YOU CAN COMMENT ON ANY STORY AT WESTWORD.COM; SEND LETTERS TO [email protected] LETTERS TO THE EDITOR “A WALK DOWN LARIMER STREET,” KARL CHRISTIAN KRUMPHOLZ, JUNE 23 S TREET DRE AMS Thank you so much for the series of cartoons by Karl Christian Krumpholz on some of Denver’s most famous streets. Although I do not love what has happened to much of Larimer Street, I did love how he presented so much of the history. Sybil Dirk Denver Good article. The writer failed to mention that Larimer was once Denver’s skid row. Steve Garden Arvada Larimer Square has always been my go-to spot. Great restaurants, fl avored by real history! Heather Hall Denver “TICKET TO PRIDE,” CLEO MIRZA, JUNE 16 DIVIDE AND CONQUER Sorry, but I was not impressed by the sentiments of Black Pride Colorado. We need to all work together for justice and equality, not separate. We lose power that way. L.D. Haynes Denver Reading the well-done article about Black Pride, I was somewhat taken aback by Cleo Mirza’s assertion in one historical section that the June 7th Committee (J7C) was “spurred” by police violence and a “response to police brutality,” such as the July 1977 murder of the Black gay prostitute Eugene Levi, whose nickname was Tracy. As one of the few living people who was active in J7C, I know with certainty that J7C was “spurred” by and a “response” to the anti-gay Save the Children campaign spearheaded by famous singer Anita Bryant. J7C began in April 1977, three months before Tracy was murdered by Denver Police offi cer Daniel O’Hayre. The initial purpose of J7C was to hold fundraisers for the campaign fi ghting against Bryant’s vicious, anti-gay ballot initiative to be decided by the voters that year in Dade County, Florida. Our J7C in Denver was named after the June 7 election date in Florida. After the election that resulted in voters supporting Bry- ant’s campaign to repeal the law that protected gays and lesbians (the acronym LGBT was not used in the 1970s), J7C in Denver broadened our focus to include protesting the July 1977 murder of Tracy. Although police violence was not the reason J7C was founded, Mirza was historically accurate to note that we were active in demanding (yes, demanding) a civil- ian oversight board — a call that was ahead of its time and made long before other com- munity groups put that issue on the table in subsequent decades. I and other J7C activists were not afraid to stand up against injustice, and we were proud to be outspoken — similar to some of the modern-day Black Pride activ- ists featured in Mirza’s great article. Butch Martinez Denver What an amazing picture on the June 16 cover! A true work of art. This includes the wording “Westword” — yes, you have many works of art. However, this one prompted me to respond. Truly, truly, thank you for what you do. J.D. Ruybal Windsor “FINDING POWER,” TEAGUE BOHLEN, JUNE 16 REMEMBER WHEN I wouldn’t be surprised at all to fi nd that Liz Prato and I have crossed paths here and there. Grew up in the same area, same time, worked and hung out at the same places. I’m defi nitely going to pick up a copy of this book; it’s kind of like running into an old friend. Ann Robertson Prince Aurora If you left in 1996, you missed everything. Denver was still a boomer city in every way in 1996; most of Gen X still worked at a mall then. Ben Beeby Northglenn It took under two hours to drive to various nearby ski areas in the ’80s, so you could go up, ski for a few hours, and get home easily in a day. Now traffi c is so bad that a day trip to the mountains doesn’t feel as worthwhile. Denver has also changed a lot since we ended busing and moved to school choice. It’s good and bad. Kate Swan Denver Calvin’s Before and After, 23 Parrish, City Spirit, Paris on the Platte, Rock Island, Imi Jimi, Deadbeat Club, Pagliacci’s, Valente’s, Mon Petit, Club Tivoli, Rattlesnake Club, Zenith, Strings and Tante Louise. Christine Schock Brighton VOLUME 45 NUMBER 44 JUNE 30-JULY 6, 2022 W AR T Art Director Jay Vollmar PR ODUC TI ON Production Manager Michael Wilson Assistant Production Manager Erin Kirk Graphic Designers Chris Arneson, Tori Bohling, Danielle East 11 THE UNKINDEST CUT Catalytic converter thefts have Colorado in a state of exhaustion. BY THOMAS MITCHELL 16 SISTER ACT Meet the Golden Nugget Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. BY CLEO MIRZA 19 GET SAUCED Three local entrepreneurs are dishing up must-try products. BY LINNEA COVINGTON 25 MORE THAN MUSIC A partnership between Propeller and Red Rocks allows artists to be activists. 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