"I have nothg but love" for the gay muny, says Army veteran Rich Fierro, one of two people police creded wh subdug a gunman who went on a shootg rampage at a Colorado Sprgs nightclub.
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- THE VETERAN WHO HELPED DISARM THE GUNMAN AT GAY CLUB SAYS HE FOLLOWED HIS STCTS
- ‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
- ARMY VET, NAVY PETTY OFFICER STOPPED GUNMAN AT COLORADO GAY CLUB
- I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK
- COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB SHOOTER’S CASE HEADS TO TRIAL
THE VETERAN WHO HELPED DISARM THE GUNMAN AT GAY CLUB SAYS HE FOLLOWED HIS STCTS
Army veteran Richard Fierro was enjoyg a night out wh his fay when a gunman opened fire on a gay club Colorado Sprgs. Fierro said he went to "bat mo" to take down the shooter. * gay army shooting *
When the gunfire began si Club Q, a Colorado Sprgs gay club, on Saturday night, Army veteran Richard Fierro went to "bat mo, " as he put , and tried to do all he uld to stop the shooter om hurtg people.
— A rated army veteran who tackled the shooter who killed five a Colorado Sprgs gay club said he wanted to protect the close kn muny si the room.
Gay, straight, don't matter. … It has nothg to do wh whether they’re gay or straight, or whatever.
‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
A rated army veteran who tackled the shooter who killed five a Colorado Sprgs gay club said he wanted to protect the close kn muny si * gay army shooting *
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ARMY VET, NAVY PETTY OFFICER STOPPED GUNMAN AT COLORADO GAY CLUB
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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. 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.
I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A shooter seemed to be driven by bias agast the LGBTQ muny plottg an attack at a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, killg five and woundg 17 others, a judge acknowledged Thursday fdg that prosecutors showed enough evince for trial on murr and ha te crime charg. * gay army shooting *
Polis told CNN’s Jim Asta there are only two gay bars Colorado Sprgs, and Club Q was one of the ma venu. But as a gay man, I have been fightg my whole life to enjoy the very privileg I am entled to as both a beholr and protector of them.
COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB SHOOTER’S CASE HEADS TO TRIAL
I was one of few soldiers who joed the service before graduatg high school, but the admistratn at the time, which I believe was homophobic, chose to act as if I never existed bee of my queer hate that I experienced growg up on Long Island was my first enunter wh how others would treat me as a queer soldier.