The only odd accoutrement of the Compound is its wall of lockers for personal item storage. Just outside of the dance room's glass doors is a smoking patio, heated in the fall and winter months for year-round use. The Denver Wrangler left 17th Avenue last summer after a 20-year run, moving to a larger space in Whittier. Just through a cavernous opening sits a giant wooden dance floor with a DJ booth perched high above, and Friday nights find the space wall-to-wall with sweaty bodies filing in from a line that often forms around the south Broadway building. The last year has seen a few gay bars shuffling into and out of Uptown. Bold purple walls and black plastic-tiled floors run throughout the front room, where a small bar services pool- and darts-playing patrons and those looking to socialize in the newly renovated tall vinyl booths. happy hour), while rowdier nighttime crowds looking to dance come later to shut the bar down. Weekday patrons start rolling in from hospital night shifts to take advantage of the early opening (and a 7 a.m. (credit: ) Tracks Nightclub 3500 Walnut Drive Denver, CO 80205 With several theme nights, Tracks is a dance club with something for everyone. There are also bars and nightclubs to meet every taste. seven days a week, 365 days a year, the Compound's corner-bar (and gay-bar) legacy is just that: a twenty-plus-year run as a drinking place that barely closes. Denver’s Gay and Lesbian community is as diverse as the lifestyle.
