Updated: July 11, 2024
LGBTQIA2+ Businesses and Resources
Colorado Springs has an abundance of amazing LGBTQIA2+–friendly and owned businesses, as well as many resources.
This page is a work in progress. It only includes businesses that have requested or given expressed permission to be listed. At VCOS, we are doing our best to listen, learn and be inclusive. If you would like to be included or see that we have missed something, please reach out to Social@VisitCOS.com.
Nightlife
ICONS
(Currently closed while building their new location.)
Colorado Springs' exclusive, gay piano bar with incredible singing bartenders and a vibrant and welcoming atmosphere. 21+ with trivia events, concert series, drag shows, bingo and, of course, delicious drinks.
The Q (Formerly Club Q)
(Currently closed while building their new location.)
Named Colorado Springs’ best gay club, Club Q offers late-night entertainment from drag performances to GoGo auditions.
Boutiques & Shops
A Little Alchemy
A Little Alchemy is a unique artisan body care company focused on small batch, high-quality products and amazing scents. They are known for vegan and cruelty-free products, as well as for unique artisan fragrances.
Cronk Art & Curiosities
Ethically sourced, nature-inspired art, jewelry, and other unique gifts. Specializing in arthropod taxidermy, Cronk Art & Curiosities focuses on uniquely framed insects, wearable insect pieces, items to support your metaphysical needs, stickers and more!
Heartshake Studios
Mystical, feminist and artistic, Heartshake Studios is a queer/trans-owned boutique gift shop. You'll find lots of bold color, creative home goods, art, metaphysical offerings, plants, jewelry, and so much more!
Little Heartshake
From the team behind Heartshake Studios, Little Heartshake opened in 2022 with nature-inspired gifts and goodies for all ages. The vibe is woodsy, warm, and full of magic, with whimsical and earthy home goods for grownups, plus unique books, toys, and apparel for babies and children.
Salons & Barber Shops
Eden Salon & Barber Shop
Debut a fresh cut or dye job for a new look. If you are looking for a traditional cut and color, massage, makeup or nail services, you’ll find that in one of Eden’s twenty-two independently owned booths.
Headliners Hair Studio
Come in and get treated like a diva at this professionally dedicated, inclusive business. Come and check out this LGBTQ, minority (Woman) owned and operated business in the heart of Colorado Springs.
MODO Salon & Montage Salon
The premier Hair Salon in Colorado Springs, offering you a wide range of styling services and products to give you the look you want. With an extensive selection, they've got you covered for whatever you need.
Food & Beverage
Cerberus Brewing Co.
Cerberus Brewing Company offers a vibrant pub atmosphere, friendly staff and a relaxed vibe. Known for its innovative pub cuisine and award-winning house-brewed beer, it caters to both casual beer garden hangouts and upscale date nights. Dog-friendly and committed to quality, Cerberus is a top choice for beer enthusiasts and food lovers in the Pikes Peak region.
Picnic Basket
Arguably the best catering in Colorado. Enjoy fresh delicious food with artistic presentation. Offering affordable breakfast, lunch and dinner buffets, boxless lunches and breakfasts, hors d’oeuvres, trays, platters and desserts.
Seven's Gate Taproom
Seven’s Gate Taproom offers 20 taps of incredible craft beers seven days a week. Featuring brews from Cerberus Brewing Co. and other breweries from Colorado, the United States and the world, the taproom frequently rotates guest taps to provide a variety of unique and classic styles.
Creative Businesses
Club Flower
Colorado-based (Colorado Springs, Denver, Manitou Springs) creative floral design studio. Club Flower is available for art direction, photo styling, private residence florals, special events and wedding arrangements. They welcome local projects as well as destination-based work.
Latisha Hardy Dance & Co
Provides dance training in an empowering environment with a passionate voice. They aim to help students to feel enlightened while growing their self-esteem and confidence. The curriculum has been designed and developed to grow students who have never danced in their life up to those who wish to become pre-professional.
Painting with a Twist (North)
Bring out your inner Picasso and drink wine while painting your very own masterpiece. Perfect for private parties, date nights, trivia, team building and kid-friendly events. No creative or artistic skills are needed. Painting with a Twist is all about connecting with friends over a glass of wine, your favorite snacks and a night of laughs.
