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• GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
• NSW POLICE LOSE URT BID TO EXCLU STT JOHNSON KILLG OM GAY HATE QUIRY
• COLORADO GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT FACG MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG
• PREACHER ASKS GOD TO KILL GAY PEOPLE IN “SLOW, PAFUL DEATH”
• POLICE: GUNMAN KILLS 5 AT GAY CLUB, IS SUBDUED BY PATRONS
• HERE ARE THE FIVE VICTIMS WHO WERE KILLED COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG
• THREE ARRTED AFTER GAY MAN BEATEN TO ATH GALICIA
• COMMISSN VTIGAT FOUR S OF UNSOLVED ANTI-GAY KILLGS ATRALIA
• I WAS A GAY BOY WHO TRIED TO KILL MYSELF. NOW I KNOW IT WASN'T MY FLT.
• OKLAHOMA GOP NDIDATE LLS KILLG GAY PEOPLE ‘TOTALLY JT’
• SERIAL KILLER WHO PREYED ON GAY MEN, WAS DUBBED 'I-95 KILLER' IS EXECUTED FLORIDA
• ATRALIAN MAN IS CONVICTED OF KILLG GAY AMERIN 1980S

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

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. 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.

NSW POLICE LOSE URT BID TO EXCLU STT JOHNSON KILLG OM GAY HATE QUIRY

A bid by New South Wal police to exclu a high-profile killg om a gay hate quiry has been ath of US mathematician Stt Johnson is one of dozens of s unr the spotlight at a special missn of quiry to spected gay hate crim Sydney between 1970 and 27-year-old died after he was punched at a gay beat on Sydney’s northern beach. A 2017 qut termed his ath was a homici, wh fdgs that he “died as a rult of a gay hate attack” viewed by some police as a “feat”.

In the latt velopment, Stt Phillip Whe plead guilty to throwg the punch that ultimately ed Johnson to fall to his month, jtice Robert Beech-Jon dismissed “what appears to be an absurd suggtn [by police] that Dr Johnson killed himself” when sentencg Whe to ne years past newsletter promotnafter newsletter promotnNSW police had argued Johnson’s ath was outsi the current quiry’s terms of reference on the basis the matter was not unsolved, the man rponsible for his ath intified as gay and a sentencg judge did not fd the ath to be motivated by gay the quiry’s missner, jtice John Sackar, on Tuday led s terms of reference were much wir and answers to qutns such as how and why Johnson died were still not urt did not make a fdg beyond reasonable doubt that Whe was motivated by gay hate, but did not le out the possibily, he is due to hand down his fal report next month. Richardson/medianews Group/the Denver Post Via Getty Imag | Denver Post | Getty ImagThe man spected of openg fire at a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs was beg held on murr and hate crim charg Monday, two days after the attack that killed five people and left 17 others wh gunshot urt rerds showed that 22-year-old Anrson Lee Aldrich faced five murr charg and five charg of mtg a bias-motivated crime g bodily jury Saturday night's attack at Club Q. There's no public rerd prosecutors ever moved forward wh felony kidnappg and menacg charg agast shootg rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people.

COLORADO GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT FACG MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG

Police Chief Adrian Vasquez said patrons who tervened durg the attack were "heroic" and prevented more Q is a gay and lbian nightclub that featur a drag show on Saturdays, acrdg to s webse. "Bmeister was believed to have erced young men Indianapolis gay bars to return to his Wtfield hoe before killg them. "When you look at the middle '80s to middle '90s, fay members didn't know maybe that their relative was gay.

So you have to take 'gay' out of this equatn, and, if you had someone missg, a male dividual your fay that was missg middle '80s to middle '90s, I need you to e forward, and we don't know that all of the people were gay, so we do know that they are male.

PREACHER ASKS GOD TO KILL GAY PEOPLE IN “SLOW, PAFUL DEATH”

Related: Convictn Gay-Bashg Murr of Stt Johnson Overturned.

A gay man was executed Afghanistan by members of the Taliban recently, who then sent vio of the horrific murr to the man's fay. "Life is hell for every LGBT Afghan, " Bahar, a gay man and member of Behht Collective, told the outlet, also addg that, "Taliban terrorists are worse than wild animals. The Taliban will regularly seize the phon of men spected of beg gay.

