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• GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
• COLORADO SPRGS GAY MAP
• COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB SHOOTER’S SE HEADS TO TRIAL
• WELE TO GAY IENDLY COLORADO SPRGS AREA
• COLORADO SPRGS RECKONS WH PAST AFTER GAY CLUB SHOOTG
• GAY COLORADO SPRGS TRAVEL GUI
• RIFLE-TOTG GUNMAN TURNS DRAG SHOW INTO BLOODBATH‘SENSELESS ATTACK’A 22-YEAR-OLD WAS ARRTED NNECTN WH THE SHOOTG—WHICH WAS SCRIBED AS A “HATE ATTACK” BY THE NIGHTCLUB WHERE HAPPENED.WILLIAM O’CONNORFORMER TRAVEL EDORCORB BOLIMEDIA REPORTERUPDATED NOV. 21, 2022 12:18AM EST / PUBLISHED NOV. 20, 2022 7:09AM EST JASON CONNOLLY/AFP VIA GETTYA RIFLE-TOTG GUNMAN OPENED FIRE DURG A DRAG SHOW AT A GAY NIGHTCLUB COLORADO SPRGS, KILLG FIVE AND JURG 25 BEFORE HE WAS TACKLED BY HEROIC PATRONS.AUTHORI SAID THE SPECT, ANRSON LEE ALDRICH, 22, WAS CTODY. ALTHOUGH POLICE DID NOT PROVI A MOTIVE FOR THE NATN’S LATT MASS SHOOTG, CLUB Q LLED A “HATE ATTACK” A STATEMENT.THE VLENCE THAT UNFOLD JT BEFORE MIDNIGHT DREW IMMEDIATE PARISONS TO THE 2016 SHOOTG AT THE GAY NIGHTCLUB PULSE, WHICH LEFT 49 AD. IT ALSO ME AS DRAG SHOWS HAVE BEEN NMNED BY SOME FACTNS OF THE FAR RIGHT.“THIS IS A HORRIBLE CRIME AND WE HAVE A SPECT CTODY. WE MT DO THIS RIGHT AND ENSURE JTICE IS SERVED,” COLORADO SPRGS MAYOR JOHN SUTHERS SAID AT A SUNDAY PRS NFERENCE. POLICE SAID THEY WERE LLED TO CLUB Q, NORTHEAST OF THE CY, BY A FLOOD OF 911 LLS. TWO PATRONS HAD SUBDUED THE SPECT, AND PS WHO ARRIVED WH SIX MUT TOOK HIM TO THE HOSPAL TO TREAT HIS JURI. “HAD THAT DIVIDUAL NOT TERVENED THIS ULD HAVE BEEN EXPONENTIALLY MORE TRAGIC,” COLORADO SPRGS MAYOR JOHN SUTHERS TOLD THE ASSOCIATED PRS.SUTHERS EXPLAED MORE TAIL HOW THE ATTACKER WAS SUBDUED: WHEN A PATRON, SENSG OPPORTUNY, GRABBED A HANDGUN OM THE SPECT AND H HIM WH . THAT PERSON, ALONG WH ANOTHER, WERE ABLE TO SUBDUE THE GUNMAN UNTIL POLICE ARRIVED.JOSHUA THURMAN, 34, WAS ON THE DANCE FLOOR WHEN HE HEARD THE GUNSHOTS AND RAN TO A DRSG ROOM WH A CTOMER, LOCKED THE DOOR AND LLED POLICE.“WE HEARD EVERYTHG—MORE SHOTS, PEOPLE CRYG, GLASS BREAKG, WDOWS BEG SHATTERED. IT WAS BAD,” HE TOLD REPORTERS. WHEN THE SHOOTG STOPPED, HE EMERGED TO A NIGHTMARE: “BODI LAYG ON THE GROUND, SHATTERED GLASS EVERYWHERE, BLOOD.” A LOL DRAG ARTIST LLED DEL LNAL, WHO WAS PERG THE SATURDAY NIGHT DRAG SHOW AT CLUB Q, TWEETED: “I NEVER THOUGHT THIS WOULD HAPPEN TO ME AND MY BAR. I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO WH MYSELF. I N’T STOP HEARG THE SHOTS.“WALKG THROUGH THE BAR THAT I LL MY HOME AND SEEG …… LIKE THAT... I HATE THIS SO MUCH. I HATE THIS SO FUCKG MUCH.” JOSHUA THURMAN, OF COLORADO SPRGS, WAS CLUB Q WHEN A GUNMAN OPENED FIRE, KILLG FIVE.JASON CONNOLLY/AFP VIA GETTY COLORADO SPRGS POLICE CHIEF ADRIAN VASQUEZ SAID POLICE FOUND TWO RIFL AT THE SCENE, HE SAID, CLUDG A LONG RIFLE ED THE ATTACK.A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL SPEAKG ON NDN OF ANONYMY TOLD THE ASSOCIATED PRS THAT THE SPECT ED AN AR-15-STYLE SEMITOMATIC WEAPON DURG THE ATTACK. ALSO REVERED WERE A HANDGUN AND ADDNAL AMMUNN MAGAZ.FEW TAILS ABOUT THE SPECT HAD EMERGED, BUT A MAN WH THE SAME NAME AND AGE WAS ARRTED COLORADO SPRGS LAST YEAR AFTER HIS MOTHER REPORTED HE THREATENED HER WH “A HOMEMA BOMB, MULTIPLE WEAPONS AND AMMUNN.”THE ASSOCIATED PRS REPORTED THAT THE ARRT FORCED “NEIGHBORS