, as an extension of Recycle God’s Love, a homophobic church. The neighborhood has roundly rejected it. Drip has been unable to build an organic customer base thanks to their homophobia being exposed by our monthly protests, local reporting, and their very own words.

But because Drip Café is a political project, they managed to develop an unexpected revenue stream: ideologically-motivated donors and customers from outside the city and across the country. Thanks to aggressive fundraising and propaganda in fundamentalist Christian media, Drip has built a network of religious q***rphobes, anti-abortion activists, and literal fascists to rally around their project of spreading anti-LGBTQ+ ideology.

It was clear from the beginning that Drip Café was a grift, in addition to being a political project. Like any good “café evangelist,” pastor-owner Jamie Sanchez surely got into the game to funnel untaxed donations from his non-profit ministry to his for-profit business.

We knew about the $45,000+ Sanchez has collected by whining about “anti-Christian persecution” by scary q***r communists and anarchists. (3-year fundraiser total: $45,892)

But we underestimated the level of Sanchez’s grift until we looked at his church’s tax records. They seem to indicate he has moved over $190,000 of untaxed money from his non-profit ministry to his for-profit business in three years. (2023: $73,640, 2024: $88,810, 2025: $31,787)

Even if Drip can siphon money from their church indefinitely and remain open, we will continue to oppose their presence at least once a month at our beloved art walk. We’ve got plenty of time for bigots — to make sure they get no peace and can’t operate on their own terms.

Right-wing churches are key incubators of the homophobia, transphobia, and misogyny that underpin the current assault on LGBTQ+ rights. In such a backward and dangerous climate, we think it’s important to build resistance — even against a seemingly unimportant little hate-café — and show it to the wider public. Any effort to make q***rphobia more mainstream must be vigorously opposed. Any ground we cede to the far right will only come back to haunt us.

🪧
Protest Drip Café
at the First Friday Art Walk
6 - 9 pm, Every first Friday
until they close down for good
869 Santa Fe Dr, Denver

Celebrate three years of opposition to Drip Café’s bigotry!

🌈 Join the Denver Communists 🚩 Notes of Dissent 🎺 and Bread & Roses Legal Center 🏴 for our monthly protest against the Drip Café, a coffeeshop run by a fundamentalist Christian, anti-LGTBQ+ church. (For more info, check out the anti-Drip slideshows pinned to our Instagram page.)

This will be our 37th protest against Drip at the First Friday Art Walk. For three years now, we’ve ruined every single one of what would otherwise be their best days of the month. Because they have come to depend on ideologically-motivated donations and sales, we have not been able to drive out the homophobic hate-café, but we’ve given them no peace and no ability to operate on their own terms.

Our monthly protests have evolved into a mix of a picket, an anti-fascist counter-demonstration, and a street party. We always have a good time, whether we are informing people about Drip’s homophobia and transphobia, exchanging sharp words with self-identified bigots, or shooting the s**t with each other and the First Friday Art Walk crowd.

Come through! Every first Friday until Drip closes down for good.

Protest Drip Café
Friday, June 5 from 6 - 9 pm MT
869 Santa Fe Dr, Denver