A 23-year-old was sentenced to life prison whout the possibily of parole after pleadg guilty on Monday to killg five people a 2022 mass shootg at a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, Colorado. Anrson Lee Aldrich plead guilty Colorado state urt to five first-gree murr unts and 46 attempted murr unts, part of an agreement reached wh prosecutors that avoid what uld have been a lengthy trial. Aldrich also plead no ntt to two unts of bias-motivated crim.
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- POLICE: GUNMAN KILLS 5 AT GAY CLUB, IS SUBDUED BY PATRONS
- SHOOTER COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB ATTACK PLEADS GUILTY, GETS LIFE PRISON
- GAY ATLANTA
POLICE: GUNMAN KILLS 5 AT GAY CLUB, IS SUBDUED BY PATRONS
Beg Asian Amerin and LGBTQ+ n feel lonely, wh stutns such as ethnic church often disavowg non-heterosexual relatnships while tradnal LGBTQ+ spac such as gay bars n be unwelg. * gay club fire 2022 *
Photograph: Marie Le Ble/Zuma Wire/Rex/ShutterstockThis week, New York Cy’s mayor, Eric Adams, posned the cy as a welg place for queer people ntrast to plac like Florida, where Governor Ron DeSantis jt signed a “don’t say gay” law.
New York Cy’s most well-known cint is the police raid at Stonewall Inn that sparked the 1969 Stonewall Uprisg – and helped lnch the morn gay rights movement. Andrew Ahn’s father once told him that there were “no gay people Korea. 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.
SHOOTER COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB ATTACK PLEADS GUILTY, GETS LIFE PRISON
* gay club fire 2022 *
” 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. Beg Asian Amerin and LGBTQ+ n feel lonely, wh stutns such as ethnic church often disavowg non-heterosexual relatnships while tradnal LGBTQ+ spac such as gay bars n be unwelg to people of lor.
GAY ATLANTA
“Fdg plac like GAMeBoi, where beg queer and Asian do -exist … It’s not like a 1, 000-year-old Korean cultural rual, but I uld create a new rual, ” said Ahn, a recent Friday, hundreds packed QT Nightlife’s monthly K-Pop Night at Micky’s, a Wt Hollywood gay club a block or so east om the old GAMeBoi posed for selfi a pk Barbie box wh dis balls hangg overhead.
” (Michael Owen Baker / For The Tim) Even historilly gay neighborhoods like Wt Hollywood or San Francis’s Castro district, Asian Amerins have long been ignored or fetishized, seen as feme and weak.