SURROUNDG HOM TO EVACUATE WHILE THE BOMB SQUAD AND CRISIS NEGOTIATORS TALKED HIM TO SURRENRG.”DPE THE NEIGHBORHOOD HORROR, “THERE IS NO RERD PROSECUTORS EVER MOVED FORWARD WH FELONY KIDNAPPG AND MENACG CHARG AGAST ALDRICH,” REPORTED.CALLS TO THE SPECT’S FAY BY THE DAILY BEAST WERE NOT RETURNED.IN A STATEMENT POSTED ON S FACEBOOK PAGE, CLUB Q SAID WAS “VASTATED BY THE SENSELS ATTACK ON OUR MUNY.” IT WENT ON: “OUR PRAYS [SIC] AND THOUGHTS ARE WH ALL THE VICTIMS AND THEIR FAI AND IENDS. WE THANK THE QUICK REACTNS OF HEROIC CTOMERS THAT SUBDUED THE GUNMAN AND END THIS HATE ATTACK.”OF THE 25 JURED, TWO VICTIMS WERE CRIL NDN AT A HOSPAL. NOT ALL OF THE JURI WERE DUE TO GUNSHOTS; SOME VICTIMS MAY HAVE BEEN JURED AS THEY PED.THE FBI NFIRMED S VOLVEMENT THE VTIGATN A TWEET. DISTRICT ATTORNEY MICHAEL ALLEN NFIRMED THE ATTACK WAS BEG VTIGATED AS A POTENTIAL HATE CRIME BUT SAID A FAL CLARATN ON THE MATTER WAS PREMATURE.PRINT JOE BIN SAID A STATEMENT THAT THE “PUBLIC HEALTH EPIMIC” OF GUN VLENCE ULD NO LONGER BE TOLERATED, PARTICULARLY WHEN THREATS AGAST LGBTQ MUNI ARE CREASG.“WHILE NO MOTIVE THIS ATTACK IS YET CLEAR, WE KNOW THAT THE LGBTQI+ MUNY HAS BEEN SUBJECTED TO HORRIFIC HATE VLENCE RECENT YEARS. GUN VLENCE NTU TO HAVE A VASTATG AND PARTICULAR IMPACT ON LGBTQI+ MUNI ACROSS OUR NATN AND THREATS OF VLENCE ARE CREASG,” HE SAID. “TODAY, YET ANOTHER MUNY AMERI HAS BEEN TORN APART BY GUN VLENCE. MORE FAI LEFT WH AN EMPTY CHAIR AT THE TABLE AND HOLE THEIR LIV THAT NNOT BE FILLED. WHEN WILL WE CI WE’VE HAD ENOUGH?”GOV. JARED POLIS SAID A STATEMENT SUNDAY THAT HE SPOKE TO SUTHERS AND DIRECTED STATE ROURC TO THE CY.“THIS IS HORRIFIC, SICKENG, AND VASTATG,” POLIS WROTE. “COLORADO STANDS WH OUR LGBTQ COMMUNY AND EVERYONE IMPACTED BY THIS TRAGEDY AS WE MOURN.” REP. DOUG LAMBORN, WHO REPRENTS THE AREA, CRIED THE “SENSELS LOSS OF LIFE”  A STATEMENT TO THE DAILY BEAST AND URGED PRAYERS TO THE VICTIMS. LAMBORN HAS REPEATEDLY LAMBASTED MEASUR TO RTRICT GUN ACCS AND, A 2019 DAILY SIGNAL LUMN, URGED FOR THE FUNDG OF PBS OVER AN ARTHUR EPISO THAT FEATURED A GAY WEDDG.ACRDG TO PROMOTNAL POSTERS THE CLUB PUT ON S FACEBOOK PAGE EARLIER THE DAY, ON SUNDAY THE VENUE HAD BEEN DUE TO HOST AN “ALL AG MIL DRAG BNCH.” IT ALSO PLANNED AN EVENT MEMORATG TRANSGENR DAY OF REMEMBRANCE ON SUNDAY NIGHT.THURMAN, THE CLUB-GOER WHO SURVIVED, SAID ONE OF HIS IENDS WAS KILLED.“AS A BLACK KID ’S TABOO TO BE GAY, SO G HERE, THIS IS ONE OF THE FIRST PLAC THAT I FELT ACCEPTED TO BE WHO I AM,” HE SAID. “THIS IS OUR HOME. THIS IS OUR SPACE. WE E HERE TO ENJOY OURSELV, AND THIS HAPPENS?”GUN VLENCE HAS VASTATED COLORADO SPRGS OVER THE LAST . A GUNMAN SHOT DOWN SIX PEOPLE AT A BIRTHDAY PARTY ON MOTHER’S DAY LAST YEAR BEFORE HE KILLED HIMSELF, AND 2015, THREE WERE KILLED AND NE WERE JURED A SHOOTG AT A PLANNED PARENTHOOD FACILY. ELSEWHERE THE STATE, 12 PEOPLE WERE KILLED AT A MOVIE THEATER AURORA, COLORADO, 2012.THE TRAGEDY ALSO NEARLY FIVE AND A HALF YEARS AFTER THE PULSE MASSACRE, RRIED OUT BY OMAR MATEEN THE NAME OF THE ISLAMIC STATE. THAT SHOOTG WAS THE SEND ADLIT MASS SHOOTG U.S. HISTORY. WILLIAM O’CONNOR
• COLORADO SPRGS RECKONS WH PAST AFTER GAY CLUB SHOOTG
• MUGSHOT OF COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT SHOWS JURI STAED DURG NONTATN WH 'HEROIC PEOPLE'
• DEFENSE: COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT IS NONBARY

GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY

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. 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. Buddi is open to all gay & bisexual mal 18+.

COLORADO SPRGS GAY MAP

For a prehensive history of the gay bathhoe and Buddi Private Club for Gay & Bisexual men read belowRead More. A 22-year-old gunman opened fire wh a semitomatic rifle si a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, killg five people and leavg 25 jured before he was subdued by "heroic" patrons and arrted by police who arrived wh mut, thori said spect the Saturday night shootg at Club Q ed an AR-15-style semitomatic weapon, a law enforcement official said.

Suthers said there was "reason to hope" that all of those hospalized would shootg rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people. He said patrons who tervened durg the attack were "heroic" and owed a bt of gratu for preventg more Q is a gay and lbian nightclub that featur a drag show on Saturdays, acrdg to s webse.

COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB SHOOTER’S SE HEADS TO TRIAL

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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”The killgs rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people.

(AP) — A shooter seemed to be driven by bias agast the LGBTQ muny plottg an attack at a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, killg five and woundg 17 others, a judge acknowledged Thursday fdg that prosecutors showed enough evince for trial on murr and hate crime charg. A Navy sailor grabbed the barrel of a gunman’s rifle and an Army veteran shed to help as they end the adly mass shootg at the gay nightclub November, a police tective ttified Wednday.

COLORADO SPRGS RECKONS WH PAST AFTER GAY CLUB SHOOTG

District Attorney Michael Allen told the judge that the evince showed that Aldrich had a “distaste for LGBTQ, ” potg to an onle msage of a rifle spe over a gay pri para picture and e of gay slurs agast others and while onle gamg. READ MORE: Gunman kills 5 at gay club, is subdued by patrons. The hearg also revealed that Aldrich might be gay, somethg not prevly mentned by prosecutors or fense attorneys.

