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Contents:

• TWO BARMEN AMONG THE AD MASS SHOOTG AT GAY NIGHTCLUB COLORADO
• OWNER OF GAY CLUB: SHOOTG AMID A NEW ‘TYPE OF HATE’
• MAN WHO MENACED GAY BAR WH GUN SENTENCED TO 5 YEARS
• THE TERACTN OF DRAG QUEENS AND GAY MEN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SPAC
• THE 10 BEST AMSTERDAM GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS AMSTERDAM
• OWNER OF GAY CLUB: SHOOTG AMID A NEW 'TYPE OF HATE'

TWO BARMEN AMONG THE AD MASS SHOOTG AT GAY NIGHTCLUB COLORADO

A drag queen is one of the hero who saved an untold number of liv after a gunman opened fire at a Colorado gay nightclub...

OWNER OF GAY CLUB: SHOOTG AMID A NEW ‘TYPE OF HATE’

Noah Reich, left, and David Maldonado, the Los Angel -founrs of Classroom of Compassn, put up a memorial wh photographs of the five victims of a weekend mass shootg at a nearby gay nightclub on Tuday, Nov.

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.

MAN WHO MENACED GAY BAR WH GUN SENTENCED TO 5 YEARS

Polis told CNN’s Jim Asta there are only two gay bars Colorado Sprgs, and Club Q was one of the ma venu. Many — though not all — drag performers intify as gay men or trans women offstage.

Perhaps most famoly, the group "Save our Children" spread the false claims the 1970s backlash to the gay rights movement. Crics of the Dantis-sponsored "Don't Say Gay" bill say eros protectns for the LGBTQ muny.

THE TERACTN OF DRAG QUEENS AND GAY MEN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SPAC

A man who has been lled a hero for helpg subdue the spect the adly Colorado Sprgs gay nightclub mass shootg has spoken out about what he experienced si the venue.

“It is no accint that this happened Colorado Sprgs, a cy steeped homophobia, transphobia, and whe supremacy, ” the statement ntu. A spect, who was reportedly tackled by club patrons before police arrived, remas jailed whout enforcement agenci have not revealed Anrson Lee Aldrich’s alleged motive, but the club’s owners and LGBT+ advot have nmned a surge of flammatory anti-gay and anti-trans rhetoric and policised harassment om right-wg and relig figur and Republin officials the weeks and months that preced the the last several s, Foc on the Fay – which is based Colorado Sprgs – has veloped to a natnally regnised, well-fanced and fluential nservative Christian mistry that has lobbied agast LGBT+ rights and characterised LGBT+ inti as “a particularly evil lie of Satan. ”The Human Rights Campaign reports that the “anisatn and s lears ntue to promote many dangero ias, practic and programs that e real harm to LGBT+ people and their fai” on the Fay is also listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center among Christian mistri and lobbyg groups that prise the “hard re of the anti-gay movement” and a primary driver of the “relig right’s anti-gay csa.

(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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Cy 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. ”Bigoted rhetoric and vlence The Club Q shootg, while the most high-profile and adly attack affectg the LGBTQ muny this year, followed a strg of attacks on the queer muny — particularly transgenr people and drag performers (many of whom intify as gay men or trans women offstage).

The word “groomg” has long been associated wh mischaracterizg LGBTQ people, particularly gay men and transgenr women, as child sex abers, and advot have warned recently that s rurgence uld lead to real-world vlence. Ron DeSantis, a Republin, signed the Parental Rights Edutn law — or what crics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill — the word “groomg” was mentned on Twter nearly 8, 000 tim, pared wh jt 40 tim on the first day of this year, acrdg to Alejandra Caraballo, a clil stctor at Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw the days followg the Colorado Sprgs shootg, some right-wg figur doubled down on the rhetoric.

Last week, Fox News host Tucker Carlson was joed by the lear of Gays Agast Groomers, a self-scribed “aln of gays agast the sexualizatn, doctratn and medilizatn of children, ” who said shootgs would ntue to happen “until we end this evil agenda that is attackg children. ” Neher a reprentative for Fox News nor Gays Agast Groomers immediately rpond to NBC News’ requts for ment. Colorado Sprgs, the state’s send-most populo cy wh jt unr 500, 000 rints, is home to ary bas and the headquarters for Foc on the Fay, the nservative Christian group that says homosexualy and same-sex marriage are ss.

OWNER OF GAY CLUB: SHOOTG AMID A NEW 'TYPE OF HATE'

“I don’t want to be rponsible for young people beg subjected to protters and the terrible thgs they tend to do at protts, ” she told the live wave of anti-gay rhetoric, anti-gay bills and vlence had shaken her. She’d jt booked a new gig for Tuday nights: Drag Bgo a gay-owned der Nashville adorned wh patgs om garage and tate sal. Electronika had packed an outf for an emotnal Judy Garland number — “Somewhere Over the Rabow, ” which she nsired a gay anthem — but cid the moment agast anythg remotely mournful.

“There are so many clubs — you look at how many clubs are Colorado Sprgs, and then you look at how many gay clubs are Colorado Sprgs, ” Michael Anrson, a bartenr at Club Q who was at work when the shootg took place, said an terview on CNN Monday.