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Contents:
- CLUB Q SHOOTER SENTENCED TO LIFE PRISON FOR ATTACK ON GAY NIGHTCLUB
- GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
- JO THE Q — FOUR NEW GAY VENU LE UP TO OPEN HELL’S KCHEN
- COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB SHOOTER TO SERVE LIFE PRISON AFTER PLEADG GUILTY
CLUB Q SHOOTER SENTENCED TO LIFE PRISON FOR ATTACK ON GAY NIGHTCLUB
The Club Q shooter acced of killg five people and jurg 17 others at the gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs plead guilty Monday. * q gay club *
Until recently, Club Q was the only LGBTQ club a cy wh a reputatn of beg a nservative stronghold and a history of beg anti-gay. Saturday’s attack fell on the eve of Transgenr Day of Remembrance – observed honor of the liv of trans people lost to anti-trans vlence and hatred – and is remiscent of the Pulse massacre Orlando, which a shooter killed 49 people at the gay nightclub six years ago.
GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
The shootg rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people. * q gay club *
Jared Polis, the natn’s first openly gay ernor, orred flags lowered to half-staff at all public buildgs statewi for five days to honor the five victims at Club Q. DENVER — The shooter who plead guilty to killg five people and jurg 17 others at a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs was sentenced Monday to life prison.
JO THE Q — FOUR NEW GAY VENU LE UP TO OPEN HELL’S KCHEN
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Wrer and podster Noel Black grew up the cy's gay muny and talked to people for whom Club Q has always been more than jt a BLACK, BYLINE: Until this weekend, I hadn't spoken to Club Q owner Nic Grzecka for many years.
It's (expletive) Bee Club Q has been one of the only gay bars town for nearly 20 years, 's had to fill a lot of nich. He remembers beg aaid to move back after Foc on the Fay arrived and Colorado passed Amendment 2, which banned gay marriage the early SHEPARD: You know, we were the hate state, and Colorado Sprgs was the hate He even played tennis wh Will Perks, one of the thors of the amendment, which was stck down by the Colorado Supreme Court 1993.
COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB SHOOTER TO SERVE LIFE PRISON AFTER PLEADG GUILTY
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After the 2016 massacre at the Pulse nightclub Florida, the owners of New York Cy gay bar C'mon Everybody hired more secury staff, and the LGBT landmark Stonewall Inn ran active-shooter safety drills wh s bartenrs. * q gay club *
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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.
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.