Aldrich told one of the patrons who helped stop the attack, “My mom will not accept me bee I’m gay. Also released was a receipt that showed that on one of Aldrich’s viss to the club before the shootg, they bought two vodkas and “gayoli i” om bartenr Derrick Rump, who was among those sla.

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The alleged shooter facg possible hate crime charg the fatal shootg of five people at a Colorado Sprgs gay nightclub was orred held whout bail an ial urt appearance Wednday. Addnally, a YouTube acunt was opened Brk's name that clud an animatn tled "Asian homosexual gets molted. Speakg a vio statement released by UC Health Memorial Hospal, Ed Sanrs said he thought about what he would do a mass shootg after the 2016 massacre of 49 people at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida.

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.

RIFLE-TOTG GUNMAN TURNS DRAG SHOW INTO BLOODBATH‘SENSELESS ATTACK’A 22-YEAR-OLD WAS ARRTED NNECTN WH THE SHOOTG—WHICH WAS SCRIBED AS A “HATE ATTACK” BY THE NIGHTCLUB WHERE HAPPENED.WILLIAM O’CONNORFORMER TRAVEL EDORCORB BOLIMEDIA REPORTERUPDATED NOV. 21, 2022 12:18AM EST / PUBLISHED NOV. 20, 2022 7:09AM EST JASON CONNOLLY/AFP VIA GETTYA RIFLE-TOTG GUNMAN OPENED FIRE DURG A DRAG SHOW AT A GAY NIGHTCLUB COLORADO SPRGS, KILLG FIVE AND JURG 25 BEFORE HE WAS TACKLED BY HEROIC PATRONS.AUTHORI SAID THE SPECT, ANRSON LEE ALDRICH, 22, WAS CTODY. ALTHOUGH POLICE DID NOT PROVI A MOTIVE FOR THE NATN’S LATT MASS SHOOTG, CLUB Q LLED A “HATE ATTACK” A STATEMENT.THE VLENCE THAT UNFOLD JT BEFORE MIDNIGHT DREW IMMEDIATE PARISONS TO THE 2016 SHOOTG AT THE GAY NIGHTCLUB PULSE, WHICH LEFT 49 AD. IT ALSO ME AS DRAG SHOWS HAVE BEEN NMNED BY SOME FACTNS OF THE FAR RIGHT.“THIS IS A HORRIBLE CRIME AND WE HAVE A SPECT CTODY. WE MT DO THIS RIGHT AND ENSURE JTICE IS SERVED,” COLORADO SPRGS MAYOR JOHN SUTHERS SAID AT A SUNDAY PRS NFERENCE. POLICE SAID THEY WERE LLED TO CLUB Q, NORTHEAST OF THE CY, BY A FLOOD OF 911 LLS. TWO PATRONS HAD SUBDUED THE SPECT, AND PS WHO ARRIVED WH SIX MUT TOOK HIM TO THE HOSPAL TO TREAT HIS JURI. “HAD THAT DIVIDUAL NOT TERVENED THIS ULD HAVE BEEN EXPONENTIALLY MORE TRAGIC,” COLORADO SPRGS MAYOR JOHN SUTHERS TOLD THE ASSOCIATED PRS.SUTHERS EXPLAED MORE TAIL HOW THE ATTACKER WAS SUBDUED: WHEN A PATRON, SENSG OPPORTUNY, GRABBED A HANDGUN OM THE SPECT AND H HIM WH . THAT PERSON, ALONG WH ANOTHER, WERE ABLE TO SUBDUE THE GUNMAN UNTIL POLICE ARRIVED.JOSHUA THURMAN, 34, WAS ON THE DANCE FLOOR WHEN HE HEARD THE GUNSHOTS AND RAN TO A DRSG ROOM WH A CTOMER, LOCKED THE DOOR AND LLED POLICE.