Five people, Daniel Aston, Raymond Green Vance, Kelly Lovg, Ashley Pgh and Derrick Rump, were killed at the gay bar November 2022.
Contents:
- ‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
- STRAIGHT SHOOTERS: MEET THE GAY GUN-RIGHTS ACTIVISTS
- GAY CLUB CTOMER GRABS GUN OM MASS SHOOTER AND HS HIM WH OWN WEAPON AFTER FIVE KILLED
‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
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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.
STRAIGHT SHOOTERS: MEET THE GAY GUN-RIGHTS ACTIVISTS
Anrson Lee Aldrich, the spect acced of killg five a shootg at a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, Colorado, is scribed by public fenrs as beg "non-bary." * gay gun shooter *
”Xavier Krs, a former iend and neighbor of Aldrich’s, told NBC News that the shooter had not ed they/them pronouns the past, addg that Aldrich had ma racist or homophobic statements and created an onle fom to exprs a bizarre, ramblg terview wh CBS 8 San Diego, Aldrich’s father, Aaron Brk, admted that he didn’t even know his child was still livg when he heard the news of the shootg.
I was like ‘Oh, my God, sh, is he gay? ’ And he’s not gay, ” Brk told the TV statn. ”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.
GAY CLUB CTOMER GRABS GUN OM MASS SHOOTER AND HS HIM WH OWN WEAPON AFTER FIVE KILLED
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. Public fenrs reprentg Anrson Lee Aldrich, the spect acced of killg five people and jurg 17 more a mass shootg at a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, Colorado, over the weekend, are scribg the 22-year-old urt documents as "non-bary. One man, so many Mateen opened fire at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando, early Sunday — leavg 49 people ad and dozens jured.
The first thg he did after his victory was take some of the $100, 000 prize money and upgra his Natnal Rifle Associatn membership to lifetime, last year, Cheng took to his blog to announce he was gay. But he wanted people to see that gun owners were a diverse set of people—and who better than a gay, racially diverse, tech-geek-turned-champn-marksman to liver the msage?