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Protest sign reading “You can’t have sex in a nursing home” taped to the back of a protester’s wheelchair at the ADAPT protest of the American Health Care Association’s 1994 Las Vegas convention.

Laura Hershey and others protesting lack of access to United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China in August 1995.

Laura Hershey with partner Robin Stephens at Colorado College in Colorado Springs in 1992, where Hershey received an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters.

Laura Hershey, friend Laurie Gery, and others marching in the 1999 Portland LGBTQ Pride Parade.

A young Tea Schook, the first openly gay candidate for governor in Colorado.

Jeanne White, left, mother of AIDS activist Ryan White, holds hands with Shannon Behning, the director of the Lighthouse Project, during an event to honor World AIDS Day at the Denver Art Museum on Wednesday, December 1, 2004.

"I want an attendant for my birthday" protest sign from the 1994 ADAPT protest against the American Health Care Association.

wheelchair with hand-lettered sign on the back reading "I want an attendant 4 my birthday."

Oral Histories for the Three Sisters

This is the link to the Three Sisters Oral Histories by Sandra Ewing, Mary Romano, and Teri Parker (each file contains an unedited transcript, video, and audio, about 90 minutes). Each of these people was a patron of the Three Sisters and has helped…

Love At The Brown Palace: An LGBTQ History

This research document details the LGBTQ history of the Brown Palace and is meant to accompany the exhibit at the Brown Palace.

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Mary Romano Oral History

This oral history talks about Mary Romano's experiences in the Three Sisters bar from about 1980 to the bar closing in 1996.

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