Riot 2 A Pride Party For The People

🖤✨RIOT at The Crypt — PRIDE 2025 ✨🖤 Friday, June 20th | Denver, CO Hosted by The Architects 🛠️ This is not your typical gay bar dance floor. No glow sticks. No circuit boys. No watered-down pride. This is RIOT — our second annual Pride gathering for queer and trans people of color who crave something bolder, blacker, grittier, and gorgeously unruly. 🎭 This year’s theme? 1970s Black fashion + cultural revolution Think: velvet, leather, glitter, militant elegance, femme fierceness, soul train line energy meets underground punk basement. 🧥🎷👠🪩🎸 🕯️ The Crypt is a punk bar. A dark altar. A sacred space for edge-walkers and freedom dreamers. 🌟 Featuring a live showcase from Denver’s own Kiki House of Swarovski Step into the spirit of ballroom with performances embodying the 5 elements of vogue: 🕺🏽 Catwalk. Hands. Spins + Dips. Floor Performance. Duck Walk. Come witness the lineage, the legacy, the living art of queer Black brilliance. Pull up in your sharpest fit. Dress like you’re stepping into a time portal where style is protest. This is a party for the children of Marsha, Jimmy, Audre, and Grace. 🎶 DJs spinning for the culture 🧃 Strong drinks. Soft landings. 🌈 Black & brown trans excellence centered 🖤 NO rainbow capitalism 🖤 NO assimilation ONLY: Black glam, queer power, ancestral rhythm, chosen fam, and liberation you can feel in your bones. #RIOT2025 #TheArchitectsDenver #QTPOCPride #TheCryptDenver #HouseOfSwarovski #VogueIsResistance #BallroomIsHome #BlackQueerGlam #TransIsSacred #QueerPunkMagic #PrideIsARebellion