Phil Nash

Phil Nash has called Denver home since 1976, where he helped found and later became the first director of the Gay Community Center of Colorado. Starting in the early 1980s, he worked as a journalist at Out Front, Westword, The Advocate and other gay publications. When AIDS reached Colorado in the early 1980s, he helped found and chaired the Colorado AIDS Project. In the early 1990s, he served as an openly gay appointee in Federico Peña’s mayoral administration and later held senior communications roles at several civic and philanthropic organizations.