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Friday I’m Love explor the role Numbers played Hoton’s gay rights movement the 1980s, the AIDS crisis of the 1990s, and more

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THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI

At least 49 people are killed and dozens jured by a gunman who opened fire at a gay nightclub Orlando. What exactly happened? * 2013 gay nightclub *

Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Details ntue to emerge about the gunman's motiveA gunman opened fire at a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, killg at least 49 people and jurg dozens before beg shot ad by police.

She told the FBI her hband said he was gog to see iends, though she thought he was gog to rry out an attack at the night club, officials have told the US are also media reports that she said she was wh him when he bought ammunn and a holster, and drove him to Pulse once to spe ptn, Jim Van Horn, Pulse nightclub ctomer: "He (Omar Mateen) was a homosexual and he was tryg to pick up men"Mateen appears to have been a regular at the club and he ntacted men on gay datg apps, raisg the possibily that he was nflicted about beg gay and lashed out. NEW YORK -- The gay, lbian and transgenr muny has seen vlence before, om Harvey Milk to Matthew Shepard, and an ever-lengtheng list of transgenr women. Sunday's massacre at a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, grimly changed the equatn, stirrg munal fears and swiftly promptg tighter secury at gay pri events.

This "is a tragic illtratn of the legimate safety fears that those our LGBT muny live wh every day, " said Mike Rawlg, the mayor of Dallas, where extra police were assigned to a neighborhood that is a hub of the lol gay muny. In a separate cint Sunday, a heavily armed man was arrted Southern California even as Mateen's attack was ongog, tellg police he was on his way to attack a gay pri Jam Wley, of Indiana, had asslt rifl, ammunn and chemils that uld be ed to make an explosive, acrdg to police, who said there was no evince of a nnectn to the Orlando massacre. The hight profile of the clud the murr of Milk, a pneerg gay polician San Francis 1978, and the 1998 murr of Shepard, a gay llege stunt Wyomg at the hands of two men who beat him to a a while he was tied to a fence.

SHOTS FIRED AT MOSW GAY NIGHTCLUB

Sunday&#039;s massacre at a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, grimly changed the equatn, stirrg munal fears and swiftly promptg tighter secury at gay pri events * 2013 gay nightclub *

31, 2013, about 750 people were celebratg New Year's Eve at Neighbours, a popular gay nightclub Seattle, when Mab Masmari poured gasole on a rpeted stairway and set ablaze. Robert Matenc, who works as a host at Neighbours, said the club rpond to the arson attack by addg extra secury guards durg large special events, and trag employe crowd 's attack stck a place that has long been thought of as a safe haven for the muny -- the gay nightclub. "Nightclubs have always been sacred spac for queer people, plac to gather and glter away om the judgg glar of society, where we uld love and be loved for who we are and how we want to be, " wrote Pl Rshenbh, a clergyman and popular gay wrer, exprsg his heartbreak a lengthy, emotnal post on Facebook which he relled gog out dancg while at semary New many ci, vigils were planned at LGBT muny centers and other gatherg spots to memorate the victims New York Cy, LGBT people and their alli nverged on the Stonewall Inn Greenwich Village spontaneo reactn to the shootg.

The Manhattan bar beme a natnal symbol of gay rights after a 1969 police raid led to vlent street ont of the red brick faça, Cameron Cano stood proudly wh a rabow flag draped over her shoulrs. Stonewall is "where we go when thgs like this happen, " said Andy Humm, host of the "Gay USA" TV gay bars add secury measur, or nsired dog so the aftermath of the Orlando attack. "At eagleBOLT, a gay bar Mneapolis, patrons watched big-screen TVs silence as Print Barack Obama nounced the Orlando shootg as an "act of terror.

Wh that beg said, we’ve gathered the bt gay bars and nightclubs the US — om Seattle’s Pony to New York Cy’s Gym Sportsbar — that every person on the spectm n tly enjoy.

RSIA'S LARGT GAY CLUB HAS SHUT DOWN

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Callg all gay sports fans and athlet: Gym Sportsbar New York Cy serv up the bt of both worlds for gay sports fans, allowg them a place to watch and discs their favore sports a queer-iendly environment.

