The construction of place, referring to the political, social, religious, and military contexts, impact every individual’s lived experience. Groups often experience harmful aspects of place through geotrauma, a collective trauma intertwined with place and geography. I pose the question of how place contributes to the realization of geotrauma for queer residents in Colorado Springs. Colorado Springs is the second largest Colorado city and is widely associated with the military and Evangelicalism. In the 90s, Colorado passed a ballot measure that legalized discrimination on the basis of sexuality that imposed the groundwork for conditions of geotrauma even after it was overturned by the Supreme Court. To answer this question, I evaluated and analyzed public Colorado Springs Oral History Projects. I found that queer people experienced geotrauma through harmful mechanisms of anti-queer religious and military institutions, but the geographic dispersion of Colorado Springs protects queer residents by creating different ‘bubbles.’ These bubbles help residents maintain physical barriers between communities that hold anti-queer sentiments.