Kevin Beaty

Visual journalist

kbeaty@denverite.com @kevinjbeaty @kevinjbeaty

Kevin is a multimedia artist who flung himself into the world of journalism. He likes using a camera and microphone to tell stories about workers, the environment, social justice and fascinating humans.

The Court Jester at 1617 Court Place. May 26, 1978.

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When the cops weren’t around, gay bars like downtown’s Court Jester offered safe space in a hostile city

The establishments offered acceptance, but they were also targets of police raids.

The sun rises over the Butcher Block Cafe's location on 38th Street, just off Brighton Boulevard. Nov. 11, 2022.

The Butcher Block Cafe is hanging on as a relic of a long-gone Brighton Boulevard

The old diner has become so much more than a business for Mickey Michel.

Denver Fair Elections Fund side effect: Regular voters can be as powerful as developers

It was meant to give regular candidates a chance to win – it's also made their regular supporters much more important.

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Colorado’s new HOA law has stopped foreclosure cases in one Green Valley Ranch subdivision

An HOA attorney says the measure presents new problems. Advocates say more must be done to protect homeowners.

"The Riverfront," which is not a park, on the edge of the National Western Campus along the South Platte River. Nov. 8, 2022.

Take a first look at this new “park” in Elyria Swansea

The green space by the National Western Center is not technically a park.

Alice Pearson writes a blessing, or an intention, onto a piece of insulation that will be installed in the Lighthouse Writers Workshop's future home on York Street. Nov. 2, 2022.

Look inside the new Lighthouse Writers Workshop building in Clayton, where students’ words are going directly onto the insulation

A construction worker who'd taken a Lighthouse class had an idea: Let students put their words INSIDE the building.

We mapped where Denver has gotten taller, and denser, during the last decade

We mapped tall buildings!

Snow falls over new affordable apartments at the Reserves At Green Valley Ranch. Oct. 27, 2022.

Denver will likely get its first “official” snow Thursday evening

Chill. It's not sled-worthy quite yet.

Andy Rougeot, his wife, Rosalie, and one of their daughters. (He didn't let us take our own photo for this story.)

Andy Rougeot is pitching himself as a law-and-order candidate for mayor

"I just want to highlight I'm the only person in favor of enforcing the camping ban in this race, which to me is mind-blowing."

Cots line a room in the Denver Community Church of Christ's basement on May 14, 2019, when 55 migrants were bused to Denver from New Mexico after nonprofits there were unable to keep up with demand.

Migrant families from the southern U.S. border have quietly been arriving in Denver. The city is preparing for many more

A lot of people could cross into the country if Title 42 is repealed. The city is moving cots to shelters in case that happens.

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