COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — As bullets tore through a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, killg five people and woundg many more, one patron who’d been partyg moments before shed to actn, grabbg a handgun om the spect, htg him wh and png him down until police arrived jt mut later.
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- AT LEAST 50 DEAD ORLANDO GAY CLUB SHOOTG, SPECT PLEDGED ALLEGIANCE TO ISIS, OFFICIALS SAY
- GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT FAC MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG
- ‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
- LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
AT LEAST 50 DEAD ORLANDO GAY CLUB SHOOTG, SPECT PLEDGED ALLEGIANCE TO ISIS, OFFICIALS SAY
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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. A 22-year-old gunman opened fire wh a semitomatic rifle si a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, killg five people and leavg 25 jured before he was subdued by "heroic" patrons and arrted by police who arrived wh mut, thori said Sunday.The spect the Saturday night shootg at Club Q ed an AR-15-style semitomatic weapon, a law enforcement official said. Some were hurt tryg to flee, and was unclear if all of the victims were shot, a police spokperson said.Suthers said there was "reason to hope" that all of those hospalized would rever.The shootg rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people.
GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT FAC MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG
He said patrons who tervened durg the attack were "heroic" and owed a bt of gratu for preventg more aths.Club Q is a gay and lbian nightclub that featur a drag show on Saturdays, acrdg to s webse. Jared Polis, who beme the first openly gay man the Uned Stat to be elected ernor 2018, lled the shootg "sickeng.""My heart breaks for the fay and iends of those lost, jured and trmatized," Polis said. Experts warned that extremist groups uld see anti-gay rhetoric as a ll to actn.The 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 pastor.Sce 2006, there have been 523 mass killgs and 2,727 aths as of Nov.
The shootg six years after the 2016 massacre at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, which left 49 people ad and dozens advot spoke out agast the shootg and support of the victims Sunday.
‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
”Transportatn Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who as a ndidate the 2020 printial electn beme the first openly gay ndidate to n for the natn’s hight office, lled the news of the shootg “sickeng and heartbreakg” and part of a “pattern” a tweet Sunday. Jared Polis, who 2018 was the first openly gay man elected ernor and is currently quarantg wh Covid, lled the shootg "horrific, sickeng, and vastatg" a statement released Sunday morng. 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.
LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
The spect the fatal shootg of five people at a Colorado gay nightclub changed his name more than six years ago as a teenager, after filg a legal petn Texas sayg he wanted to "protect himself" om a father wh a crimal 22-year-old spect, who fac murr and hate crime charg, was known as Nicholas Brk until 2016. Fd a list of LGBTQIA+ rourc at Trevor Project: The Trevor Project is the world's largt suici preventn and mental health anizatn for LGBTQ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and qutng) young people.
A year and a half before he was arrted the Colorado Sprgs gay nightclub shootg that left five people ad, Anrson Lee Aldrich allegedly threatened his mother wh a homema bomb, forcg neighbors surroundg hom to evacuate while the bomb squad and crisis negotiators talked him to spe that sre, there's no public rerd that prosecutors moved forward wh felony kidnappg and menacg charg agast Aldrich, or that police or relativ tried to trigger Colorado's "red flag" law that would have allowed thori to seize the weapons and ammo the man's mother says he had wh ntrol advot say Aldrich's June 2021 threat is an example of a red flag law ignored, wh potentially adly nsequenc. " The church prohibs same-sex marriag and says homosexual behavr vlat s laws.