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Robin’s oral history traces her life from a military childhood in Michigan, Kentucky, Alaska, and Boulder to work, music, art, and lesbian self-understanding in Colorado. She discusses Catholic school, Boulder High, CU, Mountain High Ice Cream,…

Jim Hipp’s oral history traces his life from Minnesota to Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Denver, centered on Baptist upbringing, gay self-discovery, nightlife, work, friendship, and survival. He discusses leaving home, early gay bars and cruising…

Daniel Wenger’s oral history traces his life from rural Indiana to Denver, including childhood isolation, bullying, funeral work, military service, marriage, fatherhood, alcoholism, mental health struggles, and gradual self-acceptance as a gay man.…

Aileen Gaumond’s oral history traces her life from New Jersey to Colorado, including childhood, athletics, hitchhiking, education, marriage, motherhood, and work as one of the early women electricians in Colorado. She reflects on sexism in…

Phil Hoyle’s oral history traces his life from a religious Kansas upbringing into church work, marriage, fatherhood, and eventual self-recognition as a gay man. He describes long years of understanding himself through bisexuality, his loving but…

This paper was written by Mary Romano in the 1990s a part of one of the first LGBTQ studies class in Colorado. She intereviewed patrons of the bar, and gathered valuable insight into the nature and significance of the place.

Teri Parker describes her experiences of the Three Sisters Bar

This is an oral history of Sandra Ewing talking about her experiences in the Three Sisters.

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

This file contains clippings from Big Mama Rag, Out Front, and several newspapers on the Three Sisters Bar. (Sources are cited in titles, via ColoradoHistoricNewspapers.com, gathered between 2024 to 2026) (Click Link…