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Contents:

• WNS: SHOOTER AT GAY CLUB SHOWED 'NO HATN'
• AT LEAST 5 KILLED SHOOTG AT GAY NIGHTCLUB COLORADO SPRGS, POLICE SAY
• 'WE DON'T DO GAY': ANRSON ALDRICH FATHER SHOCKG REACTN TO SHOOTG
• ‘WE DON’T DO GAY’: FATHER OF COLORADO SHOOTER ANRSON LEE ALDRICH GO ON ANTI-GAY RANT BIZARRE TERVIEW
• ‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
• GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
• SPECT MASS SHOOTG AT COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB IS EXPECTED TO TAKE A PLEA AL
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

WNS: SHOOTER AT GAY CLUB SHOWED 'NO HATN'

Patrons at the gay club that night were celebratg a drag queen's birthday and the atmosphere had been ftive.

AT LEAST 5 KILLED SHOOTG AT GAY NIGHTCLUB COLORADO SPRGS, POLICE SAY

— A gunman opened fire a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, Colo., killg five people and jurg 18 before he was subdued by “heroic” patrons and arrted by police who arrived on the scene wh about five mut, police said firearms, cludg a “long rifle, ” were found at the scene at Club Q, said Colorado Sprgs Police Chief Adrian Vasquez. Jared Polis, who beme the first openly gay man the Uned Stat to be elected ernor 2018, said the news was “sickeng. ”Although a motive the shootg wasn’t yet clear, nor were the genr inti of the victims, the cint me as anti-gay rhetoric has tensified by extremists.

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'WE DON'T DO GAY': ANRSON ALDRICH FATHER SHOCKG REACTN TO SHOOTG

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‘WE DON’T DO GAY’: FATHER OF COLORADO SHOOTER ANRSON LEE ALDRICH GO ON ANTI-GAY RANT BIZARRE TERVIEW

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‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS

Warng: graphic imag, language.Washgton: The father of the spect at the centre of Ameri’s latt LGBTQ nightclub massacre has exprsed alarm about the rampage, sayg he got sred wonrg: “sh, is he gay?” Three days after allegedly killg five people and jurg 17 others durg a mass shootg at Club Q Colorado Sprgs, Anrson Lee Aldrich ma their first urt appearance on Wednday (US time), stg a wheelchair and slumped to the si wh facial juri and apparent difficulty speakg.Anrson Aldrich, the spect  the adly Colorado LGBTQ nightclub massacre, appeared slouched and partially unrponsive durg a November 23 urt hearg.Cred: El Paso County District CourtThe 22-year-old, whose lawyers say intifi as non-bary and go by the pronouns they/them, had been hospal sce beg beaten to submissn by patrons at the club, and now fac prelimary charg of first-gree murr and bias-motivated crime – Colorado’s versn of a hate felony.While Aldrich was held whout bail by the judge, new tails about their past began to emerge, cludg revelatns om their tranged father, Aaron Frankl Brk.In an terview wh US TV work CBS 8, Brk, a mixed martial arts-fighter-turned-porn-actor and a self-scribed “nservative Republin” said he was ntacted by Aldrich’s fence attorney after the shootg.MMA-fighter-turned-porn-actor Aaron Frankl Brk, father of 22-year-old Anrson Aldrich.Cred: Twter/News8/NoLieWhBTC“There was a shootg volvg multiple people, and then I go on to fd out ’s a gay bar,” Brk said an terview outsi his San Diego home. “And I thk, ‘oh my God, is he gay?’ I got sred, ‘Sh, is he gay?’ And he’s not gay, so I said, ‘Phhhewww…’“I am a Mormon, I am a nservative Republin, and we don’t do gay… My opn about gays is that ’s not OK. I thk we should stand up agast homosexualy.”The Mormon Church has nfirmed that Aldrich was a member but had not been active for some time.

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

The tranged birth father of the 22-year-old spect who allegedly opened fire at an LGBT nightclub Colorado Sprgs, Colorado, on the night of November 19, killg five people and jurg 18 others, reportedly said he's relieved to hear his child isn't gay, but stead a mass shootg a vio terview ma by CBS 8 San Diego wh Aaron Brk, the birth father of Anrson Aldrich, the man rells wonrg if Aldrich was gay after hearg about the mass shootg at Club Q Colorado Sprgs.

And then I go on to fd out 's a gay bar. I got sred, 'S***, is he gay? ' And he's not gay, so I said, phew...

SPECT MASS SHOOTG AT COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB IS EXPECTED TO TAKE A PLEA AL

The spect's tranged birth father said he was relieved to hear his child wasn't gay.

Qutned by the CBS 8 reporter, Brk talks about beg "adamant" about tellg Aldrich that "gay is bad. ""We don't do gay, " Brk said, mentng beg a Mormon, a nservative Republin and "anti-gay.

And then I go on to fd out ’s a gay bar. I got sred, ‘Sh, is he gay? ’ And he’s not gay, so I said, phew… I am a nservative Republin.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

The father of Anrson Lee Aldrich — the spect a mass shootg at a Colorado nightclub — spewed anti-gay ments a ramblg, herent explanatn of his relatnship wh his tranged son. The dad bizarrely claimed durg an terview wh CBS 8- San Diego that his first ncern upon learng his son allegedly killed five at an LGBT tablishment was whether his child was homosexual.

I was like ‘Oh my god, s–t, is he gay? ’ And he’s not gay, ” Aaron Brk, 48, said wh an exaggerated sigh of relief. I’m a nservative Republin and we don’t do gay.

I n’t get answers om the attorneys really, but they’re sayg ’s volvg a gay bar.