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A man who has been lled a hero for helpg subdue the spect the adly Colorado Sprgs gay nightclub mass shootg has spoken out about what he experienced si the venue. — A rated army veteran who tackled the shooter who killed five a Colorado Sprgs gay club said he wanted to protect the close kn muny si the room.

HOME News Royal Showbiz & TV Sport Comment Fance Travel Entertament Life & Style UK Polics Royal US World Science Weather Weird History Nature Sunday InYourArea Hero army veteran Rich Fierro has scribed disarmg a gunman by g his semitomatic rifle as a bludgeon after he let fire on a gay nightclub. 13:12, Tue, Nov 22, 2022 | UPDATED: 17:21, Tue, Nov 22, 2022 Colorado Sprgs: Police nfirm fatali after nightclub shootgA hero army veteran helped disarm a gunman who opened fire on a gay nightclub by g his weapon as a bludgeon - before rtrag the shooter until police arrived on the Fierro was the club wh his fay when he realised a gunman was sprayg bullets at revellers and his ary trag stcts kicked, he ducked to avoid any potential g fire, then moved to try to disarm the shooter. Jared Polis, who 2018 was the first openly gay male to be elected ernor, said "brave dividuals" stepped durg the "horrific, sickeng and vastatg" shootg that has killed at least five people and jured over two dozen.

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And I don’t mean jt gay people. "Army vet who took down Colorado gunman says ‘I’m not a hero’ "I'm not a hero, " clared the Army veteran who helped subdue a gunman at a Colorado gay nightclub, addg that his thoughts are wh the fai of the five people sla.

"Authori intify victims who were fatally shot at Club QAuthori Colorado Sprgs intified the five victims Tuday who were fatally wound at a gay nightclub over the weekend. — Richard Fierro, an Army veteran, was one of two people who tackled and subdued the gunman si a gay nightclub Saturday night Colorado Sprgs, endg a rampage that killed at least five people and jured 19 others, his wife said an terview at her home Monday afternoon, Jsi Fierro scribed her hband’s heroic efforts to prevent greater tragedy. He was a member of the universy's GayStraight Alliance, Mabery said, and was "very active" the school's LGBTQ muny.

A report released Augt by the Human Rights Campaign, the untry's largt LGBTQ rights group, and the non-ernmental anizatn Center for Counterg Digal Hate, found anti-LGBTQ rhetoric surged onle earlier this year the wake of the passage of Florida's Parental Rights Edutn Act, which crics have dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" law. Poet Jam Davis "proudly named [the book] after a gay bar Colorado Sprgs, " acrdg to his webse.

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We nmn the horrific vlence that shattered an eveng of celebratn for all the LGBTQ muny of Colorado Sprgs and our alli, " the nightclub said a statement released through the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD). Andrew Ahn’s father once told him that there were “no gay people Korea.

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In a culturally nservative muny, where gog to church and buildg a fay were heavily emphasized, Ahn felt his gay inty kept him “om beg able to participate Korean culture. ” Then, he started equentg GAMeBoi, a weekly Asian Amerin gay party at Wt Hollywood’s Rage Nightclub. He learned to embrace beg both Korean and gay, so much so that he directed “Fire Island, ” a groundbreakg queer Asian Amerin rom- released last year.

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In 2019, then-Wt Hollywood Mayor John Duran argued that he did not appropriately touch a member of the Gay Men’s Chos of Los Angel bee “he’s a skny Korean kid wh pimpl on his cheek. ” Asian Amerin advocy groups cricized Duran’s remark, wh API Equaly-LA potg to the long history of discrimatn agast Asian men gay muni such as Wt Hollywood, whose clubs “ed to require three forms of photo intifitn om anyone they perceived as Asian.

” said Crisman, a 36-year-old gay Korean Amerin rearcher and artist. On this night, he had brought some female high school iends who wanted to experience the gay clubbg scene. As bullets tore through a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, killg five people and woundg many more, one patron who had been partyg moments before shed to actn, grabbg a handgun om the spect, htg him wh and png him down until police arrived jt mut ctomer was one of at least two whom police and cy officials cred wh stoppg the gunman and limg the bloodshed Saturday night's shootg at Club Q.

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