Man who helped stop shooter at Colorado gay club ‘wanted to save fay I found’ | Colorado | The Guardian

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• GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
• MAN WHO HELPED STOP SHOOTER AT COLORADO GAY CLUB ‘WANTED TO SAVE FAY I FOUND’
• GAY CLUB CTOMER GRABS GUN OM MASS SHOOTER AND HS HIM WH OWN WEAPON AFTER FIVE KILLED
• AT LEAST 50 DEAD ORLANDO GAY CLUB SHOOTG, SPECT PLEDGED ALLEGIANCE TO ISIS, OFFICIALS SAY
• AT LEAST 5 KILLED SHOOTG AT GAY NIGHTCLUB COLORADO SPRGS, POLICE SAY
• PULSE IS NOT ALONE: A BRIEF HISTORY OF ATTACKS ON GAY CLUBS

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

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MAN WHO HELPED STOP SHOOTER AT COLORADO GAY CLUB ‘WANTED TO SAVE FAY I FOUND’

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.

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GAY CLUB CTOMER GRABS GUN OM MASS SHOOTER AND HS HIM WH OWN WEAPON AFTER FIVE KILLED

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. The shootg six years after the 2016 massacre at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, which left 49 people ad and dozens advot spoke out agast the shootg and support of the victims Sunday.

”Transportatn Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who as a ndidate the 2020 printial electn beme the first openly gay ndidate 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. Jared Polis, who 2018 was the first openly gay man elected ernor and is currently quarantg wh Covid, lled the shootg "horrific, sickeng, and vastatg" a statement released Sunday morng. The man spected of shootg a gay club Colorado was volved a bomb threat standoff 2021 at the hoe where his mother rented a room.

"Dahl add that Colorado beme known as the hate state 1992 when Amendment 2 passed, prohibg the ernment om protectg gay rights. Supreme Court later stck down, Dahl said, pavg the way for the legalizatn of gay marriage. Jared Polis, the first openly gay man elected as ernor the U.

AT LEAST 50 DEAD ORLANDO GAY CLUB SHOOTG, SPECT PLEDGED ALLEGIANCE TO ISIS, OFFICIALS SAY

27, 1978, Harvey Milk, a member of the San Francis Board of Supervisors and a proment gay figure at the time, was assassated by polil opponent Dan Whe. Whe also shot and killed San Francis Mayor Gee was one of the first openly gay elected officials the Uned Stat and beme an outspoken advote for LGBTQ+ liberatn.

AT LEAST 5 KILLED SHOOTG AT GAY NIGHTCLUB COLORADO SPRGS, POLICE SAY

Cmpley, a former trans police officer, began an armed rampage the New York Cy neighborhood, gunng down two outsi a li before openg fire on a crowd gathered ont of Sneakers, a gay bar. The attack, which Cmpley admted was a targeted asslt on the gay muny, ultimately left two ad and jured six more.

Mathew Shepard murrIn early October 1998, Mathew Shepard, a gay teen Laramie, Wyomg, was btally attacked and tied to a fence.

He met attackers Rsell Henrson and Aaron McKney at a gay bar. ”Backstreet Cafe shootgIn September 2000, a man opened fire at the Backstreet Cafe, a gay bar  Roanoke, Virgia. Assailant Ronald Gay had gone to another bar and asked where the neart gay bar was, police later said.

PULSE IS NOT ALONE: A BRIEF HISTORY OF ATTACKS ON GAY CLUBS

A police officer ss their vehicle while rpondg to a mass shootg at the Club Q gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, Colorado, U. - ORLANDO, June 12, 2016 - A gunman fatally shot 49 people at Pulse, a gay nightclub, before he was shot ad by police. A member of the US navy who was jured while helpg prevent further harm durg a shootg at a gay nightclub Colorado last weekend said on Sunday that he “simply wanted to save the fay that I found” officer 2nd class Thomas Jam ma his first public ments on the shootg a statement issued through Centura Penrose hospal Colorado Sprgs, where Jam is reverg om undisclosed juri suffered durg the Colorado Sprgs police chief, Adrian Vasquez, said that Jam was one of two men who helped to stop the shooter who walked to Club Q late on 19 November wh multiple firearms, cludg a semitomatic rifle, and killed five least 17 others were jured when a drag queen’s birthday celebratn turned to a reportedly phed a rifle out of the shooter’s reach while army veteran Rich Fierro repeatedly stck the shooter wh a handgun the shooter brought to the bar, officials have said.