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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.

COLORADO GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT FACG MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG

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. 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. 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.

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

"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.

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.

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

"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.

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?

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

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). 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. (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.

THREE ARRTED AFTER GAY MAN BEATEN TO ATH GALICIA

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]. 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.

COMMISSN VTIGAT FOUR S OF UNSOLVED ANTI-GAY KILLGS ATRALIA

Demonstrators rried signs wh slogans cludg “Your homophobia is killg ”. ”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. He add that rpons om Atralian society and s stutns, cludg police, to anti-gay vlence and killgs were historilly "lackg. For five months, a team of pennt attorneys reviews more than 100, 000 documents om police fil and other sourc spanng four s, the missn said a note posted to s webse, for rmatn about anti-gay hate crim and killgs.

Vlence agast gay men Sydney was particularly prevalent om the mid-1980s until the early 1990s due to creased hostily and fear stemmg om the AIDS epimic, acrdg to a prev report by ACON, a nonprof anizatn that foc on health issu affectg LGBTQ people and people livg wh half of the 88 "gay hate" and "anti-gay bias" aths New South Wal between 1976 and 2000 occurred that perd, the report clu Stt Johnson, a 27-year-old Los Angel-born mathematician whose fatal fall om a Sydney clifftop 1988 was ially dismissed by police as killer, Stt Whe, 52, was sentenced May to 12 years prison after pleadg guilty to murr.

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

Atralian attus toward LGBTQ people changed rapidly the late 20th 1958, then-New South Wal Police Commissner Col Delaney scribed homosexualy as the "greatt social menace" state crimalized gay sex 1984 but enacted a so-lled "gay panic fense" to charg of murr and other vlent crim until 2014. Also known as the "homosexual advance fense, " a crimal uld e the victim makg a sexual approach as a partial fense. A parliamentary quiry then wined the timeame by examg what scribed as "gay and transgenr hate crim" between 1970 and 2010.

OKLAHOMA GOP NDIDATE LLS KILLG GAY PEOPLE ‘TOTALLY JT’

That quiry found the police force "failed s rponsibili to properly vtigate s of historil gay and transgenr hate crime, " unrmg LGTBQ nfince the crimal jtice quiry last year remend the tablishment of the current judicial quiry wh powers to force wns to new quiry, led by New South Wal Supreme Court Jtice John Sackar, will re-exame the 86 aths durg the 24-year wdow and make s own termatn about which on rema quiry has also examed New South Wal fil of more than 700 unsolved murrs and more than 500 missg persons om 1970 until 2010 for potential gay hate and anti-gay bias quiry mt report by June 30. We need to hear om anyone who n help do that, " he have ma efforts recent years to mend relatns wh the LGTBQ apologized 2016 for vlently arrtg and beatg 53 activists who marched at Sydney's first Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras 1978. But so were experienc outsi the home that ma me ashamed to be gay.

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

Some of my earlit memori volved church lears preachg that homosexualy was immoral, an abomatn, that God did not love gay people. Felti and lleagu published their fdgs on ACEs, Matthew Shepard was sgled out for beg gay, beaten, tied to a fence, and left to die. An ternatnal team of scientists recently found that gay men had ls gray matter volume the bra’s thalam regn, which n atrophy unr extreme strs, pared to heterosexual men.

ATRALIAN MAN IS CONVICTED OF KILLG GAY AMERIN 1980S

The team also found that creased gray matter volume this regn, which is rponsible for procsg external stimuli, was associated wh creased may believe that the reason LGBTQ+ people are more likely to die by suici or have mental health problems is bee homosexualy is “unnatural” or is a psychiatric ndn.

The Amerin Psychiatric Associatn removed homosexualy om the Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs 1973. I know I would not have rried this shame of beg gay for three s. A GOP ndidate for the Oklahoma state hoe is unr fire over his rurfaced remarks jtifyg the murr of gay Esk was mpaigng for a different seat 2013 when he said that acrdg to the Bible, Christians would be “totally the right” to kill gay people a Facebook ment ments gaed renewed attentn as Mr Esk’s prepar to take on fellow Republin Gloria Banister a n-off primary electn for Oklahoma’s 87th Hoe District on Tuday.

Prsed about the remarks ahead of this week’s electn, Mr Esk appeared to double down by llg “totally jt” to kill gay people bee “ me directly om God” 2013, on an article about the Pope askg “who am I to judge?