Loted the heart of the Cy of Brotherly Love, Boxers is a gay sports bar that’s perfect to head to after a long day at work. ” Asi om beg a revolutnary gay bar Chigo’s Far North Si, Big Chicks is celebrated for s one-of-a-kd art hangg on nearly every rner of the tablishment, pictg proment divas large portras. Set New Orleans’ French Quarter, the Bourbon Pub Para is regularly regnized as one of the untry’s most prtig gay bars and a center for big and bold drag shows.

THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW

No one was jured, but the attack ntu the spate of antigay vlence Rsia. * 2013 gay nightclub *

Jt wh the past two years, Mnota’s Tw Ci have bee a statn for the LGBTQ muny, drawg natnal attentn for beg one of the more gay-iendly Midwtern lotns on the map. In fact, for as long as LGBTQ people have been ngregatg their own social spac, the spac have been the target of vic homophobic and transphobic vlence.

Until the Pulse massacre, the most notor act of vlence agast a gay bar was the burng of the UpStairs Lounge, a New Orleans gay bar, 1973. In 1997, “Olympic Park Bomber” Eric Robert Rudolph bombed the Othersi Lounge, a lbian nightclub Atlanta, later explag that he believed “the ncerted effort to legimize the practice of homosexualy” was an “asslt upon the tegry of Amerin society. ” He scribed homosexualy as “an aberrant sexual behavr, ” and wrote that “when the attempt is ma” to “regnize this behavr as beg jt as legimate and normal as the natural man/woman relatnship, every effort should be ma, cludg force if necsary, to halt this effort.

” In his nfsn, Rudolph railed agast the “homosexual agenda, ” cludg “gay marriage, homosexual adoptn, hate-crime laws cludg gays, or the attempt to troduce a homosexual normalizg curriculum to our schools.

RSIA'S LARGT GAY NIGHTCLUB STRIV TO BE A HAVEN DPE HORRIFIC ATTACKS

After endurg months of homophobic attacks, cludg gunfire and toxic gas, Rsia's largt gay nightclub, Central Statn, has fally closed s doors for good. * 2013 gay nightclub *

Three years later, Ronald Gay opened fire on Backstreet Cafe, a gay bar Roanoke, Virgia, killg Danny Overstreet, 43, and severely jurg six others.

” More recently, 2013, Mab Mohammed Masmari set fire to Neighbours, a gay nightclub the Capol Hill area of Seattle, on New Year’s Eve. Over the past ne years, filmmaker Marc Pontello dug ep to the club’s story, explorg the role played Hoton’s gay rights movement the 1980s, the AIDS crisis of the 1990s, and s sometim shaky — but long-endurg — legacy as one of the cy’s most important cultural ins. Numbers, which first opened 1978 as a gay dis, is one of the olst ntually operatg alternative clubs the Uned Stat.

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

Top Mosw Gay Clubs & Bars: See reviews and photos of Gay Clubs & Bars Mosw, Rsia on Tripadvisor. * 2013 gay nightclub *

Wren, who died 2014, origally operated the club as a dner theatre of sorts, later transformg to the gay dance club everyone now knows as Numbers.

GAY MOSW · CY GUI

In ntrast to the Sochi Wter Olympics' multibilln-dollar splendor, dismay ns through Central Statn, Rsia's largt gay nightclub Mosw. * 2013 gay nightclub *

For the film, Pontello pored over the Gulf Coast Archive and Mm of Gay, Lbian, Bisexual and Transgenr History, and spent hours readg issu of This Week Texas magaze, the cy’s now-funct gay alt-weekly. The word “gay” lls to md our special knack for fdg the light the darkns, for buildg the dance floor off to the si of the cel world.

Let’s take a look at some of the bt gay bars Ameri, om the open-air, vil-may-re spac Wt Hollywood to the neighborhood pub downtown St.

The entrance is through an unmarked shed behd a Chipotle, and featur a blend but unexpected gay/not crowd which same-sex grdg is rigur. —Alfonso Fernanz NavasCourtyAt: Cheer Up CharliBack when I was a young gay, I saw the olt, most betiful woman the world at Cheer Up Charli. —Abigail CovgtonCourtyBrooklyn: The ExleyFull of ntradictns, The Exley is a ltle different than other gay bars.

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Explore gay Mosw wh Mr Hudson. The bt of Mosw for the discerng gay man. Where to sleep, eat, drk, shop and play. * 2013 gay nightclub *

When the bar fally reopened Sprg 2022, an entire borough’s worth of gays celebrated by floodg the new back pat all summer and Gger’s has been crowd wh queers ever sce.

