On any given Sunday at Champagne Tiger — the queer-owned French restaurant that opened last year in the former Tom’s Diner building — patrons are met with something different as they walk in for the venue’s weekly drag brunch: a fundraising T-shirt and other collateral promoting a cultural movement quietly gaining momentum on East Colfax and beyond.
That movement is an effort to formalize the Lavender Hill Cultural District, a queer cultural corridor formed in 2021 and envisioned as both a preservation project and economic engine. The district aims to celebrate LGBTQIA+ identity, support local business and transform one of Denver’s most…