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• WILL THE COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG BE PROSECUTED AS A HATE CRIME?
• SPECT IN SHOOTG AT COLORADO GAY CLUB WILL PLEAD GUILTY AND ACCEPT LIFE SENTENCE, REPORT SAYS
• COLORADO SPRGS SHOOTG: FIVE AD AND 18 JURED AFTER HORROR ATTACK SI GAY CLUB

WILL THE COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG BE PROSECUTED AS A HATE CRIME?

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. Colorado gay nightclub shooter expected to strike plea al: ‘I have to take rponsibily’ (Associated Prs).

It was pafully remiscent of the 2016 massacre at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando, Fla., where a gunman killed 49 people and wound 53 others after proclaimg allegiance to the Islamic State terrorist Miller for The New York TimJoshua Thurman, who had gone to Club Q for an early birthday celebratn, thought the first gunshots were part of the mic.

SPECT IN SHOOTG AT COLORADO GAY CLUB WILL PLEAD GUILTY AND ACCEPT LIFE SENTENCE, REPORT SAYS

Colorado Sprgs, a cy of about 500, 000 people south of Denver, is a Republin stronghold, and for s was a center for nservative Christian efforts to pass laws limg the rights of gay the cy, which has long had a small but vibrant L. Grzecka said, the gay muny Colorado Sprgs had e together, “thkg we were takg a stance.

“In the gay muny you create your fai, so ’s like I lost my real mother almost.

“It’s one of the few plac that the gay muny n go to that they felt fairly safe at, whout issu om other people, ” he said. ETA patron ‘saved dozens and dozens of liv’ by tacklg the Club Q gunman, an owner Brenner for The New York TimCOLORADO SPRINGS — The patron who tackled a gunman si a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs on Saturday night prevented a adly shootg om beg far worse, the club’s owners said on Sunday. ”After the 2016 mass shootg at Pulse, a crowd gay nightclub Orlando, Fla., where 49 people were killed, Mr.

COLORADO SPRGS SHOOTG: FIVE AD AND 18 JURED AFTER HORROR ATTACK SI GAY CLUB

VioJoshua Thurman scribed the scene at Club Q, a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs where a gunman opened fire and killed at least five Brenner for The New York TimJoshua Thurman thought the first gunshots were part of the mic, and kept a gunman opened fire si Club Q Saturday night, killg at least five people, Mr. Brenner for The New York TimColorado Sprgs, a cy of about 500, 000 people south of Denver, is a Republin stronghold, and for s was a center for nservative Christian efforts to pass laws limg the rights of gay people. Richard Skorman, a longtime Cy Council member and lol bs owner, said Colorado Sprgs was for years a center of anti-gay activism, and the home base for Christian thk tanks and polil groups.

”Durg that time, his rtrant, Poor Richard’s, was repeatedly targeted for beg a gay-iendly hangout. ”In recent years, though, anti-gay activism the cy has largely disappeared, Mr.

Colorado Sprgs has bee more diverse, the firebrand Christian lears who once nounced homosexualy as a s have aged out, and the Evangelil Christian lears who have replaced them generally exprs greater evince of the changg culture, Club Q, the L. Gay bars have long been havens for those explorg their inty, or simply seekg a space to be themselv whout fear of not beg onle review lled Club Q a “fun, clive place to hang out.