Gay Mosw Cy Gui for gay travelers. Review of the cy, gay scene, how to get there, travel tips, popular tourist attractns Mosw. * 2013 gay nightclub *

It began s life as a beer-and-we offshoot of the Metropolan Health Club, a gym that opened 1983 to serve the gay ctomers who’d been bullied out of other lol clubs at the height of AIDS hysteria. It gave the boys a place to gather the ‘80s, the first outpost that helped tablish the South End as the Boston gayborhood.

While other gay bars of the time were basements or board up, Club Cafe faced by Columb Avenue wh floor to ceilg wdows. Big Chicks serv a diverse crowd— ’s young, ’s old, ’s one of the only plac you’ll see gay men and lbians together!

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UTC</time></div><div class="article-le-byle" data-activy-map="le-byle-article-top">By <span class="byle-name">Julianne McShane</span>, <span class="byle-name"><a href=">Andrew Blankste</a></span> and <span class="byle-name"><a href=">Deon J. Hampton</a></span></div></sectn><div class="article-body__ntent article-body-font--loadg"><p class="">COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A gunman entered a Colorado Sprgs LGBTQ club and immediately began firg wh a semitomatic rifle Saturday, killg five people and jurg 25, officials said.</p><p class="">Colorado Sprgs Police Chief Adrian Vasquez praised "at least two heroic people" si Club Q who, he said, "nonted and fought wh the spect and were able to stop the spect om ntug to kill and harm others."</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div><div id="taboolaReadMoreBelow"></div><p class="">"We owe them a great bt of thanks," Vasquez said at a news nference Sunday morng. </p><p class="">"Their actns clearly saved liv," Mayor John Suthers said later at the news nference. </p><p class=""><a href=" target="_blank"><strong><em>Follow for live verage of the shootg.</em></strong></a></p><p class="">Club owner Matthew Hayn told NBC News he never imaged “this level of hate” would scend on his club. He said the timg of the shootg worsens the suatn wh Thanksgivg on the horizon.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div><p class="">“Fay members won’t be wh their fay members,” Hayn said.</p><p class="">Hayn opened the club 20 years ago to give people a place to gather and be themselv.</p><p class="">“We started when there were darker days. We didn’t have a lot of rights and we need plac to have a muny, and that’s what Club Q has been for 20 years,” Hayn said.</p><p class="">The spect, whom officials intified as Anrson Lee Aldrich, 22,<strong> </strong>was jured the attack, apprehend and hospalized, Sgt. Pamela Castro, the Colorado Sprgs Police Department spokwoman, said.</p><p class="">Vasquez said the weapon ed was a rifle ma the style of the Colt AR-15, a high-powered rifle <a href=" target="_blank">veloped for ary e</a> but first sold for sportg purpos.<strong> </strong>A handgun was also found at the scene, the chief said, but wasn't immediately clear if belonged to the spect or someone else.</p><p class="">A man wh the spect's name and age was the subject of a June 2021 report of a bomb threat, <a href=" target="_blank">acrdg to a news release</a> om the El Paso County Sheriff's Office, which noted that the man's mother told thori "her son was threateng to e harm to her wh a homema bomb, multiple weapons, and ammunn."</p><figure class="styl_leImage__yAWZ0 styl_medium__OMa6x"><picture class="styl_image__1qciH"><source media="(m-width: 1000px)" srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><source srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><img loadg="lazy" src=" alt="People gather for a vigil at All Souls Unarian Universalist Church Colorado Sprgs, Colo., on Nov. 20, 2022, followg a mass shootg at Club Q, a gay nightclub." height="1667" width="2500"/></picture><figptn class="ptn styl_ptn__Pe5JC"><span class="ptn__ntaer" data-ttid="ptn__ntaer">People gather for a vigil at All Souls Unarian Universalist Church Colorado Sprgs, Colo., on Sunday.</span><span class="ptn__source">Deon Hampton / NBC News</span></figptn></figure><p class="">The spect that se was si a home about a e om his mother's hoe, acrdg to the sheriff's office, which add that officials evacuated nearby hom followg the bomb threat. It took thori more than three hours to get the spect to surrenr, and officials arrted him on two unts of felony menacg and three unts of first-gree kidnappg. No bombs were found, acrdg to the sheriff's office.