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• GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT FACG MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG
• LAS VEGAS NEO-NAZI CHARGED WH PLOT TO BOMB GAY CLUB, SYNAGOGUE
• GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
• HUNDREDS GATHER TO HONOR VICTIMS OF COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG
• COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG SPECT CHARGED WH HATE CRIM, MURR
• ‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT FACG MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG

Jim Lash owner of Jimmy’s at Madisons, a proment gay nightclub Las Vegas said the tragedy at Club Q only furthered his notn that secury is a mt at his club.

(AP) — The man spected of openg fire at a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs was beg held on murr and hate crime charg Monday, while hundreds of people gathered to honor the five people killed and 17 wound the attack on a venue that for s was a sanctuary for the lol LGBTQ muny. Jeremiah Harris, who is 24 and gay, said he went to Club Q a uple tim a month and regnized one of the victims as the bartenr who always served him.

“Gay people have been here as long as people have been here, ” Harris said.

LAS VEGAS NEO-NAZI CHARGED WH PLOT TO BOMB GAY CLUB, SYNAGOGUE

It also rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people.

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

"In late June and early July, Climo discsed preparg for an attack and dog surveillance " great tail" of a bar on Fremont Street downtown Las Vegas he claimed "tered to homosexuals.

HUNDREDS GATHER TO HONOR VICTIMS OF COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG

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- ORLANDO, June 12, 2016 - A gunman fatally shot 49 people at Pulse, a gay nightclub, before he was shot ad by police.

COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG SPECT CHARGED WH HATE CRIM, MURR

A 22-year-old gunman opened fire wh a semitomatic rifle si a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, killg five people and leavg 25 jured before he was subdued by "heroic" patrons and arrted by police who arrived wh mut, thori said spect the Saturday night shootg at Club Q ed an AR-15-style semitomatic weapon, a law enforcement official said.

Suthers said there was "reason to hope" that all of those hospalized would shootg rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people. 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. Acrdg to a former roommate, Hennard "hated blacks, Hispanics, gays. 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.

‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS

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).

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

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. Hundreds held ndl the air Tuday night durg a vigil honorg the victims of a mass shootg at a gay nightclub Colorado.

Robson has lived Las Vegas for 18 years and has iends and fay who are gay. June 12, 2016 - Omar Saddiqui Mateen, 29, opens fire si Pulse, a gay nightclub, Orlando. The spect the fatal shootg of five people at a Colorado gay nightclub changed his name more than six years ago as a teenager, after filg a legal petn Texas sayg he wanted to "protect himself" om a father wh a crimal 22-year-old spect, who fac murr and hate crime charg, was known as Nicholas Brk until 2016.