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• GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
• ‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
• MAN WHO ALLEGEDLY THREATENED MNEAPOLIS GAY BAR PATRONS WH GUN NOW FAC UNTY, FERAL CHARG
• MISSOURI GAY BAR POSSIBLE TARGET OF HATE CRIME AFTER PELLET GUN SHOOTG
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• MAN WHO PULLED GUN AT HISTORIC MNOTA GAY BAR PLEADS GUILTY
• MAN WH STOLEN GUN ARRTED AFTER MAKG THREATS SI MNEAPOLIS GAY BAR, POLICE SAY
• LIBERTY, GUNS, BEER AND TMP: ‘HATEFUL’ FLYERS WORRY GAY BAR OWNERS
• PK PISTOLS: LGBT GUN OWNERS UNE ARMG GAY COMMUNY

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

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 spect the Saturday night shootg at Club Q ed an AR-15-style semitomatic weapon, a law enforcement official said. Suthers said there was "reason to hope" that all of those hospalized would shootg rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people. He said patrons who tervened durg the attack were "heroic" and owed a bt of gratu for preventg more Q is a gay and lbian nightclub that featur a drag show on Saturdays, acrdg to s webse.

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

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.

”Wolf had sought refuge Florida 15 years ago when he was done wh ral Oregon, the childhood home where he suffered embedd racism and homophobia on a daily basis. Among his motivatns for wrg the book was to reclaim tersectnaly om DeSantis and others on the right who seek to hijack explas: “I wanted to give a human flavour to what tersectnaly actually looks and feels like and what feels like to experience racism and homophobia at the same time.

MAN WHO ALLEGEDLY THREATENED MNEAPOLIS GAY BAR PATRONS WH GUN NOW FAC UNTY, FERAL CHARG

Growg up a nservative majory whe town was difficult bee the same kid who would ll me the N-word on one day would ll me a homophobic slur on another day and I was nstantly navigatg the tersectns of those two thgs. Last month DeSantis’s mpaign released an anti-LGBTQ+ vio assailg Tmp for his past support of gay and transgenr ments: “It is a sry time to be not jt LGBTQ but LGBTQ and Black this state and ultimately that’s the tent. Police Mnota arrted a man after he allegedly pulled a gun and ma threateng remarks at a historic gay bar this Walter Harris, 31, was taken to ctody at the 19 Bar Mneapolis late Monday eveng and charged wh unlawful posssn of a firearm and makg threats of a chargg document posted onle, thori allege Harris "entered the bar and was 'actg strangely, '" and later "beme upset" after an employee asked to see his a different employee asked Harris to leave, he allegedly pulled out a gun, held his hand, and said "I a't gog nowhere.

He is currently beg held on $120, 000 news agast the backdrop of recent vlence agast gay bars.

MISSOURI GAY BAR POSSIBLE TARGET OF HATE CRIME AFTER PELLET GUN SHOOTG

Chase Stbs was taken to ctody over Thanksgivg for makg threats agast two gay clubs Atlanta, Heretic and Felix's. 19 Bar first opened s doors 1957 and is the olst ntuoly operatg gay bar Mneapolis. This article first appeared at The Mnota arrted a man after he allegedly pulled a gun and ma threateng remarks at a historic gay bar this Walter Harris, 31, was taken to ctody at the 19 Bar Mneapolis late Monday eveng and charged wh unlawful posssn of a firearm and makg threats of a chargg document posted onle, thori allege Harris “entered the bar and was ‘actg strangely, ’” and later “beme upset” after an employee asked to see his a different employee asked Harris to leave, he allegedly pulled out a gun, held his hand, and said “I a’t gog nowhere.

Chase Stbs was taken to ctody over Thanksgivg for makg threats agast two gay clubs Atlanta, Heretic and Felix’s. Police: Man wh stolen gun mak threats si Mneapolis gay bar. MINNEAPOLIS -- The man who allegedly pulled a gun and threatened patrons at a Tw Ci gay bar on Monday now fac charg for unlawful posssn of a firearm and makg threats of Walter Harris was charged Hennep County on Wednday on gun and threat charg, and then was charged Thursday by the U.

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“Thank goodns nobody was hurt, but nsirg our proximy to Pri next weekend we mt nsir this a threat that n late, ” Man wh rmatn about the alleged shootg n ll tectiv at 816-234-5227 or e the anonymo TIPS Hotle at Your Se Articl30 Infamo Police Raids of Gay Bars and Bathho ›Gay Bar Deaths New York Cy Ruled as Homicis ›​Wdows Shot Out at Orlando Gay Bar​ ›Montana Man Sentenced for Shootg Spree to Rid Town of Gays and Lbians ›Oregon Man Who Punched Trans Library Worker Pleads Guilty to Hate Crim ›Three Stabbed Attack on Universy's Genr Studi Class ›Two Men Stabbed What Authori Believe Was a Homophobic Attack ›. Longtime Cedar Creek Lake gay bar turns straight, sends drag queens packg. GUN BARREL CITY — For three s, a gay nightclub featurg drag shows operated on Cedar Creek Lake, but that tradn end this fall when the straight owner transformed the last remag LGBTQ venue to a sports bar wh the moniker Bullet.

Michael Zmolik, who bought the bar Garlow’s om gay Cedar Creek Lake rint Michael Slgerland about two years ago, announced September that the 13-year-old bar would be transformed to a sports club to clu daytime hours.

MAN WHO PULLED GUN AT HISTORIC MNOTA GAY BAR PLEADS GUILTY

The transformatn om gay to straight may have pleased the straight patrons of the bar who had reprented a sizable portn of Garlow’s ctomer base sce first opened, but outraged the drag show performers. DuBuque said that when Slgerland turned the operatn over to Zmolik, a bate began as to whether should ntue to be intified as a gay bar, ostensibly bee the new management wanted to be known as a bar for everyone.

MAN WH STOLEN GUN ARRTED AFTER MAKG THREATS SI MNEAPOLIS GAY BAR, POLICE SAY

“More tim than I re to rell, I explaed that the moniker of gay bar (or LGBTQIA+ bar) intifi as a place for everyone, ” DuBuque said. To have a gay bar an area like this, one mt have a passn for creatg a safe place for our muny.

LIBERTY, GUNS, BEER AND TMP: ‘HATEFUL’ FLYERS WORRY GAY BAR OWNERS

“I met a kd man, a amer/homebuilr by tra, a smart bsman and a straight man, very happily nng the neighborhood gay bar. An atmosphere of “homophobia and misogyny” pervad the operatn, and the performers were treated unfairly, DuBuque ntends. A gay bar had operated the ral area one form or another for 36 years, acrdg to Slgerland, who worked as a bartenr at another Cedar Creek Lake gay bar lled Friends before openg Garlow’s 2010.

Slgerland, 73, listed Garlow’s for sale 2014, sayg that he planned to hold out for a buyer who would mata as a gay bar. Still, even though he is retired and through wh the bar bs after reupg his vtment Garlow’s, Slgerland is wistful about the loss of a gay bar the area after so many years of there beg one.

PK PISTOLS: LGBT GUN OWNERS UNE ARMG GAY COMMUNY

This one featured a silver bullet, the tip of fire blue, next to the words “Gays wh Guns. How uld any self-rpectg gay person support guns? Gays wh Guns simply didn’t make sense.