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div><p class="">It was not immediately clear how the se was adjudited or whether was dropped or layed.</p><p class="">Officials at the news nference Sunday did not nfirm whether the spect that se was the same one believed to be the shooter at Club Q. </p><p class="">But Howard Black, spokman for the district attorney's office, said an email that the prev se “is part of the vtigatn at this time,” and “addnal rmatn will be released as appropriate.” </p><p class="">The FBI was assistg on the scene, Castro said.</p><p class="">Vasquez said “at least two firearms were found at the scene” and that officials “are still workg to intify the firearms and who they belong to.”</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div><p class="">Castro said at the news nference that "numero people" were transported to multiple hospals by ambulance and police cisers, and that hospal officials were helpg police notify the fay members of those jured. </p><figure class="styl_leImage__yAWZ0 styl_medium__OMa6x"><picture class="styl_image__1qciH"><source media="(m-width: 1000px)" srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><source srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><img loadg="lazy" src=" alt="Police enter Club Q Colorado Sprgs, Colo., on Nov. 20, 2022, as they ntue to vtigate the Saturday night shootg that left several people ad and multiple others jured." height="1690" width="2500"/></picture><figptn class="ptn styl_ptn__Pe5JC"><span class="ptn__ntaer" data-ttid="ptn__ntaer">Police enter Club Q Colorado Sprgs, Colo., on Sunday, as they ntue to vtigate the shootg that left five people ad and 25 jured.</span><span class="ptn__source">Christian Murdock / The Gazette via AP</span></figptn></figure><p class="">By Sunday afternoon, 15 victims were beg treated for juri at two hospals, officials said. </p><p class="">Eleven patients were beg treated at Memorial Hospal Central, acrdg to UCHealth public and media relatns manager Kelli Christensen. Late Sunday afternoon, UCHealth said one person had been released, leavg 10 hospalized. </p><p class="">Chief Medil Officer David Stebner said the juri of those at Memorial Hospal Central clud “multiple gunshot wounds” that left “several people” the ICU.</p><p class="">Four victims were beg treated at Penrose Hospal, spokperson Ldsay Radford said. Two of those victims were cril but stable ndn, and the other two were stable ndn. </p><sectn class="le-vio le-vio---body"><div class="le-vio__background"><div class="le-vio__player"><div class="vioPlayer styl_vioPlayer__bL8AJ styl_adNotPlayg__Q51_C styl_alignDktopBottom__4cHaO styl_alignMobileBottom__bhgkQ" data-ttid="vio-player"><div class="vioSlate"><a href=" class="allowClicksOnPreview"><picture class=""><source media="(m-width: 1240px)" srcSet="><source media="(m-width: 758px)" srcSet="><img loadg="lazy" src="></picture></a><div class="playButtonOuter absolute absolute-fill w100 dn-prt"><div class="absolute absolute-fill w100 df ems-center ems-center-m jtify-center jtify-center-m"><div class="play le-vio__play-button"><svg class="play--in" xmlns=" viewBox="0 0 15 15" prerveAspectRat="xMidYMid" style="max-width:30px"><path d="M0 0v15l15-7.41z" fill-le="evenodd"></path></svg></div></div></div></div><div id="154716229746"></div></div></div></div><div class="le-vio__"><h2 class="le-vio__tle"><a href=">Wns scrib fearg for life durg Colorado Sprgs shootg</a></h2><span class="le-vio__tail"><span>Nov. 20, 2022</span><span>01:42</span></span><div class="styl_share__n3Syu le-vio__share dn-prt"><div class="styl_shareExpanr__hVk8d le-vio__share-expanr styl_hoverEffect___Dj4s"><span class="styl_shareDot__9pfRZ le-vio__share-dot"></span><svg class="styl_shareClose__6BZxR le-vio__share-close" viewBox="0 0 15 15"><le class="styl_shareLe__EJUjO" x1="0" x2="15" y1="0" y2="15"></le><le class="styl_shareLe__EJUjO" x1="0" x2="15" y1="15" y2="0"></le></svg></div><div class="styl_shareList___M8wC le-vio__share-list"><a href=" class="styl_shareLk__gSGN3" target="_blank" rel="noopen noreferrer"><span class="in