Dallas-Fort Worth gay bars grapple wh secury rponse to Club Q shootg

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• GAY BAR OWNERS SEEK TO CREASE SECURY THE WAKE OF SHOOTG OF A GAY NIGHTCLUB COLORADO
• DALLAS-FORT WORTH GAY BARS GRAPPLE WH SECURY RPONSE TO CLUB Q SHOOTG
• A PHILALPHIA GAY BAR PATRON HAS DIED AFTER BEG PUNCHED BY BOUNCER

GAY BAR OWNERS SEEK TO CREASE SECURY THE WAKE OF SHOOTG OF A GAY NIGHTCLUB COLORADO

REUTERS/Kev Mohatt/File PhotoNEW YORK, Nov 23 (Rters) - After the 2016 massacre at the Pulse nightclub Florida, the owners of New York Cy gay bar C'mon Everybody hired more secury staff, and the LGBT landmark Stonewall Inn ran active-shooter safety drills wh s bars and other LGBT spac around the untry are aga weighg how to keep their staff and patrons safe after a gunman killed five people and jured 17 more at an LGBT club Colorado Sprgs. Many worry that physil secury measur n only go so far, and that stnchg a surge of flammatory anti-LGBT rhetoric is a better Club Q attack, which is beg vtigated as a hate crime, has pound the fear and anger of a muny already nontg a wave of Republin legislatn directed at transgenr youth and gay Amerins, and what they say is a related rise threats and vlence agast s members. "It's really tirg for the gay muny that time and time aga we have to e up wh the solutns for problems that other people make, " said Jonathan Hat, executive director of Drag Queen Story Hour, a nonprof group that aniz drag performers readg books to children 45 stat that has been repeatedly targeted and threatened this year.

"Jt hours before the attack at Club Q Colorado Sprgs, someone threw a brick through the wdow of gay bar Vers the Hell's Kchen neighborhood of New York Cy for the fourth time this month, acrdg to police.

Erik Bottcher, the cy uncil member reprentg Hell's Kchen, has joed other officials over the last week to warn that one or more people are dggg and robbg gay men the rponse to those attacks and the Colorado shootg, the Anti-Vlence Project, a non-prof group found 1980 after a spate of attacks on gay men, plans to hold a safety event at a Hell's Kchen gay bar on Wednday night. Volunteers will talk wh staff and patrons about ways to heighten vigilance bars, on hook-up and datg apps, and wh partners at attack on the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando six years ago, durg which a man shot ad 49 people, forced many bars to review their secury plans.

DALLAS-FORT WORTH GAY BARS GRAPPLE WH SECURY RPONSE TO CLUB Q SHOOTG

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A PHILALPHIA GAY BAR PATRON HAS DIED AFTER BEG PUNCHED BY BOUNCER

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