POLICE: GUNMAN KILLS 5 AT GAY CLUB, IS SUBDUED BY PATRONS

Some gay men the untry have been scbbg or even letg their social media acunts, as the Taliban will regularly search for profil wh LGBTQ+ ntent.

HERE ARE THE FIVE VICTIMS WHO WERE KILLED COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG

"Sadat, an activist who helps gay men flee across the borr to neighborg Pakistan, said he has chosen to stay the untry and help others pe the year, a gay man g the psdonym Gabir reported his boyiend had been seized by the Taliban. Another gay man now hidg for his safety reported last year that he was burned and tortured by the Taliban.

Earlier this year, a gay nonbary person reported they felt "alone" after the Taliban tortured and stabbed them 18 tim wh a knife. "The ath of Hamed Sabouri is further proof that the Taliban will not stop until they eradite all gay people om Afghanistan, " Sadat said.

A fundamentalist pastor gave a sermon which he prayed for “every homo that exists” to suffer “a slow, paful ath” — ntug a trend which he and other right-wg pastors fixate on gay people when rantg about s and remptn.

THREE ARRTED AFTER GAY MAN BEATEN TO ATH GALICIA

In the vio, Urbanek utiliz the well-worn trope of parg gay people to pedophil.

“Every homo that exists, you know what my prayer for them is? This isn’t Urbanek’s first dive to the world of homophobic rants.

He’s prevly ed anti-gay slurs to refer to gay people his sermons. He has flouted the e of anti-gay slurs his sermons, lks the LGBTQ Pri movement wh pedophilia, and equently lls for gay people to be executed by the state (wh the Uned Stat beg a theocracy dited to rryg out those executns).

COMMISSN VTIGAT FOUR S OF UNSOLVED ANTI-GAY KILLGS ATRALIA

Another New IFB preacher, Jason Graber, of Sure Foundatn Baptist Church Spokane, Washgton, recently me unr fire for llg gays “AIDS dispensers. READ NEXTChechen Pop Star Was Tortured and ExecutedJapane Pop Star Com Out as GayMissouri Sued Over Ban on Genr-Affirmg CareLGBTQ+ Victory Fund Endors Joe Vogel for Congrs.

I WAS A GAY BOY WHO TRIED TO KILL MYSELF. NOW I KNOW IT WASN'T MY FLT.

(AP) — 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.

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

OKLAHOMA GOP NDIDATE LLS KILLG GAY PEOPLE ‘TOTALLY JT’

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. 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.

Colorado Sprgs Police Chief Adrian Vasquez intified all five victims at a news nference Monday is what we know about Aston, an undated photo, was one of five people killed late Saturday when a gunman opened fire a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs.

"In the gay muny, we ngregate together to make our fai. Is easit to throw a gay off a high buildg or burn him to ath? Mlim cleric backs gay burngs [Pk News].

SERIAL KILLER WHO PREYED ON GAY MEN, WAS DUBBED 'I-95 KILLER' IS EXECUTED FLORIDA

Subscribe to Queerty for a daily dose of #homophobia #islam #news stori and more. Spanish police have arrted three people nnectn wh the killg of a young gay man whose ath a possible homophobic attack over the weekend shocked the untry and sparked natnwi Luiz, a 24-year-old nursg assistant, was out wh iends the Galician cy of A Coña the early hours of Saturday when an argument started outsi a iends told El Mundo that Luiz had stepped out of the club to make a vio ll when two passersby acced him of tryg to film them on his phone. Demonstrators rried signs wh slogans cludg “Your homophobia is killg ”.

ATRALIAN MAN IS CONVICTED OF KILLG GAY AMERIN 1980S

”José Miñon, the central ernment’s legate Galicia, said police were examg whether the attack was motivated by homophobia, addg that the vtigatn was at a ccial stage. “We are beg abed and murred for beg LGBTI, ” the State Feratn of Lbians, Gays and Bisexuals said a statement on Twter. A special missn heard evince on Wednday regardg unsolved aths tied to more than 40 years of anti-gay hate crim Atralia's most populo state, where police were notorly different to such Special Commissn of Inquiry to LGBTIQ Hate Crim New South Wal is the "first of s kd anywhere the world, " a lawyer assistg the quiry, Peter Gray, said at the hearg's outset Sydney.