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Repost• “Whenever I leave this world, whether it’s sixty years from now, I wouldn’t want anyone to say I lost some battle. I’ll be a winner that day,” Andrea Gibson is quoted as saying in the July 14 Facebook post announcing their death.

“Andrea Gibson was a winner today,” the post continued. “On July 14th, at 4:16AM, Andrea Gibson died in their home surrounded by their wife, Meg, four ex-girlfriends, their mother and father, dozens of friends, and their three beloved dogs.”

Gibson, 49, was Colorado’s tenth poet laureate and the author of seven books, including the award-winning Lord of the Butterflies. Gibson was known for their live performances and speaking out on issues of sexism, classism, patriarchy and white supremacy.

“For the last two decades, whenever I’m asked where I want my ashes scattered when I die, I answer, ‘the Mercury Cafe,’” Gibson wrote in a 2020 Westword op-ed about the establishment that is now called . “Not the Grand Canyon or the Pacific Ocean or the lavender fields of France. I want my ashes scattered at the Mercury Cafe in Denver, Colorado.”

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