in-facebook styl_shareIn__lVnRm le-vio__share-in"></span></a><a href=" class="styl_shareLk__gSGN3" target="_blank" rel="noopen noreferrer"><span class="in in-twter styl_shareIn__lVnRm le-vio__share-in"></span></a><a href="mailto:?subject=Wns scrib fearg for life durg Colorado Sprgs shootg& class="styl_shareLk__gSGN3" target="_blank" rel="noopen noreferrer"><span class="in in-email styl_shareIn__lVnRm le-vio__share-in"></span></a></div></div></div></sectn><p class="">At the news nference earlier Sunday, Penrose Chief Medil Officer William Plth said the five victims there who were not cril ndn "maly had extremy juri." </p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div><p class="">Twenty-five victims total were jured the shootg, officials said. </p><p class="">District Attorney Michael Allen said that there is "no ongog threat that we are aware of" and that the se will be officially transferred to his office the g days. </p><h2 class="">'A safe haven for our LGBTQ cizens'</h2><p class="">Police rpond to ial lls at 11:57 p.m. lol time. Social media footage om across the street and verified by NBC News showed dozens of police vehicl and a fire tck ployed near the club.</p><p class="">The first officer arrived on the scene at midnight, and the spect was taed two mut later, officials said at a news nference Sunday morng. </p><p class="">Club Q was hostg a “Drag Divas” show followed by a DJ night on Saturday, acrdg to s Facebook page.</p><figure class="styl_leImage__yAWZ0 styl_medium__OMa6x"><picture class="styl_image__1qciH"><source media="(m-width: 1000px)" srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><source srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><img loadg="lazy" src=" alt="Jsy Smh Cz embrac Jadzia Dax McClendon the morng after a mass shootg at Club Q, an LGBTQ nightclub Colorado Sprgs, Colo.,, on Nov. 20, 2022." height="1667" width="2500"/></picture><figptn class="ptn styl_ptn__Pe5JC"><span class="ptn__ntaer" data-ttid="ptn__ntaer">Jsy Smh Cz embrac Jadzia Dax McClendon the morng after a mass shootg at Club Q, an LGBTQ nightclub Colorado Sprgs, Colo.</span><span class="ptn__source">Jason Connolly / AFP - Getty Imag</span></figptn></figure><p class="">On Sunday, acrdg to s Facebook page, Club Q planned to host a Drag Bnch for all ag, as well as later performanc to honor Transgenr Day of Remembrance, an annual observance that started 1999 to honor the memory of transgenr people killed acts of anti-trans vlence, <a href=" target="_blank">acrdg to GLAAD</a>. </p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div><p class="">So far this year, at least 32 transgenr people have been shot or killed, <a href=" target="_blank">acrdg to the Human Rights Campaign</a>, though that unt do not appear to clu the Colorado Sprgs victims. </p><p class="">Drag performers have bee a <a href=" target="_blank">particular target</a> of right-wg activists and policians, who claim they “groom” children. <a href=" target="_blank">Some policians</a> have proposed banng kids om drag events and crimally chargg any parents who brg their kids to such events.</p><p class="">Vasquez lled Club Q "a safe haven for our LGBTQ cizens."</p><sectn class="le-vio le-vio---body"><div class="le-vio__background"><div class="le-vio__player"><div class="vioPlayer styl_vioPlayer__bL8AJ styl_adNotPlayg__Q51_C styl_alignDktopBottom__4cHaO styl_alignMobileBottom__bhgkQ" data-ttid="vio-player"><div class="vioSlate"><a href=" class="allowClicksOnPreview"><picture class=""><source media="(m-width: 1240px)" srcSet="><source media="(m-width: 758px)" srcSet="><img loadg="lazy" src="></picture></a><div class="playButtonOuter absolute absolute-fill w100 dn-prt"><div class="absolute absolute-fill w100 df ems-center ems-center-m jtify-center jtify-center-m"><div class="play le-vio__play-button"><svg class="play--in" xmlns=" viewBox="0 0 15 15" prerveAspectRat="xMidYMid" style="max-width:30px"><path d="M0 0v15l15-7.41z" fill-le="evenodd"></path></svg></div></div></div></div><div id="154721349612"></div></div></div></div><div class="le-vio__"><h2 class="le-vio__tle"><a href=">Communy gathers for vigil after Colorado Sprgs LGBTQ club shootg</a></h2><span class="le-vio__tail"><span>Nov. 20, 2022</span><span>01:58</span></span><div class="styl_share__n3Syu