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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The -owner of the Colorado Sprgs gay nightclub where a shooter turned a drag queen’s birthday celebratn to a massacre said he thks the shootg that killed five people and jured 17 others is a reflectn of anti-LGBTQ sentiment that has evolved om prejudice to cement.

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

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

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

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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. Aldrich was then moved to El Paso County Jail on spect ma their first urt appearance via vio lk om the jail on Wednday, where they uld be seen slumped a chair wh visible bisg on their fence lawyers appeared to need to prompt Aldrich durg the brief vio spect spoke twice, wh a slurred rponse, nfirmg their name and to say "no" when the judge asked whether they had any on Tuday, fence lawyers said the acced is nonbary and a footnote to their filg asserted that Aldrich prefers g the pronouns "they" and "them" more: Colorado gay club shootg spect intifi as non-bary, lawyers say.

The victims of a shootg at a gay club Colorado have spoken out about their oral. Co-owners of Club Q, Matthew Hayn, ont, and Nic Grzecka, addrs the crowd after a 25-foot historic pri flag was displayed on the exterr of Cy Hall to mark the weekend mass shootg at the gay nightclub Wednday, Nov. (AP) — The -owner of the Colorado Sprgs gay nightclub where a shooter turned a drag queen’s birthday celebratn to a massacre said he thks the shootg that killed five people and jured 17 others is a reflectn of anti-LGBTQ sentiment that has evolved om prejudice to Grzecka’s voice was tged wh exhstn as he spoke wh The Associated Prs on Wednday night some of his first ments sce Saturday night's attack at Club Q, a venue Grzecka helped build to an enclave that staed the LGBTQ muny nservative-leang Colorado Sprgs.

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Grzecka, who started moppg floors and bartendg at Club Q 2003 a year after opened, said he hop to channel his grief and anger to rebuildg the support system for Colorado Sprgs’ LGBTQ muny that only Club Q had and state officials have offered support and Print Joe Bin and First Lady Jill Bin reached out to Grzecka and -owner Matthew Hayn on Thursday to offer ndolenc and reerate their support for the muny, as well as their mment to fightg back agast hate and gun Q opened after the only other gay bar Colorado Sprgs at that time shuttered, Grzecka said, scribg that era as an evolutn of gay bars. Five people were killed, and 18 people jured, when an attacker opened fire at Club Q, a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, on late Saturday night.

He was Black, gay and the 'origal' kg of rock and roll. 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.

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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 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.

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