The shootg rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people.
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- 5 KILLED, 25 WOUND US GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG
- GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
- ‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
- VIDEO: FIVE KILLED US GAY NIGHTCLUB MASS SHOOTG
- US GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT FAC MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG
5 KILLED, 25 WOUND US GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG
Colorado Sprgs, the state’s send-most populo cy wh jt unr 500, 000 rints, is home to a number of ary bas and is the headquarters for Foc on the Fay, the nservative Christian group that says homosexualy and same-sex marriage are ss.
GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
He and his bs partner toured other succsful LGBTQ spac and noted a mon theme: “They were gay as hell, ” Grzecka told the outlet. We knew we had to be gay as hell (to survive). Jared Polis, a Democrat and the natn’s first openly gay ernor, issued a statement Sunday llg the attack “horrific, sickeng and vastatg” and offered state rourc to lol law enforcement.
Polis told CNN’s Jim Asta there are only two gay bars Colorado Sprgs, and Club Q was one of the ma venu. The shootg six years after the 2016 massacre at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, which left 49 people ad and dozens advot spoke out agast the shootg and support of the victims Sunday. ”Transportatn Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who as a ndidate the 2020 printial electn beme the first openly gay ndidate to n for the natn’s hight office, lled the news of the shootg “sickeng and heartbreakg” and part of a “pattern” a tweet Sunday.
‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
Jared Polis, who 2018 was the first openly gay man elected ernor and is currently quarantg wh Covid, lled the shootg "horrific, sickeng, and vastatg" a statement released Sunday morng. A 22-year-old gunman opened fire, killg five people and woundg 25 at a gay nightclub the wtern U.
Colorado Sprgs Police Chief Adrian Vasquez said two weapons, cludg a “long rifle, ” were found at the scene of the Saturday night shootg at Club Q, which scrib self as an "adult-oriented gay and lbian nightclub hostg theme nights such as karaoke, drag shows & DJs. Crystal and Ella Mondragon place flowers at a makhift memorial near a gay nightclub, se of a shootg late Saturday night, Colorado Sprgs, Colorado, Nov. The shootg was remiscent of the 2016 massacre, at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that left 49 people ad.
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VIDEO: FIVE KILLED US GAY NIGHTCLUB MASS SHOOTG
Jared Polis, who beme the first openly gay man the Uned Stat to be elected ernor 2018, lled the shootg "sickeng. Experts warned that extremist groups uld see anti-gay rhetoric as a ll to prev month, a fundamentalist Idaho pastor told his small Boise ngregatn that gay, lbian and transgenr people should be executed by the ernment, which led up wh siar sermons om a Texas fundamentalist 2006, there have been 523 mass killgs and 2, 727 aths as of Nov.
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”Jared Polis, first gay man elected ernor the U. Jared Polis, who 2018 was the first openly gay man elected ernor, said “brave dividuals” stepped durg the “horrific, sickeng and vastatg” shootg.
US GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT FAC MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG
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"My heart breaks for the fay and iends of those lost, jured, and trmatized this horrific shootg, " Polis, the first openly gay ernor of a U. ”Wolf had sought refuge Florida 15 years ago when he was done wh ral Oregon, the childhood home where he suffered embedd racism and homophobia on a daily basis. Among his motivatns for wrg the book was to reclaim tersectnaly om DeSantis and others on the right who seek to hijack explas: “I wanted to give a human flavour to what tersectnaly actually looks and feels like and what feels like to experience racism and homophobia at the same time.
Growg up a nservative majory whe town was difficult bee the same kid who would ll me the N-word on one day would ll me a homophobic slur on another day and I was nstantly navigatg the tersectns of those two thgs. Last month DeSantis’s mpaign released an anti-LGBTQ+ vio assailg Tmp for his past support of gay and transgenr ments: “It is a sry time to be not jt LGBTQ but LGBTQ and Black this state and ultimately that’s the tent. Colorado Sprgs, the state’s send-most populo cy wh jt unr 500, 000 rints, is home to ary bas and the headquarters for Foc on the Fay, the nservative Christian group that says homosexualy and same-sex marriage are ss.