le-vio__share dn-prt"><div class="styl_shareExpanr__hVk8d le-vio__share-expanr styl_hoverEffect___Dj4s"><span class="styl_shareDot__9pfRZ le-vio__share-dot"></span><svg class="styl_shareClose__6BZxR le-vio__share-close" viewBox="0 0 15 15"><le class="styl_shareLe__EJUjO" x1="0" x2="15" y1="0" y2="15"></le><le class="styl_shareLe__EJUjO" x1="0" x2="15" y1="15" y2="0"></le></svg></div><div class="styl_shareList___M8wC le-vio__share-list"><a href=" class="styl_shareLk__gSGN3" target="_blank" rel="noopen noreferrer"><span class="in in-facebook styl_shareIn__lVnRm le-vio__share-in"></span></a><a href=" class="styl_shareLk__gSGN3" target="_blank" rel="noopen noreferrer"><span class="in in-twter styl_shareIn__lVnRm le-vio__share-in"></span></a><a href="mailto:?subject=Communy gathers for vigil after Colorado Sprgs LGBTQ club shootg& class="styl_shareLk__gSGN3" target="_blank" rel="noopen noreferrer"><span class="in in-email styl_shareIn__lVnRm le-vio__share-in"></span></a></div></div></div></sectn><p class="">Officials are vtigatg whether the shootg was a hate crime.</p><p class="">While the motive of the attack was not immediately known, amid what Print Joe Bin <a href=" target="_blank">earlier this year lled</a> "risg hate and vlence" agast LGBTQ people.<strong> </strong></p><p class="">Hate crim agast LGBTQ people were up 51% last year pared to 2020, acrdg to a <a href=" target="_blank">report by the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism</a> at California State Universy, San Bernardo. </p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div><p class="">The shootg six years after the 2016 <a href=" target="_blank">massacre at Pulse</a>, a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, which left 49 people ad and dozens jured.</p><p class="">LGBTQ advot spoke out agast the shootg and support of the victims Sunday.</p><p class="">"From Pulse to Colorado Sprgs to so many other liv stolen om — this has occurred for far too long," the Human Rights Campaign’s g print, Kelley Robson, said a statement.</p><p class="">"You n draw a straight le om the false and vile rhetoric about LGBTQ people spread by extremists and amplified across social media, to the nearly 300 anti-LGBTQ bills troduced this year, to the dozens of attacks on our muny like this one," said Sarah Kate Ellis, the print and chief executive officer of GLAAD, a media advocy anizatn foced on LGBTQ reprentatn. </p><h2 class=""><strong>Lears react</strong></h2><p class="">Bin nmned the shootg a lengthy statement which he noted that while the motive the shootg remas unclear, LGBTQ people, and transgenr women of lor particular, face pecially high rat of vlence. </p><p class="">“Plac that are supposed to be safe spac of acceptance and celebratn should never be turned to plac of terror and vlence. Yet happens far too often,” Bin said. “We mt drive out the equi that ntribute to vlence agast LGBTQI+ people. We nnot and mt not tolerate hate.”</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div><p class="">Transportatn Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who as a ndidate the 2020 printial electn beme the <a href=" target="_blank">first openly gay ndidate</a> 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. </p><p class="">“We n not, will not, allow hate to w. We mt end this our time,” Buttigieg wrote. “No rt until all of , cludg all of the LGBTQ+ muny, n be, and feel, safe.”</p><sectn class="le-vio le-vio---body"><div class="le-vio__background"><div class="le-vio__player"><div class="vioPlayer styl_vioPlayer__bL8AJ styl_adNotPlayg__Q51_C styl_alignDktopBottom__4cHaO styl_alignMobileBottom__bhgkQ" data-ttid="vio-player"><div class="vioSlate"><a href=" class="allowClicksOnPreview"><picture class=""><source media="(m-width: 1240px)" srcSet="><source media="(m-width: 758px)" srcSet="><img loadg="lazy" src=" height="1080" width="1920"/></picture></a><div class="playButtonOuter absolute absolute-fill w100 dn-prt"><div class="absolute absolute-fill w100 df ems-center ems-center-m jtify-center jtify-center-m"><div class="play le-vio__play-button"><svg class="play--in" xmlns=" viewBox="0 0 15 15" prerveAspectRat="xMidYMid" style="max-width:30px"><path d="M0 0v15l15-7.41z" fill-le="evenodd"></path></svg></div></div></div></div><div id="154704965938"></div></div></div></div><div