Counseling, Mental Health & Wellness
Groundswell Counseling LLC
Groundswell Counseling provides LGBTQ+-affirming counseling and mental health services to all members of the LGBTQ+ community. Antiracism and queer liberation are their guiding principles as they provide an integrative and holistic talk therapy approach to support you as a whole person and hold space for all the parts of your identity.
Harmonizing Wellness Institute
Harmonizing Wellness Institute is a holistic pain relief specialist with the tools to orchestrate your overall physical, mental, emotional and spiritual harmony. Nina has appointments & classes available where she uses her skills to help tune your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual beings so you are no longer in or pain.
Liberated Healing Counseling
Liberated Healing Counseling is a licensed, bilingual mental health therapist that offers Teletherapy services to adolescents (15+) and adults on an individual basis. She specializes in trauma, multicultural issues, depression and anxiety, relationship issues, life transitions and self-esteem/self-love.
Nexus Community Fitness
Nexus at its core is about building a better, more inclusive fitness community in Colorado Springs. While building strength and educating on corrective fitness, Nexus empowers, supports and welcomes all walks of life.
Raise Your Volume
Spiritual empowerment ministry and native Colorado minister, chaplain, spiritual director and clinical pastoral psychotherapist. They focus on life events and celebrations, spiritual direction and mentoring and environmental blessings, rights and rituals.
SilverLining Insurance Advocates
Dedicated to providing clear direction and personalized solutions for all your Medicare needs. With over 20 years of health insurance industry experience, they navigate the complex world of Medicare to help you make informed decisions and support you.
Real Estate
The Cutting Edge Realtors
Advocate for inclusive real estate experiences in Colorado Springs and beyond.
Resources & Events
Pikes Peak Pride Festival
The Pikes Peak Pride Festival takes place in June. With two full days of vendors, food trucks and entertainment - including a fabulous parade on Sunday, you're not going to want to miss this one!
Colorado Springs Queer Collective
Fosters community leadership, education, and empowerment with a mission to address inequality re-invest in the local community and celebrate the creative contributions of queer and trans people.
Gay Colorado
A gay-owned company, providing an LGBT resource guide state by state showcasing LGBT-friendly businesses from Travel, Wedding and Business Listings.
Inside Out Youth Services
An organization dedicated to empowering, educating and advocating for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, queer, intersex, and a spectrum (LGBTQ+) youth from Southern Colorado, primarily El Paso and Teller counties. Check out their website for events during Pride month & beyond.
One Colorado
The state’s leading advocacy organization is dedicated to advancing equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) Coloradans and their families.
PFLAG Colorado Springs
PFLAG is the first and largest organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) people, their parents and families, and allies.
Polaris Wellness Group
Providing open and honest communication, trust and collaborative effort to address and work through personal challenges and growth opportunities.
Prism Community Collective
For LGBTQ+ individuals and their loved ones, finding healthcare providers who offer sensitive, supportive, quality care has been a discouraging process for far too long. The Prism Provider Directory is dedicated to filling this crucial gap of care for our community. Our free, searchable database is designed to connect you with inclusive professionals who prioritize LGBTQ+ individuals and their unique needs.
Queer Friends Colorado Springs
Join the Facebook group to foster relationships and build connections through the events hosted on MeetUp. Support one another through recommendations and referrals for those in the queer community to find safe spaces.
UCCS LGBT Resource Center
As an integral part of the Multicultural Office for Student Access, Inclusiveness, and Community (MOSAIC), The LGBT+ Resource Center at MOSAIC exists as part of the University of Colorado Colorado Springs' ongoing commitment to promoting equal opportunity for successful academic, social and personal development for all LGBTQ students and their allies in a safe and supportive environment.
The United Court of the Pikes Peak Empire
The oldest LGBTQIA+ organization in Southern Colorado conducts charitable and public service projects and events to benefit charities and provide social and charitable activities to benefit the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community.
This page is a work in progress. At VCOS, we are doing our best to listen, learn and be inclusive. If you would like to be included or see that we have missed something, please reach out to Social@VisitCOS.com.