“WE HEARD EVERYTHG—MORE SHOTS, PEOPLE CRYG, GLASS BREAKG, WDOWS BEG SHATTERED. IT WAS BAD,” HE TOLD REPORTERS. WHEN THE SHOOTG STOPPED, HE EMERGED TO A NIGHTMARE: “BODI LAYG ON THE GROUND, SHATTERED GLASS EVERYWHERE, BLOOD.” A LOL DRAG ARTIST LLED DEL LNAL, WHO WAS PERG THE SATURDAY NIGHT DRAG SHOW AT CLUB Q, TWEETED: “I NEVER THOUGHT THIS WOULD HAPPEN TO ME AND MY BAR. I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO WH MYSELF. I N’T STOP HEARG THE SHOTS.“WALKG THROUGH THE BAR THAT I LL MY HOME AND SEEG …… LIKE THAT... I HATE THIS SO MUCH. I HATE THIS SO FUCKG MUCH.” JOSHUA THURMAN, OF COLORADO SPRGS, WAS CLUB Q WHEN A GUNMAN OPENED FIRE, KILLG FIVE.JASON CONNOLLY/AFP VIA GETTY COLORADO SPRGS POLICE CHIEF ADRIAN VASQUEZ SAID POLICE FOUND TWO RIFL AT THE SCENE, HE SAID, CLUDG A LONG RIFLE ED THE ATTACK.A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL SPEAKG ON NDN OF ANONYMY TOLD THE ASSOCIATED PRS THAT THE SPECT ED AN AR-15-STYLE SEMITOMATIC WEAPON DURG THE ATTACK. ALSO REVERED WERE A HANDGUN AND ADDNAL AMMUNN MAGAZ.FEW TAILS ABOUT THE SPECT HAD EMERGED, BUT A MAN WH THE SAME NAME AND AGE WAS ARRTED COLORADO SPRGS LAST YEAR AFTER HIS MOTHER REPORTED HE THREATENED HER WH “A HOMEMA BOMB, MULTIPLE WEAPONS AND AMMUNN.”THE ASSOCIATED PRS REPORTED THAT THE ARRT FORCED “NEIGHBORS SURROUNDG HOM TO EVACUATE WHILE THE BOMB SQUAD AND CRISIS NEGOTIATORS TALKED HIM TO SURRENRG.”DPE THE NEIGHBORHOOD HORROR, “THERE IS NO RERD PROSECUTORS EVER MOVED FORWARD WH FELONY KIDNAPPG AND MENACG CHARG AGAST ALDRICH,” REPORTED.CALLS TO THE SPECT’S FAY BY THE DAILY BEAST WERE NOT RETURNED.IN A STATEMENT POSTED ON S FACEBOOK PAGE, CLUB Q SAID WAS “VASTATED BY THE SENSELS ATTACK ON OUR MUNY.” IT WENT ON: “OUR PRAYS [SIC] AND THOUGHTS ARE WH ALL THE VICTIMS AND THEIR FAI AND IENDS. WE THANK THE QUICK REACTNS OF HEROIC CTOMERS THAT SUBDUED THE GUNMAN AND END THIS HATE ATTACK.”OF THE 25 JURED, TWO VICTIMS WERE CRIL NDN AT A HOSPAL. NOT ALL OF THE JURI WERE DUE TO GUNSHOTS; SOME VICTIMS MAY HAVE BEEN JURED AS THEY PED.THE FBI NFIRMED S VOLVEMENT THE VTIGATN A TWEET. DISTRICT ATTORNEY MICHAEL ALLEN NFIRMED THE ATTACK WAS BEG VTIGATED AS A POTENTIAL HATE CRIME BUT SAID A FAL CLARATN ON THE MATTER WAS PREMATURE.PRINT JOE BIN SAID A STATEMENT THAT THE “PUBLIC HEALTH EPIMIC” OF GUN VLENCE ULD NO LONGER BE TOLERATED, PARTICULARLY WHEN THREATS AGAST LGBTQ MUNI ARE CREASG.“WHILE NO MOTIVE THIS ATTACK IS YET CLEAR, WE KNOW THAT THE LGBTQI+ MUNY HAS BEEN SUBJECTED TO HORRIFIC HATE VLENCE RECENT YEARS. GUN VLENCE NTU TO HAVE A VASTATG AND PARTICULAR IMPACT ON LGBTQI+ MUNI ACROSS OUR NATN AND THREATS OF VLENCE ARE CREASG,” HE SAID. “TODAY, YET ANOTHER MUNY AMERI HAS BEEN TORN APART BY GUN VLENCE. MORE FAI LEFT WH AN EMPTY CHAIR AT THE TABLE AND HOLE THEIR LIV THAT NNOT BE FILLED. WHEN WILL WE CI WE’VE HAD ENOUGH?”GOV. JARED POLIS SAID A STATEMENT SUNDAY THAT HE SPOKE TO SUTHERS AND DIRECTED STATE ROURC TO THE CY.