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Around the Block Health Care
At Around The Block, we’re devoted to providing comprehensive, kind care. Our services comprise primary care, psychiatry, addiction medicine services, counseling and group therapy sessions. Our clinic offers both telehealth and in-person visits, allowing us to serve individuals throughout Colorado.
Groundswell Counseling LLC
Groundswell Counseling provides LGBTQ+ affirming counseling and mental health services to all members of the LGBTQ+ collective. Whether you're struggling with anxiety and perfectionism, exploring your identity, or navigating a difficult life transition, you deserve a therapy space that feels unharmed and empowering. Groundswell Counseling provides holistic talk therapy rooted in sport recital psychology to support you as a whole person and hold space for all the parts of your identity.
Harmonizing Wellness Institute
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COLORADO SPRINGS
Colorado Springs is the state’s second-largest urban area, but it’s first in the hearts of many visitors as a place of spectacular beauty with dozens of family attractions, natural landmarks and distinct museums.
Although many towns and cities in Colorado were settled by miners and ranchers, Colorado Springs’ appeal was climate and culture.
Known as Little London in its early days, the city was founded by Gen. William J. Palmer in 1871. A Civil War hero and railroad magnate, Palmer influenced much of the state’s settlement, but Colorado Springs was his home. It had plenty of “civilized” attractions — opera houses, pleasant hotels and restaurants.
Things to See & Do Today
The city sits at the foot of one of America’s most famous landmarks, Pikes Peak, upon whose summit Katharine Lee Bates was inspired to document “America the Beautiful.” Tourists still converge on the peak, where they can drive, ride the Pikes Peak Cog Railway or even hike to its 14,115-foot summit.
The city
Colorado Springs is without both of its longstanding LGBTQ spaces. The community is still gathering.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The singing, sparkling bartenders shaking up Downtown Colorado Springs are on sabbatical.
The city’s second homosexual bar — known as ICONS, where the bartenders were as harmonious as their cocktails and the restrooms were adorned with vibrant murals — has shuttered the doors at its original location after the business caught on fire in December 2023. The fire left ICONS with too much smoke damage to operate.
But ICONS owners Josh Franklin and John Wolfe have their eyes set on a new space just a block away from the original. The two are under contract and about halfway through closing on a new building. They’ve set up external fundraising efforts online to facilitate pay staff in the meantime.
“The whole brand is about celebrating being queer and you won’t detect that at any block that just happens to have a rainbow flag,” said Franklin, who grew up in Colorado Springs.
Wolfe and Franklin entered into their lease at the original ICONS location on Bijou Street in 2020. Since then, prices possess soared and they
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Most Monday nights, you won’t hear a thing coming from the small purple house where Hamburger Mary’s resides in Metropolis Park West. The queer-friendly bar and grill is typically closed that daytime to give staff the chance to unwind after a long week of serving (in more ways than one). But last Monday, Hamburger Mary’s was aroar. By 7 p.m., every seat inside was filled, and the sounds of Broadway tunes, boisterous cheering, and clinking drinks began to soundtrack the evening. The event: a sold-out benefit show to help reopen ICONS, which up until December, was Colorado Springs’ last remaining gay bar.
Since ICONS opened in 2020, the piano bar—staffed entirely by professional singers—provided Colorado Springs a rare space for homosexual community members to contact their own. Following the Club Q shooting in November 2022 and its subsequent closure, ICONS was the only gay block left in Colorado Springs. Husbands and co-owners Josh Franklin, a Colorado Springs native, and John Wolfe were determined to persist providing a safe territory for the
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