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This is to inform you that I didn’t die young.

“wait! gotta put on my sunscreen” [you’re about to walk to 7/11]

“tick season, tuck your pants”

“you know, tick season just keeps getting longer and longer with climate change”

“why didn’t you have your knife with you?”

[knocks their shoes on the sidewalk and fifty pounds of dirt clods fall off]

[going into the rain without an umbrella] “I mean, you’re gonna get wet eventually, right?”

“I hear the rockhounding in this part of the county is INSANE”

ONE OF THE ONLY LESBIAN BARS IN THE UNITED STATES IS IN IMMINENT DANGER OF CLOSING AT THE END OF THE MONTH!

this is one of the ONLY brown and black owned, brown and black RUN lesbian bars in the united states. this dyke bar saved a historic building where poetry, music, and community has thrived for decades in denver when it was in danger of being demolished and turned into apartments.

unfortunately the repairs needed to keep the old place alive have been a lot for the owners, who are local lesbians who have worked tirelessly (and drained their life savings and taken out all that and more) to make this space happen.

this bar is my second home; it’s a place where other lesbians, ESPECIALLY BLACK AND BROWN LESBIANS, are able to have events, make community, and be free to be themselves. there are so few lesbian bars in the country and WE NEED TO SUPPORT THEM WHILE WE CAN. they are posed to close and the end of april, at which point denver’s historic mercury cafe (the space they took over and saved) will likely be destroyed and turned into another soulless gentrified complex of buildings in what was once (AND ALWAYS WILL BE) denver’s historic black neighborhood, five points.

don’t just save the pearl for colorado lesbians, save the pearl for YOU and for every lesbian and queer person who doesn’t have a place to go be transgender, be in drag, and be in or find love. SAVE THE PEARL BY DONATING AND SHARING!!!!!