Denver Communists

When we committed to protesting against Drip Café every month at the First Friday Art Walk, we thought we could run these bigots out more easily.

Drip Café opened three years ago in the q***r-friendly Santa Fe Art District, as an extension of Recycle God’s Love, a homophobic church. The neighborhood has roundly rejected it. Drip has been unable to build an organic customer base thanks to their homophobia being exposed by our monthly protests, local reporting, and their very own words.

But because Drip Café is a political project, they managed to develop an unexpected revenue stream: ideologically-motivated donors and customers from outside the city and across the country. Thanks to aggressive fundraising and propaganda in fundamentalist Christian media, Drip has built a network of religious q***rphobes, anti-abortion activists, and literal fascists to rally around their project of spreading anti-LGBTQ+ ideology.

It was clear from the beginning that Drip Café was a grift, in addition to being a political project. Like any good “café evangelist,” pastor-owner Jamie Sanchez surely got into the game to funnel untaxed donations from his non-profit ministry to his for-profit business.

We knew about the $45,000+ Sanchez has collected by whining about “anti-Christian persecution” by scary q***r communists and anarchists. (3-year fundraiser total: $45,892)

But we underestimated the level of Sanchez’s grift until we looked at his church’s tax records. They seem to indicate he has moved over $190,000 of untaxed money from his non-profit ministry to his for-profit business in three years. (2023: $73,640, 2024: $88,810, 2025: $31,787)

Even if Drip can siphon money from their church indefinitely and remain open, we will continue to oppose their presence at least once a month at our beloved art walk. We’ve got plenty of time for bigots — to make sure they get no peace and can’t operate on their own terms.

Right-wing churches are key incubators of the homophobia, transphobia, and misogyny that underpin the current assault on LGBTQ+ rights. In such a backward and dangerous climate, we think it’s important to build resistance — even against a seemingly unimportant little hate-café — and show it to the wider public. Any effort to make q***rphobia more mainstream must be vigorously opposed. Any ground we cede to the far right will only come back to haunt us.

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Protest Drip Café
at the First Friday Art Walk
6 - 9 pm, Every first Friday
until they close down for good
869 Santa Fe Dr, Denver

Celebrate three years of opposition to Drip Café’s bigotry!

🌈 Join the Denver Communists 🚩 Notes of Dissent 🎺 and Bread & Roses Legal Center 🏴 for our monthly protest against the Drip Café, a coffeeshop run by a fundamentalist Christian, anti-LGTBQ+ church. (For more info, check out the anti-Drip slideshows pinned to our Instagram page.)

This will be our 37th protest against Drip at the First Friday Art Walk. For three years now, we’ve ruined every single one of what would otherwise be their best days of the month. Because they have come to depend on ideologically-motivated donations and sales, we have not been able to drive out the homophobic hate-café, but we’ve given them no peace and no ability to operate on their own terms.

Our monthly protests have evolved into a mix of a picket, an anti-fascist counter-demonstration, and a street party. We always have a good time, whether we are informing people about Drip’s homophobia and transphobia, exchanging sharp words with self-identified bigots, or shooting the s**t with each other and the First Friday Art Walk crowd.

Come through! Every first Friday until Drip closes down for good.

Protest Drip Café
Friday, June 5 from 6 - 9 pm MT
869 Santa Fe Dr, Denver