“THIS IS HORRIFIC, SICKENG, AND VASTATG,” POLIS WROTE. “COLORADO STANDS WH OUR LGBTQ COMMUNY AND EVERYONE IMPACTED BY THIS TRAGEDY AS WE MOURN.” REP. DOUG LAMBORN, WHO REPRENTS THE AREA, CRIED THE “SENSELS LOSS OF LIFE”  A STATEMENT TO THE DAILY BEAST AND URGED PRAYERS TO THE VICTIMS. LAMBORN HAS REPEATEDLY LAMBASTED MEASUR TO RTRICT GUN ACCS AND, A 2019 DAILY SIGNAL LUMN, URGED FOR THE FUNDG OF PBS OVER AN ARTHUR EPISO THAT FEATURED A GAY WEDDG.ACRDG TO PROMOTNAL POSTERS THE CLUB PUT ON S FACEBOOK PAGE EARLIER THE DAY, ON SUNDAY THE VENUE HAD BEEN DUE TO HOST AN “ALL AG MIL DRAG BNCH.” IT ALSO PLANNED AN EVENT MEMORATG TRANSGENR DAY OF REMEMBRANCE ON SUNDAY NIGHT.THURMAN, THE CLUB-GOER WHO SURVIVED, SAID ONE OF HIS IENDS WAS KILLED.“AS A BLACK KID ’S TABOO TO BE GAY, SO G HERE, THIS IS ONE OF THE FIRST PLAC THAT I FELT ACCEPTED TO BE WHO I AM,” HE SAID. “THIS IS OUR HOME. THIS IS OUR SPACE. WE E HERE TO ENJOY OURSELV, AND THIS HAPPENS?”GUN VLENCE HAS VASTATED COLORADO SPRGS OVER THE LAST . A GUNMAN SHOT DOWN SIX PEOPLE AT A BIRTHDAY PARTY ON MOTHER’S DAY LAST YEAR BEFORE HE KILLED HIMSELF, AND 2015, THREE WERE KILLED AND NE WERE JURED A SHOOTG AT A PLANNED PARENTHOOD FACILY. ELSEWHERE THE STATE, 12 PEOPLE WERE KILLED AT A MOVIE THEATER AURORA, COLORADO, 2012.THE TRAGEDY ALSO NEARLY FIVE AND A HALF YEARS AFTER THE PULSE MASSACRE, RRIED OUT BY OMAR MATEEN THE NAME OF THE ISLAMIC STATE. THAT SHOOTG WAS THE SEND ADLIT MASS SHOOTG U.S. HISTORY. WILLIAM O’CONNOR

”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. 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 a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, killg five people and leavg more than two dozen jured before he was subdued by "heroic" patrons and arrted by police who were on the scene wh mut, thori said a news nference Sunday morng, Colorado Sprgs Police Chief Adrian Vasquez intified the spect as 22-year-old Anrson Lee Aldrich, who was beg treated for juri.

"Flags will be lowered for 5 days to remember each of the 5 dividuals who lost their liv this sensels tragedy, " Polis Q is a gay and lbian nightclub that featur a "Drag Diva Drag Show" on Saturdays, acrdg to s webse. Although a motive wasn't yet clear, nor were the genr inti of the victims, the cint me as anti-gay rhetoric has tensified by extremists.

COLORADO SPRGS RECKONS WH PAST AFTER GAY CLUB SHOOTG

Experts warned that extremist groups uld see anti-gay rhetoric as a ll to actn.

The 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 have been 523 mass killgs sce 2006 rultg 2, 727 aths as of Nov.

"Club Q has been a safe haven for the LGBTQ muny an area where hasn't always been easy, " Polis, who beme the first openly gay ernor the U.

MUGSHOT OF COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT SHOWS JURI STAED DURG NONTATN WH 'HEROIC PEOPLE'

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