class="le-vio__"><h2 class="le-vio__tle"><a href=">Bin reacts to ‘vastatg’ Colorado Sprgs adly shootg</a></h2><span class="le-vio__tail"><span>Nov. 20, 2022</span><span>02:12</span></span><div class="styl_share__n3Syu le-vio__share dn-prt"><div class="styl_shareExpanr__hVk8d le-vio__share-expanr styl_hoverEffect___Dj4s"><span class="styl_shareDot__9pfRZ le-vio__share-dot"></span><svg class="styl_shareClose__6BZxR le-vio__share-close" viewBox="0 0 15 15"><le class="styl_shareLe__EJUjO" x1="0" x2="15" y1="0" y2="15"></le><le class="styl_shareLe__EJUjO" x1="0" x2="15" y1="15" y2="0"></le></svg></div><div class="styl_shareList___M8wC le-vio__share-list"><a href=" class="styl_shareLk__gSGN3" target="_blank" rel="noopen noreferrer"><span class="in in-facebook styl_shareIn__lVnRm le-vio__share-in"></span></a><a href=" class="styl_shareLk__gSGN3" target="_blank" rel="noopen noreferrer"><span class="in in-twter styl_shareIn__lVnRm le-vio__share-in"></span></a><a href="mailto:?subject=Bin reacts to ‘vastatg’ Colorado Sprgs adly shootg& class="styl_shareLk__gSGN3" target="_blank" rel="noopen noreferrer"><span class="in in-email styl_shareIn__lVnRm le-vio__share-in"></span></a></div></div></div></sectn><p class="">Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, who 2018 <a href=" target="_blank">was the first openly gay man elected ernor</a> and is currently quarantg wh Covid, lled the shootg "horrific, sickeng, and vastatg" a statement released Sunday morng. </p><p class="">"My heart breaks for the fay and iends of those lost, jured, and trmatized this horrific shootg," he said, addg that "every state rource is available to lol law enforcement Colorado Sprgs." </p><p class="">"We are eternally grateful for the brave dividuals who blocked the gunman likely savg liv the procs and for the first rponrs who rpond swiftly to this horrific shootg," Polis, a Democrat, said. "Colorado stands wh our LGTBQ muny and everyone impacted by this tragedy as we mourn together."</p><p class="">“We have to protect LGBTQ liv om this hate,” Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., <a href=" target="_blank">tweeted</a>. </p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div><p class="">"As we seek jtice for this unimagable act, we mt do more to protect the LGBTQ muny and stand firm agast discrimatn and hate every form," Sen. Michael Ben, D-Colo., <a href=" target="_blank">said on Twter</a>.</p><p class="">Other lol lears also shared their outrage and ndolenc Sunday. </p><p class="">“We have so much work to do to stop this om happeng aga,” Rep. Judy Amabile, a Colorado state lawmaker who reprents Boulr, <a href=" target="_blank">said on Twter</a>.</p><p class="">“My heart is wh our LGBTQ+ muny as we all reel om this vlence,” Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., wrote a <a href=" target="_blank">tweet</a>.</p><p class="endmark"><em>Julianne McShane reported om Massachetts, Andrew Blankste om Los Angel and Deon J. Hampton om Colorado Sprgs.</em></p></div><div class="article-body__ntent article-body-font--loadg"><div class="expand-byle-ntributors articleByleContaer"><div class="expand-byle article-expand-byle" data-activy-map="expand-byle-article-bottom"><span class="byle-thumbnail byle-thumbnail--no-image expand-byle__thumbnail"></span><span class="byle-name expand-byle__name">Julianne McShane</span><span class="byle-social expand-byle__social"></span><div class="expand-byle__b-wrapper"></div></div><div class="expand-byle article-expand-byle" data-activy-map="expand-byle-article-bottom"><span class="byle-thumbnail byle-thumbnail--no-image expand-byle__thumbnail"></span><span class="byle-name expand-byle__name"><a href=">Andrew Blankste</a></span><span class="byle-social expand-byle__social"><a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="byle-social--lk"><span class="in in-twter"></span></a><a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="byle-social--lk"><span class="in in-facebook"></span></a><a href="" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="byle-social--lk"><span class="in in-email"></span></a></span><div class="expand-byle__b-wrapper"><p class="byle-b expand-byle__b">Andrew Blankste is an vtigative reporter for NBC News. 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