Colorado gay nightclub massacre shows Democrats' hypocrisy

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• COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB MASSACRE SHOWS DEMOCRATS’ HYPOCRISY
• GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
• BEFORE ORLANDO SHOOTG, AN ANTI-GAY MASSACRE NEW ORLEANS WAS LARGELY FOTTEN

COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB MASSACRE SHOWS DEMOCRATS’ HYPOCRISY

For three days after the Colorado gay nightclub massacre Democrats and their media alli smeared nservative opponents of drag queen groomer hour as “stochastic terrorists” who are to blame for the tragedy. Sudnly their right-wg homophobia narrative llapsed a heap. Her le is that far-right villas such as Tucker Carlson and Ron DeSantis are rponsible for fosterg an “latg anti-gay and anti-trans vlence [and] growg moral panic about children beg ‘groomed’ to genr nonnformy.

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

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 history of attacks on gay nightclubs. A June 24, 1973, arson attack on the Up Stairs Lounge, a gay bar, killed 32. A fire termed to be arson tore through the Up Stairs Lounge, a gay bar the French Quarter, killg 32 people.

BEFORE ORLANDO SHOOTG, AN ANTI-GAY MASSACRE NEW ORLEANS WAS LARGELY FOTTEN

He wasn’t there at the Up Stairs Lounge on June 24, 1973, when igned lighter fluid a stairwell unleashed hell on New Orleans’ gay muny. One patron featured Cama’s film said those the bar beme his fay; he no longer felt fortable wh his own bee he was gay.

Lnched 1968, was the world’s first Christian church to offer an clive mistry to the gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr muny. Three years before the Up Stairs Lounge arson attack, Perry helped plan the first Gay Pri Para Los Angel.

On December 31, 2013, an attempted arson attack at a Seattle gay nightclub threatened to burn 750 people alive. Three men threw chunks of ncrete to a gay bar Galvton, Texas, March 2009.